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All America, all the time. Sit down, buckle up and get ready for the Dan bongino show. So hunjo 11 in the chat says, Dan, you gotta resurrect your grandmother saying. So I says, and then he said, I can't believe you remember that. That was my grandmother. She was the absolute best, Eileen Sadler. I, God rest her soul. That's what. So she would, she would recap a conversation and Hun Joe remembers this and she would go. So I says, and then he says, and then she says, I can't believe you guys remember that. That's why I love you all. You remind me of all of this stuff that even I had forgotten about. I got a big show for you today. Rubio kicking ass and taking names. The Republican bench is fantastic. It is deep, it is just take talented. And I've never been more excited to be a Republican. I got a great candidate coming up later running in Florida, Catalina Lau. She's been a friend of mine for a while. It's tearing it up down there in southwest Florida and I want to start out with something really important. I actually had to make a last minute change on the show. I heard a story coming in and I want to ask a very serious question. I know we use a lot of sarcasm on the show. Sometimes it's funny, sometimes intentionally, sometimes not. Not. However, this is really serious. Is the country splitting apart? And I don't mean splitting apart in some, you know, Manichean and end of times. I mean, is the country moving in a direction that's going to be so politically kind of segregated between blue states and red states that we're almost going to be at a point of no return? And you're going to have essentially a national laboratory of policies because you're going to see the results. This one story coming in this morning reminded me of that. I'm going to start with that today because it's really important, especially with the California elections going on. I say elections. It's over. The primary. No, it's not. California elections last like three months. You don't see this in Florida. You don't see. Florida is in a couple time zones for those of you don't know. Florida, Florida's in a couple of time zones. The polls close within a couple hours. You got a result. California is a big state too. How the hell are we now on Wednesday? And we have no idea who the top two candidates. Who the hell wants to live in a place like that? I brought this up last night on the Ingram show. All right, all right. I Got to get going into the show there. In today's uncertain economy, American Financing is helping families find a way out of the high interest debt trap. You don't want to be in that trap. We're heading into summer, but the economic clouds aren't clearing for a lot of middle class families. Between inflation and the cost of daily life, you know, families, family vacations and college and all that, you're likely feeling the pressure. You worked hard for your home. 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This is a serious question with potentially very, very long lasting, long term, midterm and short term ramifications that are going to change the architecture of the country forever. You know, we've always wondered what it would be like to have these kind of state laboratories, right? And the fact that most of our states have a, you know, have a kind of a tinge to it, like a red tinge. You know, even I wouldn't call Florida like a blood red state, but it's pretty red at this point. Ohio is trending in that direction, but the Democrat party in those states is still pretty powerful and shouldn't be ignored. Folks, what's happening now is these blue states because the Democrat part, here's why this is happening, this, this country splitting and the schism, like we've never seen it before they go, people have always moved to red states. Here's why it's different. There is no effort whatsoever to moderate the insanity in freaking crazy blue states like California, New York and Illinois to stop the exodus. There's none. Matter of fact, they're doubling down on crazy People are leaving. U Hauls are full. They know they're leaving. Put up the montage guys that these guys put together. Here's just a series of stories. If you listen on Apple and Spotify, you get the point. Exodus out of California, Exodus out of New York, New York losing congressional seats. Louisiana leading the nation in the exodus. California's population plummets. There is no effort to stop this. I cannot imagine a business running a huge corporation like corporation California losing customers and employees like California is and just completely given a double barrel middle finger to the shareholders, the taxpayers and saying we don't care about the problem. Folks, this is going to have long lasting ramifications and I don't mean that in a bad way. You have never really had pure laboratory AB experiments like you're going to have going forward as this exodus continues. Here's what I'm talking about. There's this article in the Wall Street Journal the other day. You are going to see corporations en masse leaving blue states. Folks. They are more mobile now. Their ability to get out is different. Their ability to communicate with customers is not just parochial. They have all kinds of social media platforms, email, digital technologies where they can communicate with customers they can locate anywhere. And now that shareholders are starting to see the effect of companies and people leaving blue states and going to red states, you're going to see even liberal shareholders of public companies start to demand that these companies relocate. Put up that Wall Street Journal article. Article here. This was a piece in the Wall Street Journal. This isn't what reminded me to talk about this this morning. Another story did. But it's a perfect story about this Wall Street Journal, the Exxon example for corporations. What they're talking about is Exxon is leaving New Jersey and going to Texas and this. And by the way, New York and New Jersey did this PR smear campaign against Exxon. Oh you. They can't leave. Here's what they're trying to do. All this other crap and it still didn't work. They still said we don't want to be in blue state New Jersey anymore. We're going to Texas. You are going to see this in mass. You are going to have nothing left. This grand laboratory experiment, I promise you blue state residents and is going to end poorly for you. Listen to brother Dan as a former resident and a refugee from New York and Maryland now in the great state of Florida. I promise you, I promise you this is not going to end well for you. Oh, that's just one example. It is not. You see Elon Musk pulling his companies and moving them into red states. Here's a small company you may have heard if you guys ever heard of this small electronics company called Samsung. I'm being sarcastic. Obviously. Samsung ditches New Jersey for Texas. I thought that was Exxon. No, Samsung to New York post costing the Garden State thousand jobs. Now, what was the story that reminded me of this? Why residents and corporations are evacuating these states because of public safety. They want their employees to be in a safe place because of the tax environment. They want a pro growth environment. They are leaving these states because these blue state governors are insane. There's legislation. I heard this when I was driving in this morning in New York right now, headed over to the governor apparently that they want to change the words man and woman to on these, on these birth documents to gestating and non gestating. Folks, I got. I don't even understand this shit. It's so crazy. Dems replace mother with gestating parent in latest woke rewrite of New York law. Listen, Justin's laughing because his story is so freaking insane, but I'm just trying to get through to you. Like if you think the woke DEI quote revolution is over, you're crazy. It's not. I don't know how I can't use any stronger words telling these blue state residents that are married to the Mamdani Sanders AOC Pritzker Newsom Hochul model of governing. You are going to lose and lose badly. My only caveat, empty or buyer beware here to the audience is please do not bring your liberal shit to red states. Please stay out. It's a free country. I can't force you to do it, nor would I want to. I don't believe in the unnecessary use of government force for economic means. Okay, I obviously, however, I'm asking you as a not friend, please don't come here. We really don't want you. I'm not joking. Oh, but I have money and it doesn't matter. You're just going to destroy our state and cost other people jobs. We don't want you here. I don't care if you're a liberal billionaire. Just, you know, stay out. Just stay out like the people. We don't want you here. I've. I've contemplated many times speaking to Governor DeSantis about putting Justin at the northern border for border control. You know, checking driver's light. New York. Wait, what kind of new. You know, we can't do it. Just stay out of red states. Let the experiment. Conservatives. You're welcome. We'd love to have you let the experiment play out and watch liberals basically beg for political mercy later. There is no way they can survive in this environment. None. Their parties lost. I said on Laura Ingraham show last night, there's no one coming to save them. There is not going to be any kind of moderating influence. You know, in the 1980s when they got their asses kicked in three presidential elections. I was a young man at the time, a young kid. Reagan won. Reagan won in a landslide. Bush. George H.W. bush wins in a huge landslide too. The Democrats were finished, folks. They were wiped out. They had gotten their asses kicked. They started this thing. Look it up. The Democrat Leadership Council dlc. It's a very famous story. The premise of the Democrat Leadership Council was to bring the party back to the center because they knew they had a problem. I only bring that up because there's no DLC coming. The Democrats are married to crazy and they are going to take you down with them. If you're not doing your homework and you're voting for these lunatics, I'm telling you, you're burning your own cities to the ground. Folks, they can't possibly sustain this radicalism. I want to put some meat on the bone for you here. Here was a Fox video yesterday. If this doesn't describe this crazy, insane Nazi tattoo terrorist sympathizer. Open borders. We love illegal immigration. Defund the police, you know, eat the rich bullshit, radical agenda. This Fox clip should. There's this hearing up on Capitol Hill and there's a liberal member of Congress, a Adelia Ramirez, talking about, you know, you know, immigrants are not criminals also. Well, you know, if you broke the law, then you're by default a criminal. If you entered the country illegally, you are a criminal. That's just a fact. Whoever at Fox did this deserves like an Academy Award. As she's talking about, you know, how great illegal immigration is and all this stuff. There's a split screen of all the riots going on at the ICE facility in New Jersey. It doesn't even matter what she says. It's more the imagery, snapshots and sound bites. Check this out.
