This Disturbing Video Is A Warning For All Of Us (Ep. 2472)

13 Mar 2026 · 1 h 37 min · 36 chapters

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The Dan Bongino Show - Episode 2472 Summary

Podcast Overview Show Title: The Dan Bongino Show Host: Dan Bongino Description: Offers in-depth political and cultural analysis, cutting through media spin with facts and accountability.

Episode Title This Disturbing Video Is A Warning For All Of Us (Ep. 2472)

Episode Description In this episode, Dan Bongino discusses a deeply troubling video that has surfaced, offering his reaction and outlining the necessary steps we should take in response.

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Key Topics Discussed

  1. Disturbing Video Reaction
  2. Bongino highlights a video featuring a man discussing his desire to harm a conservative commentator, Constantine Kissin.
  3. The video underscores the heightened risks faced by public figures and influencers.
  4. Bongino emphasizes the changing climate of violence and hostility against individuals with public followings, urging caution.
  1. Terrorism and Public Safety
  2. Bongino discusses recent terrorist attacks, including an attack at a temple in Michigan and the tragic killing of an ROTC instructor at Old Dominion University by a convicted terrorist.
  3. He introduces the concept of the "Bourbon Street problem," referring to the difficulty of legislating against attacks that utilize everyday objects, like vehicles.
  4. Emphasizes the need for improved intelligence-gathering to prevent future attacks rather than relying solely on legislation.
  1. Legislative Changes Suggested
  2. Bongino advocates for:
  3. Increased Sentencing Guidelines: Life sentences for terrorists or those providing material support to terrorism.
  4. Reform in Naturalization Processes: Easier processes for denaturalizing individuals convicted of terrorism-related offenses.
  5. Immigration Reform: Stricter vetting processes for individuals coming from countries with known terrorist ties, citing a lack of sufficient infrastructure in many countries for proper vetting.
  1. Condemnation of Political Violence
  2. Bongino expresses concern over young individuals on the left who promote and accept political violence, citing polls indicating increasing acceptance of such acts.
  3. He stresses the importance of condemning violence and not allowing violent rhetoric to become normalized in political discourse.
  1. Public Figures as Targets
  2. Cautions public figures and influencers to be vigilant and aware of their surroundings, citing an increase in threats against them.
  3. Urges listeners to consider personal safety measures, such as situational awareness and carrying self-defense tools where legal.
  1. Critique of the Left
  2. Discusses the hypocrisy in left-wing media coverage, contrasting the outrage over military spending on steak and lobster for troops with a lack of attention to other significant fraud cases.
  3. He critiques the portrayal of conservative figures and the backlash they face.

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Notable Quotes

  • "We are in a different world right now... the next generation of lunatics... accept violence."
  • "The mark of a moron is getting overwhelmed by evidence."
  • "You cannot let them in… the Bourbon Street problem is real."

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Conclusion Dan Bongino’s commentary in this episode serves as a wake-up call regarding the state of political discourse, safety for public figures, and the urgent need for legislative reforms to address rising violence and terrorism in America. He calls for increased vigilance and personal responsibility among individuals, especially those with public platforms, to protect themselves in an increasingly hostile environment.

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Chapters

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The Disturbing Video Discussion

0:46 to 2:14

Dan discusses a disturbing video involving threats against a commentator and its implications.

“Is really one of the more disturbing videos I've seen in a long time.”

Living as a Target

2:15 to 4:09

Dan shares his personal experiences and concerns about being a public figure in today’s world.

“I'm telling you, man, I'm not trying to scare you.”

Understanding Recent Terrorist Attacks

4:10 to 5:31

A discussion on recent attacks being investigated as terrorism and the need for clear terminology.

“Patriot Mobile came through in the clutch.”

The Bourbon Street Problem

6:35 to 8:10

Dan explains the 'Bourbon Street problem' regarding public safety and legislative challenges.

“You have this attack on Bourbon Street a couple of years back during one of the bowl games down in New Orleans.”

Addressing Terrorism Legislation

8:11 to 13:24

A deep dive into necessary legislative changes needed to prevent terrorist acts.

“whatever, you put it or a forum on Reddit.”

Denaturalization and Immigration Discussions

13:25 to 14:03

Dan discusses the challenges of denaturalization and necessary immigration reforms.

The Nightmare of Denaturalization

14:03 to 15:20

Learn about the complexities of the denaturalization process and its implications for terrorism.

“This attacker in this one case is terrorist, was naturalized, came through the immigration process.”

Challenges of Vetting Immigrants

15:21 to 17:42

Explore the difficulties in vetting immigrants from countries with poor infrastructure.

“They just surface when they make a right turn on Bourbon Street.”

The Risks of Immigration and Security

17:43 to 21:42

Understand the risks associated with immigration from high-terrorism countries and the need for improved screening.

“I'd start my own questions, point, counterpoint.”

The Reality of Threats in Public Life

24:09 to 28:06

Examine real threats faced by public figures and the seriousness of public safety.

“And if you have a following on X, if you are, you're a public figure now.”
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Awareness of Threats

28:06 to 28:52

Discussing the importance of being vigilant against threats in society.

“Even they, their time to react may be like this.”

Navigating Public Life

28:53 to 30:52

Advice on how to stay safe and attentive in public spaces.

“You've got people out there like, I can't believe you won't tell everyone you hate the Jews.”

Understanding Political Violence

30:53 to 33:16

Exploring the normalization of violence in political discourse.

“This is how sick these people are, folks.”

The Dangers of Online Influence

33:17 to 36:15

Examining the influence of social media on political views and safety.

“They're all thinking the same thing it seems.”

Addressing Propaganda and Misinformation

36:16 to 41:41

Discussing the impact of propaganda on public opinion and behavior.

“But people now, and I'm not saying this about our guys.”

A Call for Political Responsibility

41:42 to 42:01

Urging listeners to be aware of the responsibility of political engagement.

“But propaganda is a powerful intoxicating weapon that the left has used over and over and over again.”

California's Exodus: A Call to Stay Away

42:01 to 45:04

Discussing the frustration with liberal governance in California and urging residents to reconsider moving to other states.

“We're going to tell you what's happening, what's not happening, why it's not happening.”

Gavin Newsom's Propaganda: A Critical Analysis

45:05 to 47:38

Analyzing Gavin Newsom's claims on economic issues and how they mislead the public.

“hair gel talking about freaking gas prices as if this is a good thing.”

Fact-Checking Newsom's Economic Claims

47:39 to 50:58

Using left-leaning sources to fact-check Gavin Newsom's statements on job creation and GDP.

“but leaves out every single thing that is an actual critical fact relevant to the point.”

The Reality of Inflation Under Biden

50:59 to 54:30

Examining inflation rates during Biden's presidency in comparison to Trump's administration.

“Remember, this is when the economy was rebounding from COVID.”

Mental Health and Political Ideology: A Surprising Poll

54:31 to 56:00

Discussing a poll that reveals mental health trends among conservatives and liberals.

“because I believe there's a bias in a lot of these left-leaning AI generators.”

Mental Health Poll Insights

56:00 to 58:00

Discussion on a recent poll relating mental health and political affiliation.

“It's not a secret that you have really, really low levels of mental health problems.”

Community Engagement and Mental Health

58:00 to 1:01:00

The importance of community involvement for mental well-being.

“I want to show you what real people also look like in the real world.”

Celebrating American Heroes

1:01:00 to 1:07:00

A tribute to American heroes and the importance of military service.

“These are the people this country is made of.”

Transition to Guest Discussion

1:07:00 to 1:09:50

Introduction to Graham Allen and discussion on military respect.

“That's why my next guest coming up in just a few minutes.”

Discussing Division in the Movement

1:10:16 to 1:11:44

Graham and Dan discuss the infiltration of toxic elements in conservative movements and its consequences.

“You say, you know, I do you a favor rating into you.”

Identifying Cancers in the Conservative Movement

1:11:44 to 1:13:26

Graham highlights individuals he believes are harmful to the conservative agenda, questioning their motivations.

“It's led to a lot of pain and a lot of irritation.”

Maintaining Integrity in Podcasting

1:13:26 to 1:16:26

Dan and Graham emphasize the importance of authenticity and challenging narratives in podcasting.

“And we know Candace Owens wasn't a Trumper in the beginning either.”

Steak and Lobster Gate: Military Food Controversy

1:16:26 to 1:21:02

Discussion revolves around the steak and lobster controversy regarding military meals and media hypocrisy.

“know, roughly, maybe an election cycle every four years, something's going to happen.”

Political Hypocrisy and Upcoming Elections

1:21:02 to 1:24:00

Graham and Dan talk about political hypocrisy from the left and the consequences of upcoming elections.

“And if we can fill them with steak and lobster as much as humanly possible, who gives a teetotal crap about any of this stuff, man?”

The Importance of Accountability

1:24:00 to 1:25:19

Learn why accountability is crucial in politics, particularly regarding Trump's appointees.

“It's a new season over and over and over again.”

Experiences in Government Roles

1:25:20 to 1:27:09

Gain insight into the challenges faced by political appointees in the government.

“I mean, like, that's the difference, I think, between a good, strong, conservative appointed by Donald Trump and a lot of these weak-kneed assholes that Biden and Obama appointed.”

Public Servants' Attitudes

1:27:10 to 1:30:14

Explore the mindset of public servants and challenges in the government.

“But either way, you got to remember some of these people that are still in the DOW were there when Bush was there.”

Election Cycles and Political Fatigue

1:30:15 to 1:31:33

Understand the importance of persistence in elections and combating political fatigue.

“We're seeing this, oh, well, we're not getting 1 million percent of everything that we thought we would in this certain amount of time frame.”

Addressing National Security Concerns

1:31:34 to 1:32:49

Discuss the implications of recent tragedies and national security issues.

“Your job is to show up on voting day and to vote for the people that represent your values.”

Critique of Political Narratives

1:32:50 to 1:34:29

Analyze the contradictions in narratives around power and influence in politics.

