Is This The X Factor In The Midterms? (Ep. 2605)

28:46Receipts incoming. Check this out. They also told me that all the jobs would be gone by basically now. I was rolling my eyes and I'd like to think that they're on the West Coast right now talking to someone else telling this exact same story About how they were chastened And wrong so why is this the unemployment rate is 4.1 % it basically sustained basis the lowest we've ever seen Productivity growth you can squint and argue it's picked up a little bit total factor productivity hasn't picked up really at all arguably but just nothing you can see in the economic data that incredibly obviously screams anything commensurate with the magnitude of this technology.

29:28My sense from looking at the labor productivity numbers is that it's a little bit more than squinting that you can see that productivity growth has been relatively stronger in sectors of the economy where AI has been adopted. But exactly to your point, the unemployment rate is close to what the Fed would deem as maximum unemployment. The prime age employment to population ratio is at multi-decade highs. And so what explains that? Here, across a lot of our research, what I see in our data is that it looks more like a skill-biased labor-augmenting technology than a technology that outright automates and displaces jobs wholesale.

30:12Uggland in the chat he just called it too if you're a data guy data guy not date a guy we gotta add that to master debater words you words you can never say fast if you are in fact a good debater and you are a master debater. Maybe we should call him a hat tip key, a Jedi debater. You know, he loves his Star Wars, right? Data guy. I'm not vouching for these guys. I don't know them personally. I'm just telling you what they're saying is accurate. What are you saying? What they're saying is accurate. There is no evidence right now that AI is costing younger folks in mass their jobs. As a matter of fact, I was reading a story the other day.

31:04Forgive me, I don't have a Whitney, but I promise you it's a real store not making it up about how younger generation workers who are working at big companies who are really savvy with ai then mutley's in the chat the ugland you see where you started um how younger generation workers who are coming into these big companies are putting together these ridiculous like powerpoints i mean that in a good way or presentations i should say powerpoint I use generically, that are blowing away senior management, who are just not used to or comfortable with AI like they are. Now, they do say that sometimes the problem is they become so reliant on AI, the younger workers, that they'll be asked a question in the presentation, and they don't know the answer.

31:46So they got to get better. It's an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal yesterday. That's where I read it. But it's a great story about how this AI thing is going to be amazing. It's that one we have coming up later. We just got to do it right. And to show you too that I know a lot of people out there are saying, hey, this AI, liberal companies are going to corrupt it. That's a possibility. I'm not discounting that. However, folks, AI is not like search engine optimization. You can't just bury a result on page 20 about Obamacare or the Russia hoax and make it go away. If you ask AI to lie and the agent does something, you'll probably be sued as a result of your faulty algorithm, and it could be catastrophic.

32:33AI is far more powerful than the early SEO search engines. Early search engines. You can't teach it to lie. So you get things like this. Did you see this video? Hat tip, the great clown world, a good follow on X. so he uh he asked it generate for me a video of what the country would look like under 50 years of democrat rule now if it's a biased ai you would you'd have what you'd have uh you'd have people walking around the streets looking all happy with their kids with flowers maybe smoking a doobie here and there but saying oh we love this this is what the ai generated i'm telling you like this technology if you ask it to say the uh to tell you the truth it's going to check this citation issued for improper mask compliance have an equitable day seriously attention citizens bread ration distribution line now forming at window three that's a great video this is why i'm all right it's one video it's not a huge sample size but this is why i'm telling you going forward there are two places that have that have i would I would argue to you the cancer of liberalism, the fertilizer for this cancer on this body politic have been liberal universities and the media.

33:53No question about it. There are other things as well, NGOs and elsewhere. You get it. I understand. I doubt anyone. You see Marley's in the chat. There's a great video. It is. You're going to see things like that over and over and over again that are going to make it over time. We're a couple of years away from this. Really difficult for these two institutions to exist. Here's another. I saw this ex post about Muse. Facebook Meta just released an AI agent. And again, there's going to be some issues with it. But this is a really funny story. He says, I'm cleaning up the suburbs with Muse. He took a picture of these mess of wires on a pole in his neighborhood that were driving him crazy.

34:32He asked Muse to contact Verizon and get the wires cleaned up. It said Muse went to the website and got to work. He goes, there's a 0 % chance I would have sat in a Verizon support chat over this. I would have just been annoyed by this poll every time I walked by for the next five years. Someone should do something about it is now a prompt. Apparently, the Muse agent just took care of this. There's the picture of the poll. This is a little thing, but it's not a little thing. When you multiply the hours saved for little things like this, you're going to have better neighbors, better education. Look, you already fixed it.

35:08we need guardrails we need it done right i want the world to blow up i don't want a bioweapon unleashed upon us because the ccp used ai but folks you can't ignore the potential here either and the thing that excites me the most is getting back to a truth-based society because sadly right now we're living in a post-truth society not with you i read you i read your emails i see your comments in the chat this show has persistently been a top five live stream in the world thanks to you self-praise stinks it's not self-praise it's praising you i can only watch once but for a lot of people and you saw it with revelations yesterday and podcast the stand and others you're seeing their grift collapse in live time because they existed in a post-truth world where They lie to people.

35:59And then when the truth kicks them in the gonads, all of a sudden you see panic breakout. I've warned you about false prophets and messengers out there who just tell you what you want to hear and not the truth. Folks, it's led to a really disturbing place where even some people who pretend to be on our side are falling for cannibalism theory. Cannibalism theory has affected the left forever. The left will eat themselves alive. They will cannibalize their own movement when they're out of power because they just don't want to stop canceling people. And when the right ignores them, they turn on themselves because there's power in canceling.

36:38Unfortunately, a strain of that has infected our movement too. And it's all because of lies. Bedrocked in charisma, I'll give them that. But they're lies. And now you're seeing them all get exposed. money trails humiliating backgrounds i mean just the train wreck stories the people who went and served they tried to turn into the bad guys and invert the truth that's how you get things like this listen i gotta tell you i am mildly obsessed with this whole entire lindsey clancy story the horror of it itself is enough the murder of these three children however the fact that we've inverted society, and this is where I'm going with this, that the good guys have now somehow become the bad guys with a small group of lunatics who live in this post-truth world.

37:32Folks, I'm really worried about this. You have this poor juror who is now public, so he can use his name. He was on Hannity last night. I'll play that in a second. You have this poor juror. The juror needs an attorney because he did not want to vote to basically acquit this lady, this Lindsay Clancy, for the already admitted murder for three children. And how this guy's the enemy now? He's got lawyers attacking him. He's got crazy Karens attacking him. Green haired ladies attacking him. He's got to hide his address. He's worried about his kids. What the is going on here? What kind of world do we live in?

