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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.
Oh my gosh, I can't take it.
They double down on stupid every single time.
They can't stop Joe.
I know!
They cannot stop.
The libs, their media buddies, their media bootlicking acolytes, they cannot stop.
My wife just walked in the room here, Joe, and she's like, what are you gonna talk about today?
I said, you know, I had a whole big show lined up, but I gotta change the beginning around because I just can't believe how many people Liberal media goofballs, clowns, jokers, non-serious people are throwing away any remnant of professional credibility they had left in an effort to defend this absolute hoax of a case!
It's incredible!
And the walls are crumbling at their feet!
It doesn't matter though!
I don't care!
They're just ignoring it.
It reminds me again of that gif from Leslie Nielsen from the Naked Guns series.
Everything's fine here, folks!
There's all explosions going off in the background.
Nothing to worry about.
I can't get over it.
Folks, just smile today, though.
Knowing.
Trump's approval is up.
His approval amongst Republicans is the second highest for an intra-party approval rating we've seen in modern history.
The media's approval ratings are in the can.
And people who care about Russia based on polls is less than 1% of the population.
Just smile a little bit because I know it's tough.
Every day I get these emails and people say, Dan, what are we going to do?
We need the arrests now.
Listen, I'm with you.
I get it.
We need investigations.
If there's crimes, we need prosecutions.
I get it.
I'm just telling you, don't lose the forest for the trees.
Tactically speaking, this entire fiasco has, as Joe just said, the walls have completely collapsed.
The media has no professional credibility left.
The Democrats have immersed themselves in a swamp of fake Russian collusion to the detriment of focusing on any substantive issue.
Donald Trump's approval is up.
The media approval is in the can.
We are actually winning here.
I will get, by the way, to the substantive investigations too today during the show, but I got a lot to get to.
Producer Joe, how are you today?
You doing alright?
I'm doing well.
I got through the rain okay.
In Maryland, it's just raining like you wouldn't believe.
You had a rough commute.
Joe was telling me, oh man, he's called me.
I don't know if we're going to make it.
It'll be 15 minutes.
He was right on time.
We start at the same time every day.
It's because I have a very heavy foot.
Yeah, I can tell.
I can tell.
So, you know, state troopers out there, if you see Joe's car, it's an emergency.
He needs, like, one of those yellow lights they give to construction.
You know, up in New York, they do it backwards.
The emergency light for cops is red.
All around the country, it's blue.
In New York, it's backwards.
The cops are red, and the firemen are blue, and then the construction people, they get those yellow lights.
Joe, you need one of those yellow lights on the Starsky and Hutch thing.
Put the yellow ball.
Emergency!
Nice compliment, by the way, from a listener who thought your drops had been fantastic, which I agree with.
Thank you.
So what prompted me today, and this is what I want to start off with, Chris Eliza at CNN, who, listen, I don't know the guy, it's not personal at all, who is just, I mean, his predictions have been entirely discredited.
I tweeted him back a photo of him predicting Trump had, and I'm quoting, zero chance of winning the presidency.
Why you would say something so dumb.
That's factually not correct.
Trump could not possibly have had zero chance of winning the presidency.
He's in the race.
Being in the race gives him more than zero chance.
I tweeted out a Washington Post article, he wrote about that.
Saliza tweeted this morning, say it with me, the FBI investigation was prompted by George Papadopoulos meeting with a professor working with the FBI, not because of the Steele dossier.
Here we go again.
Police state ignoramuses like Saliza, who work for the police state and pretend to be media people, now for the umpteenth thousandth time trying to change the locus of attention away from the Carter-Page-Fizer debacle, now we're going back to Papadopoulos!
Papa D!
Carter-Page!
Carter-Page!
Papa D!
Papa D!
Carter-Page!
Carter-Page!
Papa D!
This is the Democrat-Liberal theme song.
Whenever one thing breaks bad, Remember the spy story with Halper, which we'll get to in a second?
When that broke bad because they were spying on people, they flipped to Carter Page again.
Now that the Carter Page debacle's fallen apart... HEY MOM!
What is she doing back there?
What is she doing?
This is the media.
This is Saliza.
He has no concern at all for his professional credibility in the future.
None!
He will go down this path and the minute the Papadopoulos case starts to fall apart again, I'm going to get to that in a second too.
Because the Papadopoulos case, I'm glad St.
Liz is focusing on that one, because that's where the real scandal is to push.
The minute that falls apart, they'll be right back to Carter Page.
Papa T, Carter Page.
Papa D, Carter Page.
Joe needs to put that to music.
This is the dance.
This is the dance.
It's the two-step.
It's the liberal media two-step.
They lose one, they go right to the other.
They lose the other.
You know what you remind me of right now, Joe, is actually dancing.
He reminds me of Cuba Gooding Jr.
in Jerry Maguire.
Show me the money!
He does the dance in the kitchen.
That's exactly the dance Joe's doing right now, if you could visualize that.
It's actually not bad either.
Joe's got some rhythm.
Oh, it's unbelievable.
The liberal media two-step.
Lose one, go right to the next.
No, no, no, now it's not Carter.
We're going back to Papa D. Papa Dizzle.
Oh, Saliza, please, gosh, get a clue.
Aren't you concerned at all about your tweets aren't going anywhere unless you delete them?
