The Dan Bongino Show - Don't Get Played By Their Latest Gaslighting Campaign (Ep. 2444) - 02/03/2026 2026-02-03 16:41

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Don't Get Played By Their Latest Gaslighting Campaign (Ep. 2444) - 02/03/2026 2026-02-03 16:41

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Body Cams On Fox 00:03:58
	All America, all the time.
	Sit down, buckle up, and get ready for the Dan Bongino show.
	That was hilarious.
	I know.
	I gotta, he's like, your mic's hot.
	Yeah, I know, I know.
	But I'm sitting here with producer Jim and Guy and the crew in the studio, and we've got a monitor right off right off to the side here.
	And I keep Fox on with the closed captioning.
	And I'm like, man, who's that dude with the face for radio?
	And it was this guy.
	It was me on Jesse last night.
	I guess they were playing a clip.
	I was doing some segment with Fox on body cams.
	You know, body cams on because Christy Nomas proposed for DHS that these ICBP and others get put body cams on.
	Sorry, I'm trying to adjust that.
	There you go.
	Nice.
	And I think it's a good idea because 99% of the time, the police officer at the scene with the body cam or the federal agent winds up being completely indemnified.
	People do this all the time.
	This, by the way, totally not the beginning of the show at all.
	Guy's like, where is this in the elements?
	It's not.
	I'm very sorry, but you know how the show is, guys.
	This is the Dan Bongino show.
	We just rock and roll what's going.
	You're in the studio, it's fair game.
	You're on the monitor, it's fair game.
	Even when it's this guy on the monitor, but body cams, I think, are great.
	If there are any police officers or agents in the chat, but seriously, chime in.
	Like, let me know what you guys think because I love the idea of body cams.
	When I was a young cop in New York, we didn't have no body cams, no, nothing.
	That was 95 to 99, you know, walking the streets from 97 to 99.
	And people used to make crazy allegations.
	This police officer beat the crap out of me.
	Beat the crap out of me.
	I don't even know who you are.
	Now you just pull the body cam.
	All right.
	I got to get back to the actual show.
	He's like, please focus.
	Focus.
	I got a couple thank yous and stuff.
	Big show for you today.
	About 30, 40% of the stuff I had planned for yesterday's show, I couldn't get in at the end because we were loaded up.
	Huge interview with President Trump.
	Mega numbers yesterday.
	I'll get to that in a second.
	Look, it's 2026, and way too many of you are getting crushed by high interest debt.
	We're talking 20, 24, even 28% interest every single month.
	It's a debt trap.
	It's designed to keep you underwater.
	If you're a homeowner, it's time to call my friends at American Financing.
	You were here yesterday.
	Great guys.
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	Trust these guys.
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	Why?
	Because they do things differently.
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	And get this: they're saving their customers an average of $800 a month following the drop in interest rates.
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	Think about what that does for your family's budget.
	Total game changer.
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	Write it down: 888-994-7660.
	That's 888-994-7660.
	Check them out.
	Maybe you want to visit them online.
	It's a .NET address, by the way.
	Their online address is AmericanFinancing.net/slash Bongino.
	That's AmericanFinancing.net slash Bongino.
	We are ready to go, Gee.
	Tell me about the back.
	Yes!
	Yes!
	Gosh, do I miss that sound?
	Yesterday, it didn't sound as good because I'm not going to say we forgot, but we may have forgot.
	There was a lot going on yesterday, like a ton.
	There were people running around.
	There were people outside.
	People were, there were food deliveries coming in.
	We had more food in here yesterday.
	We could have fed like a standing army yesterday.
	We had our buddy ChuChi next door at the Cuban restaurant bringing in pastries.
	Everybody's like 500 pounds now.
Freaking Smorgasbord Yesterday 00:15:46
	It was a freaking smorgasbord in here yesterday.
	I wish you could have all come by and had a bite of these things.
	Did you see those pastries?
	The ChuChi comes through in the clutch, man.
	The cafe Citos are incredible.
	While we're thanking people, I have to thank you all.
	Yesterday was a monster show, despite the massive attack on Rumble, trying to keep us off the air.
	And by the way, I don't know, did you guys read this?
	There was some like goofball story in Politico or something.
	It's like, and Dan Bondino, who generally stayed away from conspiracy theories, promoted a conspiracy theory that his show was attacked.
	Our show was attacked, you dipshits.
	It was a freaking DDOS attack while I was on the air.
	Are you freaking morons that stupid?
	It's not a conspiracy theory if it actually happened.
	Despite that, Live Search app, which is one of my favorite X accounts, they track all the live streams in the world.
	DB is back.
	Thanks to you.
	Top live stream in the USA.
	Look at that.
	Numero Uno, 226,000 live streamers tuning in yesterday.
	You guys are the absolute best.
	Love you guys, man.
	I really appreciate it.
	And you know, I said yesterday I had a lot of people to thank.
	I forgot a lot of people.
	I wanted to, you know, when I was out there for the year, the past year, you know, cleaning up the bureau, locking up bad guys and doing what we got done.
	A lot of what you're going to hear about going forward too, not necessarily here, but the news and stuff.
	Not all done yet.
	I want to thank a couple more people.
	I had a friend I had hired from the Secret Service, Fred.
	I'll leave his last name out.
	I brought over.
	He was acting as my chief of staff after Jimmy, and it was amazing.
	So thank you guys.
	Am I talking too low again?
	Okay, sorry, guys.
	I know the sound.
	I know we're working on it, which the studio, I've been out of action for a while.
	They're not used to it.
	Haley doesn't yell like I do.
	So we have to like work on compression and everything so I don't blow your eardrums out.
	So I want to thank all those guys that helped me out.
	And also, you know, Ben Shapiro was really good to me when we were gone.
	So I appreciate that, Ben.
	And I appreciate also the security detail that kept me alive the whole time.
	You guys were absolutely amazing.
	And if you know, you know with the shirt.
	So thank you guys, everyone who kept us, kept us safe and sound in a security detail.
	You guys are great.
	So yesterday, we went through the past year of what we did, what we didn't do.
	Again, I promised you it's not going to be like three years of here's the CV, but a lot of stuff we did were news stories that candidly I would be covering if I had done the job in the bureau or not.
	They're important stories that we were a part of.
	Some good, some bad, some indifferent, some just newsworthy.
	So there's a lot of things I wanted to talk about, but this is going to be an issue going forward.
	And again, I'm going to try to remove myself from the story now that I'm back in the political opinion commentary space.
	But it's hard.
	I mean, my experience is my experience, and you can't unsee stuff.
	But folks, this is going to be, I don't know how you get, I don't know, top 10 problems, top five.
	This is going to be a top five problem moving forward.
	We have got a really, really serious problem in this country.
	Listen to me, with a bifurcated justice system.
	If you fit the liberal stereotype of the screaming Karen in a suburban neighborhood, screaming about everything who wants, you know, to see men's penises in the women's room, then you're probably going to be subjected to a different justice system than guys like me or anyone else who subscribe to conservative or MAGA-based ideologies.
	You just are.
	We saw it in the justice system, and going forward, it's going to be a big issue.
	If a crime happens in a specific venue in a liberal city, we've seen this stuff creep up constantly.
	It is going to be a huge problem.
	I say that not to just present to you problems, ah, here's a problem, whatever.
	But there is a solution for it.
	But the solution's not pretty.
	And many of you may not want to hear it.
	The solution is it's going to take a really long time to get good, high-quality judges, magistrates, and I don't talk about Republican Democrat judges.
	I'm just talking about judges who enforce the law in a nonpartisan manner.
	And I'm not indicting all of them, of course.
	There's some very good ones out there who, despite their politics, continue to do their job, no question.
	But there is a limited group of people out there on the bench who they can't get past their politics.
	They just can't.
	The solution to that is not a quick one.
	Many of these appointments are lifetime appointments and they're not going anywhere, meaning we have to go and do the hard legwork of elections where we get people like President Donald J. Trump, we get him elected, who appoints people who are nonpartisan constitutional judges as the others by attrition filter out.
	It's going to take a long time.
	The left has been engaged in this battle forever.
	And we saw it during my time over the past year and you saw it in the news cycle.
	Check out this PBS story.
	I mean, I think we all saw this one.
	This was obviously an FBI investigation, FBI-led.
	Federal judge sets back Justice Department's effort to seek new indictment against Comey.
	Ladies and gentlemen, you know, not much you can do there.
	You can only do the investigation and present through the process the information.
	If it gets stopped by a separate branch of government, it's a long, slow slog.
	That's why yesterday I was so, I mean, I think it's fair to say, angry and upset, bottled up for the last year about the doomerism who think like every problem is going to be solved overnight.
	It isn't.
	A lot of them are.
	And accountability is primary.
	It's the tip of the spear.
	But a sense of realism has to be too, because stuff that's done fast on the judicial side is most likely done wrong.
	You saw it again in this New York Times article with the Letitia James case.
	I mean, you got to remember, none of this stuff mattered for Donald Trump.
	Donald Trump was ruthlessly targeted by a weaponized justice system, and nobody gave a shit about the evidence.
	Matter of fact, it was that case up in New York It's funny that he was accused basically of a scheme to defraud banks and elect for all this other crap where they bottled it into some crap case.
	And then the banks got on the stand and the banks, I mean, tragically, but almost tragically, comically like, we're not victims here.
	We'd like to do more business with the guy.
	And they're like, no, no, you're a victim.
	No, no, I'm not a victim.
	You're a victim.
	But I said, I'm not a victim.
	We don't give a shit what you said.
	Hey, I'm under oath.
	I'm not a victim.
	Don't worry about the oath.
	We just said, don't worry about the oath.
	You're not a victim.
	Doesn't this oath thing matter anymore?
	You see how there's two separate justice systems?
	Having seen a lot of this now from the other side, you know, I said to you my last show, what was it called?
	See you on the other side.
	Well, now I'm back on the other side.
	Ladies and gentlemen, it's a real problem, but it is fixable.
	I'm not a doomer.
	I'm not a black pillar.
	I believe in this country.
	We've been through a whole lot.
	I say it all the time: a revolutionary war, a civil war, the hippies, Vietnam.
	We've been through 9-11.
	We have been through a lot.
	And we are still the Lion King.
	That's it.
	We're sitting up there at the top of the little, what's his name?
	What's his name?
	Little Simba or something.
	We're sitting up there at the top of the mountain with Little Simba.
