Are the Deep State Players Keeping a List? (Ep 1085)
In this episode, I address the troubling new allegations surfacing about government officials using government resources to “monitor” journalists covering the Ukraine scandal. I also address the imploding impeachment nonsense and the latest revelations about pay to play and Joe Biden.
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The List.
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The List?
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The List?
Uh, who's that talking in my ear?
Oh, welcome to the Dan Bongino Show, Producer Joe.
How are you today, my good friend?
I'm sorry, I was talking with a list.
I'm doing okay, man.
There you go.
I still understood you.
It was done well.
I'm doing good, brother.
Joe, if we appeared on a list, the Dan Bongino Show, like a black list, but it was the bad guys, that's a good thing, right?
Like, that means you're a good guy?
Yes.
I'm like, "I'm- *gibberish* I guess."
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So before I get to the list, Oh, this is going to be good.
The case, ladies and gentlemen, we are just.
Understand we are living right now, at least in modern times, in what I've considered peak government chaos.
Institutions are collapsing around us.
They are.
There is no question in my mind there is an effort behind the scenes to overturn the results of an election.
You call it whatever you want, but I don't think any sensible person would argue that.
Now, having said that, the media and the deep staters are in full revolt against you.
The only one standing in the way at this point is the Trump administration.
The case against others is falling apart, though, and evidence is being ignored left and right.
Two things happened last night and this morning, and it's coming out so fast and furious, I cannot tape any.
That's why the show's been a little bit late.
We have to just get on this stuff right away.
Number one, press release last night from Ukraine about Burisma.
Look at this bad boy.
Found out from Burisma, excuse me, a press release for Precision Matters about Burisma from Interfax Ukraine.
Wait, what?
Burisma paid Joe Biden $900,000 for lobbying, a Ukrainian MP alleges.
So a Ukrainian politician, just to be clear, is now alleging, listen, allegations, we're not Democrats, again, so people are interested in proving guilty, but ladies and gentlemen, if there were entrepreneurial media types interested even remotely in the truth, Joe, do you think this would be a story?
You think?
Let's reset here.
So Joe Biden's kid Hunter works for a natural gas company called Burisma despite having zero experience in Ukraine or with natural gas.
While Joe Biden is the point man on Ukraine discussing natural gas, his son gets a gig.
A lucrative gig for $80,000 plus a month.
We now find out there's an allegation out there surfacing from a Ukrainian politician that Biden himself may have been paid $900,000 while simultaneously Biden's on tape lobbying to get the prosecutor investigating his son's sweetheart deal with the natural gas company fired.
That Biden may have been paid almost a million dollars?
Folks, where is the media?
Where is the media?
Where are you?
If you are not watching this show every day, or watching Hannity, or listening to Mark Levin, or reading Jeff Carlson in the Epoch Times, or Chuck Ross, or Daily Call, you've missed this whole story!
Or John Solomon at the Hill, Sarah Carter, you have missed the whole story!
Secondly, just breaking this morning.
I don't have any news.
It just happened before we get on the air.
Two people were arrested for campaign finance violations.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to have more on this tomorrow.
You're not going to want to go anywhere.
Evidence again that they are desperate to shut this thing down.
So what, Dan?
Two people were arrested on allegations of campaign violations.
What's the big deal?
Oh, well, it turns out those two people were working with Rudy Giuliani at some point.
Those two people may have been uncovering information about the Ukrainian malfeasance with Biden and others, and they were about to take a trip somewhere.
Oh, I've got more on, let's call this development tomorrow.
Wow!
Campaign finance violations all of a sudden re-emerging again to shut people down who may have been uncovering stuff.
Now let's get to the real meat and potatoes.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm not kidding, goosebumps right now.
Here we go.
Here we go.
So last night, if you were watching Sean Hannity's show, Our good friend and excellent congressman from California, Devin Nunes, who the nation owes a debt of gratitude for his work uncovering Spygate, appeared on with Sean Hannity.
I was on afterwards with Chris Hahn and Laura Ingram.
That was a doozy.
Heard about that.
Well, yeah, yeah, it's a lot of people dead.
Nunes was on last night.
And Joe, do you have the Nunes translator?
We may need to initiate the Nunes translator.
Initiating Nunes translator, Dan.
Good to go, bro.
Of course, when Nunes talks, you have to translate, because Nunes does not reveal classified information, unlike Democrats.
So when he goes on, he's very careful with his words.
So I want to play a quick clip.
Sean drops a bomb on his shoulder.
If you missed it, man, did you miss out.
And this bombshell he drops has an interesting tie-in to moi.
Let's play the cut.
My sources are telling me that the former U.S.
ambassador to Ukraine, Yovanovitch, my little birdies are whispering to me, I don't know if it's true or not yet, but I'm looking.
Do you know of any evidence that she may have used government resources to monitor communications of American citizens?
And do you know of any of these citizens might have been journalists?
Well, what I can tell you is that we know what Pete Sessions, congressman from Texas, now retired.
