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A big fat Christmas thank you.
Bear hug type thank you to everyone who listened to my interview with Congressman Devin Nunes.
The Bongino.com person of the year this weekend.
It is still up on our YouTube channel, YouTube.com obviously slash Bongino.
Thank you to Joe for producing it, folks, and Paula for working on it, and producer Drew as well for doing a great job.
The interview went crazy.
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We really blew up the Spygate scandal.
I got more on that on today's show.
Today, some hidden nuggets in the IG report.
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Ding, ding.
Before we get to the hidden gems in the IG report, hat tip to Katherine Harrods now over at CBS who did some great work finding and teasing out some of these things that I'm going to tie together for you.
I wanted to get to this story because folks, Joe, how many times have we told you, and I'm not talking to my audience and the conservatives and Republicans and then the, you know, fair-minded Democrats out there.
I'm talking to the liberal nuts that listen to my show and send me emails.
How many times, Joe, have we told you about the Bongino rule?
At least 20 in this past year.
At least 20, 30, 40.
What is the Bongino Rule for you new listeners?
The Bongino Rule, whenever you hear a story that the media tries to paint negatively on Trump, Republicans or Conservatives, and it has a viral component to it, i.e.
Juicy Small A, The Covington Kids, Juicy Small A from the James Chappelle, Juicy Small A, he calls him Juicy Small A. Whenever you see a story, Juicy, Justice for Juicy, whatever's going on out there.
Judge Juicy, yeah, there we go, you know, whatever.
Take a 24-hour minimum break.
Remember The Covington Kids?
Because the story's probably false.
I have warned you repeatedly.
I recommend actually in the Bongino Rule waiting 72 hours before reporting on it.
Did you notice last week, while this thing was going viral on the internet, you say what thing?
I'll get that and say this story.
We did not report on it?
Why?
Because we were obeying the Bongino rule.
Whenever it's meant to reflect poorly on Trump, conservatives, Republicans, paint us all as racist, whatever, Juicy, Justice for Juicy, Covington, all that other stuff, I'm telling you there's a 99% chance the story's not true.
We did not report on this story, which now you see an update at FoxNews.com, because I suspected the story was another hoax, and we were right again.
So there was a South Carolina Democratic state rep, a lawmaker, who's now facing backlash after the Army-Navy personnel cleared Of white power hand signal allegations.
What was the story?
Why didn't we report on it?
What happened?
Who was the lawmaker?
Well, I'll get to that, the nugget from the piece in a minute, but there was the Army Navy game.
It was on TV.
You had the Army Navy personnel, the students at both West Point and Naval Academy in the stands.
And some of them, while the video was broadcast on national television, they were Making this signal, well, this signal, but upside down, my arms don't work very well, my elbows don't, but you get the point.
They were making that signal on TV.
Well, of course, Joe, the dopey media and the liberals, including this state rep, Mandy Powers Norrell from South Carolina, immediately jumped to Well this signal the okay sign or the whatever upside down okay sign that the cadets were doing is clearly a white power signal which by the way is a hoax.
It was an online hoax meant to troll liberals.
Okay sometimes just means okay.
People have done this forever including Obama, AOC, okay the lady on TV at the Kavanaugh hearing, A bunch of hoaxers online making a joke about how stupid to me.
I'm not making this up.
Did you hear this?
This is the funniest story ever.
Put online that this means white power, like for W and P for power.
It was meant as a hoax because they knew liberal idiots would pick it up, which they probably did.
They believe the OK sign means white power.
It means OK or zero.
This is another Justice for Juicy scandal!
Okay.
So these cadets were playing the circle game.
On television.
Because you know what the circle game is?
Supposedly, I've never done this before, but if they get you to look at the circle, you get to like punch them or something.
They were doing this circle game.
So this lawmaker, Mandy Powers Norell, tweets out, this is the white power symbol.
There's an infestation of white power supremacy in the Naval and Army Academy.
Oh my gosh, folks.
I was not reporting on this because I'm telling you we knew from the start it was another hoax, okay?
The Bongino rule, please, I'm begging you.
It doesn't apply to every- sometimes people email me about every story.
Why didn't you apply the Bongino rule?
Because it only applies to stories that are meant In this era, to make it look like Donald Trump is ushering in an era of racism and white supremacy.
Right.
Justice for Juicy, Covington stories.
Those stories are meant to, oh, Donald Trump, look what he did.
These kids are attacking this Native American elder.
Not true.
Justice for Juicy.
Juicy was attacked in Chicago by a bunch of white power guys who were really his business associates.
Well, he set the whole thing up, according to the Chicago PD.
Folks, wait, just wait.
The stories will be debunked.
Here's from the Fox News report, the South Carolina, who now deleted her tweet, by the way.
State Rep Mandy Powers-Norell wrote, three separate candidates making the white power symbol on television.
Wonder what the culture is like.
You get it?
You see what she's doing, Joe?
Yeah, yeah.
