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Get ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host, Dan Bongino.
All right, welcome to the Dan Bongino Show.
Producer Joe, how are you today?
Full steam ahead, brother.
Busy, busy Newsweek.
Thank you to everyone at the NRA convention in Dallas.
You guys and ladies out there were amazing.
What a crowd of people.
We walked off that little elevated platform at the NRA TV booth, for those of you who were there.
And there were just, Joe, endless supporters.
People love you, by the way.
I got so many people asking about Producer Joe.
Thank you very much.
I was flattered.
It was really an incredible time.
My wife and I both, a lot of you met Paula there, were just floored by all the attention you gave us.
Honestly, I was a little humbled by it and overwhelmed.
Also, thanks to everyone who watched Life, Liberty & Levin last night.
I got about 500 emails about it this morning.
Many of them on the socks.
Little backstory, I had an interesting pair of socks on.
It was not the pair of socks I intended.
That was more for a different visit.
I had a pair of black socks.
And I brought the wrong ones.
They were two different socks.
Now listen, two different black socks usually isn't a big deal.
Right.
Unless one of them has a stripe going along the side and the other doesn't.
There you go.
So therefore, that's the backstory behind the socks.
And if you watch Life, Liberty, and Levin, you can see it on YouTube or if you DVR'd it, you'll see exactly what I mean.
So there's the backstory for the socks.
All right.
All right.
I got a lot to cover today.
This is one of those shows I'm super excited about because there's so much going on.
Logan Act violations, John Kerry, NBC fake news, Alyssa Milano, Democrat war on religion, Dick's sporting goods, it goes on and on and on.
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Okay, big news tonight.
Super excited about this.
Hat tip to Shannon Watts, Bloomberg flunky and shill anti-gun civil liberties advocate.
I know you're listening to the show, Shannon, and I know you're telling everybody you're not, but hey, welcome.
It's good to have you here.
Yeah!
Shannon Watts, who is an anti-gun advocate.
She wants to take away your right to protect you and your family.
Also, professional Dana Lash nuisance, by the way.
Shannon, who stalks Dana Lash frequently on Twitter.
I had to give Dana a break this weekend, Joe.
So, Shannon and I had a back and forth.
Now, keep in mind, again, who Shannon Watts is.
She's a Bloomberg, I don't know, some kind of PR person.
But she's amazingly bad at PR for someone who's supposed to be an expert in public relations.
I'm not kidding.
Like, I get it.
Everybody wants to be, you know, the guy and puff your chest in the bravado, like, I won in this Twitter war with Shannon Watts, back and forth.
But this is an anti-gun advocate, wants to take away your guns.
Again, she's a Bloomberg flunky there.
And she's supposed to be in public relations to get other people to get on her side, Joe, to take away your guns.
Yet this weekend, she lied.
I mean, lied.
Like, it's just factually incorrect.
She made a series of statements about the NRA convention that were patently false.
They're false statements.
They're just incorrect.
Easily provable to be incorrect.
But you know, Joe, liberals and honesty is not really their thing.
So we get that.
Now, having said that, with Shannon Watts, here's what happened.
She put out a statement that said, oh, Dana Lash got on stage to speak at the NRA convention, Joe, when it was a gun-free zone.
Well, Shannon, don't let the facts get in the way of a good argument.
Now, I'm going to break down a few of the dopey things she said in a minute, but I just want to let you know, I'm super stoked about this, Joe.
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I will be debating Shannon Watts!
Yeah, baby!
Yes!
Of course Shannon Watts is not actually going to show up for the debate.
I challenged her and she did what every liberal does, Joe, which is what?
She ran for the hills.
I'm not going to debate you.
Nobody watches that.
Oh, really?
Are you sure about that?
Because I just went to a meeting this weekend in Dallas and I promise you people watch, but you know what?
Again, that's kind of like one of those kindergarten things.
Nobody watches that.
Okay, Joe, now listen, you and I are pretty, we don't, we never, fluff up our audience for people.
I'm not incorrect, Joe, by saying we do millions of downloads a month on the show, right?
Yeah, you got it, buddy.
That's right, I said that to her too.
I go, you're so brave on Twitter and yet I give you an open forum to defend your lies and you run for the hills and then your comeback is so childish.
I mean, my kindergartner says things like that.
She does, I'm not even kidding.
I don't like you anymore.
I love my daughter but when she gets mad at us.
This is Shannon West.
I don't like you.
Nobody watches that.
Okay well I assure you about two million downloaders a month listen to the show.
So I'm not going to even give you the NRA TV numbers for obvious reasons but trust me you are way out of your league.
So I will be debating her tonight on the show.
She didn't show up, so we're gonna slap her picture up on a chair, like we always do when liberals challenge us, like Miranda Yaver, the other one, and we'll be debating her.
Now, a couple points on this.
The NRA being a, the speech being a gun-free zone.
Okay.
I was a Secret Service agent.
I don't remember Shannon serving in the Secret Service.
I must have missed her, Joe, during her time.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
She wasn't.
Matter of fact, I don't know what she did before this.
It was a big secret.
She was such a secret agent.
Nobody knew she was... That's a good... Dude, I'm telling you.
This is why I love Joe.
I can't get rid of him.
If he has a heart attack, forget it.
The show would fall apart, right?
Who else am I going to throw this off to?
But yes, she was such a Secret Service agent, so nobody knew she was there.
Shannon's trying to claim Sorry if I'm talking fast.
I'm just super excited about this story.
I know I got to slow it down a bit.
Shannon's claiming that it was a gun-free zone.
The NRA folks did not have a gun-free zone at the convention.
That's just the... I don't know.
It's like me trying to defend when someone says an apple's an orange.
You're like, no, it's an apple.
No, no, it's an orange.
It's an apple.
This is so dumb, I don't even know how to defend it, but this is what the left does.