We know what he had to say.
We know that there are people within that were not only Ukrainians but also Americans that worked at the State Department who have raised concerns about this ambassador.
That's why she was ultimately removed.
We also have concerns that possibly they were monitoring press from different journalists and others.
That we don't know, but, you know, we have people who are giving us this information.
Wow.
Paula!
Paula, what do you think of that?
You like that cut?
Joe, how do you feel about that cut?
Well, it's got me wondering, and I'd really like to know what Nunes is talking about here, Dan.
I think I need you to explain.
They got me at the Nunes translator.
Yeah.
I mean, if it wasn't for the Nunes translator.
So folks, if you're a regular viewer of this show, we've been covering Joe Biden, Ukraine, Ukraine and the DNC and Ukrainian collusion interference in the 2016 election for probably upwards of two years right now.
It's covered extensively in my latest book, Exonerated, and even more extensively in my first book, Spygate, which was written with DC and Matt about two plus years ago.
The whole story started to come together.
So now yesterday we exposed How there's some suspicious connection between the whistleblower and their allegation about Trump's promise to the Ukrainians, between the language and the wording of the complaint, and some of the concerns expressed by the Ukrainian ambassador's charge, Bill Taylor.
The Ukrainian ambassador at the time was a woman by the name Marie Yovanovitch, who I have been covering and tweeting about for a very long time.
Why?
Because I have sources like everyone else.
So now we find out last night that Marie Yovanovitch, who again if you listen to yesterday's show I cover this extensively, Marie Yovanovitch can't stand Trump.
She could never stand Trump and there are serious allegations that she may have placed herself inappropriately in between Ukrainian investigations into corruption involving Democrats and the truth.
That's putting it mildly, and I'm being nice by saying that.
The other allegation is she was overseas in Ukraine bashing President Trump at every opportunity while simultaneously claiming to represent the United States in Ukraine.
Her number two is a guy by the name of Bill Taylor, whose language in a bunch of texts with a bunch of other diplomats about his concerns about Trump in Ukraine is mirrored almost exactly in the whistleblower's complaint.
Not suggesting Taylor's the whistleblower.
Keep in mind.
Okay.
But that Taylor may be or have something to do with the White House official who fed the information to whistleblowers.
Everybody get this set up?
Yeah, yeah.
Okay.
I know you do.
Glad you clarified that.
Yeah, good.
Now we find out that Yovanovitch, who we have been on like white on rice for a long time now, that there's an allegation that Nunes and Hannity put out, that Yovanovitch and other U.S.
officials overseas may have been monitoring With some journalists and other folks?
Monitoring?
Like what?
Why are you monitoring us?
Oh, us?
I just... Oh, I slipped.
Notice how he says... Now, John Solomon, we're reasonably confident, is on the list of people to monitor from Ukraine.
Maybe tomorrow, if Marie Yovanovitch shows up for this hearing on Capitol Hill on Friday, Maybe you'll see some other names on the list?
Joe, serious question.
I know I kind of, you know, mess around a lot.
Yeah, right.
What are they afraid of, man?
I thought we were conspiracy theorists, right?
That's what I thought.
That's what they told us, right?
Me, you, Paula, everyone involved in the Dan Bongino show, it's all a conspiracy.
Bunch of wackos!
As a matter of fact, the idiots, and I mean idiots, idiots may be nice, the morons at BuzzFeed who've been on the wrong side of the Spygate story every angle of it from day one, they put out so much fake news that The fact that you work for BuzzFeed is hilarious in and of itself.
BuzzFeed wrote an article yesterday still trying to take a shot at me and John Solomon, calling Spygate a conspiracy theory, still to this day, despite being on the wrong side of every angle of it.
If it's a conspiracy theory, and the conspiracy blog BuzzFeed, which is legitimately a conspiracy blog, that's all they do, is make stuff up.
If they're right, Joe, why was the U.S.
government monitoring Our stuff?
My goodness, we are important.
My goodness, we are important.
Don't you feel special like a church lady on Saturday night?
Yes, I do.
Isn't that special?
That's what I'm trying to say, Dan.
Yeah.
I mean, folks, I'm asking a legitimate question.
Yeah, brother.
If everything we've been telling you about the Ukrainians colluding with ex-DNC members to interfere with the election, feeding false information about Manafort to get a spy warrant on Trump, if everything we've been telling you about Joe Biden's involvement with Burisma, if all of this is a big conspiracy theory, what were government officials in Ukraine monitoring our stuff for?
You listening to the podcast today, Marie?
Oh, I hope so.
We've got a lot more, folks.
We have not even scratched the surface of what's coming ahead.
We're just, what, 12 minutes into the show?
12 and a half minutes into the show.
And we just launched three tactical nukes here.
So now we know, before we move on, because I've got a lot more to get to, we know there was a list of people to monitor.
Why?
We were all conspiracy theorists.
Why monitor me and John Solomon?
If everything is false and we just made it up, why are you so worried?