	That's the United States of America.
	We kick ass and we take names.
	Sorry, I just like looking at the chat during the show.
	That is us.
	That is always us.
	So I don't want anyone to get into this kind of doomer black pill stuff.
	I promise the president and his administration know what they're doing.
	But these are real problems.
	We cannot have two separate justice systems.
	But I do want to be candid about the headwinds, ladies and gentlemen, because there are a lot of them.
	This president will not be stopped.
	I was glad to have him on the show today.
	Again, working for him is a totally different experience.
	People ask me a lot.
	They say to me, they go, you know, Dan, was it everything you expected?
	And I said, well, nothing's everything you expect, right?
	I think the only way I can sum this up is a lot of you are parents, right?
	In the chat, I assume 91,000, 13 minutes in, 91,000.
	Yes, yes.
	I had to refresh my phone there.
	Nice.
	Jump from 40 to 91.
	A lot of you are parents, right?
	If I asked you, hey, is parenting everything you expected?
	You can read it, Jim.
	Am I right?
	You can read a thousand books.
	Jim's sitting there off to the right, watching, observing, judging, judging every time, always judging.
	I just want you to know that.
	He's also thinking about smoked meats as we go.
	You can read every parenting book in the world.
	Come on, be honest.
	It's never what you expect.
	You are always going to get a couple curveballs thrown your way.
	Working for this president, even though I had known him pretty well, I don't want to exaggerate.
	I mean, you know, not like we were coffee buddies, but we knew each other pretty well.
	This guy is just.
	Are you guys comic book fans?
	Like when I was a kid, I used to read the Marvel comics.
	You're like Juggernaut?
	Juggernaut can't be stopped.
	Like he gets moving and no one can stop him.
	Like, I think the him and the Hulk fought or whatever.
	That's the president.
	He's a juggernaut.
	He may not have the helmet.
	Juggernaut has to look at helmet stuff.
	He may not have the helmet.
	He's got the hair, but no helmet.
	Like, that's the president.
	He is not going to be stopped.
	He is the Marvel comic juggernaut.
	He doesn't want to hear your bullshit.
	Here's his favorite question.
	Very simple.
	His favorite question with a question mark in the hands: why?
	Well, I'm not sure we, you know, we can do that.
	I'm not talking about like unconstitutional stuff.
	I'm talking about like, why can't we save 500 million out of the FBI?
	I'm not telling you it was a specific conversation, but it's an example.
	Why not?
	Well, the budget's a little, well, why not?
	Well, because, well, make it work.
	Find it.
	Like, he doesn't want to hear bullshit ever.
	And I love watching these media jerkwads who don't know this guy from Adam, have never met him.
	They called him once on the phone, talk about, oh, yeah, my source is inside.
	You got no sources inside.
	You don't got shit.
	What the hell was that?
	Somebody just like sniper get us or something like that?
	You don't know Squat.
	You don't know anybody in the White House.
	Some disgruntled 18-year-old liberal got a job as an intern who brought the president's mill-aid one time a cup of coffee.
	He's like, let me tell you about my inside.
	You don't know shit.
	But this is why yesterday I was so livid at the doomerism that's going on.
	Man, accountability is everything.
	Yes, nobody should be like, trust me, bro.
	But we should also be realistic about results.
	Now, getting outside of the law enforcement bubble I was in for the last year and talking about in general, this was an unbelievable year one.
	I mean, does anybody, anyone in the chat disagree?
	He's been in office a year.
	That's it.
	He's only been in office.
	He's got three quarters of his term left.
	Simple math.
	Jim, am I wrong?
	Four years, one down, three out of four.
	It's not even meatloaf.
	Two out of three.
	That blackout coffee cold brew is insane.
	He's not even halfway done.
	He's not even close to halfway done.
	And yet the tally sheet of W's wins.
	Results.
	Accountability is freaking bananas.
	You're not going to hear this from the doomers.
	Everything sucks.
	All they do is tell you what didn't happen.
	I'll tell you what didn't happen.
	You didn't do shit.
	That's what didn't happen.
	You sat on your fat ass complaining all the time on Twitter, watching tentacle porn in your room, you loser, eating Twinkies and ding-dongs.
	You didn't do shit.
	I didn't see you volunteering while he was racking up these W's.
	This didn't happen.
	Well, a lot of things didn't happen that are going to happen.
	And some things that don't happen don't happen because they can happen.
	But you didn't know that.
	This is all the stuff the doomers ignore for you.
	And by the way, doomers, I'm talking about a lot of these liberal clowns too and media folks.
	All they want to do is crap on this administration.
	107,000, nice.
	Not even 20 minutes in.
	Love you guys.
	I knew you'd be back.
	I knew it.
	I knew it.
	Bongino Army, man.
	You guys are strong.
	Gee, Wall Street Journal, Freeman article.
	Lock it up, Daddy O. Here are some of the real records.
	Another nice surprise for the U.S. economy.
	Did we hear about this from the doomers?
	Probably not.
	You know, I love economics.
	I don't like to bury the show in it all the time.
	It's my passion.
	I know law enforcement is your passion.
	I got a lot of passions, okay?
	I love me some economics.
	Productivity is very simple.
	You know what productivity is?
	Productivity is stuff we produce.
	And how do you get richer?
	By producing a lot of stuff.
	That's just the way.
	Anyway, keep that up a second.
	When you produce stuff, you're really rich.
	What's the difference between us and the third world?
	We've got a lot of stuff other people don't have.
	It's not just jewelry.
	It's cars.
	It's medicines.
	It's better office buildings, a capital infrastructure, better banks.
	We're the best.
	The United States is the freaking lion king.
	This Wall Street Journal article by Freeman: hey, are we in a productivity super cycle between AI and all this other stuff?
	Are we now producing more outputs than we have in any other cycle of productivity enhancements in modern American history because of AI and everything else?
	The answer seems to be because there was a GDP bump and an unexpectedly high one, gross domestic product, what we produce.
	That yes, everybody smile.
	Doomers, I know you're pissed off.
	Like, the GDP could be 5%.
	The Atlanta Fed says next word.
	The doomers are like, it should have been six, bro.
	I would have, you wouldn't have done shit.
	You don't know shit about anything.
	Sit your fat ass down.
	Losers.
	You don't know shit.
	I would have been in there, President.
	It would have been seven.
	Really?
	It would have been negative seven, dumbass.
	AI, quantum, material sciences, cancer research.
	Throw up that next one, Guy.
	Do you have any idea what this is going to do to add to our productivity?
Miles Sent the Rules 00:04:22
	Listen, I had cancer.
	It sucked.
	Not a sob story.
	A lot of people get cancer.
	If I had to go on Google reviews or Yelp, two big thumbs down.
	Cancer blows.
	Not a good time.
	Wall Street Journal, Alyssa Finley, technologies making the war on cancer winnable.
	Listen, these are POTUS President of the United States, President Donald J. Trump, W's.
	These aren't Dan Bongino W's.
	I'm not the president.
	These are W's.
	He's creating an environment for explosive technology growth where people are seriously talking right now about potentially beating cancer.
	It's been talked about forever.
	Think about it.
	Obviously, we don't want people to die, me included.
	Jim, what's the number one rule of the Dan Bongino show?
	How sharp is this guy?
	Let's see.
	Don't get dead, kids.
	It's a number one rule.
	I don't want to get dead either.
	I don't want to get dead.
	Guy told me not to whisper.
	I just don't want to get that.
	If people don't get dead, they can still produce, which adds to gross domestic product and productivity.
	Wow, Dan, that sounds sterile.
	It's true.
	Nobody wants to get dead, but you can't work if you're dead.
	Why, Jim?
	Because you're dead.
	Because you're freaking dead.
	Liberals are like, huh?
	Liberals don't understand economics at all.
	If we beat cancer and you're not dead, you can still produce stuff.
	That's awesome.
	And you're not dead, which is a nice little Benny, right, Jim?
	You can answer.
	He's paying attention.
	He didn't pay attention.
	He's not his Bluetooth on his phone.
	He's like, I'm bored already, but you show.
	Yeah, he's working.
	He's working.
	I know.
	Guy's like, I know what you're going to tell me.
	You're getting ready to tell me I got to take a break quick.
	But Gee, I want to get to this last one.
	W's, remember, this is for the doomers.
	The podfather's back.
	I'm taking the movement back.
	Been here, running for office, been an activist since the Tea Party days.
	I'm not surrendering this movement to a bunch of dipshits, doomers, and black pillars.
	I'm not doing it.
	Ain't happening.
	I've been through a thousand of these fights, man.
	I've seen it over and over.
	Nope.
	Here's another one.
	We've been dealing with these jokers leading Venezuela for now over a decade who ran one of the richest countries into the ground, into the ground.
	Drug dealers, commies, Chavez, Maduro.
	This was my last day on the job, and this was a notification I got.
	Woke me up a little bit at, I don't know, 3-4 a.m.
	But gosh, did this one feel good?
	Gee, play that cut.
	Our viewers now watching Nicholas Maduro and his wife, Celia, being flown to the Brooklyn Detention Center.
	We saw them fly past the Statue of Liberty.
	He was processed at the DEA headquarters here.
	Now he'll go to that detention center.
	You're damn right.
	Fly his ass right by the Statue of Liberty.
	You see, that thing's called Statue of Liberty.
	Liberty.
	You don't know anything about that.
	That means like people are free and stuff, not like you commie assholes.
	Been dealing with this guy forever.
	The boss, the POTUS, President Trump told our HRT guys and Secretary of War, go get him.
	He was a criminal.
	And we got him.
	And now he'll be tried in our constitutional system.
	And we'll produce evidence.
	And it'll take a while.
	And there's a process.
	But he messed with the wrong guy.
	You see this FAFO stuff all the time.
	Honestly, we used to love it, Jim and I, but it gets played out a lot.
	But this is it.
	I know.
	All right.
	He's like, all right.
	On the other side is break.
	I want to talk a little bit about this Don Rowe doctrine because he brought it up yesterday.
	And our great Secretary of War.
	Total, total stud.
	Love Pete.
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	I keep moving over.
	I keep straying over a little bit more every time, don't I, Guy?
	I can see I'm driving the poor guy crazy.
	So for the doomers, this is your tutorial.
	This has been an amazing first year.
	We talked about a productivity super cycle.
	You have any idea what this AI is going to do?
	Here's the short answer.
	No, you don't, because I don't either.