Wonder what the culture is like for the cadet in the front.
There's no excuse, and he and other minorities there shouldn't have to deal with such cruel and disrespectful environment.
But since her tweet appeared, U.S.
military academy cadets and naval academy midshipmen have been cleared of wrongdoing in separate military investigations.
Oh my gosh, ladies and gentlemen, please, I'm begging you, just wait.
Again, it doesn't apply to every story.
You know, reporting on the IG report is not a Bongino report.
It's the IG report.
It's out.
Some stories are fact-based.
We know the facts.
Everybody agrees on the facts.
Whenever there is an interpretation of the facts, Justice for Juicy, The Covington Kids, The Circle Game, and it's interpreted by the media in a viral explosion to mean there's this big culture of racism, an epidemic of racism in the Trump era.
I'm telling you, wait, the story will, there's a 99% chance, be debunked and discredited.
All right, I wanted to get to that.
I feel I owe you an explanation why I didn't report on it.
All right, here's some, this is just, hat tip Catherine Herridge again over at CBS now.
Her Twitter feed has been a goldmine of good information.
We went through the IG report and candidly, folks, there's so much in there, me, 279, a lot of my other sources, which, you know, Devin Nunes was kind enough to give a hat tip to as well.
We've had great sources.
There's really so much in there it's been hard to distill down to specific nuggets that are explosive because literally folks on every page there's an interesting piece of information or a firework.
So Herod's been doing a really, really good job, Katherine Herod.
Before I get that though, I just want to play this quick video.
This is Kevin McCarthy on Maria Bartiromo's show this weekend with just a fantastic analogy.
Now that we have the IG report out, we've confirmed that they were in fact, the Trump campaign was in fact spied on.
This was a awesome analogy.
Of how Spygate is Watergate, like on Wheaties and Decadarabalent.
Steroids!
This is an explosive scandal that he sums up in like a minute or less.
It's really worth you hearing.
Check this out.
Well, if you pause for one moment and you read this IG report by Horowitz, here's the FBI.
They broke into President Trump at the time, candidate Trump's campaign, spied on him, and then they covered it up.
It is a modern-day Watergate.
And you've got Democrats who aren't willing to even look into that.
That is the area that we should be looking at.
It's a modern-day coup, the closest this country's ever came to, but the only way you can compare this to is Watergate.
They broke into his campaign by bringing people into it.
They have been trying to cover it up for the whole time.
Now the question rises, just like Watergate, who knew, when did they know it, and how high did this go up?
That's a great analogy, and I'm upset at myself, right?
Isn't it?
I'm upset at myself for not thinking of it sooner.
So just to be clear, the media gold standard, you know, Woodward and Bernstein of scandals, the gold standard, which Joe lived through.
I was a youngling at the time.
With Watergate.
Remember Joe Watergate?
You talk to anybody from that era, oh my gosh, a couple of operatives that may have been connected to Nixon broke into this hotel, into this DNC, and tried to get information.
Oh my gosh.
Well, McCarthy just says, how is this not bigger?
A law enforcement entity actually working for the government, the FBI, sent spies into a campaign to crack into their emails, to crack into conversations, to report on them, to use it to get FISA warrants, to continue the spying even while Trump was the President of the United States.
Again, please explain to me how Watergate is now the gold standard?
Because Watergate is nothing on this.
Watergate is like Romper Room compared to what Spygate did.
And I'm glad that more establishment figures like McCarthy, holding a leadership position on the Republican side of the House of Representatives, are finally out there saying what needs to be said.
Good for him.
That was a great analogy.
Well done.
I just wanted to start off with that.
We don't have a lot of video today.
So today's going to be more in-depth analysis because this stuff is just great.
So again, Katherine Harrod, she's, I believe, at CBS Harrod.
Check her out.
She comes right up on Twitter.
Catherine Herridge has been doing some great work.
She found a few really, really fascinating nuggets that, in light of what we already know from my reporting and my sources on the show, are even more interesting now that the IG report is out.
Now, these screenshots I'm about to show you, and for our podcast listeners, I'm going to read to you from the IG report.
To be clear, from her Twitter feed, out of respect for her, and it's her highlights in there.
Some stuff she found really interesting that when I read through it, I thought, gosh, yes, she's absolutely right in light of what we already know.
All right, let's get the screenshot number one from the IG report with Katherine Harridge's highlights.
This is about Jim Comey and how Comey Joe cannot get out of his own way.
This guy Has lied to you from day one.
We now know he lied.
It's documented that he lied.
And he still continues to portray himself as Judge Jeanine calls him, as Cardinal Comey, and as Sean Hannity calls him, the Super Patriot.
The guy, ladies and gentlemen, I don't know any other way to tell you this, is just simply a discredited liar.
Here we go.
Let's look at the IG report from Katherine Harridge's information here.
She highlights this part.
It's from the IG report, quote, Jim Comey told the Office of Inspector General that he informed President-elect Trump that the FBI did not know whether the allegations were true or false, talking about the dossier, and that the FBI, listen, was not investigating them.
