Chuck Schumer (7:31)

Funding the government should be a bipartisan effort. But Republicans chose a partisan path, drafting their continuing resolution without any input, any input from congressional Democrats. Because of that, Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to invoke cloture on the House cr.

Dan Bongino (7:54)

Notice how he. Obviously we're kidding. This is one of the most liberal Democrats in the Senate. But you almost have to. You don't have to like it, which I certainly don't. But you almost have to respect the grift going on here. How, how he says Republicans don't have the votes to stop cloture. What he's saying in a backwards. Did you guys catch that when you listen to it? He doesn't want to state the obvious, which is the Democrats are withholding the votes to pass the bill, so he's blaming it on Republicans. Do you get. Did you guys get that the Democrats have a magical, almost magical power. I don't mean that in a qualitatively good way to use language in a way that makes you to believe the opposite of what's happening is actually happening. You see what he did there? He could just state the obvious. We're not voting for this and the government's going to shut down. He doesn't say that Republicans have not successfully acquired enough of the spreadsheet type transactional vote numbers in order to invoke the court. Because he doesn't want to say the obvious. We're shutting the government down. I thought we weren't shut down. I thought the government showed. That was terrible. People are all going to you went through the whole litany of horribles. You ever hear the term parade of Horribles? Everyone's going to die if the government shuts down. So now the Democrats who told us we need government, you need government in every aspect of your life. Every aspect of your life. There's nothing. You can't hit a baseball without government. Now all of a sudden, the Democrats are to shut the government down. Shut the government down Party. Once you learn to dissect political euphemisms, you can never go back. How he handled that is why I played that clip. Notice the language he uses. He doesn't want to state the obvious. So what's the solution of that, folks? The solution of that is for you all to get out the message out there that it's not the Republicans who shut this thing down. Whether we agree with the spending levels or not. I don't. I've been fairly candid about that. But we didn't have the votes. We will do reconciliation. They, the Democrats are the ones not voting to keep the government open, therefore voting to shut it down by simple logic. Here's Chuck Schumer again. Again, misdirection is how they do everything. I want you to notice again how they use euphemisms and word games to try to play games with things that are actual facts. Three plus three equals six. There's no way to word game your way out of that. Okay, here he is talking about Elon and Social Security fraud. So Elon Musk and the Doge found out before you hear this clip. So you understand that there's a lot of fraud in Social Security, but here's how it's working. There are people calling Social Security offices and changing over the phone routing numbers. So if Gise gets Social Security, Michael calls and says, hey, flip it over to my my account. Without Gee's authorization, Elon and his team found that this is a real problem and are fixing the phone system. Listen to the way Schumer characterizes this and says, oh, you know, we don't have evidence of all this fraud. Really. I'll show you the receipts coming up after that. Check this out.

Chuck Schumer (11:07)

Americans certainly support eliminating waste, but they don't want to see their Social Security benefits taken away over a lie perpetuated in hopes of just slashing them to give tax breaks for billionaires paid for by the middle class. As Musk lies shamelessly about Social Security, he conveniently ignores. The federal government already conducts an audit of Social Security every single year. He cherry picks data to suggest that tens of Millions of dead people are getting checks. This is a lie. Like so many of his other lies.

Dan Bongino (11:47)