We know now that two people allegedly assisting in this Ukrainian collusion scandal with the Democrats have now been locked up for campaign finance violations right before a trip.
Wow, that's awfully convenient, that timing.
And we also know that a new allegation is surfacing that Biden himself, from a Ukrainian MP, a politician, that Biden himself may have received some money after calling for a prosecutor to be fired, was investigating a company that's alleged to be involved in this lobbying and the payoff of Biden.
This is just this morning, folks.
This is just this morning.
Before I got to the show.
You are not going to want to miss tomorrow or the rest of the show.
I haven't even gotten to Mueller, the emails, the Eric Prince tape.
This show is going to be absolutely stacked.
OK.
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So, new book is out.
The new book is called Deep State, Joe.
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So new book is out.
The new book is called Deep State, Joe.
And in the book, I thought it wasn't a deep state.
Why would you write a book about it?
It's not from a conservative, by the way.
And this new book makes a pretty incredible allegation.
The New York Post covered this and I'm going to tie this into Mueller.
And what's really going on, I'm going to tie it back to the beginning.
Why the arrest of these two people allegedly working with Rudy Giuliani too.
So New York Post by Ebony Bowden.
O S word.
Okay.
The moment FBI agents found Hillary Clinton's emails on Anthony Weiner's laptop.
Folks, the allegation in this story is deeply troubling.
Apparently, an FBI agent says, this is from them, the FBI agent who looked at Anthony Weiner.
Remember Huma Abedin, who was Hillary Clinton's assistant, the husband, he was running for mayor of New York, he was a perv.
Well, they found his computer and they found some emails on there.
So here's a quote in the New York Post piece from an FBI agent.
I'm telling you that we have potentially 10 times the volume that Director Comey said we had on the record, the agent recounted to Stewart.
Why isn't anybody here?
Folks, remember, Comey said they found 30,000 emails.
Now, this FBI agent, according to this book, is alleging they found 340,000 emails.
Hillary Clinton emails on this computer.
Why does this matter?
Why are we bringing this up now?
Because again, remember Joe, we're just conspiracy theorists here, me and you.
No worries, folks.
Government people are checking us out.
A little monitoring.
But don't worry.
It's just a big conspiracy theory.
Why would this concern you?
Well, this was a story we nailed, again, well over a year ago.
Oh, yeah.
There was an interesting allegation that surfaced, hat tip to Breitbart Radio, in an interview they conducted with Eric Prince, who conveniently, Joe, found himself under investigation by Bob Mueller.
I'll get to that in a second, too.
After this interview surfaced, And this interview, I want you to listen to what Eric Prince said they found on Anthony Weiner's laptop.
But remember, Jim Comey said, don't worry, we only found 30,000 emails, Joe, and we already had them all.
That's not what this bureau source is telling this book writer.
And it's not what Prince said.
His sources in the NYPD, who was involved in the Weiner case, found the Weiner case.
You can't even say it.
Play this cut.
We come back.
I'm going to tie this into the Giuliani story again and what's going on now.
Check this out.
I want to give color on why the FBI, why Comey had to do that last week.
Yeah, please do.
Because of Wienergate and the sexting scandal, the NYPD started investigating it through a subpoena.
He searched his laptop and sure enough found those 650,000 emails.
They found way more stuff than just the, uh, more information pertaining to the inappropriate sexting the guy was doing.
They found State Department emails.
They found a lot of other really damning criminal information, including money laundering, including the fact that Hillary went to this, uh, sext island with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Bill Clinton went there more than 20 times.
Hillary Clinton went there at least 6 times.
The amount of garbage that they found in these emails of criminal activities by Hillary, by her immediate circle, and even by other Democratic members of Congress was so disgusting, they gave it to the FBI, and they said, we're going to go public with this if you don't reopen the investigation, if you don't do the right thing with timely indictments.
I believe, uh, I know, and this is from a very well-placed source of mine, uh, at 1PP, 1 Police Plaza in New York, uh, the NYPD wanted to do a press conference announcing the warrants, uh, and the additional arrest they were making in this investigation, and they've gotten huge pushback to the point of coercion from the Justice Department, with the Justice Department threatening to Why?
someone that had been unrelated in the accidental heart attack death of Eric
Garner, the guy almost two years ago. That's the level of pushback the Obama
Justice Department is doing against actually seeking justice in these female
and other related criminal matters.
What? Now, folks, we already covered this.
End that cut.
Yeah.
Again, Hattip Breitbart Radio, I think it was Alex Marlow, interviewing Eric Prince, who Eric Prince, for some background, was the former owner of what was previously known as Blackwater.
Eric Prince is also the brother of Betsy DeVos, Trump's education secretary.
Now, Joe, I thought we cared about whistleblowers.
Didn't we?
Everybody cares.
The Democrats, we need to protect whistleblowers.
Yes, we do.
We need to protect them.
Well, how did they protect Eric Prince?
Let's check.
Here's this article in The Hill about how they protected Eric Prince, who says he has information about a whistleblower.
