Shockwaves in the Swamp Over Trump's Latest Move | Episode 116

25:52Dan Bongino:it. Here's what the president said that Reagan asked him for more clarity on this subject. And here's how that went. Reagan said, you're allowing 600 ,000 Chinese students to still study here, she said. The president responded, 600 ,000 over two years. Reese says, OK, over two years. I'm curious if this is a negotiation tactic or if this is something you think benefits the country. Trump responded, quote, I think it's very insulting to a country. I have a very good relationship with President Xi, and I think it's very insulting to a country when you say you're not going to take your students and they have probably 300 ,000.

26:34Dan Bongino:600 is over two years, but they have, let's say, 300 ,000 to 350 ,000 students. It's also good for our system when you take them out and you know who's going to be affected. the lesser colleges, the top colleges aren't going to be. It's the lesser colleges that are, he said. What he's saying is that, in other words, the small schools in the United States are very dependent on this money from Chinese foreign nationals coming in. And if the CHICOMs are cut off from coming into the country, then where are these schools going to get their money from? They're going to have to close, to which most of us respond, good.

27:10Dan Bongino:They should close. Those schools should shutter. Most of the schools at the bottom end of the university system are scams anyway. They're not real. They're just a way to put people into tragic amounts of debt without giving them an education that's worth the paper that it's written on. I mean, the whole thing is ridiculous. So, yeah, close the schools. Reagan responded, so it wouldn't take Harvard out, you don't think? Because when I hear that, I think conservatives would say, all right, let's let Harvard and Columbia or the universities die. But you would think you think it would hurt the lesser schools?

27:45Dan Bongino:Reagan asked. The president responded, I don't want them to die. No, I want them to be great, but I want to be fair, he said. And, you know, they're being punished. But, you know, I don't want we have we have the greatest system in the world, university, young, you know, the high schools. And let's say you don't take Harvard. They're going to develop schools and they'll be fine. They're going to be fine. No, I think it's very insulting in that sense to be doing that. I think it would hurt the system. And, you know, I get along with China, said the president. China's paying us a lot of money right now.

28:18Dan Bongino:They're paying us hundreds of millions of dollars. And do you understand what I mean by that? Reagan replies, yes. Trump continues, it's very insulting to say we don't want their students. Yes, says Reagan. President responds, you know, I think it's good for us. But, you know, we're doing well with China. Reagan says, is there something you hope to get specifically in return for allowing their students to still study? The president says, no, no, I don't want anything in return. We're doing well. They're paying us hundreds of billions of dollars. Yeah. OK, so this is not something I love. I'm not into it.

29:05Dan Bongino:I don't want to take 600 ,000 Chinese students into our country. I don't want to take 270 ,000. It's not about them being Chinese. It's about them being subject to the whims of the Chi-Coms, the Chinese Communist Party. I have no interest whatsoever in that. Now, the president is convinced, as he points out to Reagan, that this is a part of a broader relationship with China. He wants to be on good terms with this country, which is our biggest adversary, unquestionably. He wants to be on good terms, and he sees this as a way to sweeten the pot in that relationship. But I do think it continues to be highly reasonable for you and I to be completely horrified by having 600 ,000 would-be espionage agents here on behalf of the Chai Combs.

30:04Dan Bongino:The national security laws in China established by the Chai Combs are really clear. If they want you to act in their interest against the United States, you are obligated, you are duty bound to do that as a Chinese national here in America. Or else your family back home will suffer the consequences of your failure to heed their orders. That's just the way it works. The president knows this. But he must also believe that the risk is worth taking. that whatever he's seeing is indicating to him that we need to have some sort of really good relationship with China that includes taking in 600 ,000 of their nationals.

30:46Dan Bongino:So again, I'm enthusiastic about the Trump presidency. I love what he's done. I keep voting for him over and over and over again. That said, don't love this. Don't love this. All right, much more ahead on the program from The Blaze. The great Chris Bedford is joining us in mere moments. I'll ask him what he thinks about all of this. That's ahead on this edition of Vince. Glad to have you with us. After a packed day, you know, there's nothing better than sinking into a bed that actually helps you recharge. And that's why I am so thrilled that I switched to a Helix mattress. And let me tell you, it's been a total upgrade to my sleep.

