12/4/25 - Unraveling the J6 Pipe Bomb Mystery: A Deep Dive

Summary

Mark Levin Podcast – "Unraveling the J6 Pipe Bomb Mystery: A Deep Dive"

Date: December 5, 2025
Host: Jim Verde (guest host for Mark Levin)
Podcast: Cumulus Podcast Network

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Episode Overview

This episode, hosted by Jim Verde in place of Mark Levin, centers around the recent break in the January 6th (J6) pipe bomb investigation—specifically the FBI’s arrest of a suspect after years of stagnation. The show provides a detailed, conservative-leaning analysis of the implications of this development, raises questions about the previous administration’s handling of evidence, explores the media’s role in shaping narratives, and segues into discussions on domestic policy issues such as immigration fraud, media manipulation, and congressional politics.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Arrest in the J6 Pipe Bomb Case

• Background:
  The alleged J6 pipe bomber was caught after four years of little visible progress. The case, which had appeared cold under FBI Director Christopher Wray, was a focus for Dan Bongino, now Deputy Director, and Director Cash Patel, who reprioritized it when appointed under the Trump administration.

• Suspect Details:

  • Brian Cole, from Virginia, identified via forensic evidence, videos (distinctive shoes), and cell phone data.
  • Characterized by family and neighbors as autistic, antisocial, and naive; his grandmother denied his capability for such acts.

Notable Quote:

"This was one of the most important scandals in American history... If these bombs were actually set out there, this would count as an assassination attempt on the incoming vice president."
— Jim Verde [03:01]

Timestamp Highlights:

• [01:46] Introduction of the J6 bomber news and its significance
• [04:25] Questioning why Kamala Harris was at the DNC near the bomb site

2. The Investigation’s Dramatic Breakthrough

• Breakthrough Attribution:
  • Bongino & Patel’s team used existing, unacted-upon FBI evidence (cell data, transaction records) to identify the suspect.
  • No new tips—just methodical review of previously shelved evidence.

Notable Quotes:

"Let me be clear. There was no new tip. There was no new witness. Just good diligent police work."
— Pam Bondi (statement read by Verde) [08:46]

"We did not discover any new information ... the prior administration refused and failed to do [the basics]."
— Cash Patel (audio) [10:27–10:57]

Timestamp Highlights:

• [09:51] Emphasis that the Biden-era FBI sat on crucial evidence

3. The Significance of Kamala Harris’s Whereabouts

• The show repeatedly raises the question of why VP-elect Kamala Harris was at the DNC, parked in the garage near the device, and why there was little subsequent discussion about her proximity to a potential assassination attempt.

Notable Quote:

"Why was she at the DNC when the pipe bombs were discovered? I believe they even had a lockdown and wouldn't let anybody leave."
— Jim Verde [28:32]

• Pam Bondi is asked by reporter Mary Margaret Olihan about this curiosity but offers no substantive explanation.
• The implication is that the story is far from over and more revelations may come.

4. FBI and DOJ Accountability

• The show criticizes the FBI under Wray and the Biden administration for, in their view, neglecting clear investigative leads and potentially stalling for political reasons.
• Revelations include that cellphone location data and purchase records matching bomb components sat for years without action.

Notable Quote:

"Ray's FBI had this information and sat on it for four years."
— Jim Verde [28:17]

5. The Media’s Role & Narrative Shaping

• Verde pivots to dissect how Democrats and the media shift public focus and reframe ongoing stories (e.g., Pete Hegseth’s alleged "war crime" controversy).
• Explains the "news cycle manipulation": when one narrative fails or backfires (e.g., the shutdown, health care, Epstein), another is quickly pushed to keep the focus away from positive coverage of conservatives or damaging stories for Democrats.

Timestamp Highlights:

• [44:02] Introduction of the Pete Hegseth war crime narrative as the latest media cycle event
• [61:24] Detail on "how to unsee the media’s playbook"

Notable Quote:

"Once you see it, you can't unsee it. Once you hear it, you can't unhear it."
— Jim Verde [20:06]

6. Immigration Fraud & the Somali Community in Minnesota

• The latter part of the episode investigates the "Feeding Our Future" fraud scandal in Minnesota, largely involving Somali immigrants.
• Verde and callers criticize officials—including Rep. Ilhan Omar, Governor Tim Walz, and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey—for enabling fraud and downplaying its impact.
• Discussion on integrating immigrants and the cultural implications for American identity.

Notable Quotes:

"They're looting your taxpayer programs ... These are the kind of people that are in charge."
— Jim Verde [101:24]

"She's not American in the sense of what being American is. It's always Somalia first with her."
— Jim Verde [101:45]

Timestamp Highlights:

• [84:24] Minneapolis discussed as "Little Mogadishu", new Somali-like state flag
• [92:25] Exchanges on state/federal responsibility in fraud oversight

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Notable Segments & Quotes with Timestamps

• [03:01] Verde: Importance of the J6 pipe bomb case in history and questions on Kamala Harris's presence at DNC
• [09:51] Bondi (via Verde): "There was no new tip. This was just good diligent police work..."
• [10:27] Cash Patel: "We did not discover any new information... [We] re-examined every piece of evidence..."
• [28:17] Verde: Criticism of the FBI for sitting on key evidence (cell phone data)
• [44:02] Verde: Transition to Pete Hegseth war crime claims and cycle of narrative manipulation
• [61:24] Verde: The playbook for media/Democratic manipulation of the news
• [84:24] Verde: Analysis of Minneapolis’ transformation and Somali community political influence
• [101:45] Verde: On Ilhan Omar and American identity

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Memorable Moments

• A recurring theme of skepticism toward media, the FBI, and the motivations of Democratic officials.
• Calls from listeners voicing concern about government/media collusion and historical context for government controls over media (e.g., NDAA changes, [35:56]) and comparisons between Somali communities in Minnesota and Maine ([113:03]).
• Repeated references to the Bongino Rule: "Wait 48–72 hours after a breaking news story before passing judgment, because all the information will change." ([71:16])

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Tone and Language

The tone throughout is urgent, direct, and often conspiratorial—consistent with Mark Levin’s usual style, but with Jim Verde’s personal touch and frequent references to his close relationship with Dan Bongino and other conservative personalities. Guests and callers are supportive and share the host’s skepticism of government and media. Language is direct, informal, and includes sarcastic jabs at political opponents.

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Summary

This episode is a comprehensive, highly opinionated, and sometimes speculative exploration of the J6 pipe bomb investigation breakthrough and a broader critique of perceived government and media failures. It positions the Trump administration’s appointees as the ones who finally acted, raises fresh and controversial questions about Kamala Harris and investigative priorities, and ends with a wide-ranging, critical deeper dive into immigration fraud, culture, and American identity. Throughout, it educates listeners on the importance of skepticism and media awareness.

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For listeners seeking deep background on conservative skepticism about both the J6 investigation and American institutions, this episode is revealing and sets the stage for ongoing controversy and more developments to come.

Transcript

[Mark Levin]

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[Jim Verde]

He's here. He's here.

Now. Broadcasting from the underground command post deep in the bowels of a hidden bunker.

[Mark Levin]

Somewhere under to the brick and steel.

[Jim Verde]

Of a nondescript building, we've once again made contact with our leader, Mark Levin.

It is the MARK Levin show. Good evening, America. My name is Jim Verie. I am filling in for Mark tonight.

877-381-3811 is the number if you want to get on. Would love to talk to you. So much to talk to you about tonight. We who am I? You're probably asking. Well, if you're not familiar with me, I am V. I am the primary guest host and producer for the Vince show with Vince Colonnades and formerly the primary guest host and producer for the Dan Bongino radio show. Dan, a very good friend of mine and Dan and Cash both in the news today with some very, very big news. So you may have heard the January 5th 6th pipe bomb suspect has been caught by the FBI. Why is this important? This is a very important story for a lot of reasons, because the pipe bomb.

I guess you would call it, scandal, it's kind of a scandal because nothing has been done about it for years. We know today the Biden administration had this information. The Biden FBI had this information and sat on it for four years. Now, when Dan Bongino and Cash Patel got in there, this was something that Dan had talked about for years on the radio.

I spent four years with Dan doing this radio show. And this near the end, this was one of his primary concerns. And I know when we talked about this, as he was getting ready to go in the FBI, this was one of the things that he really wanted to solve because this is one of the most important scandals in American history. It goes to the 2020 election. With so many questions around that election and this being one of them, it's important because if these bombs were actually set out there by this individual, this would count as an assassination attempt on the incoming vice president of the United States.

Yet nobody seems to want to talk about that. It's amazing. You would think if the incoming vice president of the United States had an attempt on her life.

That the Biden administration would have been curious about who this person was and putting them away in jail just like they did hundreds of trespassers on the Capitol on January 6th. You would think that they would have been interested in this. You would have thought that this was a big case that they had to crack. Somebody tried to kill Kamala Harris. But there's questions about that as well.

Why? And these are questions that Dan had asked previously to going into the FBI. Why is it on the biggest day of her life, when she's about to be sworn in as the Vice President of the United States, why was Kamala Harris at the DNC.