About some potentially very serious misconduct found on the email system of Anthony Weiner and Hillary Clinton on Anthony Weiner's computer.
So let's check out this article from The Hill.
Yes, that's right.
Yes, Prince finds himself under investigation by Bob Mueller and the House Intel Committee.
How about that?
House Intel formally requests criminal investigation to Eric Prince.
How is this?
How is this?
This is just in April, by the way.
I thought he was a whistleblower.
I thought we were interested in the blowing of the whistle.
The whistle blowing.
I thought that was a thing.
So, let me be clear.
Says, hey, this Anthony Weiner laptop that now an FBI agent is also passing on to an author contained a lot more of Hillary's emails than initially stated.
Now, to be clear, I can't confirm on the show, because it's not my source, that what Prince is saying is accurate.
I can't.
I don't know if it contained information about Epstein's.
I don't know.
I haven't seen it.
Be irresponsible.
I'm telling you, Eric Prince is not an unreliable source, number one.
He's a guy with a serious business background, has been involved for a long time.
And number two, isn't it worth investigating?
He's a whistleblower.
Even worse, he's making an allegation, Joe, that there was a quid pro quo.
I thought that was huge.
I thought quid pro quos were off limits, that they weren't supposed to happen.
Did you hear what Prince said?
Oh, man.
Prince said, right?
This is disturbing, isn't it?
This is quite disturbing, yes.
Not to the left, just to us.
Eric Prince says that this stuff was so dirty and filthy on there.
That the NYPD was going to hold a press conference themselves to indicate that they had found some grotesque stuff involving the Clinton's Clinton email and more email than they said was there.
And that the DOJ, according to Prince's source, pressured the NYPD to shelve the press conference and threaten them with charges on the Eric Garner case, the guy who died, I remember, with the case, was it Staten Island?
Right, right, right.
Remember that case?
Sure do.
That they threatened charges to make this thing go away.
Ladies and gentlemen, do you understand the abuse of power that would be if that was true?
Now again, I'm not reporting it as fact because it's not my source.
The point I'm trying to make is not to resurface these allegations for the sake of resurfacing them.
I thought we were concerned about whistleblowers, who Prince appears to have a whistleblower, and quid pro quos.
Erroneous!
A something for something deal.
You're darn right, Vince.
Totally erroneous.
He's got a source indicating the Justice Department saying, you are going to make this presser go away, or we're going to look into your guy and make charges in this NYPD case.
Level charges.
But that's not what happened to Prince Joe.
Eric Prince was not celebrated as a whistleblower with allegations of a quid pro quo.
He's being put under investigation by Bob Mueller first, which we've already covered, and by the House Intel Committee.
Folks, on a very serious note, tying this back this morning, this Giuliani story about these two people.
Who are now being arrested and charged on a campaign violation.
Who may or may not have been working on this Ukraine case.
This is serious stuff, folks.
I'm not messing around.
You know, I don't... I'm not sure I've expressed to you the gravity of the peril we're in right now.
Oh my goodness.
In this republic.
When I woke up this morning to two messages about my name being on a list.
I'm not like scared or anything, whatever.
I'm not.
I mean, I'm ready for this fight and I know many of you are too.
But folks, this is concerning stuff.
This is third world China, North Korea stuff we're looking at right here.
They are locking people up using the monopolistic power the government has on the use of force and the taking away of your freedom.
They have a monopoly on it.
They are clearly abusing that power to silence any whistleblowers and any revelations about government quid pro quos in the Obama administration.
Whether it's Biden, whether it's the Justice Department, whether it's Russians and relaying sources to the United States about Trump, they are trying to make it all go away.
What has Tucker Carlson been saying every night on his show?
On Fox?
Folks with the left, the virtue is the sin.
They want a virtue signal.
Look, Joe, we're investigating campaign violations against these Giuliani guys.
Look, Joe, we're investigating Trump in Ukraine.
Look, Joe, we're investigating Eric Prince for this collusion stuff.
They want to appear virtuous.
What they're really doing is covering their own sins.
I thought Prince was a whistleblower, or at least had access to one.
Burisma, you're not even concerned about these serious allegations of payments now to Biden and his son?
Nobody's concerned?
Are you even going to look at them?
Maybe they're false!
There's a way to figure that out, Joe!
You know how you do it?
Journalism!
This is a disgrace.
This is a disgrace.
This new book is not written by some right-wing conservative about these FBI discovering with the NYPD the surfacing of 300,000 plus Hillary emails in Weiner's computer.
Does anybody care about this at all?
Unbelievable.
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Oh, that's great.
What kind of list?
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No, no, not that list.
You're on a list.
They're watching your stuff.
You got another thing coming, by the way, to anybody listening.
You listening to this show right now?
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Go yourself.
Get it?
If you think for, I'm not kidding, if you think for a second you're going to intimidate or frighten us into not talking about this, hey, they're looking at you too.
You picked the wrong cat.
I'm not interested at all.
