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Feb. 26, 2025 - The Dan Bongino Show
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Shake-Up In The White House Press Room (Ep. 2431) - 02/26/2025
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Thank you.
You know, it's hard to believe and extremely...
You know, you remember when people overuse cliches and they get them wrong and they say things like bittersweet, but they don't really mean it.
They mean it's either bitter or sweet, but they just heard that sometimes, so they repeated it.
Every show...
I get a little depressed, but also elated at the direction of the country because the winning continues.
But I'm going to have to take off a few days because of the logistics and the paperwork requirements and some meetings I have to do with regards to this new position I'm accepting at the FBI. So we only have about 10 shows together.
My last day will be March 14th on Friday.
To the Bongino crew out there, the P1s, my groin crew out there, all of you been with me, and the Bongino army out there from the beginning.
You know, each day feels like a little bit of a slow death, and I don't want to sound morose, and I don't want to be a Danny Downer, but I am really going to miss you guys while I'm gone.
I know you'll be here for me.
Paula got so many emails.
For those of you who emailed us at the website, Email address.
I want you to know how much my wife really, and obviously me as well, but my wife, how much she cares about each and every one of you.
She is trying to answer every email.
She is up all night.
We're trying to respond to each and every person.
She's doing her best because she knows how much this means to you, how much this means to me.
So I thank you guys so much.
I got a quick message for the media in the beginning again because I'm getting deluged with media requests.
It's really stunning because all of the questions they keep asking me have already been answered in the show.
The show is called The Dan Bongino Show.
It is my job.
I will have this job until March 14th.
To media people, I have said that already.
I am likely to enter on duty, barring any kind of paperwork delays, March 17th at the FBI. Take a few days.
I've taken these weeks to separate my business interests.
The last day here will be March 14th.
But they're asking all kinds of questions.
And one keeps coming up.
So I'll answer it, hopefully, for the last time.
And thank you all for your patience with this.
A lot to get to today.
And it was interesting.
It came up at the White House press briefing yesterday.
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All right, fellas.
Let's go.
Again, for the media folks, let me repeat the message you seem to be having a hard time with.
I run a business.
It is now transitioning.
The process doesn't happen overnight.
That's called an advertisement.
The business model runs on advertisers who keep the show free.
We will no longer obviously be running advertisements on a show with my name after I take the position.
Are we good now?
Or am I going to have...
Guy's like...
You know Guy.
Guy hates repetition.
Guy, are we going to have to explain this again tomorrow?
Please, Dan.
I hope not.
I know what he's thinking.
That's how this works.
You can't take a government...
I want to take the job tomorrow.
I cannot.
It takes a while to wind down the business.
I want to answer one more question.
I'm not answering media folks right now because I'm still in the private sector.
I'm going through the process.
You have to be cleared.
You have to do everything properly.
There are rules here.
But people keep asking me this question.
Dan, you're a partisan opinion maker with opinions.
How are you going to take a nonpartisan job?
I've only answered this a thousand times.
Gee, I don't know.
Just like I did it before I was an opinion maker?
In the Secret Service, working for Democrat and Republican presidents?
Folks, do oaths matter to you at all?
I don't understand.
I can't understand how you can't fathom this.
By the way, I'm not trying to be a smartass, I mean it, which I typically can be.
This is one of those times I'm genuinely not.
Do you not understand what it's like to put aside your personal interests and your personal politics?
And swear an oath to a cause greater than yourself and your own partisan opinions?
If you don't understand that, stop emailing me the question.
Because it's like trying to explain physics to a dog.
You will never get it.
You swear an oath.
If you agree to take the job, you agree to put that stuff in a box.
When you come out later on the other side, you can have your opinions again and air them.
Oh, man.
It is exhausting with the same question.
By the way, I'm reasonably confident Democrat appointees get probably none of these questions.
However, I want to thank Press Secretary Caroline Levitt.
She was asked a similar question at the press briefing yesterday and a very kind answer.
I really appreciate it.
What happened?
Something like...
What happened?
Oh, are we live still?
Oh, good.
Okay.
He's like, hold on.
Oh, hey, by the way, Can you make sure we...
I see that photo with Haley.
Let's make sure we get that up.
I want to make sure we...
Haley's really excited, so I might get the show started.
Is it working now?
Oh, all right.
Well, can you put up Haley at least so we can...
All right.
Sorry, guys.
What's that?
You need to restart the whole thing?
Do you need to restart the whole thing or...
Is it, it's a Wirecast issue?
I got nothing on my screen.
Just restart, man.
Is it, are we off?
Is it, are we off?
Is it, are we are we off?
Is it, are we off?
Ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host, Dan Bongino.
All right, we're just starting over, folks.
I'm sorry.
We had a big technical meltdown, one of the systems.
I know you know we're moving, so my apologies for those who heard the beginning of the show, but I made an executive decision.
I want to give you a full show, and when it breaks down like that, which occasionally happens on live content...
When it breaks down like that, we have to spend two hours after the show editing things, and it doesn't get up on Apple and Spotify.
