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The Dems Are Not Happy With Trump's Latest Move | Episode 101
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Trump has shaken up all of DC with this packed weekend of winning and the liberals are screaming predictably. Also: Emily Jashinsky joins to discuss the crime in DC and how the president is handling it.
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Vince Colonnade
Yeah, I'm back in the swamp, back in Washington, D.C. hey, everybody, welcome to Vince, this edition on a Tuesday. This is episode 101. By the way, I wasn't with you live for episode 100, but I did have a great show with Sean Farish, who is amazing. And if you missed it, go check it out. He was wonderful. It was really nice to talk to Sean. Coming up, I'm gonna tell you a little bit behind the scenes, kind of what the journey has been like these last two weeks. I was off in Florida hanging out with don't tell anybody but a couple of bonginos. I've got some updates for you there. We've got to talk about crime in Washington, D.C. the president of the United States is finally doing something about it because Democrats have just made it worse. So President Trump is here to make it better. And then also I've got big news about the replacement for the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is a big deal and I need your help with something. I'm gonna ask you for it. It's all ahead on this edition of Vince. Also, Emily Jaszynski is gonna stop by. She's wonderful. Love, Emily. Love you. Glad you're here. All right, before we move ahead on the show, gotta thank the great sponsors. Could the continued divide between Trump and the Federal Reserve put us behind the curve? Can the Fed take the right decision at the right time? Or are we going to be looking at a potential economic slowdown? And what could this mean for your savings? Consider diversifying with gold through birchgold Group. For decades, gold has been viewed as a safe haven in times of economic stagnation, global uncertainty and high inflation. And Birch Gold makes it so incredibly easy for you to diversify some of your savings into gold. Now, if you have an IRA or an old 401k, you can convert that into a tax sheltered IRA in physical gold or just buy some gold to keep in your safe. First, get educated. Birchgold is going to send you a free info kit on gold. Just text my name, Vince to the number 989-898. Again, text Vince to 989-898. Consider diversifying a portion of your savings into gold. That way, if the Fed can't stay ahead of the curve for the country, at least you can stay ahead for yourself. Data and message rates apply. All right, baby, how we feeling? Chat. How's everybody doing? Rumble.com Vince if you're listening to the podcast, you can always join us on the live chat. Watch live. Please subscribe there either to Wherever you get a podcast and also the Rumble Channel. Appreciate that you guys are here. Let me see. Somebody said, I'm disappointed you were not live for your 100th episode. Did it mean more to us than you? No, actually, you know what it was. I actually didn't realize it was episode 100. I should have realized. I should have paid attention to that detail. But I will say that the reason we recorded episode 100 was because I was engaging in the long trip home from Florida. So we had to put one in the bank on Friday. And we said, who could do that with us? Sean Farish did that with us. So thank you to Sean and thank you for those of you guys who checked in on the program yesterday. It has been an utter blast. I'm telling you, I have not had more fun than with each passing episode. And I'm feeling better and better about the direction of the show and the audience that this program has. Has just been, I say it all the time, the best damn audience in media. I really mean it. You know, early on when we were setting this thing up, when Dan Bongino said, hey, Vince, would you fill in here and do this program for me? I said, man, I'd love to. And the early thought we had, and the guys can all attest to this. Justin and Guy, the whole crew, the only thought we had is like, look, we've gotta present this show in such a way that we bring everybody into the fold and we say, hey, we got something legit going on here. And those first few weeks, I pulled out all the stops. We called in a lot of our great friends, everybody from Tucker Carlson to J.D. vance to the President of the United States coming by. Don Jr. Stopped by because everybody was trying to do their part to help me set this thing up and get it off and running. And since then, it has just been a blast. With each passing week, I feel like this thing's only gotten better and better. And I really appreciate you guys. I said, this past weekend, people were asking about how the show is going, and my view is like, hey, in the first few weeks, especially for those of you who weren't aware of me, some of you may have seen me on Fox News appearances through the years or may have been familiar with Daily Caller or may have been familiar with in the WMAL market, that's the D.C. radio market. But, you know, there's lots of people across the country who weren't aware of who I was or what I was up to or what I was interested in. And so I was being Asked this weekend, like, how does it feel? What's going on with the show? And I said, you know what? It feels great. And one of the things that gives me a lot of comfort is in those first few weeks, I just wanted to convince people that this is legit, that this was something worth tuning into. And my view now is, if you've been with me since March 17, when we started the show, you're not merely trying me out anymore. You've made a decision to make me a part of your day. And for that, I am so completely grateful. So I just want to say again, as we just eclipsed episode 100, that I am coming to you with all of the gratitude in the world. This is in the attention economy. There's a million options that you have, and the fact that you've decided to give me some of your valuable time means the world to me. So thank you for that. The trip down to Florida, for those of you who've been following all of this, I took two weeks basically on the road in our great country. The first week, I just took off. We took off as a family, and we were able to spend some time together. Thank you for your patience with me during that phase. And then last week, we spent the whole week doing the show out of the Silverlock studio down there in Florida, in South Florida. And that's the studio that Dan Bongino built and only got to spend a couple of days in before he was whisked off to become the deputy director of the FBI. So he got a couple of reps in there, but then turned over the keys to me and said, hey, use this thing. For the most part, it's been Hailey, Haley, Caranilla in the Nightly Scroll. She's been using the studio and doing it so well each night. In fact, the shot, if you were watching on Rumble, the shot we started with today has Haley's set all up. The only thing that was different is we don't have the purple lighting up right now or whatever the color is. It's more feminine. For when she's on the program, she's doing a great show, but I got to hang out with the guys. And here's another behind the scenes element for you. When I first got to the