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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. So folks, I've been getting a ton of questions from you and the Bongino army listening audience. Even outside secondary and tertiary members of the Bongino army looking to enlist. I've been getting a ton of questions. Dan, how do you feel about this inauguration? Do you think it's going to be safe? And the answer is complicated. That's not an easy yes or no question. Yes, it's going to be safe. Well, how safe? 90% safe, 99% safe. Everything's on the margin or no, it's not going to be safe. Well, how unsafe? Like how unsafe Trump shouldn't show up or how unsafe they should do it outside of D.C. or they're real questions and they deserve real answers. Been an update yesterday. Secret Service and FBI did a briefing. When have that. Also huge update on our new media imbecile of the day yesterday. John Fund, who wrote a completely false story about nice look at the production team. Did not know that was coming. Got a little bit of an update on that big show today. A lot talk about Pete Hanks. That's up on the Hill. It's going as planned. Democrats saying stupid shit, Pete making them look like idiots. We'll have full coverage on that Today radio show tomorrow, all that stuff. But there's a lot going on. Preborn rescues unborn babies from abortion. When a woman considering an abortion sees her child's on ultrasound, the baby's chances at life could double. Just go to preborn.com bongino Today's show also brought to you by Not Definitely not, the National Review article. There we go. Patriot Mobile. We may have won the election, but the fight to restore the great nation is only beginning. Now is the time to take a stand and Patriot Mobile is leading the charge. 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Get a free month of service with the promo code Dan. Switch to Patriot Mobile today and defend freedom with every call and text you make. Go to patriotmobile.com dan or call 972-patriot all right, fellas, let's go. I will get to the inauguration In a second. First, a development major groundbreaking. Like a level 72 earthquake, even though they're not measured in 72 levels. National Review. John Fund added this little liner after completely fabricating a story that radio talk show host Dan Bongino is in the kitchen cabinet of advisers to Donald Trump and had a role in choosing Pete Hanks at the Matt Gates. He added this cowardly paragraph, though Bongino denies any role in their selection. Any idea, Michael, why I would deny any role in their selection? Any idea at all? Because I had a massive role. So massive it resembled a freaking donut or a goose egg. 0 John, I really suggest you just retract this altogether. We're not going to stop. I'm sorry, but I'm just not going to let you media people continue to lie that anyone you don't like who supports Donald Trump. We're not all robots. We're not morons. Whether you think I'm an intelligent guy or an idiot, I don't really care. I give zero Fs about that. I'm just saying, ladies and gentlemen, these people make stuff up. John will not retract the article. He'll just put a denial in there. That way he can look like it's my job to deny a false charge. This is what they do. This is exactly what you get out of National Review. Just grow some balls, fellas. Retract it. Say you made a mistake, you were misled. You cannot provide a shred of evidence. I've offered you $100,000 in cash to prove to me I had any role in selecting these two individuals at all. You can't. You can't. Pete's up there today. He's doing a great job. We'll have some clips for you tomorrow and later. It's going to be a long hearing, folks. It's the typical stuff. Pete, we hear you hate women. Pete, of course, is not hate women. It's a nonsensical, stupid thing. They're trying to get the when did you stop beating your wife question. Because this is what democr Democrats do. Let me get to a really important story today, something I have been deeply involved in, folks. And again, you know, in contrast to what John Fund is telling you, I have very little if any relationship whatsoever at all with the Trump transition team. I'm telling you, most of these radio and TV people out there, not all, a lot of good guys. I don't want to, you know, begrudge anyone their radio skills or talents. But a lot of people try to tell you they have relationships with people in power to look important. I pride myself on the opposite, on not having relationships with people in power. Ok. Or relationships that would blind me from being able to criticize the obvious. I don't have this kind of relationship with these people. I would like to talk to them about the inauguration. They've not reached out. That's okay. They may have other people. I mean it. I'm not the only person calling attention to this. But I just want to show you how these people are so full of shit on the, on the, even on the, on the anti Trump right and the left, they make this stuff up. So here's the bad news. First, about the inauguration. You're asking me, do I think the inauguration is safe? After yesterday's briefing, my answer is probably not. And it pains me to say that now. It's one of those things I'm speculating. The