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Look at you, Jim.
We're like two minutes into the show.
Jim's already got his volume.
Unbelievable.
Jim's already got his volume up on the show.
Jim, get back in here.
Come on, Jim.
Get back.
You always know this is part of the show, of course.
It's all if you are in the studio, anyone right now, you're fair game.
Everybody knows that.
Man, it is good to see you guys and ladies out there.
It's been a crazy year.
I really, really miss you.
By the way, got a small announcement.
Jim, what is it?
We had a guest today.
What was it?
President Donald J. Trump, the most transformative president of our lifetime, or frankly any other, dealing with a multitude of threats and all the stuff, turn the country around like that, is going to join us at 11:30 a.m. Eastern Time.
Sorry, guys, I couldn't tell you right away.
I'd love to, but I wanted to, you know, I want a few surprises for opening day here.
And listen, before we get started for the relaunch of the Dan Bongino show, studio looks pretty much the same since I left.
This is the new studio, of course.
A couple thank yous, guys.
One, first to my wife, Paula, for I can't even get choked up at the beginning of the show.
All right.
I'm going to turn to my man card immediately.
But guys, I'm telling you right now, like this last year has been a lot.
It's been a lot.
It's been the honor of my lifetime.
We loved it.
My wife and I.
The experience was incredible.
But, you know, it's like anything else.
And I say this with the president too.
It's an amazing strain on his family and everyone else's.
It's not unique to anyone, but for Paula to have gone through that with me and then to relaunch the show.
She has been working nonstop to get this seamlessly relaunched.
Forget it.
But nothing happens without her, period.
She is, if I'm the godfather or someone call me the pod father, she's the pod mother.
So thank you.
And she's sitting right there looking lovely as ever.
And to my crew and Jasmine, Jasmine, who manages this operation.
I can't do it without you guys.
Gee, Jim, Andy, Justin.
Now, we have all, we have new members coming in.
It's just like, it's the most amazing experience with these guys to work with them.
So thank you all so much for launching.
You guys are the best.
And Teresa's out there too, causing trouble as always, probably on the phone right now, like cutting some deal or something like that.
So thank you all.
Now, guys, this is a show.
So the media people, I know you're watching because you can't stay away.
You've written endless stories about me.
My shoulder got hurt in a grappling session.
I know you can't stay away.
So I know you're here.
And I'm going to say, I mean this.
Welcome.
I don't dislike you guys.
I just find it fascinating that I'm so fascinating to you all.
I don't know what's so interesting about me, but you clearly find it interesting because you write about me all the time.
So in order to get you prepped for what the show is going to look like on relaunch, Jim, what is this thing called I'm about to read?
Do you remember?
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Meanwhile, they run ads in their newspaper, but they're unfamiliar.
This is called an advertisement.
This is an ad-supported show.
They're always stunned by this.
When I was leaving, like, oh my God, he supports companies in his show who actually, yes, that's how the business works, you dipshits.
Did you guys forget this?
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All right, guys, time to get to the show.
We're doing the bell.
I didn't even think of that.
I totally forgot that.
Man, we went through this whole thing like a thousand times.
I didn't even think of the bell.
Little bit of cobwebs, Teresa.
It's been a long time.
Just look at it.
How do you forget the bell?
Guys, I really did miss you all.
It's been a crazy year.
As I said in a couple of my tweets prior to getting back on the air, what I promised to not do, you know, never tell people what you're not going to do, but in this case, it matters.
This is not going to be, you know, a year or two of me presenting my resume about what happened every single week.
It's not.
One of the cardinal rules of leadership and leadership positions is don't overexplain yourself.
I said it in a tweet.
I'll say it again.
I did what I did.
I'm going to show you what I did in today's show.
If you're a supporter and you like it, you like it.
So there's no need for me to lay out Tolstoy's Warrant Peace and keep speaking about it.
If you don't and you hate my guts, there's nothing I'm going to tell you to convince you other.
Correct, Jim.
So it doesn't really matter.
But however, you are the taxpayer.
I worked for you.
It was the honor of a lifetime to work for you and this president with Kash Patel, who's an amazing FBI director.
So I feel an obligation to tell you what your money paid for.
And again, if you like it, you like it.
And if you don't, that's fine too.
But, you know, listen, supporters, detractors, lovers, haters, you're all welcome here.
Like I said, blow up the chat.
I'm happy to have you here.
That's not a downside to me at all.
So we put together a little B-roll.
Not we had nothing to do with it.
The team put this together, but a couple of photos.
That was a pipe.
I look really like, look at me, my arms.
You could see the arthritis in my arms.
Leave it to me to make a joke about myself, but it's true.
This was when we made an arrest of the suspect in the pipe bomb case.
Judge Janine there.
I love Judge Janine.
She's the best.
There's the arrested sign right there.
It's us walking off the stage.
So that was an interesting day for me.
That also, unbelievably, like happened to be my birthday the same day, which I totally forgot about.
I mean, I think I was reminded by the AG.
He was like, hey, happy birthday.
It is my speak loud.
Am I not talking?
Is the chat like blowing up?
Sorry.
All right.
So give me some new pictures here.
These guys put the omnibus.
Well, this one, I'll get into that in a second where that picture's from, but I look pretty somber there for a reason.
They're also, I'll explain that one in a minute as well.
So go through that.
There's the greatest mayor in New York City's history, a guy I modeled my law enforcement approach at the FBI after.
This was at a ceremony up in New York for 9-11, and we were chatting beforehand.
I don't remember where that one was from, but I look really mean in that one as well.
Why do I always have like RBF going on?
You know, like I'm always, I promise I'm like a really happy guy, but I always look so mad, especially in that picture.
All right, we got another one there.
Oh, there you go.
That was up at Capitol Hill, going in for some testimony on stuff.
That was Charlie's Memorial, I was said, out in Arizona.
Oh, this one, this one went viral.
This was me walking out, and this lovely young lady had given me a Jesus statue.
And she was, her mom said, Hey, Dan, she's a big supporter.
And I remember that one.
That one went nuclear on social media.
So to that young lady, thank you for bringing a little bit of Jesus and warmth back into my life.
It was a really somber ceremony.
So we appreciate it.
Folks, I can't do this show today without a couple of remembrances as well of folks we lost.
Obviously, Charlie being first.
Charlie was a great friend of mine.
I'm not going to be publishing any texts or communications with Charlie or anything like that.
It's just, we're not doing it.
Charlie was a great friend.
We used to discuss everything, the movement, the audience shows.
You see this picture of me and him and Charlie.
I miss him like you all did.
And I obviously haven't been in the FBI and investigating the case at the time.
It was a, I don't see the picture up there.
I'm going to look at that one per se.
Did you guys have it?
Because that one.
Yeah, that I'm sorry.
I just had to see it on the screen, but that was my guy there.
And he's a good man.
I missed that hair.
We love you, Charlie.
Charlie was the bridge, man.
He was.
Charlie knew everybody.
And Charlie made everybody feel like a friend.
Sorry.
Thanks, brother.
Also, we lost another valuable member of the show who had worked with us forever.
I wasn't, again, here at the time, but our good friend Joe Armacost, producer Joe, who started the show with me in the basement of my Severna Park apartment.
There was some Severna Park House, excuse me, some pictures of producer Joe, you know, always look like Elvis, man.
Joe, we love you, brother.
And Joe, most of these elements you saw on the show, those were Joe's ideas.
I mean, Joe started way before Gee or Jim or anyone else.
And, you know, we loved you.
And we lost Joe.
He was just a great man.
And I'll tell you what, he never missed the day of work, Joe, which was incredible all that time.
So, in honor of Joe, and some of you will get this and you know why we're doing it.
Joe used to think of these crazy elements to throw in the show.
And Joe's most famous element, you guys remember what it was?
Was what was it, Justin?
The Mutley.
It was Joe's idea.
Joe loved it.
Joe used to have a Mutley scale when politicians like Adam Schiff and others say stupid stuff.
One Mutley was dumb, two Mutleys, really dumb.
Three Mutleys, catastrophically dumb.
Four Mutleys is a nuclear mutley attack, a level of dumb we haven't seen in eons.
There has never been a five Mutley ever.
The four Mutley was rare.
Three was pretty rare too.
So in honor of the legend, Producer Joe, his elements, his talents, and everything else, we have our first, only, and by the way, we're going to be retiring it last.
Here it is.
Muttley for the great producer, Joe.
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God bless you, sir.
This show would not be what it is today.
We got 148,000 people in the live.
The transformative vehicle it's been for the MAGA movement and conservatism without you.
God bless you, sir.
Hope to see you again.
Okay.
Folks, I really did miss you guys.
It has been an incredible year.
I'm extremely proud of the work that's got done under this president, attorney general, and director Patel.
The last day on the job, so I want to give you some insight to what it was like because working for this president, who's going to be coming up, by the way, in an hour and 15 minutes at 1130, I cannot wait.
I'm really excited to get into kind of the whole picture of what it's like behind the scenes with President Trump from President Trump.
So he's coming up in an hour and 15 minutes.
But the job was amazing.
Every single day was some level 10 problem.
I'm going to get into that later.
We're going to talk about all this stuff.
Don't worry.
I have a ton of time with you guys today.
Haley coming up next at her new time at noon.
But if I don't get to today, I am going to get to it.
You have my word.
I'm just, there's a lot to talk about.
But the last day on the job, this was what every day was like was, of course, today President Trump and our unbelievable Secretary of War, Pete Hankseth, I ran into yesterday at the great Dan Scavino.
Congratulations on your wedding to Aaron Elmore, another phenomenal human being.
I was there.
The president was there.
I was talking to Pete for a while.
Pete is amazing.
He's like the president, super decisive, gets to the point.
They went and grabbed Maduro, but the FBI had a significant footprint in that operation through our special weapons team known as HRT.
And they did a great job.
So, you know, why did I take the job?
This is the question I get all the time.
Well, you know, why take the job?
You know, we all need to test ourselves sometimes, all of us, and me included.
I never wanted to be just content or happy.
If you don't stress yourself, you don't scar your skin once in a while, you're never going to grow back and build those collagen fibers and build back a tough scars, prevent yourself from getting cut again.
So I wanted to test myself and I wanted the opportunity to work for what I knew was going to be the most transformative administration, even better than 45, because I knew the president from his first administration had learned a ton and that 47, I even said it to you guys, was going to come back with a vengeance and was going to be just 10x what it was the first time around.
So I wanted to be a part of it.
So we all have to test ourselves.
And this was unquestionably a test.
So in DC, when you get selected and confirmed or just picked for one of these principal or deputy positions, everything you do is a level 10 decision at that point because all the easy decisions, the one through fives and even the fives through nines, have already been handled by managers or agents or people beneath you or people throughout the federal bureaucracy.
Level 10 decisions, I was saying before we got attacked there, well, not physically attacked.
I mean, obviously everybody's okay.
You have shit decisions and shittier decisions.
That's what level 10 decisions are.
And trying to figure out, are you getting me live on your phone there?
Yours?
Yeah, you are.
Okay, good.
So trying to figure out what the shittier decision is.