Rather than at the Capitol? And she had driven there that morning. As a matter of fact, her car went into the parking garage right next to where this alleged bomb was.

Why was she there?

And why isn't anybody making a bigger deal out of it? Well, we're going to find out the answers to questions like this because in addressing the arrest today, Pam Bondi, Cash Patel, Dan Bongino all said this is not the end of the case. This is not the end. This is the beginning. So they have the guy that they wanted. They were able to find him using forensic evidence and piecing together clues that they already had. This was stuff in the FBI's possession under Christopher Wray for four years. And then they pieced it all together and were able to figure out who this guy was.

Darren Cox is the assistant agent in charge for the Washington D.C. office. And Dan assigned him this job.

Together they worked this whole thing and were able to finally put it together and get a suspect. New York Post Brian Cole of Virginia identified as D.C. pipe bomb suspect according to sources.

So you may remember there's a video going around showed him carrying a backpack, wearing a gray hoodie, sweatshirt, mask. He had gloves. They identified his shoes down to the fact that they were Nike Air, Max Speed and turf sneakers. So the devices again were found the following afternoon, allegedly planted late, late at night. And this was just as Congress is another question. The timing here. This was just as Congress was convening to count the 2020 electoral votes to certify that Joe Biden was president and Kamala Harris was vice president.

So right around that time.

That these devices were discovered.

That'S when the riot broke out on on the Capitol grounds.

There's a lot of pieces to this puzzle that have yet to be put together. And this arrest may be starting the unraveling of everything that we knew there. Now, of course, what we know about this individual so far. His grandmother says her name is Loretta and she was very, very upset, as you would imagine she would be. She denied his involvement. She described him as autistic, like with no political leanings. She says he doesn't understand a lot of stuff. I hope he's not talking, she told the New York Post in an interview. He's very naive. He would not hurt a fly. He's just not that kind of a person. I don't believe this at all. He's not a terrorist. According to his grandmother. She said that he works at their family bail bonds company, Brian Cole Bail Bonds, which was raided by the FBI. Neighbors outside the suburban Woodbridge, Virginia, home that was raided this morning as well said he shunned social interactions and often walked a Chihuahua to a local 7 11. A neighbor told the Post that he's very antisocial. So that's what we know about him right now.

But we do know that the forensic evidence has been released in a court filing, and I'm going to read some of that in a minute. But first, let's hear from Pam Bondi as she describes what happened leading to this arrest. Today's arrest happened because the Trump administration has made this case a priority. The total lack of movement on this case in our nation's capital undermined the public trust of our enforcement agencies. This cold case languished for four years until Director Patel and Deputy Director Bongino came to the FBI. The FBI, along with U.S. attorney Pirro and all of our prosecutors, have worked tirelessly for months, sifting through evidence that had been sitting at the FBI with the Biden administration for four long years. Let me be clear. There was no new tip. There was no new witness. Just good diligent police work and prosecutorial work. Working as a team along with atf, Capitol Police, Metropolitan Police Department, and of course, the FBI. We are working every day to restore the public's trust. We hope that today is a significant step towards that progress. We'll share more information when we can and when it unfolds. Now, the key there is no new tip. So this information is information that the FBI had.

That's a key.

The Biden administration did not want to find out who this person was that planted these pipe bombs, these alleged pipe bombs. I will still stand by that.

Or did they know and they didn't want anybody else to know? These are the questions.

These are the questions that need to be answered.

Cash Patel also was taking a victory lap on the work that his team that he put together did.

[Mark Levin]

We did not discover any new information. What we did an investigation spearheaded by the deputy director and the ADIC of.

[Jim Verde]

Our Washington field office, brought in a.

[Mark Levin]

New team of investigators and experts, re.

[Jim Verde]

Examined every piece of evidence, sifted through all the data, something that the prior.

[Mark Levin]

Administration refused and failed to do. As a result of that, we generated numerous investigative leads, executed multiple legal process with their U.S. attorney partners and came to this conclusion today.

[Jim Verde]

And that is why we were able.

[Mark Levin]

To safely secure this individual into custody.

[Jim Verde]

Remember, we are dealing with an individual.

[Mark Levin]

Who is alleged to have made bombs. We cannot do this sort of takedown in haste because it endangers the lives of law enforcement. And this FBI will never allow the lives of law enforcement and our prosecutors to be put in jeopardy. This execution was flawless in terms of.

[Jim Verde]

Teamwork, resilience, and just a good old.

[Mark Levin]

Fashioned way of police getting the job done.

[Jim Verde]

When you let good cops be cops.

[Mark Levin]

This is what happens.

[Jim Verde]

This is another key to remember too, that.

Not only did they have the.

[Mark Levin]

Information.

[Jim Verde]

But and not only was nothing done about it, but they were, they, they had worked hard. There's a lot of naysayers out there. There's plenty of naysayers. If you see them on social media, you know who they are. Some of them are disgruntled former members of, of the FBI and there's still disgruntled members in the FBI. This is what they've been up against. And a lot of people don't understand this. Why isn't anything happen happening? Because you can't just throw something together and hope that it sticks, hope that it works. We just saw this with James Comey and Letitia James having their indictments thrown out. Now, hopefully they're going to be filed again. But that's why you have to get these cases all in line. That's why it's taking so much time.

I trust, because I know both of these men. I know Cash Patel well. I know Dan Bongino very well. I trust them implicitly. I do. And I know they're doing the best job to get the answers that you want. And here's another key to remember. You will get answers from these men. You will get answers from this Department of Justice. Sometimes they're not going to be the answers you want. And that's a key to remember. I want to play what Dan had to say for you and a couple of really good questions from the press conference right after this. It's Jim Verde in for Mark Levin on the Mark Levin Show.

[Mark Levin]

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[Jim Verde]

Ah, yes, the holiday season. I love the holidays. Hi, Jim Verde in for Mark Levin tonight. If you would like to comment, you can give us a call, 877-381-3811 or you can reach me on Twitter at Truth Social or X. I'm sorry, it's X now. I am at JJ Verde at JJVerdi. If you're not familiar with me, I work with Vince on the Vince Show, Vince Colonnade's. I used to produce Dan Bongino's radio show as well. And Dan was at the press conference today. Now, this was highly unusual and another reason that you know that this pipe bomb thing is a huge deal, because the deputy director never really steps in. And actually, if you've noticed, you will notice that in many of the press conferences and many of the interviews that Cash Patel is always out front and making the comments and informing the public about whatever needs to be informed about. Dan is behind the scenes. He's working these cases. He's working with the agents. He's the one working the FBI.

Well, when they finally solved this case, somebody had asked him, what was the moment that you knew that you had him? And Dan described that I was smiling at you because I certainly remember the moment. Garon remembers it, too. He said, are you sitting down? Called me on the phone. I said, oh, boy, why is this bad news?

And he said, said, I think we got him. What exactly that tip was. We're going to have to pass on that for right now while we're still there's. Obviously we're in the prologue of a long book. This is just the beginning. This is not the end of the investigation, as you all well know. Haven't reported on these for a long time. There's interviews to be conducted. The search warrant processing scene is not even done. So we're at the early stages. So that's the only reason. I hesitate to tell you what the exact tip was. But, yes, that was absolutely the moment. And it was due to the diligent and incredible work of a team in the Washington field office that came in and just scoured through this over and over and over and over again. In general, was it forensic? Was it a phone call? Was it something about a vehicle? I'd rather we'll just leave it. Generally forensic evidence. Yeah, it's fair enough to say. All right. I know people are going to get frustrated because you're not getting all the answers and everything's not coming out now. And the reason that is is because I'm telling you, there's way more to the story. Dan said earlier as well that this is just the beginning. This is not the end of the case. This is the beginning because think about this.

If they got this guy.

Who else is involved? And was there any involvement coordinated with the government? Again, I asked the question, why was Kamala Harris at the dnc?

Was it to be there because somebody knew that pipe bombs were going to be found outside the DNC and the rnc? Is that possible?

Is it because.

There was a coordinate that nobody expected a riot to break out at the Capitol? And that's why they just kind of let this go and didn't want to find out anymore, but they had it. We're going with plan A, plan B. It's all possible. But Dan, again, in personal conversations, we talked about this often. He was not going to let this get away. Folks, you're not going to walk into our capital city, put down two explosive devices and walk off in the sunset. Not gonna happen. We were gonna track this person to the end of the earth. There was no way he was getting away. Well, we didn't have to track him to the end of the earth. They wound up in Woodbridge, Virginia. They didn't have to track him. They got their man. And I've got more for you. I'm gonna go into the evidence that they have. All that coming up and more. It's Jim Verde in for Mark Levine.