People five and six and seven years down the road, when the political ramifications of this immediate incident die off, as the hoax is completely exposed, are going to look back on you and mock you.
I'm mocking you now, but I'm telling you in the future even Democrats are going to look at you and be like, how are these idiots so willing to fall into this propaganda trap?
Oh, it's a disgrace.
Okay, I got a lot more of this.
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Okay, here's the problem.
Just to explain again what's going on here, because they don't understand.
Saliza does not get that he's walking himself right into a scandal worse than the Carter Page debacle.
I wanted to find for you the two debacles in the liberal media and propaganda machine, Democrat, liberal, and rhinos, too, as well.
Two-step.
They now fully understand, Saliza included, that the Carter Page FISA warrant to spy on Carter Page is a total disaster.
Now, they keep going back to this same point, which I roundly debunked yesterday, but apparently, although yesterday was the largest listened to show on a Monday in our history, we absolutely blew it up thanks to you, a few, and I do mean a few, two or three, emails I received were confused, a few people were confused
about what I was getting at, about why the Carter-Page debacle and the FISA
thing is so bad for the Democrats. So let's take it out to 30,000 feet where I
want to go with this next is I want to describe the two-step what the Democrats
and Saliza and people in the media are doing.
They're going to switch seamlessly back and forth from the destructive Page narrative, that Page was a Russian spy, when there's no evidence that that's true, to the Papadopoulos started it by meeting with this Australian diplomat and talking about dirt on Hillary.
They're both bad narratives, but what they're doing with the two-step, and I want to be clear on this, Joe, if I'm not, please stop me.
What they're doing with the two-step, Is as one story gets bad, they want to take the attention away from it in an acute crisis.
The acute crisis was the Saturday evening release of the FISA application against Page, which now conclusively proves the thing was a hoax.
So in order to distract from the hoax and the police state spy, they're going to move back to Papadopoulos, knowing that it hasn't been in the news recently, and a lot of you have forgotten the details.
As people start to bring up the Papadopoulos incident and all the scams there, and the pushing of fake information, and the pulling out, and the spying operation, and that goes in the news, they'll seamlessly move back to Carter Page a month from now, hoping you forget what was in the FIES application.
Folks, don't doubt me.
Don't doubt me for a second.
This is what Saliz is doing.
He doesn't understand the case.
What he does understand about the case, he's trying to distract you because he's a Democrat.
He's a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat.
He may say he's not.
I don't even care what his road of registration.
He is a dyed-in-the-wool propagandist for the Democrats.
Now, they're losing the debate now over Page.
They know the Page story is devastating.
Their defense, as I said to you yesterday, and it confused a few people, this is where I was going with this, is that Well, we don't know what was in the redactions and the warrant to spy on Page.
Matter of fact, I've seen this echoed even at the Daily Wire.
And again, I don't understand.
I'm not.
I'm not getting this.
I'm not trying to take pot shots at people.
I have no interest in doing that.
We need a coalesced effort around what we ideologically believe in.
I'm just telling you there's a fundamental misunderstanding of how probable cause works, and this is where I think I lost people.
Joe, I need you here to really stop me if this doesn't make sense.
Yesterday I was trying to explain that.
You need to meet an evidence standard in court to get a warrant.
That evidence standard is probable cause.
This crime was probably committed by this person.
Here is the evidence.
There are multiple standards.
There's reasonable suspicion, which is a lower level of standard.
There's preponderance of evidence in civil court cases.
In criminal court cases, there's beyond a reasonable doubt.
Remember, nothing is ever proven.
It's proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
There's a difference there.
Right.
You know, people aren't in court.
They're not proven innocent.
They're not guilty.
There's a difference.
Meaning the evidence standard, no one's saying they're innocent.
They're just saying the evidence standard wasn't met.
Copy?
Folks, there's a big, I'm not, I'm not a lawyer.
You don't need to be to understand the basic tenets of the law.
I went through multiple, multiple cases and court cases and, and, and training courses and meeting evidence standards is not complicated.
That's what investigators do.
Now, what I was trying to suggest to you is the evidence we see.
I'm not saying the evidence that's redacted doesn't matter.
I'm suggesting to you that the evidence we've seen that's not redacted was used to establish that standard.
That standard.
It's black or white.
You meet the standard or you do not.
Whether .001% of the standard wasn't there because the information was false, 10% or what it seems to be in the dossier, 40-50% of the evidence was false.
The evidence did not meet the standard!
I must have confused, a guy emailed me yesterday and said, you lost me, I didn't get it.
I'm trying to explain this in the simplest form.
Evidence you presented to a court.
You said A led to B led to C led to D led to E which led to our probable cause finding that this guy probably committed this crime.
A to B were redacted.
They may be true.
We don't know.
They're redactions.
What I'm telling you is C, D, E, and F were in fact false.
Therefore, G cannot be.
G cannot be.
The probable cause finding of G makes no sense because 40 to 50 percent of the evidence you used was false.
There you go.
Was unverified.
Let me say unverified, just to be clear, let me say unverified because precision matters here.
Unverified, meaning you swore that it was true and it was in fact not verified.
What you're swearing to was not the truth.
You did not verify the information.
This is in the FBI's own words.
The FBI director, Jim Comey, the information they use is salacious and unverified.
Do you have number two in the FBI?
You know what?
Let me use the crap analogy.