“This is the psychosis and this is where it just drives me nuts.”
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0:02All America, all the time. Sit down, buckle up, and get ready for The Dan Bongino Show.

0:10Dan Bongino:Listen, one thing I've always hated in this business is I cannot freaking stand like clickbait BS titles people put in their shows. I don't like it. I try to avoid it. Sometimes I, you know, sometimes I'll put a word in there I shouldn't like. They had the shock pole thing and it was meant as a joke, but I thought to myself, ah, don't put that in there. after the fact I regretted it. Because I hate clickbait titles. If your content is good, it's good. Like, cut the bullshit. You know, it feels like a scam. But I'm really not kidding when I put in today's title that the video I'm about to show you, just give me a minute to get to it.

0:44Dan Bongino:I want, it's a couple quick things I want to hit in the beginning about yesterday's terror strikes. Is really one of the more disturbing videos I've seen in a long time. It's not something that really won viral or anything. But I promise you, when you see it, you may not have even heard of the guy. it's targeted at but that's the point it's targeted at a guy because i you know i hate like teases just get to the point right if you know uh constantine kiss and he's really good guy he's a commentator has a very popular show i think it's called triggerdometry or something like it very very nice guy pretty good following but i mean not like a a hand anything that's never sure and I don't mean as an insult.

1:27Dan Bongino:I just mean he's not like at that, you know, the millions and millions of people on the Fox stuff. There's a video out there with like some guys like openly talking about wanting to kill him with like a freaking box cutter. And that's my point. My point is like just telling you right away we're going to get to. As a guy who did protection investigations and spent time in and out of the government as a cop and elsewhere. Folks, if you're an influencer, whatever stupid word du jour we have for people with a following on X and Facebook and TikTok and elsewhere, and you have like even 10 ,000 followers, and believe me, that's a lot of you out there.

2:07Shit, some of the McGroins have that many followers, if not more. You're a target too. We are in a different world right now. I'm telling you, man, I'm not trying to scare you. I'm just saying like, I live my entire life differently. I have limited my public exposure. The events I do, I'll only do with people I know, with crowds I know, with security. I don't talk about it a lot because, oh, boo, it's not about, I chose this life. It's baked into the cake, whatever. You don't want to hear me whining all day. But I'm very worried about you because the world has gone crazy and this next generation of freaking lunatics who keep insulting all of us, boomers and all.

2:54We were talking about that this morning. They just accept violence. They think like violence is appropriate. Look at what happened after they murdered Charlie. There have been people celebrating it. You got that trial going on right now. You got people on the left think this is fantastic.

3:18Folks, this is a totally different world. we'll see what happens uh with the uh with the uh robinson trial that's going on right now

3:34there are people who think this is great folks be careful i am not messing with you i'm going to

3:40Dan Bongino:show you the video a couple things to get through in the beginning uh let's get to this first today's show brought to you by patriot mobile ladies and gentlemen it's a great company been with us for a long time. They love America. They love American values. And here's the most important part. They don't run from it at all. We all love Patriot Mobile here. Use it. Patriot Mobile gives you priority service on all three major networks with easy switching and US-based support. Get a free month at PatriotMobile.com slash Dan with offer code Dan today. I use Patriot Mobile. They saved my butt in a recent trip in Orlando, couldn't get service.

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5:25Dan Bongino:It's a.NET address again. Americanfinancing.net slash Bongino. Check them out today. Thank you, American Financing. I've got Graham Allen, who is fantastic, who just raided our stream coming up at just about an hour and a half. He is fantastic. You're not going to want to miss it. We love Graham Allen. Check out his show. Airs at 9 a.m. Eastern time. He always comes in and raids our show. Before we get to the video, this is super important for all the wrong reasons. Yesterday, we had a number of attacks that are being investigated as terrorism. We had, you know, when we were in there at the Bureau, We were pretty clear from the start that these things, if they show indicators of terrorism, we were going to talk about it that way.

6:09Dan Bongino:We were not going to play euphemisms games and word dances and all this other shit. We were going to use the word when the word was deemed appropriate. OK, so having said that, first, New York Post, New York Post reporting, there was an attack on a temple you see in the Michigan area. Folks, this brings up my this problem I've talked about and addressed frequently on the show. I call it the Bourbon Street problem. The Bourbon Street problem is this. You have this attack on Bourbon Street a couple of years back during one of the bowl games down in New Orleans. Guy basically turns right onto Bourbon Street, mows down a number of people and kills them.

6:50Dan Bongino:The Bourbon Street problem is this. It is impossible to ban your way out of that by new laws. You can't ban cars and he can't ban right turns. Unfortunately, what happened in this tragic incident is this subject drives into the temple, winds up, appears from early indications, had some explosives, was thankfully taken out by a bunch of heroic security guards who had had some training weeks earlier with the FBI, their active shooter training, which we were sure to support. And I'm I'm glad that happened. They indicated that that may have helped, which is fantastic. That this is the Bourbon Street problem.

7:32Dan Bongino:You can't ban cars just like you can't ban drones, and nor would we want to ban firearms. That's not in anyone's interest either. That's not going to stop anything. So if you can't ban or legally legislate your way out of this, then what's the only way to try to stop or interdict this stuff? And the answer to the Bourbon Street problem, which I used to bring up all the time, is we have to get not just better, but almost perfect at our ability to gather information and drown out noise. I'm going to address this with Graham later. The mark of an intelligent investigator, detective, a federal agent, a good lawyer or prosecutor, is the ability to drown out noise, i.e.

8:20Dan Bongino:think of it like a big chat room. whatever, you put it or a forum on Reddit. There are billions of posts probably on Reddit, right? But there's probably only, I don't know, less than a half of 1 % of them that are criminals exposing a plot there or maybe trying to recruit terrorists. The idea is if you're a really good investigator, you drown out all the bullshit noise and you get to that 5%. What the other people do in the space who stoke bullshit theories about Charlie and elsewhere, is they give you a whole bunch of noise without actually getting to the actual evidence that matters. As you're seeing, and you will see in the trial, for all the public to see.

9:03Does that make sense? This is super important we understand this, because this is about a bigger problem that is going to require a number of fixes. If you're polluting the information ecosystem with things that may be facts, but are not evidence at all, while eliminating actual facts that are evidence. That's the mark of a moron. This is the Bourbon Street problem. It is information warfare now. If you don't stop these guys before they get behind the wheel, if you don't, there's no way. Now, okay, well, what's the limitation to stopping them? Folks, the limitation is we live in a republic. we live in a republic which you know

9:54we can't go out and blanket

9:57Dan Bongino:surveil without predication 330 million Americans and I would hope to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ not using his name in vain ever that you feel the same way I don't care what your religion or faith is there is no reason in a republic to be ethically surveilling people without predication. None. We should not be lurking in every chat room, spying on everything. Nobody wants that. So how do you balance that liberty and security? Folks, we're going to need help. There's going to have to be some legislative assistance here. You saw it again with this case, New York Post, another attack yesterday, Old Dominion University.

10:42tragic this hero ROTC instructor killed by a convicted ISIS terrorist ID'd as a chair of

10:50Dan Bongino:military science department who served in the Middle East hero absolute hero another hero takes this guy down uh I believe it was a ROTC student and and winds up uh killing him with a knife good

11:05Dan Bongino:good but folks in a republic we have got to be careful who we let in here because listen to me I was on Ingram last night and I brought this up. And media people, I want you to listen too. Everyone can throw rocks. Fair enough. That's actually your job in the media. And it's good to kind of give opinions and throw rocks and criticize because it makes people better. We have to do a couple of things right away because it is impossible to chase probably 15 million people who are let in the country under Biden and maybe another 5 million. we don't even know about, it is impossible with every state, local, tribal, territorial, and federal agency on planet Earth to chase down all these people afterwards because some of them are just hiding.

11:52Dan Bongino:They're not advertising in chat rooms. You've got to do a couple of things right now. There has got to be a legislative fix to these sentencing guidelines that if you were convicted with regards to the old Dominion shooting of material support to terrorism or frankly, any terrorism charge federally. WMD, attack on US citizens overseas, conspiracy, and it's related to a terrorism enhancement, life in prison, no matter what. I said this yesterday during the show, or was it Wednesday? Forget the rehabilitation model. There is no rehabilitating these people. This guy was chased down by the older FBI.

12:34Dan Bongino:I wasn't there. I had nothing to do with it, that case. So I'm not trying to take credit for their work. They chased him down, put him in jail. And what happens? A judge cuts a sentence practically in half, lets him out, he does it again. There's no rehabilitation model. And he has constitutional rights like anyone else. It's a republic. It's a republic. The way to stop it is to never let these people in in the first place. and if they are in here and convicted of any terrorism related or terrorism even adjacent charge, life in prison, that sounds harsh. Too bad. You know what's harsh? People dying.

13:11That's what's harsh. There's only so much money. I mean, like I said, they had this training exercise. Thankfully, they had done that help, but that didn't stop anything. That's just training to stop what's already happening. we put a ton of money into the TSC the threat screening center to screen some of these people out but in order to do that they have to come into contact with law enforcement who calls the TSC and by that point sometimes it's too late too you are never ever going to fix this once they're here you've got to stop them from coming in and if they are convicted they never get out of jail ever Second, in addition to sentencing enhancements, you have got to make substantial changes to the naturalization and denaturalization process.