If your batting average is 500, you're a rock star in DC because they're not easy.
If they're easy, like I said, everyone else would have figured them out.
So a friend of mine, after having made quite a few of these level 10 decisions in conjunction with cash, a friend of mine who's at a leadership position in government elsewhere had sent me over this video of SEC college football coach.
I'm an Auburn fan, as you know, but however, Jim, this is a pretty darn good clip.
This is Kirby Smart talking about leadership.
And I want to hit these three points because I experienced this firsthand.
Check this out.
You can't ignore the cost of leadership.
Great leaders are willing to accept those costs.
And I want to share quickly three of those things, three of the costs that are plastered on my desk right behind it that kind of caught me between the eyes last week.
Number one, you will have to make hard decisions that negatively affect people you care about.
Number two, you will be disliked despite your best attempts to do the best for the most.
And number three, you will be misunderstood and won't always have the opportunity to defend yourself.
Those are three costs that come from being a great leader.
Now, that is probably the best.
What is that, Gee?
30 seconds?
I don't know.
On leadership I've ever seen.
And having, you know, been through the grind last year in D.C., I can see it.
You are going to have to make tough decisions.
I just said to you without beating this thing to death, everything's level 10, shit or shittier.
Find out which one is the shittier decision and avoid it.
That's the best you can do.
There are no easy decisions left, period.
Imagine the president, by the way, you got principals and deputies beneath him.
If they can't make the decision, they go to him for Jim, like level 11 decisions where it's like, it's not even shitty and shitty.
It's the shittiest decision.
And he's got to make those decisions probably 100 times a day.
Second, you're going to be disliked.
There is no level 10 decision you're going to make that is going to make everybody happy.
It's not going to happen, period.
There is no way.
You saw it with all the stuff, the Epstein case, the other things we had to deal with.
There is no decision you're going to make that is going to make everybody happy.
And you have to deal with it.
If you're there to be liked, you're in the wrong job.
Get out right away.
Third, and this is probably the most important takeaway.
You're going to be misunderstood.
You're going to have a bunch of 18-year-old, you know, Washington Post writers with no experience in the real world at all commenting on your decisions you made with no background whatsoever as to why you made them.
I get it.
I mean, it's understandable.
They're not read in on these programs, but I'll address this with President Trump later: how he's making decisions on Greenland and the Donroad Doctrine based on a president's daily brief he gets every day that these media people have no idea.
They don't even know what the freaking threats are.
Like, oh, that's a crazy decision.
How do you know?
I don't know.
I guess I read it in a Charlie Brown encyclopedia with him.
You don't know shit.
You don't know anything.
Just be honest that you don't know.
You can have an opinion on it.
I'm not telling you, media people.
I'm not telling you, media people, not to have an opinion.
Have an opinion?
Great.
It's a constitutional republic.
But just be honest that you don't know shit.
And he does.
He's read in on all this stuff.
So you're going to be misunderstood because there are things even now, obviously, I'm not going to be able to talk about.
There are ongoing cases and other things.
And you guys didn't pay me, the taxpayer, to go in there and come out here and try to be some like, you know, superhero.
You paid me to do the right thing.
And the right thing involves keeping custody over information.
So you're going to be misunderstood about stuff.
Said before, overexplaining is the big problem.
People who support you and understand what we were dealing with are going to support you.
And the Bongino Army's been there.
You're there today.
I appreciate it.
Sorry about the technical stuff, but I knew we were going to get hit hard today.
But overexplaining is a problem because the people who hate you are going to hate you anyway.
Your allies don't need it.
Your enemies don't give a damn.
So I'll go through some stuff we did now.
But first, you know what?
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I had the garage guy come out to him, and I'm sitting there freaking out.
The garage keeps going down all the way and coming up.
And the guy can tell you he's looking at the whole thing.
It turns out it was cobwebs at the bottom of the thing with tripping off the sensor holder, how to clean off the cobwebs.
So I told you I was going to show you what we did over the past year because you paid for it.
I worked for you guys and ladies, the taxpayers.
So I'll go through a couple of things.
I don't want to, you know, go crazy with this thing, but it is my first time back.
So you're entitled to see what your results pay for.
So here's a little montage we put together, some headlines.
This was just the past year at the Bureau while we were busy cleaning up the place.
So first, see in the upper left-hand corner, we obviously had that big case against BLM.
That was one of the, you know, one of the cases we got early on in my tenure.
We've been working on for a while.
You see, this ABC News headline, I want to thank Cash and the president for this one.
He worked closely with the White House.
Cash with the fentanyl crisis.
He got the precursors listed on a trip over to China.
It was great work by him.
Wait, slow down.
Slow down.
Go over to the left-hand corner.
Let me go through these things a couple more times.
The drone, listen, drones are a huge, ever-present national security problem.
The technology is evolving by the day, not by the week.
Some of the life cycle stuff on these drones is as little as two weeks before countermeasures and other things are developed.
So we pushed hard on drone mitigation.
We got some money.
We launched the FBI's first drone threat training center at Redstone, down in Alabama.
You can see right there in just the news, there's a grand conspiracy probe going on on weaponization, opening doors for a special prosecutor.
Patel vows no hall passes and explosive arctic frost investigation.
I remember that.
We'll be talking about a lot of the stuff within reason.
Some of the stuff I can get into, some I can't.
Cash at a big transparency initiative, turned over tons, like 30,000 plus documents over to Congress.
Kash Patel fires FBI agents and anti-Trump Arctic Frost inquiry.
But this case got lost in the mix a bit, but I don't even think you know you guys who are following me a little bit more intensely.
I wasn't like communicating with the show staff, but this $15 billion Bitcoin scam we worked on, that was a huge case, but so much was going on at the time.
You know, it all kind of got lost in the mix.
The Kensington drug market in Philly, we ripped that up, had to a Philly office there, tore that thing to pieces.
Man, that thing had been going on forever.
So, you Philly listeners, you know the deal there.
So, I was committed early on to getting rid of these open-air drug markets.
Yeah, stop right there.
The Dacome case, you obviously know about.
Listen, the judge, that just really hurt us.
But that case was ours.
Operation Chalk Lime is one out of Milwaukee, gang bust.
Shifted agents to the immigration crackdown, pursuant to President Trump's leadership on that issue.
Got to basically zero illegal migrants admitted into the country over multiple months.
Again, this is just the past year.
Cash reassigned 1,500 employees outside of D.C., basically getting a lot of people out of headquarters and back into the field to go get bad guys, violent criminals off the streets.
A little pace you're going now, Galey.
The Antifa cell members in the Paralyland shooting we indicted and locked up.
I think there were 19 of them or something like that.
That was another, so much happened.
I know a lot of this gets lost, but that was another tragedy.
I remember sitting in the office with that.
764, be careful what your kids are doing online.
It's this really violent group that exploits kids.
We have been resolutely targeted on locking them up through Operation Restoring Justice and others.
We did that.
The New Orleans mayor, Latoya Cantrell.
So we had a lot of public corruption cases going on.
Gavin Newson's former chief of staff indicted.
We had, of course, the six most wanted out of the 10, four.
Well, I was there, so I can't take credit for the last two.
Ryan Wedding and the other individual cash brought back from Mexico.
We had former aide to New York governor charged, being an agent of the Chinese government.
The historic crime crackdown.
We had a homicide rate, the lowest in U.S. history.
The percentage drop helped grab Maduro with our amazing Secretary of War.
Of course, everybody at the New York Times and all of them were upset.
We had five, of course, the pipe bomb suspect.
Everyone's innocent until proven guilty.
You get the point on that.
John Bolton.
So, all right, enough is that dismantled.
Oh, wait, wait, hold on.
One more, one more.
The FBI dismantles elite public corruption squad.
The New York Times and the Washington Post gym can't figure out if we've done too much or too little.
Unease at FBI intensifies as Patel ousts top officials.
And maybe you had that D-bag, Aaron Blake, hitting us on Twitter.
You believe this guy didn't see, did you miss your own coverage on this?
You complete loser?
All right, enough of that.
You know, again, I don't want to make this a whole show about here's what happened over the last year.
We got enough going on.
But Peter Schweizer, who is an amazing author, I think he has a book out now.
He put up a tweet at the time because I guess, like me, he's a data guy.
I'm a data guy.
I believe in numbers, just like the president.
Results matter.
Like, show us the numbers, man.
And he put out this tweet, which I thought was pretty cool and I appreciate it.
He said, listen, critiques of the FBI are longstanding and justifiably so, right?
Have been made for many decades, been decades.
But when it comes to granular data or on crime fighting, current FBI's numbers speak for themselves.
This was just, and this wasn't, this was just towards the end of the year.
30,000 arrests, 25,000 violent offenders.
You see all the numbers right there.
5,000 children located, espionage arrests surging.
So with all that, I felt like on my first show, I wanted to address basically four groups of people because a lot of people here who are here have been supporters of mine.
I deeply appreciate it.
I love you guys, but that wasn't always the case.
There were people who just waited for me to get off the air and they were, you know, they were just dying to take a pot shot the first day we were on the job.
So here are the four groups of people I want to address and I want to clear up some stuff with.
To our supporters, I really can't thank you enough.
Good cases and good police work takes time.
Listen, I wish it didn't, but good cases, good police work, and personnel changes take time.
You can do all these things the wrong way or you can do them the right way.
But the right way to do them is never going to be the quick way.
I used to say to everyone at the Bureau, you know, fast is smooth, smooth is fast.
But good cases take time.
We are not the War Department.
We can't just give an order and have something enacted immediately.
There's a process.
There are United States attorneys you have to work with.
The Justice Department, when I was there, was dealing with a lot of U.S. attorneys who were legacy Biden, even Obama holdovers who just didn't want to do their job.
So A.G. Bondi gave him the boot and said, get out.
And, you know, Todd and them from the DAG, the Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, they said, you got to go.
You don't want to do your job.
Get out of here.
You're dealing with process.
You're dealing with a lot of some judges who are not, you know, hurt us in a lot of these cases as well.
It's not an excuse for anything.
It's just an explanation.
So the supporters who understood that, that this stuff takes time and judged us on the record, I really appreciate that.
You guys and ladies have been with me from the beginning.
I read a lot of your stuff and I owe you huge, man.
I really appreciate me, you know, going in there and having that bedrock of support on the outside.
You know, I used to say on the show before I left, everything in this business, in the opinion business, is sound bites and snapshots.
It's headlines and soundbites.
It's all it is.
That's what people remember.
Clipping is the way people, a lot of people get recognition online.
A lot of people watch the whole show.
Some people don't.
Sound bites and snapshots matter.
It's the exact opposite in federal law enforcement.
It is not sound bites and snapshots.
It is a very slow, methodical process, getting subpoenas, doing the work, doing the investigative work, getting the data aggregated to make a case that can pass judicial muster and that probable cause hurdle.
So it's the exact opposite.
So big thank you to our supporters.
Love you guys.
You're the best.
That's the first group of people and the best of this lot.
Second, you know, to the libs and their media pals.
You know, liberals out there, you know, with you guys, you've always hated me.
The feeling's probably mutual.
I don't like you guys either.