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I am not even remotely concerned about your BS.
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What's next here?
Okay.
Now I wanted to get to this yesterday.
Greg Jarrett has an interesting piece up with Fox.
Now we find out that Bob Mueller, Joe, who's beyond reproach.
Remember, just like Bill Taylor and Marie Yovanovitch, Joe, these are patriots.
Their actions, Joe, are beyond reproach.
They're not to be criticized ever.
No.
But a whistleblower like Eric Pryor, he's to be criticized and investigated.
Remember that.
We find out from Greg Jarrett, an opinion piece of Fox News being the show notes.
Did Mueller lie to Congress about meeting with Trump before he took the special counsel job?
Hmm.
We're not allowed to question Mueller.
I thought Mueller told us, Joe, up on Capitol Hill, on the record, during that ridiculous Mueller hearing, where he didn't even know Fusion GPS who they were.
Didn't Mueller tell us that the day he went in with Rod Rosenstein to interview with Donald Trump in the Oval Office, conveniently, as folks are forgetting, Joseph, the day before he's named special counsel, in May of 2017, the day before, You understand this, folks, right?
Mueller and Rosenstein go to the White House the day before Mueller is named by Rosenstein as special counsel.
And Mueller says, on the record, by the way, and under oath, he wasn't there to interview about the FBI director job.
Wow, that's fascinating.
Because according to Greg Jarrett's piece, a couple of other witnesses to that meeting say that's exactly what Mueller was there for.
Well, now.
So it's not a he said, he said, Joe.
It's a he said, he said, she said, he said, he said, they said.
In other words, it's Mueller's word.
I wasn't there about the FBI job.
And a number of other White House insiders saying that's not true.
Now, why is this so special?
Breaking yesterday, I would have gotten to it if we didn't have to cover extensively the Bill Taylor-Yovanovitch relationship.
Folks, because I've covered part of this before, I will continue to stick to, to this day, that Rosenstein was not a good guy in this story.
Right.
Listen, I respect the opinion of others who feel differently.
Please, I don't need intra-party warfare here.
We're on the same team.
There are differences of opinion.
Respect.
With a K. You got it.
I disagree.
I never, from day one, based on sources, my two books, ever believed Rosenstein had anything but Rosenstein's interests in mind.
He couldn't stand Trump.
Folks, if you read book two, there is a speech in there we uncovered.
No one else has covered it.
We found it from the back in the dregs of the internet.
We found a speech that one small media outlet covered at the time.
Rosenstein gives about Mueller that is so laudatory you think it was his uncle.
Rosenstein worshipped Mueller.
Read the speech, it's in exonerated, my book, it's out now.
Read it, it's short.
He loved Mueller.
I believe he brought Mueller to the White House the day before.
He brought Mueller to the White House for one of two things.
Knowing he was going to be the special counsel, or knowing he was going to be the FBI director.
Understand, either one of those two things, if Rosenstein gets his wish and can convince Trump to make him FBI director, great!
Then what does Mueller do, Joe?
Turns around and uses his FBI director spot to continue the investigation into Trump!
What better spot?
What better spot?
You got everybody hooked then, right?
Or, or Joe, If Rosenstein can convince Trump in the May 2017 meeting to make Mueller the FBI director, Mueller could do exactly what Christopher Wray, the current FBI director, is doing now.
What's that, Joe?
Anyone got a broom and a carpet?
Make this all go away!
Delay, stall, why?
Why does Rosenstein care?
Why does Rosenstein want Mueller as either the FBI director or the special counsel?
What is he trying to hide?
He knows Mueller's his guy.
Mueller's his buddy.
He knows Mueller will do as he pleases.
And if I just told you Rosenstein's looking out for Rosenstein, then what does Rosenstein have to hide and why is he so concerned?
Folks, ladies and gentlemen, please.
Remember the names and remember the facts.
Rosenstein signed one of the FISAs.
One of the warrants to spy on Trump in the end stages of an investigation into Trump they know is a fraud.
They know it's a fraud.
Rosenstein has read in on all of this.
Signs off on a warrant to spy on an innocent American citizen anyway.
Rosenstein desperately needs this all to go away.
And his best buddy Mueller is the best guy to make it happen.
Rosenstein, I'm sorry, with all due respect to the quality investigators out there who believe otherwise, is not the good guy in this tale.
Folks, I actually worked for Rosenstein as a Secret Service agent in Baltimore.
Please, I'm leaving some details out.
This is not a good guy.
He wanted to make this go away!
So what does he do?
He brings Mueller.
There is, to the White House, he tells Mueller, I have zero doubt some version of this, some iteration of what he's, is this.
Hey, Bob.
Here's what we're gonna do.
This is obviously in the planning stages for weeks, by the way, folks.
You think Rosenstein just shows up like some rando at the White House with Mueller for no reason?
They were clearly planning for weeks to get Mueller as the special counsel of the FBI director.
He probably tells them this.
Hey, Bob.
Bobbo.
I want you to see this for yourself.