14:03This attacker in this one case is terrorist, was naturalized, came through the immigration process. Folks, the denaturalization process is a nightmare. It's not easy. It's subject to court orders. this should be a ground ball if you folks is anything i bet you know if you're convicted of one of these terror charges if there's not within a 10 or 5 year guideline depending on the circumstances you're not automatically denaturalized is that the craziest effing thing you've ever heard in your life what country on earth with justin am i am i nuts if you go to sierra leone and are convicted of trying to attack and overthrow the government forget about throwing you out of the country i'll throw you in a river You should be automatically denaturalized Life in prison Or absolute immediate deportation That's it

15:02Right He's talking about how like You think they accept Not that they're like a model of efficiency The CCP But you think like they do any of this stuff This is freaking bananas I was trying to explain too this is, alright, another takeaway so three points and I'm going to get to the video, I promise but this is important too

15:22Dan Bongino:I don't want to miss the news that happened last night I'm gone with you for the weekend I feel like separation anxiety from the Bongino Army folks we've got our eyes on a lot of people but there are a lot of people here we just don't know about who don't surface in online forums and advertise. They just surface when they make a right turn on Bourbon Street. The third point I want to make is we have got to address legal immigration reform. President Trump has been all over this, like freaking white on rice. him and Stephen Miller have brought this up with the terror laden countries ban they call it the Muslim bullshit it's not a Muslim ban you assholes you know that's just bullshit no Muslims ban from coming from into the country because they're Muslim you know that's fake there are countries that have vetting problems I want to explain this to you and I saw this knee deep maybe neck deep When you start taking in people from third world countries that do not have any kind of government infrastructure at all, they don't have papers or records.

16:43Some of these people, I shit you not, don't even know their own birthday. You think there's a Department of Motor Vehicles over there? This guy, Joey Bagadona, from Sierra Leone, has six points on his license. Are you freaking crazy? there are no records of anything so when you hear from the biden team not the trump team when you hear from the biden team and the obama team oh these people were vetted oaw allies welcome and other vetted how what did you do to vet them you asked them hey were you ever arrested in sierra leone uh no okay thanks that's not vetting bro why do you think donald trump has tried to stop or slow down immigration from countries that don't have established infrastructure and have problems with terrorism because you don't know who you're letting in how freaking hard is this i told you yesterday donald trump's superpower is the ability to say things that make sense and get the left left to rebel against them listen to me there is no good substantive vetting process from some third world terror laden countries that is going to be satisfactory where we should be admitting people here in mass.

18:02None. Anyone telling you otherwise is lying. I saw it. Don't bullshit me. And again, here's a fair question.

18:11Dan Bongino:Hold on, I just like that. I always like to look at your feedback. Here's a fair question. I'd start my own questions, point, counterpoint. All right, Dan, what did you guys do? Awesome. I'm asking myself. We put a whole shit ton of money into the threat screening center, into the drone program. We also started a program, and I don't want to, I'm not sure how much detail I can get into here, so I'm going to be a little careful. We started a program to bump the border out overseas. I think it's actually out on X, Cash May have put something out about it. We have a screening program overseas that doesn't rely on anybody's records.

18:48Dan Bongino:We put another ton of money into IOD, our international ops division, into pushing the border out so that we have a record on a lot of these people, whether they know it or not, before they even come in. Is it the solution? There is no solution. Is it a band-aid on a huge problem? Yes. They cannot come here, folks. Listen to me. Think about this as two separate rooms, okay? I wanted to use this analogy last night on Laura's show. She was nice enough to have me on, and I just, I couldn't. We ran out of time. When you are a, think about this, a non-US person, as they call it. A non-US person, not on US soil.

19:35Conus O 'Conus, not on US soil. You have no constitutional rights whatsoever. You're in one room. So think about this as two rooms now. In that room, there are a bunch of things that can be done. Pretend there are like microphones in the room, cameras, thermal detectors. I'm just throwing stuff out there. Basically, measuring and listening devices we can do because those people don't have our constitutional rights.

20:06Dan Bongino:They're not U.S. citizens. They're not on U.S. soil. This is not a mystery how we do this stuff. once you go into the attached make it about a hotel room right once you open a door and let them into the US room all that shit goes away there's still abilities of course to you know to gather information on people through legal process but it is a monster pain in the ass and it takes time sometimes time you don't have do you see why I'm trying to hammer home this point that once you open that door to hotel room number two, you don't have time anymore. It's not on your side. They just get to extend it through judicial process and it screws the whole thing up.

20:54You cannot let them in. Thank God. Thank you, God, Jesus Christ. I mean it, that we don't have Kamala Harris in charge right now. The Bourbon Street problem is real. We are in an information warfare fight where our constitution, thankfully limits what the government can do. But those limitations create problems too. And the way to stop those problems is to stop the problem from ever coming here at the border.

21:25I really hope that does a decent job of explaining

21:33Dan Bongino:the catch me if you can problem. Once they're in, we got to catch them and catch them again and catch them again. they will never ever stop. These people who want to kill you will use anything. The Iraq war, the Iran war, the Hamas October 7th terror attack, they'll use anything. Anything as an excuse to turn right on Bourbon Street. You have to stop them. All right, I'm going to take a quick break and then I'm going to get to this video I discussed because folks, I want you to just please stop what you're doing. If you could, and if you're watching on Apple or listening on Apple or Spotify, please go back and watch this segment on Rumble.

22:19Dan Bongino:And after clicks, I don't give a damn about the clicks. Find it on the internet for all I care. I just need you to watch this because this was a wake-up call for me too. That sounds crazy. You think given all the threats we deal with every day, even for me, I was like, this is serious stuff. Hey, I've been asked many times, but perfect, this is like, what a setup for this. You think we planned this, we did not. Burna, you have a Burna? I get asked a lot how I can help protect my family without taking a life. People ask me about all kinds of devices and stuff. So let me tell you about a product I really like.

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24:09Dan Bongino:Check it out. Okay, let's get right to it. So stop what you're doing. And if you have a following on X, if you are, you're a public figure now. I have a ton of friends out there. Chicago Ray, I mean, Maze Moore, who I don't even know Maze Moore. You know these guys. We talk about them all the time. These are just Hunter and Gunther Eagleman. Good dudes. Brandon Dilley, he's got a pretty big foc. Folks, you're a target too now. You are a public figure. No, I'm not. Yes, you are. People know you and there are crazies out there who would do bad things to you in a minute. I'm going to play this video in two parts, okay?

24:50Dan Bongino:This is a podcast commentator. And what he's doing is he's playing a video of this guy streaming the fact that he was at a debate with Constantine Kissin, who is like a conservative commentator. And the guy's talking on the stream about how he was just feet away from him. And if he had a utility knife that he would kill him. And he's like going into detail. It's the craziest thing. I saw this and I was like, this is the nuttiest thing I've ever seen. Here's part one. Check this out. From the Charlie Kirk killing. This guy was sitting mere feet away from Constantine Kissen during his debate with Destiny.

25:26When you hear what he has to say, it is scary to think how this could have gone. I was like fucking locked onto his eyes and he kept like glancing down at me and then like breaking eye contact. Because I fucking hate the guy. I was just like, I wanted to kill him. I stumbled upon this stream when I was just trying to research and understand the opposing view. And I was shocked by some of the things this guy was saying. Keep in mind, this guy was sitting in Constantine's eyeline. And I think he got distracted by that and didn't pay attention to a single thing. Yes, it is just talk, but there is something more disturbing beneath the surface here.

26:01He's openly talking about wanting to assassinate Constantine. This could have gone very differently. He even has a box cutter or X-Acto knife. I should have done. Stanley Blades just fucking sprinted up onto the stage. Slash. Constantine in their fucking jugular. Guys, this is kind of the hard reality, hard truth show.

26:31I've been a police officer. Been an agent a couple times.

26:35Dan Bongino:Done protection at the highest levels. reaction is always going to be slower than action okay that's tautological it's not some stroke of einsteinian genius because the person acting knows what they're going to do and you don't there's a variable there i'm going to jump on the stage and kill this guy with an exacto knife or a razor. By the time you even process what's going on, sometimes it's too late. We used to say this all the time with the president's detail, that you train and train and train just to, I got a part two of this in a second. Folks in the chat, tell me that's not the craziest, freaking sickest thing you see the guy's talking about this on a freaking stream by the time you see what's going on you train and train and train just to reduce that fog of war i was not in the military i hate military analogies but that's the only analogy forgive me i can think of advanced military special operators everyone from rangers up to delta seals uh force recon pararescue will tell Even the best of the best, the fog of war where your brain has to process what's going on first and think about what to do is always going to be slower than the guy who's acting and already thought about what to do because he did it.

28:05Even the creme de la creme, the top ranger, the best Delta operator out there. Even they, their time to react may be like this. Regular Joe civilian like us, probably like that. but there's still this while the other guys already acted a lot of you in this chat right now and some of you know some of our own like close people I mean Bongino Army folks who've developed quite a following you may be thinking right

28:37Dan Bongino:now like oh that's not me I've got a couple thousand followers on Twitter uh no that could be you too I'm just giving you the hard truth what do we do i don't have a good answer the only reason i'm even showing you this without a good answer is i'd rather give you a bad answer than no answer and the bad answer is this have your freaking head on a swivel around these lunatics you got people supposedly on our side which is bullshit there's no infighting oh this is out fighting stoking up crazy conspiracy theories about an army of people and foreigners who killed Charlie and all this other shit. You've got people out there like, I can't believe you won't tell everyone you hate the Jews.

29:23Well, why would I say that? I don't, well, if you don't, you're not. And then you stoke up a bunch of crazy bots telling you how much they want to kill you. Just look at my Twitter feed to see what I'm talking about. You protect pedophiles. What, you sick fucks? What are you talking about? You freaking lunatic. I already did you guys see when I was in there I already had that guy who showed up at the what was it the TV station had a note in his car like he wanted to off me and Pam and cashed him that was one of like 20 of these things boohoo whatever I'm a public figure it's part of the job a lot of you it isn't a lot of you do Twitter lives and things like that and you've got really good healthy followings.

30:11Listen, 5 ,000 followers on Twitter's a lot, man.

30:14Dan Bongino:Shit, took me like three years to get 10 ,000 followers on Twitter. When I started, I don't even know when I started. I've been there forever. That's a lot of people, folks. 5 ,000 people's like, you know, a bad Miami Heat home game.

30:33Well, I take that back. Bam, 83 points. I love the Heat.

