Is Another Scandal About To Pop? (Ep. 2530)

Summary

The Dan Bongino Show – Episode 2530 Summary

Title: Is Another Scandal About To Pop?
Date: June 5, 2026
Host: Dan Bongino
Guest: Sebastian Gorka (Senior Counterterrorism Advisor to the President)
Podcast Network: Cumulus Podcast Network

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Episode Overview

In this high-energy Friday installment, Dan Bongino dives into the political chaos facing the Democrats, celebrates strong economic and medical advances under the Trump administration, and decries media dishonesty and ideological division in America. The centerpiece is an in-depth interview with Sebastian Gorka, focusing on the Trump administration’s aggressive reforms in counterterrorism, including results-oriented changes, a dramatic shift in drone defense, and moving the U.S. counterterror border far beyond U.S. soil.

Bongino skewers media narratives, Democratic candidates, and spells out why he thinks Republican prospects remain strong despite naysayers. Throughout, he highlights the importance of policy over luck, and champions results-driven leadership.

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Key Topics & Discussions

1. The State of the Democratic Party & Scandals

• Opening Monologue (03:00–13:00):
  Bongino describes the Democratic Senate slate as "the worst I have ever seen in my life," referencing ongoing scandals, especially around Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner (notorious for a Nazi tattoo and new allegations).
  • “What is the red line for you with this guy?... I thought the Nazi tattoo thing was enough. Apparently not.” – Dan Bongino [07:05]
  • Emphasizes that he would condemn Nazi sympathizers on the Republican side with equal vigor.
  • Uses sarcasm to challenge Democrats: “What’s the next shoe to drop? It’s like someone drops a cinder block on you.” [08:45]
• The “Red Line”: Bongino asks, rhetorically, when Democrats will disavow problematic candidates, warning Republicans not to forfeit any ground by staying home.

2. Economic Success and “Trump’s Luck” Narrative

• Job Report Reaction (13:00–16:15):
  New stats reveal 172,000 jobs created, far exceeding expectations. Bongino points to these numbers as directly tied to Trump policies—not “luck.”
  • “Trump telling the United States manufacturing base we’re open for business. None of that mattered. None of that led to this jobs number that popped this morning...” – Dan Bongino [10:50]
• AI's Role in Prosperity (16:00–19:30):
  • Asserts his faith in AI and free speech, highlighting medical breakthroughs attributed to AI, including cancer and cholesterol therapies.
  • “If this can save millions of lives... isn’t it our moral obligation to take a shot?” – Dan Bongino [17:47]
  • Cites Axios report: AI-driven drug for Multiple Myeloma with 100% response rate in early trials.

3. Country’s Ideological Split & Media Bias

• Division Deepens (24:00–29:00):

  • Foresees a permanent split along ideological lines, with exodus from blue states due to their failed policies.
  • Attributes this to media “cover” and failure to honestly report on blue state collapse.
  • “This ideologically split country, Red America, blue America, is only going to get worse because as blue America collapses, liberals in the media will provide cover...” – Dan Bongino [26:38]
  • Cites the drop in media trust by 53 points (1972–2025) as proof of journalistic failure.

• Media “Cover” for Failures (29:00–36:00):

  • Highlights instances like Leslie Stahl's denials of Trump campaign surveillance, accusing the media of protecting blue state policies.
  • Memorable Moment: Bongino and chat audience flood the channel with “Sir” emoji, mocking Stahl’s stonewalling.

4. Media, Sports, and “Authoritarianism”

• Media Narrative Absurdity:
  • Bongino plays a clip of an interviewer suggesting that President Trump and the UFC (Dana White) are using sport as authoritarian propaganda tools, likening Trump to Mussolini or Putin via sport promotion. Dana White dismisses the charge rationally.
  • “You are running a guy...with a freaking Nazi tattoo...and you’re lecturing Dana White...accusing him of allying with Nazi ideology? Are you freaking crazy?” [23:00–24:00]

5. “Nothing is Happening” vs. Liberal Media Madness

• Crossover Segment (36:00–41:00):

  • Bongino highlights the contradiction: some say “nothing is happening” on corruption, while legacy media panics over the administration’s anti-corruption efforts.
  • John Bolton’s classified documents case: indicted, then pled guilty—shows real progress, not just “weaponization.”
  • Operation Playground Therapy (34:24): Massive government/private sector fraud busts, child safety victories.

  “This FBI director is the best FBI director we’ve had in modern times. Granted the bar is really low...All I care about is results.” – Dan Bongino [35:16]

6. Democrat Approval Collapse & 2026 Midterms

• Polling Realities (38:52–45:59):
  • Approval for congressional Democrats is now negative even among Democrats—“underwater” for the first time ever.

  “Democrats are underwater with their own party, folks.” – CNN’s Harry Enten [39:27]

  • Joe Biden’s favorability: “single most unpopular former president in modern US history,” still releasing a book, anchoring the party down.

  “He is socially stupid and he’s just dumb. No sane politician with his garbage record releases a book before a midterm...” – Dan Bongino [46:00]

7. The Nightmare Team: Far-Left Candidates

• Extreme Democrat Candidates (48:46–52:00):
  • Plays campaign ad featuring a candidate promising to “abolish ICE” and touting her “PhD” in immigration as a reason to oppose all deportations—even for violent felons.

  “Never ever cite your education...you sound like an asshole.” – Dan Bongino [49:20]

  • Bongino lampoons the “Dream Team” as a political liability, not an asset.

8. California’s Never-Ending Vote Count

• Voting System Critique (53:00–56:00):
  • Rips into California’s multi-week vote counting—asserts that Democrats prefer it because it allows for “harvesting” and cheating, not voter convenience.
  • Mocks CNN’s rationalization for slow results.

9. Congressional Hearing Takedown

• Notable Moment: Treasury Secretary vs. Wyden (57:45–58:03):
  • Bongino gleefully describes a “political homicide” as a Treasury official demolishes Senator Wyden in hearing, channeling his love for “receipts” and direct confrontation.

10. Friday Fun & Comic Relief

• Zen and SNL Moment (59:49–62:00):
  • SNL clip riffs on the absurdities of the English language; Bongino shares it as lighthearted relief.
• Democrat Zen Moment:
  • Clip of a tired-sounding caller exuding exhaustion with current political climate, underscoring the chaos and malaise Bongino attributes to Democratic rule.

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In-Depth Interview: Sebastian Gorka (66:05–91:57)

Theme: Results-Oriented Counterterrorism Reform

Summary & Insights

• Drones & Counterterror Reforms (67:00–73:30):

  • Gorka and Bongino detail the rapid transformation of the U.S. drone threat response, including the creation of a federal counter-drone school within four months and a presidential executive order.
  • Emphasize the Trump administration’s capacity to move fast and coordinate complex responses.
  • “I have never seen in the history of the United States outside of maybe wartime...a government initiative go from zero to 1,000 miles an hour in four months.” – Sebastian Gorka [69:40]

• Focus on Real Threats, Not Politics (73:46–76:50):

  • Bongino and Gorka agree the Biden/Obama years were focused on ideologically convenient threats (e.g., white supremacy) while ignoring or underplaying jihadist and cartel violence.

  “We will not permit the political perversion of national security...We're not going to label Catholics who go to Tridentine mass...as domestic terrorists.” – Sebastian Gorka [75:25]

• Concrete Results:

  • Over 1,000 jihadis killed since Jan 20, 1 year:
    “Killing jihadis is a pretty good metric...because then they don’t get to kill Americans.” – Sebastian Gorka [81:26]

  • Over 100 Americans rescued from detention/hostage status overseas with zero ransoms paid.

• Shifting Counterterror "Border" Offshore (87:18–91:00):

  • Describes a biometrics program that collects data (with foreign permission) on terror suspects before they can even board a U.S.-bound flight.
  • “You want to push that disruption to the very beginning of the plotting, or even before they can meaningfully plot or create that team...” – Sebastian Gorka [88:48]

• Teamwork & Leadership:

  • Emphasis on presidential leadership and camaraderie, contrasting with prior administrations.
  • “The only problem we have in this administration is keeping up with the President because nobody can keep up with this man.” – Gorka [90:55]

• Special Operators & Intelligence (84:00–87:26):

  • Praises U.S. special ops for decisive, world-leading action, and honors the intelligence analysts behind high-profile captures.

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Notable Quotes and Moments

• On Democrat Senate Candidates:
  “You guys have the worst slate of candidates I have ever seen in my life.” – Bongino [05:13]
• On Media Denial:
  “Donald Trump was spied on...it 100% happened. This is not journalism. This is editorializing.” [27:42]
• On Biden:
  “Joe Biden is the president Barack Obama always wanted to be but was too politically savvy to become.” – Bongino [44:23]
• On Left-Wing Violence:
  “According to the CSIS...left wing violence is in ascendance and is eclipsing right wing violence.” – Gorka [77:20]
• On Violent Felons and Deportation:
  “Do we deport violent felons? Even a freaking crazy person’s like, ‘Yeah, that’s probably a good idea.’ [48:46] ... This guy can’t even answer the question.”
• On Election Cheating:
  “If we said to California, we’re going to give you four months to conduct an election...it’s gotta be wrapped up by Election Day. ... They would still say no. It’s not about time. It’s about manipulating [57:24].”
• On Killing Jihadis:
  “The President’s response is, yeah, kill more of them. That’s leadership.” – Gorka [82:02]
• On Trump’s Leadership:
  “When you’re friends and patriots together, there’s really no obstacle to what can be achieved.” – Gorka [90:48]

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Important Timestamps

| Segment | Details | Timestamp | |-------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------| | Dem Senate Scandals | Graham Platner, Nazi Tattoo, "red line" | 05:00–11:00 | | Job Numbers / Economy | Trump’s “luck,” positive economic trends | 10:50–13:00 | | AI & Medicine | AI-driven medical advances | 16:30–19:30 | | Ideological Division | Red/Blue state split, media trust collapse | 24:00–29:00 | | Media/Journ Fraud | Leslie Stahl & Trump “spying” denial | 29:00–34:00 | | Operation Playground | Multimillion fraud busts, FBI praise | 34:24–36:40 | | Approval Polls | Dem favorability plummets, Biden as liability | 38:52–46:00 | | Campaign Ad Mockery | “Abolish ICE”—far-left “dream team” spoofed | 50:32–52:00 | | Vote Counting Fail | California’s post-election manipulation critique | 53:00–56:00 | | Gorka Interview Starts | Counterterror, results, drone defense | 66:05–91:57 | | SNL Comic Relief | “Hamburger not made of ham” history skit | 59:49–62:00 |

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Conclusion & Takeaways

Dan Bongino presents another turbocharged, fact-heavy episode hammering on the Democratic Party’s missteps, election chaos, and media dishonesty. He consistently ties societal and economic improvements to specific Trump-era regulatory and policy choices, rebukes narratives that claim success is “just luck,” and demands accountability and standards in both American politics and media.