Last night on my NRA TV show, I used the crap analogy.
People thought it was funny.
I don't mean to be kind of ridiculous or hyperbolic or sensational with this, but some people didn't get this.
The FBI director is on the record saying the information's crap.
He said it's, quote, salacious and unverified.
The information they used to meet an evidence standard.
In other words, here's our evidence, we met this standard, the FBI director himself said the evidence in there, in the application, was salacious and unverified.
In other words, the information's crap.
The number two at the FBI, Andrew McCabe, the number two, right beneath Jim Comey, the deputy director, has already acknowledged on the record that the bulk of the document they used to acquire the evidence standard of probable cause was the dossier, and that without the dossier, they would not have met the standard.
So Comey, the info's crap.
The number two at the FBI said the bulk of the document was the crap information, and without the crap information, we wouldn't have had the crap war.
These are their words, folks.
This is the FBI's.
Did you miss this yesterday to the conservatives out there, so-called conservatives and Republicans out there?
And some of them are conservatives.
We're attacking.
I don't understand.
Did you miss any of this?
The head of the counterintelligence division, Bill Preistep.
Supervising the case, when asked about the crap information in the dossier, they said, did you verify the crap?
What was his answer?
No, the verification process was in its infancy.
Meaning, they barely verified the crap that Comey acknowledged was crap, and McCabe acknowledged that the document they used and presented to the court was mostly the crap.
They couldn't verify the crap because it was nothing but crap.
It was nothing but crap!
Yeah, that's it!
But the crap gets worse!
Oh no!
The lead investigator on the case, working under Price Step, Peter Stroke, a senior level FBI manager, in text messages he didn't think any of us were going to read, when talking about the case to his paramour, his love interest there, Lisa Page, says...
Says in there, there's no there there.
So now we know the information's crap, the crap information was the bulk of the evidence they used, the verification of the crap was crap and was in its infancy, and when asked about the totality of crap, the lead investigator says there's no there there.
And there are still people sacrificing their entire professional reputations to save these guys and give them the benefit of the doubt when they have not proven us right one time.
Not one time!
There has not been one significant component of this investigation where the investigators and the DOJ have come clean and actually been accurate.
There have been little minor hiccups here and there where they've tried to beat us on process stuff, but the big issues, the existence of a spy, the existence of the dossier, the dossier is a substantive component of the warrant.
There is nothing they've been proven correct about.
Why do you give these people the benefit of the doubt?
This is fork one.
Carter Page.
That is completely falling apart now.
Saliza knows it.
Other people know it.
Some Republicans who hate Donald Trump know it.
But they're desperate, desperate to salvage the reputation of the DOJ and the FBI because they know when this thing blows up, Donald Trump is going to have been proven right the entire time and the egg is going to be all over their faces.
Now, Saliza and his liberal media machine and the Rhino class, in a desperate attempt to short term salvage their reputation, because long term they're finished.
Trust me on this.
Long term, this is going to be an absolute humiliation.
Not only are the media folks like Saliza going to be proven categorically wrong, liars, demonstrably false liars, liars, people who put out propaganda for the Russians and other people.
They are going to be shown as aiding and abetting a propaganda effort to lie to the American people.
There is no saving them in the long term.
They're just hoping short-term, they can salvage their professional reputations by distracting you temporarily by doing the Democrat two-step between fork one and fork two of the case.
It was Carter Page!
The Carter Page thing falls apart.
It was Papa D!
Papa D, Carter Page!
Papa D, Carter Page!
That's all they have!
So Salyza now goes back to the Papadopoulos meeting.
What's fascinating about this, again, because people seem to have forgotten the details of this, Papadopoulos meets with this Maltese professor, Joseph Mifsud.
In April of 2016, this professor tells Papadopoulos, after it's announced that he's joined the Trump team as a foreign policy advisor.
By the way, a low-level guy, nobody's disputing that, no one credible, which eliminates Saliz and a lot of these other guys, but no one credible.
But there's no question he had joined the Trump team as a foreign policy advisor.
No one's disputing the facts on that.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm telling you the real scandal here is not the pull of information out of Papadopoulos later.
So Liz is trying to confuse you by conflating multiple different storylines and he seems to forget that it appears now, according to John Solomon's reporting, that the FBI did not have just one case open on.
Open on this operation.
They had Operation Crossfire Hurricane, which started July 31st.
And according to some reporting by John Solomon, there was another operation, Operation Dragon, where they talk about... Remember, I addressed this a couple of weeks ago.
Yeah.
They have tax aid and we can exchange lists to vet people on the Trump team.
What?
What?
We need to exchange lists?
Between who?
Here's the problem.
The meeting with Papadopoulos and Downer in this bar in London, this is important, where Downer, it's alleged, hears from Papadopoulos about some dirt on Hillary.
Remember, Downer's saying now there was no mention of emails.
Downer himself, this Australian diplomat in London, meets with Papadopoulos.
He meets with Papadopoulos in May.
He says, well, he told us, he told us about some information on Hillary, whatever it is.
He goes then to the Chargé in the U.S.
Embassy and shuttles that information through the State Department to the FBI.
Remember the information laundering scheme, because there is no official intelligence.
So instead of Downer going to his own Australian intelligence, passing it on to the CIA and vetting the info, that's not what he does.
