I'm Back (Ep. 2443)

Summary

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The Dan Bongino Show: "I'm Back" (Ep. 2443)

Date: February 2, 2026
Host: Dan Bongino
Guest: President Donald J. Trump (special interview, from 82:36)

Episode Overview

Dan Bongino triumphantly returns to his podcast after a year away serving as Deputy Director of the FBI under President Trump. The episode blends candid reflections on his government experience, sharp-tongued critiques of the media and political opponents, and a detailed report on FBI accomplishments during his tenure. The episode climaxes in a wide-ranging interview with President Donald J. Trump, exploring law enforcement, immigration, media narratives, and America’s geopolitical posture.

Tone: Unfiltered, combative, jovial, and emotionally open (especially when discussing friends and family).

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Key Segments and Takeaways

1. Emotional Homecoming & Studio Relaunch (00:00–02:41)

• Dan opens by joking with his crew and expressing heartfelt gratitude to his wife Paula, his team, and his loyal audience.

  "But nothing happens without her, period. If I'm the godfather or someone called me the podfather, she's the podmother." (01:17)

• He acknowledges the year away as an "honor of a lifetime," highlighting both its rewards and personal strains.
• Mourns the loss of close friends and colleagues, including Charlie and Producer Joe Armacost, sharing fond anecdotes and their role in the show’s DNA.

  “Charlie was the bridge man. He knew everybody. Charlie made everybody feel like a friend.” (09:08) “Joe started way before Guy or Jim or anyone else. He never missed a day of work.” (11:27)

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2. Setting the Stage: Show Philosophy & Media Critique (02:42–07:47)

• Dan welcomes media critics and addresses their fascination with him:

  "I don't dislike you guys. I just find it fascinating that I'm so fascinating to you all." (02:42)

• Insists the show won't be self-indulgent or a weekly breakdown of his resume:

  "This is not going to be a year or two of me presenting my resume about what happened every single week." (06:47)

• Open invitation to supporters and detractors: Both are welcome; blow up the chat, criticism is healthy.
• Introduces montage of FBI highlights and remembrances with humor and self-deprecation.

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3. Remembering Fallen Friends: Producer Joe & Charlie (07:47–13:30)

• Reminiscences laced with warmth and loss.
• Brings back Producer Joe’s “Mutley Scale” for dumb political behavior, retiring it in tribute.

  “Joe used to think of these crazy elements to throw in the show... There’s never been a 5 Mutley. The 4 Mutley was rare.” (12:00)

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4. Inside the FBI Year: Leadership & Level 10 Decisions (13:30–23:25)

• The nature of high-level D.C. work: Everything is a "level 10 decision"—no easy options, only bad or worse.

  “You have shit decisions and shittier decisions. That’s what level 10 decisions are.” (16:08)

• Quotes Georgia football coach Kirby Smart on leadership:

  "You will have to make hard decisions that negatively affect people you care about. You will be disliked...you will be misunderstood and won’t always have the opportunity to defend yourself." (17:00–17:40, Kirby Smart via audio clip)

• Urges listeners not to over-explain or try to win over those who will always be against you.
• Highlights the disconnect between real leadership challenges and media narratives.

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5. FBI Accomplishments & Detailed Year-in-Review (23:25–28:48)

• Rapid-fire reporting of major FBI cases and reforms:
  • BLM case, drone threat training center, fentanyl crisis cooperation with China, Arctic Frost investigation, $15B Bitcoin scam, cartel and gang crackdowns, public corruption cases, child exploitation rings, immigration enforcement, and more.
  • Cites empirical success:

    “30,000 arrests, 25,000 violent offenders…5,000 children located. Espionage arrests are surging.” (28:04)

  • Transparency: Over 30,000 documents turned over to Congress.

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6. Four Audiences Addressed: Supporters, Liberals/Media, Grifters, and Leakers (28:48–41:29)

• Supporters: Grateful for patience and understanding that real change is slow, not just “soundbites and snapshots.”

  “Big thank you to our supporters. Love you guys. You’re the best.” (30:57)

• Liberals & media: Accuses them of rooting for failure, being more interested in "storylines" than success, and ignoring real crime drops.

  "You can get your lips and just pucker them up and plan a big wet one on my ass...” (31:35)

• Grifters & doomers: Condemns self-styled "accountability" influencers who produce nothing and criticize MAGA and Trump’s team for clicks.

  “All you did was bullshit people and say nothing’s happening. You didn’t volunteer. You didn’t...do shit.” (35:21)

• Leakers & internal opposition: Decries old-guard, “weaponized” elements within the FBI; praises field agents committed to real law enforcement.

  “These guys destroyed the place. And you tried to destroy us, too. But I bet you thought I’d never be back either.” (38:43)

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7. The Media & Narrative Construction (41:29–52:44)

• Explains step-by-step how establishment media manufacture a narrative:
  1. Find a disgruntled insider to be a "quote machine."
  2. Use the “ox’s gourd effect”—flip from attacking to elevating sources depending on the day’s need.
  3. Promote a ‘current thing’ to enforce narrative conformity, including encouraging infighting on the right.

  “They already have a story written...They go to a guy, they'll be like, hey, Ken, I need a favor. Did you witness Dan Bongino shaving?...Yes, he cut him. So that's how it's...” (44:06) “They love conservative, libertarian, Republican infighting. Nothing more.” (48:07)

• Warns about “cannibalism theory”—grifters eat their own for profit in the conservative movement.

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8. Behind the Scenes with President Trump’s FBI (58:01–76:13)

• Describes Trump as uniquely decisive and results-focused; motivated by reducing crime, not polling.

  “I’ve never seen a guy this decisive in my life…He doesn't get lost in a lot of BS…He sees things as a plus one or minus one for the country.” (58:26–60:14)

• Backs up Trump’s hands-on leadership, especially with policing in liberal cities like Memphis, New Orleans, and Chicago.
• Unfiltered on the personal cost of the job—time away from family, the emotional toll, mistakes and learning on the fly.
• Details the intensity of the job: crisis management, late-night emergency calls, and personal responsibility for outcomes.

  “There’s no tired. So I went to the Washington field office, and you just got to get it done. No excuses, just get to work.” (68:44)

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9. Handling Epstein, Child Exploitation, and Level 10 Problems (70:01–75:46)

• Cites release of Epstein-related documents as a “level 10” decision, impossible to please everyone due to legal constraints (grand jury, victim privacy, etc.).

  “The FBI doesn’t have the evidence many thought it did. There are not tapes with powerful men raping kids. There is not a list.” (71:06–73:05)

• Asserts that transparency on such cases is unprecedented compared to prior DOJ administrations.

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10. The Massive Audience & Power of Attention (76:13–77:26)

• Taunts detractors about the show’s huge reach:

  “The greatest superpower in the world. It’s the power to command attention. And I own yours. You can’t stay away.” (76:13)

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Highlight: President Donald J. Trump Interview (82:36–104:19)

Law and Order – Results and Media Spin

• Trump and Bongino detail historic drops in crime, attributing it to aggressive federal FBI and military surges in cities.

  Trump: “We have the best crime numbers we’ve ever had. We have the lowest number of crimes in 125 years…” (84:00) Trump, on D.C.: “They admit now that it's good. But they refused to give us credit. We’re the ones that totally did it.” (84:00–86:52)

• Trump explains the “2% rule”—a small group is responsible for a vast majority of violent crime:

  “2% of the people create 90% of the crime. And we take those two and we go after those 2%.” (90:41)

Immigration and Sanctuary Cities

• Outlines aggressive deportation and cooperation with states, use of Title 8, refusal to warehouse prisoners, and making sanctuary status grounds for cutting funds.

  “Your approach was…either give us something valuable about someone up the criminal food chain or get the hell out.” (92:58) “If Republicans don't get them out, you will never win another election as a Republican.” (94:37)

America’s Global Posture & The Don Roe Doctrine

• Emphasis on hemispheric dominance—Venezuela, Panama, and response to China and other threats.

  Dan: “We have to control this hemisphere from a national security perspective.” (100:41) Trump: “We are respected again, like never before. And they saw what happened in Iran…What we did with it… We have to be respected.” (100:44–103:12)

Trump on Decisiveness in Leadership

"I demand results. There’s none of this friendly. You want a friend, Get a freaking dog. Produce results or get the hell out.” (103:12)

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Memorable Quotes

• “Supporters, libs and their media pals, we don’t like each other. Keep writing your stories...I know we're good clickbait for you, but as long as you show up, it's all that matters to me.” (34:15)
• “If you don't scar your skin once in a while, you're never going to grow back and build those collagen fibers...So I wanted to test myself” (14:49)
• “You don't know shit about anything. Throwing popcorn from the front row.” (104:19)
• “The Podfather’s back, and we’re taking the movement back. Not my movement, but I helped build it.” (105:51)

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Timestamps for Critical Moments

| Timestamp | Segment/Topic | |-----------|------------------------------------------| | 00:03 | Show opening, shout-outs, studio relaunch| | 09:08 | Remembering Charlie | | 11:27 | Remembering Producer Joe Armacost | | 13:30 | The intensity and challenge of FBI role | | 17:00 | Kirby Smart leadership quote | | 23:25 | Detailed year-in-review montage | | 28:04 | FBI by the numbers | | 31:35 | “Pucker up…” (Bongino to media critics) | | 35:21 | Grifter/“doomer” critique | | 38:43 | On leakers and internal sabotage | | 44:06 | How media plants stories | | 58:01 | Inside President Trump’s leadership style| | 68:44 | Handling job intensity and late nights | | 70:27 | Epstein case: transparency and trade-offs| | 76:13 | “I own you guys” — power of attention | | 82:36 | President Trump joins the show | | 84:00 | Trump crime statistics + D.C. defense | | 90:41 | “2% create 90% of the crime” | | 94:37 | Immigration, illegal voting warning | | 100:41 | Hemispheric dominance narrative | | 103:12 | Trump on demanding results | | 104:19 | End of Trump interview; show reflection |

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Closing: Thanks and Forward Look (107:48–end)

• Final roll call of gratitude for team, sponsors, audience, conservative commentators who “let us cook,” and his two daughters.
• Encourages patience with ongoing reforms (“let Cash cook”).
• Promises daily 10am-12pm schedule, plugging partners and future guests.

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For Listeners:

This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in political media battles, the MAGA movement’s internal dynamics, and behind-the-scenes law enforcement under Trump’s second term.
Dan Bongino is full-throated and unfiltered—at turns aggressive, emotional, and sentimental—offering a rare window into his year in government and laying down the gauntlet for media adversaries and movement grifters alike.

Transcript

[Dan Bongino]

All America, all the time. Sit down, buckle up and get ready for the Dan Bongino show. Hey, Jim, we're like two minutes into the show. Jim's already got his vibe. Unbelievable. Jim's already got his volume up on the show. Jim, get back in here. Come on, Jim, get back.

[Jim]

You always know this is part of the show. Of course, every. It's all.

[Dan Bongino]

If you are in the studio, anyone.

[Jim]

Right now, you're fair game. Everybody knows that. Man, it is good to see you guys and ladies out there. It's been a crazy year. I really, really missed you.

[Dan Bongino]

By the way.

[Jim]

Got a small announcement. Jim, what is it? We had a guest today. Who was it again? President.

[Dan Bongino]

President Donald J. Trump. The most transformative president of our lifetime or frankly, any other, dealing with a multitude of threats and all this stuff.

[Jim]

Turn the country around like that. Is going to join us at 11:30am Eastern Time. Sorry, guys, I couldn't tell you right away. I'd love to, but I wanted to, you know, I want a few surprises for opening day here. And listen, before we get started for the relaunch of the Dan Bongino show, studio looks pretty much the same since I left. This is the new studio, of course. A couple thank yous, guys. One first to my wife Paula, for I can't even get choked up at the beginning of the show. All right, I'm going to turn to my man card immediately. But guys, I'm telling you right now, like this last year has been a lot. It's been a lot. It's been the honor of my lifetime. We loved it, my wife and I. The experience was incredible. But you know, it's like anything else. And I say this with the president too. It's an amazing strain on his family and everyone else's. It's not unique to anyone. But for Paula to have gone through that with me and then to relaunch the show, she has been working nonstop to get this seamlessly relaunched. But forget it. But nothing happens without her, period. She is. If I'm the godfather or someone called me the podfather, she's the podmother. So thank you. And she's sitting right there looking lovely as ever. And. And to my crew and Jasmine, Jasmine, who manages this operation, I. I can't do it without you guys. Ghee, Jim, Andy, Justin, now we have all we have. We have new members coming in. It's just like it's the most amazing experience with these guys to work with them. So thank you all so much for launching. You guys are the Best. And Teresa's out there too, causing trouble is always probably on the phone right now, like cutting some deal or something like that. Uh, so thank you all.

[Dan Bongino]

Now guys, this is a show. So the media people I know you're watching because you can't stay away. You've written endless stories about me. My shoulder got hurt in a grappling session. All I know, you can't stay away. So I know you hear and I'm going to say, I mean this. Welcome. I don't dislike you guys. I just find it fascinating that I'm so fascinating to you all. I don't know what's so interesting about me, but you clearly find it interesting because you write about me all the time. So in order to get you prepped for what the show is going to.

[Jim]

Look like on relaunch, Jim, what is this thing called I'm about to read? Do you remember?

[Dan Bongino]

It is an ad. An advertisement. Because the media always seems shocked by this. They're always. Meanwhile they run ads in their news, but. But they're unfamiliar. This is called an advertisement. This is an ad supported show. They're always stunned by this.

[Jim]

When I was leaving, like, oh my gosh.

[Dan Bongino]

He supports companies in his. In his show who actually. Yes, that's how the business works, you dipshits. Did you guys forget this? So this is called an ad and we have two of them.

[Jim]

That's how we keep the show free. Because amazing companies like to work with.

