Transcript of I Warned You (Ep. 2636)

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This episode of The Dan Bongino Show, recorded the morning after the midterm elections, centers on Bongino's reaction to Democratic setbacks and his argument that the party is fracturing. He discusses low midterm turnout among Republicans, the narrow North Carolina Senate result, and newly filed Texas bills that he says show what voters are getting.

Much of the show addresses the attempted impeachment of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, including the failed House vote, the debate over what impeachment is meant for, and comments from several commentators and lawmakers. Bongino also presents clips on Iran policy and immigration and urges Republicans to push judicial confirmations during the remaining 60 days of the current Congress.

Listeners will hear the host's perspective and the arguments of the figures he quotes, which he does not always fully represent.

In this episode Dan Bongino

This episode's transcript was made with HappyScribe's AI meeting transcription, the same technology used for Hegseth impeachment coverage and midterm election talk.

Speaker 100:00:03

All America, all the time: sit down, buckle up, and get ready for "The Dan Bongino Show."

Dan Bongino00:00:10

Okay, a lot in the first couple seconds of the show. First, a big thank you. Second, the Dem implosion, liberal implosion, commie implosion—although I said the same thing twice—has already begun. No, it hasn't. Yes, it has. Receipts incoming. Dan, Tuesday was awful. Tuesday's over. It's already next Wednesday. I told you, this is not the show for crying or whining. This is the show that wants to save this country, and every 2 years this comes up.

We win some, we lose some, we dust off, we get back in the fight. And right away, in the beginning of the show, you know when I tell you 10, 10, and 10 before every election? It is not hard. Bring 10 people with you, send 10 emails to 10 people, make 10 phone calls. If even 20 or 30 viewers of this show—we're not even a minute in, or a minute 30 in, excuse me, we have 13,600 people here—if even a sliver of them were to do that, I want you to show how much your vote matters.

"Oh, my vote doesn't matter." No, I promise you, it does. Thank you, of course, to our veterans. More on that in a minute. You're the best. I put in the chat—I've been in the chat all morning—the global war on terror veterans, veterans who fought in any armed combat, our veterans who served in support roles. You're all heroes and patriots, and you will always have a special place on this show. Thank you. That flag over my shoulder is not a decoration. More on that in a second. Hey, I've been telling you about Patriot Mobile for several years. Many of you made the switch.

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I was the lead advance agent. And they put me up in this conex box. It's like a shipping container they converted to a room. And I got to tell you, it was not bad. You know, you're living in a war zone in Afghanistan, but it wasn't too bad. I was there for a couple weeks. And I will never forget, you know, out there, for all the folks who were on Bagram, anyone in the chat, I mean, there's dirt and dust everywhere. These guys were living in these hooches forever. I was gone in a couple of weeks back home in my house in Savernah Park at the time.

And I just, I bring it up because sometimes people say, "Oh, thanks for serving," and I appreciate it, but it's nothing compared to what you did if you were a veteran of our armed forces. Nothing. I mean it. That's not some coy thing or fake humility. You all are the best of us. Freedom is not going to defend itself. It's not going to save itself. We would have been invaded 250 years ago and wiped out completely if it wasn't for Revolutionary War veterans, 1812 heroes who fought for civil rights in the Civil War.

Everything from Vietnam. My uncle died there. He has pictures on our wall here. Thank you so much. We owe you a debt of gratitude that's hard to repay. Here were President Trump's comments today on our veterans. And let me tell you something. I worked for the man. You know, criticize him all you want on the other side of the aisle, but don't dare, don't dare say he doesn't love and respect. I mean it. The top of the totem pole of respect and love are our servicemen and women.

Dan Bongino00:06:01

Check this out.

Speaker 300:06:02

This morning, on these hallowed grounds where generations of American heroes rest in eternal glory, we gather to fulfill the sacred duty of every free man and woman. On Veterans Day, we honor those who have worn the uniform, who have worn the battle, who have stood to watch, whose ranks have formed the mighty wall of flesh and blood, bravery and devotion that has defended our freedom for 250 years.

Today, to every veteran, we say the words too often left unsaid: thank you for your service. Each of you has earned the respect and the gratitude of our entire nation. We love you, we salute you, and we will never forget what you have done to keep America safe, sovereign, and free.

Dan Bongino00:06:59

I can't say thank you enough. Some imagery there of, I mean, heroes. You're talking about young men here, you know, they're sub-20 years old, 18 and 19-year-olds, saving the world. On this show, you will always be number one. Always. Thank you to our American veteran servicemembers, to those here, to those not here. I would give you the heart thing with my elbow, but my elbow doesn't bend that far. We love you.

Show some love in the chat, folks. Show our veterans out there what they mean. American flags in the chat, if you don't mind. I don't give orders on the show. I'm just part of this Bongino crew we have out here. But put American flags in the chat. Show our veterans how much they mean. Folks, before I get to the Dem implosion happening already—Dan, how is it happening already? They had such a big victory. Look at that. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Yes, I told you. Ladies and gentlemen, please listen to your buddy Dan. I've been in this business a long time. Candidate, activist, host, whatever, who cares?

Political revolutions happen like that. We lost. Yeah, we lost Tuesday. It's already next Wednesday. It's time to move on and fix it. Wow, that's a lot of American flags. Only we can do that on this chat. But you've got to get out and vote. Ladies and gentlemen, I told you pre-Election Day last week, elections are not hard. Yes, raising money is hard, getting people out to vote is hard, but analyzing elections is not hard. You either show up and win or you don't show up.