So I just made the decision we're going to cut everything out.
We're going to start all over from scratch.
So forgive me if you're hearing this for the second time.
I deeply appreciate you hanging around, but I want to give you a full show.
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All right, fellas, one more time.
Again, sorry about that, but I hope you understand.
Hey, I wanted to, this is kind of a good segue into what I was going to get to in the show.
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Get ready.
So as I was saying before, to media folks reaching out, I'm not going to answer the question again.
The last show will be March 14th.
I've only got a couple of days with you all.
I've got about 10 more shows left.
Have to take some days off.
Every day gets tougher and tougher to know we're going to have to depart from each other for some time.
It's tearing the heart out of me.
But I'm sorry, again, I'm not answering the question about how I intend on going from a political commentator to a nonpartisan job like the FBI. I already did it once before.
I was a nonpartisan actor in the Secret Service working for Democrat and Republican administrations.
Stop asking.
It's not my fault you can't do that and swear an oath and put your opinions to the side.
That's your issue.
Stop projecting that issue onto me.
Okay?
Moving on.
I want to thank Caroline Levitt.
She gave a really nice answer yesterday when asked this same question in the press room.
Check this out.
The FBI director, Kash Patel, informed Republican senators that it would be an individual named as the deputy who was a special agent currently at the FBI. And of course, Mr. Bongino is not.
What was the reason for naming Mr. Bongino to this position?
And was Mr. Patel not correct in making that assurance to those senators?
I'm not sure if anybody in this room has listened to Mr. Bongino when he talks about the past corruption at the FBI, when he talks about his experience serving for the United States Secret Service.
This is a man who loves his country and who has honorably served our country in ways that many people have not.
He understands the depth of the corruption at these institutions which the American people reelected President Trump to shake up.
And I think it's quite despicable to see many networks in this room who have had chyrons on their television screens labeling Mr. Bongino as a far-right podcaster.
He is not.
He is a former law enforcement agent.
He is a former Secret Service agent who put his life on the line to protect this country.
And that is why the President of the United States has entrusted him for this important...
He's also an outsider to this Washington swamp.
And we often see that when outsiders are appointed to such coveted positions, a lot of people in this city get very, very nervous.
And they should be, because Dan Bongino and Kash Patel and Attorney General Bondi are focused on rooting out the corruption at these agencies and ending the weaponization of government once and for all.
You're damn right I am.
Thank you, Caroline.
I deeply appreciate the kind words.
That's very nice of you to say.
You know, folks, dealing with travel requirements in my line of work in the Secret Service before I came over here is one of the toughest things I've ever done.
Watching my young daughter at the time, who's now in college, but back then was very young, crying every time the suitcase came out was a really big deal.
That was work I did for a Democrat president.
Did it matter to me that he was a Democrat?
No!
I'm really sorry you can't swear an oath and do that.
Media people who've asked me this question repeatedly.
It's frustrating beyond imagination to have to deal with people who can't think outside their own box.
On a lighter note, I want to move on.
I want to spend the whole week.
I've only got about 10 shows left with you guys, 10, 11 shows.
I do have to, again, take a couple days off.
I have to travel up to D.C. and get some stuff done.
There is a pretty extensive paperwork requirement you have to go through for backgrounds and things like that.
I'm sure you guys can imagine.
Many of you out there have been government employees.
It's some of the same paperwork.
There's not a special set of paperwork for people.
It's the same paperwork.
So, Paul and I were hustling last night, getting information and stuff, trying to get this in.
But, did work in the White House for many years, and I'm going to tell you something.
There are two, most people don't know this.
When you ask for a White House tour, you know what, let me play this first, and I'll show you why this matters.
I'll give you kind of the inside baseball effort.
Here is President Trump.
The White House tours have finally reopened.
Thank you, Melania, Trump's office, who I hear had a big role in that.
It's the people's house.
We own it.
We bought it.
There should be White House tours in there.
This happened.
President Trump wanted to go and greet everyone.
I'm going to tell you the inside scoop on this after you see this.
This is very unusual.
Check this out.
I want to thank you very much for coming.
The tour is so great.
Such a good job.
First Lady worked very hard in making it perfect.
And I think you're going to really love it.
And I heard you were here, and I said, let's stop by and say hello.
Very smart-looking people, I must say.
Very smart.
Maybe someday you'll be here as a president, right?
Somebody in this group has a chance.
Have a good time.
Have a great tour.
And you're going to give them a special tour, okay?
You're going to get a special tour.
Have fun, everybody.
USA! USA! USA! USA! So, just so you know why this is so, one, let's just state the obvious.
That's so President Trump for him to do, to take time out of his day and go and say hello to people.
U.S. citizens, obviously, people visiting the White House, just happy to be there.
But you may say to yourself, if you've never been inside the complex, the 18-acre White House complex there, well, what's the big deal?
His office is like right next door, just go say hello.
No, that's not what happens.
I don't know if you know this, but there were two tours.
