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Get ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host, Dan Bongino. Ah, sorry, I'm just getting up, doing some air squats there. You guys just saw me. I hear this thing. If you contract your muscles, they release these chemicals into your body and they get you going and get you moving. So right guys, you always see me doing these. Do some military presses with my bad shoulders. Do some fake chest flies, peck flies. Some air squats before the show and get some good night's sleep. Helix sleep suffering 27% off, 27% of sitewide plus two free pillows with a mattress purchase. Just visit helixsleep.com Dan Folks, I've got a big show for you today. Of course, just broke before we got on the air. The TikTok, it's not a ban. I wish they would stop referring to it as that. The, the law against TikTok having foreign ownership was upheld by the Supreme Court. We're going to get into that. Also. I had President Trump on the show yesterday. He was fantastic. It was one of the best interviews we've had with him. He does a number of good interviews, but yesterday was really on point. We covered a lot of territory. So we're going to bring up some of that and discuss it. Also, there's a whole bunch of rumors going around, I haven't seen it yet from President Trump about the Secret Service director. Of course, my name, no matter how many times I bring this up, continues to get dragged into it by anti Trump people, by left wing lunatics. I don't know how many times I got to clear the air on this. If you just listen to my show, you wouldn't have to reach out to me for comment like a thousand media people did yesterday. And I'm not talking about the one I actually talked to. You know, your name. So she, she's wonderful. But I've told you this. I don't know how many times I have to say it. I know a lot of you are asking me for my opinion. All right, I'll give it to you. But I'm not going to get emotional about it because I believe in outcomes. I'm going to tell you some things we need to happen. If they don't happen, you can form your own opinion. Hey, Wither. We may have won. The election to fight to restore our great nation is only beginning. Now is the time to take a stand. Patriot Mobile is leading the charge. As America's only Christian conservative wireless provider, Patriot Mobile offers a way to Vote with your wallet without compromising on quality or convenience. Patriot Mobile isn't just about providing exceptional cell phone service. It's a call to action to defend our rights and freedoms. With Patriot Mobile, you'll get outstanding nationwide coverage. Because they operate on all three major networks. You have a cell phone service. If you have cell phone service. You can get cell phone service with Patriot Mobile with a coverage guarantee. Here's the difference. 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I just want to clear up a couple things. Number one. Well, let me just put. Let me get this out first. I disagree with the law. I'll explain in a second. But I owe you an opinion up front because it's an opinion show. You guys digest that. Folks in the chat. I want to hear. I genuinely want to hear your opinion. You like this law. You hate this law because you guys are what matters. Let's clear something up though. It is not a ban. It is not a ban. It is not a first amendment issue. On its face, the law basically says that TikTok is fine as long as it divests from its attachment to the Chinese Communist Party. I just told you I disagree with the law. But it's really important that we don't get emotional about it. And we speak about what the law. We speak about what the law actually is, not what people want it to be because for political reasons, people on both sides of the aisle trying to blame everyone else because TikTok is popular and I think they're going to get the youth vote. That's what's behind us. They're like, Donald Trump banned TikTok. Joe Biden banned TikTok, Chuck Schumer banned TikTok, John Toon banned. You see what they're doing? It's not a ban. They have said to the Chinese Communist Party, at least affiliated people running TikTok, you cannot have this attachment and have this media presence in the United States. That's what they've said. TikTok has an amended. They've almost made the decision if they go offline Sunday to ban themselves. Again, I disagree with it. I'm just telling you what it is. Why? Because. Because TikTok could sell the company. Now, you may say, dan, well, that's a Hobson's choice. It's either this horse or no horse at all. Okay, fair enough. But it is not a de jure ban. Maybe it's a de facto one. I'll settle on that. TikTok doesn't want to sell. They're saying we'd rather pull the thing off the market. Well, I guess we'll see what happens on Sunday. Again, quickly, before I move on to Secret Service and other things that were all over the news again, I got a thousand phone calls last night. I'm so tired. I've told people, just listen to the damn show. I promise you, I'm not going to hide anything from you. Okay, I disagree with the bill. Why? Because, folks, it is not a secret that the Chinese Communist Party has at least some degree of attachment to TikTok. And yes, they are absolutely using it for propaganda and to probably harvest data. You know that. I know that. I use TikTok. I