Democrats showed up en masse. It was just a turnout effort like I've never seen in my life. However, there are some bright spots. There are not a lot of them. Very few. The ballot referendums went pretty well. But I want to show you this post I saw this morning about North Carolina. To hammer home my point: stop telling yourself, if you believe this, "Oh, my vote doesn't matter whether I show up or not in the midterms." I say this—leave this up for a second, guys—because a family member by marriage—I'm going to leave out who it is.

It's one of my brother's family members, right? By marriage. Is very politically active. Republican. And she told my brother, which stunned me. She was like, "Oh, you know, I don't really vote in midterms. I hold out for it." And we got her there. Don't get me wrong. But it took a while to convince her that that made a difference. Look at these numbers. The Republican in the North Carolina Senate District, Danny Brentt, he won by 228 votes when provisional votes were counted.

Now, why does that matter? Well, it matters because the Republican won this state Senate seat. But ladies and gentlemen, look at this. The entire control of the North Carolina State Senate relied on this one seat. It's been decided by only 228 votes. Was not a good night. There's no pig lipstick. But thank the Lord the Democrats in North Carolina don't have the governorship, the House, and the North Carolina Senate. Your vote matters.

Folks, we got to get better at this turning out in midterms. And listen, I get it. The Texas numbers. I'm still trying to get my arms around that. Again, I don't talk about things until I have evidence. I think it's just irresponsible to do that. The Texas numbers are odd, to say the least. However, however, we, the Republican Party—you can look this up, by the way—the Republican Party used to kick ass in midterms. We used to do exceptionally well.

Now it's inverted. We are getting smoked in every single midterm. That starts now. Getting people registered, getting gun owners registered, getting pro-lifers registered, getting evangelicals registered, Christians, Catholics, religious voters, Jewish voters who are pissed off with the fake free Palestine movement. We've got to get these people registered. We are getting smoked. This is not the first time. Folks, listen.

We got smoked in the Biden midterms. But, Dan, we won 9 seats. They just won 50. Maybe more. Biden had 9% inflation, a garbage economy, COVID where he completely mismanaged it. He was all into the DEI, the wokeness. He had the worst cabinet I've ever seen: Lloyd Austin, Darth Vader face mask guy, Javier Baccaria, Susan Rice. They only lost 9 seats.

They ginned up their turnout. We have got to get better at the midterms, or we are going to continue. The beatings will continue until morale improves. It starts now. For those doing the work, thank you. For those who are only active during presidential years, thank you for doing that. But we've got to do more. We have to. Why? Because the Democrat implosion, ladies and gentlemen, has already started. I told you political revolutions happen quick.

Tattoo this on your brain. The Tea Party revolution started with a CNBC hit by Rick Santelli complaining about Barack Obama. Barack Obama was in office for 30 freaking days when the Tea Party revolution happened. We took 63 seats in that midterm. A modern-day record. Here, look at these turnout numbers over time. They went from 38.9 million to 35.4 to 60 to 51 to 65.4 in midterm elections.

65.4. We got to get better. Look at Republican turnout. It's generally static, if not going down. We can't do that. The Dem implosion has already begun. Cannibalism theory, which is one of the staples of this show. The Democrats will always, like that Viggo Mortensen movie I love, by the way, The Road. I love these apocalyptic movies. They are so amazing. I watch them all the time. I loved that movie that was at the Dog Stars.

It got some bad reviews. I thought it was freaking amazing. I love those movies. The Road, Book of Eli. I can't get enough of them. The Survivalist. Highly recommend that one. Fantastic. The Left. They always wind up eating people in those movies. The Road, they've got like a stock of people downstairs. They eat them. It's really gross. Don't eat people. It's very bad for your health. And you don't want to kill people to eat them. Maybe we should make that one of the golden rules. However, the Democrats always eat themselves alive, figuratively.

Always. Because their entire base are radical lunatics. I said to you yesterday, Republicans, I'm proud of you. MAGA people, I'm proud of you. We have isolated out. You saw with this Massey—by the way, I have live footage of Massey yesterday with his buddy communist Ro Khanna. I have live. Did you hear that? Yeah, folks, you're going to hear a lot of that if that came over. It's the Stewart Air Show. That was probably a sounds like a jet overhead. There is not an invasion of Stewart, Florida.

I promise you. Did you hear that in the chat? Let me know. Because that was really loud. It's not an invasion. We're okay. Don't call 911. I have live footage of Tom Massey getting smoked yesterday. Total implosion of his dopey impeachment thing. Him and communist buddy Ro Khanna. You have that tweet I put up there? This is it. These guys, they're just melting down. I've never seen anything like this. Look at them. Oh my gosh. There they are. There's Massey, the hippo guy, and Ro Khanna. I saw this Giphy yesterday.

For those of you listening on radio, it's a Giphy. Check out my ex account. Live footage. Live footage. The implosion started already. They were already eating themselves alive. Why did we do this? These are Democrats talking. Why did we fall into this Massey trap? Now we look like idiots. 11 members of the Democrat caucus didn't even show up to vote. Read their comments on X. They're all ready to kill each other. They haven't even sworn in yet. Mudleys. Folks, that's the best Giphy I've ever seen.

All right, enough of that Giphy.

Speaker 400:15:41

AI or not?

Dan Bongino00:15:42

No, that's not AI. Come on, guys. I know someone put in the comments yesterday on X. They're like, Dan, you should have. Of course it's AI. They said you should have asked your team if it's AI. It's freaking funny, though. I'm sorry. That's one of the best. And now with this new X feature, you can just tap on the GIF and you can paste it right into it. I didn't know you could do that. I'm not the most tech savvy. I don't run all my social media, but X, I'm on. Folks, they're making each other crazy and they haven't even sworn in yet. I told you, man. They showed up for Biden in the midterms despite the worst presidency in modern times.