30:39Dan Bongino:no but I'm dead serious like Justin Josh this even goes for you Josh when you did your job interview did I not tell this to you I'm like Josh you're part of the show man I was like if you're not comfortable with that because we had one guy in here nice guy but he wasn't comfortable and that's cool that's cool very nice guy but he's like I gotta go I told him brother save me the process of going through this background and all this other stuff because you are part of the show folks just please be careful have eyes on the back of your head do little things when you sit in a restaurant just take the seat closest to the door you know when you're out in public and you're in church or places of worship as we see with this temple attack that just happened another one why do assholes terrorists scumbags and criminals attack churches all the time well because they hate their religion yes that's fairly obvious but it's not just that one of the reasons as well is most people in church Their attention is where?

31:36Justin and I go to the same church A hand on the altar Nobody's looking at the back door The priest is right there It's different when you come in a movie theater When you come in a movie theater Everybody sees you coming in and up the stairs It's the exact opposite in the church So what do you do? Once in a while glance back And I will say most importantly If you can And are willing to train first Because being untrained is not going to help you much I'm telling you as a friend carry if you can carry if you can I say it to my own team I do but you got security don't care carry if you can

32:24Dan Bongino:because let me tell you something if it's the bad guy I don't want to kill or hurt anyone I abhor violence I don't give a shit what any lunatic in the liberal media tells you I absolutely abhor and roundly condemn any act of political violence gives zero fucks who you are but I am dead serious it's not a tough guy I'm a broken 51 year old folks I can barely lift my arms and shoulders if you think I'm trying to tell you I'm tough you got the wrong show I'm telling you the opposite maybe 20 years ago I've stood a chance a firearm is the great equalizer if it's me or you, it's you.

33:07Here's part two of this. This is how sick these people are, folks. This is why I tell you to roundly condemn, block, report anyone inciting violence, committing crimes you see. They are not in our movement at all. Get them out. No movement can survive that. here's part two where he plays this guy basically talking about hey if we're gonna do it and we're gonna kill these people then he says i learned something from charlie's uh murder

33:42Dan Bongino:i learned that you know we can't have a lot of gore because it turns people off what the they've actually thought about the optics of murder listen to yourself but he wants to kill You can see the chat. They're all thinking the same thing it seems. No one seems to be bothered by this because it has become so commonplace. He knows he can do this. YouTube's not going to do anything. Done. Sorted. Prison forever on the one hand. Prison forever on the one hand. And then I should have gone... Then I should have gone, woke jihad. Woke jihad. No, I should have gone, for the white race or something, I don't know.

34:26You could say, oh, okay, well, he just worded that poorly. It's just an expression, but he takes this much farther. Then he gets into, based on what happened to Charlie Kirk, this is what I have learned when it comes to how to kill conservatives. Now, I feel like my genuine psychopath thought that I've learned from the Charlie Kirk killing is if you are going to assassinate a political target, then try to reduce the gore as much as possible so people can't sympathise with the bastard who's getting it. So you'd have to go up with a cape and cover him in a cape and do it cleanly under there. Like an abattoir.

35:11So he's literally openly talking about assassinating political targets here.

35:21the podcaster, not the crazy kid, to be clear, is Warren Smith, hat tip on that.

35:30Folks, these people are effing crazy.

35:34Dan Bongino:By the way, huge hat tip. I see Chicago Ray. He's Chicago One Ray is in the chat. Appreciate you, Dan. Brother, I appreciate you too. I appreciate all the Bongino Army folks that didn't jump down my throat five minutes after entering the FBI because, you know, every single thing that I love you guys. You guys are the, I will never forget that. The fact that you let us work. Guys are great. Thank you, Chicago, right? And you should go follow him on X. He's a great guy and all the McGroins. Anita, that whole crew speak, all of them, just great people. I thank you guys. There he is. Same, he has the same picture on X too.

36:14Appreciate you, brother.

36:15Dan Bongino:but i'm telling you all you're public figures now guys what's so i hate to say you're famous whatever notarized sounds stupid oh famous you are you are people know you guys this is not the 1980s or 70s anymore where if you were lucky you got an op-ed in like the local newspaper and then someone hey i saw your op people become famous overnight that's the whole influencer thing i'm I hate that stupid word. But people now, and I'm not saying this about our guys. You look at like the Alex Earls of the world. I'm not knocking her at all. I'm a capitalist. Hey, I really am. I'm not. This is not like some backhanded shot.

37:02There are people now who are like famous for being famous.

37:07Folks, train with a firearm. Carry it. Train as often as you can. Keep your freaking head on a swivel. Watch the door. Don't live your lives in a panic. Turn around once in a while when you're in church. When you get in your car, lock the door right away. I get in my car, first thing I do, lock the door. Because the first thing a shithead's going to do, if he's trying to get you when you get into your car, which is the deadly diamond, they know where you arrive and they know where you depart, he's going to grab the door and try to pull the door open. If it's locked and it gives you a second to back out, then you just bought yourself a second.

37:42You don't have the door locked, you're in a fight for that door. If he's got a gun, you're screwed.

37:52God made man. Sam Colt made man equal.

37:56Dan Bongino:I see manimal. Oh, thank you for the tip. $20. That's nice. Again, you don't have to do that. What's bothering me, and the reason I keep bringing this up, is not just the insanity of that clip we just saw. And Constantine, I hope you got a good security team. He's a good man. I hope you do. I know he does. And I hate to even highlight it, but if we don't, I don't want anyone to fall prey to this stuff too.

38:23What's bothering me most is when you take polls specifically of left-leaning young kids, young adults I should say, there's a good swath of them in the double digits that think political violence is acceptable. And it's growing. And it's growing. scary shit, man.

38:51Folks, please, please,

38:54Dan Bongino:please stay safe out there and do not assume you will not be a target. Can I just want to wrap this up here? This is important. I'm not going to name names for fairly obvious reasons, but if you're watching and some of you are, you know who you are. During the last year doing the job, a lot of people have my cell phone number some people would reach out and dm and we got tons of stuff about swatting and we did a lot did you notice a lot of that a lot of that came to uh came to an end well there's a reason there were a number of things we couldn't advertise publicly but a lot of it was coming from overseas it turns out and it was related to a bunch of cell phone farms and it took a lot of investigative work it wasn't easy it wasn't just as simple as oh we got the phone number if you find out how one of these days when all of this stuff is out publicly i want to do a whole show on how the whole swatting thing happened because i promise you you're going to be stunned the level of sophistication that went into it some of it was just stupid kids majority of it was not it was actually extremely sophisticated so people would reach out and say things like well we got the number and i couldn't say anything because the way those people got the number it's not what you think.

40:13Dan Bongino:It was very sophisticated. And once we took down the network, a lot of it, not all of it, slowed down. Did you notice it hasn't been so much of a thing? That's one of those things people swore wasn't happening that happened and we just couldn't advertise it. Because it's still connected to things that are still ongoing now. But a lot of people would reach out to me on DM and some people through my cell phone number and they would say, I just got this crazy thread. folks some of these guys i swear to you were people with you know 50 to 100 000 followers good amount but not like crazy and some of the stuff that we had to go out in action we didn't advertise because we didn't want to incentivize even more of these people the bad guys that is you know who you are talking about the people we had to go out and action some of that stuff it is a really really bad environment right now for conservatives MAGA people just be careful okay

41:14folks propaganda is powerful man we've got a lot of people out there again claiming they're part of our team you're not part of our team it's not our team it's okay you're allowed to have an opinion i'm not even mad at you for have your own opinion whatever some i am but do your own thing do your own thing. I'm just saying like this team has a goal. Liberty, freedom, winning elections, establishing a safer, more prosperous country for our kids. If you're not part of that goal, you're not part of our team. That's okay. You're allowed to be part of the other team. Okay? That's okay. But propaganda is a powerful intoxicating weapon that the left has used over and over and over again.

41:52And they get away with it because the fourth estate media, as you know, refuses to call the left out when they bullshit you ever. This is the hard truth show. Okay. We're going to give you the hard truth. We're going to tell you what's happening, what's not happening, why it's not happening. I just went over in the beginning of the show, limitations we have, how we fix it, gave you some solutions. But one of the things that pisses me off is when people say things that are so transparently stupid and the left wing media for a second can't take off their freaking blinders and go, okay, that's dumb.

42:19If you are a California resident right now watching the show. We get a lot of them. God bless you. Good for you. I'm glad you're here. However, if you are a liberal in California, how do you look around at the state of your hair gel governor? How do you look at the state of your state and go, this is freaking awesome. Every single person who has the ability to leave California, who has any kind of even moderate, even almost moderate left-leaning, is thinking of an exit plan out of there right now. The only thing that's stopping them is they probably can't find a freaking U-Haul as people rent the U-Haul to go to Texas and florida if you are one of those left-leaning people i am begging you as a friend please don't move here to my state i can't say it enough i am appointing justin the border czar of florida governor de santis you're welcome on the show can we have justin just at the border we can have him up in the panhandle josh can volunteer up north uh at the north-south border but please a volunteers tribute thank you he justin's volunteering his time governor the sentence we need border control i don't want these liberals here stay away stay away you remember you ever see that scene in bridesmaids where she's on the kitchen sink it's coming out like lava she's like look away look away just look away look to another state move to chicago move to massachusetts residents don't come here right florida residents don't come here where would we find out the truth

43:50Dan Bongino:without you dan thank you i appreciate the best compliment in chat sorry i missed it chat moves really fast on this show we got a lot of people i heard new york is pretty empty right now yes justin just as borders are justin is the borders are florida we've just declared it there's been a decree. Governor DeSantis, can you tweet that out? Make it official. Justin says he's heard from his other border czar friends up in the Northeast that New York is open. Go up there, go up there, move to New York. It's okay. There's a lot of vacancy sign on the Bates Motel. Vacancy. Justin doesn't even get that.

