The VERY Real Antifa (Ep. 2447)

24:43Sorry, I got to speak. My knee's so bad. I was doing just some light stuff. Now I got to have a knee replacement, which is going to cost me a couple of days off towards the summer folks. So I'll let you know in advance, but I definitely, it's time. I can't walk around on my knee anymore. I just walk around with a massive limp now. So it's hard to walk, but I'm reading this article out of the New Yorker and it was for left-wing stuff it was actually surprisingly on not unbiased but not as biased i was i was actually quite impressed i forget the guy who wrote it but uh it says dan bongino's returned to podcast you know it's the normal hit pieces in there man he runs ads for survival food yeah i don't want to die and i actually use the stuff myself and the show supported by ads but it's actually pretty fair i was actually stunned all right i'm going to take a quick break and then i want to get to this signal noise thing again if we don't as a a movement the MAGA movement I'm not pinning this in with folks listen I get caught up in this too sometimes where I've got to like sit back and not be first but be right we have got to do better at filtering out the signal from the noise because it is tampering voter voter excitement about the election it's not about accountability I said that in the beginning of the show demand accountabilities people work for us Republicans, Democrats, all of them.

25:57But it is about a realistic assessment of where we are and where we're going. And we need facts and inputs to do that. We can't have skewed inputs. Skewed inputs are noise. Accurate inputs are signal. We're never gonna make the right output decision if we don't have proper signal. And I'm gonna show you what I mean with something Donald Trump said the other day that the left-wing media jumped on, fed to a bunch of folks who pretend to be Trump supporters, and they ran with it. Trump's backing down. He's chickening out on immigration. It's total, complete bullshit. It's not even what he said. I'll show you what I mean coming up next.

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30:21I love this country. I was honored to have served it multiple times. I've been in and out of so many jobs and I live a nomadic lifestyle. I do things like I finished the mission. I come back, I do other things. I just like doing stuff. I've always done stuff, okay? I'm a happy guy. And I don't want the show to sound doomery either, but I'm really getting frustrated with a bunch of people attacking the president for every single thing he says without listening to what he actually said. This is a perfect example. The liberal media jumped all over this one to push this taco narrative. Trump always chickens out.

31:01Chickens out on what? You're totally full of shit. So he gives an interview the other day and he's talking about Minnesota. And he's very clear about what he says. And of course, he's talking about being asked to come in. So the liberal media wants to push this narrative. Oh, Trump's pulling out of Minnesota and he's not going in to enforce immigration anymore. He chickened out on Minnesota. That's not at all what he was talking about. Again, I lived it. He's clearly talking about Title 10 deployments of the National Guard. If you actually know Trump's speaking style and you're even interested in getting to the bottom of it.

31:36Here's the clip. I'm going to show you how some of the libs and then some of the anti-Trump folks on the right, the symbiote strikes again. They start attacking him. Oh, look, he definitely chickened out. Well, I'm going to give you the truth And I got the receipts to back it up about why he said what he said and what he's doing. First, listen to the clip. Check this out. It sounds like there is a shift in immigration enforcement here, that there's going to be a shift after Minneapolis. What should Americans expect going forward? Well, one thing I say to my people, you know, we do a good job. We don't get credit for it.

32:06I say they have to ask and they have to say, please. When a city is going to the mayor or the governor, I don't want to go and force ourselves into a city, even if their numbers are terrible. Like, for instance, I got a call from Jeff Landry, governor of Louisiana. He said, we have a big problem. Could you go in and help us with with, well, let's see, certain sections. I mean, to be honest with you, certain sections of the state beyond their famous, beautiful city, certain sections of the state. We have done not only in New Orleans, we've done a really great job in Louisiana. But I was called.

32:41I want to be called Chicago. We could solve the Chicago crime. Well, on that question, which cities are you headed to next? We have five cities that we're looking at very strongly, but we want to be invited. We will sometimes call the governors.

33:00Folks, gosh, this is why, look, a clip's playing right now on Fox, a similar clip. This is why I'm here and I'm happy to be back after serving in that first year for this amazing administration. I feel like I need to be the left wing media translator again, because these narratives travel around the world in this asymmetric warfare game. And they put out to Trump, Trump chicken out. He's leaving Minnesota. And then everybody I said to my wife this morning, I was going through the show, I was chatting with her. And I was talking about this particular story, how once the lie rockets around the world, it's like concrete.

33:43Like if you pour concrete in the wrong spot and it's still wet, it's hard to get rid of but not impossible. Once the concrete dries, you got to get a jackhammer out there. And that one mistake is now going to cost you days. This is what they're dealing with. The signal noise issue is going to be a real problem as information rockets around the globe in now record time. Folks, this is not what Trump was talking about. He wasn't talking about backing out until the governor talks him back. He was talking about National Guard deployments. Please stop bullshitting people on the left. Here's the background.

34:21You know what, Guy, put up the CBS News headline about the Supreme Court. CBS News. This is December of last year, 2025, so not that long ago. Supreme Court says Trump can't deploy National Guard to Chicago as legal challenge moves forward. Okay, Dan Bongino, I'm doing the Bob Dole, is here to explain to you what's going on. So early on during my tenure there, I had gone home for a weekend. It had been my first time home in a while. and I was at an event with my wife and I get a call and I get a call from the assistant director in charge of the LA office. And he says, hey, listen, LA, it looks like we're gonna have some civil disturbance in LA.

35:12Do you remember this guys, ladies in the chat early on the LA riots? Most of you probably do. They did basically an ERO op, emergency removal op and immigration, illegal immigration op. and the situation got out of control quick. Remember the rock thrower who thought he could get away and tried to flee and we got him too. Remember that? I remember when they called me on that. Like we got him. I was like, yes. And it's until proven guilty. However, it's always good to get your suspect, okay? So you remember the rock thrower? He had the bike helmet on. So they all thought they were going to get away.

35:43So there was a big civil disturbance in LA. Well, needless to say, I thankfully, you know, I have a suite of comms so I can handle things. But they do these White House, the wizard, White House Situation Room calls. I was on the phone all day. Matter of fact, probably from 11 a.m. to, I don't know, one in the morning, on and off on the phone. So I didn't get to attend much of the event. Hey, that's your freaking job, man. I gotta tell you, it was like, that's why I told you I'm gonna miss the intensity of it, that being able to make decisions and do things like that. But we're on the phone and we're handling this thing.

36:17and Paul eventually fell asleep in a hotel room. But the governor at the time wasn't eager to have the National Guard in there. Obviously, it's California. So they used Title X. I'm sorry for the long-winded explanation, but it's important you understand this stuff because this is where this show, the audience is always more informed and you'll never lose a debate. Title X doesn't require the governor's asking to launch the National Guard. Under situations of rebellion or elsewhere, where the president can nationalize the guard, federalize the guard, take them and move them in there. So, folks, that's what happened in many of these cases.

