Transcript of Thanksgiving SPECIAL: Fireworks With Geraldo

Get ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host, Dan Bongino. I hope you're all enjoying a very happy Thanksgiving with family. I mean, they come first, right? God, family, country, that order. Get it right, and everything falls in line. Folks, I thought to myself, what do we do for folks for Thanksgiving to put a little smile on their face? And given that, Heraldo is back in the news who bizarrely wants to fight me again or something like that. Haroldo wants to fight me again, but he does end it off pretty nice. So it's all in good fun. Check this out.

I'm going to ask you about Dan Vongino, because I'm sure that you saw this. He's been floated as secret service director. The possibility of... I mean, there you go. I just want to be clear for our viewers who aren't familiar, you two sparred a lot on Fox, and man, am I being understated when I say that? How would you feel about him being Secret Service Director?

I can't imagine anyone who I I feel more fiercely combative with than Dan Bongino. If he were to walk into a bar and I was having a beer, we'd probably square off. We disagree on everything. I think he has his own set of facts. I think he's a provocateur. But I go back to what I said about Major Pete. I have no issue at all with his honesty, his credibility, his character, his patriotism, his love of the Secret Service. I think all those things are positive for Bonvino. I think that in some ways, all of these people in the cabinet, and you could name others as well, Dr. Oz, are great on TV. They are bigger than life. They're great communicators. I see where the President-elect is going with this cabinet. Can they do the job the day-to-day, the administrative stuff, running these businesses? And they are giant businesses, even though they're government agencies. I guess we'll see. Some will, some won't. But with Bungino, I would... Let me put it this way. If I was a target and Bungino was on the job, I feel that Bungino would keep me safe. He would do the job, Brianna.

Very nice compliment at the end. It's all in good fun, folks. Like I said, we were in a... Again, I don't know why everybody wants to fight me all the time. It's his fascination with me and fighting. We are not squaring. Can you imagine, folks? I want to leave this here. I know I'm beating this. I just can't take it pun intended. Listen, I'm 50, and I feel every second of it, the dude is 31 years older than me.

Can you imagine squaring up with a guy you outweigh by probably 40 plus pounds in a bar?

Oh, my gosh. This is just insane. Hilarious how many people sent that to me. I thought it It would be really great to go over some of our greatest hits, pun intended, and misses with Heraldo, and a comment on them now, years later. I missed that stuff. I think you'll enjoy this. So I have not seen these in advance. However, I was there because it was me when it happened. But my team picked out a few of these. So I'm going to comment on them. I'm going to tell you what I was thinking when I was there, and I think you're really going to enjoy this. But again, I have not seen these since I was there when it happened.

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How about people like you that don't credit the humanity of half the country? They are running scared, and they're scared of cops. It doesn't matter that we love cops, or that blue lives matter, or that there's a thin line between civilization and energy.

Stop pontificating and produce some actual data. You're a reporter, right?

Here's a 20-year-old kid. A 20-year-old kid has an expired registration. He ends up dead in the same town where George Floyd was as exfixiated by a brutal cop's knee on his neck.

By those incidents, you as a reporter, you'veWait, wait, hold on. By those two incidents, you've extrapolated as a reporter data that every Black child in America should be afraid of the police. And that's rational to you. That's rational?Explain that reason, please.Talk.

To the-That one vividly sticks out because Heraldo claims to be a journalist, right, guys?

And here's the thing. If you actually look at the data, who is it?

Roland Freier and others who've done actual data research analysis on police interactions between minorities and the police, you'll find out that not only are the data on use of force incidents against black men and minorities are grossly exaggerated by the media narrative that black men are being hunted, but they're exaggerated so badly.

