Bongino Weekend Report - Week of 09/14/26

0:16All America, all the time. On the side of freedom and liberty, your voice of hope and truth is here. The Bongino Report, PM. with Dan Bongino. Holy Moses, I come back from the weekend. We're back on radio. And it's like all hell broke loose about it. AI, tech. I come back and it's like Reverend Cain. Remember Reverend Cain from Poltergeist? We're all gonna die. I was like, what? What did I miss? We're gonna die! Jim, did I miss something? In case you don't know where the show is going to go today, we are going to do something revolutionary. And if you don't sense or hear the dripping sarcasm in my voice, I'm sorry, I may have done that wrong.

1:16We are going to rationally and reasonably process some information that came in last week about AI, and we're going to help form a reasonable opinion or output without doing Reverend Cain or without doing the other thing either. Like, hey, this is all great. We should just ignore guardrails and damn the torpedoes full steam ahead. But I come back. You know, I like to chat with producer Jim before the show. He's my friend and all. I noticed on his X account this weekend, an X account, he was doing what he always does, putting up photos of smoked meats, which he thinks is an art form. I am not a smoker of fine meats so I don't know if you'd like to see what meat Jim was smoking then you can check him out on X at JJ Verde but I come back today and I'm like dude you know what this reminds me of the hell breaking loose this weekend I'm a young buck secret service that was buck with a B so don't worry about FCC I'm a young buck although I couldn't be interesting and yeah, I don't think we're allowed to say that on a podcast.

2:23Yeah. But radio, so I go down to St. Simon's Island. I had some experience in doing a secret service motor cage, you know, vehicles and cars and stuff. So I don't know what's happening like that. Was it the G8 in St. Simon's Island? I don't really remember, but they said, Dan, can you go train or help train the locals, um, in motorcade security? Uh, you know, we're going to need some help. I said, yeah sure whatever man so i go down there and it's like a three four day exercise and there was this one uh local uh police officer who was a wonderful guy this is not a knock he was actually hilarious and every time we did an aop an assault on principle exercise where we you know you fake an attack and they respond you get the point you know practice right we would debrief afterwards and we would ask this guy like well what do you think happened he'd be like we were driving down the road and we turned the corner and then all hell broke loose and he would say it about every scenario and this is what happened this weekend i come back and i'm like i can't believe i was off the air i should have done a saturday sunday show everyone's freaking out about ai they're now camp set up i mean opposing forces i'm just gonna tell you this part up front and I think we can all agree on this especially in this audience thank the lord and I am not using my lord and savior Jesus Christ name in vain at all I'm not kidding thank the lord and the voters that President Trump is in the White House and not Kamala Harris while this debate about AI one camp of doomers it's gonna kill us all the other camp like oh we don't need any guardrails there's a I promise there's a middle ground thank the lord Kamala Harris is not in charge right now I was talking to Teresa texted me Jim before the show Teresa from Westwood you know we make everybody part of the show that's just what I do Teresa works at Westwood one she texts me before the show she's like you know what this reminds me of Jim this will kick you in the gonads this reminds me of Y2K remember Y2K when the year 2000 came up and they were like the clocks can't handle it and everybody was gonna die again Reverend Kane and none of that happened we put up some guardrails.

4:42We fixed the two to the four instead of, Oh, Oh, it became 2000 and almost nothing happened at all because we're humans and we fix stuff. And we've got a guy in the white house right now. And I'll play some cuts of president Trump later on this. Who's a reasonable business guy. Who's like, are we all going to die? Well, if we don't do anything, we could all die, but we are doing stuff on the other side is ai great ai is absolutely fantastic potential to cure cancer to cure hiv to the cure to get toe fungus that stupid digger commercial on tv i get under here and every time i see it i want to throw up this is all like on the horizon man a digger guy There'll be no need for Digger anymore.

5:33But there's a middle ground. Think about this. Think about this. This person could be in charge right now. Kamala Harris. Jim was kind enough to pull some absolute bangers. And believe me, this is dripping sarcasm, like blood from vampire's teeth. that sarcasm is thick with this one. Here is, you know, what would have been President Kamala Harris. Thank the Lord Almighty that's not the case. Remember they made her the AI czar. The AI czar. Here she is commenting on AI, and you want to talk about an absolutely brilliant, tactical, political mind. Here's the great Kamala Harris, dripping sarcasm, explaining what AI is.