The centerpiece interview with Sebastian Gorka is a must-listen for anyone interested in U.S. counterterror reforms, offering insider, brass-tacks details on building a results-driven national security apparatus—one that claims to have dramatically improved drone defense, interagency cooperation, and terror plot disruption. The tone is combative, brash, dismissive of “media spin,” and confident America is on a major upswing—provided the “doomers” don’t sabotage it from within.

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For further details or full context, listeners are encouraged to review the original episode, especially the Gorka interview for actionable insights into changes within the national security and counterterrorism sphere.

Transcript

[A]

All America, all the time.

[B]

Sit down, buckle up and get ready

[A]

for the Dan Bongino show. So I was watching the chat and no, it's not Gremlins. I saw a couple people. Why are they late? They're always on time. I'm going to tell you why. We were prepping for what is, I don't know, favorite. One of my favorites because it's hard at this point. We've had so many interviews, you know, President Trump and others. I have Sebastian Gorka, senior counterterrorism adviser to the president, coming on in about an hour. And please don't miss it. Media people, this is for you. I know you people in the media constantly like to say, President Trump, he's got nothing but acolytes and podcast hosts and others ignoring, of course, our history in law enforcement intel, Sebs, history with counterterror. I know you love to do that. This is going to be a thorough evisceration based on results and stuff we actually did. That's going to prove to you, although you won't accept the proof, that the Biden team and the prior leadership in the counterterrorist space before President Trump did Jack squat and Jack left town and totally screwed the pooch. And I'm going to put meat on the bone with him about what actually happened. You're going to hear it for the first time from people who lived it during year one of Trump 47. You want to hear about what's going on with counterterror? You're about to hear took a few minutes. I want to make sure this gets done right. Because, and I don't mean like ninjas are coming for me or whatever, I'm gonna die or anything, but if something happens, God forbid I get in a car accident or something like that. I said this to Paula the other day. I'm dead serious. I wanted on the record what this administration did. I don't want the record to be the New York Times and Washington Post's bastardization of what happened in year one. In the national security safety front, I want it on the record with receipts to back it up. And you're about to get them, folks. I got a loaded show for today. By the way, thank you to Tommy John McGroin for the REN and Stimpy thing. I do say he wrote a nice letter and he's like, I'm surprised how easy it was to find your address online. I keep saying, you guys, you actually made my point. That's not my address. The only reason it got to me is the Mailman knows who I am. And once in a while we'll just bring something over the. That's not my address. So I appreciate it. Thank you very much. But that is not. I'm not playing a game. It's just not. My address is, I promise you, is well hidden. I have. We've had a lot of problems. I do not need that out there. We've had too many issues. But thank you anyway. All right. I got a big show for you today. Big, huge job. Numbers just broke. Stunning story on AI the good portion of it. So a lot to get to. Don't go anywhere. Here's a question. 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You got a guy in Michigan campaigning with a guy who said that 10-7- rapes really don't matter to him. You got a guy in Texas running on six genders and a meatless campaign in freaking Texas, the Talafrico cat. And then you've got this guy in Maine, Platner, who I thought the Nazi tattoo thing was bad enough, and now there's a bunch of allegations coming out of. And there are allegations, I get it. Like, this stuff happens in politics. But, like, what's the red line for you? A bunch of people, I guess he dated or somewhere. Like, man, this guy's really weird. Like, stay away and whatever. What is enough for you guys? And the thing is, it just keeps coming out. I saw this compilation this morning. It was just Western Lensman hat tip. The great Western Lensman on on X. Here's a compilation of every time the media has tried to give U.S. senate candidate for the Democrats in Maine, Graham Platner, Nazi tattoo guy, an opportunity to get out in front of the next bombshell after this last one just dropped. And every time he's like, well, I don't know, man, maybe something else, but it's just going to be attacks. Check this out. Are there other skeletons from your past that still may emerge in this race?

[C]

No, but the GOP is going to

[A]

dig up everything and more that they can. Yeah. And probably lie at some point.

[C]

Is there something new you want to get ahead of?

[A]

No. People have to take you at your word that that's true and that there's nothing else. Is that what you are saying?

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Yes.

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Folks, I don't what was to the Democrats listening again, I'm not your friend, I'm not your buddy. But we can all pretend. We can all pretend. We can all do a Barney the Purple Dinosaur, right? We can all sing around camp, songs, roast marshmallows. Just pretend I'm your buddy for a minute. What's the red line for you with this guy? Anyone have any ideas? Is it like maybe it comes out tomorrow that he was involved in the Manson murders or something like that. He wasn't even born. It doesn't matter. Like, what is the red line for you guys? When do you say, all right, like, this is kind of. I thought the Nazi tattoo thing was enough. Apparently not. Call me crazy. By the way, if there is a candidate thinking about running on the conservative MAGA Republican ballot who is a Nazi sympathizer with a Nazi stormtrooper tattoo. I would say the exact same thing. I think my bona fides prove that. Holy Moses, man. What the hell? What is enough for what is like, what's the next shoe to drop? It's like a. This guy drops, forget about a shoe everywhere. You walk with bare toes. Someone drops a freaking cinder block on be like, oh, that hurt. What is enough? Okay, I've had enough of that. Reminds me of that scene from Friends with the Matthew Perry character. And you know, the phone's ringing. Who's it, Joey? The other guy. The phone's ringing and they're just sitting there and he looks at him because you know that'll stop if you pick it up. You know this will stop if you just stop running. Nazi sympathizers. You have a choice. Coming up in November, I'm not forfeiting anything. Doomers, gloomers, grifters, bums, liberals, media types, it's over. The Republicans are going to get smoked in the midterms. Yeah, if we don't show up, they're going to get smoked. I'm not forfeiting anything. I am forfeiting nothing. The Democrats are in total disarray. Shittiest candidates I've ever seen. And by the way, the people on our side or pretending to be on our side trying to tell you don't show up, nothing is happening. Constantly ignore Lucky Trump, who just continues to get lucky. It happened again. Do you have that CNBC clip? Rick Santel. There he is. Lucky Trump. I haven't played blackjack in a really long time. I'm itching President Trump, this is my personal appeal to you because you're so air quotes lucky all the time. Can you please just like, I don't know, get behind a dealer and like, rub the chips or something? The luckiest guy I've ever seen. These results just keep piling. It's only luck, folks. It's nothing. The administration, tax cuts, they didn't matter. Deregulation, that didn't matter. Trump telling the United States manufacturing base we're open for business. None of that mattered. None of that led to this jobs number that popped this morning that blew past expectations by more than double. Check this out. The data is out. The made job jobs report, 172,000. Is there any doubt that this anecdote, 11, it's about a good labor market, has been very correct? That is a really strong number. And last month, while we had a revision from 115,000 to 179,000, which means the two month revision has got to be over 90,000. That is a good number. Even manufacturing posted a 7,000 job gain. So how strong is 172,000? That would be the best number since 185,000 in March. These are solid numbers. I know you guys have connections at the White House and stuff. Can you just get the president, like seriously, Mr. President, we'll go. What's that casino down here to Coconut Creek. Or there's this like the Seminole Hard Rock. Duke. Well, you don't have to stay. I know Secret Service and staff and all just like, can you like blow on the chips or something? Amazing. I mean, the economy is exploding. What is. It's all luck. The guy, it's not like the guy's been in office 10 minutes. It's been a year and a half. You now live in a country finally with a sealed border. Sealed zero. Illegal migrants again admitted into the country. You live in the safest country. Numbers. Homicide rate. Crime rates. Homicide rate. Raw homicide numbers in modern American history by a long shot. The economy's adding jobs at a rapid pace. You've got our manufacturing base being rebuilt, our military being rebuilt. And all these people can do in the bullshit media is complain all the time. It's got to be luck. It's got to be luck. This is the luckiest guy I've ever seen, man. It's a Friday. Here's more good news. Because I see the AI doomers out there too now, folks. Disclosure because it matters. I'm an investor in AI because I believe in it. I put my money where my mouth is. I believe in free speech. There's two things I passionately, passionately. My money. Believe in free speech. I believe once this. There is no future in Cancel Culture. You'll have no economy left. You can't have a segregated economy where conservatives can't get a bank account. Can't speak. You can't. It's going to suffocate itself. Cancel culture. And I also believe in artificial intelligence because I've seen the power of it. There's risks, of course, but listen to me. I told you this is a serious time. You know. Captain Emotional roller coaster on the show. Nothing. Nothing. Brain tattooed me more and scarred me more than going through that cancer thing and sitting at MD Anderson and watching these kids with cancer come in. You. I can't even describe it to you. It's the most horrifying thing. Like I said, I was in my late 40s. I don't want to die. My golden rules don't get dead. But I can't say I didn't live a full life. Thank you God for keeping me around as long as you did. Kids have not had that. Folks, if this artificial intelligence explosion that's leading to this growing economy, yes, there are downsides. I understand. If this can save millions of lives from people who have a terminal diagnosis of everything from, you know, cancer to ALS to Alzheimer's. If we can fix this, isn't it our moral obligation to take a shot? Did you see this article from Axios this morning? For all the doomers out there, just in the last few months, Axios AM medicines hot streak. This is due to AI, an experimental drug by Eli Lilly which targets multiple myeloma. By editing cells inside the body showed a 100% response rate in early phase clinical trials. Imagine you have myeloma and you're ready to die and you find out this is on the horizon due to AI. Wow, that's interesting. That's not it. There's more. A small early stage study found a gene editing therapy could potentially permanently lower cholesterol levels after just one infusion. Opening door. Opening the door to one. And done. Heart disease prevention. Wow, that's pretty fascinating. Wait, there's more. Like an infomercial. There's a trial that resulted in hepatitis B treatment found it was a functional cure for 20% of patients who received it. Imagine living with hepatitis and one in five people are cured because of this. Folks, it's a Friday. You would thank the Lord. Thank you Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for letting me be alive at this time. You live in the most prosperous time in human history. In the now. In the now. And it's not due to luck. It's due to policy. It's due to sound regulation, light regulation, keeping money in your pocket through tax cuts. However, a little piece of like, we got to get our asses in gear a little bit too. Unfortunately, the Save America act, which would institute basic voter protection around the country, again did not make it through yesterday. I want to give you kind of a balanced approach to the news too. It's not the President's fault. He's already told people it's going to save America. The US Senate just rejected the Save America act, had tip Eric Daughtry as part of a budget reconciliation, 48 to 50 folks requiring voter ID and proof of citizenship. It's not hard. It's not hard. I don't understand, like why we can't just get this through. And I've already told you, if we don't scrap At a minimum, the filibuster as it exists now and make it a talking filibuster. We're never going to get this through. And if we lose the presidential election, House and the Senate, it's going to be really hard when they dump the filibuster first to stop just the avalanche of shitty policies coming our way now. We are living, as I said yesterday, in a bifurcated country, folks. I asked the question yesterday and I got a lot of feedback on yesterday's show. We had a great audience. I said, listen, is this country headed for a permanent split? And the answer unfortunately I think is yes, it is. It's on ideological grounds, folks. People are piling out of leftist blue states at rates we have not seen in human history. It is easy to get up and leave. Now the advent of homework, I think, you know, Covid for all the awful things. A lot of people who are working in the services space set up home offices, set up offices that were small, set up these like workspace type offices where you just rent the thing and they can move. They're not like married to you know, a 50 story IBM building whatever in, in downtown Manhattan anymore. They're just not. You are going to see moving forward an ideologically divided country where blue states are going to. They're basically going to burn themselves to the ground. And one of the reasons that the media is not going to stop them is because they're ideologically captured, folks. The media are full of lying communists and they don't want to change. Put up that chart. Christina Wong put this out the other day. This ideologically split country, Red America, blue America is only going to get worse because as blue America collapses, liberals in the media will provide cover for blue America and blame it on red America even though it's blue policies. That's why you see this trust in the media. Down 53 points from 1972 to 2025. How the hell do you drop 53 points trust in the media when your only job is to get people facts and you can't even do that. It's not even hard. Just collect and aggregate the data and give it to people to make a decision. Folks, nothing is going to stop this until the media decides to tell blue states the truth. And the truth is this. Blue states suck and people want to leave. And blue cities suck and people want to leave because of blue state policies. Confiscatory taxation, oppressive government regulation, woke DEI bullshit. Failing public schools, bankrupt government spending. This is not hard. Now you see people trying to change the media You've got the new crew over at cbs. CBS is trying to bring the station back, the broadcast outlet to a more moderate, fact based journalism perspective. Everybody at CBS is losing their minds. Scott Pelley at 60 Minutes. You get all these CBS people, leak it to the media. I can't believe they don't want us to be communists anymore with the hammer and sickle in our office. And yet when you produce receipts like this clip, Remember this infamous the search. Remember the infamous sir clip? Leslie Stahl, that hack at 60 minutes and you say, guys, are you ever going to apologize for this? This is why left wing, blue state America will never change. Because you've got people like Leslie Stahl providing cover for Blue State America. And Blue State America still believes Donald Trump was not spied on as a candidate and president. When I'm telling you from firsthand experience, missile lock, folks, it 100% happened. This is not journalism. This is editorializing. This is why blue state America is locked in a death spiral Truman show where they're all acting for each other. Check this out. The biggest scandal was when they spied in my campaign. They spied on my campaign.

