Karl Rove (16:10)

Donald Trump and the Republican Party has changed the electorate. What do I mean by that? Well, let's take a look at party identification. Democrats versus Republicans. You go back to 2017, five points more of the electorate was Democrats than Republicans. You go to 2021 when Joe Biden was starting out. Look at that. Six points more of the electorate was Democrats than Republicans. But look at what's happened in February of 2025. Look at this. Republicans. There are more Republicans in the electorate than there are Democrats. Republican plus two. So Donald Trump and the Republicans have remade the electorate. They've turned some people over from being Democrats or independents to become Republicans. New folks have entered the electorate who are more Republican leaning. And so when you combine that with the fact that Republicans are really, really behind Donald Trump, all of a sudden you get a winning recipe whereby you break the normal rules of politics and give Donald Trump that positive net approval rating when he had pretty much a consistently negative one in term number one.

Dan Bongino (17:06)

Don't believe. I appreciate that you believe me and trust me on the show, we have a pretty solid record of displaying and transmitting facts and data. And receipts. But that doesn't mean you get a pass on the next one. You got to back up what you say to the Republicans in Congress who may have this undercurrent of distrust about Trump's political instincts. I'm just asking you to back it up. If he's saying one big beautiful bill is better, I trust the guy. The numbers back it up. That America is ready for a big, bold, transformational change. A woman last. And he thinks I'm being too wordy on this. And it's possible I am. But I'm so fascinated by this. Can you imagine? You get this big, bold, beautiful bill out there, the borders closed, the military's funded with high quality weapons and cleaned out of all the waste. The tax cut goes through. No tax on tips, no tax on Social Security. This is all in one big bill. Regulatory reforms, all of it in one big bill. Donald Trump goes around the country, all over the place. These go to L. A too. Does like 5 or 6 big national stops in huge media markets. Folks. This thing will pass with every Republican. You want to be on the wrong side of it. That's how you rock and roll. How do I know you've got a limited opportunity to do this? Data Matters Interactive polls on X. Great account. I enjoy it. Here's a Quinnipiac poll. Again, not some right leaning pollster, folks. 22% of voters approve of the way the Democrats, the Democrats in Congress are handling their job. They note that's an all time low. Republicans have at least a 40, almost double. You've got a window to move now. You've got this huge 20, almost 20 point percentage point buffer in approval. Donald Trump is at peak popularity. The Democrats are in disarray. They have no leader. They have no mission, they have no message. They have no nothing. They have zero, one big bill. Do it. Do it quick. Do it surgical. Do your rallies. Get the public behind it. In six weeks we could be looking at a changed America with signed legislation and Donald Trump at 55% approval and Republican Congress members at 40, 45, maybe even 50. Do it. Do it now. I got another piece of winning coming up for you after the break and something very sensitive to me. Donald Trump understands there is a big, big role for an unpoliticized constitutional Department of Justice and we have not had that. More winning on that too. Wow. New sponsor. Welcome ramp ramp.com Bongino maybe asking, well, what's ramp? I'm going to tell you. I know what expense chaos looks like for me. It's like receipts and Invoices from multiple different places, subscriptions you don't even remember signing up for you. What is that Happens all the time. It's a nightmare. RAMP helps take care of all that. Ramp, it's a free. It's a free corporate card that handles tedious financial operations automatically so your finance team can focus on what actually moves the needle. 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He calls this the Trump truth updates because you got if you're not paying attention like these guys to Donald Trump's Truth account, you're missing out on all the goodies. Donald Trump is now firing all of the quote Biden era US Attorneys. We must clean house immediately and restore confidence. America's golden age has to have a fair justice system that begins today. Ladies and gentlemen, again the left. How many times we got to talk about it? We can use it. We've used this title that has show what 50 times because it's so appropriate almost every single day. The hair's on fire, the wetting of the diapers. It's really embarrassing. Folks. You what we call a USA and USA's US Attorneys. I know USA is the United States of America. No, no, it's US Attorneys in the law enforcement field and a USA's Assistant United States Attorneys. They serve at the pleasure of the