show, that was really my first time encountering the whole staff that works here with Dan and on these great programs, and we were able to kind of feel each other out. I got to meet Guy. I got to meet Justin. Producer Andy has joined the program, and over time, I've gotten to know Those guys, from a distance, I'm talking in many days, I'm talking to them the same way I'm talking to you from a distance over the Internet, over the wires, over the cameras, but not getting to be there in person. And so last week was massive for the morale of this show, I think, because I got to spend some time smoking and drinking with the boys. We all went out, we hung out outside the studio, smoked some cigars, threw back some bourbons. Don't worry, I paid. I went and got everything because there wasn't enough of that stuff at the studio. So I had to go get some stuff. I got some. They have a Costco down there. You ever been to one of these Costcos? Yeah, people have been to Costco. Costco's all over the country are absurdly busy. I don't know what it is about this Costco. That's right outside of Silverlock. It's a magical place. Very few people were inside. It's like, nice and clean, and it was wonderful. And I went around, I bought the cigars, I bought the bourbon, and then I bought a bunch of these rocker lawn chairs, because we didn't have lawn chairs to sit out and smoke with. So I bought some rockers. You know, Isaac, you should have been there, man. It would have been great. And Isaac's in studio here with me in dc. We soldier along here in DC together. And we got the chairs out, we smoked. It was great. It was a wonderful time. Guy, I'm going to give this a detail up. I don't think you actually care at all, but Guy has never smoked a cigar before. And Guy was like, I'll try one. And so we corrupted Guy and we cut a cigar for him. And at one point he turned to me and he goes, how hard are you? Justin's laughing in my ear. Guy looked at me and he goes, vince, how hard are you supposed to suck it? And I said, guy, well, phrasing. And I said, but if you're having difficulty, you gotta trim that cigar a little bit more. It shouldn't be that difficult to. To smoke the cigar. So it was a wonderful time. A wonderful time was had by all. We had a great time getting everybody together. And I feel like the show is going to be a massive beneficiary of all the time we had. So the week wore along, and then we got to Thursday. Thursday was great for a number of reasons. That's the day that Dan Bongino arrived in town. And the reason that. One of the reasons I think that that happened is because we were celebrating Justin. Justin just graduated. Producer Justin just graduated from college. And Justin's been splitting his time between college and working on the shows. So we've been very grateful to have all of Justin's support through the years, of course. And now we get him full time. That's great news. So on Thursday, we celebrated Justin. We all went out to a nice restaurant together and Paula Bongino organized and Dan was there to accompany and support Justin. And we just had a great time with the whole crew together sitting at the table. And that was my opportunity. That was the first time I've seen. That was the first time I've seen Dan since he left. And it was really nice. I'll give you some sense of Dan in a second because I'm sure people are wondering how Dan is doing and I was too. So I'll give you an update on that. But we celebrated Justin that night. And then going into the weekend, we also celebrated Paula. On Saturday, we had a big birthday bash for Paula. Is her. I guess you're not usually supposed to say this, but I think everybody was there, knew it was her 50th birthday. Right. For women, you typically just don't say ages like, oh, it's just her birthday. But it was her 50th birthday or as Dan put it, the 25th anniversary of her turning 25. And it was a great party. Dan is a very emotional guy. So there were moments throughout the night he was very emotional and loving about just how much he appreciates Paula and how nice it was to have this event together. And it was great. Jasmine, who works with us, Jasmine's very good at organizing these events. She's amazing at it. And she put together a world class event for Paula, complete with some dancing and some music and a little bit of pyrotechnic work at one point. Everybody was amazed by all of it. Lots of food and drink and merriment and it was a great crew of people. And the party went again really, really well. There were. I don't, I don't even. Nobody told me, hey, Vince, this is off the record, but you know, there were a number of guests who you would know who were there to celebrate Paula. And it was also well and good. But let me get to Dan while I can on this subject. Dan Bongino, of course, is like totally locked in as the deputy director of the FBI. And one of the things I realized I've had very, very few. I mean this. I've had very few interactions with Dan while he Being in this role mostly because I just don't want to bother him. I want him to be able to do his job and to focus on that. But I can tell you in the few conversations I've had with him over this time period, what I've detected is that he's become more and more enthusiastic about the job he's doing. And in fact, over the weekend, and Justin and Guy, all the guys will be able to vouch for this over the weekend, Dan was the most spirited, happy, enthusiastic, and just like totally locked in that I'm aware of during his entire tenure at the FBI. He is all in. Justin just said, for sure, for sure. So Justin said he's seen him like two or three times before that. And this was the maximum spirit he's seen yet from Dan on what's going on at the FBI. And look, the takeaway that I had, Dan didn't disclose anything that you can't disclose to the public at all. He was just giving us the top line items. They're locked in. They're locked in on accountability. They're fully focused on bringing justice. They're fully focused on chasing down every bad guy they can get their hands on. And that this declassification stuff, all the documents that they're finding and declassifying are his obsession. They are all in. And I'm just totally encouraged by it. I never really had any doubt, just to be clear about it. But I wanna bring you an update that he is doing really, really well. And in case you were wondering if he's being stymied at all, if there's anybody trying to hold him back, if they're even coming close to succeeding, it's not working. The guy is barreling ahead like the Kool Aid man, just blasting through every wall. He's doing it and he's staying in that job for a reason. So I think we have a lot of really good stuff to look forward to. And I wanted to give you that update that. That he's legit. One other piece here, because I figured, you know, why not. Why not bring back a deliverable for you. We got the couple of us got the Dan Bongino challenge coin. Let me bring that up for you. This is Dan. There we go. I'll bring that up. That's Dan's challenge coin. You know, with these coins, those of you in the military will know this. But if you have these challenge coins, these are not something that are paid for by taxpayers. These are beautiful little things. They're paid for by the guy. So like general officers and colonels and commanders and everybody else. These guys, you got to pay for your own coins. And the same is true for. For Dan at the FBI. He's got to pay for these bad boys. So they get these things, then they hand them out. And it's an honor to receive a challenge coin. This one says the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice right on the back of it, but very cool. So I wanted to share that with you. What a nice little treasure to walk away from that event with. So Dan's doing a good job. Dan's doing a good job. Let me see. On Tasha, or is that. Aunt Asha just offered me 25 bucks. It's yours, Aunt. Thank you very much. That was. See, we worked that out in no time. $25. I sold that thing. Look at that, boys. I made $25 in no time this morning. That was wonderful. Okay, the guys will get in touch with you. Oh, scroll 180 is at 100. Wait a second. Scroll. 