The Terror Threat at Home (Ep. 2468)

Summary

The Dan Bongino Show — "The Terror Threat at Home" (Ep. 2468)

Date: March 9, 2026
Host: Dan Bongino
Podcast Network: Cumulus

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Overview

This episode centers on the evolving terror threat facing the United States, both from foreign nation-states and self-radicalized domestic actors, alongside a breakdown of media bias, government leaks, intelligence community dysfunction, and attempts to fracture conservative unity. Dan Bongino, drawing on his extensive background in law enforcement and the intelligence community, delivers unapologetic analysis of breaking events, focusing on themes of media gaslighting, institutional rot, and the necessity of maintaining national security and conservative solidarity. The episode features sharp commentary, notable clips of political figures, humorous asides, and an in-depth interview with Buck Sexton on propaganda and the loss of institutional trust.

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Key Topics & Discussion Points

1. The Arizona Election Records Seizure and "Nothing Is Happening" Narrative

[04:24 – 07:07]

• Story: The FBI secretly seized election records from Arizona’s largest county as a voting probe expands, following years of unresolved claims of irregularities.
• Analysis: Bongino criticizes the mainstream media for ignoring or undercutting stories that cut against their narrative and encourages the audience to read John Solomon’s detailed report.
• On Public Corruption:

  “Public corruption was our first priority. Anyone telling you otherwise is full of shit.” — Dan Bongino [04:50]

• Faith in Institutions: Loss of faith in governmental institutions is highlighted as a contemporary crisis, exacerbated by partisanship and media disinformation.

2. Iran, National Security, & the Modern Terror Threat

[08:04 – 16:13]

• Review of recent successful U.S. military operations against Iranian capabilities.
• Media Response: Bongino and clips from Bill O’Reilly and James Carville alledge left-leaning media and commentators are rooting against U.S. interests due to their antipathy toward President Trump.
  • Quote:

    “Are the left wing media people and the liberals actually cheering on the death to America crowd that would freaking nuke us tomorrow if they had the opportunity?” — Dan Bongino [09:33]

• Breakdown of Terror Threat:
  • Nation-states (e.g., Iran, North Korea)
  • Organized terror cells (al Qaeda, ISIS)
  • Self-radicalized “lone wolves,” inspired by online propaganda—now a growing, less predictable threat.
  • Example: Recent New York incident involving a self-radicalized actor throwing a TATP explosive at protesters. [11:03]
• Strategy: Need to “cut off the head”—i.e., dismantle the Iranian regime and its propaganda/export of radicalism.

3. Media Spin and Gaslighting in Coverage of Domestic Terror

[16:58 – 18:16]

• NBC misreports an anti-MAGA attack as possible “anti-Islam rally” violence, misleadingly implying conservative protesters were responsible.
  • Mike Davis:

    “This is the most dishonest reporting we've seen in a long time. Two jihadis threw two IEDs into a crowd of anti Zoran Mamdani protesters...Yet NBC reports the bombs were found and implies they belong to the conservative protesters. Truly a new low in journalism.” [18:04]

• Ongoing criticism of how legacy media frames incidents to fit ideological narratives.

4. Intelligence Community Leaks and Undermining Presidential Policy

[20:04 – 25:18]

• Segment with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth: U.S. intelligence remains highly effective, but sabotage comes from within.
  • Pete Hegseth:

    “We have the best intelligence in the world...The President has an incredible knack at knowing how to mitigate those risks. The American people can rest assured their commander in chief is well aware...” [21:12]

• Concerns about Leaks:
  • Bongino outlines a pattern: anti-Trump leaks from intelligence officials are strategically selected to paint negative optics—for example, highlighting minor dissent from intelligence assessments.
  • This fuels public distrust and undermines ongoing operations.

5. The Role of Media and the "Show Your Ass" Theory

[36:20 – 38:05]

• Bongino discusses “show your ass theory”: In-fighting among Democrats and an ever-escalating radicalism that, he argues, alienates mainstream Americans.
  • Example: Clip of Jennifer Welch (at an awards show) with a vulgar, radical political rant.
• Purpose: The left (according to Bongino) sows division inside the conservative movement because they fail to persuade centrists.

6. "Queering the Map" & Congressional Oversight

[39:19 – 41:23]

• Brian Mast (Congressman) exposes absurd Biden-era foreign grant spending:
  • Highlights U.S. taxpayer dollars being used for questionable overseas DEI projects, e.g., “queering the map.”
    • Brian Mast:

      “How do you make a map more gay?” [40:07]

    • Dana Bash:

      “Maybe they weren't gay enough.” [40:09]

• Significant audience laughter/disbelief, underscoring Bongino’s point about out-of-touch bureaucratic priorities.

7. Real Domestic Security Threats—Radicalization and Open Borders

[43:25 – 50:53]

• Focus on Iranian threats to President Trump, as evidenced by a court conviction (Pakistani man hired by Iranian leadership for assassination plot).
• Expansion of the national security aperture:
  • Narco trafficking organizations (e.g., MS-13, Sinaloa Cartel) regarded on par with terror groups.
  • Example: Maryland MS-13 indictment covered in detail, emphasizing domestic consequences of global security failures.

8. Manufactured Delusions, Media Warfare, & Conservative Unity

[70:18 – 97:30]

Interview: Buck Sexton

• Manufactured Delusion (Buck Sexton’s new book) explores how propaganda and gaslighting deliberately drive Americans mad and fuel distrust.

  • Bongino:

    “The lie is the shibboleth.” [72:47]

  • Examples discussed:
    • Media downplays or misattributes radical Islamic attacks (New York bombing).
    • The “Biggest threat is white supremacy” narrative, excluding 9/11 and contrary to facts.
    • BLM narrative as a manufactured belief system.
  • Quote (Buck Sexton):

    “Lying is showing that you belong to the team that they want you to belong to.” [72:47]

  • Increasing atomization/isolation via media and academic echo chambers; reference to Hannah Arendt’s concept of “atomized subjects.”
  • Forced confessions, apology rituals, and shibboleths (e.g., “land acknowledgements”).

• Left’s Need for a MAGA Civil War:

  • The left pushes the myth of a conservative split/civil war due to their own failures and inability to persuade centrists.
  • In reality, polling shows overwhelming Republican unity behind Trump.

• Media Ecosystem Battle:

  • Conservatives' resilience in the face of structural disadvantages (legacy media, social media censorship, ad boycotts).
  • The transformative effect of digital platforms, especially since Elon Musk’s acquisition of X (Twitter).

9. U.S. Intelligence and Military Edge

[92:29 – 96:27]

• Discussion of the massive technological and informational edge U.S. intelligence has over adversaries.
  • Example: “Flying Ginsu knife” missile that selectively targets individuals.
  • Bongino cautions that such capabilities, in the wrong hands, could threaten civil liberties—reminding listeners why voting and vigilance are crucial.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Public corruption was our first priority. Anyone telling you otherwise is full of shit.”
  — Dan Bongino, on FBI priorities [04:50]

• “Are the left wing media people and the liberals actually cheering on the death to America crowd that would freaking nuke us tomorrow if they had the opportunity?”
  — Dan Bongino [09:33]

• “NBC reports the bombs were found and implies they belong to the conservative protesters. Truly a new low in journalism.”
  — Mike Davis [18:04]

• “We have the best intelligence in the world...so the American people can rest assured their commander in chief is well aware of who’s talking to who...”
  — Pete Hegseth [21:12]

• “How do you make a map more gay?”
  — Brian Mast (Congressman) [40:07]

• “The lie is the shibboleth.”
  — Dan Bongino [72:47]

• “Lying is showing that you belong to the team that they want you to belong to.”
  — Buck Sexton [72:47]

• James Carville Meltdown:

  “Trump, if you listen to this... I got Trump Derangement syndrome. I hate the motherfucker. And you know what? I don't want to get rid of it. I want to hate him more.” [53:05] (Left in for effect as noted by Bongino: “I feel like leaving the language in is important for effect.”)

• “If they can't turn us against each other, they just have no chance...Basically, they want this to be the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, where it’s just like, the more casualties for everyone, the better.”
  — Buck Sexton [84:50]

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Key Timestamps

• 04:24 – Breaking news: FBI seizes Arizona election records
• 05:46 – Analysis: Why does legacy media ignore election integrity stories?
• 08:04 – Successful U.S. operations against Iran; media response
• 09:33 – Bill O’Reilly and James Carville: Is the left rooting against the U.S.?
• 16:58 – Media (NBC) misrepresenting bombing in New York
• 18:36 – Three-tiered terror threat: nation-states, organized cells, lone actors
• 20:04 – Intel community leaks, sabotage of administration policy
• 21:12 – Pete Hegseth: Intelligence sharing, reassurance to public
• 39:19 – Congressman Mast on “queering the map” grant funding
• 43:25 – Update: Iranian assassination plot targeting Trump
• 49:31 – News segment: MS-13 murders in Maryland as national security
• 70:18 – Buck Sexton interview begins
• 72:47 – “The lie is the shibboleth”; societal gaslighting; manufactured delusions
• 84:50 – Unity on the right, media manipulation attempts
• 92:29 – U.S. intelligence and military technology edge
• 96:55 – Closing: Importance of technological edge—and of voting

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Style & Tone

• Direct, unfiltered, conversational—often passionate, at times humorous
• Frequent inclusion of guests’ and media clips, typically with sarcastic or critical commentary
• Blunt language, including strong political opinions and explicit language (not edited for effect)

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Takeaways

• The most significant terror threats are evolving and increasingly home-grown, compounded by hostile nation-states and advanced propaganda pipelines.
• Media narratives often mislead, minimize, or misattribute threats, fostering division and discouraging trust in institutions.
• The intelligence community’s effectiveness is undermined by internal sabotage and partisan leaking, but retains a significant edge technologically and operationally.
• Despite relentless external and internal attacks, conservative unity remains high—contrary to media narratives about a MAGA “civil war.”
• Cultural and bureaucratic priorities, as highlighted by “queering the map” and similar spending, draw sharp ridicule and concern for national focus.
• Listeners are encouraged to remain vigilant, informed, and united, as their trust in institutions and each other is viewed as a linchpin for national survival.

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For Further Listening

Featured Guest:

• Buck Sexton (Author: Manufacturing Delusion)
  • Topic: Propaganda, gaslighting, media warfare, and the loss of trust in institutions

Refer to the following timestamps for key segments:

• FBI Arizona Election Records Story: [04:24–07:07]
• Iran/National Security Deep Dive: [08:04–16:13]
• Media Gaslighting on Terror & Domestic Radicalization: [16:58–18:36; 70:18–97:30]
• “Queering the Map” Congressional Segment: [39:19–41:23]
• Buck Sexton Interview: [70:18–97:30]

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For the unapologetic, inside-baseball take on America’s political, cultural, and national security landscape, this episode exemplifies Dan Bongino’s “no-spin, all-in” approach.

Transcript

[Dan Bongino]

All America, all the time.

[Justin]

Sit down, buckle up and get ready for the Dan Bongino show. Another crazy busy news weekend. As I put together some of the show Friday afternoon in the car, headed to one of my daughter's volleyball tournaments up in Orlando. Met a lot of great supporters, by the way.

[Dan Bongino]

Love you all, appreciate the compliments, means the world to me. We had a scrap most of the show because so much stuff happened over the weekend, including a major news story you're probably not gonna hear about in the mainstream media about elections and ballots in Arizona again for the nothing is happening crowd. When things happen, they conveniently allure, ignore telling you nothing is happening in favor

[Justin]

of another thing they think isn't happening

[Dan Bongino]

that probably is happening they just don't know about. But then the cycle just wash, rinse, repeat the nothing is happening. Then it happens.