6:25You know, it's two letters, artificial. Wow. Thank you for that axiomatic, tautological deep insight. And it stands for artificial. So it's intelligence that's artificial. This is reminds me of like Ibram Kendi. Racist is a racist, the racist thing. Here's Kamala Harris on AI. Imagine if she was in charge. Check this out. And I think the first part of this issue that should be articulated is AI is kind of a fancy thing. it's first of all, it's two letters. It means artificial intelligence. But ultimately what it is, is it's about machine learning. And so the machine is taught. And part of the issue here is what information is going into the machine that will then determine, and we can predict then if we think about what information is going in, what then will be produced in terms of decisions and opinions that may be made through that process what what just happened what just happened you ever see a lot of these giphys on x like what just what is going on here artificial intelligence is intelligence it's artificial You know, like the machines, like the bus goes wheels and around and around and the machines learn stuff.

7:56Whoa. Thank you so much for those deep insights that this to me is up there with the great. This is up there with, you know, I was hanging out. I didn't do a weekend update, but maybe we'll get to it later. I got to hang out with family this weekend and my nephew. I haven't seen in a long time. Nephew by marriage, but I love the kid. I've known him since he's like two years old. you know and and it was my niece and we're watching football gym you know texas big game whatever and my niece is there and my niece brings up descartes and she's like i think therefore i am how it came up i don't even know like this is up there with descartes and the great works of philosophy i think therefore i am the machines they learn stuff and the intelligence that's artificial you realize this lunatic could have been the president right now while we've got people out there doing the Reverend Kane.

8:45Hey, we're all gonna die. You got the lady in the school bus. Look at that. The clouds in the sky. What is going? Sorry, the mucus in the nose. Someone call it nuts. This is like, I can't with this lady. I can't.

9:10this is an open for a monday for all time you want this lady in charge democrats instead of president trump wait till i play the clips of president trump later who you all lefty lunatics think is crazy he seems to be the only rational actor out there watch what he says later when i play his cuts compared to kamala that's cool boss he's like yeah i mean you know this is a great technology. We need some safety guardrails. We don't want China to beat us. You're like, wow, sounds pretty rational to me. Jim pulled this other Jim, President Kamala Harris, can you imagine? Here she is after she told you that DRAI is, it's two letters folks, in case you didn't know that.

10:00It's not a comedy show, brother. I'm not trying to be funny. I'm not Eddie Murphy Raw, funniest thing I've ever seen. I'm not. I just can't get over this. Can you imagine the country we live in? So first she explained to you that AI is intelligence, it's artificial, and it's two letters. Now Jim pulled this one. This is Kamala Harris explaining to you how cloud computing, you know, it's in like the cloud. Like what, an accumulonimbulus cloud? Like are we seeding the clouds? Like you mean like physical clouds? Here's genius Kamala Harris. Imagine she's in charge with all this going on right now.

10:37Check this out. So no longer are you necessarily keeping those private files in some file cabinet that's locked in the basement of the house. It's on your laptop, and it's then therefore up here in this cloud that exists above us, right? It's no longer in a physical place.

11:07no president harris god forbid it actually is in a physical place it's not in the ether even the phantom zone in superman one and two within the physical piece of like glass they sent out into the universe from who was it like Jor-El or Kal-El, who's Kal-El's Superman, that was actually a physical, but on a piece of movie strip at the time, like it is a physical place, like a data center, this lady doesn't know anything, this is why, why am I bringing up President Kamala Harris, God forbid, because there's an election coming up, and I'm going to tie this into the end of the show, ladies and gentlemen, I've never said to you, Republicans are going to solve all your problems, ever, ever, ever i have said to you over and over however that republicans may not be the solution to all of your problems but the cause of all your problems are definitely democrats you have a choice coming up you have a choice which i will harp on today throughout the show and there is a cost to apathy to not showing up in these midterms you're going to have people like these people kamala harris in charge lindsey clancy supporters i'll play that at the end crazy videos coming up with lindsey clancy supporters i am white but i don't participate in white what do we do what what does that even mean i aren't you obligated to provide a definition of what non-participating whiteness means what do you why do you keep inventing stuff we have an election coming up you've got choices to make all right back to serious time this show is always an emotional roller coaster believe me for me too I've had physical jobs, grave digger, painter, all this.

