Pete Hegseth (15:54)

Are what we will bring to that Pentagon.

Dan Bongino (15:57)

Restore the warrior ethos in everything that we do.

Pete Hegseth (16:00)

Rebuild our military and reestablish deterrence. We don't want to fight wars. We want to deter them, as you said.

Dan Bongino (16:07)

And we want to end them responsibly. But if we need to fight them.

Pete Hegseth (16:10)

We'Re going to bring overwhelming and decisive force to close with and destroy the enemy and bring our boys home.

Dan Bongino (16:18)

We are not going to prolong wars. We are not going to prolong wars by running politically correct house. We are going to do everything we can to stay out of wars. And we should. Pete Hegseth is not what we would call an interventionist in the traditional I hate the term neocon way. Pete Hegseth, however, is not stupid and realizes The United States does have to secure sea lanes, open trade, open travel. The world requires it. And if you're going to f around with us, you are going to find out. But what Pete is saying is you're going to find out quick. Shock and awe. You're going to find out quick and it is going to be decisive. There's not going to be any more dicking around. It's not going to be more PC wars. There's going to be overwhelming force and the enemy is going to die quickly. That's it. Pete's three principles there. Secretary Hegseth. Sorry, it's going to take a little getting used to. No, I promise you. Zero disrespect intended. And it's not one of these humble brags. I know Pete. A lot of people don't be it. Secretary Hagg said it's proper. It reminds me of Fox Connors Rules of war. Fox Connors Rules of War. Very simple. And I encourage the secretary and others. They know about them. They don't need to hear from me, but digest all of them. Never go to war alone. Never go to war for long and never go to war unless we absolutely have to. You apply those to Secretary Hegset's now three principles here of lethality and how we're going to build our military and we're going to not only build up our military, but if we get involved, we are going to get involved to win and win decisively. And ladies and gentlemen, you got an unbeatable formula in the world's greatest military for to establish American dominance again. Here was President Trump on the confirmation of now Secretary Hegseth Quick 20 seconds on it. President Trump gets it. He knows he picked the right guy. And thank you again, Bongino army for getting this done. You guys and ladies are the best out there. Listen to this. Check this out. Pete.

Donald Trump (18:12)

I think Pete's going to be a great Secretary of defense. Pete Hegset and we're honored to have.

Dan Bongino (18:19)

I apologize, I couldn't hear you. Did you say you were speaking to him on the phone?

Donald Trump (18:23)

No, I. I did speak to Pete.

Dan Bongino (18:25)

Yeah.

Donald Trump (18:25)

In the plane, in the helicopter. I think Pete is going to be a great secretary of defense. Are you disappointed that McConnell voted?

Dan Bongino (18:32)

No.

Donald Trump (18:33)

I didn't even know that. No, I don't know that. I just heard that we won. Winning is what matters.

Dan Bongino (18:39)

