Transcript of The Bizarre Connection In The CEO Murder Case (Ep. 2385)

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Man, if you missed the radio show yesterday, you missed a moment, like a moment on live radio. I mean, it's really rare when you do 20 hours of content a week live, you know, 4 hours a day, pod radio. When you do 20 hours live a week, it's really rare to be shocked. We've had terror attacks happen on the news, elections, everything. But I was really stunned that if you were listening or watching the radio show on Rumble, You saw the moment when the UnitedHealthcare CEO, alleged the suspect in the case, Mangione, was locked up.

You saw, like, a light bulb moment in my head. I was really stunned. This is like the craziest connection ever. I got a story for you, man. It's gonna blow your mind.

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Folks, the UnitedHealthcare CEO being assassinated. They have a suspect. Again, everybody's entitled to due process. I wanna see the facts in the case pan out in a court case. However, there has been an arrest made, and the suspect is a, Luigi Mancion.

I'm gonna get the story in more detail later in the show. I just wanna put this out first. So the second I see this guy's face in that infamous picture of him in the back of the cab, this suspect now, Luigi Mangione. Folks, I said to myself days ago, gosh. This guy really looks familiar.

And I'm thinking to myself, I and and I could not make the connection because it wasn't like it looked familiar. Like, it was like it looked like your brother or sister or somewhere. You recognize the face right away. But the face just looks so familiar to me, and I'm thinking, what the hell is going on? So long story short, yesterday, I recognized the last name, Mangione, and I thought there's no relation to the Mangione family, in in up in, the the Baltimore kind of, area of Maryland.

And it turns out that there was. So this statement was put out. I'll get to who they are here in a second. You'll see the connection. The Mangione family on Luigi Mangione.

Unfortunately, we cannot comment on news reports regarding Luigi. We only know what we've read in the media and the family shocked and devastated by Luigi's arrest. We're devastated by the news, the Mangione family, and they offer prayers for Brian Thompson. Folks, I got my start in radio. You have to be like the p 1 of p ones to know this.

I got my start in radio at a radio station in Baltimore. Not Baltimore City, Baltimore County. The radio station was owned by the Mangione family. And Nino Mangione, who's now a delegate Maryland, who by the way, is a wonderful, amazing guy. He has absolutely nothing to do.

He's a republican state delegate. He is a patriot. He I cannot attest in in in any greater way to this man's character. He is a genuinely good and decent human being, but I've known Nino a long time. I basically worked up.

I wasn't a full time employee, but I was kind of like their regular guest host. That's how I got my start in radio. I've known Nino forever. And, obviously, they're they're cousins, and if they looked and I I they look alike. And that's I was so shocked by it on the air because it really this thing got personal really fast.

Yeah. To the Mangione family, to the Thompson family, this isn't just an unspeakable, unimaginable tragedy, but the Mangione family has been going through a lot. They obviously have nothing at all to do with this, and there are a lot of people harassing them now, and it really is disgusting. But I I I I'm I'm sorry, folks, but this is just the story took a real personal turn for me. I'm gonna get to more of it later.

It is a big news story, but a lot happened yesterday. We had the Daniel penny case verdict come down as well. Let me just throw out in advance because the bottom line up front matters. Folks, this was not justice. I've heard a couple people, and I'd love to hear how you feel in the chat on this.

I think a lot of you are gonna agree with me. I heard a lot of legal analysts on cable news channels, Fox and elsewhere. And they were saying, you know, oh, well, the system worked and, you know, justice, he got off. The system didn't work. I'm really sorry.

I don't mean to be a jerk about it. I'm not trying to be a tool or a devil's advocate for no good reason. But how is this the system working? This is the kind of case where I genuinely believe if it was in my county in Florida, where your right to defend yourself against a serious physical injury or death. Right?

The guy was threatening to kill people. He said someone is going to die. If this was my county in Florida, you're not only not arrested, the cops come up, hey, man. Thanks for defending yourself and your neighbors against this threat. You know, the the the key part of the court case with the Daniel Penney case, the, the subway, of course, we're talking about the subway incident with Jordan Neely, is when the prosecutor asks Daniel Penney or the defense at what point at what point did you think your life was in danger?

And he says, when Jordan Neely said someone's gonna die today. Like, what else do you need to hear? This was not justice. Yeah. Who just said that?