[Dan Bongino]

The show and want to sell their product.

[Jim]

It's also called capitalism, you freaks. So here we go, our first two ads. Company's been with me from the beginning, Brickhouse Nutrition. Thank you guys for coming back. We love you guys. These guys have been with me since the beginning of the show. My first sponsor, Miles and his team in Texas have been helping people get.

[Dan Bongino]

Ready and stay healthy, me included, for over a decade. If you think I look good or think I look bad, whatever, it's all.

[Jim]

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[Dan Bongino]

They started taking field of greens.

[Jim]

Here's what the doctor said. Field of greens helps target the root causes of aging by helping reduce cellular damage, helping to enhance biological resilience. Clinically linked to lower biological age. Me and Paula take it. That's why she looks 21. I've been preaching how great this product is for years. They went out and they proved it. Whether this is your first order, you've been ordering for years with the Show Everyone gets 20% this week when you use code Dan my first name. So go to get the website down. Brickhouse nutrition.com, dan use promo code Dan get 20% off brickhouse nutrition.com, dan promo code Dan thank you, Miles for being with us from the beginning and our second sponsor today, Patriot Mobile. Can't say enough about Patriot Mobile. Again, amazing company. Got to meet them at a concert I was at amazing people last year. Opened my eyes to a lot of things. There's one thing I found particularly disturbing that's infighting on the right. I thought we all agreed on freedom of speech, a right to life, the second amendment, supporting our military and first responders. So we have to be focused on these things, not attacking each other. There's one company that's been fighting for our rights who supported this program, who supported the movement from the very beginning. That's Patriot Mobile. They're rocks in this. Unlike other mobile providers, Patriot Mobile works on all three major networks. In fact, you can be on multiple networks on the same phone. More importantly, their customers enjoy priority service with the same or better quality than their old providers. Patriot Mobile's 100% US based customer service team makes switching fast and super easy. Keep your number, keep your phone or Upgrade. Go to patriotmobile.com dan get a free month of service with the offer Code Dan Company's been fighting for things we all believe in for over a decade. They've been great to us. Let's thank them by making the switch today. Patriotmobile.com dan patriot mobile.com dan thank you Patriot Mobile. We really appreciate it. All right guys, time to get to the show. We doing the bell. I didn't even think of that. I totally forgot that man.

[Dan Bongino]

We went through this whole thing like a thousand times.

[Jim]

I didn't think of the bell.

[Dan Bongino]

Little bit of cobwebs.

[Jim]

Theresa, it's been a long time.

[Dan Bongino]

Just look at how do you forget the bell?

[Jim]

Guys, I really did miss you all. It's been a crazy year. I as I said in a couple of my tweets before prior to getting back on the air. What I promise to not do. You know, never tell people you're not going to do, but in this case, it matters. This is not going to be, you know, a year or two of me presenting my resume about what happened every single week. It's not one of the cardinal rules of leadership and leadership positions is don't over explain yourself. I said it in a tweet. I'll say it again. I did what I did. I'm going to show you what I did in today's show. If you're a supporter and you like.

[Dan Bongino]

It, you like it.

[Jim]

So there's no need for me to lay out Tolstoy's War and Peace and keep speaking about it. If you don't and you hate my guts, it's not that I'm going to.

[Dan Bongino]

Tell you to convince you other correct, Jim, so it doesn't really matter, but.

[Jim]

However you are the taxpayer, I worked for you. It was the honor of a lifetime to work for you and this president. And with Cash Patel, who's an amazing FBI director.

[Dan Bongino]

So I feel an obligation to tell.

[Jim]

You what your money paid for. And again, if you like it, you like it. And if you don't, that's fine, too. But you know, listen, supporters, detractors, lovers, haters, you're all welcome here. Like I said, blow up the chat. I'm happy to have you here. That's not a downside to me at all. So we put together a little B roll. Not we. Me. I had nothing to do with it. The team put this together, but a couple of photos. That was a Piper. I look really like. Look at me. My arms. You could see the arthritis in my arms. Leave it to me to make a joke about myself. But it's true. This was when we made an arrest of the suspect in the pipe bomb case. Judge Janine there. Love Judge Janine. She's the best. There's the arrested sign. Right there is us walking off the stage. So that was an interesting day for me. That also unbelievably like, happened to be my birthday, same day, which I totally forgot about after. I mean, I think I was reminded by the ag. He was like, hey, happy birthday. It is my speak loud. Am I not talking? Is the chat, like, blowing up? Sorry. All right, so give me some new pictures here. These guys put the omens. Well, this one, I'll get into that in a second where that picture's from. But I look pretty somber there for a reason there also. I'll explain that one in a Minute as well. So go through. That there is the greatest mayor in New York City's history. A guy. I modeled my law enforcement approach at the FBI after this was at ceremony up in New York for 9 11. And we were chatting beforehand. I don't remember where that one was from, but I look really mean in that one as well. Why do I always have, like, RBF going on? You know, like, I'm always. I promise I'm like, a really happy guy, but I always look so mad, especially in that picture. All right, we got another one there. That's. Oh, there you go. That was up at Capitol Hill going in for some testimony on stuff. That was. That was Charlie's memorial. I was sad out in Arizona. Oh, this one. This one went viral. This was me walking out. And this. This lovely young lady had given me a Jesus statute. And she was. She. Her mom was. Said, hey, Dan, she's a big supporter. And I remember that one. That one went nuclear on social media. So to that young lady, thank you for bringing a little bit of Jesus and warmth back into my life. It was a really somber ceremony, so we appreciate it. Folks, I can't do this show today without a couple of remembrances as well of folks we lost. Obviously, Charlie being first. Charlie was a great friend of mine. I'm not going to be, you know, publishing any texts or communications with Charlie or anything like that. It's just I'm. It's. We're not doing it. Charlie was a great friend. We used to discuss everything, you know, the movement, the audience shows. You see this picture of me and him and Charlie, I. I miss him like you all did. And I obviously haven't been in the FBI and investigating the case. At the time, it was. Was a. I don't see the picture up there, but I want to. I'm gonna look at that one for a second. Did you guys have it? Because that one. Yeah, that. I'm sorry. I just had to see it on the screen. But that was my guy there, and he's a good man. I missed that hair. We love you, Charlie. Charlie was the bridge man. He was. Charlie knew everybody. And Charlie made everybody feel like a friend. Sorry. Thanks, brother. Also, we lost another valuable member of the show who had worked with us forever. I wasn't again here at the time, but our good friend Joe Armacost, Producer Joe, who started the show with me in the basement in my Severna park apartment. There was some Severna park house. Excuse me. Some pictures of producer Joe, you know, always look like Elvis, man. Joe, we love you, brother. And Joe, most of these elements you saw in the show, those were Joe's ideas. I mean, Joe started way before Guy or Jim or anyone else. And you know, we loved you and we lost Joe. He was just a great man. And I'll tell you what, he never missed a day of work. Joe, which was. Which was incredible all that time. So in honor of Joe and some of you will get this. And you know why we're doing it. Joe used to think of these crazy elements to throw in the show. And Joe's most famous element, you guys remember what it was, was.

[Dan Bongino]

What was it?

[Jim]

Justin? The Motley. It was Joe's idea. Joe loved it. Joe used to have a Motley scale. When politicians like Adam Schiff and others say stupid stuff, One, Motley was dumb. Two, Motleys really dumb. Three, Motleys catastrophically dumb. Four, Motleys is a nuclear Motley attack a level of dumb we haven't seen in eons. There has never been a 5 monthly ever. The 4 monthly was rare. 3 was pretty rare too. So in honor of the legend, producer Joe, his elements, his talents and everything else, we have our first only. And by the way, we're going to be retiring it last. Here it is, Mutley for the great producer Joe. God bless you, sir. This show would not be what it is today. We got148,000 people in the live. The transformative vehicle it's been for the MAGA movement and conservatism without you. God bless you, sir. Hope to see you again. Okay, folks, I really did miss you guys. It has been an incredible year. I'm extremely proud of the work that got done under this president. Attorney General and Director Patel.

[Dan Bongino]

The last day on the jobs.

[Jim]

I want to give you some insight to what it was like because working for this president who's going to be coming up, by the way, an hour and 15 minutes at 11:30. I cannot wait. I'm really excited to get into kind of the whole picture of what it's like behind the scenes with President Trump, from President Trump, so. So he's coming up in an hour and 15 minutes.

[Dan Bongino]

But the job was amazing and every single day was some level 10 problem.

[Jim]

I'm going to get into that later.

[Dan Bongino]

We're not. We're going to talk about all this stuff. Don't worry.

[Jim]

I have a ton of time with you guys today. Haley coming up next at her new time at noon.

[Dan Bongino]

But if I don't get to today.

[Jim]

I am going to get to it. You have My word. I'm just. There's a lot to talk about.

[Dan Bongino]

But the last day on the job, this was what every day was like. Was of course today President Trump and.

[Jim]

Our unbelievable Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth. I ran into yesterday at the great Dan Scavino. Congratulations on your wedding to Erin Elmore. Another phenomenal human being. I was there. The president was there. I was talking to Pete for a while.

[Dan Bongino]

Pete is amazing. He's like the President, super decisive, gets to the point they want and grab Maduro.

[Jim]

But the FBI had a significant footprint in that operation through our special weapons team known as hrt. And they did a great job. So, you know, why did I take the job? This is the question I get all the time. Well, you know, why take the job?

[Dan Bongino]

You know, we all need to test.

[Jim]

Ourselves sometimes, all of us and me included. I never wanted to be just content or happy. If you don't stress yourself, you don't scar your skin once in a while, you're never going to grow back and build those collagen fibers and build back a tough scars present, you know, prevent yourself from getting cut again. So I wanted to test myself and I wanted the opportunity to work for what I knew was going to be the most transformative administration, even, even better than 45.

[Dan Bongino]

Because I knew the president from his first administration had learned a ton. And at 47, I even said it.

[Jim]

To you guys, was going to come back with a vengeance and was going to be just 10x what it was the first time around. So I wanted to be a part of it.

[Dan Bongino]

So we all have to test ourselves.

[Jim]

And this was unquestionably a test.

[Dan Bongino]

So in DC, when you get selected.

[Jim]

And confirmed or just picked for one of these principal or deputy positions, everything you do is a level 10 decision at that point.

[Dan Bongino]

Because all the easy decisions, the one.

[Jim]

Through fives and even the fives through.

[Dan Bongino]

Nines, have already been handled by managers.

[Jim]

Or agents or people beneath you or people throughout the federal bureaucracy. Level 10 decisions, I was saying before we got attacked there the. Well, not physically attacked. I mean, obviously everybody's okay.

[Dan Bongino]

You have shit decisions and shittier decisions.

[Jim]

That's what level 10 decisions are.

[Dan Bongino]

And trying to figure out.

[Jim]

Are you getting me live on your phone there yours? Yeah, you are. Okay, good.

[Dan Bongino]

So trying to figure out what the shittier decision is. If your batting average is.500, you're a rock star in D.C. because they're not easy. If they're easy, like I said, everyone.

[Jim]

Else would have figured them out.

[Dan Bongino]

So a friend of mine, after having.

[Jim]

Made quite a few of these level 10 decisions in conjunction with Cash.

[Dan Bongino]

A friend of mine who's at a.

[Jim]

Leadership position in government elsewhere had sent me over this video of SEC college football coach. I'm, I'm an Auburn fan, as you know, but however, Jim, this is a pretty darn good clip. This is Kirby Smart talking about leadership.

[Dan Bongino]

And I want to hit these three.

[Jim]

Points because I experienced this firsthand. Check this out.

[News Anchor]

You can't ignore the cost of leadership. Great leaders are willing to accept those costs and I want to share quickly three of those things, three of the costs that are plastered on my desk right behind it. That kind of caught me between the eyes last week. Number one, you will have to make hard decisions that negatively affect people you care about. Number two, you will be disliked despite your best attempt to do the best for the most. And number three, you will be misunderstood and won't always have the opportunity to defend yourself. Those are three costs that come from being a great leader.

[Dan Bongino]

Now that is probably the best.

[Jim]

What Is that key? 30 seconds. I don't know.

[Dan Bongino]

On leadership I've ever seen and having.

[Jim]

You know, been through the, the, the, the, the, the grind last year in.

[Dan Bongino]

Dc, I, I can see it. You are going to have to make tough decisions. I just said to you, without beating this thing to death, everything's level 10 shit or shittier. Find out which one is the shittier decision and avoid it. That's the best you can do. There are no easy decisions left, period. Imagine the President, by the way, you got principals and deputies beneath him. If they can't make the decision, they go to him. For Jim, like level 11 decisions where it's like, it's not even shitty and shittiest. It's the shittiest decision and he's got to make those decisions probably 100 times a day. Second, you're going to be disliked. There is no level 10 decision you're going to make that is going to make everybody happy. It's not going to happen, period. There is no way. You saw it with all the stuff, the Epstein case, the other things we had to deal with. There is no decision you're going to make that is going to make everybody happy and you have to deal with it. If you're there to be liked, you're in the wrong job. Get out right away. Third, and this is probably the most important takeaway, you're going to be misunderstood. You're going to have a bunch of 18 year old, you know, Washington Post writers with no experience in the real world at all commenting on your decisions you made with no background whatsoever as.

[Jim]

To why you made them.

[Dan Bongino]

I get it. I mean, it's understandable they're not read.

[Jim]

In on these programs.

[Dan Bongino]

But I'll address this with President Trump later, how he's making decisions on Greenland and the Don Roe Doctrine based on.

[Jim]

A President's daily brief he gets every.

