The Dan Bongino Show - Why Are Liberals So Afraid of These Questions? (Ep 1219)

Episode Date: April 2, 2020

In this episode, I address the explosive unemployment numbers and, despite liberals gloom and doom, some potential good news about the recovery from the virus. I also address the troubling report about government spying that was even worse than originally reported.  News Picks: Jobless claims soar. Did the Wuhan Virus originate in a Chinese lab? US intelligence nails China to the wall on their Wuhan Virus deception. The NY Times humiliates itself, again.  Collusion hoaxer Adam Schiff is already looking to start another investigation.  Does this company have a treatment for the Wuhan Virus? Firearm sales are surging during the crisis, as sensible Americans ignore the advice of liberal gun-grabbers.  Copyright Bongino Inc All Rights Reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

get ready to hear the truth about america on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host dan bongino as i said i'm not doing 24-hour doom and gloom ladies and gentlemen the unemployment numbers today were devastating but i'm gonna give you some potential green shoots and some possible optimism to look at i'm gonna also talk about some trade-offs here and a little hidden gem that seemingly escaped widespread media coverage in that Michael Horowitz report about FBI spying that everybody seemed to ignore.

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Dude, I'm staggering. Those unemployment numbers are enough to knock me off my chair. Mind-boggling. Dude. Wait till I put them in context. Yeah. When I put them in context to the last significant economic dislocation we had in the great recession to see how bad those numbers are but i got an email from a listener yesterday and she said listen i'm having a hard time with all this bad news brighten my day up a little bit

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No, I didn't hear it. No kidding. You got to give me a verbal ding ding. Here we go. I can't start the show without the ding ding. Ding, ding, ding. There it is. Thank you.

Thank you. You got to look into that. We need to show it. I checked it before the show, dude. Man, this is i checked it wrong sorry buddy okay all right let's get the bad news out of the way i'm just i love joe people love you joe anything that seemed like a slight i get a thousand emails i'm not making fun of joe joe's my buddy folks seriously you haven't you okay over there you haven't done Balls can't change back. Now I can see myself.

I want to get the bad news out of the way first. The numbers today, the weekly unemployment claims numbers were devastating. This is on top of the 3 million last week. Numbers came out a little while ago. 6.6 million new unemployment claims. Ladies and gentlemen, that number is staggering. Honestly,

a number like that is so large, it's hard to put your arms around unless it's put in context of what this really means. We know it's bad. The question is not bad. The question is, how bad is it? And the answer is really bad. Put this in context, right? 1982, we had a stock market crash. The previous high in weekly unemployment claims before that. Remember, we had 6.6 million this week. The previous weekly jobs claims high in modern American history was 695,000. Oh, my gosh. I know. The Great Recession, we just had 2008.

The most amount of unemployment claims, the largest number we had in a week, 665,000. Put this in context now. You had more unemployment claims in a day this week, in one day this week, than you had during the worst week of the Great Recession. Now, before we get to the good news, and I promise, stay tuned, there will be some good news, and we do have some other stories today for you as well. I'm done. I'm done playing the BS media games.

I'm done playing the liberal narrative. Here are the conspiracy theorist hoaxsters on the liberal left. The conspiracy theorist, remember the collusion gators and the quid pro quo Ukraine gator? Remember those folks? These are the same people who want to dictate the terms of the conversation. You're getting a double barrel middle finger from me. I'm going to start asking the questions you refuse to ask right now. Ladies and gentlemen, everybody's suggesting to you that if we don't continue

this shutdown, you have blood on your hands, you can plant a big wet one on my ass. I'm sorry. Believe me, this has kind of been a thing around here lately too. We've been... I'm not playing your games.

It's now clear that people out there are terrified of this conversation. They want you panicked and in hysterics 24 hours a day. And the only way to do that, to distract you from the catastrophic damage being done to our economy, is to keep you panicked and in hysterics 24 hours a day and to keep the facts and data from you. You understand what I'm saying? Please, with a wake and a nod, tell me you understand what's going on in the media right now. Oh, yes. Yes, yes. They do not want any conversation about trade-offs that occur in everyday life happening right now. Ladies and gentlemen, every single day of your life, you deal with pathogens, danger, the potential for road accidents, the potential for an airline accident.

Every single day, construction workers go to work. And you know, construction is one of the most dangerous fields out there. Do you know that? Yeah. They have death rates on par with law enforcement. Do you know that? In construction, people die all the time. Why?

We can't risk a single life for a building. People do it every single day you're asking them construction workers and cops our police officers our firemen our corrections officers our emts and paramounts you're asking them to take a risk for you you're putting their life don't wait wait wait joe i thought we're not allowed to have a conversation about putting one life in red we're not allowed to have a conversation about putting one life at risk. We're not allowed to have that conversation, right? Yeah. Only when it's someone else. No, no. Doctors, EMTs, cops, you need to go to work right now and put your life at risk to keep us alive. But when it comes to average Americans

being able to make that same decision, in other words, like we're going to keep this shut down for how long again, despite the fact we just lost more jobs in a day than we lost the worst week of a great recession. We don't want to have that conversation about traders. You're not allowed to, because if you're allowed to have that conversation, the media won't dictate the terms of battle. And the terms of battle are this. We will shut this down and continue to destroy our economy, our future, our kids' jobs, our prosperity, our livelihood, and our life savings. We will continue to do it because we said so. And any conversation about, is this really commensurate with the threat level of this virus? That will be silenced immediately. Believe me when I tell you, I'm in this environment. It's happening everywhere. Trust me. Cash that check.

check. So let's do some numbers now. How many people, Joe, have we lost to the coronavirus? We've lost 5,137 as of this writing. Now, those numbers are in some dispute because in New York, there was an interesting thread yesterday that some of the people who passed tragically in New York. There was an interesting thread yesterday that some of the people who passed tragically in New York died with coronavirus. That does not necessarily mean they died from coronavirus. Matter of fact, there is a large disparity

in those numbers when you introduce that. Having said that, let's attribute every loss in New York to coronavirus just for the sake of doing some basic numbers about risks and commensurate responses by the United States government.