38:05This is what happens when you embrace cannibalism theory and you turn the good guys into the bad guys. Because some idiot from podcast to stand who craps in diapers all the time just told you something. This is the poor guy's attorney with Kayleigh McEnany talking about what happened to his client. This is unbelievable. This is really, I mean, unbelievable in the literal sense that I'm having a hard time believing this is happening. Check this out. We learned about your client in the midst of a trial that gripped the nation. Everyone has an opinion on the case. And I want to take us back to the first moment when we learned about the holdout juror who you gave me the opportunity to speak with just moments ago.

38:42Michael told me in our conversation that his full name is Michael Peggy Desrinville. And let's go back to when we first learned about him, when the jury foreperson in the Lindsey Clancy case brought a note that said that Michael, he was not named at that time, refused to follow reasonable doubt law. Did Michael ever have reasonable doubt? Michael had zero doubt. He had zero doubt. No doubt. How much clearer can you be? He had zero doubt in his convictions based on a strong body of evidence. And in the American jury system, the verdict has to be unanimous on the criminal side. And the guy's getting doxxed.

39:21Some lunatic's going to probably show up at this guy's house. What the hell kind of world do we live in? Murder your three kids and the one guy who recognizes that there may be an issue here. He's the bad guy? Folks, you see the inversion here? it's not about me but i've experienced it and i wish i could data dump my cerebral cortex into a thumb drive and show you what i saw the second i left to go do the whole public service the second i left but after not even like five seconds after swearing in the attack started from people who need to invert the truth, who knew that they had to make the good guys the bad guys.

40:08And a small number, but some people fell for it. That's how you get this. This guy's the good guy. How is he not the good guy? Here he is. This guy's a hero. Does anyone in the chat disagree? Seriously. Anyone in the chat disagree?

40:28This guy is an American hero. Here he is on Sean Hannity last night, the holdout juror. Thank the Lord. Thank you, Jesus, for this guy. Here he is on Hannity explaining all that. And listen to him cite his faith. Good man right here. Check this out. The ones that can't speak for themselves, the ones that can't defend themselves, and the ones that can't fight the battles. And those are Cora, Dawson, and Callan. A little bit about me. I want to thank God for my Catholic faith. I want to thank God for blessing me with the ability to love my daughter. And foremost, I would like to thank everyone, every individual that has supported me throughout this difficult situation.

41:21Your prayers, your emotional support, your psychological support is tremendous to my heart that I feel, that I sense, that I know. I do want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. Thank you. Man, this chat's tearing up right now. American flag's in the chat for this hero and patriot. absolutely revolting disgusting a freaking abomination what's happened to this hero an abomination are they quick poll in the studio guy how many people in the in the you guys like and look forward to jury duty anyone no you don't jasmine you no no but you know we will do it if we have to it is you know we trial by jury we get it gee you look forward to jury duty when you get the summons?

42:19Hell no, Guy. Guy doesn't even like, you know, Guy's typically just a no. You think people are going to want to serve in a jury now? Look at that chat. Tear it up. Tear it up. Only we can do this in the chat. Only this show. Tear it up. The guy is a hero, folks. Whenever you see an inversion like this, all of a sudden, what? Pete Hegseth's the bad guy. We should impeach him. Pete Hegseth? Really? Really? Next thing you know, I hear the other day, attacks on Bobby Kennedy. Bobby Kennedy's not moving fast enough. Are you smoking crack? Are you smoking the Krizak? Are you crazy? How do the good guys become the bad guys?

43:02The answer is, in a post-truth world, a bunch of stupid people, diaper-wearing stupid people, because they have nothing going on in their lives. Their families hate them. Their kids hate them. They have zero. they have to say stupid and controversial things to clickbait you into their show. And unbelievably, people fall for this. It's going to get harder going forward to do this. I'm telling you, it's going to get harder. You're not going to be able to isolate people from the truth moving forward in this new AI ecosystem where it can do things in microseconds. It's going to be really difficult.

43:43to continue the grift. We've got an election coming up. I can't tell you how many people out there still believe, like, comparatively, and I'm not talking about MAGA folks, I'm talking about independents and even Trump Democrats, there are a lot of them, who still believe, like, you know, I think we've got to vote to get the Democrats back. Why? What could you possibly have enjoyed about the Biden years? The inflation, the defenestration of our military, The government spending That basically modern monetary theory Blew out federal accounts The interest rates That are hiking now because of those blowouts What could you possibly have liked Okay Dan Produce the Trump administration's record I do every day We've got what 35 days to an election I'm not making this stuff up Here a lot of folks Are telling you out there Iran total loss I get it People have an opinion about Iran You are entitled to your opinion, period, full stop.

44:43However, facts matter, folks, that war is not lost at all. Hugh Hewitt had a post about this this morning. What are you talking about? What's been lost? The Iranians control the strait. They do? You going to back that up? Oh, wait, put that one back. Oh, yeah. This is insane. Oil exports from the Persian Gulf are almost back to pre-war levels. Meanwhile, Iranian exports have literally hit zero. Blockading Iran's blockade actually worked Iran can't stand for this much longer You can see the data yourself You can see the data right there I'm not telling you you're not entitled to your opinion If your opinion is we shouldn't have gone in We shouldn't be there You're entitled to that I disagree That's a great part about being Americans We can butt heads and shake hands in the end I'm just telling you if you're basing it on the fact that Oh the Iranians definitely got us in the street That's just not true That's why oil prices Although still high are coming down.

45:41And the diesel prices, they are high, no question. That's got a lot to do with other factors too, including the Russia-Ukraine war, where a lot of the diesel supply has been impacted by that ongoing war. A lot of that is out of Donald Trump's hands. Here's another one announced yesterday. You know, manufacturing jobs in the United States, you've got electricians and skilled tradesmen making$150 ,000,$250 ,000 a year on the cloud build-out for AI. You also have steel manufacturing back in the United States. Here was Fox News breaking yesterday. Trump, too, announced the largest steel plant in American history, he did a presser at the White House, to be built by Misabi Metallics in Iowa, White House official confirms.

46:26This is a good thing, right? These are high-quality jobs, even if you're a union worker. These are high-quality jobs. Here's another one on the federal workforce We've been told by Republicans Rarely Democrats Republicans forever Republicans back to the first We're going to reduce the federal workforce They never do it Except for now Christian Hines The federal workforce has shrunk by more than 336 ,000 bureaucrats Since Donald Trump took office I'm just giving you the numbers man I'm just giving you the numbers You can see the charts yourself Every Republican Has talked about this, we're going to shrink government They never do it, they don't shrink anything They just shrink your wallet There's the numbers right there Bureau of Labor and Statistics It goes down dramatically Justin, throw up the fentanyl deaths Here's another one, we want fentanyl deaths down Correct?