President. These are not civil service type employees. These are not administrators. These are political appointees. Donald Trump has every right to let them go. Joe Biden did the same thing. It's not an argument let the media melt down. They're embarrassing themselves. Doesn't matter. I just wanted the only reason I'm discussing this story because I feel like if it's not a big deal and they do this all time, why are you talking about. Because there's a bigger story here. It's about ausa, but it's about the new Republican Party. And it's this. If you're bored right here, go put in a search engine. George Bush, United States Attorney. Scandal. Scandal with air quotes. Right? George W. Bush fired some U.S. attorneys too. And do you remember it was like this really big quote, scandal. This goes to show you, you are the media now. It was a fake scandal. George W. Bush, whether you loved him or him, had every right to fire US Attorneys. Happens all the time. But because the media declared it a scandal, it actually became a scandal because they can make up fake news. And that was the only thing you had back then was fake news. Now a story like this, do you notice the media that the response to this has been almost null and void because of the rock em sock em robot strategies. Why I disagree with Rove's piece. This is why you just keep hitting them. You're not even going to hear about this. It'll be a non story the minute cash is approved today. This was a huge, I'm going to say two week story when George W. Bush was president. Maybe more. They're just not the media. The media is not the driver of the national narrative anymore, folks. They're just not. You're the media. Now you know why this story is important because it's not. Does that make sense? This story is important because it's not important. It happens all the time and in the past it would have been a scandal. All right, moving on. The W's are just piling in. I told you in the beginning of the show with the can't stop winning thing, that Karl Rove, he has a piece in the Journal. We discussed it earlier, but there's this two competing ideas now in D.C. the winning is actually coming so fast. People are starting to wonder, like Karl Rove, kind of old school Republicans. I get it, but I'm just giving you multiple perspectives. This is why we're better than them. Like we see their side, but they don't see ours. They just see us as a bunch of crazies even though we keep winning. It's not a crazy theory when you think about it, that maybe we should slow down the winds and maybe do a national tour about success at the border. I personally, I don't agree with that. I think we can walk and chew gum at the same time to Use the stupid cliche I hate. But whatever, you all get the point. It's a win win. It's a win win. This is like cliche time now, right? I like rock em, sock em, right? And I think it's working because of the AUSA story, which is a non story. But I want to give you the actual numbers because they're so ridiculously good that they're almost hard to believe that it does make you think maybe we should take a breath even for a weekend and do like a border tour. Here is Paul Perez, what is it? The CBP rep. He's on a cable news channel here talking about the border numbers. It's almost hard to believe how quickly Donald Trump shut the borders. Amazing. Check this out. I've been with Border patrol since the INS days back in 1997, so going on 28 years. And this is definitely training to be the most secure border that I've ever worked under because of Donald Trump's policies and everything that he's put in place to secure the border. It's working. And those numbers actually tell that story, folks, they're ridiculous. I saw some number yesterday, they were like 260 encounters at the border. They were thousands, tens of thousands of. It's insane. It's almost like illegal immigration as effectively like stopped. Which I know you in the chat are like, hey, Dan, get your head out of your ass. Of course it stopped once you. I don't need to. You're right. I understand what you're saying. I know what you're thinking. That once you get a president in there who says, hey, newsflash, borders closed, you come here, you're getting deported, arrested, that's it. And we'll fly you right back out of here. So you're wasting your time. Shocker. Air quotes, right? Nobody shows up. This isn't hard. This isn't hard, but you got to mean it. That's the thing. Because again, Bongino army. You may say. Well, Dan, Alejandro Mayorkas, Biden's DHS secretary said the border was closed too. Yeah, but everybody knew he didn't mean it. They just showed up at the border and wasn't closed. It's like telling everyone in the HOA in your neighborhood, hey, man, my, you know, my doors are locked. And then you leave your doors unlocked. The doors still got to be locked or else people eventually going to break into your house. Another big W yesterday as we constantly rack up the wins. He called. He calls them the dubs. The dubs are