The Dan Bongino Show - Title change: What You Missed From The Putin Meet | Episode 105

Episode Date: August 18, 2025

Trump and Putin had their much anticipated meeting and here's the important parts you missed. Also: Ed Martin gives a MASSIVE update on TV this weekend. European leaders to join Ukraine’s Zelenskyy for meeting with Trump https://apnews.com/article/european-leaders-white-house-meeting-zelenskyy-trump-d7b082bae4136ef8932e16ac2d166303 DOJ Special Attorney Visits Leticia James’ Brooklyn Home At Center Of Federal Mortgage Fraud Investigation https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/16/doj-special-attorney-investigates-letitia-james-mortgage-fraud-ed-martin-adam-schiff-ny/ DC Homeless Guy Doesn’t Regret Voting For Trump Even Though His Tents Got Thrown Out https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/15/dc-homeless-voting-trump-tents/ Sponsors: Blackout Coffee - BlackoutCoffee.com/Vince code VINCE for 20% off Fatty 15 - fatty15.com/VINCE code VINCE for 15% off 90-day kit Jacked Up Fitness - GetJackedUp.com code VINCE for 10% off Hillsdale - hillsdale.edu/vince to enroll for free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, everybody. Welcome to Vince on a Monday. Boy, we have a huge show for you today. Vladimir Zelensky is arriving in Washington, D.C. has arrived to meet with the president of the United States after a gigantic summit in Alaska with the president of the United States. We've got all the details on that. Also, Ed Martin, stepping out in public for a big conversation. This show is brought to you by Blackout Coffee, the official coffee of all of us here at Silverlock. You can go to blackout coffee.com slash Vince. Use the code. Vince, that's V-I-N-C-E and get 20 percent off your first order. Thank you to blackout coffee. Yeah, we got all the, the Zelensky news, the Putin news. We have Ed Martin again giving us updates, actual updates on what's going on as

they investigate all these lefties to include people like Adam Schiff, Letitia James, all the Obama people, the grand juries that are underway. I'm telling you, if you're watching anywhere else, you're missing all of these details. I'm here to share them with you today. Also, stopping by the program today Michael Knowles is here super smart love Michael great to talk to him as always eager to talk to him today i'm glad you're here to join us chat i hope you had a nice weekend more on that in a moment it's all coming up got to thank our great sponsors do you ever think about aging you ever think about it or as you get older and a little more creaky you probably do think about aging and you notice as you get older i certainly have that my energy goes down i've been trying to figure out a way to get it all back

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Use the code Vince at checkout. These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. All right. Yeah, I hope you had a good weekend chat. Great to have you here with me as always. Rumble.com slash Vince if you want to get onto the live chat. It was a fun one.

I was out on the Potomac River. You don't want to go into the Potomac, but it's perfectly fine to flow. on top of it with my great buddy, long-time producer, Corey, and we were just having a wonderful time floating out there. But you know, it was neat. It was a beautiful night, first of all, Saturday night. The wind was nice and it was nice and breezy. It was cool enough by the time the darkness set upon the land. Chris Plant, if you know, if those of you who listen to Chris plant, the radio host and his great wife or as he calls her, his best gal, we're also on the boat with us and a couple of others. We had a wonderful time. But the neat thing as we were drifting along the

side of Washington, D.C. and then staring into where the Kennedy Center is and staring into the Washington Monument and just past the Memorial Bridge, for those of you who know D.C. Those are areas where there used to be homeless encampments all over the place. And this weekend, there were not homeless encampments all over the place. It was wonderful. And I ended up talking to some friends, locals in northern Virginia, who don't always get a chance to go into the city. They brought their kids into the city this weekend. And they said that it was amazing. It was for the first time and a long time, there wasn't blight everywhere. There weren't homeless people all over the place. They were able to walk into the museums with ease.

It was like very light traffic getting in and out of the buildings. It was great. It was really great. And so I got to say thank you to the president of the United States. It's just what a joy it has been to see our nation's capital get cleaned up. And the people who are freaking out about this, these lefties, are just unreal. I mean, the fact is this is the pro-crime coalition that's out there. And they had some weak, a feat, little pathetic marsh they did over the weekend. Barely anybody attended it. That's because barely anyone's interested in making crime the norm again. President Trump's having a lot of success there, but it is causing some panic on the left. I'll get into some of those details as we go,

not just today, but throughout the week. But it's great. Anyway, thank you to the president. We had a great time out on the boat. It was awesome. It was awesome. All right. Let's see. They haven't done shit for the homeless. That's a total live event, says decision points. What the hell are you talking, decision points? Have you been out there? Don't be a dummy. Go out there, check it out.

It's a big deal. They got all these homeless people off the streets. They put them in the shelters. They got them out of D.C. In fact, there was one homeless guy who straight up said he loves Trump, even though Trump keeps throwing his tents out. You see that this weekend? The New York Times had a piece.

It was so funny. This guy was like, yeah, Trump keeps throwing my tents out. They keep clearing all these homeless encampments. And I keep losing all the tents. I love them. I love them. And by the way, one more thing. You know, decision points might not know what's going on, but I'm here to tell you I do.

You know, there was, I had a law enforcement source reach out to me this weekend and tell me, Vince, you would not believe how disgusting the inside of these tents are. They're getting all these people off the street. And when law enforcement goes, Department of Public Works goes, and they're getting these people off the streets, they're going up to these tents. They're clearing them out. The tents have human waste inside of them.

