Bolling! - March 10th, 2026

Summary

Bolling! – Real America’s Voice

Episode Date: March 10, 2026
Host: Eric Bolling
Podcast: Real America’s Voice (iHeartPodcasts)

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Episode Overview

This episode of “Bolling!” dives into a turbulent week in markets—primarily focused on oil price volatility, looming bank bailouts, and government policies impacting everyday Americans. Eric Bolling also hosts John Solomon, CEO/Editor-in-Chief of Just the News, for a high-impact segment on the FBI's decade-long surveillance of Donald Trump and his associates. The episode wraps with Senator Ron Johnson discussing rare disease drug access, election security (SAVE Act), and political commentary on recent news from New York, Chicago, and beyond. Listener voicemails punctuate the practical, populist tone, questioning institutions and offering real talk from Bolling’s core audience.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Oil Market Volatility & Its Real-World Impact

• Oil prices experience wild swings – from $119/barrel to $73/barrel, then shooting up to $90 on news about Iran potentially mining the Strait of Hormuz ([00:28]).
  • Eric’s Take: Even a threat to close shipping chokepoints means “no captain is going to risk their crew. Gas will hit $4—get used to it, regardless of peace.”
  • Quote:

    “My point, expect a lot of volatility in everything from oil. Gas prices are going to $4, folks. Just get used to it right now.” (Eric Bolling, 00:57)

• Connecting commodities to American livelihoods: Bolling uses gold as an example of safeguarding wealth ([02:10])—noting historic trends versus the US dollar.

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2. Proposed Federal Deposit Insurance Expansion – Hidden Bank Bailouts

• Current debate in DC: Plan to expand federal deposit insurance from $250,000 to $10 million ([03:18–04:50]).
  • Eric’s Analysis: Critiques how technical jargon hides policies designed to help only the ultra-wealthy.
  • Notably: Nancy Pelosi invoked as an example of who benefits—“Do you want to bail her out if she needs it?”
  • Quote:

    “At that point, it's not deposit insurance. It's a government security blanket for rich people.” (Eric Bolling, 04:50)

• Moral Hazard: Bolling reminds listeners that guaranteeing huge deposits means bankers and account holders take dangerous risks—exactly as before the 2008 crisis. The proposal, he warns, socializes losses: “Privatize profits, socialize losses...send the bill to the taxpayers again.”
• Washington’s insulated logic: 99% of Americans already covered with $250K, but “Washington decided the real emergency here is making sure $10 million bank accounts are insured too” ([06:54]).

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3. John Solomon Deep-Dive: 10 Years of FBI Surveillance on Trump & Allies

Segment starts: [13:42]

• Solomon’s reporting reveals: Trump and his associates were under four consecutive national security/counterintelligence investigations, mostly hidden from even the FBI’s own staff.
  • Started: 2015–2025, covering Trump's candidacy, presidency, and post-presidency.
  • Notably secret: Files accessible only to assigned agents; privacy and Fourth Amendment rights likely infringed for “hundreds of Americans.”
  • Targets included: Journalists, lawyers, campaign staff, and filmmakers.
  • Quote:

    "Together, those four investigations kept the President under constant national security investigation ... They were hidden from most FBI agents. ... Only the agents working on it were allowed to see the files." (John Solomon, 13:55)

• Four Operations Outlined:
  1. Crossfire Hurricane — now-debunked Russia collusion probe.
  2. Round River — Targeted anyone alleging Hunter Biden-Ukraine corruption, labeling them as “misinformation.”

     “Wait a second. I have a First Amendment right...Those are the sort of people that were investigated in Round River.” (John Solomon, 17:15)

  3. Plasmic Echo — Alleged classified documents at Mar-a-Lago; cast a net over Trump confidantes.
  4. Arctic Frost — Focus on January 6th and submission of alternate electors in 2020.
• Revelations:
  • At least 1,200 ‘special circumstances’ people (lawyers, journalists, campaign advisers) were swept into these investigations; most, says Solomon, were “innocent all along.”
  • Whistleblowers were critical in revealing these covert probes ([19:53]).
  • New FBI leadership (Kash Patel) only recently found some of these investigations — indicating extreme secrecy even at the top.
  • Calls for Congressional action/declassification—potential for criminal conspiracy charges against government officials.
  • Ongoing question: Did the investigations only “assess” subjects, or did they actively wiretap/listen in? (Solomon: “We have the allegation—we’ll see what turns out to be true” [22:43].)

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4. Senator Ron Johnson: Rare Disease Drug Access & Regulatory Overreach

Segment starts: [25:33]

• Featured Issue: FDA refusing approval for Adelauren, a drug delaying symptoms in Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients, despite its 20 years of use and approval abroad ([27:13]).

  • Johnson’s emotional advocacy:

    “It enraged me that these families, these patients are being denied effective treatments because the regulatory roadblocks ... The FDA is literally going to shut it down.” (Ron Johnson, 25:33 & 27:13)

  • Other rare disease drugs (e.g., for ataxia, Sanfilippo syndrome) face similar rejection — often “on some pretty flimsy excuses.”
  • FDA cited minor manufacturing issues (like floor stains) as blocking approval, despite international acceptance.

• Regulatory Inconsistencies:

  • Johnson points out the contradiction that COVID vaccines were rushed to approval, yet rare-disease drugs with years of positive data are blocked ([30:33]).
  • Suggests possibility of an “FDA blacklist” against some companies.

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5. SAVE Act & Election Security

Discussion start: [31:46]

• Johnson on the SAVE Act: Proposes strengthening election integrity, including photo ID requirements and securing against illegal votes.
  • Blames Democrats for blocking the Act:

    “If we can't pass the Save America act, blame the Democrats…[It's] existential to their plan of being a one party nation.” (Ron Johnson, 32:23)

• Filibuster Debate: Johnson argues Republicans should end the filibuster first, warning Democrats will otherwise do it anyway.
• Debate over legislative process: Push to bring controversial votes on record to hold both parties accountable ([34:10]).

