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Huge news, folks.
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An exclusive.
Our first huge exclusive here on the Dan Bongino Show.
Lieutenant General Mike Flynn.
Yes.
We'll be interviewing him later today to be broadcast tomorrow, Thursday.
The 3rd, is it?
Yes, because my birthday is on Friday.
46!
Who knew?
Now everyone.
This is going to be good.
He is an amazing patriot, and it is a tremendous honor that he was willing to talk to us and sit down.
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I know producer Joe's pretty stoked about that interview too.
We were just talking about it.
How are you?
Fine, sir.
Yes, old man.
I am stoked about the interview.
Yeah.
I know.
I had to get that in there too.
46.
You're 10 years older than me.
I know!
Mom and Obe, you're the oldest.
But I did, I said this to you, I was joking.
No, it was Paula.
How, remember back in, you know, I was born in the, in the seventies, you were born a little bit before that, but remember back in a day, like the non PC world, like anyone who was old, you called them old man.
Like I had my neighbor, he was like old man, Joe, an old man, Mr. Say, but we, and nobody took offense to it.
You said that now forget it.
You'd be like, you'd be on the front page of a, of media every day.
Oh my gosh.
But that was it.
That was when we were kids.
They were like, oh yeah, old man, Joe's out there.
Let's go sit with him on the porch.
And we would just BS with them all day.
Now everything's PC.
You'd probably be sued out of existence for saying that.
So you are not old man Joe, but yes, I am getting older, my good friend.
So thank you.
You're cool.
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All right, folks, today's going to be stacked.
I got this Iran hit, some inside baseball, and this first story, good bill, bad bill.
I got Section 230 stuff, James O'Keefe, loaded show.
Please don't go anywhere.
Let's get right to it.
Number one, good bill, bad bill.
What do I mean?
It was a bill in Congress?
What bill are we talking about?
Talking about Bill Buckner?
No, no, we're talking about Bill Barr, the Attorney General.
So, we had a good Bill moment and a bad Bill moment yesterday.
Let's start with the good stuff, because it's a holiday season and we all want to be cheery.
We can get to the bad stuff in a minute.
Washington Examiner, a story that'll be up in the show notes.
You can always access our show notes at bungino.com slash newsletter.
It's free.
The newsletter is the show notes.
Read this article up there by the great, one of our favorites, Jerry Dunleavy from the Washington Examiner.
Attorney General Bill Barr appoints John Durham as special counsel to investigate further criminality in Russia inquiry.
Before we get to the screen caps from this piece, a couple caveats.
Many of you are probably saying, what do you mean?
I thought John Durham was already appointed as a special counsel to investigate the Democrats and law enforcement community's role in spying on the Trump team.
No, he was basically just a special assistant and did not have the title special counsel.
A lot of you are probably like, who the hell cares?
Why does that matter?
Oh, because now it's on paper and it's official that he's a special counsel.
Which makes a few things very difficult in the event if, if Biden wins this election.
Makes it very difficult for a potential President Biden.
Damn, we're not talking about President Biden.
I don't want to talk about it either.
Because I don't think he won this thing.
But if it did happen, naming him special counsel, I'll get to this in a second, makes it really, really hard For a Joe Biden administration to do anything other than itch and moan about it with a bee in front of it?
I'll explain why in a minute with some killer video from the great Harmeet Dhillon.
Barr has effectively inoculated John Dorham right now.
If he was just a regular old lawyer in the Justice Department, I'm absolutely sure a disastrous, if Joe Biden administration, would make John Dorham investigating the Spygate scandal, would make his life pretty miserable.
Wouldn't everybody agree?
Want to go to the gallery here?
Paula?
Yeah, head nod from Paula.
Joe?
Head nod.
Miserable.
Again, meatloaf.
Absolutely miserable.
Two out of three ain't bad.
I never count.
So, from the Washington Examiner piece, here's a screencap.
This was done a little while ago, though.
It wasn't done yesterday.
Why did we read about this yesterday if this disappointment was done a little while ago?
Not disappointment.
This appointment.
It's my queens coming out.
Quote, this is from the authorization letter.
The special counsel, John Durham, is authorized to investigate, I want you to listen at the end, something very important comes up here, to investigate whether any federal official, employee, or any other person or entity, pretty wide ranging, right?
Violated the law in connection with the intelligence, counterintelligence, or law enforcement activities directed at the 2016 presidential campaigns.
Campaigns, Joe!
What, campaigns?
Oh, don't go anywhere, Paula.
Leave that up, please.
Because some others would like to read ahead on Rumble.
Joe, he said campaigns.
Plural.
That's interesting.
Because I thought this was just directed at the Trump campaign.
No, no.
If you listen to my show every day, you know that's not true.
Because I've already talked about how this was directed at multiple campaigns, including Ted Cruz and Ben Carson.
Okay.
He goes on.
What the special counsel's investigating.
Also individuals associated with those campaigns.
Wow, campaigns?
Joe, it's there again, campaigns.
That's just so weird.
I thought it was just about Trump, them spying on Trump.
And individuals associated with the administration of President Donald J. Trump.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Paula, leave it.
I know it's a lot, Paula, but you gotta leave the screencast.
She's like itching to take the screenshot out.
She's like...
With the administration of President Trump.
I thought they didn't spy on President Trump.
I thought they spied on candidate Trump.
You gotta learn to read this stuff.
That's what I'm here for.
Campaigns, President Trump.
I thought they only spied on the campaign.
Very weird how Barr would put this in writing.
It goes on.
This is the longest screenshot ever.
It's driving Paula crazy.
Including, but not limited to, Crossfire Hurricane and the investigation of Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
Wow!
And it goes on.
One more thing.
If the special counsel believes it is necessary and appropriate, the special counsel is authorized to prosecute federal crimes arising from his, that's Mueller's, investigation of these matters.
Hmm.
Huh?
There's a lot in there.
Now, caveat emptor, buyer beware, you know my take on this.
No, folks, listen.
I read all the reddits.
I love The Donald.
It's like a blog they have with TheDonald.Win or whatever.
I love it.
I read you guys all the time.
AR15.com.
I read everything.
I love it because I love feedback on the show.
I love it.
I take it in like a Hoover vacuum.
I love it because the show is for you.