[Justin]

Nothing else is happening.

[Dan Bongino]

Then that happens too.

[Justin]

It's just a black pill doomer thing

[Dan Bongino]

meant to inspire a MAGA civil war.

[Justin]

And you should take it, crumble it

[Dan Bongino]

in a ball and throw it right in the garbage. Garbage.

[Justin]

And if you're one of the black pillars in doomers trying to start a

[Dan Bongino]

MAGA civil war, you should take the

[Justin]

same object, roll it in a bigger ball.

[Dan Bongino]

And

[Justin]

I'm just saying. I'm just saying.

[Dan Bongino]

We got that. Some updates on some items happening overseas and a very important clip by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

[Justin]

A very important clip because, folks, he's saying something here and I'm a little concerned about something.

[Dan Bongino]

There's an angle to this, not that he's saying. You'll see what I mean in a second.

[Justin]

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[Justin]

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[Justin]

Big loaded, juicy show today on a

[Dan Bongino]

Monday after a busy weekend.

[Justin]

For those of you wondering, Amelia's team did very well in the volleyball tournament. Won three games, lost one. You know, like meatloaf. Two out of three ain't bad. Three out of four ain't bad either.

[Dan Bongino]

They did pretty well. And all that matters, they played good.

[Justin]

And.

[Dan Bongino]

And I got a smile out of it. When Amelia had a great couple of volleys, she looked over, gave me the look, you know, the dad look. That's it, man. That's how you ever doubt the existence of God. You shouldn't look at the eyes of your daughter when they do something really special. Amazing. All right, enough parenting lectures for the day.

[Justin]

Just the news. Just saw this crack this morning.

[Dan Bongino]

Another thing for the black pillars who always think nothing's happening until it happens, and then you move on to the next one.

[Justin]

FBI secretly seizes election records from Arizona's largest county as the voting probe expands. Grand jury subpoena comes after the Arizona Senate raised concerns dating back to 2020 and the FBI learned of a congressional report from 2024.

[Dan Bongino]

John Solomon.

[Justin]

Just the news, folks.

[Dan Bongino]

I strongly encourage you to read the article. Look at how detailed it is. Again, I'm on the outside now. I don't claim any inside information about it on this. I'm just telling you John has a source over there indicating in his Piece. He's suggesting that this probe is expanding. Of course we're going to follow the case. I can just tell you from my time there that public corruption was our first priority. Anyone telling you otherwise is full of shit. Obviously meant to instill upon you the nothing is happening narrative. So you don't vote. That's it.

[Justin]

Period.

[Dan Bongino]

The PC portfolio was extensive. Because you have public corruption, you have no faith in institutions. End of story. It was a top priority. It was right on the home screen every single day of everyone's computer. We got in there to have this home screen was like National Puppy Day or whatever, something. I get that out of there, it's gone. We're not doing that. Folks, this is critical. Why is the left wing media not interested in this story?

[Justin]

I'm just curious if the left wing media folks, if the left wing media folks are so concerned as they pretended to be in the Bush Gore election and the Russia collusion hoax about election integrity. Left wingers in the media. You told us this. You were so concerned Russia hacked the election. Russia stole the election. You bullshitters were so fake. Concern, faux concern about what you considered a stolen election. Donald Trump stole it with the Russians. Him and Putin were smoking cigars and Playboy jackets and they stole the thing. Then why are, why are you interested in this story?

[Dan Bongino]

I don't understand.

[Justin]

Why don't you just want to look at it? If there's nothing there, that would be good. Can we all agree that would be good? Right? Correct. Nobody wants voter fraud.

[Dan Bongino]

Right?

[Justin]

If everything gets looked into and this FBI investigation and the grand jury subpoenas and all of the information portfolio that come backs indicate, indicates that fraud maybe was small but not decisive enough to change the result. Okay, great. Why are you not. Why wouldn't you want to find that out? However, If this righteous investigation turns up

[Dan Bongino]

evidence of voter fraud on a bigger scale than the left wing media now pretends to, you know, pretends to put a gloss on otherwise, then that's the story of the century, isn't it? Folks, we have to. I got Buck Sexton coming up later as a guest. A great friend of mine. We have. We talk about this election. Integrity and faith in institutions. Folks, I'm just telling you we are at a dangerous point in our country where people have faith in no institution at all anymore. And the left wingers did this. Can't go on like that, folks. The Constitution only matters if there's fidelity to it. We are in a really bad spot. And I'll tell you what, I'm not going to be a part of it. I'm going to be part of the freaking solution, man. Because we don't have anything left but anarchy. If we can't trust anyone ever, then

[Justin]

what's the point of winning elections?

[Dan Bongino]

They did this. Now you're seeing it now. Of course, with what's going on in Iran. It's just been a tremendously successful military operation barely a week old by any metric. The decapitation of death to America leadership and the mullah class, the destruction of

[Justin]

their navy, the destruction of their ballistic missile capabilities, the destruction of their nuclear pipeline, drone capacity, military facilities, their destruction of infrastructure necessary to fund their war. There is not a single measure this has not been a military success.

[Dan Bongino]

It's a week old.

[Justin]

Of course, you got the doomers out there and the left wing media already hoping and praying the Iranians don't give up. You almost see them cheering on the left wingers and the liberals in the media. You see them constantly cheering on the Iranians out there like, hey man, don't give up. Eventually oil prices will go up enough and the Trump will give up. These are our own freaking people. Our own people. You know what guys, I want to

[Dan Bongino]

go a little out of order here. I listen. You know, Bill O'Reilly and I had the best relationship. Okay, we used to, but whatever, I don't care. I'm trying not to get into like personalities unless we really need to.

[Justin]

However,

[Dan Bongino]

he had a pretty good point. I was going to bring this up later in the show, but here's Bill O'Reilly on one of his segments saying exactly this.

[Justin]

Like, this is the craziest freaking thing I've ever seen. Like, are the left wing media people and the liberals actually cheering on the death to America crowd that would freaking nuke us tomorrow if they had the opportunity?

[Dan Bongino]

Check this out.

[James Carville]

If you can believe it, there are Americans rooting against their own country in the Iranian military action situation. I am just flabbergasted. Word of the day that you can be an American citizen and hate the president so much that you root for killers to. I don't know about defeat, but to stalemate your own country.

[Justin]

I don't, I don't get it either. To the liberal media folks out there and the doomer class trying to manufacture division inside of our own tent. Do you understand the threat we're dealing with right now? The threat we're dealing with? You have nation states on one end

[Dan Bongino]

like Iran, North Korea and others that

[Justin]

if they had the opportunity to destroy us and felt like they could even mildly Preserve their regime.

[Dan Bongino]

They would do it. You then have organized terror groups, aqap, isis, you have groups in Maghreb, Sahel, you have a whole bunch of groups over there in the Middle east, in Africa, metastasizing into other countries. You have these cells that despite our

[Justin]

best efforts, have remained persistent but neutered to an extent.

[Dan Bongino]

Okay?

[Justin]

And then you have self radicalized individual

[Dan Bongino]

actors, which we saw in the incident this weekend up in New York, folks,

[Justin]

that is a co equal threat. Now the only reason I bring this up is because President Trump and his national security team understands that this third

[Dan Bongino]

threat, again nation states terror cells, although

[Justin]

sometimes interrelated, and then you have self radicalized what?

[Dan Bongino]

You know what it was.

[Justin]

Lone wolves. They're not really lone wolves, but you get the point. They go and they see propaganda material on the Internet and they go and do something freaking crazy. Like this suspect in the case up in New York throwing the TATP explosive

[Dan Bongino]

at Jake Lang's group up there in New York City, if you missed it

[Justin]

this weekend, these self radicalized actors are getting this agit prop propaganda material that drives them crazy enough to become murderers and terrorists and scumbags. They're getting it from a lot of these nations. Look at this crazy freaking lunatic. Check this out. Look at this kid. You guys see this? If you're watching an Apple and Spotify, this is actual video. This is how nuts these people. How the hell did this guy think he was gonna get away? Look at this guy. There's like 20 cops around them.

[Dan Bongino]

By the way, that one cop, man, he moved over that bike rack fast.

[Justin]

You see that?

[Dan Bongino]

Watch that guy, man. Good for him.

[Justin]

You know how freaking crazy you have to be. My point in this whole thing is that the White House national security team, the DOJ team and the DOW team in the intel community understand that if you don't cut the head off the seat of this Islamophanatic rebellion against civilization, you're going to be dealing with self radicalization forever. And the seed of it

[Dan Bongino]

is the Iranian Mueller regime. It's not the only spot, not even close. But it's the seat of it. And you know it's true.

[Justin]

That's why President Trump said, listen, regime change isn't the goal here. However, we are going to kill the death to America crowd because they have caused this problem, that problem, that problem. Regime change isn't the goal. Taking out proxy groups, the ballistic missile capabilities, the Navy, they've already stated the goals. Because there's always going to be some other lunatic to fill in at some point, then they're going to take them out, too. But they're not going to let this. Basically, the university of terrorism still continue exists to pump out professors all over

[Dan Bongino]

the world and interns.

[Justin]

They're not going to let it happen. Folks, you got to cut off the head.

[Dan Bongino]

Caroline Levitt gave a press briefer on was it Friday or so.

[Justin]

And she was talking about how it's incredible how the liberal media is joined with this group of doomers that want to stop this right now. We're only a week in. It's not going to be a forever war. It's not forever. It's a freaking week. President Trump has spoken out vocally against what they call forever wars. He ran against that. He also ran on saying, listen, I'm going to bomb the shit out of these people. His words. If they continue to threaten us with acquiring nuclear weapons and, quote, death to America. Seems pretty reasonable, no? So Caroline Levitt was asked a question

[Dan Bongino]

about the fake MAGA civil war, and I'll ask Buck Sexton about it later to be our guest later.

[Justin]

And she makes the point. I've been trying to tell you guys, that's why I opened the show with the just a news article from the nothing is happening crowd and all these other bullshitters constantly trying to shred the movement from inside the tent.

[Dan Bongino]

Folks, I'm not going to tell you X is in real life Twitter, because there are real life people on there. I'm telling you, it is not a real approximation of how people in the real world feel.

[Justin]

I'm out in the real world all the time. I've yet to have a single person

[Dan Bongino]

come up to me and talk about the stuff you think is nuclear on X At all. At all. Zero exaggeration in that.

[Justin]

It's everywhere.

[Dan Bongino]

Except it's not. Here's Caroline Levitt on exactly this.

[Caroline Levitt]

I would just remind people X is not real life. This president lives in the real world. And with respect to maga, President Trump is the leader of maga. He's the creator of the MAGA movement. And there is nothing more America first than taking out terrorists who have maimed and killed our own servicemen and women who chant death to America and who pose a threat to the homeland. And so President Trump is a leader of the peace through strength foreign policy doctrine. He attempted peace through diplomacy exhaustively and extensively with the rogue Iranian regime. And so they have been struck with the strength and the sheer might and will of the United States armed forces. And President Trump has proven he's a man of his word, folks.

[Dan Bongino]

We have to cut off the head of this snake or else you're going to have essentially the Harvard, Princeton University of terrorism over with the Iranian Mueller

[Justin]

regime again, pumping out professors, interns and students left and right. You take the head of the snake off and eventually the body's going to die. I'm sorry. Like liberal media folks and others they're trying to co opt into their movement are missing this grand strategy because it's right in front of your freaking face. The self radicalization lone wolf problem is huge. You've got to cut off the pipeline of agitation propaganda material. And of course the media is more than happy to play into this. Do you see this tweet this weekend by NBC about the incident I just showed you in New York? The guy with the bombs lighting up the bombs and throwing them at the Jake Lang protest.