[C]

There's no real evidence of that.

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Of course there is. It's all over the place. Leslie. They spied on my campaign and they got caught. Can I say something? You know this is 60 minutes and we can't put on things we can't verify. You won't put it on because it's bad for Biden. We can't put on things we can't very. Leslie, they spied on my campaign. We can't very. It's been totally verified. No, it's been. Just go down and get the papers. They spied on my campaign. They got caught. No, and then they went much further than that and they got caught. And you will see that, Leslie, and you know that, but you just don't want to. As a matter of fact, I don't know that I. Guys, that. Yes. Keep that. How did you know I was going to go to the chat? I. How. Who did the sir emoji emoticon thingy? That's. We did. I don't even remember all the emojis we have. And I mean, obviously know about the Motleys, Karate man, all this other stuff. There's a sir emoji. Light it up. Sir. There's no evidence of that. Yeah, Leslie, there is. You want to give me a jingle? We can chat about it. There's a ton of evidence. I actually wrote about in my books. I footnoted it actually with left wing articles too, even from cnn. So look at that chat now. You wonder why the country is split in red states and blue states and it's just getting worse. I promise you the country would be a tinge of red, red leaning purple. Cuz you're always going to have some Democrats around who live their lives in emotion instead of reality. It's fine, whatever. We're a caring country and some people just don't want accept reality. They just want a tolerance sticker on their car. This country would be a even New York, I think would have the potential to go purple if the media would just tell people the truth. Donald Trump was spied on. You increase taxes in a state, people leave. Public schools are failing our kids. We have some of the worst education levels in the organized, economic, developed, economically developed world. If they would just tell people the truth, nobody would vote this with no sane person. That's why again, trust in the media is in the can. Imagine this passing for modern journalism. Did you see this interview with Dana White? You know Dana from the ufc? Great guy. He's always been very nice to me and my family. They're doing an event on the White House grounds to celebrate the country. Little combat sports, we love that, right? UFC coming up this weekend. It's going to be a cool thing. It's, you know, the 250th. It's a national celebratory moment. There was a piece in the Wall Street Journal the other day from a guy who doesn't even like President Trump who's like, hey, if the UK during its, you know, downturn could celebrate its jubilee, then the United States in this time should be celebrating its 250th. We made it this far and we're still the greatest country on earth. Thank you. Jesus Christ. Why do the media people keep crapping on the country? Because Donald Trump's in office. That's it. There is no other motive other than to be they're the anti anti communists. Where the anti communists. They're the anti anti communists. Imagine asking Dana White a question like this, comparing like the, you know, Hitler and everything to combat sports. What kind of stupid ass correlation is this? Check this out. If you go back in history, you see, sports has in times been used by authoritarian governments like Mussolini to show power, to show strength, to show control. Do you worry about the confluence of this sport in particular and the Trump administration sort of being intertwined? I don't think like people might say, look, Trump's using the same playbook as a Mussomini or a Putin, right? Who? Putin's into judo, Right? And he uses this as a way to show he's the strong man, he's the man. Do you see Trump using that same playbook or no?

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In politics, that's the way it's always worked.

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It's not just Trump. It's been like that since the beginning

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of time and it will be till the end of time. It's not just one guy or one administration.