This is in regards to the January 7, 2017 meeting.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is not true.
Comey is lying.
He is unquestionably telling you a known, documented falsehood.
He told President Trump, to be crystal clear, That he was not investigating the dossier or the allegations in the dossier as of just January 7, 2017.
Let's look at motive.
Motive matters, ladies and gentlemen.
Motive isn't always this positive or the lack thereof in a criminal case, just to be clear.
If I know Joe robbed a bank and I find this motive, great.
If I don't, I got video of Joe robbing a bank.
It doesn't matter whether I know the motive or not.
Right, right.
Joe can say, hey, space aliens told me to do it.
He still robbed the bank.
But motive helps.
Motive helps in getting co-conspirators locked up.
If Joe says his buddy told him to do it, well now we want to investigate the buddy too.
Comey's motive for lying here is irrelevant at this point.
We know he did it.
We may never get to the bottom.
Was it that he hated Trump, which seems likely?
Was it that he was totally incompetent?
Who knows?
But Comey is clearly suggesting here that on January 7th of 2017, when he briefed President Trump about the dossier, that he told Trump he was not investigating the charges.
That is false.
I'm going to get to another screenshot from Catherine Herridge in a minute that proves it's false.
But I want to show you it's false both before and after that.
They were investigating the dossier before, which Comey's already admitted.
I think Jim Comey, I'm not kidding folks, actually has forgotten what he's told people.
That's why he lies.
They were investigating the dossier before in an almost unprecedented fashion, desperate to prove it was true.
And before I get to that part, the January part, what have I told you on this show repeatedly over and over and over again about Comey?
Folks, the FBI is interviewing one of Steele's primary sources in January of 2017, right as this briefing and all this stuff is going on with President Trump.
Comey's telling Trump they're not investigating it.
Then why were you interviewing Christopher Steele's primary subsource?
Joe, would that fall under the not investigating Steele category, interviewing Steele sources?
Just asking.
I'm just throwing that out there around Christmas time.
You were not an investigator, correct?
But yeah, you're a smarter man than Comey.
I know that.
I'm not even, I'm not messing with it.
He really is.
You would consider that investigating, correct?
Yes, I would, Dan.
So thank you, Joe.
So he's lying.
They were investigating Steele's primary subsources that he said he was using for his dossier.
And the subsource is telling them this is all crap.
In January, as this is going on, these briefings, now you may say, well, Dan, maybe he meant that when he told Trump this, that they weren't investigating it going forward, or maybe he meant they just hadn't investigated it in the past and they were going to investigate it going forward.
No, that's not what he meant.
He was lying again.
They investigated Steele's dossier going forward and found nothing, and in the past they had investigated it and gated it too.
Here's another nugget from Catherine Herridge she finds in the IG report, which is brilliant.
So remember, Comey tells Trump, we're not investigating Steele or his dossier, it's all garbage, don't worry about it.
Okay, quote, IG report.
In mid-November and December of 2016, before the January briefing with Trump where he tells him, Comey tells him, we didn't investigate this stuff.
In November and December 2016, FBI officials traveled abroad and met with persons who previously had professional contacts with Steele or knowledge of his work.
According to Peter Stroke, one of the purposes of the trip was to obtain information regarding Steele.
Oh, from persons with direct knowledge of Steele's work-related performance in prior positions, ladies and gentlemen, this guy is a level one BS artist.
No, no, no, let's keep our categories consistent, especially with TDS.
Level six.
The TDS level six, you know, is the highest level of Trump derangement syndrome.
I don't know where we got that.
It just became a six out of nowhere.
Sounds good.
This is level six level insanity here.
The highest level of insanity.
Is he forgetting?
I'm not kidding.
Like, is Comey forgetting what he told people?
His investigators, or he did, traveled abroad nearly in an unprecedented manner to try to verify Steele's information, came up empty-handed, then interviewed Steele's source in January, and yet he's telling President Trump why.
Now, again, the motive in a legal proceeding doesn't matter.
It's explanatory only.
What matters in a legal proceeding, did you do it or not, can we prove it?
Right, right.
But it is explanatory for putting together a larger picture of what's going on here.
Why, motive then, getting back to motive, why is Comey briefing President Trump that don't worry the dossier is salacious and unverified in January of 2017 and telling him we're not investigating any of it.
Think this one through.
Joe, put your, as Miss Gilfeather, my fifth grade teacher, God rest her soul, used to say, I'm giving her two shout-outs, put your thinking caps on, folks.
Okay, Miss Gilfeather.
Kids?
That's what I, that's exactly how I sounded, by the way.
You know, before the whole Adam's apple thing.
Okay.
And the testosterone hits in.
Okay, so if you're putting your thinking cap on, why would Comey do that?
Why is he trying to take the temperature down on Donald Trump, who suspects now that he's the president-elect and is getting briefings?
He's a smart guy, he's not stupid.