Law enforcement's been retching. They said it's everything they can do not to throw up just getting these disgusting tents off the streets of Washington, D.C. It's amazing. It's just amazing. Anyway, God bless the president of the United States for finally doing something about it. All right, we'll get back to some of that coming up. But first, I want to talk about the president on Friday.

Last I left you, we were preparing for the president of the United States to meet with Vladimir Putin in Alaska. The left was, you know, as always, they just nag anything the president does and treat it like garbage. Oh, why are you meeting him in Alaska? What a concession. And the president did meet him in Alaska. And they set up a red carpet. They had both planes land right there on that, on that joint base in Alaska. And it was an amazing sight to see. In fact, one of the great moments is as Putin was stepping off the plane, they flew a couple of B2 bombers over the top of his

head, which was totally awesome. Justin, do we have that clip of the B2 bombers? Tell me we do. I'll tell you what, I can get it. I'll beat you to it. Here's the president of the United States buzzing these guys. Check this out. Look at that.

Look at these bombers. Flying over the top of these guys. One more time for the people at home. Yeah, it was one bomber. You're right. It was one B2, a couple of jets. so cool honestly so cool and just really really awesome to see that's a great way to welcome him and the president was you know he had a good time with it he said that he was very pleased with the

way everything went down they were there for about three hours and the president absolutely crushing it he said the meeting with Putin was extremely productive take a look here at the president united states talking about this extremely productive meeting and many points were agreed to and there are just a very few that are left some are not that significant one is probably the most significant oh my gosh but we have a very good chance of getting there we didn't get there but we have a very good chance of getting there i would like to thank uh president putin at his entire team whose faces who i know in many cases otherwise other than that who's whose faces i get to see you the time and then yeah so the president said it was productive extremely productive we had a good

chat uh this weekend uh now that said um it is it is amazing just to watch the way that the press is reacting to all of this they're upset they're super upset that the president met with putin at all uh and we we did get some details out of this take a look here there's steve wickoff this weekend he's the envoy uh cut five talking about uh that what putton agrees agreed to in this meeting with the President of the United States. The Article 5 guarantee of NATO, an attack on one and it's an attack on all. Russia would allow that to happen, that any further incursions into Ukraine, Russia would understand, would be seen as an attack on all NATO members?

No, Jake, that's not what I said. What I said is that we got to an agreement that the United States and other European nations the European nations could effectively offer Article 5 like language to cover a security guarantee. Okay, so let me pause on this for a moment because I don't know about you, but this is catching my attention. One of the things that we've been avoiding is a lumping Ukraine in with NATO because we don't want to have to carry Ukraine's baggage, right? The goal here is to keep Ukraine out of NATO. Putin wants to do that because he doesn't want all of Europe and the United States to come hammering him if he engages in armed conflict with Ukraine like he's doing right now. And then we don't want Ukraine and NATO because we don't want to go into World War III

with Russia. Seems pretty straightforward. So I'm a little curious what they mean by Article 5 protections. Article 5 is if you attack one, then you attack all. Basically everybody comes flying in like a like a pack of screaming monkeys. We just come whooping your ass together. But that's That's not preferable. But in fairness to the Trump administration, we don't actually know the terms of this deal yet. They said Article 5 like protections. Steve Wickoff was asked for more clarification about this by Shannon Bream this weekend

about what does that mean? Boots on the ground. Is that what we're talking about? Look at cut six here. Here's what Steve Wickoff had to say. It means that the United States is potentially prepared to be able to give Article 5, Article 5 security guarantees, but not from NATO, directly from the United States and other European countries. That is big. I mean really big.

Does it mean boots on the ground? What does it mean, logistically? I think part of the discussion that we're going to have on Monday throughout the day, because there's going to be breakout sessions there, is exactly the specifics of what the Ukrainians feel that they need. Because remember, as mediators, we were at this summit to advance the Ukrainian position, and we did that. Yeah, they were at the summit. So I don't think that we got a ton of clarity on that. He's just basically saying there's Article 5 like. My guess is that if Putin agreed to it, which is what Wickhoff said, then it is not a full-blown.

You attack us, and then you attack everyone in NATO. It's a full-blown war. So we'll see. Obviously, as usual here, this is one of those areas where I'm like, all right, let's trust the president of the United States. Let's see what he comes up with here. Because the president this weekend, to reemphasize this point, he came out and said, there is no way that Ukraine is joining NATO. That's not happening. And also, there is no way that Crimea is going back to Russia. Take a look. I want to show you this. This is the true social post from the weekend. The president's saying, President Zelensky, of Ukraine, can end the war with Russia almost immediately if he wants to or he can continue to fight remember how it started no getting back Obama giving Crimea 12 years ago without a shot being fired and no going into NATO by Ukraine some things never changed that's the president's position here now one last thing before we moved to Zelensky's visit to the white house today Vladimir Putin was complimentary

of the president this weekend or on Friday when he was at the press conference he said look to be honest with you, without President Trump, you know, that things got dicey. But if President Trump were in office over the last four years, there would have been no invasion of Ukraine. Look at this. I'd like to remind you that in 20, 22, during the last contact with the previous administration, I tried to convince my previous American colleague that the situation should not be would come to hostilities, and I said it quite directly back then, that is a big mistake. Today when President Trump saying that if he was the present back then, there will be no war, and I'm quite sure that it would indeed be so.