It's a lie, folks. It's a lie. He made it up. It's a lie. No fraud in Social Security. Except if you go back to this office of Inspector general report from August 19, 2024. Which says what? Yes, Justin, you're correct. He's like, I didn't say anything. I know. Which says there is shockingly fraud in Social Security. They found nearly $72 improperly paid. That doesn't say $72. It says 72 billion. Billion dollars. Billion. 72. That's a. That's a lot of money. Do me a favor, Justin. Look up the entire state budget of, say, North Dakota. Tell me what is so. Let me read this inspector general report. Inspector general reports. This is, by the way, 2024. August of 2024, nearly 72 billion is improperly paid. Recommended improvements go unimplemented. Through several audits, Social Security Administration inspector general made dozens of recommendations to prevent improper payments before they occur, also to correct existing improper payments. However, to date, many of those recommendations remain unimplemented, leading to continued improper payments. 72 billion. This is not an Austin Powers moment. This is the North Dakota state budget for the 2025 biennium is approved by the 2023 legislation. Assembly totals 19.6 billion. Wow. Gee. Says 19 points around up 20 billion. So you're talking about over 3x the the budget of an entire state in this great United States of America. That's the fraud in the system. Three times the entire state budget. Sounds to me like kind of a BFD Big deal. You see, folks, there's a problem with this. Outside of the obvious, nobody likes fraud. The problem with this is you have people who paid into the system. What do you mean? I mean, like, their entire adult lives accurately paid into the system. I almost slipped and said literally, but I just said it. I hate that word. I only got two more days to tell you how much I hate that word. I'm going to fit it in. I lost the chat here. I want to see you guys. I got to turn off the WI fi sometimes. There we go. Now you're back. Folks, there's a problem with this. I always use the example of, say, the parking spots for people who have physical disabilities, right? Someone pulls in there who's not disabled and has no problem. And someone who comes in who may, say, be in a wheelchair or has to move with a cane doesn't get that spot. It is not cost free when $72 billion is stolen from taxpayers who put their money into this system anticipating a government annuity based system. Typically it's not. It's a paygo system, but whatever. And it's stolen. That's no money for you. You have to ask yourself a very serious question right now. Why is Chuck Schumer ignoring this office nonpartisan Office of Inspector General report? Because of what I told you. There are Democrats up on the Hill who just don't care about fraud because they feel like this. You ready? Tattoo this on your brain. Once you find out how much government fraud and public corruption is going on within federal government enterprises like the Social Security Administration, they're afraid you'll never trust government again. That's why they're hiding this. You want to get paid and get your paid into Social Security benefits? You should be the first one screaming about this. Folks, the Democrats used to pretend to care about waste, fraud and abuse. How do we know this hat tip? The great Maze More Maze. Guys, are we going to Ms. Maze? Maze, can you. Can we get a little goodbye from you tomorrow? We love you Maze. More. If you're not following Maze More on X, you're making a huge mistake at Maze M O O R E. Can you pull them up on the screen? But I know you can share your screen. This account, folks, we love hat tips here because we are not the only people in the space. There are amazing creators who deserve the best. And I'm going to tell you something guys, is there anyone we've used more. There you go, Maze More on X. There's the account. Make sure everybody goes and follows them. I don't care if you tell them we sent you or not. Doesn't matter to me. All that matters is you follow that account. Great video content, fantastic montages. Who else? We got Western Lensman's fantastic. I hate to leave anybody out. There's so many. You've got Gunther Eagleman. We love. We love our buddy, Chicago Ray Insurrection Barbie. There are just so, so many who. Oh, of course. Cat Turd. I mean Cat Turd's like the bad. We love Cat. There we go. Just fantastic accounts to follow. The Grabian. We love Grabian. Tom Elliott from Grabian. So if you're putting together a show, shout outs are important. Here is Maze Moore with a great montage of how the Democrats, prominent Democrats used to claim at least that they cared about waste, fraud and abuse until we actually found it. Check this out. We cannot keep our promises on Medicare. We simply must keep promise, make the cuts in waste, fraud and abuse in Medicare so that the benefits and the premiums are untouched. There is an enormous amount of waste and fraud and abuse in this government. When there is waste and fraud, you have an administration who should also be on top of that situation.

Chuck Schumer (17:59)

If we're going to eliminate the waste, fraud and abuse in Medicare, it does mean we're going to cut some of that out. And when I hear my friend Dave Camp say, you cannot cut money out of Medicare. You can't just get up there and say, we don't want to cut anything out of Medicare. We want to cut the bad stuff and keep the good stuff.