180 is at 100. I'm sorry, Ant. Asher. I don't know. I didn't fully commit to that. All right, we're 100. That's good. We'll do 100. Do I hear. Do I hear 200? Do I have a 200 on the coin? Can you imagine if I sold it right here on the spot? Dan finds out. He's like, dude, you auctioned off the challenge coin right after I gave it to you. Yeah. 500 says bad old kitty. We're up to 500. Yeah. And again, happy birthday to Paula. Just a fantastic thing. One last thing, and then somebody offers 1,000. You know, it's a chat, so you can literally enter any number you want. You don't have to really restrain the budget. You can just make this up. Peter Phillippe is at 2000. One other piece here. That was great. So all week long, I was staying at a hotel that was right on the beach down there, which was really nice to stay at. The downside to staying at a beach hotel when you're working is you get to spend very little time at the beach. I would wake up in the morning, I'd look out the window and go, oh, there's the beach. And then I would leave. I would go to work. We'd be working on the podcast, working on the radio show. I'd get home, and I don't have time for bar drinks or anything. I don't want to slow myself down. I'm back to work, and then I'm in bed, you know, but as the week wore on, towards the end of the week, I did get a chance to kind of get around the hotel a little bit. I had my family there. They finally showed up. And as we were in the hotel, I kept running into the whole Bongino family. So the extended Bongino family. And I say extended. This is Bongino's immediate family. His brothers and his father were there and others. And I kept running to all the Bonginos. I'm telling you, if you have an impression in your head of what it's like to encounter just like a totally enthusiastic, wonderful, loving Italian American family, it's the Bonginos everywhere, fellas. And again, you can vouch for this. I'm running around the hotel, I keep running into Bonginos. And every time I do Vinny.
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Isaac
Hey, Vince.
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Vince Colonnade
It's Vince. They're coming up to me. Everyone's really nice. They're all just like. The brothers are just wonderful. I'm seeing them out on the beach. They were boogie boarding out there. We were at the end of the week, we entered the hotel pool. I think it was actually Saturday. We get to the hotel pool Saturday morning, all the Bonginos are there. Everybody's just the best. Love seeing his brothers. His father is awesome. I was doing work. I was banging out a bunch of work for one of the shows either Thursday or Friday morning. I was up early in the morning, I'm drinking a cup of coffee, sitting in a hotel hallway. I don't want to bother the family at all. And Dan's dad comes walking down the hallway. I didn't even realize it was him. And he sees me, he goes, hey, Vince. I go, hey, oh my goodness, good to see you this morning. And he's like, how you doing? And we end up talking for a while and he starts giving me all these tips on where to get free coffee. Because he's like running down to the hotel lobby to get coffee. I was like, I didn't know they had coffee. He's like, yeah, they got a coffee station. It's from 6 to 7. You just got to get there. It's a one hour coffee station. It's free, you can get there. Remember, tomorrow he's giving me all this advice on free coffee. He's the best. Anyway, the point is, if you're wondering where Dan came from, the whole family is just phenomenal. They're just really, really great. And they've been dialed into the show too. They're like, vince, you're doing a great job. You're doing A great job. I was like, I love you people. I love you bunginos. I need more bunginos in my life. So, anyway, good news. Now, Chef Mike is dissatisfied with me relaying all the news of the weekend. I'm sorry, Chef Mike. I can't help it. He said, is there news today or what? All right, fine. You want some news? We'll get to some news right after a word from our sponsor. 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They love our country, and you should do business with them because they really care about the country. And these are the kinds of businesses that we should be supporting. Here's what they do. Go to blackoutcoffee.com Vince. Use the code Vince. That's V, I, N, C, E. And you're going to get 20% off of your first order. Whether you're into bold, dark roasts, flavored coffee, or even instant, Blackout's got your back. Real coffee. No compromise. Blackoutcoffee.com Vince, get yours now. Blackout Coffee. Thank you. To Blackout Coffee. Yeah, babe, no, I'm. Yeah, you can tell when I'm cruising for free hotel coffee with Mr. Bongino, trying to figure out where we're gonna get that. I'm a coffee guy. We're all about it. And Blackout's amazing. So thank you, Blackout, for supporting the show. All right. Yes, we do have news today. Settle down, son. Okay? We do have news. The President of the United States has done some amazing things. He has decided to use his presidential powers to take over the D.C. police Department. Now, before we even show this, I want to emphasize something really important. Everything about what the President is doing is not only entirely legal, it's entirely constitutional. The federal district is supposed to be just that, a federal district. It's not controlled by any one state. That's by design from the founders. But D.C. crime has been out of control. And the big event in the past two weeks that really set the President off and reminded the rest of us of just how bad the DC crime situation was was when Big Balls was attacked. Now, two weekends ago in our nation's capital, Ed Korestein, you know his name. What is it? Justin Big Balls got beat up in Washington, D.C. defending his lady this past weekend. And boy, what a stupid decision. Isaac, that was stupid, wasn't it? Isaac's nodding. It was stupid. You should not have attacked Big Balls. That's. You know, they say they often tell women to defend themselves. Go for the balls. This is the one time you don't want to go for the balls. Not Big Balls. Now if you go for Big balls, man, you're getting the horns. And that's what's happening right now in Washington, D.C. president Trump has activated his powers to take over the D.C. police Department. Take a look here. President Trump announcing yesterday that he's invoking this power to save our capital city.
