The Terror Threat at Home (Ep. 2468)

23:06Dan Bongino:easy to weed out who's part of team Trump and who's part of I shouldn't even say who's part of like team U.S. government and who's part of like team fake whistleblower leaked to the media and sabotage U.S. efforts. They don't advertise themselves. Who in the intel community is leaking this stuff? There was another leak. Well, the U.S. isn't necessarily confident they're going to be able to take down the regime. Number one, he's never said regime change is the goal. The regime did change and he is going to decapitate a lot of that leadership that's chanting death to america but i don't think the president's under any illusions like you're going to get some like ronald reagan type figure over in iran and in this other league oh the russians are helping him do all of this stuff is meant to gaslight you in the public that somehow we're losing seven days in They do this shit all the time I'm going to tell you something too Whatever's being leaked Who was that?

24:10Dan Bongino:Major Garrett in that 61 Minutes interview? I can almost guarantee you Whatever's being leaked Let's say there's a 17 page intel report 16 pages Listen to me here Extol the virtues of the combat operation so far and how well they've done, right? And then on the last page, it says, there's always like a caveat or a counterpoint, whatever, maybe a minority viewpoint. And they'll say, hey, listen, you know, there's a possibility that the regime stays in charge and all this other stuff. What the leakers always do is they leak the minority viewpoint, if it is one, and then they make it out like it's the majority of the intel community does it.

24:56Dan Bongino:And Major Garrett's never going to see the report. Folks, they do this shit all the time. I saw it on the inside. You read about something in a newspaper and I would pop open at the brief every morning, the Intel brief. I'd pop open the brief and take a look at it and then you're reading what's in the Washington Post and you're like, that doesn't say any of that shit.

25:19Folks, be very cautious of this stuff. You've got people inside there who are not there for the right reasons and they, picking them out. Some of them are like ticks. I'm not going to bullshit you.

25:31Dan Bongino:They don't advertise. That's why you see the use of polygraphs and other material. It is not, given this expansive intel bureaucracy, you still got stuff like this going on. I'm going to take a quick break, and I want to get to two critical things right now. Two critical things we are succeeding at. I want to show you, again, some show your ass theory stuff. How the left, I mean, my gosh, between James Carville, this Jennifer Welch lady, they're just, at this point they're just outright cheering for the other side as you heard bill o'reilly say earlier in that clip did just at this point just say like you'd rather the iranian mullahs reconstitute themselves build a nuclear weapon and freaking bomb us like just say it at this point we would hate you but we'd at least respect your bullshit honesty freaking frustrating two critical things i want to address coming up next financing drone capacity really important quick and we're going to get to that hey this last year your eyes may have been open to a lot of things but there was one thing that many found particularly disturbing and that's a lot of the infighting going on i bring this up all the time we all agree on freedom of speech the right to life the second amendment and supporting the military and our first responders well there's one company has been fighting for our rights they supported this program and a lot of other conservative programs too from the very beginning and that's patriot mobile unlike other mobile providers, Patriot mobile works on all three major networks.

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28:00Dan Bongino:One, their financing pipeline, no money, no power, no war machine. A war machine means power. Power requires money. You don't have money, you don't have power. You don't have power, you don't have a war machine. You don't have a war machine, you don't have a war machine without power, you don't have power without money. Get to that in a second. And second, their drone building capacity, folks. I've addressed this ad nauseum. I know you're probably tired of it. So with the FBI guys after a year, when I drove them crazy about drones every single day, I was like, drones, drones, drones, a new threat.

28:27But here's President Trump. This is a clip on CNN.

28:31Dan Bongino:It's actually, was it Dana Bash or something? She had a conversation with President Trump. And President Trump brings up something to her critical. You cannot fund a war without funds. And one of the epicenters of this funding has been some Middle Eastern countries who have been hesitant to dry it up. Well, this is the good news you're not going to hear about. The only reason you hear about it is on CNN is because they got an interview with him and they had to say what he said. Check this out. Also asked about the Gulf countries being hit. He said they're doing unbelievable and they're fighting.

29:04They, meaning Iran, made a terrible mistake when they attacked them. The UAE is freezing the assets and they have the assets, all of them. And they got hit enough where they were going to freeze them. They're brave people.

29:19Dan Bongino:Again, you wouldn't hear this on CNN if they didn't get a direct interview with President Trump and they didn't have to report on exactly what he said. This is important. Muy importante. You got to dry up the money supply. It's another piece of good news that finally some of these Middle Eastern countries are starting to see that there is no future in allowing the Iranians to conduct illicit sometimes, sometimes overt, sometimes covert financial activity in your country. Critical. Second, you got to destroy their drone capacity. You know why the threat from the skies is very unique. it's also cheap folks we have a whole bunch look at this this did you see i pulled a bunch of voiceover material did you see this this was the iranians look we've got this ship out in the sea and it launches a bunch of drones and we're gonna go and screw with you guys and kill people and murder people with our drones look at that they advertised it look how great this is elevated off ramp boom there goes one of the drones and uh they're oh what is that what is that oh that's the drone okay that's the drone thank you justin of course that's the drone ship and now unclassified dow video the drone ship being destroyed okay did you see this other video they have now figured out a really excellent use of the apache helicopters i believe this is uae footage here taking out drones in the sky obviously with with rounds um instead of what appears to be you know expensive you know, Patriot FAD type missiles, which cost a whole lot of money.

31:07So listen, whatever we can do, the drone threat is very real. But there you go. You can blow them out of the sky. Just take them out of the sky and take them out of the sky as cheap as we can. I don't know if you saw this video again this weekend, trying to pull a variety different video to show you where we stand, but also drone defense for fixed objects like buildings, which you obviously can't move. They're not a moving target. They are a ripe target for drone attacks. Here is one of our diplomatic facilities in Saudi activating a CRAM system. I want you to listen to this. You'll see the machine gun fire.

31:47Wow. Not sure drones are now. I mean, obviously, it's going to have a problem against you got to replenish the magazine against drone swarms. But against kind of isolated attacks, I wouldn't want to be on the other side of that. So the technology is developing. Yeah, check this out again, Wade. Just listen to the sound of this. If you're listening on Apple, it's well. That's a lot of rounds getting sent down range right there. And then look at the technology advantage too. The Israelis, the IDF, and the U.S. military have. Look at this video that we see of their Iron Dome system just absolutely destroying a lot of these threats, these incoming threats.

32:30Folks, the technology advantage we have is just light years ahead. I'm telling you, when I came back into government, I was stunned at how far the technology had leapt ahead of when I left. And even the technology and the protection and physical security space. It is light years ahead of where it was when I left back in 2011. Not perfect, obviously. However, light years ahead. Folks, if I were the Cuban regime, I would be very concerned right now. You've seen protests in Cuba as well. President Trump is, folks, he's not screwing around. The finding out portion of the President Trump 47 presidency is here.

