The Dan Bongino Show - What Just Happened At The White House? | Episode 106

Episode Date: August 19, 2025

Seemingly all of Europe was at the President's house yesterday, but what was actually accomplished? Also: Pam Bondi cracks down nationally on sanctuary cities. Zelenskyy wears military-style ‘suit’ to Trump summit https://www.politico.eu/article/zelenskyy-to-wear-military-style-suit-to-trump-summit-designer-says/ Live Updates: European Leaders Discuss Protections for Ukraine After White House Talks https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08/19/us/trump-zelensky-ukraine-russia Pam Bondi threatens prosecution for leaders not complying with immigration officers https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/14/pam-bondi-sanctuary-cities-letter-immigration Sponsors: Blackout Coffee - https://BlackoutCoffee.com/Vince Patriot Mobile - https://patriotmobile.com/Vince Birch Gold - Text VINCE to the number 989898 BrickHouse Nutrition - https://Thenewwhey.com Code: Vince Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, everybody. Welcome to Vince, brought to you by Blackout Coffee, the official coffee of all of us here at Silverlock. Go to blackout coffee.com slash Vince. Use the code Vince. That's V-I-N-C-E for 20% off your first order, blackout coffee. We got a big show for you today. The president of the United States is clearly the leader of the free world. He brings all of these people to the White House from Europe, from, well, Vladimir Zelensky shows up from Ukraine. and they all sit down like a bunch of kids on a field trip as the president gives them a couple of lectures on how we're going to get all of this solved. He is working to bring about a piece.

So we've got big developments from the White House yesterday. We'll concentrate on that. Also, illegal immigration continues to be a problem that the Trump administration is addressing. And we have another horrific story this week of an illegal alien who killed three Americans and how he got into the country and how the Trump administration is looking to stop all of this going forward.

details on that. And then Brett Tolman will be with us. He's a former U.S. attorney. I've got a lot to discuss with him because as a legal expert, former U.S. attorney, he can dive into what does it mean that the Trump administration has launched a number of grand juries into the Russia gate scandal now? Is it bad news for Adam Schiff? Is it bearing down on Letitia James? What about Brennan and call me and the rest of them? Oh, boy, we've got some details. It's all ahead for you on this edition of events. Thank you to all of you who are tuning in from all across the country. I asked on the Rumble chat where everybody's coming from.

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This drive anybody else crazy? It's like, how many times does this guy have to do this? He's meeting with these dignitaries. And he shows up wearing a t-shirt. Look at this. He's in the room. Everybody else. President, Vice President.

Everybody else is wearing a shirt. suit, he shows up wearing a t-shirt yesterday. I'm like, dude, how much more disrespect can you demonstrate to the United States? Is it really that hard to throw a jacket and tie on just to go to this event? Because what we've been seeing from Zelensky over and over and over is this sort of casual disrespect. Oh, welcome to the White House. Why don't you kick off your shoes? You want to put your feet up on the resolute desk? Whatever you want to do, buddy, go for it. So Zelensky was apparently told ahead of time, dude, this time when you go to the white house you're wearing a suit that's what you have to do you have to wear a suit you have to

demonstrate some respect to the american people who've given you so much during this whole process so by the time he showed up at the white house yesterday he had an outfit change he did he had an outfit change he showed up wearing a suit of some sort it was all black it was a collar no tie but here's the president shocked that it even happened cut four here's the president of the united the United States reacting to Zelensky. He said, look, I love it. I love the suit. I love that. I can't believe it. I said, pretty face. So that's an improvement, but at least he wore something this time. And then by the time he made

it into the Oval Office and they brought the press in, the same guy from Real America's Brian, the reporter there, the White House correspondent who had confronted him last time, he's like, dude, why don't you wear a suit when you come to the White House? You don't want a suit? You can't wear a suit when you come to the White House? This time, he got a chance to talk to Zelensky and he said, dude, you're looking good. You're looking marvelous. You're finally wearing a suit. Cup five. Take a look. You look fabulous in that suit. I said the same. Yeah, look good. I said the same thing. Yeah, that guy said someone that attacked you last time. See, I remember that. I apologize to you.

You look wonderful. Oh, no need to apologize. You got it right the first time. Okay, so anyway, that conversation came up early. And, you know, this matters insofar as Zelensky, I think, has presumably learned some lessons from how he screwed it up last time. When he showed up in February, he totally screwed up that meeting. He's wearing some stupid polo shirt. He looked like an idiot.

He was disrespectful to the vice president of the United States in particular. And President Trump, remember at that time, said, dude, you don't hold any of the cards. You don't have the cards here, dude. And they kicked them out of the White House, no lunch, no food. They gave the food to the interns and they said, be gone with you. Zelensky returning this time with a little bit more grace and a little bit more acknowledgement. Okay, look, my future hinges on whether I not or not I handle this relationship with the president of the United States the right way. But here's something fascinating about his outfit choices.

It's not just that you and I are talking about them that like, what the hell were you doing? dude, you should have wore a suit from the beginning, is that Zelensky's people, I've been talking about them. Are you ready for this? Listen to this craziness from Politico yesterday, reporting on the details of what went into the suit decision at the White House. Zolensky Politico reported wears a military style suit to Trump summit. The subhead of the piece says, Zolensky is now in a state where every detail matters. Here's appearance, mood, and emotions. One of the Ukrainian president's designers told Politico ahead of the meeting. I'm sorry.