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[Mark Levin]

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[Jim Verde]

It's Jim Verde in for Mark Levin. Thanks for joining me tonight. Mark will be back tomorrow for sure, but you got me tonight. And I'm going to take you a ride on a lot of different things that are going on. We're going to be talking about this whole media frame up of Pete Hegseth and how they're trying to take him out. I want to break down this whole media narrative and how the Democrats have learned how to control the media cycle finally, in the age of Trump. I'm going to break all that down. You got, you got to hear this. It's because once you, once you see it, you can't unsee it. Once you hear it, you can't unhear it. And you'll be on to exactly what they're doing. I want to get to that and more. President Trump right now with Melania outside in Washington, D.C. for the National Christmas tree lighting. So the holiday season in full gear. It was the holiday. And speaking of holidays, it's Deputy Director Dan Bongino's birthday today. So happy birthday, Dan. You did have one of the happiest birthdays because he wanted so bad to find out who the pipe bomber was. And he found him today on his birthday. It's awesome. So listen to this. Chris Ray and his FBI sat on this information for four years. And Chris Ray, this is a flashback going to 2023, acted like he didn't know anything about this. They didn't have any information. Here's questioning from Thomas Massie and here's Christopher Wray. Well, again, I don't want to speculate about specific individuals.

[Mark Levin]

I will tell you that we have done thousands of interviews, reviewed something like 40,000 video files of which this is.

[Jim Verde]

One says 500 something tips. Have you interviewed that person? We, we have conducted all logical investigative steps and interviewed all logical individuals. At this point, then you need 900 days, you need to tell us what you found because we're finding stuff you haven't released into the. So did you hear what he said there? They've interviewed everybody that they could possibly interview. They've gone through every bit of information that they could have and they have Nothing. This was 900 days after it had happened.

That was a lie because the information that was uncovered today was there. That's how they found this guy.

Jeanine Pirro.

Laid out the evidence that they found that Chris Wray said, I went through everything and there was nothing there. This is what they found. And she also lays out what the odds were of them being able to find this guy. Listen to this. This case involved millions of pieces of data and it is a huge win because it was like finding a needle in a haystack. So much of this evidence was very specific, but a lot of it was also very general. For example, there were 233,000 black end caps of the type that were used in this case. I want you to think about the fact that the FBI had to go through the sale of every one of them to try to find commonality with an individual. Along with the purchase of the pipe itself, the cap ends, the wires, the steel and the 9 volt batteries, every one of those had to be mined and remined to the point where we were able to then connect. And make no mistake, it was this administration, it was this president who made the decision that we were going to use all of our efforts to get it done. And, and get it done. They did. Why did it take 10 months? Nothing is happening. The whole nothing is happening crowd, the naysayers that are on social media and all those sycophants that follow them, you know, nothing is happening, nothing's getting done. Did you hear what just had to be done to be able to find this guy? They had to go through the sale of all the end caps that they found, all the pieces of wire that they found, track that down, where they, where they were, who, who bought them.

James lynch is on X and he posted the court filing and in the court filing, we See Cole's purchasing again, the name the. The pipe bomber's name. Alleged pipe bomber's name right now is Brian Cole. Kohl's purchases of bomb making equipment. The FBI identified one bank checking account and six credit cards used by Kohl. The FBI obtained records for the checking account and three credit cards for the time period between January 2018 to January 2021. Three additional credit cards were obtained for the time period of January 2018 to November 2025. The FBI reviewed the transaction history for all of these accounts. Think about that. That's a lot of work to find out what wires you bought and where you bought them from to match up to the pipe bombs that they had recovered from these sites. During 2019-2020, CoAL purchased multiple items consistent with the components that were used to manufacture the pipe bombs placed at the RNC and dnc. Coal used the accounts to purchase these items from physical retail locations in Northern Virginia, as described in more detail below. And I'm not going to get into the whole thing, but here's another piece of the puzzle. Now. If you've seen the video, you can go online and see it anywhere. Just look for January 6th, January 5th, pipe bomber video. And you'll see this person in this grainy video walking around. They have a hoodie on, looks like they have a backpack, and they're just kind of wandering from place to place. There's a couple of times where they're on the telephone and you're wondering, well, where are the cell phone records? Everybody's been wondering that for years. Where are the cell phone records? Well, guess what? Apparently the FBI under Christopher Wray had the cell phone records. Also, from the court filing, provider records show that the cold cell phone connected with provider cell phone towers, consistent with the Cole cell phone being in the area of the RNC and DNC on January 5th, 2021. Amazing. And they. Wait. Chris Wray and his FBI had that information and they couldn't put that together? Is that what he expects us to believe? Oh, there's more. The Cole cell phone engaged in approximately seven data sessions transactions with Provider Towers between 7:39pm and 8:24pm Provider's historical sell side data shows the specific tower for each of these transactions along with the sector the tower that engaged in the transaction with Cole's cell phone. The seven transactions between Cole's cell phone and the provider's tower occurred at approximately. Listen, they had all of this. 7:39pm, 7:44pm, 7:59pm, 8:14pm, 8:23 and 8:24pm.

During this time period, the Cole cell phone had transit transactions with five different sectors on provider cell towers. That's because he kept walking from place to place. But they were all around the RNC and dnc.

Ray's FBI had this information and sat on it for four years. And now the FBI meticulously put everything together to figure this out. And again, why is this important?

Because Kamala Harris, I will remind you again, was at the DNC when the pipe bombs were discovered. I believe they even had a lockdown and wouldn't let anybody leave.

So this was could be considered an assassination attempt on the incoming Vice President of the United States. We don't know why she was at the dnc, but the great reporter for Daily Wire, Mary Margaret Olihan, actually asked Pam Bondi about this important piece of information about Kamala Harris being at the dnc. Any theory on why Kamala Harris has never mentioned coming within 20ft of being assassinated? And any news on why her Secret Service team took so long to find this bomb at the dnc? No, but what I will tell you is that evidence has been sitting there collecting dust. This wasn't a new tip. It wasn't some new evidence. It was the hard work of President Trump's administration.

Deputy Director Bongino, and Director Patel. I watched them from day one come in here and say, we are going to solve this crime. And they did, working hand in hand with U.S. attorney Pirro and all of our great attorneys. Now, the problem with that is she kind of just glosses over what the question was. You know, why is it that Kamala Harris was at the DNC on the verge of being killed, and nobody has an answer to this question? This is a very, very important question that needs to be answered.

It's crucial.

I will remind you again.

That this.

This story is only beginning. I think we're going to find the answers to these questions. I will remind you again. You want to know why it took so long. This is why it took so long.

I know Dan's asking these questions because Dan on the radio and on his podcast had asked these very questions. Why was she at the dnc? This is the biggest day of her life. She's about to be certified as the first female.

We'll throw it in because they do like to check all the boxes. The first female of color, Vice President of the United States. And instead of being at the Capitol, she's over. She's over at the DNC for some reason, a reason nobody's ever said, and then nobody seems to care that apparently somebody had tried to kill her.

We're going to be getting more to this story. I promise you. There's more coming. There's more questions that have to be answered.

I want to take a break on the other side. I'll wrap this up here. And then we're going to get into the Pete Hegset scam. The whole media creation, the media.

The way the media is manipulating the news cycles now. And it's an operation designed to get you to think certain things that you don't need to be thinking because they're trying to get you off of the scent of what's really happening. They're also trying to get you to ignore all the good things that the president is doing. My name is Jim Verde. I'm in for Mark Levin. We'll be right back.

[Mark Levin]

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[Jim Verde]

Good evening. It's Jim Verdian for Mark Levin. Mark will be back tomorrow. Have no worries. But stay along for the ride tonight. I got a great show planned for you the rest of the way tonight. And some breaking news right now to report to you. So, massive victory at the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court upholds Texas's 2026 congressional redistricting map in a 6, 3 ruling. So you may have heard that a judge, of course, another federal judge got in the way, said the map was illegal, and they rushed it up to the Supreme Court. And the Supreme Court says, no, it is legal. So this is a huge win. I will look. I'm going to look at the court filing on that and the opinions during the next break, which I'll have a little bit of time and be able to break it down a little bit further for you. But right now, just on its face, excellent news that it looks like we're going to pick up five seats in Texas, which is where I am, by the way. So I love it even extra, you know, it's a Republican state. We got to keep it Republican. All right, a couple of you would like to talk about this whole pipe bomber case. Let's go to Mike in Gainesville, Virginia. Mike, you're on the radio.

Hey, Jim, thanks for having me on the air. You got it. What's up? Can you hear me all right? Yes, sir. Yeah, I think Bondi's messed up this charging document. Both of the charges require that these explosives actually be explosive. They might not be explosive. So then the charges fall apart. I don't know why they didn't charge him with terrorism. Well, I mean, you make a good point, though. But according to the again, this was Ray's FBI. And I know I talked about Ray's FBI before, but according to the FBI, they were explosive devices. And in the press conference today, they did insist that these were explosive devices. So don't, don't worry and don't look just primarily about what was charged today, Mike. Look at what's coming. There's going to be more coming. There's going to be more people, there's going to be more information. And I think that's the key. The key. So fear not. I think everything is going to be okay. Let's talk to, well, speaking of Texas, let's go to Jerry. Jerry in El Paso. You're on the, you're on the radio with Jim Verde in for Mark Levin. What's up?

Hi, Jim.

Yes, sir. What's going on? Okay, first off, the reason why the government is able to convince the news outlets is because of the 2013. Barack Obama eliminated the fifth mundane act of 1948. After World War II, Congress was so worried about propaganda, they passed an act that had to deal with education and information that they distributed out to other nations, things like Radio Free Europe and such like that. And they said you cannot do the same thing in the United States. Barack Obama under the National Defense Authorization act of 2013, disseminated that. And now our people in government, how our press, what to say and they probably paying them.