33:18Here's quickly part two, just a brief soundbite of him, Dana Bash. she covers what President Trump told her about the Cuban regime. I don't think he's looking at, again, I say this with, I'm just what I've seen open source. I don't think he's looking at military action anytime soon.

33:41Dan Bongino:However, there's going to be increased pressure for them to get their shit together, as they'd say down south, right quick. Don't listen to me. Listen to what he told CNN. Check this out. He quickly turned to Cuba. He said, without being asked, Cuba is going to fall pretty soon, by the way. But Cuba is going to fall. They want to make a deal so badly. And I asked how so. He said, they want to make a deal, so I'm going to put Marco over there, and we'll see how that works. But we're really focused on this one now, meaning Iran. We've got plenty of time on Cuba. That's like job number 20 for Secretary of State Rubio.

34:21Dan Bongino:Rubio's resume. Has there ever been a resume like this? You know, if you read Rubio's resume, you'd be like, in sequence, that's impressive. Imagine, like, in one term, you were Secretary of State, another term, National Security Advisor, another term, you were, like, envoy to Cuba. This is all the same term. This guy's resume. Can you imagine, like, the daily updates this guy has to do? Right? He must have, like, a resume builder at home where he's constantly got to have someone change his resume. Okay. Folks, listen, obviously on a very serious note here, it's been a week. Before we judge the entire combat book and what this is going to look like, the operation in Iran, let's let some of it play out.

35:08You want to judge the beginning? That's up to you. It's a free country. You don't like it? Fine. Fair enough. There's a lot of disagreement in the tent. However, I need you to understand that the left wing media is seeding this and fertilizing this field of hatred inside our tent and trying to force a split in the MAGA movement because they don't feel like they have anything else.

35:32Dan Bongino:Everything they've tried against Trump, impeachment, civil trials, criminal trials, arrests, taking out surrogates, breaking law attorney client privilege, everything they've tried against him has failed. They're now starting to realize if they do not fracture this movement from the inside, they will have no shot.

35:56Dan Bongino:that is hilarious um again if you're listening on apple and spotify you gotta tune in 39 minutes in uh there you go marco rubio that's the famous of course meme of rubio on the couch in the oval wearing various costumes now uh in his cuba now i've taken over cuba as well marco rubio So many different jobs. Folks, the left is fracturing too right now. They have gone. You know my show your ass theory, the Democrats to show their asses theory, that they, in order to express kind of like a code word, like a shibboleth, that you're part of the left wing movie. That chat's going crazy. that you have to express an increasing amount of radicalism to one-up your lefty-anti-friend buddies.

36:46Dan Bongino:You know, Trump's a racist. No, Trump's a super racist. No, he's a Ku Klux Klan member. He's a grand wizard of the group. It's to show you each time they show their ass even more and you see who they are. This appeals to a limited group of lunatics. However, the left can't get out of the death spiral. They're in just like this massive death spiral of crazy. and I think that's what's alienating them from the kind of even center left of America where there's an opportunity for us to change politics forever. I don't know who they think this stuff appeals to but this happened at one of these Hollywood award shows.

37:19Do you know this woman, Jennifer Welch? I don't know who she is. I've seen her name. Does she have a podcast? I have no idea who she is. I'm not trying to be like a, you know, Mariah Carey Giffey with J-Lo. I don't know her. I just don't know.

37:32Dan Bongino:However, here is another one of these freaking left-wing lunatic rants. You want to talk about showing your ass? They love this stuff, however. This is why they know this doesn't appeal to down-the-middle Americans. So this is why they have to fracture us from the inside, because this kind of shit just isn't working. Check this out. I want to say something with my full chest. Never obey in advance. Fuck ICE. Fuck Donald Trump. Free Palestine. And save trans kids.

38:05Dan Bongino:So F Donald Trump, F ICE, free Palestine, and free trans kids? Do you understand mainstream voting Americans I run into all the time? This shit is crazy to them. You know that, right?

38:29Before we What's going on This next clip This is the Dan Bongino Dan's favorite clip of the day For all the wrong reasons by the way I swear to you this next clip We thought was fake I mean even after doing our intake homework because we have to process video and go through specific things and make sure it's real you know you don't want to get burned once in a while something slips through and you got to correct it later it happens in the media business we try to make it rare we did all the checks right justin and justin's like i still can't believe this clip is real i yeah that's where i was going with this i would show you my but i'm afraid his number is going to creep up

39:19Dan Bongino:this next clip is so bananas that I actually had to text the congressman he's my congressman who asked this question and he's like no it this is absolutely real this is congressman Brian Mast from Florida he's actually my congressman he's up at a Capitol Hill hearing and they're he's doing a expose of like foreign NGOs and Biden era money that went to support crazy shit overseas i just you know what this clip speaks for itself play the clip and tell me how this appeals to mainstream america quote queering maps overseas with your tax dollars check this out it's queering the map so i think we were trying to make the maps more gay literally that's well how do you make a map more gay i mean especially or gay at all you know since the age of cartography we've had pretty good maps but maybe they weren't gay enough so i i know also So I took critical theory in college.

40:16I think sometimes people use queer as a verb. I do understand that the maps that we were trying to make gay were, I think, of Czechia and Slovakia. So maybe those countries asked for it. I doubt it, but I don't know. We do have real things to work on in Congress, like what's going on with the imminent threat of Iran. And it is embarrassing that we have to talk about the fact that things like this were funded non-binary and trans francophones, linguistic attitudes, and ideologies towards inclusive French in Montreal, Canada, these things. I'm going to give you a list. My time has expired. I'm going to give you a list of these and any of these that you can provide me, the receipt for, the Facebook link to where they wanted to take photos of how they were doing a DEIA flash mob in Kharigistan, whatever documentation they have of all of these things, we would love to see that and would absolutely love to know the individuals specifically that were busy writing these grants because they have no business receiving another paycheck from the people of the United States of America.

41:22What the hell is queering the map?

41:26Dan Bongino:Gay maps? How do you make maps gay? I don't even know. I'm not shitting you. I had to text the congressman this morning. Is this real? Hold on. I'm not going to share it. Congressman, is that make the maps gay clip real? Yes, it's real. Secretary Rogers was explaining how one of our grants from the Biden administration, of which we have hundreds, was about queering the map. And he sent me even more crazy stuff. How do you make maps gay? How do maps get gay?

42:09there's a screenshot of Justin's phone asking Grok, yes, the video's real. Folks, I'm not kidding. Folks in the chat, please help. How do you make a freaking map gay? We have real problems in the world.

42:24Dan Bongino:We've got the threat of Iranian, North Korean, China, Russia, cyber infiltration into the United States grid. You got a death to America crowd constantly trying to build nuclear weapons, not for show. You've got the North Koreans with nuclear weapons. You've got a war in Ukraine. You've always got hostilities going on and the African continent. You've got hostilities going on in Europe. You've got a war against free speech in some portions of even Western Europe. And we're talking about freaking gay maps. How do you make a map gay?

