Chris Cillizza (8:45)

Republicans would regularly ping me and say.

Dan Bongino (8:48)

Why don't you ask more questions of Joe Biden and how he's doing. He's 76, 77, 78 year old man.

Chris Cillizza (8:54)

And I would sort of brush them off because what I would say is, well, there's no obvious evidence that he's declining. Yeah, he moves a little slower, he.

Dan Bongino (9:05)

Talks a little slower, but there's, there's no evidence that he's declining.

Chris Cillizza (9:08)

And, and the White House and the people around Joe Biden were absolutely adamant that suggesting anything, asking the question about whether he was in some physical, mental, or both decline was offensive.

Dan Bongino (9:28)

How could you. It's age shaming. And I think that is impacted me.

Chris Cillizza (9:34)

At some level because while I did ask the question from time to time.

Dan Bongino (9:38)

Of, you know, not directly the White.

Chris Cillizza (9:40)

House, but aides and people around in.

Dan Bongino (9:43)

That orbit, I didn't really push on it, bro. It's your freaking job to push on it. You know, guys, when the Stewart Thompson's of the world from the New York Times critique this show and they say Dan spends an inordinate amount of time correcting left wing media bs, but he says it in a more using euphemisms and stuff because he doesn't want you to know the left wing is full of bs. There's a reason for it. I feel a responsibility. I do. I mean, I know, you know, the show can be fiery. I get it sometimes, the language. I promise I'm working on it. It's a hard thing that the Queen's thing. And I know sometimes we joke around sarcasm and some humor, but I'm as serious as a heart attack when I tell you that I am absolutely committed to my audience being the best informed. There is nothing you can tweet out or put on true social that pleases me more and puts a smile on my face. When someone tweets out something like, they're all, they put my last name in it. When someone says to someone, yeah, man, I already knew that. I listened to Bongino six months ago. There is nothing that pleases me more. Unfortunately, we live in a country where people with a lot of eyeballs in earlobes, the left wing commie media, they still have them lie to you all the time. You expect me to just sit back here and let the country be misinformed? It's a political podcast, folks. How much more of this BS are you going to take? Here's a quick example before I get back to this Biden story. Now all of a sudden the media is like, my gosh, we didn't know. We didn't know he was cognitively impaired. I, I got into it a little bit with a not so much a liberal friend, but a friend on the left side, but not far left. And he was trying to make the case that collusion was bad. They acknowledge it, that the collusion Russia collusion hoax. You get what I'm saying? It was a bad thing. He was making A case friendly. But the person said to me, which I kind of found funny because they just don't know what they're talking about. This person said to me, yeah, but it didn't really impact the 2016 election because nobody mentioned Russian collusion before the election. So how would it impact the election? I said, bro, do you guys do any homework at all? See, my audience knows that's BS and they're way ahead of it. Here's the receipt right here. New York Magazine, November 1, 2016. For those of you liberal lunatics can't follow dates, that's before the November election in 2016. Go look this article up. Final October surprises reveal the FBI is probing Trump's alleged Russia. I mean, what do you guys do? You guys know anything ever that everything you say is everything all the time? Here's another one. Everybody's upset on the left. I'm going back to the Biden thing, but this is important. Everybody's upset now on the left or pretending to be upset, they're foe upset. It's all Astroturf. They're like my gosh, Elon in the billionaire class. They've got this profound effect on the Republican party. Okay, so now you care about billionaires influence in politics. After billionaire George Soros and his Soros empire and his son Alex spent hundreds of millions of dollars to get a bunch of left wing city states attorneys and DAs in office that let criminals rampage through American cities, there's a woman who set on fire in the New York City subway. Don't even watch that video. This is all because of left wing DA's and a billionaire. And now the liberals are upset that a billionaire who's not even that right lean, he's more of a libertarian, is allowed to exercise his free speech rights. Libs at TikTok put this the best. Omg, I can't believe a billionaire has influence in the Republican party. Here's the very same people. Here's a little photo montage for you of the Soros crew with just about every major influential Democrat party player right there. Nothing these people tell you is true. Folks, here's a Democrat donor. This lady Lindy Lee's been creating a lot of waves. Here she is saying what all of us knew when Joe Biden was still hilariously claiming he was going to run for reelection. He was at a fundraiser. This lady's there, her family looked at her and was like wtf man, that this guy's brain is freaking mashed potatoes. We were right, they were wrong. This guy's got the nuclear code. Still, check this out.