piling up. You guys A camera network. What's. Oh, yeah, we have two cameras in here. You ever see the side shot? We can't even show you the side shot anymore because everybody moved everything out of the. Everything's like gone. It's like a ghost town. Other than a monitor, you're going to love the new studio, by the way. Here's another big W. Yesterday, Donald Trump and his team at the State Department under Marco Rubio has officially designated the following as foreign terror organizations. You can see trend. Aragua, Ms. 13 Sinaloa Cartel. Listen to the drug cartels. There's a new sheriff in town, man. He may not be officially titled the sheriff, but I think you get the point. When Donald Trump declares you an FTO foreign terror organization, there's a real consequence to that. Your assets, money, all this stuff that you're hiding in banks and anyone who may be supporting you can be subject to almost like RICO style investigations. So this is not some just PR thing. Oh, look, let's call them terror organizations to make it look like we're serious folks. There's a real penalty to this. This is Donald Trump saying, you're not going to poison our kids anymore. Fentanyl. Not on my watch. There's going to be a real penalty and it may involve death. I'm just telling you, once the military gets involved and the drones, they're not gonna be an easy fight. You know, I saw my good friend Jesse Kelly on Twitter. Very, very patriotic, history of military service himself. So he knows Jesse's got his own radio show. But Jesse wrote, listen, it's not gonna be an easy fight. This isn't gonna be these, these cartels are very, very well armed and trained very well. This isn't some, you know, this isn't like Sicario or whatever. This is gonna be a real, real big deal. It's not a movie. If you've seen a movie, you know what I'm talking about, right? But it's a step. It's a step. And Donald Trump has sending a message just like he did at the border. We're not screwing around. I've got more W's, the Trump tariffs. And I want you to listen in this sound bite coming up next. I'll take a quick break here, but I want you to listen in the sound bite because again, all the economists attacking Donald Trump on tariffs, I've said before, I don't like tariffs. I haven't changed my mind on tariffs. I do like tariffs as a negotiating tool. And that's why you got to listen, listen to what he say Last break and we got a ton more content for I'm not even. You guys are right. It's going to be so much left over it's ridiculous. Hey, I feel like everything's gotten more expensive these days. But not top of the line hearing aids from MD Hearing. MD Hearing recently cut their price in half. 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The one condition where I would say take the rock Em sock em, place them down and ask him to go to sleep for a minute. The one condition I would have is if we pass this big, bold, beautiful bill, tax reform, regulatory reform, border reform, military cleanup. If we pass that, then I would take a week or so to do a victory lap. Do you agree? You may think I'm crazy. You may say screw it there next day, hit him with okay, okay. That's the one time I think that's so big. Michael, you agree that you take not. Maybe not a week, maybe you sign on a Monday and by Wednesday you go rock em sock em again. But you gotta take a few days to celebrate that. That would be freaking huge. But one of the things in there is gonna be economic reform. And they're knocking Trump, these economists on tariffs. Folks. I agree. I love economics. Wow. Wow. No, keep it. Look at this. Wow. Let me just stop this. Nope. Who said it? Who said it here? Let's give someone a chance here. Always on McGrawn. Always. That's someone of our. McGraw always is like a rock star in the. McGraw always says, Keep it coming. I've never been overwhelmed with such negativity on a comment on my own channel. Okay, you guys win. I wear my Bongino army shows for you. It's not for me. I don't. I don't know at all. You want to keep hitting them. So you're just. So we're clear, you're suggesting sign the bill on a Monday at what we do a signing. What is. It's a good media cycle. 3pm 3pm A lot of people, you know, wrapping up the day, but they're getting three by three. Oh one. We're out there hitting them again. Okay, I'm. Dude, I'm game. You know, they talk me right back. Right. Just right back again. Okay, I'M cool with that. I just think that's such a big deal that to just go and do a quick little victory tour for a couple days and to just show people what we just did. But. Okay, moving on. One of the things going to be economic reform. I want you to listen to Trump on tariffs. Yes, he believes in tariffs. I'm not a huge believer in tariffs. We do have to get tax revenue from somewhere. The problem with, I see with tariffs is it's a $25 million income base we're dealing with, which I hate, the income tax. I want to be clear, it's only three that I say tribe, what is it? 25 trillion. And