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	The war on cancer, Maduro out of power.
	Trump's like, what do we got?
	An arrest warrant for this guy?
	Go get him.
	Yeah, but he's in Venezuela.
	I don't give a shit.
	Go get him.
	Well, he didn't exactly say that, but you get the point.
	Hold on a second.
	Sorry, folks.
	Listen on audio.
	I'm like the cold brew stuff.
	I can't get enough of it.
	It's like 20 degrees in Florida, and I'm drinking cold brew.
	Hold on.
	All right.
	114.
	Nice.
	He believes in the Donroe doctrine.
	You know, you had the Monroe doctrine?
	Donald Trump's got the Donroe doctrine.
	He is not going to let anyone put a footprint in our hemisphere that wants to do really bad things to us.
	Oh, come on.
	People must have thought about this in the past.
	Everybody thought about it, but nobody did shit.
	Chavez, Maduro, none of them.
	Now, I always have to, I kind of be careful when I talk about national security for obvious reasons.
	I hope you understand that.
	I think you do.
	You guys didn't pay me to go out and like come out here and be some superhero, write a book like these other morons and, you know, blow up the national security picture.
	Let me give you all the secrets.
	Never going to happen.
	But based on stuff you can read in the public, I think it's fairly obvious, ladies and gentlemen.
	China, North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba.
	A lot of these countries have significant surveillance interests trying to surveil us.
	The threat picture is different.
	You have industrial control systems.
	You have the compromise of a grid.
	You have space-based threats.
	You have underwater threats.
	You can read all about this stuff in the newspaper from people who've blown it up in the past.
	You have traditional threats, ICBMs, hypersonics, drones.
	These are not threats, many of them, not all, but not threats that existed in the 60s.
	And they definitely didn't exist in the 1800s.
	Donald Trump sees these threats every morning.
	This is a little inside baseball.
	We talked about it yesterday with the president himself.
	But everybody knows the president every morning.
	gets his daily brief, the PDB, the president's daily brief.
	The principals and deputies around the government get roughly the same brief.
	Most of it's pretty much the same.
	Sometimes he gets very specific stuff for him.
	He's read in on everything.
	This is why I was saying about the media.
	Listen, I am an avid, firm, hardcore believer in the First Amendment freedom of the press, period.
	That's a full stoppero.
	But that doesn't mean you know anything.
	It just doesn't.
	I'll read these articles now after the experience I just had with these like national security reporters and all these other, you know, dipshits out there.
	And you got to laugh because you're reading the real information on the inside.
	And it's like reporters saying zebras have no stripes.
	Like, of course they have stripes.
	Have you ever seen a zebra?
	They have no idea.
	I'm telling you, folks, whatever you think of the mainstream media, folks, whatever you think about them, the liberal hacks and goons in the media, it's 10 times worse.
	I'm not kidding.
	This is not like some clicky baity.
	I don't need it.
	I got no time for it.
	I'm just telling you, now having seen it, it is a thousand times worse.
	You will read stuff in the newspaper that is so categorically wrong and ridiculous.
	You're like, they got that from like a janitor in the basement of the White House.
Fired Up, Doge Edition 00:15:29
	Here's a guy who does know the threat.
	And I got to tell you, it was an honor to work with him.
	He's been a friend a long time, but working with him was different, whether it was Golden Dome or other projects or working with his people.
	You all know our Secretary of War, Secretary Hagseth, an amazing guy, a patriot.
	But he understands, like President Trump, that we cannot allow things in our hemisphere that we would have maybe 50, 60 years ago, because the threats are imminent.
	They're acute.
	They're persistent.
	And they're here now if we don't get rid of them.
	What Secretary Hagseth also understands is that the days of the United States government having a monopoly over technology are over.
	We are going to have to work with private sector companies, drone threats, cyber threats, all of it.
	Folks, there's no way around it.
	You've got companies out there we may not like, but they've got trillion-dollar budgets.
	And if they have assets that can keep us alive and prevent New York and D.C. from going boom, we have no choice.
	We don't.
	Here's Secretary Hagseth yesterday in a speech he was given I picked up as I was putting the show together.
	I loved it, where he's talking about their cooperation with these private sector enterprises to get the best military technology possible in the hands of our amazing patriotic thank you to our warfighters.
	Check this out.
	What you're building here at Merritt Island is a core function of the Arsenal of Freedom.
	You see, the Arsenal isn't just about door kickers or guys dropping precision bombs, although we like those guys very much.
	It's not just about Intel and analysts and mechanics wearing camouflage.
	They're all important to our nation, to be sure.
	But look at the thousands of square feet that make up this production site, where you produce the next generation of launch vehicles and spacecraft, like the new Shepard launch vehicle and the Blue Moon lander.
	I just had the privilege of also meeting with Administrator Isaacman over at NASA.
	And your work here, along with his, will help President Trump accomplish the national security policy objectives at record pace, including critical projects like Artemis.
	And you're exactly right.
	We're going to make space great again.
	I'm sorry, I'm not trying to do it.
	You know how people do that?
	They call him Pete to look like it, you know, like I know him.
	Pete, I'm sorry.
	I'm not trying to do that.
	I hate that shit.
	It drives me crazy.
	My buddy Johnny, it's Director Ratcliffe.
	So I hate that.
	I can't stand it.
	It drives me freaking bananas.
	I'm trying.
	But let me tell you about my experience with Secretary Hagseth.
	He, like Cash and others, who came into an agency from the outside, Cash had had some government experience, but was not an FBI agent before.
	It filtered down from the president.
	This is the best kind of inside baseball I can give you.
	The most important question in the world, what everyone was instructed to ask and follow through.
	Why?
	He's another one.
	Well, we don't work with that company.
	Why?
	Well, we can't.
	Why?
	Is it a rule?
	No, it's not.
	We just have it.
	He totally threw out and scrapped a lot of this stuff they had done in the past and said, why?
	Why are we doing that?
	Why do we have this footprint there and not that footprint there?
	And I'm going to tell you something.
	I have the utmost respect.
	Listen to me.
	This is really important.
	Utmost respect for our warfighters.
	You know that.
	If you've been listening to this show, there is nobody.
	My greatest regret in my lifetime is not going to the military.
	It really was.
	Staff Sergeant Williams, my recruiter for the Marine Corps, the NYPD called with the cadet program.
	I wanted to go in later and the golden handcuffs.
	No excuse.
	I just, it kills me to this day.
	Nothing like warfighters.
	Nothing.
	Nothing.
	There's no experience like it.
	You either did it or you didn't.
	End the story.
	But a thousand butts.
	There's no.
	But man, some of the people in the administrative bureaucracy at the top of the Pentagon had to go.
	They had to go, folks.
	We had this, a lot of this DEI stuff we found in the FBI was just infecting the Pentagon, too.
	And I'm sure when the Secretary's time is up and he's able to talk more, he's going to tell you that too.
	All these leaks that came out of Benny, Pete Irons' jacket before he was on me.
	Who the hell cares?
	Who gives a shit?
	Do you remember?
	Like, that's a story.
	Like, they would never in a thousand lifetimes write that story about anyone appointed by a liberal president ever.
	It was just meant to try to discredit him.
	And I promise you, it's not working.
	Let me just give you a little tutorial too for the media and these people while we're going through it.
	By the way, just to keep everybody grounded, we're talking about the POTUS W's.
	It's been an amazing year.
	Amazing.
	But here's a little tutorial for the press.
	If you think you're going to get a Trump cabinet member fired by writing negative bullshit stories with zero substance at all, let me just tell you right now, having lived it with absolute certainty, certainty, the best job protection in the world is liberal media zeros.
	What are you laughing?
	I haven't even said it yet, Jim.
	Liberal Media Zeros writing an article demanding Jim Verdi be fired as the secretary of Dan Bargito show.
	I'm not kidding.
	If you want to ensure Secretary of the Dan Bongito show works the entire four years right in our calls grow for Secretary Verdi to be fired.
	The president ain't listening to you.
	The president doesn't give a shit about what you say.
	You think he doesn't know he needs to fire or not?
	Here's how many shits the president gives about your What number is that, Jim?
	That's a freaking zero.
	He does not give a shit about what you say.
	Do you hear me?
	Washington Post, New York Times, CNN, MSDNC, whatever they're called now, CBNBNBC.
	I don't even know what the hell you call yourself now.
	Mad Cow, all these other lunatics over there.
	That's the greatest.
	I would see these articles by the left-wing media being, Dan Bongio's gonna be fired.
	I'm like, that's it.
	I'll definitely be here in a year now.
	There's no way he is listening to you.
	Zero chance.
	Isn't this segment supposed to be about the W?
	It is about the W, but I got to pepper it with some of the, folks, it's been bottled up for a year, man.
	You have no idea how much I've been dying to talk to you guys.
	But I told you when I put on that hat, you know, you work for the taxpayer.
	You got to shut your pie hole.
	That's it.
	It was hard, though.
	It's hard.
	It wasn't easy.
	Kim Strasso, who, you know, listen, Wall Street Journal is a huge fan of President Trump.
	I don't think that's a mystery, guys.
	Ladies out there, you know that.
	So when they write an article about W's big wins for the Trump administration in what has been an incredible first year, you know it's legit.
	They're in no rush, believe me, to, you know, to polish up any aspect of the Trump administration.
	Not that they need it.
	But the journal is in zero rush to do that.
	But Strassel wrote this piece a while ago.
	And when it came out, again, I was like dying.
	I'm like, damn it, I wish I was on the air to talk about this.
	But I saved it.
	I bookmarked a lot of stuff because I'm like, I'll get to this later when I get back on the air.
	I'll run through this pretty quick, but these, again, for all the doomers, this is all the stuff I guess you may have missed.
	Throw up that piece, Gee.
	Wall Street Journal, Kim Strassel.
	It's been an incredible year.
	There's a couple of screenshots I took from the piece screen caps.
	First one's about Doge.
	The federal government is now 271,000 employees lighter than in January.
	This article was written on Christmas Eve, December 24th.
	Now, Jim, what are the doomers saying?
	You know it.
	Why isn't it 2 million?
	Holy shit.
	I get it.
	Everything this guy does, you guys have something to say.
	I understand.
	Nobody gets fired from the government ever, except under this administration where they were like, hey, man, we're paying millions of government employees.
	I think we can do this a little leaner.
	Can we start looking at some people?
	Elon's Doge people had a real impact.
	Don't tell here.