44:25Dan Bongino:He's too young. Do you know what that means? The Bates, I'll show you. Jasmine, do you know what it means? Of course Jasmine does. Jasmine's younger than me, but you know, it gets it. Justin's like 16, so he's figuring it out. Here's what I mean. Here's gavin newsom giving an interview again and i want to show you what bullshit propaganda looks like okay this is his attempt it's only like 30 seconds but an attack on president trump now i want to tell you what he's going to tell you first because i want you to pay attention because we're going to do hard true stuff even when it doesn't reflect great on the republican party gavin newsom talks about three big things in this 30 seconds but he's talking about like democrats versus republicans Biden versus Trump about growth, GDP, economic growth, gas price, gas prices, California governor hair gel talking about freaking gas prices as if this is a good thing.

45:14This is how crazy this shit is. And then he mentions inflation as if like the Democrats and the Biden 9 % peak inflation, they have a victory lap to take. He actually did this. But when you listen to hair gel, because the left is really good at propaganda, I'm going to tell you something. If you're a stupid person. You're like, wow, this guy's right, man. Trump really has done horrible on inflation and gas prices. You're almost convinced.

45:36Dan Bongino:Check this bullshit out. Taking an economy that was honestly one of the most robust, fastest growing economies in the world. And here we are. I mean, we're now it's in reverse with the new jobs numbers. I mean, you saw the gasoline prices going through the roof in red states. I thought saw today 40, 47 cents in West Virginia, 47 cents, the same number in Indiana. And that's just a few days into this war. Wait and see. Inflation pressures. We're now having the echoes. I mean, cue up the song around stagflation. We're going to all start having that conversation. Okay. This is the craziest shit you've ever seen.

46:13He talks about inflation, gas prices. He mentioned the West Virginia, Indiana thing, right? I was watching it. He did. All right. He talks about GDP and jobs numbers.

46:23Dan Bongino:If you're a moron and you easily, this is what I'm talking about. I'm going to bring this up with Graham Allen in about, I don't know, 15, 20 minutes or so. He'll be our guest today. Listen to me, please. My beloved audience, I love you guys and ladies to death. The day I go six feet deep, you've given me everything. My life is a gift from you. From the Almighty. The mark of a moron is a person or a subject overwhelmed by facts and underwhelmed by evidence. It is the mark of a moron. They cannot, in a forum full of people, they cannot find the target because they're overwhelmed by non-targets.

47:13Everything bothers them. they're there to investigate a bank robbery and there's a bee buzzing in the background they're like there's a bee there's a bee yeah there's a fact there's a freaking bee there but it's nothing to do with bank robbery focus that's the mark of a moron i'm not kidding the mark of a stupid person is getting overwhelmed by evidence that's what gavin newsom just did to you he overwhelmed you with 30 seconds of what he perceives to be facts and data, but leaves out every single thing that is an actual critical fact relevant to the point. Here's what I mean. And just to prove my point that Gavin Newsom's full of shit, I use left-leaning websites intentionally.

47:57So I can't be accused by Newsom's team of any right-leaning bias, okay? So he brings up employment numbers and GDP. Oh my gosh, Trump sucks. Biden's great. So I went to factcheck.org. Now you're probably laughing. Factcheck.org is to the left of Lenin. They make the New York Times look like Breitbart. However, even factcheck.org has an issue with a lot of this bullshit about the Biden numbers versus Trump. Here we go. When Biden compared his jobs record with Trump, he exaggerated the figures. This is a left-leaning website. They note that Biden said this, we created 2.2 additional, 2.2 million additional jobs, Biden said.

48:41And how many jobs Trump created his first year? 185 ,000 total. That's it. Factcheck.org notes, however, the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, certainly not biased to the right, shows that total employment increased by a little bit more

48:57Dan Bongino:More than 1.2 million during Biden's last full year in office in the term. He left office in January 20th, 2025. Oh, so Biden's lying about it? There's like a second part. You mean Biden was lying about that? This is factcheck.org. It's not Bongino.com. Meanwhile, they know in the first full year of Trump's second term, first full year, we're just one year in for the liberal tools who don't know that. He's got three more to go. Employment increased by 359 ,000 from Jan 2025 to Jan 2026. For his speech, they know, here, here, they got to get Biden an out. Biden may have relied on outdated data or data covering a different period.

49:39Dan Bongino:We reached out to his office about his claims, but we didn't receive a response. He may have a stutter. He may. That's what he'll do. He'll blame it. I'll blame it. I don't know. And Gavin Newsom will blame it on like, I couldn't read when I was growing up. Biden, he always blames everything on the stutter. I had a stutter. he blames like when he needs it for for like this crutch to rely on so biden was lying to you so trump's job record even his first year is pretty amazing and biden's exaggerating his numbers did newsom tell you that no because newsom is counting on you to be distracted by the bumblebee while investigating the bank robbery pay attention to the fact there's a b there and ignore the evidence that there's a fingerprint on the counter of the bank you need to pull because if you don't pull it, you're not going to solve the bank robbery.

50:24That's the mark of a moron. Newsom mentions GDP too. Let's go back and check it out with factcheck.org. Lefties. They know Biden also claimed that the economy grew with record growth during his presidency. This next line is great. we have no basis for that we found no basis for that statement they note the gdp grew by

50:55Dan Bongino:34.9 percent in the third quarter of 2020 like my gosh that's insanely high and 18.9 percent in all of the 1942 which are quarterly and annual growth date according to the bureau of economic analysis estimates the highest quarterly gdp growth under biden was seven percent in the second and fourth quarters of 2021. Remember, this is when the economy was rebounding from COVID. And the highest annual GDP growth during his administration was 6.2 % that same year. So whereas your buddy Dan will tell you the truth, yeah, there were some amazing GDP numbers in the Biden presidency. It's not a record, not even close to a record.

51:36And second, a lot of that, the average during his four years was 3.6%. A lot of that was due to the COVID recovery, where you could have put a house plant in charge. Wait, leave this up. They note that Biden's average four-year GDP of 3.6 % growth was still lower than the almost 4.5 % average during Clinton's second term. All right, fair enough. And the average of 5.2 % during Lyndon Johnson.

52:04Dan Bongino:They talk about FDRs. Well, like I said, I'm giving you the truth, Democrats, but that's what happened. Taking out the bounce back year after GDP plunged because of the pandemic and the bounce back, Biden's presidency was 2.7%, which is close to the yearly average of 2.8 % of the last 50 years. So he's actually below when you take out the COVID bounce back. Close is a funny way to say below. Yeah, below. Close is a funny way to say it's below. So Newsom, you notice how Newsom doesn't tell you any of that? He focuses on the B at the bank robbery scene. It gets even better. So I could have went to Grok, which I think is one of the better AIs out there.

52:43Dan Bongino:However, I didn't want to be accused, because Elon's a free speech guy, of, like, bias in this segment. So he mentions also other things quickly, like gas prices and inflation. So I went to Gemini, Google. So he mentions gas prices, and he's like, man, gas prices, you believe West Virginia and Indiana? This is hair gel in California. So I just put in here, this is the actual screenshot from my phone, correct, guys? Screenshot sent it over Gas prices West Virginia and Indiana Versus California California has significantly higher gas prices With averages exceeding$5 per gallon Compared to Indiana and West Virginia Which are in the$3.30 to$3.50 range Even after recent nationwide price surge There's Gemini There's Gemini What about inflation?

53:31Gavin Newsom said Hey man we should take a victory lap Trump's terrible on inflation versus Biden. We're doing awesome on gas prices versus West Virginia. You know, there are things called facts, you gypsh. Here, screenshot from my phone. Inflation under Biden versus under Trump. Glad I didn't spell anything wrong. Inflation. Sometimes I get typos. I fat finger everything. Here we go. Pretty simple stuff. Google Gemini. Not a right-leaning AI generator. Inflation during the Biden administration was significantly higher. than during the first term of the Trump administration. Driven by post-pandemic supply chain, whatever, whatever.

54:12Inflation peaked at 9.1 % in June 2022 under Biden. A 40-year high before cooling to 2.5 % in August of 2024. That's Gemini. Folks, the inflation numbers just came out.

54:29Dan Bongino:So now Google Gemini notes, because I believe there's a bias in a lot of these left-leaning AI generators. these LLMs, that it cooled to 2.5 after Biden peaked out at 9 % inflation, which is an insane number. Remember, prices double every 10 years at 7%. He peaked out at 9. Here's CNBC, quick 20 seconds, on the recent inflation numbers that just popped a couple days ago. And you'll notice that Donald Trump has managed to keep a lid on the Biden inflation despite Biden leaving him with a freaking mess. Check this out. Here we go with the year-over-year numbers and zero progress, but not losing any ground.

55:11It remains a 2.4 on year-over-year headline. 2.4 really is, to find a lower number, you're going back to April of last year at 2.3 to find a higher number. You're at December of last year at 2.7. Just to give you some context there, now, in my opinion, the most important number year over year core remains at 2.5 percent folks i promise you listen to me i will never bullshit

55:38Dan Bongino:you i put that factcheck.org up there even though it cited prior democrat presidents having some successful gdp growth i'm not telling you it was because of their democrat policies but i'm not going to bullshit you and pretend it didn't exist second term bill clinton the economy grew at a pretty healthy clip that's just a fact i'm not gonna bullshit you because he was a democrat because then my credibility is at stake newsom doesn't give a shit about any of that any of that stuff tell people the freaking truth man that guy is a bullshit artist and that's why you get put this tweet up that's why this is probably the most unshocking poll you've ever seen do you see this thing went nuclear yesterday on x they did this poll of people with you know tragically with mental health problems that's not funny at all i've had to deal with some of it in my own family however this is fascinating at ryan burge conservatives who attend church weekly are the least likely to have ever been diagnosed with a mental health condition liberals who have low attendance are the most likely to have a diagnosis i don't wish mental health problems on anyone However, this is the least surprising poll you've ever seen There's the data you sell They say go touch grass I mean it literally, go touch grass Do some grounding, spend time with your kids Go to church, be part of a community Get off the iPhone once in a while Get off the Android Get off the computer, the smartphone There is a real world out there waiting And the conservatives like you Who go to church and remain part of the community and volunteer their time.