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Donald Trump
I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse. This is Liberation Day in D.C. and we're going to take our capital back. We're taking it back. Under the authorities vested in me as the President of the United States, I'm officially invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act. You know what that is?
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Vince Colonnade
Yeah.
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Donald Trump
And placing the D.C. metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control. And you'll be meeting the people that will be directly involved with that. Very good people. But they're tough and they know what's happening. They've done it before. In addition, I'm deploying the National Guard to help re establish law, order and public safety in Washington, D.C. and they're going to be allowed to do their job properly.
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Vince Colonnade
Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Now, here's the thing. The President of the United States is in a unique position here because of what he just cited, the Home Roll act of 1973. The short story is, for all of our nation's history, Congress was tasked by the Constitution with running the nation's capital, Washington, D.C. but in 1973, Congress abdicated its responsibility. Typical members of Congress, they didn't want to do the work, so they turned over responsibility for the city to a city council and a Mayor. And they said, here, you run this thing, we're not interested. It hasn't helped the city because, yeah, they ran it into the ground. The city has not benefited at all from this structure. It's been a disaster. And Congress is long overdue to take back control of the city. There's a couple members of Congress, people like Senator Mike Lee, who really want to do this. The rest of Congress should get on board and seize control of the city again. But in that law, the President does have the ability to take over the D.C. police force. Now, this is a massive, massive win for the rest of us. A huge win. In fact, it makes D.C. the one city where the President has the most authority to make things right. And if you're a good American resident of a place like Los Angeles or Chicago or San Francisco or any number one of these, any number of these off poorly run liberal cities, you should want what the President just did. You should wish that you could have this option available to you. Now, even the D.C. mayor, Muriel Bowser, was admitting yesterday, ugh, yes, Trump does have the power to do this. Take a look. Cut to. We know, however, as most have heard from the President's press conference, that he has prerogatives in D.C. unlike anywhere else in the country, including his authority given by our Home Rule Charter, to require the mayor to require me to supply services of the Metropolitan Police Department. And he also has control and the ability to deploy the National Guard. Okay? So remember that. I just want you to keep that in mind because what you're getting already in the media is a lot of this. Oh, he's a tyrant. He's authoritarian. He's. He's doing something that's completely illegal. How dare he? You just heard from the D.C. mayor. She's no fan of Trump. She's a Democrat, straight up saying, I hate to admit it, but yes, he does have the power to do this. So when the crazy leftists in your life are acting like Trump is doing something crazy and tyrannical, actually, what he's doing is legal and sensible, and the people of D.C. are genuinely grateful for it. In fact, take a look at cut four. There's a couple of D.C. residents yesterday saying, really, he's taken over. Thank God. I'm just ecstatic.
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Isaac
I've been saying that a long time.
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Vince Colonnade
Ago, the federal government should take over the D.C. police Department.
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Isaac
Leroy Thorpe is a native Washingtonian who founded the volunteer group Citizen Organized Patrol Efforts, also known as the Red Hat. They walk the streets of Chinatown doing violence prevention work.
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Vince Colonnade
Well, the mayor Been in power so long, I think she's kind of used to how things are going. And I think Donald Trump really wants to clean it up. And I'm all for it. He's all for it. They're all for it. People in D.C. you know, you ask people who've actually been affected by this crime, they're like, man, this is great news. Finally something is happening here. In fact, it wasn't just yesterday. So this has already been taking place. Over the course of the last week, the President's been ramping up the presence of federal officers in the nation's capital, already enforcing the law. Take a look at this video from over the weekend. This is a social media video cut three of a bunch of federal officers jumping out of unmarked cars and making arrests in Southeast D.C. you want to talk about dangerous? Yeah, that's Southeast DC. Take a look. Oh, my God.
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Isaac
What the.
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Vince Colonnade
Real. Really coming to your trenches and jumping out and bagging your ass. All type of boy.
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Isaac
What the fuck?
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Vince Colonnade
They're really coming into the trenches, jumping out and bagging your ass. Well, it's happening. It's. You can tell by the guy's surprise that he wasn't seeing that all the time. Now it's happening, and it's happening all over the city, which is great news. In fact, last night, in response to all of this, the left was staging pro crime protests in Washington D.C. in downtown D.C. take a look at cut five here. The pro crime protests taking to the streets as people are angry that President Trump is trying to make things better. Look at this, look at that. Protests against DC takeover. It says on the local media. People marching in the streets in northwest D.C. trump must go now. They're angry. Look at this. All of these. They look like a bunch of typical, like, angry white libs. There they are walking around emaciated, angry. Just. They're furious. How could you be furious about that? I mean, you are legitimately. If you're at the point where you're saying, like, hey, don't fix the crime problem, you are a pro crime protest. That's what that was last night. And as they were marching around, you know, like, venting and having all of their emotional incontinence just blocks away, I kid you not. During the protest or maybe just after the protest wrapped just blocks away, a man was shot to death on Monday night. Take a look at cut six here.