I can confirm that. I think that overall, me and President Trump have built a very good business-like and trustworthy contact, and have every reason to believe. that moving down this path, we can come, and the sooner it better, to the end of the conflict in Ukraine. Thank you. All right. So that's, you know, Vladimir Putin extending an olive branch to the president of the United States, paying him a compliment, obviously hoping to keep him close, but saying that, you know, it's Biden's fault that things got as dicey as they've been. And you can stretch that out even longer as President Trump did. It's Obama and Biden's fault that things got as disastrous as they did in that region of. of the world. Never should have been that way. And it got us ensnared a complete mess that President Trump is now trying to clean up. That leads us to today. You have Vladimir Zelensky arriving in Washington, D.C. overnight. And he is set for some big White House meetings today

with the president of the United States. But he's not going to be alone here. In fact, a bunch of European leaders are traveling with him today to the White House or they're all arriving together. They're holding a big summit at the White House. Now, the way the press is spinning this is that these European leaders are trying to stop Trump from, quote, bullying Zelensky again. Oh, we bullied him last time. No, Zelensky ran his mouth. He was completely disrespectful to the president of the United States and the vice president. And my suspicion here is that these European leaders are in part here because they want to make sure that Zelensky doesn't put his foot back in his mouth again. Zelensky, according to some early reports this morning,

we'll be arriving at the White House in a suit this time. That's good. Here's how this went down this weekend. Cut eight. Here's Marco Rubio tearing Margaret Brennan limb from limb for suggesting that these leaders are here to stop Trump from being a bully. His advice to President Zelensky is make a deal. Russia's a very big power. They're not. You know there is concern from the Europeans that President Zelensky is going to be bullied into signing something away. That's why you have these European leaders coming as back up tomorrow. Can you know, no, it isn't. That's not why they're coming us back. That's not true. That's not why. That's not true, they're not coming here tomorrow to keep Zelensky from being bullied. They're not coming here. In fact, they're coming here tomorrow. They're coming here tomorrow. They're coming here tomorrow. Do you know how many meetings we had since then? Oh, no, I know. I know. And I was just.

Up in Alaska, watching the one with Vladimir Putin where a red carpet rolls rolled out. No, but it was Zelensky. We've had more meetings. We've had one meeting with Putin and like a dozen meetings with Zelensky. So that's not true. They're not coming here tomorrow to keep Zelensky from being bullied. They're coming here tomorrow because we've been working with the Europeans. We talked to them last week. There were meetings in the UK over the previous weekend. And they said President Trump was going to demand a ceasefire. As early as Thursday. But you said that they're coming here tomorrow to keep Zelensky for being bullied.

they're not coming here tomorrow. This is such a stupid media narrative that they're coming here tomorrow because Trump is going to bully Zelensky into a bad deal. We've been working with these people for weeks, for weeks on this stuff. They're coming here tomorrow because they chose to come here tomorrow. We invited them to come. We invited them to come. The president invited them to come.

And the point here is that the United States shouldn't have to carry the burden anymore. Europe needs to carry its own weight in this equation. So the plan is get everybody in the room. Everybody sits down. We hash this out. We'll get all the players involved. And the president's already indicating that if things go well here today, Monday with Vladimir Zelensky, they could have a trilateral meeting with Vladimir Putin by the end of the week. That's how quickly President Trump wants to get this thing done because it's dragged on long enough. President Trump has already indicated, including in an interview with Sean Hannity this weekend, that I want to get this done. immediately I want to set up a meeting between all of us take a look here's the president this this weekend right out of that meeting with Vladimir Putin take a look pretty significant items but I think they can be reached now it's really up to President Zelensky to get it done and I would also say the

European nations they have to get involved a little bit but it's up to President Zelensky I think we we are and if they'd like I'll be at that next meeting they're going to set up a meeting now between President and President Putin and myself, I guess, you know, I didn't even, I didn't ask you about it. Not that I want to be there, but I want to make sure it gets done. All right. So the president's ready to go. He just wants to get this thing done and rightfully.

So we'll see progress this weekend with Vladimir Putin. A lot of conversations going on with Vladimir Zelensky, including in person as Zelensky shows up reportedly in a suit to the White House today, European leaders present for that. And we'll keep an eye on it and bring you any breaking news updates. on the national radio show and certainly on tomorrow's edition of Vince up ahead on the program. We've still got waiting in the wings. Michael Knowles will be here. And I want to share with you the latest on the accountability push. The grand juries that are underway as Obama World is investigated by the Trump Department of Justice.

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futures with Maria Bartaroma. And it's been, Awesome, actually, listening to Ed Martin talk about all this because he gave us some meaningful updates. So let's see where I should start here. I want to start with the fact that over the weekend, going into the weekend, Ed Martin was spotted in Brooklyn wearing his investigator trench coat, showing up outside of Letitia James's Brooklyn home, which is a lot of fun. Take a look. I've got this here on the Rumble feed. Here's Ed Martin, the New York Post capturing this, standing outside of Tish James's home, you know, trench coat on, he's got his aide with him, and they're assessing the home.