Dan Bongino (18:18)

This is such a loser argument for them, the Democrats. I mean, precision matters to go to the wall to shut the government down. It's an absolute loser argument for them. They, Donald Trump has them so discombobulated. Another word I hate, but I'll use it here that they're arguing against now bedrock Democrat collectivist principles like we need the government. What do we do without the government? That's why we're asking you to pay 40% of your money to the government. We need it so much, we're willing to shut it down. That argument just doesn't work. As a conservative, you know, you don't want any of these things to kind of shut down. You want it efficient and lean. But it's not against your fundamental ethos that I don't need government in my life. I need, you know, I need family, God, country, police department, a court system. Just a train wreck argument. By the way, before I take a break, where did I get the Chuck Schumer as Palestinian? I didn't make that up. Senator Schumer. Guy, if you would. This is one of my favorites in the show today. Producer Mike did some of this. Is that correct? This is a banger of Producer Mike. Nice job, man. Producer Mike is a genius. I was well aware of that, but now he really kind of hammered it. Receipts matter. Here's Donald Trump. This is where we got that from in the beginning of the show. Check this out. And Schumer is a Palestinian as far as I'm concerned. You know, he's become a Palestinian. He used to be Jewish. He's not Jewish anymore. He's a Palestinian. I'm just spreading the news cycle. There you go. Unaware of that. Unaware of that. Oh, man, I told you, man. We had a great show for you lined up. Up next, it's the second to last show. For 10 years I've been saying the same thing. I'm going to take my last poll on this question just to make sure I haven't been wrong for 10 years. I love the economic segments. Some people don't. Bot Gino, this is it. Do you want me to run with this next segment? 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Howard Lutnick (23:53)

$2 trillion deficits don't bother you at all? How could you ask me while we're running a $2 trillion deficit and not care? You're destroying the people who have run this country before, are destroying the future for my children and my children's children. I can't have a 50 75. We have a $36 trillion deficit and we used to run deficits of 400 billion. Now 2 trillion. Everybody's like, who cares? I tell you what, who cares? Donald Trump cares. And when we balance the budget, you know what that means? That means our deficits stop, interest rates come smashing down. His goal is to have external revenue. You know, the way I think about it, we all are so used to paying taxes. We're so used to it. We have like Stockholm syndrome.

Dan Bongino (24:48)

I have not heard. I got another clip of him coming up in a minute. I haven't heard a better and simpler explanation about why Donald Trump has Elon Musk in the doge looking for efficiencies in government and and way to ways to cut the tidal wave of red ink. Folks, this is very simple. I may not do it as eloquently as Secretary Lutnick just did, but I'm going to try. When the government spends more money than it takes in from taxes, which we've been doing every year for decades, Republicans and Democrats, to be clear, both parties have been responsible. Where does the money come from? No one ever thinks about this. The money's got to come from somewhere because all the checks cash, right? Have you ever gotten a Social Security check that bounced? No. Seriously? Outside of some anomaly someone claimed fraud or something? No. Well, how is that happening? Clearly, some of you out there are getting money that the government never took in from tax dollars, correct? Because it didn't. Well, the answer is it borrowed it. From who? Well, from you. Or it printed it and digitally created it through the Fed. We had quantitative easing and all this type of stuff. What's the problem with that? Folks, the problem is this tidal wave of debt creates more money because the money has to come from somewhere. And when you have more money in an economy, interest rates go up. Do you know why that is? It's very simple. This is why Commerce Secretary Lutnick was giving the example of interest rates. You got to buy a house, you got to buy a car. You want to pay 20% interest rates on these items. Keep spending money we don't have. Because why? Because for the United States to keep borrowing money at the levels we are. The number he mentioned, $30 trillion, 2 trillion this year alone. You have to pay people higher and higher interest rates to take a risk of lending the government money. It's not hard. There is no such thing as a. What? Free lunch. Yes. Producer Jim. He's like, I didn't say anything. I know. I'm in your head. I know what you're thinking. He's a Milton Friedman guy, too. There's no such thing, folks. Any Democrat or any Republican saying, oh, don't worry, just keep loading up on the red ink and the debt. Who's going to make us pay? The answer is, you know who's going to make you pay? This guy. His name is Mr. Jim. Do you know? He's like, I have no idea. His name is Mr. Math. Mr. Math. He also goes by Mr. Arithmetic sometimes Mr. Numbers. The money has to come from somewhere, and once you create it, it's very difficult to uncreate. Now, it's incredible that under the Biden, Obama, and listen, we've had a lot of spending in the Trump era. Too. We had the COVID stuff. What's incredible is that Donald Trump in just we had what, 53 days, 54 plus or minus a day or two into the Trump term, the second Trump presidential term, that now inflation, which candidly could be 5, 6, 7%, is actually coming down and is 2.8. It's amazing that only 50 days President Trump and his team, Secretary Lutnick, Treasury Secretary Bessen, Energy Secretary Wright and others, that they've already managed to at least get a little bit of a lid on the inflation crisis despite the tidal wave of red ink, is incredible. It's so incredible, even CNN is like, well, you know, this inflation reduction stuff can't really deny it's happening because it's, yes, happening. Check this out.