	Here's the 18-year-old, you know, what is it, Ben Jones for the Washington Post.
	He's 18 and a half.
	He's barely in school.
	He's writing an article.
	Let me tell you about my experience.
	You don't know shit about Doge, Ben.
	Take your Twinkies and Ding-Dongs and go sit in a corner and sit your fat ass down.
	You don't know shit.
	Okay.
	These Doge people at the president's direction, working with Elon's crew, came in and did a scrub of a whole bunch of agencies and found a ton of waste.
	I can just tell you in my experience at the Bureau, I think we saved, Cash put the number out the other day, something like $317 million.
	That's not chump change.
	We found all kinds of crap.
	We found like, It was like these, I don't know, you got like news subscriptions or something.
	It was like, uh, here's like Reuter Analytics or whatever.
	I'm not, I forget what it was.
	I was like, how much is that costing?
	I'm like, when was the last time someone opened that to look at it?
	Uh, 1942?
	Like, really, folks, this is everywhere in the government.
	And again, it goes back to the doomers.
	Like, oh, well, we could have fired more.
	Nobody's ever fired or let go anyone in the government, like ever.
	Trump administration comes in.
	We're now 271,000 employees lighter and growing.
	Those are fewer people you have to pay for and finance.
	That happened.
	I get it, Doomers.
	You could have done better.
	I know, I know.
	You could have done better again while you're sitting there, you know, playing Madden 2026 or whatever.
	I understand.
	You would have done better.
	We get it.
	We know.
	There was a whole culture change when Donald Trump got elected and worked with Elon with the Doge guys.
	I saw it.
	I saw financial folks in the Bureau and elsewhere in the Pentagon and elsewhere like freaking out.
	Like, oh my gosh, we're actually going to have to justify a lot of these expenses.
	Don't tell me what I saw.
	I saw it.
	And then when you got to justify expenses, all of a sudden, crazy expenses start disappearing.
	Here's another one from the Strassel piece.
	Incredible first year.
	I wanted to cover this yesterday before the president came off.
	He just had so much to talk about.
	What about taxes?
	The Democrats wanted to raise your taxes.
	That's just a fact.
	It's not my opinion, folks.
	The Democrats wanted the Trump tax cuts from his first term, 45, to expire.
	They wanted them to go away.
	Well, the president wasn't having that.
	Got them extended.
	And here's Strassel.
	It spared the nation a massive economy-harming tax hike on January 1st.
	Yes, it did.
	I get it.
	Doomers, liberals, I totally understand.
	Well, I would have cut taxes again.
	You didn't do shit.
	Ass seat, nothing.
	You did nothing.
	You drank a can of cheap beer and sat there and threw the empty cans going.
	I would have done different.
	You wouldn't have done shit.
	This is just the first year.
	You would have had your taxes go up dramatically if these goon Democrats had their way.
	You'd be paying for probably a million more government employees.
	Here's another one: government red tape.
	We know how much everyone loves red tape.
	Everyone loves paying for lawyers, right?
	To fill out 5,000 government forms to dig a ditch in your backyard because of the waters of the United States rule.
	It rained.
	And 17 years ago, it attached to a tributary that leaked into a river.
	So it's going to be a million dollars for the permit gym in your Texas backyard.
	Don't even think about smoking meats neck to that water pond.
	What is the United States?
	That was a real thing, by the way.
	I'm making that up.
	Here, President Trump's administration, first year, regulatory cuts.
	He promised a 10 to 1 deregulatory ratio.
	10 rules out for every new rule they put in.
	But get a load of this.
	Here's what President Trump did: 646 deregulatory actions compared with five regulatory actions for a ratio of 129 to 1.
	That's a savings of $600 in administrative burden per American.
	I get it.
	Liberals, media clowns, I understand.
	Oh, we would have done better.
	Again, you wouldn't have done shit.
	You would have written about it.
	That's all you do.
	Big people do big things.
	Little people talk about big people who do big things.
	Fact.
	This is just the first year.
	Year one.
	That's it.
	We're not even into like halfway through his term.
	You may say, well, wow, Dan, that's an impressive couple things you talked about there.
	Maduro, war on cancer, productivity, super cycle, private sector productivity, working with the Secretary of War, government leaning out, red tape leaning out, our taxes getting cut.
	No, I'm not even done.
	I still got a couple more to tell you about.
	Guys should be on Mount Rushmore.
	He's not even over yet.
	Not even done yet.
	Just start chiseling.
	Start chiseling.
	Jim, you a Chisler.
	Put up that other one: the energy boom.
	By the way, for those who are new to the show, I know I drink funny.
	Can we demo that again, Gee?
	Sorry, put it back to the full screen.
	I'm not weird.
	My elbows don't work.
	You can see the scars.
	I've had a thousand surgeries on them.
	Not trying to play a tough guy.
	I got tapped out a lot in the jet stuff.
	So I've had to have surgery on my elbows.
	I got arthritis.
	A lot of you are new.
	We got 127,000 people here today.
	So some of them are new.
	My elbows don't work.
	So I actually can't reach my mouth with the cup.
	So I've got to bend in weird contortions and directions.
	Sorry for the explainer, but that's true.
	So have fun with it, but that's how my body doesn't work like it used to.
	They're all like show muscles now.
	Except Nicole Wallace loves him.
	We'll get to that.
	Don't let me go today without that story.
	She's like in love with me at MSNBC is the weirdest thing.
	I'm not dating you.
	Forget it.
	I'm not.
	Stop asking, weirdo.
	She's like obsessed with my shirts.
	Sambar, you know, shirts.
	Here's some more for you.
Pull-Ups and Heat 00:07:50
	POTUS wins in the first year.
	Rack them up, kids.
	W's left and right.
	Energy boom.
	You know, energy, like the thing we put in the gas tank, heat your house.
	It's like minus 20 in Florida right now.
	I had to turn the heat on for the first time, even though we had heat.
	There's a button.
	I'm like, look at that.
	We got heat.
	Crazy.
	I've never used it before.
	Freaking pool almost froze over.
	Thank God there was salt in there.
	The U.S. is now producing 24.2 million barrels of oil a day.
	That's a lot.
	So let's put it in perspective.
	That's more than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined.
	No way.
	Yes, way.
	And 108 billion cubic feet of natural gas a day, as much as Russia, Iran, and China combined.
	That's the Trump agenda, not the Dan Bongino.
	I wasn't a president.
	I just did the law enforcement stuff.
	I told you this show wasn't going to be all like FBI stories.
	We'll sprinkle them in.
	We'll have some fun with it, just like we did with my prior lines at work.
	But this is not that show.
	This is a show about politics and culture and liberty and freedom and advancing the cause.
	And I can tell you right now, this guy in the White House, President DJT, is kicking ass and taking names.
	Those are facts.
	We are producing a shit ton of oil and natural gas, more than the biggest oil and gas producers in the world.
	Where do you read that story with the doomers and the lib media?
	They'll be like, if I was in charge, I produced 27.
	You didn't produce shit again for the umpteen time.
	Fat ass sat in the seat and did nothing.
	Smoking a cheap cigar, drinking a cheapo beer, like the beer Homer used to drink in The Simpsons, and you threw the empty can at the screen while doing the Leo Cap DiCaprio Giphy.
	You know the Giphy.
	If you're on Twitter as much as I am, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
	My guys, man, thank you.
	You know why texting me right now.
	I appreciate the compliment.
	You didn't do shit, Leo DiCaprio Giphy.
	You just pointed at the screen.
	The Trump administration did this, not you.
	You just complained.
	Here's one more from that article.
	This is a doozy, and I lived through this one personally.
	DEI, which is a rotting, metastasizing cancer in the federal government.
	This diversity, equity, and exclusion.
	It's inclusion.
	No, it's exclusion because you exclude people you don't like.
	You have to fit a preferred category for the liberal narrative, or they hate your guts.
	Trump administration dismantled government DEI offices and programs, enforced new standards on federal contractors, and brought actions against universities over the question of anti-Semitism and other things, which is disgraceful and disgusting.
	And I know you know my stance on that, which we'll be talking about a lot, in case it's any mystery to anybody out there.
	Folks, the DEI culture change was profound from day one.
	Day one.
	I'll just give you my experience.
	Again, we work under the Department of Justice.
	The FBI used to, if you look at the FBI seal, the Department of Justice on top, we're on the bottom on our own seal.
	We work for the Department of Justice.
	I was there, I don't know, a couple months or so.
	Media, of course, wrote a story about it because these leakers who I addressed yesterday, total scumbags inside the government.
	They leak everything.
	They leak like Dan Bargino drank a Diet Coke.
	I don't even drink Diet Coke.
	It was not sure that actually happened, but it would have.
	The DAG, the Deputy Attorney General, Blanche, he put out this email.
	Like, we're not doing pronouns in anybody's, because people had all these, well, you would get these emails.
	Jim, I'm not even kidding.
	You get these emails like pronouns, like they, them, g, zhao.
	No, no, we're not doing that.
	We're not doing that.
	So Blanche was like, no, no, there's no, no, we're not doing no pronouns.
	Here's a, here's the liner.
	It'll be your name.
	And it said like your name and your title.
	Like, that's it.
	We're not doing like inspirational quotes in there or anything.
	You get some of these emails and they'd be like, the wind bloweth over the South Sea.
	Get that shit off your email.
	It's a government email, you goofball.
	We don't need your inspirational quotes.
	Put it on your tombstone.
	The wind bloweth over the South Sea with a rose gold horizon.
	Get that shit off your email.
	Todd's like, no more.
	I'm just telling you my experience.
	This was throughout the government.
	Secretary Hegset over at the War Department did the same thing.
	No, no, we're not doing this DEI.
	And then a bunch of whiners in the bureau started complaining.
	Oh my God, you're making us do a pull-up.
	Yeah, man.
	God forbid you actually have to pull yourself over a fence in a foot pursuit.
	Shit, I mean, who would need to do that?
	Leak it to the media.
	They're making us do a pull-up.
	Oh, oh.
	My wife is 51.
	She does three pull-ups herself.
	Probably could do five if all she did was pull-ups.
	Oh, we got to do pull-ups.
	Oh, my gosh.
	Do you believe it?
	Then they leave there's some story leaks like, well, Dan said in a meeting one time, you know, ring doorbells.
	And if you show up overweight and stuff, yeah, yeah, you know what?
	You know why they said that?
	That wasn't exactly the quote.