One of his, what? Isn't this a guy at war? Isn't the whole idea that he doesn't have time for frivolous nonsense? Why does he have designers working for him? What is that about? How much American money is going into his designers? We're paying for the whole government. So are we paying the designers?

What is this? They talked about his sartorial choices. They mentioned that Trump loved it. And here's the quote from the designer. This time the president will be in a suit, but the style remains in a military key with the same symbolism. He is the head of state, which is at war,

said Alvira Gassanova, a Ukrainian businesswoman and designer of the Demerli brand that produces one of Zelensky's signature looks. Who does this guy think he is? Is he Brad Pitt? Is this guy, Gisal Bunchen? Is it a model?

This is crazy. At the same time, it's important to emphasize that it is Vladimir Zelensky who personally decides what to wear, she added. The president is now in a state where every detail matters. His appearance, his mood, his emotions. Therefore, is the leader of Ukraine.

He chooses the image that best suits his role and moment. So that brand, demurely, I didn't realize that there was a whole brand operation behind Zelensky. Did you know that? That there's some sort of design. fashion brand behind Zelensky's quote signature looks I had no idea about any of that

yeah it turns out there is and so I looked it up I was like what's what is this demurely thing are they is it how much does it cost to buy demurely what is what is he spending our money on you ready for this take a look at this here's the demurely website I was pulling it up yesterday during the big national radio show right at the top they've got the president's polo shirt with embroidered trident and stand-up collar. Hey, Rumbled, check out the price on this bad boy. Are you looking at this? $198 for the president's polo shirt.

It's a profit-driven operation. Check out the other stuff that they saw on the website. Camono shirt, $450. Knitwear polo, 233. Wall trousers, $397. And they've got all these other options. They've got things that are all from the Zelensky line, the men's shirt with embroidered Ukrainian Trident,

$438.38. Do you see that? It's so crazy. This just opened up a whole new can of worms. They're like, yeah, his designers prepared him for the meeting with Trump from this really important fashion brand. What's the important fashion brand? And they're hawking all of this Zelensky wear for $500 a piece. Okay.

That seems like a tremendous waste of time and presumably our resources pouring into that. What? So enough of that. Let's just end this war. How about that? So the president of the United States yesterday was attempting to do that. And we got some updates yesterday. First and foremost, as Zelensky is sitting down with Trump.

At one point, President Trump started busting his chops about the fact that he suspended elections in his country. There's no elections right now. Zelensky's saying, no, we're not doing any elections until the war is. over and so i'm staying in office forever and the president made a point of commenting on like that's kind of crazy he made a joke about it here's cut six the president of the united states bringing that up during the war you can't have elections so let me just see three and a half years from now so you mean if we happen to be in a war with somebody no more elections oh i wonder what the fake you like oh trump's like what if i did that

What would the media say about me? What if I did that? What if I just got rid of elections? Oh, look, we're at war. I can't, I can't leave. I got to stay in the White House. What would the fake news media say about that? They'd go crazy.

In fact, to the president's point, like right on cue, leftists started freaking out yesterday about this. Here's just this guy, he's pretty well-known hysterical lefty. Not funny. Just he's like losing his mind routinely. Here he is yesterday. Brian Krasenstein responding to this. Breaking. Trump implies he can cancel U.S. elections if the U.S. is at war in 2028. He does this on the world stage as we try to get a dictator to stop invading a sovereign nation.

Sickening. I think Krasenstein may have missed the point. The president straight up in the clip says, yeah, the left would go absolutely nuts if I said something like that. So what does he do? He goes absolutely nuts right away, right on cue. The president should stick with this, by the way. And I'm just planning a war. We'll have it around 2028, and then it'll be just in time for me to stay in office. Just keep doing that for a little bit. Actually, speaking of that, yesterday during the visit,

the president did take Vladimir Zelensky to visit the, what I've told you about this place. There's a room just off the Oval Office. It's the presidential study. And inside the presidential study, the president has a bunch of pro-Trump. merchandise that you can see. Forget Zelensky's overpriced merchandise. Check out President Trump's merchandise room. This is this is where he took Zelensky and Emmanuel Macron yesterday and others. The president stops by and so it's the presidential study. If you're looking at the Resolute desk, look to the right. As you're staring at the desk, look to the

right. There's a door. You go through that door and just a few steps down the hallway on the left side. There's another door. You go through it and this, that's how you get to this room. That's the presidential study and inside of it is a bunch of Trump swag. It looks pretty cool. You've got Trump hats all over the wall. If you look closely at the images there, you can see some Trump golf towels and there's a fight, fight, fight image in there as well. There's a bunch of stuff. So the president's grabbing a hat off the wall to show them.

And it's a little hard to see in this image. Perhaps I can zoom in a little bit. It says four more years on it. Four more years, the president's hat says. So isn't that great? That's wonderful. So that was there. So that room, to be crystal clear, that room, President Trump calls that room the moniker room.

Yes, Ed Joe 75 is asking, isn't that the moniker room? Yes, that's the monica room. For those of you with the stomach to go back and read the star report from the 90s, if you go back, you'll discover that it was the presidential study where so much of the the, well, the monica stuff happened with Bill Clinton. And so ever since then, the president of the United States on a routine basis will tell visitors to the White House. He'll ask them, do you want to visit the moniker room? You want to see the moniker room?