47:26No one wants any kid to die From fentanyl overdose So if the Trump administration came into office And went to war on drugs We've been hearing about the war on drugs, right? Since like Ronald Reagan. Andrew's like, I don't know. I wasn't alive for that. I was. Remember folks in the chat? You remember the Nancy Reagan thing? Don't do drugs. Just say no. Remember all that? Well, people haven't been saying no. So Donald Trump crushed these terror organizations. And Trisha McLaughlin puts out fentanyl deaths are now down 55%. Heroin deaths down 89%. That's a direct result of closing the border and enforcing the laws of the books.

48:00This is the first war on drugs where we've actually had significant results. You would think people would be asking about best practices from Donald Trump, which we'll get to with FBI Deputy Director Rea next. Nobody cares in the media. Nobody cares. They just want to crap on President Trump. Here's a segment from Fox. You were told by the Doomers, we're not deporting anyone. Nothing's happening. I'm so sick of this BS, man. Folks I lived through this I don't understand how these two stories Can be true Cue up the Bill Malugian report with me on Fox With Mark Wayne Mullen Both of these reports cannot be true at the same time If you looked them up yourself One of you guys may want to try this Okay Early on during my tenure at the FBI There were all kinds of complaints The federal workforce being diverted To immigration enforcement The liberal media was complaining and I can't believe it.

48:56And then you've got Doomer saying, nothing's happening, nobody's being deported. Folks, both of those stories can't be true. I lived through it. ERO, Emergency Removal Organization, their operation over there, and ICBP, DEA, FBI, it was an all-hands-on-deck effort to deport people here illegally. Don't tell me it didn't happen. I lived through it. So again, Doomer podcast, the standards, don't vote, nobody's being deported. You're just full of crap and lying. Here's Bill Malugian on Fox correcting the record about a memo went out, apparently about triaging some resources. It doesn't mean don't deport people here illegally.

49:37It means go for the violent criminals and get the networks around them, and you're going to get almost everyone who's here illegally eventually. And, of course, Doomeristan used it. Oh, nothing's happening. Ignore these idiots. They're just lying to you. Tell them to take their diapers off and mommy to change them. Check this out. I also spoke to border czar Tom Homan about all of this. He reiterated what President Trump told me. There is no pulling back of any kind on their immigration enforcement agenda. Homan told me that after record setting ice arrests in June, July and August, right now, September is on track to set an all time new record for ice arrests.

50:15Folks, do we believe in numbers or not? This is not directed at you. I'm sorry. I'm just understandably kind of ticked off like you are. but vice president vance told you the same so just to be clear justin your friend dan bongino you've known for 10 years who's been with you through thick and thin is lying vice president vance is definitely lying to we're all lying to you tom homan tom homan is definitely lying mark wayne mullen 100 he's like everybody's lying everybody bill malugian who's done untold number of hours on the border. Everybody's lying to you except the guy who wears diapers and has lied about everything on the record.

51:01Cash is out of here tomorrow. That was like 200 days ago. Everything they tell you is a lie. Including that they don't need diapers. Everything they tell you is a lie. They just want you to lose. And folks, the economic numbers. Put up the Steve Moore tweet on inflation. I am not diminishing the cost of living problem, please, at all. Inflation is pernicious. It's a cancer. But we have a contrast to make. Do you want inflation under the Democrats or inflation under President Trump? Here are just the numbers, folks. Steve Moore. Through August, inflation under Trump has averaged 3 % versus 5 % under Biden.

51:46Most basic consumer products rose faster under Biden. Gas, beef, and coffee, notable exceptions. Here's the numbers in a chart. You can look at them yourself. I'm not telling you inflation is not a problem. I give you the good news and the bad news. I'm simply telling you that it is a huge problem under Democrats. It's a problem President Trump is at least trying to contain, and his record is better. Put up that bar graph if you could. Because even in Trump 45 and Trump 47, it was still dramatically lower. Here, Trump 45, 1.9 % inflation. Biden, 4.97. Trump, 2.98. Those are just the numbers. Annualized CPI.

52:25You have a choice. You can pick the blue graph or you can pick the red graph. The choice is yours. Folks, here's another voice you've trusted. Let's get outside of government because maybe, I don't know, you listen to the doomers and everyone who you trusted for 10 years, Pete, me, Rubio, whatever went into the government and we're all deep state now whatever listen, the deep state is real and the turnover at the FBI proved it and at DOJ but that was us who reformed the place you really believe everybody turned on you and went it who's dumb enough to believe that? it's so ridiculous it's candidly like laughable like I laugh when I see it now Here's Victor Davis Hanson Not a government figure He's not some paid shill Or whatever the hell people say Victor Davis Hanson who's been around forever As a trusted voice of conservatism And a reasonable voice on the state of politics Here he is on Ingram Talking about the economy And how the media I'm sorry to tell you is one with a lot of people They have There are people out there convinced They want 5 and 6 percent, 9 percent Bidenflation back that it's a small group of people.

53:41But here he is talking about how it's unbelievable how the concrete is dried on this narrative for a lot of people who were impressionable. Check this out. All right, Victor, I've been very frustrated, as people know, watch the show, because I don't think enough people are actually making the case for what Trump has accomplished. If they're going to vote against Trump before they vote against Trump, look at what's going to happen if all of that is pulled back. Do you agree with me that the narrative in the media is everything's bad, everything's bad, everything's bad? I don't think it's been countered.

54:15Yeah, I'm kind of under criticism for writing column after column to that effect. And, you know, when you have the Atlantic Federal Reserve projecting 5 % third quarter growth, record low poverty, record low per capita family income, and 140 ,000 new jobs. It goes on and on, and they're not getting that message out. I think it's just a matter of time. We only have four weeks, and if they can spend the money they have and get that message out, and then they have to very quickly say something about the Iran war, that we are strangling them, and they're losing control of the straits of our moves.

54:55Oil's down to$93 today. And if we keep it up, we won't not have to retaliate. They'll implode. But the price of oil is going down and that has to get across to the American people. I mean, what's guys, what's the next step for Doomeristan and podcast and Victor Davis Hanson sell out? Definitely. So, you know, he needs a few bucks for people who bought it. Like, are you serious? Everybody's lying to you. Everyone. or maybe there are people out there who are lying to you that are in fact being paid and have an agenda to make sure we lose the midterms and the next presidential so that their guy gets in there and they can get a lucrative consulting deal or marketing deal or do stupid TikTok videos for them.