The Democrats dusted off after Trump won term 47. They dusted off and came right back in the midterms. Now it's our turn to do the same thing, okay? Here's political playbook just this morning. The radical lunatics, the Ro Khanna commies and the others and the DSA commies, Daria Lisa Chevouyet, and all these other crazy people who just got the Colorado lady, they're already bitching and moaning. They have not even picked a freaking majority leader speaker yet.

Here's playbook this morning. This rep-elect, Dan Coe, warned that the Democrats risk letting down their energized base if their first act is anointing Hakeem Jeffries as speaker without delivering a bold policy agenda. What's their bold policy agenda? A vote for Jeffries without talking about the agenda is going to be a deflating moment. I'm not going to lie, Coe said. They want Medicare for all. The first thing they want to do. They are basically holding Hakeem Jeffries, who's a radical lunatic himself.

He was all in on this stupid impeachment they face planted on. I showed you the live footage. The first vote they want, if they're going to elect Jeffries, is to steal your healthcare plan and cancel and put you on government healthcare. That's what Medicare for all. They mean for all. They're not kidding. Read the Bernie Sanders Medicare for All bill. Please, please. I'm not asking you to trust me, bro. Read the bill. It requires no trust at all. It just requires edumication. It will make your healthcare plan unlawful.

You will be stuck on government rationed insurance. It's the first thing they want. The implosion has already begun. Look at the implosion in Texas. There are voters right now in Texas. Ladies and gentlemen, I discussed yesterday. Elections have consequences, okay? But I discussed on yesterday's show, do they really have consequences in California and New York?

Liberals in California and New York have destroyed the states. People are leaving en masse. You can barely get a freaking U-Haul out of California for a reasonable price anymore. So many people are moving out of California and New York. And yet they just voted en masse for the same crap. People are leaving. But elections do have consequences in Texas. I want you to look at this post. Chesty Puller. Some of you know that hero. Chesty Pullergat@Chesty or Chesty on X.

Texas, the Democrats have already pre-filed a bunch of bills for the next session. Now, if you voted in Texas and you were under the sad illusion or delusion that you were voting for affordability or the economy or whatever the hell you think you were voting for, here's the bills you're going to get in Texas. Shoved right down your throat, kicking you right in the nuts. Legalize PAC, redistrict the state to ensure a full Democrat majority. Red flag laws for your firearms.

Property tax increases, expanded eligibility for government-run Medicaid, including low-income individuals. New rules on water rights, new rules on subdivisions, electric utility monopolies, raising the state minimum wage to $15 an hour, which will crush your economy. Prohibition of border security measures on state park lands. Look at it. It goes on and on and on. They have 1,084 pre-filed bills. Where's Justin?

The one about affordability they filed. Oh, it's. He cut off the tweet. He clearly. It's up. Why are they? Whithout. Wow, you're not even old enough for Whithout. Justin doesn't know what Whithout is. Whithout. Jasmine just told me. She's not even old enough for that. I'm far older than her and Justin. It's not on there. They want to designate August in Texas Firearm Safety Awareness Month. Use public funds for lobbying activities. I thought you were voting on affordability.

You were voting on a kick in the nuts. That's what you voted on. The nuts. You have nuts. Even if you don't have nuts. You voted on a kick, the gonads, the testes, whatever. If you're a female, and yes, I know what a female is, you don't have those. You got kicked somewhere else it hurts. Under the arms, whatever. Kicks don't feel good anywhere. Solar plexus. I can't breathe. You just got kicked in the nuts.

But I voted on affordability. You got worked. I don't even like that RuPaul guy. You bad at work. You got worked. Rug pull. Someone get me a no. Don't say get me a mini rug. You just got rug pulled. And nothing in any of those things is going to do anything for the Texas economy other than crushing it. Here, your new governor, who I played the video last week, Gina Hinojosa, wants to destroy your school choice program to rip your kids out of a school you pick into a school she picks for you.

She also wants to declare a high-cost energy emergency and freeze residential electric rates because price controls are so effective. I've told you over and over, price controls cause increased demand, decreased supply, quality problems, and black markets coming your way in Texas. Good luck. You know, the Texas grid already has problems due to some mismanagement by Republicans and Democrats. This lady, your new governor, is about to make it 10 times worse. Good job for all the crossover Republicans who thought they were voting on affordability. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. I'm not here to make fun of you. I'm sorry. You got worked. You got suckered You know, it happens. But political revolutions happen quick. Can you imagine being in Texas and filing anti-Second Amendment, anti-farm, anti-beef, anti-Aglo in Texas? Anti Justin goes oil. Anti-petrochemicals, oil and gas.

Listen to all the liberals out there who may live in Texas, but you live in like little bubble communities and you only talk to each other. I'm going to help you. There's a documentary series out there. It's a documentary called Landman. What? What? Justin's levy. That's not a documentary? That's not a documentary. Oh, I didn't know that. I thought it was a documentary. I'm kidding. Obviously, for the dumbasses at Media Matters. It's not a It could be a documentary. I encourage you to watch it like a documentary.

Dan Bongino00:23:10

I don't think it's a good idea. Maybe you should go to that fictitious bar. What's it called? The Patch? And talk to some people. Maybe filing bills to take away oil production, to take away their firearms, to pull their kids out of schools they like and crush the already struggling grid in Texas. Maybe it's not a good idea. I'm not saying. I'm just saying, as they used to say in Queens. Folks, political revolutions happen quick. This is not the Crying or Whining Show.