CNN Reporter (28:33)

Finally, we have some good news on the economy and really the number one issue for many Americans, the cost of living. So we just learned that consumer prices in February increased by 2.8% year over year,.2% month over month. Both of these figures were a step in the right direction and both were better than expected. So this is definitely very encouraging to see because it's going to, I think, relieve some fears that inflation was perhaps reaccelerating because this actually breaks a streak of four straight months where I think you could see it on the chart all the way to the right where the inflation rate was going in the wrong direction.

Dan Bongino (29:10)

Right.

CNN Reporter (29:10)

It was going higher and higher. Finally, we're seeing it dip.

Dan Bongino (29:15)

Listen, I get, I have a lot of critics out there, Jim. They just discovered this thing I have now called what? Yes, a job. They just discovered it. And Jim, we're going to take a break in a second for this thing called what? Yes. And they just discovered this. I can't say this enough. Don't ever accuse me of partizan bias on the economy. I told you Republicans and Democrats have added to the debt and deficit, did I not? Period. I have been very clear on this. The reason I play CNN polling a lot is I don't want you accusing me of making the numbers up. CNN clearly has an ideological agenda which isn't mine. And they're even telling you here are the numbers are inflation, they're coming down since President Trump got in office. I'm going to explain to you why in a second. And it has a lot to do with what Secretary Lutnick just said about the printing of money and the chasing of goods. There's something Donald Trump and his team have done that is causing it to kind of level out. 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But why is it coming down in just 50 plus days of the Trump administration? There are a lot of reasons, but I'm going to give you two that I think are the most important. Our energy secretary, who's excellent, Secretary Wright, has committed in conjunction with Donald Trump and his team, President Trump, to a full, I don't know any way to say drill baby, drill agenda. If we have gas and petro products underneath the ground somewhere, it is our goal to get them cheaply into your gas tank, into your factory so that you can run your business. Now. Why does that matter? Because, folks, there's a futures market for these products. In other words, people will bid on the future price of oil and gas. There's a huge speculative market, I know that has a negative connotation, speculation, but that's what people do. It's a free country. You can, you can, you know, invest in futures contracts all you want. Futures contracts are going to start to come down dramatically as Energy Secretary Wright and President Trump start opening up land for more development. That is why. And that's what does that have to do with inflation? Well, it's fairly obvious a huge chunk of your expenses are home heating bills, gasoline prices, oil and gas for your heater in your house. But think about for the business world, folks. These factories don't run on good intentions. They run on oil and gas and petro products. It's energy that goes into this. You want to build a manufacturing base, we need energy. It's a huge input cost. So if you can control an input cost, your output cost, in other words, the forward facing price of the product you deal with is going to be less. That's why the inflation numbers starting to ebb even though we are dealing with a massive hangover of a $30 trillion debt and $2 trillion from last year. Second thing, Donald Trump's tax cuts through the extension of his 2017 tax cuts, which have now the processes at least started through reconciliation. Republicans collectively said we want this and started the process. There's a futures market as well. Not technically, but it's called the stock market. The stock market is the net present value today of the future profits of a company. I don't want to bore anyone to that. When you invest in A stock that, say, 10x the money that the company makes. Why would you invest in a stock that the company says it's more than they actually make? The answer is because you're not investing in what they make today. You're investing in the net present value of their future profit stream. So if you think tax cuts are coming and production is going to be juiced, then people are investing in the stock market, anticipating more products out there. They're going to suck up a lot more of this money and therefore inflation. Who? That was a lot. Here's the second part of that interview. Secretary Howard Ludnick talking about how Donald Trump doesn't want personal income taxes. He's not talking about consumption taxes because that's basically what tariffs would be, but income taxes. I don't know if he's talking about capital gains, too, but Donald Trump's goal is no taxes for people who make less than $150,000 a year. Do you have any idea the impact on the economy? If you basically took home, outside of state and local taxes and property taxes, your entire paycheck, you have any idea how much juice to the economy that would be? Listen to this.