55:38Do you ever think of that? Occam's razor, right? Kiss. Keep it simple, stupid. Given all possible explanations, always accept the one that requires you to assume the least. Thank you. Keep it simple. If it doesn't make sense to you that all of these people are your enemy, Tom Homan, Hagseth, Rubio, Vice President Vance, me, Cash Patel, Andrew Bailey, Andrew Bailey, the very conservative attorney general in Missouri, they all turn to get you. Does that even make sense? If it does, please seek help. Stop it. Get help. Seriously, listen to Michael. You need it. Stop it. Get some help. You guys are getting good with that.

56:22You're actually pretty good. That's not like script iterating. I just throw that in there. Do you guys have like a board of buttons you just hit when these things come up? And what's the other lady I don't do? I don't do my Frisbee. I don't know flags. I don't know flags. This is the doomerous, Dan. I don't know flags. It's so freaking stupid. They cannot wait for you to lose. And I'm telling you, as more of this information comes out, you're going to be like, I should have listened to Dan. He was right. I know. All right. So we started the show with the X factor. Folks, the X factor in this election.

56:57And I'm playing, I'm doing this deliberately, by the way. I'm going to play Frank Luntz coming up next. I get it. We don't like Frank Luntz. I get it. That's the point. The point is, for me to say, you know, I support President Trump. I worked for him. I love the guy. I get it. Some of you may say, Dan's not objective. Forget his analysis of the election. Fine. I don't think that's accurate, but fair enough. I can be objective about things. Frank Luntz is not some big MAGA guy. Neither is Harry Anton at CNN. But I told you in the beginning of the show, there is a massive X factor in these midterms that I believe is not being calculated in Dumeristan or the polls.

57:34It's not. And it's allegiance and loyalty to President Trump and his results for people who see through the crap. Here's Frank Luntz on a liberal network, again, no friend to the president, saying the exact thing that, But hey, man, I think a lot of people are underestimating the Trump effect in this midterm. Check this out. Trump can keep, President Trump can keep the House and keep the Senate. And he has proven how powerful he is. And make no mistake to every viewer watching, Donald Trump does have more influence on more races than any other Republican, even than Ronald Reagan. I've never seen a Republican as engaged and involved as this guy.

58:17and it matters. Folks, it's Frank Luntz, okay? The guy is not some big MAGA guy. He's not one of the front row Joes at a MAGA rally, okay? I do this on purpose. Not because I necessarily believe anything, but they have no reason whatsoever to say to Democrats, hey, be careful, you may be missing something, other than it being true. That is the X factor. I was a little too excited for that. A lot of blackout coffee this morning. We went through probably three or four things of blackout this morning. Between like security guys and everything. We go through tons of it. You know, every day we pick a comment of the day for our 1776 contest.

59:05We give away$1 ,776 once a week. Our comment of the day today. Yeah, you day where it's premature capitulation or something. he's got some maybe some Viagra for that or something Bongino.com slash 1776 see the official rules Mr. Van Dam Iranians control the straights because the gays are thrown off the rules whoa so that elicited a major response apparently in the chat Mr. Van Dam very I like what you did there I like what you did there. They do. And all of these like, you know, queers for Palestine and stuff, please, I'm really begging you because I don't want to see anybody get dead. Even people I'm not particularly fond of because of your ideology that I think is this just Palestine.

1:00:03Don't try this out. It is not going to end well for you. I see what you did there. All right, I'm going to take a quick break. And don't go anywhere. and to liberal media people who watch the show, I know you're there. I know you won't admit it, but I know you're there. I'm going to help you in the segment coming up because I know you don't want to give President Trump credit for the closed border and the massive drop in crime, but you're going to have a hard time lying because this interview next is going to eventually be scraped for AI and it's going to be data and you're not going to be able to avoid it.

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1:02:12Really happy to welcome to the show the deputy director of the FBI. Took my spot after we left. A very competent guy. His leadership has been fantastic. Deputy director of the FBI, Chris Rea. Chris, welcome to the show. Dan, thanks for having me. And to say this is surreal for me to be talking to you behind a mic and not behind a desk would be an understatement. Really, really appreciate the opportunity to talk about things. Well, listen, man, it was a pleasure to work with you and the team there. You are your CV, your resume. You're very heavy in the counterterror space. You ran New York as the assistant director in charge.

1:02:52You're now in the deputy director position. You and I both know there are a lot of what I call level 10 decisions. You and I've had this conversation. I mean, this is like beating the deadest of horses. I've told you this a million times. When you asked me, what's it going to be like? I said it's going to be really difficult because the decisions you're going to have to make no one else can make. That's why they're on your desk or someone else would have made them. And one of the decisions we made early on when we had you up in New York and elsewhere is I don't want to say refocus because the FBI always had violent crime squads, violent crime divisions, everything from bank robbery to gangs.

1:03:24It's not like this was new. But I think we can all agree like the focus, I think, wasn't there. And we implemented this new through summer heat, almost like broken windows style policing, where we were going to expand our footprint with state, local, territorial, tribal law enforcement agencies. And we were going to bring bad guy scalps. We were going to arrest bad guys. And all I cared about was getting them off the streets. You have since taken that summer heat footprint and turned it into summer heat 2.0. And I think you have some pretty outstanding numbers to put out there. Yeah, Dan. I mean, for me, as you know, I spent all my street time in violent crime.

1:04:01And so for us to see that refocus, right, the director's priority crushing violent crime was really a breath of fresh air, not only for me, but for everybody. And of course, we launched Summer Heat 2.0 this year, and I'll go through some numbers now. I'm sure we'll have some happy banner back and forth because they are better than last year. But but honestly, Dan, this was this was this was one of your passion projects when you were deputy director and really took off. He came up with a name. You came up with the concept. And then we've got guys like Joe Perez, who have spent their entire career in the violent crime space, who really put this into action in the field for us.

1:04:40And just to kind of give you an idea of our of our stats this year, Dan, we have just south of nine thousand arrests, which I believe in summer. heat 1.0, I think you had about 8 ,600 arrests in the violent crime space. We recovered 5 ,000 weapons, 5 ,000 firearms, which was roughly about 120 % increase from last year's summer heat 1.0. We also seized about 687 kilograms of fentanyl, which is about a 63 % increase from last year. And we've identified or located about 1 ,400 children, which is just over a 30 % increase from last year. And so those numbers are phenomenal. One of the things I vividly remember you telling me when you told me when I was taking over for you is don't let this summer heat thing die.