[Dan Bongino]

Day that these media people have no idea. They don't even know what the freaking threats are like. Oh, that's a crazy decision. How do you know? I don't know. I guess I read it in a Charlie Brown encyclopedia. With them, you don't know shit. You don't know anything. Just be honest that you don't know you can have an opinion on it. I'm not telling you media people. I'm not telling you media people not to have an opinion. Have an opinion. Great. It's a constitutional republic. But just be honest that you don't know shit. And he does. He's read in on all this stuff. So you're going to be misunderstood because there are things even now, obviously I'm.

[Jim]

Not going to be able to talk about. There are ongoing cases and other things.

[Dan Bongino]

And you guys didn't pay me, the.

[Jim]

Taxpayer, to go in there and come.

[Dan Bongino]

Out here and try to be some.

[Jim]

Like, you know, superhero. You paid me to do the right thing. And the right thing involves keeping custody over information. So you're going to be misunderstood about stuff said before. Over explaining is the big problem. People who support you and understand what we were dealing with are going to support you. And the Bongino Army's been there. You're there today. I appreciate it. Sorry about the technical stuff, but I knew we were going to get hit hard today.

[Dan Bongino]

But over explaining is a problem because.

[Jim]

The people who hate you are going to hate you anyway.

[Dan Bongino]

Your allies don't need it. Your enemies don't give a damn.

[Jim]

So I'll go through some stuff we did now. But first, you know what, let's take a quick break. I'm getting used to the new show flow here.

[Dan Bongino]

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[Jim]

Ads.

[Dan Bongino]

I know it confuses you, despite the fact you see them in your own outlets, but.

[Jim]

But these are called ads.

[Dan Bongino]

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[Jim]

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[Dan Bongino]

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[Jim]

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[Dan Bongino]

So I told you I was going to show you what we did over the past year because you paid for it. I worked for you guys and ladies the taxpayers. So I'll go through a couple things.

[Jim]

I don't want to, you know, go crazy with this thing, but it is my first time back. So you're entitled to see what your results pay for.

[Dan Bongino]

So here's a little montage.

[Jim]

We put together some headlines. This was just the past year at the bureau while we were busy cleaning up the place. So first see in the upper left hand corner we obviously had that big case against blm. That was one of the, you know, one of the cases we got early on in my tenure. We've been working on for a while. You see this ABC News headline. I want to thank, you know, Cash and the president for this. When he worked closely with the White House, Cash with the fentanyl crisis. He got the. The precursors listed on a trip over to China. It was great work by him. Wait, slow down, slow down. Go over the left hand corner. Let me go through these things a couple more times. The drone. Listen, drones are a huge ever present national security problem. The technology is evolving by the day, not by the week. Some of the life cycle stuff on these drones is as little as two weeks before countermeasures and other things are developed. So, so we pushed hard on the on drone mitigation. We got some money. We launched the FBI's first drone threat training center. Redstone down down in Alabama. You can see right there in just the news there's a grand conspiracy probe going on. On weaponization opening doors for a special prosecutor. Patel vows no hall passes and explosive Arctic frost investigation. I remember that we'll be talking about a lot of the stuff within reason. Some of the stuff I can get into, some of I can. Cash had a big transparency initiative. Turned over tons like 30,000 plus documents over to Congress. Cash Patel fires FBI agents and anti trump Arctic frost inquiry.

[Dan Bongino]

But this case got lost in the.

[Jim]

In the mix a bit. But I don't even think, you know, you guys who are following me a little bit more intensely. I wasn't like communicating with the show staff. But this $15 billion Bitcoin scam we worked on, that was a. That was a huge case. But so much was going on at the time. You know, all kind of got lost in the mix. The Kensington drug market in Philly. We ripped that up. Had to a Philly office there. Tore that thing the pieces. Man. That thing had been going on forever. So you Philly listeners, you know the deal there. So I was committed early on to getting rid of these open air drug market. Yeah, stop right there. The Comey case you obviously know about. You know, listen the judge that just really hurt us. But that case was ours. Operation Chalk Line is one out of Milwaukee. Gangbuster shifted ages to the immigration crackdown pursuant to President Trump's leadership on that issue. Got to basically zero illegal migrants admitted into the country over multiple months. Again, this is just the past year cash reassigned 1500 employees outside of D.C. basically getting a lot of people out of headquarters and back into the field to go get bad guys, violent criminals off the streets. Like a little pace you're going now, Gailey. The antifa cell members in the parlor land shooting. We we indicted and locked up. I think we there were 19 of them or something like that. That was another. So much happened. I know a lot of this gets lost, but that was another tragedy. I remember sitting in the office with that 764. Be careful what your kids are doing online. It's this really violent group that exploits kids. We have been resolutely target on locking them up through Operation Restoring justice and others that the New Orleans mayor Latoya Cantrell. So we had a lot of public corruption cases going on. Gavin Newsom's former chief of staff indicted. We had of course the 6 most wanted out of the 104 while I was there. So I can't take credit for the last two. Ryan wedding and the other individual cash brought back from Mexico. We had former aide to New York governor charged being an agent of the Chinese government.

[Dan Bongino]

The historic crime crackdown.

[Jim]

We had a homicide rate the lowest in U.S. history. The percentage charged drop helped grab Maduro with our amazing Secretary of War. Of course everybody at the New York Times and all of them were upset. We had five eyes. Of course the pipe bomb suspect. Everyone's innocent to proven guilty. You get the point on that. John Bolton. So all right, enough is and dismantled. Oh wait here, wait hold on. One more, one more. The the FBI dismantles elite public corruption squad. The New York Times and Washington Post. Jim can't figure out if we've done too much or too little. Unease at FBI intensifies as Patel oust top officials. And meanwhile, he had that D bag Aaron Blake hitting us on Twitter.

[Dan Bongino]

You believe this guy?

[Jim]

Didn't. Did you see.

[Dan Bongino]

Did you miss your own coverage on this?

[Jim]

You complete loser. All right, enough of that. You know, again, I don't want to make this a whole show about. Here's what happened over the last year. We got enough going on. But Peter Schweizer, who is an amazing author, I think he has a book.

[Dan Bongino]

Out now, he put up a tweet.

[Jim]

At the time because I guess, like.

[Dan Bongino]

Me, he's a data guy, I'm a data guy.

[Jim]

I believe in numbers, just like the President. Results matter. Like, show us the numbers, man.

[Dan Bongino]

And he put out this tweet, which.

[Jim]

I thought was pretty cool and I appreciate it. He said, listen, critiques of the FBI are long standing and justifiably so. Right have been made for many decades. Been in decades. But when it comes to granular data on crime fighting, current FBI's numbers speak for themselves. This was just. And this wasn't. This was just towards the end of the year, 30,000 arrests, 25,000 violent offenders. You see all the numbers right there? 5,000 children located. Espionage arrests are urging. So with all that, I felt like on my first show, I wanted to address basically four groups of people because a lot of people here who are here have been supporters of mine. I deeply appreciate it. I love you guys, but that wasn't always the case. There were people who just waited for me to get off the air, and they were, you know, they were just dying to take a potshot the first day we were on the job.

[Dan Bongino]

So here are the four groups of.

[Jim]

People I want to address and I want to clear up some stuff with. First, to our supporters, I really can't thank you enough. Good cases and good police work takes time. Listen, I wish it didn't, but good cases, good police work, and personnel changes take time.

[Dan Bongino]

You can do all these things the.

[Jim]

Wrong way, or you can do them the right way.

[Dan Bongino]

But the right way to do them.

[Jim]

Is never going to be the quick way. I used to say to everyone at the Bureau, you know, first, fast is smooth, smooth is fast. But good cases take time. We are not the War Department. We can't just give an order and have something enacted immediately. There's a process there are United States attorneys. You have to work with. The Justice Department, when I was there, was dealing with a lot of US Attorneys who were legacy Biden, even Obama.

[Dan Bongino]

Holdovers who just didn't want to do their job.

[Jim]

So AG Bondi gave them, gave him the boot and said, get out. And you know, Todd and them from the dag, the deputy Attorney General, Todd, Todd Blanche, they said, you got to go.

[Dan Bongino]

You don't want to do your job.

[Jim]

Get out of here.

[Dan Bongino]

You're dealing with process, you're dealing with.

[Jim]

A lot of some judges who are not, you know, hurt us in a lot of these cases as well. It's not an excuse for anything, it's just an explanation.

[Dan Bongino]

So the supporters who understood that, that.

[Jim]

This stuff takes time and judged us on the record.

[Dan Bongino]

I really appreciate that you guys and.

[Jim]

Ladies have been with me from the beginning.

[Dan Bongino]

I, I read a lot of your.

[Jim]

Stuff and I owe you huge, man. I really appreciate me, you know, going in there and having that bedrock of support on the outside.

[Dan Bongino]

You know, I used to say on the show before I left, everything in.

[Jim]

This business, in the opinion business is sound bites and snapshots. It's headlines and sound bites.

[Dan Bongino]

It's all it is.

[Jim]

That's what people remember. Clipping is the way people, a lot of people get recognition online. A lot of people watch the whole show.

[Dan Bongino]

Some people don't. Sound bites and snapshots matter.

[Jim]

It's the exact opposite. In federal law enforcement. It is not sound bites and snapshots. It is a very slow, methodical process.

[Dan Bongino]

Getting subpoenas, doing the work, doing the.

[Jim]

Investigative work, getting the data aggregated to make a case that can pass judicial muster and that probable cause hurdle. So it's the exact opposite.

[Dan Bongino]

So big thank you to our supporters.

[Jim]

Love you guys. You're the best. That's the first group of people and the best of this lot.

[Dan Bongino]

Second to the libs and their media pals, you know, liberals out there, you know, with you guys, you've always hated me.

[Jim]

The feeling's probably mutual. I don't like you guys either.

[Dan Bongino]

You know, I would like to think.

[Jim]

When I went in there I had a, you know, an open mind. I didn't go in there with any partisan intent. And the people we arrested, where we crushed the crime rate in largely liberal.

[Dan Bongino]

Cities, we didn't do it to score political points.

[Jim]

No one's voting for anyone I support.

[Dan Bongino]

In these liberal cities anyway. We did it cuz the job matters. So liberals and their media pals, you.

[Jim]

Can get your lips and just pucker them up and plan a big wet.

[Dan Bongino]

One on my ass because you guys.

[Jim]

Would just rather see people dead. What are you laughing at? Jim, this is Joe just. We're not even like 40 minutes in. Jim's already, like, I miss this guy.

[Dan Bongino]

It's been a long time. Yeah, you can pucker up.

[Jim]

Okay.

[Dan Bongino]

I'd show it to you, but no.

[Jim]

One wants to see that on the live. We may crash the livestream again.

[Dan Bongino]

This is May. This may be what the DDoS attack.

[Jim]

Was all about to prevent me from.

[Dan Bongino]

But you guys would rather see people dead.

[Jim]

Yeah.

[Dan Bongino]

I'm going to talk to President Trump.

[Jim]

About this in about a little less than an hour when he comes on the show.

[Dan Bongino]

But it's incredible at the homicide rate, Jim, what happens in a homicide?

[Jim]

What happens to people?

[Donald J. Trump]

Somebody dies.

[Dan Bongino]

Somebody dies. They're freaking dead. It's amazing. Like, a lot of people aren't dead. Because the homicide rate's the lowest it's been in modern US history. Not exclusively because of the work we did, but largely because of the work.

[Jim]

We did at the direction of the President.

[Dan Bongino]

Expanding the use of UFAP warrants, Vicker cases, RICO cases, gang members who shoot people we want locked up. I just showed you the montage.

[Jim]

Chalk line, the Kensington drug market, all this stuff.

[Dan Bongino]

The illegal immigration push title.

[Jim]

Aiding violent criminals using title.

[Dan Bongino]

Excuse me, to get them out of the country. And then the liberals are complaining. I don't know what the hell happened.

[Donald J. Trump]

How the hell.

[Dan Bongino]

How did this. Gee, I don't know, dipshits. How did it happen? When 0.5% of the population commits to 50 to 70% of the violent crime and they've. Most of them have been arrested between eight and 12 times before. That's what the data shows at Jim Stutter. When you go out and you lock these violent animals up, they can't kill people because they're in jail. Well, they could kill people in jail, but not on the street when you deport them. They can kill people, but not here. I don't want them killing anyone, but I don't want them killing US Citizens. Who I work for the United States government. Liberals. Interview. I don't know, man. I don't know what the hell happened. Crime rate, violent crime rate, homicide rate plunged by 20%. What the hell happened? And the media, totally divorced from reality. These people would rather see you dead than for a second acknowledge that this FBI.

[Jim]

I'm not talking about the prior ones.

[Dan Bongino]

That these people, that we had anything to do with it at all. They don't give a shit. All they Want to do is write their damn headline. We don't know what happened. Must have been a statistical anomaly.

[Jim]

Yeah, sure, sure, dipshits. Keep it going so that we're so back, aren't we? Already I can tell. I'm feeling. I am so in a mood today. You have no idea. This is like bottled up, pent up energy for the past year. So supporters, libs and their media pals, we don't like each other.

[Dan Bongino]

Keep writing your stories.

[Jim]

Sure you'll have a story about tomorrow. You always do.

[Dan Bongino]

You already re. You already wrote the headline.

[Jim]

I could already see it, so good for you. Knock yourselves out. I know we're good clickbait for you, but as long as you show up, it's all that matters to me. The third group of people I want to address are. Are the grifters out there who mistakenly thought I wasn't coming back. Now I am back. The podfather is back. And I'm here to take back this movement. This movement's been hijacked by a small group of dipshits and bums and losers who are nothing but doomers under the frame of accountability. I'm all about accountability. There was. I just showed you what we did or what we didn't, did I not? I'm not sitting here going, hey, trust me, bro.

[Dan Bongino]

I showed you.

[Jim]

If you like it, great.

[Dan Bongino]

If you don't, that is absolutely your constitutional right. You paid for it to go out and go. That sucked. I would have done something different. Okay, but you didn't. You didn't do anything different. I'm not sure if you volunteered to serve or not, but you didn't. You sat in the front row with.