Now remember, Letitia James has been accused of mortgage fraud for claiming two different homes as her primary residence, not supposed to do that. Adam Schiff is guilty of the same thing, allegedly. And Ed Martin, as we believe, and as you hear the audio, launched grand juries. has been able to impanel grand juries to go after both letitia james and adam schiff not a small deal and so we get some details from ed this weekend on everything that's going down let's take a look here let's let's let's start we'll start from the very top here's cut one this is ed martin saying pam bondi has us working like crazy right now take a look at general bondi has that that department of justice

spinning like a top we've got more stuff going on a lot of it we can't talk about because of the nature of it, but it's going like crazy. And one of them was, we were in a group. We're still in it working on the Russia hoax. Yeah, they have a spinning like a top right now. He's got she, that is. Pam Bondi has prosecutors working as we speak on the Russia hoax, says Ed Martin. So if you're looking for something measurable there to say, hey, are they actually doing things? Yeah, not only is the FBI doing a crap ton, they're doing a ton of digging, a ton of transparency stuff. On the prosecution side, Ed says Pam Bondi has us spinning like a top right now. And then he gets into more detail in particular about Letitia James and Adam Schiff.

Take a look. Cut two here. When Bill Pulte sends a criminal referral over to us, and he says Latisha James and Adam Schiff, and by the way, both their lawyers have come out and talked publicly about that criminal referral. So you can talk to them about the specifics, because I'm going to tell you what we're going to do is we're going to follow the facts. Every American that has a mortgage or has other documents they sign has to follow the law. We're going to go to the very bottom of the facts. And if somebody did something wrong, we're not only going to hold them accountable. We're also going to look at everything else that they've been doing because when you're a liar, you lie not just on one thing.

When you're a cheater, you cheat, not just on one thing. When you're doing corruption, you generally don't just do it on one thing. So that's what we're asked to do as prosecutors, and that's what we're doing. Okay, all right, a couple things going on here. One, in our Rumble chat right now, I saw Viva Frey's here. what's up dude good to have you with us he's a lawyer so here's the thing i want you to think about what you just heard from ed martin he said when you lie and you cheat on one thing chances are you're lying and cheating on a lot of other things as well and what you're

seeing from ed martin is a hand tip ladies and gentlemen pay attention to that if he's impaneled grand juries to go after adam schiff and letitia james these grand juries can become unwieldy for the person they're going after very quickly it's not going to just be limited this is ed martin telling you right now this is not going to be limited to mortgage fraud mortgage fraud is the door that is opening that's that's the that's the way to open the door that's it beyond that all of the stuff that the grand jury is going to start looking at it's going to get more and more and more expansive this is not a good situation for adam schiff who remember in the past week was just accused of leaking classified information

to pursue an indictment against Trump by a Democrat Party whistleblower. These, this is huge. In other words, they found something credible to open a grand jury against these guys, the mortgage fraud accusations, and now things are going to get completely out of control for Letitia James and Adam Schiff. So keep your eye on that. Ed Martin is being very suggestive in that clip,

but I don't think people appreciate generally the detail that he was giving there. Other things. Martin confirmed, yes, I was visiting Letitia James' home in Brooklyn. Take a look. Cut three. I was in New York, actually, New Jersey for some meetings. And I went over to New York for another meeting, and I went by there. One of the referrals is about that property that she has is a very prominent neighborhood in Brooklyn. And I wanted to lay eyes on it.

I think most people, if you're prosecuting something, you're careful. I didn't go there and announce it. Some woman came storming up and shooting video and talking to me. But I wanted to see the property. And there's a number of other aspects of these cases where you've got to get a sense of what is actually at stake. Do you have a grand jury in these cases? Let me say when you get a criminal referral, one of the tools you have is a grand jury. And I'll leave it to you to infer what I mean.

But these referrals are criminal referrals, significant enough that they would warrant using all the tools. And the tools include subpoenas and witnesses. And that's the, that is in our system, that is the system. I'm not like Jack Smith. Jack Smith liked to talk about how he did things and what he did and brag about. Letitia James did, by the way, as a prosecutor. She liked to come out and hold press conferences. I'll just tell you when you get a criminal referral and her own lawyer made the comments publicly,

you can infer what you need to. You can infer what you need to. How hard can he possibly tip the hand he's holding right now? You're staring at it. You get to see all the cards, all the suits. You know exactly what he's saying. Yes, grand juries have been in paneled. That's the answer from Ed Martin without actually saying it.

That is the answer. Great news. Staggering news out of the weekend. Wonderful news. Not appreciated to the extent that it should be. This audience appreciates it. More. Guess who else they're investigating?

That's right. The January 6th committee. Cut four. Ed Martin explains there are people here who did not receive pardons from Biden. They should watch their mailboxes. What about the January 6th committee? Did they destroy evidence? Is there criminality there?

Of course. We're all in that too. And trust me, a lot of people did not get a pardon that were involved in the select committee. And they ought to be keeping an eye on their mailbox because there's a lot to be asked about. Yeah. Boy, that brings a song to my heart and a tear to my eye. I love that. I love that.

So Ed Martin giving us that detail, too. And lastly, here from Ed Martin, while we're celebrating his excellent appearance. this weekend. He says, when when everything comes out, the stuff that they're working on, all of these hoaxes are going to be taken down. Cut five. Here's it. I'm telling you, Pam Bondi has let us loose. And when this comes out, it'll take the whole of these people's hoaxes down. And we're doing it bit by bit. And it's fantastic. It's a great privilege. Yeah. All right. So Ed's excited. Ed's got a lot to be excited about, you know, you know, You know by now, if you've been following this show for these past many months,

Ed Martin is a Patriot. We've had him here on the program. I'd like to get him back again soon to talk about all of this. He went quiet for a while as they've been plugging away at things. Good to see him out in public again talking. And look, that guy should have been the U.S. attorney. He was stopped by a guy called Thaum Tellis in North Carolina. He should have been the U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C.,

but we've got something really great going on here as he runs the weaponization. group and now he's going after Adam Schiff. The Senate blocks him. Senator Adam Schiff did not want Ed Martin to become a U.S. attorney. And now Senator Adam Schiff has Ed Martin breathing down his neck. I love that. One more thing on grand juries that you should see. This is an important piece from the weekend as well. John Solomon said this in a couple of places, but he said this in particular in the clip we're about to share with you on Steve Bannon's war room. Here is cut nine John Solomon saying that right now there are four grand juries impaneled in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania.