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No Congress's role. You understand that there are rules and standards that you're required to follow. You've been saying this in the last 45 minutes we've been here and still you're disregarding what we know, which is that you're doing the same thing that your president and Miller want you to do, which is spew this garbage that makes immigrants Criminals. And that creates the standards and conditions for even children in detention to be living in inhumane conditions. You know what I call that? I call that being a tool.
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Fox. Whoever did that, Justin, can we nominate them? Are you on the board of the academy? You are not. He's. He's petitioned many times. He. You are a community notes guy though, right? You try to okay that. You deserve an Academy Award or an Emmy or whatever it is. I don't know how these awards show work, work fantastic. By the way, our good friend Vince just texted me. He says, quote, if the states are still laboratories of democracy, this is good. I shouldn't have said it was Vince. I should have just stolen. But I don't have the heart to do that. If our states are laboratories of democracy, California is our Wuhan Institute of Virology. Well said, Vince Colonnades, the king of morning podcasting at 8am Folks, they can't sustain this radicalism. As you see this exodus. It's going to be impossible here. Hear me out. To blame Republicans anymore as the Republicans evacuate your blue states. It's. Put up the montage again, please. It's happening. It's not like this isn't like the nothing is happening joke. It's happening. People are leaving. You can count people as they leave. When they leave, sell their home and take their business. It's gone. There's no way to hide it. People are leaving blue states. They're not leaving red states. You have nothing. The basis. Do not flee. We haven't played that one in a long time. You see that from Braveheart. Stop, man. Do not flee. That's Kathy Hochul at the border and Gavin Newsom. It's not happening. They're leaving. They're not listening to you. They're not. Just like they fled that battlefield in Braveheart. They're not listening. You are not going to be able to tell people anymore that this radical. Open borders, defund the police. Taxes are great, we love government red tape. Men are gestating, non gestating parent. Whatever the stupid shit's about. You're not going to be able to tell them that this is working because it's not working. If it was working, people would stay folks. And by the way, all they stand for is the acquisition of power, the Democrats. I want to be clear on this. If you think immigration and illegal immigration has anything to do with the Democrat talking point. Oh, we're just being compassionate to people seeking a better life. They don't listen to me. To immigrants here illegally, legally, however you got Here, you should have come here legally. However, this is for everyone listening to the show. The Democrats do not care about you. They only care about getting you on voter rolls to have you vote Democrat. If you were to come in illegally and sign a skywriting pledge that you were going to vote Republican, the Democrats would be for sealing off the border with an alligator moat tomorrow. They don't care about you at all. At least the Republicans are honest. We'll welcome you here. Just come illegally. Just come legally and not illegally. It's pretty simple. I want to show you how these people are totally full of shit. Hat tip David, is it Kite K H A I T. This is a great interview he does when he's man on the streets with this Rep. Tim Kennedy. I want to set this up. Is a great man on the street interview. He's asking about, like, hey man, like, why can't the cities just cooperate with the federal government? Like if there's a hold, an immigration hold, because a guy who was arrested in New York, for example, was wanted by ICE and has a detainer in a hold because he committed a crime prior, why wouldn't you just turn the guy over to Isaac? What's the problem? Watch Kennedy make the argument that, you know, these cities should be able to do what they want. It's all like kind of local control. Listen to this and I'm going to show you how they take the exact I opposite position when it came to another issue. Check this. Why can't, why shouldn't the city do the same thing that you want the federal government to do? Because the city, cities have different rules and laws. My city has a different rule in law than New York City. Right? Go ahead. So you're, you're, you're suggesting, you're suggesting that cities ought to be doing immigration. That is not. I want, I want cities to talk to the federal government in the case when they have an illegal immigrant in custody that doesn't belong in this country that has committed a crime. Instead of releasing them into the public, I want them to notify a federal agency about it. It's common sense policy. Very good. Man on the street interview. Because let's. We're going to use reason here, okay, Lib? So stop clawing at your face, pissing in your diapers and everything. Put the double smoke a latte, whatever the hell you drink down. We drink blackout coffee. Stop, man. Do not flee. Stop for do not flee. Do not flee. Just listen, hear. Dan Alfred, even though you hate my guts, liberals watching, I get it. So Just to be clear, this guy representing New York, his premise is that locals should be able to control their own local immigration policy. That's what the Democrat policy. Right. But it wasn't when it came to Arizona. Do you guys remember SB 1070 in Arizona? When Arizona said, okay, you know, we want to control, have, have a bit of control over who's in our state of Arizona. So we're going to cooperate with the federal government by SB 1070. It's crazy. The liberals position them was no, no, no, you're not allowed to do that. There's no local control. So what the is it? Put up that article. AZPF here. I just looked this up yesterday. Go look it up. The liberals made the exact opposite argument. No local control For Arizona, none. Zero. Azpa, it's PBS, NPR. Show me your papers. A decade after SB 1070, that was the Senate bill in Arizona. They don't care about you. They're totally full of shit. They don't care about immigration policy, local control. They care about nothing. They think illegals will vote for them and replace the people, this is why I'm talking about this now that are leaving blue states so that they can maintain a consistent population and a number of members of the House of Representatives and their electoral college votes, that's all they care about. I promise you, if there was some kind of illicit pact between illegals to vote Republican, MAGA and Libertarian or conservative, the Democrats would engage in the biggest mass deportation operation you've ever seen in your life. They don't care about you. Local control matters. Ok, Arizona, we're going to engage in local trouble. We're going to sue. They don't give a shit. These people are full of it. They have no principles at all. At least Republicans are honest with you. You are welcome here. You just have to come here legally. It's not hard. At least we're honest. These guys are total frauds. You know, I love to break up the show with a little bit of humor. I'm not that funny. Paula thinks I'm funny, but I don't think I'm funny at all. However, we do like to make America funny again. These guys put together a little stinger for us. This is my first time seeing it. Let me see who did that. Andy, very nice. And you even spelled all the words right too. Comedy. I say comedy or something like that. Comedy is funny again. Have you seen this guy's quick? Ben Bankus? This guy's hilarious. Hilarious. I highly recommend some of his clips on TikTok and X and Elsewhere really funny. It's a short clip, but here we go. Absolute total liberal hypocrisy exposed. And sometimes humor is the best vehicle to pass us on. It's fast, but it really hits. Check this out. Liberals, they used to love masks until I started wearing them. Like they're going into people's houses without warrants. Yeah, you mean like in Covid? Who said a raven of ragnar in the chat. Dan, you're fine. I appreciate it, but I promise I'm not trying to be funny. Maybe it's unintentional, I don't know. Paula swears I'm funny. I'm not. I promise. That is not on my resume. Like comedian. That dude is funny because it's true. The only reason he's funny, if you watch his other clips about Trump and all this other stuff too. The only reason it's funny is because it's true. Liberals, like, masks are awesome, man. We love masks. Do they do anything to stop Covid? Nah, I got banned from YouTube over that for saying. You telling you masks don't work. Go look it up now. They're like ice masks. No way. Masks suck. Get the masks up. Covid. All the raids and Covid. All this other stuff. They don't care about the Constitution. People don't care about squad. Let me show you one more. This is now DHS Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen, former U.S. senator. Here's Mark Wayne Mullen up on the Hill. The Democrats also told you on immigration. These radical lunatics. Oh, we care about the children. They don't give a shit about the children, folks. I can tell you, during my time in government. Oh, yeah, There you go. YouTube bars. Right wing media personality. Damn on go. You see? See for COVID 19 misinformation, which it turns out was COVID 19 accurate information. Masks. Put a freaking mask on. Masks like a condom where everyone you have sex with you get pregnant. It was amazing. Everyone who wore a freaking mask got Covid. It was the most useless prophylactic of all time. Hey, put a mask on, you won't get Covid. Did you get Covid? Yeah, yesterday. We were freaking crazy. Everyone wears the condom, gets. Not only that, gets you pregnant and gets an std. You're like, what's the point? But it's true. What are you laughing about? It's true. These must be prophylactic mechanisms. They banned me for that. We're telling you about the freaking stupid mass thing that used to drive me. It used to drive Gee crazy. Because right now. Because when it. Because geese like, here we go again. Right, guy? And just. Andy weren't here for that. You can't bring it up. You can't see. Here we go. I. I got to take a break now. I'll get to the. I do. I'll go to Mark Wayne Mullen in a second, because this will go. This will take up the whole show. I could not believe people were so stupid to fall for this. I can't. I see people with masks on now, and I'm like, you're still falling for this shit. How the hell do you believe that thing works? What, are you going to put, like, Saran Wrap over it? It's called suffocation. Gee's like, I told you, don't bring it up. He. Justin had to go put up the New York Times article. He's like, please don't ever bring up masks in front of Dan. Nothing pisses him off. I will never forget going into a dermatologist office, and the lady's like, hey, we have a mask. Policy is on the door. I was like, yeah, all right. We're good. I'm good. I don't need protection because it doesn't work. No, but everyone else does. What? There's, like, holes in the mask on the side. The lady made me wait outside. So again, when you come in. So I put the mask on and I put it underneath my nose just to be a wise ass. I couldn't. I couldn't take it. And she knew I was, too. And she was, like, being an even bigger pain in the ass because of it. Put the bear over your. No, man. If I didn't have, like, worries about cancer, I swear I would have, like, canceled my appointment. All right, enough. Hey, you know what nobody thinks about before summer vacation? Getting sick. Wow. Is this not perfect timing? Totally unintentional. Everybody worries about flights, hotels, traffic packing for the kids. And then someone gets sick, allergies hit, or you realize you've forgotten important medication. I know. I've been there. Now you're stuck trying to find a pharmacy in a town you don't know. Big mistake. You got to prepare. I don't have that problem anymore. You know why? I use all family pharmacy, and I have what I need in advance, so I don't got to worry about it. They make the process simple. Everything is done online. 