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It's everybody, folks. This is freaking disgusting. You are running a guy cnn because you're all Democrats over there. Let's just cut the bullshit. You're running a guy with a freaking Nazi tattoo who's got a growing CV of scandals unparalleled in modern political history. And you're lecturing Dana White, who's created, you know, billions of dollars of wealth with this entertainment company he developed. You're accusing him of allying with Nazi ideology. Are you freaking crazy? And I love the way these idealistic media assholes who've never done anything in their entire life played down the role which we wish didn't exist, but is there of violence in maintaining and keeping freedom for others. I'm going to give you a little homework for all these people out there who want to detach, you know, minority America and elsewhere from, you know, pride in our nation. Do me a favor. This weekend if you're bored, go look up the story. It's one of my favorite stories. I just got a piece of artwork from Horace Pippin is one of my favorite stories. I love history. I'm fanatical about it. Go look up the story of the Harlem hellfighters in World War I. I'm just going to leave it at that. You want to talk about a group of bad asses, and the only reason I bring this up is because you see the media, you know, living in this utopian world where violence isn't necessary, where all violence is, like, directed at minorities. What about when groups of minorities who fought for this country bravely, incredibly, how come you don't tell their stories? The answer is because you don't want them to feel like on the 250th part of the American fabric they created. Read the story, folks in the chat. You know, the story of the 369th, the Harlem Hellfighters, Horace Pippen, Henry Johnson. You want to see his story? Henry Johnson has a battle named after him. After him. Go see why a knife and a box of grenades. What it'll do when one guy's got the balls to take on the enemy. There's your homework for the weekend. It's your country too. Should be proud of it on the 250th buying this media bullshit. Now you see why there's a schism. Because you got idiots like this. You know, the Nazis violence too. Yeah, violence also kept the Nazis at bay and actually conquered them. You dumb ass men willing to do violence on your behalf so you can go and spout bullshit to Dana White. Take a walk, man. All right, let me take a break. I've got a crossover coming for you right here. I was a comic book reader back in the day. Remember when DC and Marvel would have a crossover and like Superman would fight the Hulk? I've got a crossover. This is a crossover. These guys are like, what are you talking about? I've got a crossover between liberal media madness and Nothing is happening both in the same clip. It's like a DC Marvel mashup. Coming up right after this quick break, folks. 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Like as we're dealing with a set of doomers who want to destroy a movement telling people nothing is happening while the left Wing media is writing about what's actually happening and saying how horrible it is. You don't know where. It's like a two front war. You know, you got like Stalin coming from one side and you got D Day on the other side. You don't know where to go. You're like crushed in the middle. I mean you don't know what to say, like is something happening or not happening? Because how can they be complaining? Yeah, that's why I trusted the media. So this is, this is a crossover between nothing is happening and liberal media madness. And here's what I mean, you know, people said you hear it on other sides, the doomers will tell you, well on the public corruption front, you know, nothing is happening. And I've said to you possibly hundreds of times now that that's just made up. These cases take time. Some of them you've already seen. One of them was the John Bolton case. John Bolton just pled guilty. So it's no more like allegations. Pled guilty to the charges. But it's interesting. Greg Price, I love his account on X, said when John Bolton was indicted last October and everybody told us, you know, nothing is happening. While the media complained about Bolton happening, this is what I'm talking about, the schizophrenia. He compared Trump to Stalin and said he was the quote, latest target in weaponizing the DOJ to charge those he deems his enemies. Greg notes today he pled guilty. He got his due process, folks. He didn't have to plead guilty. I was there through this. I thought nothing again was happening. I don't, I don't understand like how it happened. And they say nothing is happening. And then the media on the other side objects to what's happening. I saw a bunch of articles out, you know, defending him. One even in the Wall Street Journal, okay, he pled guilty. I didn't tell him to plead guilty. I'm out of the government. I've been out of the government for a few months now. He pled guilty. Did you miss that? It was CNN yesterday again complaining when he was arrested. Of course the CNN people, this was weaponized government. The case didn't even start under our administration. I don't even know what you're talking about. Here's CNN yesterday having a report on a guilty plea for a crime they swear to you wasn't a real thing, was just weaponization. Isn't this kind of weird? Check this out.

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Is expected to plead guilty over mishandling classified documents. This is according to 3 sour. Familiar with the matter. My sources are telling me that he is expected to plead guilty to one count of illegally retaining classified information or national security information at his home. Now this was a substantial case that had been investigated very significantly by first the Biden Justice Department the whole way through the beginning of this term of Donald Trump. What he's alleged to have done here is taken documents or taken notes of documents or briefings he was being given as national security adviser in the first Trump White House and then emailing them to himself almost as if it were a diary entry, and then printing them out, allegedly and keeping them in his home. After he was fired as national security adviser in the first Trump administration, he then wrote a memoir and his home was searched. When his home was searched last August by the FBI, they found multiple electronics and documents with information labeled secret or confidential or classified. Not necessarily the documents themselves potentially, but he at very least had these diary like entries.

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Yeah, who is that? PTR v8 in the chat? It's a data point. LOL. It's folks. So just to be clear, it's data point. We didn't even start the case and he pled guilty. And the media, the Wall Street Journal too is still running these op EDS attacking the Trump administration for weaponization. It's the most unbelievable thing I've ever seen. And the doomers are still nothing's happening. Here's more stuff that happened yesterday. Of course, we had a bunch of independent journalists doing an amazing job exposing massive levels of government fraud. And I told you, fraud cases take a little bit of time. You got to subpoena banks. If the bank says we'll get back to you in three, four weeks, we got to compile the records. You can push them and squeeze them, but ultimately you're waiting on them, then you're waiting for a judge. The justice system grinds very slowly. We try to do our best to put some WD40 on it, but it grinds slowly. Massive announcement yesterday. Tens of millions of dollars of fraud. Huge press conference. Here's a short piece of it yesterday from the Nothing is happening file. And then again, the liberal media and liberal media pissed off about what's happening. The schizophrenia of the crossover event. Here's cash on people stealing money from like kids, playgrounds and stuff like that to go and defraud the government. You want to talk about a bunch of deranged lunatics? But yes, this happened yesterday from the Nothing is happening file. Check this out.

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Operation Playground Therapy is what the FBI is here to talk about today as the attorney general highlighted literally tens of millions of dollars that was supposed to go to kids was stolen allegedly by individuals who worked in government and the private sector and thought they could fleece Americans and our treasure, our children of the hard earned dollars to taxpayer dollars that we provide to support them in their time of need. Well they got caught. And not only did they get caught, so so many others got caught. Just take a look at some of the vehicles that are here as part of their ill gotten gains and proceeds. They didn't just take the money, they paraded it around the country. And thanks to this team here, you are seeing what hard work, dedication to the rule of law and true unified effort across all fronts when no one wants the credit and everyone wants to just do the work. These are the results that we're here to talk about today.

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Listen man, I'm just going to throw this out there and I really don't give a damn what the left wing media who objects to what's happening while the doomers tell you nothing is happening said you can take that, roll it a ball, shove it right up your ass. Okay? This FBI director is the best FBI director we've had in modern times. Now granted the bar is really low. Ray Comey and others results. I don't care if you like him, you dislike him, you don't like his haircut, whatever, you don't like the shape of his ears, I don't give a shit. All I care about is results. And I'm telling you that he's my friend. I've known him for a long time. Put that aside. I'm telling you that in the most objective way possible. Who else? Thousands of kids saved. Thousands of child predators locked up. The lowest crime rate in US history. Summer heat 1.0 and 2.0. Lowest homicide rate in US history. Public safety. You are the safest you've ever been. 10, 20, 30. Counterterror Big operations interdict and some stuff they can't even talk about. Massive efforts to to lock up CCP spies that are in here trying to secrete things into the country. The expansion of the biometrics program overseas to expand the border of the United States. A brand new drone program. The entire counterterror strategy rewritten from this BS identity politics crap that only that's just in a year of results. That's all that happened. And you're going to put I'll put that up against anyone, anyone. And you got to do it go yourself. You don't know what you're talking about. The public corruption cases. These cases were sitting there just floundering and then you got these people telling you, you know, don't show up. We just had the most amazing news this morning. 172,000 jobs created. Explosive job growth. Double the 80,000 estimate. Revisions to the last quarter of job growth going up. AI I played in the beginning of this show solving medical problems that have existed since we're Homo sapiens sapiens. I mean, really, Hepatitis, viruses that have been around forever, you know, myeloma, cancers, all of these things. Folks, we're probably five years away from legitimately solving, not fixing, solving health problems that have plagued humankind since we've been humankind. You live in the most amazing time and you get the tumors. We're going to get smoked. We're going to get crushed. If we get smoked and crushed, it's because of you. It's because you won't stop shitting on the administration. That's why. Now you think the Democrats are in great shape. You ready to give up? Watch this. This is what receipts look like. This is what meat on the bone looks like. Here's CNN pollster Harry Anton. We play often, folks, the Democrat approval in Congress is some of the worst we've ever seen. You think they're in great shape coasting into this midterm like Snake Plissken on the surfboard and Escape from la. A horrifyingly bad movie, but if you saw the scene, you know what I'm talking about. You think they're coasting into the mids. Receipts matter, right? You ready to give up? I'm not giving up shit. We're pulling 10 people to the poll and we're going to do as good as we can in the midterms. Here. Here's the numbers. They are in the can. Watch yourself. Check this out.

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That's not approval of congressional Democrats. Look at this. In October 2025, right during that shutdown, that first shutdown, plus 22 points on the net approval rating. So Democrats, okay, Fairly satisfied with Democrats in Congress today, though. Look at that. That is an over 30 point drop. A decline right into the ocean right there. Minus nine points. And I will note it had never been negative. Democrats had always had a positive net approval rating of their own party in Congress and every Congress before this one. But now what we're seeing is consistent numbers across the board where Democrats. Democrats are underwater. Congressional Democrats are underwater with their own party, folks.