You know, I would like to think when I went in there, I had an open mind.
I didn't go in there with any partisan intent.
And the people we arrested where we crushed the crime rate in largely liberal cities, we didn't do it to score political points.
No one's voting for anyone I support in these liberal cities anyway.
We did it because the job matters.
So liberals and their media pals, you can get your lips and just pucker them up and plant a big wet one on my ass because you guys would just rather see people dead.
What are you laughing at, Jim?
We're not even like 40 minutes in.
Jim's already, I miss this guy.
It's been a long time.
Yeah, you can pucker up, okay?
I'd show it to you, but no one wants to see that on the live.
We may crash the live stream again.
This may be what the DDoS attack was all about to prevent me from.
But you guys would rather see people dead.
I'm going to talk to President Trump about this in about a little less than an hour when he comes on the show.
But it's incredible at the homicide rate.
Jim, what happens in a homicide?
What happens to people?
Somebody dies.
Somebody dies.
They're freaking dead.
It's amazing.
Like a lot of people aren't dead because the homicide rate's the lowest it's been in modern U.S. history, not exclusively because of the work we did, but largely because of the work we did at the direction of the president, expanding the use of UFAP warrants, Vicker cases, RICO cases, gang members who shoot people.
We want locked up.
I just showed you the montage, chalkline, the Kensington drug market, all this stuff, the illegal immigration push, Title VIII, violent criminals, using Title VIII, excuse me, to get them out of the country.
And then the liberals are complaining.
Hello, what the hell happened?
How the hell?
How did this happen?
Gee, I don't know dipshits.
How did it happen?
When 0.5% of the population commits 50 to 70% of the violent crime, and most of them have been arrested between 8 and 12 times before.
That's what the data shows.
And Jim, stutter, when you go out and you lock these violent animals up, they can't kill people because they're in jail.
Well, they could kill people in jail, but not on the street.
When you deport them, they can kill people, but not here.
I don't want them killing anyone, but I don't want them killing U.S. citizens.
I work for the United States government.
Liberals are to be, I don't know, man.
I don't know.
What the hell happened?
Crime rate, violent crime rate, homicide rate plunged by 20%.
What the hell happened?
And the media, totally divorced from reality.
These people would rather see you dead than for a second acknowledge that this FBI, I'm not talking about the prior ones, that these people, that we had anything to do with it at all.
They don't give a shit.
All they want to do is write their damn headline.
We don't know what happened.
Must have been a statistical anomaly.
Yeah.
Sure.
Sure, dipshits.
Keep it going.
So that we're so back, aren't we?
Already?
I can tell I'm feeling, I am so in a mood today.
You have no idea.
This is like bottled up, pent up energy for the past year.
So supporters, libs and their media pals, we don't like each other.
Keep writing your stories.
I'm sure you'll have a story about tomorrow.
You always do.
You already wrote the headline.
I could already see it.
So good for you.
Knock yourselves out.
I know we're good clickbait for you.
But as long as you show up, it's all that matters to me.
The third group of people I want to address are the grifters out there who mistakenly thought I wasn't coming back.
Now, I am back.
The podfather is back, and I'm here to take back this movement.
This movement's been hijacked by a small group of dipshits and bums and losers who are nothing but doomers under the frame of accountability.
I'm all about accountability.
I just showed you what we did or what we didn't.
Did I not?
I'm not sitting here going, hey, trust me, bro.
I showed you.
If you like it, great.
If you don't, that is absolutely your constitutional right.
You paid for it to go out and go, that sucked.
I would have done something different.
Okay, but you didn't.
You didn't do anything different.
I'm not sure if you volunteered to serve or not, but you didn't.
You sat in the front row with your popcorn, ankle biting, throwing this popcorn at the ring at two guys in there sparring away, fighting for this country while you did shit.
You just talked about it.
So you didn't do anything.
Now, I'm back on the air.
I'm not going to take on every single thing in one day and one show, but I'm telling you right now, you're bullshit.
I'm done with it.
The grifter bums, all you guys are, are a class of doomers.
Everything sucks all the time.
You would have done it differently.
You didn't do shit.
You did nothing.
You didn't volunteer.
You didn't ask.
You didn't give up your show to do.
You did nothing.
All you did was bullshit people and say, nothing's happening.
And then when we tell you, oh, it just happened, you move on to something else you say is not going to happen.
And then when that happens, you move on to something else.
Totally full of shit.
Thank you.
There's some numbers.
This was from an Epic Time Terror.
Nothing's happening.
35% increase in espionage arrests.
That's not nothing.
You don't have to like it, but it's not nothing.
Okay.
78% increase in China-related espionage.
Again, nothing.
112% increase in Asian applications.
20% drop in a nationwide murder rate.
Again, you don't have to like it.
You could say, I would have done 21.
Yeah, but you didn't.
What's that?
Thank you, Gee.
He's like, I don't like murders.
I'm all for this.
Me either.
20% increase in FBI arrests related to 764 Child Exploitation Network.
640 individuals disrupted from conducting terror attacks.
You don't have to like it, bro.
You don't have to like any of it.
But don't say it's nothing.
A lot of people put a lot of hard work into it from this administration at the top on down.
You want to critique it, say you would have done better?
Step up.
Step up.
Go ahead.
They got openings.
You go try it.
See what you're dealing with.
The last group of people I want to address here is the leakers.
Listen, when we got into the FBI, Cash and I, we found there were two FBIs.
I think Nicole Parker actually has an interesting book about this.
She was an agent a while back.
And Nicole Parker had an interesting take on this: two FBIs.
And she's not wrong.
There was a completely weaponized portion of the FBI that just could not get their heads out of their asses.
They could not get out of this old model of like political targeting first, law enforcement second.
And then it was another group of people, you know, door kickers, agents out in Omaha and elsewhere, who they didn't have anything to do with any of this shit.
Matter of fact, you know, if you were doing an inspection, you read some of their emails, a lot of them were pissed off about this whole thing.
These were the guys going out there, you know, locking up these VCAT case offenders, violent crimes against children, you know, locking up white-collar folks, locking up, you know, using UFAP warrants to go get violent, it's unlawful flight against prosecution, you know, to use these warrants to go get bad guys off the street.
The problem was finding out who was part of each group.
Disgruntled Door Kickers00:13:54
We were outsiders, both Cash and I. That's not a mystery.
We were outsiders.
The benefit to being outsiders is we had a fresh set of eyeballs when it came to things like Doge and everything else and work.
I saw Elon yesterday at the Ask If He News Wedding, I thanked him for it.
We had a Doge guy over there as well.
We came in there with a fresh set of eyes.
And that was great.
But folks, there was a downside.
The downside was we did not know every single player in the business and who was what.
No one advertises, hey, I'm part of the weaponized old FBI.
So we had to figure that out.
Not an excuse, just an explanation.
That's all.
I worked for you and you deserve to hear what happened.
So this fourth group of people, the leakers in the Bureau, some who've left, some who were likely fired and others, you guys destroyed the place and you tried to destroy us too.
But I bet you thought I'd never be back either.
So now, when you leak with your little tiny voice in the New York Times and your 10 or 15 views, we have millions of people.
This show is so big, they tried to take us offline just 15, 20 minutes ago.
It's the biggest live stream in the world and one of the biggest conservative podcasts in the entire world.
Now we're back.
And now we get to fight back because I'm not going to let you bullshit people anymore about what was going on.
Upset about everything.
Some of the stuff that came out about social media said, these guys were hilarious.
These guys were absolutely hilarious.
Social media is how people consume content.
Walter Cronkite and Broca aren't around on the air anymore.
They'd be like, man, Dan and Cash, they were really concerned about getting media, getting information out about social media.
No shit, Sherlock Holmes.
We've got someone wanted for a crime.
You think it may be a good idea to put out on social media, hey, we're looking for this person?
They'd be like, these guys are using social media.
Yeah, we are.
That's why the prior operation kept sucking and why 80% of people didn't trust the weaponized idiots who were running the place before.
Of course we were going to use it to tell the taxpayer, here's what's going on.
Here's what we needed.
They deserve transparency.
Why was this a shocker?
But I'm back now.
And you can go fuck yourself.
What are you laughing at?
I'm serious.
Let me say it again.
Go fuck yourself.
We had to clean up your mess and you hated every second of it.
And to the good guys doing their job, God bless you, man.
Thank you.
There are people alive right now because you went and kicked in a door and got some shithead off the street and put him in jail or deported him out of the country.
But yeah, that fourth class of goons, keep it up, man.
Now we're back.
Now we get to tell the real story of why you tried to stop us every step of the way as we clean the mess up you left for this president.
The absolute mess.
Now, I figured no good to address those four groups of people, especially group two, Libs, and their media pals, who again would rather see you dead.
They would rather write a story about the homicide rate being up.
Oh, my God.
They don't care if people die.
They don't care at all.
This is how they work.
I've seen it now from the inside.
Obviously, before I had been in government before, you know, my past with the Secret Service and at the local level with the NYPD, obviously.
But now at that level, it was completely and a total eye-opener, like Clockwork Orange eye-opener, how the media does these things from the other side.
Because over the past year, you know, I had to stay relatively quiet on social media outside of the FBI account because it's not about me.
When you're in the government, you work for the president, the taxpayer, the administration.
It's not about you.
You're not there to like promote your own stuff anymore.
You're there to work for this administration and get the job done.
So I had to stay relatively quiet.
So the media knew that.
So every day they would write some kind of bullshit piece.
And I saw how they did this.
So I'm going to go through this kind of three-step process.
And once you see this, once you see this, you'll never unsee it.
This is how they work.
So first, I even wrote this down.
I should auction off for charity the first show, shouldn't I?
We should use some wounded warrior charity.
Wouldn't that be cool?
Someone want that?
Would you guys bid on that?
Totally for charity.
That would be great.
Maybe I'll do that.
Rip the pages out and you'll see how I write this stuff down.
You got to write.
Typing's so good.
All right, back on track.
How swamp insiders and media goons develop the narrative or the story du jour they want out there?
Is the story true?
Never.
Doesn't matter.
And they keep going anyway.
Step one: find some anonymous, not anonymous to them, but to you, disgruntled swamp rat to pitch your bullshit story to.
They're like, isn't it supposed to work the other way?
Hey, gee, right?
Like disgruntled insiders go to the meeting and go, I'm a whistleblower.
I've got some right.
That's how it's supposed to work, correct?
But that's not how it works.
No, what?
No, no, that's not how it works at all.
Media people are every, they already have a story written.
Story is like Dan Bongino, man, he cut himself with a razor.
He's got to learn to shave better.
That's their story.
Whether I cut myself with a razor or not is totally irrelevant.
There could be no blood in the faith.
They just want to make you look like your physical skills are waning or something.
He keeps cutting himself with a razor.
They go out to a guy and he'll be like, hey, Ken, Ken, I need a favor.
When you were at the FBI, did you witness Dan Bongino shaving?
No, not really.
Are you sure?
Okay, yeah, I did.
Okay, good, good, good.
Did he ever cut himself?
Well, I'm not really sure.
You just said you did.