use it for show prep because it's good for clips. I am well aware of the fact that they are probably monitoring what's going on in my account. Folks, my for you page is about Caesar, the Roman Empire, life hacks, cold plunges, the effects of sauna, Dr. Rhonda Huberman. I mean, I don't really know what they could be harvesting. I'm on there on a separate phone. I use that phone for show prep. I don't know. If you don't like it, then don't use the app. I'm a big boy rules guy. I'm sorry. I mean, there's a guy on Twitter this morning, like, trashing me on. Oh, Bonjino on Rumble. The guy's on Rumble. You don't see me telling Chris to see, oh, hey, can we get rid of this guy? You can't be a free speech guy and not be a free speech guy. I don't mean legal free speech. It's not a First Amendment issue. It's not. I just mean you know the rules. You don't like TikTok, then get off TikTok. All right, enough on that. I just said just happened. And I want to make sure you have my thoughts on it, because it's an opinion show, folks. I got just eaten a lot. Last night was not a good night for me. I slept like a champion. I feel great today, but I did not feel good last night. And you know, one of the things that I hear from you most often that creates this attachment between me and my audience is you guys say to me often, the greatest compliment in the world is a Dan, the show feels authentic. That's because it is, folks. I'm not going to fake it. And if something makes me look bad, then it's my obligation to kind of talk about it honestly, even if it makes me look bad. Because it's not up to me to sit here and pretend to be something I'm not. I have said repeatedly there are some Internet rumors and some reporting by credible reporters, including, including Susan Crabtree, who's very well sourced, by the way, that the next director of the Secret Service is going to be Sean Curran. I'm going to tell you in advance all the disclosures you need so you understand how I'm trying to be objective, but it's understandably hard. Sean Curran is a good friend I've known a long time, a very long time. We've been through a lot together. Sean is a good and decent and kind human being with a ton of character and a lot of dignity. And he's a patriot who loves his country. That's indisputable. Is Sean Curran the right man to be the Secret Service director, ladies and gentlemen? I don't know that. I'm sorry, but you're my audience and you looking for authenticity, and I'm not going to forfeit it over a personal relationship. Before I get to Curran and Sean Curran and my opinion on that, too, I just want to say I've said repeatedly to you, and I don't know why people keep reaching out to me. Stop asking me this question. I had zero input. The first conversation I've had about this was yesterday. That is it. I have had zero input. You guys impart upon that what you want. I'm just giving you the facts. Nobody has reached out to me about this at all. Nobody. You want me to sit here and tell you this? I am. I am that. Like John Fund. Right, fellas? You Got that John Fund piece that I'm the guy sitting there pushing the buttons of the transition team. John Fund from National Review says that I was, I was an integral figure in picking Pete Hegseth and Matt Gaetz, folks, I'm not even an integral figure in picking the Secret Service director. I don't know what anybody's talking about. I have almost zero relationship with anybody on the transition team at all. I don't understand, like you get these anti Trump people, like Dan Bongino is a closet cabinet guy, he's advising Trump. And then you get these other people who are disappointed that I'm not more connected than I am. That's not who I am. I have a relationship with President Trump. It's a good one because we don't, I don't bother him and that's it. But that is, I had nothing to do with this at all. Nobody called, nobody asked me anything. Now, having said that, I will say I'm disappointed. Not in this election. We'll see what happens. I'm an outcome based guy, but I'm disappointed because if these four things don't happen with the Secret Service, at which, by the way, no one's called and asked about at all, I mean, it only involves the President's life. I mean, why would anyone give a shit, right? If I sound a little perturbed about that, I am, because I actually care about the President and I told him as much yesterday. I actually genuinely care about this guy staying alive. And I've told anybody who will listen, including him, if he's not alive, none of this matters. The Secret Service is grotesquely unprepared to keep this guy alive for four years. They're not even prepared to keep this guy alive the first year. There are four things that need to happen and I need you to pay very close attention because is Sean going to be a good director or not? He's a good man. He's a great man. Is he going to be a good director? The answer, folks, I'm going to taste with not my first pick. It has nothing to do with his character. Four huge things need to happen. Number one, the Secret Service needs to dump investigations right away. I've said it a thousand times. I don't want to recover this segment. You guys are bored of it. If the Secret Service does not stop wasting over 50% of its manpower chasing counterfeit bills at a 711 at midnight rather than keeping President Trump