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6. Urban Politics, Media Critique, and Social Commentary

Segment starts: [35:22]

• NYC Mayor Criticized: Bolling slams Mayor Zoran Mamdani for hosting “Hamas loving protester” at Gracie Mansion while “actual heroes” are outside risking their lives.
• CNN & CBS Critiqued:
  • Criticizes mainstream media for “glorifying terrorists” and misrepresenting right-wing Americans (e.g., showing Trump supporters while reporting on ISIS-inspired attacks [38:33]).
• California & Chicago Political Satire:
  • Newsom’s wife’s charity under IRS scrutiny invoked as example of progressive hypocrisy ([41:27]).
  • Chicago Mayor Johnson’s new coalition of struggling city mayors is derided:

    “Let’s see what’s working in Chicago, New York, Boston—pretty much nothing.” (Eric Bolling, 43:00)

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7. Listener Voicemails – Taxpayer Frustration & Real-World Concerns

Starts around: [44:49]

• DOJ & FBI Skepticism:

  “Since Trump took office, the DOJ ... might have just as well closed the jails because ain’t nobody going to be going in there anyway.” (Listener, 44:54)

• Foreign Policy & Oil: Listeners suggest Trump’s strategy in targeting Venezuela/Iran is to “cut the legs off” China ([46:28]).
  • Bolling responds with a detailed oil policy proposal: “Keep the pressure ... Offer to lift sanctions in exchange for joint oil ventures ... We’d never pay for $100 a barrel again” ([47:04–49:42]).
• Gas Prices & War in the Middle East: Explains “war talk” alone triggers price gouging at the retail pump, regardless of real supply constraints.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Oil Markets:

  “Gas prices are going to $4 folks. Just get used to it right now.” (Eric Bolling, 00:57)

• Bank Bailouts:

  “At that point, it’s not deposit insurance. It’s a government security blanket for rich people.” (Eric Bolling, 04:50)

• Government Priorities:

  “99% of people are covered with the [current] $250K...Washington decided the real emergency here is making sure $10 million bank accounts are insured too.” (Eric Bolling, 06:54)

• FBI Overreach:

  “They were hidden from most FBI agents. ... Only the agents working on it were allowed to see the files. No one else could see them.” (John Solomon, 13:55)

• Healthcare/FDA:

  “This is ridiculous...this is a drug that is working, is delaying the progression of their disease. ... Now the FDA is literally going to shut it down.” (Sen. Ron Johnson, 27:13)

• Election Security:

  “If we can’t pass the SAVE Act, blame the Democrats. ... It’s existential to their plan of being a one party nation.” (Sen. Ron Johnson, 32:23)

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Important Timestamps

| Time | Segment/Topic | |-----------------|-------------------------------------------------| | 00:28 | Market volatility, oil prices, and gold | | 03:18–04:50 | FDIC insurance expansion & hidden bailouts | | 13:42 | John Solomon on FBI/DOJ investigation | | 15:30–23:14 | FBI/CIA surveillance, target list, whistleblowers| | 25:33 | Sen. Ron Johnson – FDA blocks rare disease drugs| | 31:46 | SAVE Act, election integrity, filibuster debate | | 35:22 | NYC/Chicago mayors, media bias | | 44:49 | Listener voicemails: DOJ/FBI, oil, gas prices |

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Tone & Language

• Populist, direct, and sardonic: Eric Bolling and his guests use humor, skepticism, and plain language, emphasizing “real talk” and grounding arguments in current events affecting middle-class Americans.
• Critical of elites and bureaucracy: Frequent jabs at establishment politicians (Pelosi, Biden), regulatory agencies, “swamp” politics, and legacy media.

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Summary for New Listeners

This episode brings hard-hitting commentary on financial policy, political accountability, and government transparency, all delivered with humor and sarcasm. Bolling connects global events (oil prices, foreign policy, regulatory overreach) to the daily lives of Americans, features an explosive interview with investigative journalist John Solomon about unprecedented government surveillance, and gives an unfiltered platform for concerns on election integrity and health care access. If you want insight on how the week’s political and economic headlines impact you—and a healthy dose of skepticism toward government and media—this installment delivers.

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For those seeking depth, real talk, and a challenge to mainstream narratives, this is a must-listen episode.

Transcript

[Eric Bolling]

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[Eric Bolling]