[Dan Bongino]

If you missed it, NBC, multiple arrests made after, quote, suspicious devices found outside Gracie Mansion, home of Mayor Mamdani during an anti Islam rally and counter protest.

[Justin]

Which is fascinating because this got community

[Dan Bongino]

noted into the freaking phantom zone.

[Justin]

Because you read this tweet by NBC, you read this tweet by NBC and you're under the impression that, that somehow that like this was not an act of like Islamophanaticism. They're like the bombs were thrown at anti Muslim protesters, not by the anti Muslim protesters as this post and story would lead you to believe. Witnesses say the attackers shouted Allahu Akbar as they threw the bombs at the protesters. Kind of an interesting freaking way to put in there. Are you people or are you not freaking journalists?

[Dan Bongino]

I think we all, I think we all know the answer to that. Here's the great Mike Davis. Mike Davis, this is the most dishonest reporting we've seen in a long time. Two jihadis through two IEDs into a

[Justin]

crowd of anti Zoran Mamdani protesters on video. Yet NBC reports the bombs were found and implies they belong to the conservative protesters. Truly a new low in journalism.

[Dan Bongino]

That's. I love Mike. Mike, I love you, but I don't even know. There's no basement for these people anymore. Folks, you've got to cut off the head. I want you to. This is an important takeaway to this segment. I opened up the show with

[Buck Sexton]

we

[Dan Bongino]

have nation state problems. North Korea, Iran, obviously China, Russia. The portfolio is large of nation states that hate the United States. That second bucket you have organized terror cells, Al Qaeda, aqap, isis. You know, you've heard the groups before. I wish we hadn't, but we do. That third bucket I've said repeatedly in the news cycle on Fox and on this show. It's that third bucket that worries me.

[Justin]

The self radicalized actors don't leave the

[Dan Bongino]

footprints nation states and terror groups do. Once you create a network that is a terror cell, you have to have comms, you have to have finances, you have to have weapons trafficking, you have to have technology, you have to have comms technology. You have to have some way to teach these people how to do what they want to do.

[Justin]

Every one of those things, you understand me, leaves a footprint behind, a big ass footprint that is really, really hard for them. With the technology we have these days, the administration, the FBI and elsewhere in D O W it's hard for them to hide the lone actors.

[Dan Bongino]

It's not. It's easier for them to hide their path. That's why you have to cut off the university system.

[Justin]

The central, the central like brain trust. The Trump administration isn't stupid,

[Dan Bongino]

folks. I saw this clip this weekend where Secretary of War Pete Hegseth addressed this on 60 Minutes. He addresses a number of different things, how nation states work together against the interests of the United States. But he also addresses something on intelligence and the gathering of intelligence and I'm not sure the general public and Buck's coming up later. Buck was worked with the CIA, nypd, counterterror as well. I'm not sure general public understands just how effective when the intel communities get away from weaponization and bullshit. What President Trump has made a focus along with Ratcliffe and Cash and others.

[Justin]

I'm not sure people understand how powerful

[Dan Bongino]

the intel gathering capabilities of dia, CIA, NSA and others are. Check out this segment with with Secretary Hegseth on 60 Minutes. And I want to address another component of this that's starting to really worry me. I've addressed it before but there's a big take. Check this out.

[Justin]

CBS News has three sources telling us that Russia is providing intelligence to Iran on US Positions and movements. The average American might hear that and think that's a big and dangerous deal.

[Dan Bongino]

Is it?

[Pete Hegseth]

Well, we're tracking everything. Our commanders are aware of everything. We have the best intelligence in the world. We're aware of who's talking to who, why they're talking to him, how accurate that information might be, how we factor that into our battle plans. Our CENTCOM commander so we know what's going on. And the President has an incredible knack at knowing how to mitigate those risks. And so the American people can rest assured their commander in chief is well aware of who's talking to who and anything that shouldn't be happening, whether it's in public or back channeled, is being confronted and confronted strongly.

[Justin]

The American people can therefore expect conversations

[Pete Hegseth]

with the Russians to stop this. Well, President Trump, as people have seen, has a unique relationship with a lot of world leaders where he can get things done that other presidents, certainly Joe Biden never could have. And through direct conversations or indirect, through him one to one or through his cabinet messages definitely can be delivered.

[Justin]

I totally forgot this. TH9922 in the chat, 61 minutes. Remember there was 61 minutes. They deleted a minute episode with President Trump.

[Dan Bongino]

61 minutes.

[Justin]

I totally forgot that.

[Dan Bongino]

See, you're gone a year, look what happens. Thank you. TH9922, 61 minutes, of course, putting out there a bunch of information about how there was a leak saying that the Russians were helping the Iranians.

[Justin]

Folks, you see where I'm going to

[Dan Bongino]

go with this segment. Who the is leaking this stuff?

[Justin]

Do you happen to notice a pattern

[Dan Bongino]

over the last week, five, seven days where all of the information that's leaking.

[Justin]

This is a game the insider anti

[Dan Bongino]

Trump community has engaged in forever. I told you, it is not easy

[Justin]

to weed out who's part of Team

[Dan Bongino]

Trump and who's part of.

[Justin]

I shouldn't even say who's part of like team US Government and who's part of like team fake whistleblower leaked to the media and sabotage U.S. efforts. They don't advertise themselves. Who in the intel community is leaking this stuff? There was another leak.

[Dan Bongino]

Well, the US Isn't necessarily confident they're going to be able to take down the regime.

[Justin]

Number one, he's never said regime change is the goal. The regime did change and he is going to decapitate a lot of that leadership that's chanting death to America. But I don't think the president's under any illusions like you're going to get some like Ronald Reagan type figure over in Iran. And in this other leak, the Russians are helping him to. All of this stuff is meant to gaslight you in the public that somehow we're losing seven days in. They do this shit all the time. I'm going to tell you something too. Whatever's being leaked to.

[Dan Bongino]

Was that Major Garrett in that 61 Minutes interview?

[Justin]

I can almost guarantee you whatever's being leaked. Let's say there's a 17 page intel report, 16 pages, listen to me here, extol the virtues of the combat operation

[Dan Bongino]

so far and how well they've done. Right.

[Justin]

And then on the last page it Says there's always like a caveat or

[Dan Bongino]

a counterpoint, whatever, maybe a minority viewpoint.

[Justin]

And they'll say, hey, listen, you know, there's a possibility that the regime stays in charge and all this other stuff. What the leakers always do is they leaked a minority viewpoint if it is one. And then they make it out like it's the majority of the intel community does it. And Major Garrett's never going to see the report, folks. They do this shit all the time. I saw it on the inside. You read about something in the newspaper and I, I would pop open at the brief every morning, the intel brief. I pop open the brief and take a look at it. And then you're reading what's in the Washington Post and you're like, that doesn't say any of that shit.

[Dan Bongino]

Folks, be very cautious of this stuff. You've got people inside there who are not there for the right reasons and they picking them out, some of them are like ticks. I'm not going to bullshit you. It's not.

[Justin]

They don't advertise. That's why you see the use of polygraphs and other material.

[Dan Bongino]

It is not.

[Justin]

Given this expansive intel bureaucracy, you still

[Dan Bongino]

got stuff like this going on.

[Justin]

I'm going to take a quick break and I want to get to two

[Dan Bongino]

critical things right now.

[Justin]

Two critical things we are succeeding at. I wanna show you again some show your ass theory stuff.

[Dan Bongino]

How the left, I mean, my gosh,

[Justin]

between James Carville, this Jennifer Welch, at this point, they're just outright cheering for the other side.

[Dan Bongino]

As you heard Bill O'Reilly say earlier in that clip.

[Justin]

At this point, just say like you'd rather the Iranian mullahs reconstitute themselves, build a nuclear weapon and freaking bomb us. Like, just say it. At this point we would hate you, but we'd at least respect your bullshit. Honesty.

[Dan Bongino]

Freaking frustrating. Two critical things I want to address coming up next, financing drone capacity. Really important quick. And we're going to get to that.

[Justin]

Hey, this last year your eyes may

[Dan Bongino]

have been open to a lot of things, but there was one thing that many found particularly disturbing and that's a lot of the infighting going on. I bring this up all the time.

[Justin]

We all agree on freedom of speech,

[Dan Bongino]

the right to life, the second amendment, and supporting the military and our first responders. Well, there's one company that's been fighting for our rights. They supported this program and a lot of other conservative programs too, from the

[Justin]

very, very beginning, and that's Patriot Mobile. Unlike other mobile providers, Patriot Mobile works on all three major networks, I needed them this weekend. Thankfully they came through. The cell service was terrible. Switched over to Patriot Mobile.

[Dan Bongino]

Work great.

[Justin]

In fact, you could be on multiple networks on the same phone. That's why this is so important. Again, more importantly, Patriot Mobile's customers enjoy

[Dan Bongino]

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[Justin]

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[Dan Bongino]

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[Justin]

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[Dan Bongino]

month of service with the offer code. Dan Patriot Mobile has been fighting for things we believe in for over a decade. Let's thank them by making the switch today. It's a great company, great service too. Patriotmobile.com Dan that's patriot mobile.com Dan thank you patriot mobile. We appreciate it. So two critical things we're succeeding at and we absolutely must destroy outside of obviously the death to America Muellers and their nuclear mullahs and their nuclear capabilities.

[Justin]

One, their financing pipeline. No money, no power, no war machine. A war machine needs power. Power requires money. You don't have money. You don't have power. You don't have power. You don't have a war machine. You don't have a war machine. You don't have a war machine without power. You don't have power without money.

[Dan Bongino]

Get to that in a second.

[Justin]

And second their drone building capacity.

[Dan Bongino]

Folks, I've addressed this ad nauseam. I know you're probably tired of it. Some of the FBI guys, after a year when I drove them crazy about drones every single day I was like drones, drones, drones.

[Justin]

But here's President Trump.

[Dan Bongino]

This is a clip on cnn. It's actually. Was it Dana Bash or something? She had a conversation with President Trump

[Justin]

and President Trump brings up something to her critical. You cannot fund a war without funds. And one of the epicenters of this funding has been some Middle Eastern countries who have been hesitant to dry it up. Well, this is the good news you're not going to hear about. The only reason you hear about is on CNN is because they got an interview with him and they had to say what he said.

[Dan Bongino]

Check this out.

[Dana Bash]

Also asked about the Gulf countries being hit. He said they're doing unbelievable and they're fighting. They made it. They meaning Iran made a terrible mistake when they attack them. The UAE is freezing the assets and they have the assets, all of them and they got hit enough where they were going to freeze them. They're brave people.

[Justin]

Again, you wouldn't hear this on CNN if they didn't get a direct interview with President Trump and they didn't have to report on exactly what he said.

[Dan Bongino]

This is important, Moy.

[Justin]

Important day.

[Dan Bongino]

You got to dry up the money supply. It's another piece of good news that finally some of these Middle Eastern countries are starting to see that there is no future in allowing the Iranians to conduct illicit, sometimes, sometimes overt, sometimes covert financial activity in your country.

[Justin]

Critical

[Dan Bongino]

second, you got to destroy their drone capacity. You know why? The threat from the skies is very unique. It's also cheap, folks. We have a whole bunch. Look at this. This. Did you see? I pulled a bunch of voiceover material for you see this? This was the Iranians.