That was not the NRA.
Where Donald Trump was going to speak, the Secret Service has this thing called the Federally Protected Area, and they usually set up a magnetometer checkpoint, and it's not a gun-free zone, they set up restrictions on firearms.
That's not the NRA rules.
I promise you there were thousands of people at the NRA convention who had their firearms.
I was there.
I don't know what else to tell you.
You're just making that up because you're silly and liberals are silly and they're liars.
I mean, how could you?
And people buy it.
Oh, the NRA was a gun-freezer.
Um, okay, whatever.
Well, like the kids say, whatever.
You're just making that up.
Now, this is why she doesn't want to come on the show to debate, because she knows she can't defend that.
I was on the floor.
People, you were allowed to legally carry your firearm at the convention.
Now, even her premise that during the Trump speech it was a gun-free zone is false.
It was not a gun-free zone.
There were firearms restrictions, but it was not a gun-free zone.
Why, Joe?
That zone was protected by Secret Service agents with a Sig Sauer P229, which is a firearm.
Probably some ERT folks with the Fabrique Nationale P90.
CAT team members with the AR-15 platform, Secret Service agents with the Remington 870 shotgun, and the Heckler & Koch MP5.
Joe, all... Guns.
Firearms.
Guns!
Yes!
Yes, guns!
So it's amazing that... So Shannon, what you're saying is, I guess, that it wasn't a gun-free zone, it was a gun-full zone, actually.
There were quite a few guns there.
And what you're saying is what?
That we're all entitled to Secret Service protection too?
So that when we walk around, we should all have Secret Service details.
I don't get what you're saying.
Because, in essence, you're saying it was a gun-free zone.
It's not.
It was an area protected by guns.
A luxury, in other words.
I phrased that poorly.
We're not afforded.
You are your own bodyguard.
In real life.
In the real world that Shannon Watts doesn't live in.
You're your own bodyguard.
We don't have government-provided, highly-trained agents.
If we did, some of us may or may not choose to carry.
If we had a team of bodyguards, I would still choose to carry anyway.
But Shannon's point is ridiculous, which is, you know, it's all Shannon.
That's her expertise.
Ridiculosity, okay?
It was not a gun-free zone.
Joe, I get dumber every time we address these people.
Now, one more point on the NRA convention.
Yeah.
And I'll be debating Shannon later, don't you worry.
Don't miss the show, it's gonna be classic.
Because again, she's just too terrified to show up, which is, I'm sorry.
By the way, I get it, Shannon, later will be the snowflake, misogynistic, war on women comments stuff.
I get it, we're already there, I understand.
Please, spare us all the nonsense, okay?
You attack people every day relentlessly on Twitter, and then when you get called out for being the liar you are, believe me, I understand that's next.
Because that's all you've got.
You've got nothing else.
She says to me on Twitter, Joe, oh look, here comes the ad homonyms.
No, you're a liar.
That's not a personal attack.
You're actually a liar.
It's a factual statement that you say things that are untrue, okay?
Sorry.
Secondly.
What are you going to do?
What are you going to do?
Alyssa Milano shows up at the convention.
Alyssa Milano, another, remember, Who's the Boss?
Yeah, not Alyssa, I can tell you that.
Remember that?
She was Sam, the Tony, what is his, Tony Danza, was that his name?
I don't remember.
Remember the guy from, was he from Taxi?
He had that show, Who's the Boss?
And he was the, like the house cleaner dude or whatever.
Yeah, Tony Danza.
Tony Danza was the son, played by Alyssa Milano.
I grew up on that show.
She's a big anti-gun, anti-civil liberties advocate too, just like Shannon Watts.
She shows up at the NRA convention for a protest outside, sparsely attended by the way.
I was there.
So Joe, there were 80,000 plus people at the NRA convention.
They were like, I'll be generous, Joe.
I'm being, believe me, I'm being generous.
Maybe a couple hundred protests.
And one of them, one group at one point, they're in the background.
This is a funny story.
Sorry, folks.
I know I'm going into a lot of stories today, but this is funny.
This just goes to show you how kooky the left is.
I'm doing a hit for Tucker Carlson live from the convention, and I usually don't do outdoor hits.
You know, when there's literally a camera outdoors.
Because I'm almost deaf from my time in the Secret Service.
I can't hear a lot out of my right ear or my left ear from having that squiggly earpiece screaming in my eardrum all the time.
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It's true.
I can't hear anything.
So they say, hey, can you do an outdoor hit?
I was like, sure, no problem.
So I go outside and everything's fine.
It was actually pretty quiet around the convention center.
And the hit time was like, I don't know, 820 Eastern?
I forget what time it was, Joe.
And everything's going great.
It's just me, the Fox cameraman, and Paula.
And I always tell Paula, you know, keep your eyes out in case someone creeps over my back.
Paula's good like that.
She was like my secret service agent.
Good deal.
Everything's good.
I hear okay, folks, but it's really low.
But it's kind of quiet.
Next thing I hear, what was it?
And it's getting louder.
Hey, hey!
Ho, ho!
Hey, hey!
These protesters, there's about a hundred of them, they come around the corner with their signs, the NRA, and they're screaming, by the way, the dopiest protests ever, like protesters.
Liberal buddies out there.
You're not really my buddies, but you get it.
Can you get a new line?
Can you get the hey hey ho ho the NRA's got to go?
Can you please?
I'm not going to use the Lord's name in vain, but can you please get a new chant?
You've been screaming that since the 60s!
Hey hey ho ho!
That dumbass chant has got to go!
Hey hey!
This guy.
This guy!
There you go.
It's like Goodfellas.
You.
Hey, hey.
Ho, ho.
This stupid chant has got to go.
Since the Vietnam era, can you think of something else?
So I'm sitting there and I'm like this, Joe.
I don't think you and I had this much fun the first 15 minutes of the show.