And he brings them there. And that's what he did. He brought Zelensky to the moniker room and then showed him all of the Trump swag. That's the most president Trump thing ever, turning the moniker room into a White House gift shop. And I don't think he charges for anything. I think he just hands this stuff out. is he won't want one he hands them out of course he doesn't charge he hands them out this is like willie wonka's chocolate factory everybody gets an everlasting gobstopper as they show up so there you go

in case you were wondering that that's the monica room really good um okay let's let's get to some of the substance of yesterday's uh conversation um the uh the president did get into some detail and the basics here are this um they're trying to figure out a way to get Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Zelensky to agree to a grand deal together. All right. So Zelensky said yesterday, he committed yesterday that Ukraine wants to make a purchase of $90 billion in American weapons. And they want to do it through Europe. And this is a part of their security guarantees. But ultimately, what this means is that the United States is going to be enriched by a further $90 billion, money flowing in our direction.

Zelensky contends that in return, the United States is going to buy drones from Ukraine. We'll see what that looks like. Again, all of this is a total work in progress. The conversation is about how can we guarantee security for Ukraine, we being mostly Europe with the United States offering some kind of supporting role. And meanwhile, stop Russia from attacking because they're discussing a land deal where portions of eastern Ukraine, presumably, come under Russian control entirely so that Vladimir Putin and the Russians get direct access to Crimea in the Black Sea through eastern Ukraine. So this is a very much,

you can tell by the president's remarks that he's keeping his cards close to the vest on this one. He's not coming out and saying everything about every last detail. There's just a lot of, you know, we'll see. We're working on him. We're working on. A bunch of European leaders were also at the White House yesterday to include Emmanuel Macron and Georgia Maloney of Italy. It was a great scene. And they're trying to convince President Trump to pursue a ceasefire first in pursuit of peace. But the president just wants a peace deal. That's fundamentally what he wants.

And in the next few days, what he's really hoping to achieve is to get Vladimir Zelensky and Vladimir Putin in the same room. So a lot of behind closed doors conversation yesterday with. Zelensky. Big conversation yesterday with all of the European leaders, which was good to see. And then the president also held a 40-minute phone call with Vladimir Putin and did that. That was out of sight of the European leaders and Zelensky. He just did that on his own inside the Oval Office. He called Vladimir Putin. 40 minutes means that they weren't making small talk. The guys were clearly trying to figure out ways to get people together. And they are getting some people together apparently reportedly uh trump and putin did agree that they're going to have more senior

negotiators for that are getting together for direct talks between russia and ukraine so russia and ukraine are going to be having direct talks through senior negotiators but for now no vladimir putin that's what president trump wants though and that is what he's working towards in fact he was talking to european leaders yesterday and said that he believes he can achieve that the president acknowledged yesterday that when he came into this he thought this would be one of the easier ones to solve remember he's he's conquered like seven different global conflicts and put them and brought them to peace deals this one he said has been tougher than he expected but he continues to work on him so that's that's really where things stand but boy you see all those images

yesterday the president clearly is the leader of the free world there's no no question about that as European leaders show up and everybody working their best to try to both impress the President of the United States and impress upon him their various goals. But they know that he's in the driver's seat here for what peace looks like. And that's a big deal. When they were all done yesterday, they all got together and they had a big what they call family photo. They did this in the cross hallway of the White House. This is kind of like if you're looking at the White House from the North Lawn, not the huge South Lawn, but the North Lawn where you can see the fountain and then you look at the White House, that area of the White House, right inside there,

they got everybody together for a class photo, a family photo, take the picture. And while they're there, the president gestures to the wall and says, hey, check out the fight, fight, fight painting. And he says, that was not a good day. That was not a good day. Take a look at cut seven here. Here's the president. that was not a great day how hardcore is that the president standing next to all these leaders

none of whom you know and and thank god you don't want anybody in that situation but none of whom can claim to have survived something like that as president trump points to was like yeah i was almost assassinated everyone look at the painting that i have hanging up here at the white house of the moment i was almost assassinated and then i overcame it and then i pumped my fist in the air and then i said fight fight fight not a great day but you know while you're here i just want you to remember what I've been through to get here, which is always a useful reminder. Wasn't that where Obama's photo was hanging? I think Obama's painting was hanging there for a minute. It's gone now. It's out of sight. Trump moved the Obama photo, the Obama painting to some

place in the White House where it's not really, you know, accessible to the public anymore. So nobody really sees it inside of the White House. But they do see the fight, fight, fight painting. And if you ever get a chance to tour the White House, that will be one of the rooms you get to walk through. It is cool to be able to see. I haven't been to the White House since they hung that painting up, but boy, I'm eager to see it. That'd be really neat, really neat. So there he is. So these guys are working things out.

Here's the timeline on this is that the president would like to reportedly. He keeps saying that he wants to have this meeting quickly between Putin and Zelensky. We'll see if they can agree. The timeline looks like it's going to be within the next two weeks if the president gets his wishes. We will keep track of this to give you every other. update we possibly can on it. There's no question. How much better is Trump than Biden?