36:54Unfortunately, that is now in legal limbo, as you saw in this CBS headline. Not the president's use of the National Guard overall, but that particular portion without the governor can always ask the National Guard to come in and the president can help. That part, that part is not in question. Now do you get it? So if we can we any way we can play the beginning of that cut again. Now, does it make sense? Again, you'll be smarter than 99 percent of your dopey liberal friends now. This is why the president, who's smarter than these idiots, is crystal clear on this. We will use them. But you have to ask, because for a fascist and a Nazi and a monarch, the president is surprisingly compliant with another branch of government, the Supreme Court, that said, hey, there's an issue with the legality of this now.

37:45If the governor doesn't ask you or request it, we ask that you not do this until there's some finality. I thought he was a fascist. Why didn't he do it anyway? These liberal media people are morons. You're smarter than them. Play it again. It sounds like there is a shift in immigration enforcement here, that there's going to be a shift after Minneapolis. What should Americans expect going forward? Well, one thing I say to my people, you know, we do a good job. We don't get credit for it. I say they have to ask and they have to say, please. when a city is going to ask and who has to say please thank you guys I'm telling you we're not going to do bullshit on the show you are going to be smarter than your liberal friends and the freaking doomers out there presidents back down no the president's not a fascist folks I disagree with the Supreme Court decision on that I would err towards the president's discretion however we have a system of government where the president is not.

38:44We have three branches of government. We have a system of horizontal and vertical system checks and balances. That's the way the system works. The president's not a fascist. He's not a monarch. He respects the decision, and he's telling you, if you ask for help, we'll send it in. The liberal media will never tell you this shit. It's amazing how they constantly attack what they call right-wing media. And yet we're always right.

39:20I'm telling you, man, this anti-Trump brigade and the liberal media, they are just desperate for you to believe that this movement is cracking up. The MAGA Civil War, I see it everywhere. Matter of fact, the reason I brought up before that New Yorker piece, which again, it's a hit piece, obviously. And you know, listen, I don't usually recommend their stuff. I think it's subscription, like paywall stuff, but you know, read it, whatever. I'm not going to tell you, read stuff that says beautiful things about me. I'm sure there are valid criticisms about me all the time. But one of the things the piece says at the end that came out this morning, it says like Dan Bongino's return to podcasting, is he, the author of the piece, it's a guy, I forget his name, but he emphasizes at the end how the media keeps talking about this MAGA civil war, but he gives a pretty realistic for a left-wing outlet, like, hey, that doesn't really sound like what's happening.

40:12Bongino got 3 million plus views on his opening episode. And I don't know what he's talking about. Like what they're doing with this MAGA Civil War. The media though, outside of that guy, who I think had a candid assessment of it, wants you to believe this is happening because the concrete sets. It's how they drown. Oh, there you go. John Alsop, February 6th. So Dan Bongino's podcast, Homecoming. You know, again, it's not like, hey, this guy's wonderful, but that's fine. You know, freedom of the press, you're allowed to write what you want As long as you don't break the law or anything like that The MAGA Civil War thing, folks, is bullshit It's not real Yes, of course there are going to be some people upset with the President of the Republicans Just like there were Democrats who were upset with Obama That's not the question To claim there's a civil war, you better point to a plurality of people A majority of people 50 % of people pissed off with the President of the Republican Party That's total bullshit It's all made up It's meant as noise to drown out the signal, to stop you from voting in the midterms, to make you believe the president sold you out and nothing's happening.

41:19It's bullshit. Okay, Dan, produce receipts. We always produce receipts. The evidence on the show is not disputable. Your opinion about it may be, but the evidence is the evidence. Here's a CNN poll. Harry Anton again. Seems to be a pretty honest broker over there on CNN. He's like, hey guys, This MAGA Civil War thing is total bullshit because it ain't showing up in the actual numbers. That's all I care about is freaking numbers. Check this out. About the idea, essentially, not just that Republicans like or love Donald Trump, but believe he has been a good influence on the party. And here it is.

41:54Just look at this. Trump's had a good effect on the GOP among Republicans. When he left after term number one, it was 71 percent. Just before he was running for that second term, right, it was 62 percent. Now, it's again 71 % of Republicans who say that Donald Trump has had a good effect on the Republican Party. I know that there are a lot of people out there, especially on the left, who say, oh my God, we just want to grasp that one little thing that, you know, oh, there's weakness in Donald Trump's grip on the GOP, weakness in MAGA's grip on the GOP. It just simply put isn't there even after this whole stuff that's been going on in Minnesota, which obviously hasn't necessarily been popular with the general electorate, But among Republicans, they liked Donald Trump.

42:34They like MAGA. They like J.D. Vance. And they believe that Donald Trump's had a good effect on the GOP as much as it has ever been. It's as strong as it's ever been. Not with independents, not with, like you said, the general electorate, but with Republicans, pretty clear. They're not going anywhere. That's correct. Donald Trump, MAGA, J.D. Vance, they ain't going nowhere when it comes to the GOP. And I just saw another thing. Like J.D. Vance's approval rating is something like 78 or 80 percent. I may have been higher. Forgive me if I'm not even, I'm trying to downplay anything. You know, J.D.

43:04was my guy. Rubio's approval rating's through the roof. Bobby Kennedy's approval rating through the roof. And he's not really a Republican, but he's in the cabinet. I mean, the numbers matter or is this all bullshit, all the mega civil war? The only people saying that are people who want a mega civil war. And I'm telling you what I said yesterday, because some of them want to run against whoever Donald Trump endorses as the, say, linear heavyweight title holder of the MAGA movement. I've seen it. You're not going to tell me it's not happening because I know it's happening. And you'll see it more.

43:42Watch it over the next few years. You're going to be like, should have listened to those first week of shows. 89 ,000 in the chat, getting ready to close in on 90 for another banger week of shows. I love you guys. You guys are absolutely fantastic. I mean it. I mean it I have You guys have I put out a tweet this morning I was sitting out in the grass Bare toes Doing a little bit of grounding Catching some morning sunlight Health hacking Bio hacking And I thought I love Jesus man You're amazing They had this beautiful sunrise In Florida you get those oranges Little bit of pink in there Some gold Some light blue Some Not so much dark blue But once in a while You don't even see a little bit of a star or two as the sun's coming up.

44:26It's amazing to watch. Like only God could create a vista like that. And I was so grateful this morning. I put out this tweet on True Social and on X. Just thanking you all for an amazing week. It was like the honor of a lifetime to serve you in the most amazing job I ever had. What a pleasure. But also to come back and be welcomed into your home as a voice. man I owe you guys so much I hope you don't ever think I take you for granted because I don't I never will ever and I promise my team knows that too you guys come first I say it all the time I owe you everything you owe me nothing that's why I don't even like asking you hey go follow my shows I know I needed to do it but I don't want to ask anything of you you tuning in is more than enough.

45:15So there are the receipts. There is no MAGA civil war. There is an online bot civil war and a bunch of, you know, influencers who have nefarious motives. And, you know, there are some other folks in there who just don't think things are happening fast enough. That's fair. Fair. Listen to me. Fokker, I got you. Fair. You may not like the speed of things. That's okay. Justice, This, unfortunately, is very slow sometimes, sometimes fortunately, because it stops miscarriages. But I get it. I get it. I hear you. I understand that. You're not. That's a valid opinion. Be easier to move faster if there weren't some things in the way sometimes, though.