Chris Cillizza (14:07)

I know President Biden and I love the man, but he is in no shape or form able to carry out the duties that the Commander in Chief requires. And it's just devastating. And we saw that confirmed by the Wall Street Journal expose yesterday and also many exposes in the New York Times, in Washington, in the Washington Post over and over again, how his inner circle is actively covering for him and stepping up to the plate because he simply cannot. And I hosted him on May 1st here in D.C. and I remember one of my family members saying after interacting with President Biden, they said, oh, we're.

Dan Bongino (14:41)

Blank, we're effed, folks, this is a major scandal, okay? We've got what, 28, 29 days left till the, till the inauguration. Joe Biden is mentally not there. Everybody knows it. And the man is still the Commander in chief of the most powerful military on planet Earth. This is kind of a big BFD and Joe Biden's a big freakin deal. You know what ticks me off about this story the most is the Democrats had options here. The demo. I'm not giving the Democrats any advice. It's too late. But they had options, right, folks in the chat? Come on, this is serious stuff. If you had a Republican who was cognitively impaired and you've got a semi competent vice president, you have to say, hey man, it's time to move on. I want the country getting into war with an impaired president. They could have invoked the 25th Amendment, they could have squeezed them earlier. He could have walked out and said, hey, whatever, I beat Donald Trump, you know, air quotes, whatever, I cleaned up the country could have made up some bullshit story. Now I'm going to pass the torch. They didn't do it. So now the question which you can hear from Peter Doocy here, which is an obvious one, is, folks, who the hell is in charge right now? No, no, seriously, not in the figurative sense. I mean, who is actually in charge? Because if Biden has a series of powers vested in him and he's not capable of making decisions on his, quote, bad days, he said, oh, he's got bad days. Who's making the decisions? They still have to get made because it ain't Biden. Watch Peter Doocy ask this exact question like, who the hell is in charge of the White House right now? Check this out. The dam appears to be breaking. This Wall Street Journal item interviewed 50.

Chris Cillizza (16:29)

People familiar with Biden's operation. And it raises a lot of questions about who was making key decisions. You mentioned the Afghanistan withdrawal.

Dan Bongino (16:38)

If the president was as diminished as.

Chris Cillizza (16:42)

This story makes it sound, that would be a huge problem. And it could explain why certain decisions.

Dan Bongino (16:49)

Were made that turned out to be.

Chris Cillizza (16:50)

Catastrophic and why no apologies were ever made.

Dan Bongino (16:54)

