The Bongino Brief - 08/29/26

All America, all the time, on the side of freedom and liberty, your voice of hope and truth is here. The Bongino Report, PM, with Dan Bongino. You know, Producer Jim, sometimes I wondered if I would ever hear that glorious sound again. And the glorious sound of your voice on the radio airwaves, too. Man, does it feel good to be back. Folks, for those of you who missed the Dan Bongino Radio Show, now me and Sean Farris in Bongino Report, PM, radio was, oh, and still kind of now is still my first love. Not that I don't love the podcast or doing TV or Fox or elsewhere, but I got my start in radio early on. I would fill in on Christmas mornings and WCBM up in Baltimore. They were nice enough to have me. WMAL, one of the great stations in Washington, D.C., would have me on this weekend show. And there's just something to radio. Jim, you've been around in the podcast space with me for a while, right? Like, in radio, it's just different. A little bit. A little bit. That's a P1 thing. So to all you P1s out there, we are really ecstatic to be back in this new time slot. Thank you so much for all your support. We have a ton, I mean, a really a boatload of new announcements coming out, too, as we expand using, you know, our podcast platform with Sean. We have Haley. We've got Vince. We're on radio with Vince now, 12 to 3. Sean, 3 to 4. You know, me, 4 to 6. So you're going to get a lot of content and more announcements coming in the next coming weeks and months. So I'm really excited about it. A big congratulations, too, for those who listen to the podcast every day to Producer Guy. Had a baby this weekend. So Producer Guy is now a dad, which, as Jim knows, is the greatest experience in the world. There is nothing. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We have a live audience, of course. In the studio. And it's always nice to have them around. Jasmine's like, no, you don't. Some of you will get that. It's a P1 thing. Of course, we like a bunch of sarcastic humor. But when you're going to sleep at night and you go and you knock on your daughter's door like I do and you say, give dad a hug before you go to sleep. And she looks at you and says, I love you, daddy. They don't get choked up. It's only the first segment. Folks, there's nothing like that. There is no experience on it. You don't believe in God after having those words said to you. And that little spidey sense tingle you get in your brain, except it's not danger, it's love. I can't help you. But congratulations to Producer Guy. So I'm really happy about that. All right, let's get to some of the show content. Again, I'm really ecstatic to be back with you on radio. I hope you enjoy it as we go forward and we expand the Bongino Report footprint out there. Folks, I spent the last year in the Trump administration working on a couple of very clear goals within the FBI. And one of the things, when I came out, I was warning you about very early, which I've now been vindicated yet again about, is be very careful where you're getting your information from online. Again, I don't want to get into a lot of this faux intra-party squabble stuff because we have a midterm coming up. However, I say faux intra-party because a lot of these people on, quote, our side that are supposedly friends of ours, friends of our movement, aligned with our values, are in fact not aligned with our values. And I've been warning you about this money trail for a really, really long time that there is nothing wrong. Matter of fact, I highly recommend and value the fact that we have a big tent Republican Party where people have differences of opinion on all kinds of issues. Some people believe in a fair tax. Some people believe in a flat tax. Some people want Social Security moved into your own personal accounts. Some people want the system preserved as is. Some people want to move to the date you can get benefits later. Some people want to move Medicaid to a, you know, HSA-type option and other things. There are varieties of opinions on Iran. That is good. That is a good thing. There is nothing more dangerous and destructive to a party than having a bunch of barking seals who just clap for anything, you know, their dear leader says. That's a huge mistake. It doesn't keep anybody frosty. It's a huge tactical error in activism, and it's the way your party's going to fall apart. You're seeing it now with the Democrats, who are all afraid to speak out against, like, Son Piker, who's not even a politician. That's not what I'm talking about when I give you this warning here. There is a very dangerous effort, a well-funded effort, by a lot of foreign operatives and foreign governments to influence people in the United States for positions that are hugely counterproductive, if not self-destructive, to the United States. I've been warning you about it forever. I've seen some of this intel. It's devastating. I bring it up today because, you know, I read the leftist Bible every morning. I think you should, too. I don't usually recommend leftist outlets like Politico Playbook. However, Politico Playbook and their morning email, if you ever see, I'll give you a little tip if you're running for office. If you want to see what the Democrats are going to debate and argue about on, like, CNN or whatever, just read Playbook in the morning. And you're going to say, a Democrat, you're going to see, you're going to read in a piece in the morning, a Democrat said this. And then you're going to hear the exact same talking point later, talking point. So it's an easy way for you to get out ahead of their messaging and be able to respond quickly. We've been telling people about this for years. So I read Politico Playbook in the morning, and they ran a piece right in the beginning about a bill by a Republican, Anna Paulina Luna, down here in the great state of Florida. Anna Paulina Luna is now warning about what I've been warning you about for a long time. This influencer space out there, where some of the things you read that they're putting out there are not necessarily principled positions, but are positions they're being paid to advance. It's not all of them. It's a small portion, but not an insignificant portion. You have to be careful where you're getting your information from, or you are going to be misled. Here, this is from Playbook this morning. Jim, should we do it? We haven't done this in a while. Yes. You remember that? Hat tip, the great legendary Rush Limbaugh. I missed that. We have a new producer, Andy, in the studio. He's like, what are you talking about? Justin, you remember that? Hat tip, the great. Here, Politico Playbook. Luna's influence operation. Being an influencer right now is kind of like the Wild West, Anna Paulina Luna told Playbook. There's a lot of things laws haven't caught up to. The Florida Republicans rolling out the Foreign Propaganda Registration Act, an amendment to the Foreign Agents Registration Act that would require influencers to disclose when they're being paid by a foreign government to push political messaging, according to the proposal first shared by Playbook. It goes on. The practice reaches deep into the influencer ecosystem. Pay really close attention to this. This is super important. Some of your biggest profile names, a large portion of them, in some way, shape, or form, have been approached at one point to push a certain position that's probably tied to a foreign country, Luna said, and that money can be significant. I've seen contracts into the millions. Luna said. Folks, I have been warning you about this forever. A lot of this stuff you're hearing right now is not some principled position one of these people had. It is a financed position by dirty money flushing into the system. Now, I'm a free speech absolutist, as long as you're not breaking the law. Have whatever opinion you want about the Luna proposed legislation. You know, should there be some kind of asterisk next to a post if you were paid to post it? I don't think it's the worst idea in the world. I'm not a huge fan of a government injecting into the free speech space. However, this is not free speech. It was quite literally, and you know I hate that