All righty folks, four o' clock markets are closed. What a wild 24 hour. Wow, 48 hours, 72 hours it's been because everything is hinging on the price of oil. Oil prices were extremely high. We $119 a barrel yesterday got down to $73 a barrel today. And then there was a new story that came. CBS ran the news story that said that Iran is looking to put underwater mines in the Strait of Hormuz which will in essence shut down shipping. Because if they do that, even if they threaten to do that, they no captain is going to bring 2, 300 men on a ship through the Strait of Hormuz and risk their lives. Doesn't matter how much insurance they offer them. And then Trump has said if you do this, what they just said they're going to do, they're going to hit, get hit 20 times harder. So it went from 73 to almost $90 a barrel in five minutes and now it's backing off around 87. My point, expect a lot of volatility in everything from oil. Gas prices are going to $4, folks. Just get used to it right now, Tom, you're going to see $4 no matter what happens, even if they declare peace tomorrow, you're going to see $4 in a gasoline pump. We can talk about that another time. Just prepare, be prepared for a lot of volatility. So Dow ends up almost unchanged. S and P, almost unchanged. Nasdaq almost unchanged. Well, oil price down $8, but like I said, it got down to $73 a barrel two hours ago. Two hours ago. All right, what can I tell you? All right, think about this for a second. In 2006, $20,000, 20 grand equaled roughly 33 ounces of gold at the SP. At today's prices, those same 33 ounces would be worth about $165,000. Smart Americans diversify a portion of their savings into precious metals. And that's why you need to consider buying gold from our friends at Birch Gold Group. For thousands of years, gold has been a store of wealth and value. And today it's a crucial part of any balanced strategy. Even better, Birch Gold Group can help you convert an existing IRA or 401k into a tax sheltered retirement account in gold. Just text the word America to the number 9, 89898. To receive your free info kit on gold. There's no obligation, just useful information with an A plus rating. With a Better Business Bureau and tens of thousands of happy customers, let Birch Gold Group help you diversify with gold. That is what we call peace of mind. Get some of it. Text the word America to 989-898. Again. America. Text that nine name to 989-898. All right. Okay. It's a tale as old as time. The people with the least amount of money and assets are paying for the people with the most. Welcome Back to Washington D.C. folks, the swamp. Where a proposal that maybe sounds a bit technical at first could actually mean that you and your tax dollars would bail out the richest of the rich. So it's like this. Let's just say, I don't know, Nancy Pelosi's hard earned millions of insider trading illegal dollars were somehow compromised by a bank. Well then your tax dollars, if this plan goes through, would help sort it all out for the Pelosi's. Ain't that nice? Don't you want to help Nancy Pelosi? Don't you want to bail her out if she needs it? Isn't that a nice plan? So what is this, besides diabolical? Well, it's a plan to expand federal deposit insurance from the current $250,000 to. Wait for it, $10 million. And that could quietly open the door to more bank bailouts, more government control of the banking system. Here's a rule of thumb in life, by the way, when you hear the phrase government bailouts and more government control, nothing good is coming our way. Nothing. And the Senator leading the charge? Well, she had a few, let's just say, issues with her own little paperwork, because of course she has. So every once in A while, the D.C. swamp comes up with a proposal so wrapped in technical jargon that normal people, we just tune it out immediately and then that's not an accident. That's the plan. They love words like banking regulations, deposit insurance, financial stability frameworks. Sounds really important, you know, typical fodder for those intelligent ladies of the View.

[Senator Ron Johnson]

I think it's very different in the

[Narrator/Announcer]

United States in 2025 than it is to live in Iran.

[Caller/Listener]

Not if you're black.

[Narrator/Announcer]

For everybody.

[Eric Bolling]

Whoopi definitely wouldn't get this plan. Which sounds like a lecture from your economics professor who definitely owns four cats. But sometimes these boring policies are the ones that really matter. Stay with me here. Right now some Washington swampsters are pushing a plan to raise federal deposit insurance from the current $250,000 to. To $10 million. 10 million. Not 1 million. 4 times, not 5. 10 million. 40 times more than it is right now. 40. At that point, it's not deposit insurance. It's a government security blanket for rich people. Now, quick refresher. The fdic, which is the company that regulates this, it exists for one simple reason. When a bank fails, your money is protected. Right now, that protection covers up to $250,000 per account, and that's meant to protect ordinary Americans. Your checking account, your savings account. Here's the part they really don't want you thinking about, though. 99% of people are already covered with the 250. 99% of people are covered with the 250. So almost everyone is already protected. Which means Washington looked at this and said, you know what? You know who really needs help right now? People with $10 million in the bank. Finally, someone standing up for them. You see, this is about very large deposits, corporate money, massive investment accounts, or, you know, maybe a Biden family member's Ukraine payouts. Don't worry. Joe's not watching this right now. It's way past his bedtime. But here's the real issue. When government starts guaranteeing $10 million accounts, people stop worrying about risk. And by the way, and here's the important part, so do the banks. And that's how we end up with something called moral hazard, which is just a fancy way of saying if someone else is covering your losses, you can take stupid risks. We've seen this story over and over again. That's exactly the story. That's how it ended. Remember the 2008 financial crisis? Banks took massive risks and the whole system blew up and we bailed them out. Suddenly, taxpayers were told, don't worry, you're not paying for this. Remember the promise after that, no more bailouts. How many times we hear no more bailouts. None, zero, never again. Apparently, what the swamp really meant was no more bailouts until the next one. And the proposal is, let's just ensure everything and hope for the best. Now, here's where the story gets even better, because one of the biggest supporters of the plan is Senator and Angela, also Brooks. And while she's pushing a plan to guarantee multimillion dollar bank accounts, she also had little, let's say, issue with her own finances. Also, Brooks claimed a property tax break for a primary residence on a home she reportedly wasn't actually ever living in full time. And that little paperwork move helped her avoid about $4,000 in taxes. How convenient. Look, $4,000 may not sound like a lot of money in the swamp. It's like what, three lobbyist lunches? Or like one fancy lunch for a congressman and an illegal gang banger criminal. So now also Brooks says that's it. That was a mistake, and she'll pay it back. But it does raise a pretty fair question. If you can't keep your own housing paperwork straight, your own finances straight, why should taxpayers trust you to redesign the banking system? So let me get this straight. 99% of Americans are already protected, but Washington decided the real emergency here is making sure $10 million bank accounts are insured too. That's a relief. For a minute there, I was worried millionaires were going to be ignored. If Washington really wants to stop the next financial crisis, here's a crazy idea. Stop building policies that guarantee the next bailout. But apparently the new plan is simple. Privatized profits, socialize losses. That means you and I pick up the bill, send the bill to the taxpayers again. Because if there's one thing the government is known for, it's protecting the little guy. Unfortunately, that was facetiousness. All right, folks, take a look at this. Let me tell you something that's becoming very, very clear right now. There are millions of places online to argue about politics, but there are almost none where people talk honestly about winning and at life. That's why I built the Edge. It's a non political zone focused on performance, money, health, discipline and longevity. And the response has been nothing short of incredible. In just a few months, the channel is approaching 2 million views. We're over 12,000 subscribers and more than 65,000 hours of watch time. And that last number matters the most because it means people aren't just scrolling past the Edge. They're stopping, sitting down, and actually engaging with with real conversations. Again, no politics, no noise. 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[Senator Ron Johnson]

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[John Solomon]