it's three on the other end. So there's not a lot of kind of feathers to pluck from the goose there. Right. But tariffs are an unbelievable negotiating tool. An unbelievable negotiating tool to use. Listen, at the end, this is why Trump is so damn good at this. He makes you believe that this is going to happen, it's got to be a credible threat. And then at the end, he says, listen, in this, we're talking about auto tariffs, but give them some time to move. Here, check this out. Decided specifically what the auto tariff rate should be. Yeah, I probably will tell you that in on April 2, but it'll be in the neighborhood of 25%. Pharmaceuticals, it'll be 25% and higher, and it'll go very substantially higher over a course of a year. But we want to give them time to come in because, as you know, when they come into the United States and they have their plant or factory here, they. There is no tariff, folks. You see why he's, he's, he's better at this than I am. The police. He just is. He. I ran for office. I didn't win. He won. He won three times. Okay. So he said. I don't know what to tell you. He's really good at this. I know Donald Trump pretty well, but I wouldn't say we're like coffee buddies or anything. I don't want to exaggerate my relations. You know, I hate that, people. Trump's my buddy. I hate. That sounds so stupid, like name dropping like that. But I know him well enough, and I'm telling you, looking right in the camera, I honestly don't know how serious he is about tariffs. I don't. There's a side of me that thinks he really believes it and a side of me that's like, he's got to know what they do. But that's, that's the gift in this. It's not the curse. Do you understand? Because if you don't believe the tariff is a real threat, the tax on your say you're Joe's Motor Company and you're selling cars in Mexico and building them in Mexico, but importing or, excuse me, exporting some into the United states. The tariff, 25%. If your car's $1,000, whatever, just it's going to be expensive. It's going to be $1250 if you don't compensate on the, on the price side because it's 25% more. So the company knows it's going to lose market share. So they're incentivized to say, hey, screw it, we're just going to build in the United States. That's the beauty of the whole thing, that when you use a tariff as a negotiating tool, he may move some of this production right back here to the United States. What would mean jobs, capital investment elsewhere? You get it, folks? Because it's a fair enough critique to say, Dan, you can't have it both ways. Where tariffs are good things, are bad things. I'm not a Tariffs attacks, period. However, we do have to get taxes from somewhere and if we can use that as a vehicle to get production here, then I'll take it. I'll take it. And listen to him at the end. You got to listen. Everything Donald Trump says here is the biggest W I. If this story sucks, everybody in the chat who said, I get it there, red state, deplorable. Good, I get it, too. Do you hate this story about New York? If you do, I won't cover it. I love this story and I don't want to. I don't want to cover just because I was from New York. I think this story is. If you are still confused about how Donald Trump rolls and how he constantly gets the left to like show their ass to the public, you will not be confused after this story. How he gets these people to do the dumbest things possible because they hate him is the most remarkable skill I've ever seen, folks. They hated George W. Bush, they hated Mitt Romney, they hate every Republican. But I've never seen them act so tactically inept. Here's the story. Put this up at the New York Post. Donald Trump cancels basically the New York City congestion pricing. Big hat tip to Secretary Duffy at the Department of Transportation as well. They basically said, you can't do it. Sorry. They need approval for us and we're not giving it to you. Congestion pricing is A very, very simple concept. If you were going to drive into a congested traffic area of Manhattan, New York City wants to charge you another, another toll. I want you to keep in mind, I am from New York. To get into Manhattan. Most of the crossings are already told. Jim. Producer Jim just sent this to me. He looked it up. The Verrazano Bridge, which comes from Staten island is currently 11, 19, 19. You're priority paying more than 11 bucks to enter Manhattan. The Midtown Tunnel, all of this stuff you're already paying. Manhattan wants to charge you more. And here's the thing, it's going to be about nine bucks. But when traffic gets bad, it's going to be even more. Oh, you do. You know what, play Duffy and then I'm going to tell you on the other side. What? Get ready. This is an important segment. Why this story which seems so regional and stupid, like, oh, who cares? It's not. It is probably the biggest face plant the Democrats have done yet. Check this out. Why can't New York City determine what it wants to charge for people to come in and out?