I, I don't know. I mean, I don't know if that has anything to do necessarily with this specific thing right here. I think that's a totally, it's totally different. I think the bigger story is, is a story that the FBI had this information and for some reason pretended that they didn't have it or didn't do the work required to be able to find out what exactly was going on. They didn't seem interested in finding the answer to who this person was, even though they made a big deal about it at the time. And I'll go and say it again, think there's some, there's a connection between this and then when the riot started and this being swept under the rug and never to be spoken of again. That's what, that's what I think is happening here. That's exactly what I think is happening. But they did that because the NDA act of Obama, the other shoes haven't dropped. And Dance said.

This is the beginning, not, not the end of this. There's definitely more coming. Okay, I've got more coming for you next hour. I want to break down how the media is manipulating the news cycle and what you need to watch for, you can see it yourself and you'll see it in real time. And you will remember, you will remember this. And when you're watching the news, you'll watch it differently. I'm also going to break down this whole thing with Ilhan Omar and let you know about this whole Somali culture and what we're importing into the United States of America. That's coming up, too. It's Jim Verde in for Mark Levin on the Mark Levin Show.

[Mark Levin]

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Good evening, America. I am Jim Verde in for Mark Levin tonight. You can give us a call, 877-381-3811. I would love to talk to you. In case you're not familiar with me, I produce and I'm the primary fill in for Vince Colonnades on the Vince show, the former producer of the Dan Bongino radio show as well.

So I'm glad to be here with you tonight. All right. I told you before the break There was some breaking news and it's excellent breaking news. The Supreme Court has found that the district map that was thrown out by a district court.

Is actually a good map and that Texas can use this for redistricting purposes, which potentially gives Texas the opportunity to pick up five extra seats in the midterm elections, which would be fantastic. So according to the ruling here based on and it was a 6:3 decision, guess who the three were? The dissented. Yeah, of course. Who do you expect? Kagan, Sotomayor and Jackson.

The majority says though, however, based on our preliminary evaluation of the case, Texas satisfies the traditional criteria for interim relief. Texas is likely to succeed on the merits of its claim that the district court committed at least two serious errors. First, the district court failed to honor the presumption of legislative good faith by constructing ambiguous direct and circumstantial evidence against the legislature. Second, the district court failed to draw a dispositive or near dispositive adverse interference against the respondents. So that was. That's what they had to say. Well, it didn't seem like they did anything wrong. But of course the dissenters guess where it's going to go. I'll give you three guesses. The first two don't count. Racism. Yes, of course. That's what it goes to. Justin Kagan writes with whom Sotomayor and Jackson join. Over the course of the three month a three judge district court in Texas. Three judge district court. There you go. Undertook to resolve the factual dispute at issue in the application. In enacting an electoral map slanted towards Republicans, did Texas predominantly use a race, not use a race, use race to draw its new district lines or said otherwise. Did Texas accomplish its partisan objectives by means of a racial gerrymander? Oh, no. The district court conducted a nine day hearing involving testimony a nearly two. I love this. Listen to this. This is close. You have to listen. Two dozen witnesses and the introduction of thousands of exhibits. It sifted through the resulting factual record spanning some 3,000 pages and assessed with credibility of each of the witnesses it had seen and heard in the courtroom. And after considering the evidence, it held that the answer was clear. Texas largely divided its citizens along racial lines to create its new pro Republican House map. So that's it. It's racism. That's what. That's their thing, racism. It always goes down to some kind of box checking is what it is. They're trying to do this and it doesn't pass the smell test at all. They're actually. It was. They were redistricting districts that were composed because of race. It was completely the opposite of what Kagan, Sotomayor and Jackson are claiming.

So that's great news. Texas GOP redistricting map will proceed for now. For now, again, I think this is just a temporary stay. So we can only hope that this is, that this is good. All right, now I want to get into the medium manipulation of the news cycle, and you're witnessing the tail end of it now, or I shouldn't say the tail end because that would insinuate that it's ending. It's not ending, but the latest in this news cycle ownership battle is the Pete Hegseth drama.

The Democrats are trying to.

Basically get Hegseth to either resign or have Trump fire him because he allegedly committed a war crime on a September 2 strike of a boat carrying drugs and two narco terrorists.

So they're saying that the original strike. This is some of the most ridiculous stuff I've ever heard in my life. They're saying that the strike was illegal because when they hit the boat and the boat exploded, the two passengers, the narco terrorists, were in the water and they were clinging to the boat because they weren't dead, they were still alive. But so that entitled them to actually get rescued rather than a second strike.

Happening to finish the job that it was doing. That's what's going on. That's what the Democrats are all claiming. They're all up in arms over this. Well, it turns out they talked to the admiral in charge of making the strike today, and apparently that's not what happened at all. Tom Cotton explains after the meeting with the admiral today, the first strike, the second strike, and the third and the fourth strike on September 2nd were entirely lawful and needful. I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat loaded with drugs down for the United States back over so they could stay in the fight. And potentially, given all the context, we heard of other narco terrorist boats in the area coming to their aid to recover their cargo and recover those narco terrorists. So Jim Himes is a Democrat and the ranking Democrat on this committee that heard the testimony today, and he came out the other day and was very concerned that a war crime was committed, which, you know, technically, we're not technically at war, so it can't possibly be a war crime. Now, there is something called crimes against humanity, and maybe that's what they can allegedly charge Pete Hes with. But we don't follow international law anyway, so it doesn't matter. International law doesn't matter to the United States of America. American law matters. But Himes was insisting that Pete Hexeth committed a war crime. After he heard the testimony today, he had a different story. The admiral confirmed that there had not been a kill them all order and that there was not an order to grant no quarter. So does it exonerate Hexagon?

He didn't want to say exonerate as he's walking away. He didn't want to say it would exonerate Hegset. There's. There's no way they can get away with that. But this is the most ridiculous argument that you can think of. So you have these narco terrorists in a boat with drugs that are going to kill Americans. 25, I think Trump said 25,000 a day are being saved by these boats being blown up. And again, the media and the Democrats were saying, or trying to contend that it was a fishing boat. It was a fishing vessel. I don't know how much you know about boats. I don't know a lot. I have one at home, a little aluminum boat. I don't even hardly. I don't even take it out. It's got a little 50 motor, 50 Merc on the back. It's a nice little powerful engine if you're going to go fishing. Not overly powerful, but not huge. I think this boat that was blown up had like three 200 horsepower engines on it. It was three or four. You don't need that much to go fishing. I guarantee you that. There are no even commercial fishermen that don't have that. I've seen Deadliest Catch. They now though that's a powerful engine and they need it because they're in the Bering Sea. All right, I digress, anyway. But they're trying to contend that this was a fishing vessel and they weren't even narco terrorists. Now, there's a guy named Wade Miller on X. And J.D. vance actually reposted this because if you think about this, this doesn't make any sense at all. So if you don't kill them right away, and you know you're doing a military strike, you're claiming this is a narco terrorist organization, the cartel, and you're trying to take out people that are potentially trying to kill Americans. You're telling me if you don't kill him on the first strike, that's it? That's all you get? That's the most ridiculous way to approach warfare I've ever heard in my entire life. Wade Miller here, who J.D. vance reposted this. This is on X. He says Again, on a routine basis. AC130 gunships and Apache helicopters would routinely use infrared optics to target groups of Taliban in the mountains. The cannons would devastate groups of Taliban from a distance. After the first hits, Taliban would scatter, drop weapons and run. Our pilots would methodically hunt them all down and destroy them. They are terrorists. No one claimed this was illegal. Even though the footage has been widely available for a long time now, it's functionally no different. The only difference is woke leftists want to elevate defending cartels above national security because it serves their political interests.

Now, for years, people have been talking about the drug war and fighting the drug war. Donald Trump is actually fighting the drug war. He's taking it to the cartels. It's a hard thing to do because you can't get them on land in Mexico right now anyway. You know, there's no telling what other plans that he has, what other methods of operation we can use to be able to handle these people in Mexico or Venezuela or Colombia.

But Donald Trump, make no mistake, is fighting this war because it's killing hundreds of thousands of Americans a year.

And with fentanyl, it's killing people who aren't even necessarily habitual drug users. It's killing innocent kids who maybe take a pill not knowing what's in it to try and study for a college exam.

This is all being done on purpose. Make no mistake. They're at war with us and we're fighting the war back. And the Democrats can't handle it. Another 8020 issue they're on the wrong side of. I've got more on this story and then the story about the media manipulation that you won't be able to unsee. That's coming up next. I'm Jim Verde. Inform Mark Levin. We'll be right back.

[Mark Levin]

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[Jim Verde]

Good evening. Jim Verde in for March Levin tonight. Mark will be back tomorrow. We've been talking about the Pete Hegset. We were talking about that the last segment. PETE Hegseth Democrats are really trying to get him either to resign for Trump to fire him, or they would have no hesitation about bringing him up for charges for war crimes. That's, that's what's going on. This all started, too now with the Washington Post claiming that Pete Hegseth had committed war crimes. It says here on November 28th. And in their story, hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say kill them all. As two men clung to stricken burning ship targeted by SEAL Team 6, the Joint Special operations commander followed the defense secretary's order to leave no survivors. Well, as we know now, as we've learned that the admiral backed up Pete Hegseth story which said he ordered the strike, there was no kill them all order, and that the admiral acted as he saw fit in performing his second, third and fourth strike to make sure the target was eliminated. And that's exactly what happened.