1:05:28We started out really good. Let's make it even better next year. And as much as I'd like to take credit for this, this was your concept that you birthed. And I'm just building on the momentum that you created. Well, you're being very nice, Deputy Director Raya. You are. You're being very kind. But when I saw you up in headquarters after I left, I was coming up for retirement for one of members of my staff who had stayed a little bit after I departed the position. I said to you, I said, Chris, you know, I need this to continue because I want to show the American people that the administration's plan, the template, UFAP warrants.

1:06:06In other words, the way we rewrote our policies on unlawful flight against prosecution. It's just a fancy way to say how the FBI needed a vehicle to help. We need our agents to be scoped. So for the media people out there who don't want to ever ask this question because they don't want to give the administration, the DOJ or this current FBI any credit. When Chris was up in New York, Joe Perez was running crim and we had all of these folks in there. We said, what's the problem? Why can't the FBI go help the New York State Police, whatever it may be, on, say, an attempted murder case? And they said, well, you know, we need a federal in or else our agents aren't scoped and they could be sued.

1:06:48So I said, well, let's rework these UFAP warrants. And we did how unlawful flight against prosecution, which is a vehicle for us to get in there. We did it. So what I said to you is to long story short. I'm sorry, Chris. I don't mean to filibuster, but you and I have shared so much in common. I walked in. I said, I need you to make me an irrelevant part of the story. That's the part he's even actually being nice. I said, I don't want to be the story. The fact that it was my idea or Cassius idea or President Trump's idea, it was the leadership from the White House. And I want to show people the template is what works.

1:07:22It's not about a character. And you showed that, too, in making my numbers look paltry. You guys did it even better. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. And it really took off not only at headquarters, but really nationwide. I think a lot of people got behind this. A lot of people were, you know, 9-11 happens, Dan, as you know, and we as an agency swing that pendulum to the right to national security, justifiably so after 9-11 happened. But I think all of us in the Bureau, we're waiting for that pendulum to come more center and focus back on some of our violent crime things. And so when I talk to SACs, when I talk to agents, intel analysts around the country, I can't tell you the amount of people that are thankful that we're really pushing hard into that space.

1:08:06And even if you look at just the national numbers right then, we're seeing some historic lows in the violent crime space as a country. about a 10 % decrease in violent crime in general across the board. And in addition to that, we've seen a 20 % decrease, almost a 20 % decrease in the murder rate across the country. And obviously, a lot of that has to do with our state, local, and other federal partners. But that is also a direct result of us pushing into that violent crime space. We are working those criminal, those complex criminal enterprise cases, and we are taking off the heads of the snake.

1:08:42And I always talk about when I was a gang agent in Houston, Texas, I worked a case in a small community called Freeport, Texas. We took the 10 most violent criminals there and we worked a mass drug conspiracy and Vicar case on them. We took them out of the picture and then what we saw a year later in that same community was a 50 % decrease in violent crime in that community. And obviously there were more than 20 violent crimes, violent criminals in that community. So that's an idea of how this push from the director, from the president, how this push into that violent crime space has contributed to those lower numbers.

1:09:21And this administration has been nothing but supportive. I think you and the new leadership team would acknowledge that. Not only have they it's not just that they've been supportive, it's that they've been actively pushing for this, saying, listen, violent crime is a national security threat. No one's taking their eye off counterterror. We'll get to that in a second. And you guys had a big interdiction this week, in addition to others that have happened. However, this is critical. You were having been in a leadership spot as the basically the agent in charge of the New York field office, not the SAC inside joke, which only Chris knows.

1:09:56He was the remember that. Like, no, no, I got it right. I'm good. I know. I got it. For those who don't know, it was a we had an interview about a potential spot that opened up. and Chris thought I had it wrong. I'm like, no, no, I'm right. And he was a little surprised, but glad it worked out. So one of the things that were early on, I think you can agree because I did, and I know you've continued these leadership calls from the special agents in charge around the country. I did them once a week. I broke it into regions. So at least once a month, every single SAC and the assistant directors in charge, in charge of the bigger offices, Washington, New York, and LA, we're always on there.

1:10:37you were on those calls. I think we can both agree there was a little bit of resistance early on to the resource allocation into the violent crime space. And one of the reasons is incentives. They just, the banding, the promotion banding, the threat banding, the way we were evaluating people and human resources, violent crime really didn't play a role in promotions. And, you know, white collar did and other things. So these guys are just doing what they've been told to do because that's how they were going to be advanced in their career. So early on, I think they didn't believe us when we said to them, you know, Cash and I both, we said, guys, listen, we're not kidding.

1:11:16Like we're looking at your violent crime numbers in addition to CT and CI and others. And there was some hesitation. I think it took a few months, but I think you're right. Once the feedback from the agents in the field who were like, hey, I came here to be a cop. I didn't come here to be, you know, some political enforcer or whatever. Once that that that concrete dried, this thing really took off. Remember those agent calls? You'd have SACs. They would be competing with each other to tell you how many stories about, you know, FTOs they broke up and cartels. Once the concrete dried, I think it was really successful.

1:11:49Yeah, absolutely. I think the other thing that gets lost when we push into violent crime, you know, our relationships with state, local and other federal partners, those are mostly built on violent crime or violent crime in our criminal portfolio. Right. Our state locals and that transforms and that transforms over into our national security portfolio because that they see how we can help something that's very important to the state and locals, violent crime. And they're willing to give us when we help them, they're willing to give us resources and TFOs on the national security side that we see through our JTTFs or even our counterintelligence ask forces where these state locals don't get as much bang out of their buck, but they're willing to to give us those resources and protection of the greater good.

1:12:33We're talking to FBI current deputy director, Chris Raya. You know, Chris, one thing I always object to in some of the biased media coverage, and some of it's been OK, even some of the left wing outlets have quietly started to acknowledge, you know, belatedly that, well, maybe it was a different approach. It's not just how we recategorized our ability to use these UFAP warrants to help state and locals and get involved and get properly scoped. it's not just the promotional incentives where we told sacs hey go get us violent criminals man uh you just mentioned something i really hate it when they say oh you know like i i played a clip earlier it doesn't matter who was a media guy you know claiming somehow that we're like stealing state and local arrests and i'm like brother that is the dumbest thing i've ever heard you got a guy in the street who's a gang member wanted for attempted murder do i really care if he's in the New York, if he's in Rikers Island or if he's in, you know, MCC or I don't care.