46:02Be able to explain more about that going forward. folks a lot of you are understandably too concerned about our children one of the things when we got in early um cash and i prioritized was what we call vcac uh violent crimes against children i talked earlier about threat banding how when we got in there the fbi not all of it but they had this threat banding system in this ipm system this basically management system for personnel and it was how they graded their employees and promoted people and we basically threw the whole thing out we just it just seemed to me cash couldn't stand it it just seemed to be like box checking and i remember asking uh one of these individuals one uh in one of the meetings we had this is maybe week three four around there i said you know what are we doing to you know prioritize a lot of these VCAC cases.

47:01And they were doing a lot of work, no question about it. So I went out and I started touring the field offices to really talk to a lot of these VCAC agents, again, it's violent crime against children. I'll just keep calling it VCAC because it's easier. VCAC agents. And one of the things they told me, I want you to listen to this because this is going to sting a little bit. I said to one of them, and I started asking this question every time, I said, this has to be the hardest thing in the world to, you know, watch these videos and these chat rooms with these people doing this in live time. I'm like, that's got to be the worst part of the job.

47:40And one of them said to me, and I got this answer a lot. He said, it is hard. You get really scarred over it. You can't unsee these. I mean, call them horrific. Horrific doesn't even, there's no word for that. Anything you say is going to undersell how horrible it is but they said hey a uh deputy boss whatever they call me say dan it's easier they said it's not even the hardest part and i said really what is the hardest part of this job and they said going home every day at six or seven or eight at night after a long, busy day? Because they're in a lot of these chat rooms. You know, you think you're talking to someone, you're not, you're talking sometimes to someone else.

48:28They're in these chat rooms when they suspect behavior that could be putting a kid in jeopardy. And he said, you know, when you got to log off and go home to your own family, he said, the saddest thing is, you know, the second you turn that phone off, that there's 20 more people jumping in that phone to go after a kid. jumping in that chat room, I should say. One of them said, I can't. It's hard for me to live with it. Folks, it was really, it was devastating. I visited a ton of field offices and I went out there and watched it up close and personal. So I was getting back to what I was saying.

49:09I was in this meeting early on and I had someone trying to explain to me how, you know, there were some subsets of white collar crime and we had bigger squads there. And then I said, guys, white collar crime is important. And we're going to continue to focus on that. However, we got to protect these kids. So we started Operation Restoring Justice, which was a central big, what I used to call water balloon effect. I read this story in the newspaper one day about in the Wall Street Journal about how illegal traffickers at the border do this water balloon thing. You know, when you squeeze a water balloon, you get the mass of the water goes here and in there.

49:43Well, a lot of these traffickers, what they do is they sense a border buildup by border patrol in a certain sector and they just squeeze the water balloon and send all the illegals somewhere else. So I was reading and I said, you know, we can do that too. It's not complicated. Like we can water balloon and squeeze our personnel and move them around too. So there are offices that did VCAC really well, like our Dallas field office. They just did an amazing job. Miami does a great job not to sell anyone short. Dallas set the standard, right? So what we started doing is taking best practices and we poured them in and and said, I want these shithead demons off the street.

50:16We are going to do a targeted national effort called Restoring Justice. And I only bring it up because Cash put out a tweet yesterday, a hat tip to him. In 2025, the FBI and its partners delivered a record year bringing crimes against children to justice. Identified and located over 6 ,000 missing kids, took millions of pedophile accounts off the dark web, dismantled those 764 networks, arrested hundreds of child predators and more. With President Trump's leadership and A.G. Bondi and Todd Blanche the DAG, we're not letting up. Cash also put out this video below. It's really short. You can see it playing here.

50:50But this is part of what accountability and transparency on this matter looks like. They delivered a record year. The work isn't even close to done. I told you when these guys go home at, you know, eight o 'clock, seven o 'clock at night after long days, there's still these people out there. But we pushed really hard on this. Relentless justice, storing justice, and restoring justice, 730 arrests, over 450 victims identified. Those were ops we really, really pushed hard. Human trafficker arrests up 764. Arrests were up almost 500%. And those that label themselves 764. We are producing record numbers of arrests under that umbrella organization.

51:31When you think you're safe in your dark web, I promise you are absolutely not safe. You have no idea what we can do. We have found and identified 6 ,000 missing kids. That's up 22 percent. We have arrested 1 ,700 child predators. The credit goes to the interagency and the men and women in the FBI working together with DOJ to bring these perpetrators to justice. So I promise you, it took about six months or so to get the agency reoriented towards even a greater output in that direction. But now you're seeing some of the results now. And I think going forward for the next three years, they're in a really good spot on a lot of these, again, horrific.

52:14And that is not even the I can't even imagine a word to describe it. Image. I told you I would tell everyone no videos. I can't. I can't watch it. I can't. I've seen enough of it during my 12 years with the Secret Service and elsewhere and with the police department, seeing these child abuse cases. I just, I get the point. I just want to see action. So good job on that. But the work isn't done. The work isn't done and nobody thinks it's done. The groundwork has been laid going forward. And I meant what I said in that interview on Fox with Maria Bartiromo. the tools right now if you're one of these demons online targeting a kid i'm telling you it's only a matter of time when i say that knock on the door is not going to be amazon and thank you to the tfos and police departments to task force officers who also help out in this stuff they're amazing all right i'm gonna take a quick break and i want to show you some more receipts that after now having some pretty unique experiences over the past year working with the president directly not just being a friend of his how he's a no bullshit guy and how i want to be like kind of for you guys like the trump whisperer to explain i told you the best way if you were a member of trump's team if you're doing a good job to absolutely ensure job security is to have some left-wing media hack call for you to be fired because they don't like what you're doing they did it with christy noem christy noem the border is down to like zero illegal migrants entering into the country christy noem again should they should be carving up around rush more again the president told her get it done get it done she got it done and of course the left-wing media wants her gun christy noem should be fired i'll show you the piece coming up in a second i promise you i'm right about this stuff he ain't gonna listen to you morons in the media You're not going to tell him who to fire and who not to fire.

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57:14You want receipts? We bring them. Liberal media, we got to fire Christy Noem. She's out. You better find. No, he's not. The president doesn't give a shit about what you think. I had this conversation. I rarely talk to reporters, but one of them called the other day who I had known from a prior race. And we just had kind of just a general conversation on background about some things. And I brought this up and she was like, hey, you're right. Like he really doesn't give a shit what we think. He doesn't. He doesn't care. Here you go, Politico. Kristi Dohm, his job is safe, says President Trump. Why would it not be safe?

57:49Why would her job not be safe?

57:56Good point He's like watch the media spin this and making it like an ambiguous headline. Trump says Noam's job is safe. For the next 10 seconds, they're like, add some little... They're so full of shit all the time. He's not listening to you. He doesn't care what you think. He is the lion king out there. He's going to make his own decisions about when to let people go and when to not. A lot of lessons were learned from 45 into 47. The media's not going to dictate who they hire or fire. But like I said to you before They need this division This fake MAGA civil war Yeah, there are some people Who have an agenda that are upset Some people who are legitimately upset I said that before They just want things to move faster Fair, fair enough I'm not talking about you I mean it I'm not talking about you I think I'm talking about you But I'm not talking about you I'm talking about people who have an agenda They're not genuine about what they're saying They need this MAGA civil war To tamp down enthusiasm Because they are terrified that President Trump, if he gets the SAVE Act, is going to have a first year plus a few months, if he gets a SAVE Act passed, that's going to basically secure our elections.