And when you're disappointed in something on the show, I'm disappointed.
When you love something, it makes me feel good.
But the show is about you.
It's not about me.
I can only listen once.
The one amount, the one piece of feedback I always get that stings, and I think it's confusion, so I let a lot of it go, is people sometimes on, whether it's Reddit or The Donald or AR15.com or other blogs or social media, they'll say, Dan's just hyping us up that Barr's gonna do something.
Joe, you're a regular listener to the show?
Yes, I am.
Part of your job, like your company works with us?
We have never said that.
I have repeatedly said multiple times.
I have lost total faith in the Justice Department, and candidly, between you and I. I will be stunned if anybody else is prosecuted outside of Kevin Kleinsmith, the FBI lawyer.
I'm not kidding.
I'll be stunned.
Pleasantly stunned, but stunned.
I am not setting you up for anything or hyping anything up.
I'm simply suggesting to you that Barr's not an idiot.
He's a D.C.
guy.
A little more D.C.
guy than I thought, sadly.
That's not a compliment.
And I'm gonna explain that in a minute, too.
But he's not dumb, Arrowhead.
He is not done.
I'm dumb.
Done.
Dumb or done.
Dumb or dumber or done and done.
He's not.
Neither one.
Yeah.
You have to read between the lines in that.
Whether he does anything about it, I don't know.
I already told you I have very little faith in any of these people anymore.
Zero.
But you don't put down in writing, Joe, that you're investigating, authorizing the special counsel to investigate presidential campaigns with an S. Campaigns?
I thought this was about Trump.
No, no, not if you listen to this show.
Wait till I tell you about the intelligence-gathering operation overseas on the other campaigns.
You older listeners already know about that.
This wasn't just directed at Trump.
You have to ask him, where was George Papadopoulos first before he became associated with the Trump campaign?
Oh, that's right, Ben Carson's campaign.
That's kind of weird.
It's crazy.
It also says that they're looking into, the special counsel is going to be looking into the administration of President Trump and any illegal activity.
I thought they, I thought this was about the Trump campaign.
Is he suggesting there may have been illegal activities directed at the Trump administration?
I don't know, but he wrote it down.
And for me not to tell you would be just stupid.
Is he gonna do anything about it?
Again, my faith is pretty much zero.
But it's there.
Finally, the big kahuna of all three.
My father used to call everything the big kahuna.
Who even knows who the kahuna is?
Was it the kahuna, dude?
I don't know.
I don't know who the kahuna is.
But he used to call everything the big kahuna.
The big kahuna is the last line.
That he is authorizing an investigation into potential criminality and illegality on behalf of Bob Mueller?
Oh!
That's the greatest line ever!
In the most incredible, ironic twist in human history, the special counsel has a special counsel investigating the special counsel for potential illegality the special counsel committed while being investigated by a new special counsel.
Remember that old show before Kevin Spacey got tired?
House of Cards, or got fired, excuse me.
Who knows, we did some other stuff.
But remember that show?
This is like a total House of Cards episode.
Conservatives should do their own, like, real House of Cards.
This is amazing.
And by amazing, I don't mean anything's gonna happen.
I just mean it's amazing that he even put this down on paper.
Bob Mueller has to be an Andy Weissman Their team of insaneocrats has to be sitting there scratching their head like, holy stuff.
We didn't sign up for that.
Now we are going to be under federal investigation.
I go and scratch my nose.
My daughter was sick.
Yeah, I get a piece of paper here.
Wow.
That's kind of weird.
You like that, huh?
It's all right.
It's my show.
Still love you.
It's kind of weird, right?
The special counsel now is going to be forced to produce themselves for interviews and other things like that.
Again, is anything going to happen?
Eh.
If I was a betting man, which I wasn't in my youth, but I am now.
I don't mean like sports betting.
I mean, I take some big gambles.
So I'll bet on that.
I would bet you the odds are pretty low.
But don't think for a second that he put that down on paper, Bill Barr, because you're a D.C.
guy.
Yeah, let's be honest, you're a D.C.
guy.
He put that down on paper by mistake.
Joe, are you picking up what I'm laying down here?
Yeah, Stan, I am.
Paula?
Mm-hmm.
Okay, thank you.
Is anybody getting a head nod out of there?
All right, like I say, meatloaf, two out of three ain't bad.
So the excellent Harmeet Dhillon, who I adore, bulldog lawyer out of California who takes, who on the, F's to give scale, if you know what I mean, has zero F's left to give.
She doesn't give an mmm about anything.
I'm telling you, there's no in the F's file.
Her F's file is zero to give.
Doesn't give any F's anymore.
She was on last night on Shannon Bream's show on Fox.
And she wanted to comment on this, that Bill Barr appointed John Durham officially now.
Back in October this happened.
I'll get to the significance of the date in a minute.
In October, Dan, it's December.
I know!
I'm gonna get to that.
I'm gonna get to that.
The date of that's important.
Why announce it now?
Ah, good Bill, bad Bill.
But Harmeet Dhillon wanted to talk about We're gonna talk about Jerry Nadler.
You know, you know Jerry.
Remember Jerry, who waddled off the stage at that press conference?
Looked like he, I don't know, diaper was full or whatever.
So we're gonna call Jerry, Jerry Big Dumps Nadler, after Joe Biden, after Big Dumps Biden, but for different reasons.
So Jerry Big Dumps, he had something to say about it.
Jerry Nadler, corruptocrat, you know, liberal hack, who has been involved heavily in all of the PP tape stuff and the fake impeachment hoax.
So Jerry Nadler came out and lost his mind over this.
Oh my gosh, a special counsel, this is abuse.
Just to be clear, you were okay, Jerry Big Dumbs.
He was okay with appointing Bob Mueller as a special counsel about the pee-pee tape, about investigating a pee-pee hoax.
He was totally cool with that.
And yet John Durham, who's already successfully prosecuted someone, an FBI lawyer, for lying in the case used to spy on Trump.
He's definitely not okay with that, Joe.
So Jerry, man of principle, Jerry Nadler.
So Harmony Dillon, last line of Fox, just unloads on Big Dump's Nadler.
This is terrific.
Check this out.
Congressman Nadler is a joke.
He has no standing to demand explanations on this or any other matter.