I'm going to let you in on some inside baseball here.
You really want a tour?
You want the West Wing tour.
They're hard to get.
I don't want to say you've got to know someone, but they're really difficult to get because, one, they don't do tours in the West Wing, obviously, when the president's there on work hours.
So they may do them after hours and on the weekends, but there are very, very limited slots.
The West Wing of the White House, which is the western portion, obviously, is where all the work happens.
There are TV shows about it, the West Wing.
You don't know what the West Wing is.
You got the Oval Office over there.
You have the Cabinet Room, Roosevelt Room.
You have Vice President's Office, the Chief of Staff.
There's the White House mess is over there where everybody eats.
That's all in the West Wing.
That's not really close to where that is.
I know that area well.
That's the East Wing.
Above it is the residence.
You have the two floors above it are the residence, but that floor there, the ground floor and the downstairs, that's where the tour, that's where you're allowed in.
That's a cool tour, don't get me wrong.
There's a ton of history there.
The East Wing tour, though, there are a lot of spots.
I think you've got to call your congressman or something to get on the list.
But the president almost never goes over there.
Matter of fact, if you watch that video again, you'll notice there's a little divider he walks around.
That divider is there for a reason.
Because that's the hallway the president goes up to his residence in when he's done with his workday in the West Wing, and they don't want anybody to see him.
So for him to walk around a divider, you notice the Secret Service guys, even though it's pretty secure, all walked over there right away?
So, yeah, right to his back is a divider.
He had to walk around, and you'll see on Dan Scavino's Twitter feed, he's got a little video.
You'll see him peek his camera over the divider.
Because that's where the president goes up to his residence.
But he's rarely in that hallway ever.
That's so Donald Trump.
That's just what he does.
So thank you, President Trump, for making the people feel at home back in the people's house.
It's our house, and he knows that.
All right, I'm going to take a quick break.
And here's what I got for you.
I got a good guy, Benny Johnson.
He had an FBI agent on, Steve Friend, who I know.
Steve's a patriot.
And I had an interesting take on some of the stuff going on in the FBI. It's still out there in the public domain.
And I want you to, you can draw your own judgments from it once I play.
Quick break, we'll get right back to that.
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Again, media folks, that's called an ad.
That's what we do here.
We are winding our business down.
It's going to take a couple weeks.
I know you all are stunned by that, but again, pretend to do some act of journalism.
It is not unusual for a business in this space to have an ad-supported revenue model that keeps it free for people.
Pretending to be stumped.
This was an interesting clip I saw on the Benny Johnson show.
Steve Friend is an FBI agent.
I believe he's no longer with the Bureau.
And he's got an interesting book on the matter as well, so why isn't it there?
But this is a fascinating take on what some sources are telling him may be going on inside the FBI, which obviously I took an interest in checking this out.
Take a listen.
I am very familiar with the subterfuge that's going on, that's been going on just even outside of the context of destroying classified material.
You talk about the ICE rates and the fact that all the different federal law enforcement agencies have been tapped to assist with the deportations of the illegal aliens and the resistance that has existed inside my ex-girlfriend over at the FBI. I've heard different people have come to me with stories about the fact that there are open conversations in the office where they say, well, if you don't want to do it, if you have a moral...
Folks, I mean, it's interesting how media people have been reaching out to me, people around me, and others.
Trying to get a take on how a guy who is a conservative can act in a nonpartisan position.
And yet when guys like Steve Friend and Garrett O'Boyle and other whistleblowers highlight information they're having, I don't hear the media taking an interest in that.
Like, well, what if we had a problem in a federal agency enforcing the law like the FBI where there may be some partisan intent in people making law enforcement decisions?
Maybe reach out.
While I'm still on the private sector side, I'm not in the government yet.
I'm allowed to have an opinion.
I'm free to have an opinion and I will.
Maybe you should ask about that.
Maybe we can both contribute to depoliticizing areas of our federal government that shouldn't be politicized.
You want to help or not?
I certainly do.
Christy Noem has been doing a great job over at DHS too.
Folks, we can't have this.
We cannot have a government that leaks like a sieve.
When you sign up for a government position, you agree to keep sensitive information, sensitive and close.
Not everything is classified.
There's some information that's for official use only, and there's some that just requires your personal discretion, i.e.
it may not be for official use only, but it's not the kind of thing you're going to advertise on the front cover of the New York Times, because it may be sensitive, and you may not have permission to share it.
It's incredible how many people don't seem to have this anymore, and you're seeing these leaks left and right.
Kristi Noem has implemented a policy of using the polygraph, which can be, if you get a good polygrapher, it can be hard to beat.
If you're going to leak information in violation of your oath to the government to keep that information sensitive, especially when it could create a danger for someone else, then you risk getting caught and you risk losing your job being terminated.
Here's Kristi Noem saying she's found people who were leaking information about these ICE raids, which could cause a really serious public safety situation leaking that.
Check this out.
I have found some leakers.
We are continuing to get more.
They will be fired.
There will be consequences.