I'm gonna get some emails on this one.
I'm sitting there like this.
Paula starts looking at me.
She knows I'm deaf.
She's like, I wish we had a ditto cam.
She's like, I can't believe it.
The worst timing ever.
The hey, hey, ho, ho crowd.
They're right behind me.
Hey, hey, ha, ha.
And I'm like, ugh.
So I'm praying.
Praying Tucker Carlson asks me about these protesters, because that was what I just wanted to say.
I wanted to take the camera guy, I wanted to get out of the way of the shot and go, cameraman, look at these guys.
They have been using this chant for 40 years.
Just fill in the blank.
The Vietnam War's got to go.
Republicans have got to go.
Sarah Palin's got to go.
John McCain's got to go.
George Bush's got to go.
Your money's got to go.
Your kids, everything.
Just fill in the blank.
That's the Democrat.
So stupid.
Can you guys please get a focus group, a PR.
Go hire Shannon Watts.
She did PR.
Please.
Just get a new chant.
Oh, if you're going to interrupt my hit, do something creative, you dopes!
So I'm sitting there.
This story's gone on way too long, but it is still funny.
I don't hear jack squat from Tucker.
Not a word.
They're like, are you good?
I'm like, I'm giving them a thumbs up.
Like I'm good.
Meaning I'm not good.
I don't hear anything, but I feel bad.
I promised them I'd do this hit.
So I'm like, if I've done enough TV, I don't say this out of any sense of hubris.
Don't take it the wrong way, but I've done enough TV that if I get two or three words, I know where they're going with it.
Yeah.
So all I hear from Tucker, the only thing, Joe, is Mueller and Judge.
And I'm like, okay, he must be talking about the judge, T.S.
Ellis, who basically dismantled the Mueller team in court last week, telling them, hey man, what does this have to do with, on the Manafort case, what does this have to do with collusion?
So I give the answer.
I then hear some mumbles in my ear, and it's Tucker next, and I hear something about the media.
So I go to my media file and I answer that question.
At the end of the hit, I get off the ice, I say to Paula, she's like, how did you just do that?
I'm like, I have no idea.
I'm like, all I heard was media, Mueller, and judge.
That was it.
It just goes to show you, like, when you do enough, you just can kind of, you gotta feel it.
Folks, all I heard was, hey, hey, ho, ho, and then, oh my gosh, this is going on too long, but it's still fun.
And there's helicopters overhead watching the protesters.
So I hear, I'm like, this is the worst hit ever.
I get off the air and people are texting me, that was awesome.
I'm like, it was?
I'm like, I had no idea what I was answering at all.
I'm like, Tucker could have said like, Dan.
How do you feel about the color red versus black?
Bob Mueller and those courts, let me tell you something, he got called out by that judge.
Uh, what?
Thank God I guessed the right question.
I mean that.
I was like praying, please tell me this is right.
Because it would have been really odd.
But that's my story of the NRA convention.
Let me get back to it.
So I'll be covering this tonight on my show too.
Alyssa Milano, I have video of this, shows up at this rally with the Hey Hey Ho Ho people, right?
Yeah.
She shows up, Joe.
She has this guy standing behind her in a suit trying to look all Secret Service.
Yeah, you know where this is going.
So the NRA TV crew, hat tip to Ben Howe and Chuck Holton and the NRA TV crew that went out there, and they're looking at this guy and Joe, the guy protecting anti-gun advocate, yes, I'm saying this right, Alyssa Milano from Who's the Boss, He's got a suspicious bulge on his right side.
He starts pushing away, like in a threatening manner, the NRA TV crew.
You need to get out of here.
You need to go.
But keep in mind, it's a public sidewalk.
This guy, from what I know, is not a cop.
At least he's not acting as a law enforcement officer.
Starts pushing them away.
The NRA TV crew and all their brilliance gets a video of his right side.
He's got a suspicious bulge now in the Secret Service.
That could go in a few different places.
But for this case, you know where I'm going with this one, right?
Yes.
We call this in the Secret Service, when we look for weapons in a crowd, like when I was an agent, we knew to look before you got on the line, we would call that printing.
Printing is when a firearm and its handle prints on a jacket.
So let's say you have a suit jacket or a sport coat over a hip holster, a pancake holster, with a weapon.
It prints, it shows, and if you know exactly what to look for, you'll see it.
Well, I want you to look at this video, or watch my show later, we'll play the video, and you'll see that this guy is carrying a firearm.
You're like, wait, wait, You're at an anti-gun rally telling people how dangerous and useless firearms are as you're protected by a dude with a firearm.
And Joe, they see no hypocrisy in this whatsoever.
None.
And this goes to show you the intellectual vacuum the left lives in.
I mean, it's, it's, you understand you're like lemmings, these people, guys who, and ladies who are following these people.
You understand you're following them off a cliff, right?
They do not believe what they're telling you.
Michael Moore, big anti-gun advocate.
Oh, remember when his bodyguard, there was a story about his bodyguard with a firearm, Michael Moore?
You understand they're protected with firearms, right?
But please tell me you understand this, to the liberals listening to my show, because I get your emails.
You understand you're being led by complete, total frauds.
Listen, ladies, gents, Lips.
Think what you want.
You don't like guns?
Fine.
You're free to not like them.
You're free to not own them.
I just want you to know the people leading you like lemmings off a cliff, please understand, are nothing but hypocrites.
They are complete, total frauds.
Full stop, period.
They are protected with guns.
Why they lecture you about how bad guns are.
You are being led by dopes.
I mean, one final story on the firearms issue, because I've got to move on.
I really have a lot to cover.
I have a story in the show notes today, a Breitbart story, it's a pretty good one, about the National Shooting Sports Foundation or something like that, the NSSF.
You know Dick's Sporting Goods, who took all their firearms off the shelves and is now turning into an anti-government, and by the way, you know, don't ever shop at a Dick's Sporting Goods again.