	Because when you ask people in prisons who've attacked, engaged in AFOs, assault on a federal officer or any officer for that matter, when you ask them in prison or elsewhere after they've been locked up why they attacked that officer or that person, they give the same answer every time.
	You know what it is?
	Because I thought I could take them.
	That's why.
	This DEI stuff was a freaking cancer, man.
	An absolute cancer.
	Here, let's wrap this segment up about year one.
	I got a lot of stuff I want to get to, too, including Nicole Wallace's bizarre infatuation with my shirts.
	You like this one, Nicole?
	I can get you one.
	know the guys it was a tweet i put out a while ago just quick Again, this is just the president's first year.
	Energy.
	War on cancer.
	Productivity super cycle.
	Taxes going down.
	What about this?
	Keith, throw up that tweet.
	Whatever you guys get around to it.
	There you go.
	Thanks, guys.
	I know the chat will be like, leave the guys alone.
	It's like a union for the crew here.
	I wrote this on my Twitter account a while back.
	Midterms are coming.
	The first year was for the record books.
	Friends don't let friends blackpill.
	Violent crime arrests double in Trump's first year.
	Illegal crossings in U.S.-Mexico border plummet.
	President Trump brokers another historic peace deal.
	Atlanta Fed doubles GDP to five something percent, the GDP at 5%.
	You have any idea what 5% GDP is?
	5% GDP, the economy doubles in about 14 years, doubles, like in real value, doubles.
	Don't worry about it.
	The doomers, I could have done better.
	Yeah, sure.
	You wouldn't have done shit.
	Here's another one, LA Times.
	These are like massive victories for any administration that he's had so many, the president, they get lost.
	People probably forgot about this one.
	LA Times, which hates the president.
	U.S. overdose deaths fell through most of 2025.
	Federal data show.
	Jim, who was the president in 2025?
DOS Decline 00:05:19
	That's so crazy.
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	Little Theodore Greens logo on there.
	Here's one last one too, Wall Street Journal.
	United States, world's sole superpower.
	Again.
	Who's the president now?
	Donald Trump.
	Sir.
	And they'll ignore all that.
	They could have done better.
	Folks, I want to get to this next.
	I'm going to take a quick break.
	But in my year away from you all, and gosh, I can't say it enough.
	I really missed you.
	In my year away from you all, I had to, you know, keep my opinions to myself.
	I was not paid for that.
	I can't say it enough.
	And it's hard because, you know, a lot of life losers and grifters and stuff, I think they thought I wasn't coming back.
	I don't know why they would think that.
	And I think they thought, oh, we'll just mess with them.
	Well, that's never really worked out for anyone, like ever.
	But some of the stuff I saw really, really like ate me alive inside.
	One of them I just saw the other day.
	So I want to get, I know you've heard this Billie Eilish thing a thousand times.
	And you know, I don't do a lot of this like pop culture stuff because I don't really care most of the time about this garbage.
	But I got to do it.
	So I'll take a quick break.
	The last couple spots for today's show.
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Why Give Back Stolen Land? 00:15:45
	So in the year away, again, I read a lot of stuff and I'd be like, oh man, I want to tweet about stuff so bad.
	And you know, we don't do a lot of celebrity bullshit because nobody really care.
	I don't really care.
	And I say this, I say this regarding all celebrity political opinions.
	While I would rather have you on our side as a celebrity, like we want to get people to vote for liberty and freedom and our ideas, right?
	It doesn't exclude you if you're a celebrity by any stretch.
	I get that.
	But I just don't put a lot of stock in celebrity opinions for the same reason I don't put a lot of stock in media opinions because they just don't know shit.
	So why would I listen?
	I mean, it's like taking a course in like endocrinology from a car mechanic.
	He may be a brilliant guy.
	Most of them are, especially with these cars now.
	But they'll be the first to tell you, like, I'm not an endocrinologist.
	You don't want me doing brain surgery.
	I don't know anything about brain surgery.
	The media and celebrities know absolutely nothing about national security or politics.
	Zero.
	So this happened the other day.
	I ran in.
	I'm like, guys, you got to pull this for me.
	You know, this Billie Eilish lady's a singer, apparently.
	I guess she's got some stuff.
	Does anybody ever, by the way, what happened to music?
	Are there any, I've read a story about this.
	Does anybody like remember, are there any memorable songs anymore?
	Like, is there any stairway to heavens comfortably numb before Roger Waters went crazy?
	Like, are there any of these songs that are like bedrock staples anymore?
	Silver Springs.
	What's the, I know she has that one famous song.
	I don't even, I don't even know the name of it.
	If I heard it, I'd know it.
	But so Billie Eilish is at the, what was the awards?
	Grammy Awards?
	Grammy?
	Grammy.
	Sorry, guys.
	I honestly don't even know.
	Oscar's hell knows.
	That's how little I watch this crap.
	She gets an award for like best life loser of the year or whatever it was.
	I don't even know the categories.
	Dipshit of the decade.
	I mean, who?
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	I don't really care.
	So he's up there getting the award.
	And here's Billie Eilish on, of course, everybody was like in the screw ice mode.
	So here's what she said.
	These celebs, they kill me.
	This is just, this is hilarious for all the wrong reasons.
	Check this out.
	No one is illegal on stolen land.
	Yeah, it's just really hard to know what to say and what to do right now.
	And I just, I feel really hopeful in this room.
	And I feel like we just need to keep fighting and speaking up and protesting.
	And our voices really do matter and the people matter.
	Gee, I love this one.
	I had them cut this yesterday.
	I didn't know where they were going to end it.
	I'm glad you actually let it go for a second.
	She says, nobody's illegal on stolen land.
	I'm not even sure I should do right now.
	I got a recommendation for you.
	How about you?
	Shut the fuck up.
	Nobody gives a shit what you have to say.
	Just sing.
	Nobody gives a shit.
	On stolen land, what is this?
	I guarantee you, she has made no effort whatsoever to return her home.
	I know you've heard it a thousand times because it's just so, it's almost become like a cliche.
	Give it back.
	Just give it back.
	If it's stolen land, then just give your, why don't you start?
	How about this?
	Hey, Bill, do you go by Bill?
	I don't really care.
	Bill, I got an idea.
	You're probably worth, I don't know, 10 million, 20 million.
	I don't know.
	I'm not a singer.
	I don't know the revenue model.
	I know this revenue model.
	I don't know.
	She's probably worth 10, 20 million.
	How about you go out?
	You don't even tell you what?
	Don't even turn over your house.
	I'm not even asking you to do that.
	Take about 10 million, go buy up a bunch of like lots and then return them to the people you think they were stolen from.
	Well, I don't know who this.
	Of course you don't.
	Nobody else does either.
	People die.
	Tribes went to war.
	Indian tribes went to war.
	We went to war with the Brits.
	The French went to war in Indochina.
	It happens all the time.
	There is no such thing as stolen land.
	There is land people live on and there's land people don't live on.
	Okay.
	This stolen land bullshit in the United States.
	Give it back.
	All these universities, they start off there.
	They do these university ceremonies and graduation.
	They're like, we're going to do a land acknowledgement.
	Here are 72 generations of people who lived here.
	Dude, a guy lived in my house before I bought it too.
	Did I steal it from him?
	Do you have, are you people morons?
	Bill, go buy up some land and just do a genealogy thing or whatever.
	Dig up the soil to see who's doing a DNA test on 27andMe or whatever the hell it is And just give it to, I'll tell you what, I promise you, Bill, I will do another segment on the show and extend mad respect to you.
	I will be like, hey, at least she's not a shit talker.
	She won't do it.
	She's not, no one's illegal on stolen land.
	Actually, we have this thing called the law.
	You are illegal.
	If you violate the law to come here by default, you are illegal.
	Just give it back.
	What is that?
	Why is there a question mark on the screen?
	Is that one of yours?
	Well, a question mark just appeared on my screen.
	I go, Gee, what happened?
	Oh, I just hit the wrong button.
	Well, thank you for being honest.
	Give it back, Bill.
	Give it back.
	Reminds me of my friend Brian when they brought him out a steak and a potato, and he thought the potato was another steak.
	So he gave it to my brother at dinner.
	Then he figured out that he was left with the potato and he gave away his steak.
	And he said, give it back.
	Give it back.
	Just give it back.
	I have an update on that story.
	Wait, did she give it back?
	It is a statement from the tribe where her home is.
	Okay, this is a live time update.
	The Tongva tribe reacts to Bill, Big Bill, remarks about stolen land.
	As the first people of greater Los Angeles Basin, we do understand our home is situated in our ancestral land.
	Elish Eilish has not contacted our tribe directly regarding her property.
	We will follow up today.
	Yes, I love you, the member of the Tongva tribe.
	You guys are heroes.
	That is incredible.
	Please follow up and make sure she returns that stolen land.
	Brilliant.
	Brilliant.
	What's the Alinsky rule, right, guys?
	Rules for radicals, hold them to their own standards.
	Show us the way, Bill.
	Show us the way.
	Here's another phony.
	I hate bullshitters.
	I hate it.
	And talkers who don't do stuff.
	Like, go do stuff or shut your piehole.
	Here's another one: Wall Street Journal.
	Mitt Romney, a guy, I got to tell you, I really can't stand.
	I'm like embarrassed.
	I voted for this guy.
	I mean, we really had no choice.
	It wasn't like the alternative was any good.
	But I got to tell you, like, of all the votes I've taken, like, this one's the worst.
	I didn't have much of a choice.
	We were all kind of in a pickle with that one.
	It was like.
	Remember, I told you level 10 decisions, the shitty decision and the shittier decision, trying to find out which one?
	He was Romney back in December.
	I was still on the job complaining that he isn't paying enough taxes.
	Holy Moses, dude, just cut the check, just like Big Bill.
	Give your freaking property back to the Tongvas.
	We love the Tongva tribe.
	Give them back to Tongva.
	Give him back to the Tongva tribe.
	Mitt, there is a line on the IRS forms.
	We have shown it many times.
	You can donate to the, isn't there a website to make voluntary donations to the United States Treasury?
	A big Mitt.
	Go for it, bro.
	You're like a trillionaire.
	Just write the freaking check.
	All these rich assholes.
	Oh, my gosh, I should be paying.
	So pay them.
	Pay them.
	Here, get your ass out of the seat.
	Go to the website on your computer and just cut the check.
	Dude, here's a pen.
	Stroke the check.