[Justin]

Look, we've got this ship out in the sea and it launches a bunch of drones and we're going to go and screw with you guys and kill people and murder people with our drones. Look at that. They advertised it. Look how great this is. Elevated off ramp. Boom. There goes one of the drones. And there.

[Dan Bongino]

Oh, what is that?

[Justin]

Oh, that's the drone.

[Dan Bongino]

Okay, that's the drone. Thank you, Justin. Of course, that's the drone ship. And now unclassified D O W video. The drone ship being destroyed. Okay, did you see this other video? They have now figured out a really excellent use of the Apache helicopters. I believe this is UAE footage here. Taking out drones in the sky, obviously with. With rounds instead of what appears to be, you know, expensive, you know, Patriot thaad type missiles which cost a whole lot of money.

[Justin]

So listen, whatever we can do. The drone threat is very real.

[Dan Bongino]

But there you go. You can blow them out of the sky.

[Justin]

Just take them out of the sky

[Dan Bongino]

and take them out of the sky as cheap as we can. I don't know if you saw this

[Justin]

video again this weekend.

[Dan Bongino]

Trying to pull a variety different video to show you where we stand, but also drone defense for fixed objects like buildings, which you obviously can't move. They're not a moving target. They are a ripe target for drone attacks. Here is one of our diplomatic facilities in Saudi activating a C RAM system. You, I want you to listen to this. You'll see the machine gun fire from.

[James Carville]

Wow.

[Dan Bongino]

Not sure drones are now. I mean, obviously it's going to have a problem against. You got to, you know, replenish the magazine against drone swarms, but against kind of isolated attacks. I wouldn't want to be on the other side of that. So the technology is developing. Yeah. Check this out again. Wait, listen to the sound of this. If you're listening on Apple, that's a lot of rounds getting sent downrange right there. And then look at the technology advantage, too. The Israelis, the IDF and the US Military have. Look at this video that we see of their Iron Dome system. Just absolutely destroying a lot of these threats, these incoming threats. Folks, the technology advantage we have is just light years ahead. I'm telling you, when I came back into government, I was stunned at how far the technology had leapt ahead of when I left. And even the technology and the protection and physical security space, it is light years ahead of where it was when I left back in 2011. Not perfect, obviously, however, light years ahead.

[Justin]

Folks, if I were the Cuban regime,

[Dan Bongino]

I would be very concerned right now. You've seen protests in Cuba as well. President Trump is. He's folks, he's not screwing around. The finding out portion of The President TRUMP 47 presidency is here. Here's quickly, part two, just a brief sound bite of him. Dana Bash, she covers what President Trump told her about the Cuban regime.

[Justin]

I don't think he's looking at.

[Dan Bongino]

Again, I say this with. I'm just what I've seen open source. I don't think he's looking at military action anytime soon.

[Justin]

However, there's going to be increased pressure for them to get their shit together,

[Dan Bongino]

as they'd say down south right quick.

[Justin]

Don't listen to me.

[Dan Bongino]

Listen to what he told cnn. Check this out.

[Dana Bash]

He quickly turned to Cuba. He said, without being asked, cuba is going to fall pretty soon, by the way. But Cuba is going to fall. They want to make a deal so badly. And I asked how? So he said, they want to make a deal. So I'm going to put Marco over there and we'll see how that works. But we're really focused on this one now, meaning Iran. We've got plenty of time on Cuba.

[Justin]

That's like job number 20 for Secretary of State Rubio. Rubio's resume, has there ever been a resume like this?

[Dan Bongino]

You know, it's.

[Justin]

You read Rubio's resume, you'd be like in sequence.

[Dan Bongino]

That's impressive.

[Justin]

Imagine, like in one term you were secretary of State, Another term, national security adviser. Another term you were like envoy to Cuba. This is all the same term. This guy's resume. Can you imagine, like the daily updates this guy has to do, Right? He must have like a resume builder

[Dan Bongino]

at home where he's constantly got to have someone change his resume. Folks, listen, obviously, on a very serious note here, it's been a week before we judge the entire combat book and what this is going to look like. The operation In Iran. Let's let some of it play out. You want to judge the beginning, that's up to you. It's a free country. You don't like it, fine. Fair enough. There's a lot of disagreement in the tent. However, I need you to understand that the left wing media is ceding this and fertilizing this field of hatred inside our tent and trying to force a split in the MAGA movement because they don't feel like they have anything else.

[Justin]

Everything they've tried against Trump, impeachment, civil

[Dan Bongino]

trials, criminal trials, arrests, taking out surrogates, breaking law, attorney client privilege, everything they've tried against him has failed. They're now starting to realize if they do not fracture this movement from the inside, they will have no shot.

[Justin]

That is hilarious.

[Dan Bongino]

Again, if you're listening on Apple and Spotify, you gotta tune in 39 minutes in. There you go. Marco Rubio. That's the famous, of course, meme of Rubio on the couch in the Oval wearing various costumes, now in his Cuba, now taking over Cuba as well. Marco Rubio. Many different jobs. Folks. The left is fracturing too right now.

[Justin]

They have gone, you know, my show your ass theory.

[Dan Bongino]

The Democrats show their asses theory that

[Justin]

they, in order to express

[Dan Bongino]

kind of like a code word, like a shibboleth, that you're part of the left wing movement. You're like, Chad's going crazy.

[Justin]

That you have to express an increasing amount of radicalism to one up your

[Dan Bongino]

lefty anti friend buddies. You know, Trump's a racist. No, Trump's a super racist. No, he's a Ku Klux Klan member.

[Justin]

He's a grand wizard of the Ku. It's to show your. Each time they show their ass even more and you see who they are. This appeals to a limited group of lunatics. However, the left can't get out of the death spiral they're in. Just like this massive death spiral of crazy. And I think that's what's alienating them from the kind of even center left of America where there's an opportunity for

[Dan Bongino]

us to change politics forever.

[Justin]

I don't know who they think this

[Dan Bongino]

stuff appeals to, but this happened at one of these Hollywood awards shows.

[Justin]

Do you know this woman, Jennifer Welch? I don't, I don't know who she is.

[Dan Bongino]

I, I've seen her name. Like, does she have a podcast?

[Justin]

I have no idea who she is.

[Dan Bongino]

I'm not trying to be like a, you know, Mariah Carey Giphy with JLo. I don't know her. I just don't know.

[Justin]

However, here is another one of these freaking left wing lunatic rants you want to talk about showing your ass. They love this stuff. However, this is why they know this doesn't appeal to down the middle Americans. So this is why they have to fracture us from the inside. Because this kind of shit just isn't working.

[Dan Bongino]

Check this out.

[Dana Bash]

I want to say something with my full chest. Never obey in advance.

[Dan Bongino]

Fuck ice.

[Dana Bash]

Fuck Donald Trump.

[Buck Sexton]

Free Palestine and save trans kids.

[Justin]

So F Donald Trump. F ice Free Palestine and free trans kids. Or do you understand like mainstream voting Americans I run into all the time. This shit is crazy to them.

[Dan Bongino]

You know that right? Before we. What do you, what do you. What's going on?

[Justin]

This next clip,

[Dan Bongino]

this is the Dan Bongino Dan's favorite clip of the day. For all the wrong reasons, by the way. I swear to you, this next clip we thought was fake.

[Justin]

I mean, even after doing our intake

[Dan Bongino]

homework because we have to process video and go through specific things and make sure it's real.

[Justin]

You know, you don't want to get burned.

[Dan Bongino]

Once in a while something slips through and you got to correct it later. It happens. In the media business, we try to make it rare. We did all the checks, right, Justin and Justin's like, I still can't believe this clip is real. I that's where I was going with this. I would show you my, but I'm afraid his number is going to creep up.

[Justin]

This next clip is so bananas that I actually had to text the congressman.

[Dan Bongino]

He's my congressman who asked this question

[Justin]

and he's like, no, this is absolutely real. This is Congressman Brian Mast from Florida.

[Dan Bongino]

He's actually my congressman.

[Justin]

He's up at a Capitol Hill hearing and he's doing a expose of like foreign NGOs and Biden era money that went to support crazy shit overseas. You know what?

[Dan Bongino]

This clip speaks for itself. Play the clip and tell me how this appeals to mainstream America. Quote, queering maps overseas with your tax dollars. Check this out.

[Brian Mast]

Queering the map.

[Dana Bash]

So I think we were trying to make the maps more gay.

[Brian Mast]

Literally.

[Dana Bash]

Well, I.

[Brian Mast]

How do you make a map more gay?

[Dana Bash]

I mean especially.

[Justin]

Or gay at all.

[Dana Bash]

You know, since the age of cartography, we've had pretty good maps, but maybe they weren't gay enough.

[Alexis McAdams]

So.

[Dana Bash]

I know also I took Critical Theory in college. I think sometimes people use queer as a verb. I do understand that the maps that we were trying to make gay were, I think of Czechia and Slovakia. So maybe those countries asked for it. I, I doubt it. But I don't know.

[Brian Mast]

We do have real things to work on in Congress, like what's going on with the imminent threat of Iran. And it is embarrassing that we have to talk about the fact that things like this were funded non binary and trans Francophones Linguistic Attitudes and Ideologies towards Inclusive French in Montreal, Canada. These things. I'm going to give you a list. My time has expired. I'm going to give you a list of these and any of these that you can provide me the receipt for the Facebook link to where they wanted to take photos of how they were doing a DEIA flash mob in Kyrgyzstan. Whatever documentation they have of all of these things, we would love to see that and would absolutely love to know the individuals specifically that were busy writing these grants because they have no business receiving another paycheck from the people of the United States of America.

[Justin]

What the hell is querying the map gay? Maps? How do you make maps gay? I don't even know. I'm not shitting you. I had to text the Congressman this morning. Is this real?

[Dan Bongino]

Hold on. I'm not going to shake it.

[Justin]

Congressman, is that make the maps gay clip real? Yes, it's real. Secretary Rogers was explaining how one of our grants from the Biden administration, of which we have hundreds, was about queering the map. And he sent me even more crazy stuff. How do you make mobs gay? How do maps get gay? There's your. There's a screenshot of Justin's phone asking Grok, yes, the video is real, folks. I'm not kidding. Folks in the chat, please help. How do you make a freaking map gay? We have real problems in the world. We've got the threat of Iranian, North Korean, China, Russia, cyber infiltration into the United States grid. You got a death to America crowd, constantly trying to build nuclear weapons not for show. You got the North Koreans with nuclear weapons. You've got a war in Ukraine. You've always got hostilities going on. And the African continent got hostilities going on in Europe. You got a war against free speech in some portions of even Western Europe. And we're talking about freaking gay maps. How do you make a map gay? None of this shit appeals to freaking normal people. It only appeals to lunatics.

[Dan Bongino]

It's not funny.

[Justin]

I can.

[Dan Bongino]

We invited the congressman on the show to talk about money given to cartographers to make maps gay. Enough on that one. Now you see why it's my favorite clip. For all the wrong reasons of the day. Folks, we're dealing with serious stuff, despite

[Justin]

what you've been told.

[Dan Bongino]

By some people in the ecosystem out there. The threat to President Trump's life from the Iranians was very real. Very real. We just had a guy up in New York, Merchant, convicted in a case I'm intimately familiar with. We worked it the entire time I was there.

[Justin]

I don't care what anyone's telling you about what they think the threat is, unless they've been in on intel briefings and know something you and I don't know. The threat from Iranian actors against President Trump's life, the seat of the executive branch, the President of the United States, is very real. We've now got a court conviction on this exact incident. I want to play two clips from this. First, the first one on the Iranian leadership's role, there's no question about that. In the plot to try to take out President Trump.