It's not even in the ballpark. It's not even in the ballpark. I think the number of unarmed black men who were shot by the police was somewhere in the neighborhood of 11. And yet when you ask people out there who Heraldo claimed to be journalists and don't know the data. What's going on with police interactions with young Black men? You would think there were hundreds of thousands of people being hunted in the street. What killed me about that clip is, I remember he's not so much an opinion guy. He portrays himself as an investigative reporter, and he totally missed the ball on that. And when I asked him for the data, Can you produce the data? And I stopped him. Do you notice he just kept filibustering? This was like what went on with me and Heraldo over my entire time doing this show, Hannity, with him over the course of five years. He would never produce facts. He claimed to be a facts guy, but it was always some bizarre, crazy opinion that he got from like, Joy Reid or something.

That's a good one. What was that? Yeah, all right. Let me see the next one.

We have a process for that. And just injecting race into this, Heraldo, which you do on these police issues constantly. When you have none of the data, you have no evidence whatsoever, there's a racial component to this.

You're making me the issue again. Don't you have an argument to make that doesn't concern me?

I'm not making you the issue. I'm responding to your dopey comments. You have no idea that there's a racial undertone to this at all. You're saying, Oh, black parents have to worry because they're black kids. I have no idea there's a racial undertone. You have no data to back that up at all.

20-year-old black kids.

You're just further inflaming the situation, and the country will burn to the ground because of people like you who say dumb things like that with no evidence to back it up.

You see?

Anytime you ask Heraldo, I'm guessing, guys, this is going to be a theme, right? That me asking Heraldo to actually back up his opinion.

And then watch.

Watch what he does every time.

Instead of actually producing data, show me, because I will go to the mat for anyone being abused by police officers anytime.

I will. If your civil rights are violated, I'm a civil libertarian, call my show, email us. We'll do our best. If you can produce a viable case to us, we'll highlight it, okay?

He never does that. Then he says, You're making it about me. I'm debating you, you knucklehead. What the hell is the... How did he have me and you on, had me and you on the show so I can debate you? You're going to say something stupid. It's about you saying something stupid. Gosh, just give me some data. I mean, anything to chew on, like Pac-Man. And maybe we can argue about something. His opinions are just based in stupid stuff all the time. It's so ridiculous. He might get out about me. Of course, about you. He said something dumb.

Rado is perfectly entitled to an opinion.

Just because you weren't a police officer doesn't mean you can't comment on policing issues. I always hate when liberals say that about us.

But whatever, going to dinner with a police CEO captain, I'm not suggesting you are. I'm just saying that you don't understand policing.

Don't start minimizing my experience. I'm a half a century in this. I'm a half a century at this. Listen, Haroldo, can you just be quiet for a second? This is frustrating. This used to happen all the time.

You see me? I remember. This is actually right here. This is in this chair. Let him talk.

Let him talk. Let him talk. Let him talk. Let him talk. Let him talk. He's in this chair. Let him just go back and forth. I'm tired of this guy. He never shuts up. He's always got something to say. Now, Hannity, he knows I'm pissed. Go back to your statement. Go.

See, now, again, as I are friends.

He knows I'm pissed. He's entitled to an opinion. He's not entitled to a certain set of facts. You don't know anything about actual policing if you haven't done it. Saying or suggesting you can relate to the experience of police officers, you can. I'm not suggesting what happened yesterday wasn't a tragedy. It was, obviously. There's a dead young man who's never going to take another breath of oxygen again in his life. We don't have all the facts on this. We know she said taser. It appears to be a-You know, listen, me comment on my own commentary, It's silly.

However, on Thanksgiving, I think it's funny.

It is, right? I'm listening to that, trying to pretend it's not me. Who sounds irrational there?

Is it me or Heraldo?

I'm not talking over him. He keeps yelling and screaming, and all I'm asking him is produce a fact set or a data set to show that he has evidence that this man in that incident where the woman thought she was grabbing her taser and grabbed her gun targeted because he was Black. Notice, I repeat over and over, I am not denying the tragic nature of what happened at all.

The young man will never be with us again, okay?

Period. I never denied that. I'm simply asking Heraldo, show me your evidence this was race-based because you keep making a race argument. Who's the crazy one? And he's screaming over me.

Now, I've known Hannity a long time. We're really good friends. He's a good man.

He can tell I'm getting pissed off.

