The Trish Regan Show - BREAKING: DAN BONGINO QUITS--Deputy FBI Chief Says “See Ya” to Pam Bondi

Episode Date: December 17, 2025

Dan Bongino is reportedly leaving the FBI; Brown University under fire as suspect still at large; the White House got hit with a hit piece from Vanity Fair...and, President Trump is suing the BBC for $10 billion. Those stories and more in today's Trish Regan Show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Plus, oh, maybe the BBC will be out of business soon because I don't know how they're going to continue on quite like this. Now, now when the president is suing them for $10 billion. That's with B, everyone. Wow, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wow, wow, wow. We're going to get into that. Plus, oh, AOC, never one to disappoint AOC is having a little moment. Another little moment, shall we say. She's flipping out over.

What do you think? and ICE. Welcome to the program, everyone. I'm Chisrigan. Make sure you subscribe, share, like, make a comment. We begin today's show. I'm my friend Dan Bonino, because I think this is the 11th hour for Dan Bonino. There's some various reasons going on. You know, we've got the FBI under a lot of pressure, obviously. I don't think that has actually anything to do with Dan's choice here. But you know that the president, of course, was forced to make that correction just yesterday, right, regarding what was going on with Brown and whether or not they had a suspect, not yesterday. And days are running in together, right?

That would have been what? Saturday, Sunday? Gosh, I can't even keep track. That's how busy a December it is. Anyway, Brown has been extraordinarily slow to respond to any of this. And there has been a lot of sort of combativeness as a result of that. But I digress. We will get to that.

I promise you. First, Dan Bongino appears to be out. at the FBI. Now, this was kind of a long time coming, right? I mean, Dan is outstanding at his job. I love his podcast. In fact, the worst thing about having him at the FBI is that I don't get to hear his podcast anymore.

I'll tell you, I don't listen to a lot of podcasts. I really don't. You know, none that we're competitive or anything with one another. No, I really, he's actually a podcast that I listen to because, well, one, I know him and trust him, but two, I actually think he's one of the rare. rare people in this industry that's actually good, right, is bringing you inside information, et cetera. So that's the plus. I guess we'll get Dan back on the podcasting front, but I do think he's probably one step out the door in terms of the FBI. And some sources have said to me that

this would not be unusual for him to depart. We are getting word that actually his office is cleared out. So according to a story in the New York, I think this one, of the New York papers, Dan Bondino's FBI office was empty as of yesterday, and his chief of staff has moved on, and it's believed that come January, 2026, he's going to go back to maybe doing the podcast. So this is according to some FBI insiders. I have my own FBI insiders that say, yes, they would not be surprised by this at all. And there's a lot of reasons for this. I mean, it's not just the disaster that's going on at Brown University, which, you know, I actually think Brown is a big part of who to blame in that whole situation. But don't forget, like, Dan

went there to do a job and he had one goal and that was to make sure that the people that were doing bad stuff were held accountable. And you think about the stupid, stupid, stupid mistakes that were made as he tried to accomplish this goal. I mean, look at Comey. I'm sorry. I'm going to have a hard time getting over that one because that was a, I didn't turn in my homework assignment on time kind of mistake from one Pam Bondi. So I am sure there's no love loss there. I am sure that Dan is like, see ya, you know, I'm just like, this is not what I signed up for, not to mention all the backbiting and the nastiness, et cetera, but think about this. I mean, she had everything kind of handed to her and missed the deadline. And I'm blaming her, okay? I'm blaming her because

you got to keep these things in mind. I mean, put post-it notes all over your computer if you have to. Have a whiteboard that says deadline. You know what? The statute of limitations is going to run out come September 30th, 2025, which means I can't leave this Eric guy in there as a U.S. attorney who's not going to do squat. I ought to be like having a timetable, like running to check. I mean, and then think about the Epstein stuff. I mean, she's trying to like put that one on Dan and make him look bad. She's the one who said she had the files on her desk for goodness sake, so she didn't. And then she invited all those influencers in. That was kind of a notorious move, right? Notoriously bad, infamous move to invite all those people in as though they're a bunch of stupid idiots. They're not.