[Jim]

Your popcorn ankle biting.

[Dan Bongino]

Throw in this popcorn at the ring, at two guys in there sparring away, fighting for this country while you did shit. You just talked about it. So you didn't do anything. Now I'm back on the air. I. I'm not going to take on every single thing in one day in one show, but I'm telling you right now, your bullshit. I'm done with it. The grifter bums. All you guys are, are a class of doomers. Everything sucks all the time. You would have done it different. You didn't do shit. You did nothing. You didn't volunteer. You didn't ask. You didn't give up your show to do. You did nothing. All you did was bullshit people and say nothing's happening. And then when we tell you, oh, it just happened, you move on to something else you say is not going to happen. And then when that happens, you move on to something else. Totally full of shit.

[Jim]

Thank you. There's some numbers. This was from an epic times or nothing's happening. 35% increase in espionage, arrest. That's not nothing.

[Dan Bongino]

You don't have to like it, but it's not nothing.

[Jim]

Okay. 78% increase in China related espionage. Again, not nothing. 112% increase in Asian applications. 20% drop in a nationwide murder rate.

[Dan Bongino]

Again, you don't have to like it. You could say I would have done 21. Yeah, but you didn't.

[Jim]

What's that? Thank you. He's like, I don't like murders. I'm all for this. Me either. 20% increase in FBI arrests related to 7, 6, 4 child exploitation network. 640 individuals disrupted from conducting terror attacks. You don't have to like it, bro. You don't have to like any of it. But don't say it's nothing. A lot of people put a lot of hard work into it from this administration at the top on down. You want to critique it, say you would have done better. Step up, step up. Go ahead, they got openings. You go try it. See what you're dealing with. The last group of people I want to address here is the leakers. Listen, when we got into the FBI, Cash and I, we found there were two FBI's. I think Nicole Parker actually has an interesting book about this. She was an agent a while back. And Nicole Parker had an interesting take on this. Two FBI's, and she's not wrong. There was a completely weaponized portion of the FBI that just could not get their heads out of their asses. They could not get out of this old model of like political targeting first, law enforcement second. And then it was another group of people, you know, door kickers, agents out in Omaha and elsewhere, who. They didn't have anything to do with any of this shit. Matter of fact, you know, if you were doing an inspection, you read some of their emails. A lot of them were pissed off about this whole thing.

[Dan Bongino]

These were the guys going out there.

[Jim]

You know, locking up these vcat case offenders. Violent crimes against children, you know, locking up white collar folks, locking up, you know, using UFAP warrants to go get violent. It's unlawful flight against prosecution, you know, to use these warrants to go get bad guys off the street. The problem was finding out who was part of each group. We were outsiders, both, Cash and I. That's not a mystery. We were outsiders. The benefit to being outsiders is we had a fresh set of Eyeballs when it came to. When it came to things like Doge and everything else and work. I saw Elon yesterday at the Escavino's wedding. I thanked him for it. We had a Doge guy over there as well. We came in there with a fresh set of eyes, and that was great.

[Dan Bongino]

But folks, there was a downside.

[Jim]

The downside was we did not know every single player in the business and who was what. No one advertises, hey, I'm part of the weaponized old FBI. So we had to figure that out. Not an excuse, just an explanation. That's all. I worked for you, and you deserve to hear what happened. So this fourth group of people, the leakers in the bureau, some who've left, some who were likely fired, and others, you guys destroyed the place. And you tried to destroy us, too. But I bet you thought I'd never be back either. So now when you leak with your little tiny voice in the New York times and your 10 or 15 views, we have millions of people. This show is so big, they tried to take us offline just 15, 20 minutes ago. It's the biggest live stream in the world and one of the biggest conservative podcasts in the entire world. Now we're back, and now we get to fight back. Because I'm not going to let you bullshit people anymore about what was going on. Upset about everything. Some of the stuff that came out, that social media stuff, These guys were hilarious.

[Dan Bongino]

These guys were absolutely hilarious. Social media is how people consume content. Walter Cronkite and Brokaw aren't around on the air anymore.

[Jim]

They'd be like, man, Dan and Cash, they were. They were really concerned about getting media. Getting information about social media.

[Dan Bongino]

No shit, Sherlock Holmes. We've got someone wanted for a crime. You think it may be a good idea to put out on social media? Hey, we're looking for this person. They'd be like, these guys are using social media. Yeah, we are. That's why the prior operation kept sucking and why 80% of people didn't trust the weaponized idiots who were running a place before. Of course we were going to use it to tell the taxpayer, here's what's going on. Here's.

[Jim]

We needed.

[Dan Bongino]

They deserve transparency. Why was this a shocker?

[Jim]

But I'm back now and you can go fuck yourself. What are you laughing at? I'm serious. Let me say it again. Go fuck yourself. We had to clean up your mess and you hated every second of it. And to the good guys doing their job. God bless you, man. Thank you there are people alive right now because you went and kicked in a door and got some shithead off the street and put him in jail or deported him out of the country. But yeah, that fourth class of goons. Keep it up, man. Now we're back. Now we get to tell the real story of why you tried to stop us every step of the way as we clean the mess up. You left for this president the absolute mess.

[Dan Bongino]

Now I figured, no good to address.

[Jim]

Those four groups of people, especially Group 2, Libs and their media pals who again would rather see you dead.

[Dan Bongino]

They would rather write a story about.

[Jim]

The homicide rate being up. Oh, my God.

[Dan Bongino]

They don't care if people die.

[Jim]

They don't care at all.

[Dan Bongino]

This is how they work.

[Jim]

I've seen it now from the inside.

[Dan Bongino]

Obviously before I had been in government.

[Jim]

Before, you know, my past with the Secret Service and at the local level with the nypd, obviously.

[Dan Bongino]

But now at that level, it was completely.

[Jim]

And a total eye opener, like Clockwork Orange. Eye opener. How the media does these things from the other side.

[Dan Bongino]

Because over the past year, you know, I had to stay relatively quiet on.

[Jim]

Social media outside of, you know, the.

[Dan Bongino]

FBI account, because it's not about me. When you're in the government, you work for the president, the taxpayer, the administration. It's not about you. You're not there to like promote your own stuff anymore. You're there to work for this administration.

[Jim]

And get the job done.

[Dan Bongino]

So I had to stay relatively quiet. So the media knew that.

[Jim]

So every day they would write some kind of bullshit piece. And I saw how they did this.

[Dan Bongino]

So I'm going to go through this kind of three step process. And once you see this, once you.

[Jim]

See this, you'll never unsee it. This is how they work. So first I even wrote this down. I should auction off for charity the first show. They shouldn't. I should use some Wounded warrior chat. Wouldn't that be cool? Someone want that? Would you guys bid on that totally for charity? That would be great. Maybe I'll do that. Rip the pages out and you'll see how I write this stuff down. You got to write. Typing. So good.

[Dan Bongino]

All right, back on track. How swamp insiders and media goons develop the narrative or the story du jour.

[Jim]

They want out there.

[Dan Bongino]

Is the story true? Never. Does it matter? They keep going anyway. Step one, find some anonymous.

[Jim]

Not anonymous to them, but to you.

[Dan Bongino]

Disgruntled swamp rat to pitch your bullshit story to.

[Jim]

They're like, is it supposed to work the other way?

[Dan Bongino]

Hey, guy Right, like disgruntled insiders. Go to the meeting, go, I'm a whistleblower. I've got some invite. That's how it's supposed to work. Correct, but that's not how it works now.

[Jim]

What?

[Dan Bongino]

What? No, no, that's not how it works at all. Media people already, they already have a story written.

[Jim]

Story is like, Dan Bongino, man, he cut himself with a razor. He's got to learn to shave better.

[Dan Bongino]

That's their story. Whether I cut myself with a razor.

[Jim]

Or not is totally irrelevant. There could be no blood on the face.

[Dan Bongino]

They just want to make you look like your physical skills are waning or something. He keeps cutting himself with a razor. They go out to a guy, they'll be like, hey, Ken, Ken, I need a favor. When you were at the FBI, did you witness Dan Bongino shaving? No, not really. Are you sure? Okay. Yeah, I did. Okay, good, good, good. Did he ever cut himself?

[Jim]

Well, I'm not really sure.

[Dan Bongino]

I saw you just said you did. Did he cut. Yes, he cut him. So that's how it's. They pitch it the other way. So in the media business, I was.

[Jim]

Working with a writer one time on.

[Dan Bongino]

A project, he said, they call these people quote machines, where you go to the whistleblower, as with the story he then pitches as his own because he's your quote machine. So a perfect example of this.

[Jim]

I'll show you exactly what I mean.

[Dan Bongino]

You got receipts, receipts, kids, receipts. You don't have receipts, don't bother.

[Jim]

Right? You know the show is all about receipts, right?

[Dan Bongino]

Here's this New York Times piece, exactly.

[Jim]

What I'm talking about.

[Dan Bongino]

They had a story.

[Jim]

Keep this up for a second.

[Dan Bongino]

They had this story written in advance. Trump's politicized FBI has made Americans less safe. Keep that on the screen for a second. July 5, 2025. All they did was take this narrative they had built out in advance. Donald Trump's making America less safe. The FBI has been totally politicized. They go to a bunch of quote machine leakers and losers who totally screwed.

[Jim]

The FBI up, which is going to.

[Dan Bongino]

Take a long time to fix, by the way. It's not going to happen overnight, I promise.

[Jim]

Even over the past year, we made a lot of progress.

[Dan Bongino]

They go to them and say, hey, we're going to write this story about the FBI being politicized, being less safe. Here's a couple of quotes. Okay, that sounds good to me. That's exactly what I would say. America less safe. Gee, you have that epic time signal. What the f are you talking about? You basing that on where? Espionage, arrest. They're up. China related. Espionage, arrest.

[Jim]

Those are up dramatically.

[Dan Bongino]

What about agent applications? Oh, those are up. What about the murder rate? Oh, that's down.764 arrest. Surely we got them there. No, those are up, too. What about terror plots? We haven't had an organized. An organized terror group conduct a successful.

[Jim]

Attack and an organized terror group from overseas conduct anything.

[Dan Bongino]

What are you talking about? Six hundred and forty people arrested. What are you talking about? You're supposed to be journalists, right? Back it up. Just back it up. You said America is less safe. Back it up. This is how they were. So that's step one. Find some disgruntled dipshit, give them a quote, feed them. Feed the quote machine in and they go back. Yeah, America's let's say, man.

[Jim]

What are you basing on?

[Dan Bongino]

I don't know.

[Jim]

You told me to say it, dipshits.

[Dan Bongino]

Here's step two. This one, I promise, when you see.

[Jim]

This one, you'll never unsee it, but a lot of people miss this one. I haven't gotten to go through this with you, Jim. So you're sitting, but this one's a good one. You're paying attention. Take notes on this one. This is the ox's gourd effect, I'll call it.

[Dan Bongino]

Once you see this in Lib media.

[Jim]

Narrative articles, you'll never miss it. Now, now, let's say there's a conservative podcaster they hate. And you can go through the list of them. Even Republican, conservative, libertarian.

[Dan Bongino]

If it's not a non Democrat podcaster.

[Jim]

Is the best way to say it. Right? As long as you're not on their team, you're the enemy, Right?

[Dan Bongino]

What they'll do is they'll attack that person relentlessly.

[Jim]

Joey Bag of Donuts.

[Dan Bongino]

I mean, like conspiracy theorist Joey Bag of Donuts. But if Joey Bag of Donuts says something against, say, me or Cash or anyone else, they need to go, or that day they'll be like respected conservative journalists. You dipshits just wrote this guy was a conspiracy. Tell me it's not true. It is. You will totally see. I could give you a thousand examples of it right now. All these guys, they'll be like, you know, inside whistleblower. Meanwhile, six months ago, you were attacking this guy. It's such. It's hilarious to read. You'll see it all. The respected podcaster, Joey Bag of Donuts. And then a week later, when they need Joey Bag of Donuts to go down, they'll be like, life loser, zero, conspiracy theorist kicks dogs. And you'll be like, this the same guy, bro.

[Jim]

See it. You'll never unsee it.

[Dan Bongino]

So again, step one, feed a quote to some disgruntled swap rat swamp rat.

[Jim]

Who doesn't want to lose his retirement package.

[Dan Bongino]

Second, make sure you use the ox's gourd effect and turn everybody against one another. They love doing this. There's nothing more they like than conservative, libertarian Republican infighting. Nothing more. Step three, it then becomes the current thing. You know, I hate the current thing. This is a liberal thing. Liberals go along with every single current thing. They never ask any questions. You're like, hey, I think it's a good idea. Someone about, like, a decade ago was like, I got this idea. I think we should allow men in the women's room. What the hell? Like, who thought is such a freaking stupid idea? But the liberals are like, wait, is this the current thing? And of course, the narrative spreads on.

[Jim]

X and elsewhere and Blue sky where all the liberals are and others and on their Reddit forms, and they're like.

[Dan Bongino]

What a liberal person. You know, like, they like. Like that canker someone at the Young Turds.

[Jim]

Right?

[Dan Bongino]

You know Kank. Yes. They all support the current. They're like, well, Kank said it or whatever. So it's like they love it. All they need to do because they're little lemmings is hear the current thing. And they're like, yes, this is the current thing. I definitely want to see a penis in the women's room. This is perfect. Meanwhile, 95% of America is like, that's fucking crazy, man. Like, what are you guys, lunatics?

[Jim]

Folks, they're trying to instill this on the right, too. I've warned you about this for a long time. Be really, really careful with this. It's what I call my cannibalism theory.

[Dan Bongino]

Where they remember the cannibalism theory.

[Jim]

If you were listening to my radio.

[Dan Bongino]

Show or podcast, they know the liberal.

[Jim]

Media folks and people trying to divorce this movement from the inside right.