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33:58Dan Bongino:Let me bring in Chris Bedford, who's talking in my ear right now. I don't know if people can hear him. Chris Bedford, senior politics editor, D.C. correspondent for The Blaze is here. Hello, Chris. I've been sorry if they could. I just meant to be harassing you man to man. Chris was definitely harassing me during all of that. I had to turn you down, actually, because of your harassment. I literally muted you. I was like, mute. I got to turn Chris down. Well, I was doing the live reads there. Thank you, man. It's good to have you with us. Hey, let me dive in really quick to what Reagan Reese was able to gather from the president of the United States on Friday.

34:35Dan Bongino:She got a couple things out of them, and some of them just instantly stood out to me like, whoa, wait a second. Not sure I love this. One, he indicated that he is trying to work out a deal that he says everyone is going to love when it comes to farm workers and hotel workers who are here in the country illegally. Now, Chris, whatever deal he comes up with, I got to say, I don't love amnesties of any kind. What do you think of this? No, and props to Reagan because President Trump is one of the hardest people on the planet to give an interview and make news with these days. He is a professional.

35:06He decides whether or not he wants to answer something, and usually your best shot at making news is when he says, we'll see, and then the media flips out. He says we'll see about arresting this person or that, but she actually got, she stuck with it. Now, this is an interesting relationship. I remember touring in 2020 through the dairy farms and the cattle farms and talking to folks, and there was a real split. But the farmers, which, you know, they have a reputation in the United States for just being the kind of guys who wake up before dawn, and a lot of them do. But by and large, they are massive corporations.

35:43But they still, especially the few remaining independent farms, need to do good business. They've got the economy that they've run on for years, which, I mean, as we know, in this country, farms have a long history of not paying locals to do the work. but they also were hit hard by the tariffs, they were hit hard by trade battles with Canada and Mexico previously and they were sometimes seeming to regret their vote for President Trump in 2016, which a lot of them gave. So I know he's got a delicate balance there, but amnesty for powerful interests in the United States that once again are declining to pay locals is a difficult thing to sell.

36:25Now, you can make the case that there are a lot of these jobs, a lot of these towns really can't actually even put up the labor that's necessary. I've been to these places where a lot of the migrant workers live. I didn't check any papers, don't know who was legal or illegal, but they kind of live in almost group housing comfortably, eat their meals together, work together, and then leave after the season's over. And like the president did say, they are paying their taxes. These corporations are trying to stay above the law as much as they can. But it just doesn't sit right. I think you're right.

36:59A lot of those different deals that the president has to strike seemingly don't sit great with some of the MAGA base. Unfortunately, that is also a bit of the nature of politics. It is the art of compromise.

37:11Dan Bongino:Sure, it is. That's for sure. But at least in that case, it involves directly American interests and the cost of food and whether or not these farmers can get the work that they need. As I advocated a short while ago, I'd like to see people go home first. And then if they want to come in legally, we have a legal means to do that. But I don't want to see anybody given a reward for being here illegally. I think that sends a bad message. And it, by the way, becomes a magnet for more illegal immigration, which is exactly the opposite of what the president wants to do. And it protects them from exploitation.

37:41by corrupt wealthier employers who may know that you're an elite here illegally and be able to hold that over your head. They will hold that over your head, pay you those kind of wages and take care of you in that kind of way.

37:54Dan Bongino:Yeah. Let me also ask you about China then, too. We've got the president indicating over the past few weeks that he wants to bring in some 600 ,000 Chinese nationals to attend universities. He did tell Reagan that that's over the course of two years. So maybe in a kind of a generous interpretation, you say 300 ,000 a year. We're at around 270 ,000 currently in the university system, Chinese foreign nationals. It honestly, once again, in terms of like rewarding the people who do the bad things, it does seem like we're rewarding China, which in the end produced COVID, just to remind people, and has been killing hundreds of thousands of Americans a year with chemical precursors that become fentanyl and other awful drugs in the United States.