We should not forget that the prior administration to President Trump set in motion a lot of wheels that were used to investigate him unjustly for a long time.
That shouldn't happen again.
So what we're having here is an attorney general making sure that an existing investigation into existing wrongdoing is completed.
And even with this appointment, it doesn't guarantee that because whoever The next Attorney General is, if there's a change of Attorneys General, will ultimately have the authority to do a thumbs up or thumbs down on whatever is recommended by a special counsel.
So I think it is a distinction without much of a difference, but it does seem to imply some longevity in this overlong investigation.
I love Harmeet.
Again, the F's file is zero.
There's nothing.
It gives no about, it doesn't, just like tells it like it.
I love candor.
I just adore it.
So she calls out Big Dumps and she's like, hey, he's demanding an explanation for the special counsel.
He demands nothing.
You get nothing.
You get zero Big Dumps because you have zero credibility.
You burden your credibility.
You wanted a special counsel for the peepee hoax.
Hard pass on you and credibility on special counsels.
But she brings up an interesting point.
And she does it in a... Did you catch it?
I don't know if you caught it.
Did you get... Some of you... All right.
Did you get... Some of you may have caught it.
At the end, she says something interesting.
But she does it in a way that's... She kind of slides in the back on that one.
She doesn't come right through the front door and announce it.
I'm at the party.
Hey, I didn't see you come in.
Yeah, I came in...
She says, that's really not a big deal.
She says that with a wink and a nod.
I'll wink and nod for her.
She's really not a big deal.
She does like a big wink and nod, but she doesn't wink at all because she's, you know, she's being like coy about it.
It's not a big deal.
The next attorney general could just, you know, fire the special counsel, which Joe is an accurate statement.
If God forbid Joe Biden wins this election, he could demand that John Durham be fired a special counsel.
Well, what's the wink and a nod?
Ladies and gentlemen, Harmeet Dhillon's not stupid.
She knows full well that all of these hack Democrats, Sleazy Schiff, Big Dump Snadler, Pelosi, Eric Smarmywell, whatever his name is, she knows all of these lunatics are on tape telling the Trump team, if you dare, remember this Joe, dare fire special counsel Mueller, You know, the pee-pee investigator.
If you dare fire the pee-pee guy, we will accuse you of obstruction and impeachment.
Oh, no, they thought those tapes disappeared.
They thought those tapes magically disappeared.
No, no, they're still out there.
So, Harmeet, who's smarter than these idiots, the Democrats, she's giving you a wink and a nod, whether you picked it up or not, as most of you probably did.
She says, yeah, no big deal.
You can just fire him, door him if you want.
Knowing full well that if you do that, we will unleash Hades.
What they're going to do in Congress?
I don't know.
We have a bunch of weak-kneed Republicans.
But us, at least, people trying to fight this fight, what we will do is unleash hell on them and demand Biden get impeached if, God forbid, he wins, because you did what you warned us no president should do.
Sleazy Schiff and Big Dump Snadler said it on tape, did they not?
You dare fire the special counsel, Joe?
That's interference.
That's obstruction.
That's a crime.
You gotta be impeached.
Okay.
That's why Nadler's losing his- You get the wink at- Paul, it makes sense?
For honesty, I didn't pick that up, to tell you the truth.
I did not pick that up.
Just to let you know.
That's what I love about Joe.
See?
That's why everybody loves Joe.
He's a good audience on Buzzmeat.
He's like, he could have made himself look good.
I would have never called him out because I love the guy.
He's honest.
I didn't pick it up.
I'm telling you, that's the first thing I caught about this.
It's Harmeet.
She's very sleek in the way she does business.
Me?
I'm a little more open and out there and stuff.
I just go right at it.
But she is giving you a wink and a nod.
And she's almost daring them Okay, fire a dorm.
We'll see what happens.
What'll happen with the rhinos up on the hill?
Who knows?
They're pretty gutless, a lot of them.
But with us?
Even Paula.
Paula's like, you have no idea how much Paula can't stand DC rhinos.
Really?
You think I can't stand them?
It's geometric.
She hates them.
She thinks they do nothing, absolutely nothing, ever.
Ever?
Never, ever.
So she's probably right.
But Harmeet knows what's up.
Alright, I want to get to the second part of this, because you may be like, alright, so it sounds like Bill Barr did a pretty good thing.
Slipped all that stuff in there.
Presidential campaigns.
Investigating them.
Investigating President Trump.
The attack against him.
I thought it was against the campaign.
And then an investigation of Bob Mueller.
We'll see what happens.
Paul is nodding her head like, nothing's ever going to happen with these clowns.
Well, not on this show.
Something always happens.
I'll get to the second part.
Bad Bill in a second.
That was good Bill, bad Bill.
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All right, so I told you there was a trade-off.
Good bill, looks like Bill Barr did something good.
Here's, I think, a little bit of bad Bill Barr.
I'm sorry, we got to call it like it is, folks.
I'm not really happy with this at all.
So, a statement was put out yesterday.
Of course, it was used by the media, totally misread, because they're in the media, which inherently means their IQs have not passed the triple-digit mark yet.
Not a lot of aptitude or achievement in that whole media branch.
That's why they majored in journalism, right?
But they took this statement and ran with it.
So let's go to the Wall Street Journal.
Saw some coverage this morning.
This is an ill-advised statement.
I'm really sorry to the Department of Justice.
You know, when you do good things, I'll have your back.
But this was just dumb.
So the Wall Street Journal, their editorial board, they just love to hammer Trump a lot, by the way.
But, you know, we got to cover it from all angles and give you what everyone else is saying, too.
Trump's fraud claims hit a bar.
Clever play there, folks.
Bar.
B-A-R-R.
The AG says the feds have seen no evidence that would overturn Joe Biden's victory.
That's actually not what they said.
Maybe you should clear up your headline a little bit.
This was an ill-advised statement.
I'm going to put the screenshot up of the statement in a moment.
But I want to, before I get to that, there are two takeaways from what I'm about to read to you in the statement that the Wall Street Journal ledgers found.
No fraud!
That's not exactly what they said.
You know, precision journalism stuff.
Come on, guys.
You can do better.
And ladies.
I want you to keep a few key phrases and words in mind about this statement.