57:19It's not a secret that you have really, really low levels of mental health problems. While liberals who are on the computer all day, I hate the Jews. I hate the Jews did it. The Jews did it. All day. The liberal crazies out there. Egyptian planes, lasers, all this other... Do you not find it odd that these people have mental health issues? it's not infighting, it's outfighting. They're not in our club. It's ours.

58:00I want to show you what real people also look like in the real world. People you all in the chat run into all the time. Here's just a quick one. You know, I love man on the street interviews. They're great. This happens to be a woman on the street. For those listening on Apple and Spotify, she happens to be black. Does that matter to conservatives? I don't give two or three shits what color her skin is. However, for liberals constantly gaslighting you like Gavin Newsom that Trump's a racist, this guy's got to be the worst freaking racist ever. As he continues to pile up support in the black and Hispanic community, here's what the real world looks like when you get out of Gavin Newsom's bubble of stupid.

58:43Check this out. Keep going, Donald Trump. We appreciate you, and we're here for you. He came in on day one. He's standing on business. I love it, and he's doing an amazing job.

58:55that's what the real world looks like folks you know what let's put that door dash you want to

58:59Dan Bongino:see another one jasmine this one's for you jasmine loves timeline cleanse videos jasmine's got like jasmine's the most pure person on planet she's always listening to like gospel music and loves she keeps me straight i'm always trying to be bad she loves timeline cleanse videos did you see this started just quick but this lady sees on a ring doorbell keep this is colin rug yeah he's tweet first this lady sees on a ring doorbell this door dash delivery guy delivering some starbucks to her house and he's clearly elderly and moving quite slowly i mean really slowly i'll show you the video in a second and she feels bad for him so they go and they wind up doing uh one of these like uh give send go type things right they wind up raising almost three hundred thousand dollars for this guy.

59:44Dan Bongino:Why do I bring this up? Yeah, I like a timeline cleanse on a Friday. It's pretty awesome. However, I also want to show you that folks, this is the beautiful gorgeous country. Gorgeous country we live in. Full of amazing, incredible people. Look at this elderly gentleman. Still busting his ass working for a living. Check this out. Check this. If you're listening on audio only, you got to watch this. That's it. just delivering his DoorDash, still working. And real Americans donating$1, 50 cents,$5,$10, raised$300 ,000 for this guy. They don't even know him. And you're going to tell me how terrible and broken, MAGA Civil War, countries falling apart, space aliens, all this other.

1:00:34Dan Bongino:No, no, man, I ain't buying that shit. I love this place. And when you talk about it, you're damn right, you're going to talk about it with a smile on your face. We got our heroes overseas right now putting their asses on the line. We've had some servicemen who died tragically in a tanker incident. We're waiting for the details on that. This country is full of heroes and patriots. And when you talk about it, put a damn smile on your face. Because these are the people. These are the people this country is made of. These are the ingredients in the best tasting pie in the world, America. I want to show you another hero.

1:01:14Dan Bongino:you know uh johnny joey jones of fox eod explosives ordnance disposal technician in the military tragically lost his lower legs and an incident in the combat zone johnny joey is an amazing guy and a good friend a good man i saw him yesterday post this on twitter about steak and lobster gate the ridiculous surge i don't want to keep hammering because the story's so freaking stupid that the Secretary of War had purchased steak and lobster for the troops. Folks, they should be eating lobster for breakfast with their scrambled eggs because we love you guys. And ladies, thank you for everything. You heroes, heroes, heroes.

1:01:55Dan Bongino:I cannot say enough about you. That experience I had in the last year, one of the biggest takeaways I had is my gosh, our military is full of unbelievable patriots. The American flag's in the chat always. Love you guys. Thank you for being here. Veterans, service members, families of service members. Here's Johnny Joey Jones, who, if I want to hear about the sacrifices people made in the military, a guy who lost a couple of his legs in combat, I think he's earned the credibility to have a couple of comments about steak and lobster for our heroes, right? It's about a minute or so, but I want you to listen to all of this.

1:02:37Dan Bongino:It's worth your time. Check this out. In 2010 in Afghanistan, I was working with two other Marine OD techs, Brian Smith and Chendo Mesa. We had been out all day long working some IEDs. It was a difficult day. We had a few really close calls that day. When we got back, we sat down, and I've got this picture of us just sitting on a ledge at Patrol Base Karma, and there's a stack of MREs behind us. And I remember Mesa looking at me and saying, man, I just hope I don't get that chicken Tetrazzini or something like that. Like, we've been out all day. It's a tough day. and was like, man, I just hope we get a decent MRE.

1:03:09And then somebody comes down the corner like, hey, guys, it's steak and lobster night. It's surf and turf. A log train had come in, which was insane because the route was littered with IEDs. And now I've got another picture of the three of us eating steak in the room that we lived in later that night. What's funny is the look on our faces from the one picture to the other is about the same because we're in war. But after that day for weeks, we talked about steak and lobster nights. The only one I've ever gotten overseas. It was in the middle of a really tough summer. Brian got blown up a few weeks later.

1:03:41He's not with us anymore. He died of stomach cancer last year. Then I got blown up a couple months later. And you see these tweets. You see these tweets about, you know, Pete Hegseth has spent$15 million on steak and lobster. Are you serious? That is the only thing about home? That's the only thing that makes you feel special for the entire time you're there watching your buddies die and you're mad about that? The fact that people aren't smart enough to even look up what that's for before they criticize it. And I guarantee you, none of them said a word when Biden surrendered Afghanistan, killed 13 of us.

1:04:19Dan Bongino:So Johnny Joey left a significant piece of his own body overseas, fighting for the rest of us that didn't have to do that and didn't sign up for it. But he did. So I think Johnny Joey deserved his couple minutes on the show today You see how Johnny Joey talks about his sacrifice as well Did you guys catch it, how matter of fact he is? He's like, yeah, so I really was hungry for the steak and the lobster Because we're eating these MREs And then I got blown up and basically He talks about it like You want to talk about a hero? The guy's talking about losing his legs It's like nothing while he's talking about steak and lobster Steak and lobster?

1:04:58of all the shit I care about in this country, what I care about the least is how many servings of steak and lobster our heroes get. Actually, I care about the most because I want them to have as many as possible.

1:05:14If they want caviar, I don't like caviar. Not my bag of donuts. I'd rather have a bag of donuts. Give them caviar. Shovel it down their throats. I don't care. They want sushi. Give them sushi. Freeze that thing so they don't like parasites or anything. I don't care. Middle East sushi. Yeah, Middle East sushi could be dangerous. I don't care. Find a way to refrigerate it. This poor guy loses his legs. And he talks about his friend. And my other friend got blown up and he died again. And we're worried about steak and eggs and lobster, whatever.

1:05:58I wasn't even going to bring it up again today but I'm just as a guy who did not serve in the military

1:06:04Dan Bongino:and I'm telling you regretted it his whole life like I whatever I've talked about it a thousand times I just have the deepest sense of gratitude to people who do what do they do it for? what do they do it for? you think they're doing it for the money? no ask yourself that what do you think the military pays like a starting at six figures company car and a MetroCard. Like, they get none of that shit. They don't even get the MetroCard. You got people working in the Pentagon, like brilliant, brilliant people, making less than like a mid-level engineer at IBM. Meanwhile, what the hell do you think they're serving for?

1:06:39What do you think these people are in war zones for? The pension? They're doing it because they believe in something greater than themselves. And we all owe them a debt of gratitude. And yes, that's the America we live in. Not the MAGA Civil War bullshit liberal media. It's so broken. It's all falling apart. I had to get out of here with that shit.

1:07:03That's why my next guest coming up in just a few minutes.

1:07:07Dan Bongino:Graham Allen, who served himself as a combat engineer in the military and went back at the beginning of the Trump administration to help for a little while. Well, you know, we'll discuss this point here, how you get these liberals and these others on the sidelines like throwing popcorn at people actually in the ring doing it. Like, whatever, man, you have the right to an opinion, but it doesn't really matter to me. These people deserve our respect in our military. All right, quick break, and we'll get to Graham. You're really going to like, do you know Graham, by the way? How many in the chat watch his show?

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1:09:58Dan Bongino:You know this guy, you love him. He is always very generous rating our stream. He comes on before me on Rumble. And if you're not watching, I feel bad for you because you're missing out on some of the best content. And my good friend, a man who served this country honorably as a combat engineer in the military, my friend Graham Allen. Graham, welcome to the show. Dan, thank you. It's an honor to be here. You say, you know, I do you a favor rating into you. No, it's an honor of us to be able to be the lead-in show for the podfather, the greatest to do it. So, yeah, it's a privilege. It's a privilege.

1:10:33Dan Bongino:Thank you, brother. You're a good man. Man, we've been friends for so long. I can't believe it's taken this long, but I want to have you back regularly as we were just chatting about before the show. You're a great guest here. I want to get to this first. You have been really vocal about some of the cancerous rot pretending to be part of our movement. A lot of this stuff going on right now with the Charlie Kirk conspiracies, what Candace is putting out there. And I've addressed this on A Bigger Picture, how we can never become the cannibalistic left that starts eating its own. They did this. The left did this to itself.

1:11:06Dan Bongino:They destroyed their movement with men's men in the women's room, defund the police, just raw stupidity. But, Graham, unfortunately, there are people infiltrating our movement that are using this old, tried and sadly not true technique. But it does work of overloading and bombarding people with facts and totally underwhelming people with evidence. That is not that's the mark of a moron. The way smart people work is they drown out irrelevant stimulus, irrelevant facts, and they get to the heart of the matter right away. I'm getting tired of this shit, man. This is creating a really dangerous situation for a lot of people out there, and it's just rotting our movement.