Did he cut himself?
Yes, he cut himself.
So that's how it's, they pitch it the other way.
So in the media business, I was working with a writer one time on a project.
He said they call these people quote machines, where you go to the whistleblower as with the story.
He then pitches as his own because he's your quote machine.
So a perfect example of this, I'll show you exactly what I mean.
You got receipts, receipts, kids, receipts.
You don't have receipts.
Don't bother, right?
You know the show is all about receipts, right?
Here's this New York Times piece.
This is exactly what I'm talking about.
They had a story.
Keep this up for a second, Gee.
They had this story written in advance.
Trump's politicized FBI has made Americans less safe.
Keep that on the screen for a second.
July 5th, 2025.
All they did was take this narrative they had built out in advance.
Donald Trump's making America less safe.
The FBI has been totally politicized.
They go to a bunch of quote machine leakers and losers who totally screwed the FBI up, which is going to take a long time to fix, by the way.
It's not going to happen overnight.
I promise.
Even over the past year, we made a lot of progress.
They go to them and say, hey, we're going to write this story about the FBI being politicized, being less safe.
Here's a couple of quotes.
Okay, that sounds good to me.
That's exactly what I would say.
America less safe.
Gee, you have that epic time statement.
What the are you talking about?
Are you basing that on that?
Where?
Espionage arrests?
They're up.
China-related espionage?
Those are up dramatically.
What about Asian applications?
Oh, those are up.
What about the murder rate?
Oh, that's down.
764 arrests?
Surely we got them.
No, those are up too.
What about terror plots?
We haven't had an organized, an organized terror group conduct a successful attack, an organized terror group from overseas, conducted.
What are you talking about?
640 people arrested.
What are you talking about?
You're supposed to be journalists, right?
Back it up.
Just back it up.
You said America's less safe.
Back it up.
This is how they were.
So that's step one.
Find some disgruntled dipshit, give them a quote, feed the quote machine in, and they go back and go, oh, yeah, America's less safe, man.
What are you basing it on?
I don't know.
You told me to say it.
Dipshits.
Here's step two.
This one, I promise when you see this one, you'll never unsee it, but a lot of people miss this one.
I haven't gotten to go through this with you, Jim.
So you're sitting, but this one's a good one.
You're paying attention, take notes on this one.
This is the Ox's Gourd effect, I'll call it.
Once you see this in lib media narrative articles, you'll never miss it now.
Let's say there's a conservative podcaster they hate, and you can go through the list of them.
Even Republican, conservative, libertarian, whatever.
If it's not a non-Democrat podcaster, is the best way to say it, right?
As long as you're not on their team, you're the enemy, right?
What they'll do is they'll attack that person relentlessly, Joey Bag of Donuts.
They'll be like, conspiracy theorist, Joey Bag of Donuts.
But if Joey Bag of Donuts says something against, say, me or Cash or anyone else they need to gore that day, they'll be like respected conservative journalists.
You dip shits just wrote this guy was a conspiracy.
Tell me it's not true.
It is real.
You will totally see.
I could give you a thousand examples of it right now.
All these guys, they'll be like, you know, inside whistleblower.
Meanwhile, six months ago, you were attacking this guy.
It's such, it's hilarious to read.
You'll see it all the time.
Respected podcaster, Joey Bag of Donuts.
And then a week later, when they need Joey Bag of Donuts to go down, they'll be like life loser zero conspiracy theorist kicks dogs.
And you'll be like, this is the same guy, bro.
See it?
You'll never unsee it.
So again, step one: feed a quote to some disgruntled swap rat, swamp rat, who doesn't want to lose his retirement package.
Second, make sure you use the ox's gourd effect and turn everybody against one another.
They love doing this.
There's nothing more they like than conservative, libertarian, Republican infighting.
Nothing more.
Step three, it then becomes the current thing.
You know, I hate the current thing.
This is a liberal thing.
Liberals go along with every single current thing.
They never ask any questions.
You're like, hey, I think it's a good idea.
Someone about like a decade ago was like, I got this idea.
I think we should allow men in the women's room.
What the hell?
Like, who thought it's such a freaking stupid idea?
But the liberals are like, wait, is this the current thing?
And of course, the narrative spreads on X and elsewhere and Blue Sky where all the liberals are and others and on their Reddit forms.
And they're like, what a liberal person, you know, like they like the kank or someone at the young turds, right?
You know, Kank, yes, they all support the current.
They're like, well, Kank said it or whatever.
So it's like they love it.
All they need to do, because they're little lemmings, is hear the current thing.
And they're like, yes, this is the current thing.
I definitely want to see a penis in the women's room.
This is perfect.
Meanwhile, 95% of America is like, that's fucking crazy, man.
Like, what are you guys, lunatics?
Folks, they're trying to instill this on the right, too.
I've warned you about this for a long time.
Be really, really careful with this.
It's what I call my cannibalism theory, where they remember the cannibalism theory.
If you were listening to my radio show or podcast, they know the liberal media folks and people trying to divorce this movement from the inside, right?
They understand that there are influencers or whatever you want to call them out there.
That the second Donald Trump got into office, their MO is to make money.
Not all of them.
I'm not bashing everyone, but they're all, and you know who they are.
They've got to make money.
Their livelihood, their livelihood is clickbait.
Okay.
I have separate investments in my own business.
I told you, I am a capitalist.
I like the show.
I love the show.
We don't need the show.
We do the show because we want to do the show.
But the people on the left, they do the same thing.
I told you in the cannibalism theory, they'll eat each other alive for clicks.
I never thought, this is where I got to tell you, I was a little bit blindsided.
I'm usually pretty good at kind of licking my finger and seeing where the winds are blowing.
I miss that.
When Donald Trump got elected, I was like, my gosh, so much is happening so fast.
Like, I thought there was going to be like a champagne popping party.
And I'm not talking about the FBI stuff.
Forget it.
I'm talking about in general.
And yet you get doomers and blackpillars and others who all they do is shit talk the administration at every single opportunity.
It's because they don't have anyone else to eat up but their own right now.
And they find clicks in it.
Oh, I would have done it.
But you wouldn't have done shit, man.
You're sitting on your ass in front of your ex account watching like tentacle porn.
You wouldn't have done a damn what?
Remember that reporter at that time?
You know, we used to use that on the radio a lot.
You wouldn't have done shit, man.
You're talking a bunch of smack.
You wouldn't have done anything.
Donald Trump had the balls to do all this stuff.
Iran, Venezuela.
I'm not even a huge tariff guy, but listen to all the doom and gloom about it.
Didn't turn out to be true.
5% GDP projected, zero illegal border crossings, a 20% drop in the homicide rate.
Oh, I don't like it.
You would have done it differently.
You're full of shit, man.
You know what the hell you're talking about.
So all I'm telling you is accountability matters.
Accountability and transparency are paramount.
But don't lie about it.
Nothing happened.
No, it did happen.
You're just full of shit and you're falling for the current thing and you're eating up your own side because you got nothing else to do.
And just tell people, just tell people why you're doing it.
Just be candid.
Because that shit drives me crazy.
And by the way, most of the people talking smack doing this, eating up our own side and this movement, this MAGA movement and elsewhere, never did a damn thing themselves.
And by the way, never had any idea what was actually going on.
I love how some of them pretend to be big insiders.
Prepare for What Matters00:04:18
I got all these deep contacts.
And then something happens that the president of the administration does and they look blindside.
Wait, I thought you were an insider.
And I thought you just said that wasn't going to happen.
The president was going to do X. You said the president will never do X.
Then he does X and then you move on.
Hey, no one ever mentions it again.
It's like, hey, are you ever going to be accountable for bullshitting your audience about the stuff you said isn't happening?
All right, I got to take a break and then I want to get to some.
Man, it was a long show.
Boy, I got a lot of stuff to talk about today.
I'm not even through halfway of it.
I hope you guys are enjoying it so far.
I really appreciate your patience.
What do you think is in the cup there?
Any guesses in the audience?
No, it's not.
That's pretty good, Guy.
I like how you said that.
180,000, even with a technical hiccup.
180,000.
Boy, I know.
I love you guys so much.
I wasn't talking to you, Guy, but I do love you too.
Thank you.
All right, folks.
Quick break.
We're now into our second hour for the first time ever.
It'll be a two-hour show, 10 a.m. to noon.
So we really appreciate you guys staying.
Remember, President Trump coming up in just under 29 minutes at 11:30.
So I can't wait for that.
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So, uh, this is kind of what I was talking about too, by with the uh, with the grifter class.
And you know, this before there were people ready from day one to just attack everything the administration and all of Trump's selected people were doing because there's you know money in the grift.
My uh friend Brendan Dilley, he's got his own show.
It's a great show.
He uh posted a tweet about early on.
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This was him.
Look at the date, March 10th, 2025.
Keep an eye on Sunshine Patriots.
You know, Dan Bongito starts his job on March 17th, the FBI, and we'll begin attacking him on March 18th if the entire deep state isn't arrested that day.
It's not organic.
Pay attention.
Look at the date on that, March 10th.
Man, did he ever call it?
Hey, can you turn that?
You see him?
It's like an eagle.
Like, I love it in here.
I love being cold, but it's like 30 degrees in Florida today.
Yeah, just a couple ticks.
There we go, like 67 or something like that.
Had a 65.
What happened before?
Did you see my Twitter, by the way?
I posted my first frozen iguana picture.
I've never seen the iguanas dropping out of my trees.
I go out the other day, see Lucy sniffing around.
I'm surprised she didn't eat the damn thing.
There's this green thing on the floor.
It was my first frozen iguana I've ever seen.
It was the poor guy was just sitting there.
They're not dead.
They're in like a state.
They're in like a Jurassic Park stasis and like the frozen honey thing or whatever it is.
But I hope the poor guy made it.
Lucy may have eaten them later at night.
I'm not really sure.
Sorry for you, but they're an invasive species.
So you got playing something in my ear there.
So what was it like, guys, working for President Trump?
I get this question a lot.
Matter of fact, it's the question I get the most.
And I'm going to talk to him about it coming up in a minute.
But I feel an obligation to kind of give you the inside perspective again from all the doomers who want you to believe like nothing's happening and all this other stuff.
Number one, the guy is the most decisive human being I've ever worked for.
And I've worked for a lot of people between the NYPD, working in Key Food supermarket, the Secret Service, being an investor, being a consultant.
I've worked for tons of people, some really talented, some not so much.
Some good managers, some bad ones.
Good sergeants, bad sergeants, whatever it may be.
I've never seen a guy this decisive in my life.
And when I say decisive, I mean, let's put meat on a button.
He doesn't get lost in kind of like polling them.
You know, oh, he's obsessed with polling.
No, he's not obsessed with polling numbers at all.
I can prove it to you.
The violent crime push into liberal inner cities, where the president was deeply concerned with Cash and I early on about crushing violent crime in liberal cities.
One, he's not running again.
The president is not running again.
He's not going to win the Chicago vote, even if he could run again.
He never once mentioned, like, hey, man, we got to get a good poll over there.
Never once.
He just cares about people getting unalived.
He doesn't want dead people in Chicago.