42:59None of this shit appeals to freaking normal people. It only appeals to lunatics. it's so funny i can't we invited the congressman on the show to talk about money given to cartographers to make maps gay enough on that one now you see why it's my favorite clip for all the wrong reasons of the day folks we're dealing with serious stuff despite what you've been told by some people in the ecosystem out there the threat to president trump's life from the iranians was very real very real we just had a guy up in new york merchant convicted in a case i'm intimately

43:43Dan Bongino:familiar with we worked it the entire time i was there i don't care what anyone's telling you about what they think the threat is unless they've been in on intel briefings and know something you and i don't know the threat from iranian actors against president trump's life the seat of the executive branch, the president of the United States, is very real. We've now got a court conviction on this exact incident. I want to play two clips from this. First, the first one, on the Iranian leadership's role. There's no question about that in the plot to try to take out President Trump. Check this out.

44:20In a federal trial of a Pakistani man, prosecutors accuse him of plotting to assassinate American political leaders, including President Trump. He says Iran was behind it all. Alexis McAdams is outside the Brooklyn federal courthouse in New York City. Interesting case that really not a lot of viewers knew about when it happened in 2024, because President Trump was out on the campaign trail and there was so much going on and so many other threats. But that's when police say a chief merchant came here from Pakistan because he says Iranian leadership told him to, said hunt down President Trump, hire a couple of guys that can take him out at a political rally.

44:55So take a look here on your screen. This is who we're talking about. He's sitting there inside of that Brooklyn federal courthouse right now as those closing arguments are underway. 47 years old. He's facing federal terrorism charges and could spend the rest of his life behind bars. Merchant testified, Harris, in his own federal trial. And he explained this, making this drawing again that he said Iranian leaders gave him back in 2024. Really doesn't look like there's much to it. It looks like, you know, like a kid drew it or something. But that's the sketch of a rally site. Merchant was arrested just one day before Trump was shot in Butler, Pennsylvania.

45:29Dan Bongino:You don't need to play the other one, but he's now been convicted. So there's no need to talk in legal terms. There's a presumption of innocence in the United States, of course, and there should be. It's the right thing to do. He's now convicted. So there's no reason for that anymore. He's not alleged. He's not the suspect. He's the convicted person involved in. And I noticed the end was that Alexis McAdams, The Iranian leadership Folks, we're dealing with really serious shit right here This is not a joke You know, I mentioned on Friday And it's really important How this president sees national security totally different I don't care what anyone else is telling you If you haven't been in a room talking to him About how he views the whole national security umbrella He sees it totally differently than people have in the past, Republicans and Democrats.

46:23Dan Bongino:What do I mean? Okay, put meat on the bone. It's easy for you to say that, right? What are you talking about? This is my experience with him. The president looks at national security from the lens of a wider aperture. Like, yes, terror groups in the Maghreb, terror groups in the Middle East, the Muslim Brotherhood and others. Yes, these are obviously very, very serious problems. Why do you got a split screen up with Alexis Mazzat? Oh, okay. Oh, look at you. Very nice, Justin. Taking some initiative. The president says in this wider aperture, if you have a bunch of narco-trafficking groups, the Sinaloa cartel, CJNG, and these other groups that are killing hundreds of thousands of Americans, whether it's through murder or fentanyl trafficking or others, how is that not national security too?

47:23Dan Bongino:And the old school establishment national security folks are probably like, ah, that's a, what are you talking about? That's more of the law enforcement space. Is it? Is it? Of course there's a law enforcement significant connection. But if we can't trust that the region of our southern border It's not an effective border to keep foreigners out of the country who want to kill hundreds of thousands of Americans just like terrorists do, i.e. maybe through different means. Then how is that not national security too? So one of the things he did early on is he expanded the foreign terror organization, whom he referred to as FTO, to narco groups as well.

48:09Dan Bongino:He engaged with the Department of War in ways we haven't seen in the southern border. These are things that have not been done before to this degree. You had things like Golden Dome to protect the United States from the ballistic missile threat. But a lot of the technology being built through Golden Dome is going to filter down for security for the Thanksgiving Day parade in New York City against drones. He sees it differently. And this is why. This is a really disturbing clip I know the show is always an emotional rollercoaster It always has been But I want you to watch this clip I spent a good chunk of my adult life in Maryland I lived in Severna Park It's where the podcast started In a basement in Severna Park So when I see stories like this They really bother me Tell me how this is in national security This is a local news report from Maryland About some suspected MS-13 gang members And what they did to a 14-year-old boy chopped him up with machetes?

49:15President Trump sees this stuff in the national security picture as as big a threat as organized terror groups for the effect it has on the psyche of the collective American people. And he's right. Check this out. Four MS-13 gang members have been indicted on several charges in connection with the death of a D.C. teen. Now, Prince George's County State's Attorney Tara Jackson says they've identified three men in a 17-year-old in connection to Jefferson Amaya Ayala's murder in College Park in November. Jefferson went missing last August. The suspects are charged with first-degree murder.

49:59Dan Bongino:How is that not a big national security problem? Organized international FTO foreign terror organizations, because that's what they are. Chopping up teenagers in the United States with machetes.

50:19I explained to you last week something critical When you're analyzing the threat of terror cells in the United States Because I've seen a lot of the reporting on it There's graphs out there that show an increased number of encounters With terror-connected subjects at our southern border A lot of that is narco-trafficking folks It's not what you would associate traditional old-school establishment terror orgs You know, Islamo-fanatics with

50:46Dan Bongino:It doesn't make it any less dangerous. Remember, the goal of narco traffickers, if you get in their way, and the goal of terrorists is the same thing. You dying.

51:02Dan Bongino:Folks, this, of course, a safer America with the lowest crime rates we've seen in your lifetime, the lowest homicide rate I think we're ever going to see, the crushing of open air drug markets, the destruction of FTOs, Maduro, now the destruction of the Iranian death to America Mueller regime. This drives the left crazy. I played the Bill O 'Reilly clip earlier. He was absolutely right. It's like the left is cheering on the freaking enemies of the United States. It's like they love this stuff. I've never seen anything like it. You would think like James Carville, you got this clip ready to go.

51:39Dan Bongino:James Carville, the raging Cajun Carville was a Bill Clinton political advisor Obviously he's a Democrat Some of you know him, some of you don't The only reason I play this guy's clips once in a while Is that this guy in the past By Democrat standards Let me be clear, folks in the chat Before you start flaming me here By Democrat standards Where you're dealing with that Jennifer Welch lady Transcantry has been one to tell the Democrats, A, cut the trans stuff. He's kind of been like the least insane. That's all gone. This guy had a meltdown of epic proportions. Not going to caught on video. He did this on purpose.