Number one, dreaded air quotes here.
Barr's statement has, to date, For the journal and others, that means they haven't seen it to date.
Joe, that means like, as of yet.
So far.
I know we need a translator.
So thank you.
Thank you.
Joe said even more beautifully than me.
But that's why they majored in journalism.
A lot of people leave that out.
Of course, that part's kind of important, right?
The next is scale.
That word's going to be important.
I'm not talking about scales on fish, but scale.
And the other one, they even incorporate Joe saying, so far, we haven't seen anything.
I want you to pay attention to that.
All right, put up the screenshot and you'll see what I'm talking about.
All right.
Quote, Bill Barr can take the heat.
And on Tuesday, the stalwart AG guaranteed he'll get it when he said, quote, to date, Again, can I just... I don't mean to... I'm going to switch out to Wall Street Show.
This is Joseph.
So far...
We have not seen fraud on a scale, scale not a fish scale, on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election.
Okay, that to date thing's kind of important, to Joe at least, not to the journalism geniuses.
Barr told the AP that allegations of particularized fraud with some that quote, potentially cover a few thousand votes are being explored.
But President Trump is down by 150,000 votes in Michigan, 80,000 in PA, 20,000 in Wisconsin.
And for the idea that voting machines were compromised, Mr. Barr said the feds, quote, have looked into that and he's quoting Joe Armacost.
So far, beautiful job.
I didn't even plan that.
We have, I didn't let him cheat to make up for not knowing the other thing.
This is him.
And so far we haven't seen anything to substantiate that.
Okay, maybe important to note then, one, this is an ill-advised statement because if you haven't seen anything, Joe, just throwing it out there so far, maybe you should shut up until you do or you have a conclusive answer.
Just throwing that out there.
I mean, it's not like I haven't done federal investigations, huh?
You don't ever come out and give a statement and go, listen, We're investigating this counterfeiter, major counterfeiter, passing supernotes all over Long Island.
Hey, so far we don't have that much evidence, but we're getting there.
Maybe have it tomorrow, maybe the next day, next week looks good.
Who knows?
Everybody be like, what kind of stupid statement is that?
Maybe just shut up.
I'm just throwing that out there until you can issue something conclusive.
Sorry, guys.
Like I said, I gave you the good bill, bad bill.
Sometimes I write myself notes.
Don't write yourself notes about jokes.
They should just have... Joe, just show us when you have something to say, right?
Yeah.
Just show it.
Like, pull a Jerry Maguire, right?
All right.
Show me the money!
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Just show us!
He should be on the phone, Bill Barr with you, show me the money!
Show the money when you're ready!
You don't have anything to show, so don't show me the money.
There's nothing to show.
There's no Jerry Maguire moment.
Just be quiet.
Zip it.
And when you have something to say, say it.
Just throwing that out there.
What are you, Bob Sugar?
Some of you get that joke.
Now, another guy taking from the Harmey-Dillon mold of people whose file of Fs is zero to give.
If there were Fs to give, they're zero.
The files, there's no Fs to give, right?
They're out of that.
Totally out of it is our friend Lou Dobbs at Fox, who is the lightning rod, Zeus-like thrower of files.
I love this guy.
I love this guy.
So, Dobbs, who's out of all those thingies to give, was quite upset.
Bad bar.
We had good bar, bad bar.
Or should I say good bill, bad bill?
Well, I was upset at bad bill.
And Lou just... Everybody keeps talking about unleashing a Kraken.
Talk about a crackin' new unleash on this one.
Dobbs just unloaded on Barr.
Check this out.
Today, a member of his own cabinet appeared to join in with the radical Dems and the deep state and the resistance.
Attorney General William Barr, who has been absent for weeks and weeks, telling the Associated Press That the U.S.
attorneys and FBI agents who have followed up on complaints of specific voter fraud across the country have produced nothing.
To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale, he said, that could have affected a different outcome in the election.
For the Attorney General of the United States to make that statement, he is either a liar or a fool or both.
He may be perhaps compromised, he may be simply unprincipled, or he may be personally distraught or ill, but in no way can he honestly stand up before the American people and say that the FBI has with any integrity or intensity investigated voter fraud in this country and then say it did not amount to anything.
Because what we are hearing just from the eyewitnesses in state legislative hearings, forget all of the rest, those eyewitnesses in state legislative hearings across the country tell the truth.
I love this guy.
I love it.
So does Paula.
Paula Her hits file, if you know what I mean, is zero too.
She has no hits to give either.
Put an S there, you get it.
Sorry, folks.
Sorry.
I know it's family friendly.
I can't help it.
There are some days we just have to like, tell it like it is, man.
We just have to kind of go for it.
The whole like, Howard Stern private parts movie.
Remember that?
The wife's like, oh, Howard.
And he's like, listen, we just gotta go for it.
Sometimes you just gotta go for it.
Paula has zero hits to give either.
I love this guy.
Paula and I, true story, flew out of PBI up to New York.
We're on a plane with Dobbs.
Dobbs, we were both going back to work for Fox.
He was doing a show and was on a little whatever.
Siesta time down here.
Who knows?
So we got to chat with Dobbs for a bit.
He's the exact same dude in person.
No hits to give.
None.
I love this guy.
Putting everybody on notice.
We're watching you, Fokker.
We're watching you.
Lot of sad culture.
That was the crazy De Niro, but he was watching Fokker.
We're watching you, Bill.
I've defended you a lot under extreme scrutiny, but this statement was really stupid.
If you don't have to show us the money because you don't have the money, then don't be Jerry Maguire.
You sound more like Bob Sugar.
Just saying.
Now, in his defense, because I always give both sides, because I'm not a stupid journalist who went to journalism school because I couldn't take a real degree, Bill Barr did issue a correction, or his Justice Department, which he runs, so you know this happened with his authorization, after he realized, I think I just stepped in a steaming pile of hits.
So, here's the Daily Wire, again, a piece up in the show notes, I encourage you to check it out.
Here's Barr's statement, where they fire back from the DOJ, and they basically say, listen, the media reports you're wrong.
Ryan Saavedra, wrote some good pieces over there, Daily Wire.
DOJ fires back at news organizations claiming voter fraud probes are over.
