Earthquake in California? (Ep. 2528)

26:16Dan Bongino:He's he's a young person. He's he lives here. He knows what goes on. What do you think about Pratt's unconventional? I love it. Approach. I love it. What is it that you love about him? He's another Trump. You hear the contempt. Did you hear it, Justin? What is it that you love about her? And then it all goes all Scott Pelley. He's unconventional, just like Trump. I said that. Listen, they may not share a lot of policy prescriptions together. And I'm telling you, you got to sometimes don't make the perfect the enemy of the good. If you can get a candidate like Spencer Pratt under the Republican banner, he's not going to be able to run as a traditional Tea Party candidate.

26:56The numbers just don't favor him. But if he can hyper-localize a race and focus on L.A. and L.A.'s problems, folks will take it. I told you, even if you come out of this and go, I don't like Spencer Pratt at all. You're a Republican, saying, I don't like Spencer Pratt at all. I want a more, you know, right-leaning guy. Fine. Folks, you've got to show up and vote because, again, if you don't get him on the ballot, we're going to lose races in California everywhere from, you know, SoCal to Northern California. It's going to screw up the whole national scene for you, too. Here's the video I was talking about.

27:32Something really weird happened at the rally. I said he's got this guy behind him over his left shoulder. I don't know. Maybe it's a Secret Service guy in me that notices this. He's always, like, hyperattentive to surroundings and what we call, you know, arms reach. You know, when you're doing concentric rings of security around a protectee, anyone within arms reach gets an extra level of vetting because you're within arms reach. You can punch them, stab them, do whatever. This guy behind him, I don't know, I'm not saying it was a security threat. It's just awfully weird. Play this cut and I'll show you what happened.

28:03The city's failing most of Los Angeles. And now I'm in all these communities and I'm hearing everyone's issues and problems. Looks like someone's approaching him. Excuse me, sir. Yeah, thank you. Looks like Pratt knows something's up. Moves away. And then you see like the frame. There's the guy in the background again. Like, who is this guy? You see him over the left shoulder. Pratt's still doing the interview. Then you see, like, he disappears. I don't know if it was some security problem, but clearly his antenna went up. So I noticed that last night. Again, maybe it's just a remnant of the prior Secret Service background and anything armed, arm-reach program, man.

28:45You got to be careful when you put someone within arm's reach of these guys. You see that guy over there. You see he noticed something's up? And then I don't know if that's a security guy or a staffer, But who knows? Could have been a friendly, but just something I picked up on. I love to throw these little things into the show. OK, on the bigger picture. Here's the good news. The doomers, the black pill is all over. It's finished. We're going to lose. We're going to lose if you keep talking shit like we're going to lose. Stop black pilling people. Show up, bring 10 people and we've got a shot.

29:15That's all I can ask for. No president does well in midterm elections. It rarely happens unless there's some global catastrophe, which we don't want. and some unifying incident, okay? Let's just be clear on that. However, on the margin, it matters. If we can preserve the House, even by one or two House of Representatives seats, and win back the Senate, or win the Senate, even just lose the House by a little bit, which I'm not saying we want, but it matters, then we're okay. We are not in the catastrophic position you think we're in. Here's CNN acknowledging this very fact, that the slate of Democrat candidates running for the U.S.

29:52Senate, between Nazi tattoo guy, Hassan Piker ass-kissing Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, this awful, awful slate of candidates all around the country. Tal Africo, who's running in freaking Texas as like a vegan six-genders guy. I can't say this enough. In Texas? I'm not even sure that's going to pass in Illinois. Texas? And you saw the picture of him the other day. Tal Africo puts the cowboy hat on. Hey, look at me. I got the cowboy hat. Guys, ladies, you know how many times people have asked me to put like a cowboy hat on. You know why I don't do it? I love cowboy hats. But I mean, unless it's like a costume or something at a Halloween party, I'm a New York guy.

30:34I wore baseball hats. I love cowboy hats. I think they're really cool, but I just don't want to be a poser. Tala Frico, I think I'm more Texas than Tala Frico and I freaking grew up in New York. This is their slate of candidates. Even CNN now is starting to acknowledge like, hey, If you guys show up and vote on the Republican side, you got a pretty damn good chance of a successful night. It's not me saying it. It's them saying it. So don't let the doomers get in your melon there. Check this out. Back two months ago, it was about a 50-50 split, right? Now, Republicans, again, it's close, but Republicans are now slightly favored to take back the Senate.

31:07No doubt in part because of what is going on in Maine, which just makes that path, which is already difficult, a little bit more treacherous.

31:14Dan Bongino:This feels like a platinum tax right now in those overall senses to take the Senate. Folks, the Democrat Party, the Democrat Party has completely lost its mind. While there's always intra-party bickering on the right, and I listen, a lot of it is healthy. I said over and over, you've got the Iran crisis doomers out there. as if the Iranians weren't chanting death to America and we didn't wipe out the entire mullahocracy, screaming, this is the end. These are on our side. I get it. Believe me, I understand. I am not a huge fan of foreign interventions either. Having seen some different things, I have a different opinion.