Howard Lutnick (36:26)

How about no tax on tips? How about no tax on overtime? How about no Social Security? How about all those things? These are the kind of thoughts that will change America. I know what his goal is. No tax for anybody who makes less than $150,000 a year. That's his goal. So that's what I'm working for.

Dan Bongino (36:46)

Put aside all the nonsense partisan talking points, because we do only receipts here. That's all I care about. I'm not interested in talking points, ladies and gentlemen. If you make 150,000, say 100, we'll just use a rounder number there. You make $100,000 a year. That's state and local taxes. Obviously, Donald, President Trump, that's, you know, he can influence that, but he can't legislate on that. Okay. Or he's not the executive over that. The governors are take out 10% on average. So you figure you take home 90% of your paycheck. No federal income taxes, nothing else. Do you have any idea how much money would flow into the economy? So now, say, throw out round numbers. You make in 3, 400 extra dollars a paycheck, weekly or bi weekly. Right? 3, 400 extra dollars a paycheck. What are you going to do with it? The answer is it doesn't matter. Whatever you do with it, the economy gets juiced. Well, Dan, if I don't spend it. The economy doesn't get juice. They didn't buy anything. That is incorrect, sir. I know you're not saying that my P1s because you're smart. What do you do with the money? Well, I would put it in a bank. And it's not doing anything? No. The bank is taking that money and lending it to a business. And the more money that flushes around in the economy, interest rates then come down, the money becomes cheaper because there's more money. It's like anything else. You run out of bagels, they become expensive. You have a lot of bagels, they become really cheap. Supply, demand, it's not hard. Market clearing price is the intersection of those two points on a graph. You get a ton of money flushing into banks now. And the financial system loans get cheaper. People can buy more cars, cheaper. People can buy more homes. Businesses can buy more factory equipment. There is no scenario here by which the economy loses. None. But, Dan, what if they spend the money? Great. And maybe they buy another car so then the car dealer has to replace the car you just bought so they have to get more steel and glass and rubber for the tires and brake pads. Then they got to hire another salesman and everybody gets a job. But then the government would be starved of money. Okay, show me evidence. Anyone in the chat, show me evidence of that. No. Show me evidence. Show me a Republican tax cut of the last 40 years that has, quote, cost the government money. I'll wait. Okay, you can't. Now for the liberals in the chat who say, clearly you're lying. I heard in school from my liberal professor, Samuel Gee had the same liberal professor on the quad smoking a bowl. And Samuel told them the Reagan tax cuts eviscerated the benevolent government and stole money from the government. It's actually the government's money. It's not yours. I say, really, do me a favor. Go to Statista, that website, statistics website, and pull up U.S. federal government revenue by year and show me the Republican tax cut that, quote, costs the government money. Oh, look at that. Look at that. The Reagan tax cuts. Government actually brought in more money. Let's go back even farther. Let's go back to Calvin Coolidge. There are people out there on the other side of fence. Who is that? He was a president. Look at his tax cuts. Oh, look, the government made more money. Look at the George W. Oh, my gosh, look at. These guys are so fast. I didn't even tell them to do that. Here it is on the screen. I saw it pop up. We got fancy monitors Total receipts of the US government, 2000-2029. Guys, I'm not a math. Michael, you're a math major, correct? That line looks like it's going what direction? Up. You guys have that upside down. Michael says, I am a math major. I can confirm that is, in fact up. That's the chart. But I thought liberals told us that the Trump tax cuts, the Bush tax cuts, and the Reagan tax cuts cost us a whole boatload of money. Now, to be clear, that only covers Bush and Donald Trump. But that's not what I see in that handy dandy chart there. So, Dan, what you're telling me is if the Trump vision for the economy is implemented, people will have more money, people will sell more cars, barbers will give more haircuts, people will get more jobs, it'll be fewer people on unemployment and social services, so we won't have to spend more tax dollars taking care of people. And that the government may actually raise more revenue because they're taking a slice from an enormous pie. That's exactly what I'm telling you. Now, if you're going to counter that and say, well, that plan sucks, I'm going to say to you, okay, show me your receipts. Look at that. You don't have them. You don't have them? No, no. We have an example of a great economy. We have the Barack Obama eight years. Really? You do? Maybe you're unaware of this, but you should check this yourself. Fact check it. So you don't think I'm making it up. Do you know Barack Obama is the only president in modern US History in eight years? In eight years, he had two terms, in case you forgot, the only president in modern US history to not hit the 3% GDP mark ever in his eight years. 