You get what he's saying? Biden's team can never acknowledge the decision chain that led to the debacle in Afghanistan because Biden may not have been in his. This is a major, major scandal. And it's an even bigger scandal because what the left calls right wing media, what we call the truth, already exposed this problem. And remember the Washington Post, Glenn Kessler, Adriana Usero. Cheap fake Biden videos and rapture right wing media, but deeply mislead. These people are full of. They are full of it, folks. Everything they tell you is a fake and a lie. Remember this gem from Joe Scarborough? This guy's an absolute clown. I can't even tell you. I ran into this guy in the airport one time. What an absolute goofball. Here he is on his show, not only mad that you expose Biden's cognitive impairment, but telling you not only is he not impaired, he's the best Biden ever. He's even better than before. It's like he took that, know, Wolverine green injection thing at the end of a Logan movie and he's even better than he ever was. Check this out. I've said it for years now. He's cogent. But I undersold him when I said he was cogent. He's far beyond cogent. In fact, I think he's better than he's ever been intellectually, analytically, because he's been around for 50 years. What is it going to take? Forget that. We get what these guys are doing. Scarborough, Stelter, Nicole Wallace. These people are sellouts with zero human dignity. They're embarrassments to their families. I understand that. Their neighborhoods, their country, everything. I get that. But again, to left wingers out there who watch my show. Have you. I got a section coming up on some of them who are starting to figure it out. Are you now starting to figure out why 70% of America doesn't trust you? Because you're full of crap. Everything you say is a lie. I got a couple more of these coming up, including my orchestra, Stelter, Nicole Wallace, and a great segment here on how this parallel economy, this rumble thing is a huge deal, folks, I promise you, man, the future is bright. The days of cancel culture are numbered. It's happening slowly. There's still a big. They still have, you know, power. But I'm telling you, they're their last breaths are coming in this cancel culture. Hey, as someone who lives a very public life and regularly shares content online, I'm really aware of how my information is being tracked and used. Your personal information can be sold online right now without you even knowing. That's why I strongly recommend Delete Me. Delete Me is a service that helps remove your personal information from hundreds of data broker websites. Go to joindeleteme.com Bongino Enter code Bongino at checkout now and tell your relatives too. Email addresses, phone numbers, even home addresses could be floating around waiting to be scooped up by scammers. It's scary, but it could also be preventable this holiday season. Take action and help protect your privacy by getting a Delete Me membership. Get it for yourself and gift it to protect your family. Help eliminate the worry about your information falling into the wrong hands. It's a nightmare if it does give the gift of privacy and peace of mind with Delete Me. And right now, at a special discount for our listeners, get a big 20% off your Delete Me plan when you go to JoinDeleteMe.com Bongino and use promo code Bongino at checkout. That's 20% off. Again, the website JoinDeleteMe.com BongINO use code BONGINO Protect your online privacy. It's important, especially in this new era of AI and data scraping. Check that out. Thanks Delete Me. We appreciate it. Here's a couple more folks showing you the extent of this major scandal to hide the fact that the Commander in Chief has no mental faculties to act like the Commander in Chief at all. Here's disgraceful, corrupt, just life. Loser. Alejandro Mayorkas is a quick one. Just telling you. Oh yeah, this guy's not only sharp Biden, but he is intensely probing. Probing. Someone's probing Biden. But it's not the kind of probe you're thinking. Check this out.

Chris Cillizza (21:11)

The most difficult part about a meeting.

Dan Bongino (21:14)

With President Biden is preparing for it. Because he is sharp, intensely probing and detail oriented and focused. Okie dokes. Sure he is. He's intense. He's being intensely pro Biden, but again, not the way my orcas thinks. Here's another gem, just so you get a nice little cornucopia of left wing BS you could tell you. Have they Is there a single story they've been right about? Here's Nicole Wallace on cheap fakes, in other words, videos you saw that they couldn't say were fake and they couldn't say were AI. So they just called them cheap fakes instead of deep fakes because they couldn't think of a word to describe a real video they just didn't like. Check this out.

Chris Cillizza (21:57)

There's a growing and insidious trend in right wing media, broadcast, print and social media. It is to take highly misleading and selectively edited videos of President Biden directly from Republican National Committee social media accounts and then use those videos to spread messages virally to cast doubt on President Biden's fitness for office. Here is this headline from the New York Post, quote, biden appears to freeze up. Has to be led off stage by Obama at Megabuck's Louisiana fundraiser.

Dan Bongino (22:30)