I don't trust this guy, Trump.
He's a loose cannon.
This is what I think Rosenstein says, not me.
I want you to see for yourself how this collusion thing, we could have all been misled, even though I signed the FISA, even though it's kind of BS.
I want you to see how dangerous this guy is for yourself.
You got it, Bob?
So here's what we're going to do.
Thank you.
We're going to go to the White House.
Next, Joe, you're going to play Bob.
It's easier.
All right.
So Bob, we're going to go to the White House.
You tracking me?
Yeah, I'm with you so far.
And first, we're going to push for you to be FBI director.
If he turns that down, I want you to catch his response and see what I see, how this guy's such a loose count.
Are you tracking, Bob?
Yeah, yeah.
We can work this guy.
Yeah.
Thanks, Bob.
And, Bob, here's the backup plan.
If it doesn't work out, and we don't hook him, and Trump doesn't bite on the FBI director spot, right?
Here's what we're going to do.
No worries.
The next day, I'm going to follow up, and I'm going to name you the special counsel to investigate him anyway, and you'll get to see it all for yourself.
You tracking, Bob?
How does that sound, Bob?
That's pretty cool, Rod.
Yeah.
That's pretty cool.
You're like the Brad Pitt of executive producers.
Very well done, Joe.
Very good.
Good job.
Thank you, Rod.
That's what happened.
I don't know how good of a Rod I am.
It's beyond my purview.
There we go.
It's beyond my purview.
That was awesome.
Dude, that was good.
Thank you.
That was funny.
Beyond my purview, for those of you who watched the hearing, you know, there was a double entendre there, Joe.
Well done.
Folks, this was a mess.
This was a train wreck.
Now we find out from Greg, Jarrett, and others, and this book out, that Mueller did in fact want the job, and now the story entirely makes sense.
Joe, you got that, right?
Pretty simple?
Oh, yes.
Paula, did you get it?
Thank you.
Yeah.
All right.
I only say because I want to move on.
Okay.
Now, getting back to the impeachment fiasco.
Folks, again, the case is completely entirely falling apart, and you cannot get a straight answer from alleged journalists who are really propagandists for the Democrat Party, who refuse, absolutely refuse, Adamantly to report on the facts of this case.
They're ignoring the Burisma thing.
They're covering this Giuliani thing with these two guys arrested as if there's no suspicious question.
Wait, what were these guys looking into?
Why were they arrested now?
Where were they going?
Let's see how they report on the list when that bombshell drops.
Another thing they're leaving out of this, you're not going to find anywhere on these hack so-called mainstream media outlets.
Here's another story at Fox about the Ukrainian president, who allegedly was blackmailed by Trump.
Can you read the headline?
Ukraine president says no blackmail and phone call with Trump.
Greg Wilson, Fox News.
The article will be up at the show notes today.
That's pretty straightforward.
Yeah.
Uh, is it?
I mean, Joe, you are the audience on, but we don't need the audience for this folks.
Is it where do you understand what they're impeaching?
They're in the process right now of trying to overthrow the results of an election to tell you democracy doesn't matter.
Your choice to be president is no good because you're all morons.
The media and the Democrats are getting ready, preparing right now.
You see why my concern at the beginning of the show that the republic is collapsing around us?
Absolutely.
And the media is playing a role in it?
Yeah.
Nobody's even interested that the impeachment charge that Trump tried to bribe or blackmail a foreign leader, that the foreign leader has gone on the record now saying that it didn't happen?
Folks, is anybody concerned about this?
You know, I was on last night, Ingram, with Han.
And Chris just made up what was in the... We have the transcript of the call!
He just made it up!
And I'm tired of people on TV like, I think you're mischaracterized.
I was like, Chris, you're just a liar.
You're a liar.
Grabian picked it up this morning.
Yeah, Mangino calls Chris out a liar.
He is!
He lied!
He just made up what's in the transcript.
We now have the transcript of the call.
There was no blackmail.
There was no deal.
That's not in there.
We have the Ukrainian president.
No blackmail.
No deal.
We have the Ukrainian president.
The topic of military aid for information on Hunter Biden?
We didn't even know anybody was upholding military aid.
What kind of extortion attempt is that?
This is the dumbest extortion attempt in human history.
We're extorting you for military aid.
Maybe you should mention the military aid then.
There's no blackmail.
Does that even matter?
This story?
Now I want to cover one more angle of this.
There's no story on it, but there's another thing that surfaced yesterday.
Well, there are stories on it, but just roll with me for a second here.
Okay.
The word surfacing yesterday now is that the alleged whistleblower, who again sounds suspiciously like Bill Taylor, who worked for Yovanovitch, who has us on some kind of a list apparently.
Yeah.
Swindler's list.
Dude, you're on fire today.
Well, thank you.
You really are.
That not my purview is one of your all-time greats.
Paula, log that for a Joe best greatest hits.
Maybe we'll play it on the weekend.
Thanks, Paul.
Yeah, seriously, that'd be a great Saturday show, your greatest hits.