1:11:43Yeah, no, and yes, I've been very vocal about it. It's led to a lot of pain and a lot of irritation. uh i i would argue that these people these specific people and and the the hard part is for me the same that it is for you i know these people i know these people just like you know these people and it's so so when people attack me for saying something about candace i always am like you don't know can i know candace and uh you know my very first book there's a blurb from candace owens talking about how much she loves me on the book and now she hates my guts I would argue that a lot of these people that are the cancers that we're seeing right now you look at them you look at the people that are either just doing the most evil and demonic those are the keywords right that we're getting paid to say evil and demonic and I just want to make sure that I did you cash your check you get you get it sure okay right and demonic just so if you don't say them both right you don't get your mystery paycheck that magically never appears in anyone's bank account it's what i loved is that fake campaign that's been proven fake they had that they said that i was the ringleader on the paper there and that you and ben shapiro were also there and i'm like well why am i the ringleader if dan bongino's getting paid to do this stuff anyway moving forward uh that was proven fake by the way for the trolls i would argue that these people that are doing it right now.

1:13:15You look at Candace, you look at Tucker, you look at Megyn Kelly, and you look at all these people. I'm now convinced. I mean, we know Megyn Kelly was not a Trumper in the beginning. Tucker Carlson has been all over the place. And we know Candace Owens wasn't a Trumper in the beginning either. I'm beginning to believe that these people are people that just want power. They want influence. They want so-called authority. And they're moving and shifting with the times. And right now, the times are this is President Trump's last term in office. It's now time to, if you got problems with President Trump, it's now time for you to do that.

1:13:51Because that's now the cool thing to do. Now, people like us, me and you, Dan, that I've been told my entire life, I can't go speak in a church because I'm too aggressive. And I'm too divisive. And I'm too this. Now, people call me this swamp creature because I'm not aggressive enough. I'm not radical enough. And I'll tell you something if I'm allowed to vent for two seconds, Dan, because of course, very few people understand like me and you understand, and especially you. We talked about this at the same time when we both were talking about at the time it was rumored you might be going to the Secret Service, head of the Secret Service.

1:14:29We didn't know about the FBI thing yet. I got the call to go help out Secretary Hegseth over at the Pentagon. the same audience that is now turning against people like us and they're following this cancerous movement. They're the audience that were begging people like me and you to give up our shows, give up the money, have to let people go because the money was gone to go serve the country yet again. And now we show back up to say, hey, it's worse than you think it is over there. All right. Yeah, there's still a lot of work to do. And for those that you think that it was going to be done in 90 days.

1:15:04You're a moron. That's not how reality actually works. Now they call us feds. Now they call me and you bought and paid for oppositions. And I love anytime you question the people that are just asking questions, you are not allowed to ask questions. They're allowed to ask questions, but we're not too. That makes us feds. That makes us paid opposition. There's these make-believe people that are paying me and you millions of dollars to go against them. It's a psychosis that is taking over our movement. And it's been done by people, in my opinion, that have been wolves in sheep's clothing the entire time.

1:15:42Dan Bongino:You know, Graham, you and I have had shows for a pretty long time. I started my show well over 10 years ago. And the way we've managed to stay consistent over a decade and stay at the top of this podcast and radio space for four years as well is you got to prune the tree once in a while you do if you're doing this lick your finger and just constantly try to make a certain segment of your audience happy by saying whatever they want rather than what you know it's true the people who crave authenticity even if they don't agree with you are going to say f this guy i'm out of here so what happens i found and i've i've i've told this to probably a hundred people who've called me and asked me about podcasting how do I get started?

1:16:24Dan Bongino:How do I do? I do guests, whatever. I tell them about every two, three years, I don't know, roughly, maybe an election cycle every four years, something's going to happen. A primary, you know, the DeSantis-Trump primary was hot. A lot of DeSantis, I love Ron DeSantis. I love Ron. I've always loved Ron, but I supported President Trump. A lot of his people got upset. I'm leaving. I'm leaving your show. Oh, okay. That's okay. I had a different opinion. You lose a few of those people but because you stay true to that north star or that that load star excuse me over time you wind up having that linear growth because people know that you're not bullshitting them even when you even when i was on the inside you have to tell people things that are really uncomfortable but you have to tell them where the evidence goes you can't just bullshit people because i'm telling you man there don't please god and i'm not using his name in vain because we need them right now.

1:17:12Dan Bongino:Do not treat your audience like freaking idiots. They are not stupid. They sniff through BS and you don't want a stupid audience. Sometimes you got to prune the tree from some people who just want you to lie to them. I'm not going to do that. I don't know you don't either. Yeah, no, I tell people all the time, I'm here to tell you what you need to hear, not what you want to hear. And the biggest thing I'll say on this, just to nip this part in the bud here, is the people that I'm all about asking questions, I'm all about challenging narratives, I'm all about draining the swamp, but people who only ask questions that are interested in solutions, that are interested in the actual battle plan to fix the problem, they're not doing us any good because all they're doing is driving more chaos, more division, more fear, more psychosis.

1:18:01There is a problem with only asking questions and not the other side of it, which is finding the solutions.

1:18:08Dan Bongino:yeah i agree uh folks we're talking to graham allen if you're listening on apple or spotify you don't see him on the screen uh graham like uh graham cracker allen a-l-l-e-n please look him up on rumble check him out his show airs right before mine at nine o 'clock and right after vince at eight it's a solid eight nine ten can't go wrong vince graham dan vince graham he can't beat it that's great you got entertainment you got entertainment for hours and you got crowder after me and then Haley, you can watch Rumble all morning. It's a fantastic lineup. Now you served, you served the American people honorably in the military, the combat engineer.

1:18:45Dan Bongino:I've got to get your opinion on, I know it's a stupid story. I understand. Of course, steak and lobster gate. I get it. I did not serve in the military. However, the story was so obviously stupid from the start because of the numbers that Secretary Hegseth, of course, in the Department of war had purchased something like 10 million dollars of steak and lobster last month now it's fairly obvious you and i know pete very well pete eats well but he does not consume 10 million dollars of steak or lobster that it was not for him so right yeah you know you you served in a news so you've eaten mres they're not horrendous like they used to be they're they're edible but they're not great if our troops want to eat steak and lobster in the defect once in a while because because they get this like luxury, maybe once or twice a month.

1:19:36Good for them. Feed them that stuff every freaking morning, you media dipshits. Yeah, well, you know, my thing that I, you know, I actually texted the secretary and I was like, where's my, like where's my back pay on steak and lobster? Because I didn't get any of that when I was in there. Me either. You know what I ate every day in DC? I ate freaking sweet green. I had a salad every day. I paid for it myself. No steak and lobster. Yeah, no, no, there wasn't. Look, and I want to be clear, Dan, because I always want to clear this up because you want to talk about toxicity. Unfortunately, toxicity in the veteran online community is just as bad sometimes.

1:20:15I was just a normal guy. I want to be clear on that. I was a comms NCO for a combat engineer team attached to a RSD, PSD team and then route clearance and all of that stuff. So I got to sit inside, look for bombs. I got to do the whole nine yards. But I wasn't anything special. There's so many people that did more than me. However, the fact that Democrats and the fake news and all these people have any issues at all with us feeding our men and women who continue to wear the uniform. And I served under a time, I mean, unfortunately, it was Bush and Obama, but at least I didn't have to serve under Biden.

1:20:56And there's a lot of these people that are still in and chose to stay in under Joe Biden. God bless them for it. And if we can fill them with steak and lobster as much as humanly possible, who gives a teetotal crap about any of this stuff, man? Look, I was personally at the Pentagon. I know how much the secretary and everybody slaved over cutting and cutting and cutting and cutting spending. We would be in his office all the time. We got to cut more. We got to trim more. We have a responsibility to the American taxpayer. All of that, that is your secretary of war. And let me tell you, just again, to toot the horn of the guy that I got to serve under in D.C., Pete Exeth was a good choice for secretary of defense.

1:21:43He was a generational pick for Secretary of War. I love that guy. I think he's doing an amazing job. And he was the man for the moment that we currently find ourselves in.

1:21:54Dan Bongino:And Graham, you know, pointing out left-wing hypocrisy is like, hello, Captain, obvious moments. However, it's worth noting the left-wing media did everything they could to bury the Minnesota-Somali fraud story, which by the way was a hundred times the spending of a steak lobster dinner for our heroes heroes heroes heroes and patriots and they didn't give a shit about that story they would should tell you one thing so now we know it's not about the money because you didn't care about the minnesota story or the california hospice fraud story those things get buried but you'll give hours of wall-to-wall coverage on our troops eating steak and lunch.

1:22:38So what is it really about? What it's really about is an attack on Pete, Saul Alinsky, personal politics, personalize it, isolate it, attack him personally. And it's about an attack, of course, on President Donald Trump, who they just hate. This is not about any principles at all. 100%. And that's why I encourage so many people, you know, the midterms are so important because the Democrats have already told us what they're going to do. We already know what's going to happen if we lose the House and the Senate. They're going to impeach President Trump again and succeed all the way through both chambers this time.

1:23:12They're going to pull Secretary Hegseth in and they're going to charge him with war crimes. You're going to see every other senior cabinet level official in testimony after testimony after testimony over and over and over again. I tell everybody, I got a book coming out right before the midterms. And the whole purpose is to remind the American people that the end of a election where we win is not the finish line. That's the starting point. And it resets over and over and over again. Every two years you get the off cycle, but then every four years you've got the presidential cycle. And it is a constant battle over and over and over again.