When you take up your journalistic drone to 30,000ft, here's what you see. You see that for most of the first nine years of Donald Trump's career, while the American people were twice electing him president, the FBI on his watch and on Joe Biden's watch was treating him as though he were a national security threat. He was under four consecutive national security investigations, counterintelligence investigations, Crossfire Hurricane, we know that one, the best. That's the Russia collusion debunked 1. The next three are not as well known. Arctic Frost was the end of the the road that ran all the way into 2025 and looked at January 6th and issues like why did he submit alternate electors to the Senate in 2020? And then in the middle, there are two counterintelligence investigations that looked at various aspects of his inner circle. Together, those four investigations kept the President under constant national security investigation by his FBI and the FBI when he was out of office. More importantly, they were hidden from most FBI agents. Not even the FBI's own agents knew that. These were kept at a very secret level. Only the agents working on it were allowed to see the files. No one else could see them. In the FBI Sentinel system for record keeping, that's a big flag. And then, over time, it wasn't just the President's conduct. They were looking at hundreds of Americans around the President. Journalists, lawyers, congressional staffers, members of Congress, filmmakers. I even have a filmmaker in the story. They all were targeted in these investigations by virtue of what they were saying and doing around the President. None of them ever got charged, or most of them never got charged, which means they were innocent all along. But their privacy, their Fourth Amendment rights may have been infringed by these investigations.

[Eric Bolling]

So many questions, John, let me start with this 20. It saves 10 years. So from 2015 ballpark to 2025, obviously, Trump was president some of those years. In the early part, Christopher James Comey, I can see where he may have started, but when Christopher Wray comes in, he's working for Trump and he's still investigating Trump and others.

[John Solomon]

That's exactly it. And these would have likely gone to his level for approval because they involve what are known as sensitive subjects, meaning people who have special assumed privileges. If you're a journalist, you got a First Amendment privilege. If a lawyer, you have attorney client privilege. Those are the sort of people that were being targeted. A filmmaker, you have a First Amendment privilege. Some of these people had multiple privileges. I have a good example in the story, a guy who used to work for President Trump in the White House, then he goes and makes a movie about Hunter Biden.

[Caller/Listener]

And.

[John Solomon]

And then he goes back and he advises President Trump's 2024 campaign. Well, his work on the Hunter Biden movie apparently got him targeted. And then his emails advising President Trump's campaign about what to do in 2024 get intercepted by the FBI. So the president's campaign strategy is getting intercepted by the FBI, as is this effort to thwart a movie that was going to tell a story about Hunter Biden and his Ukraine business deals. That level of penetration into what we call special circumstances subjects almost certainly would have gotten to Chris Wray's level or certainly right around Chris Wray.

[Eric Bolling]

So how does he justify it? I mean, how do you justify. We're looking into the current President of the United States. He doesn't know. And then the ones that.

[John Solomon]

Let's go through the justifications. Four of them.

[Eric Bolling]

Yeah, go ahead.

[John Solomon]

Let's go through them. They're kind of crazy. All right, justification one, Operation Crossfire. Hurricane. Donald Trump was a stooge of the Russian government. Disproven Operation two Round River. This is one that very few people have ever heard of. Anyone who said that Hunter Biden was doing corrupt things in Ukraine was deemed to be perpetrating Russian misinformation, and they were investigated as a potential national security threat. Wait a second. I have a First Amendment right to raise questions about Hunter Biden. I have a First Amendment right to make a movie or write a story or say something on social media, or as a lawyer, go over and ask Ukraine if they can investigate it. Those are the sort of people that were investigated in Round river, where I think we will learn that the speech delimiters for that investigation, what was deemed to be Russian misinformation, will have turned out to be true. That Hunter Biden did these things we now know he did. That's why he pled guilty. The third one was called I'm going to draw a blank on it. It's got a great one plasmic echo. And that is the notion that President Trump somehow took classified documents to Mar a Lago. And that's the one where Cash Patel's phone records are taken. And allegedly Susie Wiles phone call with a lawyer is listened in on. Let's think about this. That investigation is open at the same time.

[Eric Bolling]

Can we hold your stop for a second? You're talking about plasmic echo. Susie Wiles.

[John Solomon]

Yeah.

[Eric Bolling]

If I'm not mistaken, she wasn't even working for Trump yet, right?

[John Solomon]

No, she was. She was his campaign manager.

[Eric Bolling]

Oh, so. So after. So this is later on. So this was. And then. And then the fourth one, Arctic Frost, which, you know, we've talked about as well. So. So who else? I mean, journalists. Were. Am I. Are you on it? Am I. Was I being. Were you?

[John Solomon]

We don't know yet. We know. We know from the GJ, the Government Accountability Office, GAO, that 1200 people that fall into the special circumstances, meaning they should have had extra protections from FBI intrusions. 1200 people were assessed in FBI investigations on Chris Wray's watch. Now, I don't know. 1200 lawyers and journalists that were indicted, which means Most of those 1200 people were most likely innocent. That GAO report appears to be a roadmap of the type of people that were targeted. We don't know who it is. I know a couple, right? We know Michael Caputo was one of them. He was a filmmaker and former adviser to Trump, current adviser to Trump. We know that Rudy Giuliani was one. We know Susie Wiles was one of. Cash Patel was one. But who are the rest? And that is the question that I think Congress and Cash Patel will be answering in the next few weeks as they begin to declassify these national security investigations.

[Eric Bolling]

How did Cash find them?

[John Solomon]

Whistleblowers, in most cases, whistleblower agents coming up saying, hey, boss, you don't know this, but when you weren't our boss, we were looking at your phone records. And I think some of these whistleblowers went to Congress. Like 2. Chuck Grassley, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman. Some came to Casp Patel, and he has some senior executives, some of his top executives around him now were aware of these things. And so they're helping him find these things in these hidden files that are called prohibited access files. So it's taken 13, 14 months for the current director to find what's in his own agency.

[Eric Bolling]

This is a dumb question, John. Maybe you can help me out here. So FBI has all these investigations going on. Don't they have to report to Congress at all?