31:57You're entitled to yours. However, stop with the doomerism. You're going to vote for the Nazi tattoo guy, the fake vegan six-gender guy, the Abu al-Sayed Duel al-Sayed guy in Michigan running with Hassan Piker October 7th rape, I'm really going to change my mind or this guy put up the tweet from Libs at TikTok this actually happened last night, hat tip Chai over there Democrats just voted for Egyptian born Adam Hamami for Congress listen to this guy's resume he volunteered for a non-profit which was discovered to be a front for al-Qaeda, according to Libs and TikTok. Lied under oath as a defense witness for an Islamic terrorist.

32:40Has close ties to Islamic terrorists who plotted to bomb the United States. Chaya notes, we have a major problem. Yeah! By the way, if you go to FOIA fan on X, you'll see they have the transcripts from the court case this guy was involved with with the blind sheikh. You can read him yourself. Democrats just voted for this guy to go to Congress. Folks, regardless of our internal fights, which are healthy, about tax policy, tariffs, abortion, guns, you only have two choices. Our side, which can continue to kind of move our party in a better direction and definitely wants to make America great again, either if there's internal fights on how to get there.

33:29Or you can vote for people who supported like the blind shake have Nazi tattoos and believe in six genders. That's it. I'm sorry. Call me a realist, a transactionalist. I don't really care. I said this over and over. What is your plan? What is your plan? The doomers and the gloomers all the time. Your plans to vote for what? Sit it out? Let the terrorists take over? I can't. I can't with that shit. It drives me freaking bananas. You're playing up to the left-wing utopia fallacy That one day we're going to get this slate of perfect candidates That subscribes exactly to your ideological world beliefs It's never going to happen You're never going to vote ever And of course we have the nothing is happening crowd Which is just sickening at this point I mean when is this going to get like embarrassing for you all I mean at some point I saw it again yesterday Creeping up Nothing is happening

34:30we've made a joke about it on this show because i think it's hilarious and it goes to show you after we saw what happened in these primary races and trump's support in the primaries a little bit of a setback last night one candidate lost i'll take 37 and one that's still unprecedented for trump endorsements i think it was out of iowa trump candidate just barely lost he's 37 and one The nothing is happening crowd has become a joke. You're a laughingstock. Nobody believes you. The success of this show, the success of the continued MAGA movement. Here's nothing is happening that happened yesterday from the FBI thing.

35:06News alert out of FBI Detroit. Two researchers with the NIH were charged with conspiracy to smuggle monkeypox into the U.S. and giving false statements to federal law enforcement. That sounds kind of serious. That sounds kind of serious. Another entry into the happening and the nothing is happening file. Scoop. Matt Boyle. FBI Director Patel is announcing Operation Summer Heat 2.0. Last year's Summer Heat, led by yours truly, will now be led by others, resulted in the following. They go through the numbers. Folks, we left you the safest United States in modern U.S. history. That's just a fact.

35:46It was not an accident. It was not a remnant of the Biden administration. It was Donald Trump's administration saying, clean up the damn streets. That's happening. That matters. People are alive right now because of a commitment to law enforcement. Now, occasionally just, you know, I'm still friendly with some of the new team over there at the FBI. I will have chats with them about stuff and just bring stuff up. And I asked one of the leaders over there leading this new summer heat effort to clean up the streets again. I said, guys, do me a favor. And I mean this. I said, last year we produced the lowest crime rates in U.S.

36:23history, the lowest murder rate, the lowest number of murders in eons. I said, you can do me a big favor by making my version of this irrelevant. No, I'm serious. I said, your job now is to make Summer Heat 2.0, make the rates even lower. Because no one cares about the second lowest rate. Make it about the Trump administration's effort, not about any single person or any single team. make it about you guys this year cleaning up the streets. I told him, please, no one is taking their eye off the ball. So yes, things are happening. More things are happening too. This is one of those, you know, remember Roger's scare with the screw, you know, screw around, F around and find out we love Roger.

37:08That was where the video, the whole thing started about the FAFO. There's a lot of FOing happening. This was a video from Nick Sorter. Did you see this lunatic at one of these ICE facilities? He thought it was a good idea with cameras everywhere to scream to a bunch of ICE officials how he knows his family or something. And they're dead. Folks, never a good idea. It will probably result in bracelets, i.e. handcuffs, on you. This subject was arrested. Everybody's innocent until proven guilty. The video tells a pretty interesting story, though. Check this out. Come on. Children, you're what? I have your face, motherfucker.

37:50You're dead. Dead.

37:56I have your face, motherfucker. You're dead. Meanwhile, the dude's like 5 '2", 100 pounds with 70 pounds of sand on his back. Why is it always people who look like this who are always like, you know, the tough guys on the – it's the closet tough guys I worry about. When I was rolling in the jit schools and everything like that, it's like the quiet dudes you always had to wear. It was always like the wrestlers too. They come in in day one. Folks, you do Brazilian jiu-jitsu any of you? You see the cauliflower ear wrestler guy. They never look like this, by the way, ever. They come in. They're like 5 '10 or so, 210 pounds, not an ounce of body fat on them.

38:40Like, hey, you ever do jujitsu or grappling? Nah, I've wrestled, though, for 10 years. The first thing you're thinking about, I don't care how long you've been rolling on the mats, you're like, oh, shit, this is going to be ugly. Dude's never had any grappling experience. You may win, you may catch him in an arm bar, triangle choke, or whatever, but the wrestler's thrown you around for like 10 minutes and you need like an IV when you're done. You're like, how the hell has this guy never grappled? It's incredible. Anyone ever do Brazilian jujitsu, have the same experience? They never look like this guy.