And I got to tell you, of all the times I've debated for all that, it's the one thing. And again, this is not personal. We were always friendly off the air. That used to bother me the most.

You notice how I sit there and listen to him? And then the minute you open your mouth, it's like he couldn't control himself. And it was so hard to make a point because he just couldn't stop talking.

This is better than I thought. I didn't even realize you guys dug all this stuff up. All right, let me see the next one.

You keep using the beer analogy. Heraldo, you're a lawyer. I have not seen Amendment 2.5, the right to buy a core's light, shall not be infringed. These are legal adults in the country. Now, having said that, if you're going to infringe on a constitutional right, according to the court system, you have to do it. It has to be a compelling government interest. We all agree, preventing mass murders is a compelling government interest. Point taken.Thank.

God that we agree on that, Dan. Thank God.

But it has to... Wait, I'm not done. There's a second part to that. You're a lawyer. I think you know this. It's through the least restrictive means. The least restrictive means is not to tell every single 18-year-old in the country who's done nothing wrong, you can no longer purchase a rifle because of some nut.

Then why are you telling them they can't drink beer? Why do you tell them they can't drive a semi? That's baloney, Dan. That's what we restricted. He We don't... Okay.

Even these guys are laughing. This is like a totally unplanned show. We just thought of this the other day. We thought it was the end of the week. We got to do this for Thanksgiving. This is another thing that used to bother me about these debates with Heraldo.

You make a point, he never addresses the point, and he brings up this same point you just countered without ever addressing what you said. So just to be clear, this segment is about gun control and legislation that would prevent 18-year-olds who did nothing wrong from exercising their constitutional right to protect themselves.

Heraldo is obviously a gun grabber, okay?

Heraldo compares that to other things like buying a beer. But when I bring up the point that buying a beer is not a constitutional right. It's not addressed in the Constitution at all. However, the right to bear arms which shall not be infringed, is he just as a lawyer, he bypasses the point. Notice how Why put an accent on that point? Because there are constitutional rights that are infringed on.

No, there aren't. Yes, there are.

If you have to say you have the right to freedom of religion, if your religion says, I get to go over and slash my neighbor's back with a razor blade because my religion told you to, the government's going to infringe on it, correct? Constitutional rights are infringed on all the time. But for the government to do that legally, it has to have a compelling government interest preventing you from getting slashed in the back, which is a compelling government interest, and it has to do it to the least restrictive means. We can't ban all religions to stop you from slashing your neighbor in the back.

Does that make sense, guys?

You can infringe on a constitutional right, but you have to defend it. You have to defend it. That is not the least restrictive means to ban every 18-year-old for the acts of one part. It's not even close. And you notice how he doesn't address it at all? And he brings up the exact same point. He brings up the exact, driving a car. That's not a constitutional right. There is no constitutional right to driving a car on a public road with no license. There isn't.

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I live here in Florida's 26th in COVID death per 100.

I just looked at the numbers.

Dan, it stands for- Heraldo, it's Dan's turn. It's not my fault. You never know what you're talking about. It's not my fault. You are so You are so full of crap. You are so full of crap. You never research anything before you come on the air.

You are so full of it. That's why I hate coming on with you.

You're going to fell for the COVID stuff, too. This guy falls for the COVID stuff, too. You're going to fall for the COVID stuff, too. Because you are sitting cheap shot.

You're a silly guy.

You're a silly guy. You're a silly guy. This guy...

Heraldo, let Dan talk. Heraldo. He doesn't like to do that, Sean, because he always gets caught- See? He can't. Never knowing what he's talking about. And he's embarrassed. Stick to the story. And his position on the order.

You're so on the order. I did stick to the facts.

I'm embarrassed to be on this air with you. That's why I'm embarrassed.

You never know them.

But he kept coming back. It's unbelievable. Chasing my class.

Do you want to bet me $1,000? Every time. You want to bet $1,000? You want to put your money where your mouth is? You want to put your money where your mouth is? 16,000 investors.

Who's that?