1:13:33Just get him off the street. If we have a tool, cell phone tracking technology is something we can use to assist the locals. We're going to do it. It is such a stupid view. And I think what's even more kind of positive going forward is you just kind of said it. Listen, the FBI's relationship, it's very regional, but with locals sometimes has been strained. There's been kind of a big dog attitude. And I had one SAC one time tell me, well, listen, we're not cops. I said, no, we are cops. That's a compliment. That's the greatest compliment of all. You know, and we may have different tools and a bigger budget, but where we can help, we're going to help.

1:14:12So I think the two things is we're not taking anybody's numbers. We're getting bad guys off the street. We don't care where the numbers came from. And you just nailed it. Like the relationships now are a thousand times better where they'll come to us on potential JTTF, Joint Terror Task Force matters and other things, CI matters. And I think it's only going to get better going forward as long as we keep this approach. Yep, absolutely, Dan. And I remember distinctly when we were rolling out Summer Heat 1.0, I remember a phone call with you where you were very adamant of, I don't care if they're federal arrests.

1:14:43Those would be great if they're federal arrests. I don't care if they're state arrests. I don't care if they're local arrests. I don't care who gets a credit for it. I don't care if we provide assistance and somebody else goes out and does the rest, you were very adamant about, I just want these bad guys, these violent criminals off the street. And I really took that to heart. And I think the rest of the Bureau took that to heart. And we just kind of got to work and got after it with our state and local partners. Yeah. I mean, Chris, imagine telling, you know, it's a mom in East New York, Brooklyn, who's got some drug slinger on the corner, like, God, the FBI is going to stay out of this one because we're not going to get it yet.

1:15:14Like we're not going to check a box. It was the dumbest thing I've ever heard. And I'm glad everybody's bought into that now. And the The numbers show, like I said, I said, get me out of the story. Make it about the White House leadership, the model, and don't make it about any one personality. And the best thing you can do is when you pass the baton to the next day, he does even better numbers than you. It'll show the model works and it's not about personalities. Obviously, there's a leadership component. However, that's not the whole story. Let me move on to a couple other things. The White House leadership on National Security Presidential Memorandum, otherwise known as NSPM-7.

1:15:48This White House has been as serious as a heart attack about we are not going to allow politically motivated violence in the United States. Whatever happened before, those days are over. But you've had some amazing results over there, Prairieland and others, in conjunction with Steve Miller and others at the White House working on the national security portfolio. If you could talk about that, I think the listeners would really be interested. Yeah, absolutely. This is probably one of the things I've really dug into deep since since taking over for you, Dan. And that is and that's this NSPM seven, a national security presidential memorandum seven that President Trump issued.

1:16:27Look, it's no secret. There has been an uptick in political violence, government violence, crime against the government, violent crime against the government. We had to do something to get our hands around that. And so that was the answer. That was the administration's answer to that, which essentially made the JTTFs, the local JTTFs, 56 of them all around the country to include our national JTTF at headquarters, the enforcement arm for this particular memorandum. And what we did at headquarters is we looked at this threat and we realized the threat was much like how we handled the Iranian threat.

1:17:03There are components of this threat that are criminal. Obviously, we see it all the time with violent protesters. There are parts of this threat that are counterterrorism related with some of these left wing extremist organizations that seed in to these protests, which are largely First Amendment protected. But these violent left wing extremists seed into there and create chaos and violence. So there's a CT part of that. Believe it or not, there's a CI part of that with influence and how we and how they are influencing, you know, everything in our society. And there's also a cyber part of that cyber cyber.

1:17:39And I know we're going to get to that later. Cyber kind of goes around, hits all of our threats at this point. And so we realized that and we stood up what we're calling the Joint Mission Center, the JMC. AMC. And we've taken pieces from each of those divisions, counterterrorism, criminal, CI, and cyber, and we've put them all under one roof, much like we do with the Iranian threat mission center, which I know you're familiar of. We have all those folks talking. In addition to that, we brought in Department of Treasury on board. We brought IRS on board. We brought in HSI on board. And we've created this mission center to kind of de-conflict, push leads out, connect the dots, and make these cases around the world because the violent protester that shows up in Seattle is also the violent protester that shows up in New York, that shows up in Houston.

1:18:29And so we're connecting those dots. And in addition to arresting and convicting and disrupting these violent protesters, we're attacking the money, which is why we have IRS and DO, Department of Treasury, with us. We are attacking the money. As you know, you take away folks, if you take away criminal organizations money, you can really cripple them. And we know that money is being cycled through these 501 three C's that look legitimate on the surface. We know money is being cycled to support these violent protests. And we're we're we're connecting those dots, following the money like Director Patel likes to say, we're following the money and we're dismantling these enterprises.

1:19:11And I mean, listen, the results speak for themselves. You know, we're not here for talking points. Like, what are the numbers? You have the first successful Antifa prosecutions, you know, in American history and that just atrocious attack. And I bring this example up often. Well, listen, the role I'm a civil libertarian at heart, First Amendment is the First Amendment for a reason. However, the First Amendment doesn't entitle you to throw rocks and Molotov cocktails and shoot at a Portland courthouse. It just that's not in the first that doesn't say that. and notice whereas under prior leadership teams that was just allowed to fester people show up every night beating the crap out of our law enforcement officers at this portland courthouse do you notice how that that just see that story just seemingly went well it didn't just go away the answer is there was leadership on it it said hey protest all you want you crossed the line you're going to jail and i remember being in those meetings you were in some of them too where we were very clear about this.

1:20:08Once that line is crossed, if it's a trespass or whatever, we have to send a message that you're going to jail. It was kind of the Rudy Giuliani approach when I was a New York City police officer to civil disturbances and riots. You know, I used to say to people, you know, why did we not see that, you know, many riots under Rudy Giuliani unlike prior leadership? The answer is, you know, the first person who threw a rock went to jail. The second person who threw a rock went to jail. What happened to the third person? There wasn't a third person because the first two went to jail. So there's been real leadership there.

1:20:37Let me shift gears quick because I want to get to a couple of different things. Can I say one thing? Yeah, please. Say one thing on that, just because I think that's important. I've really got to credit our partners at Department of Justice with A.G. Blanche and the aggressiveness that they've shown on some of these violations that were never really prosecuted before. Namely, the 875 interstate threat statute that we've been prosecuting a lot with these guys and then also the online harassment statute. So so really that aggressiveness with Department of Justice has really helped us put some meat behind going out and really taking these folks off the street.