52:25Dan Bongino:And this is why I'm telling you, like Donald Trump's successes in the space, foreign affairs against crime, the economy, It drives them bananas to the point now That even their self-declared moderates Have given up They're now all in with the freaking lunatic class It's why we have to be careful Of letting the lunatic class Infect people in our own tent And suck them into this vortex of stupid too Folks, this is a serious language alert If you have kids, not me It's Carville But I feel like leaving the language in You guys didn't edit it, right? I feel like leaving the language in Is important for effect Check this out.

53:04You fat fuck Trump. If you listen to this, you listen good. Because what I'm getting ready to say is what a lot of people in this country speak for, who I speak for. And I speak for a lot of fucking people. You hear me, you fat asshole? This is what we believe. You're right. I got Trump derangement syndrome. I hate the motherfucker. And you know what? I don't want to get rid of it. I don't want to get better. I want to get worse. I want to hate him more I pray to God in heaven God reign the righteous reign of Trump derangement syndrome pray for me Lord I'm your vessel on this earth pray for the people that listen to this we want more we want to hate the son of a bitch so much that we can't see straight

53:54Dan Bongino:I'm sorry I'm sorry about the I don't know I don't know what to tell you You see why the left needs this? Jasmine, am I making a point with MAGA Civil War? Poor Jasmine. You come into studio, it's open season. Sorry. Sorry. Makeup ladies here, Jasmine. You're in open season. You are part of the show. Do you see why they need the MAGA Civil War now?

54:27Dan Bongino:The chat's going absolutely wild. He's gone. he's a kjp 137 he's an ass bag i thought that said gas bag it said ass bag same i agree folks they've gone freaking nuts the maga civil war listen to me the fake maga civil war is all they have if they cannot cause the destruction from inside the tent they've just given up from outside. Carville's given up any sense of sanity. Literally foaming at the mouth. Right. Justin said, you know, we hate the word literally because it's so overused, like literally. Foaming is foam. The guy's foaming at the mouth like a rabid animal. The clawing, the scratching at the face.

55:15Dan Bongino:Listen, I'm not going to call out the guy, be a fraud, call out the guy's language. I've been known to, whatever. But holy Moses, man. Control yourself. Did you see the seething going on? Folks, I'm going to tell you something. Here's another thing that's driving Carville and these other assbags, as KJP says in the KJP. I get you there. As I said in the chat. It's not just Trump's early successes in the first year. And again, we're only a week in. Of course, there's going to be a short-term spike in speculation in the oil markets. As the straits open up and we decimate their navy, long-term, you're going to have now more stable oil prices.

56:06Dan Bongino:That's the irony of this whole thing. It's not me putting a shine on it. It's freaking true. We took out their whole navy. What the hell are they going to shut the strait down with? Foul language? You like that? Justin's laughing. Did you see this this weekend? So this video emerged this weekend. This is, folks, I saw this on the inside. One of the first, I don't know, kind of problems I had. So I'm there very early in my tenure. And there were a lot of people who came up to us, Cash and I, and you would give us like an elbow and say, thank you for being here. We've been waiting for this. but there were a lot of old school folks we got rid of who just did not want to change that the way the FBI was working so one morning I called an all hands at like 7 30 on a Thursday or Friday I remember it was the end of the week because nobody was particularly excited about being there um and it was about an incident where I didn't feel like it was given proper attention And I had to make a point to the leadership team there that a lot of swamp rats and deep staters don't get that this is not your FBI.

57:26Dan Bongino:It's not mine either. And it's not cash's. It's not ours. It belongs to taxpayers in a republic who fund it for their benefit. This operates like everything else in a republic by consent of the governed, i.e. the freaking taxpayers. and the citizens. You don't own it. I used to give the analogy all the time. It's like being the center fielder for the Yankees. When you're there and you're the star center fielder, whether Mickey Mantle or Bernie Williams for years when I was a kid, you may feel like, wow, this is all about me. Everybody's cheering me on. It's not about you. They're going to get another center fielder and you don't own the Yankees.

58:04Dan Bongino:Eventually, they're going to move on. It's great you were part of the Yankees, but you don't own the freaking Yankees. this video was out of the u.s institute for peace so doge the department of government efficiency the elon operation which we dealt with at the fbi very helpful by the way weeding out a lot of waste goes to the u.s institute for peace and they're they're like hey listen we're here to take a look at everything try to you know clean up the efficiency stuff i want you to listen these people call the police in they want these people thrown out there's a clip about 30 seconds in we're going to pause it where you'll see you would never believe how these deep staters see this as theirs they don't see it as yours they think it's like a private company listen to a little bit in the beginning and then i'll stop it and i want to play for you the absolute money shot check this out

59:08how does this come to be it's called a election that's how it came to be

59:21Dan Bongino:it's an election this is a republic capital r mr u.s institute for peace guy taxpayer funded did you miss it it's called a government by the people for the people that operates by consent of the governed and we did not consent to some of the stuff that are happening therefore we elected a different president who sent some of his lieutenants in there to take a look about what's going on. How has this come to be? You didn't hear a doge? Did you miss that? By the way, this is older video. It just surfaced recently. Here's the absolute money shot, though. One of the guys they're talking to in the U.S.

1:00:06Dan Bongino:Institute for Peace, apparently he's like, I'm not really sure we recognize Donald Trump as the president. Hold on. I'm going to play it as a full screen so you can hear it. And then we'll let the rest of it play. Check this out. How did this come to be? How did we happen to have people in the building? He's the president of the Institute, so he has the right to be in the building. Well, that's yet to be determined. You don't recognize that he's the president? Absolutely not. I told you to turn it to the president. Can George Fowler? Did he just come to be? How did we happen to have people in the building?

1:00:43Dan Bongino:Did he just say? The Institute, so he has the right to be in the government. Well, that's yet to be determined. That's yet to be determined. Absolutely not. Folks, I play this as a larger example of, I'm telling you, something Cash and I saw directly. There are people entrenched in the government. You pay for. It's your freaking money Who will swear to you up and down That like they're in charge Not the executive branch leadership The president and his cabinet They will swear to you up and down This does not belong to you man I don't know what part of that These deep staters aren't getting Now let me tie it back to the beginning of the show Like a big circle here Folks, there are people in the USIC, United States Intelligence Community.

1:01:44There are a number of different entities there. You have geospatial intel, NSA, CIA, FBI, DIA. You know the portfolio of intelligence. Military branches have their own intel gathering operations. There is a ton of intelligence gathering that happens throughout the government. There are people in the U.S. intelligence community I promise there is a massive effort to uproot it all So don't take this the wrong way Massive To get rid of people who are not there to protect and defend the Constitution But to protect and defend the political ideology And a lot of the work has been done We've had that 10 % of the workforce turned over in the FBI It's a lot of people But I'm not going to bullshit you here and be like, oh, problem solved.

1:02:34Everything's fixed. That's not what I'm here for.