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Or visit preborn.combongino pound 250 keyword baby or preborn.combongino and join us in this critical fight. Thank you, Preborn. Okay, back to the show. I needed to take that break because if I don't disconnect from the mass thing, it'll hijack the whole show. Jim used to drive me crazy about it too. Here's Senator Mullen yesterday. President Trump. President Trump is. I can't even. There's no words. I have to summarize how strongly he feels about rescuing children, children who were trafficked over the border. We conducted so many operations against these people, abusing children, restoring justice. You can look it up at the FBI. We locked up thousands of these child predators. We saved thousands of kids. You think, Senator, now DHS Secretary Mullen wants A lecture from these bullshit Democrat, radical nut, Nazi, tattoo wearing buffoo about kids when they did nothing. Check this out. You're talking about President Trump's ill behavior towards children. Yet we have found over 120,000 kids that were missing underneath the Trump administration when they lost touch of 340,000, which we fear most are now in trafficking rings. I didn't hear anybody complaining about that. What we've done under the Trump administration is we went and rescued these kids. What is inhumane about that? Nothing. He's doing the job that Biden administration turned a blind eye to that shouldn't ever take place. If anything we can agree on, our kids should be watched over. Folks. This experiment of this country splitting in half with people evacuating blue states and moving to red states because Democrats are increasingly losing their minds and constantly quoting, you know, here are our experts. The world is going to end. Put a mask on your face. Take the vaccine. Everything that the Russia hoax is real. Everything they tell you is bullshit. Everything they tell you is bullshit. And I'm really getting tired of the endless shots from the left, endless shots from the left about, oh my gosh, we got to go back to governing by experts. What freaking experts? What experts? The experts who told us to put a stupid freaking mask on your face. The experts who told us, oh, Obama's saving all the children. Bullshit. The Biden administration afterwards. There's never been more human trafficking of kids across the border. Donald Trump had to fix that situation. He's got the numbers to back it up. Your experts are full of shit. Experts. Experts in what? Failing. I'm so glad to hear Spencer Pratt running for Los Angeles mayor. Who hopefully when California decides the election, seven years from now, we'll know who's running for freaking mayor. We don't even know because California is a complete freaking shit show. Figure out your elections. Aren't you embarrassed? Aren't you embarrassed you can't figure out who won a damn election? Freaking shit show. Are your election experts working on this? Here's Kara Swisher on a View. This liberal nut, he's trying to get me on the show. She's on the View. To taking a shot at Pete Hegseth, who by the way, has an outstanding resume, whether it's his education or his experience. Oh, man, Pete Hegson, you know he not qualified. Really? What the hell have you done besides stupid ass CNN specials? You haven't served shit but yourself. Remember, their experts got it all wrong. It took an air quote. Expert. Which is turning into an insult now. By the way, like Pete Egg said to go in there and go, why are we doing this again? And start to fix this mess. Check this out.
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You were saying, lack of expertise, and that's sort of everywhere. Like, look, he talks about DEI so much, right? It means, you know, didn't earn it. Right, didn't earn it. Exactly. You have. Pete Hagg said who was a talk show host. Not. No, I mean, he was in no shade. No shade.
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No shade.
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Sorry. I'm so sorry. I've ruined it for all of yourself.
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Rfk.
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No medical training. Jared Kushner is doing negotiations in Iran, and that's why these negotiations are going so badly. And look, even over at cbs, Scott Pelley, most experienced. All these reporters that are astonishingly being shoved out by people who have so much less expertise, if any at all, at what they do. And so this. It's. One hopes that expertise comes back, but it's the same attack on science, the same attack on media education.
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Keep in mind, this lady is a tool. She has no expertise in anything other than talking shit on the View. Pete Hegseth was a talk show host. Does she even realize he had a distinguished career in the military? Do you even know that? Do you even know that? Do you have any idea what you're talking about? I listened to some of their same bullshit. I had one guy I didn't even know. I had spent over a decade in federal law enforcement, traveling around the world. He didn't even have any. He had no idea. Folks, keep in mind, while these Democrats who are radical lunatic nutbags, ra running on open borders, defund the police, confiscatory taxation, wealth, taxes, government red tape, gestating individuals, men's penises in the women's bathroom. While they're running on that, citing their quote, experts, they're supporting a guy who's a. Listen, he has nothing. He has an oyster farm supported by his mom. I love farmers. I love oyster farmers. I love watermen. I love. I've said it all the time. Truckers, steam fitters, tin knockers, electricians, carpenters, rail workers. You work for a living. God bless you. The Dan Bongino show loves you. I come from a family of working class, middle, middle class union members. I love you guys. However, it's kind of weird that Kara Swisher and the View, laughing their asses off as talk show hosts, by the way, while they insult talk show host who I think actually have experience, are supporting some of these people. To be fair, the View kind of went after Platner the other day. But the Democrat Party in general are supporting a guy with a freaking Nazi tattoo who's not an expert in anything. He doesn't even know his own business. His mom is his big customer. Watch this. The Platner campaign. These people are full of shit. Here's a guy running for Michael Bennett. He's running for governor in Colorado. Here he is. They're taking two approaches with Platner. The first one is like, you know, it's kind of none of my business. The people of Maine will decide. No, no, it's your business, bro. You're running in the same club he's running in, called Club Crazy Democrat. And then the second one I'm going to play is. Yeah, I'm not really following the race to. Well, maybe you should, because this guy could tip the balance of the US Senate if he wins. Nazi tattoo guy. Here's Michael Bennett first. This is just. These are their experts. Check this out. It's really important for us to have a standard of public behavior for our elected officials. I know there are a lot of elected officials that don't meet that standard.
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I mean, you obviously don't think the President meets that high standard that you're talking about. Does Graham Platner meet that high standard, in your view?
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Well, I definitely don't think the President meets that standard. I think, Graham. I think that's a fair question. That is what the election in Maine is going to partly be about.
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What's your view?
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I'm busy. Running for governor of Colorado. Yeah, I don't really know, man. You know, Maine will figure it out. Dude's got a Nazi tattoo. I mean, he's an expert. He's an expert. His business is so great, his mom's his biggest customer. What, are you shitting me, bro? We're not afraid to speak up about shitty candidates on our side. We just went through this for a couple of weeks, did we not? We don't make a lot of friends sometimes doing it. That's fine. I owe you a stance on it. Data point. Here's the other approach. Here's Senator Chris Murphy. This guy again. This guy's a full diaper, too. Senator Chris Murphy. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not really following it too much. Really? You're not really following? It's only probably the most important, the main Senate race. Only most important Senate race in the country. You have a freaking Nazi sympathizer in the United States Senate. You're not following it. And you really believe these people are your champions? This lunatic party people are running away from in blue states. Come on, man, get real. Check this out. I think it's hard to just say everybody should be good and moral. I think you've got to create a set of rules that promote goodness, promote the common good, and that's what this book is really about.
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Should those rules apply to Democrats, too? I mean, do you support Graham Platner even in the wake of a, all of this?