word, paid for speech. It is not a small amount of money. Let me read this again. Anna Paulina Luna says, I've seen contracts into the millions. One of the spaces I'll get to later in the show where you're seeing a lot of this is the conflict right now. It is okay to have an opinion which differs from the administration, which differs from Pete Hegseth, Dan Bongino, Marco Rubio. That is okay. There is nothing wrong with that. I can't say this enough. I hate these phony arguments. What are you trying to do? Stop people from having an opinion? Nobody is saying that. No one is saying that. What we are saying is if a foreign government that wants, is this, by the way, is any of this controversial? Jim, is any of what I'm about to say controversial? I'm not saying it's controversial. I think you know where I'm going with this here. If you are being paid by a foreign government that wants the Iranians to win in this conflict because they hate the United States, I think it's only fair you kind of tell us. Like it's kind of a big deal. You're seeing a lot of these influencers and personalities out there attacking the president, attacking the administration, attacking Hegseth, attacking Rubio, attacking now Vance. I've seen them now starting to turn on JD Vance too. You're seeing this And you're thinking, oh, my gosh, is this real? Is this organic? It's not organic. That mother f***er back there is not real. Tiff, Tiff is back. Tiff is back on the show. Did you plan that? Did you have that way? Did you listen to some of my podcasts before and plan that? No, I'm just that good, Dan. You are that good. You are that good. It's not real. Listen to Tiff. It's not real. They are doing this at the behest of a foreign power that hates the United States. Not all of them, but many of them. Be very careful where you get your information. Now, I have taken it upon myself when I did my tenure at the FBI and entered back into this content creation space. I have taken it upon myself to expose the dooming and glooming and the influence ops out there, which has these people really upset because they want to keep making money off deceiving you. I only bring that up because this weekend, in case you missed it, matter of fact, this whole past week, primary season has now come to an end. All of the enemies of the Trump administration, enemies of me too, are now completely. are now completely crashing out because everything they told you was going to happen, we're going to win with these primary candidates, these primary candidates who hate President Trump and the agenda, they all got smoked. They got smoked. Completely destroyed. So now the crash out, we were trending like every day last week, because they realized I was right. That everybody saw through the grift, and now they had to drop a big L. So now you're seeing the freak out from people who are trying to expose, what we're going to call, you know, the new Trump resistance. Well, if it's the new Trump resistance, then what's the old Trump resistance? Ladies and gentlemen, the old Trump resistance was a small portion of the Republican party, the Liz Cheney's, the Adam Kinzinger's, that aligned with lunatics on the left, Adam Schiff and others, George Conway and other people like that, who just completely exposed themselves in primary season two. So, Fox News Politics has a post up about this. You would think the new Trump resistance, the new Trump resistance would have learned from the old Trump resistance that just got completely wrecked. Fox News Politics has a tweet up, they put up last week about this, at Fox News Politics. Democrats who built their brands on resisting Trump during his first term are getting wiped out in their own primaries. Not by the opposing party, but by challengers from the left flank demanding the party go further. So, just to be clear, before I go into the names, the Trump resistance within the Democrat party was a flop. Listen to what Fox News Politics is saying in this tweet. The people on the Democrat side who made their entire brand, Trump sucks, we hate Trump, orange man bad, all this other crap, that was their entire brand. It completely flopped. Even the Democrats are done with this, making your entire brand about everything Trump does sucks. Why do you think that a group of people pretending to be in the MAGA tent, the full-lex MAGA people, the fake Rolex MAGA people, right? Why would you think that these people would then adopt this if it's so tactically inefficient that the Democrats don't even want it? The answer is what it always is, follow the money. Look at what happened. Look at what happened in this primary cycle, even with Trump resistance won. Remember Alexander Vindman? As they know, the former army lieutenant colonel. He's proud of that. Who became a household, you gotta watch that clip, you'll see what I'm talking about if you go back and watch the clip with Devin Nunes. The former army lieutenant colonel who became a household name as a key witness in Trump's first impeachment, he just got smoked in Florida's Democrat U.S. Senate primary by a woman he dramatically outspent. It wasn't even close. He got destroyed. He's not alone. Reps Diana DeGette, Dan Goldman, Sri Thanadar, and Al Green have also fallen, these are all Democrats, younger, more progressive challengers this cycle. The Trump resistance movement won, flopped with Democrats. Why the hell would you try to incorporate this into the Republican tent? The answer is easy. Follow the money. I warned you. We're always right. I'll take a quick break. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. The story has a purpose, given that yesterday was our radio launch. It went amazing. Thank you for all the incredible feedback. We appreciate it for Sean Farris, too, for crushing it. You know, radio is my, as I said yesterday, my first love. I got my start there. I absolutely love it. But I'm sitting home yesterday, Jim, after the show, and I get a call and it says Teresa. So Teresa's like the Bongino whisperer over at Westwood One. And she's like, man, it was like you and Jim were never gone. That actually happened, Jim. I'm not making this story. This is one of those, like, for radio stories, you know, you BS your listeners about it actually happened. But it was, it was like, it was like we just picked up where we left off, you know, a year and a half ago. I thought so. Yeah, it just feels great. I love radio, folks. I can't say it enough. It's such an amazing medium. It just feels like I was chatting with Sean Farris, who, you know, hosts the First Hour, before the show, actually today. And I said to him, and folks in the audience, if you think I'm crazy here and you're in the podcast space, then, you know, let me know. Tweet to me, whatever. But. Doing a video podcast, which I love doing too, but it's almost like a presentation. Whereas radio is more of a conversation. You're in someone's car. You're in someone's Bluetooth headphones while they're mowing the lawn or something. It's just different. So I love it. Not to belabor the point. I miss it. I'm really glad to be back. I'm honored. And thank you to all the amazing program directors, you know, who continue. To carry the show and took a chance on us early on the first time. We really appreciate it. It's good to have you all there. And thank you primarily to the people in the listening audience. You're what makes the show special. It wouldn't have been an amazing launch without you. Me and Jim can only listen to the show once while we do it. That's it. So today's show, by the way, we have another huge announcement about radio coming tomorrow. So don't miss that. And we're, we're going to be expanding. We do? Yeah, we do. You didn't know that? I didn't know that. Jim's learning. Yeah, sure. That's fake news. That's fake news. If I had president Trump on right now. Oh, you don't. Okay. Oh, you really don't look at him. I have him on the iPad so I can see him. He really doesn't know. Okay, good. We'll surprise you tomorrow too. Don't text me after the show. What is it? Cause I'm not going to tell you. So tune in tomorrow for Jim's candid reaction. But it is, it's, it's not fake news. It actually is