39:08I see your face, mother. I know your face. Good luck in court with the video. Everybody's innocent until proven guilty. That's how our system works. Good luck. Hope you got a good lawyer. Little guy syndrome. The chat, they love stuff like this. And by love it, I mean hate it. They're always, they always look like that. Every single time. Do you ever notice that? You ever go to these Antifa rallies? Whenever you take their mask off, they start crying for mommy. biggest wusses I've ever seen in my life. Folks, the administration is dead set on using these four years to change the arc of history and to pull America, in some cases for people who don't want it to be better, in a better direction, even kicking and screaming.

39:55The team they have put together right now is not screwing around. Whether it's Vice President Vance on the Fraud Task Force, whether it's Senator Rubio, they're done with the media, they're done with the left-wing obstacles, They're done with the BS. They are moving on stuff. We're not even two years in, and the country's been dramatically transformed. The border's under control. The safest streets you've ever seen. The Ayatollah's dead. Maduro's in prison. We're producing insane amounts of oil and petrochemicals. The entire artificial intelligence industry is blowing up the stock market. Jobs are going to be created.

40:30Some will be destroyed, but some will be created. I got a segment on that coming up. There's never been a better time to be alive. Even Axios had a note at the other day. And I got to tell you, one of the rock stars of this administration, and again, a hello, Captain Obvious moment, has been Secretary of State, National Security Advisor Marco Rubio. Here he was up on the Hill yesterday, taking absolutely no shit from this hapless Senator Jackie Rose. He's like, hey, I saw you were at a party. He was not a party. He was not. There was no party he was at. He's the Secretary of State, National Security Advisor.

41:02His job is to be around the president. There was no party. Check this out. We're at a party with President Trump in Miami instead of accompanying Vice President Vance to Pakistan for negotiations. What party was I at? I was at a party? It's publicly reported, and there's photos there. But what party? No, no, no, no. But you're going to say that. I'm going to answer it. I'm going to answer that question. That's an absurd statement. I was not at a party. If I finish my paragraph, he can answer. People are going to slander me. I'm going to answer it. Secretary Rubio. You're 100 % inaccurate and 100 % wrong.

41:32Here's why. Number one, the Vice President of the United States was there, and he wasn't confirmed by us and he was elected by the American people. He is the second in line of the presidency of the United States. He was president. Mr. Witkoff is the president's envoy for negotiation for peace deals. Mr. Kushner is a private citizen that serves as an advisor on these functions. They were the team that we sent to Pakistan. I was not at a party. Where I was is next to the president because in the midst of those negotiations I was in communications with them and in fact I think there is media reporting from that evening on how multiple occasions I I went into a back room.

42:04I came back out and spoke to the president and was constantly updating him. On that evening, I spoke to Mr. Kushner and our negotiating team and Mr. Woodcoff on at least six occasions, including twice on a secure line from the phone they had access to over there. So you don't know what you're talking about. You're just making yourself up. He has a floor. I know your staff wrote up this cute statement for your TikTok video, but it's not true. And it's not real. That's not what happened. Okay? I'm the national security advisor and secretary of state. I was co-located with the president in the midst of a high-stakes negotiation so that I could immediately inform him about events occurring halfway around the world.

42:36I was where I needed to be at that moment because we had a very capable team on the ground in Pakistan led by the vice president. Folks, I can't say this enough, especially to the black pillars and doomers who think the MAGA movement is dead. We have never had a better bench in contrast, winky winky nod nod, with the Democrats. The Democrats' future is AOC, Bernie Sanders, Liz Warren, Premier Jayapal, Nazi tattoo guy, vegan six genders, Texas Talafrico. this is all they've got I'm not telling you someone can't emerge like Barack Obama did I'm just telling you like the best candidate the Democrats have is I would argue I'm not a Democrat would never vote for one so I just be clear on that is probably Fetterman and they want him out they're trying to primary him now contrast that with the Republican bench Marco Rubio incredible J.D.

43:44cleaning up Byron Donald Brandon Gill the list goes on and on and on of Republican candidates who are just have the gift the je ne sais quoi and the Democrats find themselves amazingly on the wrong side of every single issue crime drug use homelessness illegal immigration Try explaining to a local three electrician in New York. I did a hit on Will Cain's show yesterday. And one of the topics I wanted to bring up, but we didn't have enough time, was how there's this, the new proposal, if you were naturalized, in other words, you're not a US citizen, but became one through the immigration process.

44:31Everybody tracking? There's a proposal in Congress that if you were a naturalized citizen who got citizenship later in life and then are convicted of an act of terrorism, that you should automatically have your citizenship revoked. Some of you are listening to this, like Josh, probably going, that doesn't happen automatically? No, it doesn't. This should be a bill that gets 99 votes in the Senate. Amazingly, the Democrats will always find themselves on the wrong side of every issue because their bench are the AOC Nazi tattoo guy in Maine. They are pulling this party in an unsustainable direction.