And remember, when they leak information to the press in order to blow an op, they are putting law enforcement lives in jeopardy.
They are risking their lives and putting their families in the position where they have to live without those individuals any further.
So you bet.
We have used every tactic that we have.
And it's amazing how these bureaucrats who have an agenda to to stop the work that we're doing to bring safety to America, how they will sell each other down the river if it's just to protect themselves.
So don't worry.
I am doing everything to find these leakers and to get rid of them so that we can do our work and our law enforcement officers and agents can do it safely.
Folks, listen, a polygraph like anything else is an unbeatable, but they can be hard to beat, especially when you get a very skilled polygrapher.
Many of these people are.
Do you think the Trump administration is going to allow people who chose to work in the government to leak sensitive government information that could cause someone a serious physical injury or death?
Of course they're not going to do that.
It's their job in the executive branch to act as an executive and keep information integrity alive.
You thought there wasn't going to be some follow-up to this?
Secretary Noem's not having it.
And I think they're establishing a standard right away.
Your job is at risk if you do this.
Tulsi Gabbard's another...
He's got, really, at this point, the dream cabinet.
And he's got, finally, a real diversity of viewpoints, but diversity that matters, not diversity the way the woke left uses it.
Tulsi Gabbard's currently serving as a DNI post-confirmation.
And a monster story broke about sex chats.
Amongst people in sensitive intelligence positions in the NSA? Again, folks, your personal private time, you do you, man.
I'm not there to criticize your lifestyle if you're not breaking the law.
Whatever you want, you do, as long as you're not breaking the law or infringing on anyone else's rights and liberties.
However, government time, sensitive information, no dice.
Tulsi Gabbard's not having it either.
Check this out.
Not so good to see some of these transgender sex chats among the intel officials.
What are we going to do about that?
Well, Jesse, what we're going to do has already been done.
There are over 100 people from across the intelligence community that contributed to and participated in this.
What is really just an egregious violation of trust?
What to speak of like basic rules and standards around professionalism?
I put out a directive today that they all will be terminated and their security clearances will be revoked.
I mean, this shouldn't be a surprise to anybody, ladies and gentlemen.
There's accountability in any job.
Nobody's angry at people who go and work for the government.
We're angry at people who are not working for the government.
And taking your taxpayer dollars.
Shouldn't be hard to figure out why are so many Americans now getting behind this Elon Musk, Trump administration, is it Amy Gleason effort in the Doge to make government more efficiently operate on taxpayer funds?
Because they know, because they've been operating in the private sector forever, where if you waste money, get caught, or do this kind of stuff on company time, you actually get fired.
This isn't new to them.
Why are you acting surprised?
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Mug club's here?
Crowder's been crushing our mug club.
There are a lot of mugs out there with mug club.
I wish I would have thought of that first.
Maybe we should have done a mug club ourselves.
Genius move.
He's the best.
We love you, Steve.
Thanks.
Unfortunately, we had a little techie issue in the beginning of the show.
We lost a few minutes in the beginning, but we did it over.
Okay, I'm going to take our last break of the show.
I'm going to take it because I've got a really important segment coming up.
Something big happened last night.
Folks, Donald Trump has transformed the Republican Party.
That's not a newsflash.
I get it.
Many of you are like, oh my gosh, Dan, no kidding.
I haven't seen unity like I saw last night in a long time.
There's always a few who want to do their own thing without regard for the bigger Republican MAGA message.
Something happened yesterday.
And, you know, I'm a spreadsheets guy.
Plus ones, minus ones.
I don't get emotional.
Speaker Johnson and the whip on the Republican side managed to align the Republicans with a slim lead in the House in the direction.
Good thing.
Have your beefs on other stuff?
That's fine.
I have.
It's been out on the air.
But President Trump apparently got on the phone and with Speaker Johnson made this happen last night.
It's a big deal.
I'm going to tell you what happened and why it matters in a minute.
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Here is Speaker Johnson last night.
Folks, the process has started.
I want to emphasize to you something very important.
The process for this, what Donald Trump calls a one big, bold, beautiful bill has just begun.
The bill that is going to actually do the stuff in the bill, i.e.
a transformation of the border by building the wall.
Establishing our military dominance and lethality again.
Tax cuts.
The economic prosperity program.
The no tax on tips.
This is a start.
The start of the reconciliation process.
They needed to get every Republican on board.
They can only lose one.
They did lose one.
Congress from Massey.
I get what he's trying to do, but this is one of those letting the perfect be the enemy, the good thing.
I understand.
However, we're dealing with slim majorities.
I'm dealing with the world we live in, not the world we'd want to live in.
But I understand the principle.
I've been a fan of cutting government spending for a long time.
Speaker Johnson, unbelievably, got this thing through last night.
Got it passed to start this thing.
Here he was right afterwards.
This is a big bill that will actually really change America if this thing passes.
Check this out.
Speaker, do you have the votes?
Yep.
How much work are you going to have to do out there on the floor to make sure you can actually get there?
I think we've got it.