[John Solomon]

No, I don't remember all the times that Chuck Grassley said, I had oversight letters and no one ever answered me. The first FBI director to really start turning over this information is Cash Patel. He made that promise. He lived up to it. But even he didn't know, like, until just a few weeks ago, he had never heard of Round River. Just think about that. A sensitive investigation involving Hunter Biden and President Trump and the Ukraine scandal, and the FBI director doesn't learn about it. Almost his first year in office is over. That's the sort of secrecy that these investigations have. So Congress, they were in the dark for a long time.

[Eric Bolling]

You know, Cash found. Remember, he found a closet that was locked with a bunch of information a couple of months ago. There's got to be a lot more, right? There's. There must be so much more. And by the way, along those lines. Tell us about that. But also, Cash has vowed to close the Hoover Building in D.C. yeah. Tell us where that stands as well.

[John Solomon]

Well, they're in the process of moving to the Reagan Building. There's a transition. Congress has to do some appropriations, which will be in the 27 budget year, but the plans are pretty well made. The decision's been made. Some offices have already been moved over to the Reagan Building, but not the full transition. I think we're about 18 months away, if I remember correctly from the last budget documents I saw. Now, where were these investigations? They weren't all based in Washington. Brown river was based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. So some of these were predicated in places far from the Washington, D.C. capitol, yet they were run by leadership in Washington. So there may be skiffs in Pennsylvania,

[Eric Bolling]

California that we don't know about. We got to let you go prep for your show. But Will Harmony, Dylan said there could be criminal charges. Will we see any perp walks ever?

[John Solomon]

I'm going to ask her that question. She's coming on the show tonight. We're going to pin her down on that. But she says this looks like a conspiracy to violate civil liberties, much like what the Justice Department pursued against the Ku Klux Klan and bad police departments back in the 60s during the Civil rights movement. He says it may apply it again to the FBI and the Justice Department. The intelligence agent in the 21st century.

[Eric Bolling]

John, very quickly, I know we gotta go, but they were just investigating. They weren't wiretapping and listening in, were they? Because that would be. That would be criminal.

[John Solomon]

We don't know. We certainly know in the case of Crossfire Hurricane that they did that to Carter Page. And there's an allegation that they did that to Susie Wiles listening in on a phone call. We don't have that nailed yet. We have the allegation we'll see what turns out to be true. I think the next three or four weeks we'll get all the data out.

[Eric Bolling]

This is going to be a great interview. I can't wait to see it. I watch it tonight with Harmony Dillon, John Solomon on Just the news. John, really good having you. Thank you again.

[John Solomon]

Thanks, buddy.

[Eric Bolling]

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[Senator Ron Johnson]

You can maybe tell just by my passion, it enraged me. It enraged me that these families These patients are being denied effective treatments because the regulatory roadblocks. Quick story. And again, I want to ask questions, but a quick story. After I met the Duchenne muscular dystrophy community, they went up before a panel of FDA, this is probably in 2016, 17 or 18, begging. There are about 60 Duchenne muscular patients, families begging the FDA please approve this investigatory drug for our children. Again, time is muscle, time is brain. And that panel, I don't know who sat on it, listened to those 60 families begging them and said no. Just like they said no. And I can't even pronounce these diseases and drugs. They say no. Time and time and time again, that has to change.

[Eric Bolling]

Well, that was a look at my next guest, the great senator from the great state of Wisconsin who fights for patients. He's very passionate. Today he held a press conference for families with members suffering from Duchenne muscular dystrophy and are losing access to an existing treatment called Adelauren. Always happy to have Senator Ron Johnson with us. Sir, you're very, very passionate, very passionate about that. Tell us the story with a little bit more expansiveness. Tell us why the FDA is pulling this and tell us how do we fix this? Go ahead, sir.

[Senator Ron Johnson]

Well, Eric, first of all, Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a rare disease. There are different types of it which are even rare within that category. But this Adelorin, this is a drug that's really been available now for about 20 years. People have been on it. It has delayed the onset of their symptoms. In other words, Duchenne only basically affects little boys and it attacks their muscle system. So at some point in time, they can't walk. It eventually attacks their heart, and that's how they die, unfortunately, very early deaths. But this adelorin was introduced, I think about 2004. People were put on trial. And some of these boys now are age 34. One of the moms testified her son is now 34 and living productive lives. And yet back in 2017, the FDA advisory panel heard that testimony. And I don't know how they can do this, but they just say no to them. This is the same drug we held at a press conference today. Now the FDA is literally going to shut it down. It is approved in Russia, is approved in South America. These American families might be able to gain access overseas. But this is ridiculous. I mean, this is, again, this is a drug that is working, is delaying the progression of their disease. But that hearing that Rick Scott had in aging, he's had some Great hearings. This was on rare diseases a couple of weeks ago. Couple other diseases. Ataxia that has a drug that metabolize into drug that's been approved like about 30 years. It delays the progression of ataxia a similar type of muscular disease degenerative disease. It delays the progression by 50 to 70%. Another disease, Sanfilippo syndrome had a doctor who's a mom who has a daughter she received gene therapy. Somebody they met early during the course of their disease already died at the age of 15. Her daughter's now 16. Once again the gene therapy that had been available to them. The FDA has just sent them what they call their complete response letter which means no you can't do it anymore. And seems on some pretty flimsy excuses. The the $200 million brand new manufacturing facility apparently had stains on the floor and some cracks on the floor. So it just seems so was it that Kerry saying all the right things but the agency bureaucrats, the career bureaucrats, they just have a tendency they're looking for excuses.

[Eric Bolling]

So, so let me get it straight. So the fda, FDA has never yet approved the drug. Meanwhile it's been produced and it's been effective and it's, it's approved in other countries. The FDA can't get beside the drug can't to approve. Why not though? Is there politics involved here?

[Senator Ron Johnson]

I have no explanation for it which is why I'm launching an investigation. We're going to look at those complete response letters. We're going to see what reasons rationale the FDA is using to say no and then we'll start asking the FDA why, why are you doing this? And as I said Commissioner Kerry saying all the right things, they're going to use all the flexibility and by the way Congress has passed laws that give them all kinds of flexibility. You know I champion the right to try law. It should be patient their doctors that make these decisions by and large. And yet you have these, these nameless, you know, face.