So we've lost 5,137 people. 6.6 million people lost their jobs this week at the low end. Those are the people who filed. There's probably hundreds of thousands, if not millions more who haven't filed yet. So let's just say, Joe, for the sake of math, let's go down a continuum. Let's say at the high end, 10% of those people fall into drug use, stress from losing their jobs and their life savings. Let's say 10% of those people, that would be 660,000 people who are going to suffer extremely negative health outcomes.

I haven't even gotten into suicide yet. Drug use, alcoholism. I was a question asked yesterday about an increase in domestic violence now at the White House press conference. People whose lives are unquestionably being put at risk from this severe economic strain,

impairing their ability to take care of themselves. You say, Dan, that sounds like a lot, 10%, fair. I agree. That does sound like a lot. Let's say 1% of those people, probably a little closer to reality, 1%. Let's be optimistic. probably a little closer to reality, 1%. Let's be optimistic. Let's say, Joe, only 1% of the 6.6 million people

unemployed this week fall into alcoholism, drug use. There's incidents of domestic violence. Let's say, again, stress imposed on their, we know stress can kill you if you have a heart condition, blood pressure. Again, we're not even getting into suicides. We know those increase in times of economic malaise, despite the mainstream media's persistent lies on that,

because we do facts here, unlike the media, which lies to you. That would be 66,000 people. You may say, Dan, I'm a media hack and I love to lie to people. 1% of people unemployed could suffer some negative health outcome from it, potential death. That sounds too high too. Let's go with 0.1% of those 6.6 million people. That would be 6,600 people suffering and potentially dying as a direct result of the severe stress imposed upon them because their livelihoods have been blown away.

That's 0.1%. That's 6,600 people. We've lost 5,137. Let's not have that conversation, though. Because liberal Amtrak quarter bubble-dwelling losers and morons who sit there in their mommy's basement with their s'mores, with their media friends whose jobs are secure because they write anti-Trump articles 24 hours a day which sell like clickbait to dopey liberals out there

who suck them up like a Hoover. Their jobs are fine. They can armchair quarterback all day so they set up straw man arguments dutifully lapped up dutifully lapped up by the media straw man arguments joe that if you dare dare again i give you the dare me, you get the double-barreled middle finger and I triple down on everything. If you dare mention the fact that a economic shutdown, nearly nationwide at this point, based on the number of states, that an economic shutdown may cause health damage, financial damage, and economic damage far worse than if we were to consider an alternate mechanism

for controlling this potentially deadly virus. Nonetheless, if you dare mention it, Joe, you want people to die for the stock market. Go blank, fill in the blanks, you're self-losers. You're not the ones out there. Listen, ladies and gentlemen, we'll be okay. In case you think this is some self-serving

thing, I'm telling you, we'll be fine. It's not about me. You have no idea, not you in the audience, because you're getting them too. These liberal nutbags in their media bubbles in the Washington D.C.-New York Amtrak tour, you want people to die, open up the economy.

You want people to start the stock market. You have no idea the rage building in the real world. None. I don't even want to, because I'm game for it. I'm a semi-public figure, but the people I talk to aren't, and I don't want to expose them to the rage mob. I'm going to keep their identities and the names of their businesses obviously out of this. I'm telling you at least 10 to 20, maybe more communications a day from people who are not politically active, who are friends, associates of friends, and people who know me, who communicate with me every day.

The rage building at the response to this is getting to the red line, folks. You are wiping people out, wiping them out. Because you're listening to teenage bloggers at Mediaite and Media Matters who've never had real jobs. I'm not kidding. Who have never had actual jobs. Some of them are interns in their third year of college writing articles anytime someone mentions, is this trade-off really a good idea? Wiping people out for generations over a virus. We're not even sure yet what the actual fatality rate is.

Is this a good idea? If you dare ask it, teenage bloggers with their s'mores in between porn sessions in the basement are writing articles. They want people to die for the stock market. And suckers are falling for it. No, not here.

You can plant a big wet one you know where. Now, let me give you some optimistic notes. I know that was a dour opening and forgive me but i had to set the table for what's going on behind the scenes folks the pressure to tote the line if you know what i mean yeah and don't read too much into that where i'm talking about in the overall media ecosystem. The pressure to toe the line, shut it down, or you want people to die, I'm telling you is overwhelming. And anyone who dares ask questions, dares, is immediately attacked by vultures,

which only incentivizes me to triple and quadruple down. Let's give you some good news. There are some potential green shoots here. Again, a guy last night who dared to go on Laura Ingraham. He was on before me. I'm not kidding. I was sitting right here. I just moved the microphone. I move it away when I do Fox and I change the background. I was on Laura Ingraham's show last night on Fox. And right before me was a Dr. Steven Smith. Here's the optimistic note. He said something last night. I'm not kidding. I had my earpiece in. I heard it. And I took a note right away. I've got to cover this tomorrow. This isn't a teen blogger from Mediaite. This is a real person with an actual job.