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Why are they underwater with their own party? Because despite the ideological divide and the country splitting, it's like I said to you before, despite the Leslie Stolzer, Despite the Lies. Despite the mom dummy communism, despite the crappy public schools, despite the bankruptcies in blue cities and states, there are still reasonable people who are starting to get it. I told you, there's always going to be a core group of people who will never leave the Democrat party because they got a bumper sticker on their car. It says coexist. They just, you know, they read an Aesop's fable and they think that's the real world, that the world isn't full of trade offs, okay? There is joy in understanding the misery of the world. If we. What was that? You ever hear that line, if we were happy all the time, you wouldn't know what happiness was, right? It would just be it. The reason happiness feels happy is because we have this. You're not euthymic all the time. You have this kind of this hill, the natural vicissitudes of life, the ups and the downs. Conservatives understand that there are trade offs to everything. You want money to buy things you like for your kids. You got to go to work, get your ass out of the seat and go to work. And when you go to work and you earn it, it's a reward system and you want to work more and produce more so that you can enjoy your life for your kids. The liberals want everything for free, but people are waking up because they're getting kicked in the balls. That's why you see this approval rating in the can. And folks, I said to you during the. We have never seen numbers in our life. Like during the Trump Kamala Harris and previously Biden election before he dropped out, we would do like a special emergency show. There'd be like 300,000 people here. It was crazy. There was never more interest in politics than that. You see that these guys are doing a euthymia, a normal tranquil mental state or mood. I'm sorry, I'm not trying to. You did. No, he didn't know. What it meant is every. I'm not trying. It's not an SAT course. It's just, you know, I would tell you why, but if you cite your education, I'll show you a minute. You're probably an asshole. So we're not doing that. The Bidens will not go away. Joe Biden, you know, Jill Biden's got this book out. Hunter Biden's out there trying to rehabilitate his image and pretend he's like some MAGA superstar and believe unbelievably there are suckers falling for that bullshit, right? JOE BIDEN FORMER PRESIDENT BIDEN Spaghetti brains is now saying he's got a book coming out right before the election. Ladies and gentlemen, the Democrats are pissed. Ask any if you have some connections to Democrat People in D.C. swampies or non swampies, just ask them. Just say, hey, how welcome is Joe Biden in the Democrat party? Even members of probably the Biden family, like not they want this guy gone because they don't want a reminder of what four years of a die hard liberal presidency looks like. Open borders, Afghanistan, 9% inflation. Nobody wants that. No one. I said this to you during that cycle of politics where the show was just crazy. I mean, I think back, we had 550,000 people on election night. The only people who beat us was NBC. It was crazy, folks. Joe Biden is the president Barack Obama always wanted to be but was too politically savvy to become. Stop for a second. Everyone stop the show. Well, don't stop the live stream, but I want you to think about what I just said. Obama is ideologically to the left of Joe Biden. The Biden presidency was more ideologically communist, leftist, progressive, whatever euphemism you want than Obama. Obama was a disaster and started this entire thing. Zero doubt, period. Full stopperoo. But Obama would lie and pretend to be a moderate. Remember he wasn't for like gay marriage and stuff. And then he was. And then he said he couldn't do anything about the border and he said that pen and a phone. Obama knew to lie and lie a lot when he needed moderates. Joe Biden, hear me out. Miss a lot folks. He is just really stupid. So when his liberal base pushed him to do crazy things like men's penises in the women's room, pull everybody out of Afghanistan with like no warning, open the border to tens of millions of people. He didn't have the cojones to basically lie to the liberal base and fake it. They just want this guy to go away and he won't now. Receipts matter. Here's another CNN poll. This is the probably the single most unpopular former president modern US history and he will not leave the scene. This is why they're in trouble. They got a book coming out reminding everyone of the shitty Biden presidency. What a knucklehead. When you leave the presidency, Even Jimmy Carter, who was terrible but did some good things on the deregulation front, even Jimmy Carter rehabbed this image. Joe Biden is going almost nowhere. People think he sucked when he left. And just about the same amount of people think what? He sucks now and he still won't leave. And you don't want to vote November, they're going to get a reminder kicking him square in the ass of how shitty the country was right before the election. And the Democrats are pissed off. Capital P. Check this out.

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American people have one message for the Bidens. That is go away. Go away. I mean, just look at this. Look at Biden's net net favorable rating in January of 2025. It was minus 22 points. Has it gone any better?

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No, not really.

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He's still way underwater here at minus 19 points. He's 28 points underwater with independence. Joe Biden ended his term as president, is quite unpopular and he remains quite unpopular. He is an anchor to the Democratic Party and potentially their fortunes in the 2026 midterm election.

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How does that compare to other former Democratic presidents?

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Okay, let's go back through the history books. I went back through the spreadsheets, right? This is essentially we're looking at former Democratic president's net favorability at this point post presidency. The lowest by far is Joe Biden. 19 points on the gratis.

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Flat is in the chat. You know where I'm going with this. The Motley Crew. Girl, don't go away mad. Just go away gratis. Flatis says Brandon. Of course. Brandon, I want you back. I'm glad the book's coming out now. Biden is stupid, folks. I mean this in the actual intelligence quotient sense. He is socially stupid and he's just dumb. No sane politician with his garbage record releases a book before a midterm election with a -19% approval rating in the Democrat Party. Nobody does that unless you want one thing. What does he want? Dinero. This is all about the cheese, the cash. Nobody wants him on the speaking circuit. Nobody wants the Biden crew around Hunter Biden trying to refashion himself as some MAGA superstar. They need the cheese. It's always been about the money. And they don't care whose ship they sink. They don't give a damn. And no course correction is coming. This is why I'm not forfeiting the midterms. I don't care. Call me a happy warrior. Ren and Stimpy. Happy, happy. Joy, joy. Hat tip, Tommy, John McGraw. I don't care. I'm not giving up anything. We lose. Fine, we lose. But we're going down fighting. I'm not giving up anything to these freaking communists and crazies because the people we're running against are freaking nuts. You want to see an epidemic of crazy? This is the craziest race. This is a congressional Race. The incumbent is this guy Adriano Espilot. Forgive me if I'm saying it's not intentional. I just don't care enough. People say my name wrong all the time. Here he is in an interview, right? This is another liberal Democrat. Crazy. This is, like, considered the moderate in this race. He's the incumbent congressman. He's giving an interview. It's really quick. And the guy's like, hey, man, like, where's your stance on deporting violent felons? He either doesn't want to deport them or doesn't even want to answer the question. Dude, Jasmine, is this a ground ball? What's the answer, Jasmine? Do we deport violent felons? Even a freaking crazy person's like, yeah, that's probably a good idea. They're here illegally and they just stabbed or raped a woman. They should probably go. This guy's like, nah, I'm just not going to answer. This guy's considered the moderate in the race. Wait till you hear the crazy person running against him. And the worst campaign ad we've ever seen from not the dream team, but the nightmare team. Hat tip, Justin. But first, play espalant. He can't even answer the question. Check this out. At the end of the day, in any more deportation than she does, including people who have come illegally and committed violent crimes. That's the question.

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I'm fighting deportations every single day. Over 700 cases a year go to

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my office of people that are online to get deported. He can't even answer the question. Violent illegal felons who are here illegally. Bro, this is a ground ball. Are you insane? You want violent felons here illegally who have no rights and claims to our system whatsoever. You can't just answer the question. This guy, again, is considered like the air quotes moderate. You know, we got to play the ad first because this adage is. Justin pulled this. I did not see this ad. This is a real ad. This is not like, bs. We didn't. It's not AI. It's not a joke. I mean it. Mamdani, the Stalin acolyte, the mayor of New York City, the commie is running a woman against. Against this guy. The woman is crazy. She called the United States an effing disgrace. She doesn't want to, like, deport anybody, and she committed the cardinal sin of the Dam Bongino show. What is it, fellas? Never ever cite your education. Nobody gives a shit, and you sound like an asshole. And unless you ask for a dispensation first, don't do it. I'll play that. Coming up in a second. But watch this campaign ad. This is real. This is mom dummy's dream team of candidates who are running on the far left flank to take out even crazier candidates who are in office now. The lady's name is. I can't. She says it with. I don't know, she does the whole affectation. Here, check this out and see for yourself. New York. We know anything's possible with a great team.

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I'm Brad Lander, and I'll block billionaires

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from buying our elections. I'm Maria Lisa Avila Chevalier, and I'll defend New York by abolishing ice.

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I'm Claire Valdez, and I'll stand up against bad landlords and greedy corporations.

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Get out and vote. This is the team. This is our year. I'm Brad Lander.

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I'm Claire Valdez.

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I'm Darielisa Avila Chevalier.

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And we approve this message.

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Okay, you know what? I actually approve that message, too, because it's so freaking stupid. Like, especially with the Knicks in the playoffs. Like, you see that and you go, wow, if the Knicks are your dream team this year, that's the freaking nightmare team. Now, the lady's name. I'm not trying to be funny. I don't even know what she said. Darielisa. I don't know, whatever. You heard her name. I'm not mispronounced to be a smart. I just don't, you know, whatever. Darielisa. Daria. Lisa. That's what we're going to go by. Okay? Dara Lisa is even crazier than Espalon, folks. There is nobody coming to save the Democrats. There is no Bill Clinton, jfk. They're not. It's not happening. They are only going to spiral into more crazy. Here's a Fox segment yesterday on Daria Lisa saying how she's asked a question about, hey, you're not really for deportations. Like, what about violent criminals? She does the education thing. This is it. Totally disqualifying. You mentioned your education in this context without asking for forgiveness first. You're automatically disqualified in Dan Bongino's book. Check this out. Not interested in relitigating the politics of my tweets, which are the politics of the past. But what is your new position, therefore, on how much to, quote, abolish the border or all deportation is wrong. And, you know, I'm someone who has studied as a PhD candidate. Immigration. Right. This is something that I have been spending years taking a deep dive into. And, you know, I do Believe that deportation is wrong. Darial, I. That the other guy who doesn't want to deport violent criminals is considered the same one. Folks, nobody is coming to save these guys. And by the way, freaking California. How, where? What is it? Friday? It's a live show, I promise. Like, look, there's the home screen of my phone with the date on it. If you. It's a live show. Even at the time, okay, you put the atomic clock on in the background, whatever the hell. How are we on Friday? We still don't have the results of the California election. There you go. Live Fox right there. Proof of life. Proof of life. How do we not have results? This is the craziest freaking thing I've ever seen. This is like, this is an insult to banana republics. At least they make money off good bananas. This is insulting. How do you show up to California, in California to vote on Tuesday or send in a ballot possibly a month out or more and they still don't know who won the freaking election. I want you to watch this CNN clip, I guess about 20 seconds of it. Here's CNN trying to justify the intergalactic embarrassment that California elections have become when they can't decide who their candidates are. You know, weeks and potentially at this point months later. Listen to how they talk about, hey, we just want to give people more time to vote. Extend the timeline. Okay, okay, stop before you play it. Even if that were the case, you don't want, you want to cheat. Cut the bullshit for Democrats. That's what you want to do. And it just gives you more time. Even if it was about extending the time, ladies and gentlemen, why not just extend the time in advance with early voting but then wrap it up on election day time, Correct? Say, let's throw a unit of timeout. We're Democrats. We want the vote to be 60 days long. Fine, mark election day and go 60 days back after election day, it's over. That's not what the Democrats want. The Democrats want to see the result tallies come in on election day and extend it for 60 days after so they can screw with the vote tallies if they need to do harvesting. It's not time for them. That's got nothing to do with it. Listen to CNN try to justify this bullshit. Check this out. Why does it take so long to count ballots in California compared to other states? Well, essentially California leaders have made the decision that it's more important to give more people more time to make last minute votes than it is to count quickly where other states have said it's more important to count quickly and not necessarily give people as many options to vote at the last minute. So in California, you can turn your ballot in up until the very last day as long as it is postmarked by election day. There's up to seven days for that to come to a vote processing center like this one to be counted. This has nothing to do with voting quickly. Time is not the variable it is. They want to see what the vote count looks like post election day and see how many harvested votes they can get. It has nothing to do with time. If we said to California, okay, we'll stipulate. I'm not telling you it's a good idea. If we said to California, we're going to give you four months to conduct an election, send out ballots four months early. Stupid idea, but they got it. It's got to be wrapped up by election day. It's not there. Election day. That's it. They would still say no. It's not about time. It's not about time. It's about watching the results evolve and manipulating them post election day. If they can do harvesting, it's bullshit. They're just making this up. California, man. You're not freaking embarrassed by this? The answer is no. They love this shit. By the way, someone get on the phone. The downline moment. Did you see this, like, felony assault on Capitol Hill yesterday? It was unbelievable. It was like a bloodbath. Somebody should have called the cops. Metro should have been in there. Capitol Hill police. You see what happened with Treasury Secretary Scott Besson and Wyden, that goofball senator. Folks, this is one of the most brutal takedowns I have ever seen. Besson is like. Besson's like a ninja. You know, you got people like. Hegseth's like a samurai. He's got the costume and the sword and, like, you just see him and he's very intimidating. Besson's like a ninja. Comes out of the darkness. The throwing stars and stuff, the grappling hooks, those little funny shoes with the toe sticking out, whatever. This guy. This comes out of nowhere. Wyden tries to use, like, the Trump Epstein thing again. Bessant, just. Just please, like, someone get on the phone with Martin County Sheriff. This is Profile A report. Immediately check this out. Nobody is interested in the ramblings of a capo in the most corrupt regime in American history. We want to get some facts about this deal. That's what we're here for. Thank you. Well, thank you. And I will ask. Ask my questions first today.