Yeah, he did freeze up. We actually saw the video. Dumb. I mean, at what point do you try to salvage some shred of human freaking dignity and come out and just apologize for being a commie media apparatchik? Here's the last one, I promise. But I want to make sure you see all of this. Here's, you know, Captain Potato Head. He's not even Mr. Potato Head, he's the captain of the Potato Head or Brian Stelter, a again, a total life loser. I'm convinced this guy's had all kinds of problems in his life. Really. He looks like an emotionally disturbed guy. He's the kind of guy I keep far away from people. He's just a weirdo. Here's Brian Stelter, whose show was hilariously called Reliable Sources, yet was wrong about every single major media news story of our time surrounding Donald Trump. Here he is attacking you for pointing out that the Commander in Chief is not mentally all there. Check this out. But Sinclair, they didn't do any original reporting, they didn't follow up, they didn't do any work. They didn't do any of their own work at all. They just ate it up. And then they regurgitated what the Wall Street Journal said. That's the worst form of so called journalism out there. It's not really news at all. And that's my biggest complaint about this. Yeah, they said this could be an election decider, Joe Biden's age. Well, that's true. If the media obsesses over it and ignores Trump's flaws, that will be true if the media puts its fists on the scale. Now there's this schism going on I haven't addressed in about a month. It's real. Folks on the left, our job here is to tactically break down our political opponents. So we understand in the art of political warfare how to outflank them and win. That's what we're here for, to win, right? We're not here for moral victories. That doesn't mean squad. We need votes. I'm a spreadsheet guy, and you are too. Some of them are figuring it out now. This is not a reflection of me celebrating anyone here. I want you to understand that when I play these clips like AOC coming up next, let's say, oh, AOC Smart. AOC is the single dumbest member of Congress. She is. There's not even a close second, folks, in the chat. Who's the dumbest male member of Congress? Who gets it? I want to make sure you guys are paying attention. Who. Who's the dumbest male member of Congress? We know aoc. Who gets it first? Who gets it first? Head nod, sad to say. Come on, who is it? No, no, no. Vanetti, 94 Dan Goldman. Yes, Vanetti, 94 Dan Goldman. But Dan Goldman is nothing on AOC. However, there is one thing. AOC even really, really stupid people can typically do at least one thing well. AOC does social media well. She does and she has a lot of followers, folks. It's just a fact. I'm a spreadsheets guy. You ignore it at your own peril. AOC understands that that is the new media market. People are getting their news from TikTok, Snapchat, Fake Book, Twitter, X Truth Rumble, YouTube. They're not getting it from the old school media. There is a growing portion of the Democrat party. The only reason I bring this up is this tactical advantage we have where Brian Stelter, Nicole Wallace and Mayorkas are still puzzled why nobody pays attention to them. If they lie, it's going to change. Don't get caught. Blindsided. Here's aoc. She's sensing that if there's not a big change in the Democrat party in terms of information exchange and getting out there like she does, that they're the. The party may be obsolete. Watch this.

Chris Cillizza (25:55)

It is really hard for a lot of, I think Democrats to wrap their head around the current media environment that we are in. And there's still like this really big attachment to the idea that cnn, msnbc, the op ed, you know, pages of the New York Times are where swing voters are and where everyday people are. And as we saw from the election, people who, yeah, if you ascribe to that kind of a media diet, you are overwhelmingly supporting Democrats. But there has for a very long and this was actually part of what cut, part of what I was trying to offer the party is also part of what I think had cut against me in this race, which is that there's this idea that having this not among all Democrats, but I think among more of the old guard, that having that kind of resonance and responsiveness is gauche and low brow and unsophisticated.

Dan Bongino (27:04)