Listen, I can't tell you what to do.
I can only tell you, I would never, you couldn't, if Dick's today, Dick's Sporting Goods, that's one of your best lines ever.
There's a lot of stores.
Remember that, Joe?
Yeah, it's a bunch of Dick's.
Dick's.
Dick's are everywhere.
Yeah.
Dick's are all over the place.
I can't get away from them.
They're in Dick's.
Yeah.
It's gone off the rails, today's show, completely.
But listen, I'm just energetic today.
I'm back home, I'm in my studio, and I'm just fired up because doing shows on the road.
Now I'm in my comfort zone again.
Dick's made a bad move.
Dick's.
Don't cut that, just leave it.
I'mma leave it.
I can't.
So, dicks.
Don't go into dicks.
You know, just dicks.
Bottom line is the NSSF kicked them out.
Good for you!
I said, "No thanks, dicks. We're good. You guys are gone."
So, I got an email from a guy this weekend who said he was in a mall that was rather crowded, Joe.
Right.
He goes, Dan, I'm not kidding, I walk by Dick's, empty.
He says, nobody in there.
Good for you.
All right.
You want to take away our rights and protect ourselves?
You want to join the lobbying effort against the Second Amendment?
Good for you.
But we're out.
Thanks.
Now we know better.
All right.
Let me get to this because I want to switch gears a little bit.
Enough on the gun stuff.
But it was an interesting week at the NRA.
And I did mean it, Joe.
You got a lot of people who came up to me and asked how you were doing.
Thanks, everyone.
He's great.
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Okay.
Stunning news this weekend.
By the way, let me do a little bit of a mea culpa here.
I broke my own rule, Joe, on Friday, and I'm a little horrified at it.
I'm not going to say embarrassed because I shouldn't be, but Friday, and I'm not kidding, I'm being a little sarcastic, but I reported on a story in passing That I should have obeyed my own rules on.
Now Joe, remember on Friday when I said to you that NBC News had reported that one of the news outlets had reported that Michael Cohen, Trump's personal attorney, that his phones had been tapped.
Yes.
It was reported by them in multiple outlets.
Now my rule for that kind of stuff is typically wait 24 hours.
I'm not kidding.
I know it's gonna sound like I'm trying to be funny, and maybe funny or not, but it's not a joke.
My rule on that, when it's reported by the New York Times, the Washington Post, or hack mainstream media outlets, is to wait 24 hours if it's an anti-Trump story.
I'm not kidding, because typically the story will be retracted and rescinded.
Now, we have seen this over and over.
The Don Trump Jr.
story.
about receiving the WikiLeaks email.
We've seen this about the Trump-Deutsche Bank records, the Mike Flynn story about how he was asked to contact the Russians while Trump was a candidate.
All of these stories, remember the Joy Behar thing?
Like, yeah, we got him!
They all turned out to be fake news because the media is largely fake news now, sadly.
I wish they weren't.
Instead of waiting, and forgive me for this, folks, I reported on the story on Friday instead of waiting 24 hours.
Now, Joe and I recorded that show super early, and I didn't even have time to read the news because I had to get down to the convention.
The story's not true.
Again, it's more fake news.
It's on me.
I mean it.
It's my own rule.
My own rule is wait 24 hours because the media's fake, and don't embarrass yourself.
Now, I'm horrified that I did that, but I did want to get that story out there, and I figured Shamefully on me, I'm kind of punching myself.
Like that pitcher, that Astros pitcher who gave it to home run must have knocked himself out.
I should have known that a story like that was going to be fake.
And I didn't, and I put it out there.
Well, what really happened?
And I want to get to a bigger story here about this.
Trump's personal attorney, his office, now at least, the story's been retracted, apparently was not wiretapped.
Wiretapped meaning, so we're talking about the same terms, Joe.
Wiretapped meaning they are listening in on a two-way conversation.
In other words, I call Joe, if the federal government had a criminal wire, a Title III wiretap on us, they would be listening to what me and Joe said.
Some guy is listening, literally listening, to what me and Joe are saying.
Joe and I are talking about whatever, Joey Bag of Donuts?
That's what they're listening to.
According to the retraction, now that is not what happened.
Now, shame on us for reporting on mainstream media stuff without waiting for the retraction.
It's funny, but it's not even trying to be funny.
Yeah, folks, wait 24 hours, because you will be embarrassed.
They will retract.
They've done this over and over.
Now, what happened was...
They did have something, Uncle, which is bad enough, but the story's still ugly, don't get me wrong.
It's just not as ugly as it was on Friday.
They had what's known as a pen register going, or a DNR, like a dialed number recorder.
That's different than a wiretap.
So Joe, in a wiretap, they're listening to me and you.
A pen register, like a DNR, they're just getting a log of the numbers I dialed, but not the content.
Okay.
So they'll know I dialed you, like, you know, we talk all the time.
Like, I dialed you at Friday at 310.
Right.
Joe, he dialed Joe's number, whatever, you know, 555-1212.
You know, that's the old movie.
Remember the movie number when they had to make up a number?
So yeah, that's what it was, folks.
It was a pen, which is a pen register or a DNR, which is far different than a wiretap.
Again, my apologies.
I got a few emails.
People were like, Dan, how did you not?
I recorded that thing super early and did not have time and I broke my own rule.
And I'm never afraid to go back and say I was wrong.
But you folks, I'm just warning you.
If you are in this space, do not report on mainstream media stories about Trump.
Give it 24 hours.
Because I'm telling you, a number of times these stories have been pulled back.
Now, let me throw something out at you.
And for those of you who are new listeners, you haven't heard this before.
Some of our regular listeners may remember this show.
Let's just say I have it on pretty good authority from some folks that this may be fitting into a prior MO by people on the inside engaged in a very specific tactic here.