I believe there's a reason for that.
I believe they were laundering the information to prevent official, formal information vetting channels, therefore downers related to the United States State Department, not the Central Intelligence Agency and certainly not the Australians First, because they would have been laughed at.
But I'm telling you, this is not the scandal.
So this is playing right into our hands.
He doesn't even know it.
The real scandal of this case is not even Carter Page.
That's bad enough that they spied on an American citizen.
The real scandal is the push.
We're focusing and Solis is focusing on this.
Oh, well, Papadopoulos met with this guy and said that the Russians may have had some information on Hillary or whatever it is.
By the way, there's nothing even remotely illegal about that.
And how that would start a major FBI investigation is absurd.
They could have just interviewed Papadopoulos, but no one did.
They interviewed him later in January.
The scandal's the push.
The scandal is not the Downer meeting.
The scandal is the Mifsud meeting in April, months earlier.
Why?
Because the poll was downer pulling the information out of Papadopoulos to relay to the State Department to launder the information to get it into the FBI.
The push on the information is Mifsud telling Papadopoulos in their April meeting that, hey, you know, the Russians have something on Hillary, according to press reports, by the way.
What's the problem with that?
The problem with that is that according to contacts who know Mifsud, who's absolutely disappeared.
Oh, isn't that convenient, Joe?
He was interviewed by the FBI in February.
He's conveniently disappeared.
Mifsud's own professional contacts say he's a Western intelligence asset, folks.
This is the scandal.
So Liz is totally ignorant to this.
Or he's just so dumb, he doesn't understand, he's playing right into the hands.
Carter, I can't wait for you to change the narrative from Carter Page to Papadopoulos.
'Cause once we find out who Mifsud was really working for, now it's not only that the FBI and intelligence assets
pulled information out of Papadopoulos, people in Western intelligence may very well
have put it into Papadopoulos by suggesting in the April meeting that they had information
on the Russians.
Do you see that's the whole essence of the setup?
The essence of the setup is if Mifsud is a Russian asset, as Democrats, liberals, and the media want you to believe,
and potentially Seliza, but I don't even think he knows that much about the case.
I'm just being candid.
He may not even know who Mifsud is.
The whole Liberal narrative is, This Russian asset Mifsud in April meets with a Trump advisor, tells him about the Russians having information on Hillary.
That Papadopoulos, that Trump advisor, then goes back and tells an Australian diplomat, boom, we got a case.
Look, someone was spying for the Russians, assisting in collusion.
Ladies and gentlemen, the lynchpin to this entire operation, the whole thing will collapse.
Joe, as Joe said before, the walls will come crumbling down at light speed if it is uncovered that Mifsud was not a Russian asset, that a Western intelligence asset planted information in Papadopoulos.
To then pull out later by FBI, people working with the FBI and the State Department no less.
Do you understand the scandal that is?
But see, Saliza doesn't get that.
He thinks you already forgot about Papadopoulos.
Ladies and gentlemen, where's Ms.
Sud?
Where is he?
The FBI interviewed him in February.
He hasn't been heard of since.
Listen, I'm not suggesting he's dead.
Don't get into the X-Files stuff.
I'm asking you a practical, real-world question that nobody can- if you can- email us if you can answer it!
Where is Joseph Mifsud?
This guy, Mifsud, is supposed to be the linchpin to the whole case.
If what Saliz is saying, I'm quoting him, the FBI investigation was prompted by George Papadis meeting with a professor working with the FBI, not because of the Steele dossier.
One, he's all confused.
He doesn't even know what he's talking about in this.
Let's just say, because he's confusing the professor with Downer.
He doesn't know what he's talking about.
But let's just suggest for a minute he did, which he doesn't.
That now the liberal media's new narrative is going to be, let's go back to Papadopoulos and forget about this page stuff.
Forget about the fact that they spied on an American citizen on debunked, unverified information, according to the FBI's own word show.
The new train of attack is going to be, let's go back to 4-2, Papaday, Papadizzle.
Let's go back to Papadizzle.
No, no, it started with Papadizzle because a Russian agent told him about Russian dirt on Hillary, which he then relayed to an Australian ambassador, which made its way to the FBI.
If that's your new line of attack, I am cautioning you strongly, in the strongest of terms here, to maintain some semblance of historical professional credibility.
You are walking into a trap of which you have no idea.
The Mifsud thing is going to be exposed.
This guy cannot hide forever.
And at some point, The identity of Mifsud and who he was actually working for, he has extensive connections to Western intelligence assets.
Mifsud denies, by the way, mentioning anything about the emails.
About emails to Papadopoulos.
If it is disclosed that this was a plant the whole time to interact with a Trump team person, to plant fake information, which they intended to pull out later through Halper and spies and others and diplomats they were friendly with through State Department contacts.
Ladies and gentlemen, do you understand this is the essence of the scandal?
But these guys don't get that?
So Lizzo doesn't get it because he's ignorant to the facts of the case.
They don't understand that at all.
The big scandal, I said this when I spoke at the Florida Sunshine Summit, the biggest part of this scandal, never, ever, ever get out of your head, is the Papadopoulos Fort.
The page stuff is bad enough.
I'm not suggesting it's not scandalous that they spied on an American citizen, which again, according to the FBI's own words, debunked information.
I'm not suggesting that's not a scandal.