inauguration, ladies and gentlemen, hasn't happened yet. I'm just afraid that the people in charge at the top of the Secret Service and certainly at the FBI do not know what they're doing. In case you're asking, by the way, about bona fees in this situation. You know what? I'd ask you guys to take that picture off the wall, but I don't know how heavy it is. There is a picture on the wall right over there in the studio behind me of the Daily News. It is me at Barack Obama's inauguration where I. Is that too heavy? Look at Michael. Michael's like a big hockey dude. He's like 7ft tall. I wasn't sure if. Here. Thank you, Michael. Here. Okay, so here it is. You can see me in the corner right there in the law. Is that me? Right? No, the other side. Sorry, everything's backwards. Okay. That's me on my. With my right hand. So. Thank you, Michael. I appreciate it. So there's the bona fetis. That was a cover of the New York Daily News. My shoulders hurt. Now. That thing weighs five pounds. It looked like it weighed 50. Of course, Michael manhandles and I'm like, ah, proving my point. That these are all show muscles that don't even work anymore. It's all for show. You want to kick my ass? You probably could, but I was responsible for the section of the presidential inaugural route for Barack Obama's first inauguration. And I was specifically responsible for the most important section. Again, you're free to foil the Secret Service and ask about this stuff. The. The section, as you can see in the picture, it's very straight. Very straight. It's like this. The thing is like this. That they're like, is this straight? Just. We'll put it up later. Very. Yes. Key. Totally straight right there. I was responsible for the section where Barack Obama was to get out of the car. So let me just say this. I think if President Trump, at this point, given the people in charge of the Secret Service at the top and their known incompetence, I think if President Trump were to stay in the car and forgo the walk, I would be comfortable. I have not been briefed in on the security plan. I wish I was. I would like to review it myself because I've done it before and I want to see what they're looking at. I know exactly what it's supposed to look like. Now, here's the bad news first. Okay, I said I get to it. The FBI, who I don't trust, as far as I could throw the FBI. This is very short. This is a manager at the FBI, obviously responsible for a portion of the inaugural security. Here he is saying that they're not tracking any threats. Do you really believe that there are no threats to the inauguration? Are you insane? Whatever the FBI says these days, I tend to believe the opposite. Check this out. We are not currently tracking any specific or credible threats to the inaugural ceremony or to the Capitol complex. We will continue to work closely with our partners to share information and identify and disrupt any threats that may emerge. Okay, that's the bad news. Why is that the bad news? Because, again, I don't trust the FBI. And I tend to believe, given their credibility on prior issues, which is zero, I tend to believe the opposite of what they're saying. I would almost rather the FBI come out and say we're tracking very serious threats than because then I would believe they were doing something about it. The problem is there probably are very serious threats. Again, I have not been briefed in on the matter. Of course, he could be telling the truth, and I hope he is. I just don't trust them. Why do I not trust the FBI? Because there's no reason to trust the FBI when It comes to anything involving Donald Trump because they've been on the opposite side of the truth of nearly every major scandal involving the FBI. It's going to take a long time to rebuild trust. Once Cash Patel hopefully gets confirmed. Here's the good news. I'm going to tell you this part in advance and I'm going to be. I'm not biased here because I know this individual well. I promise you. I knew Ron Roe well, the director too. And Ron screwed up bad. The acting director now, and he needs to go. It's not personal. Ron was very nice to me when I was on the detail. Ron is not qualified to be the Secret Service director. I'm sorry, but based on what happened in Butler and what happened in Palm beach, he's just not. There's only so many failures where you're. And by the way, January 6th, too, where he was also in the management chain. He's not qualified. The guy in charge of what we call wfo, the Washington Field Office, who is basically running on the ground inaugural security from a management perspective is this guy. His name is Matt McCool. His name is public. I'm not giving anything up. He briefed yesterday, so it's not like I'm giving up his name. Um, he gave a public briefing yesterday. I know Matt very well. I've got a very, very long work history with him. Long, a lot longer than I had with Ron Rowe. Matt is a very competent guy. Matt is a very smart guy. Matt knows protection. Matt very importantly, knows tactical work as well. Has a lot of experience on the tactical side. He's overseeing this. Here he is during the briefing yesterday saying that they're looking at out of the box thinking on this one. I hope he's correct. But check this out.