1:02:39Dan Bongino:I didn't, you know, leave hoping, you know, we walk back into the podcast city and people be waving palm fronds as we come in on a, you know, on a ceremonial horse or being carried in. That's not the way this works. I've told you all the time. There's no heroes in government. There's just work that gets done or doesn't. There are people inside That's the U.S. Institute for Peace That's just one example Any government agency can do damage To NGOs and others But when you're in the intelligence community And you're not there to give the president Intelligence to act on But to protect your left wing Partisan benefactors We got a problem And I'm telling you There's a lot of this stuff still going on these ticks are going to be have to be pulled out of the skin of the united states government and it's going to take a while to do it because they don't advertise and these left-wing reporters are more than happy to feed their bullshit into the system we do have some good news too some other good stuff going on you know i'm a big supporter of the second amendment i got buck sexton coming up in a second just a quick note our good friend senator mike lee from utah put this tweet out last week, introducing the National Constitutional Carry Act in the U.S.

1:03:57Senate. You do have the right to keep him bare arms, Senator Lee. You're right. Stay strapped. I would love to see that passed. Of course, we've got the filibuster problem. Another reason I think we should scrap this thing or institute a talking filibuster. They're going to do it anyway. Can you imagine

1:04:14Dan Bongino:what it would be like to finally be able, finally be able to recognize your God-given big all right to carry your firearm and protect yourself throughout the country without a patchwork of local laws designed to put you in jail and trip you up. We need this so bad. You see what they're doing now? Some of these liberal states are making the default mechanism that it's illegal to bring firearms onto private property unless the owner says otherwise. That way they can arrest you if you walk anywhere. You're allowed to carry your firearm basically into your driveway, And that's it. We got to stop this, folks.

1:04:53Thank you to Senator Lee for doing that. Oh, you do?

1:04:58Dan Bongino:This is a bad old kitty in the chat about gay maps. Apparently queering the map means making it more rainbow-like, colorful, colorful, and noting LGBTQ, IAB, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, friendly locations. You just can't make this crap up. No, no, you cannot. And your money was going there for that stuff. Desert X rider, all straights are now, that's clever. All straights are now gay. The gay of Hormuz. And a motley at the end. Desert X rider, you get chat post comment of the day. Get a little stamp for that, fellas. Well done. That's freaking creative. BP Sniper. Dan, why do you wear a watch now?

1:05:55I don't know. You haven't done questions for Dan in a long time. I love watches. I just used to forget all the time. And now ever since I moved, I got this little watch holder. And it's right near my wallet. So I don't forget. I love it. I'm a watch guy. It's the only thing I like is watches. I don't get enjoyment out of a lot of material stuff. As you can tell, I wear T-shirts and regular old jeans. I don't even wear like super expensive stuff. So I like watching. I'm a watch guy. I don't know. I've always been a watch guy. Although quick, before I get to the break. Sorry. If anyone out there, my watch was stolen.

1:06:31My Breitling watch from my house in a burglary over 10, well over 10 years ago, 15 years ago when I lived in Severna Park. Someone broke into my house at night when I was home. They broke in. they stole my secret service Breitling Colt GMT blue face and on the front it had a secret service star and it said presidential protective division listen Breitling's this is actually I like Breitling good watch it's not super high end but I like them that watch was special it was only one of like 500 ever made I'm asking I'm serious man I'm not messing with you guys if you guys ever see that watch it's a Colt GMT dark blue face if you ever see it and it's like on the market anywhere, send me the link right away.

1:07:20We have an email on the website. I don't even care. I'll buy it. I don't even want to know who's stolen anymore. Well, we know who stole it. The guy did some jail time, but it's got hocked and it's been gone ever since. But it was my prized possession and it got stolen. Incredible. All right, I'm gonna take a quick break. And then I got my good friend Buck Sexton coming up. He hosts one of the most popular radio shows in the country. has a new book out about gaslighting, liberal bullshit gaslighting and the dangers of it called Manufactured Delusion. Also has a good body of experience in the intel community.

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1:09:49Welcome to the show one of my longtime friends. Known this guy over a decade. Man, Buck, are we getting old? He's the host of one of the biggest radio shows in the world, Clay and Buck. You can listen to it at noon on premier iHeart stations and other stations all over the country. He's also the author of a new book. It's already a bestseller. I was looking it up this morning called Manufacturing Delusion. It's all about a topic we love on the Dan Bongino Show, how the left uses propaganda and indoctrination of bullshit the hell out of you. My friend Buck Sexton. Buck, welcome to the show. Hey, Dan.

1:10:19Thanks so much for having me on. So what a perfect time for this book, Manufacturing Delusion. One of the things I really enjoy, for all the wrong reasons, talking about on the show, I know you and Clay address it all the time as well, is the left's love affair with gaslighting, you know, lying, lying often, lying confidently, that's important, and then isolating people from the truth. Buck, you wrote this book, but we saw it again this weekend, very timely with this suspect up in New York in this bombing case, throwing this TATP explosive at this Jake Lang protest. And then NBC News, I addressed it earlier in the show,

1:10:55Dan Bongino:you play in the word game, euphemism game, to almost seemingly imply like the motive wasn't there. I get really worried about this stuff with the media, not painting a clear picture of where the threat is coming from. This is Lamo radical threat, self-radicalization. It's a really big deal. We used to see this all the time in Intel Division, the NYPD, Dan, as you know, that the media would try to seize upon things in the initial moments or the first hour or two when a story would break to mislead people intentionally about who the likely perpetrator was or what was really going on. And I wrote Manufacturing Delusion and it took me quite a while.

1:11:33I mean, I actually wrote it and researched it and did everything myself and it took quite a bit of time. But even when I first pitched this to my publishers two years ago, I said, look, people are going nuts, but they're being made to go nuts, right? I mean, this is something you talk about on your show. Like there's effort in this. It's not just like people all of a sudden believe things that are extremely obviously untrue because they've become suddenly detached from reality. There are actually tactics. There's a playbook. And in Manufacturing Delusion, I lay this out. You're talking about gaslighting.

1:12:04It's not just that they lie to you, Dan. It's that adherence, and this is one of the, this is dealt with in the chapter on menticide or killing of the mind. Again, all the chapters are all broken down by tactics. Lying is showing that you belong to the team that they want you to belong to in some cases, right? It's like if you're willing to lie, this comes up in the context not just of terrorism but of the transgender stuff. You have to show that you're willing to lie to be on the team that they want you to be on, right? This is almost like the secret handshake, if you will. You're going to say things that are absurd, right?

1:12:37I mean this is when they go out there and they're like the biggest terrorist threat. You've seen this a million times. The biggest terrorist threat in this country is like white nationalist Republicans. Right. And if you exclude 9-11, you're like, this is insane. You people are nuts. That's what the book is about. Yeah. You know, I love that you mentioned that, that the lie is the shibboleth. Like, I don't know what a woman is. Like, that's a lie. Like, you're not stupid, Kentonji.