When even the New York Times calls you out, you know you have a problem.

So it says here in the New York Times, Hegseth ordered a lethal attack, but not the killing of survivors. Officials say amid talk of war crimes, the details and precise sequence of a September 2nd attack on a boat in the Caribbean are facing intensifying scrutiny. But each official said Mr. Hegset's directive did not specifically address what should happen if a first missile turned out not to fully accomplish all of those things. And the official said his order was not a response to surveillance footage showing that at least two people on the boat survived the first blast. We talked about that just a few minutes ago. It's a ridiculous concept to think if they survive the first blast. If you're in war, if you're on a battlefield and you throw a grenade and it does not kill your intended target at that point, you are not required to go give them aid right then. No, you're not. That's not how war works.

So even Martha Raditz In ABC News had to admit.

That Pete Hegseth did not give an order.

To strike these people while they were in the water. Instead of rendering aid, here's Martha Raddatz on abc. And tonight, new information. According to a source familiar with the incident, the two survivors climbed back onto the boat after the initial strike. They were believed to be potentially in communication with with others and salvaging some of the drugs. Because of that, it was determined they were still in the fight and valid targets. A JAG officer was also giving legal advice. So again, David, that video will be key.

[Mark Levin]

And Admiral Bradley will be on the.

[Jim Verde]

Hill tomorrow behind closed doors. And that was last night. So he was on the Hill today and he straightened everything out. But here's, here's the thing. Here's what it gets down to. This is the whole ball game right here.

With the seditious six the other day and the continued rantings of people like Mark Kelly and this guy, Mark Warner of Virginia, who is openly calling for a military coup. I want you to listen to this clip where he openly calls for a military coup.

[Mark Levin]

Unprecedented disrespect when they were all brought to get a pep rally in front of Headset and Trump. This is an administration that's fired, you know, uniformed generals from the head of the nsa, the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency. And I think in many ways the uniformed military may help save us from this president and his lame people like Hegsec because I think their commitment is to the Constitution and obviously not to Trump. And I expect Bradley to adhere to that.

[Jim Verde]

They really hate these people. They hate them so much because, A, they know they can't control them, B, because they know they're not part of the swamp. They know they're not part of any institution that they want to continue. This is the whole game. They have to be able to get rid of everybody in the Trump administration. Do not doubt for a second that they will try to impeach Donald Trump. If they win in the midterms, that is exactly what's going to happen. They will try to impeach him again. It won't get him out of office. But what it will do is it will stall everything. It will stall the entire agenda in its tracks. I'm going to go into this very much deeper. On the other side of the break, it's Jim Verde in for Mark Levin on the Mark Levin Show.

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It's Jim Verdean for Mark Levin tonight. Thank you Mark for having the faith and confidence in me and letting me take your microphone. I so much appreciate it. If you would like what you're hearing tonight and you want to give me a follow, give me follow at JJ Verde, at J V E R D I on X and on Truth Social, I'd appreciate it. Okay, so this is great. Mr. Producer Rich. He just sent me, send me this. This is what I love about the Trump administration. They're just, they don't care what the media says at all. So we just go through this whole thing and this whole week of Pete Hegseth being accused of war crimes for this strike on a ship in the. I think it was in the Caribbean. Yes, it was in the Caribbean. And here we, here we have from U.S. southern Command. Thank you, Rich. On December 4th at the direction of Pete Hegseth. I love it. They just throw it back in their face. On December 4, at the direction of Pete Hexseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel in international waters operated by a designated terrorist organization. Intelligence confirmed that the vessel was carrying illicit narcotics and transiting along a known narcotic or narco trafficking route in the eastern Pacific. Four male narco terrorist aboard the vessel were killed. And you can see that in the video. It's just like you're describing. It's a boat full. You can it's full of definitely stuff, but it's got those three, 200 horsepower engines on the back that are really not needed for fishing. So there. And the other thing, do you remember the one? It was. I can't even remember what they call it, like a half submersible or something like that. And they're claiming that's a fishing vessel. I've never seen a fishing submarine. I would like to see one. I think it would be amazing and it would be an incredible vehicle to be able to have a fishing submarine. I don't know why you would want one, but I don't know. The media seems to think they. They exist.

But let's get to the media now. I've been teasing this and I'm sorry, I'm gonna break it down.

When Donald Trump took office, he immediately got to work. And when he got to work, there was something happening every single day. And not just one thing. It would be two things. It would be three things. Both Democrats and the media never knew how to respond to this. They couldn't figure it out. They were on their heels big time. Remember, they would resort to singing. And then there was a while where they thought, well, let's curse a lot. And so cursing. Yeah, that's it. That'll get people on our side. No, none of this worked. The protests in the street didn't work. It all looked ridiculous. Meanwhile, President Trump was in the news every day with a new plan, with a new policy, with a new proposition, and it dominated the news cycle. And it was working. And people were seeing that it was working.

And the Democrats and the media couldn't have people seeing that Donald Trump's policies were working. So what did they do? It took them a long time. It took him like nine months into his administration to finally figure stuff out. And you're not going to be surprised to learn that the strategy would involve lying. Yes, that's what they do.

So let's do a timeline of what we witnessed and how they manipulated the news cycle and what they did after each individual thing. It started with the shutdown. They went on TV every. They took the opportunity of a continuing resolution using the same spending. Nothing added on by the Republicans, just a continuing resolution to get them to a budget that's supposed to happen this month or early next month where they could keep negotiating what goes in to the spending bill, because Congress is supposed to put a budget together every year, even though they haven't and they've done these continuing resolutions.

Democrats saw that as their opportunity for years and years. They Said, no, you can't shut down the government. Shutting down the government is an awful thing. And it told us all the bad things that would happen. Troops wouldn't get paid, parks would close, air traffic controllers wouldn't be able to work, and the skies would be a mess. This is what they told us. But they shut it down anyway. And then they just proceeded to blame it on Republicans, even though it was quite obvious it was them shutting it down over and over again. When the Senate brought up a bill every single day to open the government, they voted no, didn't pass the 60 vote threshold with the filibuster. Then the Democrats were like, okay, we're going to double down on it. The Republicans are trying to take away your health care. That's another aside for another time. I might even try and get into it a little bit. But this is what they used was health care. They're trying to take away your health care. If, if the Republicans don't give us what we want and increase these subsidies that are about to run out, these subsidies that we put in position because of COVID then the Republicans are taking away your health care and people will die. This is what they did. They doubled down on this. Never mind the fact that nobody in the media ever thought to ask why the subsidies are going up so high. Nobody thought to ask that. Media didn't care. And the Democrats weren't going to tell you either. The dirty little secret is it's Obamacare that is to blame for health care costs rising as high as they were. And we told you about this in 2010 when they were trying to pass it, when Paul Ryan didn't get TDS yet because Trump wasn't president and he was a solid.

Conservative policy wonk, told Obama to his face this plan wouldn't work and it would skyrocket costs. And Obama at that meeting just gave him lasers like Superman, lasers burning right through him. And there was nothing he could do about it. But they didn't care. They pushed it through anyway. And they lied about that the whole time. They used gimmicks. They used gimmicks to mask how expensive this was actually going to be. So while they passed the bill, they also had to do a bunch of other things to show you that no, it wasn't going to be that expensive. They double counted Medicare cuts. They did spending for 10 years or it was. It was revenue for 10 years and spending for six, so it wasn't a 10 to 10. So they hid. They hid $400 billion that way. The Medicare the double counting Medicare cuts, meaning the same dollar was counted twice in two different things, Medicare and Obamacare, that cost $500 billion. Then you had the Cadillac tax that was supposed to be taxed on the very highest plans and that was supposed to be $300 billion. Well, that was repealed. Then you had a doc fix for $140 billion. Then there was Medicaid expansion, undercount another 300 billion. This whole thing was going to explode from the beginning. The Democrats knew that. And now they're whining about it. Now they want it, they want these subsidies to continue because you can't know how bad the ACA is. You can't know how bad Obamacare is.

Of course, the dirty little secret behind that, it was all a ploy all along just to get to single payer. They're going, well, you're right, Obamacare is not working. We're gonna blame it on Republicans. And we need single payer. We need the government to take over entirely the health care system. That's what it was all about. And that's what this fight was about in the shutdown. And then they snap. And you don't forget this. It was for weeks and weeks that they went on. Republicans are trying to help kill you. Health care is going to rise exponentially and you won't be able to afford it. And then what happened? Then the shutdown ended. They find they got past the election in November, they got their governors in New Jersey and in Virginia, and then they ended the shutdown. And what happened as soon as they ended the shutdown? Do you remember the Epstein files? That was it. It was all Epstein, all the time on tv. They totally forgot about health care, totally forgot about the shutdown. And they just went on Epstein, Epstein, Epstein all the time. Then that started to backfire on Stacy Plaskett caught texting with Jeffrey Epstein during a congressional hearing. Hakeem Jeffries asking Jeffrey Epstein in a letter for donations to his campaign.