45:14Here's what I'm talking about. This ICE facility debacle in New Jersey, that's going to destroy the reputation of the hapless New Jersey governor, Mikey Sherrill, who was supposed to be a moderate, who's now realizing that appeasing the Antifa, five-foot-two lunatics like this, go, I know your family in your face, mother river. that appeasing these guys is probably a bad idea? The left will fall for anything. Here's a report out of, what is it, MSDNC, that at the ICE facility in New Jersey that the Antifa lunatic violent anti-First Amendment mob is lined up. That's what Antifa is. Here's a report that there's a hunger strike.

45:57There's no hunger strike. They're just making this up. The liberals will fall for anything. They're stupid. And the left wing of their party knows it. Check this out. MS now can confirm that multiple arrests were made on Sunday night. Meanwhile, family visitation at that facility has now resumed. Hundreds of detainees have been engaged in a hunger strike, alleging expired food, denied medical care and retaliation against those who do speak up. For its part, the Department of Homeland Security says there is no mistreatment inside that facility. There is no hunger strike. They're just making it up.

46:35There is no mistreatment. Some of these people are probably eating better than some of you out there. Folks, this is just made up. It's not real. It's like Jackie Rosen with Rubio. I heard you were at a party. She's just making that up. No, surely it's based in something. No, it's not. Tom Homan actually went to the facility. Our border czar, who actually does border stuff. Unlike Kamala Harris, you ever been to the border? I've never been to Europe either. Maybe you should go to the border. You're the freaking border czar. Tom Holman, who's actually done some of the work here, is assisting in the process and actually helping, said, you know what?

47:14I'm going to go check out the facility. I thought there was a big hunger strike and the food was like poisoning people. They were all eating a loaf. You know, you guys know the loaf? You guys haven't been. If you're a cop, you know what the loaf is. Anyone? Cops in the chat? Police officers in the chat? Some people don't like the term cops. I don't care. I don't mind it at all. Cops. Cops in the chat. You know what the loaf is? Look it up. They're not eating the loaf. Here's Tom Homan. He says, I went to the facility. I ate this stuff. I ate the food. It's not the loaf. Check this out. Democratic lawmakers on Memorial Day making false allegations about the facility, about the food, the medical care, hunger strikes.

47:53I went into that facility. I went to the medical. I went to outdoor recreation, indoor recreation. I even made a surprise visit this weekend and walked into the cafeteria and ate the same meal that the detainees around me were eating. And I made sure my tray equaled their tray. I had spaghetti and meat sauce. I had beans. I had green beans. I had bread and rolls. I had drinks. I had dessert. The food was good. It's all a false premise. There was never a hunger strike. The congressman said, oh, people are on hunger strike. No, they weren't. They may not be eating in the cafeteria, but what I found out, they're ordering food from the commissary, eating in their cells.

48:33Doesn't sound like a hunger strike to me. Chat was lighting up. We had a couple people who know it. The loaf is like, yes, holiday statistic in the chat says leftovers pressed into like a loaf. And when I say leftovers, it's not like leftovers, like prime ribs, you know, cuts and stuff. It's pretty disgusting. There's a bunch of police officers in the chat who know what I'm talking about. Folks, they're magically on the wrong side of every single issue. See? That's why I love the chat. That's the best part about a live show. It's like a big family. Everybody gets to interact. It's your show, too.

49:14that is why Joe you know we weren't live for a long time we weren't live we've been on the air over it's 11 years now we we were recorded we were like live to tape for probably nine of those years and Chris from Rumble said Dan you got to go live man he's like even on cable news people don't get to interact with the program like you're watching Fox I do Fox I love it but you don't get to like chat in the show he's like you got to go live people love it and we've been addicted ever since Of course, once in a blue moon, you run into technical problems, internet outages and stuff, but it's worth every second because you get this instant feedback on the show.

49:52I love it. Speaking of instant feedback, I see a lot of people in the chat because I hang out there in the morning. I tend to read a lot of the stuff. I didn't get to chime in this morning only because I was interviewing with Vince and it was going just great. I wanted to keep it going because of interviews. Vince coming up in a little bit. It's amazing. Vince Colonese, check him out. But one of the things I see in the chat is a lot of fear about AI. Now, again, I am a conservative. I am not here to bullshit you like the left, okay? Tolerance coexist. All their bullshit bumper stickers where they, you know, throw gays off roofs or whatever, okay?

50:25I don't do that. Yes, artificial intelligence is going to be hugely disruptive. There is no doubt. The issue, and I just strongly encourage you to just hear me out, put aside your priors on this. The issue with artificial intelligence is like splitting the atom. Once the atom is split and other enemies of the United States can get and build a nuclear weapon because the technology is there, Pandora's box has been opened, you can either build one yourself or you can die. I could make a strong case to you, given my background in the tech space and coming out of the FBI, that if we don't rapidly accelerate the advancement of these tools and let our foreign adversaries do it first, folks, it reminds me of Rocky III, Apollo Creed to Rocky.

51:19There is no tomorrow. I'm not sure people understand the danger AI can present to us if it's asymmetric and others break barriers first. I can't go into too much detail without telling you like the lights could go out. I need you to trust me on this. We don't have a choice. We don't have a choice. I saw this clip on the Hat Tip Joe Rogan show. way does it tom segura and they're talking about this how like you almost have to think of this although the technology is far more potentially productive but can be dangerous if we don't handle it you have to think of this like email email just happened whether you liked email or not it didn't matter like people just that it just integrated itself into the economy and we're gonna have to deal with it realistically check this segment out it's a good one there's been a recent spat of commencement speeches you know i've seen it where they people talk about ai in a crowd the kids are freaking out they're booing yeah i i think that i think it's they're misguided man i really do it's not that i'm oh yeah fucking ai is awesome i think you are a bit misguided and a little delusional if you don't accept the reality that this is here this is not going away so when when like somebody goes use it to benefit you like learn learn don't reject learning and you boo, I think it's the, you're setting yourself up.