He's an infectious disease expert, apparently with deep credibility in the field, a medical doctor who was on Ingram last night and said something incredible about how we could be turning the corner right now on this thing. And yet again, if you don't do 24-hour hysteria on the news, this story was largely ignored.

And even worse, the liberal teenage bloggers on the left attacked this guy for saying this. Check this out. Now you actually have an intra-cohort comparison saying that this regimen works. And I'll get some real statisticians besides my sons to look at that. Dr. Smith, thank you for all the work you and I, you and I and our medicine cabinet of folks and all your colleagues. Thank you, Laura. I think this is the beginning of the end of the pandemic. I'm very serious.

I have goosebumps. I'm not even kidding. When I heard that last night, I almost got choked up. This is a serious professional, medical professional in the field of infectious diseases on a major cable channel talking about the use of hydroxychloroquine as a game changer and says he believes from his experience that this may in fact be the beginning of the end. Now it was only moments before the teenage blogger losers at media doesn't matter, media matters, working for $2 an hour attacked him on Twitter immediately because these are the scum of the earth. They are a wart on the ass of humankind, these people. I'm not kidding. I'm not even going to tell you who they are because I'm really afraid of how nasty it's going to get out there, and I don't want to control. I'm not even going to tell you who these losers are. This guy on the front lines is talking about game-changing results

to the use of Plaquenil and a medication regimen in healing the sick from this deadly virus. And he's attacked because he appeared on Fox News and spoke about a drug that President Trump mentioned. Ladies and gentlemen, we were dealing with, I'm not kidding when I say this, we are dealing with a media environment right now of sociopaths. I'm not kidding when I say this. We are dealing with a media environment right now of sociopaths. I am not kidding.

I do not use that term lightly. Not all of them, not even a majority of them, but a small pocket of absolute lunatics at Media Matters, Mediaite, and elsewhere who are clear sociopaths actively attacking people on the front lines, trying to cure humanity of this plague. I am not kidding. That guy gave me goosebumps. We may be looking at the end of this.

You're not allowed to talk about that, Joe. We need 24-hour hysteria and panic. Tune into my station. Click on my stupid website. Yeah, misery, Joe. We need 24 hour hysteria and panic. Tune into my station. Click on my stupid website. Yeah, misery, misery. All the time. Not here. That's right, brother. Did you hear that? Let me give you some other good news.

ScienceMag.org article. There's an old, old vaccination that's been getting some, not designed specifically to target uh this uh like the uh wuhan virus but but this old vaccination for vaccination excuse me for tuberculosis bcg huh that's been written about pretty extensively over the last few days you just put it in twitter bcg you'll see these articles here's one from science mag.org can a century-old tuberculosis vaccine steal the immune system against the new coronavirus? Ladies and gentlemen, they're finding

out this BCG vaccine, which is decades old, may provide weeks-long protection against infection from the Wuhan virus. Folks, this is one I can't even go through the list of potential treatments. We could be turning the corner on this right now, but you're not going to hear that because the left needs 24-hour hysteria. I'm going to talk about this too from behind the scenes why they're doing this. Some people may not like this. Good man. That's too bad.

Yeah, yeah. You are too, man. I think you know where I'm going with this. Yeah, I do. So that's more good news, Joe. Multiple treatments out there may be turning the corner on this. Yeah. Here's another thing.

They're developing antibody tests. Antibodies. You know, proteins human bodies produce in response to a specific pathogen that work like keys in a lock against that pathogen. They lock onto the antigen. Basically, you produce these antibodies specifically to very specific infections. And when you have these antibodies,

when that pathogen invades your body again, they wipe them out instantly. Your immune response, that is how vaccines work. Listen, ladies and gentlemen, you don't have to be an epidemiologist or virologist to explain the basic, you know, pharmacokinetics of how these things work. It's pretty simple. If you have the antibodies, you will likely not get reinfected. There are tests for the antibodies. In other words, Joe, there are probably a boatload of people out there who have been infected with the coronavirus

because we know up to 25% of them don't show symptoms who don't even know they were infected who are probably now immune to reinfection. That would be good to know, no? Yeah. Nurses, frontline, you're immune. I would want to know that. Antibody tests are coming out,

are being developed right now. Some of them are already out in the market where people are going to know. We can alleviate that stress from a lot of people who may have already been infected. Now, let me give you some economic good news and a note of optimism, ladies and gentlemen. I'm going to cover this story in more depth tomorrow. It's worth your time, but just let me touch on it a little bit today. The NFIB, a business survey they put out to small businesses in America, did a survey right before this hit March.

I'm going to cover this in more detail tomorrow because it's important. Ladies and gentlemen, the economy was exploding before this hit. I promise you, all of that did not go away. One key figure, right before it, 54% of businesses surveyed were hiring, 54%, a majority for liberals listening. Ladies and gentlemen, that didn't all disappear. A lot of it did. Some of it did. Some of it's not coming back, but it didn't all go away. As I said to you in a prior show, economic activity is being suppressed right now because the government is largely shutting down businesses,

which I think at this point is a dreadful move. I can't say that enough. There are tailored responses that would be more appropriate. When you go back to a restaurant after having your restaurant closed for three months, you're not going to eat twice to make up for the restaurant trip you didn't take. That economic activity is lost, tragically.