And say, ha ha, I got it. I got it. I'm going to give you the files. You're going to have first access. And they're like, well, this isn't new. So Dan's been putting up with this. That's effectively his boss. I mean, the big guy, right, is his boss, Donald Trump. But Pam oversees the FBI. So if you got a boss that doesn't know what day it is, I mean, literally. September 30th, 2025, statute of limitations on Come me, Pammy, all right? Like literally doesn't know what day it is. Then how the heck are you supposed to work there? I don't know.

I mean, he's got other things to do at this time. Like host a podcast, which actually is a very big podcast, who he's, you know, tons of audience members for. And then you don't have to say, okay, I can say this, I can say this, I blah, blah, blah, then you can just call it like you see it, which is what I do, right? I just call it like I see it. It gets me in all kinds of trouble all the time. I'm living proof.

Hey, March 2020. Mm-hmm. You don't see me on Fox anymore now, do you? Nope. Because I don't always play by those rules. I don't think Dan does either. So good for him. Like, he's going to have a chance of doing something else,

and he should take that chance. Because if you've got a boss who is trying to pass around the blame game, as it is alleged to me from inside sources at the FBI, she has tried to do all while not doing her own job, then why do you want to be there? I mean, you're taking a huge pay cut on top of it, right? I know why he wanted to be there. He actually is a patriot and he wants to do the right thing. Now, I'm not saying it's a done deal, but his office cleaned out, the chief of staff is

gone. I mean, it doesn't sound very good, right? That does not sound like a guy who actually wants to stick around. And so I think that he's just saying, who needs the head. who needs the trouble that this has become. And he doesn't need it. He can go back and earn a nice living and be done with it. As a patriot, I think he wants to be there.

But if you feel like you're not getting what you want to get done, done, then what's the point? And he has said over and over again how important it is for certain people to be held accountable. And now they can't be held accountable, okay? Like, I don't know what to say on that. And then Leticia James, for goodness sakes. I mean, what happened there, Pam? would not have rushed that. I would have made sure that you dotted all your eyes and you crossed your T's when you went back for a second round and getting an indictment because otherwise,

here we are. Here we are and you're losing one of the best guys that you had. So Dan Bonino, you heard it here first. I hope it's not true. I hope it's not true. But again, my source is close to Dan and close to the FBI say it makes a whole lot of sense and they expect that he probably likely is, in fact, moving on to better things. To better things. So Andrew Bailey is expected to take over. Meanwhile, there have been some good things that have happened. You had the FBI arresting those alleged terrorists with the plot against L.A.

and ICE. We're going to talk about that in this show as well. It's got AOC all up in arms for some reason. I mean, she's so anti-Trump, anti-ice that no one wants to give the FBI a win when they've got one. Give me a break. turning to another big story right now that I do want to get you up to speed on, and that is Brown University, very much under fire at this moment.

We had a press conference like no weather. Did you see this last night? I mean, I couldn't. I was like, we'd already done the show. I would have come on just to show you this. This was absolutely unbelievable. So it's the local press, national press, all these people there at Brown University, and you've got the mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, along with his sidekick,

along with one of the police chiefs, and they're all trying to spin. spin, spin, spin, spin. Now, the president earlier in the day had come out and said, what the heck, kind of security, they got going on at Brown University where somebody could just walk right in. I mean, they don't even keep the doors locked. Most schools in America, now keep the doors locks right in and committed this heinous act. And so during the presser, one of the reporters, who's got a little bit of an accent, you're going to have to listen hard, okay? You're going to put on the listening caps. I don't have any lower thirds to put on the screen for you to translate, but he's making a point and he's making a good one. Okay. So, look at the listening.

Listen hard. He's like, what are you people doing? Why don't you have any photos released? So this was fireworks like you never seen at Brown University with this press conference. Take a peek. President Donald Trump has said that Brown University is too plain for this shooting and saying it's the school's problem. Is that a fair criticism or do you disagree with what the president's time? I don't think it's fair criticism. Can you explain on that? Why not? Because Brown University is a collaborator with you guys.