Right? Catch up in the chat. Mitch McConnell and has and will always be a sellout trader to the US and snake in the grass. Course. McConnell voting no on now Secretary Hegseth McConnell's all about party unity until it's about McConnell and he can make a fake statement. McConnell's a fraud. He's always been a fraud. Sick of McConnell. Couple of good things he did. The filibuster fight. That's it. But it doesn't. It doesn't compensate for his attacks on people like Mike Lee, Ted Cruz and elsewhere. I'm tired of him. Murkowski, of course, a total joke. I'll keep telling, by the way, whoever is the guy on Twitter, because I follow a lot of your traffic. Guys, this is like an interactive type of show. I want to make sure you guys and I are vibing. Who said Dan Bogito said Collins is great or Collins shouldn't be primary? Some. Do you guys remember that on the show? Can you pull that segment for me? He's like, no, we can't, because that segment never happened. It's not what I said, because then a thousand people respond. I never trusted that guy. Well, that's great, because I'm not that guy. So you can trust the other guy. My take on Collins is this. Nothing to do with you had a primary or go right ahead. My take on Collins is we have enough. We have a limited amount of political capital to get things done. Wasting a lot of time on Collins in a blue state is not the best way to move the ball forward when we can spend a lot of time and effort getting rid of Murkowski and McConnell in freaking red states. That's what I'm saying. Nobody. Nobody ever said don't ever primary. Where did you hear that? On the show. If you can pull that, I'd be quite impressed because it never happened. I'm not defending Collins. She's always going to screw us over. But you're not going to do any better in Maine. You want to go up there and spend a billion dollars on a seat we're likely going to lose rather than getting rid of McConnell, Murkowski and getting real Republicans in there. That's your call. Do you not trust the plan? The plan? I told you in the last election, did it work? Everybody we had on the show, Bernie Moreno, John Tester, these guys won. Dave McCormick. Trust your boy. By the way, I got a little piece of Americana coming up for you. America is so back. You have no idea. Did you hear this thing over the weekend? Standby. I'm gonna get to that for you. Hey. Yeah. Do you know there's a victim of identity theft every three seconds what has two thumbs that had his identity stolen to this guy? They stole my American Express card number years ago and started subscribing to a bunch. I was living in Maryland at the time and they started subscribing to a bunch of real estate programs. It was a train wreck. It's Identity Theft Awareness Week. 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I don't know your name. Does anyone in the chat know his name? We usually get someone, anyone because we got 145,000 people here. So surely somebody knows this. Wait, wait, Stevie. Is that his? Is that right? I don't know if you guys know this guy. Just send them our love. That is just an amazing piece of Americana right there. Goes on. You should see it. I think I retweeted it. On my X feed. So America's back. Want to get you in the mood on Monday. We got a lot more to talk about. Not just Pete, not just what happened in Columbia, not just the Rock Em Sock em Robots Peggy Noonan article. But we're some big interviews this weekend. Vice President J.D. vance did his first vice presidential interview. Listen, I saw a couple people commenting on Twitter that friends of mine too, that he should have done a conservative outlet first. You know, this is one of those things where it pains me to say it, but I actually disagree. Why does it pain me to say it? Pain me to say this because number one, the people who are saying that I really love. But second, I feel like we should have got first interview because we really went hard for J.D. vance. But I've got to be straight with you folks. I can't get emotional about this stuff. I'm an outcomes based guy. JD Vance doesn't need to convince our audience he's the guy. He needs to convince a squishy 5,6% of the population to get behind this legislative agenda. And truth be told, he's so good at just politically destroying left wing media narratives that he's far better off on these shows. He just is. It pains me to say, I would have loved to get the first interview, but that's not the way that, you know, as Ms. Gilfeather used to say, my fifth grade teacher, the cookie crumbles. Here he is in his interview on CBS with Margaret Brennan and again, just absolutely destroying this ridiculous narrative that because immigrants partook in the creation of the United States and its wealth, which happens in every country on earth, that we have to, that we're then obligated to continue a destructive and dangerous immigration policy. These two things are non sequiturs. Margaret Bennett thinks she got it. She gets him on this one. Watch JD Just, just blow this thing out. Check this out.

Pete Hegseth (25:44)

This is a very unique country and it was founded by some immigrants and some settlers. But just because we were founded by immigrants doesn't mean that 240 years later that we have to have the dumbest immigration policy in the world.

Dan Bongino (25:56)