President Trump suspects he's under investigation for something he didn't do.
Well, folks, it's obvious.
Comey is now desperate in mid-November, December, and January To prove at least some component of the dossier is true.
They're coming up empty-handed everywhere and they're starting to realize this thing is a hoax.
So in a race against time, before Donald Trump takes the office of the presidency, Joe, and calls him out, Comey, on investigating a hoax, remember, Donald Trump swearing in is only days away by the time January 7, 2017 comes around.
They're in a race against time to prove some of the dossiers true to justify their illegitimate spying actions before Donald Trump takes the reign, swears in and becomes the commander-in-chief himself.
So Comey wants to calm him down and take likely, I mean, again, a motive I'm speculating on, to be fair, but I'm speculating based on a fair amount of evidence that I believe Comey is trying to take the temperature down here.
So Trump isn't hot about what's happening and doesn't say to his staff, hey, I want answers and I want them now.
He wants Trump to go back to his staff and say, oh, don't worry, the bureau said it was all a hoax.
They didn't do any investigation into it.
Why?
Because, well, why, President Trump?
Well, Comey told me they didn't take it seriously.
They didn't investigate the dossier or anything like that.
Comey's lying!
He lied to Trump, showing you a history of deception with this guy.
He's a snake.
He's always been a snake.
It's now obvious.
This IG report paints a clear picture of a troubled man leading the most powerful federal law enforcement agency anywhere in the history of humankind, with unprecedented surveillance powers.
Folks, of all the segments we've done, this is the easiest to understand.
He's lying to Trump to get Trump to stop sniffing out the trail.
Don't worry, President Trump, or President-elect Trump, there's no trail.
We're not investigating this.
He's lying!
The IG report is crystal clear.
He is making this up.
Oh ho ho, Daniel.
I'm sorry, but Jimbo's going to get a bag of poop for Christmas.
That's terrible.
I thought you were going to say Cole, but yeah, the poop part is definitely a little worse.
Yeah, that would be a troubling critic.
Can you imagine that?
Opening up that bag?
Yeah, it'd be a little rough around the house.
Oh, I got more.
I got more.
I'd rather get the coal.
I've got a lot more.
This is going to get me.
Katherine Herridge says I found another sweet nugget in the IG report that I'm going to relate back to some other stuff we talked about.
It's going to show you again how this was a black op Intel operation, clearly from the start.
But the Intel operation, ladies and gentlemen, I believe was a two way street, which is very bad.
Wow.
I'll get to that in a second.
Some of you already know what I'm, hat tip 279, my buddy on this one for helping me out at this point.
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Okay, there's another takeaway in here from Catherine Herridge and I wanted this folks this is going to be this part of that other segment was easy to understand.
Comey's a liar.
Yeah.
He's trying to talk Trump off the ledge because he doesn't want Trump investigating Comey.
So Comey lied to Trump.
Oh, we're not investigating the dossier.
Sure you are.
You already said, your agents already said you were.
We know you interviewed a source.
This is a little more complicated, but the gist of this is to not bury the lead here, put the headline up front.
It's ladies and gentlemen, this was clearly an Intel op, a setup on Donald Trump.
Okay.
You're like, what's the breaking news there?
You've been talking about that for two and a half years.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, this Intel op appears to have been an information exchange.
Ladies and gentlemen, that is very, very dangerous.
Why?
Because folks, and Joe, I need you to put the audience on buzzman hat on here, buddy, okay?
Okay.
If you're getting information from an Intel source, an Intel source that says, Joe is working with a foreign government.
Here's the information I have.
And then you go and check that information Joe gives to you.
Joe's an Intel source, a spy.
And 99% of Joe's information is wrong.
And then you feed it back to the intel source in kind of a live exchange.
And then he modifies his information to give you back new information with the corrections you made.
Oh.
Not the intel source, the spy.
And then you say, look, the spy's right, Joe.
He checked his information.
Yeah.
And he found out new information.
Look, he's very, you see how that might be a little bit of an issue?
You get what I'm saying, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
These are... Do you really?
I'm serious because this is a stupid report.
Yeah, send it back to bad information and correct it.
Yeah, sure.
Corrected by you and you're saying, look, he corrected his information.
He's so smart.
No, no, you corrected it.
Yes.
The FBI.
Folks, this is not supposed to be a two-way street.
When it comes to this stuff, if they're feeding you information, their swearing is legitimate, then why do they need you to tell you it's legitimate?
Again, hat tip, Katherine Harrods.
Here is the third takeaway from the IG report.
Again, this is her highlights on here, but this is just a gem that feeds into a theory we've had for a long time.
Footnote 323.
This is up there with footnote 461 as a gem in this.
This is her handwriting as well.
Footnote 323, quote, Peter Strokes said that he believed that the FBI also may have furnished the Steele election reports to the intelligence service of a friendly foreign government, but he did not have a specific recollection of it.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
So now...