Notice I didn't say Washington, D.C. Here's John Solomon. Yeah, and I'll confirm for you. I have been able to confirm with witnesses that there are at least four grand juries currently doing work on the weaponization, Russia collusion, all the way through Ukraine impeachment investigation. That's the grand conspiracy case. One's in New York, two in Virginia.

One is in Pennsylvania. That's what I've been able to learn this far. So the grand juries are working. Where they are doesn't matter. That doesn't mean where the indictments are. It just means it makes it easier for people to gather evidence. But that's a big deal. Yeah, a big deal.

And get it out of D.C. That's a really key point because D.C. is just a rigged system designed to eternally benefit Democrats in the cruelest and most corrupt ways. So keeping it out of D.C. is really important. But four grand jury is impaneled. This is not a small deal. We've got a lot going on. New York makes sense because Letitia James, Virginia,

I think some of the perpetrators that we're talking about live in the Commonwealth of Virginia. So these are critical. And Pennsylvania is an interesting one. I see some people speculating that Pennsylvania may have something to do with the 2020 election. Perhaps. There's clearly something big happening right now. You'll get all the updates here and all the first indicators, for that matter. Okay. Coming up, Michael Knowles stops by. We have a lot to discuss with him. He's got such smart insights.

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documentary. Tell us a little bit about what this is. You know, you take a look at Pope Pius the 12th and what he was up to during World War II. What was he up to? Well, listen, there's generally not a great time to release a docu-series on an event that's really interesting to me, but a lot of people don't really care about the papacy. They've never heard really of Pius the 12th. And we're in this moment right now where we have a new Pope. He's an American Pope. All eyes are on the Vatican. And there's a huge upsurge in religion, especially among young people, especially returning to more traditional forms of the faith and even Catholicism. So I said, oh, well, this is the moment. We've got to put this out right now. And also because it ties into something that we've talked a lot

about recent years, which is fake news. Because if anyone ever were the victim of fake news, Pius the 12th would be pretty high up on that list. He's been called the silent pope. He's been called Hitler's Pope by propagandists. He allegedly was silent or even completely. in the Nazi atrocities, it's just bunk, it's just not true, and it's an attack leveled on the church by the church's historical enemies, communists, the left broadly. Don't forget the term the left comes from the French Revolution to attack the church, to attack throne and altar. So I think it's a really important series to clear things up. You know, Hitler was an enemy of the church. The church fought very strongly against Hitler and saved a lot

of lives and did a lot of good and you know a little sunlight is a great disinfectant on those lies while we're correcting the record on so many other calumnies in our culture i i think it's it's really important to correct the record on this one because the the church is the oldest institution in the west it's the only one that has survived from antiquity until the present and if the west has any meaning at all i think it probably has something to do with the church suggest that what pope pious the twelfth was probably doing was not engaging in social commentary but instead trying to figure out ways to protect christians from dying to protect christians and jews this is the other thing that he has not really been given proper credit for is even just immediately

in rome pope pious the 12th did everything possible and succeeded to a great degree in protecting jews from being shipped off to the camps and he did so with his authority as the head of the church. But then broadly throughout Europe, hundreds of thousands of lives were saved by Pope Pius' intervention. Pius, before he became Pope, was a diplomat. He was the Vatican's diplomat in Germany, actually.

He had a very keen understanding of Germany, became the Vatican's top diplomat, and then ultimately became the Pope. And so it's really timely, I think, because we live in an age where we think that we have to broadcast everything on TikTok and everything has to be really shiny and publicized. the way that Pope Pius, the 12th, was so deeply engaged in the war, was largely in silence.

I guess in that part, it's fair, but silence doesn't mean inaction, you know, it was in a clandestine way, but it was to great effect, and he deserves much more credit than he's gotten. Yeah, okay. So, all right, so the documentary, the documentary is out now. Can people see this now? It's out now. It's exclusively on Daily Wire Plus, and I've been telling this to my audience. look, Matt Walsh, he brought over a lot of subscribers because he's got, he's got some little movies. I don't know if you heard, what is a woman? And so Shapiro, he's brought over, but I want to beat them all. I want to bring over as many people as possible for a documentary on Pope Pius the 12th. That would give me a great deal of pleasure. I would rub it in their faces for weeks.

So if you want to watch it, if you want to watch a series, Pope and the Furor, it's on DailyWare Plus. If you succeed, I'll be totally inspired, but I do think topically you probably are narrow casting a little too much dominate what is a woman that's funny i love that though well i do hope you win let me ask you about some domestic politics stuff uh the the cleanup in washington dc i started the show by emphasizing that i noticed it this weekend i was out on a boat on the potomac and i've got all sorts of friends in washington dc who say they can't even believe how much better it is you hear from dc residents on the ground talking to local media the you know black residents of dc saying i can't even believe it took this long i'm so glad president trump is doing this but there's a a

a category of elite, typically astroturfed, white liberal who is absolutely furious that President Trump is cleaning up the streets of D.C., and they're accusing him of speaking of fascism, of being a fascist for doing it. What do you make of that response? How could there be a pro-crime coalition? There's a pro-crime coalition and apparently a constitutionally illiterate coalition because they're not just calling him the F word of fascist. They're calling him the F word of federalizer. Apparently Trump is engaging in a federal take. takeover of D.C., just if any of them are listening right now, I want, D.C. already belongs to the federal government.

