It's Official: Dan Bongino To Leave FBI | Episode 191

25:20We'll see. I don't – by the way, Dan has Justin. That's the answer to your question. Dan gets to decide Justin's fate. We should do like a whole reality show based on that. I think that'd be fun too. What about Major? Yeah. Major is going to be totally fine. I don't even think Major has no idea that I, that I even do this. So Major, all Major knows is that I feed him and that he likes sleeping in my bed and he's hilarious and he's just wonderful. So no, Major is going to be perfectly fine. Major's life once again, is not going to change at all. It's going to be the same exact thing all of the time.

25:54You're not going to lose me at all. Some people are saying, we don't want to lose. You're not going to lose me. We're all, we're all, we're all in this together. It's going to be really great. All right. Any other questions? Oh, what is my biggest concern for our country? Oh, well, I mean, thank you, Herney and McGroin asking this. What's my biggest concern? My biggest concern is that we lose our way and by extension lose our country. That's my biggest concern. you know you and i have watched the betrayal of our country over these last years and we're horrified by it we're also activated by it at levels that we've never been activated and that's because the left kicked our borders open they imported a lot of people who have no interest in assimilating into this country many of whom are actively enemies to this country who commit crimes against us, who steal from us.

26:50And as a result, I really worry about what I keep referring to as that Tower of Babel effect, that the whole thing collapses in upon itself when we have nothing in common, we don't share a common language, you feel like a stranger in your own country, and all sorts of chaos has been actively invited in at our expense. I hate all of that. So what do I worry about? I worry about losing sight of what made this country great in the first place. I worry about losing our vocabulary. I worry about losing our sense of history. I worry about losing our appreciation for God above, for a sense of the eternal.

27:27I worry about the demons winning. I worry about us losing the spiritual war. I worry about the impact this is going to have on my child. I worry that the country that I know and love is not going to be there for my grandchildren. These are my worries. My worries are, what does my country look like going into the future? And is it possible to turn this aircraft carrier around to take that big swing and head back in the proper direction? Is it possible to do that? There's been a lot of signs of success, by the way. This is why there are people out there who are dedicated to blackpilling, and then there are people out there who are dedicated to the rosiest possible vision all the time.

28:14I try as best I can to give you a realist sense of the world. I worry about all of those things, but I do appreciate the victories that we've had. So when you see the defund the police movement defeated, which, of course, has happened, when you see the entire country say in unison that there is no such thing as a boy pretending to be a girl or a girl pretending to be a boy or boys shouldn't play in girl sports or you shouldn't mutilate children or any of these things, these are – we have reclaimed territory. Sanity is prevailing against the left. Now, it doesn't mean the left has given up on that cruelty, but it does mean that we've had victories.

28:54On the fight for life, we've had victories. Roe v. Wade was overturned. I mean, there are things that we can be very happy about. America's border is now secure at levels that none of us have seen in our entire lives. I mean, in our entire lives. President Trump has done that. that's a massive victory restoring our sovereignty bringing about these peace deals around the planet that's huge so are things moving in some proper and good directions absolutely but yeah no i worry i worry about what happens if we lose it all and we're very close to that we we're unfortunately very close to that you're always a generation away from losing it if you don't fight hard for it.

29:42So we're being called to fight for it right now, which goes back to the point that I've been making this entire program. I'm super pumped that Dan Bongino is rejoining the fight on this side of the microphone. I can't wait to see it. And I've been so grateful to be a part of it this year. You guys are the best, truly are, truly are. Keep the questions coming and I'll try and answer everybody as we go. Okay. Let's, in a moment, I want to get into the president of the united states and what he is saying he gave a big address to the nation last night uh what the media think of it they crapped all over it of course i'll get to that it's all ahead right here on this edition of vince you know this christmas i was just talking about life we celebrate life we love life we love life and uh you know it's just it's just amazing how does the other side love death so much.

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34:04Get a pair of hearing aids for just$297. Thank you, MD Hearing. All right. Let's talk about the president of the United States. He gives a big address last night to the nation. It was just under 20 minutes long. And what was interesting about this speech, there's a lot to say about it. But one, it was just sort of, it was a very hopeful recitation of all of the positive things the Trump administration has done this past year. and a look forward to all the things that they want to do, all the ambitions that President Trump has to keep trying to improve the country. Interesting about the speech, President Trump stuck to the teleprompter.