3%. That's not even that hard to do in an economy as powerful as ours. I strongly encourage you to just. If you're going to fight back, go right ahead. I respect and love free speech, and I love a good argument. All I'm asking for is the receipts. That's it. And is what I'm saying wrong? Is what I'm saying wrong? It's not and you know it. By the way, if you're gonna throw a curve ball on me, someone sent me the nicest email yesterday. It was a woman. And if you're out there listening, forgive me, I forget your name. It's not intentional. We're just getting so many nice emails. And she said to me, dan, what I'm gonna miss most about your show is you always bring the hard receipts, and I use them to debate my liberal friends and I never lose an argument. I gotta tell you, I almost started, like, the tears almost started flowing like that is the. That is like the sole purpose of this show. From the beginning. That has been the purpose of the show. Folks. Opinions are like holes, right? Everybody's got one. Can you back it up or not? And the purpose of this show for 10 years has been to produce data and receipts that you can go and say, I'm sorry. You're entitled to your opinion, which I respect, but your opinion is not a fact. It's actually incorrect. You doubt what I'm telling you? Show me. Otherwise, you can't. I'm going to miss that. But I hope you understand that as of Monday, I have a different responsibility to all of the citizens of this great United States and my partisan hat, like it had in the past during my time in my prior line of work protecting both Republicans and Democrat presidents. I hope you all understand that. I have to. I know. You're killing my vibe. Sheesh. Key. I'm going to miss that, too. He's the worst timing ever. Do you know, like, having this emotional moment. He's like, speaking to the mic, I'm eating the thing. What else you want me to do? Oh, okay. Well, that's a good point. Well, regardless what I was saying is that, you know, Monday, I hope you all understand I have to put that all aside. That's what I swore to do. And that oath matters to me and I know you guys respect that. So thank you. Let me get to my next topic so I don't get too emotional about this stuff again. Tomorrow's show is going to be a total surprise. It's not a joke. I am not kidding. I have no idea what these guys have planned on radio or podcast, and I think that's going to be the best part of it. So this happened yesterday, folks, in the chat. One of my final. Jimmy Dog. That's hilarious. Why are you afraid to dress the FC Gilbert Jimmy? That's an appropriate name for you. Jimmy Dong. If you picked a pseudonym, that was perfect for you. Yes, you're right, Guy. We've never discussed that topic ever on the show, right? Ever? No, never, Never, never. Don't we actually have shows titled that that we. I'm sure we do. Yeah. You can actually look at the library. But of course we always get some smart ass in the chat who likes to say dumb stuff. Not. Not this guy, though. Henry04u2 oh, I love. Now, why does Guy by the way, always capitalize. That happens with me with autocorrect. Is there a reason? Yeah, because it stands for graphic user interface. Oh, oh, oh, the comp. Yes, yes. Graphic user interface. Good point. Yeah. It does that for me all the time. That is not my legal name, though. That is not. I know it's not your legal name. I found that out, interestingly enough, when some employment documents. I was like, wow, look at this. But we like it. All right, back to the show. You know how easily I get distracted sometimes shows authentic. And I. I just got so much going on in my head, man. So yesterday, one of the best Donald Trump appointments so far as the borders are. Can we all agree? If you disagree, let me know. In the chat has been the great Tom Homan. I just want to show you this. Yesterday, leftist activists. I thought they hated insurrections and taking over government buildings. I thought that was their thing. You know, we're anti insurrection. We hate the Chewbacca guy, remember him? Chewbacca almost took over the country. We almost lost everything. It was the worst event since the Civil War. Remember them talking about that? They don't seem to care much about insurrections in the New York State Capitol. All Tom Homan was doing was showing up to talk about illegal immigration in New York. They didn't like that. There was a lot of screaming and yelling. He had to have a police escort inside. Check this out. Yeah, I know. I'm just sorry. Smarty Pants 3. What a name. I love using your receipts. It's why I trust your opinions. I try not to get as emotional. Thank you, sir or ma'am. Love you, too. I thought they don't like insurrections. I thought they were the anti Insurrection party. I don't get it. Looks to me very insurrectiony. Here is dark mode. Tom Holman. You got to love this guy. I've met Tom. I've known Tom a long time. Amazing guy. An absolute patriot, by the way. Another guy who has worked for Democrat and Republican presidents and has done his job the exact same way. They just don't like him because he's working for a Republican president. Now here is dark mode. Tom Holman. You guys lifted the dark mode on child separations? Ladies and gentlemen, you don't want to be separated from your child. Don't commit a crime. You have to go to jail. It's really not difficult to do. Check this out.