Thank you, JD and you know what I find fascinating about this question? This is how you're going to address this? Okay, well, that sounded very sound like a kind of a dick there. This is how you should address this with your liberal friends, if you have any left. We're a country built by immigrants. Well, no kidding. My, my, my. You know, they did take a play a role in creating this country. As JD Accurately said, there Were some settlers. There were Native Americans, There were other people here. Every country on earth has had people cross the border. And we're naturally, you know, travelers. And a lot of people are, can be very nomadic. Ok, this is nothing to do with anything. The question is what's the most effective immigration policy for the United States? But that's not, that's not the point. When they bring up the country who's built by immigrants, you know what you should say to them? You ready? Write this down. You know, it's fascinating how you guys only seem to like history when it fits your narrative. Crazy, right? Chad, Tell me I'm wrong. Every other bit of our history, positive and negative, they want to wipe out everything statues, the Civil War, even though we fought for people's independence while other people fought against it. Right? But the good side won. The good side, what? They don't, they don't care about our history at all. They want to wipe all of our history clean until it comes to a narrative that we should have open borders. They're like, oh no, no, no, the place was built by immigrants. And here's the interesting. Here's another one. Even think of this. You know, they're always talking about white rage and white privilege. You know, it's fascinating because a lot of the settlers who built this place that you call immigrants were actually people you claim to hate who had so called white privilege. Fascinating how you guys change the argument all the time. JD is right. SEC. Excuse me, Vice President Vance. 100% right. Dumbest freaking policy ever. Here's another big LOL moment. Margaret Brennan from CBS who they just. These are just stupid gotcha questions. Here's the problem with gotcha questions with Vice President Vance. He's smarter than these idiots. It's really, it's like your 12 year old playing tic tac toe with you and thinking they caught you. It's not good. It's like fetch. It's not going to happen. Here she is ridiculously trying to claim that immigrants from some of these terror prone countries are somehow vetted. As if the Taliban has like a DMV crime system where they can go into full terror databases and vet people before they come here. This is really stupid. Check this out.

Pete Hegseth (28:35)

When you talked to us in August, you said, I don't think we should abandon anybody who's been properly vetted and helped us. Do you stand by that? Well, Margaret, I don't agree that all these immigrants or all these refugees have been properly vetted. In fact, we know that there are cases of People who allegedly were properly vetted. And then we're literally planning terrorist attacks on our country. That happened during the campaign. If you may remember so clearly, not all of these foreign national, but there are 30 people in the pipeline. Afghan refugees. My primary concern as the vice president, Margaret, is to look after the American people. And now that we know that we have vetting problems with a lot of these refugee programs, we absolutely cannot unleash thousands of unvetted people into our country. These people are good. These people are vetted. Just like the guy who planned a terrorist attack in Oklahoma a few months ago. He was allegedly properly vetted, and many people in the media and the Democratic Party said that he was properly vetted. Clearly he wasn't. I don't want my children to share a neighborhood with people who are not properly vetted. And because I don't want it for my kids, I'm not going to force any other American citizens kids to do that either. No. And that was a very particular case. It wasn't clear if he was radicalized when he got here or while he was living. I don't really care, Margaret. I don't want that person in my country. And I think most Americans agree with me.

Dan Bongino (29:51)