Adobe 1 Kenobi. What? You must be friends with Gee. Adobe 1 Kenobi said there shouldn't have been a trial at all. Ladies and gentlemen, justice delayed is justice denied.

I hate cliches and tropes, but it's true. Justice delayed is not justice. You've taken away time, money. You've taken away this guy's life. You've taken his, you know, his money, his sanity, like everything.

The process is the punishment. This isn't justice. Now thank the lord, and I'm not using his name in vain, that Penny, when was when he was subjected to this ridiculous freaking show trial for defending people on that train who thanked him by the way. Thankfully, he was acquitted. He was not declared innocent by the way.

The language matters. There's no such thing as innocent. He was declared not guilty. Those are not the same thing. That's the liberal terminology.

He wasn't innocent. Nobody's innocent, dumbass. Innocent. When you talk about innocent, he's not guilty. There's a difference.

Here was Daniel Penny in a local bar afterwards celebrating, and, of course, the hustlers are trying the race hustlers are already trying to start a race riot over this thing. But I'm gonna tell you where the what the difference between now and the George Floyd, situation was. Obviously, the circumstances are completely entirely different, 180 degrees. But there's a difference now in the political environment too. But watch Daniel Penny first.

Check this out. How you feeling? Good. Good. Yeah.

He's feeling good. He's feeling good. He's feeling good.

What's up? We're we're we're Come together. How's it going? How's it feel?

Feels great. He's finally got the justice he's deserved.

Now, again, he finally got the justice he deserved, but justice delayed his justice and I. Let me throw another curve ball at you here. He's now subject to a civil trial as well. He could lose that civil trial. Remember, the standard of guilt in a criminal trial is beyond any beyond a reasonable doubt.

The standard in the civil trial is not beyond a reasonable doubt. It's a preponderance of evidence. Therefore, jurors in these civil trials and judges are intimately familiar with the fact that the penalty is not you going to jail. The penalty is a financial 1. And given that it's only the weight of the evidence, preponderance of the evidence, in a civil trial, you're far more likely to lose.

In other words, folks, this guy could still get bankrupted for doing nothing more than defending a bunch of people on a train against the guy who said someone's gonna get killed. Someone's gonna die. This would this man should have been celebrated as a hero. Here's Hawk Newsom, the guy brought up yesterday. I mean, a a nothing but a cheap carnival barking asshole, life loser, chump, and coward.

I'm calling you that. Hawk, to your face right now through this screen. You're a chump and a coward. You've always been. I've seen guys like you my entire life.

You're a chump. Hawk Newsom is a grifter loser. This is 1 of the cofounders of BLM. He is desperate to agitate a racial issue around the case. Although there isn't 1, there were black men helping Daniel Penney restrain Jordan Neely.

Here's Hawk Newsom yesterday. I don't understand how this guy doesn't get arrested for this stuff. I mean, if this isn't close to incitement, I don't know what is. And at some point, he appeared to imply like a threat towards Daniel Penny too. Watch this.

Like everybody else has vigilantes. We need some black vigilantes.

That's right.

People wanna jump up and choke us and kill us for being loud. How about we do the same when they attempt to oppress us?

Right.

I'm tired.

Tired. Alright.

I know you're looking for us to be like, oh, go in March. Go in March. No. This weekend, I want you to hold a community event everywhere from the Bronx to Houston to Seattle to Florida. Black people, whole community event, and talk about what you need.

Bro, shut your mouth. You're punk. You're a punk. You're just shut shut your mouth. Shut your mouth.

You're a piece of shit. You always have been. You're a grifter and a loser with no life skills. Go get a job, loser. Get a job.

This has nothing to do with race. You're a 2 bit hustler hustler trying to gin up some racial agitation so you can profit off it. You're a piece of shit. You know exactly what you're doing. I I let me quote him.

People wanna jump up and choke us. Who the hell is jumping up and choking us? Here's an easy way to avoid getting restrained that led to an incident like this. Don't go in a train car and tell people someone's gonna die. Hawk, dumbass.

There's an easy way, dumbass, to avoid us people popping up as if it was a random guy who just picked this guy out. Hey. Let's choke a guy out. Folks, I am so sick of these bullshit agitators and people afraid to call him out. You understand this.

It doesn't matter what you say. Asshole commie scum on the left are are gonna call you a racist. No matter what, it doesn't matter that it's not true. Just eliminate it from the diet. It doesn't matter.