38:41Dan Bongino:And then, of course, the Tricoms keep stealing from us like crazy. So this one's a little hard for me to believe that the president would be OK accommodating all of these Chinese nationals in our country. What do you think of it? I can't stand it. There's no surprise, though. I mean, there was always a question of whether or not which way the president was going to go on his dealings with China. And I wrote about it for my Beltway Brief newsletter last week, that this is, well, President Trump is surrounding himself with a lot of hardliners on China, a lot of hardliners on immigration, which gave hope to those of us, I think you and I included, who want to see a total reset and reimagining of what the American-Chinese relationship is.

39:24Those people are all around him, but the president, since his interviews in the 1980s, I was able to pull up a couple of those, was always talking about not reimagined entirely relationships, but getting a better deal for the United States. So I was trying to get in questions when I was down at the White House press briefings over and over again. I could never get a straight answer from the press secretary or from Stephen Miller or from other people on what the president's goal was on trade war with China. Was it A, to decouple the two countries, to make it so that we were secure, to make it so that these students, who, as you know, they don't leave China without Xi Jinping and the Communist Party's approval, and are expected once here to actually commit espionage for China and, like you were talking about earlier in the show, are under a huge amount of pressure to actually listen to the folks back home, where their families are, where their mothers and their fathers and their sisters and their brothers are.

40:17I don't see why that's actually a good thing for the country, but the president has always been interested in making a few more dollars. He looks at, which he talked about with Reagan, all that money coming into the Treasury. He looks at the trade changes. And that was always the question. Does he want to reimagine this relationship or does he just want a better deal for American businesses? And it seems like those Chinese hardliners are going to have to wait a little while longer for a president who actually wants to decouple the economies. Because this one just right now, he's making big progress, but it's towards a deal.

40:51Dan Bongino:OK. All right. So those are two areas that you and I have expressed concern. And it's good. I like having a president that actually listens to his base, too. So this is a good part of that conversation. Let me get on to some other things now. We've got Congress coming back today, finally, after its August recess, which they should have never taken. Or if they were going to take it, they should have just taken a real recess and let the president make a bunch of recess appointments in the process. That didn't happen. That drives me absolutely crazy. What does Congress have to tackle right now, Chris Bedford?

41:19Dan Bongino:What is on their agenda? Well, the three things they have are nominations for civilian appointees to the Trump administration, which is, I think, at a record high. It's over 140 people waiting to get actually confirmed by the Senate. And there are talks right now between the White House and the Republicans to use the nuclear option on that. Typically, the Senate has been very jealous of its power to affirm and to be able to review presidential appointees. but it's gotten to a point where both parties, honestly, when the other side is in the office, aren't necessarily looking for the best candidate.

41:55They're simply looking to hold up the White House. And you can't get to those 60 votes with Democrat intransigence, so they might switch it to 51 and then start to crank through these nominations because nominations are third on their list of things to do. They've got a budget deal, which they have to put together by the end of the month. That's going to be one of the most difficult things, one of the most difficult aspects of this because every aspect of that requires 60 votes so they're going to need to play a little nice and let's say have 60 republicans suddenly or suddenly a lot less democratic senators and that's not going to happen yeah and then the third thing that they're working on on the nominees

42:30Dan Bongino:but yeah dog ear that for a second because i want to come back to that on the third thing but uh on the nominees i talked to senator eric schmidt a week ago and he told me he goes hey when we get back i just need to tell you we are going to accelerate the nomination process dramatically from where we were. And I was like, well, thank God for that. That nuclear option that you're talking about, Harry Reid already started that years ago when he said that you only need 51 votes to get a federal judge through. And then the Republicans responded with, okay, fine, we'll do the same thing for the Supreme Court.