[B]

And we would like to hear what Adam Wyden and Jeffrey Epstein talked about. Your son's largest investment position was Rick's Cabaret. So did your son and Jeffrey Epstein talk about pole dancing as he begged him for money using your limited credibility.

[A]

Someone get this. Jasmine, I told you, get this. Sure. I mean, somebody needs to file a report, folks. Someone need. This is a felony. This is salt one in the umpteenth degree. This is like piracy. There we go. They're coming, right? Look at this. The sirens outside. It's even on the screen, folks. Fellas, fellas, come on. You got a pen here, guys? Get the report, Jasmine. File it immediately. What the hell just happened? Ron Wyden, by the way, didn't even respond. He didn't even know what to say. Report number 001, 2026 AB5, 22R2D2. What? That was for G. What the hell just happened? That was a political, like homicide on camera right there. Wyden's like, oh, boy, I didn't want that out there. No, you didn't, you didn't. By the way, it's Friday. You know, I like make America funny again. Did you guys. I've never seen this clip. I saw this yesterday on X and I played it for the guys this morning. I was debating putting this on the show. I'm not a huge fan of snl, but this guy is freaking hilarious. Did you ever. You ever hear a Nate? Was it bargacky or something? This guy is freaking hilarious. I played this clip this morning. You know, I love history and all and I can only imagine this conversation happening with Washington and as we were at the tail end of the Revolutionary War and we're thinking about what this new country is going to look like and this new version of the English language. If you guys haven't seen this clip on a Friday, this is a classic. These guys already saw it. This is so worth your time. And my wife being a non native speaker of English, we had to learn because she can relate to this. Check this out.

[F]

We will live through the battle ahead because we fight to control our own destiny, to create our own nation.

[A]

Well saved.

[F]

And to do our own thing with the English language.

[A]

Our own thing, sir.

[F]

We will be free to spell some words two different ways.

[A]

Which words, sir?

[F]

Donut. And the name Jeff.

[A]

What are the two ways to spell Jeff, sir?

[F]

The short way with a J and the stupid way with a G. Sorry,

[A]

Any Jeffs in the chat? Not me.

[F]

Two names for animals. One when they are alive and a different one when they become food. So cows will be beef, pigs will be pork and chickens, sir, that one stays. And we will create our own foods and name them what we want. Like the hamburger made of ham. Sir, if it only that simple. A hamburger is made of beef just as a buffalo wing is made of chicken. But fear not men, a hot dog will not be made of dogs.

[A]

What is it made of, sir?

[F]

Nobody knows.

[A]

Listen, I'm not a huge SNL fan, but I gotta tell you, whoever wrote that, if that was Nate, that is freaking hilarious. My mother in law, my wife speaks. You've heard Paula talk like on the show. You can't. Didn't even speak with an accent anymore. She speaks perfect English. But my mother in law, she's always had some issues. She came here later in life and that's one of the reasons like things just English is one of the hardest languages in the world. You don't realize it because you were born speaking English and you just know that. I can imagine that conversation. Washington sitting there with the boys, hamburger gonna be made out of ham. If it were only that easy. It is Friday, of course, and producer Jim, in the spirit of leaving you on Friday, over the weekend, especially in the glorious American summer of our 250th in a good mood that I hope put a smile on your face. I do not see these in advance. Producer Jim always produces for us on Friday. A Democrat Zen moment to bring back some meditative peace for you for the weekends and some psychological balance and maybe some youth. Here is our Democrat Zen moment of the. Your Democrat Zen moment of the day. A peaceful moment to center your mind. When does it end, bro? I'm so tired. I'm so exhausted. Like it has to stop. It has to stop soon. Like I'm not even kidding. Like men. Get me out of here. This has been Democrat Zen. This is not real. You guys, you guys are just. Jim's paying these people, folks. I can't vouch Jim paid. Had to. There's no way. That's like someone actually recorded that and put it out for social consumption. There's no way that happened. Jim, I'm sorry, I need receipts. Like you have to prove to me you're not actually paying these people. This cannot be real. These Democrats and moments get worse by the week. Whew. There's some calm for you for the weekend, folks. Immediate people, this is an alert for you. Number one, Vince, you know vincerumble.com Vince, he is on at 8 o' clock every day on Monday, has a great guest Interior Secretary Doug Bergman about everything going on the 250th. He's got a big portfolio. And this guest coming up, counterterror adviser Sebastian Gorka is going to illuminate for you media crazies who keep lying to people what the Trump administration actually did. Not talking points, not bs, not the Kamala Harris. I've never been to the board. Well, I've never been to Europe either. Well, we've been places and done stuff. And now you're going to hear about a quick break. We'll get to Seb Gork. And hey, becoming a parent completely changed how I think and many of you think about responsibility. You start realizing how fast life can shift and how important it is to have things in place so your family isn't left scrambling if, God forbid, the unexpected happens. You got to be prepared. It got me thinking seriously about life insurance. Not as a scary topic, but as a part of your basic planning. It's really important. What really stood out to me about Ethos is how simple they made the process. Everything's 100% online. You can get a quote in seconds, apply in minutes. And for many people, coverage can start the same day. There's no medical exam. You just answer a few health questions online. That alone removes a lot of the friction that keeps people from even starting. Ethos helps provide financial security that matters. It's really important. It's designed to fit real families and real budgets. Protect your family today with life insurance from Ethos E T H O s Get up to 3 million in coverage in as little as 10 minutes at ethos.com bongino e t h o s that's ethos.com bongino Take 10 minutes. Get covered today. Take that worry off your plate with life insurance through Ethos. Get your free', @ethos.com bongino that's ethos.com bongino Application times may vary. Rates may vary. Visit ethos.com for details. Foreign so happy to welcome to the show. A good friend. I mean, a patriot and a guy who really gets it, especially when it comes to the world's big threats. Counterterror counterintel Sebastian Gorka, counterterrorism advisor to the President. Welcome to the show.

[B]

It is my distinct pleasure. I know we've been trying to set this up for a while. We miss you, Dan, inside the sausage factory. But you are crushing it as usual. The president is so happy that you're one of the team members on the outside. It's a great honor to be on your show, Dan.

[A]

Oh, well, listen, that means a lot to me. We worked together. We were on the phone three, four times a week. You being one of the senior counterterror advisors to the President of the United States, the FBI having a lead law enforcement role in counterterrorism. We had a talk. I wish we didn't have to talk as often as we did. As often as we did. But one of the things you and I worked on, immediately I get into office, I'm there, I don't know, two or three days. And I said, guys, drones, drones, drones. What are we doing about drones? And I was actually shocked to see whether it was resource allocation, money, personnel in the FBI that the prior leadership. Not the ground level guys, but the prior leadership there, I just don't think took the drone threat that seriously. I get a call one day. They go, hey, you know who's obsessed with the drone problem too? I said, who? They said, your buddy Gorka. It's all he talks about is drones. I said, that's my guy. We get together. Luckily, we had an amazing president who immediately understood the gravity of the problem. And in just a few months, you pushed on your end, I pushed on my end. You had an executive order, drone school money flowing into the space. Just explain to the audience this is a real problem. And thankfully, the president and this administration gets it.