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Isaac
Heard those shots. They, they fired off pretty quickly. My cat was sitting in the window and immediately bolted to the back of the house. I thought it was fireworks. At first, but I got kind of scared when I heard them. With this happening, it really is just kind of a shame that this would happen on the eve of that news.
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Vince Colonnade
What a lib. I mean, what a lib. How much into a cult do you need to be to react in that way? You know, it's a real shame. Not that somebody was shot to death. The thing that was a shame was that the shooting took place on the same day that President Trump took control of the police department to try and fix the crime problem. Ah, shoot. It's a real shame that you're justifying President Trump's takeover of the police department. That's the worst part of this. No, I think the worst part is the guy dying outside of your house. Have some perspective, lady. Holy cow. So that was happening last night in dc, where the crime problem is pretty pronounced, as you know now. Also last night on abc, abc, World News Tonight, they were instantly misleading their audience about the specifics. Here, take a look. As David Muir and whoever else he's talking to are trying to tell the audience that actually things are great in dc. I don't know why Trump is doing this. Cut seven. Here they are.
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Isaac
President Trump declaring a public safety emergency in D.C. painting an apocalyptic picture. Adamant crime is spiraling out of control. But his depiction stands in stark contrast to the official figures which show crime in the Capitol is actually in decline. Violent crime recently hitting a 30 year low, down 26% since last year. Burglary down 19%. Murder down 12%.
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Vince Colonnade
Okay, let me point something out immediately. This crime data claim that you're hearing in the press is horse crap. It is complete and utter horse crap. And the reason for that is because the media already know that DC's crime statistics are rigged. In fact, take a look at this piece. This is from NBC 4 Washington, a local news publication publishing on July 18th of 2025. So that's, you know, that's under a month ago. Just a few Short weeks ago, three weeks ago. NBC runs this piece. D.C. police commander suspended. Accused of changing crime statistics. Accused of changing crime statistics. I'm sorry, wouldn't this come up in your news report about how the crime statistics are improving? No, they've been entirely corrupted. A D.C. police commander is under investigation for allegedly making changes to crime statistics in his district. The Metropolitan Police Department confirmed Michael Pulliam was placed on paid administrative leave in mid May. That happened just a week after Pulliam filed an equal Employment opportunity complaint against an assistant chief, yada, yada yada. But what they're saying is. Is that this guy was involved in manipulating the data to make crime seem like it's not as bad. In fact, According to the D.C. police Union, the manipulation of crime data in D.C. is so routine and so rampant inside of the D.C. police Department that it's happening everywhere. Greg Pemberton is the head of the D.C. police union. They said what we've heard through our members and through members of management that were willing to talk with the union is that this is a directive from the command staff and that they want to make sure that these classifications of these reports are adjusted over time to make sure that the overall crime stats stay down. And this is deliberately done. Here's the crazy thing. All it takes is if they reclassify any particular crime, like a violent crime, and just call it felony assault, then it's not included in the public data. Let me repeat something here. If they reclassify a violent crime as merely felony assault, which sounds pretty bad to me, I don't know about you, but when you hear felony assault, you think, well, that's awful. That's violence. If they classify it as felony assault, it doesn't go into the public data. Okay, that is the craziest thing ever about tabulating crime data. How does that work exactly? So inside of the D.C. police Department, you've had senior officials, according to the union, who have been downgrading even more violent events to, oh, it's just felony assault. And then it doesn't get included in the violent crime data. And meanwhile, regardless of the government's lies about this subject, remember the Biden era where they lied to you about the state of the economy over and over? Regardless of the government's lies about this, the people who live in D.C. they know how bad things have gotten. And they don't need the government to tell them that things are actually better than they're experiencing. They know for a fact the president is acting on this. And thank God. I've got more on this ahead. Emily Jashinsky is gonna join us in just a moment. We'll get there. Before we do there, though, I have to tell you that more and more Americans are prioritizing their wellness and they're getting back in shape. But studies prove that strength training actually does more to help burn fat than cardio alone. Now, I've been working with Don and the team over at Jacked Up Fitness for a few months now. Let me tell you something. These guys know exactly what they're doing. Their all in one home gyms are already best in class. Trust me, I have one. In fact, I'm so glad to be home to be with my Jacked up fitness machine. But now they're all new. X series home fitness to the next level. The Power Rack Extreme functional trainer lets you do hundreds of exercises, basically everything that you would do at the gym, right from your spare room or garage. Want more? The Power Rack Pro X features a fully upgraded cable crossover system with articulating pulley arms for unlimited width combinations. You're gonna hit every single muscle group. And if you're new to this, don't worry. They've got a free Get Jacked up video program. You just press play and then you follow along. No excuses. Let's do this together. Go to getjackedup.com, use that promo code Vince and you're gonna save 10%. That's get jacked Up. Thank you to Jacked Up Fitness. Just an amazing sponsor. Amazing, amazing machine. Amazing, amazing machine.
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Isaac
All right.
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Vince Colonnade
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Isaac
Hey, Vince, thanks for having me.
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Vince Colonnade
How many shows do you host, by the way?
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Isaac
You missed about 15 of them. No, no, it's just three. It's just three. It's a manageable three.
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Vince Colonnade
It's a manageable three. Well, you got me beat. I'm only doing two these days, so that's. I respect you for that.