I'm telling you this case is so devastating that the bigger scandal is forked too.
And you should pray That the media continues to focus on Papadopoulos?
Because when Papadopoulos, who pushed the information into Papadopoulos?
If it was a Western intelligence asset, it will be absolutely irrefutable that the Trump team was framed.
But the media is remarkably uncurious about this.
They don't want to know where Mifsud is.
No interest at all.
No interest in his friend Roe and others saying, well, Mifsud's not a Russian asset.
His contacts are with Western intelligence agencies.
None.
No interest at all.
Zero.
Folks, they're walking into a trap.
I want to, you know, yesterday's show, I get it, can be a little bit depressing.
Everybody wants answers.
They want arrests.
They want prosecutions and investigations.
I understand.
I'm sympathetic.
But I want to leave you with some good news.
You know, listen, if my optimistic nature here on this case bothers you, I understand.
The show is free.
I'm not going to force you to listen to it.
I love, love my audience to death.
I love that you're here.
I love that we have people disagree.
That's why I give out my email.
I answer, but I'm just being honest with you.
It's not an act.
We are winning this.
On the political, tactical front, we are winning.
The poll numbers are obvious.
And don't tell me that doesn't matter.
I want people in handcuffs.
Really?
I want people in power!
Because I want people who understand constitutional limits of power and power.
I don't want Democrats in power who are police state tyrants.
If I have to sacrifice a couple of prosecutions to maintain some semblance of political and tactical advantage, I'm willing to do it.
I do want to see investigations and prosecutions, but I'm telling you we are winning.
The Democrats are being baited into a trap.
You need more proof of this?
Folks, Trump could declassify this thing tomorrow.
The whole FISA application.
Everything.
He could declassify it right now!
Why is he not doing that?
What I don't understand is how people who believe Trump is politically smarter than I am, and I do, I really do.
I don't believe everything he's done has been politically smart.
Again, I don't do golden calf worship for anyone.
But I believe Trump is far more politically astute than people give him credit for.
What I don't understand is how people think, and the same folks show, in a kind of corpus callosum split brain experiment, that Trump is politically astute, but that Trump is getting played by not declassifying the documents.
You can't have it both ways.
He's not declassifying this stuff for a reason.
There is clearly a leak investigation going on at the highest levels with Sessions' Justice Department.
I get it!
The recusal was a disaster!
A disaster of apocalyptic proportions.
I get it.
But there is clear as day an investigation going on into felony leaks in the government.
Do you think it was by chance that that whole Rand Paul pulling the security leaks thing came out yesterday for John Brennan, Susan Rice, Andy McCabe, do you think that's by chance?
Ladies and gentlemen, we've already had an arrest of a Senate staffer leaking information.
I explained to you the significance of the date on the Pfizer application in a relationship to him yesterday.
There is clear as day something going on.
I bring this up because again, smile a bit.
The media are getting smoked.
CNN has lower ratings than Woody Woodpecker reruns on TBS.
The media's credibility is in the can.
Less than 1% of Americans even give a damn about this Russian collusion thing and the Democrats are wasting all of their money and time on it.
Number two, there are things happening.
There's already been an arrest.
There was that clue yesterday of the date.
You can't miss that.
There are already things happening.
People are, unquestionably, I didn't tie up the, I'm sorry, the clearance point.
Oh yeah.
And then I'm gonna get back to the redactions too, I'm sorry.
This is really important stuff.
Yeah, you're on a roll, dude.
Okay, number one, why we're winning, again, This is a tactical win for Trump.
Time is, you know, ladies and gentlemen, time is not infinite, okay?
Infinite, I'm not talking about the longitudinal sense.
I'm talking about in the acute sense.
You can either spend 10 minutes of your day focusing on tax reform, or you can spend 10 minutes of a 24-hour day focusing on Russia.
The Democrats have chosen the latter.
Nobody cares!
That point feeds into point number two.
Why is Trump not redacting this?
Because he loves this!
This is platinum winning.
It's not even gold.
It's like rare earth mineral level winning by Trump.
He loves this!
These idiots keep going.
Do you understand when he redacts this it's all over?
Ladies and gentlemen, if he were to redact the FISA app, it's over.
The Democrats, you may say, yeah, but that's great, we'd get them, and we'd put them all in jail, and it would be showing how bad the FBI was.
Folks, stop.
Stop.
I'm begging you.
This is a win.
People are going to go to jail.
The redactions stay because this is rare earth mineral level trolling by Donald Trump.
It is intergalactic in its success.
The longer this goes on, the better this is for Trump.
Do you doubt?
Do you follow the numbers?
I'm not trying to be a jerk, I promise you.
I have nothing but respect and I adore you, but I sense this macabre atmosphere.
I get these emails, where are they all going down?
They're going down.
They're going down.
Chill.
It's working.
He could redact it tomorrow.
Do you think he's stupid?
The same people who email me, how wonderful Trump is, they say, oh, but he's getting, why doesn't he just redact it and everybody go to jail?
Why?
Why?
Every day it gets worse for them.
Ladies and gentlemen, I can almost guarantee you, According to people I trust with my life, the redactions are worse than what you've seen.
Oh yeah!
Why let it out now?
Let him stew!
You think that all of a sudden- By the way, why- So, there we go.
Politically it's working.
Number two, why not redact?
Why?