Stroke believes the FBI agent investigating Trump, that they're taking Steele's information, which again, I believe he's getting some of this, from intelligence services from foreign countries, which is a problem in and of itself, and I'll get to that in a second, and maybe from us too.
Steele's feeding the FBI information that's bogus, The Bureau is then feeding this in a circle of idiots back to other foreign intel services that are what?
What are they doing?
Using it to verify their own information?
Folks, are you seeing how... Where you start the circle of imbecile information is irrelevant.
So let's start with Steele.
Steele is putting together this dossier.
Feeds it to FBI agents.
FBI agents then feed it back to intel agents and friendly foreign governments, FFGs.
Devin Nunes in our interview this week said it was very suspicious in and of itself, that designation.
Why are we calling them friendly foreign governments?
He's never heard that before.
Who are then what?
Feeding it back to Steele to check his information?
You get it?
Yeah.
Foreign Intel, Christopher Steele, FBI, FBI, Foreign Intel, Christopher Steele, FBI.
Folks, this is not how this is supposed to work.
Circle of lies.
Yeah.
Circle of lies.
Now, what I'm not saying.
Is that the FBI and foreign intel aren't allowed to, and I'm not knocking all of them, there's obviously patriots in all these countries that do great work.
I'm not, when I say idiots, I'm talking about the idiots in this case.
I've always said this is a spy story for idiots and it's true.
The way it would, you may say, okay, now we pretty much understand that's the way it's not supposed to work.
You're not supposed to fact check your spy and then get new information after you fact check it.
That's your fact check that you pretend came from him.
The way it should work is this.
Steele gets information from what he claims are foreign sources.
The FBI vets the information.
The FBI finds out the information's false.
It doesn't then pass the information on to foreign intel.
What does it do, Joe?
It goes back to Steele and says, listen, I'm sorry, but we can't use you.
Your information is wrong.
This is not accurate.
We're going to have to pass this on to a FISA judge that your information is unreliable.
Then maybe Steele comes back later if he's an authentic source and says, you don't tell him what he did wrong.
Then in fact, then he just comes back with the same garbage.
Maybe he comes back later with new information and you say, okay, this is a little better.
That's not the way any of this works, folks!
I'm trying to think of, like, an analogy.
When I was in the Secret Service, if you have a source that comes in and says, there's a guy selling counterfeit money, you know, whatever, in Setauket, when I was in the Long Island office, and the guy comes, and you go and hit the house, and the guy's like, what are you talking about?
Like, you knock on the door.
I've never met this guy in my life.
You do a bunch of fact checks, you find out the story's totally made up.
It's just a disgruntled neighbor.
You don't go back and then feed the information to the source and say, hey, here's what I learned about your neighbor.
He's really a nice guy.
He's got a couple accounts in the bank over at M&T Bank.
And then the source comes back again, who lied about the neighbor, goes, hey, I found out he's got accounts at M&T Bank.
They may be counterfeit.
Yeah.
That's not how any of this works!
Hey, you know what?
To me, it's like a backdoor way of making corrections.
In other words, old Chris sends something up.
Uh, Jimbo robbed a bank with grey pants on.
Bingo!
The jury is in!
Jimbo!
Chris, we got it!
Brilliant!
He wore red pants!
Oh!
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Red Pants.
Let me submit that to you.
There you go.
This guy's great, this source.
He knows he has red pants now.
Yeah.
Exactly.
There you go.
It's not supposed to be a lifetime fact checker for your source.
Right, right, right, right.
Oh, man.
Now, why am I bringing this up now?
Well, that footnote is astounding.
Stroke is sharing unverified gossip, bar talk, according to Steele's own sources, with a friendly foreign government who's just probably assuming, Joe, that it has the imprimatur of the U.S.
government now that they're sharing.
In other words, the government thinks it's legit.
So the friendly foreign government's like, wow, man, we're onto something.
Let's double down on Steele's information.
Why does this matter?
Well, I want to show you first an FBI document.
And this is where it gets a little complicated.
But again, it's a spy story for idiots.
Not for you, idiot.
For idiots, the idiots who did it.
You'll figure it out.
This FBI document first documents a relationship between a State Department official, Kathleen Kavalech and Bruce Ohr.
Put that up for a second.
This is from an FBI doc.
Bruce Ohr advised Kathleen Kavalech.
She was Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs at the State Department.
That would be, he'd be meeting with redacted representatives in order to discuss potential Russian influence in their upcoming presidential election.
Or reminded the interviewing agents Kavalech did speak with Steele several times prior to the 2016 presidential election, believes Steele's reporting had been generated from mainly, and that's redacted, I believe it says mainly Russian sources.
What does all that mean?
It's a lot of fancy talk in an FBI document for saying the number four official in the Justice Department, Bruce Ohr, whose wife is working for Fusion GPS, who's working for Hillary Clinton, is for some bizarre reason working with a State Department official with no law enforcement powers at all, Kathleen Kavalech.
That State Department official's job is what, Joe?