43:00Dan Bongino:And they were able to get Supreme Court justices through on that basis. Why not just do it for all of them? I mean, the fact is the executive branch needs its people in place to conduct the affairs of the American people and what they voted for. It's ridiculous that even at this late date, all these people are being blocked. We need U.S. attorneys to prosecute all these criminals. It's crazy what the Senate is doing right now. Absolutely. And under President Reagan, H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, even George W. Bush, there was a history of just voice vote yeses where these nominees just sailed through unless they were particularly troublesome.

43:35Remember, the Greens are for Barack Obama was one of the few who was held up by Republicans at the beginning of his administration saying, no, no, no, no, no, no. We want to take a look at this guy over his 9-11 comments and this and that. Of course, he's still with us today as a prominent commentator. Now, it has continued to get worse and worse and worse. And the only democratically elected person in the entire country, nationally elected person in the entire country, the president of the United States, deserves to have the people around him who are able to actually execute his agenda. And it has shown.

44:07We saw in his first First term in office, what happens when you don't have the right people in place, that deep state Democrats are able to recharge your administration's agenda every step of the way, commit sabotage, commit leaks, do everything that they can to try and slow down the democratically elected president. You need those people, and that's part of what the Democrats are doing. The Senate hasn't had time to get to them with the schedule that they have for September and October and November. The nuclear option is basically the only way they're going to be able to do this. unless they put aside the budget, which they can't, and the NDAA, which no one in D.C.

44:43will.

44:44Dan Bongino:The NDAA, is that the third thing you were referencing? Exactly. Now, that's not even due until the end of the year, but they want to get it done earlier. They want to be able to get the money flowing to the Pentagon. They want to be able to actually invest in new programs and new systems. So the NDAA, they've set for themselves, they're going to try and get their homework done early, get it done by the end of September, which is, you know, It's surprising to hear that from the U.S. Senate that likes to push things to the very end. Now, this is definitely must-pass legislation is what they call it, but there are already some Democratic Easter eggs that have shown up in it.

45:16We have a story that just went up moments ago. I was just editing it for Blaze News about how Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, if you remember him, the first Tim to lose as vice president to Donald Trump, he's back and he's put into the NDA something that would take Pete Hegseth and the Department of Defense's ability to rename bases and to undo that committee that was erasing all kinds of historical names from American military bases and assets, to take that away for the state of Virginia, which is something that seems to have been debated and discussed and dealt with in the committee itself, in the Senate committee, which their hearings are classified.

45:55So when we've reached out to Republican senators in that committee, they've had to say, listen, and I can't talk about this because of the classified nature of these hearings, but also that Senate committee on armed forces, armed services, has kind of a gentleman's tradition about it where they are much more likely to wheel and deal in a way that was common in D.C. for a long time but still exists there. And this seems to be a carve-out. And that's going to cause some trouble with the Republican Senate. It's certainly going to cause some trouble with the MAGA base. that even if it's just Virginia, the recommendations of these renaming commissions went above and beyond what the American people had long settled.

46:35And Pete Hegseth has gone back as Secretary of

46:37Dan Bongino:Defense and changed a lot of those names back in kind of cute ways where he's come up with different people who are named after these famous generals and commanders. And they're going to try and strip that. That's the first Easter egg and there are many more to come. Yeah, it's too much. I'm glad you're staring at it and getting the news out to the rest of us. Thank you. Chris Bedford, as always, from The Blaze. Great to talk to you today, sir. Can't wait to do it again soon. See you again soon, Vince. Thanks, man. All right, there he is, Chris Bedford. Now that he's gone away, he won't be able to harass me anymore.

47:06Dan Bongino:He was harassing me before. All right, I've got some other items to get to you right now. Crime is a massive problem. Among the other things that the Congress needs to contemplate doing is extending President Trump's ability to run police, the police force in Washington, D.C. This current invocation of the president's ability to run the D.C. Police Department, that goes back to the D.C. Home Rule Act of 1973. It allows him to have 30 days to run the cops in the nation's capital. that expires on September 9th. That's just days away, folks. The president is not going to have a control of the D.C.