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Yeah. I mean, I haven't followed the minute by minute of what's happened over the last few days, but I do think there's a difference. I can't. I'm done. I don't want to comment because it's so embarrassingly stupid how people still align with this moronic, imbecilic party. Donald Trump's a Nazi. Donald Trump's a Nazi. Donald Trump. Do you have any evidence of that at all? You have a guy. We have evidence. It was called a freaking Nazi tattoo. And then the left's like, he's got a tattoo that resembles. It resembles a Nazi tattoo because it's a Nazi tattoo. So tired is bullshit party. By the way, hat tip, Western Lensman for putting together those clips. Great at Western Lensman. Great account to follow on X. Really good video clips there as well here. Now I want to show you our experts because we've got a bench that is absolutely stellar and fantastic. We got Rubio, we got Vance, we got Scott Besson slaying it. We got Brandon Gill. We've got. We are overflowing. The fountain is overflowing with wonderful candidates. What does the left have? Nazi tattoo guy, Vegan, six gender guy in Texas. Vegan in Texas. I can't get over this. Who the hell runs. I'm going to run a meatless campaign in Texas. Are you? I, I. Here's our guys. Here's Brandon Gill, speaking of Texas, or as I said, Texas. Here's Brandon Gill, Congressman from Texas. And I want you to watch how he just. We have different styles. I'm just a passionate Queens kid. I yell and scream a lot. Sorry, I'm trying to contain the red line lid, but it's a volcano. Brandon Gill just like surgically eviscerates these people. He's talking about fraud and the Somali population, how huge numbers of Somalis who come here are stealing money from the government. It's just a fact. We've had indictments and convictions over it. And watch the other. All emotion. I'm ready to cry right now because you're asking me these basic questions about governance and keeping hold of the federal tax dollars. Check this out Somali immigration been good for Ohio.
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You know, that's really outside of my
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purview of you're a state senator. Would you like to see more immigration
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as far as I'm processing your question and I have to say that
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I
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was almost brought to tears just now
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72 because the rate.
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The rate and the level of hateful
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rhetoric based on astounding rates shocking most Ohio is shocking me.
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The lack of even humanity to group
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to allow your state to be defrauded. I am billions of dollars taken out of pockets working class people going to criminal fraud str. Because I certainly have a problem every these people don't care. Gil points out a mathematical legal certainty. We've had massive convictions allegations as well still being investigated of millions upon millions of dollars of your money, brothers and sisters, your money being stolen by people. Many of them have no legal right to be here or who came here claiming to want a better life and it screwed your life over. All he does is point out the facts. Lee and Justin said it right. Because I've never seen a lady claim to be emotional but be less emotional about saying she's emotional. I'm about to cry. If you're going to say it, at least fake it. I can't even put a little like, you know, sniff an onion or whatever. She's not even like faking it right. Here's our bench too. You got to. You got a choice coming up, folks. We got a midterm. You want the bullshit Democrats open borders, defund the police, confiscatory taxes, shitting all over jobs. You want to. You don't want to live in these states. I know it. Because you're leaving. You just say you want to live in these states while you're leaving. You have like an I love California bumper sticker driving your way to Florida. Here's our guy Rubio, who is just firing on all cylinders these days. Remember, Marco Rubio has two hats right now. Secretary of State, national security adviser. And let me tell you something without getting too into it, one of the best meetings I ever had in that, you know, first year of the Trump administration was a meeting being chaired by Marco Rubio that was just. Nobody dominates a room like this guy's personnel. No one. It was just amazing to watch the way he laughs and makes, you know, can joke about things and then get serious and just has a grasp. I've never seen anything like it. Here he was up on the Hill yesterday. This is with. Who's it? Congresswoman Dean. Just again, this guy is just Shining lately like a star. Check him out. One of those were in cahoots with Hamas, and we saw an incredible amount of the aid flow into Hamas. His hands.
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Reclaiming my time. The aid was held by Israel.
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And you got to fix your rules here. You can't even answer a question.
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You're not following the rules. You're very familiar with how this works.
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No, I don't. I never served in the House. This is a weird rule where you ask a question and I can't answer.
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Would you please add time to the clock?
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Nope.
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He's
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all right. We all agree that even though the segments about Rubio in the chat. What's your favorite part? Come on. The best part of that is the one part that does not come from Marco Rubio. I'm reclaiming my time. Can I get the time back? Nope. No, you can't. Good. Don't give her a time back. I'm getting sick of these people up in Congress with the yes or no do. And they ask an answer like, can you describe to us how the decussation of pyramids in the brain? How the nerve cells work? Yes or no? That's not a yes or no answer, you dipshits. Rubio's having none of it. Reclaiming my. He's like, yeah, here we go. Freaking reclaiming my time. That's the best part. Can we get my time? No. No, you can't. No, you can't have your time back. Where? The Dam Bongino show is not giving you your time back either. Well, you guys have no authority. I know, but you're not getting your time back either Is Sidney Dove. You know Sidney Dove, Another crazy left wing lunatic. Sidney Doves goes at Rubio and tries a different approach. If I can't beat Rubio in a back and forth because we suck, our bench is thin, and the Republicans have just the best slate of candidates going forward we could possibly have. I'll just yell at them and scream at him. Rubio sitting there like, what kind of freaking clown show is this? This is your Democrat party. Check this out.
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Contracts with no transparency is exactly the reason why you shut down usaid. So practice this. What you preach. I've yield.
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Oh, she gets to scream now, too.
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Chairman, should we take down her words? I'll give you some time. I'm. I'll give you some of my time. Then you just. Okay, just.
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What kind of thing is this? What is this? You don't. You get asked questions for five minutes and you don't get time to answer. It's not a hearing. I think you said clown tank. What is this?
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I don't have to tell you. I don't.
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I. I've even used their time. How can I answer the question? They don't even give me time. I've had to use their time to answer your questions. Yes, all right, whatever.
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All right. So I don't need to tell you that in my community, that with the city that I represent, the city of Miami, you're one of the most illustrious representatives and that we're very proud of you. Not only the Cuban Americans, but the Hispanic Americans in.
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Why is she leaving? I'm gonna answer her questions. Oh, she's go. Okay, I got it. Well, thank you for coming. You're probably wondering why I played after. Played the cut after. That's that. The ending again is the best part. This lady screams Charlie Brown's teacher. No one even knows what the hell she said. Rubio's like, this is ridiculous. This is the dumbest thing I've ever seen. And then she walks out. She doesn't even want to hear the answer. She's playing for TikTok. She doesn't care. She doesn't care. Hey, skip ahead to the Sarah Jacobs thing on Iran. Forget about the Keating. I had another guy yelling and screaming. But I don't want. Really, I can't. I got an. You see it? I got his earpiece in my ear and I'm losing my damn hearing. I was on a fox hit yesterday. I'm going to tell you something I was having a really hard time hearing. Laura, I am. I. My hearing is so bad. Dan, back on target. Here's a representative. Sarah, zoom in on my earpiece. I've had an earpiece in my ear like my entire life. Between Secret Service radio and this. That's why I can't hear it. This ear is like a tunnel. Nothing. I don't even know if the nerve endings even work anymore. Here's his rep, Sarah Jacobs, again in this Capitol Hill shit show yesterday. This clip is important, cuz this is serious time again. Okay, folks, there's a lot going on in Iran. I understand the non interventionist bent of the Republican Party. I get it. I'm just telling you I have a different perspective from my past year and there's not much I can say about it. You don't. I'm not asking you to trust any. If you have an opinion on it, then. And you think you know better than. Fine, whatever. I just, I. Because I can't disclose these things. I'm just telling You. I know, I know that this administration, I am absolutely certain, did the right thing. Of course it was going to be messy. Yes, I concede the point that maybe that the, the negotiations have dragged on a lot longer than a lot of people anticipated. I concede that point. I have zero reservations whatsoever about my support of his actions in Iran. What I find troubling. And by the way, there's an interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal. Condi Rice, of all people, who probably isn't a huge fan of Donald Trump, wrote an op ed in the Wall Street Journal yesterday saying, hey, like, let's be realistic about this. The Iranians are screwed right now. Their economy's falling apart. Their leadership, they don't even have a coherent voice. We don't even know if, like, the gay Ayatollah is alive. I mean, they're a mess right now. Let's not pretend like the Iranians are winning any. They're winning nothing. They're getting their asses handed to them. They can't get. They. They're like, we own. Well, you don't own the straight for shit. The blockades. You don't own anything. Here's this. Rep. Sarah Jacobs up on the. Oh, there it is. What the US has accomplished in Iran, I mean, for her to come out, like, be defending Trump is a lot. Folks, that's the reason I put it up. This isn't some, like, big Trumpy person, okay? I support this president. I don't support anyone blindly, Anyone, even myself. I always question myself. However, I am certain he's doing the right thing. Here's an exchange up on Capitol Hill where I swear to you, the Democrats, in addition to, as I started the show, being open borders against public safety, against military funding, against ice, against everything that's common sense. They want the Iranians to win. I'm telling you, they want the Iranians to win. They are not on Team America. Check this out.