So they pushed Epstein, Epstein, Epstein. They got caught, needed something else to come up with what was next.

The seditious six, the six Congress people who made a video telling troops not to obey any unlawful orders, implying that they were obeying unlawful orders.

That's what they were trying to imply.

Then they go on the Sunday shows and they were expecting softball questions to be able to pedal this. But many, surprisingly in the media weren't buying it. Or, or I think this is probably more closer to the truth that the people questioning them thought they were giving them a softball question by saying, well, what Unlawful orders. Are you talking about thinking these Congress people would lay it out? Couldn't you had people like that clown Alyssa Slotkin blaming it on or citing A Few Good Men, a movie from 1994.

Like Donald Trump ordered a code red on poor Private Santiago and the troops really need to fight back against stuff like that.

This is what they went to next.

You have Mark Kelly going out there consistently and doubling down on this. Now they're like, I played that clip for you just a little while ago, Mark Warner saying the military needs to stand up to these orders, to not follow these orders.

Then what do they do when, when they're making a fool of themselves.

On these Sunday shows and answering all these questions and they can't get the answers out or they, they haven't really thought it through yet. What's the next thing they do? Pete Hegseth gave unlawful orders in September on these boats. That's what they did.

So that's in the news cycle now. That's where we are now and that's where we stand. This is what they do. Pay attention that you can't unsee it. You wait for the next thing. What's the one that they tried to gin up. But it doesn't seem like it's, it's getting any legs right now. You've seen it. I know you've seen it. If you've watched tv, if you're on social media, Trump's not healthy. Trump's falling asleep in meetings. They're trying to make him like Joe Biden was. That's the next thing they're trying. That one's not gonna, that one's weak. That's the weakest of all of them because the man's working 12 hours a day. They call him Sleepy Don as he's doing a three hour cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room in the White House. And he's taking all the reporters questions out there again today, bringing peace to the Congo and Rwanda in a big event. I don't think that the Sleepy Don is going to fly, but they're going to try. This is what the media does. You watch the news cycle and you'll see it. You'll see it from now on when it all comes at you at once and it seems overwhelming. You know it's B.S. you know it's a lie. You know the real story later. We had a rule on the old Dan Bongino show and it was the, well, we called it the Bongino rule, but it was when a new story breaks, you wait 48 to 72 hours before giving any type of a reaction or analysis of it because all the information is going to change. That's what happened with the headset thing today. That's going to end tomorrow. Something new is going to be coming. You watch for it. All right. I'll take your calls and more. I want to get into this whole thing with Somalia as well. That's coming up as well. I'm Jim Verde in for Mark Levin. I'll be right back.

[Mark Levin]

Mark Levin.

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[Jim Verde]

Denver for Mark Levin tonight. Thanks for joining me. Mark will be back tomorrow. Have no fear. He will be back. And I do appreciate you joining me tonight though. Yes, you can't unsee it now, can you? You can't unsee the whole scheme now. The whole hexa thing is coming to an end with the admiral's appearance on Capitol Hill. They're not going to be able to keep it going that it committed war crimes. And I love the fact that they took out another boat today. I think that's awesome.

They're trying with the whole signal controversy as well with Pete Hegseth because the inspector general report came out on that and basically clears Hegseth because it says he can unclassify whatever information he wanted. There were no troops in danger. Nothing ever happened. But of course the Democrats are trying to insist that something is happening. So all this seems to be winding up so that means something else is going to drop. But a little wrinkle or a little wrench was thrown into their works today. And that was with the pipe bomber being arrested, the January 6th pipe bomber being arrested. So what, this is going to basically consume the news cycle for the next couple of days. But they're going to retcon it. They're going to have to report on it tonight. But you watch the networks that you know that I'm talking about and they're not going to talk about it much longer after today, maybe a little into tomorrow, but it's going to disappear from all those. The key to this is that story is not going away either. That's only going to get bigger.

[Mark Levin]

All right.

[Jim Verde]

Speaking of hegseth, let's talk to Kevin in Washington, D.C. kevin, what's going on? Hey, Mr. Produce, how you doing? Jim, I just want to get on. I met, I'm ex Navy myself and I worked on the animal staff as a lowly enlisted member. Believe me, the admiral wasn't the only one in that room and that closed door today. There was his JAG officer and the supporting JAG officers in there. If there's any question about the rules of engagement, that's why you have a judge advocate general standing in there with the admiral staff. And believe me, this is no lieutenant, this is no lowly officer. This is probably a full bird captain like Captain Kelly who goes over the rules of engagement with the admiral, lets him know what he can and cannot do. And if there's a legal question, believe me, that Jack officer is there to answer it. His loyalty is not to the admiral. His admiral. His loyalty is not to even, even the crew. His loyalty is to the UCNJ and how it is exercised. So for the Democrats to stand there and say, oh, this is a possible war crime just basically takes away from the young officers and even senior officers who own the Judge advocate general staff.

[Mark Levin]

Okay.

[Jim Verde]

Who do that job every day. And you brought 100% correct? Kevin, there was JAG there. The JAG was consulted, said it was a legal strike. There was nothing wrong with what was done, which is why this is having to be wrapped up and the Democrats know it. The jig is up and there's nothing more that they can do about it. All right, top of the next hour. Let's talk a little bit about Somalia and the mess that's happening in Minnesota. Got a lot more on that. It's Jim Verde in for Mark Levin on the Mark Levin Show.

[Mark Levin]

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[Jim Verde]

He's here.

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[Mark Levin]

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[Jim Verde]

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[Mark Levin]

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[Jim Verde]

Building, we've once again made contact with our leader, Mark Levin.

Good evening, America. I am Jim Verie. I am sitting in for Mark Levin tonight. Thank you for being with me. I appreciate it. You want to get on? It's 873-81-3811.

Who am I, you may be asking yourself, you may not have heard of me before. I actually produce and I'm the primary fill in for Vince Colonnades on the Vince show, heard on many of these radio stations right here from noon to 3 Eastern daily. And I am also the former producer of the Dan Bongino radio show.

Dan, he's having a birthday today and he had a wonderful birthday today by catching the pipe bomber, something that I know he's been wanting to do for a very long time. I want to get into what's going on in Minnesota. And it's a disaster because this can happen everywhere else in the United States. And it was actually the goal of the Biden administration that this kind of thing happen. What is this kind of thing? It's having immigrants from all over third world countries come into the United States and basically take over towns, parts of towns, cities and even states, which is happening in Minnesota right now. And Minnesota is now paying the price for letting this happen. They're basically importing anybody that wants to come in from Somalia and they're acting like this is a really good thing for their state. Immigration is not a joke, folks. We're not, we're not a nation of immigrants. Is that the first time you've heard that one? We're not a nation of immigrants. We're a nation of settlers, explorers and conquerors. That's right. That's. That's the story of every country on the earth. That's just a fact. That's the way it was. We're in a new century. We're in the 21st century, where pretty much the. The lines have been laid out, the countries are what they are. We don't have to conquer each other anymore. There's one war happening right now with Russia and Ukraine in which Russia wants that territory. So it definitely still happens. Obviously, we were in Afghanistan and Iraq, but we didn't do it to take over territory. But that's the way the world used to operate, and that's what it was. And then we found this when we founded this country. It was the first time in human history that a country was founded under the idea that men can govern themselves.

That was a unique idea at the time. There were always kings or lords or some kind of hierarchy. There wasn't a country that said a man can rule himself.

And it became a magnet to the world when it became successful. And as you've heard Mark talk about over and over again on these very airwaves, and Mark's written about In Liberty and Territory, Liberty and Tyranny, his new book on power, Marx talked about this forever about de Tocqueville and what he wrote in Democracy in America and how it opened the eyes of people all over the world and made people want to come here, made people want to come here to be American.

And we took the best of the people that wanted to come in and let them come into the country and become United States citizens. That's the way it used to work. It doesn't work that way now. That's not what's happening. You had a period where we began to take in, and not only not take in, but. But outright ban Europeans from coming to the United States and becoming citizens.

But allowing people from all these third world countries to come in and do whatever they did, whether illegally or legally, to do whatever they wanted. And they didn't have to adopt to American culture. They took their own culture and tried to adopt it to the area where they lived. And people that had been living there for years and years and years, families, generations. Minnesota was a Scandinavian state.

You had people from Norway, from Finland, from Denmark settling the area.

And now.

The current governor, Tim Walls, changed the state flag to look more like a Somali Flag.

Minneapolis is being referred to as Little Mogadishu. Wouldn't surprise me if Tim Walls actually changed the name of the capital to Mogadishu. Wouldn't surprise me at all.

And President Trump is not happy what's happening. Why is he not happy about what's happening? Well, a scandal just emerged.

That it's not only an immigration scandal where many if not most of the Somali immigrants in Minnesota came here in an illegal manner, gaming the system.

But.

They'Re. They're. They're defrauding the government of money, of billions of dollars, or I think it's maybe a billion, could be more than a billion now, too. They're defrauding the government of this. And most of the people that are coming are on some type of government assistance.