You're not into the press over here. They have facial recognition. We know that because they follow the student. They follow everybody in the neighborhood. They need to release that data. So everybody knows who the guy is in video. We got the video Saturday. Why do you guys release a video today?

I think that is the question. John, please, just for a second. A couple things. First of all, Brown University and Brown Public Safety, Brown Police Department has been a close collaborator throughout this process. I do not accept that criticism. Oh, come on. We know that.

Secondly, everyone you see behind us, we've all been working for now 49 hours. We're tired. Oh my gosh. I mean, we're tired, right? Don't bother us. We've been working for 48 hours. We can't possibly work another hour. I mean, people have lost their lives.

Sorry, buddy. That is not what we're going to hear right now. That's not what we want to hear. That's never what you should. should be saying in a moment like this. Mr. Smiley. No, you work, okay? You work and you work until you find, finally, finally, after this press conference happened. And that reporter started saying, what the H-E-D-Double L are you people doing? Get off your, you know what, and release some footage of the suspect. You've got to have it, right? I spoke with a source yesterday before coming on air

who told me, very familiar with the campus security at these big universities who told me, yes, It's something called the flock system. It's a very sophisticated system. It's all on, you know, basically their own internal devices, and they have access to all kinds of camera equipment. And for them not to have released something, it's really strange. It takes you that long. We're going on day four.

And by the way, we just heard of another. It seems as though it's an assassination attempt. We don't know much at MIT, but it's sort of in that vicinity, not too far, right? From Providence, Rhode Island, a professor has just been gone down there. It's just horrible stuff. I hate having to talk about any of it, frankly, today. It makes me so sad because we should feel safe in our country, right? And there's this so much discord, and there's this ginning up on one group, or with one group, I should say, to try and, you know,

pinpoint the other. And we don't know, by the way, I should, I should emphasize, we don't know whether this was politically motivated. There are some that believe it was because the 19-year-old Ella Cook, one of the victims in this was the vice president of the president of the Republican Club. They're at Brown University. But let me just at least share with you the FBI's footage of the suspect. This was just released by Providence Police Department. They said if you have any, any information to share that with authorities, just call 1-401-272-3-1-21. You're looking at some video there of this guy. He looks quite stout. I can't estimate his height, but he's not too far above that little fire hydrant. Now is he? Anyway, very stout, very big.

big tummy on him, crossing the street, just take a look at the gate, whether or not you recognize him. That's what they're hoping. They're calling on the public right now. But this is all they've got. I mean, they don't have any photos of his face. I find it so weird. They have something. It's super grainy. And that's, he's covered with a mask, so you really can't see much. But this is, this is taken too long. They finally put this one out, okay? Brown University shooting. And let me just put this bigger onto the camera. Again, I'm not seeing much. And I just find this bizarre because they should have had better technology at the university. And so this is all giving rise to, well, what's going on at Brown, right? Like, what is it that's preventing them from,

from moving quicker here, from giving us more information? And you understand, people are asking that in part because why? Oh, the president of the university doesn't really have much in the way of answers when she's at six hours after the event. We're going back to the weekend now, okay? And I showed some of you guys this yesterday, but it's worth keeping in mind as we try and understand why it is that Brown is dragging their feet so much. Six hours after it all goes down and she doesn't even know what class these kids were in. It was in the engineering building. It was a principles of economics review class. They were studying for an exam. I had seen this on Twitter. I think I saw it in the New York Times. The head of the university didn't know what class.

I mean, wouldn't that be like the first question you'd ask what? D.C. when it happened and flew right back and I'm catching up right now. President, with all due respect, six hours after this shooting and you said you don't know what was going on in that classroom? How does that happen? Were they taking an exam? Were they meeting for a club? I don't know. I don't know.

Six hours later, and you're the president and you don't know. I do not know. Well, that's kind of concern. Yeah, six hours later and you don't know, that's kind of. that's kind of upsetting indeed. But you know what she did know enough to do? To send this little letter to alumni and friends immediately, immediately going straight into, okay, this is gun violence?