There's a reason I played that. Yes, the woman is a moron. I understand that. Low aptitude, low achievement. She is an imbecile. I was told early on when I started my podcast in 2015, what she Said at the end is absolutely accurate. The Democrats are 10 years late. But I was told even by Republicans, because I don't want you to think people in our party are above this either. They were like a podcast. What are you, a dumbass? You can't get a radio show? What kind of loser are you? I said, well, you're kind of a moron. Radio shows are great. I mean, I have one now and I love radio shows. The audience is really healthy. But, you know, kids can go in the car and Bluetooth and this is 10 years ago, I'm telling people about Apple CarPlay and Bluetooth and there were people like, well, what the hell does that mean? I said, podcasts are the future. The Democrats are 10 years late, but they're catching up. Even Foreign Policy magazine, we're talking about an old guard outlet. They're talking about in this thing how the world of podcasts and social media programming, they can reach large and extremely loyal audiences. I mean, the reason I bring it up may sound a bit self serving, but they're talking about how progressives don't have this robust menu of programs. Their words, you can read them right there. They have basically Pod Save America and. And that's it. They know we have Rogan, Shapiro, Tucker, Matt Walsh, Dan Bongino, Steve Bannon and others. They're going to catch up. So it's time for us to do what it is time for us to take what we have and now leverage up. Folks, the parallel economy is huge and growing. There are a growing number of corporations, politicians. There are people out there in the business world. There were retail investors who were tired of the cancel culture thing. This was a huge story last week. Obviously, you know I'm an equity holder in Rumble. However, this was a big deal. Rumble is the free speech alternative to YouTube, folks. The site has absolutely exploded. Something like three to five of the top 10 content creators on any given day. Crowder, Bannon, you have Rebel News, you have all, but you have Russell Brand, you have Don Jr. A role on Rumble, the Dan Bongino show secured 775 million rumble from tether to bolster free speech and decentralization. The stock went absolutely crazy today because people are starting to figure it out, folks. It's not just what rumble has that YouTube didn't have early on. I want you to pay attention ladies and gentlemen. We are not a video site. Yes you are. No, we're not. We're a site that has videos. We. We are not a video site. What are you then? We are a free expression site and I don't mean that in some otherworldly way. The reason we have our server business is because we don't want you being kicked off Amazon web services like they did to parler use our servers. That business is going great. 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So text Dan to the number 989-898 today. Message and data rate supply. Thanks Birch Gold. So here's an old guard media guy, right? This Axios guy, Jim Vanderheim. Remember the one who exploded? You're not the media journalist. We got to go do our homework. If you did your homework, you would have known Joe Biden wasn't cognitively mentally impaired. If you'd done your homework, you know the laptop was hunted. If you'd done your homework, you know collusion was a BS story. You didn't do your homework. Remember that. So this is the same guy, Jim vanderhei. His post meltdown. He knows the tide has turned and that the home for news right now is X. The home for video is Rumble. Ladies and gentlemen, this whole thing is changing. I'm telling you, get on that train or it's gonna run you over. It's coming. Check this out. We have never been here before. And Jim Vande Hei, you've got new reporting out this morning for Axios about the government funding fight and how it captures the power and flaws of what.

Chris Cillizza (33:35)

You call the new information ecosystem, which.

Dan Bongino (33:38)

Is in many ways Elon Musk and X. I mean this is your future foretold. You might like it, you might hate it. But it is like you now have Musk controlling the Dow dominant organ of the Republican media industrial complex. There's nothing close. They're freaking out because they can no longer control the narrative. Community Notes Community notes on X has been one of the ultimate weapons. Cuz there's now a penalty for lying where you're embarrassed in real time. And they don't like that because they lie all the time. And one thing they don't want to be is embarrassed. Here's this liberal congressman, Richard Neal, on the House floor, totally freaking out. Your currency is your word. He's all upset that Elon and X exposed that disastrous CR bill and all the, all the garbage in it. There was crap everywhere buried in that bill. And he knows going forward, these Democrats know going forward they're not going to be able to do this anymore, that all of this stuff is going to get out right away. Your currency is your word, he says. You know, the Democrats were the ones who pulled that judge deal right after Trump got elected for liberal judges to retire. They. They're full of crap. Their word doesn't mean anything. These people are full of it. Check this out. Your currency in this institution is your word. We reached an agreement. We came to modest achievements and a tweet changed all of it.

Chris Cillizza (35:05)

Can you imagine what the next two years are going to be like if.

Dan Bongino (35:08)

Every time the Congress works its will.

Chris Cillizza (35:11)

And then there's a tweet or from.