happening. Folks. Don't chase calm in, in your lives. Well, that was a shift in Tony. That happens on her. Sometimes you just got to go. But don't, you know, I know there's a lot going on. I understand that we have a, an economic D-Day warfare going on with the Iranians. We have kinetic action. We have our boys in harm's way. I get it. The economy is always going to be a battle to keep it moving forward in the right direction. Keeping the border closed is not an easy fight. It takes a lot of manpower to deport 20 million plus people. Obama and Biden let in here. This is all really hard. Work, you know, to, to constantly fight for school choice, despite teachers unions. Listen, I'm not knocking the teachers. You all are great. It's not about you, but these union interests trying to keep your kids in crappy schools. Like this is really hard work. Now we've got this not new phenomenon, but we've got this, I think Twitter makes it appear more powerful than it really is. This, this doom and gloom phenomenon where people who we used to trust in our movement are now all of a sudden, like everything the Trump administration does is bad. And I know the temptation sometimes is to say, well, just ignore it. Folks don't do, do not chase calm in your life. I was reading some thing this morning on X by this, uh, this sub stack writer. And you say now all these intellectual geniuses and stuff, they, they're, they're, they're the discriminating point that makes them, you know, smart, smart people rather than stupid, smart people. Some of you will get that if you're P1 listeners that it's the fact that they chase calm. I don't agree, but don't chase calm. Don't chase calm. You know, it was easy for me to chase calm and continue doing my show. But when president Trump calls you and asks you, Hey, can you help run the FBI? The answer is yes. It's not like, Hey, I meant for you guys to do stuff, the do matters, which we used to say all the time, but not for me. I was just kidding. Like that doesn't work. Don't chase calm. We're going to talk about this today during the show. Often you almost have to act like a magnet for some good chaos. Sometimes you're the ones out there. You know, my friend, Jimmy, Jimmy Thompson. Thomas used to say to me all the time. He's been an amazing activist for a long time. You're the leaders we've been waiting for. You in the listening audience, you're the leaders we've been waiting for. I'm not some captain in this army out there. I'm just a guy with a microphone. I hope you like the show. I'm honored you're here, but you're the leaders we've been waiting for. There's something in your community you can advocate for, something nationally. You've got a voice on X. You've got a voice on Facebook. I have only 25 followers. It doesn't matter. Those are 25 people you can talk to. Use it. It requires taking on sometimes a lot of anxiety and pain and suffering, and it's a pain. Sometimes you just want to say, oh man, enough of this today. Like I'm just going to whatever, tweet about baseball. We can't do that. You know, for our old radio listeners who are back, you know I love the quote in a book, The Natural, Roy Hobbs' book. Was it Malamud who wrote it? He says, you know, we all live two lives, the one we learn from and the one we live after that. But it's the second part of the quote that matters that the real path to happiness is through suffering. We're going to win this. The Trump administration is dealing with a lot of problems. Some are persistent and tough, but I promise they're putting out their best effort and their litany of results are like nothing we've ever seen in less than two years in office in modern American history. You saw Scott Besson's announcement on economic D-Day against Iran yesterday. If that works out and he drives this Iranian regime from power to power, President Trump will go there. It's a big if. I grant it. I'm not just jumping past like the chapter 12 of a 12-page book when we're on chapter two. I'm not. I'm just telling you, like, for all the doom and gloom out there, we have the closed border. Crime has been crushed. We're building stuff again. The manufacturing business has taken off. We're the world leaders in AI. We're the world leaders in quantum. We're the world leaders in material sciences. Like you live in the greatest country on earth with the most powerful military. It is a good time to be alive right now. You have to take it to these other people who are constantly trying to dissuade you from showing up in the midterms so we lose. Don't fall for the scam. Do not fall for this scam. Ask questions. It's the right thing to do. No one's telling you shut up. Anyone who tells you that is lying. Do not shut up. I'm glad we have a Republican party where people still ask questions. Keeps everybody frosty. But if you're out there engaging in an agitation propaganda campaign to get people to not show up, because you want the Republican Party to lose the midterms, to turn the country over to castration versus circumcision, Abdul El-Sayed, what? That show changed tone quick. Then you are the problem. What do I mean by Jim? You got that one? Is this the first? I think this is the first sot we're going to play in the opening segment of the show. We didn't play one yesterday, right? So this is their first one. Here's what I mean. You want to turn the country over to these people? Jesse Waters, who's a great friend, he hosts a great show. His booking team, congratulations, managed to convince Democrat lunatic U.S. Senate candidate in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, to come on the show yesterday with Jesse Waters. The Democrats, from what I'm hearing, listen to your buddy Dan here, from what I'm hearing, the Democrats in D.C. are furious about this. They want this guy, El-Sayed, Democrat nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, to just shut up shut up. He is going to destroy the Democrat brand during the midterms. The guy's a straight-up lunatic, whether his stance on Sharia law, government-run health care, taking away your union-earned or private health care plan with your employer. He wants to take all, they want this guy to shut up. And what does he do? He goes on Fox and gets destroyed. I warned you during yesterday's show that one of the tactics these horrible Democrat candidates use is they never want to answer a question, ever. They don't want you to see what they're about to do because this is the critical question in today's show. If you see it, will it change your mind? Abdul El-Sayed doesn't want you to see it. So every time he's asked a question, do you support Sharia law? What about stealing people's employer-backed health care? What about trans surgeries, cutting off the units of young boys and cutting off the breasts of young girls? Where do you stand on that? He doesn't want you to see it. I'm going to bring this up often today, but it reminds me of these abortion opponents, me included. I am an enormous advocate for the pro-life cause because if folks, if we can't support life, our stance on taxes is irrelevant. However, do you notice how angry the pro-abortion people get? When people show up on a college campus and just show a photo of like, hey, this is what it looks like in an abortion. Don't show us that don't why? Well, I don't understand. What do you mean? If you support it and if you see it, why are you worried? It's going to change people's mind. That's why these people lie and try to reframe all the time. This happened last night on Jesse Waters show. Here's some some audio of Abdul El-Sayed and Jesse Waters. Asked a very simple question about trans surgeries government funding to cut off the reproductive organs of healthy young men and women. This is insane. It's an insane policy. The 80 plus percent of Americans do not support. So what does Abdul El-Sayed? He tries to reframe it and never gets to the question. Do not let them do this. Jesse, there's a good job of keeping him on task. Don't ever let these leftist lunatics do this. Check this out. You're a doctor, right? I am. So you think it's okay for a parent to slash his kids? You think that's okay? I mean, do you really want to have this conversation? Are