How much, is it even measurable? Can you even put a number on that? A million times better. A million times better to have this president of the United States in office. I mean, Putin even said it on Friday. None of this would have happened were Trump in office in the first place in 2020. And yet, it did. It did with Biden and his failing presidency.

see. So we've got a lot more ahead for you. I want to talk about some things, including crime in Washington, D.C. We have to get into the media are moving the goalposts on this. What they've discovered is that Americans like law enforcement. So now they're trying to change the nature of the scandal. It is so predictable. As predictable as the sunrise. I'll get into the details of what they're up to and so much more. All ahead on this edition of Vince. Before we do, I got to thank our great sponsors who make the program what it is today. Thank you, sponsors. Thank you to Birch Gold Group. Could the continued divide between Trump and the Federal Reserve put us behind the curve? Can the Fed by any chance take the right action at the right time, or are we going to be looking at a potential economic slowdown? And what could all of this mean for your savings? Well, consider diversifying with gold through Birch Gold Group. For decades, gold has been viewed as a safe haven't in times of economic stagnation, global uncertainty, and high inflation. And Birch Gold makes it incredibly easy for. for you to diversify some of your savings into gold.

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It has been so good to see the homeless off the street. streets, everything's like a lot nicer right now. And God willing, it stays that way. You know, if the Democrats and if Congress don't get in the president's way, he can keep it that way. And then we can get to fixing a whole bunch of other cities. It's not just Washington, D.C., that's a mess, but it is our nation's capital. So we all have a vested interest in seeing it improved. But boy, I'm telling you, Chicago could use this kind of help. San Francisco could use this kind of help. Seattle could use it. Oakland could use it. Just all over the country. I mean, in fact, this chat, the Rumble chat, we were talking earlier this week, where are you seeing homeless problems?

And it's everywhere. Panhandlers are everywhere in this country. We got to clean it up. The whole point is for us to be the first world country, you know? The shining city on a hill, not the failing city in a ditch. That's not what we want to be. The president has this view that we deserve so much better. And I share that view, and I know you do too.

We deserve a lot better than the left has been giving us. So where are things on crime right now? Well, we keep getting updates from the Trump White House and from the police union in D.C. That they're arresting a lot of people. They're arresting murderers and sex assailants. They're arresting illegal aliens. They're getting people off the street, drug dealers. And in the case of the illegals, they're putting them into deportation proceedings.

More than illegals coming up in a moment. But before I get there, what's happened since then is that the media have noticed that D.C.'s residents, by and large, love this. They love that the president of the United States is making their city cleaner and safer. And so what started as an attack on Trump as a fascist, he's an authoritarian, he's mobilizing law enforcement against citizens. This is the garbage that people were saying.

And of course, the truth, as it usually does with Trump, is breaking through. Instead, what they're saying now, is that Trump is sending the cops to the wrong areas. Isn't this great? So it started with, how dare you send in the police? Now they're saying,

how dare you don't send in the police to the areas we want you to send them. Now check this out. Here's Peter Baker at the New York Times. He shares a Washington Post map. The Washington Post, not alone. The Wall Street Journal also did a piece like this. But here's what they said.

The Washington Post tracked where Trump's forces, this is a New York Times reporter, calling them Trump's forces designed to prejudice the reader into thinking that they're Trump's brown shirts or something are patrolling in Washington. Spoiler alert, it's not where the crime is. And so then they show you a map. Now this is just Washington Post claims. These are just what the Washington Post claims that they know of. They write verified locations of federal troops and law enforcement within D.C. And then they show you a map of the city. And for those of you don't, don't follow all of this all the time, which is okay. The United States Capitol is the center point of the city. It's considered the center point of how you divide the city up in the quadrants. And anything to the northwest of the capital is considered northwest D.C.

So you see a lot of dots here in northwest D.C. Northwest is the nicest region of the city. It's also, quite obviously, the area where all of the tourist attractions are. The United States Capitol building, which of course in the dead center, but the White House is in northwest D.C. All of the Smithsonian museums are right around the center of the city in northwest D.C. The nice housing areas are farther up north in northwest D.C. The rougher areas of the city, southwest is not much to speak of. There's not much in southwest.

It's just a small area of geography, but it's relatively nice these days. The tougher areas of the city are southeast and northeast D.C. So when you went east towards Maryland, things. get dice here. And what the Washington Post is contending is that President Trump hasn't sent enough law enforcement east of the capital to the eastern parts of the city, the more dangerous parts of the city. And what they want to convince you of is that this is all for show. They're not actually cracking down on crime. They're not doing anything. So that's quite a gold post shift that we've had. And so don't, first of all, don't let them do it. Don't fall for the psychological

trick whatsoever. And second, as usual, this is yet another lie. The White House has responded overnight to this garbage. And they're saying, we'd love to burst your bubble here, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post and New York Times reporters who share it without any skepticism whatsoever. Here's what we have in Axios this morning. Here's the dunk on this. The White House has just released today that half of all of the DC crackdown arrests are in the high crime areas of D.C. Up to half of them, nearly half of non-immigration related arrests during President Trump's D.C. takeover have taken place in two of the most crime-ridden areas, according to an analysis of the White House shared with Axios. The figures refute critics who claim that the takeover was

off for show or was not targeting high crime areas. By the numbers, 212 people have been arrested for various crimes during the federal takeover since August 8th, according to White House data that excludes all immigration-related arrests. 101 of those arrests, or 48%, took place in wards 7 and 8. That is home to many low-income and working-class majority black neighborhoods of Washington. They have long experienced the most violent crime in the city. That's true.