But something surfaced yesterday at the alleged whistleblower.
It's not a whistleblower, it's a deep state hack, right?
Right.
Had contact, Joe, with some of the 2020 candidates for president on the Democrat side.
Oh!
Nothing to see there, folks, at all.
But listen to this!
Listen to this!
This is where it gets good.
To show you the fetid, stank hypocrisy of the media, who has two completely different sets of rules for Republicans and Democrats.
The media Democrat coordinated response to that, Joe, that the whistleblower that's attacking Trump now has had political contact with his opponents, is, no, it wasn't political, Joe.
The alleged whistleblower The contact with these candidates was only in their role as elected officials.
Oh, don't worry about it then.
Don't worry.
It's no big deal.
Wait, wait, where did we... Let me think.
Where did we hear that before?
The exact same defense.
Use by a Republican that the media and their liberal hack buddies, these bootlicking sycophants, dismissed as, no, no, no, no, that's not a legitimate defense.
So just to be clear, because you're not going to hear this anywhere else, but you're going to hear it here.
The Democrats' defense about a whistleblower making up allegations against President Trump, having contact with candidates for office running against Trump.
They say the defense is it's no big deal because the contact was only in their role as elected officials.
Who said that, Joe?
Who could that be, Daniel?
I distinctly remember Al Franken, former Democrat Senator, questioning Jeff Sessions, the former Attorney General, up on Capitol Hill about his contacts with Russians.
Oh.
And Jeff Sessions said, in my role as a campaign, no.
He thought Franken's question was about in his role as a campaign representative.
Because remember, Sessions had endorsed Trump early.
You tracking?
Yep, yep, yep.
The media went, wow, this is a lie!
When Jeff Sessions was a senator, he ran into some Russians.
So is every single politician anywhere in the United States.
Sure.
He ran into them in his role as a senator.
He was not representing the campaign.
That's the exact same defense!
Right.
It is.
But remember the media, Joe?
Oh yeah, you're not hearing this anywhere else.
Good catch, Dan Bongino show.
Self-praise stinks, but what the heck?
That was not a defense!
No, no.
No, no, no.
No, it doesn't matter.
You met a Russian guy and you brushed his elbow at a conference somewhere on foreign relations with Russia?
That is definitely evidence of collusion.
You need to definitely recuse yourself, Jeff Sessions.
Media was all over it!
Now we have a whistleblower with the exact same story.
They're claiming.
I don't even believe it was just this elected official.
Right, right.
But the exact same story and the media.
No, no, no, Joe.
This is an entirely legitimate defense.
Nothing to see here, ladies and gentlemen.
Hacks.
But remember, according to BuzzFeed, Joe, it's been on the wrong side of just about every significant story in the 21st century.
BuzzFeed says it's all a conspiracy theory.
We're all crazy.
Well, okay.
Joe, does that make sense, that double standard?
Is it not transparently obvious?
I've kind of noticed that for a while.
Jeff Sessions, I'm a U.S.
Senator who brushed elbows with Russian ones.
No, no, that's no good.
Now, a whistleblower.
No, I've actually made contact with candidates running against Trump.
No, no, no, don't worry, they were just elected officials.
Okay, whatever.
You continue being stupid, liberal America.
We'll continue.
Again, you're not watching this show.
The whole story, here's the... Joe, story?
You, liberals.
Side view.
Nice.
Side view.
Profile shot.
Story liberals.
Don't worry, you've only missed out on the biggest scandal of our time.
No big deal.
Alright, I got a couple other things I want to get to.
This show really has been stacked today.
I'd say so, yeah.
On the culture war note, because there are other things going on, and believe me, you are not going to want to miss tomorrow's show.
We have been read on, I've read in on this thing from day one.
You read my books and listen to this show, all of this stuff is already old news.
And you wonder why we're on the list.
I'm not surprised at all.
I'm not surprised.
And that intimidated one bit.
My man.
So here's an interesting story.
The CEO of Dick's Sporting Goods.
Dick's.
Yeah.
They thought it was a brilliant idea, by the way, to Pull their rifles off the shelves and destroy them.
Yeah, that's a brilliant idea.
So Dick's CEO admits the company lost $250 million due to its anti-gun policy.
They also ordered the destruction of rifles worth $5 million from the piece.
Folks, If this is not an example of some of the dumbest corporate virtue signaling I've ever seen in my life, I don't know what is.
So in case you've forgotten, after Parkland, the CEO of Dick's decided it would be a good idea in conjunction with the board to stop selling rifles and took those rifles and actually destroyed the $5 million worth of rifles, as if, by the way, Criminals are buying their arms at Dick's Sporting Goods legally, which is just so dumb that only a CEO of a company like that would believe it.
Sometimes intellectuals, as Thomas Sowell adequately said a couple times, are some of the dumbest among us, right?
Yeah.
Now Joe, this is again tying this into a story from a few days ago where we discussed this new corporate virtue signaling where now they're not They're not representing the shareholders now.