34:40And I think the reason for this is because the White House was trying to stick to a tight window of time so they can make sure that the broadcast networks carried every minute of it. And so President Trump stuck to the script for timing purposes last night. So in so doing, what was unusual about it was it was it didn't consist of a ton of ad lib. He wasn't off teleprompter. He wasn't, you know, looking in every direction, talking about all these other things. He was just sticking to the script that he had in front of him. And so it's like, of course, just because everything's a wrap up smear with the press.

35:14A lot of the reaction last night was like, well, that was strange. We've never seen Trump like this. That's so crazy. What is he doing? He's falling apart. What do you mean he's falling apart? He read a script. He read his speech. And so he's falling apart. How about shut up? How about this is so stupid? And why are you people even being treated in any way as neutral arbiters of the words that are coming out of the president of the United States? Why don't we just listen to the president himself? Here he is going back over the past 11 months of this, the 47th presidency of the United States. Take a listen.

35:44When I took office, inflation was the worst in 48 years. And some would say in the history of our country, which caused prices to be higher than ever before making life unaffordable for millions and millions of Americans. This happened during a Democrat administration, and it's when we first began hearing the word affordability. Our border was open, and because of this, our country was being invaded by an army of 25 million people, many who came from prisons and jails, mental institutions, and insane asylums. They were drug dealers, gang members, and even 11 ,888 murderers, more than 50 % of whom killed more than one person.

36:32This is what the Biden administration allowed to happen to our country, and it can never be allowed to happen again. We had men playing in women's sports, transgender for everybody, crime at record levels. over the past 11 months, we have brought more positive change to Washington than any administration in American history. There's never been anything like it. Yeah, look, what he's talking about is the Biden hangover. The Biden hangover is real. That they added a tremendous amount to our national debt. They kicked our borders wide open. They imported tens of millions of people. They have caused a lot of chaos in our country.

37:18A lot of children brought across those borders and and turned over to slavery and and sex abuse. It's just utter demonic disaster. So President Trump is basically making an obvious point, which is like, I got to clean this up. So we go from the Biden hangover to the strong cup of coffee and cold shower that President Trump is providing to the country. We got to sober everybody up here. We got to fix this thing. I got a huge mess on my hands. And have they had success this year? They definitely have. I mentioned the border and so did the president. Cut to watch the president last night. Starting on day one, I took immediate action to stop the invasion of our southern border for the past seven months.

38:04Zero illegal aliens have been allowed into our country, a feat which everyone said was absolutely impossible. Do you remember when Joe Biden said that he needed Congress to pass legislation to help close the border? He was always blaming Congress and everyone else. As it turned out, we didn't need legislation. We just needed a new president. We inherited the worst border anywhere in the world, and we quickly turned it into the strongest border in the history of our country. This border achievement is right there at the top of the list. I mean, if you if you can't give this man credit for what he's done on our border, you are either willfully blind or you're an idiot.

38:48I mean, it's just or just just a Democrat. It's just a Democrat. It's like the guy has sealed the border up tight. It was even like Hakeem Jeffries a couple of weeks ago was asked about this. CNN was like, well, you can give him credit for fixing the border. Right. And even Hakeem Jeffries was like in his own slow dial up Democrat brain kind of way. oh yes yeah okay well that's a that's a sign here's your side president trump has sealed up the border uh wonderful i love that um let's see uh we also have all the drugs that were coming into the country you know we're blowing up drug boats right it's had a positive effect we seal up the border we're killing drug dealers trying to get into the country well that means we're slowing the drugs entirely that have been coming into the country and killing over 100 000 americans a year.

39:36Cut three. Here's the president last night. Drugs brought in by ocean and by sea are now down 94 percent. We have broken the grip of sinister woke radicals in our schools and control over those schools is back now in the hands of our great and loving states where education belongs. After rebuilding the United States military in my first term and with the addition we are adding Right now, we have the most powerful military anywhere in the world, and it's not even close. I've restored American strength, settled eight wars in 10 months, destroyed the Iran nuclear threat, and ended the war in Gaza, bringing for the first time in 3 ,000 years peace to the Middle East and secured the release of the hostages, both living and dead.

40:32both living and dead you know uh he listed off a lot of real successes that he's had this year on foreign policy there was something i mentioned yesterday on our program that i was hoping he would do last night but he did not do this uh which is to get into a little bit more detail about the blockade of venezuela he's posted some some on truth social about it but he did not talk uh at any length last night about the fact that the united states navy is blockading all of the oil going in and out of Venezuela right now. I still think it would be good to see an address on this, even if it's not from the president of the United States himself.