Because, of course, the media misinterpreted what... Joe was smart enough to read.
Joe, who's one of the smartest guys, and I'm being funny.
Joe's like, again, to date means so far, which Bill quoted Joe on later.
So far we have... But the media was like, no, no, no, voter fraud.
It's all a hoax.
Like, you know, not a hoax.
Not like the pee-pee tape, which is real.
This is a hoax.
And he says, that's not what AG Barr said.
Their statement's pretty clear.
Their statement's crystal clear.
That's not what Bar- It was an ill-advised statement, folks.
Period.
Full stop.
I'm not defending him, but I gotta give you their counter.
Also, I'm not giving you the information.
Here's the statement from the DOJ cleaning up the mess after they stepped in it.
Some media outlets have incorrectly reported that the DOJ concluded its investigation of election fraud and announced an affirmative finding of no fraud in the election.
That is not what the AP reported, nor what the Attorney General stated.
Not.
There's a not in there, folks.
For the liberals listening.
The DOJ will continue to receive and vigorously pursue all specific and credible allegations of fraud as expeditiously as possible.
Clearly, Joe, what was this?
Clean up aisle four!
Someone get the mop.
Get the mop.
I used a lot of mops in my time.
I have mopped a lot of floors.
A lot.
Get the mop.
It was the greatest job I ever had.
You learn so much responsibility.
Complete the task.
No snowflakes allowed.
I mopped a lot of floors.
This is a clean up on aisle four.
Can we all recognize the get the mop moment?
Somebody get the mop.
Please get the mop.
Joe got the mop for him.
Joe cleaned it up for him so far.
They were even quoting Joe in their statement.
So far, amazing.
Armacost got in there early.
They watched this show early.
The media, I know I'm on a roll today.
It's the Dexamethasone.
I swear, the day after chemo, you're always on fire.
The Dexamethasone, it's amazing.
It'll wear off tomorrow.
I'll be a dead man walking.
It's okay.
Today's good enough.
It'll carry you through tomorrow.
There's nothing like this.
Nothing, I'm sorry.
You know everything about my life.
I probably violated my own HIPAA violation.
Can I do that?
No, I can share you my own medical stuff.
Can I do that?
I swear, there's like nothing you don't know about.
I see people out there and they see me in airports and they tell me things about myself.
Like, how'd you know that?
Like, you said it on your show a year ago.
I'm like, I did?
That sounds crazy.
No, you said it.
I'm like, oh my gosh, that is crazy.
Every day, just go for it.
Private parts, not mine, the movie.
That would be weird.
She's losing it over there.
But the media's not gonna report that, of course.
That that's not what Barr said.
So my suggestion here is twofold.
Media people, stop being idiots, and stop saying Barr said there was no election fraud, because you can't read, or you can and you're morons.
That's not what the statement says at all.
Just call Producer Joe.
He'll get back to you.
No, he won't.
But he'll clean it up for you media idiots.
He'll do what I do.
He'll throw your email in the trash.
But secondly, to the Bar Justice Department, I'm reasonably confident speaking for each other, Stop issuing statements about, remember G.I.
Jane?
50-second cultural reference in the show today, but necessary.
G.I.
Jane, I know I'm getting this wrong, right?
Because one of my favorite lines in that crazy movie, she comes in trying to bark at the CEO of the special ops base, and she says, I'm not making a statement.
And he responds back, gets up in her grill, and he's like, people who don't want to make statements don't make statements about not making statements.
If you had no statement to make, Mr. Barr, then don't make a statement!
Just go watch G.I.
Jane and take some advice from the commander on the base.
I'll have to find out his name later.
Whatever.
Commander Old Man Joe, to go back to the beginning of the show.
I know it's not PC now, but when he was the commander, it was probably PC.
Commander Old Man Joe.
Just take his advice.
Smart man.
Old Man Joe.
Old Man Pat, my neighbor, was the smartest guy on the block.
That's why we sat on his stoop.
It's called a stoop in New York.
We took advice from him.
Take advice from Old Man Joe, the CO of the base.
Don't make statements about not making statements, claiming you don't want to make a statement, because you made a statement.
And it was a stupid statement without a statement to make.
I'm just saying.
Friendly advice.
That was just topic one.
We had eight.
I'm not sure we're going to get to all those today.
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Oh, all right, moving on.
Sorry, I got a little bit of hiccups.
Maybe time for...
Sorry, folks, relief band time, here you go.
So President Trump yesterday tweeted out that he wants to, let me get the quote right, he wants, section two, oh my gosh, if I get the hiccups, this will be horrible during the show.
I'm sorry, this happened last time, remember, Joe?
We'll allow a couple, but after that, Joe's gonna have to do some fancy work.
So President Trump yesterday threatened to completely terminate, wants Section 230 completely terminated.
I'll explain what that is and what this has to do with the tech tyrants in a minute.
Just hang with me.
Oh my gosh, I'm really sorry, folks.
Bear with me.
Well, I'll just do.
Any more of this, we're gonna have to cut some out, because it's weird.
New York Post, read this article, it's up in the show notes.
Trump threatens to veto a defense bill if Congress doesn't repeal Section 230 by Emily Jacobs.
Okay, first, what is Section 230?
What does this have to do with the tech tyrants?
And in a moment of, let me say, candor and honesty, I have to be, I have to be very, full disclosure as always, I know it's annoying, but it's important to say, to be honest, I am, I do have a financial interest in competitors to Twitter and Rumble, Twitter and YouTube, excuse me, respectively, Parler and Rumble.
So I think you all know that.
From the screenshot, let's read, what does he want to do?
So, this is President Trump's tweet yesterday.
Section 230, which is a liability shielding gift from the U.S.
to quote big tech, the only companies in America that have it, is corporate welfare.
He says it's a serious threat to our national security and election integrity.
Our country can never be safe and secure if we allow it to stand.
Therefore, if the very dangerous and unfair Section 230 is not completely terminated as part of the NDAA, the National Defense Bill, I will be forced to unequivocally veto the bill when sent to this very beautiful, resolute desk.
Take back America."
And now he continued, adding a thank you for good measure.
Now, he wants Section 230 completely terminated.
So I would be remiss and I'd be acting like a media knucklehead if I didn't tell you what exactly about 230 Offends the president and others, and why it gives Twitter, Fakebook, and others this perceived sense of immunity.