[B]

All right, so I can still see it now, Dan, sitting in your massive conference room in the Hoover Building. We were at the end of this massive table. Our knees were touching. I had my director for drone affairs from the nsc, the incredible Matt Whitehead. You had one of your team members and your counselor, and, my gosh, were you taking this. Let me just be for the record, empirically make a statement. Inside US Government, outside of the president, there was nobody else who took this threat as seriously as you did. And it's because of you. It's because of Director Patel, your incredible team members, and the president's catalytic effect that we are in a situation that is 1000 times better than it was prior to us coming back into the building. For years and years, the leadership did nothing. Who had the responsibility to do so. And Congress was an obstacle. And there were also agencies. I'm not gonna burn on your show right now, who were obstructionist in terms of this threat. But let me also, for the record, state the first meeting of the National Security Council at the highest level, because, you know, the principal level. I work in the nsc, but, you know, the NSC is the. The first meeting, Dan, of the NSC in this administration. Was about drones. Why? Because you can't have hundreds of sightings over Bedminster and the President become Commander in Chief and not say, hang on a second, do we know what's flying in our space? Go online right now, put in Ukraine and drones, or cartels and drones and see how this is. 70% of all fatalities and casualties in the Ukrainian war weren't small arms fire, weren't even artillery. They called artillery the queen of the battlefield for the last century. It's now drones. 70% of casualties are drones. So thanks to your leadership and thanks to this incredible team, not of rivals like Lincoln had, but of teammates. This is incredible. At the cabinet level, sub cabinet, everybody's a patriot who wants to fix things. And again, I just gotta, you know, blow your horn, your trumpet right now. I have never seen in the history of the United States outside of maybe wartime In World War II, a government initiative go from zero to 1,000 miles an hour in four months. The fact that thanks to your leadership, Director Patel, the incredible leadership of, you know, Pete Hegseth, the secretary with his drone task force under General Ross, we went from zero to having a federal counter drone school at Redstone Arsenal in four months. I was honored to be there for the graduation of the first counter drone operators from state, local, and tribal law enforcement. You've been in government far longer than I have, Dan Bongino. Tell me when an initiative has gone from zero to a schoolhouse in four months. Cause I don't know why.

[A]

No, I don't. And you know, you and I, and you know, listen, it's leadership from the top. You and I not get elected president. Donald Trump did. But the hard reality, as you know, having worked in administration now twice, is if you don't have presidential leadership, nothing moves. So when the President told you, as one of his senior advisors on counterterror, hey, Seb, like, this is a real problem, do what needs to get done. I know what you did. You called over and I want to hat tip omb, Russ vote. And at the time, Dan Bishop, his deputy, they said, what do you guys need? Do you need funds? I said, yes, unfortunately, like, I know the answer in government, as you know, is always like, money, money, money. And 90% of time, it's not money. It's just like having some smarts and common sense. This was money, drone mitigation tools, training, getting the locals involved. And yes, that drone school, you know, remember you and I sitting over in the OEOB at that drone meeting with the guys like, you know who I'm talking About. And we had. We brought our people in, and I brought one of my senior advisors in, Freddie, and I brought him in from the Secret Service. And we're sitting there and the guys, me and Seb were listening briefly from our. I mean to say tip of the spear is probably underselling it. And these guys were like, brother, this isn't a problem for tomorrow. This is the now. And he was, you know, we're talking about everything that was going on in Ukraine with Spiderweb. This is gonna happen here eventually. And I'm really glad, like I said, that this presidential executive order, this president's not so screwing around.

[B]

All right? So first, thank you for mentioning Fred. Fred has been an incredible, incredible colleague in all of this work, as has General ross at the JADA 401 at the Department of War. But again, it's the leadership from the President then through, you know, Secretary Rubio, National Security Advisor all the way down. The fact that one of my team members, and I'm gonna give him a hat tip, cause he's an FBI body, okay. Here at the nsc. My colleague Matt Whitehead, who wrote the President's executive order that created a presidential counter drone task force that I'm honored because Secretary Rubio put me in the position. I chair that every month. And we come together and we have those threat briefings. And as you said, zero fail mission. The fact that thanks to Russ vote, thanks to the leadership at dhs and my gosh, does Secretary Mullen get this? I was with him last week. Basically all we spoke about was drones. Okay? But the fact the biggest non disaster release of funds through FEMA was on drones and getting the technology, not to the feds, right, because you know, the FBI, your guys, they have those capabilities. Dow has those capabilities. But this is going to be responded to in the first instance by state and local and tribal law enforcement. The fact that we got, you know, more than a billion dollars released to keep Americans safe for freedom. 250 for the FIFA World cup, for the cage match that's gonna happen in a few days here on the South Lawn. We're not gonna compromise on this security. And Dan, you were a big part of that. Because this is the future threat and it cannot be ignored.

[A]

Oh, thank you. And you know, I know you've been on the receiving end a lot of liberal media crap where they're like, my gosh, we need all of these, you know, we need to go back to the Biden era, quote, experts on this stuff. Seb, you and I got in there and we were both genuinely stunned. Moving on from drones at how unfocused the government wide counterterror mission was before President Trump, thank the Lord, walked back into the White House. They were focusing on like agave and this like, you know, the white supremacist threat. Listen. Yeah, right, exactly like, listen, any kind of racial identity politics violence is horrible, but we get it. Like everybody understands that. However, when you're telling the United States citizenry under Ray's leadership, Biden and previously Obama that, you know, white supremacy is the biggest problem in the United States, the resources follow that and then you have to then create a problem that may not exist to that level. You saw this right? To justify the resource allocation which then comes from other threats like Islamo radicalism and other things. This is not a cost free enterprise. You and I would sit down. You basically had a big, huge footprint on rewriting the whole counterterror policy. We got our CTD team from the FBI in there with you. We're like, we're dumping all this crap. That's it. We're starting from scratch and we're gonna, we're gonna shocker, we're gonna start investigating the actual threats backed up by the numbers, right?

[B]

So look, I don't know what I do next, whether I become a poet or a farmer, because I got to put all of that reality based threat assessment, 26 years of my life into a 16 page document that the President just signed as the new US Counterterrorism strategy. And there's two things about it. It's common sense counterterrorism and it's reality based threat assessment. We will not permit. It's on the President's foreword. It's on page one. We will not permit the political perversion of national security, especially the awesome counterterrorism powers we have in the federal government. We're not gonna label Catholics who go to tridentine mass enrichment as domestic terrorists. We're not gonna put Tulsi Gabbard on a terrorist nofi fly list because she's a Democrat who dares to support President Trump. And we're not gonna use armed federal agents to raid the home of a former president taking props of classified cover sheet covers to use for their leaked photographs to the Washington Post. No politics in ct. We're gonna concentrate on three baskets of threats. Number one, the cartels. Because under the open Biden border policies, they killed over 100,000Americans every year with their drugs. That's the same as 70 years of combat after World War II. If you had Korea, Vietnam, Gulf One, Gulf Two, it's 103,000 military US servicemen killed in those conflicts. In 70 years under Biden, that many Americans died in one year thanks to fentanyl. So cartels were taking them out with the incredible leadership of Stephen Miller, Homeland Security Advisor Pete Hegseth, the secretary at the Pentagon. That's bucket one because they declared war on us. Bucket two is what I'm responsible for. The global jihadi threat, which is real. If you're on Bourbon street and a guy comes at you in an F150 truck on New Year's Eve saying, you know, allah Akbar, I'm sorry, that's not in Mosul, that's not in, you know, Addis Ababa, that's here in New Orleans. And then thirdly, because guess what? Now to quote the great I'm gonna use Matt Boyle statement he used with me. When it comes to domestic political violence, the bullets are flying in one direction. When you look at our friend Charlie Kirk assassinated live on camera, the multiple attempts by left wingers against President Trump, you look at the assaults against ICE. If this were the 1990s and I was head of counterterrorism in the 90s, yeah, I'd be looking at the militias, yeah, I'd be looking at right wing extremists. But right now, according to the csis, Dan, the CSIS is not a MAGA think tank, it's a liberal think tank. And they said, uh huh, the stats are clear. Left wing violence is in ascendance and is eclipsing right wing violence. So I am beholden to that empirical reality. And that's why we're gonna deal with those threats. And we will not permit you from either side of the political aisle to use violence for purposes that are ideological against your fellow American. But sadly, you look at the stats from the transgender killers, the Annunciation Church, the Covenant School, the patterns are clear. And I am bound to respond to the real threats. Not putative ones, not ones that are good for my political party in election. The real threat. And you are a national security security professional and you do exactly the same thing we did.

[A]

I and I, I appreciate that. And folks, you know, I know in the media out there you'll be like, oh, these guys, you know, like a big love fest. No, no, we're just telling you what we did. You can take that and stick it right up your caboose like we went in there and had to fix your mess. You were the liberals who covered for the failed counter terror.

[B]

Let me just go down that rabbit hole Right, because, you know, oh, no, the experts aren't in charge. You know, the podcasters and the TV personalities. This is like, you know, omission is the same as commission. Okay? When you're talking about reporting information. I've spent 30 years studying terrorism. Three decades. I was a regular lecturer at the Q course, the Kennedy School of irregular warfare at Fort Bragg. I've taught the US military, the intelligence community, FBI, IAS, SOS, as agents for 30 years. You were a Secret Service agent then at the nypd. The idea that we're not qualified. Kash Patel. I don't think anybody in government has ever had Kash Patel's cv. From congressional investigator to DOJ prosecutor to Chief of Staff of the Pentagon to acting Deputy Director of National Intelligence, there is nobody more qualified for any job in national security. But no, let Jake Sullivan tell us that the Middle east was that article they had to retroactively delete the headline of. He wrote just before October 7th. You remember Jake Sullivan. The Middle east has never been more stable. And then they had to go back.

[A]

We used to play that clip on the show all the time. The Middle east has never been more stable. These were the. Sebastian Gorka is accurately. You can go look it up, folks. Internet, do your homework. National Security Advisor in the Biden team, Jake Sullivan, telling everyone, oh, everything's basically cool in the Middle East. It's never been this, like, pacified or whatever. And then October 7th happens. I mean, these were your experts in the past. Sebastian, one of the things, you know, one last thing.