[Dan Bongino]

Check this out.

[Alexis McAdams]

The federal trial of a Pakistani man. Prosecutors accuse him of plotting to assassinate American political leaders, including President Trump. He says Iran was behind it all. Alexis McAdams is outside the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse in New York City. Interesting case that really not a lot of viewers knew about when it happened in 2024 because President Trump was out on the campaign trail and there was so much going on and so many other threats. But that's when police say a thief. Merchant, came here from Pakistan because he says Iranian leadership told him to said, hunt down President Trump, hire a couple of guys that can take him out at a political rally. So take a look here on your screen. This is is who we're talking about. He's sitting there inside of that Brooklyn Federal Courthouse right now as those closing arguments are underway. 47 years old, he's facing federal terrorism charges and could spend the rest of his life behind bars. Merchant testified Harris in his own federal trial, and he explained this. Making this drawing again that he said Iranian leaders gave him back in 2024. Really doesn't look like there's much to it. It looks like, you know, like a kid drew it or something. But that's the sketch of a rally site. Merchant was arrested just one day before Trump was shot in Butler, Pennsylvania.

[Justin]

You don't need to play the other one. But he's now been convicted, so there's no need to talk in legal terms. There's a presumption of innocence in the

[Dan Bongino]

United States, of course, and there should be. It's the right thing to do.

[Justin]

He's now convicted, so there's no reason for that anymore. He's not alleged.

[Dan Bongino]

He's not the suspect.

[Justin]

He's the convicted person involved in An I noticed the end was that Alexis McAdams, the Iranian leadership folks, we're dealing with really serious shit right here. This is not a joke. You know, I mentioned on Friday, and it's really important how this president sees national security totally different. I don't care what anyone else is telling you. If you haven't been in the room talking to him about how he views the whole national security umbrella, he sees it totally differently than people have in

[Dan Bongino]

the past, Republicans and Democrats. What do I mean? Okay, put meat on the boat. It's easy for you to say that, right?

[Justin]

What are you talking about?

[Dan Bongino]

This is my experience with him.

[Justin]

The president looks at national security from

[Dan Bongino]

the lens of a wider aperture.

[Justin]

Like, yes, terror groups in the Maghreb, in terror groups in the Middle east,

[Dan Bongino]

the Muslim Brotherhood and others.

[Justin]

Yes. These are obviously very, very serious problems.

[Dan Bongino]

Why do you got a split screen up with Alexis Mozan? Oh, okay. Oh, look at you. Very nice, Justin.

[Justin]

Taking some initiative, the President says in this wider aperture, if you have a

[Dan Bongino]

bunch of narco trafficking groups, the Sinaloa Cartel, cjng, and these other groups that are killing hundreds of thousands of Americans,

[Justin]

you know, whether it's through murder or fentanyl trafficking or others, how is that not national security, too? And the old school establishment national security

[Dan Bongino]

folks are probably like, ah, that's a. What are you talking about?

[Justin]

That's more the law enforcement space. Is it? Is it? Of course there's a law enforcement significant connection, but if we can't trust that the region of our southern border is not an effective border to keep foreigners out of the country who want to kill hundreds of thousands of Americans just like terrorists do, that is maybe. Maybe through different means, then how is that not national security, too? So one of the things he did early on is he expanded the foreign terror organization, whom he referred to as

[Dan Bongino]

fto, to narco groups as well. He engaged with the Department of War in ways we haven't seen in the southern border.

[Justin]

These are things that had not been done before to this degree. You had things like Golden Dome to protect the United States from the ballistic missile threat. But a lot of the technology being built through Golden Dome is going to filter down for security for the Thanksgiving Day parade in New York City against drones. He sees it differently, and this is why.

[Dan Bongino]

This is a really disturbing clip. I know the show is always an emotional rollercoaster. It always has been. But I want you to watch this clip. I spend a good chunk of my adult life in Maryland. I lived in Severna Park. It's where the podcast started in a basement in Severna Park. So when I see stories like this, they really bother me. Tell me how this isn't national security. This is a local news report from Maryland about some suspected Ms. 13 gang members and what they did to. Is it a 14 year old boy chopped them up with machetes? President Trump sees this stuff in the national security picture as as big a threat as organized terror groups for the effect it has on the psyche of the collective American people. And he's right. Check this out.

[Alexis McAdams]

Ms. Thirteen gang members have been indicted on several charges in connection with the death of a D.C. teen. Now Prince George's County State's Attorney Tara Jackson says they've identified three men in a 17 year old in connection to Jefferson Amaya Ayala's murder in College park in November. Jefferson went missing last August. The suspects are charged with first degree murder.

[Dan Bongino]

How is that not a big national security problem?

[Justin]

Organized international fto, foreign terror organizations, because

[Dan Bongino]

that's what they are,

[Justin]

chopping up teenagers

[Dan Bongino]

in the United States with machetes. I explained to you last week something critical when you're analyzing the threat of terror cells in the United States. Cuz I've seen a lot of the reporting on it. There's graphs out there that show an increased number of encounters with terror connected subjects at our southern border. A lot of that is narco trafficking folks. It's not what you would associate traditional old school establishment terror orgs, you know, Islamophanatics with.

[Justin]

It doesn't make it any less dangerous. Remember the goal of narco traffickers if

[Dan Bongino]

you get in their way and the

[Justin]

goal of terrorists is the same thing you dying.

[Dan Bongino]

Folks.

[Justin]

This of course a safer America with the lowest crime rates we've seen in your lifetime, the lowest homicide rate I

[Dan Bongino]

think we're ever going to see.

[Justin]

The crushing of open air drug markets, the destruction of FTOs Maduro, now the destruction of the Iranian death to America Mueller regime. This drives the left crazy. I played the Bill O'Reilly clip earlier. He's absolutely right. It's like the left is cheering on the freaking enemies of the United States. It's like they love this stuff. I've never seen anything like it. You would think like James Carville, you

[Dan Bongino]

got this clip ready to go.

[Justin]

James, James Carville, the Ragin Cajun. Carville was a Bill Clinton political adviser.

[Dan Bongino]

Obviously he's a Democrat. Some of you know him, some of you don't.

[Justin]

The only reason I play this guy's

[Dan Bongino]

clips once in a while is that

[Justin]

this guy in the past by Democrat standards. Let me be clear folks, in the

[Dan Bongino]

chat, before you start flaming me here,

[Justin]

by Democrat standards, where you're dealing with that Jennifer Welch lady trans kid has been one to tell the Democrats a cut the trans stuff. He's kind of been like the least insane. That's all gone. This guy had a meltdown of epic proportions.

[Dan Bongino]

Not going to caught on video. He did this on purpose.

[Justin]

And this is why I'm telling you, like Donald Trump's successes in the space, foreign affairs against crime, the economy, it drives them bananas. To the point now that even their self declared moderates have given up, they're now all in with the freaking lunatic class. It's why we have to be careful of letting the lunatic class infect people in our own tent and suck them into this vortex is stupid too. Folks, this is a serious language alert.

[Dan Bongino]

If you have kids, not me, it's Carville. But I feel like leaving the language in. You guys didn't edit it right for that. I feel like leaving the language in is important for effect. Check this out, you fat fuck.

[James Carville]

Trump, if you listen to this, you listen good. Because what I'm getting ready to say is what a lot of people in this country speak for who I speak for. And I speak for a lot of people. You hear me, you fat asshole? This is what we believe you write, I got Trump Derangement syndrome. I hate the motherfucker. And you know what? I don't want to get rid of it. I don't want to get better, I want to get worse. I want to hate him more. I pray to God in heaven, God reign the righteous reign of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

[Dan Bongino]

Me.

[James Carville]

Pray for me, Lord. I'm your vessel on this earth. Pray for the people that listen to this. We want more. We want to hate the son of a bitch so much that we can't see straight.

[Justin]

I'm sorry. I'm sorry about the ido. I don't know. I don't know what to tell you. You see why the left needs this is, am I Jasmine?

[Dan Bongino]

Am I making a point with MAGA Civil war? Am I making poor Jasmine?

[Justin]

You come in the studio, it's open season. Sorry, sorry. Makeup. Ladies and gentlemen, open season. You are part of the show. Do you see why they need the MAGA civil war now?

[Dan Bongino]

This shot's going absolutely well. He's gone. He's a KJP 137. He's an ass bag. I thought that said gas bag. It said ass bag. Same. I agree, folks, they've gone Freaking nuts. The MAGA civil war. Listen to me, the fake MAGA civil war is all they have. If they cannot cause the destruction from inside the tent, they've just given up from outside. Carville's given up any sense of sanity.

[Justin]

Listen to you. Literally foaming at the mouth. Foam. Right, right. Justin said, you know we hate the

[Dan Bongino]

word literally cuz it's so overused. Like literally.

[Justin]

Foaming is foam. The guy's foaming at the mouth like a rabid animal declawing the scratching at the face.

[Dan Bongino]

Listen, I'm not gonna call out the guy, be a fraud, call out the guy's language. I've been known to, whatever, but holy Moses, man, control yourself.

[Justin]

Did you see the seething going on?

[Dan Bongino]

Folks, I'm going to tell you something. Here's another thing that's driving Carville and these other ass bags. As KJP says in the kjp, I get you there said in the chat. Now it's not just Trump's early successes in the first year and again we're

[Justin]

only a week in. Of course there's going to be a

[Dan Bongino]

short term spike in speculation in the oil markets as the Straits open up and we decimate their Navy. Long term you're going to have now

[Justin]

more stable oil prices.

[Dan Bongino]

That's the irony of this whole thing.

[Justin]

It's not me putting a shine on it. It's freaking true. We took out their whole Navy. The hell are they going to shut the straight down with foul language?

[Dan Bongino]

You like that? Justin's laughing.

[Justin]

Did you see this this weekend?

[Dan Bongino]

So this video emerged this weekend. This is, folks, I saw this on the inside. One of the first, I don't know, kind of problems I had. So I'm there very early in my tenure and there were a lot of people who came up to us, Cash and I. And you would give us like an elbow and say thank you for being here. We've been waiting for this.

[Justin]

But there were a lot of old

[Dan Bongino]

school folks we got rid of who just did not want to change that the way the FBI was working. So one morning I called and all hands at like 7:30 on a Thursday or Friday. I remember it was the end of the week because nobody was particularly excited about being there

[Justin]

and it was about

[Dan Bongino]

an incident where I didn't feel like it was given proper attention and I

[Justin]

had to make a point to the

[Dan Bongino]

leadership team there that a lot of swamp rats and deep staters don't get

[Justin]

that this is not your FBI. It's not mine either and it's not Cash's. It's not ours. It belongs to taxpayers in a republic who fund it for their benefit. This operates like everything else in a republic by consent of the governed, that is the freaking taxpayers and the citizens. You don't own it. I used to give the analogy all the time. It's like being the center fielder for the Yankees. When you're there and you're the star center fielder, whether Mickey Mantle or Bernie Williams. For years when I was a kid, you may feel like, wow, this is all about me. Everybody's cheering me on. It's not about you. They're going to get another center fielder and you don't own the Yankees. Eventually they're going to move on. It's great you were part of the Yankees, but you don't own the freaking Yankees. This video was out of the US Institute for Peace.

[Dan Bongino]

So Doge, the Department of Government Efficiency, the Elon operation which we dealt with at the FBI was very helpful by the way, weeding out a lot of ways. Goes to the US Institute for Peace. And they're like, hey, listen, we're here to take a look at everything, try to clean up the efficiency stuff.

[Justin]

I want you to listen. These people call the police in. They want these people thrown out. There's a clip about 30 seconds in.