It is a federal district that goes back to the Constitution. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17, Congress controls D.C., quote, in all cases whatsoever. Then the president has had a role here as well. For 102 years, the president would appoint the governors or mayors of Washington, D.C. It only really starts in 1973 with the Home Rule Act that D.C. has a robust local government. Hasn't worked out very well if you've spent any time in the federal district. And even so, President Trump's alleged federal takeover of D.C. works within the context of the Home Rule Act.

I think they should repeal the Home Rule Act. But President Trump is working within the confines of the Home Rule Act taking over parts of the Police Department, as is his right. I spent a lot of time in D.C. Vince, you spent a lot of time in D.C. This place has gotten really bad. Democrat Congressman Henry Quillar carjacked at gunpoint by Capitol Hill. Naomi Biden, the president's granddaughter, carjacked in a Secret Service vehicle in Georgetown. Georgetown is probably the nicest part of D.C. I have personally been out with a U.S. senator in a nice part of D.C.

And saw him get carjacked. And not even because they thought he was a senator. It's just because carjacking has happened in D.C. It's gotten so, so bad. Nobody really benefits from that. So the residents, I'm sure, are thrilled that the crime. getting cleaned up. The only people who are upset are the elite Democrats who never have to deal with the consequences of their policies, who live in gated communities in the suburbs and are

attacking Trump for cynical political reasons while he gets the job done. So, okay, I think you kind of answer my next question at the end there, cynical political reasons. In other words, the only reason they object is because it makes Trump look good. It makes Trump look good. And also what they want is not to have the federal government reassert its traditional and constitutional role in the federal district they want statehood for dc and the reason they want statehood for dc is because most dc residents are democrats and it gives it totally shifts the balance of power in the senate and the electoral college it would be completely contrary to the letter and spirit of the constitution but that's really what this is about so well also that argument that argument is so easily pierced as fraudulent when you

suggest retroceding what's left to vc back to maryland if you say why don't we just give it to maryland then and those senators will represent you. Oh, you want, you want, you know, representation? Perfect. We'll give you to Maryland. And they say, no, we don't want it. We don't want it. Why don't they want it?

Because they want two free senators. It's as simple as that. Simple as. That's what they're after. And so what Trump is doing, and I think this is really refreshing for a lot of Republicans, is he's wielding his just political power because the people voted for him.

And so often we've gotten these squishy Republicans who don't want to wield any power, they just want to sit around and do nothing. and they make some kind of supposedly principled argument about it. Trump is saying no. He said this in 16. He said, I'm running for president so that you have good neighborhoods. And a lot of ideologues got upset about that.

They said, the president shouldn't be involved in good neighborhoods. No, he should be. You know, it's about one nation. We don't want to have a nation of haves and have-nots of the people who have to deal with crime and drugs and a nation that gets to live in the suburbs and the gated communities. We want a thriving nation. D.C. is the nation's capital. It's a symbol of the whole rest of the country.

We all have a right to that. And so the only thing I would suggest, I would say they need to go further. Deportation crackdowns are great. The crime crackdowns are great. But I was in D.C. over the weekend for an event. I was hosting an event for the Department of Education. And they still have those stupid pride flags up. Vince, it's August.

I thought the Pride month, such as it is, was June. Now it's Pride quarter of the year. I don't want any of those pride flags. So whenever the wonderful new police and National Guardsmen have a moment, rip down those stupid flags. This is the people's capital. Put some American flags up. Yeah, how embarrassing.

I'm so sorry that it was like that when you arrived here. You know, can you talk more about the value of having a clean and functional and law-abiding capital? Because, you know, one of the things that the Trump administration has talked about regarding crime in D.C. Is if D.C. were its own country, that the State Department would warn people against visiting it. Like, that's because it has crime rates that are at levels that normally the State Department alerts you before you go there. You probably shouldn't go. What's the value you think in having a clean and functional capital? Well, to quote the butler from the first season of the Crown,

it's in the little things that the rot begins. This is something Giuliani understood beautifully in New York in the 90s. It's that one broken window. That broken window. If you don't take care of it, the whole neighborhood's going to fall to pot and there's going to be crime and there's going to be drugs. And it all just kind of snowballs on it. So you have to take care of these little things.

also because the nation's capital is a symbol for the rest of the country. Why do we have these big, beautiful, neoclassical buildings there? Why? Is it just because the D.C. residents have good taste in architecture, increasingly bad taste in architecture? No, it's because it's a symbol of the whole country. The capital, the White House, the monuments on the National Mall. If the capital has fallen into decay and corruption and violence and disorder, that is symbolizing that that has happened to.

the rest of the country, too. And it's why, by the way, Trump does not want to just stop with D.C. It's why Trump says, we got to look at Baltimore. Baltimore, you feel like you're driving around Afghanistan when you're on the Amtrak going through Baltimore. Parts of that city look horrible. Oakland, Oakland is a failed city. It's like a failed state, okay? And what Trump is saying, unlike a lot of his Republican predecessors, he's not just saying, yeah, whatever, you do you, figure it out. Yeah, if New York falls to hell, that's their problem. It's not my problem. No, Trump is saying we're Americans, and our cities are part of our country, and Americans have a right to good cities. And I'm not just going to say, go to hell and you deal with your own problems.