They are going to call you a racist no matter what. That's why people are afraid to call this asshole out. Oh my gosh. I don't wanna be called a they're gonna call you 1 anyway. They call everybody a racist.

It's how they make money. It's the grift. And then we get into testimony. Oh, racist, I've got stop. Just say it's not just ignore it, and condemn this asshole for what he is.

A chump and a punk and a 0. There's too many cowards, folks, in the political movement on the swampy right. Oh, just let the let them talk. You know, we don't wanna be called a racist. Bullshit.

You heard what he said? Making it up like people are just randomly choking out black men in the street. You understand? This is what leads to this mass perception of violent systemic racism around that's causing the division in our society. Why will we never heal as a society, whatever trope you wanna throw out there?

Because a holes like this guy don't want you to. Folks, don't hold your breath, by the way, waiting for the commie left to condemn this piece of garbage. Don't. Because it's never gonna happen. They love the agitation.

They love it. Here's MSNBC yesterday, making 1 of the dumbest comparisons you will ever see on cable news and given MSNBC and CNN's history, that's saying a lot. Comparing this case of Daniel Penney, a hero, a guy who should be given the 1 of these presidential medals at the White House the second Trump gets in there. That's what I would do. A hero who defended people's lives when other people would have sat on their ass and let this guy punch another woman in the face or something.

You see this guy's arrest history? Here's MSNBC comparing this case to OJ? Yeah. To OJ. Watch this.

The breaking news here, Daniel Penney found not guilty. But, Lisa, we also know that Jordan Neely's family had filed, I believe, a civil suit in this case as well. Does the verdict in this case impact that? Not necessarily. I mean, we the law is rife with examples of people who are acquitted in criminal cases and yet find justice with respect to civil accountability.

I think the best example of that is with respect to Fred Goldman's family, Fred Goldman I'm sorry. Ron Goldman being the man who was murdered alongside Nicole Brown Simpson, even though OJ Simpson was never found criminally guilty for those those 2 murders. Fred Goldman, the father along with his daughter, then sued OJ Simpson civilly and won a fairly large verdict.

Folks, division, divide and conquer is the game. It's the only recipe they have in the playbook. And, of course, the media is gonna pour gallons of gasoline on this fire because this is what they do. Here's the AP. Breaking Daniel Penney, the veteran who used to choke hold on subway rider Jordan Neely, has been acquitted and nearly says subway rider, leaving out the fact that the man with an extensive criminal history was talking about someone dying on the train car.

These people profit off of racial agitation, folks. And I'm telling you right now, this show has absolutely no time for it. We're the media now, and it's gonna stop here. We're gonna put a period at the end of these freaking sentences. We're not gonna let it happen.

Wanna move on to back to this Mangione case in a minute because it's UnitedHealthcare CEO case. Folks, this is really dangerous stuff. In addition to people like Hawk Newsome, coward, jump, loser, and the media, stoking the flames here and trying to cause division. They are doing the same thing with the Mangione case. Unbelievably trying to make a hero out of a guy, a suspect at this point, who shot a guy and murdered him in the middle of the street.

But they're leaving out completely completely the leftist side of the narrative. Well, the health care system's broke. You broke it, assholes. And now there's a murder over it? And what?

You're blaming the health care executives over it? I thought you were fixing health care with Obamacare. Now it's led to a murder. And, oh, you wipe your hands of it? No.

No. Not here. Wait till you see these little receipts coming up. Take a quick break. We'll get back to the story of the man geos.

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Message and data rates apply. Again, if you missed the radio show, you saw this thing got personal real quick. I did not know I was gonna know a family member of the suspect in the health care killer case. Folks, when I grew up in New York, there was a guy who was a pretty good reporter locally. He works at CNN right now, which is probably not the best thing to put in your resume.

However, the reason I'm playing this clip from CNN is this guy, John Miller. I feel like I've known this guy forever. He was, an NBC local the local NBC affiliate, New York. So if you grew up in New York City, this guy covered the mob. He covered the commission trial.

He covered everything. Long story short is he's on CNN, but he's pretty good with this crime stuff. Here's a segment on CNN that again points to the fact that I told you last week. The reason I didn't I applied the Bongino rule to this story. This was clearly not a professional assassin, folks.

Professional assassins don't wanna get caught. They don't leave messages. The message is the dead body. And they don't go to a McDonald's in Altoona if you're a professional assassin. And with the the actual, you know, suspected murder weapon and a fake driver's license you used to check-in.