Evita Duffy (40:25)

So we give them the authority, number one. And so the American taxpayer, the New York taxpayer, funded those streets. And the way the governor set this up is she said, even though you already paid for these streets, you can't use those streets unless you pay an additional toll. Well, from the taxpayer, I'm like, I already paid for the street. Why am I paying an additional toll to the taxes I already paid? There's no free pathway into that cordon area.

Dan Bongino (40:51)

Right.

Evita Duffy (40:52)

So if you're a middle income or a lower income shopper or worker, you can access public roads by any means into this area. That's flat out wrong. And that's. We don't, We've never had a program like that where there's not a free public road to get in to a certain area.

Dan Bongino (41:09)

No, you guys are wrong. This is total side debate. She Absolutely. Evita, 100% has her dad's eyes. Put up a screen. Come on, they're arguing over here. Michaels obviously knows Evita well, they're like married and stuff. But Evita Duffy, of course, our morning show. Well, Sean's her dad. You're telling me. Look at Sean's eyes and look at it. Can you get a picture of Vita? They're like, oh, it doesn't look anything like her dad. Oh, yes, she looks like Rachel, her mom a lot. But tell me that's on her dad's eyes. Come on. 100. There's Sean. Okay, and then that is 100%. His daughter, 100%. The eyeballs, 100%. Look at the eyes. She's got the same eyes. Folks, in the chat, please chime in. These guys are great. Heck, yeah, we just said it. Patty 84. It's save. It's the same eyes. Yes, she looks like our mom, but she definitely had her dad's eyes. But getting back, I didn't even. Kids, thank you for playing that clip. Shame on me. Shame, shame. Game of Thrones style. Start throwing rotten tomatoes at me. I didn't even think of that angle. The New York City residents already paid for the damn road. It's not a private road. It was funded by their tax that they already own it. So think about this. Donald Trump comes in. Congestion tax canceled by everybody. Let me read you a text from my brother, who, by the way, wasn't a big Republican in the past, but a huge Trump supporter. Now hold on. Okay, I got to show you. I got to play. This is him yesterday. Yesterday. Yesterday. Oh, New York just. Yesterday, New York just came out me because I was talking about my brother. Dude. Trump's post on this is exactly on truth about canceling. Congesting. Pricing is epic. Five exclamation points. It's driving Hochul nuts. Neighbors love this. Long live the king. Effing awesome. All caps. That's my brother up in New York. You local 3, electrician, the union guy, they're all in a. They love Trump for this. So Trump gets an epic political win, number one. Number two, this was a tax that was going to hammer the middle class. Ladies and gentlemen, rich people love taxes like this. They do. Yes, they do. You know why? What's the most valuable thing rich people have, Folks in the chat? What is it? What's the most valuable thing rich people have? Anyone know? Someone's got to get this. Yes. Stevia girl. Time, time. You think a rich guy worth 500 milli gives a shit about a $9 tax? He doesn't care. He's like, wait, so it's going to keep a bunch of people off the roads? Grace, the irony of this thing is it screws the middle class. And the third win out of it, not the win here. Is that the messaging thing. The Democrats are backwards. The third win is the crazy New York governor is going to sue him in court for the right to tax the shit out of middle class people. This is insane, folks. This is the greatest story to highlight the collapse of the Democrat party we've ever seen. You want another one? You know, I love this guy. Peter St. Angie does great videos on economics. You should check him out on X. It's Peter Common spelling S T O N G. Very, very good account. He does really hard hitting videos. Very good on the economic stuff. He did a video the other day about another example of how the Democrat Party, just like this New York congestion pricing story is so frayed. This is why I disagree with the Karl Rove approach of slowing down. It's, it's working. Rock em sock em robots, it's just working. Don't slow down. Full speed ahead. This is what happened the other day. Donald Trump, along with a lot of Americans, I would argue a majority, at minimum a plurality of Americans are getting very frustrated with the Ukrainian war. Nobody saying Ukraine deserves this. We're not knocking the Ukrainian people at all. Don't read this the wrong way. However, Zelensky has really fallen. He's completely let you down. The messaging attacking Donald Trump after all the United States has done to support the. The mission over there was really a stupid move. The Democrats. Because Trump is now starting to question, hey man, Zeletsky, you want to end this thing or not? He's got the Democrats messaging now that they're the war party. Which is crazy because Michael, you're like a more libertarian guy like me, right? We've been questioning this for years. Like why is the United States involved in basically every continent on earth losing our own people for other people's missions that they don't want to do themselves there? You know how many people feel that way? You got Democrats, Bernie Sanders Bros. Asking that question. Trump now has the Democrats. Now they're like the warmonger party. It's crazy. In one day. One day, bro. He's got the Democrats suing in court to tax the shit out of the middle class. And he's got the Democrats advocating for like endless wars all over the world. Here's st non JD Vance's speech, the EU and how JD Vance just set the world on fire with this. In a good way. They need a little everybody needs a shakeup. Check this out.