It's not the Black Pilling Show. It's not the Doomers Show. It's not the Let's Sign Up with a bunch of Democrats to try to get Secretary Hegseth and American Patriot impeached. This is not that show. Folks, elections have consequences. A bunch of people voted on the economy thinking Democrats were somehow going to save them. Why did you think that? This is why I'm not mad at people. Me being mad doesn't do any good. I live politics for a living.

Some people just watch a news clip once in a while. They've got jobs and kids. I understand. But you voted wrong. I'm going to show you how the media sets up a story, not, in fact, the story. I'm going to show you this clip of Rubio. It's about Iran, but we've discussed that at length yesterday. I'm not getting into that again today. This clip, it's about Iran, but it's not. It's more about how you have to accept at some point that the media telling you a story, the media, Donald Trump was bad on the economy, despite all the data indicating otherwise, is a story.

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Inflation is under control better than it was under Biden, but it's still not great. Real wages have to catch up, but there's no question. Median household income is at record highs. Unemployment is at record lows. We've had some decent gains in the market for your retirement plans, your 401(k)s. We have had basically an explosion and renaissance of domesticated US manufacturing in the United States. These are really good numbers, but the media told you otherwise. Watch how Rubio here, when asked about Iran, doesn't accept the premise of the question at all.

He doesn't fall for this trick because once you answer a story question and not the story question, the cement's already dry. No matter what you say, you say, when did you stop beating your wife? No matter how you answer, you always lose. The answer is to never answer the question when it's not a question, but an assertion. Check this out.

Speaker 100:27:51

Why is a stalemate on the Iran war beneficial to the United States?

Speaker 300:27:55

It's not a stalemate. You call it a stalemate. It's not a stalemate. How is it a stalemate? The United States is imposing extraordinary damaging effects through our sanctions and other measures and the blockade on the Iranian economy that every month continues to collapse. What is their inflation rate? Is it 3 or 400% now? I don't know how that's a stalemate. They're bleeding. They're bleeding economically. But that's not a stalemate. That's actually not the contrary of a stalemate. It is an increased pressure on Iran that continues to grow every day.

Dan Bongino00:28:24

Again, we discussed at length Iran and I'm happy to address that too. It is not a stalemate. It is not a stalemate. We control the strait. The Iranian economy is falling apart. I'm not telling you and never will quiet on the matter. God forbid. What kind of moron would say that to people when our heroic veterans, active duty service members, people have died. It is our obligation to ask questions. This is a consent of the governed society. That's what this is. However, that was not a question.

That was not a question. There was no question mark at the end of that. It was an assertion. Oh, we already lost like a stalemate. He's like, what are you talking about? That's how we get people in Texas voting for Democrats, thinking they were voting for lower gas prices, voting for their Second Amendment rights, voting to protect life, and voting on their economy and their wallets. You accept the premise of the question. Don't do that. Because folks, the implosion on the Democrat side has already begun. They are already backfire.

They're biting at each other's ankles. They're like a flock of mosquitoes. Down here in Florida with all the rain, we had a freaking explosion of mosquitoes. Thank God the dragonflies showed up in my house and ate some of them. I got like eaten alive out there one morning doing some grounding. The Democrats are sucking the blood right now out of their own movement. They have not even sworn in yet. I want you to watch this yesterday. You want to talk about buyer's remorse? This is a congressman elect out of New Jersey.

If you didn't see this, you need to. His name is Adam Hamawe. Ladies and gentlemen, to talk about questionable ties and a national security threat are understating the issue with this guy. This dude is going to be swearing into Congress. He has asked the simplest of questions on CNN. The simplest of questions. You want to talk about buyer's remorse already? You really want this guy to be in the face of your party?

You can't even answer simple national security questions about the United States? Look this guy up. You want this guy to be the face of your party? God forbid there's a terror attack or an international incident. You sure you want this clip out there? When the Iranians try to kill more because they've been killing us for 47 years. Kill more US servicemen and women and civilians? You sure you want this clip out there? Check this out.

Speaker 100:30:58

Do you see Iran as the adversary and Israel as an ally to the US?

Speaker 400:31:03

Well, now what I see is that we were pushed into this war by Israel. It's not helping Americans. Americans didn't ask for it. It's illegal. It's immoral. And at this point, I think the United States and the Iranis want this war to end.

Speaker 100:31:18

Do you see Iran as the adversary?

Speaker 400:31:20

I see we pushed them into a fight. And so I think we both have to step back and say, is this helping either one of us?

Speaker 100:31:28

Are they the adversary?

Speaker 400:31:30

We're making adversaries when we should be making friends.

Speaker 100:31:33

They've been saying death to America for decades.

Speaker 400:31:35

We've been saying death to Iran for decades as well. And so what we need to do is use diplomacy.

Speaker 100:31:41

They've killed a lot of Americans.

Speaker 400:31:42

And we've killed a lot of them as well.

Dan Bongino00:31:46

All right, guys. I need a marker. 10, 32, 31. Adam Hawawe, go fuck yourself. Go fuck yourself. Like yourself. Take it, spin it around. Sorry, Jim. I want to cut that out for radio. Pretty sure that would. Think that violates SCC rules? Maybe a little bit. Go.

For radio, friendly version. Go yourself. Fill in the blank. Sorry, guys. I know there may be some kids watching. What do the kids say? Bye bad. The Iranians have been murdering our people, the mullahocracy, for close to 50 years. Beirut, Lebanon, Gulf War. They have been murdering our people. They tried to murder. Matter of fact, they would have been successful at Cafe Milano.

They've tried to kill people on American soil. They have engaged in endless lethal plotting against American government officials, including Donald Trump, the president, and others. And this scumbag, yes, you, Adam, you chump coward. Look, I'm looking at you. I'm looking at you and there's nothing you'll do about it because you're a coward and a chump. And yes, another man will talk to you like that. There's nothing you can do because you're a this is the face of your new movement.