You I mean, I'm not giving anybody bad guy tips. I think it's fairly obvious. You get rid of the evidence. You don't keep it on you. This was not a professional hit.

There's something going on here, folks. There's a bigger story. Listen to Miller on CNN with the details of this how this guy got caught. And think in your head, why didn't he discard the evidence? Check this out.

So, Dana, this starts as a very routine day in a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania, which has, like, 3 McDonald's. But an employee there looks at this person and has been seeing on CNN and everywhere else these photos from the NYPD of this masked person with the hood, where they're saying, look beyond New York because we think the person has left the city and she believes that this person resembles the photos that have been put out. She calls 911, gets the Altoona PD, they respond to the McDonald's, they engage this individual, and as they get him to identify himself and look through things, they find a gun, they find a silencer, they find multiple false IDs. And when they begin to compare those notes with the police in New York, they find out that 1 of those IDs matches the name, perhaps even the 1 we're looking at, that he used a fake New Jersey driver's license to check into that hostel, in upper Manhattan. So So, along with all of that, there are some documents that the police said seemed to be relevant to this case.

I think we would stop short right now because we don't have enough information of calling that a manifesto, but we are told by investigators they believe he's carrying documents that may relate to motive.

Folks, is there something not right about this case? Well, something not right about every case, so I don't wanna be overly dramatic. Haven't done criminal investigative work for most of my young adult life. But it's almost as if the guy took pains not to get caught, only to take pains later to get caught. Is it some kind of mental breakdown issue?

I don't know. But the suspect in the case to use a 3 d printed firearm, a suppressor, and then to exit the crime scene and then be discovered with the fake ID you used to check into a hostel along with the firearm and the suppressor, it doesn't make any sense. Now 1 thing a couple people have said to me is, how do you think that the McDonald's employee recognize this guy given that some of the pictures are serviced and you can barely see his face? He's only moving the mask to drink something. Folks, I think the mask, ironically, sounds kinda backwards, but the face mask is probably what elicited suspicion.

Because if this was done during COVID when everybody was wearing face masks, I don't think it'd be that big of a deal. However, you still see people wearing them, but not that often. My point is, like, that may have actually drawn attention to him, and someone may have said, my gosh. That's kinda weird. That looks a little bit like that guy and pulled up the picture.

You gotta remember, this isn't 50 years ago where someone's gotta go to a police station and pull up beyond the lookout for sign down. All you gotta do is pull up x Twitter, right, and pull up UnitedHealthcare CEO suspect. And you're looking while the guy's right in front of you. So I wouldn't put too much weight into that. But there's definitely something going on here that's really strange.

And I wouldn't be surprised if there's a connection if the later on, it turns out that there's some kind of maybe a third party involved. I wouldn't be stunned is what I'm talking about. Maybe an enabler or someone else. I wouldn't be surprised. I'm not telling you that that's I I that's a fact that you should take it to the bank and cash the check.

Just this case seems really off. It seems to me like a lot of pains were taken to not get caught only to take pains later to get caught. It doesn't make a lot of sense. Now this health care case, this UnitedHealthcare CEO, the liberal narrative on this thing is disgusting, immoral, evil, demonic, and unethical. We don't shoot people dead in the middle of the street because we don't like their business decisions.

Ladies and gentlemen, I've got beefs with a lot of companies. I engaged in a construction project recently. It didn't go as planned. I promise you at no point ever for a microsecond that I think, maybe I should get a suppressor and murder a guy in the middle of the street. We did that did not come up.

Not a potential solution to the problem. We don't do that. I don't think anybody needs a lecture. But what I find really odd about this case is the left making a hero out of this suspect in the case is they're avoiding the fact that it's the left that took over health care under Obama and told us this would fix all the health care problems. Now the health care system is even worse to the point where they're shooting people and murdering them in the streets, and the left is acting like they have no skin in this game at all.

You gotta read this article by Alyssa Finley. I cited it yesterday, but didn't get into the details. It's called the United Healthcare case and the Obamacare con. I thought Obamacare was gonna fix all this. Left is like health care sucks.

We gotta start shooting people in the street. Really? A Gallup survey released Friday affirms the sentiment, finding only 44% of Americans rate US health care is good or excellent, down from 62% when Democrats passed Obamacare in 2010. Wait. Leave this up.