What do I mean?
Folks, don't you find it odd that we have right now a series of leaks that have come out.
Prominent, big time leaks.
About stories that reflect very poorly on the Trump administration.
This is now the fourth one.
There's probably more, but the fourth one I can count.
That mainstream media outlets have all jumped on, and they've all gotten the same fact wrong, but the general gist of the story is right.
You remember this show, Joe?
You see where I'm going with this?
Yeah, I sure do.
Let me explain to you.
Yeah, I remember.
If you were gonna out a leaker, Let me give you the example I use because it's a good one.
The Miami Vice movie.
A lot of people hated the movie.
The Jamie Foxx, what's his name, Colin Farrell remake of the movie.
Now I wouldn't watch Jamie Foxx anymore since he hit the cops after that Quentin Tarantino thing, but I did watch the movie back then and sometimes it appears on HBO or whatever.
And in the movie, Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell, they play two Miami anti-narcotics detectives, right?
Narcotics division detectives.
And they think there's a mole in law enforcement working with the drug dealers.
In other words, a cop, a bad cop, telling the drug dealers when the cops are coming for him.
Like, hey, they're gonna raid you next week, get out of town, right?
So what they do is they run this operation, this undercover operation, where they pretend to be drug dealers themselves, and what they, drug runners, as a matter of fact, and what they do is they give out pieces of information to different law enforcement entities, but every piece of information is different by, say, one day.
Because they want to figure out which agency is leaking the info.
So if I give out that, hey, we're going to do a drug drop on January 2nd to five different agencies, you don't know which one of the five leaked it, Joe.
Right.
But if I go to five agencies, and I think there's a leak, and I say, hey, FBI, we're going to do the drop on January 1st.
DEA, we're going to do it on January 2nd.
ATF, we're going to do it on January 4th.
NYPD, we're going to do it on January 6th.
And all of a sudden, the leak comes out, and we find out that the drug dealers found out there's going to be a drop on January 6th.
We know the leak came from the NYPD.
There's a part in the movie where that happens.
And they find out who the leaker is that way.
Folks, I'm convinced this is what's happening now, and even I got baited into it Friday by not waiting.
We have seen four stories now where one piece of information was wrong, but the story was right.
I believe it was leaked deliberately by White Hats, good people inside the government, trying to find out who's leaking information and strategically doing it that way by manipulating one fact out the leakers.
Now, let's go through the stories.
The first story was the Don Trump Jr.
email.
The Don Trump Jr.
story was that Donald Trump Jr.
had received an email from WikiLeaks Saying that, hey, here's this link to this treasure trove of information that will help your dad's campaign out, or whatever it was.
And the story that leaked into the media was, look!
WikiLeaks sent Donald Trump information, oh my gosh!
Folks, what's the problem?
The date was wrong.
I believe it was wrong on purpose.
Now what does the date have to do with it?
The date they got wrong The date that the email was sent to Don Trump Jr., which he didn't respond to, by the way, at all.
So what?
Donald Trump Jr.
got spammed.
That's the story.
But by the time the information was sent to Trump Jr., it was already out in the public.
It was already out there on the internet.
How can you have like, hey, information was leaked to Don Trump Jr.
Really?
It's on Google.
They backdated the date.
I'm telling you that happened on purpose.
And it happened on purpose to make it look like a bigger story than it was, so idiots in the media would report naked out the leakers.
The second story, Mike Flynn, General Mike Flynn, when he was, when Trump was a candidate, was asked to reach out to the Russians to like negotiate some back channel.
The media, Joy Behar, yes, they were all over.
They were celebrating, love this story, folks.
They were rocking and rolling with this thing.
We finally got him, collusion.
What was the problem?
Yeah, Mike Flynn talked to the Russians.
When Trump was the president-elect and he was the incoming National Security Advisor, the whole story was wrong!
Again, it was just the date.
I'm telling you somebody put that out there, intentionally, with the wrong date, knowing gullible anti-Trump suckers in the media would report on it.
And it serves a two-fold purpose.
I'm not saying the second one is intentional, but the first purpose is to out leakers, Joe.
Right.
The second purpose, well not purpose, but the second, at least byproduct of it, is it makes the media look like the complete idiots they are.
Now remember, all of these stories have an element of truth to them.
Why?
Why does that matter, Joe?
To make them believable.
Sure.
Because the media is not going to report on something, I mean, listen, for as bad as they are, it has to be somewhat believable.
Right.
Somewhat.
Doesn't mean they won't lie, which they did, but it has to be somewhat believable.
So you get the game they're playing, Joe?
Sure.
What was the third story?
Third story.
Breaking news.
Trump.
They're looking at his bank records from Deutsche Bank.
Oh my gosh, look, they finally got him.
Bank records.
This guy's been involved in all kinds of bad deals.
Turns out later, yeah, they were looking at Deutsche Bank, but not Trump's bank records.
It was someone else in that sphere.
Again, the big story's true, but one specific detail's wrong every time.
Now, you see the pattern?
Sure do.
They're spying on Michael Cohen.
It's a fill-in-the-blank.
Pen register, that's the true story, which is a big deal nonetheless.
But that's not the detail the media got.
It's a wiretap.
Exclusive.
Trump's lawyer wiretapped.
Oh my gosh, look what we got.
Wrong.
Again.
Four times media.
Egg on your face.
Correction.
Now, folks, listen.
Corrections happen.
I get it.
I've done them on my show.
But I'm just trying to tell you, folks, the media in their anti-Trump zealotry The media is so eager to scoop up fake news that they don't sit back and wait.
And that's my fault on Friday for not waiting on the fake news to come out.
I should have known it was fake news because I know the pattern.
I've talked about it on, you remember the show where I mentioned this before.
This is, folks, they're outing leakers.
It has to be.