59:08They are terrified that given his record of success and a secure election system, the left-wingers in the media are terrified they may never win an election again. That's why you're seeing the hysteria. Now, this is almost an exclusively left-winger thing. The anti-MAGA crowd kind of staying away from this stuff. I think everybody's pretty much aligned with the SAVE Act. Even a lot of Democrats are aligned with the SAVE Act, which, you know, voter integrity will go through the roof, election integrity through the roof. We get this passed. So, of course, asking voters to actually present an ID and codifying it into law is definitely racist, guys, because Chuck Schumer said so.

59:50Chuck Schumer wants you to believe, again, as you listen to this clip, this is Jim Crow. This is like a poll tax, man. because why? Ask them why. You'll hear him say it here where he kind of hints. He implicitly says that somehow black and Hispanic people and minorities, you'll hear him imply this, are somehow incapable of figuring out how to get an ID. I cannot believe how other people in the left-wing media do not call them out. You object to the SAVE Act, fine. Stop telling us black and Hispanic people can't figure out how to get IDs, you racist buffoons. Check this out. There's a new Pew Research poll that 95 percent of Republicans, but also 71 percent of Democrats like this idea.

1:00:32So why do you not? It's Jim Crow 2.0. And I called it Jim Crow 2.0 and the right wing went nuts all over the Internet. That's because they know it's true. What they're trying to do here is the same thing that was done in the South for decades to prevent people of color from voting. For instance, if you change, you're a woman who got married and changed your last name, you won't be able to show ID and you'll be discriminated against. If you can't find a birth certificate or a proper ID, you'll be discriminated against. This is vicious and nasty. And I said to our Republican colleagues, it will not pass the Senate.

1:01:12You will not get a single Democratic vote in the Senate. We're not reviving Jim Crow all over the country. And when the American people hear what exactly it is doing and what its intent is doing, they're going to be against it as well. How many times are we going to go down this road with these hacks and goons in the media and on the Democrat side? How is it racist to ask people to produce an ID? That's what he's implying, correct? Using a Jim Crow analogy. so white people have no problem getting an id finding a birth certificate a driver's license a non-driver's license id white people have no problem doing that but black people can't figure it out i'm folks i'm just trying to read this i'm sorry like help me out here in the chat like am i reading this wrong if there is another way to explain this can you please let me know what Please explain to me how it is that Chuck Schumer gets away with this, that this is Jim Crow 2.0, that black people cannot figure out how to get an ID.

1:02:18I don't understand how this isn't racist. I promise you the black men and women I know can figure out how to get an ID. It's not hard. But it's the second part of that that's a new angle. Now ladies and gentlemen They're on the misogynistic Women can't figure it out either Listen our business manager here Jasmine's very smart She happens to be a woman Paula's the president of Bongino Inc She's figured the company out pretty good We're doing okay over here Launch has been great I'm pretty sure I work with some pretty intelligent smart women I know Hey Jasmine are you married? Yes she is Did you change your name?

1:03:02Was it hard? Okay. Gee, you're married, right? Her name is Kim. Lovely lady. Did Kim have a difficult time? She did not. Justin is not married, so we're going to have to leave him out of this one. Josh is not married either. I'm married. Josh, you're not married, right? But Josh, just to be clear, come on out a second. Come on out. Now, I know, Josh, I don't want to dig too much into your personal life, but does this keep you up at night that when one day you find your life partner in the future to go forward that they are not going to be able to figure out how to change their name. Absolutely not.

1:03:41Of course it doesn't. Josh is like, I don't really worry about this shit because I'm not going to date a stupid person and of course they're going to figure out how to change their name. Do you realize how dumb this is? Thank you, Josh. You provided the Justin Josh commentary for the unmarried crowd and the crew. Nobody's had a hard time with this like ever in human history. They're not done with this Ladies, why do you accept this? Yeah, we can't figure out how to change everything Really? Is this a new thing? By the way, there's provisional balloting and everything Even if there was a hiccup Here's Jamie Raskin Another complete clown Congressman out of Maryland Here's Jamie Raskin With the same talking point You women you get married out there you're really gonna have a really hard time changing your name i mean it's not it's it's not like that's ever happened before this is gonna be the first time a woman's changed their name after getting married they're not gonna know what to do it's not like hey gee it's not like they could actually so justin when you get married right and you marry say mrs justin and mrs justin wants to figure out how to change her name even though mrs justin could just put it in like chat gpt in 10 seconds all she's got to do is hey kim how'd you do it i'm on the dmv and changed my name with a marriage certificate.

1:05:00Wow. Holy shit. That sounds so crazy. How did you do that? Here's Jamie Raskin again with women are too dumb to figure out how to change your name on an ID. This is real. This is their talking point. Check this out. What's wrong with the SAVE Act? What's wrong with it is that it might violate the 19th Amendment, which gives women the right to vote because you've got to show that all of your different IDs match. So if you're a woman who's gotten married and you've changed your name to your husband's name. But you're so now your current name is different from your name at birth. Now you've got to go ahead and document that.

1:05:38You need an affidavit explaining why. And why would we go to all of these troubles in order to keep people from voting when none of the states that are actually running the elections are telling us that there's any problem?

1:05:56I cannot believe they settled on this as a talking point. What kind of moron focus group said this was a good idea? Do you have that, Ami Horowitz? I love this guy. Do you still have that from years ago? All right, well, we'll try to find it. Ami Horowitz, who does a lot of man on the street interviews, he went out and do you guys remember this? This is like for definitely Dan Bongino P1s in a Bongino army. He went out on the street. Was it New York City? New York City and he was asking a bunch of black voters like hey do you know where the DMV is they're like yeah man of course this is like how normal functioning black American citizens who are very smart and just like everybody else know where the DMV and the computer is that's how they respond to this democrat stupidity man you women and black people can't figure out how to get votes you got it all right this is great thank you this is not part of the original show but you You gotta see, this is classic.

1:06:52This is how, this is the difference between Democrats and normal people in the street. Check this out. Now I'm here in East Harlem to ask black people their thoughts on what you just heard. Do you have ID normally? You carry ID around? Yes, I have state ID. Do you carry ID? Yes, I do. Do you know anybody, any black person who doesn't carry ID? No. Everyone that I know has ID. Why would they think we don't have ID? That's a lie. Why would they say that? Do you have ID? Yes. Because I have my ID and my friends have their ID. So we know what we need to carry around. Everybody that I know have ID.