47:51Dan Bongino:Police Department a couple days from now. And that will be a disaster. The White House has requested, the president has requested that Congress extend his control of the D.C. Police Department. And given the president's success in dropping crime, by upward violent crime, upwards of 40 % in the nation's capital, Congress should absolutely sign off on extending the president's authority here. Without question. You want the nation's capital to continue to be safe? You want the good times to continue rolling? Let the president continue to fix things in D.C. So Congress has to deal with that. The other thing here, the other cities in America that desperately need a rescue are run by Democrats and these Democrats hate Donald Trump with the passion of a thousand burning suns they hate him and the last thing they want him to do is fix the mess that they've created watch this here's six percent approval rating Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson screaming this weekend cut one that he doesn't want any support to stop the violence in Chicago.

49:08Dan Bongino:Look. God bless you all. God bless the labor movement. God bless the greatest freaking city in the world. Chi-Town. No troops in Chicago. No troops in Chicago. No troops in Chicago. Invest in Chicago. Invest in Chicago. No troops in Chicago. Invest in Chicago. God bless you, L.A. It's so outrageous. It's so outrageous. There's Brandon Johnson. And so what Brandon Johnson is saying is that he doesn't want the criminals to be stopped. The only thing he wants is more money. Invest in Chicago, he screeches. He wants you to take money out of your hard-earned paycheck and send it to him so he can squander it and not improve the situation for the people who live in Chicago at all.

50:05Dan Bongino:Did you see what happened in Chicago this weekend? 54 people were shot. 54 people were shot. That's just going into Monday morning. 54 people shot. Seven people were killed this weekend in Chicago, and the president of the United States is on the verge of sending the National Guard in. They can't come soon enough. And look, if you were a person who actually cared about the well-being of your city, you wouldn't be protesting the president sending in backup. You'd be asking him for more. If Brandon Johnson, with a 6 % approval rating, cared about the people of Chicago, he would be calling the White House switchboard right now and asking to speak to anyone who can help get the ear of the president to send the National Guard him.

51:02Dan Bongino:Please, I beg of you, help us. That's not what he's doing. No. No, to Brandon Johnson, the man who you just saw on stage, screeching about how he doesn't want any help, to Brandon Johnson, a bloodbath weekend in Chicago is totally acceptable, totally defensible, and the status quo should remain. 54 people shot, seven people killed. President Trump thinks we need better, and he's right. We definitely need better. Chicago deserves better, way better than the least popular BJ in America, Brandon Johnson. There he is. now the new york times was raging this weekend about the um the use of the the military to clean up washington dc and they had this piece it's so ridiculous they had this piece uh called crime festers in republican states while their troops patrol washington you got this this is a clever little little stunt so the way that it worked originally was hey president trump don't send Send in law enforcement.

52:06Dan Bongino:Don't rescue D.C. If you do that, that's tyrannical. And then when they discovered that people loved the president's rescue, they changed the narrative. They moved the goalposts around the field and they said, well, the president is not sending the troops in into the hardest hit areas of D.C., the ones with the most crime. So rather than, hey, stop sending in troops, it's now, oh, you sent them to the wrong place. You should send more of them to eastern D.C. and it turned out the White House came back and they said actually we've been doing that and 50 % of all of the arrests have taken place in the worst districts the worst wards in Washington DC we are stopping crime everywhere we find it and so then the media moved on from that and now the current version is well you should be going after red states not the nation's capital you should be deploying the National Guard to red states that's where all the crime is the New York Times says Here's what's going on.

53:01Dan Bongino:The crime is in the blue cities of those red states. So, for instance, they point to the state of Tennessee and New York Times does, and they're upset that the governor, Bill Lee, dispatched the National Guard to help President Trump get control of the nation's capital. Now, Tennessee, just like every other state, does have a vested interest in the nation's capital being safe. That capital belongs to all of us. It's not any one state. It belongs to all of the states. It belongs to the American people. So Tennessee isn't doing something that works against its interests by helping clean up the nation's capital.