	Just here we go.
	Just sign it.
	My brick house.
	You like the side view?
	Go back to that shot.
	What do you think of that?
	You have a little white here, the pen on the desk.
	What's in that?
	No.
	Oh, these are the oil wipes because I'm like really oily Mattallian.
	Sorry.
	We got a makeup artist now, Jacqueline.
	I warned her.
	I'm like, you're part of the, everyone's part of it.
	It's all fair game, folks.
	We have makeup.
	Imagine that, me.
	I had no choice.
	I get the greasiest skin ever.
	I did that hit on Fox the first night with Hannity from the new studio, and we hadn't fixed the lighting.
	The lighting was all set up for Haley.
	Folks, I promise you it was like 65 degrees in here.
	It was so cold.
	And the lighting was like intense.
	It looked like I was under police interrogation.
	So, usually, like the media will take shots and we'll usually laugh at him.
	But Guy, we got to give him that one.
	We were definitely shot.
	That was for as much as we hate them, we'll give you guys that one.
	I definitely look like I was under police interrogation.
	You notice the lights though now?
	We did some diffusers, whatever.
	I'm not a lighting guy, but we got a makeup person because I don't want to look like we're under police interrogation all the time.
	Yeah, can we do that?
	Is that a possibility?
	Guy wants to show you a little bit of behind this.
	Yeah, zone out.
	What do you guys think of the new studio?
	This is the whole, this took forever.
	And thank you, Paula, Jasmine, Guy, Jim, Justin.
	I didn't even know you guys could do this stuff.
	Like, I've only been in this.
	This is like my 10th show or something from the studio.
	Haley's been using it.
	Yeah.
	Check it out.
	There's Jim on his phone.
	Camera's on him now.
	He didn't know.
	Lucky he wasn't doing anything weird.
	Would have been strange.
	You guys think in the new studio, though?
	Thank you, Guy.
	That was pretty cool.
	I didn't know you could even do that.
	Hey, mid, if you want to cut a check to the studio, too, you can do that as well.
	You got a couple of trillion bucks.
	I want to pay more taxes.
	So pay him and shut up.
	Just pay him.
	Stroke the check.
	Breaking zero.
	I can pay more taxes.
	Do it.
	I'll give you a little.
	Tell you what.
	I promise.
	Again, along with Bill, stroke the check and we'll cover it on the show.
	Listen, I got more on some of these media morons.
	Why is it on my mind so much, too?
	Because again, like when you see these stories from the inside and these perilous national security threats that are going on every day, and then you see how the media writes about President Trump like he's some kind of a moron and they have more information than he does, it's like really seriously offensive.
	Here's what I mean.
	Again, I just want to be clear on this.
	But I said again twice.
	Again?
	You remember that?
	Do you remember that?
	We're bringing back all the oldies.
	Again?
	Again.
	Norm McDonald.
	Again.
	We got to play that clip.
	Line that up.
	We got to do that for tomorrow.
	I am fiercely protective of the media's right to speak out.
	Freedom of the press matters to me.
	It is paramount, tip of the spear.
	But again, that gives you the freedom to be stupid.
	And most of the time, unfortunately, you prove that axiomatic truth that you're going to be morons, to be correct.
	We had President Trump on the show yesterday.
	This is a really quick cut.
	He was gracious enough to come on.
	I really appreciate it.
	He's working with him was amazing.
	But he said something yesterday.
	It was short, but there's a lot more there than I, yeah.
	Let me just play it and I'll talk about it on here.
	So Guy, play that cut.
	Yeah, yeah, to be respected.
	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.
	Okay.
	He's saying that for a reason.
	Now, of course, when you're a media moron, you've already written the story.
	The narrative in advance, but before the interview even happened, you're already writing negative stories about President Trump.
	Like, he's seeking approval from dictators, morons.
	Let me give you a little lowdown and dirty here.
	He does not care about the approval of dictators at all.
	He is a deal maker who understands the net present value spreadsheet of power.
	He is totally transactional on this.
	He is getting briefed every day about existential threats from space, from the water, from sea, from land, from the electrical grid, everything.
	These are serious threats.
	And he understands that if these countries don't respect our power, it's kind of like what do we used to call it, but you know, before I left, the Brock Lesnar theory of international negotiations.
	The reason Brock Lesnar, you know, him, WWE, UFC guy, he's like six, seven, 400 pounds of muscle.
	The reason Brock Lesnar probably doesn't get into a lot of bar fights is because nobody wants to mess with Brock Lesnar.
	Nobody does.
	You see the guy walk in, they're like, wow, you think like fighter, even fighters don't want to fight him.
	Trump understands that if we don't project power, serious power, whether it's through a military budget, whether it's through this surgical operation on Maduro, and these countries don't respect us, they're going to do exactly what Putin did with Ukraine, which is invade, or maybe not going to invade the continental United States, obviously, but take some kind of hostile action towards us.
	I've heard him talk.
	He's not saying that.
	Again, it just shows you how the media frame, like the framing of things, how they frame things to constantly take pot shots at this guy.
	He's saying it for a reason.
	He talks to these leaders completely different than you all here in the public discourse.
	You don't respect him in the United States, you're going to get a tongue-lashing.
	And you've seen it in the Oval Office.
	By the way, we'll see what happens with Gustavo Petro from Colombia, who's at the White House today.
	I don't think they're doing anything publicly, but Petro better get his act together too.
	I'm telling you, the president is in I take zero shit mode.
	Here's why, though, put that Wall Street Journal article up.
	Here's why we need to be respected.
	I know, again, the media, oh, he's kissing their head.
	You don't know anything, morons.
	Folks, the AI and cyber attack threats.
	I was going to address this at the end of the show, but I'll address it now.
	Again, speaking in just high-level atmospherics, this is real.
	It's not a joke.
	It's not the future.
	It's the now.
	These are very, very real threats.
	I've been discussing it on my show before I went to my job that I, you know, the bureau job.
	And now that I'm back, these are very real threats.
	Some of them are mad-type threats, mutually assured destruction-type threats.
	If these countries do not respect us and do not fear President Trump's ability and willingness to respond, you don't want to wake up one day with the lights out.
Threats to Reserve Currency Status 00:04:52
	Trust me, you don't.
	So you can have 18-year-old Benny Jones at the freaking Washington Post taking a break from his tentacle porn routine to write about his national security ideas, or you could take the word of the president who's dealing with it every day.
	I'll take the latter.
	Folks, the threat is 360 degrees.
	It's up, it's down, it's underwater, it's everywhere.
	The president is dealing with level 10, level 10 decisions every day.
	I talked to you about this yesterday.
	When you're at that level, everything that comes to your desk is a level 10 decision.
	Everything.
	There's a shit decision and a shittier one.
	That is it.
	Every single level one through nine decision is already being solved at the assistant director, deputy assistant director level.
	If it's at your desk, it's a level 10.
	There is no good answer, period.
	Go release this information on this guy, knowing he may flee, or don't release it, and then he does another crime.
	That's just a really simple overview, but that would happen all the time.
	What do we do?
	What's the answer?
	The answer is you better use your best judgment.
	The president is dealing with the level 10s, even his principals and deputies and cabinet members can't fix.
	I'm not telling you accountability doesn't matter, media people.
	I'm not telling you anyone's above criticism.
	Just telling you maybe you should know what you're talking about before you constantly harp on every little word the guy says.
	You know, he speaks in a very discursive manner.
	Here's another one, the South China Post article.
	Do you understand the economic war going on right now against the United States?
	They are trying to uproot our dollar as the reserve currency.
	You have any idea what would happen to interest rates if that happens?
	Folks, your mortgage would be 17% again.
	You have any idea what's going on with that?
	Listen, I'm a principal guy on this stuff.
	I got to tell you, I've always told you I'm not a huge believer in tariffs.
	But having seen how the president implements the tariff agenda to use it to get back to a freer, more fairer trade environment, I get it.
	Here was his true social post the other day on tariffs with India.
	There's the China article you can see trying to take away our reserve currency status.
	And the true social post he put up about Prime Minister Modi of India.
	He's using these tariffs as a strategic trade weapon to get us back to freer and fairer trade and to conduct diplomacy.
	You don't have to agree with it, but let's be honest.
	All the doomerism, and I was not a tariff guy, folks.
	Listen, you can go listen to my shows.
	I've just put in tariffs in the search box.
	I've talked about it a lot.
	It was wrong.
	The economy's going to collapse.
	It's going to be negative 5%.
	That's bullshit.
	It was actually 4%.
	They're projecting 5% next quarter.
	This is just the facts.
	I don't avoid facts when they're inconvenient for me.
	I just can't have a lot of this negativity, guys, sapping everyone's energy.
	Accountability, transparency, of course, hold everyone accountable.
	Ask questions.
	Asking questions is the guiding ethos of liberty and freedom.
	But my gosh, man, like let's have a realistic assessment of where we are and what we've done so we don't harm our own cause in this fruitless, cannibalistic endeavor to eat our own people alive.
	The doomers are taking advantage with the liberal media.
	They're like best buddies now of an effort to sabotage this movement from the inside.
	I have seen it.
	There's a lot of influence campaigns going on to fracture this movement from the inside.
	And the liberal media loves it.
	Here's a Hollywood reporter piece about it.
	MAGA civil war.
	They're not going to be a civil war.
	I'm taking this movement back.
	Not the only one.
	It's not my movement.
	I'm part of a movement.
	MAGA versus MAGA.
	Who's running the right-wing media meltdown?
	You see how these liberal media people, they love this.
	They love every second of it.
	And what I used to say on my radio show, my podcast before I left, when your enemies, the Hollywood reporter elsewhere, are writing about your things and they're doing something you want them to, you don't want, they want you to, like, don't, you know, don't get in their way.
	When your media is, when your enemies are screwing up, like, don't stop them.
	That's what they want.
	That's why they're all buddies.
	They like quote each other.
	You've seen it over and over again.
	This is why this matters in the midterms.
	Well, of course the midterms matter.
	They're elections.
	No, they really matter.
Midterms Matter: Long Term Politics 00:08:48
	If we lose these midterms, this president will be impeached.
	And the last two years, all of the great stuff, this is the setup here I just told you about, spent the last hour talking about the economy, energy, GDP growth, war on cancer, productivity super cycles, national defense, crime rates, GDP explosions coming up.
	All of this stuff I told you about is going to be donezo, man.