It's not hard to figure out.
So he said to us early on, we had this Operation Viper in Memphis.
Cash put it out there.
It was amazing.
The president's like, how do we do this nationwide?
I went to Cash.
I said, hey, let's water balloon our assets around.
Let's do broken windows policing.
Let's implement a Comstat type accountability system.
And let's attack violent crime across the country.
And the president was like, go get him, boys.
Lock him up.
Put the silver bracelets on him.
And he stayed on top of it every single day.
He's also a transformational guy.
You may be like, oh, Dan, you're kissing his ass.
No, I worked for him.
You don't know shit like I did, you media goons.
You have no idea.
He doesn't like, well, prior presidents may have done this.
Great.
Well, why'd they do that?
Well, they did it for this reason.
It wasn't going to go over well with this crowd.
No, no, we're not, we're doing it because it's the right thing.
Totally transactional, transformational guy.
He sees things as a plus one for the country or a minus one.
He doesn't get lost in a lot of BS.
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I never seen anything like it.
And I got to tell you, that's, you know, I let them know early on I was going to do the year.
I was going to flip the calendar.
It was going to go and fix the system there.
We're going to attack violent crime.
We're going to attack the deep state.
We're going to take it on.
We're going to de-weaponize the FBI.
And that's what we did.
But I'm not going to spin your wheels, folks.
I am going to miss the intensity.
So I'll show you a couple things of what it was like in a day inside the office without going into obviously any classified stuff or anything like that.
But, you know, every day was an adventure.
Every day was a level 10 decision.
I'm going to get to that next regarding some other matters in the news.
Every day was a level 10 decision.
There was a shitty choice and a shittier choice.
I promise you.
There was never, ever an easy decision because someone else already made it.
No one knocked on your door.
And they used to call me boss, which always kind of freaked me out a little bit.
I actually told them the second I left, like, everyone's to call me dead.
No more boss.
It really did freak me out being like humble break.
But hey, boss.
And they come in and every day was some like, what do we got now?
What do we got now?
What do we got now?
It was always, always a level 10 decision.
So when you're making these level 10 decisions, like every day was like this.
So this was, this happened all in the same, I don't know, 72-hour period.
Could have been the same day, but don't quote me.
But I remember it all happened at the same time and going down.
So we were dealing with this story.
You got that SOD queued up, Justin?
You guys and ladies may remember this story about a bunch of suspects involved in a terror attack.
Here was some quick Fox news coverage.
I remember this, I mean, like it was yesterday, but check this out.
Shannon, good evening, scary story.
Several people are in custody right now in Michigan being charged on this Halloween night, arrested after the FBI thwarted an alleged terrorist attack with an apparent connection to ISIS.
The FBI director announcing the arrests early this morning on social media.
Now, here's what we know.
Suspects were picked up in both Dearborn and Inkster, Michigan.
It's unclear who was arrested or how many, but telling a statement saying the FBI is constantly on watch to keep Americans safe, adding, through swift action and close coordination with our local partners, a potential act of terror was stopped before it could unfold.
The vigilance of this FBI prevented what could have been a tragic attack.
And thanks to their dedication, Michigan will have a safe and happy Halloween.
Now, our affiliate, Shannon, spotted the FBI in a neighborhood in Dearborn outside Detroit.
Dearborn police confirm the Bureau was there conducting activity this morning.
The local police department adds that there is currently no threat to public safety.
Shannon, good evening.
Yeah, I remember that one.
That was intense.
And obviously, these things go on over the course of days.
Like I said, when you're dealing with the Department of Justice and judicial and legal process, you know, it's not like the War Department, which are making high-end life or death decisions every single day, but they give orders and they're enacted.
But we have process.
Everybody obviously has constitutional protections and things like that.
So that was going on for a while, that whole process.
That was going down.
And again, this is over the same period.
While you're adjusting that, people are coming in.
You're getting quick updates on things like that.
Hey, here's what we got with the suspects.
Here where we are.
Here's where we are with judicial process and subpoenas and the like.
And you obviously want to make sure that first you interdict and stop any potential terror attack.
That's number one.
Judicial process and everything else comes second.
You got to stop the attack.
So you got to make a lot of really tough and hard decisions.
Again, what's the shitty decision and what's the shittier decision?
There's no easy decision.
None.
That was going down when obviously Arctic Frost broke.
We found that.
I'll never forget that when I'm not going to say who, but you got that headline from CBS.
You know, they run in the office and they're like, hey, look what we found.
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And we're like, you've got to be kidding me.
So we had this policy, Cash and I, find, investigate, take action.
So to find things was not easy.
This is why I kind of used to get a kick out of a lot of the popcorn throwers from the first row who acted like when we went in there, everybody laid everything out on a platter.
Like, oh, here you guys go.
Time to take action against the people who are involved in this.
A lot of this stuff was hidden.
We had to go find it.
And it didn't always happen overnight.
But this is going down at the same time.
I had to go up to Capitol Hill and I'm briefing these senators on this absolute, you know, internal weaponized debacle.
I had to brief them on what was going on as the phone's ringing about this other one as well.
And this is why I talk about, this is why I said I opened up the segment saying, I'm going to miss the intensity.
I'm going to miss that.
That was, that was that part.
There's nothing like that.
There is nothing like being in the suck like that, where you're making these level 10 calls and you're doing them quick.
If you can't do it, like, you know, that's, but every day, boom, boom, boom, boom.
So that was going on.
And I was dealing with also something at home at the time.
And that's where like I have to really throw this in and thank Paula for dealing with me for the past year because there was a lot of stuff going on.
But there's no excuse for that.
I'm going to tell you something.
I probably shouldn't say it, but I'll say it anyway.
No, I'm just in my back.
I did that Fox interview early on.
I tried to stay off the media.
I think I did, I don't know, someone got to go count, maybe five interviews in the 10 months I was there or the past year.
I tried to stay off the media.
I didn't want to make the story about me.
It's not.
It's about the administration and it is about reforming the FBI.
But I was doing Fox and Friends early on.
It may have been my first or second hit.
I don't remember, but I love the crew over there.
And they had asked me about, you know, what the transition was like.
And I'm telling you, like, I wouldn't have done anything different, even this, because you learn from everything.
I wouldn't.
I wouldn't change a thing.
I promise you.
No regrets because you learn from every single mistake.
But that was a mistake I shouldn't have answered honestly.
You know, I really, I missed, I missed home.
And I was talking about being in this apartment away from Paula.
It was, you know, like a cave, but it was a pretty small apartment.
And at night, we would talk for hours on the phone, but it was hard.
So you'd stare at the wall sometimes.
You missed, I miss my daughter, my wife, the dog, you know, but I should have answered that.
I don't regret it because I learned a lot from it.
I love the intensity of the job.
I wouldn't have changed anything about it.
But sometimes, you know, the taxpayers, I'm not going to want to be crude about it, but they don't care.
Like, do the job.
And fair enough.
And that was it.
That was the last time I ever mentioned that because just get the freaking job done.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, shut your pie hole and do the job.
And that's okay.
That's okay.
I'm not above criticism myself, but I promise I wouldn't have changed it because I learned a lot from that.
You know, people don't want to hear about it.
You know, Jim, it's like they're paying you to get a job done.
But I was just asked the question and I thought, ah, be candid about it.
But, you know, I'm not going to do it.
One more, one more day.
And then I want to get to, because I know you guys are, you know, interested in Epstein as well, too, which was a big thing.
I see a lot of it.
Obviously, there's people in the chat who were concerned about it.
So I'll get to that.
And then I'm going to get to President Trump as well.
But I want to cover this.
This was one story that I'll remember.
I think I discussed this on Haley show a little bit.
But this is what I'm talking about by the intensity I'm really going to miss.
I was sleeping in my apartment one night.
And you have a security detail in the FBI at the deputy level.
And Cash has one too.
So I can't hear very well from this earpiece you can probably see in my ear.
And I've had one in the Secret Service for 12 years too.
So I don't really have great hearing.
If I'm not listening to you in public, I'm not ignoring you.
I probably just don't hear you.
Paula has the same problem.
So we're always like, what?
What?
You know, we are like, wow, what'd you say?
So I'm sleeping on my one good ear, so I don't hear anything.
And I hear this pound.
I pound on the table, but I don't want to break my hand pounding at my door.
Folks, I swear to you, I don't been on the job, I don't know where it was like a month or so.
I think I'm getting kidnapped.
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I'm like, here it is.
ISIS is here for all Dan Bongino.
And the first thing I'm thinking, this is how crazy it is.
I'm like, how'd they get up the elevator?
Because you needed a pass.
So they're pounding on the door.
So I look out the whole, the peephole thing, and I see it's my security detail.
I'm like, oh my gosh, what's up?
They've never woken me up.
I'm like sitting there in like some like sweatpants or something.
I don't even know I had a shirt on.
Probably not an image you all need in your head, but I was like, what's up?
I'm all groggy, sandomized.
And it was a really tragic story.
There's two Israeli.
diplomats were shot.
So I had to go to the crime scene.
I think it was Judge Janine's first day.
And I met Pam there.
I think Cash was overseas for that one.
So that was just, and I'm thinking to myself, like, you don't have time to be tired.
There's no tired.
So I went to the Washington field office and you just got to get it done.
No excuses.
Just get to work.
And that was kind of a welcome to the late night hours.
And then we, of course, had Minnesota.
We had school shootings in Minnesota.
The politicians who were shot in Minnesota.
We had Cordeline, Palm Springs, the list with the Detroit.
The list went on and on and on.
I just saw some New York Times article about how Detroit, we were concerned about what to get out.
Yeah, of course.
We want to tell the public what's going on.
Like, I can't believe that was a surprise.
So I know a lot of you are concerned also about Epstein.
Let me just say in advance, guys, as I said when I opened up the show, you know, leadership involves frequently being misunderstood and having to make decisions that's going to piss someone off.
That's just the way it is.
This case had been handled poorly for a long time.
And if you go and look at the search warrants, and a lot of, matter of fact, almost all of it's public now, thanks to President Trump and the team getting it all out there.
Look at the search warrants and how they were scoped.
The case had had issues for a really long time.
So it obviously was a mess.
And this is one of those level 10 decisions where I told you you're not going to make everyone happy.
There's a shitty answer and a shittier answer.
And disagreements in DC about how to handle level 10 problems.
I love how people in the media acted like this was like new, as if the Biden team had done anything to get this stuff out.
They'd done shit.
They had done nothing.
Zero.
Of course there was going to be some disagreements on what do you do about grand jury material?
What do you do about downloaded child pornography that was downloaded off the internet?
He didn't create it, but what do you do about that?
What do you do about all this?
There was always going to be a disagreement.
Of course, the media made this out to be like, remember that weekend?
Like an intergalactic story.
I'm sitting upstairs.
I was home that weekend.
And I was like, oh, wait, here's another media story.
Like, Dan Bongito left town, left town.
I had a Morgan Wallen concert that night.
It was on my schedule for months.
You dip shits.
But they left town.
I didn't wind up going to the concert because the media was making a big deal out of these disagreements.
But it was a level 10 problem.