1:23:53And Republicans like to win. And then we like to kind of do this and say, oh, well, we won. It's over, right? No, it's a new season, just like a football team. It's a new season over and over and over again. Nobody gives a crap you won the national championship last year. What are you going to do this year? What are you going to do this year? And so that's why it's so important because it's not about Pete so much as it is about going after President Trump. And you go after President Trump by going after everyone that he put trust in. That's you too, Dan. That's me. We were all on the watch lists by the Biden FBI and all of these things uh if we thought it was bad in 2020 just wait and see what happens if we lose the midterms

1:24:31Dan Bongino:in 26 you know graham i'm so glad you said that i um we're going to do an extended interview show at some point on the weekend you and i are going to just hang out for like a couple hours and drink some or some whatever man some tequila whatever you want man we're just gonna but you brought up a good point i had a couple questions i'm hopeful i'll get to but i want you went back and Pete asked you to come on help out in the beginning you gave up your show man listen your show that was we spoke about it you and I you remember the conversation and you're in a different spot I got listen folks this is not meant to be a hey look at me but but I had been on 10 years had a pretty established audience you were like rocketing up geometric growth and you agreed to go back and say yeah I'll help you out in the beginning and I said to you man brother that takes a lot of balls it really did i mean you guys you really i i was unbelievably impressed you know it we spoke about it but i think you're right when you say it that i hope no one here is under the illusion that either you me or pete or anyone else thought we were going in there to be like avengers or superheroes we knew damn well like yeah okay great get the job done come back out and we had a we had a lot of great moments just like pete has but make no mistake We understood damn well that the second something breaks bad, that you're in charge too.

1:25:50That's it. I mean, like, that's the difference, I think, between a good, strong, conservative appointed by Donald Trump and a lot of these weak-kneed assholes that Biden and Obama appointed. Every time something happened with my orchestra or someone else, they were like, it was like the Beavis and Butthead approach. It wasn't me, man. It was like other kids. No, no, it's not other kids. It's us. Own it. American people are very forgiving. Own it. Say you screwed it up. you know, and move on. That's the difference between us and them. Yeah, no, I agree. It was an experience that I, uh, I'd rather go back to Iraq again than to go back there.

1:26:25If I'm just being honest, I'm not, I've learned to never say never in my life. You know, if the president ever called again, you know, I would cross that bridge when we come to it. Uh, but man, it's, it was such an experience to be able to go in and see, because even I had the naivety to think, oh, all we got to do is win this election. And then we got it. And then the people are going to go in there and they're going to do their thing. You don't realize, especially, you know, you were on the FBI side, I was on the DOW side, you know, the Department of War employs over 3 million people. And, you know, political appointees, at the time I got there, there was about seven of us to 3 million people.

1:27:08Now they've got like 100 plus or something like that. But either way, you got to remember some of these people that are still in the DOW were there when Bush was there. And these people, like, like we would have malicious compliance. Like these people would legitimately, we would know that they say, all we got to do is wait these guys out, wait these guys out. And we can go back and do whatever we can. And all these people are like, well, why didn't you fire anybody? Why we did. And then these leftist judges said, Nope, you can't fire them then you had that awkward thing where they all came back and then all this it is graham

1:27:44Dan Bongino:we had the same problem there's you just i summed it up in my show when i first came back there is an attitude amongst public servants servants public servants there is an attitude there i would assume from what you just said at dow but i saw it in doj and fbi that like this is our FBI we're gonna wait you scumbags out and we're just gonna wait for the next Democrat it's not yours they act did you get the feeling that the old and I'm not talking about all of them like yeah obviously you have patriots who serve in the military we had great people over there at the bureau too but there were a lot of shitheads just to be honest who were just like yeah wanted the old weaponized ways they had this attitude like we were like usurpers like we were there like we were appointed and like by the mob or something and i used to tell these guys because we had a big conference room i'd be like hey there's the door get the fuck out of here like right now if you had any balls because you're right getting rid of people is insanely difficult they sue they get their jobs back it's the most incredible system ever it's the only ceo in the world where you actually can't get rid of people in the executive branch but i'd be like if you had any a pair of nuts on you right now you know you right there get the fuck out of here and resign and they won't do it so you want it both ways you want to bitch and moan about the leadership and you want to keep keep collecting a paycheck you just that ticked me off because i bet you saw the same thing like they own it you don't own shit you work for the taxpayers bro yep yeah they operate as they're entitled to get there and so again that brings me back to my point about the midterms that, you know, when I came back to the show, one of the first things I said was, this is kind of like my Paul Revere type moment where I'm trying to tell you, like the enemy is not gone.

1:29:34The enemy, like we beat them in 2024, but that was just a battle. It wasn't the final war. It wasn't the end game. It wasn't any of that kind of stuff. It was just another battle in the battles that move forward and the battles to come. So we need to win 10, 12, 14, 16 election cycles in a row to truly eradicate decades upon decades upon decades of corruption that has been allowed to go on for so long in D.C. And it's not just D.C. It's the state GOP's as well. I've got my problems with the state GOP's just as much as I do Washington, D.C. But that's why people can't have this battle fatigue that we're seeing.

1:30:18We're seeing this, oh, well, we're not getting 1 million percent of everything that we thought we would in this certain amount of time frame. So we're done. You see people like Nick Fuentes and all these other people and Candace Owens either saying I'm not voting at all or I'm voting Democrat or screw your elections, I think is a direct quote from Candace Owens. Well, here's my thing. You might not like how everything is gone. Fair. That's a fair thing. Dan, they could say you were the worst deputy director of FBI history, which is not true, but they could say that. They could say, Graham, you were a piece of garbage in the Pentagon and you didn't do a dang thing.

1:30:55Okay, fine. At least we tried. And at least we did something. All these other people, we know what happens if the Democrats win. So your plan is just to let the whole freaking country burn and set on fire because it didn't happen how you thought you would do it because you want a Monday morning quarterback and say, oh, how did the quarterback not see that open receiver when he's got four freight trains running at him at the same time? Screw you guys. That's really what I want to say a lot of times to people is if you're not in the fight and you didn't volunteer to go in it, you're just sitting there on the sidelines, then continue to sit on the sidelines and do your job.

1:31:34Your job is to show up on voting day and to vote for the people that represent your values. And if it sounds like I'm a little angry, I'm kind of self-processing as we talk here because I am a little angry because we just had an American hero get murdered on American soil. Lieutenant Colonel Shaw was his name at Old Dominion University. And I looked at his I looked at his rack on his dress uniform. This guy deployed seven times to Iraq and Afghanistan only to get gunned down by an Islamic jihadist terrorist right here on American soil. And we're worried about the Jews and we're worried about, oh, well, Trump said something that hurt my feelings.

1:32:16What are you freaking talking about? We have an invasion going on right now that was that was allowed to happen under Joe Biden, letting millions of these sleeper cell terrorists come into our country. and you want to talk to me about the Jews run everything, but yet the most predominant voices in the space right now are the most anti-Jew. They hate the Jews. The Jews are just stupid in their takeover of America and they allow these people that hate them so much to be the people that have heard the most small thing. They appointed some strange emissaries if they're in jail. This is the psychosis and this is where it just drives me nuts.

1:32:55Dan Bongino:That's what I like. Neither one of us are denying that these people have a substantial audience. They do. I'm just disagreeing with their premise. And I think your point is accurate. Like, man, if the Jews run everything, they're doing a really terrible job. It's like when I used to say, like, people say Donald Trump's a racist. I'm like, man, he's a really shitty racist. He's got, like, the largest portion of the black vote we've seen. He, like, cleaned up Chicago and largely minority cities. The crime rate in New York's at, like, a historic low. Like, man, this guy really sucks at being a racist.

1:33:24Dan Bongino:Yeah, those Jews are really terrible at appointing people in charge. Listen, I got to run, but I just want to just promote your show again quickly. But I just want to say with regards to that, too, you know, I agree. There's always going to be people who throw popcorn from the cheap seats, and that's cool. But I know what like Parnell, Hegseth, you, people who just volunteer to go in and do, you know, just get in there in the beginning, help clean up. I know we did. I am absolutely confident. I'm looking the audience in the face. You're absolutely confident that when this four years is up, DOW, FBI, you know, I am absolutely confident.

1:34:06Dan Bongino:Just because you don't see everything happening now, I promise you, you just don't know what's happening behind the scenes. Bookmark this. I promise you at the end of four years, you're going to look back and go like, wow, he wasn't kidding. There really was a lot happening. Some things just take a longer timeline. The Pentagon, like you said, 3 million employees. You think you're going to clean up a multi, multi, multi-bill, close to trillion dollar budget with 3 million employees overnight? Like, are you kidding? You know how long it took to build that bureaucracy? So, you know, just give it to four years, and I promise everything's going to be good.

1:34:38Dan Bongino:So, Graham, listen, let's make this a regular thing. I want people to find you at rumble.com. Download the Rumble app. Make sure you check out Graham Allen live, 9 a.m. Eastern time. go from Vince to Graham to me to Crowder to Haley stay on Rumble all day Graham has great perspective as always man always good to talk to you buddy thanks for coming on thanks Dan thank you for everything you do we appreciate it and uh yeah I appreciate your friendship God bless your brother stay safe that was Graham Allen folks one of the best in the business I love that guy he's a real patriot been a friend for a long time folks I will not be here on Monday but it is our first guest host ever the great sean farish who you love uh he will be here for me monday and tuesday i'll be back wednesday same time you don't have to do anything different make sure bongino army you support him show some love he's a great guy i'm only here talking to you with this huge audience you have graced me with because mark levin glenn beck and sean hannity and others gave me a shot so that's this is how i pay it forward now we got to get the next generation of guys up there, Graham and Sean, Haley and Vince and others.

1:35:46Dan Bongino:So please check him out on Monday. If you wouldn't mind, go to rumble.com slash Bongino on the web, click that follow button for the show. You'll get a notification every day at 10 a.m. when we go live. It's free. You don't have to do anything. It's a small favor to ask. There you go right there, Justin's handy graphic. Or you could just download the Rumble app, which is also free. Follow our show there. Be sure to check out Vince at 8 a.m., Haley at noon as well on Rumble. We really appreciate it. We'll see you back here on Monday. I'll see you back here on Wednesday. Have a good weekend. Hey there, I'm Vince.

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1:36:19Dan Bongino:Host of Vince. Host of Scrolling with Haley. You can always catch my show right here. Right here on the Von Gino Report channel. Live 8 a.m. Eastern weekday mornings. Noon weekdays. And if you miss it, no worries. The show will always be right here and anywhere you find a podcast. Thanks for watching.

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