It's a political winner!
Keep these idiots focused on a complete hoax!
A complete hoax!
They will do nothing else!
They have wasted all of their time and assets on this, okay?
Number three, why the security clearance debate yesterday?
Sarah Sanders came out.
You think this is all?
Again, people with Trump, they get confused with Trump.
Oh man, Trump's a tactical genius.
But man, did he get played?
How come these guys still have security clearances?
How are those two things true?
I am on a roll today.
One of my favorite shows I've ever done.
I'm actually enjoying this so much I'm not even looking at any of my notes because I just find new things as I talk.
Again, first, he's getting played not redacting this.
You sure about that?
Point number two, he's getting played.
John Brennan, Clapper, McCabe, Susan Rice, they still have security clearances.
Really?
He's getting played?
You sure about that?
You sure he's getting played?
I think you are deeply confused as to who the puppet master is here.
Ladies and gentlemen, there is a leak investigation going on right now.
We know this.
There is a person who has already been investigated and has a charging document in a court.
James Wolfe, a staffer for the Senate Intelligence Committee.
There's already a charging document out there for leaking classified information.
By the way, the date of the FISA app, if you listened to yesterday's show, the actual physical copy is the same date that that Senate staffer, according to the charging document, talked with his reporter friend.
You think that's an accident?
Why produce that specific one and leave that date unredacted?
Maybe a wink, maybe a nod.
Folks, they let these people have the security clearances.
I am absolutely convinced, because they knew they were leaking.
And if they pulled their security clearances, they would lose.
They would lose their cudgel against them.
It's their security clearance now which enables them to still, if they needed to, access information, access information they had created in the past in this false hoax scandal.
It is the very maintenance of those security clearances that has allowed people investigating, doing a filtering operation to filter out who the leakers are, to make sure that they're still in the leak net.
They're not in the leak net once their security clearances are revoked.
I'm convinced this investigation is wrapping up.
That is why all of a sudden the White House came out with this.
This is not an accident.
Came out yesterday.
Oh, we're looking at revoking their security clearances.
You think this is a mistake?
Oh, they just thought of this now after two years.
The names were not a mistake either.
How are they going to, if they revoked the security clearances, they wouldn't have had a charge to violate the security clearance if the people with the security clearance were leaking to the media, but the security clearance has been revoked.
Are you tracking me?
Yes.
If a felony leak in violation of your sworn statement so you would uphold your security clearance is that you will not leak to the media.
And then you leak to the media.
You may be liable for a felony leak of sensitive information.
Now, just because you've lost your clearance doesn't mean you still can't be investigated for leaks.
Let me be clear.
But do you think it's just possible that they understood many of them were leaking the entire time and allowed them to continue to do so to flush out their networks?
Oh, that's not possible!
It already happened!
The guy Wolf!
Read the indictment!
They let him rock and roll for months!
The Senate staffer!
The indictment's allegations are damning!
Alright, one more point before I... Last point on this, how we're winning.
They're setting a trap here.
Now, whether this trap is deliberate or just due to grotesque media stupidity is up to you.
I don't know what it is, honestly.
I don't know if the media are smart and they're just trying to temporarily save their reputations or if they're just dumb.
But I'm telling you, people like Saliza are falling in a trap.
In your temporary effort to distract from Paige and constantly two-stepping, I'm telling you, and I want to put icing on this cake before I move on, that going down to, oh no, it wasn't Page anymore.
This is bad, but it was just the Papadopoulos stuff.
You are walking into the biggest spying frame scandal set up in U.S.
history.
You think Trump doesn't know this?
He has read the declassified information.
There's zero question about that.
He knows they have nothing.
He knows it's a hoax.
And my guess is he knows a whole lot more about Joseph Massoud than you and I do.
Let the media continue the games.
History, I'm telling you, is going to absolutely humiliate them.
We're winning.
Don't forget it.
By the way, one last thing on this.
It is time to go further.
Now that it appears the investigation into the leaks is wrapping up based on Sarah Sanders' statements yesterday, it's time to go further.
Don't mistake what I said earlier for me not promoting investigations and prosecutions where warranted.
Don't mistake that for a second.
I'm just telling you on the political end that these are separate issues and on the political end they're getting smoked.
But where these leaks, especially the potential felony leak in January, the existence of the Mike Flynn phone call to the Russian ambassador, the unmasking case, someone needs to go to jail for that.
If they can in fact prove, unlike the liberals, we need evidence.
But if the evidence is there, someone needs to go to jail.
There's no passes.
It's time to go further.
Do not let them off the hook.
Now that the Russian collusion hoax has been finally exposed for the hoax it is, it is time to double down on Spygate.
Nobody gets a pass.
Nobody gets a pardon.
No one.
Nobody.
You like the new rules, Democrats?
Justice is coming back.
This time it's going to be actual justice, though.
Fruds.
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Ladies and gentlemen, again, not to repeat this stuff, but showing you how, because yesterday was not, the timing of it was not inconvenient.
The timing was perfect.
The timing about revoking security clearances from Brennan, the leakers, Clapper, and all this other, you know, the media's going wild about, The timing was perfect.
There is an investigation again going on.
We know that.
You may not be happy with the pace of it.
I totally understand.
I get that.
The government works sadly at a glacial pace.
I wish it were the private sector work quicker.