Tom Homan (47:56)

Now, I always hear all the time, family separation, home into godfather, Savannah separation. Let me be clear. Zero tolerance is about saving lives. But we figure we start prosecuting people who violate the law and put the children in harm's way. Maybe they stopped coming and they did. Numbers went down. It's unfortunate families got separated, but it happens to American families every day. Going to happen in Albany today, that American family will be separated by law enforcement because the child can't go to jail with a parent. But we want to talk about family separation. A half a million children under Joe Biden were trafficked in this country. They can't find 300,000 of them. That's a separation. But you know what? President Trump's committed. We're going to find them and we're going to save them, because many children are enforced labor. Many of these children are in forced sex slavery. We're going to save them. This administration.

Dan Bongino (48:45)

You'Re not going to find a more powerful voice for a strong border. Folks, the border is not a suggestion. It was never designed to be a suggestion, just like the Constitution is not a suggestion. Do you understand? Most of you, I assume, have traveled. Have any of you traveled overseas? Some have, some haven't. You understand what, you know, Vida and I were having this conversation. No, I, I got to tease that, by the way. Don't let me forget. Make sure. Don't let me get off the air. But Evita and I, you know, Evita and I are friends outside of us, working at least for the next few days in the same company. But Evita and I were talking about how you. One of the exceptions to the search and seizure rules of our Constitution are at the US Border, when you come back in, say you cross into Mexico and drive back at the border, they can search your car. They can search your car. If we don't have rules at the border and restrictions on who can come in and come out, you don't even have a country. You have a suggestion of a country. You have what's called a landmass, and that's it. Speaking of which, you know, I'd like to think there's a lot of things I'm good at, a lot of things I'm not good at. A lot. Matter of fact, wrote a whole book about things I'm not good at, but I'm a really good judge of talent. And I knew we had a star in Evita early on. I knew it. The show has been just incredible, incredible for us. Rumble.com Evita, I hope you're watching every single day. She said to me the other day, you know, Dan, can you do my show on Friday, tomorrow? I said, absolutely. So we had a little conversation about it. And the conversation went on forever. And it was just there's so many interesting everything from the vaccine, from how we got to where we are to protests on campus to the Khalil case, to free speech, to the book the Natural. Some of you know where I'm going with that. You're not going to want to miss this conversation tomorrow. If there was ever a early edition with Evita at 9am every day show you wanted to watch, it's tomorrow. It's a really candid conversation, a very emotional one with me and Evita Duffy. Rumble.com Evita, 9am Eastern Time tomorrow. Always. Check out Haley. Haley had 13,000 streamers last night at 6pm The Bongino Army. You guys are amazing. You are so incredibly loyal. Thank you so much. And then Vince sitting right out there, actually, starting next week at 10am his first interview, Tucker Carlson. And believe me, that's on it. He has emptied out his Rolodex to bring you the best first week you're going to see. Folks, this is my last, my last show like this tomorrow. I don't really know what's ahead. These guys have taken over the show for tomorrow and I appreciate that. But this is going to be my last show with this format. So, so thanks. That's all I got to say, I love you guys. Seeing the radio show a little bit back here tomorrow. You just heard the Dan Bongino show, man.