[Dan Bongino]

They understand that there are influencers or.

[Jim]

Whatever you want to call them out there, that the second Donald Trump got into office, their MO Is to make money. Not all of them. I'm not bashing everyone, but they're all. And you know who they are.

[Dan Bongino]

They've got to make money.

[Jim]

Their livelihood. Their livelihood is clickbait, okay? I have separate investments in my own business. Like I told you, I. I am a capitalist. I like the show. I love the show. We don't need the show. We do the show because we want to do the show. But the people on the left, they do the same thing. I told you in the cannibalism theory, they'll eat each other alive for clicks.

[Dan Bongino]

I never thought.

[Jim]

This is where I gotta tell you, I was a little bit blindsided. I'm usually pretty good at kind of licking my finger and seeing where the winds are blowing.

[Dan Bongino]

I missed that when Donald Trump got elected.

[Jim]

I was like, my gosh, every so much is happening so fast, like I thought there was going to be like a champagne popping party. And I'm not talking about the FBI stuff, forget that.

[Dan Bongino]

I'm talking about in general. And yet you get doomers and black pillars and others who all they do is shit talk the administration at every single opportunity. It's because they don't have anyone else.

[Jim]

To eat up but their own right now. And they find clicks and oh, I would have done it.

[Dan Bongino]

But you would have done shit, man.

[Jim]

You're sitting on your ass front of your ex account watching like tentacle porn.

[Dan Bongino]

You wouldn't have done a damn.

[Jim]

What? Remember that reporter at that time, you know we use that on the radio a lot.

[Dan Bongino]

You wouldn't have done shit, man, talking a bunch of smack. You wouldn't have done anything. Donald Trump had the balls to do all this stuff.

[Jim]

Iran, Venezuela.

[Dan Bongino]

I'm not even a huge tariff guy, admit it.

[Jim]

But listen, all the doom and gloom.

[Dan Bongino]

About it didn't turn out to be true. 5% GDP projected, zero illegal border crossings.

[Jim]

A 20% drop in the homicide rate. Oh, I don't like it. You would have done it. You're full of shit, man. You know what the hell you're talking about. So all I'm telling you is accountability matters. Accountability and transparency are paramount. But don't lie about it. Nothing happened.

[Dan Bongino]

No, it did happen.

[Jim]

You're just full of shit and you're falling for the current thing and you're eating up your own side because you got nothing else to do. And just tell people, just tell people why you're doing it. Just be candid because that shit drives me crazy.

[Dan Bongino]

And by the way, most of the.

[Jim]

People talking smack, doing this, eating up our own side and this movement, this MAGA movement and elsewhere, never did a.

[Dan Bongino]

Damn thing themselves and by the way, never had any idea what was actually going on. I love how some of them pretend to be big insiders.

[Jim]

I got all these deep contacts and.

[Dan Bongino]

Then something happens that the president of the administration does and they look blindsided. Wait, I thought you were an insider. And I thought you just said that wasn't going to happen. The president was going to do X. You said the president will never do X, then he does X and then you move on. No one ever mentions it again. It's like, hey, are you ever going to be accountable for bullshitting your audience about the stuff you said isn't happening?

[Jim]

All right, I got to take a break and then I want to get to some man. It's a long show.

[Donald J. Trump]

Oof.

[Jim]

Boy, I got a lot of stuff to talk about today. I'm not even through halfway of it. I hope you guys are enjoying it so far. I really appreciate your patience. Well, what do you think is in the cup? There any guesses in the audience? No, it's not. That's pretty good. Yeah, I like how you said that. 180,000. Even with a technical hiccup.

[Dan Bongino]

180,000.

[Jim]

Boy, I know. I love you guys so much I was talking to you, G. But I do love you too. Thank you. All right, folks, quick break with.

[Dan Bongino]

We're now into our second hour for.

[Jim]

The first time ever. It'll be a two hour show, 10am to noon. So we really appreciate you guys stay. Remember President Trump coming up in just under 29 minutes at 11:30. So I can't wait for that, folks. I think our health care system reacts instead of prepares. You get sick, you wait for insurance to the side. When you actually need your medications, you can't get it. It's backwards. That's why I recommend all family pharmacists. I've used them before. You know them, you love them. I use them now. I keep using them because they get it. They're not your typical pharmacy. Look at the winter storm we just had. Shipments were delayed, people were scrambling. If you ordered when the warnings hit, your medications would already be at home. That's what all family pharmacy allows you to do. They believe people should be able to plan ahead. You complete the form online, a licensed doctor reviews it and provides the prescription. And your medication strips ships straight to your door.

[Dan Bongino]

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[Jim]

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[Dan Bongino]

Look at the date.

[Jim]

March 10, 2025. Keep an eye on sunshine Patriots. You know, Dan Bongino starts his job on March 17th. The FBI and we're beginning attacking him on March 18th. If the entire deep State isn't arrested that day. It's not organic. Pay attention.

[Dan Bongino]

Look at the date on that.

[Jim]

March 10th. Man, did he ever call it, hey, can you turn ecm? It's like an egg. Like, I love it in here and I love being, being cold. But it's like 30 degrees in Florida today. Yeah, a couple ticks. There we go. Like 67 or something like that. Had it 65.

[Dan Bongino]

What happened before I. Did you see my Twitter, by the way, I posted my first frozen iguana picture. I've never seen the iguanas dropping out of my trees. I go out the other day, see Lucy sniffing around, surprised she didn't eat the damn thing. There's this green thing on the floor. It was my first frozen iguana I've ever seen.

[Jim]

He was.

[Dan Bongino]

The poor guy was just sitting there. They're not dead. They're in like a state. They're in like a Jurassic park park stasis in like the frozen honey thing.

[Jim]

Or whatever it is.

[Dan Bongino]

But I hope the poor guy made it.

[Jim]

Lucy may have eaten him later at night. I'm not really sure. Sorry for you, but they're an invasive species. So what? But you got playing something my ear there. So what was it like, guys working for President Trump? I get this question a lot. Matter of fact, it's the question I get the most. And I'm going to talk to him about it coming up in a minute. But I feel an obligation to kind of give you the inside perspective again from all the details. Doomers who want you to believe like nothing's happening and all this other stuff.

[Dan Bongino]

Number one, the guy is the most.

[Jim]

Decisive human being I've ever worked for. And I've worked for a lot of people between the NYPD working in Key Food Supermarket, the Secret Service, being an investor, being a consultant. I've worked for tons of people. Some really talented, some not so much.

[Dan Bongino]

Some good managers, some bad ones, good sergeants.

[Jim]

Bad sergeants, whatever it may be.

[Dan Bongino]

I've never seen a guy this decisive in my life. And when I say decisive, I mean.

[Jim]

Let'S, let's put, you know, meat on a button.

[Dan Bongino]

He doesn't, he doesn't get lost in.

[Jim]

Kind of like polling them, you know, he's obsessed with polling.

[Dan Bongino]

No, he's not obsessed with polling numbers at all. I can prove it to you. The violent crime push into liberal inner cities where the President was deeply concerned.

[Jim]

With cash and I early on about.

[Dan Bongino]

Crushing violent crime in liberal society cities. One, he's not running again. The President is not running yet. He's not going to win the Chicago vote. Even if he could run again, he never once mentioned like, hey man, we got to get good Poland.

[Jim]

Never once.

[Dan Bongino]

He just cares about people getting unalived. He doesn't want dead people in Chicago. It's not hard to figure out. So we said to us, early on.

[Jim]

We had this Operation Viper in Memphis.

[Dan Bongino]

Cash put it out there. It was amazing. The President's like, how do we do this nationwide? I went to Cash, I said, hey, let's water balloon our assets around. Let's do broken windows policing. Let's implement a COMSTAT type accountability system and let's attack violent crime across the country. And the President was like, go get them boys, lock them up, put the silver bracelets on him. And he stayed on top of it every single day. He's also a transformational guy. Yeah, Dan, you're kissing his ass. No, I worked for him. You don't know shit like I did. You media goons, you have no idea. He doesn't like. Well, prior presidents may have done this. Great. Well, why they do that? Well, they did it for this reason. It wasn't going to go over well with this crowd. No, no, we're not. We're doing it because it's the right thing. Totally transactional. Transformational guy. He sees things as a plus one for the country or minus one. He doesn't get lost in a lot of bs. I never seen anything like it.

[Jim]

And I got to tell you, that's.

[Dan Bongino]

You know, I let them know early on I was going to do the.

[Jim]

Year, I was going to flip the calendar, was going to go and fix the system there.

[Dan Bongino]

Going to attack violent crime.

[Jim]

We were going to attack the deep state. We're going to take it on. We're going to de. Weaponize the FBI. And that's what he, that's what we did. But I'm not going to spin your wheels, folks. I, I am going to miss the intensity. So I'll show you a couple things of what it was like in a day inside the office without going into obviously any classified stuff or anything like that. But, you know, every day was an adventure. Every day was a level 10 decision. I'm going to get to that next. Regarding some other matters in the news. Every day was a level 10 decision. There was a shitty choice and a shittier choice. I promise you, there was never ever an easy decision because someone else already made it. No one knocked on your door. And they call me boss, which always kind of freaked me out a little bit. I Actually told them the second I left, like everyone's to call me dad no more. But I really did freak me. I'm not being like humble bragging, but hey, boss.

[Dan Bongino]

And they come in and every day.

[Jim]

Was some like, what do we got now? What do we got now?

[Dan Bongino]

What do we got now?

[Jim]

It was always, always a level 10 decision.

[Dan Bongino]

So when you're making these, these level.

[Jim]

10 decisions, like every day was like this. So this was, this happened all in the same, I don't know, 72 hour period, could have been the same day. But don't quote me, but I remember it all happened at the same time and going down.

[Dan Bongino]

So we were dealing with this story.

[Jim]

You got that sod queued up, Justin, the one you guys and ladies may remember. This story about a bunch of suspects involved in a terror attack. Here was some quick Fox News coverage. I remember this. I mean, like it was yesterday, but check this out.

[News Anchor]

Shannon, good evening. Scary story. Several people are in custody right now in Michigan being charged on this Halloween night. Arrested after the FBI thwarted an alleged terrorist attack with an apparent connection to isis. The FBI director announcing the arrest early this morning on social media. Now here's what we know. Suspects were picked up in both Dearborn and Inkster, Michigan. It's unclear who was arrested or how many. Patel in a statement saying the FBI is constantly on watch to keep Americans safe, adding through swift action and close coordination with our local partners, a potential act of terror was stopped before it could unfold. The vigilance of this FBI prevented what could have been a tragic attack. And thanks to their dedication, Michigan will have a safe and happy Halloween. Now, our affiliate Shannon spotted the FBI in a neighborhood in Dearborn outside Detroit. Dearborn police confirm the bureau was there conducting activity this morning. The local police department adds that there is currently no threat to police public safety. Shannon, good evening.

[Jim]

Scary. Yeah, I remember that one. That was intense. And obviously these things go on over the course of days. Like I said, when you're dealing with the Department of Justice and judicial and legal process, you know, it's not like the war department which you're making high end life or death decisions every single day.

[Dan Bongino]

But they give orders and they're enacted.

[Jim]

But we have process. We everybody obviously has constitutional protection, protections and things like that.

[Dan Bongino]

So that was going on for a.

[Jim]

While, that whole process that was going down.

[Dan Bongino]

And again, this is over the same period. While you're adjusting that people are coming in, you're getting quick updates on things like that. Hey, here's what we got with the suspects.

[Jim]

Here, where we are. Here's where we are with judicial process.

[Dan Bongino]

And subpoenas and the like. And you obviously want to make sure.

[Jim]

That first, you interdict and stop any potential terror attack. That's number one, judicial process. And everything else comes second. You got to stop the attack.

[Dan Bongino]

So you got to make a lot.

[Jim]

Of really tough and hard decisions. Again, what's the shitty decision and what's the shittier decision?

[Dan Bongino]

There's no easy decision.

[Jim]

None that was going down when obviously, Arctic Frost broke. We found that. I'll never forget that when. When I'm not going to say who I. But you got that headline from cbs.

[Dan Bongino]

You know, they run in the office.

[Jim]

And they're like, hey, look what we found. And we're like, you got to be kidding me. So we had this policy, cash and I find, investigate, take action.

[Dan Bongino]

So to find things was not easy.

[Jim]

This is why I kind of used to get a kick out of, you know, a lot of the popcorn throwers from the first row who acted like we went in there. Everybody laid everything out on a platter.

[Dan Bongino]

Like, oh, here you guys go. Time to take action against the people.

[Jim]

Who were involved in this.

[Dan Bongino]

A lot of this stuff was hidden.

[Jim]

We had to go find it. And it didn't always happen overnight, but this, this is going down at the same time. I had to go up to Capitol Hill and a briefing these senators on this absolute, you know, internal weaponized debacle. I had a brief about what was going on as the phone's ringing, about this other one as well.

[Dan Bongino]

And this is why I talk about.

[Jim]

This is what I said. I opened up the segment saying, I'm going to miss the intensity. I'm going to miss that. That was. That was that part. There's nothing like that. There is nothing like being in the suckling like that, where you're making these level 10 calls and you're doing them quick. If you can't do it, like, you know, that's. But every day, boom, boom, boom, boom.

[Dan Bongino]

So that was going on, and I.

[Jim]

Was dealing with also something at home at the time. And that's where, like, I have to really throw this in and thank Paula for dealing with me for the past year, because there was a lot of stuff going on, but there's no excuse for that. I'm going to tell you something I probably shouldn't say, but I'll say it anyway. My. I did that FOX interview early on. I tried to stay off the media. I think I did. I know someone got to go count maybe five interviews in the. In the 10. 10 months I was there for the past year, I tried to stay off the media. I didn't want to make the story about me. It's not. It's about the administration, and it is about reforming the FBI. But I was doing Fox and Friends early on. It may have been my first or second hit. I don't remember. But I love the crew over there. And they had asked me about, you know, what the transition was like. And I'm telling you, like, I wouldn't have done anything different, even this, because you learn from everything.