52:49You know, it's not saying, oh my God, isn't it great that if this were to take all of everybody's jobs, but it's like, this isn't, this is like getting mad about email. You know, it's like, it's not going away, man. Work Animal in the chat has a new McGroin name. Someone should steal it right now. Loafing McGroin. That's it. That was, that's just beautiful. The McGroin, almost every McGroin name's already been taken. loaf and McGrady. Just genius. That's genius. These guys are like, man, they said to me this morning, the stuff you send over, these guys are like, it's like mildly schizophrenic.

53:26Like you're, you just love to pull stuff from all over the place. I do. I do. I never intended this show ever at any point to be all politics all the time because the world is not all politics all the time. Yeah. You could argue there's a big political component to AI because there is. However, I never intended it to be that way. I'm just telling you as an investor in the space and having been in the national security space, we don't have a choice, folks. It's here. There is actually no choice. There is no choice. We have to get ahead of this or we're going to be in big trouble. Speaking of which, I sent him this yesterday because I saw this moving around online.

54:06And I thought, what the hell is going on with manhole stories around the globe? Right? Did you see? First, there's a story in New York I'll get to in a second about these dudes just like randomly popping out of manholes at 2 a.m. and they got caught on street cams. But then I see this, Ronald. This is every New Yorker's biggest fear. Are you from a big city, New York or elsewhere? Tell me it's not your biggest fear. It's like walking over one of those street grates and it collapsing. Or you step on a manhole cover. This is from Brazil. And this happens. This poor lady looks like she like hit her face on it too.

54:39Check this out. on her phone. Don't ever step over in the manhole. Oh! Oh! Then it looks like it, like, hits her fingers on the way down to... Oh! Oh! Oh, my gosh. And look at her. It's a poor lady. I don't even know in Brazil what kind of lawsuit system, tort system they have, but this is every single big city resident. Tell me it's not. Tell me it's not your worst nightmare. And this is, like, your second worst nightmare. It's 2 a.m., whatever, late night at work. You're strolling out for a Subway sandwich like Juicy Small A out in Chicago. Remember that? Remember that one? And you see Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

55:22Do you see the story out of New York? Manhole covers 2 a.m., a bunch of people popping out with, like, look like excavating mining tools or something. Check this out. Why are people climbing out of this manhole? And what are they doing in the New York City sewer system? One, two, three, seven altogether can be seen coming out at this busy intersection in the very early morning hours on Friday. Some with shovels in their hands and flashlights. And it was a similar scene in another neighborhood of Brooklyn on Thursday. According to police, a car dropped the group off at 11 p.m. About three hours later, they climbed back out.

55:57During Friday's incident, police say the crew picked up this manhole cover and went down at 1 a.m. They believed they were looking for valuables that people flushed down the drain. It's a dirty business, and it's also a crime. Underneath New York City, a sprawling underground network of more than 7 ,500 miles of sewer lines. The Department of Environmental Protection warning it can be extremely dangerous between toxic chemicals and flooding risks. But there were no injuries during these incidents, according to the NYPD. Why is it a crime to go into a manhole? It's dangerous. It's the same as jaywalking, walking down the middle of a highway.

56:35So if they choose the wrong one, they could end up in real trouble. They could be electrocuted. They could be overcome. There's gas lines down there. There's electrical lines down there. Now, friends of mine, NYPD, assured me they are looking into it. They haven't found anything related to terrorism or anything like that. It may just be people trying to, you know, scrap wire or things like that. But folks, do you have any idea what is in the New York City sewers? Where do you think all that stuff you flush goes? Where do you think it goes? The Phantom Zone? That is disgusting. But wear a hazmat suit or something like that.

57:14That is freaking gross. I saw that. I'm like, what the hell? You know what it reminded me of? You guys ever see the Batman movie? The Bane? when they're down beneath the sewer system the entire time, and then they wind up blowing up all of God. That's the first thing that reminded me of. By the way, if you want a great summary of where AI is going, we interviewed heritage economist Peter St. Ange last week. We got a ton of amazing feedback on that interview. That is still up, obviously, at rumble, rumble.com slash Bongino. Don't miss that. It's one of the better interviews we've done in a long time.

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59:24welcoming back to the show our partner here in the conservative content creation business hopefully bringing the truth to america when you need it vince colon ace he's at rumble.com slash vince dominates that eight o 'clock spot in the morning on rumble vince welcome back to the show always good to have you thank you dan so yesterday uh i saw this tweet pop up christina Wong put it out. It was about trust in the media. Unsurprisingly, you know, you and I've been covering the dreadful media ecosystem for a long time at an all time low. Now you've got this new 60 Minutes story where Scott Pelley, a liberal provocateur pretending to be a journalist, looks like he's out.

1:00:04I played some video of him earlier in the show. You know, Vince, trust in the media is at an all time low because the media earned it. I mean, whether it was the collusion hoax or the lies about COVID or masks or vaccines. I mean, it's not like they've been some bastion of truth.