	We're going to be dealing with an AOC-led impeachment for two years and a bunch of goons every day on TV.
	Mr. President, you drink a Diet Coke.
	I promise you, it is going to shut down everything.
	We're going to lose all the chairmanships.
	We cannot sap the energy out of the room with an unrealistic, doomer-like atmosphere that nothing's happened when it's happened.
	I want you to watch this Harry Anton clip.
	He's a pollster over at CNN.
	Talk about the midterms and why they matter.
	It's not just House of Representatives and Senate seats.
	Third of the Senate's up, the entire House, obviously up every two years, House of Representatives.
	It's not just about that.
	There's a long-term realignment coming that's going to be really good for the Republican Party.
	But it's not going to be good if in the short term, i.e. this election cycle, we don't get through this.
	Check this out.
	I'll explain on the other side.
	Now, this isn't just about the House of Representatives, right?
	It's also about the Electoral College, because the number of electoral votes that each state gets is equal to the number of senators.
	Each state, of course, has two, plus the number of House seats that they have.
	So what would this mean for the House of Representatives?
	Well, if you remember back in 2024, right, it was all about, we were talking about the blue wall.
	If Kamala Harris could win the baseline Democratic states and then add in the blue wall states of Michigan, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, she would get to 270 electoral votes.
	But if all of a sudden we in fact have applying the 2025 estimates, the population estimates to the Electoral College, the blue states, plus the blue wall of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin would no longer be enough.
	Under the current estimates, you get to exactly 270 electoral votes, the minimum needed to win the Electoral College.
	If in fact you apply the 2025 estimates, look at that.
	You would only get to 263 electoral votes if you were a Democrat, which would mean a Republican victory.
	Now, of course, we're still a number of years away from reapportionment, right?
	We take the census, come 2030.
	But what we can say so far is we got a red state boom going on, a blue state depression going on, people moving from the blue states to the red states.
	And if it holds for 2030, well, it would make the Democratic nominee for president's job of winning the Electoral College that much more difficult.
	Folks, I get it.
	It's CNN, but I got to tell you, like, this guy's perspective, I don't, I judge information, okay?
	That's it.
	Harry Anton's information is absolutely accurate.
	Let me sum up what I'm about to tell you.
	The long-term trends for the MAGA movement, the Republican Party, and the conservative movement in general are spectacular.
	Why?
	Because people are moving out.
	I'm going to test Jim here.
	Jim, get ready.
	I'm going to see how sharp you are.
	We're going to see if Jim is in radio mode or if he's like a little foggy and needs some cobwebs.
	Jim, a lot of people are moving out of blue states.
	Why are they doing that?
	It's too expensive.
	No people.
	It freaking blew it.
	You believe this guy?
	Holy Moses, he blew it.
	The answer, Jim.
	Get on there.
	Yeah, show them.
	The answer?
	Because they want to.
	Come on, guys.
	You guys in the audience knew that.
	It blew it.
	Totally blew.
	Why are they moving?
	Because they want to.
	No, he is right, though.
	Sorry.
	I was a test.
	It was a test.
	Sometimes you blow it.
	Blue it.
	Everybody definitely, I know it's like a union in the chat.
	The McGroyans get very upset.
	Jim's everybody.
	I get it.
	I love you, McGrides, too.
	But because they want to.
	People are moving.
	So let's break this down.
	What Harry Anton's saying.
	First, long term.
	2030, which by my count's a few years away, a couple election cycles.
	By 2030, so many people are going to moved out of blue states because they suck, because they're led by Hair Jell over in California.
	And by the way, Gav, you're welcome for cleaning up your cities when you wouldn't do it.
	I know he attacked me on Twitter when I was there.
	I went back at him a little bit with my FBI account, but now I can go back.
	You're full of shit.
	You're welcome for cleaning up your cities for you.
	You got it.
	So you got Hair Jell out in California.
	You got Ozempic out there in Illinois.
	I mean, you got these total goon squad.
	You got Big Gretsch out there in Michigan and stuff.
	People are leaving these places, Illinois and California.
	Not so sure about the Michigan population trends, but Illinois, California, Kathy Hochul up in New York, and they're moving conveniently to states that, what's that?
	Oh, well, yeah, that's right.
	Wall's good point, Keith.
	These guys, people are leaving, and they are moving conveniently to red states led by conservative governors, the great state of Florida, Texas, Tennessee, and elsewhere.
	It's not an accident.
	People are leaving your liberal bullshit and moving to conservative states.
	You can argue all day, correlation, causation, why they're moving.
	The fact is, they're moving.
	Long-term trends.
	So the way the House of Representatives works is every district is roughly 700,000 plus people.
	If you fall below on the 10-year, they do it every 10 years, the reapportionment.
	If you fall below a certain threshold, whatever it may be, 700, 680, whatever it may be, you know, that particular year, you lose a House seat.
	And why are they losing a lot of House seats?
	Because people are leaving your states, dude.
	The U-Hauls, like you can't even find a damn U-Haul.
	And they are moving.
	Now, given that every House of Representatives seat is based on representative population, as red state populations explode, they get more members of Congress.
	That's what Edon was talking about.
	But it's not just congressional representation that changes.
	The Electoral College, how we win the presidency, getting to 270, 270 electoral votes, that is based on your two senators.
	Every state gets two, obviously, and your number of House of Representatives.
	So whatever you have, whatever, 29, 30, you add two in the two centers, that's your 32 electoral votes.
	You get places like Florida, Texas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania that start turning red.
	The Democrats don't have a mathematical pathway.
	That's what he was talking about with the blue wall, long term to win the presidency.
	It's just pure math.
	It's not there.
	They just don't have the math.
	Long term sounds great.
	The problem, as an infamous economist once said, is in the long term, we're all dead.
	We live in the short term and we live in the now.
	And we've got elections coming up like now, like this year.
	We have got to get through the short term first.
	Folks, we cannot have, I'm not telling you to not hold people.
	I can't say that enough.
	It keeps everybody on their toes, me included, on the show.
	I'm just telling you, we have to be realistic about this first year.
	There were 100 wins for every four or five, I don't even call them losses, but things that are taking a while.
	I don't want people out there going, oh man, I'm not voting, nothing got that.
	That's bullshit, and you know it.
	We have got to get through this year.
	Because if we don't get through 2028 this year and get to 2030, we could be in a lot of trouble.
	We cannot deal with another BS impeachment.
	They're not going to impeach him for anything.
	He tied his shoes wrong.
	We don't really like that.
	So it's definitely a high crime and misdemeanor.
	You know what's going to happen.
	The country doesn't have time for it.
	I just told you, there were really persistent, deadly, everyday national security threats, economic threats to the dollar, trade war threats.
	We don't have time for this.
	Right, this show's been really serious today, outside of a couple Dan Bongino comedy breaks or whatever.
Whistleblower's Warning 00:15:34
	But I definitely need to lighten this one up a little bit.
	I told you I wasn't leaving today without the house is just breaking news on Fox.
	House is holding a test vote on that government spending bill.
	You know, we're in a partial government shutdown over DHS funding.
	By the way, we've held over 100,000 people for the last hour and a half or 115,000.
	That is unbelievable.
	I love you guys so much, really.
	I mean, I feel like I know so many of you.
	Thank you guys.
	In the chat, thank you.
	I really appreciate it.
	It means the world.
	I will never take you guys for granted.
	Look at me.
	Fokker, look at me.
	Seen the movie.
	I love you guys best.
	Here's that story I was telling you about before.
	This freaking weirdo on MSNBC is like in love with me.
	Nicole Wallace, now that I'm back, Nicole Wallace goes off on freaking joke Dan Bogino, colon, wears t-shirts that are obviously too small.
	Zachary Lehman, media, this was December 28th.
	Nicole, I'm not, again, you can stop asking.
	I will not, I'm not going out on a day.
	We're not going to Nobu on a Friday night for some Wagyu hot rock steak.
	It's not happening.
	I know you've got this quiet little kind of boiling bunny obsession.
	I get it.
	We know you're a weirdo.
	We get it.
	From your 20 listeners on MS CBNBNBC.
	What's it called now, by the way?
	MS Now, MSNOW.
	I get it.
	Nikki, the answer is no.
	Sweetcakes, I'm not going out on a day with you.
	I know you're constantly commenting about my shirt size and whatever.
	So I don't know what else.
	I am not doing it.
	The answer is a flat no.
	I don't know what size this is, but I promise I'll make it smaller for you tomorrow.
	There are people out there who cannot get me out of their heads.
	I see them.
	They can't stop.
	I said to you yesterday: the greatest superpower in the world is the power to command attention.
	I learned a lot of lessons about that over the last year.
	That's why Trump is so powerful.
	No one's got a bigger microphone.
	It's the greatest superpower in the world.
	I'm not kidding.
	Even more powerful than I think the presidency.
	That's why he has both is the power to command attention.
	And my enemies, man, do I have yours?
	You just can't stop every day.
	I'm not going to tell you I hate it.
	It's good for me.
	But I don't solicit it either.
	Every day, Stu Thompson reached out yesterday, right?
	From the New York Times, reached out to producer Jim for his 10,000 piece on Dan Bongino.
	This guy better be in your will, Stewie.
	So Jim sent him back a response.
	And I noticed he only put, Jim, what was the response you sent back?
	You have that on your phone?
	Yes.
	What did the response say?
	Do you remember?
	He wanted some, he's like, Dad, I think you have a lot of enemies.
	Whatever.
	Quoting Dan directly.
	Yes.
	Thanks for the question.
	Go fuck yourself.
	Yes.
	Thank you, Jim.
	That was the exact quote.
	It was like, thank you for reaching out.
	Go fuck yourself.
	We're back.
	And he puts in the article in the New York Times: Dan Bongino, a spokesman, responded, we're back.
	No, no, that's not how we responded, Stew.
	You can share the email.
	You can put the go fuck yourself in there, too.
	They can't stop.
	So to the Bongino Army, the McGroin crew, and my staff.
	That's it.
	That's the email.
	Jim was nice enough to not dox his email.
	That is the exact email.
	Do you guys have that ready to go?
	Thanks for the questions.
	Go fuck yourself.
	We're back.
	There you go, Stewie.
	Stewie.
	Does he have pronouns in there?
	Zhijiao?
	Did he have them in there?
	And he said, We don't care.
	Well, actually, we do care.
	We just like you.
	You guys are like obsessed with, like, we don't spend a second thinking about Stewie.