To do diplomacy with foreign governments, notably in the region governing Russia and other areas.
Strange.
Why is a Justice Department official talking to a diplomat who may be doing liaison work with foreign governments?
By the way, a Justice official whose wife is working for the company hired by Hillary Clinton, and a State Department official, Kavalech, who has connections to people who work with the Clintons.
Because, ladies and gentlemen, again, it is a circle of imbeciles, self-correcting and exchanging information they haven't verified.
They're like, well, what do you mean?
Justice Department, wife's working for Fusion GPS, meeting with this Kathleen Kavalec.
Who else met Kathleen Kavalec?
Oh, Christopher Steele, whose strokes indicating whose information may have been shared with friendly foreign governments.
Notably, who Kavalec was probably talking to.
Let's go to this.
Here are the handwritten notes of Kathleen Kavalech, who met with Christopher Steele, remember the date, on October 11, 2016, right before they get the warrant to spy.
Look at this handwritten note.
You'll notice down, this is the handwritten notes Kathleen Kavalech takes while she's interviewing Christopher Steele.
Why is a State Department official interviewing an FBI spy that used to work for a foreign government?
Why?
Because it's an information laundering operation, that's why.
There's a note at the end, clear as day, you can see it right here.
Cohen, Prague.
Meaning, Steele told Kathleen Kavalec, remember the date, on October 11th of 2016, something about Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen.
Going to Prague.
To do what?
To take payments for the alleged collusion scandal between the Trump campaign and the Russians.
Right.
Remember what the dossier indicates.
I'm going to show you pieces of the dossier in a minute.
That again, feed into the lead here that this should not have been a two-way street.
Were we feeding information back to steel and back to foreign governments that, like Joe just said, are automatically self-correcting to make the information seem more legit because the sources could never get anything right?
Well, what does Cohen-Prague have to do with it?
So the allegation in the dossier is that Michael Cohen goes to Prague to coordinate this whole Russian collusion scheme, Trump's lawyer.
I want you to look at this October 19th dated dossier.
This is one of Steele's dossiers he's giving to the FBI that they use to spy on Trump.
And I want you to read this very specific part, hat tip 279.
The Kremlin insider, this is the one that's supposedly given Steele information, was unsure the identities of the PA officials with whom Michael Cohen met secretly in August, or the exact dates and locations of the meetings.
It's important.
October 19th, 2016.
Christopher Steele's own dossier says that he's unsure of where the meeting took place where the collusion thing was going to be hatched and paid for.
But Joe, I just showed you Kathleen Kavalec's notes from October 11th, eight days earlier.
Where clearly, when she's interviewing Steele, Steele says, Cohen, Prague.
It's in her notes from Steele.
Ladies and gentlemen, what else are we to surmise from that?
They're Kathleen Kavalec's handwritten notes, literally, of what Steele's telling her in the interview.
So on October 11th, Steele, all of a sudden, knows about Cohen, Prague, but on a memo, a dossier memo, dated October 19th, he's unsure of the location.
Why are you unsure?
Is somebody checking this for you?
Oh, oh, no. I mean, someone is someone in the US government working with a foreign spy,
working with Hillary Clinton, Christopher Steele, and fact checking his information.
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Let me walk you through A possible, granted, scenario here.
So Steele tells Kavalech on October 11th that this whole thing's being coordinated by Trump's lawyer in Prague.
October 19th, he's unsure again of where it's happening, according to his sources.
But then on October 20th, this happens.
Here is another dossier memo the next day!
Or dated the next day.
Kremlin Insider reports Trump lawyer Cohen's secret meeting with Kremlin officials in August 2016 was held in Prague!
Now he knows again, Joe!
Crazy!
This is crazy!
Here's a Prague, there's a Prague, no Prague, Prague!
Prague's out, Prague's in, Prague is back!
No Prague, baby.
We need like a Broadway musical about the Cohen-Prague thing!
Here's a pepper.
There's a pepper.
There's a Prague everywhere!
Prague's here!
Prague's out!
Prague's gone!
Prague's in!
It's back again!
I've been to Prague.
It's beautiful, by the way.
Best security service I ever worked with, too.
I went there as a secret service agent.
Loved it.
Those guys had their act together.
Let me just speculate for a moment, if I may, about what may be going on here now that we know that the FBI likely was transmitting Steele's information back to friendly foreign governments, who I believe are giving information to Steele, who's giving it back to the FBI in a circle of stupid.
So Steele comes in, he's talking to Kavalech, says, hey man, this Cohen thing went down in Prague, coordinated this whole thing with Trump and the Russians, collusion, oh man.
Kavalech, who we know through her notes, is doing some checks because in her notes she indicates she's checking foreign travel records.
What if Kavalech, Joe, checks Tex or some other system, a federal system about Cohen's travel records, and they come up with no Michael Cohen in Prague?
Does that get back to Steele?
Who then in October 19th revises his memo?
Hey, listen, we don't know where the meeting happened.