1:00:18Dan Bongino:Yeah, it's an institution that has totally abandoned the whole reason we have the First Amendment. The founders had a brilliant idea, which is to put the First Amendment in place, guarantee the freedom of the press so you could hold the powerful accountable without any fear or favor. And instead, what's happened is as a part of this world of like access journalism, everybody's underbid each other. They don't have any sort of moral compunction whatsoever. And they're just lying about everything in order to maintain access to to the riches or the power of the parties that they want to be at. And what gets lost in all of this?

1:00:51Dan Bongino:The truth. The truth gets lost in all of it. And so the media is one of these institutions in our country that has lost so much trust, Dan, because they just keep lying and people know that they're lying. That's one of the beauties of social media is that we can now tell that they're lying because we can have open conversations. This is how Donald Trump has won multiple presidential elections is because we didn't really need the media to tell us what was happening. The rest of us can have this conversation on our own. And Vince, you know, Americans are really it's not a talking point. It's true.

1:01:23They're very forgiving. I mean, you see people come back in sports and entertainment and academia and politics who've had, you know, devastating personal scandals in their life. And if people feel like they're generally sorry and they mean it, they welcome not only welcome them back, they welcome them back with open arms. I mean, I think of that baseball player that was the Hamilton guy. I mean, this happens all the time. People understand struggles. All the media has to do is come out and say, listen, we really botched Russia collusion. OK, there was no there there. We really botched COVID like bad, like bad, bad.

1:01:59The mass debacle, closing schools down, you know, nonsense about the vaccines, banning people for free speech. And I promise like it's not going to save them from everyone's anger. But a good portion of Americans would be like, all right, maybe, you know, there's a new road ahead. We'll open the door to it. Let's see what happens. But they just won't do it, even despite overwhelming evidence they were wrong.

1:02:21Dan Bongino:You know, I think it's always helpful to personalize the analogies here so people can understand it at a basic level. Like, Dan, you're a husband, right? Obviously, you're a husband. If you ever get into some sort of disagreement with your wife, let's pretend that this has ever happened, that you've ever disagreed with Paula. Do you just ride it out and continue to tell her she's wrong forever? Is that how it works? Or do you ever come to her hat in hand and go, you know what? You're right. I screwed up. I got I got a little hotheaded or something like you admit it. Because what you're trying to do is restore the integrity of the relationship.

1:02:52Dan Bongino:You're coming to a realization that matters. You care about the health of this relationship as a husband and you restore it. And this works for not just individual husbands and wives. It works for big institutions that require trust as the thing that they're selling. So if the media comes to you hat in hand, goes, you know what? We screwed that story up. We should have done better. That helps to generate a sincere and deep relationship with that outlet. But instead, they're so drunk on power. They're so full of themselves. And they're so completely insecure about their hold on power that they will never admit how frequently wrong they've been.

1:03:32Dan Bongino:And that's why so few people are even interested in listening to them anymore. and their their power is dissipating and i want to tie that to my the second issue i want to bring up with you which is obviously the races in california last night listen to it but by any measure this is supposed to be a blue wave year if you listen to the media everybody's mad at trump and maga and republicans and conservatives you know we're we're itching for the days of joe biden again or whatever nonsense you hear in the media and yet last night as of me and you you know, recording this interview, it looks like Spencer Pratt's going to pull about a third of the vote, maybe more.

1:04:09Who knows the mail-in ballots? Steve Hilton, the Republican in the governor's race is currently running number one. I mean, if the media's version of reality were true, they shouldn't even be in the top five. I mean, you had Tom Steyer, the billionaire Democrat, spend an untold fortune. I hear from friends in California. That's all they see is Tom Steyer ads everywhere. And yet Steve Hilton, Republican, former Fox host is running number one. So there's some disconnect, but I'll just say too, are you worried about the mail-in balloting in California? I mean, this is like third world stuff. Like, oh, we won't know the results for like three months or something or whatever.

1:04:48This is in an election. It's a selection.

1:04:50Dan Bongino:They have legalized ballot harvesting in California. Ballot harvesting is when third party political operatives get to handle ballots. And they legalized it in the state of California, which is one of the primary vectors for fraud. And no one would disagree with that. Jimmy Carter wrote about mail-in balloting in the beginning of this century. He said that it was one of the primary vectors for fraud, which is why we should limit mail-in balloting. The president will reflect on that. He'll say that from time to time. He said, Jimmy Carter said that. And then the media will attack him. No, he didn't.

1:05:16Dan Bongino:Yes, he did. The Carter Baker Commission concluded that mail-in ballots are a huge problem for elections everywhere. And in California in particular, 80 % of the election is done with mail-in ballots. It's 80%. It's crazy. So yeah, am I worried? Big time, which is why if you pay attention to the way both Spencer Pratt and Steve Hilton were talking even last night, as the numbers were looking good for them, you could hear it in their voices that they do have lingering concern about the way that the next perhaps weeks are going to play out. So keep your eyes on that. But let me start with the hope, go back to the hopeful note that I just heard you make, which is that the decision for so many California voters to opt for guys like Hilton and Pratt is a massive indictment of the failure of Democrats.