J.D. Vance (46:46)

Last week, Vice President J.D. vance visited Europe and dressed them down like naughty children for Europe's rising authoritarianism, ranging from censoring their own people to literally canceling elections they don't like. The European establishment was aghast. The conference organizer in Munich cried. The German defense minister fumed that defending free speech is, quote, unacceptable. Bloomberg, meanwhile, lamented that, quote, the transatlantic alliance as we know it is dead. We can always dream. JD Was speaking at a military conference in Munich. Perhaps the Europeans thought they would get another couple tens of billions from uncle sucker. Instead, JD came heavy, criticizing the EU's recent cancellation of an election in Romania because the populace won, while Journey mulls a ban on the second most popular party in the country, the AfD, also for the crime of being populist, adding, quote, if you're running in fear from your own voters, there's nothing America can do for you. In other words, if you keep censoring, we can't be friends. The sclerotic authoritarians in Europe have painted themselves into a corner. Their economies are moribund, they haven't had an innovation in roughly a century, and they've become a left wing welfare queen living on handouts from American taxpayers. As much as they would love to tell JD and Trump to take a hike, they cannot.

Dan Bongino (48:11)

Peter goes for it. And maybe you needed to hear that. We're not going to be Uncle Sucker anymore. I'm sorry, but we're not going to do it. The US Taxpayer, and by the way, for those out there on the left saying, oh, what are we cowards going to retreat from the world? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, WTF over us? You mean the United States that rescued Europe from that thing called World War? DEB ZOO World One. Oh, why is it called World War I? And not just the World War? Anybody know any you guys know that said Michael is a math major? It's great because there's a second one and we had a little role in that too, I think. Just my poor grandfather fought over there. Scarred him the rest of his life. I lost an uncle Gregory Ambrose sitting on that wall, that Vietnam Memorial wall. Never met him in my life. He was my mother's older brother. So before you start lecturing us, we've been there. Who do you think kicked Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait? We're always there and, you know, gives us, what did we get? We get any money at all? We got nothing. You know, we get, we get body bags as we bust our ass to shuttle money. They say you didn't deserve this war. Nobody's saying that. But you damn well better give us some exit plan here because there's war and conflict around the world and the United States can't solve all of it. And Donald Trump wants to know with the eu, hey, man, when are you guys going to step the up? You know, this NATO alliance we have is really the US The German military is collapsing. Look it up. It's a fraction of what it should be. You've got the UK saying, hey, we'll send troops over, but we need a US guarantee. The UK's out of the EU now. But you get, I mean, guys, you get, you got to do it sooner or later. You got to show us over here that you're, you're willing to fight for yourselves. I'm going to do you a favor here, important, take a breath on this because I don't want to mess this up. Yesterday's show was very popular. We're still having a problem, I think, with the live stream counter, but the, the VO on demand numbers have been fantastic for us. Yesterday's show was really popular because I explained to you what I think is going on in Donald Trump's head, why he has a general distrust of Zelensky. If you missed the opening of yesterday's podcast, you need to go back and watch it. Matter of fact, I don't even mind if you stop now, pick it up again later and watch that first. Donald Trump does not trust Zelensky because of Zelensky and UK members of Parliament and elsewhere who were knee deep in the collusion hoax. The Russia collusion hoax that was used to target Trump was started in Ukraine, Period. It was. And it filtered its way into Hillary Clinton. Okay? It started in Ukraine. The impeachment hoax started with a call to Zelensky in Ukraine, which he didn't help us with. He could have cleared it up right away and he didn't. Like it or not, that's one of the reasons Donald Trump doesn't trust this guy. Cuz he's been untrustworthy on issues. He still hasn't cleaned up the impeachment thing and told people, hey, this Hunter Biden stuff was real. Trump was right to call me about it. That's all he has to say. He still hasn't fully cleared it up. Dan, why are you repeating yesterday's show? Because I'm trying to set the groundwork. Because why Donald Trump doesn't trust the EU either. Do you remember this article? I want you to look at the date I put it on my show probably a hundred times. You should bookmark this article. April 14, 2017. So right after Donald Trump, a few months after he swore into office for his first term, CNN Politics British intelligence passed Trump associates communications with Russians onto US counterparts. Leave that up for a minute, please, guys. Pregnant pause for a reason, folks. My first book, Spygate, on this buying collusion hoax. This article appears in the book multiple times. Why would CNN write an article about the illicit, immoral and potentially illegal passing of what was fake intelligence of Russian collusion hoax onto their US Counterparts who then used it to what I think potentially commit crimes and create this fake story. Why would CNN admit that, that the intelligence communities were basically working against Donald Trump and some of them involved the UK and EU countries. Why would they admit. Because back then, ladies and gentlemen, CNN thought it was real. They really believed Donald Trump was colluding with the Russians. It's an insane story, but because they were so crazy, Sciudeau and Pamela Brown and Bradner, who wrote this piece, they really believed their sources on this. So they wrote the article like, my gosh, this is so serious that the British intelligence services have information. Folks, all this stuff was garbage. It was poppycock. It was crap. It wasn't info. It was like a phone call. It was like Alpha bank garbage. Now do you see why Donald Trump doesn't trust fully people across the pond and elsewhere about security matters and NATO? Because in his head, he knows a lot of these same people who are not funding NATO attacked him in the past. I'm not telling you it's going to get in the way of him doing whatever turns out to be the right thing in the end. I'm just trying to explain to you a little internal Trump psychology, given my best guess on why he doesn't trust Zelensky, some in the uk, Although he's been talking pretty nicely about Starmer, which I'm not a huge Starmer fan, but I get what he's got to do. And people in the eu. You're not gonna hear this anywhere else. Bookmark that article. It's one of the most important articles you're ever gonna read. This is the start of this whole Russia collusion thing and how the media bought in on it. All right, let me move on to one more. Do we have time? Yeah, we have time, folks. The. Let me see. I wanna jump ahead here. Can we go to the Maha thing? The Cali means guy. I wanna end with this, folks. You know, I'm a Life Hacks guy on my weekend show. We got the Life Hack segment again this weekend on my podcast, rumble.com bongino. But did you guys see. I want to leave you in a good mood. Did you see this on cnn? CNN desperately tries to shut this guy down as he starts citing the conflicts of interest of all the people attacking RFK for genuinely trying to make America healthy. And you see how the guy looks? What is he, like 70 years old? He looks like he's like 20 years old. I'll take his advice. I don't need that last one we had in office before. I Need rfk. Watch this segment. It's good stuff about childhood vaccines. Number one, he talked about electromagnetic radiation.