[Dan Bongino]

I wouldn't. I wouldn't change a thing.

[Jim]

I promise you. No regrets, because you learn from every single mistake. But that was.

[Dan Bongino]

It was a mistake.

[Jim]

I shouldn't have answered honestly. You know, I really. I missed. I missed home. And I was talking about being in this apartment away from Paula. It was, you know, wasn't like a cave, but a pretty small apartment. And at night, we would talk for hours on the phone, but it was hard, so you'd stare at the wall. Sometimes you miss. I miss my daughter, my wife, the dog, you know.

[Dan Bongino]

But I should have answered that.

[Jim]

I don't regret it because I learned.

[Dan Bongino]

A lot from it.

[Jim]

I love the intensity of the job. I wouldn't have changed anything about it, but sometimes, you know, the taxpayers, I'm not gonna want to be crude about it, but they don't care. Like, do the job and fair enough. And that was it. That was the last time I ever mentioned that, because just get the freaking job done. You know what I'm saying? Like, shut your pie hole and do the job. And that's okay. That's okay. I'm not above criticism myself, but I promise I wouldn't have changed it because I learned a lot from that. You know, people don't want to hear about, you know, Jim, it's like they're paying you to get a job done.

[Dan Bongino]

But I was just asked the question.

[Jim]

And I thought, ah, be candid about it. But, you know, I'm not gonna do it one more. One more day. And then I want to get to. Because I know you guys are, you know, interested in that. Epstein as well, too, which was a big thing. See a lot of it, obviously, people in the chat who were concerned about it. So I'll get to that. And then I'm gonna get to President Trump as well.

[Dan Bongino]

But I want to cover this. This was one.

[Jim]

This was one story that I'll remember. I think I discussed this on Haley's show a bit. Little bit.

[Dan Bongino]

But this is What I'm talking about.

[Jim]

By the intensity I'm really going to miss. I was sleeping in my apartment one night, and you have a security detail in the FBI at the deputy level. And Cash has one too.

[Dan Bongino]

So I can't hear very well from.

[Jim]

This earpiece you can probably see in my ear. And I've had one in the Secret Service for 12 years too. So my. I don't really have great hearing. If I'm not listening to you in public, I'm not ignoring you. I probably just don't hear you. Paula has the same problem. So we're always like, why?

[Donald J. Trump]

Why?

[Jim]

You know, we are like, wow, what'd you say? So I'm sleeping on my one good ear, so I don't hear anything. And I hear this pound. I pound on the table. But I want to break my hand.

[Dan Bongino]

Pounding at my door. Folks, I swear to you, I don't been on the job.

[Jim]

I don't know what it was like a month or so.

[Dan Bongino]

I think I'm getting kidnapped. I'm like, here it is. ISIS is here for all damn Bongino. And I'm the first thing I'm thinking.

[Jim]

This is how crazy.

[Dan Bongino]

I'm like, how'd they get up the elevator?

[Jim]

Because you needed a pass.

[Dan Bongino]

So they're pounding on the door. So I. I look out the.

[Jim]

The hole, the people thing, and I see it's my security detail. I'm like, oh my gosh, what's up? They'd never woke me up.

[Dan Bongino]

I'm like sitting there and like some.

[Jim]

Like, sweatpants or something. I don't even know. I had a shirt on. Probably not an image you all need in your head, but I was like, what's up? I'm all groggy, sand in my eyes. And it was a really tragic story. Those two Israeli diplomats were shot. So I had to go to the cross crime scene. I think it was Judge Janine's first day. And I met Pam there. I think Cash was overseas for that one. So that was just. And I'm thinking to myself, like, you don't have time to be tired. There's no tired. So I went to the Washington field office, and you just got to get it done. No excuses, just get to work. And that was. That was kind of a welcome to the late night hours. And then we, of course had Minnesota. We had school shootings in Minnesota, the politicians who were shot in Minnesota. We had Coeur d', Alene, Palm Springs, the list with the Detroit. The list went on and on and on. I just saw some New York Times article about how Detroit we were concerned about what to get out of it. Yeah, of course we want to tell the public what's going on. Like, I can't believe that was a surprise. So I know a lot of you are concerned also about Epstein. Let me just say in advance, guys, as I said when I opened up the show, you know, leadership involves frequently being misunderstood and having to make decisions.

[Dan Bongino]

That it's going to piss someone off.

[Jim]

That's just the way it is. This case had been handled poorly for a long time. And if you go and look at the search warrants and a lot of matter of fact, almost all of it's public now thanks to President Trump and the team getting it all out there. Look at the search warrants and how they were scoped. The case that had issues for a really long time. So it obviously was a mess. And this is one of those level 10 decisions where I told you you're.

[Dan Bongino]

Not going to make everyone happy. There's a shitty answer and a shittier answer and disagreements in D.C. about how.

[Jim]

To handle level 10 problems.

[Dan Bongino]

I love how people in the media acted like this was like new. As if the Biden team had done.

[Jim]

Anything to get this stuff out.

[Dan Bongino]

They'd done shit. They had done nothing. Zero. Of course there was going to be some disagreements on what do you do about grand jury material? What do you do about Downloaded child.

[Jim]

Pornography that was downloaded off the Internet. He didn't create it.

[Dan Bongino]

But what do you do about that? What do you do about all this? There was always going to be a disagreement.

[Jim]

Of course.

[Dan Bongino]

The media made this out to be.

[Jim]

Like, remember that weekend?

[Dan Bongino]

Like an intergalactic story. I'm sitting upstairs.

[Jim]

I was home that weekend and I.

[Dan Bongino]

Here'S another media story. Like Debonjito left town. Left town. I had a mortgage. Morgan Wallen concert that night. It was on my schedule for months, you dipshits. But he left town. I didn't wind up going to the.

[Jim]

Concert because the media was making a big deal out of these disagreements, but.

[Dan Bongino]

It was a level 10 problem.

[Jim]

Was never going to please everyone.

[Dan Bongino]

The person I thought at the time who nailed what the issues were with.

[Jim]

This was our good friend Mike Davis. You got. I'll play the CNN1 clip next. But throw up Davis's tweet. There were a ton of problems with this. This. There was grand jury material. There was. He was. He put this out. He's. Anyone who rapes kids deserves the death penalty. Amen. Here's a problem with the Epstein Mass. The FBI doesn't have the evidence. Many thought it did. I want to see the files, folks. I said, don't let it go. I meant it. We got elected, we looked at it. The file was not what was in there was not what we thought would be in there. There are not tapes with powerful men raping kids. There is not a list. Epstein's Rolodex was already public. The files largely unreleasable for many reasons, including grand jury material, which they're moving to get a lot of that out. Court records under seal. Child pornography that was downloaded from the Internet. You can read the rest of it. Protection of victims. We obviously didn't want victims names out there. Here's another one. Keep that up for a second.

[Dan Bongino]

Double or triple hearsay.

[Jim]

You're seeing it now.

[Dan Bongino]

You're seeing on Twitter, like this guy said, Joey Bag of Donuts, you know.

[Jim]

Cut this woman with a razor or this young girl while. While raping her. And you're like, wow, that's a really horrible story. It's terrible.

[Dan Bongino]

And then you find out Joey Bag.

[Jim]

Of Donuts was whatever, some famous athlete.

[Dan Bongino]

Who was playing a game in Phoenix that night. Like, a lot of this stuff was just people called.

[Jim]

Not all, by the way.

[Dan Bongino]

Not all of it.

[Jim]

This is an extremely serious case. Let me be crystal clear.

[Dan Bongino]

But that doesn't mean every single tip.

[Jim]

That came in, you know, was. Had any kind of veracity to it at all.

[Dan Bongino]

A lot of the stuff was clearly debunked.

[Jim]

He says, does anyone believe Bondi, Patelo Bunchino would cover up for Bill Clinton? Bill Gates didn't even make sense. I was all over this case on my show. The Trump DOJ want to be fully transparent, but it couldn't. The time for the reasons above. It's not going to satisfy many, and that's fine. But folks, I'm not going to spend the next two years talking about it. This administration got you the information. You can all look at it. And a lot of people are using it to divide us from the inside. Those are just the facts. That's just the way it goes.

[Dan Bongino]

And by the way, the dividing people.

[Jim]

From the inside thing is not working. A lot of this is bullshit. A lot of it is foreign operations designed to make us divorce ourselves from the inside. Current thing, everything. It is a deadly serious case. There is zero doubt about it. Everyone in the administration treated it as such. Everyone from the start.

[Dan Bongino]

But it was not. It was a level 10 problem. I can prove it to you. No one else had solved it in the past.

[Jim]

Correct? Those are just the Facts.

[Dan Bongino]

Here was a poll even by cnn.

[Jim]

It was about a month ago or something, so it's not exactly recent, but.

[Dan Bongino]

It just speaks to how even if this whole thing was, this would be the end of whatever. Here's a CNN poll about exactly this.

[Jim]

Thing, division in the Republican Party, proving.

[Dan Bongino]

To you that it's not working. People understand that level 10 problems are.

[Jim]

Never going to make everyone happy. Check this out.

[Political Commentator]

Let me be very clear. There is no rift in the Republican Party. Yes, there are some folks like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie or quite skeptical of this. They are very much in the minority.

[Donald J. Trump]

What are we talking about here?

[Political Commentator]

Well, why don't we just talk? The GOP on the U.S. military ousted Maduro Ipsos. 65% support, 6% opposed. How about the Washington Post poll? 74% support, just 10% opposed. If you look among 20, 24 Trump supporters, we're talking about 80% support. The vast, vast majority of of Republicans are with Donald Trump on this issue. Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene are very much in the minority. Very few Republicans are with him.

[Dan Bongino]

You say they're with him on this issue. Do you even need those words, this issue?

[Political Commentator]

No, I don't need the words, this issue. Because the bottom line is this. Donald Trump has had an iron grip, an iron grip on that Republican base for a long period of time. And it is the same iron grip that he had six months ago. I know every so often people are trying to say, oh, I spot these, these little riffs in the Republican, oh, oh, you know, they're finally starting to break. They're starting to break from Donald Trump. It ain't happening. At least when it comes to the approval rating. Look at this. 84% six months ago, 85% now, you don't have to be a mathematical genius to know 85% and 84% are basically the same number.

[Dan Bongino]

Level 10 problems, folks.

[Jim]

Shitty answer. And the shittier one, that's every single thing at the principal and deputy level. And this president has to deal with them every single day, every day. He doesn't get to delegate everything. A lot of this stuff, you know, the old buck stops here. The buck stops on that Resolute desk. They are tough decisions and that's what happened. I know a lot of you, and.

[Dan Bongino]

By the way, there are people in the chat.

[Jim]

I just want you to know a little message to you. Some of the, the supporters, we love you guys, the detractors, you're welcome here too. But I just want you to know something. I own you guys. You can't stay away. I tweet, you instantly respond. I do a show. You can't stay away. Remember, Jim, no one's going to be there. Really? It's 194,000. No one's biggest live stream in the world right now. No one's gonna be there. No one. Really? Then when people show up, that's just us there to repeat. Great. I own you guys the greatest superpower in the world. It's the power to command attention. And I own yours. You can't stay away. But to my supporters and people love the show, thank you. It's an honor. I say with humility. It's really an honor to call you all friends. But watching the other clowns keep it up. We'll be back here tomorrow, same time, by the way. 10am See you there. I know you can't stay away.

[Dan Bongino]

All right, let me move on.

[Jim]

I got President Trump coming up in five minutes. Last thing quick before we get to President Trump. So don't miss it. He'll be on 11:30. We're going to talk about violent crime. We're going to talk about the president's daily brief and all the things, threats he's dealing with, what it's like working from the inside. One second. I'm gonna get. I just want to cover. Can we just cover the tweet? Because I want to.

[Dan Bongino]

I don't want to again beat this.

[Jim]

One up a lot because I've discussed it on Hannity's show on Fox and elsewhere. But the tweet, I promise I'd try to squeeze everything in on my first show as much as I can.

[Dan Bongino]

At least this one generated a. This again is one of those things I don't regret. But I did not realize this was going to cause a thermonuclear explosion around the world.

[Jim]

When I sent it out. I sent out this tweet about being here and how I was shoot. I was basically shaken to the core about what I was, what I was reading and looking at.

[Dan Bongino]

And we can't run a republic like this.

[Jim]

What I was talking about, just to be clear. And that's why I don't want to go in this at length. I spoken on Hannity about it, on Haley's show, on Vince's show. Excuse me, Vince's show, not Haley show. And Haley's coming up at noon. By the way.

[Dan Bongino]

I was reading some.

[Jim]

Some crossfire hurricane documents in my office on a Friday night. I was the last one there.

[Dan Bongino]

Not trying to be a hero. Look at me. I stay late. Not saying that I was the in town guy that weekend. Paula wasn't in town.

[Jim]

Nothing. Go home do.

[Dan Bongino]

So I was sitting there reading through.

[Jim]

These Crossfire documents I had just gotten. I can't say what it was, but I could not believe what these scumbags did. I couldn't. I was, I was floored even having written what, three books on it. Four. I don't remember.

[Dan Bongino]

I couldn't believe it.

[Jim]

What they did to this president was, I use the term on Sean Hannity's Fox program, demonic.

[Dan Bongino]

I mean it. I mean it.

[Jim]

Like I don't.

[Dan Bongino]

Whether you believe in the spirit realm.

[Jim]

Or not, not my business. I'm not your pastor or your, your faith healer or anything like that.

[Dan Bongino]

I'm just telling you, you can't see.

[Jim]

What I saw and not believe that there's pure evil in the world.