I'm the president of all Americans, and we're going to fix it. You deserve better. So, you know, one of the things I've seen, you mentioned Oakland, the mayor of Oakland, is one of several black Democrats who run these cities that are doing very poorly. And the black Democrats who do run these cities have come together to agree on the reason President Trump is doing this. is because he's scared of black Democrats. He's scared of black people in particular. Brandon Johnson said that, that President Trump is intimidated by the black intellect.

That was his view. Why are they- His own, I'm sure, Brandon Johnson. Exactly, specifically. Why, pray tell, are they racializing this particular question? I think they're very nervous that Trump won one in five black male voters in 2024. And that does not seem like a huge number,

but if you look at historic trends, that's a massive shift. of black voters over to Republicans. Trump has done it uniquely. Bush was not able to do it. Bob Dole, John McCain, Mitt Romney. So Trump is representing the Democrats potentially losing their power.

And the way that they're choosing to respond to that, I think is probably wrongheaded, which is they're trying to just double down on the racial grievance, double down on the claims of racism or whatever. But it didn't work. You know, they tried that 16, 20, 24. Black people moved more and more

in Trump's direction. So now Trump says, want to help you and unlike everyone in both political parties up until me i actually care about you and i don't want your kids to be murdered and i do want your kids to be on safe streets i i just don't think it's going to work okay all right and then let me end where i've been obsessing lately which is and i just was talking about before you got here um was the pursuit of justice for the russia gate conspiracies um the administration clearly feels an immense amount of pressure and i think it's coming from both directions i think i think president trump is hovering over the justice department saying

I need accountability. Meanwhile, the rest of us down here are going, we need accountability. What's going on here? What do you make of the state of play in that particular pursuit? Well, it's a brutal problem for Trump and even for the DOJ, which is we constantly complain that there's never any accountability and these bad actors on the left get away with it. But we also have the attention of a fruit fly. So the problem really is even conservatives, not the ones we're watching your show, ones who were really plugged in. But there are plenty of conservatives who say, what was that? Oh, it was like 10 years ago and Obama. Who's Obama again? And they just forget. And that's what the left is counting on. And not just the left broadly. I'm talking about these real bad actors,

Clapper, Brennan, Obama himself, the Clintons, people who would appear to have broken the law and acted in a very corrupt way. They're just planning on all of us forgetting. And Trump doesn't want to forget. And I think a lot of really fired up people in the base don't want to forget. that the job for all of us is we need to convince those kind of like kind of pay attention people you say guys if you don't hold them to account now they're just going to do it again for sure for sure and if you don't hold them to account you will let the energy out so sufficiently of the right that people are going to check out from elections it's not I mean again this audience probably not your audience Michael probably not but there's going to be broad categories of people

are going to be like why am I voting why am I getting? getting involved at all, because every time I vote, I don't actually see the outcome I deserve, and then they become so disheartened. They disconnect from the process. I think the vice president put it very well just the other day. He said, the left responds to power. Everybody responds to some degree to power, but the left really only hears power. And so it's simple as, if these people are not held to account for lying, weaponizing the government, subverting an election, and undermining an entire presidential term. If they are not held to account for that,

I promise you they're going to do it again in 28 and 32 and 36, and it's not going to stop until we make it stop. All right. Michael Knowles. Thank you, as always, man. Do you the best. Appreciate you. And Michael does have that great new documentary.

The Pope and the Furor, the Secret Vatican Files of World War II, available now at the Daily Wire. Thank you, Michael. Good to see you. See you next time. Nice to see you. There he is. Michael Knowles.

Oh, it was cool to have Michael Knowles stop by. Okay. You know, he was just talking about this, all these guys need accountability and that people's attention span will move on. They're hoping you get distracted and move on to something else. That's definitely true of James Comey. James Comey is desperate for you not to talk about his crimes. In fact, the place that he'd rather be is getting you to talk with him about Taylor Swift.

Have you seen this? I don't not know what this guy is doing. I mean, other than putting together these games. diary videos. I can't even begin to explain what this is. Here is cut 10 further reason for us to lock up James Comey said that the world is spared from things like this. Hey everybody, welcome back to my substack. Last week's cold turns out to have been COVID, quite a flashback. And Donald Trump is still president and still humiliating America on a national stage standing next to Vladimir Putin. It's like a dream, a bad dream you can't wake up from. I love it. I don't want to talk about

bad dream this week. I want to talk about a truly inspirational public figure named Taylor Swift. Oh my gosh. Of course, I watched her podcast interview with the Kelsey brothers. Of course, I watched the whole thing, although on YouTube, Patrice and I got kicked off for the last 15 minutes and finished it on her phone. But I watched it. Oh my goodness. You see, Taylor Swift and I go way back. I went to my first concert of hers 15 years ago. I've been to a second and I have What is wrong with this guy? actually support the attendance of a lot of family members at others he should be on a list swiftie group chat i know all her music and i listen to it in my headphones when i cut the grass

what there's something desperately wrong with that human being i'm a swifty i know all of her music i constantly go to her concerts i financially support people who go to her concerts you are so i don't know he's such a basic bitch that guy that's unreal that he's you put that on video and you shared that with the world? You should keep that to yourself. Don't say that out loud. It's kind of embarrassing, actually. Here he is saying that he was at recently, oh, he was describing what occurred at his second Taylor Swift concert. Here's James Comey. At my second Taylor Swift concert in Hartford, Connecticut 14 years ago this summer, she sang a song about this topic, asking, why you got to be so mean.