you circumcised? Yeah. Yeah. But I mean, that's a personal question. Okay, doctor, you probably should want to move on. I probably should want to move on. Circumcision is different than castration. I think it's a problem. It's a problem that you think that you get to decide what happens between a parent, a doctor and a patient and I'm just saying that yes, circumcision is surgery on a kid's ding-a-ling. So if you really want to bring that up, you can. I just think you guys are really selective about how you want to talk about these things. Abdul, Michigan's not going for that. That is sick stuff. Jim, I know you saw the podcast earlier in the day. If you want to check out the podcast, by the way, Every Day Live, 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time, Rumble.com/Bongino. It's free. Just watch. You can join the chat every single day. One of the folks in the chat says this guy's a, you know, Democrat Socialist, the DSA, Democrat Socialist of America, that they should be called the ding-a-ling slicers of America. I agree. I agree. Someone should trend that on X because that's who they are now. Does this guy Abdul El-Sayed, does he think this sounded good last night? Now, I know the impulse here because I had it too. The impulse here is to want to say, are you seriously comparing circumcision to the whoosh of a young man's unit? You're a doctor. I know that's the impulse. Don't do it. I know it's crazy, but that's the tactic. You have to recognize their political battle tactics. He says something crazy to distract you because he doesn't want you to see what an abortion looks like. He doesn't want you to see the sign that he supports this taxpayer money going to mutilate kids. So what does he do? He says something crazy to distract you. The impulse is, I know, me too. You want to be like, circumcision. This guy's a doctor? What an idiot. He has nothing to do whatsoever with a trans. What is he even talking about? Does this guy even understand basic Anatomy and how this thing works? Don't do it. Because he's trying to distract you because he can't get past the critical question in politics when you're advocating for crazy stuff. If he answers the question, El-Sayed, yes, I support for the units of young boys who may be at a confusing time of their life and trying to pretend they're young girls. He knows that if you see it, it'll change your mind. So he does this Democrat stunt and scam. They pull all the time where he says something absolutely ridiculous to get you sucked in. And I got to tell you, he did an amazing job. We got some stuff coming up later on from this clip. We got additional clips from it from this hit. Excuse me. It's like a TV term for showing up on the air for those who are new to the show. He said all the time this hit was really, really bad for El-Sayed. It was an abomination. It's great for Jesse. There's more about Sharia law, government run health care, all of it. But notice the attempt to reframe and distract you from the actual answer he wants to give. Because if he shows it to you and you see it, your mind will change and he knows it. These crazy policies cannot possibly survive first contact with the real world. Don't chase the calm, folks. I know this all sounds chaotic and crazy, but chase the chaos and we'll win. Don't chase calm. All right, more coming up next. We'll be right back. Bungie Now. With Dan Bongino. So why do we call it Bongino Report PM? Damn, what do you think we are? Remember that, Jim? What do you think we are, nerds? Remember Rocky IV? That's your dad. I know. What do you think we are? No, I don't think you're nerds at all. Well, maybe nerds are a good thing. Nerds are going to run the world, right? Maybe nerds in the era of AI and all development of sophisticated technology. Maybe that's a compliment now being a nerd. I was kind of nerdy myself. We call it Bongino Report PM because I told you yesterday we had some more great news coming up about expanding our show and not just my show, but the people who work here for my production company, Silverlock. We have Haley Carania. We have Vince Colanese. You hear him on the radio, many of you, on stations around the country. We now have Sean Farris. You're hearing on stations with us at the Bongino Report PM. He covers the first hour. I cover 4 to 6 PM. Well, we call it Bongino Report PM because there was always going to be a Bongino Report AM. So I told you we had an announcement and that came out today. So thank you to Westwood One for expanding our content on stations across the country. Bongino Report AM is going to be launching in just a couple of weeks, 5 AM to 6 AM nationwide drive time, morning drive time, afternoon. We are expanding rapidly. And for those of you who reached out to me, they said, Dan, don't be a knucklehead. Someone did actually say. Put a station finder on your website, Bongino.com. We're working on it. The problem is, with a good problem to have, is we're signing so many contracts so fast and so many stations. I just don't want to do it until we have a bigger footprint because it's just going to require an update by the second. So we are going to get to the station finder. We had one up for the radio show last time. But I do appreciate your feedback. Folks, today's show, today's show is going to be one for the ages, man. I've got a bunch of stuff for you. That's going to seem. Totally unrelated. But I promise by the time you're done in this journey, we're going to go on for the next couple of hours. I promise I'm going to have tied it up in a bow and you're going to be like, yes, I get it. During yesterday's show, I said the problem, the Democrat Socialists of America, which is really just the Democrat Party now, because they just refuse, refuse to renounce these ideas. You know, a couple of them have just said. You know, Hassan Piker is no good, but we don't want even Hillary Clinton is now saying that the the socialists are a healthy debate. There's nothing healthy about talking about socialism, gulags, torture, terror, starvation. Hundreds of millions of people's lives being destroyed, if not terminated. That's not a healthy debate, bro or sister. In this case, my sister, it's not a healthy debate. They don't want to renounce this. So he said a critical. A critical question you need to ask your Democrat friends who've fallen for this going forward is, does your policy survive first contact with the real world? If you see the results of the policy and have to feel it yourself, will it change your mind? I brought up the analogy of the pro-life movement, that sometimes it's tough to look at and it's hard, but to. To change people's minds about what abortion is, they will show a picture of what an abortion looks like. Ladies and gentlemen, pro-abortion people go freaking crazy when those signs are up. They attack people. They shoot takedowns on them. They got them wrestled to the ground. They tear up the signs. They claw at their faces, pee in their diapers. They call the cops on people if they don't have the First Amendment right to speak out for life. Why do they do that? Why do they do that, the pro-aborts? Why do they do that? Because when people see it, they likely will change their mind. Oh my gosh, that's what an abortion looks like? You're seeing this now everywhere, everywhere in the Democrat socialist movement. Hey man, we're for Medicare for all. And people who don't know what Medicare for all is because they haven't seen it are like, yeah, that sounds great, man. Government health care? Jim, it's a guarantee. I got health care from the government. Yeah, you got a lot of guarantees from the government. You had a guarantee to your social security be there. Now they're telling you things bankrupt by 2032. You got a lot of guarantees, the government. It's just interesting. The only guarantee they give you shall not be infringed. That's the only one they challenge. That's not what it really means. Folks, you have to ask yourself again, but this Medicare for all stuff that sounds great in theory. When you actually see it, like I've done for you on my show and my podcast, when you see it, what does it really do? Oh, it cancels your employer-based health