It was never going to please everyone.
The person I thought at the time who nailed what the issues were with this was our good friend Mike Davis.
I'll play the CNN one, the clip next, but throw up Davis's tweet.
There were a ton of problems with this.
There was grand jury material.
There was a, here it was.
He put this out.
He's anyone who rapes kids deserves the death penalty.
Amen.
Here's a problem with the Epstein best.
The FBI doesn't have the evidence many thought it did.
I want to see the files, folks.
I said, don't let it go.
I meant it.
We got elected.
We looked at it.
The file was not, what was in there was not what we thought would be in there.
There are not tapes with powerful men raping kids.
There is not a list.
Epstein's Rolodex was already public.
The file is largely unreleasable for many reasons, including grand jury material, which they're moving to get a lot of that out.
Court records under seal, child pornography that was downloaded from the internet.
You can read the rest of it, protection of victims.
We obviously don't want victims' names out there.
Here's another one.
Keep that up for a second.
Double or triple hearsay.
You're seeing it now.
You're seeing on Twitter, like, this guy said Joey Bag of Donuts, you know, cut this woman with a razor or this young girl while raping her.
And you're like, wow, that's a really horrible story.
It's terrible.
And then you find out Joey Bag of Donuts was whatever, some famous athlete who was playing a game in Phoenix that night.
Like a lot of this stuff was just people called, not all, by the way, not all of it.
This is an extremely serious case.
Let me be crystal clear.
But that doesn't mean every single tip that came in, you know, was had any kind of veracity to it at all.
A lot of the stuff was clearly debunked.
He says, anyone believe Bondi Petella Bungino would cover up for Bill Clinton or Bill Gates?
It didn't even make sense.
I was all over this case on my show.
The Trump DOJ wanted to be fully transparent, but it couldn't at the time, for the reasons above, it's not going to satisfy many.
And that's fine.
But folks, I'm not going to spend the next two years talking about it.
This administration got you the information.
You can all look at it.
And a lot of people are using it to divide us from the inside.
Those are just the facts.
That's just the way it goes.
And by the way, the dividing people from the inside thing is not working.
A lot of this is bullshit.
A lot of it is foreign operations designed to make us divorce ourselves from the inside, current thing, everything.
It is a deadly serious case.
There is zero doubt about it.
Everyone in the administration treated it as such.
Everyone from the start.
But it was not, it was a level 10 problem.
I can prove it to you.
No one else had solved it in the past, correct?
Those are just the facts.
Here was a poll even by CNN.
It was about a month ago or something.
So it's not exactly recent, but it just speaks to how, even if this whole thing was afflicted, this would be the end or whatever.
Here's a CNN poll about exactly this thing, division in the Republican Party, proving to you that it's not working.
People understand that level 10 problems are never going to make everyone happy.
Check this out.
Let me be very clear.
There is no rift in the Republican Party.
Yes, there are some folks like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massey who are quite skeptical of this.
They are very much in the minority.
What are we talking about here?
Well, why don't we just talk the GOP on the U.S. military, Alstomaduro, Ipsos, 65% support, 6% opposed?
How about the Washington Post poll?
74% support, just 10% opposed.
If you look among 20, 24 Trump supporters, we're talking about 80% support.
The vast, vast majority of Republicans are with Donald Trump on this issue.
Massey and Marjorie Taylor Greene are very much in the minority.
Very few Republicans are with him.
You say they're with him on this issue.
Do you even need those words, this issue?
No, I don't need the words, this issue, because the bottom line is this.
Donald Trump has had an iron grip, an iron grip on that Republican base for a long period of time.
And it is the same iron grip that he had six months ago.
I know every so often people are trying to say, oh, I spot these little riffs in the Republican base.
Oh, oh, you know, they're finally starting to break.
They're starting to break from Donald Trump.
It ain't happening, at least when it comes to the approval writing.
Look at this.
84% six months ago, 85% now.
You don't have to be a mathematical genius to know 85% and 84% are basically the same number.
Level 10 problems, folks.
Shitty answer and the shittier one.
That's every single thing at the principal and deputy level.
And this president has to deal with them every single day, every day.
He doesn't get to delegate everything.
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A lot of this stuff, you know, the old buck stops here.
The buck stops on that resolute desk.
They are tough decisions.
And that's what happened.
I know a lot of you are looking at it.
And by the way, there are people in the chat.
I just want you to know a little message to you.
Some of them are the supporters.
We love you guys, the detractors.
You're welcome here too.
But I just want you to know something.
I own you guys.
You can't stay away.
I tweet, you instantly respond.
I do a show, you can't stay away.
Remember, Jim, no one's going to be there.
Really?
It's 194,000 no ones, biggest live stream in the world right now.
No one's going to be there.
No one.
Really?
Then when people show up, that's just us there to repeat.
Great.
I own you guys.
The greatest superpower in the world is the power to command attention.
And I own yours.
You can't stay away.
But to my supporters and people who love the show, thank you.
It's an honor, I say, with humility.
It's really an honor to call you all friends.
But watching the other clowns, keep it up.
We'll be back here tomorrow.
Same time, by the way.
10 a.m.
See you there.
I know you can't stay away.
All right.
Let me move on.
I got President Trump coming up in five minutes.
Last thing quick before we get to President Trump.
So don't miss it.
He'll be on 11.30.
We're going to talk about violent crime.
We're going to talk about the president's daily brief and all the threats he's dealing with, what it's like working from the inside.
One second, I'm going to get, I just want to cover, can we just cover the tweet?
Because I want to, I don't want to, again, beat this one up a lot because I've discussed it on Hannity's show, on Fox, and elsewhere.
But the tweet, I promise I'd try to squeeze everything in on my first show as much as I can at least.
This one generated a, this again is one of those things I don't regret, but I did not realize this was going to cause a thermonuclear explosion around the world when I sent it out.
I sent out this tweet about being here and how I was basically shaken to the core about what I was reading and looking at.
And we can't run a republic like this.
What I was talking about, just to be clear, and that's why I don't want to go in this at length.
I've spoken on Hannity about it, on Haley's show, on Vince's show, excuse me, Vince's show, not Haley's show.
And Haley's coming up at noon, by the way.
I was reading some crossfire hurricane documents in my office on a Friday night.
I was the last one there, not trying to be a hero.
Look at me.
I stayed late.
I'm not saying that.
I was the in-town guy that weekend.
Paula wasn't in town.
Nothing to go home do.
So I was sitting there reading through these crossfire documents I had just gotten.
I can't say what it was, but I could not believe what these scumbags did.
I couldn't.
I was floored.
Even having written, what, three books on it?
I don't remember.
I couldn't believe it.
What they did to this president was I use the term on Sean Hannity's Fox program, demonic.
I mean it.
I mean it.
Like what I don't, whether you believe in the spirit realm or not, not my business.
I'm not your pastor or your faith healer or anything like that.
I'm just telling you, you can't see what I saw and not believe that there's pure evil in the world.
And I was really shaken by it.
And I'm pretty sure it was a Saturday.
I woke up still shaken by it.
I couldn't believe it that they, what they had done to this guy to try to dismantle this place.
So that's what that was about because there was a lot of speculation.
I put a little sub-tweet below it, linking to an article.
I thought it was clear.
But I'll get into kind of more of that as the week goes on.
I'm going to discuss it in broader terms as we talk about what's going on now.
But I want to get to President Trump on time.
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I knew these people were going to attack us because they can't stay away.
They can't.
They're like, he doesn't matter.
Let's attack him and keep him off the air.
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I see here you're going with that.
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But I said I would hit it to the second at 11:30 and get to the president.
And unbelievably, we are going to hit it in three, two, one, now.
Great interview with the president of the United States.
What an incredible honor to welcome back to the show for the first time on the new Dan Boncino show, the most transformative president in my lifetime, and frankly, probably any other lifetime either, President Donald J. Trump.
Mr. President, thank you so much for joining us today.
We appreciate it.
Well, thank you very much, Dan, and you too.
I was very unhappy when you left the FBI, but I was very happy that you have your show, which is so good.
So I'm okay with this.
It's net neutral.
I call it a net neutral.
Well, Mr. President, I want to thank you for the opportunity.
The past year has been absolutely incredible.
And given that you're a results guy, having we obviously we were friends before, but working for you is a completely different experience.
You are a results guy.
You're a spreadsheets guy.
How would you get to a net present value positive with what you're doing?
And I'll never forget an Oval Office meeting we had in light of the DC crime numbers today.
Hadn't had a homicide in a record amount of time in D.C., thanks to your leadership.
We're sitting in the Oval Office, and I was talking to you about the homicide rate plunging.
And it was only about three months into my term there.
I said, Mr. President, what we're doing down in Memphis and elsewhere is working.
And I'll never forget, I said, we're doing the broken windows, Rudy Giuliani style policing.
You looked at me and you said, hey, how do we take this nationwide?
And you never ever let go.
You stayed on top of it with me and cash.
You were all over it.
You're such a hands-on guy.
And it was just so refreshing to work for someone who doesn't get into all the hype and all the nonsense, but cares about the numbers.
It's probably your business background or what it is, but amazing job on that.
Well, we have the best crime numbers we've ever had.
We have the lowest number of crimes in 125 years since they recorded.
That's in 1900.
Think of it, 125 years.
That's despite a lot of bad people coming in through the border that shouldn't be here.
And we're getting them out.
You got a lot of them out yourself.
We're doing much better than anybody would think.
And yet we have our lowest.
Think of it.
A lot of criminals came into our country.
We're getting them out and we're getting them out fast.
We have to fight liberal judges and fake governors, paraterrible governors and mayors, guys like just take a look at Minnesota.
Wallace's a disaster.
But if you think about it, I was reading the Washington Post this weekend, and they have a big story on crime in D.C. is way down.
And the whole purpose of the story is why?
We can't figure it out.
What happened?
Is it the police department?
They stepped up their game.
What is it?
They talked about everything.
And then toward the end, they had a little thing that, of course, Trump surged a lot of very tough military into it.
And it was that surge that did it.
I would say 97.2%.
Okay, let's put it that way.
But here I'm reading this story about how crime is down.
They didn't even want us to do it.
They didn't even want us to go.
And so Washington was a very, very dangerous city.
Many murders, many really horrible crimes.
They came from all over the place.
It was horrible.
You couldn't walk down the street.
Now you can walk anywhere you want.
But the story was, why is it so good?
It's so good.
They admit now that it's good, but they refuse to give us credit.
We're the ones that totally did it.
And we worked with the police, but without us, you'd have crime at record highs.
You'd have crime.
It was out of control.
And can you imagine?
I had to read a story where they're looking for the answer as to why crime over the last six, seven months, exactly the timing that we got in, but over the last, why that crime is way down.
And they barely acknowledge us.
They say, and also Trump did a surge of the military, very big, strong people that, you know, Trend Aragua doesn't like them very much.
They'd walk in.
They'd beat the crap out of them.
And we brought those people, and you know better than anybody, you were there.
We brought those people back to Venezuela, back to places where they came.
Some were so dangerous that we put them in jail because we couldn't take a chance.
They could come back.