1:13:06Dan Bongino:Well, I don't know. Well, however, Jim, relative to the population, She knows exactly what a woman is. The lie from the Biden team and Christopher Wray, failed FBI director before the administration changed over to Patel. You know, the biggest threat in the country is white supremacist groups. Listen, Buck, you and I both know, that's a serious thing. Any racially motivated violence is serious. The biggest threat in the country? Are you serious? Like the lie is the shibboleth. And I think the portion of your book that the audience would find the most interesting is the fact that this manufactured delusion, i.e.

1:13:42Dan Bongino:the title, can't happen though without the isolation portion. Like they bubble themselves in and although the mandarins on the left know it's a lie, the suckers underneath them fall for it and they really do believe there's like 760 genders and that a bunch of Ku Klux Klan members are in every corner of every community because they never see the truth. Hannah Arendt, you know, the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism, writing all about the Nazis, the rise of totalitarian regimes. She describes what you're talking about as atomized subjects. Because one of the things that comes up, I talk about, for the first time, Dan, in the book, I talk about CIA deployments to Nigeria, which I had never spoken.

1:14:24They had to clear that one. I didn't know that it was long ago enough now. But I was looking into Boko Haram, the origins of Boko Haram. Little 23, four-year-old buck, believe it or not, was running around Nigeria with the secret police, looking at Boko Haram before that was even called that. But then I get into Iraq and Afghanistan and deployments there. And in the isolation chapter, there's a chapter on this, because obviously it's an important theme. It's something you talk about, too, about how you make people crazy. I said, look, you can be physically isolated, right? I mean, if you're in some little village, you know, an hour's drive from Kandahar, it's easier because you don't have access to the internet or television or even radio or whatever.

1:15:03It's easier for people to and indoctrinate you. But Hannah Arendt talks about atomized subjects. And these are people who are psychologically isolated. So you could be around people all day, all the time. And of course, this is also in the context of self-radicalized jihadists in this country, like the wackadoos that just threw the IED outside of the mayor's office or the mayor's mansion or whatever in New York, mayor's mansion. You can be somebody who's physically in close proximity to other people, but you feel ideologically speaking, you think that you are completely separate from that society.

1:15:39You think you are isolated and have no contact to it and therefore are much more subject to the tactics of mind manipulation. And like I said, atomized subjects. I mean, there's a whole framework for this going back now a hundred years since Aaron came up with it. So that's one of the pathways and one of the tactics I talk about. But it's the same thing, Dan, with, I mean, remember like when I was again, pitching the topic of the book, manufacturing delusion, which I hope your enormous audience of people who actually care about knowing cool stuff. And there's a lot of history in the book and everything else.

1:16:11I know your people, they like history. They like to know tactics. Manufacturing delusion is well, well worth the read because I'll just get all this from it. I was pitching and I said, how is it that people who think they're well-informed really believe just to look at the BLM thing? That was a manufactured delusion. How is it that people think that that cops and you were a cop, Dan, that cops are shooting like 10 ,000 unarmed black men a year? Right. No reason.

1:16:35Dan Bongino:Buck, there's a chart. Talk about a manufactured delusion. It was like they asked a bunch of liberal Democrats how many unarmed black men were shot by police. The number was like some ridiculous, like 15 ,000. It was thousands. And it was like 100 or something. And even of those, it were only 11 that there were even, you know, it was just so ridiculous. But that's why I like the title of your book. I find it so fascinating. I didn't mean to interrupt you. I rarely do that. But you just nailed the point on that. And I'm thinking of it in terms of how at least my experience over the last, you and I both worked in the intel space for the government.

1:17:15and I you know when I worked for the secret service the government always going to have problems it's government I mean the bureaucracy is endless we get it but people still had faith in institutions I mean back in 1999 2000 2005 up until you know the weaponized government basically tried to take down Donald Trump twice you know to say you were with the FBI

1:17:37Dan Bongino:carried some cachet to say you with the CIA people generally were like wow thanks for your service The military still has that, thankfully. You know, upper-level Pentagon leadership took a beating under the Biden administration and Obama because they were kind of bureaucratized. But the lack of faith in institutions through these manufactured delusions, as you call them, Buck, has really had some deeply consequential problems. It's creating some consequential problems for the United States. Nobody trusts anything coming out of the government anymore. And the left did this, not us. Well, absolutely.

1:18:12And, you know, you mentioned this when I the CIA, I went to the CIA. I'm like you, I'm a New Yorker. And I could have done what all my peers did, which was, you know, I was in college when 9-11 happened. And a lot of a lot when I say peers, I mean, classmates, right? Not people my age. A lot of guys obviously signed up and served right away. But a lot of my classmates in school were like, I'm going to go to Goldman Sachs. And I was like, no, I'm going to go to the CIA because I thought that that was the best way that I could help. I had no military service in my family, so I didn't really have any connection to it.

1:18:41But I figured I'm studying. I was already studying Arabic before 9-11. I was already in a Middle Eastern studies focus. So it seemed like an easy transition to just to all of a sudden get recruited into the agency. And everyone knew when I was at the agency and certainly for a few years after, like I was I was in the basically the bin Laden hunting unit. I was in CTC. Like this is why we're there. And it really was why people there. Dan, that has been destroyed. Now people say they're like, I can't trust you. You're in the you were in the CIA. I was like, first of all, I haven't been in in like 15 years.

1:19:12Second of all, I joined when everybody was like, can we please find all these guys and kill them before they can blow up, you know, 10 planes over the Pacific? I mean, you look at some of these plots that they actually had that were disrupted. Anyway, you know this. I know this. Your audience knows this. But I do think it just bears repeating that we ask people to go do this stuff. Thankfully, there's still the respect earned and deserved by our military. But on the intel side, from a lot of these bureaucracies, people have this idea like, I wasn't James Comey's personal assistant at the FBI when he was trying to frame Trump.

1:19:44I was with you on the outside saying that, by the way, that was a – Russia collusion is a massive manufactured delusion. I get into it a little bit in the book, but I probably should have gotten into it even more. That is a perfect example. Something like 30 percent of Democrats into Trump's term, maybe two years into his term, thought that Russia actually hacked voting machines. Right. I mean, this is this is something that there was never any evidence for whatsoever, but it was just something that was pushed into that ecosystem by people who wanted to create a hysteria. And that's the thing.

1:20:19I mean, again, you can there's I get into some references to to Alinsky and and some of the sort of street, you know, the street communists to borrow from our friend Jesse Kelly, street communist tactics of just get people fired up, get them angry and get them believing nonsense. And you can then use them as tools for whatever you want. And I think that's at the heart of the Democrat Party today. The lie is the point. And this is why the gaslighting is the point. This is not some secondary thing, because otherwise you can't get people to become so upset over saying that like men can't play in women's sports or that Black Lives Matter is built on lies or, you know, you got or Russia collusion or or Donald.