[Eric Bolling]

How does it work?

[Senator Ron Johnson]

Senator reasons say no.

[Eric Bolling]

How does it work? They won't. This drug is obviously helping a lot of families, right. And they won't get behind and improve it but yet they'll push through a COVID vaccine without the research and it ended up being you know, at best not effective, at worst counter effective.

[Senator Ron Johnson]

Which is exactly the point I made to Commissioner McCarry when I spoke to him a couple of weeks ago. There's got to be a different approval process for an injection that's going to be administered to billions of people versus drugs going to Millions or hundreds of thousands or a thousand or forty. Okay. So what's interesting about this too is Adelauren. It has been provided by the manufacturer for free. This is not about these drug companies making money. A lot of these companies, they'll work on a rare disease drug because it'll help them with other drugs in the pipeline that they may be able to make money on. But these aren't money makers. So if you keep saying no, if these companies get put on the blacklist. I've heard there's a blacklist. If you're a company producing drugs and you give the FDA too much trouble, you put on blacklist and good available drugs may again because these bureaucrats, we don't like these guys just say no. So I can't explain it. It's compassionless and we need to write these wrongs.

[Eric Bolling]

Indeed, indeed Senator, thank you for doing. That's why Senator Johnson is a great senator. US Senator to have in your corner especially if you're dealing with muscular dystrophy and Duchenne and others. One thing that's important I want to get to. We don't have a ton of time but the SAVE Act. Where are we on the SAVE Act? Where the hell is John Thune? What's going on? And if you will, will you weigh in on the controversy with John Cornyn in Texas? And it's there are some folks are saying we need to Save act, we need Cornyn. But why would Disney step forward and say I'm willing to vote for the SAVE act prior to the vote? So maybe we can figure out who we want to vote for. They can in Texas.

[Senator Ron Johnson]

Sir, the first point is if we can't pass the Save America act, blame the Democrats. They're the ones that refuse to agree to vote for any controls over our election process to make sure that your legitimate vote is not canceled by fraudulent act that is Democrats because that kind of control the Save America act, it's existential to their plan of being a one party nation. So it's the Democrats fault. What I don't want to see is if it's difficult or impossible for us to pass the Save America act that Republicans don't get blamed. Now right now, you know I've agreed with President that we probably end the filibuster because the Democrats will. It's unfortunate because it would be nice to have the ability to block awful legislation from Democrats but when they get in power they're going to eliminate filibuster. I think we need to act first. A lot of my colleagues recognize how valuable the filibuster has been, are very reluctant to do that. So next best thing, let's get on the floor. Let's make the Democrats, day after day for a week or two, defend why they are opposed to something 80% of Americans are for. And that's probably. That's really the direction I think Jonathan's gonna go. So I. I think we will put on the floor. I think we'll control the amendment process. We'll try and improve the piece of legislation. President Trump wants to add things to it. You know, let's go ahead and add these things. Let's have an amendment. You know, let's ban boys competing in girls sports. Let's ban the mutilation of children on the altar of transgenderism. So there's a way of doing this. And quite honestly, in lunch day, it sounds like Leader Thune is pretty much heading in that direction.

[Eric Bolling]

It's kind of good news. But very quickly, I don't have. We're kind of pushed up against a break here. Very quickly, is it possible that if Thune and you guys kill the filibuster, Thune's worried you might not get the votes, maybe some Republicans that would vote against it. Is that possible? Is that what he's trying to protect?

[Senator Ron Johnson]

Well, again, what I've suggested at the start of this Congress, I suggested at lunch. Let's just take a vote. Let's vote to change the rules. Let's see if Democrats, we know if they're in power, they're gonna vote no or they're gonna vote yes to end the filibuster. Let's see if they will do so when Trump's in power and we can actually pass them this excellent piece of legislation. It's the only way. We have to get them on record. If we don't want to get rid of the filibuster, the only way the Democrats won't do it is if we put them on the record. So I asked the leader just put it up for a vote for a real change. Let's see where it goes.

[Eric Bolling]

Yeah. And again, a lot of times, these things don't hit the floor in the House and the Senate because the leaders don't want to expose some of their own constituents. And that's what I'm hoping is not part of the case. Sir, we got to go. I appreciate your time. Thank you, Senator Ron Johnson.

[Senator Ron Johnson]

Have a great day.

[Eric Bolling]

Me, too. You, too. We'll be right back. Two and a half minutes. Well, it's the tale of Two mansions right there on the left. That's chief Aaron Edwards outside Gracie Mansion in New York City. Actually, it's on the right.

[Senator Ron Johnson]

Right.

[Eric Bolling]

Dealing with a life threatening situation. And inside. Oh, that's just Mayor Zoran Mamdani and his wife hosting America hating Hamas loving protester Mahmoud Khalil for Ramadan in a home paid for, by the way, by the us By New York state, taxpayers and city. Also, Mahmoud was supposed to be in Syria by now. The latest ruling by a judge stating that Mahmoud must go. Instead of hosting the one on the right screen, right, a hero who worked to defuse an ied, the one who stops bombs and deals with violent protesters. Instead, the mayor of New York City chooses to host a man who sympathizes with the people throwing the bombs. That's just who Zoran Mamdani is speaking of. New York on a Monday. A snowflake liberal who just loves it when illegal swarm his city and chews up all the resources. One of those was announcing his love for those very same things when he received a rude awakening. Because as he's saying, all are welcome. An ISIS supporter. Actually, the ISIS supporter in New York who threw the ied. Well, he makes him regret those very words right then.

[Senator Ron Johnson]

We were born and raised in New York and we want everyone here to

[Eric Bolling]

stay in New York.