There is no reason all of these stories keep coming out from so-called credible sources that are fake.
These credible sources are either playing the media or being played themselves so they get outed.
There's no other way around it.
I'm absolutely sure.
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This show, this story is just, Incredibly disturbing, troubling, and folks, it should enrage you in an action-oriented way at the election booth.
The election, because remember, the violence is the liberal thing.
I can't say that enough.
That is the purview of the liberal crowd, the Antifa crowd, you know, the pigs-in-a-blanket-fry-them-like-bacon crowd.
But this should really anger you enough to motivate you in the midterm elections to do something, to go find, volunteer, go find some good quality conservatives and get these false, phony, fake, fraudulent liberals out of office.
What's the story?
It'll be in the show notes today.
I encourage you to check it out.
Great story about what, it's from the Washington Examiner.
Joe, did you hear what John Kerry did this week?
Yeah, I did.
This is just so, I mean, such a slap in the face.
Yes, it is.
Let me tell you what he did first, because it's going to get you angry.
And then let me tell you what I think has to happen at this point.
So, a little background on it.
Mike Flynn, Lieutenant General Mike Flynn, who we were talking about before, who was a victim of the fake news cycle.
Mike Flynn was prosecuted by witch hunter Bob Mueller for making false statements to the FBI, despite the fact—now we know this, by the way, due to un-redactions by Devin Nunes in the House investigative report—for crimes the FBI themselves don't believe Flynn committed.
Flynn spoke with the Russian ambassador as the incoming national security advisor, nothing wrong with that by the way, about a sanctions policy, right?
Flynn did not remember that when he spoke to the FBI.
So he didn't know if he had spoken about the sanctions or not.
Now there's a reason, I'll get to that in a second.
Flynn, Mike Flynn, an American patriot, was prosecuted and charged With false statements to the FBI, despite the fact that the FBI agents interviewing him did not believe he was lying to them.
We know that because Jim Comey told the house that, despite the fact, ironically, Joe, that Jim Comey is now lying about that.
Right.
Jim Comey is in the media saying, I don't remember saying we thought Mike Flynn wasn't being deceptive.
It's in the transcript, Jim.
It was just unredacted.
Just look at what you said.
No evidence of physical deception.
Eye contact indicated there was no deception.
So you're prosecuting an American hero, a decorated military officer, for false statements you guys didn't believe were false.
Remember, though, how that case started.
The genesis of that was Sally Yates, Obama bootlicker, Who was in the Department of Justice in an upper-level management position.
I think she was the acting Attorney General, a deputy at the time.
Sally Yates, obviously an Obama partisan.
She's a politician, Sally Yates, nothing more.
She's not a legitimate lawyer.
She's not a blind justice operator.
She's nothing but a politician and a flunky for Obama.
Sally Yates and Obama don't like Flynn, so they decide they're going to go after Flynn, but they don't have anything on Flynn.
He's a military officer.
They don't have a crime on Flynn, so they invent a crime.
That crime was the Logan Act.
The Logan Act, which has never been successfully prosecuted in the history of the United States.
It is a joke.
It is the jaywalking of federal... It's not even the jaywalking, as I say, because people have actually gotten tickets for jaywalking.
The Logan Act is an unconstitutional, unserious law that's not taken seriously by anyone.
Sally Yates and Obama's team come up with this scheme that, oh, Flynn was talking to the Russian ambassador?
Yeah.
While he wasn't the official national security advisor yet, he was just incoming?
Well, the Logan Act prohibits private citizens from conducting diplomacy with foreign governments, by the way, which is entirely unconstitutional.
So we're going to go and interview Flynn.
That's how the whole interview started with the FBI that they claimed he was lying.
Are you tracking me, Joe?
10-4.
They had no crime to interview him for.
So they walk in and, hey, let's get him on the Logan Act.
Has anybody ever been prosecuted on the Logan Act?
No.
But we can start now.
We're Obama.
This is the Obama team.
Let's be inventive.
Let's be creative.
Let's be judicial entrepreneurs.
We can find something.
Let's get him on felonious smokery.
No, no, I got a better one.
Let's use the Logan Act.
Because he talked to the Russian ambassador.
He was the incoming national security advisor, folks.
This is a joke.
If the Logan Act were serious, Dennis Rodman would be in jail for going to North Korea.
So would other private citizens who've gone, all the Palestinians and everywhere else, trying to conduct, quote, diplomacy.
Why am I bringing up this old story again?
Oh, breaking news this weekend!
Don't miss this piece in the show notes at Bongino.com, by the way.
Please, read it, because it'll show you the utter, complete frauds, total phonies, the moral vacuum these dirty liberals live in.
They are dirty.
They're dirty, filthy players.
We find out this weekend that John Kerry, private citizen, Joe, no formal government title at all, has been doing what?
He's been negotiating with the Iranians to save the Iran deal.
The Iranians.
The Death to America crowd.
Read the- you think I'm making this up?
John Kerry, private citizen, no formal government role now whatsoever, has been negotiating with the Iranians to save the Iran deal which creates a path to a nuclear weapon for the Iranians.
Do you believe this?
Do you believe what I'm telling you right now?
I could drone on and whine on about this all day.
Right.
Prosecute John Kerry.
Now, I get it.
There are going to be a lot of you out there and I understand this.
I know because I'll get your emails.
There are some of you who will say, you know, Dan, you're saying on one hand that the Logan Act is a joke.
It's a farce.
It is.
It's potentially unconstitutional.
The case would probably be thrown out in court.
That's fine.
Don't care.
They say, well, Dan, we're stooping to their level now.
No, no, no, no, no.
We're not stooping to anything.
Prosecute John Kerry.
If anyone in the Justice Department is listening, prosecute John Kerry today.
I'm not kidding.
Prosecute.
You know why?
This will never, ever stop.
Folks, the rule of law is done.
Email me whatever you want.