These black neighborhoods are subjected to the most. most criminality. They were 24 gun-related charges in Ward 8 and 11 in Ward 7. Altogether, there were 31 narcotic-related charges, 7 DUIs, two assaults. And then they go on to say that there have been a lot of immigration-related arrests as well in the city, totaling 164. Many of those included additional criminal charges such as assault or drug distribution. In other words, what's happening here is the White House is giving you the actual data. They're giving you the receipts to explain, no, no, no, we're going after all of it. The whole of Washington, D.C. is one gigantic federal district.

It's already under federal control. It's being horrifically mismanaged by the local governance that Congress created in 1973, and the president using the law is actually bringing the city back under control right now, and he's doing it everywhere. Now, are you seeing an uptick in a presence in police and federal law enforcement in the tourist areas of the city? Well, yes. If you visit the nation's capital, you deserve a safe and wonderful experience. And right now, you have federal law enforcement making it that way in the city. That is happening. And that is good news. So as the press changes the goalposts

here, this is another way of places like the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times admitting, without saying it, that what President Trump is doing is both succeeding and wildly popular. So they're looking for a new line of attack. Don't let them have it. Don't let them have it. All right. Coming up, I've got more for you on this. We got to get into more of the crime issues for sure. We have illegal aliens who are still wreaking havoc on the United States because of elected Democrats. There's quite a bit to get to all on this edition of Vince. I want to thank the great sponsors of the program. That includes Brickhouse Nutrition. You know, the doctors over at Brickhouse, they clued me in on why so many protein powders fail, which is true.

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Perhaps we get an update from Stephen Miller or Tom Holman. Where are they right now on that? There's been obviously a lot of aggression on this issue. If you're going to mark victories in the Trump administration, clearly locking down the border has been the big one. And all of the deportations have been super encouraging. Pam Bondi is going after all of the nation's sanctuary cities. In Washington, D.C., the attorney general has already been smacking around the whole D.C. City Council and the mayor and the police department saying, no, no sanctuary status, especially because the president controls the city right now in terms of law enforcement. No sanctuary policies whatsoever. So everybody, including the D.C. Metropolitan Police,

are helping with immigration enforcement right now, which is unusual. That's not the way the left has governed all of this. And yet here we are right now in D.C. deporting a lot of people. Pam Bondi is saying that she wants this everywhere. She wants the Trump administration to be doing this in every single city. And this past week, she sent a letter to all of the sanctuary cities, the mayors of 32 different cities. And she warned them that she will be prosecuting local leaders who fail to abide by federal policies when it comes to illegal immigration, which is really great news. And in fact, Pam Bondi updated us on this yesterday. Take a look. Here's Pam Bondi, cut one, talking about how the Trump administration is coming after all of these local officials

who constantly break the law. And they had sanctuary policies here in D.C. no longer. They've been working with us. You know, you have to tell us if there are illegal aliens in your database. If we're arresting someone, we are going to know if they're an illegal alien. So last week, I sent out 32 letters to mayors around the country, and I believe to seven governors telling them you better comply or you're next. If they don't comply with us, Larry, we're going to work with our other agencies to cut off their federal funding. We are going to send in law enforcement, just like we did during the L.A. riots, just like we're doing here in Washington, D.C., and if they're not going to keep their citizens safe. Donald Trump will keep them safe. That's what this is all about making

America safe again. That was his only directive and that's what we're doing. Yeah, no more stealing from us. Why should I give you a dollar of my hard-earned money in the form of federal taxation? Why should we give you money if you're not honoring the federal laws of this nation? It's a very straightforward arrangement. You know, you get federal taxpayer money in exchange you uphold the federal taxpayers. desires, which are fulfilled in the laws that we pass through Congress, and yet they're not. They're just saying, up yours, give me money. How about no?

How about we cut you off entirely? And so that's what the Trump administration is going to do to these cities. I would say I would hope for sooner rather than later, also school boards around the country. I'd like to see the Trump administration just cut these people off. If you're hurting children, if you are telling kids that they're born in the wrong body, if you're keeping secrets from parents, if you're advancing. racist, bigoted DEI policies. If you're still doing that, there is no excuse for you to continue to receive money.

Right outside the nation's capital, there are school districts like Fairfax County, Virginia, Loudoun County, Virginia, where they, do you see what they did in Loudoun County? Loudoun County is punishing two boys who said that there was a girl inside of their locker room filming them. There was a girl in their locker room, pretending to be a boy, filming the boys. The boys reported this. and now the boys are being suspended for complaining. Yeah, no, the craziness, the forces of crazy are even very entrenched right near the Capitol, perhaps especially entrenched near the Capitol.

President Trump and the Department of Education, they should go to these school board meetings. I'm sincere, I want President Trump to go to a school board meeting and cut them off entirely. Announce at the school board meeting, you're losing your $50 million in funding. That's what Fairfax County gets. $50 million a year in federal funding. Just say, nope, no more. You lose it because you refuse to protect these children and honor federal law.