[B]

You said it wasn't coordinated, right? Under Biden, it was coordinated, but all in the wrong direction, Right? To hunt down conservatives for being conservatives. I love it. Somebody wrote an article last week. Because I keep talking about the metrics, the unclassified stuff I can talk about. Since January 20, since the President was sworn in, we, outside of Operation Epic Fury, our war fighters have killed. I can mention this now. I went to my guy this morning, got the update. 1031 jihadis have been permanently removed from the battlefield in 15 months. Even cooler than that, the President has rescued 106 US citizens who were hostages or wrongful detained without one ransom being paid. No president has rescued over 100Americans in a year. And you know what one commentator, one expert said last week? Gorkha's obsessed with the number of how many jihadis we've killed. How is that a good metric? You know, Dan, killing jihadis is pretty good a metric, I think, because then they don't get to kill Americans.

[A]

That's the expert, Sebastian, you know why they don't get to kill us? Because they're dead. That's kind of how that works.

[B]

I mean, what's that? Bungino's first rule?

[A]

The good guys don't get dead. Unless you're a jihadi. Then we'll help you get dead quickly. And we have no problem doing that. And neither does this president. The President's not going to bat an eyelash at a dead jihadi at all. That's the goal. Kill them before they kill us.

[B]

I'm not going to talk out of school, but whenever we get to a certain issue and CT the big. And this is multiple occasions in the Oval Office and my team can attest to this, the President's response is, yeah, kill more of them. That's leadership. That's risk. You know, it's saying, we're gonna take a risk. We're not gonna be, you know, frivolous, but we're gonna. In Nigeria. Let me just make this statement. It is again declassified our operation two weeks ago today. The biggest CT operation since 9 11. I watched it live from the Sit Room. It was like a Tom Clancy movie, but it was real. In that ct operation against ISIS, we killed our war fighters. Killed 199 enemy killed in action. That's the biggest operation. And you know what? Those are people with American blood on their hands or who were planning to kill Americans. Now they will not kill any Americans because our Tier one operators took them out. That is a metric.

[A]

We're talking to Seb Gorka, senior advisor to the President on counterterrorism. Just an amazing guy. Was an honor to work with him. You know, Seb, I'm limited on time, but I really want to get this in because I want to throw a big shout out to. You just mentioned him. You and I have had the unbelievably unbelievable honor, the distinct honor of going out, meeting with these Tier one operators. Whether it's HRT or our special operators in the army, the Marines, the Air Force, everyone's got their. The Navy, they all have their special teams. And out there, from the seals to Delta, these guys are just elite level warriors. They've got that stare. And you were always thinking to yourself, you know, you and I have been in some of these meetings where you're with them and you're looking at those eyes and the experience those eyes have seen and those hands have done, you're like, man, I wouldn't be on. I would not under any circumstances want to be on the receiving end of a mission these guys are tasked on.

[B]

Yeah, let me. Can I just, you know, I spent the first few weeks, as you should, traveling around the community, meeting with these people. I went to Damneck, I talked to the, you know, the various tier one operators. I went around the intelligence community, the dod, and you know, the resounding comment I got from all of them after four years of Biden, and it was kind of spooky. I felt like, you know, they were handing out, you know, talking points. They said, can we just have some decisiveness? Can we just have a will to act from our commander in chief? Well, guess what? They got the will to act. These are the best in the world. Watching them live, take down those 199 jihadis, it was like clockwork. I mean, absolutely stunning. But they only get to, you know, fast rope in. They only get to chop her in if the commander in chief says yes. If the sector of war says to the combatant commander, yeah, green light, go. That's what leadership is. And let me also recognize those who make the work of those who go into battle possible. And that's the intelligence analysts. It was one of my greatest moments in my career when Jaffar, 43 days into the administration, I'm standing on the tarmac with Cash, with Pam, with John Radcliffe, with Tulsi, waiting for Jafar to land on the DOJ jet, one of the key persons behind the Abbey Gate massacre of our servicemen and women. And it was a cold 3am in the morning and I turned around and I looked, I saw behind me like a dozen people who were not tier one operators. They didn't have a ceramic plated vest on. And I said, I recognize you. You briefed me in my skiff last week. And these were the intelligence analysts who had been tracking and hunting Jafar for three years, since Abygate. And they wanted to be there on the tarmac. And God bless them, because the hottest hot operator doesn't get to take down that high value target unless they've got that exquisite intelligence from the people who live in the dark and work in the dark. So it's a massive team and it is the best in the world. And you're a key part of it.

[A]

Oh, those guys are just amazing. My last mission before I went back to the private sector here was Maduro. That was actually the day before. And I got the call from Cash. And I just remember thinking, gosh, Maduro must have woke up and been like, ah, the Americans are here. How do I know that? Because only we could go in there like that with, you know, zero casualties on our side into a foreign country and only us. There is no one else on earth.

[B]

But we're gonna hat tip, we're gonna hat tip to that tropper pilot, that enlisted man, Eric, who got the Medal of Honor at the recent Congressional joint session, who took multiple rounds from an AK into his legs as he was landing the chopper. And his co pilot automatically wanted to react and get out of there in safety. And Eric said, calm the stick. We are landing and we're staying here till our operators get Maduro in those flex cuffs.

[A]

That's.

[B]

I mean, that's America, Dan.

[A]

Right? I should have said no fatalities.

[B]

Three rifle were in the legs. And he says, hang on. We're keeping this chopper here until the boys are back on board. Incredible.

[A]

That's our guys. That's our boys. So last question for you. You know, we had discussed, because again, the media has a hard time digesting results. They're used to cheap talk and BS and Kamala Harris like. And we're on the bus and we're rolling down the street and all the stupid stuff. Worked on drones. President EO on drones. We talked about reorganizing the entire government's counterterror mission, which we did again with the leadership of this president. But the third thing, hard results that had not been done before to this degree that you and I and the president and OMB and the FBI and everyone pushed for, was pushing the border of the United States out. Seb, as you know, by the time they get here, sometimes it's just too late. You don't want them in a US Airport being detained. You want them detained in Uganda before they get off the plane. How do you do that? We sent a bunch of people into prisons overseas. People accused of non US sits overseas, they don't have constitutional rights or not. US Citizens are not in the United States or in our territories. Right. And we took their biometrics in conjunction with foreign partners. That way when these guys get on the plane and, you know, there's the biometric fingerprint or whatever hits. They don't get on the plane in Uganda. They don't even come here. This was a massive effort never done to this scale. Still going on to this day. But another thing I think you and the administration and the FBI can hang their hat on that the other administration just didn't do to the degree we did it.

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No. Because if you're focused on artificially generated threats that you need for political purposes, you don't have time, money, or resources to actually look at the real threats. But this idea that actually one of my directors in my counterterrorism directorate made so clear at the beginning of the administration that we need to disrupt. You know, counterterrorism is about disruption, detection and disruption of plotting. We want to disrupt not when they're close to the goal line. We want to push that disruption to the very beginning of the plotting or even before they can meaningfully plot or create that team that's going to do the action. So, and let me. We haven't mentioned them yet. That system, it's dhs. Absolutely. It's also the State Department. The State Department is crucial in working with certain nations where there are pockets of individuals who could come here or collaborate with terrorists already on U.S. soil. And we need to detect that as soon as possible. If we can put the shield of detection 6,000 miles away from our borders, then we're all going to be safe. So it is a sophisticated, complex mission, but we have the right people. And back to the leadership issue. You know, what's really joyous about this administration, because we could do another interview about how different it is from the last time I was in the. In the White House, is that everybody, especially at the senior level, they're all friends, right? And they're friends of mine. I'm not a cabinet member, but I can call Cash Patel whenever I want. I can call, you know, the director of, you know, the CIA, or, yeah,

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you call me all the time. We were on the phone all the time.

[B]

But when we're not. When we're not competing and the only thing we care about is America and protecting Americans, because that's what the President told dude. You can just get anything done you want to if you're all moving in the same direction. Wow. The mutual force multiplier effect. You know, the only problem we have. And I'm not trying to be Flick. The only problem we have in this administration is keeping up with the President because nobody can keep up with this man. We live skiff life, right? You know, so we have to leave our cell phones outside our skiffs, and we come out, you know, once or twice a day, and we look at our phones and we say, oh, my gosh, what did he do now? You know, peace deal number eight. Nobody can keep up with the man. So, you know, that's our op tempo. We try and replicate. But when you're friends and patriots together, there's really no obstacle to what can be achieved.

[A]

Seb, you're so right. I laugh at the Nothing is happening, people. You clearly you're in your own skiff. It's a skiff of your own creation where you just refuse to believe reality. Seb, I gotta run. Thank you for your patriotism, your leadership. I've seen you marshal meetings. You do a great job. You know, folks, for a guy who made his living, you know, lecturing and talking on the air and as a distinguished lecturer, you'd be surprised, like, he just lets people do it. And it was really cool. Like sometimes, you know, Seb, you're in these meetings and all people want to do is hear themselves talk. Seb would do that and he got, he got the best experts in the world. It was an honor to work with you. You are welcome back on the show anytime. Thanks for, for coming on today. We really appreciate.

[B]

Reminds me when I left the first Trump administration to go on the outside and the President said, you can support me from the outside, that's what you are doing. But you are still a member of the OG team. Whatever you need, Dan. Keep doing what you do and God bless all of your viewers and listeners.

[A]

Thank you, sir. I really appreciate that. Was Sebastian Gorka, folks, senior counterterrorism advisor to the President. Hey, big news for Monday. Vince has a great interview coming up with Interior Secretary Doug Bergam who's responsible for all these beautification projects. Massive, massive job. So check that out. He's on at 8 o' clock Eastern time every day. Rumble.com Vince Haley's on at noon. Rumble.com Haley please download the Rumble app. We would really appreciate it. It is free if you want to watch on the web or your smart tv. It's free too. You can download the app on your smart TV. You can also go to rumble.combongino just click that follow button. We really appreciate it. Thank you so much for tuning in. I hope you enjoyed that interview as much as I did. You know I love the national security space. Seb was a great leader and a great friend. President's got a great team because a lot of stuff is happening. I will see you back here on Monday. Hey there, I'm Vince.

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