Let's go to Cornell Law.
And I want to, this is the section of 230.
It's in question.
I'm going to tell you how I think a better way to handle this is.
And folks, again, I can only tell you from the bottom of my heart, this is not done.
I learned a lot when I became a part Investor and a part owner of some of these.
I learned a ton.
And I want to explain to you, if we completely terminate 230, there could be a really pernicious outcome for us, not for Twitter.
Okay, let's go to Section 230.
This is Cornell Law.
This is Section 47 of the U.S.
Code, Section 230.
It's called, if you want to look it up, it's called Protection for Private Blocking and Screening of Offensive Material.
It talks about civil liability.
In other words, can you sue Twitter or Fakebook for a post someone puts up?
If someone puts up in a post, say, Producer Joe robbed the bank, why can't you sue Twitter?
Well, they have this civil liability blanket, and here's what it says.
This is the actual code.
No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account, so Twitter and others can't be held liable, of any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, Lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or, this is the key term, otherwise objectionable.
Let me, Joe, do we need to translate?
This is Dan Bongino, translator.
I have to come over right now.
A little bit.
You give me, I can see, Paul is like, yeah, you need to translate.
What that basically means is Twitter and Fakebook and YouTube and others, they can pull down content, take it off, Their platform, if it falls into one of those categories.
Obscenity, lewdness, violence.
Those aren't really the issues.
The issues that have really caused Twitter and Fakebook problems are otherwise objectionable.
What the hell does that mean?
You want the answer?
Joe's like, okay, give me the answer.
That means whatever the hell Twitter and Fakebook thinks it means.
They don't like President Trump's tweet?
We pulled it down.
Why?
We thought it was otherwise objectionable.
Can you define that?
No, we don't need to.
It's in Section 230.
They don't!
Folks, the argument's no simpler.
It's no more difficult than that.
That is the simplest way To describe to you the problem with Section 230.
You can't sue Twitter for taking your conservative content down because Twitter says, nah, we just go to Section 230.
We found your content otherwise objectionable.
What does that mean?
Hell, if I know, it's in Section 230!
We gave them this pass.
So you may be saying, Dan, you sound like you're making President Trump's argument.
What's your point?
You said you weren't all in for it.
I am and I'm not.
There's no question section 230 is a disaster.
None.
Zero.
The same zero file that Harmeet and Lou Dobbs are grabbing from for their hits, if you know what I mean.
Zero.
But folks, a better way to do it, because I'll tell you what'll happen in a minute, let me tell you the better way, and I'll tell you what happens if we totally wipe out 230, is to just amend 230, get rid of all that objectionable, all that other stuff, Lou, Lou, what's the definition of that?
I mean, honestly, I'm not being funny.
You could put up a picture and say a bikini.
If you're some dude, I don't know, maybe you're from South America, you like Speedos.
Who knows?
They like the Speedo down there.
Oh my gosh, that's lewd, right?
I mean, Twitter could say, we deem it lewd.
What are you gonna do, sue them?
We deem it lewd, we pulled it down.
How about this?
How about you throw that section of 230 out and you amend it with, You will be protected from civil liability, Twitter, Fakebook, Parler, and others, YouTube, if you pull down content that constitutes a crime or terrorism.
And just leave it at that!
The rest of the stuff, let the public determine!
The greatest analogy I ever heard.
Do you notice, Joe, we don't sue the phone company if someone calls you, calls someone over the phone and starts yelling at them about their politics?
Hey, old man Joe, screw you and your dopey, conservative, Trump-supporting stuff.
Nobody sues the phone company.
Nobody asks the company to stop phone service.
So you're asking millions of Americans to be cut off from Twitter and Fakebook?
Because parlor, we don't do that, obviously.
You're asking millions of Americans who don't even talk, communicate primarily through Twitter and Fakebook now.
You're asking these companies to cut them off because you don't like their political beliefs because you find them otherwise objectionable.
So you're going to cut them off from communicating with the entire globe on a platform pretty much everyone uses.
Sounds kind of tyrannical to me.
The verdict is in.
Dan Blangino is right.
Maybe if we told them the same rules applied as the phone company.
You cannot call old man Joe on the phone and threaten his life.
A police report will be filed and you run the very real risk of being in prison.
You commit a crime on Twitter?
You're promoting terrorism on Twitter?
Okay, fair enough.
Everyone else can decide for themselves.
We're all big boys and big girls.
We'll define what hate speech is.
When we know it, downvote people.
Move them off your platform.
Stop following them.
But don't take 230.
I promised I'd tell you why.
Thought I forgot, right?
Folks, if we repeal 230 altogether, it's not gonna help.
It's actually gonna hurt.
Why?
Because if 230 goes out, that means none of these companies have any liability protection at all against lawsuits.
You're questioning, what are you saying right now?
Paul and Joe, you're like, great!
Let's tell everybody, sue them.
No, not great.
No?
How's that not great?
We can't stand Twitter and fake book.
I mean, you call them fake book.
No, folks.
Once it's pulled down, Twitter and fake book are going to take everything down.
Everything.
Why?
Come on, Joe, you know the answer.
Because they're going to say, we don't want to be sued.
Everything's coming down.
Everything.
There will be no communication platform.
You may say, oh, great, we'll get rid of them.
Folks, listen, no, because you'll get rid of us at Parler.
Dan, you have an interest in that.
No, folks, I have an interest in getting my ideas out.
People ask me all the time, how come you don't just get off Twitter and post exclusively on Parler?
Why would I get off Twitter?
There are liberal idiots there who need to be called out.
My social media home is Parler.
I love it there.
It's where I post my exclusives, my videos.
I enjoy it.
I like it.
No, it's not an echo chamber at all.
But why would I get off these other platforms?
We're still on YouTube, but my home is Rumble.
There's an exclusive window, my show goes on Rumble.
I'm not a hypocrite.
They're my competitors.
I literally lose money by posting on there.
Because I believe that we have to fight that fight everywhere.
I'm just asking you to make your home places that respect you.
So it's not some hypocritical statement.