Is that really the first? I mean, again, I'm just a simple girl from New Hampshire. I mean, the first question I'd have asked was, oh my gosh, where were they? What class was it? You know, who was the teacher? I mean, these are things so you would know, right, that it was maybe a principles of economics review class. or if you're her, I guess you wouldn't.

Before you say DEI, hire, because I know a lot of female president suddenly went into these universities when they were all like, woo-hoo, we want, you know, a woman. Oh, and if she's black woman, even better. I think Claudine Gay at Harvard University. She didn't last too long, okay? The MIT lady didn't last too long. The UPenn lady did not last too long. You got to have good people in the slots.

Maybe this woman gets to live another two. I don't, I don't, that's a bad choice of words, gets to say. stay on, gets to stay on, only because she went in 2012, but I've also spoken to people very familiar with the university that say there's no way she's going to survive this. And when you are sitting there on camera, six hours after the fact, and you don't even know the class, you don't even know the class that this took place in, that's really disturbing. And when it takes you that long, it took three days in order to come up with any kind of camera footage from your university system, what is that telling us?

either you're hiding something or you don't like the narrative that's going to come out or you people are just incompetent. What does somebody spend there? 60K a year for tuition, another 40K, right, for room and board. It's something like 100K a year to educate your kid at Brown University and they don't have a security system or a president of the university that seems to be savvy enough to even know what class it was that the kids were in six hours after the fact. But she does. Oh, she's savvy enough to send this one to blame it all on gun violence. In the first darn sentence, dear Brown

alumni and friends with deep sorrow I write today to our extended family of Brown alumni and friends to share that our campus remains in deep morning after losing two members of our community to gun violence. I mean, my gosh, they still haven't caught the guy. They still haven't caught the guy. Why are there no additional cameras? Can't you do something with facial recognition and be able to go and track that and get more than just three shots of him walking? Now, I spoke to a source at the FBI when our friend Charlie Kirk was gunned down and that was just so awful. And that source told me that it was a difficult.

decision, which the source found insane, but it was a difficult decision to release the photo of one Tyler Robinson, who they suspected was, in fact, the killer of Charlie Kirk. And it was this whole internal thing. And people were like, no, no, it's going to compromise the investigation. And the FBI, including Dan and Cash, we're like, no, you got to do it. Like, you got to do it. Like, we need the public's help here, okay, people? And so I do wonder to a certain extent if a similar scenario played out. I mean, you put together my logic with, okay, Dan's got one foot out the door, and maybe cash has been most focused on the story out of LA, right, because they were trying to prevent those attacks on ICE officers that allegedly were being planned. And so, you know,

people are going in a lot of different directions, and it's possible that you didn't have a Dan in a Cash there saying, hey, hey, hey, we want that picture out to the public now. Like, maybe that would have helped to have gotten that a few days ago out to the public. But here we are sitting here on day four with now another tragedy happening at MIT. We don't know if they're related. No idea. No idea. But this gun person, this gunman is at loose. Okay. The suspect is loose. And I'm sorry, I can't help but blame the university that's supposed to have better technology that has 900, estimated between 8 and 900 cameras on campus right now, and they can't get a photo of this guy.

Anyone else find that peculiar? I'm just looking at your comments in real time. This is the beauty of being live, right? I get to see it all. Careful. Anyway, yeah. It's awful. I see what Jeffrey is saying, Jeffrey Gallops.

She was the head of a GOP organization. Jeffrey, you're right. So this was 19-year-old Ella. Cook. She was the head of an organization there. Let's just put her picture bigger on camera. This is, I mean, this is the tragedy of all of this. And she, she didn't deserve this a pianist. She was from Birmingham, Alabama. She was one of two gunned down. Here's the second victim. The second victim was somebody who wanted to go on to become a neurosurgeon. surgeon, his name is McCommet, Aziz, Oskarov. Look, we don't know what the circumstances were,

but I can tell you that Ella Cook, who was the vice president of the Republicans Club, the guy who runs all the Republicans Club for United States of America has come out already and said he believes that she was being targeted, that she was gunned down, she was the first that they went after. And I'm just saying, I don't know why this is taking so long. It shouldn't take so long. here's the Providence Police Department trying to, you know, justify themselves after they were caught arresting the wrong guy. And they're blaming the FBI. They're all so busy blaming each other. Nobody knows there. You know. See, I get a little mad when these things happen. I'm trying to keep it clean, but I'm mad. I'm angry. And I don't understand why the university president didn't know