41:09Perhaps J.D. Vance or Pete Hegseth could do this. But whenever we send out the military in such big numbers to engage in action like this, it's always, I think, super important to get the American people to buy into it. And as I mentioned yesterday, and for those of you interested in what is going on in Venezuela, there's no doubt, that the Maduro regime and before that, the Hugo Chavez regime has been stealing from the American people like crazy, stealing from the American oil industry, which, by the way, built the oil operations in Venezuela. America did that. And when President Trump says they've been stealing from us and that ends now, he's right about that.

41:51And I would go check out yesterday's show for more details on all that. I kind of run through the history with Venezuela and all of the damage they've caused with those ill-gotten gains. That's legit. It's funny, though, speaking of that, I did see some reaction yesterday. There were some lefties who were like, what? America didn't build the oil industry. Down there, it was just private companies that did that. That's the difference between you and us. That's the difference. You don't think... So when the left thinks about what America did, Obama did this, too. Remember the you didn't build that thing?

42:26You didn't build that. You didn't build that. the left views, the only way America does something is through government expenditures. That's their view. That's their view. So in other words, like Thomas Edison and the light bulb would not be credited to any great American achievement. That wouldn't be, no, well, the government wasn't involved in that, so that doesn't count. No, it does actually. It's a great American achievement. It's a great American achievement. American industry succeeding is a great American achievement. The American energy industry is a great American achievement. It's the American spirit.

43:04It's free enterprise. It is success. It is all the stuff that made America great. These are American achievements. The left doesn't view it that way. The left, in fact, views the success of private industry as some sort of evil. It's not. It's a great feature of America, not a bug. and that's how they view it so it's just it really stands as you watch this debate it's like okay yeah i'm we are not the same we are not the same at all uh but yes i want more information about venezuela coming out from the trump administration that would be uh worthwhile the president did talk about the military last night he made a big announcement that the left was instantly pissed off about which is he's giving bonuses to the troops and the value of the bonus you ready 1776.

43:50Take a look at this. Tonight, I am also proud to announce that more than 1 ,450 ,000, think of this, 1 ,450 ,000 military service members will receive a special we call warrior dividend before Christmas, a warrior dividend in honor of our nation's founding in 1776, we are sending every soldier$1 ,776. Think of that. And the checks are already on the way. Checks are already on the way. I saw one lady, one Democrat lady was on TV last night. She's like, that can't even pay for rent in Washington, D.C. They can't pay for rent in Washington, D.C.? What? I mean, first of all, how decadent is your worldview?

44:41How closed in and in the bubble is your worldview. Most troops, almost all of them, they don't even live in Washington, D.C. What are you talking about? And you're telling me$1 ,776 isn't going to get some mileage with the troops? It's a huge deal. What a blessing at Christmas to be able to get that kind of bonus. Of course, the left is rooting against it. They're rooting against it because they don't want to see Donald Trump get any credit for doing something good and because they're constantly rooting against the troops anyway. No, I'm glad about it. Thank you, Mr. President. And he points out that this is from some of the money that's come in, not from our tax dollars, but instead from tariffs, that the tariff revenues are the source of this revenue.

45:25And so he's turning it around and giving it to the troops. Perfectly proper, I think. Perfectly proper to express that kind of gratitude to our troops. And it comes at a perfect time as we go into the 250th anniversary of the United States. Yeah, 1776 at the commissary. You're right. Arian Adkins says that's going to go a long way at the commissary. Yeah, it's going to go a very long way at the commissary. Very long way. Also, for the rest of us, not just those of you in the military, we're going to see tax cuts coming through. So here's cut five. President Trump talking about the effects of the big, beautiful bill.

46:01This is a big message going into the midterms. What have you done for us? Oh, we cut your taxes. Watch this. Next year, you will also see the results of the largest tax cuts in American history that were really accomplished through our great, big, beautiful bill, perhaps the most sweeping legislation ever passed in Congress. We wrapped 12 different bills up into one beautiful bill that includes no tax on tips, no tax on overtime and no tax on Social Security for our great seniors. Under these cuts, many families will be saving between eleven thousand and twenty thousand dollars a year. And next spring is projected to be the largest tax refund season of all time.

46:50yeah that's going to be a big deal i think you know ultimately when it comes to elections um the closer to home the impact of american politics comes the more likely it is that people will actually go to the polls to vote if you see some meaningful change in the quality of your life if you are paying less at the pump for instance as a percentage of your budget than you've been in over two decades well you feel that you can see it on the sign in your streets you feel it when you swipe the credit card at the pump you you know what's happening and by the way that is what's happening right now americans are paying the lowest as a percentage of their own budgets for gas that they've paid in over two decades that's a very big deal that's a very big deal President Trump talking about last night how well American energy has done.