	We use him for show content, but they can't stop with us.
	Nicole, his shirt size is too small.
	Why are you thinking about that?
	That's kind of weird, isn't it?
	Besides, it was a joke.
	I'm from Queens.
	Everything runs small.
	Schmidiums.
	Here was one I saw when I was in there talking about before how these clowns and jokers will write a story about anything as long as my name is in it because they know there's money to be made.
	It is just an entire clickbait enterprise written around the whole Bongino Inc. operation here.
	Put up that Washington Post article.
	This one, I rarely laughed about stuff because it was a serious job, but this one, this headline was freaking hilarious.
	I read this in the Washington Post.
	It's a real story, by the way.
	This was December 12th of last year, so not that long ago.
	Washington Post.
	Secret meeting.
	Jim, secret meeting.
	Secret meeting.
	This is a real headline, folks.
	If you're listening on Apple Spotify, secret meetings between FBI and Ukraine negotiators spark concern.
	Wait, keep it up.
	I got to read the sub headline.
	Director Kash Patel and his deputy Dan Bongino met with the top peace negotiator in a pressure campaign and a war.
	I read this.
	Someone sends it to me.
	I'm like, secret meeting.
	I'm like, the meeting that was on my public schedule, you can probably FOIA that was attended by, and I think the Ukrainians took a picture.
	Like, what the, you guys, are you guys, just to be clear, to the Washington Post dipshits that wrote that piece?
	Who's on that?
	What's his name?
	Like, is that, is that the Benny Jones we were talking about before?
	Or Brian Jones or whatever?
	Whoever wrote that piece, do you guys like, do you think the FBI, like, God forbid, Jim, you think the FBI has an interest in meeting with foreign, you know, law enforcement folks or anything?
	Just throwing that out there.
	A little bit.
	Maybe.
	Happens.
	Probably met with about 20, 30 foreign partners about law enforcement stuff.
	The Ukrainians are different.
	We had a meeting about like drones and the threat and stuff.
	They took a picture.
	It was on the schedule.
	There were like interpreters, people in a room.
	Secret meeting.
	Here's the best part.
	The meeting wasn't even in the secret part of headquarters.
	It was in like the dining room of the, these people are such clowns.
	Who is it?
	John Hudson, Cia Bono Grady.
	Oh, Perry Stein.
	Perry Stein's back.
	Secret meetings.
	This is why like they're reaching out for comments.
	I'm like, I don't have a.
	How do you argue with stupid secret meetings?
	Secret meetings.
	I love that thing, too.
	Acting like I was negotiating a peace deal with Ukraine.
	Folks, listen, for as important as my job was, and I'm very proud of it, I was not negotiating a freaking peace deal with Ukraine.
	I'm not Marco Rubio, Secretary Hankseth, or the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.
	Jim, President.
	Dan, can you negotiate the end of the war in Ukraine?
	You know, I don't know, Mr. President.
	That's kind of, do you think he, what?
	I love my job.
	It was a great job.
	Loved everybody.
	Oh, whatever.
	I can't even take this shit in a moment, these idiots.
	Remember, though, yesterday I was discussing with you how they set up these media narratives, too?
	This was another example when I was in there of how exactly this went down.
	Here is my good friend, the great Julie Kelly, who I love to death, who has done so much on J6 and elsewhere.
	Julie put out this tweet.
	I read this media report.
	It was in the New York Post, and they're like, FBI whistleblower.
	By the way, anyone they declare an FBI whistleblower, you better be sure, like some of them are, some of them aren't.
	You better be sure, like, they're blowing the whistle on stuff because read their backgrounds, a lot of them.
	A lot of these new like FBI whistleblowers are Ray and Comey era people who are just looking to sabotage this whole reform agenda.
	So there was this piece that came out in the New York Post and they were like, oh my gosh, we don't like Cash and Dan Boohoo, Baba.
	You're like, oh, gosh, whatever.
	More whining, more bullshit.
	So Julie, of course, started going through their key findings of these, quote, whistleblowers, this total clown show who were just pissed off that me and Cash had to let people go and 10% of the workforce turned over.
	A lot of just didn't like our leadership and our new agenda.
	Well, too bad.
	Then find a new job.
	They noted, according to multiple sources across the country, members of the FBI workforce responded negatively to very negatively to orders compelling them to assist ICE with locating and taking into custody illegal immigrants for deportation out of the United States.
	To all the good guys who did the work, great.
	To all the bad guys, thank you.
	To all the bad guys who whined about it.
	Here's another one.
	Thank you for highlighting this.
	They note, and this is the whistleblowers, by the way, the Ray Comey era disgruntled zeros, that nobody at the FBI knew anything about ICE rules and regulations.
	FBI management, us, responded by telling FBI agents to let ICE take the lead.
	This is an actual whistleblower thing.
	Hey, we didn't know shit about federal law and immigration.
	You're the freaking FBI.
	It's the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
	You do not, you're not independent.
	You want to be independent, whatever your name is.
	Your name's John Smith.
	Go start John Smith Inc.
	You don't like John Smith Inc.
	You want to work at the FBI?
	The FBI works for the Department of Justice, who is headed by an attorney general, picked by the president, confirmed by the Senate.
	The Department of Justice falls under the executive branch under the President of the United States.
	There were criminals in the country who were here illegally.
	Cash and I, at the direction of the president and the attorney general, said to our guys, we are going to help get these people out because we're the freaking FBI.
	And what do they do?
	They go whine at the New York Post, we didn't want to do it.
	We didn't know shit.
	Well, you better get to know shit because this is what we do.
	And you're damn freaking right.
	We were going to help in that endeavor.
	And that's why the violent crime rate is the lowest it's been in American history and the murder rate plunge.
	Because a lot of these people who are here doing really bad shit were here illegally.
	Whistleblowers.
	We don't want to do ice stuff.
	I don't give a shit.
	And thank you to the guys and ladies who did.
	You did an amazing job.
	There's a small group of malcontents.
	We don't like the immigration agenda.
	Nobody gives a shit.
	Run for president yourself.
	You can appoint a new attorney general.
	I love how the media ignores all that.
	I cannot believe they allocate.
	And by the way, the allocation of FBI agents we used to assist in getting illegal criminals and rapists and drug dealers out of the country was very reasonable compared to the entire workload dedicated to CT, counter-espionage, and other things.
	And the numbers back it up.
	Counter-espionage arrests were up.
	Counter-terrorism arrests were up.
	So you can shut the, you don't know what you're talking about, these media groups, these clown whistleblowers.
	What do you think?
	I wasn't going to come back on the air and call you morons out.
	We didn't know anything about immigration.
	It's your freaking job to know things.
	That one was hilarious.
	And thank you, Julie, for picking it out.
	Did we have another one on that?
	That whistleblower thing?
	Because wasn't there another one?
	Yeah, there is.
	Okay, thank you.
	Here's another one.
	Ray Comey-ira Malcontents, all pissy about how new management was there.
	You don't like it?
	Quit.
	I left the Secret Service.
	I went and ran for office.
	That's fine.
	You don't have to stay.
	You're working for the taxpayer, not working for you.
	I don't like doing immigration.
	Good.
	Find another freaking job.
	Here was another whistleblower complaint in this New York Post piece that covered this.
	They note that diversion of personnel away from national security mission.
	By the way, that's totally made up and absolute bullshit on its face.
	But here's the quote.
	Wait, put that back up again.
	I want to read the quote you had there.
	If left unaddressed, this will lead to cascading national security threats.
	Oh my God.
	Ultimately, compromising the security of our country.
	Another source, by the way, never named themselves, similarly reported: diverting FBI special agents in this way will harm our national security and serve as an additional blow to the FBI.
	Counter-espionage arrests were up.
	Counterterrorism arrests were up.
	The violent crime rate, which is a national security problem, is the lowest it's ever been.
	The homicide rate is the lowest it's ever been.
	Gang arrests were up.
	764, child, these people who terrorize our children in this sick network were up.
	You guys are just full of shit.
	You don't know what you're talking about.
	Do you know how many man hours we spent, Cash and I, in the director and deputy director's conference room, strategically water ballooning and moving manpower around to make sure we got all of the missions done the right way?
	Clowns, man.
	Total clowns.
	But it's like I said yesterday, and I'll wrap up with this.
	Folks, when you're at that level and you're at the president's level, the president is dealing with level 10 problems every day that people in his cabinet and his principals and deputies, even they didn't have an answer for.
	The guy's got a lot on his plate.
	This is a republic.
	You are free and welcome to comment on anything you want to comment about, as long as you're not breaking a law and threatening someone's life.
	That happened to me, by the way, when I was in there, which is weird.
	Thank God we had a security detail.
	Freaking weird.
	A lot of weirdos came out of the woodwork.
	I'm just telling you in the context of this show, this has been an amazing year.
	Can you do things better?
	You can always do things better.
	But perspective and context matter.
	The guy, the president, is dealing with massive headwinds, judicial nullification, jury nullification, a Democrat Party that wants to see this guy impeached for nothing.
	I mean, for zero, just going to make it up.
	He's dealing with a bunch of blue state governors who don't want to help him.
	Matter of fact, they want to see him fail.
	He's dealing with a lot.
	And this year has been epic, epic.
	And there's more to come.
	Not just from him, but from his FBI, his CIA, and everyone else.
	He does not pick his people by accident.
	Nothing happening is happening by accident.
	I've told you many times: just because you don't see some things happening don't mean they're not happening.
	And when a lot of those things you say aren't happening happen, you won't even eat the krill.
Epic Year Ahead 00:01:53
	You'll just move on to something else.
	It's been an amazing year.
	Amazing year.
	I hope everyone is getting ready for the midterms now because we can't lose them.
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	And thank you again for showing up, making us number one yesterday, pulling another 115,000 plus today.
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	Host of Scrolling of Haley.
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Chapters

00:01:22 Body Cams On Fox
00:05:21 Freaking Smorgasbord Yesterday
00:21:08 Miles Sent the Rules
00:25:31 Why Life Insurance?
00:28:55 Get Life Insurance Fast
00:33:45 Fired Up, Doge Edition
00:49:14 Pull-Ups and Heat
00:57:05 DOS Decline
01:02:24 Why Give Back Stolen Land?
01:18:10 Threats to Reserve Currency Status
01:23:02 Midterms Matter: Long Term Politics
01:31:51 Whistleblower's Warning
01:47:26 Epic Year Ahead