I'll read it anyway, because I appreciate your emails.
Let me just counteract this immediately.
If your email is going to say, Dan, we're never going to get back to the rule of law if we violate the rule of law.
You're telling me it's unconstitutional.
Folks, the rule of law is gone.
You understand it's done?
They have spied on the Trump team with no evidence.
They have prosecuted members of the Trump team in malicious prosecutions out the wazoo.
They have bankrupted families.
Remember the Michael Caputo piece I talked about last week?
This guy who just volunteered for the Trump team, who's been bankrupted.
Emptied his kid's college fund to defend himself against false charges.
The rule of law is gone.
It's done.
It's been swept out of the house.
There's nothing left.
In order to get back to the rule of law and to show the Democrats the folly of having scrapped the Constitutional Republic in favor of absurd, outrageous, emotional attacks on President Trump and everyone in his orbit, the only way, the only way to get back to the rule of law and to get back to the starting line in a legitimate Constitutional Republic is to take the rules that the Democrats are using against us and turn them on them.
It's the only way.
Prosecute John Kerry.
Prosecute him.
Make him do exactly what Mike Flynn was forced to do.
Send the FBI to his house.
Interview Mike Flynn.
Excuse me.
Just like they interviewed Flynn.
Send the FBI to John Kerry's house.
Interview him.
I get it.
His wife's a quadrillionaire or whatever.
I don't care.
Interview John Kerry.
Prosecute him.
File charges.
On Logan Act violations.
And by the way, if he doesn't answer every single question honestly, prosecute him for false charges, just like Papadopoulos and Mike Flynn were charged.
He doesn't want a lawyer?
Subpoena him.
I mean, excuse me, he doesn't want to talk?
Get a subpoena for him.
He doesn't want, you know, he could still plead the fifth.
Make him talk about someone else.
Go after John Kerry.
Prosecute John Kerry today.
You went after and you destroyed a man's life over the Logan Act?
Now let's see how... By the way, one more point on this too.
If I can just return to it, because the initial comment I kind of glossed over it, but this is important.
Here's what's fascinating, more hypocrisy about the liberals who are now Jim Comey acolytes that love him.
Former FBI director.
Comey clearly, clearly says In this transcript that the FBI agents who interviewed Mike Flynn, who was charged with false statements, did not believe he was being deceptive.
How exactly you make a false statement, a lying charge, while simultaneously claiming the guy you're interviewing isn't being deceptive is a construction of only a hack like Jim Comey.
And then he lies about it in the interview with Brett Barrett.
I don't remember saying that.
No, Jim, it's in the transcript.
I don't remember saying it.
Well, oh, you don't remember?
So we're supposed to give you a pass because you see where I'm going with this show?
You're supposed to give me a pass.
Jim called me a pass because now he's misremembering.
But notice, Joe, Mike Flynn got no such pass when he was asked to remember the conversation with the Russian ambassador.
No signs of deception at all.
They thought he may have been having some trouble recalling it by his memory.
They didn't believe he was lying.
But there was no accommodation for Mike Flynn at all for these so-called memory issues Jim Comey seems to be having now on the campaign trail for his book.
And Jim Comey, this phony, fake fraud.
Jim Comey, who I have zero respect for, now gets all the accommodations in the world for laughing.
You understand the intellectual black hole liberals live in?
I'm not knocking on Democrats, but liberals are sincerely some of the dumbest people on the planet.
I know, I'm gonna get some of you, I get it.
Dan, you know, we're trying to convert liberals, don't talk... No, no, I'm not.
I'm not, it's not, we're not trying to do that.
I am not converting liberals on this show.
They are lost.
They are lemmings.
They are, they live in a black hole.
I never want to understand.
I'm not trying to go there.
I'm not trying to rescue them.
What I'm trying to do is salvage maybe the 10 or 15 percent of the population that's registered Democrat that still doesn't understand that the party's been hijacked by a bunch of Looney Tunes idiots.
I don't care about the radical left at all.
I am tired of being nice to them.
I am tired of placating them.
Prosecute them.
Use the same rules they used against Mike Flynn.
Put John Kerry in handcuffs and perp walk him.
You know what, Joe?
Serve a search warrant, just like you did at Paul Manafort's house at 4 o'clock in the morning when they woke up his wife in her nightclothes.
Yeah.
Let's see how that goes.
Oh my gosh, we can't do it.
Why not?
They did it to Manafort.
Hey, Dan, that's not the rule of law.
There is no what rule?
What are you talking about?
They bankrupted a decorated military officer and the incoming National Security Advisor for no crime at all.
Now, two more points on this.
This is important.
And trust me on this one.
I'm asking you, please.
Why did Mike Flynn not just say to the FBI that he had spoken to the Russian ambassador about the sanctions?
Folks, Mike Flynn was on vacation when that call was received.
Mike Flynn was the director of the Department of, excuse me, the DIA, Defense Intelligence Agency.
Joe, you think Mike Flynn as a former senior, high-ranking, decorated military officer who's been in intel his entire career, you think he knew on a phone overseas in the Dominican he was probably being listened to talking to the Russian ambassador?
Yeah, I think so.
I'd say yes, Joe.
That's a good analysis.
Very good.
Now, you were not an intel officer or Secret Service agent or anything like that, correct?
No, I'm not, Dan.
And you can pretty much figure out that Mike Flynn knew he was being listened to, right?
That I can, Dan.
Mike Flynn, by the way, when he's interviewed by these FBI agents at the White House, doesn't request an attorney or anything like that.
He talks with them freely.
What I'm trying to tell you is Mike Flynn didn't remember the conversation for a reason.
Mike Flynn was on vacation at the time.
Mike Flynn was taking a break before he got into office.
What do people do on vacation?
You know, they probably go out, you know, have a good time.
I'm not telling you, Mike.