what class they were in six hours after the fact. And I don't understand why they'd be arresting the wrong suspect and I don't understand why they don't have more footage of the guy and why it took that fight basically with the press the press is like what the heck like why don't you have anything before they actually released anything and I know that in these cases it helps when you release things early here is the Providence police chief who speaks also with a very heavy accent so you have to listen closely. The director specifically said in his tweet that it was a tip from Providence police that led you all to Hampton in. Can you confirm if that's true and what exactly was the evidence that

led me to this person in interest? Yeah so there was a tip that came in just like we were taking any other tips and that one came in specifically identified a person of interest which was this individual and so we our detectives got on it just like they got in another another this specific this specific one it was actually picked up by the by the FBI and they followed through with it and they ended up coming and located this individual of interest and at that point we did our thorough investigation, examined, ended up drafting some search forerings, came up with some evidence. But that evidence was examined, and we didn't have enough, obviously, to be able to prosecute anybody. And so the person was released.

Go ahead. Unbelievable. Okay, so I don't know. Do we blame the FBI? Do we blame Providence? Do we blame Brown? Maybe all of them, right? Because this is not going well.

We should not be here on day four. with nothing and just some really flimsy video. And I just keep, like, what are they hiding? Why aren't they coming forward with more? Why didn't this video come out earlier? I don't know. I mean, it doesn't fit their narrative. I don't know. They were very quick to get the, you know, 24-year-old ex-military officer that they, you know, a military member that they thought had PTSD, right? like, that's an easy place to go. But what if it's, what if it's, what if it's, this is what if, okay, this is just all conjecture. This is not me reporting. This is just me pontificating. I want to just emphasize that because there's a lot we don't know right now and I want to be extremely

sensitive to everything. But what if it just doesn't fit their narrative? And I think you can, I'll let you determine what that means. But if it doesn't fit their narrative, if this is, you know, something that they want to sweep under the rug, I don't know. I, you know, I, I wish Dan were there. I wish he were on the ground. I don't know what Kosh is doing right now. I mean, he's getting nicknamed Keystone Cash because they got the wrong guy and this is not okay. Like, it's just never okay.

And the poor president had to say, okay, we got him. And then rescind that and say, oopsie daisy, right? No, it turns out we don't have him. And that's not really cool. I mean, here was the tweet over the weekend. And he's taking a victory lap at 544. The suspect is in custody at 603. The suspect is not in custody.

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Susie Wiles. She's not a gossiper. And yet somehow Vanity Fair pulls all this stuff out of nothing. Well, they did a long interview with her. And I guess there were various times in the tape recorders were running and she wasn't really, I don't know. I, I, I, I haven't. I, I, I, I, a hard time thinking that she wasn't really thinking this one through. But I will say this. Never ever sit for a print profile. Okay, this is my PR advice to people, unless you really know the reporter and you really trust the reporter because Susie Wiles is living proof that they're not necessarily going to be on your side. They may be, oh my gosh, they may treat you like you are the best thing in the world. They may be your best friend. Don't trust them, okay? Don't trust them. Don't

trust them, especially, especially if they work for Vanity Fair and you happen to be a conservative, like Susie, okay? So she knows this. This is a little bit surprising. Merry Christmas, Lori, Pierre. You've been a member for three months. Thank you so much. I really appreciate you being here. Congratulations on the three months membership. Anyway, back to Susie. Susie said a few things about a few people, including one, JD. J.D. is in the doghouse, allegedly with Susie. I don't really buy it. Susie's already come out and said this is completely taken out of context. I have no doubt it was. I mean, think about it. If you make a joke, I mean, I make jokes here on the show all the time, right? I mean, somebody could take something I say out of context and then they could

put a nice, beautiful little article around it, like 10,000 words. I mean, this thing was part one and part two. They weren't done with part one. They had to have a part one and part two. This reporter was so busy. Gosh, he thought he really, really hit the gold mine here. And just kind of catching her maybe like in a moment, maybe she just has a great sense of humor and she's joking around, but here she is talking about JD. And she said on the vice president, the vice president has been a conspiracy theorist for a decade. She also described Vance's shift from Never Trump or to Maga supporter as sort of political. Yeah, it probably was.