12:55I'm sitting there on a ladder painting this lady's clothesline like, you know, 30 feet tall one day on this little like mini ladder painting in the hot zone, almost fell and died. Like, whatever, man. I'm just telling you, like, I've been there, out there, but this job is mentally exhausting, dealing with a lot of the stupidity on the left because serious time now. This is, as I titled my podcast today, you can always check it out on Rumble, at rumble.com slash Bongino if you're interested, this is the most important show we've done in a long time. And I will harp on that throughout the radio show today.

13:32Folks, we have developed advanced technologies before. We have. Nuclear fission. We're working on nuclear fusion now. There are different processes. One One involves fusing an atom. One involves splitting an atom. Fission versus fusion. Nuclear fission bombs. You may say, well, we invented nuclear and look, they use them to build bombs. Yeah, they also use it for nuclear medicine. They also use it to power our society with nuclear power plants. With any advanced technology, there's always going to be a potential benefit and a potential downside. Some of those downsides are very serious. And this requires very serious people, unlike Kamala Harris and others, and thankfully President Trump, to evaluate ups and downs and come to a conclusion that benefits us all without wiping out humanity.

14:26Electricity. Almost magic at the time. No, you've lived with electricity so long, you take it for granted. Most of human history, there was no such thing as electricity as we know it now. Flight. There were physicists early on. Human beings will never fly. The physics don't work. It looks to me like they pretty much worked. But you could crash. But you could crash. This is the most important show we've done in a long time. AI, artificial intelligence. Thank you, Kamala, for pointing out its two letters. is the most powerful technology, I'd argue, in human history. You're creating a super intelligence that we don't fully understand.

15:19So the only questions are, what do we do with it? And how do we handle it? Because we must get it right. We'll be right back.

15:33Thankfully, thank the Lord, and I don't use his name in vain, that President Trump and this leadership team is in charge right now with all of this going on, whether it was AI, the border explosion under President Biden, Russia, Ukraine, China, Taiwan, the development of quantum computing as well. I don't want that to get sidelined. Thankfully, we've got a leadership team in there now through President Trump at the top that is willing to be decisive and speak clearly, succinctly, and with ideas to the American people. Now, contrast that with yesterday's radio show, I hope you caught it, where we opened up with, you know, Kamala Harris.

16:17Imagine her in charge right now. Even saying it sounds like heresy. Sounds like I want to like singe my tongue out. President Kamala, I can't even get it out. president kamala harris would be devastating devastating you heard some of the audio i played yesterday artificial intelligence it's two uh two letters two words yeah we can count to two we get it we get it and it's in the cloud and that's how it works it's like above your head it's not above your head like the freaking sword of damocles it is not cloud computing right now, maybe in space one day, but it's largely on the ground terrestrially and it's not going to fall on your head because it's in the cloud.

17:05President Trump is decisive. And with all of this going on, I'm glad we've got a president right now willing to make tough calls. Going to be a theme throughout today's show. You give me a tough topic where there are, and I want you to hear this understandably, understandably, very passionate opinions about Iran, flock cameras, FISA warrants, whatever it is, President Trump, you ask him a question, producer Jim, am I wrong? He gives you an answer. You may not like the answer, but you don't have to hear a flock camera. That's two words. The letters are FC. See? And it's like this go-bass. Round and round.

17:50She like throws words into like a salad or like a cereal bowl, like mueslix or something. And let's throw some raspberries into mueslix. What? Didn't she do that with Ukraine too? She said Ukraine is a country and it's next to Russia. She's like, Ukraine, it's a country. and it begins with you, hence the you in crane. You know, like a crane, like it builds stuff, like with the bus that brings the people to build stuff. The workers come in the bus and they get on the crane in the you and it's like a place, a country, and it's over somewhere. I think you have to cross some water, but it's not a puddle, that big ocean thing and you're like, is this lady for real?