Good luck, Dems. Wait till the Iranians, which have endlessly targeted our people, Club America, all around the world, kill someone else. We're going to play that clip. Take a note on the board. Adam Hawawe. We're going to play that clip every single time. Folks, this is who the Democrats are. They told you in Texas and elsewhere they were running on your wallet and affordability and gas prices.

The moment they get in there, they're big fans of Iran, the death to America regime. They want to take away your guns. They want to increase your taxes, cancel your healthcare plan, and pull your kid out of a school you pick. I don't know where affordability comes in. You got rug pulled. You got here's Jason Crowe, another guy who, again, I can't say this enough that I spoke about this relationship to Massey yesterday.

Folks, I'm not suggesting to you that of his seven-year term, he's never done anything good. I'm not telling you that. I'm telling you what he's done lately has been disgraceful. Jason Crowe served in our military. Thank you for your service. That does not make this guy today any less of a moron. He is a Democrat. He won on Fox News yesterday and basically admitted that this impeachment of Secretary Hegseth, which flopped on its face and was like the opening act for the clown show Democrats as they continue to implode and eat themselves alive, he admitted that it was basically a personnel move.

Wait. Justin, you got a copy of the Constitution. When it talks about impeachment, does it say high crimes, misdemeanors, and what we believe to be personnel mistakes? There's no HR provision in there in the Constitution. Justin's saying there isn't. He says impeachment's about high crimes and misdemeanors. Here's Jason Crowe basically admitting like, nah, this was really just about firing Pete Hegseth.

Firing. Last time I checked, you're not the commander in chief. You don't get to do that. Check this out.

Speaker 100:35:48

I understand that you are against war, but the things that you're mentioning are not the things that are in the articles of impeachment. You're talking about these sort of like millions of people wish that he wasn't the Secretary of War, which is just sort of an amorphous idea. You have these charges of impeachment, which have to do with the War Powers Act, and you're not addressing that at all because we all know that every president since World War II has acted in terms of offensives around the world without having the War Powers Act.

Dan Bongino00:36:18

We're going to move forward with the impeachment, but let's just end it. I would love to end the impeachment proceedings. Just fire Pete Hegseth. Make the course correction that millions of Americans have implored you to make. Let's wrap this war up so we can bring down prices. We can bring our military home. We can build the strong military that we deserve. That is what the president must do.

Speaker 100:36:37

You can say that all you want about millions of Americans. The choice is that you just clarified that he serves at the choice of the president of the United States. It's always the case.

Dan Bongino00:36:48

And Donald Trump can end all of this right now. He can end all of this right now.

Speaker 100:36:52

But it's up to him to decide. This was not an election about Pete Hegseth. It was an election about members of.

Dan Bongino00:37:01

Now, why does the Dan Bongino Show, eponymously named, why did we play this clip of Jason Crowe? Because folks, Jason Crowe, that Democrat clown you just heard, is considered a air quotes moderate. They're going to engage in another, I promise you, some impeachment is not done. Massey face planted, but the Democrats, when they get a majority, will likely impeach Hegseth.

This is not over. This is not over. This guy's considered a moderate. This is one of those guys by the left who you thought was getting in there to be a counterweight to President Trump, to vote on the economy and gas prices. The first interview he does, what's he talking about? He better fire Hegseth. That's not what impeachment's for, you chucklehead. Did you read the Constitution you swore to defend and uphold?

There is no provision in the Constitution for HR issues, political HR problems, which is not a problem at all. I love what Pete's done. You want to talk about a party that is completely, totally out of touch? Well, Dan, the Republicans lost last week. Listen, the messaging wasn't right. The media didn't help. No excuses. We got to figure something out and fix it. We fixed it before. Maybe we need a new contract with America.

I don't know. There's time. There's not time to fix it, but there's time to develop the strategy and get it right before the Democrats swear in. We've got 60 days, and I'll show you what I mean in a minute. We've got the opportunity to set the contrast right now. Democrats want to do endless impeachments? Folks, they really believe you voted for this. When I say you, we have some listeners out here who are Blue Dog Democrats who may be in West Virginia or elsewhere, your union workers, and you really think the Democrats were there to help you on your wallet.

They are not. Here is Ro Khanna, Tom Massey's buddy. This is his wing man. He's communist, but these two are like two peas in a freaking dopey ass pod. Here's Ro Khanna yesterday like, hey, man, we're coming back for this. We're going to continue to fight. You guys are really out of touch. You guys, no, no, you guys are really out of touch. Nobody voted for this. Check this out.

Speaker 500:39:30

Pete Hegseth's impeachment vote just failed. Not a single Republican voted for impeachment other than Thomas Massey. This Republican Party is totally out of touch. At a time where voters said end the war in Iran, the Republicans are still lined up behind Donald Trump. We will continue the fight to impeach Hegseth and end the war in Iran.

Dan Bongino00:39:54

Folks, I told you this guy was the biggest clown. There they are. Live footage. Massey and Ro falling on their faces, looking like complete tool bags, wasting the public's time on a flop of an impeachment on an American hero who had to make some hard decisions along with President Trump. Who is the commander in chief? Thankfully, it's not Ro the fraud Khanna. Folks, the Dems are already eating themselves up.

Okay, receipts. Receipts incoming, as always. I told you, this is not the whiny Crybaby Show at all. This is for Team Bongino, Team Conservative, Team MAGA, Team America. It's time to get together and move on. We got things we can do in these 60 days. Let the Democrats eat each other alive while we get more judges passed through. We fix this permitting reform thing and we show the American people, yeah, okay, we may have screwed up, but there's no time for screwing up anymore. We got 60 days of a majority and we're going to use it.