But other economic activity isn't. If you're a business owner that's staying afloat right now and you needed a new car because your car's broken down, you're still going to buy that new car. You're just going to buy it later than you did now when the car dealer reopens. Ladies and gentlemen, thousands of other people are thinking the same thing.

Meaning when the economy does open up because either the chloroquine works, we have this BCG vaccine, we have the combination, we find a new vaccine for this. When this happens and it's going to happen soon, we are going to fix this. You are going to see an explosion of economic activity that can't be delayed anymore. You're running out of gas in your gas tank? You got to fill up your gas tank. You needed a new car before? You're going to have to get a new car now. You may have to get a cheaper car,

but you're going to buy a car. This is all going to come in a flood of economic activity when this economy opens up again. I'm not cherry picking anything. I'm not telling you like liberals in the media who lie to you every day. Oh my gosh, it's going to be all terrible. We're going to die all the time. I'm not telling you either. Everything's going to be great, folks. Don't worry. It's not going to be great.

But there are green shoots of things that are going to happen that I think will change possibly for the better when this is over. Let me give you some, I just talked about bottled up economic activity. That is going to happen. Movies you didn't see. I'm not a big fan of Hollywood, obviously. Once in a blue moon, we go to a movie now. But those movies that are being held up, they're going to come out too.

You may say, I don't care about Hollywood people. Ladies and gentlemen, I don't care about these liberal actors either. But again, I'm not a liberal. I'm not going to lie to you. There are people who work in the industry. I know. I get their emails all the time. People who are Foley artists and voiceover artists. Joe's in Again, I'm not a liberal. I'm not going to lie to you. There are people who work in the industry. I know. I get their emails all the time. Oh, yeah. People who are Foley artists and voiceover artists. Joe's in entertainment.

Joe was a musician. Right. Joe's not a liberal. No. He matters too. What, because we don't like Brad Pitt? We got to screw over the lighting guy? Right.

Again, I'm not shilling for Hollywood. I'm just telling you, movies are going to come out later. People are going to go see them. You will have economic activity come back. Here's another note of optimism. Listen, the oil industry is in trouble, and they're a big employer, and I'm desperately hoping they recover. But gas is very cheap right now. Do you understand what kind of a de facto tax cut that is for Americans when they go

back to work? Ladies and gentlemen, you're talking about gas that was $4 a gallon just, what, 10 years ago? That's now selling for places for like $1.25. You're talking about hundreds of billions of dollars of money not burned off in your V6 that are now back in your wallet. That's real money. Finally, my last note of economic optimism when this bottled up economic activity is unleashed, you've had savings forced upon you in some cases. And in other cases, especially business owners, you've had to burn through savings.

But in other cases where businesses, some are staying alive, there have been people who've been forced to save money because there's nowhere to spend it. Those people are going to get back to our economy and spend that money in a flurry of economic activity when this is over. Again, not everyone. Sadly, all too many Americans, the 6.6 million unemployed and the business owners who employ them are burning through savings right now. But there are other pockets of people who've been forced to save money

that they otherwise would have spent. That money will make its way into the economy. Folks, I'm not here for Pollyanna BS. I'm not here to spin your wheels and I'm not here to waste your time. I'm just not doing 24-hour doom and gloom all the time. I'm not. I refuse. We're going to fix this.

That doctor who I trust over liberal Amtrak corridor losers is saying we're turning the time. I'm not. I refuse. We're going to fix this. That doctor who I trust over liberal Amtrak corridor losers is saying we're turning the corner. I'll take his word for it. All right. I've warned you repeatedly. Let me get to my second sponsor here, but I've warned you repeatedly about Nancy Pelosi. No phase four. Please stop the talk of a phase four stimulus. It is not a stimulus. Please stop. We just spent $2 trillion. Please stop.

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They are already loading it up with Democrat garbage. Again, don't take my word for it, ladies and gentlemen. I always beg you to fact check yourself, please. Fact check everything I tell you. Listen to Nancy Pelosi on CNN with Anderson Cooper, who basically slips along, I'm not sure she slips, and says, hey, listen, this phase four, we've got some ideas. This is a short one, but this is worth your time. This is a reasonable amount of time to say we couldn't get everything we wanted in the other bill. Let's begin to go down this path.

But it is going to be a number of weeks because we're not here. OK, so you couldn't get your ballast ballot harvesting, your Green New Deal compliant planes, your how many white dudes do you have in a boardroom in the last bill. So now she wants to pack it into a new bill. The answer is no. Folks, please. I'm humbly and with the greatest of respect begging you to call your congressmen and your senators, please. And shut this down.

We should be working on reopening our economy and an exit plan from phase three. What's the exit plan? What is the exit plan? Are we going to cut government spending in the future? Is there going to be some accountability for this money spent? How do we claw back the 25 million we gave to the Kennedy Center? How are we going to open the economy? Are we going to recommend face masks? The communications have been confusing on that. Are we going to recommend the continued quarantine for immunocompromised folks and the elderly? Why open up the economy to people who are young and healthy? Are we going to distribute antibody tests to make sure people who they think they had the virus are in fact immune and can go back to work without fear of reinfection?