Where is Justin? Bought me this. This is my birthday present from Justin. Here it is. You know what that is? It's a people's elbow. That's a people's elbow. Get it up in the chat. People's elbow right now. It could be. You know what this is? He got me this one. This karate man. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's both. Maybe it's the people's elbow. Then she gets up all day and karate man strikes after that. That's a. That's a. It's the greatest of all combos. It's like it's the equivalent of like a 7 monthly thing. Like it's never happened, but it could have been the first time. So much so that a rallying cry, a rallying cry for Republicans has now become today. If you've seen the. Have you guys seen the Giphys? The Giphys are out. Oh, you fixed them. Oh, look at this. They put the liberal carrot guy and the Trump face on him. This is freaking crazy. We got the rock. Oh, my gosh. We, like, really smashed up the Rockham Sock em guy. Wait, we got to keep Trump here. Trump, Rockham. Sock them here. You stay here. I wish you guys. You like this guy. Check him out. This is like people's elbow. Rock them, sock them. This. I've never seen anything like this there. Is there anyone better at this than jd? Folks, this is the. The rallying cry on X is now. I don't care. Margaret. Margaret's the new Karen. I get it there. My name's Margaret. My name's Dan. Did you ever look at like the top names of dicks? It's always Dan number. I'm sorry. I like my name, dad. But people say most people, Dan are dicks or assholes. So I get it. I totally get it. But I'm sorry. Margaret's may be the new Karen. Karen is getting a reprieve. I don't care. Margaret has become the new rallying cry for Republicans. What do we care if he was radicalized when he was here over there? He shouldn't have been here. Is that a hint? You should have said something. Weren't you were not. We're not. You know what you should have said? You should. You should have been like, how did you feel this weekend? 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I got to set that up with Guy. We're all going to share. We cut that check to Samaritan's Purse, by the way, for the baseball, for $55,000. Samaritan's Purse send us a lovely thank you letter. But it's not me. The gentleman who bought the baseball, that was their money. We're just the conduit. But if we can raise money for charity. You ever want to sign this, Mr. President, we will. I'm telling you, this thing will raise $75,000. We'll give it again to Samaritan's Purse as up to you, but no one's going to pay 75. Maybe if Justin signed it, we'll get 5. What do you think? If he doesn't sign, we'll have Justin sign. We'll see how people want him. Be a slight discount. Slight discount. Mexico is refusing to accept the US Deportation flight as Trump's immigration overhaul gets into full swing. We saw this story in the New York Post. Listen, guys, I'm just going to repeat over and over again, this is the Rackham sock and presidency, and it is also the FAFO presidency. I get it. It's sarcastic. It's kind of meant to be in some ways, you know, humorous and entertaining as part of the educational portion of the show. But I am dead serious at the premise of it, that Donald Trump is not kidding around. And if you know Donald Trump even casually the way a lot of people do, including some of the people here, he was never coming to office to mess around for four years. He was coming into office to change this country. And if you're not ready for the FO portion, he's going to make you ready real quick. Here's what I love about this combo. And when I say this combo, I'm talking about Vice President Vance and President Trump. They have these contrasting styles, and it's absolute political gold to watch. You've got, you know, J.D. who's kind of just this methodical, I really don't care, Margaret guy. And then you've got President Trump, who is the necessary bulldozer. That kind of bull in the China shop we really, really needed. And the contrast in styles is absolute gold. Having said that, though, I think the Trump bulldozer style, one of the things that's lost about President Trump. And again, I don't want to over exaggerate my relationship with him. I hate that. That drives me freaking nuts. I told the Axios guy that I know him enough to see what he's like behind the scenes. And you know Scott Adams, Dilbert, the famous comic Dilbert, he tweeted this out and man, did this ring my bell because he's so right. It's one of the Trump attributes that's frequently overlooked. And he notes that Trump's least appreciated superpower is his listening skill. Everyone who experiences it comes away impressed. He never interrupts. He's always focused and genuinely caring. I don't want to spend a ton of time on this, but it's an important point and I want to spend enough that you don't miss this. If you were ever with him alone. And that's only happened. And when I say alone, I mean there's not a thousand staffers around. I mean like you and him, because he's never really alone, Secret Service and everything. But you get my point. If you're ever with him on a one on one, which I've only been a couple times, you know, this is true. He will sit there at a dinner table with you like we did in Bedminster, and he will intently listen to everything you're saying. And he is so eager to let you know he's listening to you that he'll ask questions that I don't even know if he really wants. He just wants to make sure, you know, he's listening. I don't know if that makes sense, but like, that's the kind of guy he is. Why am I bringing this up? Because you saw it this weekend in North Carolina, in California. You don't see him and Melania go into the devastated areas of North Carolina, Hurricane Helene, right? And you don't see him making the event about him. He makes the event about other people. How can I prove it? He's got a microphone in the entire world listening. And he goes, hey, you want to come over and tell your story? He does it all the time, folks. That's who Donald Trump is. You know, his candid, frank, non emotional kind of transactional nature. The actual sympathetic side of him gets lost often. But I want to get back to the transactional bulldozer side too, because that's important. Because this government is way too broken to be fixed with niceties and cutesy time. And cutesy time is over. There are California Democrats out there who created the conditions for this devastating wildfire with a bunch of policy initiatives, whether it's on water, bureaucratic management of the water supply, the lack of burn control. It will only lead to another disaster for the United States government. And granted, by the way, California taxpayers are taxpayers, too. That's the way it goes. However, for the federal government to give federal money to a California government that is only going to create more danger for California citizens is not helping California. So Donald Trump wants California to clean up its election system so they can vote for people who will change things, but it also wants them to. He wants them to fix the water or we're going to pay them to create conditions for more fires. Here's transactional Trump. Like, you know what? We'll consider some of this disaster money, of course, but you guys are going to have to fix some of these problems first. And I say good for transactional Trump. Check this out. Funding to Los Angeles because of its sanctuary city policy.