I mean, like he really didn't like Donald Trump. Remember that? I remember that. He was kind of a never-trumper. And then all of a sudden, he loved Trump. So, you know, it happened to a few people. Ted Cruz, you know, Marco Ruby. Hey, they ran against him. And now look at them. They're the biggest supporters, right? Heck,

Marco is now Secretary of State taking on Venezuela, for goodness sakes. I made it, wow, right? So what a difference it makes or president makes? That's part of the business. Hello, it is what it is. So he didn't like Trump. No, he likes Trump. Well, Susie says that he is a conspiracy theorist. I would just say, if she really said that, and maybe she was just kind of joking about it are laughing about it. I would say that, you know, being a conspiracy theorist nowadays, maybe isn't the worst thing, not the worst thing, right, considering, oh, I don't know, the Hunter Biden laptop that was not Russian disinformation misinformation, but actually was Hunter Biden's laptop. What about the virus that we got hit with in 2020?

Turned out, oh, yeah, yeah, it was from that Wuhan lab in China. The dossier? You know, only conspiracy theorists thought that the dossier wasn't real. I guess I was a conspiracy theorist, too. I just consider myself to have a little common sense. Anyway, this isn't the worst thing that one could say, but you should see the left. Oh my gosh, they're just blowing this thing up, blowing it up, blowing it up.

Alphonse, good to see you. I'm going to get your comment in a second. Let's go to JD reacting in real time as the New York Post reporter asked him about this. And JD has the best comeback ever. Take a peek. Jacob Bogage from the Washington Post It's good to see you. Good to see you, Merry Christmas.

Thank you. Same to you. Unfortunately, I have to ask a bit of an off-topic question from affordability because news events do intervene. And that is the interviews that White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles gave to Vanity Fair in which she's quoted as referring to you as excuse me, and again, not my words, sir, but a conspiracy theorist of a decade

and described your transformation from someone who unsupposed President Trump to now his vice president as an act of political expediency. And I'd like to give you the chance to respond to that, sir. Well, first of all, if, if, uh, if Susie, like, I'll trust, I'll trust what you said. I haven't looked at the article. I, of course, have heard about it. He seems a little caught off guard there, but he, don't worry, he gets his mojo back.

So a little caught off guard. He's sort of like, she really said that because, again, did she really say, I'm sure it was just in passing. She was probably joking around, but this. reporter is making something out of nothing because this is what they do when they're at vanity fair scraping the bottom of the barrel for anything they can get. But conspiracy theorist, sometimes I am a conspiracy theorist, but I only believe in the conspiracy theories that are true. And by the way, Susie and I have joked in private and in public about that for a long time.

For example, I believe in the... Okay, so it probably was a joke. You hear him say that. We've joked about it. So she probably was joking right, yeah, he's a conspiracy theorist. You know those conspiracy theorists. They're the smart ones these days. Let's listen to the rest of it. Crazy conspiracy theory back in 2020 and that it was stupid to mask three-year-olds at the height of the COVID pandemic, that we should actually let them develop some language skills. I believed in this crazy conspiracy theory that the media and the government were covering up the fact that Joe Biden was clearly unable to do the job.

And I believed in the conspiracy theory that Joe Biden was trying to throw his political opponents in jail rather than win an argument against this political opponent. So, at least on some of these conspiracy theories, it turns out that a conspiracy theory is just something that was true six months before the media admitted it. And that's my understanding. Boom! Right? Bingo.

It turns out a conspiracy theory is just something that turns out to be true six months before the media would admit it. Exactly. Exactly. This is for me. So, you know, there are. a few others in this big Vanity Fair hit piece, Susie on Pam Bondi. Now, I don't disagree with Susie on this, okay?