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Our intelligence community has said that Iran is reconstituting its military industrial base faster than we had predicted. And analysts assess it still holds roughly 70% of its missile stockpile and 70% of its mobile launchers. The Strait of Hormuz was open before the war. It is now closed. We have lost 14 brave American service members. Over 400 are injured. And the Iranian regime remains largely intact, but now with a more hardline leader who has more incentive to try and get a nuclear weapon. So I guess I have to ask you again, Mr. Secretary, does this actually look like winning or losing to you?
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Well, first of all, I Don't know what intelligence assessments you're referring to. We wouldn't discuss intelligence assessments if they were real.
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You must have been publicly reported.
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While they're publicly reported, someone committed a crime and by the way, is also lying. And this happens all the time. People manipulate intelligence and analysis for purposes of furthering a narrative on your point about the regime. The regime is actually deeply fractured, which is why it takes seven to 10 days to get an answer from them for anything.
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Meanwhile, they fractured, but still intact.
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Well, intact in the sense they can't even reach agreements that they can get back to us. So that's. I don't know how intact that is. Hat tip over to News for pulling that good count on X to follow as well. Folks, this is the thing that bothers me the most. Again, Marco Rubio, Secretary of State Rubio, just exceptional up on Capitol Hill yesterday. Polished, prepared, articulate, real expertise. This is what bothers me the most this time. Like, missile lock, Please, like, lock in on me, okay? Whether you love my show, hate my show, like me, hate me regardless. If the honor of my life was the past year and that opportunity to shake things up and go fix the FBI, the honor of a lifetime, but one of the most eye opening experiences. Having been out of the government for a long time and not having received any classified briefings, there was no reason for me. I was, you know, an activist, a candidate and a host of a show. The intel's eye opening and I'm really glad Rubio, Secretary of State Rubio, called out this representative, like, where are you? You don't have any of this information I have. For those of you out there, I don't want to go into big, long, boring details. I'm just telling you, like, every member of Congress is not briefed in on extremely sensitive information. There's sensitive information they get, but if you're not on certain committees, you're not getting that there's specific channels that are set up. Sarah Jacobs doesn't know any. She probably read that like the Washington Post. Rubio is like, where are you even getting that from? I'm just telling you, hello, Captain Obvious moment. But for the liberals listening, I'm telling you for a fact, you hate my guts or not, and it applies on both sides. Probably close to 90% of what you read in the media about intel and geopolitics is total bullshit and is made up. I'm telling you, I've seen it. You're not going to tell me I've seen it. It's just bs. Oh, boy. Folks, we got some big updates from the nothing is happening file. Vince just texted me again. This just happened. You guys got our nothing is happening liner? I know he thinks I'm overusing this. It's a constant source of strength. I don't think so. I wouldn't have to overuse the nothing is happening if things didn't continue to happen that people tell you aren't happening. Right, Justin? We hate overusing stuff. Whether it was God rest his soul, Motley's. I used to tell Joe, you got to contain them. You can't use it too much or it's not funny. Lucky Trump we haven't used in a while. Why? Even though people love it, we don't like to over. Nothing is happening. I got to use because people keep telling you nothing is happening as it's happening. Kaitlan Collins from cnn. This is a tweet Vince just sent over. Exclusive. John Bolton is expected to plead guilty over mishandling classified documents again. I thought public corruption cases weren't happening again. I'm just done with that. Nothing is happening, dipshits. Okay, that's just one. What about these left wing groups? Oh, you mean like the Southern Poverty Law Center? You creep. Lucky Trump and you see, he creeped it. He did it. He popped him in the corner every time. He's got to come in from a different angle. We got to get him from the top. Can you do that? Like upside down? Lucky Trump, you know, you told us nothing was happening. There we go. Lucky Trump blocking out. And then you tell me, well, what about these left wing groups and public corruption? Okay, there was a superseding indictment filed yesterday covered on X on the Southern Poverty Law Center. Listen, they're entitled to the presumption of innocence like anyone else. I hope they get their day in court. Get some good attorneys, defend yourself. I'm on the outside now. It's not inside information. I saw this on Twitter. Put up that tweet. Tyler o'. Neill. This is about the new superseding indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center. They note that they were exchanging money with field sources to attend extremist rallies, host rallies, grow existing chapters, create new chapters, recruit individuals, donate to extremist leaders, purchase cross burning material, create racist paraphernalia, pay living expenses, show us proof of life in the superseding indictment. This has all been sworn out in court. There are allegations. SPLC can fight them in court. I thought they were there to fight this stuff again. I thought nothing was happening. It's been a year and a half. A lot of stuff is happening, a ton of stuff. You're just ignoring it. Speaking of something that happened, I come in this morning and I'm talking to Justin and Guy and they're like, how the hell did you not tell this story on your show? I said, what story? They said you sent a clip over of your podcast with Sean Hannity. Sean's got a podcast. Hang out with Hannity. It's excellent. I did about two hours on the show. It's got well over a million plus views now. And I had totally forgotten this. It's about a minute, but this is something that happened. It's. It's more kind of funny. It's a serious story, but I couldn't believe it as it was happening. And I can't believe I didn't tell you this story on the show. So I'm gonna play the clips about a minute long of something really weird that happened to me towards the end when I was in my last position. Check this out. Detail leader comes up to me. He goes, hey, boss, we got a problem. I'm like, what? He's like, one of our like regionally most wanted cyber guys is on your flight home. I'm like, what? He goes, what do you want to do? I'm like, move my seat right next to his ass. I'm like, I'll watch that. That's a damn bongino. And so I'm there with my wife's like, I'm like, he's not gonna do anything, whatever, you know, big like gooey looking dude anyway. But I don't worry about whole way home. I mean, I had a long flight, we're flying back and you know, we get back into the airport and they let me off first with the security detail. So I can tell you is one of my proudest moments, man, because I had another. It wasn't my case. It was. The guy had been wanted for a long time. But I'm walking down the Runway and I had my. Sent my wife and kids out in advance. So it's just me, me. And they're all, they're watching, but they can see it. And there's a team of really solid agents, really solid agents. They're sitting at the end of the Runway and I'm like, hey, boss. I'm like, hey. I'm like, you got them, right? They're like, yeah, we got them. And my wife watched that. She goes, my wife's not impressed by much. I love my wife. But she like. My wife is like a cool customer. That's why she runs my business. She was impressed. My wife was like. She calls me Boo. She was, hey, boo. She goes, I gotta tell you something. That was pretty cool. And we got that guy. I can't believe I never told you guys that story that that happened. They were like, you want us to move our flight? I'm like, hell no. We ain't moving our damn flight. We're staying. I'm watching the guy the whole way home. And, you know, I'm watching. I'm on the flight and I'm watching him. I don't know what he's doing. Watching movies or playing video games or something. And I'm thinking, like, guy has no idea. No idea. And I walk off and this cadre of FBI agents just waiting. And I'm like, go get them, boys. So it was a crazy moment. I just regret not telling you that story. By the way, I do have to call myself out on that clip. If you're watching On Demand, please rewind it. And you will notice, as makeup artist Jackie pointed out too, I really pride myself on trying to speak in an articulate manner with no filler words. Oz, arms and likes are a no go. There are way too many likes in the beginning of that. I don't know. It's because if I was having. Because I was having a good time. Way too many likes. I tell my daughter all the time, stop saying like. Like, you know, like. And I did it. So Isabel, Amelia. See, dad does it too. I really horrified. We were listening to it in the pre show and I was like, gosh, you got to stop saying like. Why did I say like so many times? Just having a good time on the podcast. Speaking of having a good time, there is a candidate running for Florida. Coming up, Florida 19. A congressional seat, Catalina Lauf. Coming up in this, you're going to love her. She's been a long friend, but many of you know her from her activism. She's very active on social media and elsewhere. Great candidate. But there is a candidate who won the Iowa gubernatorial nod in a primary just the other day. And his name is Zach Lan. Someone pulled this gem back from the Rush Limbaugh days. Limbaugh. Anytime I see a Limbaugh clip, I automatically stop on X. Now, I didn't read the description. I just stopped because it was Rush Limbaugh. Like, anytime I see the goat, the greatest of all time, Rush Limbaugh, I got to stop for words of wisdom. Turns out that even God rest his soul, man, could Rush Limbaugh pick a winner. This is the Craziest clip. This is the current Republican nominee for governor in Iowa in front of now 55,000 people on our podcast live. This is him questioning Obama years ago about Obamacare and just nailing it. You want to talk about picking a winner? This