Donald Trump (41:38)

I want to see two things in Los Angeles. Voter id so that the people have a chance to vote, and I want to see the water be released and come down into Los Angeles and throughout the state. Those are the two things. After that, I will be the greatest president that California ever has ever seen.

Dan Bongino (41:58)

I mean, look, he's got Newsom right next to him. Dan. He hates Newsom. Newsom hates him. Guys, I want to sound like an asshole, but I can't tell you this enough. Donald Trump is passionate, but he does not get emotional. You know what a passionate but overly emotional person does? I want that guy out of here. And he makes a big deal about it. You know what Donald Trump says? This guy wants money from us. He wants my ear for a few minutes, all right? He's going to listen to this press conference in front of the world and he's going to make sure he hears all this stuff. The Newsom came greeting him at the plane. That was actually before he went out there. It was a newsman, but you get the point. This is his conditions. That was before he left in North Carolina. So excuse me, but Newsom came out there. He is a totally not passionate, non emotional guy. Newsom wants to come out there and visit him unexpectedly. Whatever. Fine. Cool. Here are my conditions. Here he is again confronting a number of Democrat congressmen. Is it Brad Sherman and then the LA mayor. That's the dreadful Karen Bass. Wow. She still has a job. She should have resigned already. It's just unbelievable. She was in Ghana when this city was burning. I mean, like Nero fiddling here. Here's Donald Trump asking a question about fema. Folks, this is a real question that any transactional businessman would ask. FEMA screwed up the last four or five big disasters, okay? They could have handled this thing a lot better. There's over. It's overly bureaucratic. The money flows in all the wrong directions. Trump's asking a serious question. You're like, why is the federal government managing local emergencies? Why aren't the locals, maybe with federal support managing local emergencies? Why is the money flow. I'm not saying the locals are. I'm just saying why is the money flow top down when it should be coming from the bottom and staying at the bottom with the people who are hurting there? Listen to this. Check this out.

Donald Trump (44:00)

I'll also be signing an executive order to begin the process of fundamentally reforming and overhauling fema or maybe getting rid of fema. I think, frankly, FEMA is not good. I think when you have a problem like this, I think you want to go and whether it's a Democrat or Republican governor, you want to use your state to fix it and not waste time calling fema. And then FEMA gets here and they don't know the area, they've never been to the area, and they want to give you rules that you've never heard about. They want to bring people that aren't as good as the people you already have. And FEMA has turned out to be a disaster. And you could go back a long way. You could go back to Louisiana. You could go back to some of the things that took place in Texas. It turns out to be the state that ends up doing the work. It just complicates it. I think we're going to recommend that FEMA go away and we pay directly, we pay a percentage to the state, but the state should fix this. If the state did this from the beginning, it would have been a lot better situation. I think you guys agree with that, right?

Dan Bongino (45:03)

I mean, I'll just change one thing. We don't even need the money to go to the federal government where the government pays it to the states. Just keep the money with the states. How about we just lower the tax rates? Let the state do their. Most of them. Matter of fact, all of them have some emergency management agencies and just fortify them. There's really no reason for it. This is what a transactional president looks like. FEMA is not working. So why do we have female. Oh, my gosh, you can't say that. What is the government. We need to be. Why do you need to be involved? I want to get to something that I got a ton of questions this weekend. That's why I spent time. We're going to spend a little time on this topic. It's why I left it for last. I didn't tease at the beginning of the show, but this is an important topic. I got bombarded with media people this weekend asking me about this because of my time in the Secret Service there. Donald Trump decided this weekend and that they should pull security details from a number of people, John Bolton, Anthony Fauci. So of course, given my security background, I didn't answer anyone, of course, on this thing because I was going to handle it on my show because, you know, I'm going to be. They're going to be misquoted on it anyway. So in the case of that, I just left it. But I want you to watch this first. I'm going to explain to you what's really going on here and why this is, this is not an easy decision. But there's no good or bad here. There's only bad and worse. Okay? And the worst decision was to give people security details for the rest of their lives. Okay. Especially here. This is going to cost a lot of money. First listen to Trump on this. Check this out.