We can't crush Twitter and Fakebook and let them get sued by everyone, because ladies and gentlemen, your website, if you have a comment section on your website, Whatever it may be, conservativeoldmanjoe.com, and someone puts a comment on there, and there's no civil liability protection.
Remember, that applies to websites, too, not just Twitter and Facebook.
You can be sued, too.
What's gonna happen?
You're gonna pull your website down.
It's not the right call.
I'm sorry.
I know it's not the popular thing to say, but I don't do popular.
I do right.
You know, easy and right are not always the same thing.
I'm not gonna give you the easy path.
It's not the right one.
Just amend that section of 230, throw out otherwise objectionable, and make it crimes or terrorism.
Let everyone else decide.
We're all big boys.
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I had to wait a day.
I want to let this stew a little bit, because there were a few corrections involved on who at CNN was on the call or whatever.
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You promised me you wouldn't let me, even if you have to scream it.
Jaxx!
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Before we get that, James O'Keefe, again, the hits file for James O'Keefe, zero.
He just goes after CNN, because we all knew CNN's not a real journalism organization.
And listen, that's okay.
Right, Joe?
What do you mean that's okay, Dan?
That is okay.
What's not okay is they don't admit it.
They still pretend they do news, which is hilarious.
Just be honest.
I have no problem.
I'm not on work at Twitter or Fakebook.
I have no problem debating liberals.
They're always wrong.
I love it.
Matter of fact, I'm working on something right now.
I'll have to talk to you about it later.
I love debating.
It's my favorite thing to do.
Because they're always wrong on everything and they don't know anything.
But just admit you're a liberal propaganda show.
You're not news.
And I'm okay with that.
But they don't.
They pretend they're news, which is hilarious.
So James O'Keefe from Project Veritas, this is really hilarious.
Apparently for about two months, he has been accessing the conference calls of CNN leadership about their, quote, news programming, and this is amazing.
He's been on the call for two months recording him.
So yesterday, he decides on the, this is not a joke, he decides on their conference call, he's been listening to for two, and quietly, he doesn't announce himself, hey, I'm James O'Keefe, but he decided to announce himself yesterday.
This is absolutely priceless, hilarious.
Here's O'Keefe telling them for the first time he's been listening to their conference calls for two months, and listen to the response, they're like, Diaper time, Big Dump Snadler time.
This is hilarious.
Check this out.
Hey, Jeff Zucker, are you there?
Hey, this is James O'Keefe.
We've been listening to your CNN calls for basically two months, recording everything.
Just wanted to ask you some questions, if you have a minute.
Do you still feel you're the most trusted name in news?
Because I have to say, from what I've been hearing on these phone calls, I don't know about that.
And we've got a lot of recordings that indicate you're not really that independent of a journalist.
Okay.
Thank you for your comments.
So everybody, in light of that, I think what we'll do is we'll
set up a new system and we'll be back with you.
and we'll be back with you.
We'll do the rest of the call a little bit later.
We're going to release those recordings today at 7 o'clock, so stay tuned.
It's going to be fun.
Thanks everybody.
Have a good day.
Yeah, you too.
And you too.
This is hilarious.
Thank you everybody and have a nice day.
After they realized their conference calls, CNN, have been listened to for two months and recorded.
What does he say, Zucker?
Thank you and have a nice day.
And James goes, yeah, you too.
You have a... Wait, wait, wait.
Do we have the... I'm sorry.
I haven't... Yeah.
This is... Is this not one of those moments?
Is this not one of those moments?
All we need is the cigar.
I have one.
That thing's been in my mouth so many... It's disgusting.
That cigar's rotten.
This is it.
The on-the-lips glasses time.
Yeah, you too.
You have a good day, too.
I'm telling you, I don't know where he gets this.
I have no idea.
But CNN absolutely hates this guy.
So here's one of the recordings.
Again, big hat tip to Project Veritas.
Pauly, do you know their exact website?
Because I want to make sure we get it right.
I know what she's doing right there.
She's putting the Dan Bongino on the Libs logo with the digitized glasses on.
There she is!
There we go!
With the cigar.
That actually looks more like a joint.
Okay, I'm sorry.
That is not a cigar.
I don't know how Paula put that in there, folks.
If you want to see it, email Paula.
Her email is info at bongino.com.
Pleased to complain that that is not a cigar.
That is what you would call a marijuana cigarette, otherwise known as a doobie, a joint, a shorty.
When I grew up, it was called by a thousand different names.
I have never smoked a doob in my life.
I'm telling you.
See, that's not a cigar.
That's not a cigar.
Very sorry, Paul.
That is not a cigar.
Joe is in the music business.
He may have more experience with doobies than I do.
I'm not saying, I'm not saying anything.
Statute of limitations is up.
There's Joe with the doobie!
How did you do that?
There's Joe with the doobie!
I did not know that was coming.
Not a joke.
Joe, that may be real.
I don't know.
Statute of limitations is up.
Joe's going to have to handle that in his own show one day when we do the Joe Armacosta.
I'm not saying anymore.
Joe, don't say anything.
I'm not sure of the statute of limitations, but the man was a very famous musician back in the day.
Doobies, marijuanas, I don't know.
Me?
No doubt.
I'm telling you, never smoked a joint in my life.
I'm not kidding.
Who knew?
We'll have to get that footage sometime.
So, this is James O'Keefe.
Whether he smoked a doobie, I have no idea.
I doubt it, but he definitely gets the digitized on the libs glasses for that one because that's just hilarious.
Have a nice day, you too.
Okay, it goes on.
It gets better.
I have a conference call in a few, I know.
I tell Paul and Joe, hey, we gotta speed it up.
We gotta get the show on time.
And I'm the one like going, today's been like a plethora of pop culture references and unintended sarcasm.
Here is one of the tapes.
This is CNN, again, pretending to be a news organization on a conference call where they actually think it's news and journalism to regurgitate Biden team talking points about the transition, literally.
They're talking about how, like, the Biden team has told them to minimize Trump's protestations about the election, which is news.
Is it not, Joe?
The president of the United States is alleging there's potential election fraud.
That's kind of news, right?
If you do news.
Yeah.
I had to rely on Joe to clean up the DOJ statement.
Now I'm relying on Joe to clean up journalism, too.
Kind of news.
Not to CNN.
Because the Biden team told him not to talk about that and to focus on Biden's transition.