Dan Bongino (35:14)

An individual who has no official portfolio, who threatens members on the Republican side with a primary and they succumb? Sounds good to me. Sounds like exactly what we needed. I mean, what's the alternative? Think about what he's arguing for on the counter. He's arguing for what? That we hide this stuff and don't put it on Twitter. It's there. These bills are released to the public for all of us. 3. Would you rather Twitter be banned from speaking publicly about public legislation in a constitutional republic? Do you see how afraid these guys are of the truth? Now, I want to make a larger point here in this video. This next video absolutely nails a point I've been making for the last 10 years with you. And if you're a P1, you know what? You've heard it, folks. The Democrats never ever run on ideas. They run on. Those guys are really awful. They run on the fugazi. They run on a fugazi. Everything is some mysterious 88 white supremacist plot. Don't vote for the dangerous Republicans. Do you notice they never run on their own ideas. This Clip by the House Minority Leader, Hakeem Jeffries. The idea, obviously a liberal Democrat, is this may be one of the most important clips you see in a while. And it's not going to seem like it when you listen to it, but I'm playing it after this, Congressman Neal, this other Democrat, because the Democrats are realizing now that they've lost control of the ability to hide what they're really about and to just stigmatize Republicans. In other words, we don't stand for anything. But those guys are evil Hitler like people. They're realizing they can't do that anymore with X. So they're starting to realize they may have to put forth a series of ideas. Really? I told you this was going to happen. I want you to listen to Hakeem Jeffries, one of the most liberal members of Congress, leads their caucus, right, Talking about what the Democrats agenda going forward is. And it sounds to me like public safety, tax cuts. This sounds like Republican ideas. What did I tell you? The minute they lost control of don't vote for the other guy, they were going to have to run on something. They just stole our stuff because our stuff is right. Don't listen to me. Listen to him. Check this out.

Chris Cillizza (37:42)

As House Democrats, our position is simple. There are three things that we should all be focused on in connection with the American people.

Dan Bongino (37:52)

First, lowering costs.

Chris Cillizza (37:55)

Second, bigger paychecks for hardworking American taxpayers. And third, securing safer communities. That's going to be our North Star moving forward. And we'll see whether the incoming administration is prepared to join us on behalf of the American people.

Dan Bongino (38:13)

8. 8. What is this guy? A MAGA guy? Now we got to get this guy like Hakeem 2.0. By the way, Leo Terrell gave me a Leo 2.0 hat. It is one of my prized possessions. It's sitting in my office. It's going in the new office. The new guys. How's the new office look, by the way? You all are going to be so happy. McGroin crew, everyone else, Bongino Army. We are going to be doing studio shows. Guys. What do you think? Honestly, with the studio? Don't be SD audience. They expect you guys. It is freaking bananas. The studio looks so nice. We're going to only be able to fit like 20, 30 people in there, but we are going to have studio shows. You are going to love it. You're going to have so much fun. Folks, this guy is like, that's the LEO 2.0 is going to the office. That's what came is this Hakeem Jeffries 2.0 everything we told you was going to happen is happening. You create an unbiased media ecosystem where people have to run on ideas. The Democrats will lose every election if they run on what they actually want to do. By the way, a couple of things are on my mind too. During the Christmas week. They're important things. I don't want to be a downer, but these are really important. Number one, the border is still out of control, folks, and there's still a lot of time for Biden to do damage, even in 20 plus days. It's gotten so bad now that my orcas, just an absolute corruptocrat, a disgrace to humankind, is now admitting that there's a significant child trafficking problem. Sounds like something we told you years ago, but now, again, he's trying to pass the buck. I want you to watch this. And then I want to. I got a drone story coming up for you next because I've been warning you about the drone threat. But listen to the tone change on the child trafficking thing because they know. They know now they'll be exposed on X and elsewhere. Check this out.

Chris Cillizza (40:03)

The incoming borders are. Tom Homan says these children are being exploited and trafficked. Is that true?