But don't forget, we've already seen evidence of this sting operation that's been going on to flush these leakers out.
Remember again, the Donald Trump Jr.
story.
Oh, Donald Trump Jr.
was contacted by WikiLeaks with a code to access information to the media.
Oh!
Oh, we got him now!
We got that Don Trump Jr.
But what was convenient about that case?
They got the date wrong.
WikiLeaks had already, already released the information publicly.
The date the, quote, sources got, Joe, Was the wrong date.
Now, what's convenient about this, don't forget this, is it was reported as fact by multiple sources.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is clear as day to me, as a former federal investigator myself, that this, along with the Deutsche Bank story and the Mike Flynn was asked to contact the Russians as a candidate, they got that wrong too.
These were all, air quotes you, credible sources that reported this.
That that was clearly evidence of some sort of an information sting to flush out leakers.
How did all of these media outlets get it wrong?
The media can't have it both ways, Joe.
They can't say on one hand, we use credible sources for reporting about Donald Trump.
And then all report the story wrong?
And then on the other hand say, oh well we only have crap sources and that's why the story was wrong.
Do you get what I'm saying?
Yeah.
I am suggesting to you that the media sources on the Don Trump Jr.
story, he was contacted by WikiLeaks with cryptic information.
Uh, sir the information's already on the internet.
It's so cryptic it's on the internet!
They gave the wrong date.
I'm suggesting to you the sources were in fact credible.
They were just being flushed out.
I hate to use the Miami Vice analogy again, but it's important.
Remember the Miami Vice movie with Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx?
They're trying to flush out a leaker in law enforcement.
So they give different dates to different entities about a drug delivery, knowing it's going to leak to the drug dealers because there's a rat in the police department, but they don't know where it is.
The FBI, the DEA, or the Miami police.
So they feed information and they feed different dates to different entities.
When the information finally gets back to the drug dealer and he calls them up and goes, Hey, there's going to be a delivery on September 4th.
September 4th was only the date they'd given.
So I think it was DEA or whatever.
It doesn't matter.
But they'd given different dates.
You see, folks, you getting this?
The same thing happened in the Don Trump Jr.
Explosive story.
On September 4th, they disclosed to Don Trump Jr.
a key to access WikiLeaks information.
That was the wrong date!
The so-called key to the... By the way, Don Trump Jr.
didn't even answer.
He basically got spammed by WikiLeaks.
The information was already public!
What, a key to the internet?
It's called Google!
The date was wrong, but ladies and gentlemen, credible sources swore to it!
Maybe those credible sources were being flushed out?
We already have a potential prosecution in this case.
We already have a guy.
They already have a Senate staffer.
Serious allegations here.
I'm not telling you not to be upset.
I'm just telling you Trump knows more than we do.
Have some faith that behind the scenes, there are things going on.
And if, if Trump really thought this was doing substantive damage, he would have redacted this thing a long time ago.
Okay.
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Um, an article that was in yesterday's show notes that I didn't get to cover because we were on a roll yesterday.
Is Byron York's Washington Examiner piece.
I have resubmitted it in today's show notes.
Rarely do I repeat articles, but it is important.
It's important for you to read if you read it yesterday.
No need to repeat it again today.
But Byron York has been doing incredible work over at the Washington Examiner and He brings up a fascinating point about the Mueller probe, which is another facet of this debacle that I've explained to you.
I'm fully convinced now is an effort to just save the DOJ's reputation, the FBI and Hillary Clinton, the Mueller probe that is while keeping the attention on Donald Trump, knowing that there is no collusion.
So I don't think this thing is going to wrap up anytime soon.
But York brings up a really great point.
We've kind of alluded to this before, too, folks.
The way the federal government judicial process works, it's complicated.
It's kind of like New York City and precincts.
The judicial system works the same way.
There are areas of the country that are divided up into DOJ areas of responsibility.
So when I was a federal agent in New York, if you wanted to prosecute a case in our New York office in Manhattan, you would have to go to the Southern District in New York.
If you wanted to prosecute a case on Long Island, New York, you would have to go to the Eastern District in New York.
There's separate courthouses, there's separate United States attorneys, there's a separate assistant United States attorney, separate intake people.
Now, they all work for the Department of Justice and they are federal laws they're prosecuting, but the areas of responsibility, the geographic areas of responsibility, are different.
Now, You have to understand that to understand what's going on with Mueller and why, again, I'm going to make the point to you that the Mueller probe is going nowhere.
It is a dog and pony show.
It is only meant to keep the attention on Trump, despite the fact that they have nothing.
You need proof they have nothing?
Read Byron York's piece about what they're doing.
Ladies and gentlemen, Mueller's passing off all his cases.
He's initiating these cases and then taking the football of the case and handing it off to the Hershel Walker of the Justice Department to run with it.
Why?
Mueller's mandate, ladies and gentlemen, was to clearly investigate Russian interference in the election and collusion with potential presidential campaigns.
That's his mandate.
Meaning, according to his mandate, if he gets cases like this, his team should be the prosecutors, the government attorneys, Joe, that are prosecuting the case.
You think?
You would think.
But that's not what's happening.
Let me give you some examples.
So Cohen, for reasons I still can't understand, Cohen's office is raided.
Michael Cohen.
That's Trump's attorney, by the way.
Cohen, it turns out, unbelievably, is recording conversations with Trump.