1:21:09That's such a great point, Chris. We're talking to FBI Deputy Director Chris Rea. We are Chris and I work for the Federal Bureau of Investigations, not prosecutions, not the FBP. if we investigate, put together probable cause and then hand it over to an assistant United States attorney or United States attorney or an intake United States attorney. And they say, hey, we're not going to prosecute. There's nothing we can do. We're not lawyer. I mean, some FBI's may be lawyers, but they're not there to be lawyers. They're there to be investigators. So having that DOJ leadership where they'd say like, hey, listen, we'll take trespass.

1:21:41We'll take, you know, interstate, you know, across interstate lines. We'll take all that and we'll bring it and prosecute it is, yeah, a really key component. I'm glad you brought that up. Chris, one of the things when we got in there early, Cash and I, that we noticed was, man, I hate to say it, but the use of technology was just dreadful. The artificial intelligence, I mean, baby steps. They say, you know, crawl, crawl, crawl, walk, walk, walk, walk, then run once. Like, because once you run, there's no slowing down. So we implemented early on when I got there, an AI program. It's been very useful.

1:22:19I don't want to go into too many specifics, but when you say CT, Chris is referring to counter-terror, CI is counter-intelligence, spy catching. It's been very useful, I think, in some of the projects we're starting in that case. We have to go a little slower on criminal work. You don't want hallucinations and things like that. But you've had some tremendous successes in the cyber division. I know you guys, you know, because we've spoken about this just as friends. Listen, I'm concerned about the potential for an AI cyber attack and things like that. Tell us about some of the stuff going on in crim cyber over at the FBI under the new leadership team.

1:22:55Yeah. Hey, we talk about AI, Dan, this is something that's really near and dear to my heart. And when I take a look at the last 18 months with Director Patel's leadership, obviously with you at the helm for the first year, I think this is one of the spaces that we have grown the most and we've grown a lot in 18 months and we've changed course and we've done a ton of reforms. But I think this is the place where one of the places we've grown the most. So to kind of give you an example, we when when you all took over, we I think we had one AI use case in the FBI at the time. I think my last talking to Shannon Perry, who's over that now, the operational director over that, I think we're up to somewhere around 150 or 160.

1:23:35And AI is, you know, as well as I do for sitting in the chair, our ability to collect information has far exceeded our ability to analyze information. And the net result of that is that we sit on a ton of risk. And that concerns me as a deputy director. I know that kept you up at night as the deputy director. And so we need to develop these AI solutions to triage information, bring important stuff up to the top and then analyze the most important. I think the important thing about AI people need to realize is AI for the most part, no matter what solution you're doing, whether you're doing an investigative solution or translation solution or a large language model, what most people have to understand is there's still a human element to that.

1:24:21This is mostly just a triage tool. It brings information to the top, but there's still human eyes that need to look at that and analyze it. We just don't blindly follow AI. And I want to give you a quick example of that. You're familiar with our National Threat Operations Center, but for your viewers there, that is where all the tips come in to the FBI, hundreds, if not thousands of tips a day. And a lot of it is nonsense. You have to kind of work through it and figure out what's reality, what do we need to be concerned about, and what is just someone who might be emotionally disturbed or a chronic reporter who kind of talks nonsensical things.

1:25:00And so we've implemented an AI solution to triage those tips and bring the ones that are the most concerning and that need to be actioned right away to the top so we can action them right away. There was a case several months ago in North Carolina, made the news, but we used an AI solution. A tip came in that would have normally gotten buried. We would have gotten to it at some point. It probably would have taken us days, weeks, maybe even months because of the amount of tips that came in. But we implemented this AI solution. This tip rises to the top. So instead of looking at it in hours, weeks, or months, we looked at it within minutes.

1:25:38We realized that there was something to it. It involved a school shooting, a potential school shooter in North Carolina. The watch stander took that lead, immediately pushed it to our agents out in the field. we were immediately able to disrupt what would have been and what quite possibly could have been a school shooting incident in North Carolina. And so that's kind of a nuanced example, but that's an example I think will really resonate with your audience, Dan, of where we are using AI and where we are leveraging it to keep the country safe. Chris, this was a huge concern of mine when you were there.

1:26:16You just said something I want to kind of double down on now that you're in the chair. You were on the receiving end of a lot of my phone calls. Remember there was that office tower shooting in New York. You and I were working that all night, a horrible incident. And one of the first things I know you can attest to, I would ask when I get on the phone, once we got the subjects, you know, PII is in for personal information. I'd say, Chris, do we have a guardian? In other words, do we have any information we were, you just said sitting on, which is accurate. That's a great way to say it. Like we were sitting on a bunch of stuff and it's not an excuse.

1:26:51It's an explanation that we just didn't have the manpower to appropriately, I think, go through every single thing at NTOC the way I mean, or else what we would like to do is we'd like to send an agent out on the thousands of calls we would get and every single one. But that wasn't possible. So we had to use instinct, law enforcement instinct. We don't have to do that as much anymore. We can use the assistance of this collective AI brain to say, hey, you may have missed this needle in a haystack, which there's no, we can't fail here. So I would say, hey, do we have a guardian on this? And thankfully, the answer was typically no, that we had not had, or if we did, we had done something about it and we're limited in our, but that is, that's where you're going with that, right?

1:27:35With this, we sit on a lot of stuff and we have to be able to find things that the human eye may miss. Absolutely. We not only have to find it, Dan, we have to, we have to be quick and find it. The way that, the way that threats move now, we don't have time to take two weeks to analyze something, to flash the bang on a lot of these, on a lot of these school shooters, counterterrorism targets, and even gangsters, right? Even gangsters, it gets quicker and quicker because they're leveraging technology, just like we're leveraging technology. And one of the things I have to credit Director Patel, and Attorney General Blanchwith that they did for us is eliminated so much of that political, bureaucratic red tape in order for us to start using these AI solutions.

1:28:17We moved more in that 18 months, in this 18 months in the AI space than we have in the last five years. We still have some work to go, but we are much better postured and we're leveraging our AI solutions much better now than we were 18 months ago. That's such an important point, Chris. Listen, the government, it doesn't matter. Democrats, Republicans, they're not known for being the most efficient. They're just not. And, you know, even little things, when Cash and I were there early on, even little things, like, you know, we were destroying former agents' firearms. It was just the dumbest thing.

1:28:52I'm like, why are we doing it? Oh, Janet Reno said so. Like, what? We haven't changed this in decades? So with the president's leadership, the national security team over there at the White House, A.G. Blanche and Director Patel all in alignment saying, hey, we don't have time. The bad guys are already using this advanced technology. You want to lose? I don't want a mushroom cloud over New York. I agree with you. It would never have happened without that kind of oil to get the gears running. And thankfully, they did that. You kind of teed me up for the next question. Again, you have a significant background in two spaces, violent crime and encounter terror.