Donald Trump (46:54)

You know, they all made a lot of money. They can hire their own security, too. All the people you're talking about, they can go out, I can give them some good numbers of very good security people. They can hire their own security. They all made a lot of money. Fauci made a lot of money.

Dan Bongino (47:09)

They all did.

Donald Trump (47:10)

So if they, you know, felt that strongly, I think that certainly I would not take responsibility.

Dan Bongino (47:18)

You see, with the media narrative, they're already starting to, they're starting to seed kind of the field here to let the narrative grow and they're going to water it that if something happens, it's your fault. Notice now that the Biden aligned management of the Secret Service when they cut funds from Donald Trump and he got shot in the head and almost shot again, that that wasn't the narrative at all in the left wing media. So media people can take the double barrel, middle finger and shut up. Okay? Forget their narratives, ignore it, move on. They're going to say that no matter what, it's Donald Trump's fault. Nobody wants anything to happen. I absolutely, resolutely condemn any violence directed at people with the purest of hearts. Spent my entire life, put my safety on the line, be dramatic. But you get the point? To protect people I didn't like politically. So no one's going to lecture me on this. However, folks, there are thousands of people in the United States government that because they take these positions, understand there's going to be a security threat they're going to have to mitigate. I wish it weren't the case, but it is. The government does not have the time, the resources, the money to give perpetual security details for the rest of their lives to all of these people. I'm going to give you an example of what I mean that no one in the media will address. What's Dr. Foushee? Security threat level? The answer is I don't know. I haven't seen the threat assessments. I hope it's not high, but it may be. I don't know. I hope it isn't. But I can tell you for a fact that some assistant United States attorneys and the United States attorneys I worked with FBI agents and agents who prosecuted the mob and terrorists. Their threat levels through the roof. There is one particular guy, I'm not going to say his name, but he was involved deeply in the Gambino crime family thing. Very deeply. There were threats against his life for a long time. Let me give you another guy who had some threats against him that were relayed by a United States Attorney's office. It's in Maryland. I'm not sure if you can foil it or figure if it's. If it's on record, but it should be this guy. I worked a big fraud case, and one of the people involved in the case, they overheard him on. I don't know if it was like a prison call or if it was a recorded phone call talking about how I was trouble for them and basically they need to get rid of me, folks. It's part of the job. I wish it weren't, but, you know, sometimes. What about police officers out there who lock up neighborhood bad guys? They don't get a security detail. We cannot afford a security detail for every single person who goes into government, law enforcement or intelligence and has threats against them. We just can't. It's something you accept as part of the job, by the way, me included. I wish it weren't the case, but it is. Second, there's an opportunity cost to this. You're going to give 10, 20 U.S. marshals 10, 20 Secret Service guys, 10, 20 Capitol Police guys do an expanding portfolio of protectees, as we call them, then what happens? That's less people to protect the President, speaker and others. This is not a Freebie, folks. We don't have time, we don't have money, we don't have the ability to do this. It's, it's not an easy call. But in a world of bad and worse choices, it was the only one. They can't have security details the rest of their lives. You're going to give them all the United States attorneys to, what about Supreme Court justices forever for the rest of their lives. Everybody's gonna have a security detail. Gonna cost us 20, 30 billion dollars to secure the whole known universe of bureaucrats. Speaking of which, on the security front, I'm gonna give a little shout out to the advance team and the people on the Trump transition team who managed to pull this off. Having personal experience with doing this, what we would call otrs, off the record movements like last record lost, last minute changes to the schedule. I can't believe how they pulled this off. There's a story in the Daily Caller, Henry Rogers, good guy, good reporter out there, talks about how they basically took about three or four days to transform the inauguration from an outdoor to this indoor event in a rotunda. And how a group of young Trump staffers executed his inaugural vision. It's a good piece to read, but, ladies and gentlemen, when you're doing an advanced like the inauguration to put you behind the scenes and you're an agent working with a White House staffer or a transition team staffer, in the case of the Trump transition team, the inauguration is, I kid you not, a four to six month minimum endeavor. It is a massive enterprise, credentialing airspace, tactical mitigation, a medical plan, weather issues, motorcades, counter sniper, counter surveillance. It is an enormous plan to move that thing last minute indoors, which sounds easier with three days. Can you imagine all the access control issues and all of the credentialing that had to be changed? It is a nightmare. So pat on the back to the Secret Service guys, you know, Matt McCool, the Washington field office, and the advance guys from the detail who made that happen and the Trump advance team who made it happen. It's impressive, folks, when you do kind of an off the record movement. Nobody knows, and you switch it at the last minute. Everybody in the world knew we were changing it to inside and they still pulled it off. Anyway, a couple more stories I want to get to in the remaining few minutes I have with you. This is important. I need you all to be very careful about this Vladimir Putin clip. It's been making its way around the Internet. I would be very cautious about this. Extremely cautious. The Russians are known for playing us. They are trying to create division here, folks. I don't care if they say something that sounds like it's targeted to you and you think it comports with something you want to hear. They're playing us always. And you should disregard this stuff. But it's making its way around the Internet now. Check this out. Putin, yes. If he had been the president, if the victory wasn't stolen from him in.