Oh, my goodness. And she spoke directly to the nasty people. I bet you got pushed around. Somebody made you bold. But the cycle ends right now. He's an angsty teenager. He'll be able to that road. You'll be glad I didn't sing that.

That's right. Why is he wearing a suit? Why is unhappiness. Nobody should have that power over us. Thank you, Taylor Swift. Keep the faith. Why is he wearing a suit, staring into a camera, reading a typewritten monologue about Taylor Swift? What the hell is that supposed to be?

That's so crazy. Why you got to be so mean? He's an angsty high school girl, an overgrown, angsty high school girl making shell art about how much he hates President Trump on the beach and then posting it to Instagram. There's something desperately wrong with that human being. You know, we ran that video through a truth filter, actually, for you this morning, because I do feel like you are owed a better clip of James Comey than the one you were just delivered. So here is James Comey as put through the Vince program's excellent high-tech truth filter. Here he is.

Hey, everybody. Welcome back to my super ultra-gay narrated journal, Substack. Last week's cold turns out to have been COVID. And I'm a big bitch who is afraid of the China virus. So it was quite a flashback. And Donald Trump is still president and still the greatest president who ever lived and I'm so glad he's trying to put my lying treasonous ass in jail while he negotiates with my good buddy Putin who helped me create a total hoax about Trump.

I want to talk about a truly inspirational public figure named Taylor Swift. I turned in my man card only minutes after being born and I've been a perpetual bitch ever since. My spineless ass would leave my entire family for the opportunity to meet my great greatest idol, Taitay. I can't even believe the technology exists for that. Man, things are moving very fast, aren't they? Justin, I don't know how we did that, but I'm very impressed. Thank you for that.

So, yeah, that, what's that, Justin? Oh, yeah. Oh, the same way we got the Jim Acosta exclusive? Well, whatever it is, it's very high tech. And I'm grateful that we get these guys telling us the truth. That's the only time you're ever going to hear that. We should get more testimony from, Comey, though, to give us more of a sense of how exactly he betrayed the country and abused his power

and tried to destroy an entire presidency, but failed at doing that. Maybe we'll do further interviews with the truth filtered James Comey in the future. But that's what that guy is up to. That's what that guy is up to. It's just remarkable that what possesses, how old is James Comey? I'm going to, let me check real quick. I want to make sure about the age here. How old is James Comey? He's 64 years old. He's 64 years old. He's filming selfie videos, wearing a full suit, talking about how he knows every one of Taylor Swift's songs and how Taylor Swift is inspiring to him

and is helping him cope with not liking Trump. Did I get all that? That's crazy. That's really completely crazy what we're hearing. So anyway, that's James Comey, in case you were wondering. And he's definitely one, to be clear, who's on the list he's on the list and so i don't know i don't know how long combe is going to have filming videos like that and releasing them in public but boy i can't wait for those to end all

the more reason to cuff that guy put put him in cuffs um i told you earlier that there's a there's a homeless man in washington dc who his name is david barns check this out this is um it's the daily caller with the summary here uh david barns a homeless dude living in washington dc just told the Times on Friday, he doesn't regret voting for Donald Trump, despite his tents being tossed out amid Trump's calls to crack down on homelessness and crime in the city. David Barnes, comma, who is homeless, comma, told the New York Times that he found his tent, which had previously been located in Washington Circle, missing after police officers had once again thrown his possessions in the trash. Barnes told the outlet that Trump and his presidency

So he has taken away two, not one, two of my tents. Isn't that amazing? Boy, that's a big degree of winning. If you are such a good president that you could take the guy's tents over and over and he still supports you, it's a sign you're succeeding. Despite this, Barnes told the New York Times that he previously voted for Trump and would vote for him again due to the president striving to keep the nation's capital pristine and beautiful. The report comes amid Trump's ongoing crackdown on homeless encampments in D.C. okay here's the thing though this guy David Barnes comma who is homeless comma

he should go get a home he should find take up residence in a state where Trump can actually win or somebody like Trump can actually win going forward to the future David move to Virginia give us another vote in Virginia we'll get that thing a little bit closer to actually voting for a Republican again how about that and maybe JD Vance in the next cycle

so find a place set up shop there and let's have your vote there that'd be good. But there's a there's the president cleaning up the city. That's great news too. And I got to say, everybody I keep talking to, they love it. They absolutely love what the president is doing right now to fix things up. All right. I've got a big national radio show coming up today. We're going to do that 12 to 3 Eastern Time, as we so often do. You can check that out. Go to thevincshow.com, thevinshow.com. And it is there on the local list. I'll even show you to show it to you for the Rumble chat. On the local listings, you just click where to listen up on the very top,

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House. That's with all the world leaders together who are president at the White House. And then they're going to have a big meeting later in the day around three o'clock as my radio show is concluding. So if you want to keep track of all of the news events, track the radio show today. We will have those all coming up. Also, KT. McFarland is going to stop by the radio show. so we've got a big update from her very smart she'll give us her assessment of the meeting with Putin and how zolensky could proceed today and not screw things up stay with us got a lot more updates ahead uh on the vint show and on vince appreciate you as always the best damn audience in media coming up next right here on rumble stephen crowder takes things away stay tuned for that