And you know what? If there's a method to the madness, she was right to say this. Regarding Pam Bondi's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files release, who, she completely whiffed, direct quote. Three words, she completely whiffed. right? I think she completely waved on appreciating that that was the very targeted group that cared about this. First, she gave them binders full of nothingness, right? We were just talking about why did Dan want to quit the FBI? Let me tell you, when you got a lousy boss like

Pam Bondi who misses deadlines, like the Comey deadline, that's the equivalent of not turning in your homework, who brings all the influencers in his friends, right? And says, hey, hey, I got something for you. Take a look over here at this. And it turns out. that to be nothing. You give them binders full of nothingness, direct quote from Susie Weil. And then she said that the witness list or the client list was on her desk. I do recall. I think she was done in handy. She said, I had the files. They're right there on my desk, except they weren't. So you get caught in a lie like that. And then you got a problem. And so Dan, Bonino's looking at and going, who needs this?

Who needs a boss like that at the DOJ? Because no matter what we give her, she can't seem to get the job done. And then she's going to turn around behind our back and leak this, that, and the other. So it makes all the sense in the world that he'd want out. It makes all the sense in the world that he might actually even think he can do more good for the movement.

I've always said this because, you know, I still have a lot of friends over there in Trump land, shall we say? say, and it's come up before whether or not I would do something for the administration, with the administration. And I really feel like, given my set of talents, what I am best at, and I know you guys want me for Fed Chair, or Treasury Secretary. If Jerome ever decides to leave, he may not have a choice. I think the president's going to force him out. Or if our buddy at Treasury ever needs some extra help, but no, I'm sort of teasing. That's come up in the past.

And the reality is this, I am better doing what I do over here where I have complete anonymity, or in terms of autonomy, I should say, not anonymity. I think you know who I am. My electrician recognized me this morning, so there you go. This YouTube thing, it's catching on, right? We're on to like 1.1 and change million subs. So thank you for that. I would say that the autonomy that I have here is something I truly appreciate,

reminder, subscribe, share, like, and I think it's something that somebody like Dan appreciates. As for Pam Bondi, look, you know, she did screw up. So Susie's calling it like it is on that one. I don't know why you have to make such a big deal of it. Everybody knows it. Everybody knows it, all right? So this is not that big. And then, oh, here's what they're going on and on and on about. And this is a little nuts on President Trump. Apparently, she said he has an alcoholic's personality, and she compared him to her late father, noting Trump doesn't drink, but has exaggerated trade It's like believing there's nothing he can't do. Well, let me tell you, there's not a president that's lived that didn't believe he could move mountains, okay?

Because who do you think signs up for that job? Thank you very much. Who do you think? I mean, he's just more explicit about it than, say, you know, Barack Obama, who had an ego that is and was and continues to be this large, right? Like, his ego was massive. You don't think Clinton had an ego. By the way, Clinton's in a little bit of trouble, shall we say, over those Epstein files. Apparently, he and Hillary don't want to have to testify.

They're going to get in a lot of trouble over that. And by the way, he doesn't have any immunity anymore. No more immunity for him. I mean, you have immunity for things that you did as president, but this is after the fact that he was on the plane going down to the Cayman, not the Cayman Islands, Virgin Islands, forgive me. So he's not going to have it. It's like a whole bunch of legal back and forth there between Hillary Bill and

the people that are bringing them in for questioning. But on Susie, like they smell blood, right? They're making something out of nothing here, the left-wing media. I mean, listen to this little turd. Sorry. I can say that, right? I'm on YouTube. I love not being on network TV anymore.

Anyway, he's trying to be on network TV and not doing a very good job at it. But anyway, he has a gig over at CNN after having gotten fired from CNN. He's now back on CNN. And he likes to take shots of the Trump administration nonstop. What is it that Hannity calls him? I always want to say Humpty Dumpty, but I think he's got a different name. You guys will tell me. Here we go.

I mean, the scandal is always just saying the truth out loud, just admitting what everyone else knows is going on. What Republicans say in private, and she just happens to have been saying it, in front of a tape recorder. And she was saying this over the course of a year, right? So different interviews, different times, that creates some context for this. And now she's going to claim, and she is claiming on X that she was taken out of context, that a lot of context was discarded, disregarded. Maybe Whipple will now come out with the tapes.