is great. Check this out. Obama and a town hall meeting. Zach Lane. How in the world can a private corporation providing insurance compete with an entity that does not have to worry about making a profit, does not have to pay local property taxes. They. They do not have to. They're not subject to local regulations. How can a company compete with that? I don't want generalities. I don't want philosophical arguments. I'm just asking a question. How does a private entity compete with a company doesn't have to make a profit? The government. Stop talking generalities and philosophical arguments. This kid, this student, challenges the president to a debate, then with one simple question that Obama can't answer nukes the entire foundation of Obamacare. And listen to this answer. It is true that there are certain costs associated with a private business that a government would not have to worry about. You mentioned a couple of them. It's conceivable that a private entity that's having to pay a certain interest rate for their money would be really undermined if the government is able to get money much cheaper implicitly because Uncle Sam backs this operation. Here you have a rambling answer. And Obama just agreed with the student and explained why the centerpiece of his plan, the public option, won't work because he can print money. He didn't say that. But when he says, well, Uncle Sam, you know, get money much cheaper implicitly because Uncle Sam Beck print it. It's our tax. People just go out and take it from people. Private insurance companies can't do that. So this student gets Obama to admit that his whole plan won't work, as he himself said, Rannick in the chat. Rush is the goat. American flags all over. American flags in the chat. In honor of the greatest of all time, Rush Limbaugh. Please, if there was ever a moment, this is it. We love you, Rush. We miss you. It's just not the same without you. I got to tell you, obviously, when I joined the whole radio ecosystem in that noon spot, I was, oh, there we go. Tear it up. Burn that shot down in memory of the great Rush Limbaugh. I was always embarrassed to be. But what. How do you think, how do you even sit in the spot? It's like trying to play center field after Mickey Mantle. Like, you can't do it. You Just can't do it. The best, the greatest thing, the greatest compliment people ever paid me on the radio was, you're no Rush Limbaugh. You're right. Because I'd be disappointed in my own judgment, in my own judgment, knowing Rush Limbaugh was better than anyone if I was as good as Rush Limbaugh. And I'm not. Man, that chat is fired up. But that's the current Republican gubernatorial nominee, Iowa, asking an awesome question. Obama's like, yeah, we can get money cheaper. You can't get money cheaper. You just steal it and socialize the costs from everyone else. You just tax other people to pay for other people's health care when they could pay for it themselves. Or you print money and cause nationwide inflation by devaluing the money people have. Now. There's no free money, Obama. There's a money ferry out there. You're full of shit. That was a great question. So good luck in your race, Iowa. Make sure you show up in the general election. Hey, I just wanted to show you something again, quick happening right now. It's the benefit of a live show. Thank you, guys. Pop into the reverse. Behind Dan Bongino's head camera there is acting Attorney General, hopefully soon to be Attorney General Donald Trump is going to nominate him. President Trump. I don't know if you saw the news, Todd Blanche. I think he's a great pick. A new $30 million fraud scheme. Let me point out the players here. You have obviously FBI Director Cash Patel off to soon to be, hopefully Attorney General Todd Blanche's left shoulder, you have Colin McDonald, Assistant Attorney General for fraud schemes. To the right, you have a bunch of FBI personnel. I'm going to leave their names out of it, who I recognize, especially the one far off to the. To the right people I've worked with again from the infamous nothing is happening file that guy and I had a fight about before the show. Here are more things happening there. Told you. They told you didn't happen. Massive millions of dollars fraud scheme. So much so they're doing a live presser about it during the show. He's doing that Justin, by the way, just to piss guy off. And I am with you. I am with you. Folks. Wait, before I go, before I go to Catalina is important in the chat. Yes, we like the nothing has happened because it's your show. If you don't like it, it's cool. I'm serious. Yes, we like the nothing is happening liner or no, we don't. You guys just take a look at this. I'd like to get kind of a rough where we are because it's your show. The show's for you. By the way, we just hit number three in podcasts on Amazon, odemn on Twitter and x a great account. So put out the Amazon top podcast and our show is number three. Thank you, Bongino army for always repping the cause. I love you guys so much. Hey, I rely on my car for everything. So does my crew here. Commuting, errands, picking the kids up from school, work, even family getaways. 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Right now, Carshield is offering our listeners 20% off by clicking the link in the description and using code Bongino. Again, the website is carshield.com, code bongino. Don't let an unexpected breakdown ruin your day. Get covered with Carshield and drive with confidence. You can click the link in the description or Visit the website carshield.com use code BONGINO now for 20% off. Welcoming to the show. A good friend running in a congressional race I'm very familiar with. I ran over there myself. The beautiful west coast of Florida. Florida District 19, Catalina Lauf. An exceptional candidate. Catalina, welcome to the show.
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Thanks so much for having me on, Dan. I appreciate you.
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Yeah, well, thank you. Listen, that's an amazing, amazing area to run. So many good people. Cape Coral, Bonita. You got Naples over there. And you know the interesting thing about Florida 19, it's very Republican, which is fantastic. Not a big shocker on that side of Florida, but you have people from all over the socioeconomic spectrum. You have middle class plumbers over there, you have very wealthy, successful businessmen in Naples. So you really have to be a well versed candidate in all these issues. Having said that earlier in the show, I brought up that the country seems to be splitting apart. You know, you have people who are stuck in these blue states with, you know, defund the police, exceptionally high taxes, you know, DEI initiatives, out of control government spending. I mean, think about it. The budget for the city in New York is higher than the entire state of Florida. It's insane. And then you have places like Florida, Florida, District 19, the West coast before Florida in general. You know, we're, we're the, the business environment, the, the, the just the, the living environment. It's just amazing. I just say to people all the time, like, if you're going to move down here from liberal states, please don't bring that liberal crap with you. You know, keep Florida, Florida.
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Absolutely. You know, as a blue state refugee myself, I will tell you, as soon as we got off the plane here and moved and started building a life, you just feel the sense of freedom that you just don't in blue states. I mean, I'm telling you, coming from, you know, suburbs of Chicago and things like that, when you have really high crime rates, you have governors in these blue states that are completely destroying the economic landscape for business owners of all sizes. You have, you know, workplace issues, you've got labor shortages, you have so many issues in blue states, especially when it comes to the economy, so much taxation, people are just trying to survive. And so you come to a place like Florida where it's incredibly run well, you have pro growth economic policies, you have a beautiful weather, you have beautiful people, you have like minded people. It is such an incredible, it's a, it's an amazing place. And I think what's so important is that when you are a blue state refugee, like many people are actually, actually on this side in southwest Florida you have a ton of Midwesterners, you have a ton of people who, you know, even if they're snowbirds and things, we know what it's like to live in a place that's not great to raise a family. And so you come here with this extra sense of protection that you want to keep this area so red. And that's really why, you know, part of my campaign since we do have so many people from all across the country here in southwest Florida, you know, there's nobody that understands the risk if you don't stay vigilant and if you don't keep a place like this Ruby red.
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Yeah. I think as a blue state refugee, you're going to speak to a lot of people who are transplants. You know, I've lived in Florida now over 10 years. There are tons of people from other states just looking to get out. And you brought up an interesting point. I. I don't want to keep the conversation too parochial because we have a national audience. However, in Florida, folks, if you're on the west coast, you know, whether it's Tampa, Sarasota, Naples, Cape Coral, you get a lot of refugees from, like you said, the Midwest. The east coast is largely people from New York, New Jersey and the Northeast. You get a lot of firemen and cops. They're just tired of the BS up there. So there's this interesting, you know, split, but folks are just looking for results down here. We've had incredible governors, from Rick Scott to two terms of Ron DeSantis. It's been amazing. This is a result state. You see Governor DeSantis moving on property taxes now. But if you get elected to Congress, I know you'll be an advocate for this Make America great Again agenda. But I want to be sure that we keep this going. The border policies, amazing results. Energy policy, we're a net exporter of oil and petrochemicals now. Who would have thought that 30 years ago, government regulations getting cut. President Trump's had enough of that crap. The big beautiful bill which kept your tax rates lower and manageable. The Democrats wanted to hike your taxes. Public safety. I know you'll be a strong supporter of the agenda. So can we, you know, can we count on you in Congress to, you know, to make sure that we move that ball forward and keep results first and, you know, talk and chatter second?