President Trump was asked about this in the White House the other day, and he's not happy about what's happening. The mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, is saying that he's actually proud to have the largest Somali community in the country.

[Mark Levin]

And his police chief, he's a fool.

[Jim Verde]

Well, his police chief is also a. I wouldn't be proud to have the largest Somalian. Look at their nation. Look how bad their nation. It's not even a nation. It's just people walking around killing each other. Look, these Somalians have taken billions of dollars out of our country. They've taken billions and billions of dollars. They have a representative, Ilhan Omar, who they say married her brother.

[Mark Levin]

It's a fraud.

[Jim Verde]

She tries to deny it now, but you can't really deny it because, you know, it just happened. She shouldn't be allowed to be a congresswoman, and I'm sure people are looking at that.

[Mark Levin]

And she should be.

[Jim Verde]

Be thrown the hell out of our country. And most of those people, they have destroyed Minnesota. Okay, Minnesota. You have an incompetent governor. You have a crooked governor. He's crooked as hell, but he's incompetent.

Waltz is. He should be ashamed. That beautiful land, that beautiful state. It's a hellhole right now. And the Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country and we. All they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She's always talking about the Constitution provides me with.

Go back to your own country and figure out your Constitution. All she does is complain about this country. And without this country, she would not be in very good shape. She probably wouldn't be alive right now. That's the thing is they'll come over and then complain about what America is, instead of trying to become American. They want to turn it into Somalia. What do we know about Somalia? Do you know about Somalia at all? Do you know what it was like? It's actually located like on a beach on the coast in Africa.

It was the coast of Somalia was known to the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans as a source of frankincense, myrrh and spices.

Frankincense and myrrh, famously two of the gifts to Jesus Christ.

And from the 7th to the 13th centuries, Muslim, Arab and Persian traders established city states along the coast. And then came in the 1800s, late 19th century, mid 20th century, the colonial era. So the British Empire always expanded. They had a part of it, the Italians had a part of it, the French had a part of it. And of course they had a movement there because they didn't want to be colonized. And they had a separatist movement. Then by 1960, they had their independence and they had a nationalist dream of a greater Somalia. But the politics dominated it to lead to conflicts with Kenya and Ethiopia. And eventually it fell to a communist state.

That's what. And it was General Syed Barry seized power in a bloodless coup, establishing a Marxist Leninist regime backed by the Soviet Union. But later they switched to the US Being friendly with the US because they were invaded with the Soviet Cuban intervention in 1977 and 78.

Then in the 1980s, the Klans took over. Economic collapse happened, brutal repression, and that led to civil war. And then we get to the 90s. Y' all are familiar with Black Hawk Down. You know what happened there? We got involved in that. We didn't need to be involved in that. The south descended into warlordism and famine. This is the kind of country that the people that are coming over, grew up in and now want to bring over to the United States. Now, what is it about their culture that is bad for Minnesota, for the United States, and makes them want to defraud the government of all this money that we. That they're being enabled by the way, by the governor, by the mayor of Minneapolis. They're being enabled by all these liberals here.

So what is it? Three things became common in Somalia during the time period after the 90s. Passive sabotage and neglect. People let government trucks, irrigation pumps, school furniture rot because it belongs to nobody. That's what happens in a communist state. Remember that? Socialism's great, right? Yeah. But nothing belongs to anybody because there's no property. You can't take pride in anything. That's the way it is. And then low level pilfering by employees like civil surgeons, soldiers and workers in nationalized companies routinely took small amounts of fuel, sugar, rice, spare parts, took it all home and used it for whatever they. And it was like, accepted. It was normal. You were a fool if you didn't do that stuff.

If you lived like a normal person and played by the rules, you were a sucker. And that's the way they saw it. And then you had large scale elite theft. High officials and military officers looted entire warehouses, sold government vehicles and weapons on the black market, or diverted foreign aid. This was done secretly and was not culturally celebrated. It wasn't celebrated, but everybody did it and everybody knew it. So now they come to the United States, they settle in Minnesota, they misrepresent their connections to people over here. They used fraud to become citizens. They used fraud to even get here. And then they start ripping off the government.

And it's all done with the enabling hands of people like Tim Walls and Jacob Fry, the mayor of Minneapolis. I want to get into what they're saying about this, this Ilhan Omar character. A lot more on this coming up in just a minute. I'm Jim Verde, in for Mark Levin. I'll be right back.

[Mark Levin]

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[Jim Verde]

I'm Jim Verde. I'm in for Mark tonight. I really appreciate Mark having enough fun faith in me to take the microphone tonight. I appreciate you listening as well. Okay. We were talking about what's going on in Minnesota, the Somali takeover of the state, but now it's costing them money. And here's what we can only hope that the Department of Justice is going to pursue this, because there's a lot of government officials that can be implicated in this. Tim Walls can face trouble for this. Jacob Fry can face Frey or Fry. I'm not sure how you pronounce his last name. He could be implicated in this. Keith Ellison, the Attorney General for Minnesota, can also be implicated in this. And they are getting a little bit worried. Ellison himself is being finally asked about this, and he's making believe like he doesn't really know anything about it. I do want to ask you about the fraud scandal. I mean, because the president's comments seemed at least in part fueled by or. He's talking about this fraud scandal that we mentioned earlier involving that charity called Feeding Our Future. The vast majority of these 70 defendants charged in the case were Somali. For perspective, Those are nearly 80,000 Somalis in the state. How much? Critics have said the state officials, including you and the governor, did not act fast enough or quickly enough to investigate charges of fraud against defeating our future and did little to flag their allegations to federal authorities. I know you said it was the. The federal government that didn't move fast enough. Is there any. Is there something you wish you had done differently? No, we.

[Mark Levin]

First of all, the Department of Education.

[Jim Verde]

Denied claims when they were.

[Mark Levin]

When questionable claims were made about these meals. My office went to court, explained that to the court.

[Jim Verde]

A judge actually found the department in contempt for the denying claims. So, yeah, and we cooperated fully and worked well with the FBI. We are. We're glad that we took the action that we did. You didn't take any action. There was no action taken. And you're saying that a judge was going after the people that were trying to actually do something about it. That's what you said. And then when he. He asked you, should you have done something else about it? You say no.

Then you're out a billion dollars because of all of this, and you're the Attorney General of the state and you don't want to do anything about it. Tim Walls was out the other day just bragging about a new paid leave act that he was implementing. And, oh, we were going to finally be able to have people on paid leave and workers are going to be able to, you know, slough off and not have to come into work and still get paid. And of course, somebody. I can't believe it, but somebody actually asked Walls, hey, don't you think with what we just found out about all that fraud, that fraud can happen here, too? Here's Walls. Aren't people going to abuse the program? How disrespectful to people to assume that all Minnesotans are scamming. That's what I hear from them all the time. I trust Minnesotans. I believe in Minnesotans. I believe they know you're not going to get rich and it's not your full salary. You're not going to scam and take time off. But this is complicated. This was a very good question about multiple members coming off. My family's dealing this with a mother in law, my wife and her three sisters. My sisters in laws have a schedule where they take turns every couple of days being responsible and then they shift off and then they shift off. As it stands right now, they leave their jobs without pay to do that. This will make it so much easier. So I'm excited about it. I'm excited about the program. He got offended because somebody asked him, are you worried about fraud? Dude, you just had a billion dollars stolen from your state. I mean, what is wrong with you? And you get mad at the person asking the question. These people are insane. I've got more from Tim. I've got more from Jacob Fry and Ilhan Omar. Coming up, it's Jim in for Mark on the Mark Levine Show.

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I think what happened is that, you know, when, when you have these kind of new programs that are designed to help people, you're oftentimes relying on third.

[Mark Levin]

Parties to be able to facilitate.

[Jim Verde]

And I just think that a lot.

[Mark Levin]

Of the COVID programs that were set.

[Jim Verde]

Up, they were set up so quickly that a lot of the guardrails did not get created. Oh, so that's it. It's. It's the program. The people who created the program's fault because it was done too fast and they couldn't put ways for you not to cheat the government in. How about the people that stole a billion dollars from the programs, stole taxpayer dollars. They stole it. And I, I told you earlier, I read to you about the history of this country and what their culture is and how taking things as just kind of a part of it. Low level, low level pilfering by employees, civil surgeons, civil servants, soldiers and workers, they just took stuff, fuel, sugar, rice, spare parts, home. And then high officials and military officers looted entire warehouses. This is the culture. What do you expect is going to happen? And you're blaming it on the programs. These are the kind of people that are in charge.

Keith Ellison.

The Attorney General of the state, is like, no, I'm not worried. We did things fine. These people are ridiculous. They're not serious people. Donald Trump is right for trying to get Ilhan Omar out of Congress and out of the country.

She shouldn't have been elected at all.