1:07:24Like, that's one of the things you need to walk around with New York with, an ID. Do you know any black adult who does not have ID? No, I don't. Is it a weird thing to even say that? Yes, it is. What is this, some type of trick candy cameras? I know, right? That's the only thing I brought with me. Those are legit IDs. I heard a lot also that black people can't figure out how to get to the DMV. Really? What does that say to you? I know it's at 125th Street. Do you know where the DMV is, Ryan? It's on 125th Street and 3rd Avenue, I believe. You know how to get there? Yeah. Did you have a problem getting there?

1:08:04Where do they find these Democrat focus groups? Insane asylums? Hey, I've got a good idea. We're going to pitch to the American people. women are too dumb to change their name and black people can't find the DMV? And people go for it. The media never asks a critical question about this. I showed you those two interviews with Schumer and then Raskin. And forgive me, I didn't play the whole thing. I shouldn't talk at it. Maybe they did. I didn't see it in the clip. If they did, send it over and I'll put that. Did the media person go, are you suggesting black people can't figure out how to get an ID and women don't know how to change their name?

1:08:38Oh my gosh. This is what passes for common sense on the other side of the political aisle. Folks, we got a midterm coming up. This SAVE Act is essential. Call your senators. Call your representatives, too. Make sure that this thing gets through. It is probably the single most important piece of legislation out of the big, beautiful bill, the BBB package, that we can get through in what's going to be the first two years before the midterms of this Trump administration. You don't have secure elections. You've got nothing. You know what? Skip my tweet. I'll get to the 10, 10, and 10 stuff. This guy I follow on Twitter, Lou Bazzotta, he's always, I follow a lot of folks on Twitter who I just really appreciate their support.

1:09:33You don't have to be some like big, huge Fox News star. I just like, Chatting with other folks and normal people on Twitter. Chicago Ray, Gunther, and Hunter Eagleman. Like, just good guys, man. They're just in it for the cause. You know, no bullshit folks. You know, my man Brendan Dilley, Miguel Fornia. Like, just good guys. So it's good that, you know, you don't want to fall in love with this inner circle of people who all have TV shows. They're nice guys, too. But, you know, I like to talk to other folks. So someone threw this up. It was Lou. I'll just put it up. The 10, 10, and 10. Might as well.

1:10:06I said, I already referenced it. But he said, hey, Dan, you got to remind people about the 10, 10, and 10 before the midterms. We do. Call 10 people, email 10 people, and make 10 social media posts before the midterm, at least, on how to vote, where to vote, who you support, whatever it may be. But we've got to do it. We've got to take action. We've got to take back the country again. This fight is never going to stop in the midterms. But they are freaked out over the SAVE Act. And they were also freaked out about the Fulton County, Georgia case that the FBI has been involved in for a long time.

1:10:42Again, it's not new. It's because you don't see things happening instantaneously in a slow, arduous process of justice. We are not the D.O.W., Department of War, which can give an order and see it executed right away. The FBI doesn't give orders. They conduct investigations. They deliver an investigative packet to a magistrate or a grand jury that issues a search warrant, an arrest warrant, or a true bill indictment. Then that arrest has to be planned. Then it's planned. Then post-arrest interviews are made. Then other suspects are gathered. The process is slow and arduous, sometimes painfully so.

1:11:19That's why I understand people who get frustrated. I understand that. It's fair. That's absolutely fair. You guys are home team. I get it. but as I used to tell the guys all the time, we were putting together an op, fast is smooth, smooth is fast in the justice system. The Democrats are freaking out about the case in Fulton County, Georgia, with the FBI search warrant the other day. And this is a reminder to the liberal media folks, because you're going to see this Fulton County, Georgia, official in a media clip, again, melting down over this case. This was an investigative FBI packet handed off to a judge.

1:11:58I thought the left loved the judicial system. A judge said, I've reviewed this. I agree there is probable cause in this packet, and we are going to allow the search warrant. That's how it works. You have a complaint about the case, don't direct it to the FBI, direct it to the judge.

1:12:20Watch this. They're freaked out because they don't want you to see some of the stuff that's in there. Check this out. I want to bring in Fulton County Commissioner Mo Ivory right now. She's a lawyer and a professor at the Georgia State College, Georgia State University College of Law. Commissioner Ivory, thanks so much for joining us. Thanks for all your important work. Intelligence officials, as you just as you know, and election law experts tell CNN, the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, had no legal authority over an FBI search in your county. But she argues she has, quote, broad statutory authority to analyze intelligence when it comes to elections.

1:12:58Why do you believe the DNI was in Fulton County, Georgia, during this raid? You know, for intimidation. The same reason that President Trump has his hands in every single thing that there is without any sort of restrictions on parameters. They don't believe in separation of powers. They don't believe in following the law or the Constitution, as we're seeing. Of course, she has no evidence to back any of those claims up. How about you just let the process play out? This is what I cannot figure out with the left wing media and all of these officials losing their minds over this. If there's no there there and you think the warrant was signed off by a judge because like somebody lied about or something, which would be a violation of the law.

1:13:46then let the process play out and you'll be vindicated, correct? What are you so worried about?

1:13:55Stay tuned. A lot of things are happening. A lot of good things are happening at the same time. Sometimes some noise gets in the way, but learn to discriminate noise and signal and we could have a pretty good midterm. Get overwhelmed by the noise. And there's a good possibility because you know one of the things I never want to hear about it, the red wave, folks that forget that crap. The polling numbers are okay, but not great right now. But there is potential for disaster if Republican enthusiasm falls off a cliff. We don't need to be like fake phony cheerleaders for every little thing. Go everybody all the time.

1:14:38I'm not telling you that. I've been clear on that. But we have to have an honest assessment of where we are. and things are happening, a lot of things. I went over that whole economics segment the other day. Factory output is up. Yesterday, they were like, oh, the jobs report is so doom and gloom. Really? There's a piece at the end of the jobs report, if you actually read it, that more people are working now in America than we've had in years. Like, what are you talking about? Was it the best jobs report ever? No. Was it the worst jobs report ever? No. Was it pretty good? Yeah, it was pretty good.

1:15:13speaking of jobs and the economy, I told you yesterday, I'm a big fan of Scott Besant, Besant the treasury secretary. So occasionally I'm going to take a mid-show comedy relief break where we play a Besant clip because he gives zero shits about these idiots. He's up on Capitol Hill yesterday arguing with Senator Elizabeth Warren. And this comeback is, I want you to pay close attention. Of course, Elizabeth Warren pretends to know something about economics. She has no idea. Besant's very smart in this space. Brilliant guy on economics, how it works, market price clearing, supply demand, all the big tenants, price elasticity.

1:15:49He knows all about this. A very, very bright guy. So Besson's up there sparring verbally with Elizabeth Warren. And I want you to listen to the beginning of this. He has zero respect, which he shouldn't, for Elizabeth Warren, who has lied about powwow chow and everything else. And he says in the beginning, this point may be a little nuanced for you. In other words, Liz, I think this is a little over your head, but I'll explain it anyway. And then watch him refer to the Biden-Warren economy. This is great. Check this out. Senator, it may be a bit nuanced for you, but what President Trump is referring to is the media saying that the affordability crisis was generated by this administration when it was you and President Biden who destroyed the buying power of the American people.