47:42So that's a huge thing. And then, of course, like if your taxes are coming down and if you're getting massive refunds after tax day this year in April, then you're going to look at that and go, well, how'd that happen? Well, that was Trump. That was the Republican Party. So you've got this strong case going into the midterms, and these guys would do very well to hit it. You know, part of the message last night was to remind the rest of these Republicans, some of whom, you know, couldn't find their ass with two hands, that this is the way you should be talking. You should be talking about these successes, getting out there, fanning across the country and telling people about all the great things that they have access to thanks to the hard work of President Trump and whatever Republicans have supported them in Congress.

48:23That's what you need to do in a positive vision. this idea that like everyone needs to be fighting each other and we need to go in with some dour vision of what the future holds it's not going to work you're not going to get people out to the polls that way you got to demonstrate that you've succeeded for them and you have to promise you're going to do more that's it it's as simple as that it's the economy's stupid all right so more on that here's the president talking about the health insurance companies last night just imagine being a democrat watching this and being like wait a second trump is taking on the insurance companies Everybody told me that he's in bed with them.

48:55Watch this. Here's President Trump. Cut six last night. I'm also taking on the gigantic health insurance companies that have gotten rich on billions of dollars of money that should go directly to the people. The money should go to the people. That's you. So they can buy their own health insurance, which will give far better benefits at much lower costs. It will be far better health insurance. The current Unaffordable Care Act was created to make insurance companies rich. It was bad health care at much too higher cost. And you see that now in the steep increase in premiums being demanded by the Democrats.

49:33And they are demanding those increases. And it's their fault. It is not the Republicans fault. It's the Democrats fault. Yeah, this is great. This is great. And this is like that's a mind blowing experience. If you're a Democrat who's been misled by all of your stupid distortion filters that you consume on a routine basis, you're watching that going, wait. He's trying to fight back against the insurance companies. I'm sorry. What did I miss? What what is this? Now, that's not a surprise to you. That's not a surprise to me. This is one of the reasons we voted for him to break the crony corruption that has not led to improvements in health care, that has made it way less efficient and has made it prohibitively expensive.

50:17Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act is no such thing. The cost of health care has skyrocketed due to the crony scheme that Obama and the Democrats developed with the insurance companies that merely lines the pockets of those insurance companies and then screws the rest of us. How about no more? How about none of that shit? So President Trump comes out and he goes, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to stop letting the insurance companies get all the money. We'll just populate health savings accounts for Americans, and they can figure out what they want to buy. And we will make this work a lot better.

50:49Well, that's a step in the right direction if I've ever heard of one. Getting away from the corrupt deal and getting to something that actually takes care of Americans, that's what we need. I mean, here's a basic question. I don't even really need to get into too many statistics. How much have your health care costs gone up? Has the quality of your health care improved since Obamacare came out? Have your premiums gone down? Have your deductibles gone down? Is it easier to see a specialist now? Are you able to keep the same doctor that you once had? The answer to all of those questions for almost everybody is no.

51:25It's no. Everything's become much worse, much worse. And for those of you in the medical industry, you'll know this too. There's a big problem that Obamacare created paperwork. You know what's government paperwork Obamacare created? A lot. So much so that doctors can't even see patients so much of the time because they're consumed with government paperwork. What if here's a crazy idea? What if there was less government paperwork and more available appointments for patients? What would that do? Here's an economics question for you. If the supply of doctors appointments goes up, what does the cost of health care do?

52:04It goes down. because there's more chances to see doctors. This is not complicated stuff. These are simple economic principles. Yet the government interfered, got involved, had a corrupt arrangement, and screwed the rest of us over. Time to fix it. President Trump is doing that. So that's good. I like that he's locked in on this, and I like the mind-blowing experience that lefties were having last night as they were watching all of this. Like, what? He's shaking on the insurance companies? Yep. Yeah, he is. and let's see finally I want to end here with you today on the president's remarks he said look we're going into 2026 it's a huge year in American history this is the 250th year of our country so we're going to be celebrating America 250 all year long here's the president last night commenting on the opportunity we have to restore American patriotism cut eight watch this Soon we will host the World Cup and the Olympics, both of which I got.