This guy's a lawyer?
But that case, however it may have started, was referred out to the Southern District of New York.
The special counsel's not prosecuting this.
But wait!
Folks, don't miss this.
This is not inconsequential.
Mueller's mandate is to prosecute Russian collusion.
If this is evidence of Russian collusion, and this is Trump's lawyer, this was his personal lawyer, a guy who's known Donald Trump for eons.
If there's evidence of Russian collusion, Joe, would you venture a guess that the lawyer might know about it?
I would think so.
You would think so?
Yes, you would.
So why did he refer the case out?
Ladies and gentlemen, is it possible Peter Stroke, the lead investigator, was right?
That there's no there there?
And again, what's going to happen is going to be, oh, we'll get him for crimes, just not the crime of collusion.
That's your whole purpose for being.
Remember, the whole point to the special counsel, Joe, is there's so many conflicts in the Department of Justice that collusion and anything involved with collusion in the Trump investigation has to be investigated by the special counsel.
Well, why are you refuting your whole point?
Because the cases that are being picked up by the special counsel, Joe, are being referred where?
Right back to the standard old DOJ?
Guys, ladies, listen to what I'm saying again.
The whole point to the Democrat, Liberal, and the Rhino argument was that there are too many conflicts in the Department of Justice.
We need a special counsel in Bob Mueller to specifically go after Trump and Russian collusion.
All the cases Mueller's bringing up, he's sending right back to the Department of Justice, which defeats the purpose of the special counsel.
Oh, you say, Dan, that's just one case.
Oh, no, wait, there's more.
The 12 Russian GRU officers, Joe, who, according to the indictment Mueller handed down, attacked the DNC and hacked into it.
It was a thorough indictment.
Why isn't Mueller investigating that?
Oh, he's not?
No, no, he's not.
That was referred right back to the DOJ National Security Division.
Wow, isn't that special?
I thought we needed Bob Mueller for that.
But now we don't?
Now it goes right back to DOJ.
Why don't we just have... What's the purpose of Bob Mueller?
Oh, Dan, that's only two.
Oh, no!
There's more!
The Maria Butina case.
And by the way, liberals don't seem to understand.
I don't work for the NRA, liberals.
I know you guys are really idiots, but you'd think you'd do some basic research first.
I work for a production company that provides content to NRA TV.
I don't work for the NRA.
I don't speak for the NRA.
I'm a member of the NRA.
I'm a Second Amendment advocate.
Don't mistake the two.
But I don't work for the NRA.
The Maria Butina case, which by the way, Joe, has conveniently disappeared now that we found out that this Russian connected person met with Obama administration officials.
The case has conveniently disappeared.
She met with people from the NRA.
Yeah, she met with Obama treasury officials too.
Oh, get rid of that case.
Goodbye.
See you later.
The Butina case, which is supposed to be textbook Russian collusion.
Oh my gosh.
She knows Russians.
She knows Russians.
And she met with a gun rights group and Obama administration officials.
This has to be collusion.
Where's that case?
Oh, the United States attorney in Washington is prosecuting that, not Mueller?
Oh, who's prosecuting Mueller?
Oh, Manafort, with a case also that has nothing to do at all, nothing, with Trump, but has everything to do with covering up misdeeds by people associated with the Clinton orbit.
Oh, we'll keep that one.
Because Manafort worked with the Podesta Group.
The Podesta Group?
Oh, all of a sudden?
Nah, we'll hold on to that one.
Don't you worry.
The Podesta Group, linked to the Clintons over years.
Yeah, let's hold on to that one, Joe.
But let's shuttle the rest of these cases right back to DOJ, despite the fact that you told us we needed you and not the DOJ because it was special and we needed to investigate.
Clearly not special enough to actually investigate the case.
Oh my gosh.
That Boutina thing.
It's unbelievable.
Unreal.
Look, she has a picture with people in the NRA.
She met with Obama administration officials.
Oh, quiet down now.
Quiet down.
Everybody pipe down on that case.
One more thing.
I'll leave it at this.
This is even funnier.
The Boutina liberal conspiracy theorists, right?
One of them said, Joe, you're going to get a kick out of this.
One of them on Twitter the other day.
Man, guys like Bongino, they've been really quiet about the Russia cases.
[laughter]
What?
[laughter]
[groaning]
What do you even say about- yes, yes, we- Joe, we have been absolutely crickets on the Russian case.
You were so terrified to talk about the Russian case, we never talk about it.
Ever.
Joe, have we mentioned the Russian case on the show?
We should be talking about it a little bit.
Maybe I should write a book on it.
Oh no, we did that too!
Hey mom!
The meatloaf!
Joe has an entire soundboard dedicated to the Rush Kids.
Joe, maybe we should do a podcast on the Russia case, you think?
I don't know.
If people would like it.
Nah, they'd hate it.
Forget it.
No good.
Maybe we should record this one again and do it on the Russia case.
Oh, we did it on the Russia case.
That's it.
Oh, folks, you wonder why I wake up everybody either laughing or crying.
I'm not kidding you.
Someone actually tweeted that.
Someone actually tweeted, man they've been awfully quiet on the Russia case.
The stupid, it's spreading rapidly.
It's like 28 days later.
The virus is spreading.
Disinfect your homes and cars.
All right, folks.
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