Are we going to get that virus vaccine out there by January? Where's the battle plan to escape phase three before we spend another couple trillion dollars on phase four and bankrupt entire generations? Ladies and gentlemen, government bonds are not net worth. That's an overly fancy way of saying when the government spends money, it is not net worth to you. It is not going to make you richer. It is a bandaid, a bridge loan to get us out of phase three. That's it. No phase four. Shut this down now. Let's see what happens with the $2 trillion we just spent. Now, you're always a few weeks ahead of the news cycle on this

show. I warned you last week and on the show this week as well that the Democrats, listen, ladies and gentlemen, they're already preparing their next narrative. I'm going to show you a tweet from the Democrat Sage Lawrence tribe in a minute, but the Democrats are already preparing for their next attack on Donald Trump. We've seen countless attacks, but so far the two big ones have been the PP tape collusion hoax, number one, and number two was the quid pro quo Ukraine hoax

where Donald Trump was impeached for a crime with no victim. It was a quid pro quo with Ukraine. Ask the Ukrainians. They're like, there was no quid pro quo. Fascinating how that works. A crime, Joe joe with no victim amazing how that always happens round three's coming don't listen to me don't the fact check don't listen to me i encourage you to fact check round three is coming led by no less adam schiff and nancy pelosi themselves but i want to play this video again

hammering home the point hat tip tom ell Tom Elliott on Twitter always has the best super cuts. This is a Grabian super cut. You got to follow Tom Elliott on Twitter. He does a great job. Best super cuts ever. The narrative is going to be Trump lied. People died, Joe. Trump didn't react properly and didn't see the threat coming.

didn't react properly, and didn't see the threat coming. Here is a, you please save this super cut and blast it everywhere for your dopey liberal friends who will still insist that they were all over this thing in January, the Wuhan virus, while Trump was asleep at the wheel. Here is a super cut of Democrats. If you want to watch it, youtube.com slash Bongino, but the audio is fine.

Of Democrats downplaying this whole thing joe oh don't worry it's like the flu check this out the risk to new yorkers for coronavirus is low and our city preparedness is high this should not stop you from going about your life should not stop you from going to chinatown and going out to eat. I'm going to do that today myself. Come to Chinatown. Here we are. We're again, careful, safe, and come join us. There is no concern at this time for coronavirus in our region. The Department of Sanitation is ready for Mardi Gras 2020. The facts are reassuring. We want New Yorkers to go about their daily lives. There's really no need to panic and to avoid activities that we always do as New Yorkers. We are a hardy people.

Americans do not need to panic. What I would suggest, however, is that Americans take this as a wake-up call for seasonal flu. There's very little threat here. This disease, even if you were to get it, basically acts like a common for seasonal flu. There's very little threat here. This disease, even if you were to get it, basically acts like a common cold or flu. So we're telling New Yorkers, go about your lives, take the subway, go out, enjoy life, and certainly not to miss the parade next Sunday. I'm going to be there. If you had to, would you close down the borders? No. We need to be honest about the American people, with the American people about the fact that we can't keep people coming here from China.

And transmission is not that easy. I think there's been a misperception that coronavirus hangs in the air waiting to catch you. No, it takes direct person to person contact. We also know that if it were likely to be transmitted casually we would be seeing a lot more cases right right because this is new york and you're in elevators and chains with everybody all the time there we go don't listen to me ladies and gentlemen listen to the democrats themselves that was ron klain the new york city health commissioner the new york city mayor a bunch of prominent liberal media figures pretending to be journalists saying, ah, don't you worry.

It's no big deal. These are some of the same lunatics, especially Ron Klain, Obama's former Ebola advisor with no medical experience whatsoever, by the way. These are some of the same lunatics now trying to foster a BS narrative that Trump missed the ball. Trump lied. People died. So what are we going to get? We're going to see this Daily Caller article come to fruition shortly in the real world.

Daily Caller, Adam Schiff. Adam Schiff is back. Pencil neck collusion hoaxing loser. Adam Schiff wants to create a 9-11 style coronavirus commission by William Davis. Story will be in my show notes bongino.com slash newsletter ladies and gentlemen nothing the Democrats do is by mistake as I said to you yesterday not to repeat the show but the point is worth repeating you are going to hear 9-11 comparisons over and over and over again despite the fact they have

nothing to do with one another why because obviously the Democrats can use that to garner public support for an investigation into what happened, despite the fact that even if they do that investigation, what they find might not be so nice about the Democrats. Wait till the Republicans get their shot and start replaying that super cut. Not going to look so good, is it? Now, if you want you want just don't if you're going to follow this guy i mean unless i'm not lecturing anybody but don't say anything nasty because it'll block you and then you'll miss the ball here's lauren's tribe if you ever want to find out and get weeks heads weeks weeks in advance heads up about bs liberal media narratives in other words the story they're going to tell you in the coming weeks, it's nonsense.

Go to this guy. Here's Lawrence Tribe. This is where I get all my, he's probably going to block me. This is where I get all my good stuff. This is Nancy Pelosi's buddy. He's at Tribe, T-R-I-B-E-L-A-W. Again, don't say anything nasty because they'll block you and you don't want that. Here is him yesterday on April 1stst tweeting this showing you again they're already

preparing the narrative what i told you trump lied people died and he stopped democrat states from getting uh the the need the the uh the assistance they needed during the wuhan crisis quote lawrence tribe to the limited extent the federal government is stepping up it's clearly letting partisan politics shape which states get their share of the medical needs met. Oh, here we go. That's an outrageous abuse of presidential power. It must be exposed. It must stop.