care or your market health care plan you have now that you may really like. It cancels it. I didn't want to see that. What do you think we're going to do? I just thought it meant like fairies were going to start singing. Unicorns were going to pop out and everybody was going to get the best access to the best health care in the world. It's going to be no rationing. And that's what I thought it was. I didn't think we were going to cancel my insurance. Well, now you know. Remember this critical question. And is that why the modern Democrat Party is running from every single policy position out there? I'm going to tie this. Jim really liked this when we were going through it earlier in the show. He did. He's laughing, but I. It was an unintentional connection that made its way into today's show. I watched a three-part documentary about the Charlie Manson murders and the Manson family. You may say, what in the Hades does that have to do with if you see it, will it change your mind? Because folks, one of the tools the Democrats use, just like members of a cult, to get people to do absolutely insane, evil things. Murder in cults and elsewhere, even suicide, killing themselves, the Kool-Aid, is they have to isolate them from the real world. They don't want you to see the real world. They're going to tell you the race war is coming, like Manson did. The apocalypse is coming. The comet's going to wipe us all out. If you go into the real world and you connect to the internet and actually look it up, you're going to be like, that guy's full of. We can do this. Right, Jim? We just can't say the word. Yeah, right. Okay. I'm just checking. I'm just checking. I hate FCC rules, but your diaper's full of. It's just. So Charlie Manson kept a bunch of people on a ranch away from reality because if they saw reality, it would change their mind. This is the modern Democrat party. I warned you about this. I've warned you. People, I don't give the Democrats point. I'm not giving the Democrats pointers. Are you? Are you crazy? I'm a conservative activist myself. I'm trying to save the country from Lenin, Stalin, and fascism. You don't give these people a leg in and go, well, we just, it'll just help us in this election. No, you, you, you, you have to wipe this ideology out no matter where it surfaces. Folks, they hide from you everything. And now they're freaking out because the Democrats realized that this pernicious, disgusting, communist, Islamofanatic ideology they let creep into their party. And they were like, oh, it's no big deal. We'll use these people for energy, quote, to get back to vote. And we'll, you know, we'll attack those crazy boomers who actually experienced communism. Don't worry. The concrete won't dry. It'll dissipate. Well, now the concrete's hardened. And now the freakouts begin. We haven't done that in a while. You gotta do that. Jim, you can see it on the iPad. You gotta do that. The Soviet salute. For those of you who listen to my older radio show in the 12 to 3 spot, you know exactly where we're going. Of course, that's the Soviet National Anthem. That's the new Democrat party. They're now freaking out when even liberal media hosts like Wolf Blitzer at CNN, this guy's no MAGA guy, okay, are now starting to call them out because now they're starting to get worried because they tried to hide it. They didn't want you to see what the Democrat socialists really want, defund the police, empty the prisons. Use everywhere, open the borders, confiscatory taxation, no more school choice, government run healthcare, canceling your employer healthcare plan you bargained for. They don't want you to see it. Now that it's out there, CNN and others are in full-blown redline 9,000 RPM panic mode. Jim, cue up for me, cut one. This is Democrat leader on the House side, Hakeem Jeffries, just a total failure of a human being. This guy doesn't know what he's doing. For as much as I can't stand Nancy Pelosi and her ideology and her trading and stock and all this other crap and all the destruction to the Republic, at least she had better control over her own caucus. This guy, I got to tell you folks, he's just an idiot. He is just an idiot. Here he is on CNN. He's confronted by Wolf Blitzer like, hey man, we ever going to call these people out like by name? We got a real problem. And watch Jeffries get all upset about, ah, giving the, he gives the same answer I just gave about the full of, you don't know what he's saying. He sounds like Charlie. Brown's teacher. Check this out. be targeted because of their religious beliefs or ethnicity or race, whatever the case may be. That's fundamentally inconsistent with who we are in this country. Yes. The Hassan Piker's clout among Democrats, though, particularly some younger Democratic voters, seems to be growing. We saw, for example, his prominence in the Michigan Senate Democratic primary. So why not call him out by name in your statement if you feel so passionately about this issue? I've just addressed Hassan Piker's comments as it relates to the Jewish community as forcefully as I can, and I will continue to do that. These guys don't know what to do. All they had to do is do what the Republican movement did at the beginning of this primary cycle. It's very simple. You want to run under our brand, correct, ours, all of us, not me. I don't own the Republican Party, the conservative movement, the MAGA movement. I don't own it. I'm a small piece of it. If you want to run under our brand, like the Democrats do running in this cycle, and you want to bring people in your tent, into your brand, into your store, into your club, into your bar, well, there's going to be pictures of people taken in that bar. If they're really bad people, they're going to be like, "Why did you allow this serial murder or whatever in your bar?" They're not in their own bar. They're not running as independents. They're running under your brand. Jeffrey's now, "Oh yeah, that guy's bad." Well, what about the socialists who were bad? We cut the infection out early and said, "You can say what you like, as long as you don't break the law and threaten people's lives. Say whatever you like." But that's not our brand. Our brand is pretty clear. Economic growth. School choice. The Second Amendment. Defense. Secure borders. Crushing crime. That's our brand. Strong national defense. It's not hard. You don't have to like the brand. Run into your own brand. Jim, start the Whigs. Start Whigs number two. Whigs the sequel. Whigs Part Deux. D-U-E-D-E-U-X. Just start Whigs Part Deux. No one's stopping you. Start Whigs Part Deux. You don't want to. You want our voters, our activists, our voter lists, all the stuff we built and spent money on. And time and sweat equity. We cleaned our mess up. The Democrats can't do it. They're trying to hide it because they don't want you to see it. Because if you saw it, just like the Manson family, if they got off the ranch and lived off the ranch with their families, they probably would have been told, "That is crazy." They don't want to get off the ranch. They don't want to get off the ranch. Jeffries just wants to hide all this, Hakeem Jeffries, till after the election. Again, the critical question. Great job here by Caroline Downey on CNN. I want to play this cut before the break. This is Caroline Downey on CNN saying the exact same thing. Like, why don't they want to talk about Medicare for all? What it actually is outside of the talking points. Why don't they want to talk about it? The same reason the pro-abortion people don't want to talk about it. The same reason the pro-abortion people don't want you to see the abortion sign. Because once you look at what's under the hood, you're like, I don't want that car. That's a jalopy. Good job by Caroline Downey on CNN. Check this out. They may be better off just simply attacking him if you're going to attack him on the policies. I don't want to talk about it. something like, the Democrats are promising free health, care free college you know rent control free back rubs whatever the hell that everything's freedom and how do you compete with something like that and i said to jesse the answer is is you have to do the hard work like the