1:21:03I mean, you know, all the stuff with with Donald Trump is is covering up for a global cabal of evil pedos. I mean, there's a lot of stuff out there that people say. And you're like, there's just no evidence for this. Oh, but it is helpful for the people who are trying to kick at the load bearing walls of our civilization. It is helpful for people who want to tear everything down to get people so aggravated and agitated that they can be pushed on this stuff. So that's a lot of the things. But another thing I get into the book, I might add, Dan, is we see a little less this now, but forced confession and just the role of, you know, the apology tour that we used to have.

1:21:40Not we, but conservatives or people on the right. You would say the smallest thing. You would say something that you're like, I don't even know. And then it was, you know, you have to go and you have to apologize. And I'm not just talking about a media. If you work in some corporation, this is straight out of the Maoist culture revolution playbook. They put all these people up on stage back in China in the 50s, and they were beating them with sticks and everything, and they were having to confess because that shows that you're broken, and they want people to seem broken to people around them.

1:22:10Dan Bongino:Buck, like land acknowledgments like that. It's so farcical, right? I just thought, as you said, everyone get up on this land prior where the Seminole Indians are. Okay, well, give it back then. And I'm just, I'm not, no one's stopping you from giving it back. Like give it back and they don't want to do it. They're just so full of shit. But you're right. It's like this ritual shibboleth. We're all like nodding their heads like a bunch of stupid robots while simultaneously doing jack shit about any of it. It's like, it's, it's incredible. On the topic of, you know, manufactured delusions as well.

1:22:49You know, they tell you in the business, you and I have been here a long time. Never talk about what you were talking about before the show. I do it all that. Before the show, you and I were chatting, we're old friends, and I was talking about the almost comical MAGA Civil War. This is a left-wing narrative. It's completely fabricated. I'm an evidence-based guy. So are you. The polling numbers indicate upwards of 90 % of Republicans are with the president. His approval rating is tracking above prior presidents at this stage of the presidency. Is there disagreement? Of course there's disagreement.

1:23:21I'm actually glad we're not a group of stupid liberal robots that automatically nod our heads in approval. But a MAGA Civil War, this is like the latest manufactured delusion on the left. There's no such thing. The numbers don't bear that out. Oh, it's absolutely the case that this is a weapon being used because our opponents are, unfortunately, they've had so many manufactured delusions that they can't even keep it all straight. And they don't know what to do because they're now dragging around things. I mean, the trans issue is a perfect example, but there are others as well. Their policies on crime are insane.

1:23:56Lock up criminals. Lock up criminals. And guess what? You have fewer people. You have fewer old ladies being bludgeoned in the streets by maniacs who have been arrested a hundred times. I know, you know, you tell your people this day in and day out. So do I, of course, right? This, that you have to be insane not to see these things, but that's the point. They've been pushed into this. It's, it's the insanity is a construct. The insanity is a tool. And on, on the, uh, the MAGA civil war, I mean, look, I mean, a few things I always tell my radio audience, uh, don't ever expect me to hit my friends.

1:24:25Cause I won't do it because for me, it's just a point of honor. Like I, if someone's on the right and they're fighting for the country, we're trying to achieve the same things and I'm not going to go out like a bitch and take shots at them so I can get a few clicks or whatever. That's part one. And then part two of it, I would say it's actually kind of a testament to how much, you know, when we came up in this business, I mean, you and I have been doing this for roughly the same amount of time now, which, damn, we're getting old. It's been like 15, 15-ish years. You started right around the same time.

1:24:51Yeah, right around the same time. So, you know, when you look at the beginnings of this, we had all of social media against us, all of legacy media against us, all these people, all the, you know, CNN was like a serious organization with a lot of money that people gave a lot of, you know, I know we're like, you like laugh now when you say this out loud. Right. But, but back then these things had, you know, on then, and Brian Williams was America's newsman, the whole thing. We had to become really adept and we had to become fighters. And I mean this, you know, you and me and Shapiro and, and, and, and, and Walsh and, you know, and go down the list.

1:25:24Like, I can't name everybody right now, but you know, you go down the list of everybody on the right who was, you know, obviously all your colleagues, all your friends at Fox, they had to actually get good at this and be capable of making arguments and be, the left, they've just been kind of like fed grapes and carried around on, you know, on a litter and told how brilliant they are and go from one overpaid nonsense position to another. And basically, if they can't turn us against each other, they just have no chance. Like, I talk about this with Clay all the time. Who are they even going to have?

1:25:57Who are they going to have that you would even want to debate on the left that's even worth your time right now? I don't even think that person really in media exists. So what they want are people with big audiences and a lot of ability to just, you know, they want this to be the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s where it's just like the more casualties for everyone, the better. So I think falling into that trap is insane, and I refuse to do it. The good news is that if the commies win back, even just the House, as you know, in this midterm, which may very well happen, everyone's going to get a reality check on the right again of, oh, these people are insane and they want to destroy the country.

1:26:32So that means that we'll have to actually focus again and not be turning on each other, which I just think is nonsense. Yeah, you know, I agree with some exceptions. There are some people out there who are not MAGA or not forget MAGA. They're not even Republican or conservative. I don't know what they ran on in the past. I just know now, like, you're just totally full of shit. Like, what you're doing now is, and I just have to call it what it is. Because that's different. That, I see, is just divisive inside and meant to destroy us from the inside. But, you know, you brought up something interesting.

1:27:04Because you're right. Like, you and I have known each other since, gosh, early 2000s. I mean, it's been a really, really long time. Probably well over. 2011, 2012. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I was up in New York doing a Blaze show with you. Gosh, well over, I think, 15 years ago or something. But I don't bring that up to age us both, although it may do it by default. I do it because I don't think a lot of the younger folks who have, you know, been gracious with their time and listen to your show and my show and Ben and others, I don't think a lot of them understand, like, all the structural advantages for the left.

1:27:40Airport viewing. I'm not joking. Like, airports have CNN. Like, that's just what, you know, it's a joke and we laugh. But no airport in America, like outside of like FBOs, have Fox on.

1:27:50Dan Bongino:I mean, the citations in Stupopedia and all these other places, you know, the whole ecosystem of NBC, ABC, CBS, and there are millions of nighttime viewers. The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Trib, all the media centers around the world were driven by leftists or left-leaning, you know, pseudo-centrists. and buck we still and i say we i mean all of us i'm not just talking about me and buck all the names he mentioned matt and ben and levin and sean and and beck who managed to stay and rush i mean the godfather of all of our shows we still wound up i don't want to say winning but we've stayed competitive if not edged ahead of them in the digital game and they hate us for it oh absolutely I go back to that time period and I just think about the advantages that they had felt totally insurmountable.

1:28:47And if you look at this from an information warfare, I mean, propaganda is one of the chapters in Manufacturing Delusion. If you look at this from an information warfare perspective, we were outgunned just by sheer volume in a way that in retrospect was just, it was unbelievable. I mean, you know, you think about the advantages, the built in advantages. And I think in some ways it really actually peaked during COVID because then we saw, oh, if they can, they will just shut us down. It's not really that they want to be able to dominate us by sheer volume, by the platforms that they have. If they have their druthers, they want to be in a place where they can straight up silence.