[Dan Bongino]

We're going to pause it. Where you'll see.

[Justin]

You would never believe how these deep staters see this as theirs. They don't see it as yours. They think it's like a private company. Listen to a little bit in the

[Dan Bongino]

beginning and then I'll stop it and I'm going to play for you the absolute money shot. Check this out.

[Buck Sexton]

Hey, sir, how are you doing?

[Pete Hegseth]

Hello.

[Buck Sexton]

Yes. I don't know if that's a. I recognize these guys.

[Dan Bongino]

Yeah.

[Buck Sexton]

You know them? Yeah. Okay.

[James Carville]

How, how did this come to be? How did we happen to have people in the building?

[Justin]

How does this come to be? It's called a election. That's how it came to be. It's an election. This is a Republic. Capital are Mr. US Institute for Peace guy. Taxpayer funded. Did you miss it? It's called a government by the people, for the people that operates by consent of the governed. And we did not consent to some of the stuff that are happening. Therefore we elected a different president who sent some of his lieutenants in there to take a look about what's going on. How does this come to be? You didn't hear a doze? Did you miss that? By the way, this is older video, just, just surfaced recently.

[Dan Bongino]

Here's the absolute Money shot, though.

[Justin]

One of the guys they're talking to

[Dan Bongino]

in the US Institute for Peace, apparently

[Justin]

he's like, I'm not really sure we recognize Donald Trump as the president. Hold on, I'm gonna play it as a full screen so you can hear

[Dan Bongino]

it and then we'll let the rest of it play. Check this out.

[James Carville]

How, how did this come to be? How did we happen to have people in the building?

[Dan Bongino]

He's the president of the institute, so he has the right to be in the building.

[James Carville]

Well, that's, that's yet to be determined.

[Dan Bongino]

You don't recognize that he's the president? Absolutely not.

[James Carville]

Did he just come to be. How did we happen to have people in the building?

[Justin]

Did he just say, wait, the institute?

[Dan Bongino]

So he has the right to be in the building?

[James Carville]

Well, that's, that's yet to be determined.

[Justin]

That's yet to be determined, folks. I play this as a larpod.

[Dan Bongino]

That sound down there's a little bit.

[Justin]

I play this as a larger example

[Dan Bongino]

of I'm telling you something, cash.

[Justin]

And I saw directly there are people entrenched in the government you pay for. It's your freaking money. Who will swear to you up and down that like they're in charge. Not the executive branch leadership, the president, his cabinet, they will swear to you up and down.

[Dan Bongino]

This does not belong to you, man.

[Justin]

I don't know what part of that

[Dan Bongino]

these deep staters aren't getting.

[Justin]

Now let me tie it back to

[Dan Bongino]

the beginning of the show. Like a big circle here,

[Justin]

folks.

[Dan Bongino]

There are people in the USC United States intelligence community. There are a number of different entities there. You have geospatial intel, nsa, CIA, FBI, dia. You know, the portfolio of intelligence, you know, military branches have their own intel gathering operations. There is a ton of intelligence gathering that happens throughout the government. There are people in the US Intelligence community. I promise there is a massive effort to uproot it all. So don't take this to wrong way.

[Justin]

Massive to get rid of people who

[Dan Bongino]

are not there to protect and defend the Constitution, but to protect and defend the political ideology.

[Justin]

And a lot of the work has been done.

[Dan Bongino]

We've had about 10% of the workforce turned over in the FBI. It's a lot of people.

[Justin]

But I'm not going to bullshit you here and be like, oh, problem solved, everything's fixed. That's not what I'm here for. I didn't, you know, leave hoping, you know, we walk back into the podcast city and people be waving palm fronds as I.

[Dan Bongino]

We come in on a You know, on a ceremonial horse or being carried in.

[Justin]

That's not the way this works. I've told you all the time, there's no heroes in government.

[Dan Bongino]

There's just work that gets done or doesn't. There are people inside.

[Justin]

That's the US Institute for Peace.

[Dan Bongino]

That's just one example.

[Justin]

Any government agency can do damage to

[Dan Bongino]

NGOs and others, but when you're in

[Justin]

the intelligence community and you're not there

[Dan Bongino]

to give the President intelligence to act on, but to protect your left wing partisan benefactors, we got a problem. And I'm telling you, there's a lot of this stuff still going on. These ticks are going to have to be pulled out of the skin of the United States government and it's going to take a while to do it because they don't advertise. And these left wing reporters are more than happy to feed their bullshit into the system. We do have some good news too. So, other good stuff going on. You know, I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. I got Buck Sexton coming up in a second. Just a quick note. Our good friend Senator Mike Lee from Utah put this tweet out last week

[Justin]

introducing the National Constitutional Carry act in the U.S. senate.

[Dan Bongino]

You do have the right to keep him bare arms, Senator Lee. You're right. Stay strapped. I would love to see that passed. Of course we've got the filibuster problem. Another reason I think we should scrap this thing or institute a talking filibuster. They're going to do it anyway.

[Justin]

Can you imagine what it would be

[Dan Bongino]

like to finally be able, finally be

[Justin]

able to recognize your God given big R right to carry your firearm and

[Dan Bongino]

protect yourself throughout the country without a

[Justin]

patchwork of local laws designed to put

[Dan Bongino]

you in jail and trip you up? We need this so bad.

[Justin]

You see what they're doing now?

[Dan Bongino]

Some of these liberal states are making the default mechanism that it's illegal to

[Justin]

bring firearms onto private property unless the owner says otherwise. That way they can arrest you if you walk anywhere you're allowed to carry your firearm without baby basically into your

[Dan Bongino]

driveway and that's it. We gotta stop this, folks. Thank you to Senator Lee for doing that. Oh, you do?

[Justin]

This is a bad old kitty in the chat about gay maps.

[Dan Bongino]

Apparently queering the map means making it more rainbow, like colorful. Colorful and noting LGBTQ I, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, friendly locations. You just can't make this crap up.

[Justin]

No, no you cannot.

[Dan Bongino]

And your money was going there for that stuff.

[Justin]

Desert X Rider.

[Dan Bongino]

All straights are not that that's clever. All straights are now gay. The gay of Hormuz.

[Justin]

That and a monthly at the end, desert X Rider.

[Dan Bongino]

You get chat, post comment of the day. Get a little stamp for that. Fellas, well done. That's freaking creative. BP sniper. Dan, why do you wear a watch now?

[Justin]

I don't know.

[Dan Bongino]

I haven't done questions for Dan a long.

[Justin]

I love watches.

[Dan Bongino]

I just used to forget all the time. And now ever since I moved, I got this little watch holder, and it's right near my wallet, so I don't forget. I love. I'm a watch guy. It's the only thing I. The only thing I like is watches. I don't. I don't get enjoyment out of, like, material. A lot of material stuff. As you can tell. I wear like, T shirts and regular old jeans. I don't even wear, like, super expensive stuff. So I like watch. I'm watch guy.

[Justin]

I don't know.

[Dan Bongino]

I've always been a watch guy. Although. Quick, before I get to the break, sorry, I don't. If anyone out there. My watch was stolen, my Breitling watch, from my house in a burglary over 10. Well over 10 years ago. 15 years ago, when I lived in Severna park, someone broke in my house at night when I was home. They broke in, they stole my Secret Service Breitling Colt GMT blue face. And on the front it had a Secret Service star, and it said presidential Protective Division. Listen, Breitling's. This is actually. I like Breitling good watch. It's not super high end, but I like them. That watch was special. It was only one of like 500 ever made. I'm asking.

[Justin]

I'm serious, man.

[Dan Bongino]

I'm not messing with you guys. If you guys ever see that watch, it's a Colt GMT dark blue face. If you ever see it and it's like on the market anywhere, send me the link right away. We have an email on the. On the. On the website. I don't even care. I'll buy it. I don't even want to know who stole it anymore. I really. Well, we know who stole it. The guy did some jail time, but it's got hocked and it's been gone ever since. But it was my prized possession and it got stolen. Incredible. All right, I'm gonna take a quick break, and then I got my good friend Buck Sexton coming up. He hosts one of the most popular radio shows in the country. Has a new book out about gaslighting.

[Justin]

Liberal bullshit.

[Dan Bongino]

Gaslighting and the dangers of it, called manufactured delusion. Also has a good body of experience in the intel community. We have a great conversation. You're not gonna wanna miss this. Oh, you like the shirt?

[Justin]

All America, all the time 7 Nicole Wallace with the romantic music in the background.

[Dan Bongino]

We need a smoking jacket for that one. Thank you, Nicole. I thought it was a 10, however, but whatever. Nicole. Downgrading a little bit. You want to pick it up? You can pick them up on the website. You know, we put some shirts out there. People like that kind of stuff. So this is my new one. I really like it too, folks.

[Justin]

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[Dan Bongino]

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[Justin]

He's also the author of a new book.

[Dan Bongino]

It's already a bestseller. I was looking it up this morning called Manufacturing Delusion. It's all about a topic we love

[Justin]

on the Dan Bongino show, how the left uses propaganda and indoctrination to bullshit

[Dan Bongino]

the hell out of you, my friend, Buck Sexton. Buck, welcome to the show.

[Buck Sexton]

Hey, Dan, thanks so much for having me on.

[Dan Bongino]

So what a perfect time for this book, Manufacturing Delusion. One of the things I really enjoy, for all the wrong reasons, talking about on the show, I know you and Clay address it all the time as well, is the left's love affair with gaslighting. You know, lying, lying, often lying confidently. That's important. And then isolating people from the truth. Buck, you wrote this book, but we

[Justin]

saw it again this weekend.

[Dan Bongino]

Very timely with this suspect up in New York in this bombing case throwing this TATP explosive at this Jake Lang protest.

[Justin]

And then NBC News.

[Dan Bongino]

I addressed it earlier in the show.

[Justin]

You playing the word game, euphemism game,

[Dan Bongino]

to almost seemingly imply like the motive wasn't there. I get really worried about this stuff with the media not painting a clear picture of where the threat is coming from. This Islamo radical threat, self radicalization. It's a really big deal.

[Buck Sexton]

We used to see this all the time in intel division at the nypd, Dan, as you know, that the media would try to seize upon things in the initial moments or the first hour or two when a story would break to mislead people intentionally about who the likely perpetrator was or what was really going on. And I wrote Manufacturing Delusion and it took me quite a while. I mean, I actually wrote it and researched it and did everything myself. And it took quite a bit of time. But, but even when I first pitched this to my publishers two years ago, I said, look, people are going nuts, but they're, they're being made to go nuts, right? I mean, this is something you talk about on your show like there's, there's effort in this. It's not just like people all of a sudden believe things that are extremely obviously untrue because they've become suddenly detached from reality. There are actually tactics, there's a playbook. And in Manufacturing Delusion, I lay this out, you're talking about gaslighting. It's not just that they lie to you, Dan. It's that adherence. And this is one of the, this is dealt with in the chapter on menticide or killing of the mind. Again, all the chapters are all broken down by tactics. Lying is Showing that you belong to the team that they want you to belong to. In some cases, right? It's like, if you're willing to lie, this comes up in the context not just of terrorism, but of the transgender stuff. You have to show that you're willing to lie to be on the team that they want you to be on. Right. This is. This is almost like the secret handshake, if you will. You're going to say things that are absurd, Right? I mean, this is when they go out there and they're like, the biggest. The biggest terrorist threat. You've seen this a million times. The biggest terrorist threat in this country is like, you know, white nationalist Republicans.

[Dan Bongino]

Right?