[Senator Ron Johnson]

You don't get to come from outside

[Eric Bolling]

and then tell everyone. You have to laugh at the irony, right? We want these people here. IED bomb on the way. Amazing. By the way, in one of the most really disgusting recent moments for cnn, they basically glorified these two known ISIS supporters in New York. With this post, and I'm reading, quoting cnn. Two Pennsylvania teenagers crossed into New York City Saturday morning for what could have been a normal day enjoying the city during abnormally warm weather. But in less than an hour, their lives would drastically change as the pair would be arrested for throwing homemade bombs during an anti Muslim protest outside of Mayor Zoram Mamdani's home. They just love to glorify terrorists over there on cnn. Normal day, enjoying the city by throwing an IED at a crowd and worshiping isis. Well done, cnn. Pinnacle of journalism right there. Well, even CNN had to admit what garbage that was. They posted this a few hours ago. A post regarding the two individuals arrested for throwing homemade bombs outside New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani's home failed to reflect the gravity of the incident, thereby breaching the editorial standards we require for all reporting, has therefore been deleted. Who was that reporter that wrote that article? Who was the reporter that wrote that tweet. Good luck finding another job. Democrats love to brag about how Hakeem Jeffries will become speaker of the House at the end of this year because somehow they believe that Americans are all about having the Democrat Party cheat in the midterm elections by having illegals vote for them. Which is basically what Hakeem admits.

[John Solomon]

Yeah, completely and totally out of control group of people. It's the reason why we are in a DHS shutdown right now because Republicans have refused to to agree to the type of bold, transformative, meaningful and dramatic reforms we are demanding. Keep ICE out of sensitive locations. We've defined that as schools, houses of worship, hospitals and polling sites. We want an explicit prohibition that ICE can go nowhere near any polling sites in the United States of America. It's one of our demands. We're not going to bend on it.

[Eric Bolling]

That's good news, says Hakeem Timu Obama. Good news. We're not going to let ICE go anywhere near polling sites because they may keep the cheaters away. You know, the people, the illegals that were trying to get here and vote illegally. This might be the creepiest thing you'll see today. And that's saying a lot because we highlight Democrats idiocy in the segment. But James Talarico, who just beat Jasmine Crockett in the Texas Senate primary, certainly takes the creepy cake on this comment right here in this newly unearthed video. Something that you love that's not family or friends. I love and just say this because it's on my mind. The trans children who showed up yesterday

[John Solomon]

at the state Capitol to advocate for their humanity.

[Eric Bolling]

They shouldn't have to, but it was an inspiration to watch. I love the trans children. You know, a lot of people are saying Cornyn in Texas to run against this guy because he has a better chance if Texas elected that guy. Like I said yesterday, a dog catcher should be able to beat this guy in Texas. He loves trans kids. When you see this kind of thing, you just wonder how often it happens in other places in on news networks throughout the days and weeks. How many of these kind of moments aren't we seeing? So CBS News talks about the ISIS inspired attempted IED attack in New York City. And for some reason they show Trump supporters on the screen. Seriously, you wouldn't even believe it if you didn't see it with your own eyes. Tonight, the FBI is investigating two men after an explosive device with bolts and screws was thrown into a crowd. It happened in New York City on Saturday during a protest that Turned violent outside the mayor's official official residents. CBS Chanel Call is there with the very latest tonight. Chanel, you know, I didn't see them correct that. I would love to know if they corrected that. They're talking about the idea being thrown by two ISIS supporters and you put a Trump supporter with a Trump. They can't help themselves. Oh, trouble in homeless paradise. There's a report out that California Governor Gavin Newsom's wife Jennifer and her firm allegedly pocketed 3.7 mil from her gender stereotypes charity. This is according to unearthed IRS filings, which makes this outburst of hers at the press last month all the more entertaining. And by the way, ironic.

[Narrator/Announcer]

We just find it incredulous that we have Planned Parenthood here and women are 51% of the population. And the majority of the questions, all of these questions have really been about other issues. So it's just fascinating. You have this incredible women's caucus and all these allies and you're not asking about it. And this happens over and over and over and over again. You wonder why we have such a horrific war on women in this country and that these guys are getting away with it.

[Eric Bolling]

Getting away with it seems to be an interesting choice of words right now, don't you think? Allegedly. This should be interesting. Chicago Mayor Brandon let's go. Brandon Johnson touting a mayor coalition of himself together with some of the mayors of the worst run socialist cities in America. I'm sure it will prove to be very productive.

[Brandon Johnson]

Right now we are in the process of we're forming sort of a mayor's coalition, much like district and state's attorneys have formed to fight back against federal overreach. He expressed a desire and commitment to work with the city of Chicago, Boston, Boston. We have Seattle on board. We have Oakland Mayor Lee, Mayor Bass

[Eric Bolling]

and

[Brandon Johnson]

Los Angeles as well. So you know, now that you know the services for Reverend Jackson have passed, we're going to begin to have a little some more meetings around what type of ideas to your point about sharing notes that's working in Chicago and other cities like New York that we could share those ideas and then we can actually move them simultaneously versus an asylum.

[Eric Bolling]

Let's see. Let's see what's working in Chicago, New York, Boston, pretty much nothing. Hey Ben, can you get on the horn for a second? Voice of God in our ear that who was that guy next to Brandon?

[Ben (Producer/Assistant)]

That was Hassan Piker. That's Chank nephew that I didn't know they were related.

[Eric Bolling]

Hasan Piker is he's a flamethrower yeah, yeah, I got you. I didn't know they were really makes sense now. All comes together. Yeah. All right, since you're on already, maybe you can walk the folks through this. How to subscribe to the Edge using this video. Walk us through it, Ben.

[Ben (Producer/Assistant)]

So when you hold your camera up to the QR code on screen, a little yellow tab is going to pop up on the bottom. It's going to take you. That link is going to take you directly to Eric's YouTube account. You can hit subscribe. Once you hit subscribe, you can hit the little bell right next to it to get updated with notifications whenever Eric posts.