18:46She was the border czar. Have you ever been to the border? I have not been to the border, she said, but I've never been to Europe. Oh, that's interesting. Are you the Europe czar too? I am not. So why would you make a dumb analogy? Jim, you gotta stop. You're making me laugh at the beginning. This is like serious stuff. I can't. It's hard for me to ever get through this show because these people are so stupid. They just make it so easy. They just give you ground balls. Ukraine's a country. My point is, President Trump, unlike the prior team under President Biden, and candidly under President Obama, too, where you had Alejandro Mayorkas, you had Javier Baccaria, some of you will get that, you had Susan Rice.

19:34These people are just not— Secretary of Health and Education, I nominate Javier Baccaria. that's real that's a he didn't even know his own secretary of health and human services that's not his name it's Becerra this was their leadership team their leadership team was was a pathetic group of numbskulls you've got people in charge now the reason I bring it up is you have FBI director cash Patel and listen I'm not going to pretend to be totally objective on this you know I worked with the director we led the FBI team President Trump put in charge But he was up on the Hill today, folks. And unlike prior administrations that were all talk, Obama, I had a pen and a phone, all this stupid stuff.

20:18And everything they did was the inverse of what they said they were going to do. Obamacare, pass Obamacare. We're going to lower costs. If you like your plan, you could keep it. Everyone's plan got canceled and costs are through the roof. Everything the Democrats tell you, they do the opposite. We're going to secure the border. That means 25 million people plus are going to come in. everything they tell you is like, remember bizarro Superman from the comics? We used to use this reference all the time in the 12 to 3 show. How bizarro Superman, like everything's backwards. That's the Democrats. That's not the case with president Trump.

20:51He will give you an answer on anything because he's a leader. You may not like his decisions. That's your, it's a Republic. You're free to air your opinion, but I just don't accept. I gave a speech last night. I'll go into later in South of me in Florida, in front of a really packed house. And it really warmed my heart. When I got home, I hadn't felt better in months. Because I said at the end, too, I don't accept the tax on the man's character. I worked with him. And he doesn't do the easy thing. He does the right thing. He doesn't give stupid air. Ask him about flock cameras. People are really concerned about it.

21:24Understand me. Flock camera? Is that like birds? I don't know. I have to impanel some extra. He don't do any of that. so I just learned this this morning doing my podcast you check it out 10 a.m eastern or rumble rumble.com slash Bongino if you'd like up to you watch it on demand whenever you'd like however I'm doing the podcast and director Patel earliest morning at about 9 30 a.m had begun some testimony up on Capitol Hill now I am you know full disclosure obviously friends with Director Patel. I was colleague. We were colleagues together at the FBI, but we don't talk every day. I mean, we just don't.

22:04He's got things going on. He's working. You know, I don't want to bother him. I got my own thing going on. We'll talk occasionally. And I found out something this morning, pretty fascinating to me, that I want to give him and the Trump administration credit for. Ladies and gentlemen, they have this thing at the FBI you've heard of. There've been movies made about it. They have a most wanted list. Now, I ask the audience, you know, it's always better to ask a question and make an assertion sometimes. Why do you think they have a most wanted list? How do you get on the most wanted list? Well, I'll answer it for you because there are some liberals listening.

22:41You don't want to give the Trump administration credit for anything. You have to do really bad stuff. Don't commit federal crimes. They're all bad. but if you ripped a mattress tag off and sold it for bitcoin you shouldn't have gotten and maybe made five thousand dollars don't commit a crime however you're probably not jim fair enough you think yeah i mean you weren't did you did you ever serve as an fbi agent jim or you did not you did not okay but you're reasonably confident because you're super intelligent guy the mattress tag plus the five thousand bitcoin is probably not going to get you on the list cool you know cash right yes well yes okay okay so you got to do really bad stuff folks they're usually the 10 most wanted because we people just like round numbers and we have you know 10 fingers 10 toes right i found this out this morning at the hearing that apparently uh director patel and the fbi have begged all 10 which i'm reasonably confident has never been done before like ever so i heard this this morning you should hear it too check this out in fact mr chairman i'm proud to announce today and i hate to correct you we haven't captured nine of the top 10 most individuals on our list we've captured 10 just this past weekend we captured a thug down in venezuela who is on our most wanted list and on the run for years he has been captured apprehended and is on his way back to the united states of america that's 10 of 10 nobody in the fbi history has done that this year is just another example of how this fbi is capturing literally the worst of the worst all around the world on top of that we've captured six of the most wanted fraudsters around the world this is how crazy this is and by crazy i mean crazy good i mean like really crazy good okay because they bagged all 10 on the most wanted list They created another most wanted list for fraudsters and then got six of those.