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Absolutely. And I think, first and foremost, you know, I was appointee under President Trump in the 45 admin. And I just want to thank you for, for all of your public service and everything that you've done, people of southwest Florida. But I saw there the quantifiable results that came from that administration, and it didn't get enough credit. And now I'm seeing those exact, whether it's policies, whether it's more deregulation, whether it's trimming down the fat of government as a whole. You need people who understand business in Congress, and frankly, right now, we don't have enough of that. And so you see people like President Trump and even Elon Musk when he created doge. Those are two business minds. And a lot of the people from this administration have real world experience. You had real world experience when you obtained your role. And I think that's so important. You can't have government bureaucrats, career politicians, people who only know how to be politicians in office because unfortunately they're not solving solution, they're not solution oriented, they're not solving everyday issues that we see. And so as an entrepreneur, as a coming from the private sector, but then also understanding government, from my time in the administration, I've really understood exactly where the fault lines are. And look, we have businesses that can't even thrive when you're in a Biden type economy. And that's why there's such a risk. When you have Democrats controlling Congress or God forbid, the presidency one day, this is the time to get it done. When you have such a strong administration that provides quantifiable results and people who are willing to fight for it.
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You know, you brought up something interesting I had discussed earlier in the show. I'll put our quote, air quotes, you know, experts up against their non air quotes. Experts. And the reason I use it because that term means nothing to me anymore. It's like journalist. I don't call me a journalist ever. It's like the most offensive thing you could say to me. I believe in facts. Journalists, modern journalists, not all, but many of them do not. Earlier in the show, I played a clip of Kara Swisher, who's a liberal commentator on the View, saying, you know, you know, insulting Pete Hegseth and other than a lack of experience, lack of experience. Pete Hegseth served this country honorably. Pete Hegseth has a distinguished education background. I mean, I'll take expertise over their experts. Catalina, these were the same experts, you know, who told us, you know, put your mask on, keep the kids out of school. The Russia hoax was real. I mean, these were supposedly the world's greatest intel people. I'll take this administration and spreadsheets results any day over that, you know, expertise any day and twice on Sunday.
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Oh, absolutely. And so would the American people, which is why we saw exactly this patriot revolution happening with the mandate that brought President Trump back, brought this administration back. People are fed up with again, bureaucrats, these politicians, even on both sides of the aisle. Why are you in office for 30, 40, 50 years? At some point you're not solving again, you're not solving things in an innovative, thoughtful, solution oriented way and in a way that we've seen with this administration. I mean, there are so many people with so many backgrounds that President Trump has brought in in this Admin that it's so clear that there's a clear difference what Democrats want for our country, who they bring in. You know, the. I don't even wanna get into some of the cabinet officials of the Biden administration. President Otto Penny. But, you know, ultimately you need people with real world experience. This is exactly what our founders wanted. They wanted people from all walks of life. That's what government was supposed to be. It's a duty. It's. You bring in your own perspective, your own, you know, your own real world experience. You're not a government bureaucrat. That's not what our founders wanted. And it's time that we take that back. But we are taking it back and we're seeing it with the Republican Party at as a whole, not only from candidates, but also people who become elected to. Also people who join the cabinet in presidential administrations, as we're seeing under President Trump.
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We're talking to Catalina Lauf. Catalina with a C, L, A, U, F last name. Catalina. What's the website in case any of our audience check you out for Congress dot com. Catalina for Congress. There you go. On the screen dot com. Check that out. Catalina, you know, our bench is deep. The Republican Party's bench is really deep. You know, I hope you're successful in this primary. I've known you a long time. I know you're an advocate for the Make America Great Again agenda. But there's no question the Democrats are struggling. Their bench is really pathetic. And I get it. I'm a conservative. I'm not trying to pretend to be an objective analyst here, but as objective as I can be when your candidates in your future are aoc, Graham Platner, you know, Nazi tattoo guy, Tala Rico in Texas, who's running as like a vegan in Texas, that's like running against, you know, I hate the beach in Florida. I mean, I can't imagine a worse slate of candidates. But you look at our bench, you know, Marco Rubio, JD Vance, Pete Hegseth, you know, Scott Besson, although he probably doesn't have any political aspirations, but he's just. He's just a slayer in Congress. You got Brandon Gill and others. I mean, our bench is really deep. I tell you, I've never been prouder to be a Republican. And if you're a Democrat, I have to tell you, if you're advocating for these candidates, you really should be horrified. I mean, I'll throw one more. You get this guy in New Jersey who was a character witness for the blind shake. I mean, for this is really pathetic.
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It's. It's. Frankly, it's scary because this is what. This is what the enemy within, that President Trump has spoken about in the past. These are the people who fundamentally hate our country. They hate our values. You know, how is it that this is the best that the Democratic Party can put up at this point? Because at this point, they have no values. All they want is power. And what I see the most, though, is that they try to recruit these young people, like the AOCs of the world, like the school squad, like, you know, the. That gentleman in New Jersey. You know, they're trying to. To manipulate a younger crowd. And look at Mandami. You know, he won primarily from the younger generation. Millennials, millennial women in particular. And when you have 62% of millennials who believe in socialism or have a favorable view of socialism on top of all the other crazy rhetoric that these guys bring in, I mean, this is exactly what they want, though. They want to manipulate a generation so that in 10, 15 years, they have a solidified voting bloc, and they're starting to gain traction. And that's the unfortunate part. Again, I go back to the founders. Could you ever imagine our founders accepting people who fundamentally hate our country, have ties to our enemies? I mean, it's getting out of hand. And unfortunately, the best part is, though, I think it forces people to wake up. It forces people to want to get involved. It forces the Republican Party to then say, look, we need strong fighters. And then voters and constituents gravitate towards that, because it is not about, I think, party at this point. It's about good versus evil. And so we have an amazing bench. Look at Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, who I'm so, so proud to be endorsed by, and so many others that are sort of this next generation taking our country back and helping President Trump and. And hopefully helping, you know, J.D. vance and Marco Rubio and whoever is next on the docket that wants to run for president. We have a great bench, and we keep getting stronger while the Democrats get weaker. Because at some point, the. The average American has to look at this and be like, this is ridiculous. How is this party not only supporting these people. People, but they're actively campaigning for them. They're not disavowing.
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I. I've done, you know, three appearances on Fox this week, which is a lot for me, and this has come up in every single one, this slate of candidates, the democr. Listen, I'm not going to tell you the Republican Party hasn't had turkeys in the Past we have. Every party has a bunch of bad candidates once in a while. I'm telling you as objectively as possible, given my point. Partisan bent, I have never seen, and I think you used a better word, not bad. A more dangerous set of candidates. Nazis, terrorist sympathizers. Like, you're right, I use the wrong word. Isn't bad. This is dangerous. Let me get into something because I learned a lot running in Florida, District 19. I listen, I wrote a whole book about falling down and getting back up. The gift of failure. Because it is a gift as long as you learn from it. I'm going to tell you one of the things I. I'm not going to say I learned, but was reminded of running in the district you're running in now is congressional races. Specifically, even though they're federal seats, obviously they are local races. You cannot make that mistake. You know, yes, Obamacare is important. Taxes are important. Of course, impeachment's important, and avoiding all of that crap. However, in southwest Florida and over on my side here in the east coast, the waters are huge issue. We have Lake Okeechobee in the middle. You get these discharges, the water turns brown. It's just been an environmental apocalypse. You see, the Pratt campaign, Spencer Pratt in L. A masterfully doing this. Spencer Pratt, I'm sure, has an opinion on the Iran war, but the voters in Los Angeles don't care. They may care about the issue, but they don't care about his opinion on it. They want the fentanyl floppers off the street, good schools, and they don't want to get raped, murdered, or their house burglarized. Like, keep the race local. Know your stuff on the national issues, obviously, but I can guarantee you, I'm not speaking for you, but you're seeing that knocking on doors. Now, they want to know locally, like, what are you doing about the water? What are you doing? Then they'll get to the other stuff. Are you having the same experience?
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Absolutely. And I will tell you that's the best part about being, you know, grassroots oriented candidate. Not only, of course, knowing the federal issues and things like that, but we are out door knocking every day. My team and I, we have the strongest volunteer base, strongest intern, strongest grassroots support here. And I will tell you, every door that we knock, especially here in Cape Coral and things like that, it's all about, hey, what is the city council doing? Why is. Why is our water quality still poor? What's going on with, you know, the hoas and things like that, you know, all these things are incredibly local. And what's great though is as a federal candidate, as a member of Congress, when you're on a committee like the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, for example, which I do want to pursue and be on a lot of those issues, do have the jurisdiction on, on that committee, whether it's working with the Army Corps of Engineers, whether it's, you know, bringing home federal taxes dollars to make sure that we have the correct repairs that we're keeping up with infrastructure, all of that is federally is under the jurisdiction from Congress. And so I think a great thing too is that when you are in a position like that, in a so called leadership position, it's incredibly important to work with local councils. You're, you know, we have an amazing sheriff down here that makes sure that we have the, you know, one of the state safest counties in the country. All of that. It's a three pronged approach. And again I go back to the founders, they wanted things as localized as possible. And I think as your member of Congress, you have to ensure that you are working with everybody so that it is this district is running efficiently because at the end of the day it is what matters. And so I can be a voice and a fighter on all the national issues. But when you're home talking to constituency, your constituency, see that's the most important. You're their voice. And so I'm proud to be a person. I love my people down here. I love having these conversations. I'm out door knocking every single day having these conversations and making sure that these local issues that they know that they're going to have a fighter on all a spectrum of issues, not just federal.