She's not. She's not American in the sense of what being an American is. She doesn't understand being an American. It's always Somalia first with her. That's the country that she loves. And then you have this fool of a mayor who's constantly sucking up to the Somali community and, you know, giving you the wonders of what this community has done for his state. I'm not even clear that the federal agents know exactly what they're doing here, because here's the thing. The Somali community is almost universally American citizens. They have come here legally. They are in our city legally. They've been here in many cases for decades. And they have contributed greatly to the fabric of who we are. They're part of our family. Here in Minneapolis. I mean, they are our banker, they are our babysitter. You know, in my family, they're my bodyguard. And that's just the bees. These are people that have benefited Minneapolis in a really beautiful way. They benefited Minneapolis in a beautiful way. They're looting your taxpayer programs. They're loaded. What, are you making excuses? This is how far this guy goes to. He starts breaking out speaking Somali at a press conference. The whole press conference, too, was about ice and ice coming into Minnesota and getting some of these people out there. You said they come in legally. No, not all of them have come in legally. They defrauded that system, too, to become, quote, unquote, citizens, which they don't even care about being. They just want to bring what they had in Somalia to Minnesota. And here you have this stupid mayor who's sucking up to him like this. Our Somali community. Daman Shabka, Somalia. Kunul, Minnesota. Garahan, Minneapolis. Juan Kuji Janilahai. Juan.

We love you. We stand with you, and we aren't backing down. Is that one of the most pathetic things you've ever heard in your life? This is an American mayor in Minneapolis speaking another foreign language to a community in his state, sucking up to them like they deserve it.

President Trump, just the other day, you may have heard this. I don't have the clip right here, but he called Tim Walls retarded, the R word. And everybody freaked out about it. And Tim Walls is especially freaking out about it. You're not going to believe this is how delusional these people are. Tim Walls is mad that Trump called him retarded, which you can make a super good case with what he just said, with what I just played for you in the last segment with him getting mad at the person asking a question about defrauding government programs. He's like, how can you get mad at that? No, why would you. Why would you think people in my community would do that? Well, maybe because they did it. Maybe that's why. Because they did it. So Walls today. This is kind of hilarious, though I will say is really upset that Trump called him retarded because bad things could happen to him. This creates danger. And I'll tell you what, in my time on this, I'd never seen this before. People driving my house by my house and using the R word in front of people. This is shameful. And I have yet to see an elected official, a Republican elected official, say, you're right, that's shameful, people. He should not say it. So, look, I'm worried We know how these things go. They start with taunts, they turn to violence. So deeply concerned. Oh, is that how things go? You start with taunts and then it results in violence? That's what you're saying? Really? You're saying that that seems retarded because you, not so long ago were making a speech where you were calling ICE the Gestapo.

[Mark Levin]

Trump's modern day Gestapo is scooping folks up off the streets.

[Jim Verde]

They're in unmarked vans, wearing masks, being.

[Mark Levin]

Shipped off to foreign torture dungeons.

[Jim Verde]

No chance to mount a defense, not even a chance to kiss a loved one goodbye. Just grabbed up by masked agents, shoved into those vans and disappeared. To be clear, there's no way for us to know whether they were actually criminals or not because they refused to.

[Mark Levin]

Give them a trial.

[Jim Verde]

We're supposed to just take their word for it? Gee, Tim, you think that might lead to violence? Could that possibly lead to violence? Saying that ICE agents are the equivalent of the Gestapo that are kidnapping and torturing immigrants? Tim, can that lead to violence? Because you saying that. But yet getting upset when you're called retarded because you think that'll lead to violence, that seems retarded. I'm just saying.

Oh, didn't you want to. Tim, if you're listening, Tim, did you not kind of revel and hint that you would be glad if President Trump died? You get up in the morning and you doom scroll through things and although I will say this, the last few days, you woke up, up thinking there might be news.

Just saying. Just saying there will be news sometime. Just so you know, there will be news. Oh, there will be news. What news is that? That. That Donald Trump is dead? Is that what you're saying? Do you think that could lead to violence maybe against Donald Trump? Or maybe it has already because there were already two attempts on his life. Oh, and Charlie Kirk was shot and killed.

That's the kind of rhetoric that leads to death, to violence. That's what it does. This is the people in Minnesota that are running Minnesota, that are enabling this community, this Somali community, to rape the system and steal a billion dollars.

That's what's happening there right now.

You have the police chief, the police chief of Minnesota, surely a law enforcement officer. He's going to uphold the law. And if you see anything bad, he's going to want you to call 911 and make sure it gets taken care of so his people can uphold the law. Surely that's what, that's what the police chief, Police Chief o' Hara in Minneapolis wants. Surely that's what he wants. Folks that are masked, that they're not sure if they're law enforcement, that they may be kidnapping people. Like we have had those reports.

I want to be clear to the community, the community should know that if you see something like that that is legitimate, that you don't know if someone is law enforcement, you should call 911 and you should provide as much information as possible. Because let's not forget we very, very recently had tragedy in this state by someone who is, who is purporting to be law enforcement. So please, let's be clear. That's something everyone should report and that we will immediately respond to and we will document whether it's somebody's not sure if there's a kidnapping happening, somebody's not sure if that there's law enforcement present or not. And that's something else. That's additional policy requirements that we are. We are implementing.

Did I hear that correctly? Did the police chief in Minneapolis just say to call 911 on ICE agents?

Yes, that's what I heard. This is amazing, folks. This is an American city. This is an American state that's being taken over.

By a foreign community and being enabled by the politicians in that state who are kowtowing and bowing down to them for I can't figure out what reason these people don't want to be American. And the politicians and leaders that you just heard don't will allow them not to be American in their state. There's something to being an American. There's a responsibility to being an American. And these people don't care about that at all.

What Joe Biden and that administration did to this country the last four years by allowing foreign nationals to come into this country, shipping people all over the United States using a program when you're stopping them at the border and then giving them an app and flying them into the United States and bringing them to these small cities with the sole purpose of, of redistricting, of having populations of these people so congressional seats, Democrats can be gerrymandered and redistricted to get more seats for this kind of corruption. That's what this is all about. It's the destruction of the United States of America that is happening. And the Democrat Party is part and parcel to it. They're participating in it.

We have to get some common sense. We have to get some sense about it because this is not going to work and it's not going to end well for the country. I'm sorry. These leaders are definitely retarded. I'm Jim Verde. And for Mark Levin, we'll close up right back. I'll be right back.

[Mark Levin]

Mark Levin.

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[Mark Levin]

I'm just excited for McDonald's for a limited time only.

[Jim Verde]

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I am Jim Verie. I am the producer and I fill in for Vince Colonnades on the Vince Show. You can hear us every day from noon to 3 on many of these stations. If you tune in, I'd appreciate it. We like to think we do a pretty good job and setting you up for Mark every evening. And I do appreciate Mark letting me sit in for him tonight. I really do appreciate that trusting me enough to entertain your and inform your audience tonight. So thank you to Mark and thanks to Rich, too. Appreciate you, Rich. Excellent job.

Let's see, how do we want to end? Well, first let's go to a phone call. Let's go to Steve. Steve, what do you have on your mind tonight? Yeah, thank you, Jim, for taking my call. You're doing a great job filling in for Mark. By the way, the Minnesota Somalis are connected to the Somalis up in Maine. There are about 20,000 same funny business going up there in Maine. There's an investigation.

I had no idea. No. And you're up in New England. So.

Is it, is anybody else infiltrating in some of the northern states as well?

That I'm not sure I know there's a large population in Maine of about 20,000 Somalis and doing the same exact thing as what is happening in Minneapolis. That's just amazing. I can't believe it. All right, Steve, I appreciate you calling. Thank you very much. A couple other things that were going on that I kind of wanted to get to before I get out of here tonight.

I don't know if you've seen Scott Besant with Andrew Sorkin on the New York Times DealBook Summit that they had the other day. Besant is just, he's one of the best members of Trump's cabinet and he wasn't having any of it from Michael Ross or. I'm sorry, Andrew Ross, Sorkin, who was trying to insinuate that Donald Trump, he, it goes back to what I was talking about early. Trump's health is bad and he's falling asleep and we really need to worry about it. Well, Bessant wasn't having any of it right back at him. Listen to this.

[Mark Levin]

You had what was the greatest, one.

[Jim Verde]

Of the greatest scandals of all time.

[Mark Levin]

That the coverage of the Biden administration, Joe Biden's diminished capacity and the COVID up. And that's why it's probably fair to raise these questions.

[Jim Verde]

Where was the New York Times?

[Mark Levin]

We just had a three hour cabinet meeting yesterday, Andrew. For 10 months, the Biden administration did not have a cabinet meeting. How are you going to invoke the 25th Amendment if the cabinet secretaries never see the president, which they did.

[Jim Verde]

The.

[Mark Levin]

You know, I hear from people in the treasury building that I see President Trump more in a day than my.

[Jim Verde]

Predecessor saw Joe Biden in half a year. Beston isn't having it at all. And I love every second of it. And it's true. The Biden cognitive disability scandal is probably the biggest scandal in our history. We really don't know who ran the country for the last four years. I'm sure it was a cabal of several people. I'm pretty sure Barack Obama had his fingers in there, only being that he had several of his cabinet members in there as well. So that's, that's a huge scandal and that's a problem. And we're not buying that Trump is physically or mentally impaired in any way. I'm Jim Verde. If you like what you heard tonight, follow me at JJ Verde at JJVerdi. I appreciate you so much. Love you, America. Have a great night.