[Dan Bongino]

And I was really shaken by it.

[Jim]

And I'm pretty sure it was a Saturday.

[Dan Bongino]

I woke up still shaken by. I couldn't believe it, that they, what they had done to this guy to.

[Jim]

Try to dismantle this place.

[Dan Bongino]

So that's what that was about because.

[Jim]

There was a lot of speculation. I put a little subtweet below it linking to an article. I thought it was clear.

[Dan Bongino]

But I'll get into kind of more.

[Jim]

Of that as the week goes on. I'm going to discuss it in broader terms as we talk about what's going on now. But I want to get to President Trump on time. So it's our last sponsor of the day and our now two hour format.

[Dan Bongino]

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[Jim]

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[Dan Bongino]

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[Jim]

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[Dan Bongino]

They're like, he doesn't matter. Let's attack him and keep him off the end.

[Jim]

I guess I matter. That's. I know. I see who you're going with that. Thank you, Justin. To doing it already.

[Dan Bongino]

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[Dan Bongino]

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[Dan Bongino]

Frankly probably any other lifetime either.

[Jim]

President Donald J. Trump. Mr. President, thank you so much for joining us today. We appreciate it.

[Donald J. Trump]

Well, thank you very much Dan and you too. I was very unhappy when you left the FBI but I was very happy that you have your show which is so good. So I'm okay with this. Net neutral. I call it a NET Neutral.

[Jim]

Well, Mr. President, I want to thank you for the opportunity. The past year has been absolutely incredible and given that, you know, you're a.

[Dan Bongino]

Results guy having we obviously we were.

[Jim]

Friends before but working for you is a completely different experience. You are a results guy. You're a spreadsheets guy.

[Dan Bongino]

Say how, how would you get to.

[Jim]

A net present value positive with what you're doing?

[Dan Bongino]

And I'll never Forget an Oval Office.

[Jim]

Meeting we had in light of the DC crime numbers today, hadn't had a homicide in a record amount of time in D.C. thanks to your leadership.

[Dan Bongino]

We're sitting in the Oval Office and.

[Jim]

I was talking to you about the homicide rate plunging and it was only about three months into my term there. I said, Mr. President, what we're doing down in Memphis and elsewhere is working. And I'll never forget, I said, we're doing the broken windows, Rudy Giuliani style policing. You looked at me and you said, hey, how do we take this nationwide?

[Dan Bongino]

And you never ever let go. You stayed on top of it with me and Cash.

[Jim]

You were all over it.

[Dan Bongino]

You're such a hands on guy.

[Jim]

And it was just so refreshing to.

[Dan Bongino]

Work for someone who, who doesn't get into all the hype and all the.

[Jim]

Nonsense, but cares about the numbers. It's probably your business background or what it is, but amazing job on that.

[Donald J. Trump]

Well, we have the best crime numbers we've ever had. We have the lowest number of crimes in 125 years since they recorded. That's in 1900 year. And to think of it, 125 years, that's despite a lot of bad people coming in through the border that shouldn't be here. And we're getting them out. You got a lot of them at yourself. We're doing much better than anybody would think. And yet we have our lowest. Think of it. A lot of criminals came into our country. We're getting them out and we're getting them out fast. We have to fight liberal judges and, you know, fake governors, terrible governors and mayors, guys like, just take a look at Minnesota walls. He's a disaster. But if you think about it, I was reading the Washington Post this weekend and they have a big story on crime in D.C. is way down. And they're. The whole purpose of the story is why we can't figure it out. What happened? Is it the police department? They stepped up their game. What is it? They talked about everything. And then toward the end they had a little thing that of course Trump surged a lot of very tough military into it and it was that surge that did it. I would say 97.2%. Okay, let's put it that way. But here I'm reading this story about how crime is down. They didn't even want us to do. They didn't even want us to go. So Washington was a very, very dangerous city. Many murders, many really horrible crimes. They came from all over the place. It was horrible. You couldn't Walk down the street now. You can walk anywhere you want. But the story was, why is it so good? It's so good. They admit now that it's good. But they refused to give us credit. We're the ones that totally did it. And we worked with the police, but without us, you'd have crime at record highs. You'd have crime. It was out of control. And can you imagine? I read. I had to read a story where they're looking for the answer as to why crime over the last six, seven months, exactly the timing that we got in. But over the last, why that crime is way down. And they barely acknowledge us, they say. And also Trump did a surge of the military. Very big, strong people that, you know, trend. Nicaragua doesn't like them very much. They walk in, they beat the crap out of them. And we brought those people. And you know, better than any of you were there, we brought those people back to Venezuela, back to places where they came. Some were so dangerous that we put them in jail because we couldn't take a chance they could come back. But think of it with all of that. I read their story and the headline is something to the effect that crime in D.C. is way down. What's the reason? And everyone knows what the reason is. If it weren't for us, you'd have crime, you'd have stats that would worse were worse than they were. Sleepy Joe Biden. So we do a great job, we don't get credit. And the only thing we can do is go on shows like yours. We have a big audience and talk about it because people get it immediately. It's a terrible, terrible thing. The news is so corrupt and so fake, it's unbelievable.

[Jim]

Mr. President, I'm going to correct the record for the hack goon life loser media right now. Because I was there. I was there with you. I was there with Stephen Miller. I was there with Tony Salisbury, your entire amazing crew over there with AG Bondi and Todd and everyone else. And. And of course, Cash.

[Dan Bongino]

And I remember early on, Cash went.

[Jim]

To you about Operation Viper in Memphis.

[Dan Bongino]

Where at your direction, we surged assets into Memphis.

[Jim]

We absolutely destroyed the crime rate there. We were locking up gang members, mutts, dirt bags, all of these people.

[Dan Bongino]

And I will. I was there. I remember you saying, well, where do we go next? And then, where do we go next? And I personally spoke to just about every SAC special agent in charge of.

[Jim]

The FBI in the big field offices.

[Dan Bongino]

And Mr. President, I told him, I said, the boss watches. I said, I'm telling you right now, if there's a news story about a homicide in Kansas City or whatever it is, I said, I promise he's calling or Steve's calling or someone else. What are we doing? So anyone saying otherwise, that this wasn't at your direction, it was some like accidental statistical blip is completely full of crap. I was there, I saw it, I saw it.

[Jim]

And that's a hill I'll absolutely die on.

[Donald J. Trump]

So with Memphis, if you remember, we got calls. I got calls from everybody. The mayor wanted us, the governor wanted us. So much easier when they want you, you don't have to fight them like in Minnesota. But in Memphis, crime is down 75%. After about two and a half months, we're going to have it down to practically nothing. It was really dangerous. One of the most dangerous cities in the country. Then I got a call about New Orleans and I got it from the governor of the state. Landry is a great governor. He said, we need help. We got a crime ridden mess. People are getting killed every day. I sent our guys there. Crime is down 80% in two and a half months. 80%. And he called me yesterday, he said, this is the most amazing thing I've ever seen. I said, it's not amazing. Now in Chicago, as you know, we put people there and we brought it down, but we only have a limited, really limited force because they fight us so hard that you can't really do the right thing. You know, you just sort of do it easy. And yet we've taken crime down 25%. We have an incompetent governor, eats too much. We have an incompetent governor, we have a mayor who's really a low IQ person. They don't want it. I'll tell you what, if I were Democrat governor and I was in charge of Chicago as an example or mayor, I would be begging Donald Trump to come on. Maybe I'll take credit for what he does like they do, because every time we do something, they take credit. We win all the time. We have a case in San Francisco, they have a very liberal mayor and he wants to do what we do. But I explained to him and he's a nice guy and I have a lot of friends, you know, Silicon Valley stuff. I have a lot of friends up there and they really want him to, want to give him a chance. He's a good guy. He begged me not to do it. I said, look, this was six months ago. I said, look, give it a shot. But you can't do what we do because we take criminals Out, Bring them back to the country. You can't do that. You have to get rid. You know, in Washington, we took over 2000 people out and moved them back. And the other thing, 2% of the people create 90% of the grip. Think of that. So when you start moving these guys out, you have a huge impact on crime. You've got sick people. These are 2%. Think of that stat. So you don't have to arrest the entire population. 2% of the people create. And it makes sense, Right? You know, they create crimes every day, over and over. Then you put them in jail, they come out, they do five crimes in one day. These are sick people and they're bad people. And they'll never be good, by the way. For the liberals that want to make them, bring them into a wonderful person of society, they go, we can bring them back into society now, because eventually they'll kill you. You know, eventually they will kill you. But 2% of the people create 90% of the crime. And we take those two and we go after those 2%. Now, Minnesota, if they allowed us to do the job. It's a mess. There's something in the water up there. And I love the state. I won the state three times, but I got no credit for it. I won that state three times. But it's a rigged state, really rigged badly with the Somalians and the Somalians and the theft. And I guess you studied it, but I hear it's over $19 billion. Okay. Can you imagine they have a country where they have no money, they have no nothing, and they come over here and they steal. They. They're able to steal more than $19 billion. And we're. We're right on their ass.

[Jim]

Yeah, that was one of the first cases when I got an.

[Donald J. Trump]

These are people that don't work.

[Jim]

Yeah.

[Donald J. Trump]

Yeah, Dan, these are people that don't work. These are people that are just not an asset to our society, to put it mildly. And we got to get them out. Most of them. And it's. Most of them, 92% don't work.

[Jim]

Yeah.

[Donald J. Trump]

And they have an unbelievable system. Corrupt system of welfare. You know, many of them drive. Mercedes Benzes had nothing when they came over. The good news is, you notice they don't see ships being stolen anymore from Somalia because we hit those guys with the same weapon that we take out the drug dealers from the ocean. We stop every time we hit a boat. We knocked it out. We saved 25,000 lives. Each boat. And pretty accurate, each boat is responsible for the death of 25,000Americans think of that, okay? And we knock them out like candy. We are knocking them out. We also do that with the pirates in Somalia. That's why you don't see ships being taken anymore, because they don't play games. So, you know, they were stealing ships every day. Now, it takes courage to steal ships. They don't do it. You understand? And you did a great job while at the FBI and I appreciate it.

[Jim]

Thank you, sir. I appreciate it. Well, it was under your leadership, and working with Cash was amazing. He was just an incredible leader over there.

[Dan Bongino]

There was another thing I want the.

[Jim]

Media to hear about and the audience as well, that you did. I was there. I saw it. No one's going to BS me about it. You had a totally different approach to getting illegals out of the country. We use Title 8 a lot. Title 8 is an easy way to get people here illegally out of the country. You say, well, what's unique about that? Your approach with Steve Miller and A.G. bondi and Todd was totally different.

[Dan Bongino]

It was like if we lock up.

[Jim]

Say we went out and did a violent crime roundup, we with the FBI and our DHS and DEA partners, marshals, all your great folks out there, and.

[Dan Bongino]

We gave you 10 minutes to cooperate.

[Jim]

I mean, being a bit hyperbolic, but you get the point.

[Dan Bongino]

And your approach was, listen, either give us something valuable about someone up the criminal food chain or get the hell out. We're not going to store you in our jails for 10 years, waste $100,000 a year on food and shelter and interviews and AUSAs, United States Attorneys, debriefing you. Either produce valuable information or get the hell out. When I first told the guys that at the FBI, they were a little shocked. Well, we can debrief them over and over. No, no, get them the hell out. And this was a revolutionary approach. And the results speak for themselves. The lowest crime rates in modern US History.

[Donald J. Trump]

Well, we want one thing in Minnesota. We can get out of there really fast. We want their prisoners. They've got jails with murderers, drug lords, rapists. They've got jails with the worst. The worst people. And they come out, you know, trend Aragua. They come out the worst gangs. We have the worst gangs. They have gangs that are so bad, they look at you and they knife you up. You know, we had it in Washington. They're all gone, by the way. They're all gone. But all we want is they have a lot of prisoners. They call it sanctuary city. And sanctuary cities are a disaster. So I put out an Order. Anybody that does a sanctuary city not getting any money, see what happens. You know, they'll get wiped out by these liberal courts. But the people understand nobody could do the job that we've done. Nobody. There's nobody. They wouldn't. You know, they just go through a system. Right? You have to be very tough. Look, I took over a border where 25 million people came into our country, many of them murderers. 11,888 murderers, drug dealers, drug addicts all over the place. They always said they're drug addicts there. They're people with trouble, alcoholic. They ended. They. They took over the mental institutions of their country and they said every single person in a mental institution over our border with Texas with their open border policies. So we have millions of people. Most of them are bad, to be honest with you, because they're not going to send the good people. They want their good people. Like we, we don't want to have our good people leave. They only send their bad people. And the best of their people are people that don't work. Those are the best ones. The people that came in. They don't work and they don't want them either because they don't want to pay welfare. So they've sent all of their people, millions and millions of people. We have to get them out. And by the way, if Republicans don't get them out, you will never win another election as a Republican if you don't get these. These people are all put in so they vote and they make all this crap with the voting. Well, you can vote. You can do whatever you want. It's crazy. I mean, it's crazy how you can get these people to vote. And if we don't get them out, Republicans will never win another election. Think of it. I won in a landslide. I won every swing state. I won the popular vote by millions. I won everything. I want to think called counties, the counties that were. It's such a big vote. That's why the map was entirely red when you looked at, had two little purple lines and two blue lines on each side, but it was all red. And counties. I won by 2,750. Think of this. To 550. 2,750. To 550. It's becoming a very good count because it's accurate. You know, it covers the whole country. It's like a landslide. But you're never going to have that again if you don't get these people out. These people were brought to our country to vote and they vote illegally. And the. You Know, amazing that the Republicans aren't tougher on it. The Republicans should say, we want to take over. We should take over the voting. The voting in at least many 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting. We have states that are so crooked and they're counting votes. We have states that I won't that show I didn't win. Now, you're going to see something in Georgia where they were able to get, with a court order, the ballots. You're going to see some interesting things come out. But, you know, like the 2020 election, I won that election by so much. Everybody does it. They put a woman in jail. Colorado put a woman in jail. A wonderful woman, 72 years old, had cancer because she was a voting inspector. She was in charge of a voting era, and she saw boxes of votes come in, so she went over to check it, and they put her in jail for voter manipulation. And she's still in jail. And they better let her out fast. And they're suffering a big price. Colorado, they have this woman in jail who's 71 years old and probably has cancer. She's sick, and they put her in because she challenged somebody that was dumping ballots into a box, okay? And they didn't put them in jail. This was during Biden's term. They the worst president in history. And we had some bad ones. I mean, look, Barack Hussein Obama, I call him the Great Divider. People couldn't stand him. You mentioned his name. They go crazy. They start booing the hell out of him. We had some really bad ones. I mean, Jimmy Carter wasn't exactly the greatest. Jimmy Garner didn't exactly have the hit on Venezuela that I remember his hits, they always turned out to be a disaster. He went out, he had a hit. The helicopters were crashing into each other, the hostages and everything. That's why Ronald Reagan won the election, was so pathetic. But we do it right. We've got the greatest military. I built the military. You know that in my first term, I built the military. Even though they gave. They gave a piece of it away. But it was. It's a lot, but it's still a piece compared to what I built. We have the most powerful military. And my attack on Iran with, you know, Operation Midnight Hammer, where we wiped out their nuclear threat, which they would have had a nuclear weapon within a month. And we knocked it out. And our attack on Venezuela was, like, unbelievable. And the nice thing about Venezuela, we're getting along right now with the government. We talk to them every single day. We took 50. 50 million barrels of oil. It's on its way right now to Houston to be refined. And we're going to help them a lot and we're going to benefit by it also. It's going to be great. It's going to be an amazing place. You know, it was a great country 15 years ago. Then it went socialist and I would say it didn't do too well.