24:38Folks, the Trump administration, the Trump administration, I can make the case to you and I will in this show today, has been so successful so fast on not just the crime numbers, the lowest violent crime rate in 90 years, 90 years. I'm only 51. That's 49 years prior to the year I was born in 1974. that he's done so much so fast, closing the border, crushing violent crime, bringing back manufacturing, codifying your tax cuts in the big, beautiful bill, dumping voluminous amounts of government red tape that I really think they've almost been victims of their own success. That's why you see some of this apathy set in like, well, well, this stuff then, okay, well, not everything's going to happen in two years.

25:29Some stuff requires process that elongates the process, but it doesn't mean it isn't happening. I've said this over and over, but the record this president has to run on for the party, not running again, but other Republicans are folks. This could be an eight year record, not a two year record. You say, well, Dan, he's been in there six. Well, yeah, but the four years in between president Biden and the tyrannical Democrats undid most of the stuff in the first four years. So I'm just saying it's two. here was another component of the hearing it was going on while i was on the show so you're hearing it on the radio show which uh airs later of course here was cash patel on one of our initiatives again through president trump's leadership we got in there we're like mr president we're going to crush violent crime he's like do it respect the constitution whatever tool you have you have my full support.

26:21Whatever you need to do, go do it. Bring me criminals. Bring them. Put them in jail. I don't care if there's state arrests, local arrests, tribal arrests. I don't care. Get me bad guys. And one of the test projects early on, you're going to hear Director Batali testified earlier this morning about this, was Operation Viper. They love cool names. Viper, they don't name it like Operation Strawberry Shortcake or anything. They always name it like some cool name. People People are excited. Operation Viper here in Memphis. This is what happened is how it started. Check this out. You recall I was educated by you and your colleagues in Tennessee during the confirmation process that Memphis had the highest per capita homicide rate in the country.

27:04And I said, if we were if I was confirmed, we would do something about that. And the president stood up his task force, both in Washington, D.C. and Memphis. But the FBI led the efforts prior to that and during the task force through Operation Viper. And what we did in Operation and Viper, by the way, is deployed across at least 25 major cities across the country. It is our violent crime initiative task force that goes into these urban environments and seeks out ground level intelligence to work up title threes and search warrants to not just go in and do visible surveillance and visible operations, but we build a systematic campaign to collect intelligence and drive out the actual root causes of the crime of gang warfare, which was the problem plaguing memphis and the problem plaguing localized um cities across america we were able to apprehend not just the gangbangers and their firearms we were able like we did in pennsylvania and philadelphia in the weymouth street gang we literally uprooted an entire city block and eliminated that entire street gang we use that same concept in memphis and we're going to continue to do that to move guns at rapid rates to find children that were missing for years and also most importantly, to reduce the homicide rate and return Memphis to the great city that it was.

28:18Folks, I am immensely, immensely thankful to this president for giving me the opportunity, allowing me the opportunity to participate in that. And I am immensely grateful for his leadership and letting us do our jobs. That drug market Director Patel just described in the Philadelphia AOR, Area of Responsibility Field Office. That had plagued that neighborhood for years, and nobody did squat about it. They didn't be a rest here and there. We said, shut it down, the whole thing down. And we went in there, and in conjunction with the excellent Philly PD, we shut that down. And I was damn proud to be part of it.

29:00And you can thank this Trump administration for its leadership and its willingness to do the right thing and not the easy thing. More coming up next. We'll be right back.