So no, you lose the money. So Pam Bondi is doing the same thing with the sanctuary cities. Nope. You're not enforcing the law? Fine. You lose all your federal funding. Your S.O.L.

That's it. That can't happen soon enough. I'd like to see them just accelerate into that because we've got to get these guys out of the country because you know the effect of this. Illegals get taken into custody. and then they're let out the backdoor of these jails to evade ice. And when they leave, they go on to commit other horrific crimes

against all sorts of people to include other illegal aliens who are living in the country. This is a disgusting situation, one that should have been resolved a long time ago. And if it had been, we could have saved the lives of people like Jocelyn Nungaray and Lake and Riley and so many others whose lives have been lost

because we've been sold out by the left, who welcomes illegal aliens as a form of Marxist chaos as well as a means to pad their numbers electorally, whether it comes to the electoral college or it comes to congressional seats or it comes to eventual amnesty or it comes to voter fraud. The left is thoroughly convinced

that their only way that they can succeed is not by convincing actual American voters to support them, but instead by rigging the system through chaos and importing foreign nationals into the country. It's too much. It's got to end. In fact, the damage that's been caused by illegal aliens in the country continues,

And just the last week, we have a horrific story out of Florida. And this involves an illegal foreign national who came into the country in 2018. He leaked into the country. And when he came in, at one point, he applied for work authorization while President Trump was still in office. And he was denied work authorization. wasn't allowed to be here. Eventually, though, he was granted work authorization by Biden in June of 2021. Now, let me back up for a second and take you through some of what happened here.

A truck driver stands accused of killing three people. It's an illegal alien who was driving a truck. He stands accused of killing three people after he made an unlawful U-turn in Florida. he obtained a commercial driving driver's license in the sanctuary state of california his name is harjender sing he's an indian national who's illegally living in the united states and since this horrific behavior that led to the death of these three people he's been charged now with three counts of vehicular homicide three counts he made an illegal u-turn on last week tuesday along a Florida Highway. Singh allegedly made the turn through an official use only access point

in St. Lucie County. And he blocked all the lanes with his truck. And he caused a very, very deadly wreck. Take a look here. Cut two. This is what happened. So he's making the U-turn through that. And holy cow, he comes, he went wide on the highway to make the turn. And you watch a car full on slam into the side of the trailer and you watch as the camera in this video they're standing outside looking at the wreckage and obviously the people who are dying indoor dead already inside of the wreckage and he's just staring at it like oh shoot that's strange can't believe that happened you are here in the country illegal you should not be here and he just made an illegal you turn on a highway by taking a wide turn and then not checking his mirrors and cutting off

some poor Americans who just slammed into the side of the vehicle. So he's been charged now with three counts of vehicular homicide. Doesn't even seem like he cares. Yeah. No, that's right. D.C. Mendoza, 20 suits. It says he doesn't even care. No.

No evidence of care whatsoever in that video. So how did all of this happen? And like I've already pointed out that it was Biden's people who gave the guy work authorization. No question whatsoever. And so let me point you to some of the social media interaction on this story because it's just so predictably wild. Here's Trisha McLaughlin. You've seen her here on the program. Trish is great.

She's an official at the Department of Homeland Security, Assistant Secretary over there. And she writes, you know, three innocent people were just killed in Florida because of Gavin Newsom's California DMV issuing this illegal alien a commercial driver's license. She said this state of governance is asinine. How many more innocent people have to die before Gavin Newsom stops playing games with the safety of the American people? We pray for the victims and their families. Secretary Nome and DHS are working around the clock to protect the public and get these criminal illegals out of America. So Trisha McLaughlin lays out the facts here. There's nothing to object to other than this guy being in the country.

But Trisha's point, entirely defensible and sad that she has to say it. Of course, Gracie Gavin Newsom decided to take things in a completely different direction. Gavin Newsom tweeted this out. Hey, genius, he writes, said Tricia McLaughlin. The federal government, the Trump administration, already confirmed that this guy meets federal and state immigration requirements. You issued him a work permit, says Newsom. As usual, the Trump administration is either lying or clueless, he goes on. P.S. Grock, he asked Grock, because he's stupid.

Who was president in 2018? And the idea here is to put the blame on Trump. There's no question. 2018 is where everybody agrees that this guy came into the country. A lot of illegal aliens were pouring into the country. And over time, the Trump administration has become a lot better at stopping all of that. But here's the thing. The Trump admin denied this guy a work authorization.

Didn't let him have it. And one last thing before I trail away from Gavin Newsom's stupid graphic here, might be a little hard to read for you. But it says here, research consistently shows that issuing driver's licenses for undocumented people improves public safety. What? What research could you possibly be talking about? How could issuing a driver's license to anyone, quote, improve public safety?