Guys, the guy.

Again, talk.

So he cannot stop talking ever. And whenever...

He had this bad habit, Harold, though, of coming on the air, and he would fall for every media narrative. You just saw a couple. Guns randomly kill people at It doesn't matter about the person. It's the guns. We got to control the guns, not the people, right? Black men are being hunted by cops everywhere. That segment, I do remember, that was during the COVID hysteria, where Ron DeSantis very smartly opened up the state and the schools early, earlier than a lot of these other COVID lockdowners. And Heraldo was going nuts because he fell for the media narrative, of course, because he always does that, because he just doesn't do his homework, that COVID deaths were the highest in Florida or something like that. And my data was accurate, of course. They were not.

And he just made it up.

And what happens is when he gets called out on the facts, he tells you you don't know the facts while he presents facts that are wrong.

And then he says, stick to the facts when you correct the facts that were wrong every Every single time as he talks over you.

I remember that one. That one really pissed me off because I went back and looked later. I'm like, This guy will fall for anything. I'm like, Damn, at least one time. Can we agree on anything? All right, let's see what you got next.

This is it?

For dozens of Tala's didn't-And who's Whose fault is that? Whose fault is that?

With ammunition provided to Israel by the United States without even a demand for a ceasefire. Whose fault is that? I demand a ceasefire.

I demand my president to demand a ceasefire. I demand that Israel win the war. Israel needs to win the war against terrorism. By what? Killing all the policies? And terrorists that are firing rockets at their people. That bunch of- Let's kill them all.

Let's kill all these children.

I'm going to bet he interrupt.

Heraldo, you do this every time. This is such garbage, and I'm really getting sick of it. You play this emotional game with the audience and use your position of responsibility to put out misinformation. You didn't stop attacking me, punk. You did it on the police thing. This is the best way to address the issue.

You did it on the police thing. You can't control yourself, can You didn't come on this show to attack me. You came on the show to talk about the issue. Because do you have a point about the issue?

You're using your position of authority here to say things that are absolutely come.

I'm sick of you, Vongeno. I'm sick of you. You're a punk.

I throw a paper at me.

I throw a paper up there.

Harald, you're just controlled lunatic. Harald, don't talk. Because you can't go on the air. I'm an out of control lunatic.

Can you calm down? Yeah, you really need to calm down. I'm a 10-time Emmy winner with deep experience in the Middle East. Guys, guys. Have you ever even been there? Harald, I've even been there.

I want to make my points.

That one, folks, just so you know, I'm sitting here and a little background on that clip. I did not know. Do you guys know why I didn't know? I did not know he threw the paper at the screen. You know why? I think he may have been doing it. We didn't have a return.

So I'm not seeing him. All I see is a black screen in front of me. I didn't find out the next day. The next day, I'm watching the clip. Did he throw a piece of paper? I'm in Stuart, Florida. He said, Miles away. He's throwing paper to the screen.

That was Haroldo, man. That's how he would do it all the time. This thing on the Israel-Palestinian issue, he falls for every single media narrative.

He never did his homework. And you notice his impulse control is so bad, he simply can't stop talking when given the opportunity for me to make a counter argument.

All he does is start screaming every single time. But I didn't see that when it happened. Now, I take the back. I think someone texted me about two hours later.

I was like, Did he throw a piece of paper at you?

And I went and looked on Twitter. I'm like, Holy Moses. He did. He's throwing paper at the screen.

I'm throwing paper at the screen. What a lunatic.

Folks, is that the last one? Oh, man, those are good ones. We got to do this again sometime. We may do a...

Listen, I got to get a thing going, Haroldo.

Sean, if you want to set it up, I will do another round with Haroldo, but it's got to be multiple segments, all right? If you want to do it, I'll do it. The ratings would be killer. We can do a round two of this. Hey, folks, thanks for tuning in. Hope you're enjoying your Thanksgiving. I thought you'd enjoy that. We really appreciate it. I'll see you guys back here on Monday. You just heard the Dan Bongino Show.