I'm just saying maybe Mike Flynn had been out.
It was late at night.
You know, Maybe he was out with his family and maybe, you know... Yeah!
You know what I'm saying?
Mike Flynn did not remember the conversation.
Just like Jim Comey mysteriously doesn't remember saying Mike Flynn wasn't being deceptive.
It's because he wasn't.
He really could not recall the specifics of what they talked about.
Mike Flynn knew he was being listened to.
If Mike Flynn thought he was under a criminal investigation and thought he was going to lie, don't you think he would have said, Joe, I need the White House lawyer or some lawyer here?
Somebody said he talked with him openly and freely.
And what did he get for it?
Handcuffs.
Disgraceful.
Prosecute John Kerry today.
All right, what's my last story?
Oh, oh, wow.
Wait, can I just give you some, I'm running out of time, so I want to give you some economic numbers quick, and then I'll get to this last story, because this is going to be in the show notes.
This is from the Wall Street Journal today, their opinion column, but it's not, you know, it's subscriber only, so I'm going to leave it out, but I want to just give you some quick numbers, because Democrats out there will continue to tell you how Trump is a big racist and doesn't like Hispanics or immigrants or whatever, and I found these numbers to completely knock that argument out of the park.
It's stupid, it's silly, it's made up, it's fabricated, but here are some numbers for you to back it up.
So the jobless rate has fallen, Joe, to a remarkable 3.9%.
Really nice job by the Trump administration.
Joe, it's even better.
Black unemployment, the jobless rate is down 1.3 percentage points to 6.6.
It has been below 7% now for the last four or five months.
That's a record.
Yeah, man.
Hispanic unemployment has matched record lows, 4.8%.
Also, people without a college diploma, workers 25 or older, employees 25 or older, the crowd that, you know, the so-called, like, you know, the middle class worker that the Democrats are supposed to champion.
Unemployment rate's down to 5.9%.
Folks, why am I even bringing this up before I get to the story?
Everything the Democrats are telling you about taking care of the black community, the Hispanic community, you know, the forgotten guy without the college diploma.
That's actually happening under Trump.
That's happening now.
It wasn't happening under Obama.
You can argue that all you want about how Obama took care of the little guy.
You're just factually wrong.
You're just incorrect and you're just making it up.
It's actually happening now under Trump.
You do what you want.
You vote for who you want for.
I'm not, this isn't a tutorial on, it's not.
You want to, on voting and voting practices, do what you want.
I'm just telling you, you are categorically voting against your interests.
If the economy is one of your primary, It's your big impetus to go out and vote, and you're voting for the Democrats because they are not on your team.
Those numbers are down to record lows under Trump, not under Obama, who had eight years to turn it around and screwed it up at every single turn.
All right, here's the last story.
This is in the show notes.
Please read this today.
It's an IJ Independent Journal Review article.
It's a really good one.
I'll be chatting about this tonight on my NRA TV show, too.
There are a couple of Minnesota state, Democrat state senators that came out and opposed a bill to put posters that say, In God We Trust, in public schools.
Oh yeah, I saw that.
You saw this?
Now one of them gives a speech remarkably and says he's offended by this In God We Trust.
I was on Fox & Friends this morning and I just wanted to sum up the show by saying this, folks.
Understand why this is happening from the larger 30,000 foot view.
The radical far left does not want competition for the state.
Steve Doocy, I guess, liked it because he asked me to repeat it.
He goes, Dan, say that again.
Like, what exactly do you mean?
The radical far left needs you surgically attached to government for everything.
For your financial well-being, for your health care, for your kids' schooling, everything.
Big government is it.
It is their only ethos.
It's what they live by.
It's their every breathing moment is detaching you from your family and attaching you to the government.
One of the things that gives you your individual big R rights, the house we built it on, is the idea that these are God, capital G, God-given rights.
The left can't have that.
God is competition for them, for the state.
Think about why.
It's very simple.
I could get into the anti-anti-communist stuff and the other stuff I've gone into on other shows, and maybe I will another day, but this is really simple.
If you believe that rights, little r rights, come from the state, the right to keep your money, therefore the state can change it.
Well, the state says, now, Joe, you can only keep 20%.
We used to say, keep 80%, now we're going to flip it.
You're going to give us 80%.
If you're a liberal and you believe that, Yet, you're a conservative and you believe that you have your big R rights to your own financial well-being, your big R rights to your own right to protect yourself, your big R rights to your own health care, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are granted by God, not government.
That is in direct conflict with this big government ethos the left lives by.
It's as simple as that.
It's competition.
They need the government to dictate the rules, not God.
And we use God as our staple, as our lodestar.
They use government.
It's competition.
This is a very deliberate tactic by the left, this war on God and this war on religion.
It's not a mistake.
But I want you to read the piece and read some of the quotes.
The guy finds it offensive.
This is the lurch of the left.
It is only going to get worse.
Now, I said I don't get the strategy, and I don't.
I get what they're doing.
I mean, I just explained to you what they're doing.
But what I don't get, Joe, is they seem to think that faith-based folks are going to take this lying down, and they're not.
No.
No, no, no.
They are going to act out at the election booth.
They are going to act out as activists.
And of course, again, the violence stuff is for the left.
But they are not going to take this lying down.
The Democrats, you are going to continue to hemorrhage voters as you continue to savage religion and God at every opportunity.
It's really, really pathetic.
One of the dumbest political strategies I've ever seen.
But as I tweeted out this weekend, keep it up, libs.
Watch your party, just club.
You're going to be a radical group of 10 percenters.
That's it.
You're going to have about 10% of the population.
You'll be left with nothing.
Insane.
All right, folks.
Thanks again for tuning in.
I really appreciate it.
Big news tomorrow about the store.
I know you were all excited about that.
My wife's been working really hard on it.
And thanks again to everybody who had really nice things at the NRA convention.