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We're talking to Catalina Lauf running for Congress in Florida 19. Catalina with a C. Check her out, check her out on X social media, media and elsewhere. Catalina. When I was running up in Maryland in the up in we had a significant component of the district that was very rural. We had Garrett and Allegheny county is basically a lot of mountains. Beautiful, beautiful place. But I want you to talk about just the importance of face to face door knocking. We, that's a race we honestly had no business even being competitive in the last Republican. And they can check it out. I think lost by 19. Like there was no, it was, it was not a Republican district at all. Wasn't even close. You know, we wound up losing the race. I think by one point. You know, you lose, you lose. There's no second place in politics. But we had knocked on, people asked me, you know, what'd you do How'd you even get close? I said, well, we knocked on 55,000 doors. And I knocked on, I think over 5,000 myself. You know, we had, like, a tally sheet. We would make it a competition. But I knocked on this door one day, and I'm not sure if it was Western Frederick or. Or Hagerstowner, but it was in a very rural area. And it was this older lady, she. I don't know, 80s or 90s. I didn't ask her age, but she says, you want to come in? And I was with a, you know, one of my campaign guys, and I, you know, you're usually in a rush knocking on doors. You know how it is. You got to get, like, you want to get your doors in, but something just said, yeah, you need to go in. So I think she was watching, like, the prices, right, or whatever, and she said, you know, I haven't had company in years. And she says, you know, she was telling me how the story, how when telemarketers call, she just keeps them on the phone to chat because she's so long. I felt so bad. I don't know if this lady voted for me or not, but it was just one of those experiences you have knocking on doors. You know, this is years ago that just really changes your life, where you see people for who they are and what they need and, you know, the holes in their lives, and you feel like an obligation just to, like, chat. Even though it's probably not the most campaign efficient thing, I knew it was the right thing to do. You have an experiences like that, knocking on doors?
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Absolutely. I just had one recently, actually. This woman was an Irish immigrant, and we were talking about just everything that's been going on. She was incredibly happy that President Trump won because she was genuinely scared. Scared. And she looked at me and she started crying, and she said, catalina, you know, I'm so proud to be an immigrant of this country. She still has a very thick, you know, Irish accent. She goes, I'm so proud to live in this country. She goes, but if it weren't for President Trump, I don't know what would have happened. And she goes, I'm so grateful that again, we have the next generation coming out and supporting this president, but also for the future. And she had tears in her eyes, and she just said, I am so proud to be an American. I'm the most patriotic American, even though I came from Ireland. And she goes, I just wish people had this patriotism. The younger generation had this patriotism. And I was so moved by that experience. And you know, she, we prayed. She said, you know, I wish you the best of luck. I pray that your campaign goes well. Well, but it was one of those things that you leave. Yes. You have that, the obligation, of course, especially when you have seniors that, that do want to talk to you and then, you know, you're maybe their only visitor. But you. I left with feeling that there's, there's something to fight for and there are people that you need to fight for and there's a why. So it takes away all of the noise, the, the dirtiness of politics, how, the attack and all of that. It grounds you in a way that you remember your why. And it's, it's so moving to have those experiences.
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Yeah. Sorry about all the. Yes, but you're so right. You just, you know, sometimes when you're on a microphone or you're sitting in an office in the Hoover Building or you're running for office, you forget these, these people aren't numbers. They're people. They're not votes. They're people. They're people who vote. And I'll tell you, we probably sat with that lady. I was well over an hour and a half. She's like, you want some Sanko or something? I was like, sure. And I remember the campaign guy I was with Jerry, who was a really good guy. I was waiting for him to like tap on his watch, like, we gotta go. But he was such a good guy, he got it and he was like giving me the nod off, like, no, stay, like, we need to do this. You mentioned something too about the Irish immigrant lady, but my mother in law is an immigrant from Columbia. It's the same way she was in, she was the original Trump supporter in the family. When he first announced, she was like, danny, I love this guy. That's it. She loves this place so much. So, last question. Catalina Lauf, running for Congress in Florida 19. How's the race looking? How are you feeling about the primary? How can people support you? Give them the primary, you know, dates and stuff, whenever they can get out there. How can they help you out? Give us the contours of the race. How's it look?
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We're feeling very confident. We've got attacks left and right from all of our opponents, which is shocking to me. You know, you mentioned Dan earlier about the Republican Party. You know, sometimes we don't always have the best candidates, but by and large we, the constituency, vote them out if that's the case. So I, I'm actually running against two former members One was federally convicted for insider trading in New York. He's now trying to make a comeback. I'm running against a gentleman who left his constituency during a hurricane. He was actually in the Congressional hush fund, where he had to silence one of his staffers with $40,000 of our taxpayer money. And so these guys have already been in Congress. They've squandered that. And so to now be sort of, I represent, I, I always say this campaign is the future. We can't have any more of the past. You know, I'm up against another guy who fought to protect the media establishment that tried to take down President Trump. You know, these are Republicans that, and this is why primaries are so important. Our primary here in Florida is on August 18th. But you have to be vigilant on who wins these primaries, especially in a seat that is so read like this. But this is for viewers all across the country. Primaries matter. And so any way that people can get involved, door, knock, volunteer, you know, support your local candidates, but also be, be very, be very, I don't say weary, but just be very mindful of who you're voting for, especially in primaries, because that's, that is where some of these races are. And I'm proud that we're in this seat where it's so clear that these guys are not what southwest Florida wants. But you have money, you have, you know, all these different elements of a campaign that obviously are tough to compete with. But at the end of the day, I do believe that southwest Florida wants a fighter for the new generation and doesn't want any of these guys that are really representative of the past of the Republican Party. It's time for us to focus the future for the, for children, for grandchildren. It's time for us to look at what the party is going to look like 20, 30 years from now, especially
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in seats like this, because, listen, no one's counting their chickens. There's a general election. Anything can happen. We get that. However, folks, this is a very red seat. There's a very good chance the primary is the election. It's not a fait accompli. Don't get, you know, you still got to show up. However, primaries are not just important in races like yours. Primaries are redline critical because there's a damn good chance whoever wins that primary is going to be the next congressperson. Catalina Lauf, I wish you the best. Please, if you would, you know, when you're speaking at these events, send my regards. I love the people of southwest Florida. I did not win that race. But I'm going to tell you something. I don't regret a single second of it. Some of my fondest memories, whether being an activist or a candidate, even though it was a short race or in southwest Florida, man, we had a blast knocking on doors. I have pictures with my daughters when they were kids sweating their butts off. It's sitting at intersections waving. It was just amazing. So send my regards and best of luck to you in the race. You've been a good friend to me for a long time. I think you're going to do great. Thanks for joining us.
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Thank you. And we love you down here in southwest Florida.
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Thank you. Catalina Lau, folks. Check her out, Florida 19. I'm telling you, some of the best memories I've ever had have been in that have ever have and still, I mean they're still sitting there in my, in my cerebral boat brain box were running in that race. It was hot though. There's nothing like knocking on. I remember my car overheated. You know, it was a short race and I didn't have a campaign staffer with me a couple times. I'm just driving my own car so I'd leave it running, man. One day I came back in, the car was like crapped out on me. It was so Justin's like, I don't know anything about that. I just moved to Florida 10 minutes ago. Just kidding. He's actually been here longer than me. Make sure you check out Haley at noon. Rubble rumble.com Haley H A Y L E Y Tearing it up. And at 8am every day, the king, right? The king of morning podcasters, wouldn't you guys say? Can I crown him that? Vince Colon Ace. He is the king. Rumble.com Vince One of the best in the business. Every day at 8am if you want to join him live. If not, watch him on demand, anytime. We're cool with that. Thanks folks for tuning in. Download the Rumble app. It is absolutely free. Download it on your smart TV or go to rumble.com bongino on the web. Just click that follow button. We added 10,000 more followers. We really appreciate your support. I will see you back here tomorrow. Hey there, I'm Vince.
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