easy path is to try to out democrat and out socialist the socialist and be like well we're gonna offer even more free stuff and i said that jesse reminds me of the movie something about mary yeah no not that scene like i said you remember everybody remembers this scene right not that one that's not hair gel that's not hair gel he should have known that that's not hair gel she should have known that i'm talking about the other scene about seven minute abs seven minute abs for those of you don't know what that was that video is like an infomercial thing like look you'll get washboard abs in seven minutes like folks that's just not realistic i'm sure some people in seven minutes will get seven minute abs with great genetics you have to like work and alter your diet and strength train and cardio it's not gonna happen in seven minutes but it reminds me of socialism they promise stuff they know isn't gonna happen because it sounds good seven minute abs jim's like i can get abs in seven minutes yeah seven minute abs there's this breed of republicans who don't want us to tell the truth about socialism and warn people about the dangers who want us to play this game and out socialist the socialist they want us to be the six minute abs guys seven minute abs for those of you seem to see you know exactly where i'm going with this i'm gonna sell some called six minute wow i cut a minute off that's crazy so good folks it doesn't work never run on six minute abs because the democrats are going to come back with five minute abs and you're just going to get crushed it becomes an increasing set of ridiculous absurd promises that will never be met that will destroy all of your political uh all of your political credibility ronald reagan who was a great messenger understood clearly that you have to tell people people folks people are smart do not to republicans running out there who question this i promise you the people who show up and vote are overall very smart they don't want to be talked to like kids they know there's no such thing as free stuff if you tell them the penalty for quote free stuff like for instance free health care let's put meat on the okay like i'm i'm a republican i'm going to run the right way not the easy way here's how you answer this how do we combat democrats offers of free health care it's very simple easy okay well one free health care isn't free you're going to pay an exorbitant amount of taxes upwards of 40 trillion over 10 years 4 trillion per year we're already in debt 40 trillion dollars however even if you're not concerned with that here's what you should be concerned about how do you feel about the health care plan you're on now i like it it's not too bad i give it like a maybe one thumbs up cancel no no i don't want to cancel oh you don't want to cancel my mike's jim it's the first text for my seven minute abscene lol you damn right that's what this you have to tell them like seven minute abs doesn't work it you may get a workout but you're not gonna you have to tell them like this stuff doesn't work your health care plan you have now is going to be canceled ronald reagan did this great most dangerous words in the english language i'm from the government i'm here to help he didn't can the ass his way around it he told people the truth just like trump tells tells them the truth all the time that's why the message resonates there are there are not two figures in modern times that have transformed the republican party more than ronald reagan and donald trump there just aren't well regardless of your feelings about either one of those people there is no disputing that fact you make the case you know fdr and obama did the same thing for the democrats i don't mean that in a good way i don't think there are two modern presidents of well semi-modern fdr's case but have done more to destroy the country than those two expanding government but there's no question that they were transformative for all the wrong reasons president trump and reagan for transformative for the right reasons they've just been honest to people but stop the warning out there is pretty simple do not try six minute abs it is not our thing that is not our brand our brand is telling people why this country is great how it got it here and the penalties for believing in things like seven minute abs and free stuff i love free health care yeah you an auto worker uaw in michigan you know we're on all over the country now between the mornings and the afternoons you understand that the health insurance plan you bargained for you forfeited maybe a 10 salary hike maybe you settle for three to four in exchange for a really solid strong health care plan for you and your family maybe your kid's sick god forbid maybe your kid has a really strong health care plan for you and your family maybe your kid's sick lymphoma i had lymphoma lymphoma gym two thumbs down on yelp it sucks it's also really expensive chemo radiation all that crap you got to go through is really expensive maybe you your kid got sick and you bargained for this plan how do you feel now that all that stuff you bargained for forfeiting salary hikes or bigger salary hikes is now going to get chucked out the window to jam you into some government plan where you're going to have to call joey bag of donuts the bureaucrat and hhs is going to go uh john smith uaw guy yeah my kid's got lymphoma i'm going to have to call joey bag of donuts i want to send them to um md anderson great great great university hat tip they took care of me did the most amazing job premier cancer hospital in the country i want to send my kid to md anderson it's a complicated cancer no no no no you can't go there well who says well i say i'm i'm joey bag of donuts bureaucrat hhs no no i get to say i'm an american said no no you don't no you don't you chose health care for all and health care for all means decisions for none you can't here's where you're gonna go you're gonna go to dm flanderson dm flanderson who the hell's that oh it's a guy who got uh he lost his medical license six years ago and he's no no but he's got availability i don't want to go to dm flanderson i don't i don't i don't want to go there man hey you signed up for health care for all which means decisions for none you you forfeited your health care right now listen i'm not telling you free market free enterprise employer-based insurance has all the answers either there were times when i was in the hospital and i was like you get that very same answer i'm not here to smoke you up you call up your insurance company i want to go to md anderson no no here's pb sanderson no no here's the difference i'm not telling you that's ideal either the difference is you can cancel your insurance plan get another one or you can maybe take a reduction in benefits and at least they'll pay for something the government you got no choice man you see what it's like when you don't do six minute abs and you tell people the hard truth they're smart don't discredit voters if you're running as a kind of old school swampy republican we got no message to run on we got no mess that you can take that roll it in a ball i jim's like be careful this is the it's not the podcast roll it in a ball we have to be careful i said this on the air this is like hardcore p1 material and we actually described the insertion let's just say and it did not go well we were apparently advised jim correct that there are words you can say like ass and elsewhere but you cannot say them in combined with other words like shovel without a you can't say that i did not know that at the time we found out the hard way so but you can take it roll it in a ball and shovel it right jim you can shovel shovel right shovel you get everybody like snow like like snow like snow like i was just about to go there too i can folks we have substance to run on i promise you the commies do not i'm going to prove it to you right now the democrats as i've asked you over the last couple days in the radio show in the podcast and elsewhere by the way if you want to ever check out the podcast live rumble.com slash bongino we're live every day 10 a.m join the chat we'd love to have you there we'd love to have