1:06:02Dan Bongino:It should not be this close. If Democrats were some big success, if they were all as happy and greasy and fun as Gavin Newsom pretends to be, then there'd be no chance for a Republican to break into such a Democrat stronghold. And yet these guys are breaking in. Why? Because California is in a desperate situation. The richest Californians just saw their houses burned down and they can't rebuild them. The poorest Californians are living among human feces and needles and animal torturers and they recognize the despair that's going on in places like Los Angeles. And as a result, people are truly looking for an alternative.

1:06:42Dan Bongino:In a way, this is a fantastic test of your famous assessment, is it bad enough yet? And for so many Californians, the answer to that is a resounding yes. Now, is it enough Californians and is it enough Californians to overcome the fraud that everyone suspects is very likely so dominant in California? We'll see. But man, I really got to hand it to these guys. You know, you and I both constantly are asking American citizens to stay in the fight. And I'm looking at a guy like Spencer Pratt, who, as far as I I could tell has never been interested in politics at all until politics became interested in him, you know, before it started destroying his life.

1:07:21Dan Bongino:And then you got a guy like Steve Hilton, who is an immigrant to this country, loves this country, adopted this country because he really sees its value. What a story. 250 years later, a former Brit may be the vehicle to save manifest destiny in the United States. I just think these are great stories. And I love that these guys are actually in the fight. You know, Vince, there's a takeaway from the Pratt race that I got to tell you, I'm almost like ashamed I haven't brought up sooner. I keep talking about the value of snapshots and soundbites and painting contrast. However, the oldest political axiomatic truth in the business is all politics are local.

1:08:02I got to tell you, I learned this the hard way in one of my races, a really hard way. it's been said since the beginning of time there is a lesson for activists and candidates out there you should take from this segment me and vince right now pratt did something genius not only did he use you know the social media and stuff in a way we haven't seen since the trump campaigns but he hyper localized the race he was very honest listen i'm those issues are all important you know foreign relations geopolitics you know nuclear weapons are all very important or existential in some cases. That's not what I'm running on.

1:08:36I'm running on animal torture, homelessness, the fentanyl flop, cleaning up the streets, and fire victims. He hyper-localized it, and there was just no way with the explosion of independent media and people with cell phone cameras for them to say, hey, what Pratt's talking about is not happening that summer. It wasn't exaggerated. They saw it themselves.

1:08:55Dan Bongino:It's harder to lie about the things you can see. It's harder to lie about the things that you see firsthand, isn't it? When you see it happen in front of you, you're like, what are you lying to me about? I'm watching. There's homelessness everywhere. There's fentanyl needles everywhere. Human waste everywhere. This city's in despair. All my neighbors are moving out. Nobody can afford to live here anymore. When it's happening to you directly, it's very hard for somebody to lie to you from a distance about it. If it's far away, if it's overseas, if it's in the Middle East, it's easier to manipulate people about that because it's distant from them.

1:09:25Dan Bongino:That's the case. By the way, and I love how you just assessed that these cameras that capture these images. That's the role that independent journalists play. So I might not be in, say, Newark, New Jersey. I'm not. I'm not in Newark, New Jersey. But thanks to guys like Nick Sorter and Julio Rosas, I can see the insurrection that's happening outside of that immigration facility. I can see it with my own eyes. And so can so many Americans across the country. One of the game-changing elements of social media, independent media, what you and I are able to do now, is that you're able to bring images directly into people's homes that are brought directly from the source.

1:09:59Dan Bongino:It's not the media distortion filter. It's not the lies that we're constantly being fed by the press. It's instead something more real, authentic, and genuine. And when you watch that, you're like, people are like, no, I don't want men in women's sports. Look at that. That dude just broke that woman's orbital bone. Are you serious? No, I can't. I just saw that with my own eyes. That can't happen. Our borders can't be open. Look at these people coming across it. These Fox News drones are catching millions of people coming across the border. When you see those images or if you live in those communities, that goes a long way.

1:10:28Dan Bongino:And it's hard to lie about something that's that close to you. I mean, there's no one better to comment on this. By the way, we're talking to Vince Colon Ace. He appears here biweekly every other Wednesday. I go on his radio show every Wednesday after that. So once a week, we're on each other's shows. He's at Rumble.com slash Vince every day at 8 a.m. Eastern Time on demand anytime his show is just exploding. Regarding the Senate map coming up, listen, the Democrats are really trying to expand the Senate map for control of the Senate. They're looking at Texas with Tala Frico there in Iowa, but they've got some problems themselves.

1:11:05I've said, and listen, of course it's an opinion, it's subjective, but it's based on objective fact. I've seen a lot of bad candidates on both sides. Okay. I have, I've never seen a slate of candidates in a collective pool, the United States Senate Democrat side, as bad as the Democrats are running this time. Vince, they're usually better at this, the Graham Plattner debacle. I mean, they don't even know what to do with this guy. How do you, there are disqualifying things. And then there's like things people will accept. And then there's like a freaking Nazi stormtrooper tattoo. You know, you've got this guy in New Jersey, Hamawi, who apparently was a character witness for the blind shake who wanted to blow up the World Trade Center.

1:11:48I mean, I've never seen, you know, Abdul Al-Sayed in Michigan running with Hassan Piker, you know, the social murder, October 7th rape apologist guy. This is a really genuinely awful group of candidates like I've never seen. I get it's an opinion, but those are facts I just told you that they're based on.