You think you've already blocked it down?
I do, yeah.
Is the Senate's resolution plan B? There's no plan B. This is the only plan we're running with.
Are you worried you'll lose the president's trust if it fails?
No.
No, I've spoken to the president multiple times today.
He knows exactly what we're doing and why.
Folks, I want to emphasize to you the importance of this.
Executive orders are fantastic, and I really applaud President Trump for using the constitutional powers of the presidency to do the things he wants to do and to move the country in that promised make America great again agenda.
He's not a guy who promises things and doesn't do them, and it's fantastic that he's moving them in the right direction.
But executive orders are limited in their ability to change the country.
I've asked you in the chat many times.
You already know.
What did you say?
Crowder says you owe him $30, Dan.
Sorry, I'll have to write you a check.
Maybe cash if we got stopped by Dallas at some point.
Folks, executive orders are only good as long as you're the executive.
Now, if, say, J.D. Vance were to run and J.D. Vance wins next time, the likelihood of him overturning a Trump executive order is probably slim to none and slim left town.
However, if...
There's another election.
There's going to be another election.
If in the next election the Democrats win, those executive orders are going to be bye-bye.
See you later.
Legislation can be overturned with new legislation, but it's not easy.
You have to get a majority of the House and sometimes a filibuster-proof Senate, depending on the process you use.
It's a big deal.
This bill is enormous.
I agree with the President Trump approach and the House side approach.
I'm not telling you the Senate side is wrong.
I understand what they're trying to do.
But the Senate's saying, let's take an easy win on the border and defense, move on to the tough stuff later.
The House is saying, no, let's put it all in one big bill.
Tactically speaking, you don't have to listen to me.
I mean, you guys got elected in your own districts.
I'm just saying, it is easier to rally people around one big, bold message than to have to rally people twice.
Right?
It's easier to play one game and one big game and win it than to win two big games back to back.
That's just a simple sports analogy.
You don't want to play the Super Bowl twice.
It is easy to rally people around one thing when the cause is so bold and transformative.
Also, it affords you the opportunity to tell everyone up there on the House side, because they're not going to get any Democrat votes, hey, listen, this big bill, everybody's going to have to take it on the chin a little bit.
Not everybody's going to get what they want.
And you don't have so much infighting with it.
I think the big bill is the way to go.
Amazingly, the AP came out with this story.
Nearly 40% of contracts canceled by Musk's Doge are expected to produce no savings.
I would be stunned to see how they got...
Is this one of those scoring things they do with the CPO where they magically tell you tax cuts cost the government revenue but cannot produce a single data set of examples long term showing that income tax cuts cost the government revenue?
Not really sure how that works.
I'm not sure where they got the math from, but Guy says he has a...
Wait, wait.
You have something over there?
You said there's a...
I don't know what this is.
Guy says there was a math lesson previously on how this works.
And it was on, was it NBC one time?
I may have missed this, so let me hear this.
You see it as a possibility if he wants to spend a billion bucks beating this guy, he could do it.
Absolutely.
Somebody tweeted recently that actually with the money he spent, he could have given every American a million dollars.
I've got it.
Let's put it up on the screen.
Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads.
U.S. population $327 million.
Don't tell us if you're ahead of us on the math.
He could have given each American one.
Million dollars, and I've had lunch money left over.
It's an incredible way of putting it.
It's an incredible way of putting it.
Yeah, it is incredible.
Because I don't know where you got that math from.
I'm not sure.
You know, there's a calculator.
Do you have it on your phone, guys?
You have a calculator app?
Because I'm pretty sure it's standard on just about every phone.
What do you have?
You have an iPhone.
You have one of those...
One of those Google phones, Android phones.
I'm reasonably confident there's a calculator app, and it can do complicated calculations.
And the crazy thing is it does it like that.
You even got ChatGPT and Grok.
You can ask them questions like, hey, can you do this math for me?
I don't know you guys still had that running around, by the way.
Good call on that one.
The Mary Gay Brian Williams math.
They're making a big mistake here, too.
I told you the Democrats are making an enormous mistake dying on this hill of essentially fighting for extended periods of government waste and abuse.
American workers live and work in jobs every day, in coal mines and office buildings everywhere, where they're forced to do performance reviews.
They may like or they may not, but they have to do them to justify their jobs.
Doge is popular because those same people say, well, if you work for the government, why don't you have to do that too?
Here's our friend Chaya Rachik over at Libs at TikTok.
The new poll is absolutely devastating to Democrats.
The Doge is extremely popular by huge margins.
They screech about it on publications, but the American people aren't falling for it.
She notes, shows how irrelevant the media and leftist talking heads are.
Peter St. Onge is a commentator.
We use this content often.
Great on the economic material.
We've used it often on the show.
You can find him on X. Comment it on the Doge right here and Doge's popularity.
This is worth hearing.
Check this out.
The Department of Government Efficiency is rising in the polls with all-important swing voters.