29:13I also want to address at some point in today's show the what they're framing as a hearing yesterday up on Capitol Hill or hearings with Treasury Secretary Besson, FBI Director Patel. These are not hearings, folks. They are social media filming sessions for hapless, helpless, ridiculous politicians with the IQ of a speckled toad sloth. they that i don't but what is the point to these things anymore you had the fbi director and the treasury secretary up on the hill yesterday in what you know doomers and gloomers are painting as an ai crisis there's all these things going on and instead of asking him questions the treasury secretary about is the economy resilient uh you know you get the dr evil approach is it true you forgot to tell your shoelace the fbi director you know this encounter terrorism public safety No, no, the questions were about like, how do you feel about the hockey team?

30:16It was just like the dumbest thing I've ever seen. And the worst part about this whole thing is when you have a hearing about a really serious issue, like the illegal immigration crisis, and you have angel moms up on Capitol Hill who, believe me, don't want that designation. they're called the angel moms because they're mothers to children that are no longer here that were killed in incidents involving illegal aliens in this country not undocumented not undocumented there's a way to get documents jim do you know what it is you could go through the immigration process they're not undocumented they're not undoculated we're not doing that okay they are here illegally and they were aliens to this country therefore they are illegal aliens i'm sorry if the english english language offends you but we speak plainly on this show so there's a hearing with angel moms up on capitol hill who you would just think if you had an ounce of sympathy or empathy reason or common sense in your body you may be a little sympathetic to they've lost their children what else could you possibly want to hear no not not the democrats i want you to listen to this exchange up on the hill between a representative mary gay scanlan a democrat within the angel moms in front of her and you would just think again if you had in your dna a shred of decency that you would say hey listen there are differences of opinion on how to handle border policy i understand however this is an unquestionable tragedy an abomination that should never happen no no no no mary gay scanless Mary Gaskins is like, hey, guys, listen, I've got a Facebook live session I need to do in a couple minutes with we're going to be discussing the state of patent infringement.

32:38She's just too. She's like, what the hell are we even doing here? This is your this is the Democrat Party. The ladies are Democrat. And there's no like objections like there's this. Almost every Democrat shared this view yesterday. We don't need to hear from these angel bombs. What could they possibly have to offer? What? For real? Oh, yeah. For real. Jim, play that cut. My Republican colleagues are running this hearing for a record fifth time, not because they have new evidence or research or legislation to discuss about sanctuary cities, but because they have nothing else to say for themselves.

33:19they keep returning to the tactics that brought them into office by campaigning on fear and making phony pledges to detain and deport the worst of the worst but we now have almost two years of proof that that's not what they're doing oh my god what did that exchange just is that real like i said you were a politician trying to garner public support mary gay scanlon and your approach is to say hey man you guys are campaigning on fear in front of a group of mothers who lost their kids now i know jim's a father and i am many of you in the listening audience are I'm just going to throw this out there.

34:15If you had to rank your fears, I can pretty much speak for everyone where fear number one is, please God, don't let my kids die before me. No less killed or murdered or taken by an incident involving someone who shouldn't even be here. But Mary Kay Scanlon's like, fear, smear, you crazy, silly Republicans. No, I got to be here the fifth time to deal with this. I know it's crazy that you're a member of the House of Representatives where you're asked to actually represent America. I know this is crazy. And they're actually asking you to fix a problem like people shouldn't be here killing people, killing them because they're dead.

35:08why do we have to go a fifth time why gee i don't know maybe because people keep dying i'm just i don't know i'm just throwing that out there

35:21now of course stupid comments like that and others from the democrats folks this is who they are they are who they tell you they are because they tell you all the time this isn't my words we're just playing for you audio clips of mary gay scanlan's own words one of the participants in yesterday's hearing oh it was elizabeth carter had a powerful and appropriate response to i'm not going to say the adc i'm going to say the evil of the democrats up on the hill yesterday a condemning a hearing where we could hopefully try to solve a problem of illegal aliens who should not be here being involved in the death of an innocent american citizens kind of a problem check this out here's the voice of reason listen to this and i'm sorry if you're suffering i'm sorry on behalf of the government we are working to try to fix it unfortunately for the country the democrats remain as committed as they have ever been to open borders thank you for being like i have to say as a lifelong democrat i am ashamed of what my party is doing.