Donald Trump (54:06)

2020, maybe the Ukrainian crisis that arose.

Dan Bongino (54:09)

In 2022 should have never appeared. I'm just telling you, yes, 2020 was absolutely stolen. I believe that. I mean, it's hard to prove it. Counterfactual, however, we've talked about this extensively, but there's no question this guy is using buzzwords to try to get your attention because he knows he's in trouble right now. Just be careful here and be cautious. Don't let these people play you with this nonsense, and I know you won't. All right, we got an update, folks. Throw it up on the screen. Remember our. I know the white doesn't show well on camera. Does that list. List of media hoaxes we have first, of course, Elon is a Nazi member with the. Elon came out to basically say hello and thank people. They call him a Nazi. We have an update. Throw it up on the screen, if you would, guys. Gonna do this live. Bill Malugian. Chicago public Schools falsely claim they blocked ICE officers from entering a school. The narrative took off. Turns out it wasn't ice. It was Secret Service agents investigating a threat. So number two, writing this down, Chicago ICE raids in schools. So we are a week plus into the Trump team. And ladies and gentlemen, we've got an update to the board already. This is not good. And I'm going to tell you why. Because we were going to try to keep all the hoaxes to one whiteboard, but we are only a week plus in. And Justin says you're going to have to start writing a whole lot smaller, but then you can't see it on the camera. So I. We're not erasing anything. We may have to go with multiple boards. But hoax two, and it's only been a couple of days. We will keep track. That is going to be the formal list going forward in the new studio. That's a good idea. Can we. You know what? We'll get like a whiteboard. Chalkboard. That's a good idea. I love that idea. Remember Glenn Beck used to do. That's a cool idea. I like that. Good idea, Justin. No. Studio opening soon. By the way, you guys want to come for a live show? How do you feel about that? We got a little mini golf thing on the side in case you want to challenge Justin. Justin's like Arnold Palmer, man. He's really good. Did you know that? He's like, really? I'm like, no, not really. Just made that up. Folks, download the Rumble app. We've had an amazing week. So proud of Rumble. Everything you're doing with Tether and the company, just amazing. Please download the free Rumble app. That's where you can watch my show every single day. Sometimes people go, dan, where do I find your show? Rumble, Rumble, Rumble, Rumble. Download the Rumble app or if you just want to watch on your computer, rumble.com bongino Join us for the chat with 163,000 people today at 11am Eastern Time every single day. Also, give us a follow on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. We deeply appreciate it. See you on the radio show here in a few minutes and back here live tomorrow at 11aM See you then. You just heard the Dan Bongino Show.