This despite left-wing media attacking Doge's anti-corruption crusade with everything they've got, and yet Doge is getting more popular among the American people, while Donald Trump is running about 10 points more popular than last time around, in case media wonders if they've lost their power to hypnotize the voters.
In a recent video, I mentioned a December CBS poll that found support for Trump's economic policies is off the charts.
Two-thirds of Americans want regulations cut, two-thirds want oil drilling expanded, and here's where Doge comes in.
Three-quarters of Americans want government spending cut, while three-quarters also want tax cuts.
Those go hand-in-hand.
Now, keep in mind, that was all before Doge hit the corruption motherlode, the transgender comic books in Peru, the Politico subscriptions, the hundreds of millions to the Taliban, Sesame Street in Iraq.
Folks, listen to me here.
This is important.
The era decades ago, as I've said often, of CBS, NBC, and ABC, Cronkite, Brokaw, Peter Jennings, and others, basically dictating what the nation spoke about is over.
You know, Justin, when were you born?
2002. My gosh, I mean, it's insane.
Like, I really don't feel this old.
So, I was born in 1974. I remember this.
I'm not going to tell you I was following politics when I was six years old.
It would sound ridiculous.
But I remember the Reagan presidency.
I remember my mother and father talking about it all the time.
If it was not discussed, when I say it, I mean anything.
The Doge, transgender comic books in Peru, whatever it may be.
If it didn't make the nightly news, you didn't hear about it.
Because there was a good chance it wasn't going to make your local paper either.
So unless you were living inside the government and filtering through the paper every day and had an inside source giving you information, there was no way for you to know, really, that this was going to happen unless you were really like a diehard advocate for government reform and doing a lot of homework every day.
Twitter, X, Facebook, TikTok, the Internet.
Websites.
I mean, I drudged at the time before, you know, went way far left.
They changed everything.
It is now, things are a national story at the drop of a hat.
Why is this important?
Because of the transition to this next segment.
The White House Correspondents Association.
You know, the WHCA, which to me means WACA, the White House Communications Agency, which handles comms, but that's different.
The White House Correspondents Association that represents media interests.
They're very upset about a decision that was made yesterday.
And the way they're framing this does not necessarily align with my experience working in and around the White House.
They're making it out like this is some kind of...
You know, Caroline Levitt, tyrannical, Donald Trump-led movement.
They're trying to cut off media access to the White House.
That's ridiculous.
Here she is yesterday saying how they're going to be operating the press room and the mechanics of how the press operates with the White House a little bit differently.
And cue the meltdown afterwards.
Check this out.
As you all know, for decades, a group of D.C.-based journalists, the White House Correspondents Association, has long dictated which journalists get to ask questions of the President of the United States in these most intimate spaces.
Not anymore.
I am proud to announce that we are going to give the power back to the people who read your papers, who watch your television shows, and who listen to your radio stations.
Moving forward, the White House press pool will be determined by the White House press team.
Legacy outlets who have participated in the press pool for decades will still be allowed to join, fear not, but we will also be offering the privilege to well-deserving outlets who have never been allowed to share in this awesome responsibility.
Listen, I get it.
Media interests are going to be in promoting their own outlet, whatever it may be, Reuters, AP. They want people on their site.
That's a business interest, which is interesting because they keep attacking people like me who have business interests myself that want people on our site for the same thing they want.
But this new democratized information exchange era requires new ways of operating.
You're not obligated to agree with it, but suggesting in any way that somehow your access to information is going to be shut down.
It's ridiculous.
There are press releases that go out on email.
You can go online and queue up C-SPAN or a thousand different outlets.
Guys, we take stuff live all the time.
No one's hiding information from you.
Donald Trump yesterday sat in the Oval Office and what did he take?
Like 20 questions?
I've never seen a guy take more questions.
This is your idea of Donald Trump sealing off the White House to press inquiries?
That's insane.
Matter of fact, Caroline Levitt brought it up yesterday on her ex-account.
Peter Baker at the New York Times, he said that this reminds him of the early days of Putin's reign, how the Kremlin took over the press pool.
Let me explain to you how the press pool is.
This is ridiculous.
Caroline Levitt responded, give me a break, Peter, moments after you tweeted this.
The president invited journalists into the Oval and took questions for nearly an hour.
Your hysterical reaction to our long-overdue and much-needed change to an outdated organization is precisely why we made the change.
Gone are the days where left-wing stenographers posing as journalists such as yourself dictate who gets to ask what.
Dropping the hammer on that one.
Folks, there are various types of press.
When you go out with the press thing, I'm going to bore you with all the details, but the press pool gets the most intimate access.
That's the people you see in that press room.
They're the ones that travel on Air Force One, the ones that travel in the motorcade.
They'll get like a P pass for the press pool.
You can get access to the press pool on the road, too.
You can get a PL, like a pool local.
Well, they'll insert and embed local reporters.
If you're going to say, whatever, Cincinnati, a local Cincinnati NBC guy, you stick them in there as well so they get access on the road when you're in Cincinnati.
Then you get others like else.