But then there's somebody else, like a friendly foreign government who's probably getting hold of this information too from the State Department.
There's a friendly foreign government come back to see, he'll say, no, no, we think we've got it now.
We think we checked another system and Cohen was in Prague.
So then the next day he revises it back again.
Folks, Kavalec was checking travel records.
It's in her notes.
My guess here.
Again, this is speculation, but I don't think there's one major Spygate bombshell we've missed.
I'm not kidding.
Maybe one about the horse trade show.
I'm not so sure anymore.
I think that's changed because of the impeachment thing and the Democrats being more devious than I thought.
I'm reasonably confident that this was due to an information exchange, and that someone feeds back to Steele.
Hey, we're not so sure that's the same Michael Cohen in Prague.
Ladies and gentlemen, Michael Co- Dan Bongino, thankfully, is a very uncommon name.
It's great for branding because there's only, I believe, one Dan Bongino.
I mean, I don't know any more on Facebook or anyone else.
There may be another one, maybe a Dan Bongiorno.
Ladies and gentlemen, Michael Cohen.
Is an unbelievably common name.
Probably on par with Brown or Smith is the last.
It's very common.
Oh yeah.
Extremely common.
Yeah.
May I suggest to you that a check is done on Michael Cohen's name.
They find out it's the wrong Cohen, Michael Cohen in Prague, and then someone comes back to steal with their own check.
And in an effort to push steel back towards more firm ground on this is no, no, we're pretty sure that's him.
Well, what makes you say that, Dan?
They were certain, uncertain, and certain again?
Remember the McClatchy report?
Those two reporters that were getting leaks from the Intel community?
Yeah.
The McClatchy report that said, no, no, Michael Cohen's cell phone was in Prague.
Where did that come from?
Cell phone pings from Michael Cohen in Prague, where did that come from?
Did that come from us?
Or did that come from a friendly foreign government after they got word that a check of our own system, that Cohen wasn't in Prague?
Folks, do you understand, as Joe so just terrifically spelled out there, and I hope we did too, that that's why this two-way street of Intel is dangerous?
If a source is a source, he's going to present to you information you can verify.
If you can't verify it, he's not a source!
If you're live-time fact-checking him, allowing him to write about Prague, unwrite about Prague, and write about Prague again, it gives the appearance in front of a judge that the guy's information is verified, when in fact it's not verified, it's you doing the verification, not the source!
In other words, police state spying!
We're just using sources that say anything, and then we're fact-checking them to make sure they get to the narrative we want, not the narrative he actually told us.
Right.
I can't believe people are falling for this.
And by the way, I'm actually stunned because we picked up on this, me and 279 and others.
Actually, hat tip to him because this was really, this was his baby.
I'm actually stunned nobody else has picked up on this.
I've pitched it to people, they won't remember.
How is it that Christopher Steele told Kathleen Kavalech on October 11th that Cohen went to Prague to coordinate this and wrote a memo just eight days later on October 19th, known as the dossier, one of the memos, that said he didn't know?
Folks, that's a big deal!
Do you understand Steele suggesting in his dossier that Cohen going to Prague Was the centerpiece of the whole scam.
That Cohen was coordinating this for Trump with the Russians in Prague.
Ladies and gentlemen, if that didn't happen, which it didn't, the whole collusion story is a hoax.
How is nobody catching on to this?
And then Steele revises his story the next day?
Does anybody else find that weird?
He was in Prague, we don't know.
He was in Prague again, now we know.
Now, in light of that new footnote Catherine Harridge put on her Twitter feed, now I think we've got a better story as to why that's happening.
Lifetime fact-checking, folks!
Isn't that great?
Imagine that, a case against Barack Obama.
You're investigating Obama and the IRS scandal.
You have a source that Obama personally ordered every conservative group in America—imagine that happened?
Every conservative group in America to be targeted by the IRS.
Just imagine this, and we investigated him.
By the way, they did target these conservative groups.
But just imagine, put yourself, reverse the roles, Democrats, if you're listening for a minute.
And the FBI says they have a source, and the source who claims to have Obama emails keeps revising his story, and the emails are actually not from Barack Obama, but from Joey Obama, a different guy totally.
And then they revise the story.
Don't say that came from Obama.
It didn't come from Obama.
And then he changes his story.
No, no, it came from Joey Obama!
But I have other information about Obama.
Your whole story's garbage, dude!
Your whole story!
Crazy, man.
I don't know how nobody else is catching on to this.
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Okay. So getting back to the show, you know, I like the Wall Street Journal opinion section.
They aren't always, um, on our side and a lot of conservative issues, but they do a decent job.
I guess you could categorize them as kind of moderate Republicans, but they have a fascinating article up.
They've done a really good job with Spygate, especially Kim Strassel.
I know Joe really likes her work.
I love it too.
She's just nailed it to the wall.
But they ask a big question in this op-ed today that again, has, Incredibly, even given the hacks in the media, escaped scrutiny by most people.