What are you even talking about? That it's a net benefit to give illegal aliens driver's licenses? You are mentally ill. The grease is seeping into your brain, if you actually believe that. So Newsom says, it's Trump's fault. Trump gave him the work authorization. Of course, that's not what happened. Tricia McLaughlin responding to all of this. And she said, false. Harjinger Singh is in the United States illegally. And his work authorization was rejected under the Trump administration on September 14th

of 2020. It was later approved under Biden in 2021. The state of California issues commercial driver's licenses. There is no national CDL. Sincerely, comma, genius. good for trisha yeah no it's true viz one says democrats lie about everything everything including the stuff that is crystal clear to anybody with two brain cells to rub together these facts were known before gavin newsome tried to lie to you it wasn't like it was a matter of private record it was a matter of public record that it was the biden administration who gave him work authorization that it was gavin newsome that gave the guy the cdl and then he goes to the free state of Florida has an illegal U-turn and then kills those poor Americans in the middle of the street

on a Florida highway and then stands around like he doesn't even care. I don't know about you, but even, you know, if you were in a situation where you accidentally killed people, if that was me, I would not be just staring at it without any emotion. I would be completely devastated. It would define the rest of my life. It would be horrified that that occurred. it's not what we get these people should not be here at all if he wasn't in the country that would have never happened and yet it did and yet it did and democrats enabled it the whole way through

the president is trying to figure out ways to make make the country better and improve our immigration system actually i've got a good piece of a news for you here you know for those for those of you who are naturalized American citizens, first of all, congratulations and thank you, however long it's been, for joining our country. You did it the right way. And it's not the easiest thing in the world. You got to, you know, people have to study hard for the citizenship test. They do put in the work. They wait a long time to get it done. And the Trump administration is saying that there is one tweak that they want to make to make this system even better. Check this out from the daily caller. Trump administration just raised the bar for anyone hoping to become an American and this is the way it's going down so right now when you are considered to become an American citizen US citizenship and immigration services was only assessing whether or not you had an absence of misconduct so among among the ways that they assess your conduct they would just say okay there's no there's no bad things in this guy's past right because if there's if there's any evidence of misconduct, that will count against the likelihood that you could become a U.S. citizen.

The Trump administration is changing that standard to something more forward-looking. Instead, they want to identify the positive attributes that people have to become an American. So what are you going to contribute to our country? How will you be a good American? how will you contribute positively to your community what kind of willingness are you showing to assimilate into that community what kind of love do you have for the country that is welcoming you with open arms this all really matters that's that's the u s c is so we're changing it from oh this person didn't do any bad stuff to this person's going to do good stuff for america this is one of the most common sense changes i've ever heard of when it when it comes to our immigration system matthew traguser is is a USCIS spokesperson, spokesman, and he said the following, U.S. citizenship is the gold standard of citizenship.

It should be offered to the world's best of the best. Today, U.S. citizenship and immigration services is adding a new element to the naturalization process that ensures Americans' newest citizens not only embrace America's culture, history, and language, but that they also demonstrate good moral character. This memo ensures that U.S.CIS officers are accounting for an alien's positive contributions to American society, including community involvement, achievements, and financial responsibility rather than the absence of their misconduct. Yeah. So we don't want to bring in people who are going to sap the welfare system. How does that help us? We don't want to bring in people who are going to isolate themselves entirely from the community and try to set up some sort of alien culture not associated at all with assimilating into the United States of America, which you need for a functioning society. You want people who are actually going to achieve things to join our country.

this is how you keep the fabric of the United States together the only way that you can have a functioning immigration system is if there's something in it for both sides of the equation we want you to contribute positively and you want to be the beneficiary of all the great things that come along with being an American perfect but it takes both of us doing our part to make that happen and so that's uh that's what we need to do and and for that reason we should really change our legal immigration system dramatically and not just in this way that's a great way to get started but the idea that our country continues to be predicated on chain migration that once one person gets in that they can drag other people in without the merits being adequately assessed is insanity it shouldn't have never been set up that way to begin with uh and that that process needs to be desperately cleaned up the same is true of birthright citizenship this idea that illegal aliens can cross the border have a baby and then all of a sudden be completely tethered through the anchor baby that's why the term is so appropriate completely tethered to the united states of america drawing welfare benefits by virtue of the ill-gotten

american citizen that they now have in their family that system you want to talk about something that president trump can absolutely fix that's a huge one and i know that stephen miller at the white house desperately wants to fix that and he's not alone if those guys could get their arms around that system and fix it you want to talk about making america great again that's a way to do it that's the way to do it make immigration sensible have people assimilate at a rate that actually makes sense so that everyone can become american in a reasonable way for those people that we welcome and concentrate first and foremost on the well-being of american citizens get these american communities thriving get that investment into our cities get those jobs back up and running help the once great cities

that are now hollowed out by death, despair, fentanyl, and people leaving the cities, help them to become great again. Restore them. And you're going to go a long way towards making America great again. The president's already doing so much of this. I'm just, I'm encouraging him to keep doing so much more. I'm not tired of winning.

I don't know about you, but that's a big piece of this. That's a very big piece. All right. So that's some of the updates on immigration on the illegals. One, not one more thing. I always have a million other things. I can get to. But a couple of quick things I want to share with you. One is we just got an update on what's going on at the FBI in terms of hiring. This is kind of interesting. Pam Bondi and Cash Patel, according to Fox, have hired the great attorney general of Missouri to join the FBI. This guy's name is Andrew Bailey. I've had conversations with him before. He's a great dude. He's a patriot. Bondi and Patel have hired Andrew Bailey to be an additional deputy director at the FBI.