But the White House Democrats and Republicans, I promise you, because I've worked for both, do everything they can to get access to the broadest amount of press people.
That doesn't mean it has to be the same press people every time.
You don't have to agree with the decision.
But any assertion that this is some kind of Kremlin-like clampdown on the press is absurd.
Nobody is more open and accessible to the press than President Trump.
Have you seen a single event in the last month he's at where there are cameras and mics there and boom mics where he doesn't stop and take a question or two?
The only time I've seen him not do it is late at night when he's leaving an event and he's got to get back.
That's it.
I mean, if you had any evidence that, let's say you could produce some data and receipts, maybe the MAGA audience would take it seriously.
If you said, hey, Donald Trump's only taken two questions since he entered office.
He's taken probably 10x the number of questions besides prior Donald Trump in 2016. And it's precisely for reasons like this.
Again, with the headlines and the misleading efforts by media people to tell a story rather than the story, it gets frustrating for people like me.
Yet they still have all the access they want.
Here's what I mean.
AP headline.
Federal technology staffers resign rather than help Elon Musk in the Doge.
Well, it's interesting because that's not really what...
Well, it's a story, but it's not what, folks in the chat?
It's not the story.
Elon notes, more fake news from associated propaganda.
Those were Democrat political holdovers who refused to return to the office.
They would have been fired had they not resigned.
Can you skip to Jim's email?
You saw that, right?
Folks, if you're not going to show some kind of modicum of interest in the truth, or actually doing actual journalism, Don't be surprised when people don't treat you like actual journalists.
So this happened.
This is producer Jim.
This is his ex-account, at JJ Verde.
So he gets an email.
I know, you're going to make me cover the Star Wars thing too, aren't you?
This story we had to get to.
Jim, this is from Julie Walker at the AP. I'm not sure if you produced the Dan Bongino show, but AP Radio is looking for permission to put out two soundbites from the show.
With courtesy, would you know who'd connect?
She's not rude.
I'm not sure you produced the Dan Bongino Show.
Jim responds, you want to know why AP's been kicked out of the press room?
Look at this first sentence.
All you have to do is look at my bio here.
His LinkedIn, Facebook, True Social.
He wrote a book about the show called the Dan Bongino Show Survival Guide.
You know, the basics?
Make journalism great again.
Or turn the radio on for...
Five minutes where I probably address producer Jim a thousand times.
I love that picture.
We need to get that for the new studio.
By the way, we may be in the new studio.
We may be in there as soon as next week.
Now, I want to note, we have different personalities.
Michael is the optimist.
He is kind of the baseline, like never moves his emotions either way.
Justin is the more pragmatist guy.
Who believes if they tell you we'll be in there tomorrow, it means next week.
He always adds like seven days or 7x anything.
We could possibly be in the new studio as early as next week.
He doesn't like possibilities and maybes, Justin.
But, Justin, can we both agree the new studio, you are going to absolutely love it.
It is...
Just wait.
You are going to love the visuals.
Even if we get a week's worth of shows in there.
Haley will be using it for a 6 p.m.
show.
David is going to be using it.
You are going to love the look.
And thank you to the studio designers and my wife, Paula, who really was the one who put her heart and soul into it.
I want to get to this, too.
Expect more of this hysteria.
And of course, these narratives and stories will be propagated by people with a political agenda as this bill moves through Congress, this big, bold, beautiful bill that I promise you will transform America.
This is real, lasting, heavy change.
If this bill that they got started on last night, Speaker Johnson and the Republicans, about the border, defense, tax cuts, no tax on tips, there's so much good stuff in there.
If it passes, it's going to be the biggest thing, one of the biggest things to happen in 20 years.
Of course, you got Democrats had to get super political about it and give you the grandma's going to get thrown off the cliff.
Dogs and cats are going to be living together, Ghostbusters style, with the freak out.
And they do this every single time.
I'm not sure it's going to work though now that Donald Trump has the megaphone.
Check this out.
Children will be devastated.
Families will be devastated.
People with disabilities will be devastated.
Seniors will be devastated.
Hospitals will be devastated.
Nursing homes will be devastated.
So let me be clear.
House Democrats will not provide a single vote to this reckless Republican budget.
Not one.
Why?
Because we're voting with the American people.
Of course, it didn't end there.
Hysterical responses, hyperbole to the max.
It didn't end there.
You always have to throw out the are racist card as well.
They do it so often.
The sad part about this is real racists may actually get away with it because you've called so many people racist.
Nobody takes the label seriously when it comes from folks like Premier Jayapal.
Here she is again with the racist line brings immigrants into the mix.
And why do the Democrats every time they talk about immigrants to the country talk about Cleaning toilet bowls, picking vegetables.
Do you really believe you're making headway into the hearts and minds of people insulting immigrants?
My wife's an immigrant.
She's running my entire company and was a vice president with a huge DC firm and is a really, really skilled web and database designer.
Why is every immigrant picking vegetables or cleaning toilet bowls to these leftists?
You notice how they talk to people?