Ladies and gentlemen, Lawrence Tribe is a lunatic. He is making this up out of whole cloth, and he knows it. Even the liberal far left radical atrocious governor of California, Gavin Newsom, this guy's terrible, has said when asked on CNN, I play the cup, but I could go on with this all day. Hey, you know, is President Trump in response to your needs? And Newsom was like, yeah, you know, I'd be lying if I said otherwise.

There is no evidence whatsoever to support anything Lawrence Tribe puts in that tweet. But this is Nancy Pelosi's. He whispers in the ear. He whispers in her ear all day, like sits on her shoulder. This is their next narrative. Trump lied about the threat, despite you just heard the Democrats downplaying it. Trump lied about the threat.

And then when it came to responding to the states, he helped Republican states over Democrat states. This is going to be their next hoax. It's right there. Just follow, you can follow him. Don't comment on it. Just follow this guy every day. You will be months ahead of what Nancy Pelosi's thinking because tribe is Nancy Pelosi's brain.

Her brain exists outside of her body in the Lawrence tribe, Twitter feed. I'm just market, just market. What's the date? April 2nd market, just market. Have we ever been wrong on this stuff? Nope. Not yet. nope not yet all right moving on this is a must watch if there ever was a must watch tucker carlson i was going to get to this yesterday but i wanted to be sure i did this story right tucker carlson did a segment on his show not last night but the night before that has been going uh no pun intended viral everywhere and it asks some pretty damning questions let me just get right to it did the wuhan virus originate in a chinese laboratory joe you can't ask that either oh don't

ask because you know the liberal media folks that that's racist to say that, of course. Of course. And, of course, when they put a perimeter fence around what they say I'm allowed to say, I flip the double-barreled middle finger, jump over the fence, and quadruple down. Bada-bing. So Tucker did this segment, and he asked some really compelling questions. And he asked some really compelling questions. And it kind of may explain why a lot of these media hacks in Hawk to China, for some reason,

are desperate to make the Wuhan virus be called anything other than the Wuhan virus. Watch this. Do not tune out. Matter of fact, watch it twice. Check this out. Here's what the paper says. First, the scientists confirm what scientists around the world have said they believe. The virus most likely came from an animal known as the intermediate horseshoe bat. Here's the striking

thing. There are no known colonies of this bat within 900 kilometers of Wuhan, nor is there any evidence that they were sold in the Wuhan wet market, despite many claims in the American media to the contrary, including on this show, by the way. Last night, we did a segment on wet markets, the one in Wuhan included, and suggested that this bat was sold there. But let's be clear. The only actual analysis of that question that we're aware of is in this paper. These scientists interviewed almost 60 people, 59 of them, who frequented the Wuhan wet market. They confirmed there were no horseshoe bats for sale there, period.

So that raises the question, where did the virus-carrying bats come from? The paper says this, quote, We screened the area around the market and identified two laboratories conducting research on bat coronavirus. Within a few hundred yards of the wet market was something called the Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention. According to public reports, the center used intermediate horseshoe bats for research. Then about seven miles away was another facility. This one was called the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

The Virology Institute also conducted research on intermediate horseshoe bats, the ones that were not sold at the wet market. South China University scientists concluded that the coronavirus pandemic, the one that people are dying from here, likely came from one of these two government labs in Wuhan. They noticed that a scientist at the Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention had been exposed to the blood and urine of horseshoe bats. They also suggested that infected tissue samples from research animals may have wound up in the Wuhan wet market. And they ended the paper this way, quote, the killer coronavirus probably originated from a laboratory in Wuhan. Safety levels may need to be reinforced in high-risk biohazardous laboratories. Regulations may be taken to relocate these laboratories

far away from city centers and other densely populated places. End quote. Now, Tucker was clear at the beginning of the segment, but in the interest of time, I couldn't play the whole thing. The whole segment's over eight minutes long. That he can't verify the report and fox can't they've they haven't been able to verify that report from china by the way he's clear about and neither can i i don't know people from that institute but don't you think that's a question worth asking i'm just

going to put that out there because i thought we were doing journalisming investigative so there's a paper out there you're suggesting may or may not be real we don't know may the information may there's a paper out there suggesting that a chinese lab that this virus may have escaped from a chinese lab and nope you can't ask that that's racist you. You can pounce it. Not interested in your commentary, but thanks. Have a nice day. And by the way, the more you tell us not to talk about it, the more we will talk about it.

What we always do on the show. Remember how well that worked for you with spy game. You're not allowed to talk about that. You're a conspiracy theorist. Yeah. Two bestselling books later and probably 600 episodes. You see how well that free speech suppression thing worked for you, Libs? Good job.

Now, we'll continue to ask questions. I have an interesting article in PJ Media about this segment, too, today in the show notes. I strongly encourage you to check out. It's definitely worth your time. Did COVID-19 originate in a Chinese lab? And why is it crazy to ask by Jim Treacher? Check it out. It's about that segment.

You know, it'd be interesting here if we had a timeline put together. It's a quickie timeline of exactly what happened with the Wuhan virus. Oh, National Review to the Rescue, Jim Garrity. The comprehensive timeline of China's COVID-19 lies. Now, I'm not going to go through the entire timeline. I picked three screenshots from it.