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Isaac
A slouch. A slouch.
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Vince Colonnade
Okay. So I've seen you on the mean streets of D.C. you know, you usually, as far as I can tell, travel without a bulletproof vest or anything. But how would you assess how things have changed since you've been in the city?
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Isaac
You know, I just wrote about this this morning, actually, on Unherd, because I was thinking back. I'm almost 14 years to the day since my parents dropped me off in Foggy Bottom for college. And, you know, I think Covid, you'll know this, Vince very well was just dystopian and apocalyptic, and it set such a low bar for so many people in the city that now Trump is doing his federal takeover. People are looking around and saying, well, hey, the city's great because they hit that low point. I mean, first of all, because they hate Trump and they don't want to be right about anything. But secondly, because that low point was so profoundly low, you would be wandering the streets, and it would be sort of like you'd have ambling fentanyl zombies, broken storefronts, just totally like, empty streets. It was. It was really rough. And so I think that's partially why people feel like, hey, it could be so much worse. But again, like, it doesn't make it good. And the other point that I just wanted to emphasize that Trump made yesterday that I found very poignant. He told this story about his father saying, son, if the restaurant. I'm paraphrasing has a dirty window, don't go in because it means the kitchen is dirty. And in a sense, that's like, tragically true about D.C. d.C. Should be the best city in the United States of America. We should not tolerate normal levels of poverty, grime, crime, violence in the nation's capital, where we want tourists to experience the best of the country, we want foreign leaders to experience the best of the country, and we want people who are working for the federal government to be safe and to live prosperous family lives in the nation's capital so they can do the best jobs for the country possible. And yet we're just numb to it, numb to DC Operating like basically any other major city. We're numb to our major cities operating like this. These are cycles that have been going on for decades. Nobody has any genuine solution. It's like we've sort of given up on our inner cities. And I know there are lots of great nonprofits and such that do work and churches that do work in those areas. But as a society, it's like a collective shrug. And I think what Trump said yesterday is basically like, not anymore, not anymore. I don't know if it's going to work. And, you know, it's never fun to see, like, the National Guard roaming the city, but this is D.C. and it should be better. And we should not tolerate the way that it looks right now.
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Vince Colonnade
Well, something's got to change, because the way the left manages all of these cities manages all of these cities. When you have this huge problem, they insist that the way out of it is we need more funding. We need more funding, we need the rehabilitation, we need fewer jail sentences, we need fewer zero cash bail. None of those things work. Actually, the crime problem has become dramatically worse under all of those circumstances. So the President is returning to a very basic principle. You break the law, we're gonna hold you accountable. How is that so hard to understand?
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Isaac
Yeah, I mean, it really shouldn't be. We had tragic real life experiments in progressive crime policies during the pandemic and slightly before the pandemic. Whether it was San Francisco or other New York, you could probably add to the list other big cities. There are countless examples where they basically ran the experiment that the progressive left in policing that the progressive left has been yearning to run and has been saying, if you just give us the keys, we will change the policies, things will get better and safer. And I'm sure right now they're responses, real progressive policing has never been tried, just like communism has never been tried or whatever, because they want to do it over the course of 10, 20 years. But it's just common sense. And so many. I mean, this is what gets lost in it here in D.C. the truancy rates. I mean, thinking about things that have changed since I moved here, you know, more than a decade ago, you see so many young kids out on the street during the day in masks, getting into trouble on the train, reeking of weed, like, just in sad, sad conditions. And, you know, like, that is insane right now, as everyone's fixated on D.C. the D.C. police chief said she'd seen an increase in juvenile crime. I mean, she said that just a couple of months ago. And if you live here, you know that it's true. The truancy rates have not recovered. The Washington Post did a sweeping investigation. Nobody's mentioning this now. The Washington Post felt comfortable doing a sweeping investigation into truancy in the city just a couple of months ago because it wasn't a polarized Trump issue. And they did a great report on how truancy is still higher than it was before the pandemic and how truancy is correlated with crime. And it's just like, there are young people, there are lives. I mean, the trauma of being a victim of crime, the trauma of committing a crime that stays with you for a lifetime, these people are. They don't get that back. These kids don't get that back. While the progressives run their experiments in policing.
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Vince Colonnade
It seems like the precipitating event for the latest demonstration of force and accountability was when Big Balls Ed Korestein was attacked. Now, two weekends ago, how stupid was it for criminals to target Big Balls?
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Isaac
I mean, come on. It was also people who don't know D.C. in a very high traffic, like, very popular part of the city for locals and probably some tourists, too. So, yeah, going after big balls. Wrong guy to mess with, apparently, because Trump seems to have a fondness for him. And the image, actually, in all seriousness, the image of what he looked like after this assault, I think was it didn't even matter whether or not he was a Doge staffer. I mean, that was a harrowing image. So of a young man who was just like, trying to live his life in the nation's capital. So, yeah, that was absolutely brutal. And it does. I agree with you. I think that is one of the. One of the things that was for Trump, just end of the road. And interestingly, Vince, I was in the motorcade as the part of the press pool going to the golf club out in Virginia with Trump on Saturday, and we passed one of these tent encampments that you know as well as anyone, they've always been around. Foggy Bottom, Georgetown area by the freeways. And as we pass it this weekend, I thought, I wonder if Trump is looking out the window. Well, sure enough, he posted pictures of those very encampments and all of the trash on the road on his way out of the city. He posted it the next day. And it's like, it's so, we're so numb to it because it's been this way for so long. But this is our capital. This is the center of power in the country. This is where foreign leaders come to assess how serious we are. This is, our credibility is on the line in Washington. There shouldn't be trash on the freeways, on the major parts in and out of the city, let alone when tourists step out at Union Station and their first glimpse of Washington D.C. is an open air drug market. It's pathetic.