So, of course, they're not a news channel.
They're an activist network for Biden.
Here, listen to him talk about it on this call here.
CNN says on Jeff Zucker's 9 a.m.
editorial conference call how they, the Democratic Party, powerful interest groups, may determine how CNN will cover Trump not conceding the presidential election.
I just want to underscore something that Michael said earlier about the transition and Trump, because I've been talking to a lot of people this morning on both sides, and I just keep hearing the same thing, both from Republicans who have not come out to congratulate Biden, but also to those who have and the Democrats, and that is That we have to be, you know, news organizations have to be very careful and very responsible about not giving Trump too much of a platform on his not conceding.
Because they feel the transition can go forward and, you know, other than the national security briefings, which are critical to start now, They just don't want us to exaggerate that Trump isn't leaving office.
And I'm going to have a lot of specific reporting on that later today, but just big picture wanted to underscore what Michael had said.
Yep.
Agreed.
That's amazing.
I'm being very serious here.
That is stunning.
Like Kenny Bell, stunning.
I don't have time because I gotta unring it.
You can't unring a bell, you just gotta put your hands up.
That's stunning.
Zucker says, yep, I agree.
The President of the United States is not conceding an election because there are substantive, substantial issues with the viability, freeness, and fairness of the election.
The President of the United States.
And CNN was instructed by the Biden camp, basically, to minimize that story, which is the news story of the century, right, Joe?
Help them out, Joe.
You've been great today, helping out the DOJ.
Would you agree?
Yeah.
Easily.
Yes.
That a presidential election could have been tipped by voter fraud and the president refuses to concede.
But no, the news are going to say, and she says in the beat, go rewind and listen again.
As a news organization.
Did you not miss that?
As a news organization, we're not going to cover the news because the Biden team told us just to focus on their transition.
Oh.
News organization not covering the news.
Joe, do those connect?
Nah.
Or is that kind of like a dog and a cricket, if you know what I mean?
Like that they don't connect, right?
Yeah, it ain't happening, no.
Nah, cricket wouldn't like it either.
Not going to work.
Maybe not the dog either.
Not going to happen.
That's CNN in a nutshell.
You know, we'd like to talk about the biggest story of the century, potential fraudulent election, but let's not, because Biden said focus on the transition.
Yes, they'd get on one knee.
Yes, of course.
Of course we will do that for you.
Shall we lay palm fronds down in front of you so you can walk on them as well?
Shall we spray you with scented oils, big dumpsters around?
What else shall we do?
What else would you like, a cup of coffee, java, maybe a chamomile tea?
Brian Stelter, coffee boy, can go get it for you.
When he's not playing George Costanza on Seinfeld.
What else can we do?
What was that?
Was that a sound effect you're just doing there?
If it was, it was hysterical.
You totally missed that.
Ha!
Unintended.
All right, I gotta wrap this up.
I gotta go.
I got a thing in a minute here.
Like, what do we care about your thing?
Do the show.
I know, but the show's already running.
So ladies and gentlemen, you know, you know, we're not, We're not talkers here.
I talk for a living, but we do when we have to do.
So I told you that my good friend down in North Carolina who owns Apex Tattoo Factory, Jax.
Actually, I haven't known Jax yet, but I like to support people who fight the good fight.
He dared, air quotes, to open up his business in the middle of these ridiculous North Carolina shutdowns because he had to feed his kids.
You know, crazy things like that, Joe, trying to feed your kids and family.
What a maniac.
So Jax was promptly arrested, the owner of Apex Tattoo Factory.
Well, I had promised you on the show that to support Jax and others that I was going to fly up there and Go get a tattoo from Jax.
Here's the video if you'd like to see it.
Rumble.com slash Bongino.
That's me and my formerly incredibly muscular back before chemo where I'm down like 10 pounds.
Totally disappointing.
Look at that.
Self-praise stinks, Dan.
Whatevs, you'll have to roll me dead.
But that's Jax giving me the tattoo on my back, which I love.
It's symbolic fish.
I am a Christian.
I love Jesus Christ.
And I say that proudly.
So I got that tattoo on my back.
So there's the video if you'd like to see it.
Well, why are we talking about that now?
That happened a long time ago.
Who cares about your formerly muscly... Kidding.
I'm joking, folks.
I had to get on my back.
Where else was I going to put it?
My forehead?
My, you know, you got to put it on my back was the only spot.
I have tattoos everywhere.
I got them up here.
I got them here.
I got them everywhere.
There's nowhere else to stick them.
So we can fight back.
We were informed yesterday.
What was it, Paul?
The charges were dropped?
The case against Jax, arresting him for daring to open his business was dismissed.
All right.
So I will repeat my favorite line.
Isn't that great news, Joe?
Yes, sir.
I mean, it's great.
It reminds me of a line, Joe, you're familiar with, because you've heard it often.
Hat tip to our pen friend.
He loves when I show his pen.
You can fight back, and you can win, and people will stand with you.
And my good friend, Ginny Thomas, had the greatest line ever one time.
She said, folks, we are the leaders we've been waiting for.
Don't wait for Bill Barr, these rhinos in DC.
They ain't going to do a damn thing.
They're not.
Paula knows it.
I know it.
You quietly know it too, some of you.
They're not.
And if they do it, I'll be stunned pleasantly.
And I'll talk about it.
We are the leaders we've been waiting for, all of us.
We can all stand up in our own small way and make a big difference.
So good job, Jax.
Go to Apex Tattoo Factory, A-P-E-X.
Find their website.
We crashed their website.
I don't want to crash their website, but it'd be great if you all went there and checked them out.
All right, folks, thanks again for tuning in.
Please do not miss my exclusive interview, proud to say that, with Lieutenant General Mike Flynn, one of the bravest American patriots I have ever met.
Talk about a guy who is the leader we've been waiting for.
He, she knows that statement well, we.
are the leaders we've been waiting for.
And Mike Flynn, embrace it.
Do not miss it.
We'll be launching it tomorrow.
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Rumble.com slash Bongino.
Rumble.com slash Bongino.
The video today, folks, I'm not kidding.
I know it's me.
And for the third time, self-praise really stinks, but the video today is priceless, especially Paula's additions, which I did not expect.