But think of it.
With all of that, I read their story, and the headline is something to the effect that crime in D.C. is way down.
What's the reason?
And everyone knows what the reason is.
If it weren't for us, you'd have crime.
You'd have stats that were worse than they were under sleepy Joe Biden.
So we do a great job.
We don't get credit.
And the only thing we can do is go on shows like yours.
We have a big audience and talk about it because people get it immediately.
It's a terrible, terrible thing.
The news is so corrupt and so fake, it's unbelievable.
Mr. President, I'm going to correct the record for the hack goon life loser media right now because I was there.
I was there with you.
I was there with Stephen Miller.
I was there with Tony Salisbury, your entire amazing crew over there with A.G. Bondi and Todd and everyone else.
And of course, Cash.
And I remember early on, Cash went to you about Operation Viper in Memphis, where at your direction, we surged assets into Memphis.
We absolutely destroyed the crime rate there.
We were locking up gang members, mutts, dirtbags, all of these people.
And I was there.
I remember you saying, well, where do we go next?
And where do we go next?
And I personally spoke to just about every SAC special agent in charge of the FBI and the big field offices.
And Mr. President, I told him, I said, the boss watches.
I said, I'm telling you right now, if there's a news story about a homicide in Kansas City or whatever it is, I said, I promise he's calling or Steve's calling or someone else.
What are we doing?
So anyone saying otherwise, that this wasn't at your direction, it was some like accidental statistical blip is completely full of crap.
I was there.
I saw it.
I saw it.
And that's a hill I'll absolutely die on.
So with Memphis, if you remember, we got calls.
I got calls from everybody.
The mayor wanted us.
The governor wanted us.
It's so much easier when they want you.
You know, you don't have to fight them like in Minnesota.
But in Memphis, crime is down 75% after about two and a half months.
We're going to have it down to practically nothing.
It was really dangerous, one of the most dangerous cities in the country.
Then I got a call about New Orleans, and I got it from the governor of the state, Landry, who's a great governor.
He said, we need help.
We got a crime-ridden mess.
People are getting killed every day.
I sent our guys there.
Crime is down 80% in two and a half months, 80%.
And he called me yesterday.
He said, this is the most amazing thing I've ever seen.
I said, it's not amazing.
Now, in Chicago, as you know, we put people there and we brought it down, but we only have a limited, a really limited force because they fight us so hard that you can't really do the right thing.
You know, you just sort of do it easy.
And yet we've taken crime down 25%.
We have an incompetent governor.
He eats too much.
We have an incompetent governor.
We have a mayor who's really a low IQ person.
They don't want it.
I'll tell you what, if I were a Democrat governor and I was in charge of Chicago as an example, or mayor, I would be begging Donald Trump to come on.
Maybe I'll take credit for what he does, like they do, because every time we do something, they take credit.
We win all the time.
We have a case in San Francisco.
They have a very liberal mayor, and he wants to do what we do.
But I explained to him, and he's a nice guy.
And I have a lot of friends, you know, Silicon Valley stuff.
I have a lot of friends up there.
And they really want to give him a chance.
He's a good guy.
He begged me not to do it.
I said, look, this was six months ago.
I said, look, give it a shot.
But you can't do what we do because we take criminals out, bring them back to their country.
You can't do that.
You have to get rid.
You know, in Washington, we took over 2,000 people out and moved them back.
And the other thing, 2% of the people create 90% of the crime.
Think of that.
So when you start moving these guys out, you have a huge impact on crime.
You've got sick people.
These are 2%.
Think of that stat.
So you don't have to arrest the entire population.
2% of the people create, and it makes sense, right?
You know, they create crimes every day over and over.
Then you put them in jail.
They come out.
They do five crimes in one day.
These are sick people and they're bad people.
And they'll never be good, by the way, for the liberals that want to make them bring them into a wonderful person of society.
They go, we can bring them back into society, no, because eventually they'll kill you.
Eventually, they will kill you.
But 2% of the people create 90% of the crime.
And we take those two and we go after those 2%.
Now, Minnesota, if they allowed us to do the job, it's a mess.
There's something in the water up there.
And I love the state.
I won the state three times, but I got no credit for it.
I won that state three times, but it's a rigged state, really rigged badly with the Somalians and the Somalians and the theft.
And I guess you studied it, but I hear it's over $19 billion.
Okay.
Can you imagine?
They have a country where they have no money, they have no nothing, and they come over here and they steal.
They're able to steal more than $19 billion.
And we're right on their ass.
Yeah, that was one of the first cases when I got announced.
These are people that don't work.
Yeah.
Dan, these are people that don't work.
These are people that are just not an asset to our society, to put it mildly.
And we got to get them out, most of them.
And it's most of them.
92% don't work.
And they have an unbelievable system, corrupt system of welfare.
Do you know many of them drive Mercedes-Benzes?
They had nothing when they came over.
The good news is, do you notice they don't see ships being stolen anymore from Somalia?
Because we hit those guys with the same weapon that we take out the drug dealers from the ocean.
We stop, every time we hit a boat, we knock it out.
We save 25,000.
Each boat, and pretty accurate, each boat is responsible for the death of 25,000 Americans.
Think of that, okay?
And we knock them out like candy.
We are knocking them out.
We also do that with the pirates in Somalia.
That's why you don't see ships being taken anymore because they don't play games.
So, you know, they were stealing ships every day.
Now it takes courage to steal ships.
They don't do it.
You understand.
And you did a great job while at the FBI, and I appreciate it.
Thank you, sir.
I appreciate it.
Well, it was under your leadership and working with Cash was amazing.
He was just an incredible leader over there.
There was another thing I want the media to hear about and the audience as well that you did.
I was there.
I saw it.
No one's going to BS me about it.
You had a totally different approach to getting illegals out of the country.
We use Title VIII a lot.
Title VIII is an easy way to get people here illegally out of the country.
You say, well, what's unique about that?
Your approach with Steve Miller and A.G. Bondi and Todd was totally different.
It was like, if we in lock up, say we went out and did a violent crime roundup with the FBI and our DHS and DEA partners, Marshals, all you great folks out there, and we gave you 10 minutes to cooperate.
I mean, being a bit hyperbolic, but you get the point.
And your approach was: listen, either give us something valuable about someone up the criminal food chain or get the hell out.
We're not going to store you in our jails for 10 years, waste $100,000 a year on food and shelter and interviews and AUSAs, United States attorneys debriefing you.
Either produce valuable information or get the hell out.
When I first told the guys that at the FBI, they were a little shocked.
Well, we can debrief them over and over.
No, no, get them the hell out.
And this was a revolutionary approach.
And the results speak for themselves: the lowest crime rates in modern U.S. history.
Well, we want one thing in Minnesota.
We can get out of there really fast.
We want their prisoners.
They've got jails with murderers, drug lords, rapists.
They've got jails with the worst, the worst people.
And they come out, you know, Trendy Aragua.
They come out the worst gangs.
We have the worst gangs.
They have gangs that are so bad, they look at you and they knife you up.
You know, we had it in Washington.
They're all gone, by the way.
They're all gone.
But all we want is they have a lot of prisoners.
They call it Sanctuary City, and Sanctuary Cities are a disaster.
So I put out an order: anybody that does a Sanctuary City not getting any money.
Let's see what happens.
You know, they'll get wiped out by these liberal courts.
But the people understand nobody could do the job that we've done.
Nobody.
There's nobody.
They wouldn't, you know, they just go through a system.
Right.
You have to be very tough first.
Look, I took over a border where 25 million people came into our country, many of them murderers, 11,888 murderers, drug dealers, drug addicts all over the place.
They always said they're drug addicts.
They're people with trouble, alcoholic.
They ended, they took over the mental institutions of their country, and they sent every single person in a mental institution over our border with Texas with their open border policies.
So we have millions of people.
Most of them are bad, to be honest with you, because they're not going to send their good people.
They want their good people like we.
We don't want to have our good people leave.
They only send their bad people.
And the best of their people are people that don't work.
Those are the best ones.
The people that came in, they don't work.
And they don't want them either because they don't want to pay welfare.
So they've sent all of their people, millions and millions of people.
We have to get them out.
And by the way, if Republicans don't get them out, you will never win another election as a Republican.
If you don't get these, these people are all pitted, so they vote.
And they make all this crap with the voting.
Oh, well, you can vote.
You can do whatever you want.
It's crazy.
I mean, it's crazy how you can get these people to vote.
And if we don't get them out, Republicans will never win another election.
Think of it.
I won in a landslide.
I won every swing state.
I won the popular vote by millions.
I won everything.
I won a thing called counties.
The counties are, it's such a big vote.
That's why the map was entirely red when you looked at it.
It had two little purple lines or two blue lines on each side.
But it was all red.
And counties are won by 2,750.
Think of this, to 550.
2,750 to 550.
It's becoming a very good count because it's accurate.
You know, it covers the whole country.
It's like a landslide.
But you're never going to have that again if you don't get these people out.
These people were brought to our country to vote and they vote illegally.
And the, you know, amazing that the Republicans aren't tougher on it.
The Republicans should say, we want to take over.
We should take over the voting, the voting in at least many, 15 places.
The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting.
And we have states that are so crooked and they're counting votes.
We have states that I won that show I didn't win.
Now, you're going to see something in Georgia where they were able to get with a court order and the ballots.
You're going to see some interesting things come out.
But, you know, like the 2020 election, I won that election by so much.
Everybody knows it.
They put a woman in jail, Colorado, put a woman in jail, a wonderful woman, 72 years old, had cancer, because she was a voting inspector.
She was in charge of a voting era.
And she saw boxes of votes come in.
So she went over to check it, and they put her in jail for voter manipulation.
And she's still in here.
And they better let her out fast.
And they're suffering a big price, Colorado.
They have this woman in jail who's 71 years old and probably has cancer.
She's sick.
And they put her in because she challenged somebody that was dumping ballots into a box, okay?
And they didn't put them in jail.
This was during Biden's term.
Voting Inspector Jailed00:14:32
The worst president in history.
And we had some bad ones.
I mean, look, Barack Hussain Obama, I call him the Great Divider.
People couldn't stand him.
You mentioned his name.
They go crazy.
They start booing the hell out of him.
We had some really bad ones.
I mean, Jimmy Garter wasn't exactly the greatest.
Jimmy Garter didn't exactly have the hit on Venezuela that I had.
Remember, his hits always turned out to be a disaster.
He went out, he had a hit.
The helicopters were crashing into each other.
The hostages and everything.
That's why Ronald Reagan won the election was so pathetic.
But we do it right.
We've got the greatest military.
I built the military.
You know that in my first term.
I built the military, even though they gave a piece of it away, but it's a lot, but it's still a piece compared to what I built.
We have the most powerful military.
And my attack on Iran with Operation Midnight Haver, where we wiped out their nuclear threat, which they would have had a nuclear weapon within a month, and we knocked it out.
And our attack on Venezuela was unbelievable.
And the nice thing about Venezuela, we're getting along great now with the government.
We talked to them every single day.
We took 50 million barrels of oil.
It's on its way right now to Houston to be refined.