They had this American Business Roundtable thing.
They're now interested in stakeholders.
Stakeholders, meaning people who don't actually own value in the company.
Environmentalists, all these other people.
Folks.
Now you see why we need Trump re-elected?
We are in the midst of a collapse of institutions, sanity, rationality, economic liberty, Now, how does that story from a few days ago about how corporations now are interested in what stakeholders not share?
I'm not interested in the stakeholders!
I'm interested in the people that own the company!
They've got skin in the game.
What do I care about a 21-year-old environmental activist?
What they think about Dick's policies about selling AR-15s or stoners?
That's stoners that Eugene Stoner, the rifle, not stoners like people smoke weed.
Thank you.
Who cares?
And when you start taking an interest in what stakeholders think and not what shareholders who actually own the company, it's stupid decisions like this that matter.
Now, why did the CEO of Dick's, Ed Stack, why did he do this?
Because he's playing with corporate money, it's not his.
Again, another example of how even people with the principal-agent problem, right?
When you have someone representing your principal and agent, it's not their money.
He doesn't care.
Now, he should be forced out for this stupid decision.
But folks, it's again more evidence of how when you're playing with other people's money, these decisions don't matter.
Even worse, stakeholders, who aren't even involved in it.
At least Ed Stack is somewhat invested through stock options probably, somewhat in Dick's company and the stock price.
Yeah.
Even though it wasn't his direct money he was playing with.
Stakeholders don't give a damn.
They don't care.
You're gonna bankrupt your pension fund.
Even worse, tying two stories together.
What did they base their horrible decision on, dicks?
They based their decision on garbage research.
Garbage.
Our buddy Matt Palumbo, resident fact-checker for Bongino.com, wrote a piece about this.
So, dicks, we're pulling rifles off the shelves.
They're so dangerous.
Matt's recent piece, the FBI's newest crime report, has bad news for gun control activists.
So Dix, again, that's supposed to be acting in the interest of stakeholders, and you would think, Joe, with a multi-million dollar company based on research that their rifles were creating some big public health problem, that they had to destroy $250 million worth of company value to do nothing to solve it, by the way.
Let's look at the latest FBI research on firearms.
So, two takeaways.
From Matt's piece.
It's up at the show notes and up on Gino.com.
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We'll email them to you.
Most relevant, Joe.
Yeah.
firearm homicides fell, fell, F-E-L-L, 7% from 10,982 in 2017 to 10,265 in 2018.
Went down.
When isolated by type of firearm, firearm violence fell the most in 2018 among the types of weapons that were demonized
the most.
Rifles!
Rifle homicides fell 26% from 403 to 297.
Dude.
Dude.
Gun ownership is up, Joe.
Yeah.
Crimes, where criminals use guns, down.
Ah, I see.
Down, up, down, up, down.
Again, liberals, facts.
Another takeaway from the piece about the use of rifles, which Dick's wiped out $250 million of company value, based on what?
Reuse of rifles and crimes going down?
Here's another one.
From Matt's piece.
Rifles were a relatively unpopular method to commit homicide with, excuse me, as they always have been historically.
While they always are mentioned in the news when they're used to kill multiple people at once, they compose a sliver of total murders.
Knives and other cutting instruments killed over five times as many people, or 1,515.
Blunt objects, such as clubs and hammers, killed 443, while fists alone killed 668.
We banning fists?
What about knives?
Baseball bats?
Clubs?
All that banned too?
Are they still selling axes and dicks?
I thought you were basing this on research.
Are you telling me to virtue signal to a bunch of kids sleeping in their mama's basement On Twitter, you wiped out $250 million of your company value based on data you don't even understand?
Gun possession up.
Guns using crimes.
Crime rate going down.
Again, a story, Joe, you're not hearing anywhere.
Dan, you know, there's just so many dicks out there.
I mean, they're everywhere.
And I haven't- All over the place, buddy.
I can't figure it out.
I haven't stepped foot in one since this gun crap.
No.
That's like a quadruple entendre.
We really worked that one.
For those of you who heard our last take on dicks, Joe had a few of his moments that'll appear in the greatest Joe Armacost hits one day.
When the show explodes and we get up to like 10 and 15 million listeners a show, then I'm going to hire someone just to do an Armacost best dad because it would be funny.
You've had some great moments.
All right, folks, listen, I had a lot more to get to.
I did want to kind of cover this Ellen thing.
I'll cover it hopefully tomorrow.
I know it's been covered to death, Ellen DeGeneres and Bush, but I did have an interesting twist.
I'm going to try to cover it tomorrow.
Also, I want to cover a Karl Rove piece tomorrow about what's different between this impeachment, fake impeachment, and a real impeachment.
Also, if I can, I want to get to this Cato piece tomorrow about the Democrats lying about who's going to get hammered with taxes.
So again, I appreciate your listenership this week has been off the charts.
It's not hyperbole.
It's not me overselling the show.
Joe knows you all have blown it up.
Thank you.
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