But it does seem like to me a situation where she was in a very, you know, candid situation. Maybe she was talking, not that she thought she was not on the record, because she knows the whole time Chris Whipple is an author who writes for vanity fair. So I agree with that. Which tells me that the way she was not. was talking about it was probably with some humor, okay? And the reporter, because the report's like, ooh, I got a good one, doesn't capture any of that humor, which again, moral of the story, don't ever do an interview with the likes of Andy Fair, the New York Times, the Washington Post,

right, and these profile pieces, unless you're secure in the fact that, you know, I mean, hey, if you're Stacey Abrams and the New York Times ones to do a big magazine cover piece on you because you refuse to acknowledge that you didn't win the governorship in Georgia, I mean, hey, why not? Because you know that, you know, they're talking your book for you. But if you're Susie, maybe Vanity Fair is not the one that you want to hang out with just saying. She said the article published early this morning is a disingenuously framed hit piece on me and the finest White House staff and cabinet in history. It's true. I think they're just, they're trying to take down this president however they can. And maybe she thought it would go well, but clearly it didn't.

She did get a message out there on a few things, like Pam Bondi. Just saying. Just saying, hey, quick shout out for our friends over it. Four free markets. Four free markets. This is a really important thing to think about right now because under previous administrations, you know vague, outdated policies and pressure from politically motivated regulators led to the closure of Americans' bank accounts. But thankfully, President Trump came in and he changed that all via an executive order. Well, Americans for Free Markets, one of the sponsors of the Trish Regan show, we thank them for that. Their thank in President Trump, alongside me, for his commitment to preventing government, driven debanking and urging Congress and regulators to build on this momentum by enacting lasting, meaningful reform. We need it. We need it. Protect financial freedom. Get on your Congressperson

to actually put this into law. Let's get real stuff on the books so that we don't have all these outdated laws. It is not right. You can't just say to someone, the regulators can't say to the banks, we're going to debank them because we don't like their political affiliation. I mean, that is so wrong, right? So Americans for Free Markets is calling us. on Congress to advance these critical reforms, strengthen President Trump's leadership on fair access to financial services. It should never be weaponized. And it was.

Learn more at 4-FreeMarkets.org. Really important stuff. Well, you know, the BBC's in for it. $10 billion is what they are being sued for. The BBC being sued for $10 billion by the President of the United States. And it is all because they printed some really bad stuff. He threatened he was going to sue. He said he was going to sue.

And now, as of last night, what do you know? He's suing. He's suing. And it's because of this little number that they aired. Think about this in the weeks prior to the most recent election. So this is 2024 and they're going all the way back to 2020. And they're stitching sound together in a way that is just fraudulent. Take a peek.

We're going to walk down to the Capitol and I'll be there with you and we fight. We fight like hell. Okay, that's not what he said. It's not what he said at all. Here's what he actually said. Like that was like 40 minutes later or something. It was like wildly far away. We're going to walk down to the Capitol and we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.

All right, well, because of that one, you guys are in some serious trouble. I mean, take a look. It took them forever. Right after this news came out, it was reported from a whistleblower over to rival paper that this was all edited. And then people went back and checked the transcript. Sure enough, it was. And then they just didn't do anything. They didn't know what to do.

And Deborah Turner, who was running the network, the BBC at the time, interestingly, came from NBC. She used to run NBC. So, you know, they all float around. She wound up getting canned, departing. She's out. I don't know if she was fired. She chose to leave. She didn't have a choice to leave.

Apparently, she felt kind of burned by it all. But here's her in the days after. As soon as we found out, of course, that she was stepping down. I would like to say it has been the privilege of my career to serve as the CEO of BBC News and to work with our brilliant team of journalists. I stepped down over the weekend because the buck stops with me. But I'd like to make one thing very clear. BBC News is not institutionally biased.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, right, right. Not biased, not biased at all. That's why they ran that clip like they did. That's why you guys were getting sued. For $10 billion. I mean, it's unbelievable stuff. It is so good to see all of you here.

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