Check this out.
Immigrants are us.
Immigrants are us and we all deserve respect and dignity.
If you look at the food that's on your table, think about who picked it.
If you look at your homes...
This is why you see the cannibalism theory.
Do you understand how they all have to up the ante every time to make it look like they're the most radical so they can appeal to the base of donors and everyone else?
When someone says, oh, we're going to throw grandma off a cliff.
Someone say, oh, they're going to throw immigrants.
They're going to lock up the kids.
This is the kind of insanity that gins up money and support amongst their restless base that just wants to see something happen.
But that's what also leads to cannibalism theory.
And you're seeing it here in this article at The Hill.
Some Democrat donors, ladies and gentlemen, have had enough of this.
Angry Democrat donors turn off the flow of money.
Quote, I'll be blunt here.
The Democrat Party is effing terrible.
Plain and simple, one major donor said.
In fact, it doesn't get much worse.
I told you they were going to start to eat themselves alive as they all jockey for the scraps from Longside's table, if you've ever seen Braveheart.
When the pie starts getting smaller and smaller and people are hungry, folks, everybody starts digging with their nails at the last piece.
You're seeing that now because they don't have a unified message.
And then when they get hungry, they start eating each other.
Here's a top Biden advisor, Mike Donilon, now in the Democrats.
Now the Democrats eating each other.
Alive.
Going back now, looking back in the past after the debate and saying Biden shouldn't have got out, that it was insane to force him out, I told you they were going to turn on each other as things got bad.
I actually predicted this before the election.
Watch this.
Now, lots of people have terrible debates.
Trump had a terrible debate against Harris.
Reagan had a terrible debate.
Obama had a terrible debate.
Lots of people have terrible debates.
Usually, the party doesn't lose its mind.
But that's what happened here.
It just melted down.
And what happened was, in my view, and look, I think folks who had this view believed that Biden was going to lose.
He didn't have it anymore.
He had to get out.
That was the best thing for the party.
I understand.
That's their view.
I have a view, too.
And my view is, I think it was insane.
I think the party lost its mind.
The pie is disappearing.
You see what's happening, right?
Everybody's hungry.
Everybody's hungry and thirsty, and they need a bit.
And whereas the Republican Party has been rejuvenated under Donald Trump in just 30 days with this massive agenda he put forth, everybody's at the point of, they'll never get satiated with the winds, but they're feeling pretty darn good.
The opposite is happening over there.
That's why you're seeing this scrap and everybody trying to say something more outrageous to get some cameras on them and some more attention because they see it all falling apart and they want to preserve that little piece of the pie they have left before they start eating each other.
All right, I got to make an executive decision here.
So we put together this show prep sheet every day.
You see my notes on it right here.
And I'm like, well, that's not my handwriting.
What the hell is this at the end?
Doesn't even look like my handwriting.
It says, here, let me show you.
Must cover.
Must cover.
I'm thinking it's a story about me, the FBI, maybe a story about this massive bill last night.
No, it isn't.
So out of respect for Guy, and look at this, I'm getting goosebumps.
Why?
Because these guys...
Folks, Star Wars boss Kathleen Kennedy's planning to exit Lucasfilm at the end of 2025. Yay!
According to the guys, I don't know who this person is.
They have informed me that they, I don't know this person, they personally attribute the collapse of the Star Wars franchise to this woman, Kathleen Kennedy.
Kathleen, I don't know you at all.
I trust my people.
I have no reason to believe they're lying.
I'm just saying, these guys want me to sound excited, so yay!
You know what?
I may collapse the wire.
You really should put the flames thing up.
Just for you.
We never use it.
I mean, they're so excited.
They've never written on my show prep sheet ever.
Is this Guy's handwriting or Justin's?
Guy, must cover.
Right there.
There you go, Guy.
Yes!
Folks in the chat, can you do me a favor?
You're welcome.
Out of respect for Guy.
Can everybody in the chat put the clapping hands emoji?
Maybe the fire flames or something like that.
Make Guy happy.
Justin too.
Kathleen Kennedy is planning to exit Lucasfilm and start.
Yes!
Yes, this is awesome.
Greatest story of the day.
I'll be sure in the radio to open up with this to a producer, Jim.
Jim's like, hello.
All right, I'm just messing with you.
But there you go.
There you go in the chat.
Everybody make sure.
Gee feels better.
Now poor Kathleen's getting up.
I don't even know who this woman is.
No idea.
Was she like the wokester or something?
Okay, good.
Now I feel better about it.
All right, folks.
Thanks again for tuning in.
My deepest apologies for the breakdown, but Guy's right.
Even the best systems, we haven't had a breakdown in that system in a really long time.
It happened to happen today at the beginning of the show, but we made the decision to start over, so we gave you a full show.
Oh, what happened?
Everything's falling apart.
Everything's falling apart in this show.
I'll see you on the radio show here in a little bit and back here tomorrow at 11 a.m.
as we wrap up the Dan Bongino Show.
Love you guys.
See you then.
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