Dan Bongino (40:12)

Well, certainly, Margaret. We certainly have received reports of children being trafficked, even those as to whom we know where they are. That is outside the responsibility of the Department of Homeland Security. What we do is we turn children over within 72 hours of the law requires to the Department of Health and Human Services and then HHS places those children. Of course, we investigate cases of. Of trafficking. We have no responsibility except for the fact we control the border and we investigate child trafficking cases. Outside of that, we have no responsibility at all. You notice, though, how he's slowly changing his story to it wasn't happening. That's a conspiracy theory. Right wing nonsense. Oh, there's limited cases. Oh, it's a significant problem, but it's not my fault. Oh, it's a significant problem and we investigate it. You notice how the story is slowly changing, folks, this is a reflection, I'm telling you, of Elon's purchase of Twitter. They have run out of vehicles to BS the American public. They don't control the narrative anymore. All right? This is a story I've been talking about for a long time. Listen, man, you better go get yourself some bird shot, because I'm telling you right now, I mean, I'm really into being prepared. Call me a prepper, I don't really care. Some people throw that word around like it's an insult. I'm like. An insult to who? It's an insult to you for not being prepared. If you're a dad or a mom who cares about their kids, it's your freaking job to be prepared if something breaks bad. And you know, I think in the past there was this perception that buy a lot of guns and ammo. And yeah, of course, like that's obviously. However I'm telling you right now, the guy who owns, you know, a thousand drones is going to be the guy who's far more dangerous. Folks, these people can attack from the air and we can't fly. Now, I can't vouch for the authenticious videos. A lot of people it is does look a little suspicious. I'm not telling you this is real or not real. I'm just saying it was all over social media this weekend. It was a drone attack in Russia, allegedly by the Ukrainians. The video is going around. It looks a little suspicious to me, the video, but I just want you to watch it because folks, this is the kind of thing, I mean, what are you going to do? Shoot that down with an F35? Real or not real? I don't know. Again, I'm not going to get into like if it's real because I don't know, I'm putting it out there because it was all over the place. And it doesn't matter if, if it's real or not. In relationship to this segment, the drone threat is very real in the United States. And I'm telling you right now, whoever owns the most birdshot is going to be the one most prepared bird shot. Probably going to be the only way to take these things down en masse. If you're not a government funded operation, they have no answers on this at all. Here's a back and forth with Martha MacCallum and John Kirby and I got a January 6th update coming up next. But just quickly watch Kirby. He has no idea. Folks, they legitimately don't know what to tell the American people because they have no answer for this. This threat is real. It's here. It's not coming. Check this out.

Chris Cillizza (43:28)

Shocking, okay? And I'm not the only person who feels this way. This was happening at Langley a month ago, okay? These people are not crazy. They're seeing these things with their own eyes. This is not normal behavior. They are not planes that are coming in one direction and they're heading into Newark Airport and then they're landing. Okay? We spend $824 billion on defense. We have the Greatest intelligent capability in the world. So how can you stand there and say to the country right now, gosh darn, we just don't know what these are?

Dan Bongino (44:03)