[Buck Sexton]

And if you exclude 9 11. 9 11, you're like, this is insane. You people are nuts. That's what the book is about. Yeah.

[Dan Bongino]

You know, I love that you mentioned that. That the lie is the shibboleth. Like, I don't know what a woman is. Like, that's a lie. Like, you're not stupid, Kentanji. Well, I don't know.

[Justin]

Well, however, relative to the population, she knows exactly what a woman is. The lie from the Biden team. And Christopher Wray failed FBI director before the administration changed over to Patel. You know, the biggest threat in the country is.

[Dan Bongino]

Is white supremacist groups.

[Justin]

Listen, Buck, you and I both know that's a serious thing. Any racially motivated violence is serious. The biggest threat in the country. Are you serious? Like, the lie is the shibboleth. And I think the portion of your

[Dan Bongino]

book that the audience would find the most interesting is the fact that this

[Justin]

manufactured delusion that is the title, can't happen, though, without the isolation portion. Like, they bubble themselves in.

[Dan Bongino]

And.

[Justin]

And although the mandarins on the left know it's a lie, the suckers underneath them fall for it. And they really do believe there's like 760 genders and that a bunch of Ku Klux Klan members are on every corner in every community because they never see the truth.

[Buck Sexton]

Hannah Arendt, you know, the author of the Origins of Totalitarianism, writing all about, you know, the Nazis, the rise of totalitarian regimes. She describes what you're talking about as atomized subjects. Because one of the things that comes up I talk about for the first time, Dan, in the book. I talk about CI deployments to Nigeria, which I had never spoken. They had to clear that one. I didn't know that I was. It was long ago enough now. But I was looking into Boko Haram, the origins of Boko Haram. Little 23, 4 year old buck, believe it or not, was running around Nigeria with the secret police, looking at Boko Haram before that was even called that. But then I get into Iraq and Afghanistan and deployments there. And in the, in the isolation chapter, there's a chapter on this because obviously it's an important theme. It's something you talk about too, about how you make people crazy. I said, look, you can be physically isolated, right? I mean, if you're in some little village, you know, an hour's drive from Kandahar, it's easier because you don't have access to the Internet or television or even radio or whatever. It's easier for people to indoctrinate you. But Hannah Arendt talks about atomized subjects. And these are people who are psychologically isolated. So you could be around people all day, all the time. And of course this is also in the context of self radicalized jihadists in this country. Like the wackadoos that just threw the IED outside of the mayor's office or, you know, the mayor's mansion, whatever. In New York, mayor's mansion, you can be somebody who's physically in close proximity to other people. But you feel, ideologically speaking, you think that you are completely separate from that society. You think you are isolated and have no contact to it and therefore are much more subject to the tactics of mind manipulation and like I said, atomized subjects. I mean, there's a whole framework for this going back now 100 years since, since Aaron came up with it. So that's one of the pathways and one of the tactics I talk about. But it's the same thing, Dan, with, remember, like when I was again pitching the topic of the book manufacturing delusion, which I hope your enormous audience of people who actually care about knowing cool stuff. And there's a lot of history in the book and everything else. I know your people, they like history, they like to know tactics. Manufacturing delusion is well, well worth the read because they'll just get all this from it. I was pitching and I said, how is it that people who think they're well informed really believe. Just look at the BLM thing. That was a manufactured delusion. How is it that people think that cops. And you were a cop, Dan, that cops are shooting like 10,000 unarmed black men a year for no reason?

[Justin]

Buck, there's a chart.

[Dan Bongino]

Talk about a manufactured delusion.

[Justin]

It was like they asked a bunch of liberal Democrats how many unarmed black men were shot by police. The number was like some ridiculous, like 15,000. And it was like. It was like a hundred or something, but. And even of those, it were only 11. That there were even, you know, it was just so ridiculous. But that's why, like the title of your book, I find it so fascinating.

[Dan Bongino]

I didn't mean to interrupt you. I rarely do that. But you just nailed the point on that.

[Justin]

And I'm thinking of it in terms of how at least my experience over the last. You and I both worked in the

[Dan Bongino]

intel space for the government.

[Justin]

And you know, when I worked for

[Dan Bongino]

the Secret Service, the government always gonna have problems. It's government. I mean, the bureaucracy's endless. We get it.

[Justin]

But people still had faith in institutions.

[Dan Bongino]

I mean, back in 1999, 2000, 2005, up until the weaponized government basically tried to take down Donald Trump twice.

[Justin]

To say you were with the FBI, carried some cache to say you were with the CIA.

[Dan Bongino]

People generally were like, wow, thanks for your service.

[Justin]

The military still has that. Thankfully, you know, upper level Pentagon leadership took a beating under the Biden administration and Obama because they were kind of bureaucratized. But the lack of faith in institutions

[Dan Bongino]

through these manufactured delusions, as you call them, Buck is really had some deeply consequential

[Justin]

problems. It's creating some consequential problems for the United States. Nobody trusts anything coming out of the government anymore. And the left did this, not us.

[Buck Sexton]

Well, absolutely. And you know, you mentioned this when I. The CIA. I went to the CIA. I'm like you, I'm a New Yorker. And I could have done what all my peers did, which was, you know, I was in College when 9, 11 happened. And. And a lot of.

[Brian Mast]

A lot.

[Buck Sexton]

When I say peers, I mean classmates, right? Not people my age. A lot of guys obviously signed up and served right away, but a lot of my classmates in school were like, hey, I'm gonna go to Goldman Sachs. And I was like, no, I'm gonna go to the CIA. Because I thought that that was the best way that I could help.

[Justin]

Help.

[Buck Sexton]

I had no military service in my family, so I didn't really have any connection to it. But I figured I'm studying. I was already studying Arabic before 9 11. I was already in a Middle Eastern studies focus. So it seemed like an easy transition to just to. To all of a sudden get recruited into the Agency. And everyone knew when I was at the Agency and certainly for a few years after, like I was. I was in the. Basically the bin Laden hunting unit. I was in ctc. Like, this is why we're there. And really was why people there. Dan, that has been destroyed. Now people say, they're like, I can't trust you. You're in the C. You were in the CIA. I was like, first of all, I haven't been in, in like 15 years. Second of all, I joined when everybody was like, can we please find all these guys and, and kill them before they can blow up, you know, 10 planes over the Pacific. I mean, you look at some of these plots that they actually had that were disrupted anyway. You know this, I know this, your audience knows this. But I do think it just bears repeating that we ask people to go do this stuff. Thankfully, there's still the respect deserved, earned and deserved by our military. But on the intel side, from a lot of these bureaucracies, people have this idea like, I wasn't James Comey's personal assistant at the FBI when he was trying to frame Trump. I was with you on the outside saying that, by the way, that was a manufacturer. Russia, Russia collusion is a massive manufactured delusion. I get into it a little bit in the book, but I probably should have gotten into it even more. More. That is a perfect example. Something like 30% of Democrats into Trump's term, maybe two years into his term, thought that Russia actually hacked voting machines. Right? I mean, this is, this is something that there was never any evidence for whatsoever, but it was just something that was pushed into that ecosystem by people who wanted to create a hysteria. And that's the thing. I mean, again, you can, there's, I, I get into some references to, to Alinsky and, and some of the sort of street, you know, the street Communists, to borrow from our friend Jesse Kelly, street communist tactics of just get people fired up, get them angry and get them believing nonsense and you can then use them as tools for whatever you want. And I think that's at the heart of the Democrat party today. The lie is the point and this is why the gaslighting is the point. This is not some secondary thing. Because otherwise you can't get people to become so upset over saying that like men can't play in women's sports or that Black Lives Matter is built on lies or you know, you go, or Russia collusion or Donald, I mean, you know, all the stuff with, with Donald Trump is, is covering up for a global cabal of evil pedos. I mean, there's a lot of stuff out there that people say and you're like, there's just no evidence for this. Oh, but it is helpful for the people who are trying to kick at the load bearing walls of our civilization. It is helpful for people who want to tear everything down to get people so aggravated and agitated that they can be pushed on this stuff. So that's a lot of the things. But another thing I get into the book, I might add, Dan, is we see a little less this now, but forced confession and just the role of, you know, the apology tour that we used to have, not we, but conservatives or people on the right. You would say the smallest thing. You would say something that you're like,

[Justin]

I don't even know.

[Buck Sexton]

And then it was, you know, you have to go and you have to apologize. Or if you're. And I'm not just talking about a media, if you work in some corporation. This is straight out of the Maoist culture revolution playbook. They got put all these people up on stage back in China in the 50s and they were beating them with sticks and everything and they were having to confess because that shows that you're broken and they want people to seem broken to people around them.

[Dan Bongino]

Buck like land acknowledgments like that.

[Justin]

Like it's so farcical and right. I just thought, as you said, everyone get up on this land prior where

[Dan Bongino]

the, you know, the, the Seminole Indians are.

[Justin]

Okay, well give it back then. I'm just, I'm not. No one's stopping you from giving it back. Like give it back. And they don't want to do it. They're just so full of shit. But you're right, it's like this ritual shibboleth. We're all like, like nodding their heads like a bunch of stupid robots while simultaneously doing jack shit about any of it.

[Dan Bongino]

It's like, it's, it's incredible. On the topic of, you know, manufactured delusions as well, you know, they tell you in the business, you and I have been here a long time, never talk about what you were talking about before the show.

[Justin]

But I do it all before the show.

[Dan Bongino]

You and I were chatting, we're old friends and I was talking about the almost comical MAGA civil war. Like this is objective, a left wing narrative. It's completely fabricated. I'm an evidence based guy, so are you. The polling numbers indicate upwards of 90% of Republicans are with the President. His approval rating is tracking above prior presidents at this stage of the presidency.

[Justin]

Is there disagreement?

[Dan Bongino]

Of course there's disagreement.

[Justin]

I'm actually glad we're not a group

[Dan Bongino]

of stupid liberal robots that automatically nod our heads the in approval.

[Justin]

But a MAGA civil war, this is

[Dan Bongino]

like the latest manufactured delusion on the left.

[Justin]

There's no such thing. The numbers don't bear that out.

[Buck Sexton]

Oh, it's, it's absolutely the case that this is a weapon being used because our opponents are, unfortunately, they've had so many manufactured delusions that they can't even keep it all straight. And they don't know what to do because they're now dragging around things. I mean, the trans issue is a perfect example, but there are others as well. Their policies on crime are insane.

[Justin]

Lock up criminals. Lock up criminals. And guess what?

[Buck Sexton]

You have fewer people. You have fewer old ladies being bludgeoned in the streets by maniacs who have been arrested 100 times. I know. You know, you tell your people this day in and day out, so do I, of course, right this, that you have to be insane not to see these things. But that's the point. They've been pushed into this. It's, it's. The insanity is a construct. The insanity is a tool. And on, on the, the MAGA Civil war. I mean, look, I mean, I feel things. I always tell my radio audience, don't ever expect me to hit my friends because I won't do it. Because for me it's just a point of honor. Like I, if someone's on the right and they're fighting for the country, we're trying to achieve the same things. And I'm not going to go out like a, and, and take shots at them so I can get a few clicks or whatever. That's, that's part one and then part two of it. I would say it's actually kind of a testament to how much, you know, when we came up in this business, I mean, you and I have been doing this for roughly the same amount of time now, which, damn we're getting. It's been like 15, 15 ish years.

[Dan Bongino]

Started right around the same time.