1:16:31So there is an affordability crisis, and you were front and center in it. So let me make sure that I understand. Donald Trump is not saying that affordability what's happening to families right now is a hoax he is saying that trying to lay the blame at this administration rather than the Biden-Warrant economy is a hoax

1:16:56rather than the Biden-Warrant economy in other words you own this too Senator with your big government communism it's maybe a little nuance for you Liz I'm not sure you get this. You know how to do powwow chow. I'm not sure you understand economics and cash flows, trade deficits. Again, price elasticities, marginal propensities to save. I'm not sure you get all that. That's just a few things. She's looking that up now on chat GPT. You cannot trust these commies. They are communists. They love communists. One of them is a devout socialist This guy up in New York Now, I promise not to make this show Because I get tired of this too Like the AOC Mondami show Because it gets annoying But Mondami is the new face of the Democrat Party They love this guy for the same reason they love AOC And Elizabeth Warren Not because they actually know anything But because they look like they know stuff This guy, Mom Dami, doesn't know shit.

1:18:05He's never led anything. Guy put up that clip yesterday. The guy's never had a real job. He worked for three years at some company with his mom, and he was like a rapper or something. This guy's had no experience. Now, I love the left-wing media. They wrote this hit piece about me, not to kind of turn it in my direction here, but when I took the deputy director job, I'd been a political candidate, a Republican nominee, 12-year Secret Service agent, an NYPD police officer, a consultant, a business owner, an investor. You may not like it, but you saying like, I didn't have requisite experience, you're full of shit.

1:18:39But notice about Mondani, no, no, this guy definitely has experience. He was like a rapper or something. You see how these people play these games? And the left eats it up? Suck it right up, man. This is what happens when you appoint a guy who was a rapper and worked with his mom or something as the mayor of the most important city on the globe. A city, by the way, I grew up in, in Queens. they can't even figure out how to like pick up garbage isn't that the basic there's key last time i checked there's an actual department in new york can you justin can you pull this website i just want to be sure this exists i may be wrong it's called the new york city department of sanitation i when we grew up they had green uniforms and white trucks i don't know what the uniform color is but i'm pretty sure that's a thing they have a new york city department of sanitation.

1:19:26I think the police commissioner right now, Jessica Tish, who we worked with on a bunch of options, I think she used to have that at some point. She had like the rat patrol or something like that. So I'm pretty sure that's a thing. So figuring out how to pick up garbage as a big city mayor shouldn't even be a thing. It should have just happened. But of course, because Mamdami, who was like a rapper or something, there it is. There's an actual website. Thank you. Look at that. Keep sidewalks clear of snow and ice. I guess under Mondami, that's not really happening. Here is a video by a guy walking around New York.

1:20:00Hat tip to this gentleman, who's looking at these mounds of trash that look like walls surrounding like Sparta or something like that. These big, huge walls of trash. And he's like, are you guys ever going to pick the freaking garbage up? Check this out. I did a video about Mondani not cleaning up the trash in New York and people were like, oh, it's because of city snow. because of ice. Do you see this? This is because of nothing. Look, this is the Great Wall of New York City Trash. This is now a national landmark, actually. You can't even see that there is a road on the opposite side of this.

1:20:35I'm about six feet tall. Look at this. This is my height. At the very least, I'll give it to Momdani. They separated the recycles and the wall of trash. So you have a nice wall of recycles here and a beautiful wall of trash here. This is insane. Hat tip Mikey Greenblatt via Instagram. I don't know or give a shit about this guy's politics at all. He's just showing you the truth. Here is a mound of trash in one of the greatest cities on earth that the rapper mayor who's never had a real job can't figure out how to pick up despite the fact that he has an actual department of sanitation that actually does sanitation and picks up garbage.

1:21:18Here's another one. They do an on-the-street man-on-the-street interview, just like you saw with the Ami Horowitz. But this is a different one. They grab this guy off the street. They're talking about how they want to increase taxes on businesses in New York and elsewhere. But ladies and gentlemen, when these people tell you who they are, these commie leftists, listen to them. They're not kidding. I want you to listen to this guy's response when this man-on-the-street interviewer asks a basic question. Like, hey, if we tax the hell out of these citizens, even more than we are now in L.A., Chicago and New York, aren't they just going to get up and leave and take their businesses with them and the jobs?

1:21:59Listen very closely to the answer. When they tell you who they are, believe them. Check this out. I say to this folks who say, well, if you tax millionaires, they're going to leave the city and the top 1 % pays 40 % of the taxes in the city. So what happens if they leave? What's your response? Well, that's what I would say. It's like we should take their business and we run it like for like the city ourselves. So if they take their business to Florida, you feel like you can make it keep it. I mean, they can't leave the building. They can't like just bring their whole entire workforce to Florida.

1:22:31Right. They can't bring all of like the resources that they have to like build the business here to Florida. Right. That's a whole thing. And that's where you would even say like we're building a real movement. Right. To like stop that. We'd also like make it illegal for them to like actually like leave. right we would find like find them to hell if they're gonna try to like abandon their property here right because clearly people do need to work right people do need to like you know make a living big hat tip to the nate friedman show great clip fantastic question ladies and gentlemen they remember that uh dennis green thing they are who we thought they were they are who you think they are these are people who believe your property is theirs you want property get an effing job and go buy, we don't owe you shit.

1:23:17I can't say this enough. The world owes you nothing. The world owes you absolutely nothing. Nothing. Listen, I've been very candid and self-critical myself. I told you on the first show that I have no regrets at all, none, because even the mistakes that were made helped me become a better person. No regrets. I wouldn't change anything. That doesn't mean there were no mistakes. And I said, one of the things, you know, I, you know, I wish I would have done different is I really wish on Fox and Friends I wouldn't have answered that question about being away from my family. I should have just shut up about it.

1:23:52It's fair criticism. No one cares. You can't say like no one cares, but then like, oh, you know what? You should care about me. No, no one cares. Took a job, get it done. Fair, fair, period, end of story. But you notice how the left doesn't live by any of that. They feel like the world owes them something. These people who created these businesses don't owe you shit. They owe you nothing You want to go buy stuff And live a great life And have a nice house And a white picket fence And ten dogs or whatever Earn it The world owes you nothing It is a beautiful place I described the sunrise this morning Thank you Jesus for that beautiful view It's full of beautiful things Volleyball games with your kids Date nights with your wife Or your significant other A good glass of wine But the world is tough too It's a rough and tumble place If you can't handle it Then shut up And that lesson goes for me and everyone else too We're going to tax you And we're going to steal your business You ain't stealing shit They're going to get out of there before How do I know that?

1:24:56Because they're doing it now in LA LA's looking at passing a billionaire's tax Oh good, we should get those billionaires Well you already get the billionaires The top 1 % of taxpayers pays over 20 % of the tax load, well over 20%. In California, it's even more. They're already paying a ton of taxes. So California's like, well, we should just steal their stuff and do a wealth tax. You know what a wealth tax is? Keep this up for a second on the split screen. A wealth tax is different. A wealth tax is not a tax necessarily on income. It's a tax on things you own, but not necessarily sold. Well, what's the problem with that?