1:29:27Because as you know, if you don't exist on the internet and you don't have some massive legacy platform that you can call upon, I mean, you're not a part of the conversation. You just can't get your message out enough. So there's been such a transformation. I believe personally that Elon Musk buying X is one of the most important things to have happened in the last decade. Maybe one of the most important things that happened in the 21st century. And I don't say, yeah, I think what Elon's doing in a business sense is incredible in a whole range of ways. But I think that that broke the lockdown that they really had on information distribution.

1:30:05And now once that cat's out of the bag, like they've just got problems that they can't even begin to fix. And so I go back to the beginnings of it. I think about what it was like trying to do media then. And, you know, we were like weirdos, right? I mean, we, the right, we people on the right were treated always in that media ecosystem like there was something kind of wrong with us. And it's funny because we represented, I think Roger Ailes said this, but we represented this little constituency of half the country. So yes, he did. He did say that. Yeah. Yeah. So I think we've evened out quite a bit in the firepower.

1:30:40But what I said is really true. It's like all the campus conservatives that I know, too, like all the college conservatives. anytime you see some college conservative and they're like open about their beliefs you're like wow that kid's only like 19 20 years old you know he or she is so eloquent and dialed in on the facts and able to make a case and then you find some leftist with like blue hair it's just like some banshee shouting communist slogans and like you know spittle flying out of their mouth and it's like but this is what happens when one side is putting in the work and the other is just being sort of patted and cosseted and passed along.

1:31:17And that's the same exact situation we've had in the media. None of these people at like CNN, and now CNN is obviously a shell of what it used to be. I think Trump broke CNN, which is amazing. I mean, if you had told me he would do that in 2016. No, they've never been the same. You know, I didn't even think about that, though. You had brought up before, I was talking about how they had these structural advantages built in. Last question for you after this, but I had totally forgotten about in the when i was asking you the question about the fake fact checking the boycotting the google ads boycotts the youtube banning like all of that and it's like hey man we're still here reminds me of that scene and you know rocky 2 when he's asking duke like why he shouldn't take this second fight against rocky and he's like i saw you beat that man down and he just

1:32:08Dan Bongino:kept coming. He goes, we don't need that in our lives. That is the entire conservative content creation space. They just never gave up. And now it's the golden years. But in the last few minutes I have with you, we're talking to Buck Sexton, author of the bestselling new book, Pick It Up Today, wherever you get your books, Manufacturing Delusion. There it is on the screen. You got the fancy graphic. He's got a hard copy right there. Buck, you were in the Intel space for a while. I just got out of it myself. Hegseth, Secretary of War, doing an amazing job. Good friend of both of ours. Just a great guy.

1:32:40You know, he brought up this weekend, he was asked in 60 Minutes on the 60 Minutes interview about the Intel advantage, basically, for the United States. He was asked in a different format, kind of a hit question. But he answered correctly. You know, without getting into too many details, I think you know this as well. Listen, warfare is always going to be, obviously, tautologically dangerous. That's just a fact. no matter how great your technology or vantage brave people have to go and wage war and put their lives at risk however the united states technology base and our ability to gather intelligence on foreign adversaries is so light years ahead of everyone else and when you see it from behind the scenes you see why pete's like no we're not really surprised by mine i'm not telling you surprises don't happen um you know ukraine war there were some people who saw it coming some some who did not, but we do a really, really good job at this.

1:33:30And it's even happening even, even, you know, even more efficiently now that the weaponization components been, that cancer has been largely excised out. You know, Dan, it reminds me, I was in, in the book I wrote about, I wrote about being in Mosul back in like 2007 and, and working alongside a task force, their military, you know, the real, the real door kickers. And by it, by working alongside, I'm helping pull target packages. And, you know, and then at night I'm on the base and they're actually going in and kicking in the doors and doing all that stuff. And it's amazing what they were able to do even then, you know, SEALs, Delta, these guys.

1:34:06But I remember watching a drone strike on a car in broad daylight in Mosul, watching it, you know, on the screen on surveillance. And, you know, it was like a hell, it was the standard thing that everyone's now seen in movies and stuff, Hellfire Missile, some little rickety vehicle, boom. And, you know, no one's getting out of that car but i just remember that you know the whole thing is is toast and ever everyone in it is killed i think there were four four people in the car all al-qaeda guys sawing people's heads off you know bad dudes um but i remember that i watched this and then i saw one i was in the white house actually visiting some of our mutual friends uh last june and they showed me it had just been declassified they showed me i forget the technical designation of it dan but it's people refer to as like the flying ginsu knife you know oh yes yes the missile that has the uh the extended uh basically scissor slicers that oh yeah yeah that thing you don't want to get hit by that it's gonna be a bad day and and this car is moving okay the other the other strike that i saw was broad daylight car basically had a red lighter stopped and and hit four people everyone's dead this car is moving and and obviously being tracked by by a drone and they send this ginsu thing in Dan, the car had four people in it.

1:35:21Three other dudes got out, except the guy that they were trying to take out. And you sit here, you're like, this isn't a whole other. You know, people saw that video, I think, during the Israel-Hamas war of that senior Hamas guy. You remember that in the building? And the drone basically like, I mean, we're in a hole. And when you look at robotics, you look at AI, the technological stuff that is coming. When I say coming on board, it already exists. It's kind of just like how it's going to be deployed by our military or how it already is being deployed and people are learning about it. The advantages that we have currently are far beyond what even I saw 20 years ago when we were fighting the GWAT inside the agency.

1:36:03It's a whole other level. so i i certainly hope that that plus the lessons of the g-wad including don't try to build someone else's country for them uh as long as we stick to those principles um i think we could be in for running up the scoreboard against the bad guys in a really big way here which would be great for great for america first and foremost but also honestly just good for humanity good for the whole world so that's my prayer at least buddy you know you and i have that same sense of humility i came back uh was not in the intel space was in the protection and law enforcement space and And, you know, but familiarity with surveillance devices, obviously.

1:36:37And I was just blown away. I mean, three weeks through a month, I was just nothing but bring it on, guys. Just every day, brief, every day. I want to hear. And it was just incredible. It worries me a little bit about the surveillance state and the wrong people getting in charge. That's why we got to vote right. Buck, the new book is called Manufacturing Delusion. Folks, go pick it up today. Buck is a great, great friend of mine. He's got a great radio show with Clay. airs all around the country on like what 500 stations or some obscene number um it's a phenomenal show he's a good friend of mine pick it up today manufacturing delusion buck we hope to have you back sometime you're welcome anytime you know where to find me man thanks for uh i love it man thank you for being so generous having me on your show and telling everyone i really think that your people will enjoy the book honestly i think that they'll like it's meant to be read a lot of cool stuff in there a lot of history so thank you for having me on yes sir anytime that That was Buck Sexton, folks.

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