1:29:32That's where I first ran into you. You were the DAD, right? And CTD at the time, Counterterror Division. And we were chatting in my office about these things. And one of the things we were talking about was the president's leadership on the FTO designation. FTO is a foreign terror organization. These designations were traditionally for, you know, ideological groups. And listen, of course, that's the right thing. However, the president said, well, if you've got a drug cartel, you know, cutting people's heads off and putting them on pikes in the middle of the street, intimidating our border agents, coming to the United States, wiping out hundreds of thousands of people, casualties with fentanyl and other drugs every year.

1:30:15That kind of sounds like terror to me. That FTO designation by the president unlocked an enormous amount of potential for the FBI to get involved with our DEA partners, our U.S. Marshall partners, ATF and elsewhere. I think it's been really an incredible moment. And I really thank the White House for doing it. But given your CTD background, that was an enormous help. Yeah, absolutely, Dan. Look, we have been working drug cartels the same for 50 years, right? I've been around drug investigation for 23 years. We have been working the same way for 50 years. Obviously, the drug cartels, they've evolved the last 50 years.

1:30:55And really, that designation that the president gave us for making these transnational gains and drug cartels, foreign terrorist organizations, that opened up a whole suite of tools that weren't previously available to us on the drug cartel side that we were using on the national security side previously. And really, when you talk about that FTO designation, you can't not talk about that and talk about the creation of the Homeland Security Task Forces, which all we did there in the Homeland Security Task Force is take that JTTF blueprint, which has been so successful for the last 25 years, we kind of we kind of sanded the edges and refined it a little bit and took that same blueprint and put it over on the criminal side with Homeland Security Task Force.

1:31:41So not only are we prosecuting drug runners, seizing dope that is coming into the United States, seizing cash that is destined for the cartels, but we're now using a whole of government approach that we hadn't previously used when it comes to those drug cartels. We have Department of Treasury involved. We have sanctions involved. We have Department of War involved and they have a different skill set, a different set of capabilities, a different set of talents that we didn't previously have before. And we are really focusing on kind of goes back to what I talked about on our criminal enterprise investigation with the gangs and violent crime.

1:32:20We are focusing on using our national security tools this new suite of tools which is open to us and And and going after the big players overseas whether it's in Mexico Whether it's in Colombia or some of these other countries something that we really haven't focused on before You know a lot of times we make we would make arrests here in the US and everybody would see you know One ton of dough two tons of dough two million dollar seats And those are all really really good things, but you know as well as I do it's a moat who's carrying that stuff It's not somebody that was that was the head of the snake snake, so to speak, or somebody that was important.

1:32:55And so we've really shifted that tactic over to really looking at the folks overseas and what are they what are they doing and what can we do to not only disrupt them and even bring and also bring them back to the United States to face American justice. We've been doing it for 25 years in the national security space. We bring terrorists back all the time. We bring spies back all the time. Let them see American justice. We're doing the same thing on the criminal side now. And I really got, again, credit Director Patel. Where he excels the most that I've seen in my 18 months is in international cooperation.

1:33:30Director Patel has no problem picking up the phone, calling his equivalent, sometimes the person above his equivalent, and having a conversation. And I got to tell you, Dan, nine times out of 10, it works. And that that that country will give will give us someone in record speed that would take the system months, if not years, to give us that person back to face American justice. Chris, I got to run, but I just wanted to say in closing, number one, I deeply appreciate you taking the template, running with it and producing even better numbers. And I think the greatest, you know, honor you can pass on to others is having someone else beat those numbers, showing that a combination of leadership and a good, effective model just works.

1:34:14But I'm glad you brought that up about Director Patel. And I wasn't laughing. I mean, drugs, it's nothing funny, but it's just whenever you're looking for cash. and you hear him because sometimes you can hear in his office he's got like a civets going and you can hear it it's almost always about fentanyl and he's he's we all had our own individual you know i don't want to obsessions like mine was drones and violent crime doesn't mean you let anything obviously it's just we all have our thing cash's thing director patel's thing is unquestionably ftos and drugs he would be on calls all day like sometimes i'd be not going He's on a civets.

1:34:54He's on with who now? UK, China, whatever. He is obsessed with this topic. So Chris is not making that up. And I think the results speak for themselves and the seizures, the fentanyl deaths, thankfully, coming down dramatically. This is real. I mean, these are real people alive right now because of the White House's leadership and the director. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. And I just kind of want to close with this because I think this is important. I think this is important for your viewers and really for the public to know. I have seen the most change in the Bureau that I've seen in 23 years.

1:35:28We have changed that aircraft carrier. It started with Director Patel. It started with Director Patel and with you. And we are in such a good place right now, Dan. We made 60 plus, we just went through some of them, we made 60 plus major reforms in the FBI under Director Patel's leadership. And for as long as I'm in this seat, I want your viewers to know and I want the public to know that we are in such a good direction when it comes to the FBI. All I really want to do from this seat is continue what you guys started, build that momentum, keep that momentum going forward and build something to last past me, past Director Patel, past President Trump, something that is going to last into the years, if not decades.

1:36:11So thanks so much, Dan, for having me. It's an absolute privilege and honor to be on your show. And just thanks for really stepping in the breach. I know I've told you this before, but it's important I tell you this in front of your viewers. Just thank for stepping in the breach, leaving your family and leading the Bureau in 2025 and getting us pointing in the right direction. Thank you, Chris. That means a lot to me. I really appreciate it. And, you know, from your mouth to God's ears that we can just take this model and just stay focused on the right things and the right principles. And, you know, people are policy.

1:36:44We need good people in there. And I appreciate you stepping in afterwards. I know those calls I made to you were like, huh? Well, so yeah, but the Summer Heat 2.0 numbers prove it like that. That was a really good decision. FBI Deputy Director Christopher Rea. Chris, thanks a lot for your time. We appreciate it. Absolutely, Dan. Thank you. You got it, folks. That was for all the media people. Again, wondering how this administration crushed violent crime. We just gave you the answer. I know you'll never write it because you want to, of course, you want to go thank prior Democrat administrations instead.

1:37:19Homeland Security Task Forces, UFAP warrants, state, local, tribal, territorial cooperation, violent crime task forces, promotional incentives for people who crush violent crime. Like there was a leadership component from this administration on down. I know you don't want to give President Trump any credit. However, that's kind of nonsense, man. Someone needs to write that story one of these days. It's really kind of sickening them avoiding it. Don't forget to check out Sean's show at 1 o 'clock. Sean Farish, rumble.com slash Sean Haley at noon. Vince at 8 a.m. Please download the free Rumble app.

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