But ladies and gentlemen, when you take it to the fact that there is some suspicion that this virus may have originated with this horseshoe bat that exists in these labs apparently only, and it's not native to that area of Wuhan, we'd kind of want to know the timeline and maybe why media people are parroting Chinese propaganda that don't you dare call this the Chinese Wuhan virus that came from Wuhan in China but we'll call you a racist and a media figures in the United States Pravda media figures pile on let's look at this timeline let's go to screenshot one from this piece again in the show notes and worth your time December 6th is the symptom onset date of the first patient identified, patient zero. Five days after illness onset, this patient's wife, a 53-year-old woman who have no known history of exposure to the wet market, also presented with pneumonia and was hospitalized in the isolation ward. In other words, as early as the second week of December, Wuhan doctors were finding cases that indicated the virus was spreading from one human to another. Key point.

First week in December. December 21st, Wuhan doctors begin to notice, quote, a cluster of pneumonia cases with an unknown cause. December 25th, Christmas. Chinese medical staff in two hospitals in Wuhan are suspected of contracting viral pneumonia and are quarantined. This is additional strong evidence of human-to-human transmission. It goes on. The timeline continues. Again, this National Review piece, worth your time. Sometime in late December, Wuhan hospitals noticed an exponential increase in the number of cases that cannot be linked back to the Hunan seafood wholesale market, according to the New England Journal of Medicine. December 30th, a hero, Dr. Li Wenlang, sent a message to a group of other doctors warning them he has since died and been disappeared. Warning them about a possible outbreak of an illness that resembled SARS, urging them to take protective measures against infection.

December 31st, listen to this. The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission declares the investigation so far has not found any obvious human-to-human transmission and no medical staff infection. A lie from China. This is the opposite of the belief of the doctors working on patients in Wuhan and two doctors who were already suspected of contracting the virus. January 1st. We'll leave it here. Also that day, after several batches of genome sequence results had been returned to hospitals and submitted to health authorities, an employee

of one of the genomics companies sequencing this virus received a phone call from an official at the Hubei Provincial Health Commission ordering the company to stop testing samples from Wuhan related to the new disease and destroy all existing samples. Ladies and gentlemen, this sounds like a horror movie.

This is the last paragraph. According to a New York Times study of cell phone data from China, now we know, January 1st, we know the Chinese Communist Party suppressing human-to-human transmission, we know doctors are infected, and we know this is a mass outbreak. New York Times reports as of January 1st, according to cell phone data, while this is raging in Wuhan and Nancy Pelosi is getting ready to sign her impeachment articles. One hundred and seventy five thousand people leave Wuhan that day.

Holy. According to Global Travel Data Research, OAG, 21 countries have direct flights to Wuhan. In the first quarter of 2019, for comparison, 13,267 air passengers traveled from Wuhan, China to destinations in the United States or about 4,422 per month. The U.S. government would not bar foreign nationals who had traveled to China from entering the country for another month. While the Democrats were calling it racist. Now you see how a global pandemic starts?

Lies, deceit, cheap garbage political infighting in the United States using identity politics, Communist Party thought suppression and speech suppression, doctors disappearing, labs being suspected, a novel coronavirus we haven't seen before, no herd immunity, no vaccine. If you had a series of potential bad data points to all put together in one bucket at the same time to create a global crisis. This was it.

That timeline is horrifying. 175,000 people left the hot zone while the Chinese government, the Communist Party was lying about human to human transmission. Do you have any idea how many lives were put at risk? Now, you may be wondering why we're getting false information from our media every day. Probably not if you're watching my show.

You know they're a bunch of lying hacks. But the media has been all too eager to crap all over America like they always do and say, America, leading the world in infections, which is nonsense, by the way, when you do it per capita like they do everything else. We are not leading the world in infections. And they're also eager, Joe, to say, well, we've had more infections here with the Wuhan virus than China. Not so much.

Let's check out this legal insurrection piece again in the show notes where you're seriously in the media relying on the Chinese Communist Party's intelligence after what I just told you and laid out in that timeline. Mary Chastain, legal insurrection. Shocker. U.S. intelligence says China underreported cases and deaths related to Wuhan coronavirus. Mm hmm. But don't worry, media people. Keep parroting the talking point that the United States is so dreadful and awful

and president Trump. And we are in fact leading the world in infections, despite the fact that we know the Chinese have lied from day one. You keep it up. We know whose team you're on and it isn't ours. We all get that. That's why your approval rating for the media is zero, zero. It's like subterranean because we know you're liars all right i'm gonna have to save portions of this for you know what can we just jump to the let's go to the wall street journal portions i want to tomorrow tomorrow's show is going to be important i want to set up for you, hat tip to audience archivist Judy, by the way, who sent me over some stuff I did and some

New York Times stuff. I want to go over tomorrow. It's going to require a little bit of setup. How the media softens you up for a narrative and produce to you the exhibits, they're going to be damning. Don't miss tomorrow's show. But there's a Wall Street Journal piece, and there are some hidden nuggets in the Horowitz report that came out yesterday. To be clear, that's the inspector general report who was looking into the government's use of spying through the FISA courts, the terrorism courts, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Courts.