This is a little unusual. So he's going to be joining as the co-deady director alongside Deputy Director Dan Bongino. So the two men are going to be serving together, which is really neat. That means that Dan Bongino is going to have some backup to support him, which is great. And that means just one more set of hands you can trust at the top of the FBI. Bondi says that she's thrilled that Andrew Bailey is coming in to help.

He has served as a distinguished state attorney general and he's a decorated war veteran. He brings expertise and dedication to service. His leadership and commitment to country will be a tremendous asset as we work together to advance President Trump's mission. Patel, Cash Patel also complimenting the role that Bailey is going to play

saying that he's going to be an integral part of this important mission. and that he looks forward to the continued fight to save America together. So they get some backup flying in there. Now, I do want to point out that, you know, at some point, who knows when, but at some point in the future, one would assume that Dan Bongino is going to decide to pack up and move on from the role as deputy director. But as I've been telling you lately, I just saw Dan a couple weekends ago.

The guy is as energetic as ever about what's going on at the FBI. right now. He is really excited by what they're working on. And so for that reason, I think he's going to stick around for a bit. But if he ever decides to pick up and leave, it'll be nice to have somebody else who's already waiting in the wings, who's got a lot of practice, who'll be able to step into that. So there may be some of that going on, which is like, hey, let's just get somebody else conditioned to do this, because that would be good to have them in that role and to have a hundred percent awareness of everything that's going on in the event that Dan ever decides that he really does want to step away and then step back into perhaps this world of podcasting

and media and communicating to the public and working with everybody on how we make this country great again from the outside of the government based on what he's seen from the inside so we'll see you know that's kind of that's kind of interesting Dan um did post a message on this he he posted a very simple one he posted to his FBI deputy director account he said welcome with a couple of American flags. So he's he's grateful to have the help, clearly, from Andrew Bailey, who, as I pointed out, is a great American. All right.

Now one last thing for you. Yesterday, while the Zelensky stuff was going on, should it be one last thing? Maybe two last things. We'll see. While the Zelensky stuff was going on, Bill Barr was testifying behind closed doors to the U.S. Congress yesterday. And he said that in the Epstein saga, never once was there evidence that President Trump was implicated in anything. Despite the left wishing that President Trump is a child abuser, can you imagine how degraded your mind and soul have to be to wish your political opponent abused children?

You know, I really wish that a bunch of kids were hurt by the person I hate. what the hell is wrong with you? Bill Barr testifying behind closed doors yesterday, he never saw any evidence that President Trump either intervened or committed any crime related to Jeffrey Epstein's case. It was a closed door deposition before the House Oversight Committee. So in case you're wondering, he said, look, I was the attorney general.

I saw all the records on this. No, Trump is not guilty of anything even close to that. Nothing. And yet the left will continue to insist that. And then one last thing for you, I do want to share it because I think it's kind of great. We've got, do I have? Oh, yes, I do.

Here it is. Actor Chris Pratt appeared on Bill Mars podcast this week. And on the podcast, he pointed out, he's like, it's so crazy what's going on in Hollywood, that there are so many people who are, what he said, are mired in hatred for Trump. They can't even admit when he does something that's great. Here's Chris Pratt.

This is cut three saying, it's okay to support the stuff you like. Take a listen. And in politics, you inherit enemies. And when you jump on the bandwagon with who is the most divisive president ever, it makes sense that you're going to be made to look terrible. And so I don't know what to believe. Because it's not like I sit with Bobby and I go,

so hey, let's talk about this. It's like we're just playing cards or playing mafia or having fun or having dinner. I'm not going to pick his brain to find out exactly which of those things are true. I just kind of assume that none of them are. And for the most part, I wish him well, man. I hope there's certain things that he oversees that seem to be supported in a bipartisan way, like getting terrible toxic stuff out of our kids' food. I think that's a great thing.

And so, like, if you just do that, that's amazing. I'd hate to be so mired in hatred for the president that any success from his administration is something I'd have an allergic reaction to him. To be like, oh. If they do it, I don't want it to happen. I'll feed my... I'll put Clorox in my children's cereal myself. You know, say, come on, have some...

Be reasonable here. There's certain things that would be a good thing to have. I want them all to be successful. You know, look, you can even hear it. There's a little bit of eggshell walking going on with his commentary. But the point is he does not have Trump the Rainesman syndrome. He's perfectly happy when Trump does stuff that he agrees with, which is a normal person's reaction to the Trump presidency.

It should be anyway. And you heard him mention Bob. Bobby, his wife is a Schwarzenegger who is a part of the Kennedy family, who's, so they know Bobby Kennedy and they have family events with him. And he was describing that it turns out it is entirely possible to be decent to one another in the event that you disagree. And Chris Pratt says, I actually agree with a lot of what they're doing. It's not crazy to say that. No, it is not. What would be crazy is to miss every coming up episode of Vince.

So don't do that. Glad to have you here with us. We'll have another one tomorrow. We've got the big national radio show coming up today, 12 to 3 Eastern Time. Check out the local listings at the vinshow.com. And you can also watch us, rumble.com slash vince. As always, appreciate you joining us today. Also, one last note, for those of you who started the show with us,

I did tell you that we were expecting U.S. attorney Brett Tolman. He ran into some massive tech issues that prevented him from being here today, which means we'll have him back on a future episode. I look forward to talking to the former U.S. attorney. We have a lot to get to with him. Great to talk to you today, as always.