Here's CNN. Here's a commentator. I think his name is David Urban. He's talking about how this was a total flop yesterday, a total strategic complete failure on the part of the Democrats and their buddy Massey. Not only does Pete Hegseth come out of this stronger, but the Democrats look absolutely feckless. 11 of them didn't even show up. They didn't even care enough to show up. I thought this was so important, getting rid of Pete Hegseth because you don't like the president's HR picks.

Check this out.

Speaker 600:41:32

Quote Frederick Nietzsche, what does not kill me makes me stronger. Tonight, Pete Hegseth is stronger than he was this afternoon and this morning, largely because of Democrat incompetence. You heard Congresswoman Houlihan, Congresswoman Cortesio asking like, where were my colleagues? Where are the 11 colleagues that showed up? Could have tipped the scales here. It doesn't bode well for Democrats in the next Congress if they can't get their act together and show up to vote on something that they say is so incredibly important. So big W for Hegseth and the president.

Dan Bongino00:42:05

They just got smoked, folks. Listen, there's no pig lipstick. Tuesday night was an abomination. Did anybody come in the next day and go, eh, that was great. It was all awesome. Don't worry about it. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Nobody did that. We did terrible. Recognize it, move on. The Democrats cannot. They can't even take the W. They have not even won an election a week ago. They're not even sworn in and they're already kicking each other's in the sack.

They're already, you got to read the comments online. You bums, we want Medicare for all. You should have impeached them. Where were these 11 zeros who didn't show up? It gets worse. Here's Aaron Burnett's show last night. Folks, you've got to win the media cycle every day now. The days of watching CBS, NBC, and ABC for national stories are over. Okay? I grew up in that era.

I'm 51. Going to be 52 in early December. I'm getting old, man. I am getting old. I remember growing up in the Reagan years where you had to turn on the evening news to hear about a national story. Surely, Dan, you could tune into cable. There was no cable. It was in its infancy. Surely you could go on the interwebs. Really? Didn't even exist outside of DARPA.

That doesn't happen anymore. The news cycle changes like that. Political revolutions happen fast. The Democrats could have been this week celebrating, building a donor base again, building up for 2028, putting out some contract with America. What are they doing? They're kicking each other's sacks in over a stupid impeachment thing led over the cliff by their buddy Massey, and now they all look like complete tool bags. They're getting dragged online, every one of them, Massey included, because they look like losers.

Here was CNN, Aaron Burnett's show last night, basically talking about Dems just completely blew it. You killed your own news cycle. Tools. Check this out.

Speaker 100:44:32

Also be clear that it's not just about impeachment because I don't want this just to be about removal from office or being ineligible for office again. If someone committed a crime and they are guilty of a crime, then they should be prosecuted under the same rule of law that any layperson and any citizen would be subject to.

Speaker 500:44:57

How high do you go? Do you go after Trump? I mean, do you try to impeach Trump?

Speaker 100:45:01

I mean, I think we should leave all options on the table. Absolutely. I mean, of course, this Supreme Court as well has also kind of legalized a lot of his criminality and they're pointing at impeachment. Impeachment in this Republican majority at that time was pointing at the Supreme Court. So we'll see. We'll approach it, but I think all options are on the table.

Dan Bongino00:45:22

I want to be clear to you, you should wake up today, not elated about any of the political news, obviously, that's happened over the last week, which was horrendous for the Republican Party. But you can smile a little bit this morning that their lead contender for 2028, arguably, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, that the TV time last night on lunatic CNN and elsewhere, instead of talking about the agenda, how we're going to roll this into taking back the government, whatever BS you want to talk about, what are they doing?

They're complaining about 11 members who didn't even show up for an impeachment vote that failed and probably strengthened the Trump cabinet and got Republicans at least a little bit of good news. You want to talk about losing a news cycle? You guys just dropped a huge L. And I'm not exaggerating. You had the opportunity out of the gate to do at least something on affordability and American wallets that even for you communists would have made sense. You could have said like, hey, man, we're going to do something to shore up the tax code and just make something up and act like you weren't kidding.

What do you do? You impeach the most successful secretary, defense secretary of war we've had. You fall on your face and the entire news cycle is spent apologizing for 11 imbeciles on the Democrat side that didn't even freaking show up. You do. I thought so. I got another clip coming up. I can't get enough of this. I want to show you what an L looks like. I got one, I got a good clip. Well, they're both good clips. One, the Democrats eating themselves alive, again, on CNN, and an amazing clip by, you know, Rob Finnerty from Newsmax, really great guy.

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Check them out today. Must be 18 or older and not prohibited from possessing ammunition. Must be 21 for handgun ammunition. Thank you. Ammosquared.com. I want to show you this again. One more. Laugh. Mutlies in the chat. Got to smile a little bit. You don't need to wake up every morning miserable. Politics are politics. You still live on God's beautiful green earth, blessed with the gift of life, with a bunch of patriotic sheepdogs protecting your freedom and liberty every single day. I'm still proud of this country, always will be, and we're damn well going to fight for it.

But you can laugh a little bit at these idiots face planting. Here's another CNN panel last night, Aaron Burnett's show. Like, how the hell did we screw this up? We haven't even sworn in yet. Check this out.

Speaker 100:49:23

Ocasio-Cortez is saying, well, it failed for now. And for now, I don't mean till January 3rd when Democrats control. I think Thomas Massey could do it again and succeed.