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Vince Colonnade
It is pathetic. And the Washington Post reports that the homeless are already being told they need to pick up and move immediately. They had an account this morning that one man was approached and said, you have until Wednesday to pick up and leave. And he said, where am I supposed to go? And nobody has an answer, but just get out. That's the point. They're definitely on the move at the orders of the President of the United States. I wanna ask you about the way the media is responding to this. I'm already seeing this morning that, for instance, even on places like Morning Joe, there's some begrudging acknowledgement that, yeah, D.C. is kind of crappy and that regardless of what you think of the President, there's a crime problem that needs to be fixed. In fact, on ABC yesterday, I played ABC World News Tonight shortly, a short while ago. That was from a New York studio where they were mocking all of this. But inside of their DC studio, one of their hosts, Kyra Phillips, she said this yesterday. Fellas, if we could play Cut eight, here's Kyra Phillips talking about all of the crime outside of her Northwest D.C. studio.
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Kyra Phillips
I can tell you firsthand here in downtown D.C. where we work, right here around our bureau, just in the past six months, there were two people shot, one person died literally two blocks down here from the bureau. It was within the last two years that I actually was jumped walking just two blocks down from here. And then just this morning, one of my co workers said her car was stolen a block away from the bureau. So we can talk about the numbers going down, but crime is happening Every single day. Because we're all experiencing it firsthand while working and living down here.
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Vince Colonnade
Yeah, so that's happening. All right. So that tells me a story, which is that the media once again is defaulting to proximity bias, which is like, if I experience it, it's real, but if I don't experience it, then I'm just gonna filter this through the lens of how does this make Trump look bad?
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Isaac
Yeah, that's a really good point because we also saw, like, Jonathan Martin and others in the press yesterday being like, I've lived in D.C. for years and my car has never gotten stolen. So it's just this, like, I don't know, superficial reflex to say, well, this is my experience, so you're right or you're wrong. When I think the much more interesting story events is the one that you told about how the D.C. police union says the numbers are being fudged and has serious allegations there's someone being investigated right now. The police union says the narrative that crime is dropped is false. Anecdotally, a lot of people feel like that's false. And D.C. is like a lot of other American cities, although perhaps worse in some of its stratification. So if you happen to live in Georgetown or Palisades or Upper Northwest, you just come into contact a lot less frequently. I mean, maybe you work downtown, but downtown is not like, I mean, a lot of the neighborhoods I've lived over the last 10 plus years, downtown is not like certain areas of Northeast D.C. it's just a complete, completely different world.
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Vince Colonnade
And that studio abc, I was, I was racking my brain like, where's ABC studio at? And I remembered, yeah, it's right near the White House. It's a couple blocks from the White House. There's a street called Desale Street. It's a little used street, but. Or a little known street, but it's right next to Connecticut Avenue. It's right next to Farragut Square. The reason I know it so well, and as you would know, Emily, our old Daily Caller offices used to be right there at the corner of 17th and L. So it was just a couple of steps away from where we were. And when I was there 15 years ago, that was not an unsafe place to be. That would, in fact, I would be perfectly happy being in front of the ABC News Washington bureau. But what she's describing is muggings and car theft and murder in northwest Washington, D.C. near the White House, which never used to be this way. And yet that crime has spread all over the city.
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Isaac
Yeah, I Mean, I used to live really. Yeah, I mean, I used to live really would be. You know, I wouldn't want it. It's a beautiful neighborhood where a lot of, like, major embassies and major corporations have their locations or their D.C. locations. And, yeah, I wouldn't want to be walking around at night. There's still serious problems over there. It was really. That area was particularly bad. Bad during COVID And I think people also aren't fully aware of why crime in some of these downtown areas is bad. And it's because there are still a lot of empty storefronts. Commuting is not back to what it used to be. And fentanyl, of course, when you combine those things, it's a perfect storm for the downtown parts of the city to get grimier. Now, it's still not northeast. It's still not Anacostia, but yeah, the stuff has come. Crept into different parts of the city, too, because there's not been a full Covid recovery. And by the way, if Joe Biden were still in office, that would be even worse right now because you wouldn't see as many people coming to work in the city.
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Vince Colonnade
The city. All right, Emily Jashinsky, I appreciate you and all of the shows you do. She's got Unheard After Party with Emily Jacinski and Breaking Points. No shortage of options and also occasionally appears on this program. Thank you, Emily. Appreciate you today.
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Isaac
You never been. Thanks, Vince.