Because I'm not going to lie to you or to the American people. And I'm not going to say we know something when we don't. Folks, they have no idea how to tactically deal with this threat. Yes, there are mechanisms. There's zero doubt there are mechanisms out there to take drones out of the sky. The government has the problem. Is there? Some of them are only useful in war zones because they pose a very serious threat to commercial air traffic, too. They don't know what to do. We got the holiday season coming up, everybody. Enjoy Christmas, enjoy Hanukkah, enjoy the new Year. I'm just saying, you know, be prepared for this stuff. I was looking this weekend for bird shot. I'm not even kidding. Because this is the kind of thing you unleash a couple thousand of these suckers on a neighborhood somewhere, the hell you going to do? Call in? It's a bird, it's a plane. It's. No, it's not. It's a bunch of drone swarms. I wrote about this almost 10 years ago, one of my books, telling you what a problem this is going to be. It's already here now. All right, I want to bring this story up because this is another story very close to my heart for all the wrong reasons. I told you. Thank you. By the way, folks, you should all send a tweet to Representative Barry Loudermilk. He is a Republican, obviously, and Loudermilk. We're spreadsheet guys. You know what? You know what I'm talking about, right? When there's a plus one, we gotta praise the activity. That way you'll get more of it. It's simple operant conditioning, right? Loudermilk has been all over the January 6th scandal. When I talk about the scandal, I'm talking about the pipe bomb story. I'm talking about the insurrection and the Fed presence there. Loudermilk will not let this go. And I really love that he's passionate about it. So they got their hands on these transcripts. A story we told you about a while ago on the show we knew was ridiculous and absurd was a story about Donald Trump attacking the Secret Service limo driver because he wouldn't take him up to Capitol Hill on January 6th. I told you the story was BS. I know. Listen to me, please. Stuart Thompson, New York Times and other people I know personally for decades, the people involved, the story was made Up. It's linked to this Cassidy Hutchinson who may have some real trouble right now. The story was crap. Julie Kelly has a series of tweets. You have got to read on this, folks. The story is even worse than you can imagine. So let me ask you a question. In the chat, you guys are smart. If you heard a story that Donald Trump attacked the limo, Secret Service limo driver, the agent and told him and ordered him to go up to Capitol Hill and physically attacked him. Folks, in the chat, let's see how quick you get this. Who is the, who is the first person you would interview to see if that was true? Anybody know? Justin, any ideas? The limo driver. You would. Yes. You would interview the limo driver. Thank you. Who said it? Hill. Who is that? Hill. Hillbilly hacker. Yes. Thank you, Hillbilly hacker. Ask the freaking Secret Service agent. But because they knew the story was bull, they didn't want to hear from him. Listen, watch this back and forth. Put up this, the screenshot. The driver's attorney here. This is from a Julie Kelly tweet. The Secret Service driver's attorney noted in the hearing that the committee had this strange months long resistance to actually interviewing him. They didn't want to interview the driver because they knew the story was bs. Look at this. This is amazing. He notes. Hey, we wanted to come to the committee as early as July. We made another request in August as well as September and here we are on November 7. They didn't want to interview the guy. This is how corrupt. This is why Liz Cheney. If there is not a full investigation criminally, criminally into Cheney, Kinzinger and others, then folks, the government's useless. Coming in. I'm sorry, one more tweet on this because this story is really important. I told you this story was crap. The driver of the Secret Service vehicle that wanted to be interviewed also confirms that the Secret Service told him to wipe their phones in violation of federal records law and the texts were never recovered. Whoever takes over the Secret Service next, I'm begging the administration guys, I have not spoken to them about it. What? No, no, it's not. Rookie wants to know if this is. No, it's totally against the law. I'm begging the transition guys, please speak to me before. If you don't get a change agent in there, you are never going to figure out why these texts were wiped. Here's the actual testimony. They told them to wipe their phones out. This is insane. They turned the phone in, but it was wiped out in February 2021. Folks, this is crazy. They told them to wipe it out. They know it was the result of the Secret Service transitioning to a new phone management system where we were instructed to wipe the phones or I got a new phone around the same same time. I had to wipe the old phone prior to activating it. He doesn't recall which two what doesn't matter. Either one is a huge scandal. This is cartoon. This is cartoonish. Levels of corruption and confidence. The next Secret Service director. This you got to get to on day one. All right, folks, this is our last show of the week. We have some producers pick shows for you. We have some great content lined up. We're going to be taking a little break around the holiday season. I will be on the radio today. I have a charitable donation to make the Folds of Honor on the radio at around 2pm Eastern. Check it out if you want to watch on Rumble. Thank you for all the new subs at locals. By the way. You get that last hour of the radio show and then we're transitioning over to Rumble Premium. Just give me some time on that. But thank you for an amazing year, folks. I love you guys more than you know. I hope you understand you have done so many phenomenal things for me. My life wouldn't be the same without you. I love you guys so much. You've been a great Christmas present to me. Celebrate the birth of my Lord and savior, Jesus Christ. And thank you for the greatest gift of all, God, family and country. I love you guys. Have a great new year. See you on the radio show in a little bit back here after the holiday season. See you then. Merry Christmas all. You just heard the Dan Bongino Show.