1:12:09Dan Bongino:And they're captivated by the extremists in their party. They're scared to death of their own extremists. They don't want to upset them. So they're going to just cow to them every single time. We've seen it play out over and over and over again, which is why that's how they end up with these awful candidates. It's pretty disgusting. And it's why it's so rare to hear. John Fetterman is like the only guy in the whole party who seems to be ever saying anything relatively moderate. Like, hey, maybe it's crazy to align ourselves with extremists. Maybe it's crazy to open our borders. Maybe it's crazy to bring in all these terrorists who hate the country.

1:12:41Dan Bongino:Maybe that's crazy. And they want to drum him out. They want to get rid of that guy. They're trying to primary him out of the Senate now because he's saying common sense things. So, I mean, this is yet another sign. I've talked to you before about this and why we need election integrity, because if you have a credible election system where voters actually get a say, it actually moderates the extremism. It gets rid of that nonsense. But in the absence of that, with the elections being as problematic as they are in the United States and a Democrat party being as scared as they are of their own base, you have one political party that's fully dedicated, unfortunately, to an extremism that is that is echoing throughout its base.

1:13:19Dan Bongino:now. Dan, it's not just the candidates. It's the voters. Democrat voters have a massive problem. Charlie Kirk was killed by one of these guys. They have an assassination culture on the left. 50 % of their voters think that it's acceptable to kill their political opponents. There's something very, very dangerous going on. And when you've got a bunch of people who are part of an assassination culture selecting candidates, that's how you end up with people who are involved in terror attacks or justifying them getting on the candidate slate for Democrat Party. Yeah. And I agree with what you said, having been an observer of Democrat Party politics from outside the party.

1:13:58Obviously, I'm not a Democrat, but I'm not naive about it either. I will watch clips from MSDNC and CNN and elsewhere just to be sure I know what they're talking about. It's incredible how there's always this there's always been this this healthy, I think, internal fight in the Republican and conservative movement about especially things like foreign interventions, foreign wars, it is healthy because it keeps everyone in check. Even about taxation, like we all agree in generally low tax rates, but you've got some people pushing for, you know, you had Rubio and Hawley and for more tax credits for families and things like that.

1:14:36And you get other people disagree. My point is that the Republican Party disagrees with that about a lot of things. And when we sense any kind of brewing factional identity politics hatred, there's always a quick and decisive movement to get rid of it. I mean, you've already seen it. You've seen it in the primary process here. The problem, which I think you just aptly summarize is I don't see that on the Democrat side outside of Fetterman and maybe Josh Gottheimer. I've not seen a single prominent Democrat outside of those two who's really come out and been like, Like, hey, man, we got a problem, like a character witness for the blind shake.

1:15:12Like, we really shouldn't have him in the primary. We should, like, make a concerted effort to make sure this person does not win and represent our – they want to run as an independent. That's their right to do it if they didn't commit a crime and they can qualify. You get what I'm saying? But what they're saying is this is our club, the Democrat club, and this guy is okay to come in there even despite his terrible CV.

1:15:32Dan Bongino:I just I mean, at this point, like if you can't be honest about what's happening, then we need somebody else in that position of influence or power. And here's here's something I'm troubled by, Dan, this morning on my show. Mark Wayne Mullen is the DHS secretary. And yesterday yesterday he pretty he gave pretty good testimony before the Senate. He confronted Senator Chris Murphy, a Democrat, over the fact that Chris Murphy keeps comparing ICE agents to Nazis and brown shirts and all sorts of things. And he accurately said to Chris Murphy, he goes, look, you're leading to a bunch of attacks on these guys.

1:16:04Dan Bongino:There's death threats that have grown like crazy, threats to their lives. I agree with that. But he kept couching it. Mark Wayne Mullen kept couching it when he said it. He goes, but I know you don't mean that, but that's the effect of your words. I know you don't mean that, but that is the effect of what you're saying. And I want to tell Mark Wayne Mullen, stop it. You know Chris Murphy is smart enough to know what he's doing. He does mean it. He knows that his base is out of control. He knows that he's breathing life into this violence. Stop making excuses for him. I know you just left the United States Senate.

1:16:33Dan Bongino:I know you have a collegial attitude towards the guys you just worked with. You're trying to be decent to him, but you're being soft. You're being too soft. You just need to be blunt. Just say it like it is. Don't offer excuses for him. Don't try and intuit his intent or anything like that. Just say it outright. You're leading to death threats against these people, and you should be ashamed of yourself. We need truth telling and we need it all the time because in the absence of truth telling, this country will descend into chaos. You have to have people who are willing to tell the truth as blunt as necessary.

1:17:06Yeah, we're in a bad spot. I mean, when I saw that Galindo lady in Texas 35 talk about, you know, whatever internment camps for Zionists, she got 40 percent of the vote. I thought to myself, this is clearly a new low until Hamawi last night. It really is danger. I mean, that's not an opposition party. That's like a death cult, and it's frightening. Folks, he's Vince Colon Ace. He's on every single day live. Join his live chat. It's the most popular program at that hour. 0800 Eastern Time, rumble.com slash Vince. You can go there any time. Watch it after that. No problem at all. And he's on the radio from noon to 3 Eastern all over the country on big, huge, prominent radio stations, including, we always got to give a shout out because we both got our start there, the great WMAL.

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