Here's a headline from this Wall Street Journal piece about the Mueller probe, which I think we should all, and they kind of answer the question they ask.
Robert Mueller's dossier dodged Wall Street Journal editorial board.
They asked the question, why did the special counsel not tell America that Christopher Steele's information was false?
Folks, if we now know, and this is how the show ties back, we like to weave everything together.
That Comey lied to the president, said they weren't investigating the dossier.
We now know they were in mid-November and December.
We know they actually sent people overseas to try to verify this and came up with a big fat goose egg.
Nothing.
They know by November, December, right after the first FISA warrant in October, October, the FISA warrants issued, November, December, they know this is false.
At the latest, The latest.
January of 2017.
The latest.
Comey and his FBI are interviewing SteelSources, who tells him this thing is all garbage, it's bar talk, it's crap, it's gossip.
Mueller is not appointed, ladies and gentlemen, until five months later in May of 2017.
Mueller knows from the start this thing is Joe's Christmas gift of human waste.
It's Mm-hmm.
Garbage!
Yeah.
He knows.
Mueller's not stupid.
So the Journal asked the question, well, what the heck was Mueller doing?
Why was he even—what were we investigating?
So the Journal answers its own question.
Well, there's only two possible scenarios, and the only reason I bring it up is because I know self-praise stinks, but I brought this up when Mueller was appointed in May.
That Mueller's job was what, Joe?
To save the reputation of the FBI.
Cleanup man, yeah.
Excuse me.
Exactly, yeah.
Mueller's only job in May is not to investigate collusion, folks.
He knows it's a hoax.
He knows it's a hoax.
Forget it!
Mueller knows the minute he's appointed, the whole thing's a hoax.
So what's he doing?
He is desperately—remember the revised scope memo, where he gets the August 2nd memo, and we believe it includes things that include investigating the dossier?
Why is Rod Rosenstein giving Mueller the power to investigate the dossier?
Joe, because they're desperate to believe it's true.
And they say, listen, if Comey couldn't verify it in December, November, and January, maybe you can, Bob.
Here's a, you know, $20, $30 million budget.
Go prove this dossier true.
And remember that group, that liberal group that's paying the former Senate staffer, Dan Jones, who's still trying to verify the dossier when Mueller's appointed.
Folks, they were desperate.
That's the first, they answered their own question.
They were desperate to save the reputation of the FBI.
How?
By proving, Joe, at least one key element of this dossier that led to the FISA war was true, and they couldn't do it because it was all a hoax.
So Mueller is buying time, and the second thing, the conclusion they come to is Weissman, Mueller's bulldog, hates Trump, which he does.
So Weissman and Mueller, in this dream team of buffoonery, Go out for months, a year, over a year to desperately try to prove at least one element of the dossier true so they can say, what Joe?
Oh, my bad.
The FBI screwed up, but at least this was true.
Yep.
And they keep it going forever with the hope and the prayer.
That Trump will be impeached due to media and liberal pressure before they have to come to the written conclusion, which they do in the end, that the whole thing, the collusion thing, is a hoax, but they knew it the whole time.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is a total, complete farce.
All right, one quick story before we go.
Another great story in the Wall Street Journal about tax cut lies.
Ladies and gentlemen, some good news.
The economy is motoring along.
The Trump's tax cuts are doing great work.
Gary Cohen and Kevin Hassett, who worked with the Trump administration, have a great op-ed out.
Tax reform is delivered for workers in the Wall Street Journal today.
And one of the takeaways I just wanted to make sure you understood is everything you've been told about this is a lie, ladies and gentlemen.
Trump tax cuts, they're destroying the middle class and lower income workers.
That's not true, ladies and gentlemen.
It's totally made up.
It's fabricated.
Here's a quote from the piece.
The numbers are striking.
Over the past year, nominal wages for the lowest, liberals listen up, lowest 10% of American earners, I'm not calling them earners, jumped 7%.
The growth rate for those without a high school diploma was 9%.
In other words, ladies and gentlemen, people in the lower-income categories, low-wage earners, are the ones benefiting the most from the Trump tax cuts.
Everything you're being told by the Democrats is a lie.
Look at this chart from the Wall Street Journal.
Pollack reminded me this morning that we had from last week.
Now, I know charts are hard for liberals.
I'll explain it to you, audio listeners.
There's a blue line of average hourly earnings going up.
The blue line represents low-wage industries.
There's a tan line, middle-wage industry wage growth, and a yellow line for high-wage industries.
Ladies and gentlemen, who had the biggest wage growth?
The blue line.
Low-wage industries.
Ladies and gentlemen, for those watching on YouTube, youtube.com slash Bongino.
Low-wage industries here, wage growth.
High-wage industries here.
What I'm doing is I'm putting one hand above the other.
Low-wage income growth, high.
High wage income growth, low.
I know this is hard, folks.
I know you don't get it if you're a liberal, but try to do basic math, facts, and statistics just once in a while.