[Jim]

Mr. President, this. I know you're busy, last question. But you just kind of segued nicely into it.

[Dan Bongino]

The Don Rowe doctrine as they call it.

[Jim]

Your, your, your, your posture with we have to dominate this hemisphere. I've had again the honor of working for you for the last year and I get to read the pdb, the President Daily Brief. Now I'm not the president, you are. But principals and deputies get roughly that.

[Dan Bongino]

You get all the really, really, really.

[Jim]

Good stuff, but we get most of the good stuff.

[Dan Bongino]

And I can tell you without obviously.

[Jim]

Giving up anything classified or secret, that there are a lot of threats from space, from the ocean, from traditional air ballistic missile threats, threats to the grid.

[Dan Bongino]

You see this every day.

[Jim]

The media doesn't.

[Dan Bongino]

You know, I find it kind of.

[Jim]

Tragic that the media, a bunch of 18 year old journalists with though barely got out of J school, who don't know a damn thing about anything, who've.

[Dan Bongino]

Never read this at all, you know, are busy criticizing you about this hemispheric.

[Jim]

Dominance policy you showed in Venezuela. We're not going to let this happen. That was my last day at work.

[Donald J. Trump]

By the way, and Argentina and many other places.

[Dan Bongino]

Look at some of the results you've had.

[Jim]

Even in Panama yesterday there was a.

[Dan Bongino]

Ruling against China and the ports. This is working. And this threat picture is so bad. You are absolutely spot on. It is not the 1960s anymore. We have to control this hemisphere from.

[Jim]

A national security perspective.

[Donald J. Trump]

Well, that's right. And here's the main thing we were laughed at a year and a half ago. We were laughed at as being stupid people. We were laughed at it. Not as, not. We see a guy falling up the stairs, going into an airplane. I got to be very careful going in. Have you noticed how slowly. Nice and slow. I'm not looking to set any records. You don't want to go down. Could happen. I mean, but it can't happen three times in one shot. Okay, the three times going up this, I don't think you'll ever see anything like that. But it could happen. So I have to be a little bit open. I have to say could happen. But you haven't watched Me, I come down nice and slow. I'm not looking to set any records, okay? That was the one thing I have to tell you. It's probably the only thing I respected. And yet it didn't look elegant at all. He bopped down the stair, right? He would be in the middle. I thought it looked so terrible, you know, I mean, this is the President of the United States. He's bopping down, you know, bop up, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop. And I kept waiting for him to fall, and he didn't. So I would rather have other traits than that. And I didn't even like the look of it, but I was impressed with his ability to go down the stairs like that. I mean, I wouldn't want to do it. You know, those stairs are very slippery. Yeah. And I always used to say, he's an accident waiting to happen. And to the best of my knowledge, it didn't happen. So I give him credit, but it happened. Many folds with Biden. What a president. We're respected. The bottom line is we are respected again like never before. And they saw what happened in Iran with, you know, when we took out that nuclear with those beautiful B2 bombers, we just ordered 25 more of them. The. Even the newer, upgraded version, you're going to see these things, they're invisible. But we just stopped that and what we did with it. And don't forget, I got Soleimani. I got Al Baghdadi in my first term. Two of the worst. The worst ever. The worst ever. The two. The biggest and the worst. One was the founder of isis. He was rebuilding it. I took him back. And the other one was the father of the roadside bomb and the leader of. Let me tell you, if he lived, he was a leader, the military leader of Iran. If he lived, that attack that we made on Iran would not have been the same thing. He was a great general, and they don't have that now. So we did a great job. We're respected all over the world. I spoke with China. He goes, very impressive. Very impressive. I spoke to Putin. He goes, wow, that was something. And that's what we want. We have to be respected.

[Jim]

Mr. President, again, it was a tremendous honor. I cannot thank you enough to be able to do the job I did under your leadership. The way you just let us. You let us cook. Mr. President, you said, go get them. Go get them, boys. You told me, in cash, go get them. Lock these guys. I tell everyone in the media that. I said, if you work for him and you're in the room with him, he demands results. There's none of this friendly. You want a friend, Get a freaking dog. Produce results or get the hell out of of there. And I really appreciate the opportunity to do what we did. What an honor. And thank you so much for joining us on our first show. It was great to see you at the wedding yesterday for the great Dan Scavino, by the way, hilarious speech.

[Dan Bongino]

You're the best emcee. Every time you get the mic, everybody was cracking up. That was great.

[Jim]

So really good.

[Donald J. Trump]

We had a little fun. That was an easy one. But listen, you did great in the FBI, and I'm very torn. As I said, I think maybe. Maybe I'd rather have you where you are because, as you know, very few people can do what you do. Very few people can do what you do. And your voice is a very important one. So very happy with that also. So thank you for your service. Thank you for a great job. And I'll be around when you need me.

[Jim]

Thank you, sir. Great to talk to you, Mr. President.

[Donald J. Trump]

Thank you, Dan. Bye.

[Jim]

There you go, folks. The 47th and 45th president of the United States, Donald J. Trump. I can't say it enough. What an honor to have worked for such a transformative figure. Man, I'm getting. Getting a little choked up after that interview. I'm the worst. I'm like such. Not really, man. Someone sent me that. Remember that man card they sent us? Key. That was like an actual man. There you go. No idea what it was like to work for this guy. I didn't. I knew him as a friend. I did not know what he was like as a boss. Amazing. And all that bullshit you see in the media and throw it right in the freaking garbage. And by the way, all the attacks you had, all my, you know, bullshit detractors, whatever. You don't know shit about anything. Throwing popcorn from the front row. It's the number one live stream in the world. Like the globe, like the round thing. The rock we live on. By a long shot, 226,000 people showed up. That's with a DDoS attack, by the way. A DDoS attack that was really well organized to try to shut us down. We were down. We were down.

[Dan Bongino]

I'm not embarrassed to tell you because I'm such a target that they came after the whole damn website and someone just sent me some information.

[Jim]

Rumble.

[Dan Bongino]

They've never seen anything like it. That's how bad they want to keep.

[Jim]

Me off the air.

[Dan Bongino]

But I have my first.

[Jim]

Guys. You ready for this? Get ready for the screenshot. Jim, you know I'm going this my.

[Dan Bongino]

First double barrel to those who tried.

[Jim]

To stop us because the podfather's back and we're taking the movement back. It's not my movement, but I helped build it. I've been here a long time, since the Tea Party days as a candidate and elsewhere. I'm not going to let a bunch of shitheads and doomers and everyone else sit here and collapse this movement like cannibals and eat it from the inside. No chance. Zero. And now you can see it. I'm sure the media people write a story.

[Dan Bongino]

A guy in the comments said Dan sucks.

[Jim]

Yeah. He was one of 226,000 people in the comments.

[Dan Bongino]

You may want to put that in there.

[Jim]

Just a thought. I know you've already written your stories, but we always win. Always. Because we don't bullshit people. I said I was going to address everything I did. You like the answer? Great. You don't. It's not going to be 10 years of over explaining stuff. It's the biggest weakness. People have this need to be understood and peer into their souls and everything. I don't measure me on the decisions I made. And we're good. 226,000 on rumble. Absolutely amazing. Thank you so much. Again, a big thanks to the staff. We got producer Jim, Theresa, my staff, she's my wife. But she also does do a lot of work. Paula managing the whole thing. The queen bee, Jasmine Ghee. Justin. Josh, who's new to the team. I didn't mention Josh before. I'm really sorry. We love you, Josh. Good to have you here. Josh is new to the team. You're gonna be hearing a lot about him. I warned him, did I not, Josh, in the job interview?

[Dan Bongino]

If you're not comfortable being part of the show, do not sign on the dotted line, bro. Because as Jim saw in the beginning when his phone went off, everything's fair.

[Jim]

Game for this show.

[Dan Bongino]

You're in a thing, your phone goes off. That's part of the show. Jim knows. So Josh did I. And Josh was like, I'm game.

[Jim]

Yes, he's game.

[Dan Bongino]

Justin, show everybody your shirt too.

[Jim]

This was great for the first day. Justin wanted to represent and I think this is the perfect shirt. There we go, buddy. Amen, brother. The freedom. Sure. For those of you listening on audio podcasts, on Apple, I heard SoundCloud, Spotify Freedom shirt. God bless him. Charlie was the bridge. I began the show with it.

[Donald J. Trump]

And Rome.

[Jim]

Yeah, man. I love that picture. Look at that hair, man. For a guy who has terrible hair. Like me. So much so I got to shave it. Thank you for everything you did. I also want to thank today my tremendous audience again. You guys are just incredible. You've been with me through thick and thin. And thank you for understanding that these things take time. Folks, what Cash is working on over there right now, just give him, let him cook, man. After this four years are done, if you don't like it, fine. That's okay. That's what accountability and transparency are. Air your grievances. Make it a Festivus show. Let's get the poll out. Feats of strength. And let's air our grievances. But it takes time. It took decades to destroy the place. It's not going to be rebuilt overnight. It's an uncomfortable answer, but it's a true one. I lived it. I'm not asking to trust anyone. Just let him work. President knows exactly what he's doing. He picked these people for a reason. But I also want to thank my two daughters, the lovely Isabelle, my oldest, who's watching right now, she sent me a text, watching with a big heart. Love you, girl. You're the best War eagle. And then to my youngest daughter, Amelia. She is just so special. When, you know, I don't know if you guys believe in God or not. I'm not here as your preacher, but I certainly do. I'm the sinner like everyone else. I'm not trying to be some kind of moral compass for anyone. I just want to be clear. But you know, when I watched my daughter at a volleyball game hit a wicked serve, Amelia. And she looks over me with that daddy approval. Any girl dads out there, you know what I'm talking about. And you give her the head. Don't. That's God right there. That kind of love. Nothing like that. So I love you both. And I also want to thank a few folks. I only got a couple minutes left. Haley show coming up at noon, new time. Rumble.com Haley the Great Vince Colonnades. We love 8am now rumble.com Vince, please support these two amazing patriots. They're part of our show lineup. We love them. But before I go, I just want to thank a couple more people, too. And I'm not, I promise over the course, course of the next week or two weeks, they're all going to come to mind. I'm not leaving anybody out, but I want to thank, you know, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin for having my back the whole time. Amazing hosts. They've been in this business, gosh, since I'm what, 20 years old or less. They've always had my back. I can't thank you guys enough. The great Sean Farish who we love. You know, he started as the Trump impersonator guy but has become an amazing host. He's filled in for Vince. He's always had our back. Brendan Dilly, just a rock lives local to me too, just knows all about the Doomers. I want to thank Clay and Buck too. They listen. They were competitors of mine on the radio. I'm going to tell you man, when I was we were going through a lot of drama that we couldn't talk about. We knew we were going to be misunderstood. There's a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes. He was a really somber voice and I appreciate that. And all the other folks out there, radio hosts who were competitors with Joe Pags and other Graham Allen legend rated our show. Love Graham Allen. 9 o' clock on Rumble. Just amazing guys who just let us cook man and gave us knew who we were and what we were doing. I just really thank you guys. It's easy to take pot shots from the cheap seeds but understanding and I'm falling for the current thing. I won't forget that. I really appreciate it. Folks. We will be back here tomorrow. You believe we're going to end exactly on time of doing. Stay tuned for Haley. We're going to rate our show rumble that.com Haley we will be back here tomorrow and every day at 10am Eastern time to noon. Rumble.com bongino rumble.com bongino go there today. Follow subscribe it's free for you. Sign up for Rumble Premium if you want. See you tomorrow.

[Donald J. Trump]

Hey there.

[Dan Bongino]

I'm Vince.

[Donald J. Trump]

I'm Haley Caronia, host of Vince Host of Scrolling with Haley.

[Jim]

You can always catch my show right here. Right here on the Von Junior Report Channel live. 8:00am Eastern weekday mornings, noon weekdays. And if you miss it, no worries. The show will always be right here and anywhere you find the podcast.

[Donald J. Trump]

Thanks for watching.