1:25:38Well, there's a big problem with that. If you own Bitcoin, which I think yesterday was down at$60 ,000 something, and you bought Bitcoin at, say,$100 ,000, folks, you've lost, by simple math,$40 ,000. On paper, you haven't sold it yet. I'm sorry, but maybe some liberals in the chat who may have a hard time with this. I buy Bitcoin at$100 ,000. It's down to$60 ,000. It might come back. It might go up past$100 ,000. Right now, on paper, I'm down$40 ,000. What they want to do in California is tax you on that How can you tax me on$60 ,000? I haven't made any money Matter of fact, I lost$40 ,000 They don't give a shit So what's happening?

1:26:18Even Google's co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin I wouldn't call them hardcore conservatives I don't know them, but It looks like they're trying to get out too Recently converted out of the state So what's next for them, liberals? what's always next for them? Going back to the beginning of the show with Antifa. Why do they need their shock troops on the street? Because the liberals, the collectivists, the momdamis, the socialist types, they always default to force in the end. Always. We'll force you to stay. We'll steal your stuff. That's the difference between us and them. Always been the difference between us and them.

1:26:59And they're all fakes and phonies too. I'll go out of order, but Guy, put up the New York Post thing about Bernie Sanders. They're all fakes and phonies too. These from each according to their abilities, to each according to their means. We should all live collectively the same, equal, everybody should be equal. They're not concerned about equality for them. Mamdani's living a damn good life. So is AOC. So is that thing, what did I just say? Rashida Tlaib is worth all this money or was Ariana Presley worth all this money? They won't make this money when they get up to capital Nancy Pelosi. Here's Bernie Sanders spent over 550 ,000 in 2025 campaign funds on private flights filing show.

1:27:40Sorry, I'm not sure it was Talib. I should be accurate. There's one of them over there. So ice her out of it. They don't live like you do. Elizabeth Warren's probably worth a pretty little fortune. I don't fault you that. I'm a capitalist. I love making money. Making money's great. You build a business, you employ people. But don't be a fraud about it Private jet is great You don't have to go through TSA But don't say millionaires and billionaires Attacking all these people while you're flying around on private jets What about the environment? I thought it spews carbon dioxide all over the atmosphere It doesn't seem to matter to you You're full of shit At least we're not frauds We make money and build businesses to hire Guy and Josh and Andy and Justin and Jasmine and to build a business for Haley and Vince for their shows to prosper.

1:28:34Listen, it's a show. It's not the most important thing in the world. You know, I'm not the president. I'm not the secretary of war. I'm not an army combatant on a battlefield. But I like what I do. I enjoy what I do. I was proud to be away for the year. It was always my goal. But I'm proud to be back. I enjoy building this business. My local community here matters. We built this building, poured a lot of money into it, hired a construction company. It's not the most important thing ever, but it's important to me. We brought a lot of money into the community, and I'm proud of that. At least we're not freaking phonies.

1:29:12These guys are all frauds. They're all full of crap. Okay, I want to switch gears a little bit. I haven't talked about this much because, you know, Guy said something to me yesterday. We were chatting on the phone about something totally different. But this show was always meant to be semi-news of the day, but more stuff we hope you care about. And some of that's going to be news of the day. And as you've seen, some of it's stuff I just care about myself that I think really matters. Like the Save Act, which may not be in the news today, but we think it's really important. So that's how the show has always been and how it's going to continue going forward.

1:29:53But one of the real tragic stories that's been dominating the news is news broadcaster Savannah Guthrie. I think she's from NBC. Her mom, you can't miss the story, is peers have been kidnapped. It's a horrible story, horrible. I haven't covered much of it early on because again, I wanted to take it all in. And now that I'm outside, I wanted to digest the new kind of FBI role in it because we were asked to come in later and give you a better perspective than just kind of spouting off and saying, hey, it was a kidnapping and I don't have a lot to say about it right now. Fair? Like, I don't want to be first ever.

1:30:32But I do want to spend a couple minutes on the story and give you kind of a different perspective. But first, I just want to play a quick soundbite here. This is the Pima County Sheriff talking about one of the critical components of the case that they did now finally get the DNA results back from the blood at the scene. And I guess it seemed fairly obvious from the start, but it does match up with Nancy Guthrie, Savannah Guthrie's mom. Check this out. Some of that back, the results were minimal. I think you all know the blood on the porch. That was one we did. It came back to Nancy. That's what we know.

1:31:12But there's still more items that have been submitted. We just haven't got them back yet. This is malfeasance and not misfeasance. That seems crystal clear. but folks early on in the case this this is still a local case in terms of jurisdiction now as i said to you because there's a lot of confusion about this um and i learned a lot over the past year about it i mean it's hard not to being in that position but the fbi has a limited set of circumstances by which we can get involved whatever you may see on netflix where like some dude with glasses shows up aviators and flashes an fbi fbi like we're here to take over i'll give you an example um i was not there obviously when the boston bombing happened i was a commentator at the time i just left the secret service but there's a really good uh movie about the boston bombing i had watched it on uh on one of these movie channels um what's it called a patriot day or something mark walberg's in it it's a great i really enjoyed it great movie obviously it's a little bit of you know theatrical license taken with it but there's one scene where it's very dramatic and they're like it's terrorism like well fbi's taking over folks i'm telling you haven't lived through it for a year on, gosh, I don't know, 20 or 30 of these tragedies, you know, Coeur d 'Alene, the Minnesota shootings, the Minnesota school shooting, the Detroit incident outside of Detroit, the Israel diplomats who were shot.

1:32:34That's not the way any of this works. OK, you know what? We don't walk in there like gangbusters. Feds are on the scene. Everybody get out of here. That's movie bullshit. That's not the way it works. So what happened here is the FBI was asked to come in and they're not going to say no. and the president, of course, is very interested in getting this case solved because this woman is an American citizen who had what looks to be a really horrific crime committed against her and her family. What he cares about the politics of the situation, it's not the way any of this works. So the FBI came in yesterday and this is SAC, special agent in charge.

1:33:11I learned that they call them SACs. We call them SACs in the Secret Service. They call them SACs. They don't like being called SACs. But here's Heath Janky, a guy I know very well. Here he is yesterday talking about the FBI making an arrest on some disgusting pig who tried to take advantage of this situation, demanding Bitcoin being basically an imposter kidnapper in this case. Did you think the Bureau wasn't going to find you? I mean, are you that stupid? This is like a warning to anyone else. Don't be an asshole. Check this out. To those imposters who are trying to take advantage and profit from this situation, we will investigate and ensure you are held accountable for your actions.

1:33:50We have made one arrest related to an imposter ransom demand and a complaint will be presented to a magistrate judge later today. Folks, I read the chat and I enjoy your comments, but somebody I don't know who it was. And somebody, listen, fair enough. The chat room's open for a reason. But someone said, you know, who gives a damn about this shit? Folks, well, you know, listen, I just told you I haven't made a big part of doing wall-to-wall coverage on the show, unlike a lot of cable news networks, which, you know, find the story interesting for their own separate reasons. But it is a story. You know, an American citizen was kidnapped, an 84-year-old grandmother, and could be dead.