53:38Dan Bongino:It's very much within the interest of the people of Tennessee to have a safe capital. But the New York Times is concern trawling the governor. Governor Lee is saying, oh, so why don't you send the National Guard instead to your own cities? Why are you sending them to the nation's capital? and then they point to Memphis. They say Memphis, after all, has long been one of the most dangerous cities in the country with a murder rate about twice as high as the nation's capital, according to FBI statistics. Nashville has a higher rate of violent crime than Washington as well. Now, what do those cities have in common?

54:12Dan Bongino:Who runs Memphis? The Democrats. Democrats are running these cities into the ground. And the New York Times has decided that the headline on this story should be that it's Republican states that have a catastrophic crime problem. Well, sure, in the areas run by Democrats. And should the president do everything that's within his power to try and bring peace to all of these cities? Definitely. But why is he doing it by himself? Why is he alone on this? Why aren't there more people helping him? What is wrong with you? You human scum. that you would allow crime to get worse in your communities just because you hate the president of the United States.

55:02Dan Bongino:It's normal people, it's vulnerable people who have to bear the cost of your political cruelty for that. Unreal. Then again, Democrat leaders, if you can call them leaders, are just out of control. You see that New York Congressman Jerry Nadler is leaving Congress after a thousand terms. Yeah, Nadler has announced that he's resigning. He'll waddle off into the sunset for the last time. He's headed out the door. And he leaves us with a bunch of young Democrats who are even crazier than he is. Check out Jasmine Crockett this weekend, who, by the way, may actually lose her congressional seat anyway, thanks to Texas redrawing its district boundaries.

55:50Dan Bongino:So she's going to have to fight for that seat. We'll see if she can retain it. But check out Jasmine Crockett this weekend. It turns out whatever evolution she's going through, she can now no longer speak English. Here she is, cut three. Maybe because these people, they are crazy because they always talk about how Christian they is. Yeah, I don't know how many of them on that side are getting divorced because they're getting caught up sleeping with their coworkers, staffers, interns, all the things. Yeah, you ain't got to believe me. Just go Google. You'll find some of it. I'm telling you and the wives is being messy and petty they putting it in the divorce I'm like oh that's got to be true because your lawyer would know that they're gonna lose it if they what the hell did she just say we're done with that shit I don't know what has happened to that lady you know when she came into office when she ran for the first time she was speaking the queen's English she was I think at one point she was saying what she's she's an unbelievable human being?

56:50Dan Bongino:What in the world is that? Now, I know there's going to be people who say on the left who are going to be like, well, Vince, you just don't understand. That's what we call code switching. It's code switching. Just changing your presentation based on the audience. Now, you know what that is? That's insecurity is what that is. That's insecurity. If you have to pretend to be a different person for every audience you speak to, you've got some problems. You've got some big problems. That lady's got some big... What was that noise she made, guys, at the very beginning of that clip? Justin, can you play that again for me?

57:22Dan Bongino:What was the very first... Like, the first three seconds? What was that? Maybe because these people, they are crazy because they always talk about how Christian they is. Yeah, I don't know how they are. Maybe because these people... That's enough. Because these people, they are crazy. Yeah, you are crazy. Holy cow. Well, I do hope she loses her seat. We're working on that in Texas. Boy, oh boy, there's Jazz McCrackett. So, you know, So we kicked one dude out, Jerry Nadler. He's headed out. Ain't that a kick in the nads? But then Jasmine Crockett? That's what we're left with? We'll see for how long.

57:55Dan Bongino:All right, I've got a big show for you today coming up on the national radio show. Reagan Reese is going to join me on the program. We'll talk about her big conversation with the president of the United States last Friday, what it was like to sit with the president for an hour, take a tour of the Rose Garden and every other detail from that conversation. That's ahead on the big program. and then I'll be back again tomorrow on this podcast, Vince. It's always so great to have you with us, the best damn audience in media. We'll do it again soon.