you on radio too i asked the question if you see and the see their policies will it change your mind if the democrats in other words told you the truth about government health care for everyone that they're going to cancel your plan will it survive first contact with you and the answer is typically no the difference with the republicans running on the trump administration's results is we actually run on what we did we're not hiding anything we're out there we're like bragging about it hey here's what we did i'll prove it to you there is a post on x by rod d martin i think i follow i'm pretty sure i follow him this thing went crazy on x yesterday it was everywhere it's a long post and maybe that's the purpose of this it's titled trump's top 25 achievements the list every conservative should know and use it's 25 things that happened not that we're hiding that we're running on we don't have to go look for a message the president gave you a message here i'll just read a couple i can't read go during the break go and check it out yourself number one he made the board a real border again number three he signed the lake and riley act i'm skipping ahead because there's 25 i don't have time he signed the lake and riley act required detention of criminal illegal aliens for history's biggest drop in violent crime lowest violent crime rate in 126 years secured 18 trillion and announced investment commitments shifted global energy dominance from the persian gulf to gulf of america forced nato to stop freeloading and increase defense spending by 250 that's 21 ladies and gentlemen i only read one two three four five six there's 19 more to go don't do six-minute abs. Do the real world. you want abs you got to do the hard work here's the catch the president already did the hard work for you run it all you got to do is go and look we'll be right back with dan bongino you know this is one of those rare moments in the show where even though i have my lineup done my pre-production done did the podcast earlier at 10 a.m this morning so i have a general idea of where i want to go with the show i have so much to say i'm not really sure what the tip of the spear is first so let me i'll just take a shot at it first and jim keep me on track here first i want to just do a quick salute to our military because something happened this morning i saw something just i just thought of something and they they don't hear it enough they don't hear however much you think you can salute and honor our military it's not enough and something happened this morning made me think of that but second there's going to be a theme throughout today's show and i'm not trying to be um slick or smart about it i'm not not at all but i've been watching like many of you because it's a fascinating take on not just the law but our culture our our you know our legal system in general this lindsey clancy trial uh murder trial about the the mother and the and and i've been watching it for a long time i've been watching it for a long time i've been watching it for a long time i've been watching it for a long time i've been watching it for a long time i've been watching it for a long time i've been watching it for a long time i've been watching it for a long time there's something i've i saw on uh you ever see the movie a few good men you know yeah the jack nicholson tom cruise movie what's up i'm drawing up what's the famous you can't handle the yes yes thank you jim i'm trying like i had a neuronal uh dendrites uh nodes of rain for your meltdown here um you can't handle the truth but there's a there's a better line in that movie no yes there is there's a better line in that movie no yes there is there's a better line in that movie no yes there is an amazing line in that movie that applies to criminal trials that applies to the legal system that applies to politics and that applies to basically life in general and there's a line in the movie where tom cruise plays the lawyer defending these guys where again the facts aren't in dispute like the clancy case they're not disputing the fact that the woman killed her children no one's disputing the facts that's the same premise of the movie a few good men they're not disputing the fact that this this marine was attacked in his bed and died they're trying to dispute like the motive for legal reasons so he tom cruise says to demean more the other lawyer and was it kevin pollack he says listen you're you're making a big mistake his father was a lawyer he's in the movie at least his my father told me it's not about guilt or innocence it's finding someone to blame and i'm telling you like that line has resonated with me through decades because it's for as much as it pains me to say this that very same rule applies to politics too and the liberals have just mastered it socialists have just mastered this skill and republicans are hesitant to do it because they think for some reason that there's something unethical about it ah well you know blame game you know you did you you've probably been if you're a good conservative with good values instilled in you by your parents you were probably told you know don't blame other people take responsibility and yes and you're right you're right you're right you're right you're right you're right you're right you're right you're right you're right you're right you're right you're individual life that's correct but collectively as a people in this great country we call the united states we have problems we have to solve every day or attempt to solve an education crisis the cost of living the money supply university education getting expensive health care costs like these are legitimate problems and difficulties and the instinct is good conservative republicans is to not want to blame and just kind of what take the bull by the horns to steal a you know understand the tom cruise psychology from that movie though that people aren't looking for guilt or innocence they're looking for someone to blame that's where socialism candidly excels whatever problem you have rich people did it the white man did it or systemic discrimination did it even if the system in systemic discrimination is run by socialists like brandon johnson in chicago mom donnie in new york gavin newsom right jim like systemic discriminations they're they're the system but they don't care because they know the human impulse it's it's just foible we all of us we can be included we can't get rid of it when we there's an issue we need someone to blame for it socialists have mastered this it's why this idea infection called communism and socialism has survived for basically over a hundred years now because it just takes advantage of basic human psychology that you've got to find someone to buy the facts are not in dispute health care is sometimes inaccessible to people there are issues with insurance companies government health care costs these facts are not in dispute correct democrat or republican we both agree inflation's been a persistent problem democrats republicans the government debts a lot of profit those are not in dispute correct nobody's disputing those are facts so what's the issue the issue is who do you blame and republicans don't want to do it and i got to thinking this we're going to see this throughout the show today throughout the show today do this journey we're going to take over the next two hours you're going to see this pop up over and over and over again how the democrats and the socialists constantly beat us at this game and i thought about it in terms of this this trial regardless of the outcome the facts are not in dispute all you're hearing people talking about is people argue about is who to blame but the mom no she's not to blame she had postpartum psychosis any other people who are the other side well she is to blame she had options she could have done she could have killed herself but not killed the kids but didn't do that it's not an argument over facts it's an argument over who to blame because they know they're talking to a jury full of people and people that is how us as human beings that's how we think i'm going to get to more of this throughout the show today and tell you how it inconveniently