Speaker 500:49:31

He should because today is the Marine Corps birthday. Tomorrow is Veterans Day. And Pete Hegseth never should have gotten the job. He should have long ago lost the job. And every day he's in that job, he's making our country less safe. He's making it about him. He's dragging our military down. Our enemies are celebrating every single day he's in office. And it's about our national security. So yeah, the Democrats blew it tonight by not having enough people there to pass it, but they should bring it back tomorrow. Drop it on Veterans Day. You want to serve our veterans? You want to serve our military? Remove the number one problem that we have facing our military, and it's Hegseth.

And there's bipartisan support for that now, but he does want to make it about him. He wants to grandstand. He wants to amplify his profile, and he probably wants to run for president.

Dan Bongino00:50:16

First you dropped it on the Marine Corps birthday. Foot sack. The foot went to the sack. Now you want to drop it on Veterans Day thinking you're going to get a different... Yeah, that's a great idea. Yes, file them again. Great idea. You're going to get it through in the majority. You're going to lose in the Senate. And again, he even acknowledges we blew it. This is their news coverage.

Justin, what part of that was about affordability? Zero. Donut, goose egg. None of it. Folks, they rug pulled you. I'm sorry. You got played. They are obsessed with this. You hear this guy on CNN, we'll come back and back. We'll drop it on Veterans Day. That's a great idea. Drop it on Memorial Day. Great job. Let's acknowledge our heroes on Veterans Day and Memorial Day by getting rid of the secretary of war who's, I mean, recruiting through the roof.

That's a great idea. Did you see this last night? This was on Newsmax. This is Rob Finnerty. This guy's, this is awesome. Here he is yesterday talking about this Massey who's been getting dragged like a redheaded stepchild on X. I mean, embarrassing. Humiliating. Just, girl, don't go away mad. Just go away. Some of you will get that from the hairband era. Folks in the chat, where's that from?

Here's Finnerty last night on Newsmax about the sad little man. Check this out.

Speaker 600:51:59

We have is a Republican impeaching a Republican, which hasn't happened in a long time. Thomas wants you to think this is like a profile and courage. It's not. He is not. What you're witnessing is the final move of a sad little man because Thomas Massey longs for the good old days when people like this were in charge. Rachel Levine, a man who dresses as a woman, someone Joe Biden made a four-star admiral. I don't know about you, but this is exactly who I want at the helm when things start getting dicey. Damn the torpedoes.

Full speed ahead with Rachie Pooh. Of course, there's this guy, Sam Brinton. Joe Biden put Sam Brinton in charge of nuclear energy. I'm serious. But Thomas Massey wants to impeach Pete Hegseth because Thomas doesn't like Pete. Jealousy, envy, Tucker Carlson told him to do it. I don't know. Whatever you want to call it, it's definitely not about high crimes and misdemeanors, though. I know that.

Dan Bongino00:53:01

Applause. Andy, come on. Jasmine, I know you're doing something. I can't say it any better. This is what we're wasting time on? Folks, we got our asses kicked last week, okay? We now have the majority for 60 more days. You voted in the presidential election for a president, members of Congress, and the United States Senate. Their terms are not done. I'm not talking down to anyone.

I'm not trying to be a jerk. There are, however, liberals listening who don't understand how government works. They think Election Day happened and everybody goes home and then new people come in. That's not how it works. We have two more months and we are going to use it. We are not going to waste time on this garbage. It is our job to call these members of Congress, to call your United States senators, and say, yes, we got our ass kicked, but we're still paying you for two more months, right?

We're still paying you for two more months. We don't want any of this other stuff. I want to go a little out of order here. Rick Scott, put the Justin, the Rick Scott segment. Here's Rick Scott. I think he's an excellent senator from my home state of Florida. Folks, we have two appellate courts. These are hugely important courts. Hugely important. Federal court system. Everything on ruling on the Second Amendment to tax law to Obamacare. We have two hanging on the edge right now.

We could tip in a conservative direction. There are two judges sitting out there. There's also, I think, what is it? 12 to 15 circuit court judges. These are huge positions. Here's Rick Scott saying, there's no time to waste. We have 60 days. We need to work seven days a week. Why am I playing this clip? Because if the Republicans get on board, dust off, there's no whining or crying. They work really hard over the next two months. Maybe, maybe. It's not a guarantee.

Maybe you'll build back trust. Maybe. While the Democrats are arguing over how many times to impeach Pete Hegseth, the contrast would be profound and it would be a start at gaining some voters' trust back. Here's Rick Scott and they got to work. Check this out.

Speaker 700:55:28

Have you ever had a deadline to get things done? We do. The Democrats take over in January. Guess what our deadline is? That day. We've got to get all of Trump's judicial nominations done before then. If we don't work seven days a week, we're not going to get them done. So what that means is, starting today, we need to stay up here until all of these judicial nominations get confirmed because guess what? None of them will get confirmed next year.

Dan Bongino00:55:56

Folks, please call your senators and congressmen. I know the Senate, the confirmation, I get it, but call your congressmen regardless. There's a huge permitting bill that would, you want to talk about juicing the economy? That would stop environmentalists from suing on every single project you, your electrician, HVAC, plumber, carpenter, bricklayer friends are trying to work on. These are huge pieces of legislation and hugely important judicial spots. There's no time for whining. There's no time for whining. Call them today and tell them, watch Rick Scott's video.

Seven days a week. We're not asking. We're demanding it. You guys work for us. For those who lost, you got a big vacation coming up. I wish that weren't the case, but it is. But you still have 60 days. Now, do not fall for media psyops either, folks. Listen, President Trump, I've told you a thousand times, folks, he speaks in a very discursive, frank manner. He thinks things out in public. You know, he just, you wanted openness and honesty and candor in a president. He gives it to you. But you got to measure him by his results.