And we're going to help them a lot.
And we're going to benefit by it also.
It's going to be great.
It's going to be an amazing place.
You know, it was a great country 15 years ago.
Then it went socialist.
And I would say it didn't do too well.
Mr. President, I know you're busy.
Last question, but you just kind of segue nicely into it.
The Don Rowe doctrine, as they call it, your posture with we have to dominate this hemisphere.
I've had, again, the honor of working for you for the last year, and I get to read the PDB, the President's Daily Brief.
Now, I'm not the president.
You are, but principals and deputies get roughly the.
You get all the really, really, really good stuff, but we get most of the good stuff.
And I can tell you, without obviously giving up anything classified or secret, that there are a lot of threats from space, from the ocean, from traditional air, ballistic missile threats, threats to the grid.
You see this every day.
The media doesn't.
You know, I find it kind of tragic that the media, a bunch of 18-year-old journalists who barely got out of J school, who don't know a damn thing about anything, who've never read this at all, you know, are busy criticizing you about this hemispheric dominance policy you showed in Venezuela.
We're not going to let this happen.
That was my last day at work, by the way.
And Argentina and Honduras and many other places.
Look at some of the results you've had.
Even in Panama yesterday, there was a ruling against China in the ports.
This is working, and this threat picture is so bad.
You are absolutely spot on.
It is not the 1960s anymore.
We have to control this hemisphere from a national security perspective.
Well, that's right.
And here's the main thing: we were laughed at a year and a half ago.
We were laughed at as being stupid people.
We were laughed at it not as not.
We see a guy falling up the stairs going into an airplane.
I got to be very careful going in.
You ever notice how slowly I went?
Nice and slow.
I'm not looking to set any records.
You don't want to go down.
It could happen.
I mean, but it can't happen three times in one shot.
Okay, the three times going up this.
I don't think you'll ever see anything like that, but it could happen.
So I have to be a little bit open.
I have to say, it could happen.
But you ever watched me, I come down nice and slow.
I'm not looking to set any records.
Okay.
That was the one thing I have to tell you.
It's probably the only thing I respected, and yet it didn't look elegant at all.
He bopped down the stair.
He would be in the middle.
I thought it looked so terrible.
You know, I mean, this is the president of the United States.
He's bopping down, you know, bop, And I kept waiting for him to fall, and he didn't.
So I would rather have other traits than that.
And I didn't even like the look of it, but I was impressed with his ability to go down the stairs like that.
I mean, I wouldn't want to do it.
You know, those stairs are very slippery.
Yeah.
And I always used to say, he's an accident waiting to happen.
And to the best of my knowledge, it didn't happen.
So I give him credit.
But it happened many folds with Biden.
Oh, yeah, yeah, what a president.
We're respected.
The bottom line is we are respected again like never before.
And they saw what happened in Iran with, you know, when we took out that nuclear with those beautiful B-2 bombers, we just ordered 25 more of them.
The even the newer upgraded version, you're going to see these things.
They're invisible.
But we just stopped that.
And what we did with it, and don't forget, I got Solemani, I got Al-Baghdadi in my first term.
Two of the worst, the worst ever, the worst ever.
The biggest and the worst.
One was the founder of ISIS.
He was rebuilding it.
I took him out.
And the other one was the father of the roadside bomb and the leader of, let me tell you, if he lived, he was the leader, the military leader of Iran.
If he lived, that attack that we made on Iran would not have been the same thing.
He was a great general, and they don't have that now.
So we did a great job.
We're respected all over the world.
I spoke with China.
He goes, very impressive, very impressive.
I spoke to Putin.
He goes, wow, that was something.
And that's what we want.
We have to be respected.
Mr. President, again, it was a tremendous honor.
I cannot thank you enough to be able to do the job I did under your leadership.
The way you just let us let us cook, Mr. President, you said, go get them, go get them, boys.
You told me in cash, go get them.
Lock these guys.
I tell everyone in the media that.
I said, if you work for him and you're in the room with him, he demands results.
There's none of this friendly.
You want a friend?
Get a freaking dog.
Produce results or get the hell out of there.
And I really appreciate the opportunity to do what we did.
What an honor.
And thank you so much for joining us on our first show.
It was great to see you at the wedding yesterday for the great Dan Scavino, by the way.
Hilarious speech.
You're the best MC.
Every time you get the mic, everybody was cracking up.
That was great.
So really good job.
We had a little fun.
That was an easy one.
But listen, you did great in the FBI.
Thank you.
And I'm very torn, as I said.
I think maybe I'd rather have you where you are because very few people can do what you do.
Very few people can do what you do.
Your voice is a very important one, so I'm very happy with that also.
So, thank you for your service.
Thank you for a great job.
And I'll be around when you need me.
Thank you, sir.
Great to talk to you, Mr. President.
Thank you, David.
Bye.
There you go, folks.
The 47th and 45th president of the United States, Donald J. Trump.
I can't say it enough.
What an honor to have worked for such a transformative figure.
Man, I'm getting a little choked up after that interview.
I'm the worst.
I'm like such really man curse.
Someone sent me that.
Remember that man card they sent us key?
That was like an actual man.
There you go, Laura.
No idea what it was like to work for this guy.
I didn't.
I knew him as a friend.
I did not know what he was like as a boss.
Amazing.
And all that bullshit you see in the media, you throw it right in the freaking garbage.
And by the way, all the attacks you had, and all my, you know, bullshit, detractors, whatever you don't know shit about anything, throwing popcorn from the front row.
It's the number one live stream in the world, like the globe, like the round thing, the rock we live on.
By a long shot, 226,000 people showed up.
That's with a DDoS attack, by the way.
A DDoS attack that was really well organized to try to shut us down.
We were down.
We were down.
I'm not embarrassed to tell you because I'm such a target that they came after the whole damn website.
And someone just sent me some information from Rumble.
If they quote, they've never seen anything like it.
That's how bad they want to keep me off the air.
But I have my first, guys, you ready for this?
You ready for the screenshot?
Jim, you know, I'm going this.
My first double barrel to those who tried to stop us because the podfather's back.
And we're taking the movement back.
It's not my movement, but I helped build it.
I've been here a long time since the Tea Party days as a candidate and elsewhere.
I'm not going to let a bunch of shitheads and doomers and everyone else sit here and collapse this movement like cannibals and eat it from the inside.
No chance.
Zero.
And now you can see it.
I'm sure the media people write a story.
A guy in the comments said Dan sucks.
Yeah, he was one of 226,000 people in the comments.
You may want to put that in there.
Just a thought.
I know you've already written your stories, but we always win.
Always, because we don't bullshit people.
I said I was going to address everything.
I did.
You like the answer?
Great.
You don't?
It's not going to be 10 years of overexplaining stuff.
It's the biggest weakness.
People have this need to be understood and peer into their souls and everything.
I don't.
Measure me on the decisions I made.
And we're good.
226,000 on Rumble.
Absolutely amazing.
Thank you so much.
Again, a big thanks to the staff.
We got producer Jim, Teresa, my, well, she's not the staff.
She's my wife, but she also does do a lot of work.
Paula managing the whole thing, the Queen Bee.
Jasmine, Gee, Justin, Josh, who's new to the team.
I didn't mention Josh before.
I'm really sorry.
We love you, Josh.
Good to have you here.
Josh is new to the team.
You're going to be hearing a lot about him.
I warned him, did I not, Josh, in the job interview?
If you're not comfortable being part of the show, do not sign on the dotted line, bro.
Because as Jim saw in the beginning when his phone went off, everything's fair game for this show.
You're in the thing, your phone goes off.
That's part of the show.
Jim knows.
So, Josh, and Josh was like, I'm game.
Yes, he's game.
Justin, show everybody your shirt, too.
This was great for the first day.
Justin wanted to represent.
And I think this is the perfect shirt.
There we go, buddy.
Amen, brother.
The Freedom Shirt, for those of you listening on audio podcasts on Apple, iHeart, SoundCloud, Spotify, Freedom Shirt.
God bless them.
Charlie was the bridge.
I began the show with it.
And Rumble.
Yeah.
Man, I love that picture.
Look at that hair, man.
For a guy with terrible hair like me, so much so, I got to shave it.
Thank you for everything you did.
I also want to thank today my tremendous audience again.
You guys are just incredible.
You've been with me through thick and thin.
And thank you for understanding that these things take time.
Folks, what Cash is working on over there right now, just give them, let them cook, man.
After this four years are done, if you don't like it, fine.
That's okay.
That's what accountability and transparency are.
Air your grievances.
Make it a festivist show.
Let's get the poll out.
It's feats of strength.
And let's air our grievances.
But it takes time.
It took decades to destroy the place.
It's not going to be rebuilt overnight.
It's an uncomfortable answer, but it's the true one.
I lived it.
I'm not asking you to trust anyone.
Just let them work.
President knows exactly what he's doing.
He picked these people for a reason.
But I also want to thank my two daughters, the lovely Isabelle, my oldest, who's watching right now.
She sent me a text watching with a big heart.
Love you, girl.
You're the best.
War Eagle.
And then to my youngest daughter, Amelia.
She is just so special.
You know, I don't know if you guys believe in God or not.
I'm not here as your preacher, but I certainly do.
I'm the sinner like everyone else.
I'm not trying to be some kind of moral compass for anyone.
I just want to be clear.
But, you know, when I watch my daughter at a volleyball game, hit a wicked serve, Amelia, and she looks over me with that daddy approval.
Any girl dads out there, you know what I'm talking about?
And you give her the dad nod?
That's God right there.
That kind of love.
Nothing like that.
So I love you both.
And I also want to thank a few folks.
I only got a couple minutes left.
Haley Show coming up at noon, new time, rumble.com slash Haley.
The great Vince Colin Ace, who we love, 8 a.m. now, rumble.com slash Vince.
Please support these two amazing patriots.
They're part of our show lineup.
We love them.
But before I go, I just want to thank a couple more people too.
And I'm not, I promise over the course of the next week or two weeks, they're all going to come to mind.
I'm not leaving anybody out, but I want to thank, you know, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin for having my back the whole time.
Amazing hosts.
They've been in this business, gosh, since I'm what, 20 years old or less.
They've always had my back.
I can't thank you guys enough.
The great Sean Farrish, who we love, you know, he started as the Trump impersonator guy, but has become an amazing host.
He's filled in for Vince.
He's always had our back.
Brendan Dilley, just a rock, lives local to me too.
Just knows all about the doomers.
I want to thank Clay and Buck, too.
Listen, they were competitors of mine on the radio.
I'm going to tell you, man, when I was, we were going through a lot of drama that we couldn't talk about.
We knew we were going to be misunderstood.
There's a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes.
He was a really somber voice, and I appreciate that.
And all the other folks out there, radio hosts who were competitors are Joe Paggs and other Graham Allen, legend, rated our show, love Graham Allen, nine o'clock on Rumble.
Just amazing guys who just let us cook, man, and gave us, knew who we were and what we were doing.
I just really thank you guys.
It's easy to take pot shots from the cheap seats, but understanding and not falling for the current thing.
I won't forget that.
I really appreciate it.
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