And I reported to you yesterday that in a limited subset of cases the inspector general looked at, they found out that the FBI's use of the FISA courts to spy on on people the entire process is broken there are cases there were no evidence there was no evidence file but there were some other nuggets in here ladies and gentlemen shockingly that are even worse wall street journal editorial board this morning the federal bureau of inaccuracy the justice ig finds even more abuses of wiretap applications yes it gets worse so yesterday i told you that harley's looking into the fbi spying process using these courts looked at 25 cases of FISA court warrants for spying applications. Four of them had no Woods file at all,

meaning no file documenting, that's what the Woods file is, the file documenting their evidence. They couldn't even find the file in four cases. Three, they said it probably didn't even exist at all. And in the other 25, they found gross inaccuracies about the evidence the FBI was using to spy on people. Kind of a big deal.

You'd think this would be a big media story. Oh, no, no, no. It actually didn't even make it onto a lot of mainstream media channels, which was shocking. You may say, Dan, how does it get any worse? They picked 25 spying cases and all of them had problems. Oh, it does get worse. Look at this from the journal today i saw this in the report yesterday i was going to put it but i i'm

running out of there's so much going on quote the inspector general found the fbi's oversight mechanism to ensure the woods file accuracy were also lacking so wait hold this up for a second here so not only they find problems with the files they looked at, Joe, then they followed the ASDFBI. Do you have an oversight process for checking into why you're spying on people? They said, yeah, yeah, we've got this oversight process. So then they looked into the oversight process, and that was messed up too. Listen to this.

FBI policy requires lawyers and FBI field offices and the DOJ's National Security Division, Joe, to perform an annual accuracy review of a set number of applications. Okay. So the Bureau picks these spying warrants and says, hey, are these accurate? No, it sounds legit. Not so much.

The IG discovered that in all of these reviews, the field offices are given advanced notification of which application will be requested, allowing them to spruce up those files for inspection. What? Holy moly. So listen, Joe's not my employee. He works with me, the contractor,

but can you imagine if like Joe had worked for me? Like he's my employee, like full-time guy. And he's in our studio here, whatever. And I say to him, we're going to conduct random reviews of Joe's work product, right? People do that all the time. That's quality check Joe's Adobe audition files. Do you think Joe is more likely if I give him a week heads up that I'm going to look at episodes, say 1198 and check the audio quality. Do you think it's possible that Joe, if he gets a week's heads up,

goes back and spruces up that audio file to make it sound really good. So when I check it, I don't find that he faults it. Do you think that's possible? I'm just going to throw that out this time. You did that. I got it. I straightened it out.

Yeah. I would do the same thing. Yeah. I would do the same thing. If Joe, if I worked for Joe and Joe said to me, listen, I'm thinking about putting your show

on 5 000 terrestrial radio stations around the world you know uh but we're gonna do a random check here's a hint we're gonna look at episode 11 idea i go back to 1188 start adding extra material tomorrow yeah so just to be clear the inspector general picks 25 cases they're all screwed up three of them don't even have Woods files documenting their evidence. The other 25, the evidence is screwed up. Then they say, hey, do you guys at least have an oversight process?

Yeah, we got that too. But we give the FBI office a heads up about which files. So if they are messed up, they can go back and spruce them up before you look at them. What the hell is going on here? You may say, surely,

surely this can't get any worse. By the way, where are the civil libertarians? Again, where are you? Yeah. Liberals. Yeah, we came out of civil liberty. ACLU, where are you?

Where are you? Now, the ACLU has spoken out about something through their credit, some. Okay. They should be on this every day. We're spying on people with no corresponding evidence files that are actually accurate?

Holy Moses. Yes, it gets worse. Another part of the piece. Look at this. Even then, even then, when the Bureau was given a heads up, hey, we're going to look at these files for the evidence you're using to spy on people, spruce them up. Even then, they were botched jobs by the government's own admission.

Oh my gosh, this is staggering. The IG looked at 34 of these accuracy review reports. In other words, they were given a heads up first, which covered 42 Pfizer applications. Reports related to only three of the applications delivered a clean bill of health. Holy Moses. But quote, the reports covering the remaining 39 applications, they weren't given the answers to the test already.

Identified a total of 390 issues. Including unverified, inaccurate, or inadequately supported facts, as well as typographical errors. And when the results of these reviews go into reports, the IG-found FBI headquarters doesn't use the findings in any comprehensive strategic fashion to assess the performance of individuals involved in and accountable for FISA applications. Man.

This is incredible. This is incredible. This is only one of the biggest stories of the decade that we've been using a secret court to spy on people with a documented procedure that's been largely ignored by the FBI. And even when given the cheat sheet ahead of time to spruce up the files, they're going to look at, they still found 390 errors out of 39 reports. This is incredible. But don't worry, media types, keep up with your narrative out there that this is a pattern

and therefore they weren't specifically targeting Donald Trump two totally different stories that the deceptive Pravda gaslighting media the Charlie Savages and Adam Goldman's of the world, the New York Times two totally separate stories they've geniusly tied together

in a mosaic story to lead you to believe that because the FBI screwed up on other FISA applications, that don't you worry. That story means they weren't targeting Donald Trump. I'm going to tomorrow show you Charlie Savage and Adam Coleman exactly what they did, how they tied together this story to the Trump story and made it seem like it's the same thing. Same problem, not the same narrative. And how they did it and how they were prepping you as early as February. Don't miss tomorrow's show. All right, ladies and gentlemen, thanks again for tuning in.

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