[Eric Bolling]

Beautiful. Well done, Mr. Ben. We got some voicemails at the backside of this commercial break, I believe. Do believe, right?

[Ben (Producer/Assistant)]

Yes, sir.

[Eric Bolling]

All right, we'll be right back, folks. Two and a half minutes.

[John Solomon]

All right, there it is.

[Eric Bolling]

There's the control room. There's Ben. There's Colton over to the left. Ben's right screen left of Ben. Behind is Trish and Matt, if I'm not mistaken. So Cole had a good idea. Ben, he's like, you know, md, his name is md And I call him Mad Dog from The My Mad Dog 2020 Days and the 2020 Mad Dog Days in college. The cheapest alcohol we could possibly find because we were broke. So we call Mad Dog md. It's just near and dear to my heart. We got to come up with a name for Ben. So folks, if you call in, show them the number. Ben, if you call in, call. What do you think? What's a good name for Ben? Now, let's see. We'll come up with it. All right, let's do this. You got some voicemails. Hello, you there?

[Ben (Producer/Assistant)]

Yes, sir, we have the dog DOJ dropping the investigation into the Biden auto pen.

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah, John from Wisconsin again. I heard that DOJ is considering dropping investigation on Biden's auto pen. I don't know why they put that on the news because everybody knows the DOJ is incompetent. They weren't going to do anything anyway. Since Trump took office, the DOJ is like over a hundred when it comes to prosecutions and putting people in jail. They might have just as well close the jails because ain't nobody going to be going in there anyway. It's just a waste of taxpayers money. Thank you.

[Eric Bolling]

So, John from Wisconsin, we've been pounding the table here day in and day out. Even Solomon was on earlier and we Talked about the FBI for 10 years has been investigating Trump and Trump supporters and People working with Trump. And my question was, are we going to see any per blocks, any people going to be behind bars? And I just. You're right. I just don't know why. Why can't we throw some people in jail? We talked about it. We know what they're doing. We've caught them doing it. They lie, Clinton's lie. And we catch them and we just cannot put anyone behind bars. It really is scary. It's almost like a free pass to do whatever the hell you want to do once you're elected as a congressman or a senator or working in administration for that matter. I don't know. I don't think we close the jails. I think we keep trying, though. We keep trying. Benny.

[Ben (Producer/Assistant)]

Yes, sir, we have. Trump's recent attacks against Iran are moves against China.

[Caller/Listener]

Hey, Mr. B. This is Tom T from Ohio. I think maybe Trump might be a little bit smarter than people giving credit for. He hates China. He hates what they did to us and he hates them. He may say he gets along with old Ggping, but you take a look at it. First was Venezuela, now it's Iran. He's cutting the legs off. He's going after him. They'll be crumbling like a cookie. Chinese cook cookie.

[Eric Bolling]

You mean a fortune cookie? Is that fortune? That's not racist, is it? Fortune cookie? Every Chinese restaurant I know has Chinese cookies. You know, you're right. China, definitely. They don't produce oil. They have to import. They have coal, but they can't run cars and trucks, diesel trucks, on coal. So you're right. Yeah. So they need oil and they. They buddy up with Russia, Venezuela, Iran and other oil producing countries. You're 100% right. Is he? I'm hoping. I was thinking about this. This morning. I was with Bannon. I got some great ideas for Trump. I sent it to Susie Wiles, sent it to Pete Hegseth. Pete texted me back, says, great idea. See if it gets elevated to the President. I sent it to two or three others in Stephen Miller. Great. I think this is what Trump should do. Keep the pressure on Venezuela and Iran right now. Keep the pressure. Offer to lift the American boot off their neck with our military. Lift that off. If they do a partnership with our oil companies in the United States, we can increase oil production by 2 million barrels. In Venezuela. They used to do 3, they do 1, we can increase that from 1 to 3. 2 million there and we can probably increase Iran 3 or 4 million barrels. So 6 or 7 million barrels increase. You do a partnership, you sign it, make it legal make. It doesn't matter if it's a mullah or a president in Iran. In Venezuela its legal binding international law. And we get, they own the oil. We get the first crack at it at the market, prevailing market price. What that means is we'll never pay for another hundred dollar barrel of oil ever. It won't matter to us anymore. We produce 13 million barrels in America a day. We use 20 million. We have to import 7 million barrels a day. That's the 7 million right there. Two from Venezuela, four or five. Four. It's called four from Iran. That increased production. They've done it before. We help them do it and guess what happens? We're never dependent on foreign oil ever again. There are company countries that do this right now with companies. Saudi Aramco is a public private. Petrobras Brazil same public private. Russia has one. Most big producing nations have a company that is in bed with the country's government to produce oil. We just have let them have their oil. We just get it. We produce it, we get it. Simple solution. I hope they hear it. And Trump can make that deal. He loves making deals. He's all about the art of the deal. This is a deal that, well, Venezuela, Iran can walk away whole. We walk away much more than whole. And Trump can take credit for that deal. I'll even give it to him. Anyway, got a quick one. My chance.

[Ben (Producer/Assistant)]

Are these all kind of. We may have to cut out of it soon. But it's on the same topic we were just talking about here.

[Caller/Listener]

Hi, Eric, John Lyle from Wisconsin. I have a question for you. Just because we're having a war in the Middle east, why is gas prices in the United States going up?

[Eric Bolling]

All right, take it up. I wasn't aware that. Thank you, sir. Thank you for this important question because here's what's happening. You talk about war, the media talks about war. In the Middle east with a producing country, oil producing country, prices go up. Gas prices immediately go up. Even though the gallon you're buying today, we was refined 45 days ago at a lower price. Doesn't matter when oil prices go up because of the rhetoric that's going on on the news. Every news stories, every news hours leading with it, prices go up and retailers push the price up. Gasoline retailers push the price up. They keep it up, it doesn't come down. Even if prices of oil come down, they keep it up. And anything more news keeps going up, it's really price gouging. You're 100% right, sir. There's supposed to be rules against it. Generally, we eat it, by the way, Diesel more.