53:04But most importantly, we will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. There could be no more fitting tribute to this epic milestone than to complete the comeback of America that began just one year ago. So when the world looks at us next year, let them see a nation that is loyal to its citizens, faithful to its workers, confident to its identity, certain to its destiny and the envy of the entire globe. The envy of the entire globe. So I'm really looking forward to that. I've said it before. I think people are missing this a lot, that America 250 is going to be a massive, massive opportunity for the country next year.

53:51to really kind of sit in that moment, marinate in the patriotism of our country and what made it great in the first place. And President Trump, unlike any other president, very capable messenger on that. I think that's going to be a big deal going into the midterms. Now, as far as the economy is concerned, last night President Trump gives that address and then promptly all of these idiots in the press start crapping all over it. What is he talking about? The economy is not doing well at all. Everything's terrible. Really? Because we just got inflation reports this morning. This morning, as we're beginning the program today, we get an inflation report telling us that things are looking very good.

54:29The Financial Times reports that U.S. inflation just unexpectedly fell to 2.7 percent in November. It walloped the Wall Street expectations. They thought it was going to be well above 3 percent. Nope, it's beneath that. It's at 2.7%. This is great data. And here is CNBC this morning reading these numbers live on the air, stunned by what they just heard. The number of the morning, the CPI, oh, maybe coming in a little bit better than expected. 2.7%, a little light here. I'm not calling, I'm just reading the headlines here. Year over year, 2.7. X Food and Energy Core, 2.6. So four tenths off. That is a very good number here.

55:13And it really, I have not looked at the internals. I'll look at them now. But it suggests that the internals are good as well. Let's see, year over year over the last 12 months. There is no month to month, but some guys will be able to calculate. Seasonally adjusted index for all items less food and energy rose 0.2 % over the two months. So correct my math here, Michael Santoli, but 0.2 divided by 2 is 0.1. Yeah. So therefore, that's a very, very low monthly rate here. The index for shelter increase, so you did get a really nice decline in shelter, which was 0.2. And so that was 0.1 per month.

55:50Yeah. So basically the CNBC readout is like, holy crap, actually, the numbers look really good. In fact, in case you're wondering how good they are, look no further than CNN this morning. CNN had one of their experts on a Harvard expert. He went to Harvard. And he says, yeah, actually, this is all good news. I don't really know how to talk about this other than the fact that it's good news. Watch this. I mean, I was surprised it was a better number than anyone was expecting. thing. Look, inflation's been very high. It's stayed high. It has not been coming down. But, you know, people were expecting it to be above 3%.

56:28It was well below 3%. I mean, I think the president will take this as good news. The investors will think that interest rates will get cut more. So, you know, it was it was a positive news. There's no other way to spin it. There's no other way to spin it. I would love to, but I don't really know how to. It's. well crap it's good news i'll take it i'll take it uh my my in-house economist e.g. and tony uh posting on social media today uh that inflation right now core cpi in november at 2.6 percent year over year it's the coolest print since march of 2021 the coolest inflation number meaning inflation's getting getting down which is uh which is good news that means uh the cost of everything is not going up quite as quickly.

57:15That's good to hear. Also, wages have gone up. Wages have been outpacing inflation. President Trump talked about that last night, which means that it takes a little bit of the pressure off of American households. Did I say we're done? No, I didn't. Don't you confuse me. Don't you confuse my remarks. I'm telling you that we've got a long way to go, but this is a positive trend. This is the trend you want and a great, great report to start the day. Today on the big national radio show, a lot more to discuss there coming up, including the Brown University investigation. I've got to get into the details there.

57:50These guys, I said it yesterday. Let me reiterate again. I don't believe that they're merely incompetent. They are engaged actively in a cover up at Brown. They're engaged in a cover up. They are refusing to tell you things you deserve to know about the horrific murder of those students. including the vice president of the college Republicans last weekend at Brown University. We'll explore all of the latest details on that subject and all of the glaring omissions by those officials, those Democrats in Providence, Rhode Island. We'll hit that today on the big national radio show. A lot to get to.

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59:06We have two weeks off on the podcast. We do have two weeks of the live podcast. We'll be we'll be off. We do have content for you. We're going to have content for you over the Christmas week and the New Year's week. But the guys have been working their asses off all year. They deserve a break, which is which is great. A well-deserved Christmas break. So they're going to take it. We're going to take it. Haley, Haley Carania is going to be guest hosting at the beginning of next week. and we've got Sean Farish coming in to guest host again next week. So it's going to be great. They're doing great.

59:40And then I'm back with you when we get started in the new year. It's going to be super exciting. A lot to get to. We've got a lot to get to. As always, you're the best audience anywhere. I'm back with you tomorrow. See you then.