Evita Duffy (55:36)

Number two, he talked about pesticides. He didn't talk about the things that.

Dan Bongino (55:39)

Callie's talking about here, which is things like obesity or over medicating children or sugar drinks. I'm all for that. I agree. Everyone should watch.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (55:49)

He gave a powerful speech about these issues. This is what Bobby Kenny's fighting against. Dr. Offit, as you know, you were the chair at the children's hospital, the Merck chair. It was like a NASCAR driver wearing their sponsors. Merck paid your $1.5 million salary. And this is what Bobby's saying is that fundamentally pharma can create good innovations, but they're foundationally incentivized for children to be sick. Pharma doesn't make money when children are healthy. The hospitals don't make money when the beds are empty. Chronic disease, just as a demonstrable statement of economic fact, is a great economic invention for the healthcare industry, which demonstrably makes money when patients are sick. And that's an incentive. Bobby Kennedy is going hard after.

Dan Bongino (56:30)

I don't. I'm reading the chat because who just said it? Bass, chica, bastica. Kaylee. Dropping knowledge is my fit. Oh, my gosh. Dropping knowledge. Dropping knowledge. Nuclear Moab, Mother of all bombs. I mean, how do you. The guy's just sitting there in stunned disbelief bringing it up. Because there's going to be a lot of pushback from a lot of big money people about Bobby Kennedy's efforts to talk about what are we doing? You know what, folks, before we start medicating the hell out of people, Bobby's approach is going to be the secretary. Hey, man, are we cleaning up our diets? Are we pushing exercise in schools? What are we doing first to keep our brains frosty as we get older? Can we then get to the medication stuff later? Let's clean up the big stuff first, folks. We got a lot of big things happening. All makes sense in the coming days. Please get get on board with the Bongino show. We deeply appreciate the Bongino army being here for us. That's why we're on the show today. Thank you so much. Haley Karania, New show coming soon. Evening Edition with Haley coming within the next couple weeks for you. She's amazing. You're going to love her. It's going to be 6pm Eastern Time. Be a live show. Got Evita, we got Haley. We got so much happening. You can always get our shirts. Bongino army shirts@store.bongino.com and please download the Rumble app. It is absolutely free. Watch the show every day, whether on demand or live. Doesn't matter to us. We love the live audience. 11:00am Eastern Time, live on demand, anytime. And please give us a follow at Apple and Spotify. That follow button's really important. Really important. See you all tomorrow, 11am and here on the radio show on Rumble in just a few minutes. See you then. You just heard the Dan Bongino Show.