The 61 minutes interview, there was some discussion. Maybe he mentioned amnesty. Folks, he's not talking about amnesty. If he does and that happens, we'll cover it on the show. It's not going to happen. He was Mark Wayne Mullen, the DHS secretary, last night talking about any proposal for amnesty, how nothing is changing. Nothing is changing. Let's focus on the problems right now and not media psyops trying to get us distracted like the Democrats and Massey on this flop of an impeachment.

Check this out.

Speaker 800:57:36

Can you promise our viewers and the 77 million people who voted for President Trump that there is no change in his immigration policy?

Speaker 900:57:45

Zero change. The president made that very clear. We're still going after the worst, the worst, and amnesty will never be on the table. And keep in mind, the president has made it very clear he controls the veto. So if they were to send something over that the president and the Republicans don't agree with, he can veto it and he will veto it. He's the one that secured the border. He's the one that set out the agenda to take the worst, the worst, and restore law and order. He was the one that made America great again. He's the one that brought safety to Washington, DC, and other cities that are willing to work with us.

That includes getting our criminals off the street.

Dan Bongino00:58:21

Folks, he was thinking out loud in the interview. I am not an apologist for anyone, okay? I told you, there are issues we just don't agree on. That's fine. He has been the single most effective Republican president of my lifetime. In just two years, the border was shut, violent crime was crushed, the federal register of government red tape shrank dramatically, the federal workforce shrank for one of the first times in modern US history.

We've got manufacturing back, 3.4% growth, the big beautiful bill, no tax on tips. This has not been a year of nothing is happening. You have a Doge, oh, Doge didn't do anything. Did you even pay attention? I can tell you in the FBI alone, we cut something like three to $400 million of expenses. That's not small potatoes. The budget's only 12 to 13 billion. We cut everything from stupid magazine subscriptions to computers nobody was using.

Don't tell me it didn't have an effect. All right, did it cut 20% of the federal budget? We got to start somewhere. I don't want to get off on tangents right now. Let the Democrats implode and eat themselves alive. Stay on top of things. Keep a check on everything. The president is very responsive to his base. He obviously understands that the 61 minutes, that portion of the interview didn't go well. You think Mark Wayne Mullen's going out there making it up?

Let the Democrats implode. Let's stay focused. I know it's hard. To Republican congressmen and United States senators, you have an opportunity here to gain back trust. It's not going to be easy. It's not. I know that. I understand that. But you've got to start somewhere. We've got this 60-day period where you're still working for your constituents. Get the permitting through.

Get the judges confirmed. Act serious. Let the Democrats do their nonsense impeachments over and over. And maybe over time, people will come and pull the lever or fill in the dot for you again. Because folks, this is too serious of a time for halfway nonsense. Either go full tilt in the poker game or don't. Go in. But you got to go all in now. You got nothing left to lose.

We already lost last week. You might as well go all in. Split on some aces. You're talking about my blackjack this weekend? I did. I was the best departing hand ever. I was getting ready to leave. I was getting ready to leave and I'm like, ah, what the hell? I'm going all in. I get two aces. Dealer gets a five. Split those suckers. Blackjack dealer busts on the other one. I double down. Nice. Nice. Double down. Split the aces. Double down on both. Play match the dealer too.

Folks, it is a serious time though. I had to tell you, you know, during the tenure I worked for you all the last year in the bureau, you know, when you're working on counterterror issues, counterespionage, and international law enforcement, you don't do politics. And I didn't do politics when I was there. It wasn't my job. You weren't paying me for politics. I said this often. You were paying me to act as in to run your FBI with cash. I never heard a comment like this coming from our Canadian partners in law enforcement, but this is one of the most disturbing 30 seconds in international policy you're going to hear in a long time.

Mark Carney's the chief executive right now of Canada. He gave this interview and he's talking about his relationship with China. Folks, in case you're a liberal listening, Canada kind of shares a little bit of small northern border, just a little bit with us. Here's Mark Carney talking about how the greater security threat is not from China, but from the United States. If this isn't a wake-up call, it should be.

I would not be traveling to Canada if there was a government in charge right now that feels like we're the national security threat, not the Chinese Communist Party. Don't listen to me. Listen to them. Check this out.

Speaker 901:02:59

We'll be meeting with President Xi Jinping next week at APEC. We will discuss many things. We'll discuss the security situation around the world. We'll discuss our economic partnership, which is something that is deepening but has clear guardrails in terms of the areas in which we're involved. And I didn't say this in French, but I'll add this. In terms of the security risks of our partnership, they are much, much, much, much less than the security risks, for example, of the United States.

Dan Bongino01:03:28

Folks, this is no time for jerking around. We are still in charge of basically all three branches of government until the end of the year. The national security situation is concerning. It's no time for panic. I know my warning. I was in a restaurant this past week. The husband, there's a wife and a husband and a daughter sitting at a table in a booth and I walked by and the guy was a bit behind me. So he said, Dan, he kind of like grabbed me a little bit. So I turned around. I was talking to him, hey, how you doing?

And the wife looked shocked and I'm like, oh boy, is this lady not like me? She's a CNN watcher. She goes, you're the guy who got me scared last week or something. I'm like, I'm not trying to get you scared. Preparedness is not about, it's just about being prepared so you can reduce your anxiety if something happens. This is not the time to take that stuff lightly. You've got international partners right now who should show a set of, I mean, a debt of gratitude to the United States on Veterans Day for all of our heroic men and women in the military and national security space who allow Canada to not have to worry about a foreign invasion because they share a continent with us.

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Episode description

In this episode, I'll explain why the Hegseth impeachment fight is really about something much bigger than one man.

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