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Vince Colonnade
All right, there she is. A lot going on. Okay, the chat is telling me that the audio is weird. Is it still weird at this moment, everyone? Justin, is it weird? Yes. Yes, weird. So what do we do? Our primary is down, so we're on the backup, and it's a little rough. It's a little rough. Is it so rough that the show is unlistenable? That's what I want to know. It's. It's not unless it's. It's annoying, but it's not unlistenable. You keep going and we have back up for. Okay. Okay. So. All right. What I'm being told is that the audio is gonna be nice and nice and crispy for the podcast today because we have backups of it. Yeah, sorry. Whatever the tech issue is, I know the guys are all digging into it to try and figure it out. Let me say this, and maybe we can revisit this tomorrow if the audio is so lousy that it's not a good idea here. But let me focus on this. We have some breaking news overnight from the President of the United States. That he has picked a replacement to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Bureau of Labor Statistics. Now, this is important. Remember, he fired the woman who ran it not long ago because what was really happening at the Bureau of Labor Statistics was every time they would release a report, they would have in subsequent months to revise it downward over and over and over. Sorry, not quite as many jobs as we claim there were. And the discrepancies were so large and the variance so big that it became really clear that the organization that was tasked with giving you an accurate picture of the labor market was not giving you an accurate picture at all. It wasn't usable. The markets make decisions, investment decisions, on the basis of our labor numbers. The Federal Reserve makes decisions about whether or not to elevate or cut the rates based on our labor market. Accuracy in labor statistics is of paramount importance to our economy. And so getting that right, you've got to nail it. The woman who was leading that agency was failing over and over and over. And so if you're leading an agency like that and you're failing to give us an accurate picture, that's sort of your one job Bureau of Labor Statistics, you've got to go. Now, the media have been framing this as Trump fired her because she didn't give him a glowing jobs report and he was mad about that. He's a dictator. No, that's not it at all. Even in the President's truth social posts about the subject, he was upset about the failure to have the data be accurate, which is what all of us deserve. If the economy hangs in the balance, the data has to be accurate. So the President announced yesterday that he is appointing somebody who you and I know very well to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Fellas, if we could pull up the truth social post from the President of the United States. Here we are, he says, I am pleased to announce that I am nominating highly respected economist Dr. E.J. antony as the next commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Our economy is booming and EJ Will ensure that the numbers released are honest and accurate. I know EJ And Tony will do an incredible job in this new role. Congratulations, E.J. justin, can we put that image up on screen? This is the truth social post from the President of the United States. And in it you can see a photo of the Resolute desk. There it is of the President of the United States alongside our friend E.J. antony. Now, E.J. to be clear, has been the longtime in house economist for me for the Vince Colonnade show and subsequently The Vince show on national radio. We've had EJ here on this Vince podcast as well. And I, on a very routine basis, turn to him for all of my economic questions. He is one of the foremost experts on the economy. He's really good, and he's very good. He has a unique talent, the ability to describe to the rest of us what's happening with the economy. E.J. is the guy. He's the guy. And with each passing month, if you followed him on X, what you would see is that his predictions about what the economic data would show were always much more accurate than so many people who've been trying to make predictions even on Wall Street. So EJ is well equipped to handle this kind of data and statistics. I should also stipulate, as I do every so often, EJ Is also related to me. The guy's my first cousin, and it just so happens he's a world class economist. So I'm related to a talented individual, no question. But EJ Gets this job, I am over the moon about it. I think it's just the best thing for the country ever. EJ does not have to take this job. He could be an immense success working for a Wall street firm. He could take his ability to project economic numbers to any number of other gigs. But instead, he's accepted the invitation of the President of the United States to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics. So I think this is great. Here's what I'm asking of you, if you don't mind giving me some support here. This is a Senate confirmed position, which means over the next few months, we have to await the slowness of the United States Senate to get EJ into this important job. And may they move with haste, because the Bureau of Labor Statistics could use him now to do this. What you're going to witness, what you've already started to witness in the last 24 hours, are there are a number of establishment and left wing people who claim to be economists, by the way, the same people who've been screwing up the entire economy to begin with, who are attacking him, who are now opening fire on him. And so as this thing plugs along anywhere you detect unfairness towards a guy who's really just loyal to the numbers. He is not. Look, he's a conservative, no question. He likes the Trump administration super pumped about how the President has been succeeding. But what you want in an economist is someone who's just gonna give you an accurate representation of the numbers. He's not gonna sugarcoat it. He'll just Be straight up with you. And this is the guy for the job. All I'm asking is that you join me in standing up for EJ throughout this process. Because just like every one of these picks for the president of the United States, the knives are out. But if we want to see the economy do well and we want an accurate representation of what's actually going on, you want E.J. antoni in that role. And so I am so pumped to have him doing that. And I appreciate whatever help you can give him as we get him over the finish line and get him into the Bureau of Labor Statistics so we can get this whole operation fixed for the future of our country. It matters a great. And yeah, by now I'm seeing some messages. EJ is fabulous. I totally agree. He's great. He's been all over media. He's one of the great communicators about the economy. My hope is that when he's running the Bureau of Labor Statistics, if he gets time, that he can still do a lot of media because he's one of the best spokesmen about what's happening in the economy and what's gonna happen next that you can possibly imagine. So, EJ Economy. Yeah. You want a real economist, not a leftist commie economist. Said vision. Lake. I totally agree with you. There you go. And then Cheeriel says, you got it, Vince. But I have Thom Tillis as a politician here in North Carolina. Yeah, for now. But he's leaving President Trump's. All to that. I love that. Hey, thanks again as always for joining me on this edition of Vince on the Big Radio show today, the Vince Show, 12 to 3 Eastern nationwide. You'll be able to watch that rumble.com vince or get it on your local radio station. That's thevintshow.com. i got the local listings all. All there. We're gonna get into a lot more of the news of the day, including the fact that a whistleblower is now turning against Adam Schiff and revealing just how freaking corrupt he has been and how loose, careless, and brazen he's been with classified information. Adam Schiff has a lot to worry about. He's got some. Ed Martin is bearing down on Adam Schiff. I would not want to be in Adam Schiff's watermelon head right now. That guy's got problems. I'm going to cover it today on the Vince Show. We've got a lot to get to. I hope you join me for that also. We're back, of course, as always with you tomorrow on another edition of Vince. Thanks for being here with Me for episode 101, the best damn Audience in Media. We'll be back tomorrow.