1:34:30It's a story. One of the ways we can definitely contribute and we have is when it comes to cell phone analysis, the Bureau is just the best in the business. And when I'm talking about analysis, I'm going to get into too many details because I don't want to give away ways to get around it either. When it comes to the BAU, their behavioral analysis unit, this is all they do. They can look at the scene and kind of put together some markers of where to go and where to investigate. They have these SOMEX teams, social media exploitation teams that can scrub social media and look for clues that other people may have missed.

1:35:03And these are areas where local law enforcement is amazing. They're fantastic. But they have to be jacks of all trades. They have to do highway patrol, drug arrests, everything else. What the Bureau does is they have very specific teams that can do all this stuff. Investigative genealogy work, ERT, their evidence response teams that process crime scenes, DNA, fingerprints. It's only a matter of time before they find this person. So I just figured I'd cover that, describe how it works. We don't just get to come in there and say, hey, we're taking over. That's not the way it works in the real world.

1:35:34I promise you. Even on cases where it's pretty clear, where there's a terrorism nexus, there's still a gradual process. You just walk in and bully people. These local police departments are real heroes. They're the ones that respond first. We're not a police force out there. So going back to the beginning of the show, because there was massive breaking news, and I have a little bit of time with you left, but I just, I didn't have time to cover the press conference on the apprehension. Big, huge breaking news at the beginning of the show. The presser happened at about 10 to 10. Show starts at 10 a.m.

1:36:04every single day. Rumble.com slash Bongino. Please give us a follow right there. But DOJ, huge announcement in conjunction with the FBI. There's been an arrest and a suspect, Bakush, who we have been tracking for a really long time. It's one of those cases that when we got in, Cash and I both went to the AG and the DAG. And then Janine got in later and everybody was like, go find this guy. He'd been gone for a long time. The last administration didn't do a lot to get him. And we're like, we're going to get this guy. Here's just a small tidbit from the presser. Again, it was going on as we started.

1:36:39I don't want to play a whole bunch of it. I have a couple other things I want to get to. But I wanted you to see a piece of it. Check this out. Never forget. Pam never forgot, the president never forgot, this FBI never forgot, and certainly U.S. Attorney Pirro never forgot. When an act of terrorism of this magnitude strikes at the heart of our nation, we go to work. President Trump has given us the full resources at the FBI and across the interagency to make sure we deliver justice. And Pam, you're right. Dan and I did sit down early on about this to bring justice, but you led the effort. You brought together the interagency.

1:37:15You said we are going to get this done because no one agency alone can do it. So we are thankful to have an attorney general at the Department of Justice who works together with every single cabinet secretary and enforce the law. What you saw today and I want to get or what you're going to see today, I want to address in a minute. But I want to remind the folks out there the work of this Department of Justice. We were here just a few short months ago talking about how we were going to raise the RFJ for another violent offender on the run, Ryan Wedding. And what did we do under Attorney General's leadership?

1:37:49And what did we do when President Trump said, go get the worst of the worst? We captured him. We captured together under President Trump's leadership six of the FBI's most wanted fugitives in one calendar year. To put that in perspective, that is two more than the entirety of the prior administration. And you cannot do that alone at the FBI. You have to have an attorney general and a Department of Justice willing to prosecute, willing to go to the four corners of the earth and make sure we deliver justice. And that's what we're doing here today. I was at the airfield with U.S. Attorney Pirro earlier this morning when we did the formal foreign transfer of custody of Bakush into U.S.

1:38:27custody to face prosecution. I'm going to tell you something. cash was a freaking beast on this case an absolute beast he's been on it from the day he swore in janine and pam too they just were not letting it go but there are again justice is really slow folks i feel like i'm going to be a bridge to the people who are frustrated with things not happening. I understand. Please. You guys are not the doomers. You want and demand results. Your spreadsheets, people like me. Good. Period. No buts, no asterisks. But the justice process is slow. A couple of hat tips on this case, too. The State Department, under Secretary Rubio's leadership, did an amazing job.

1:39:18Landau and others on this. and the president, folks. The president's known about this for a long time. And I promise you, he was never like, oh, that's an old case, whatever, Benghazi. Nope. When I said to you when a media hit a long time ago that we were in the office with the president, he was like, go get him, boys. This is what I was talking about. One of these things. This type of stuff. This is exactly what he would say every time. What do you need to do? Go get him. Go find him. He's not interested in bullshit. Go get him. You don't got to fill me in on the minutia of the F talk. Go get him.

1:39:54They did today. Is this enough? Nope. Is this the end? Everybody should pop the champagne. Nope, it's not. I told you I wasn't going to do any of that. But it is a reflection on this president's leadership. He is not effing around, folks. I've seen it. This guy means business. whether it's violent crime, whether it's counterespionage, whether it's that biolab case. Why didn't you get that? I promise I'm going to get to all of this. It's been the first week. So much stuff has happened. It's just trying to pack it all into a show. It's just been a lot. We're going to get to a lot. We got guests coming up next week.

1:40:37We got the now hour and a half, two hour format. New start time. But despite all that, I cannot exit the week on a Friday without sincerely from the bottom of my, you know, sometimes broken heart. Thank you guys and ladies. I understand it's, you know, it's a lot to ask of you. Every morning, 10 a.m., we do the show in the morning for a reason. I thought at one point about moving up to a primetime spot. Do you remember that? But I changed my mind on it. I changed my mind. You know what? I see what this is a bad idea. I had to do a U-turn. Because I always liked this show being in the morning. Guy and I were chatting about this yesterday.

1:41:28Because when I first started with Joe Armacost, God rest his soul. The great Joe Armacost. What we wanted to do is give you the material for the day. And we figured you can always watch it on demand later. You want to watch it on primetime? Just go home. Download the Rumble app on your smart TV. and just watch it on the TV. Had a friend of mine reach out the other day. Was like, hey, I'm watching you on the TV. He sent me a picture. But I wanted you to have the information for the day and I got to get it out there. That's why I moved the show a little earlier. If it costs us a few viewers because people are working on the live stream, fine, but it didn't.

1:42:00Matter of fact, we came back to 227 ,000 live streamers, which I think is key. Is that like one of our top five shows ever? I think it's like number three or so. Election night was number one. We had like 500 ,000. And then we had like 375 sometimes. So it's top five show ever. The audience today has been crazy. We're pushing over. We're about 90 ,000 today. But I really appreciate you all hanging in there with me. Please, I don't like to ask for too many favors. But if you could give us a follow on all of the platforms. Apple Podcasts, Spotify. We're still trending number one on Spotify. We've been a top two or three show all week on stream.

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1:43:12You can watch the videos of racking up hundreds of thousands of views. Love you guys. Appreciate it. It's been a great first week. Don't forget to watch Haley coming up at noon. Rumble.com slash Haley, H-A-Y-L-E-Y. And then Vince, who was amazing this morning, had a great show, mentioned us this morning. We always appreciate it. Rumble.com slash Vince. Check them out too at 8 a.m. and then 12 noon respectively. Thank you guys so much for an amazing first week back. I so deeply appreciate it. Now we'll see you back here on Monday.