is seeped into our system through a number of psychological manipulation operations that have now been exposed ladies and gentlemen everything i warned you about over the last six months that i've been back on the air and the last you know week or two been back on radio everything i've told you about is now being revealed i'm getting hundreds of communications through x and facebook tiktok emails from people who have our old email account i'm getting a ton of these from people who are saying to me dan you weren't kidding when you warned us when you came out be careful where you get your information this looks like an op if it looks like an op walks like an op and smells like an op it's an op forget the duck everything i told you is now being revealed i'm the same person i've been the whole time folks despite the black pill op and also have to destroy anyone in the trump administration for your own mercenary reasons none of it worked you swung your fist the show's just expanding everywhere it's because people know i'm the same guy always was everything i told you is now coming true let me get to that in a second but i don't want to forget this military uh salute i'm in the office this morning putting together the show and i had a whole idea of where i wanted to go with this and i thought to myself you know government screws up everything it just does government has no incentive to do anything right because it's not their money and they're not even spending it on themselves they're taking your money and spending it on themselves they're taking your money and spending it on themselves they're taking your people the milton friedman cost quality problem right the one thing government does do right however that you would think there would be a consensus with the democrats is we when when the right people are in charge i want to be the right government i.e the trump administration not the biden administration who could you know screw up making ice is when you get a good public safety national security focused president president trump does the military right law enforcement right and then the board is right the facts speak for themselves and ladies and gentlemen the greatness of our military i was going to cover a story and i'll get to it at some point bloomberg you know not michael bloomberg but bloomberg the outlet eponymously named outfit the media outlet doesn't like president trump at all they put out this article and x post basically acknowledging basically acknowledging that the straight is now effectively dominated by the united states now that that can't be right that can't be you were told by left-wing media that president trump was brought to his knees by the death to america iranians they were like cheering it on like barking seals yeah man yeah it was great but now it's starting to look like everything you've been told was an op again probably paid for by foreign overseas money to get you to believe that the united states sucks to vote against its interests and the iranians had somehow defeated us in the straight but even bloomberg's like there's oil flowing in the straight we own we own the straight now and you know why we own the straight because when you get a president in charge who cares about our nation's safety our borders public safety and our military our military kicks ass and takes names and it takes the names and throw them in the garbage we dominate our military our navy our marine our marines our air force army our coast guard our space force we dominate and there's a group of people out there in foreign countries that want you to believe the united states military sucks so you lose confidence in this country and it gets rotted from the inside out like a freaking cancer on the body politic not happening so that story was already in the show about how the united states for months now has been taking back the straight and all this talk of iranian mines in the straight there were some but the estimates were there were about 11 we were told there were upwards of 200 to maybe close to a thousand you know what they were they were garbage bags meant to look like mines and then we got rid of the 11 mines wait i thought we were getting our asses kicked by the iranians the left-wing media told you that you know what it must think the podcast today is called like it must have killed them to write this you know how much it must have killed bloomberg to have to put that into an article and tweet that yeah you know what president trump said about the straight was right as i'm putting that into the show this morning i look up on tv in my office here and i have it on mute and i'm watching fox and friends and steve ducey is doing a tour of the military academies at west point and man you see these young men and women just like tip-top shape incredibly articulate on camera some of these folks have never done an interview in media in their entire lives they were on camera bang bang bang folks i've had guests on shows i did when i was at fox guys who were 50 60 years old with a body of life experience you put them on camera they totally choke again i wish he was in here he remembers one of them i'm not even going to say it's not i'm not even going to say who but when i had my show on fox unfiltered there was this one guy we'd ask him for like hey man what you know what what what do you know about this subject and he sent over all these great things like talking points he got on camera the guy totally froze you put these military people in west point on camera bang bang bang bang done done yes yes he just you heard that he just popped out of the oven you remember right the guy totally choked the guy choked and he yeah i know you'll never forget i remember that you remember jim the guy meanwhile you put these 19 year old military studs out there on camera they're like yes this is what's going down we don't salute our military enough we don't salute our military enough you have this ongoing unpredictable kinetic action in iran war it's unpredictable by nature war is always unpredictable you're not the stygian witches no one can predict what the enemy is going to do give me the eye that's not the way it works you get a plan you adjust the plan they had an attack plan the iranians tried to pull a fast one in the straight and our amazing military comprised of some of those people you saw this morning on tv on fox and friends at west point they're like oh yeah you want to play ball we'll play ball mother can we say that jim on the air pretty sure we can we cannot we cannot right i think i'm pretty sure that's definitely one of the restricted words mothers we can do this the military's like you got a plan iranian death to america mullers we we got a plan too it's our straight now how's that sound you know president trump said last week i think i'll call it an american territory the straight super media was like remember that jim that is so crazy really who's laughing now who's laughing now that's due to our military these men and women for whatever they get paid nothing peanuts you go to west point you have to be super smart i know you know that these guys could go and become software engineers ai developers for a million dollars in stock options a year now they serve you they go and they kick ass and take names and i watched that this morning and i thought to myself you should get up every morning and thank god that people are willing to serve so that we can go out and drink pumpkins for the rest of our lives you can't thank these men and women enough i'm going to tell you on this show you are always on the if there's a pedestal you're on it you and the law enforcement folks i'll never forget being an instructor in our secret service academy i always picked a military guy to be the class president for the class i was uh teaching always because they just get it i'm going to tell you something i'll close with this nobody can compare with the military in making a good man great like the military nobody can make a bad man good they just become bad they're just they say nobody nobody not academia not sports nothing nobody excels in making a good man great like a military no one we'll be right back