alive, someone's going to get dead fast. End of story. There is no protection agency on earth Private sector or public sector, that if they went to a CEO and said, we can't protect you today because our agents are out investigating a counterfeit bill at 7 11, that wouldn't be fired. The Secret Service gets away with it because they've been lying to Congress forever. We need to do investigations. It makes better agents. That is so hilariously dumb. I'm stunned nobody in Congress has picked up on it. What really pisses me off is I've been working with members of Congress and you know who you are, many of them, on a piece of legislation to fix this. Is Sean going to do that? I hope so. I have not spoken to him about it. Spoken to some other people. I really hope it does happen. Or is he going to go up there and defend investigations like every prior director, which is going to in turn lead to the next day another complaint that the Secret Service doesn't have enough manpower. You can't have it both ways. Either your manpower doing other things or you don't have manpower. Second, the DEI stuff has to go. Is he going to fix that? I don't know. I choose not to get emotional about it. Passionate, not emotional. We're going to see. He could be the change agent. He. He could. And if he is, believe me, all the accolades are going to be on this show. The DEI stuff has to go. The Secret Service has been one of the worst offenders in the federal government at promoting people because of all kinds of ridiculous characteristics. I can't even tell you how many times I heard, well, we need this many flankers around the presidential limo. One has to be black, one Hispanic, one woman. You're like, wait, what? I thought we just wanted people to protect the president. They are the worst offenders if Sean Curran is the next director. I haven't heard it from President Trump, by the way. So I'm kind of like, have to apply the Bongino rule. But it's hard to because it's Friday and folks, I'm getting bombarded with questions I can't go the weekend without. Is he going to scrap this DEI crap and just start promoting people, men, women, black, white, Asian, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, according to merit, or because we got to keep this guy alive, or are we going to continue with the DEI bullshit? That's the second thing. Third, I told you in my congressional hearing something I've been absolutely laser focused on. The Secret Service is the worst government agency by far on technology. They don't trust anything. We used to joke, and it's not funny, but we laughed about it at the Time because you had to or you'd cry. The Secret Service's motto was yesterday's technology tomorrow. There they were using, what is it? Smartware. In the 2000s, if any of you know computers, smartware is from like the forties or something smart. They didn't even use smartware on like the Apollo missions. It was so old. They don't know what they're doing with technology. It's because their people aren't comfortable with it. So they're afraid to get outside the box. The Secret Service needs massive private partnerships with technology companies and others to figure out how to leverage everything from AI to satellite technology to satellite Internet to geo locating to anti drone technology to drone technology to surveillance cameras. They are way, way behind. I've got on good authority they are totally unprepared for the inauguration as well. I've warned you about it. Let's just hope luck strikes again. The fourth thing. So we got investigations. The DI crap. The technology problem. The fourth thing. The Secret Service has a massive culture problem. It has a huge culture problem. The culture at the Secret Service of doing more with less is one false. And it's been embedded into them that they should sacrifice the job to do more with less. They don't do more with less. They do less with more. Their budgets increased and yet the protection is less effective. How do we know that? Because President Trump was almost killed twice. Kristi Noem, who is going to be the boss of whoever runs the Secret Service. It may be. I haven't heard anything official. Again, I want to be clear. But the rumors out there, and I'm getting bombarded with questions and I'm going to answer all this today. I've given my advice. It hasn't been taken. I really genuinely hope, as I put on Twitter last night, from the bottom of my heart, really, that it works out. Kristi Noem, who is going to be the DHS secretary, I don't see any problems there. She's at our confirmation hearing. It's actually going on right now. It's a pretty uneventful hearing. Again, you're free to tune in. I'm. These hearings always kind of ding up our, our, our livestream numbers a little bit. We lose about, you know, five, 10,000 people. But that's good. It shows people are interested in current events. We make it up later. This one's really kind of uneventful. She's kind of an uncle uncontroversial nominee. She's, you know, she's not. Kristi Noemi's not going to like, really light up anybody's partizan fires. So she was there. But here's a positive sign. Here's a very positive sign for the Secret Service. She clearly knows the investigations thing is a problem for the Secret Service. How do I know? Because here's what she just said about two hours ago. Play that cut, guys.