[Buck Sexton]

Yeah, right around the same time. So, you know, when you look at the beginnings of this, we had all of social media against us, all of legacy media against us, all these people, all the, you know, CNN was like a serious organization with a lot of money that people gave a lot of. You know, I know we like. You like laugh now when you say this out loud, right? But, but back then these things had, you know, on then and Brian Williams was American, America's newsman. The whole thing, we had to become really adept and we had to become fighters. And I mean this, you know, you and me and Shapiro and, and, and, and, and Walsh and, you know, and go down the list like I can't name everybody right now, but you know, you go down the list of everybody on the right who was. Was, you know, obviously all your colleagues, all your friends at Fox, they had to actually get good at this and be capable of making arguments and be the left. They've just been kind of like fed grapes and carried around on. On, you know, on a litter and. And told how brilliant they are and go from one overpaid nonsense position to another. And basically, if they can't turn us against each other, they just have no chance. Like, I talk about this Clay all the time. Who are they even going to have? Who are they going to have that you would even want to debate on the left that's even worth your time right now? I don't even think that person really in. In media exists. So what they want are people with big audiences and a lot of ability to just, you know, they want this to be the Iran Iraq war of the 1980s, where it's just like the more casualties for everyone, the better. So I think falling into that trap is insane, and I refuse to do it. The good news is that if the commies win back, even just the House, as you know, in this midterm, which may very well happen, everyone's going to get a reality check on the right again of, oh, these people are insane and they want to destroy the country. Country. So that means that we'll have to actually focus again and not be turning on each other, which I just think is. Is nonsense.

[Dan Bongino]

Yeah. You know, I agree with some exceptions, there are some people out there who are. Are not maga. Are not. Forget maga. They're not even Republican or conservative. I don't. I don't know what they ran on in the past. I just know now, like, you're just totally full of, like, what you're doing now is. And I just have to call it what it is because I. That's different. And that I see, is just divisive inside and meant to destroy us from the inside.

[Justin]

But, you know, you brought up something

[Dan Bongino]

interesting because you're right. Like, you and I have known each other since, gosh, early 2000. I mean, it's been a really, really long time.

[Buck Sexton]

Probably well over 2012. Yeah.

[Dan Bongino]

I mean, I was up in New York doing a Blaze show with you, Gosh, well over, I think, 15 years ago or something.

[Justin]

But I don't bring that up to

[Dan Bongino]

age us both, although it may do it by default.

[Justin]

I do it because I don't think

[Dan Bongino]

a lot of the younger folks who have been gracious with their time and listen to your show and my show and Ben and others, I don't think

[Justin]

a lot of them understand all the

[Dan Bongino]

structural advantages for the left airport viewing. I'm not joking. Airports have cnn, that's just what, it's

[Justin]

a joke and we laugh.

[Dan Bongino]

But no airport in America outside of FBOS have Fox on. I mean the citations in Stupedia and

[Justin]

all these other places, the whole ecosystem of NBC, abc, CBS and their millions of nighttime viewers, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Trib, all the media centers around the world were driven by leftists or left leaning pseudo centrists. And Buck, we still, and I say we, I mean all of us, I'm

[Dan Bongino]

not just talking about me and Buck. All the names he mentioned, Matt and

[Justin]

Ben and Levin and Sean and Beck who managed to stay, and Rush, I mean the godfather of all of our shows, we still wound up, I don't want to say winning, but we've stayed competitive if not edged ahead of them in the digital game. And they hate us for it.

[Buck Sexton]

Oh, absolutely. I go back to that time period and I just think about the advantages that they had felt totally insurmountable. And if you look at this from an information warfare, I mean propaganda is one the of the chapters in manufacturing delusion. If you look at this from an information warfare perspective and we were outgunned just by sheer volume in a way that in retrospect was just, it was unbelievable. I mean, you know, you think about the advantages, the built in advantages and I think in some ways it really actually peaked during COVID because then we saw, oh, if they can, they will just shut us down. It's not really that they want to be able to dominate us by sheer volume, by the platforms that they have, if they have their druthers, they want to be in a place where they can straight up silence. Because as you know, if you don't exist on the Internet and you don't have some massive legacy platform that you can call upon, I mean, you're not a part of the conversation. You just can't get your message out enough. So there's been such a transformation, I believe personally that, that Elon Musk buying X is one of the most important things to have happened in the last decade, maybe one of the most important things that happened in the 21st century. And I don't say, yeah, I think what Elon's doing on a, in a business sense is incredible in a whole range of ways. But I think that that broke the, the, the lockdown that they really had on information distribution and, and now once that cat's out of the bag, like, they, they've just got problems that they can't even begin to fix. And so I, I, I go back to the beginnings of it. I think about what it was like trying to do media then. And you know, we, we were like weirdos, right? I mean, we, the right, we, people on the right were treated always in that media ecosystem like there was something kind of wrong with us. And it's funny because we represented, I think Roger Aile said this, but we represented this little constituency of half the country.

[James Carville]

So.

[Dan Bongino]

Yes, he did, he did say that.

[Buck Sexton]

Yeah. Yeah. So I, I think we've evened out quite a bit in the firepower. But what I said is really true. It's like all the campus conservatives that I know too, like all the college conservatives, anytime you see some college conservative and they're like open about their beliefs, you're like, wow, that kid's only like 19, 20 years old. You know, he or she is so eloquent and dialed in on the facts and able to make a case. And then you find some leftist with like blue hair. It's just like some banshee shouting communist slogans and like, you know, spittle flying out of their mouth. And it's like, but this is what happens when one side is putting in the work and the other is just being, you know, being sort of patted and cosseted and passed along. And that's the same exact situation we had in the media. None of these people at like cnn and now CNN is obviously a shell of what it used to be. I think Trump broke cnn, which is amazing. I mean, if you had told me

[Dan Bongino]

they've never been 2016, you know, they

[Buck Sexton]

never, I think, you know, and you

[Justin]

know, I didn't even think about that, though.

[Dan Bongino]

You, you had brought up before. I was talking about how they had these structural advantage built. Last question for you after this, but I had totally forgotten about when I was asking you the question about the fake fact checking, the boycotting, the Google Ads boycotts, the YouTube banning, all of that.

[Justin]

And it's like, hey, man, we're still here.

[Dan Bongino]

Reminds me of that scene in Rocky 2 when he's asking Duke why he shouldn't take the second fight against Rocky, and he's like, I saw, I saw you beat that man down.

[Justin]

And he just kept coming, he goes, we don't need that in our life. That is the entire conservative content creation space. They just never gave up.

[Dan Bongino]

And now it's the golden years.

[Justin]

But in the last few minutes, I

[Dan Bongino]

have with you, we're talking to Buck Sexton, author of the best selling new book pick it up today, wherever you get your books. Manufacturing delusion. There it is on the screen. We got the fancy graphic. He's got a hard copy right there.

[Justin]

Buck, you were in the intel space for a while.

[Dan Bongino]

Just got out of it myself. Hegseth, Secretary of War doing an amazing job. Good friend of both of ours, Just a great guy.

[Justin]

You know, he brought up this weekend,

[Dan Bongino]

he was asked in 60 Minutes on the 60 Minutes interview about the intel advantage, basically for the United States. He was asked in a different format, kind of a hit question, but he answered correctly, you know, without getting into too many details. Think, you know, this is public. Listen, warfare is always going to be obviously tautologically dangerous. That's just a fact. No matter how great your technology or advantage, brave people have to go and wage war and put their lives at risk. However, the United States technology base and our ability to gather intelligence on foreign adversaries is so light years ahead of everyone else. And when you see it from behind the scenes, you see why. Pete's like, nah, we're not really surprised by mine.

[Justin]

I'm not telling you, surprises don't happen.

[Dan Bongino]

You know, Ukraine war, there were some

[Justin]

people who saw it coming, some who did not.

[Dan Bongino]

But we do a really, really good job at this. And it's even happening, even, even, you know, even more efficiently now that the weaponization component's been. That cancer's been largely excised out.

[Buck Sexton]

You know, Dan, it reminds me, I was in, in the book I wrote about, I wrote about being in Mosul back in like 2007 and, and working alongside a task force, their military, you know, the real, the real door kickers. And by, by working alongside, I'm helping pull target packages and, you know, and then at night, I'm on the base and they're actually going in and kicking in the doors and doing all that stuff. And it's amazing what they were able to do even then. You know, seals, Delta, these guys. But I remember watching a drone strike on a car in broad daylight in Mosul, watching it, you know, on the screen on surveillance. And, you know, it was like a hell. It was the standard thing that everyone's now seeing in movies and stuff. Hellfire missile, some little rickety vehicle, boom. And, you know, no one's getting out of that car. But I just remember that, you know, the whole thing is, is toast and everyone in it is killed. I think there were four, four people in the car. All al Qaeda guys sawing people's heads off, you know, bad dudes. But I remember that I watched this and then I saw one. I was in the White House actually visiting some of our mutual friends last June, and they showed me. It had just been declassified. They showed me. I forget that the technical designation of it, Dan, but it's. People refer to as like the flying Ginsu knife, you know.

[Dan Bongino]

Oh, yes, yes. The missile that has the extended. Basically scissor slicers that. Oh, yeah, yeah, that thing. You don't want to get hit by that. It's going to be a bad day.

[Buck Sexton]

And. And this car is moving. Okay. The other. The other strike that I saw was broad daylight. Car basically had a red light or stopped and hit four people. Everyone's dead. This car is moving and. And obviously being tracked by. By a drone. And they send this Ginsu thing in. Dan, the car had four people in it. The three other dudes got out, except the guy that they were trying to take out. And you sit here, you're like, this is in a whole. This is in a whole other. You know, people saw that video, I think, during the Israel Hamas war of that senior Hamas guy. You remember that? In the. In the building. And the drone basically, like, I mean, we're in a hole. And when you look at robotics, you look at AI, the technological stuff that is coming. When I say coming on board, it already exists. It's kind of just like how it's going to be deployed by our military or how it already is being deployed and people are learning about it. The advantages that we have currently are far beyond what I.

[Dan Bongino]

What.

[Buck Sexton]

What even I saw 20 years ago. We were fighting the GWA, right? Inside the agency, it's a whole other level. So I. I certainly hope that that plus the lessons of the G wad, including don't try to build someone else's country for them. As long as we stick to those principles, I think we could be in for running up the scoreboard against the bad guys in a really big way here, which would be great for the. Great for America first and foremost, but also, honestly, just good for humanity, good for the whole world. So that's my prayer at least, you

[Dan Bongino]

know, you and I have that same sense of humility. I came back, was not in the intel space, was in the protection and law enforcement space and, you know, but familiarity with surveillance devices, obviously. And I was just blown away. I mean, with three weeks through a month, I was just nothing but bring it on, guys. Just every day, brief every day, I want to Hear and it was just incredible. It worries me a little bit about the surveillance state and the wrong people getting in charge. That's why we got to vote, right, Buck?

[Justin]

The new book is called Manufacturing Delusion, folks.

[Dan Bongino]

Go pick it up today. Buck is a great, great friend of mine. He's got a great radio show with Clay. Airs all around the country like what, 500 stations or some obscene number. It's a phenomenal show. He's a good friend of mine. Pick it up today. Manufacturing Delusion. Buck, we hope to have you back sometime. You're welcome anytime. You know where to find me, man. Thanks for Dan.

[Buck Sexton]

I love it, man. Thank you for being so generous having me on your show and telling everyone to. I really think that your people will enjoy the book. Honestly, I think that they'll like it's meant to be read. A lot of cool stuff in there, a lot of history. So thank you for having me on.

[Dan Bongino]

Yes, sir. Anytime. That was Buck Sexton, folks. Good friend of mine.

[Justin]

Please, small favor.

[Dan Bongino]

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[Justin]

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[Dan Bongino]

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