So just to be clear, left wing assholes who wanna murder people in the street over health care. Since you dipshits took over health care in 2010, people who think health care is good or excellent dropped by almost 20 points. A mere 28% rate the country's insurance coverage highly, An 11 point decline. Obamacare may rank as the biggest political bait and switch in history. News.

Here, remember Barack Obama's promise? If you like your health care plan, you could keep your doctor and your health care plan. Sorry. How about his claim that people with preexisting conditions would be protected? That's not true.

Here's the biggest howler. Health care would become more affordable. Really? Throw the next 1 up. Health care is more affordable?

The US is now spending $2,000,000,000,000 more on health care than in 2010. 2,000,000,000,000 more. Dan, I thought Obamacare's more. More. We're paying 2,000,000,000,000 more.

Well, at least we're healthier. Right, Justin? Justin says, no, Dan. Read on. It's your clip.

Yet Americans aren't healthier. A new paper by Paragon Health Institute observes that mortality rates from 25 to 64 year olds for major medical causes climbs between 2009 and 2019 when basically Obamacare was passed. So just to be clear, left wing dipshits, we need to murder people in the street because health care sucks. It sucks because of you idiots. We're spending more money.

We're not as healthy. Fewer people like their health care, and only 11% of people are satisfied with their insurance right now. Read the data all since Obamacare passed. This is why I absolutely hate leftist. They go and they throw a shit grenade in the tent, and then they complain it stinks in there.

I am so sick of these assholes, and you should be too. Wanna see the most disgusting clip? Taylor Lorenz. The word the most the biggest demon I have ever seen in the communist movement and dumb as a box of rocks. Here's this demon piece of human garbage on the Piers Morgan show.

Again, reiterating that she feels joy around the circumstances of the UnitedHealthcare CEO murder. Joy. Check this out.

I do believe in the sanctity of life, and I think that's why I felt along with so many other Americans joy, unfortunately, you know, because it feels

like Serious?

I mean

Joy in the amount of execution?

Not maybe not joy, but certainly not no certainly not empathy. Because, again, it's

just a simple story. How can this make you joyful? This guy's a husband. He's a father.

Like, 1,000,000

And he's been gunned down in the middle of Manhattan. Why is that making joyful?

Of Americans that'd be murdered. So are tens so are the tens of thousands of Americans, innocent Americans who died because greedy health insurance executives like this 1 push a policies of denying care to the most vulnerable people. And I the many millions of Americans that have watched people that I care about suffer and in some cases die because of lack of health care.

Then? Should they all be killed, these health care executives? Would that make you even more joyful?

No. That would not. But why not? And,

Why are you laughing?

I'm gonna tell you some can I it's a live show? I mean, but I'm afraid I'm gonna say something really bad, and I I really should I really should kinda take a break a second. No. I mean it. I'm not trying to be silly, folks.

I this woman is a disgusting piece of human waste. No respectable human being should ever have this woman on the air or near their outlet ever again. Forget all of the politics what I just told you. That scum like Taylor Lorenz pushing for things like Obamacare that destroyed a lot of these health care companies that then had to consolidate to stay alive because Obamacare destroyed it. Forget that for a second.

If this guy was the worst demon on earth, and there are a lot of bad business people, folks, I've been screwed over by a lot of them. You can sue them. You have a court system. We have due process. We are a republic.

This is not the this is not the guillotine in France assholes on the left. I've got a lot of beefs with Joe Biden, politicians, business people, and everyone else. They don't deserve to be murdered in the street. You're watching the moral decay of America. This woman should never ever be put in front of an audience again.

She is dangerous. She is legitimately dangerous, and I absolutely believe by her own standards, this crying, whiny loser, that that is an actual incitement to violence, providing any landing of that plane as if this was somehow not an evil demonic act, murdering someone in the middle of the street. Bullshit. Alright. I gotta move on.

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Presidential appointments updates because this is huge. Ladies and gentlemen, what's policy? If you know the question, you know the answer. Policy is policy. No.

It isn't. People are policy. People are policy. If you don't have the right people, it doesn't matter what the policy is. Joe Biden showed us that with the student loan forgiveness, he was told not to do multiple times in a number of environmental things he did.

Here's a quick clip of John Cornyn. John Cornyn is is definitely on the rhino side of the spectrum. There's no doubt about that. He is a senator from Texas. However, he is a respected member of the senate by his colleagues.

So, we we need these guys to plus 1. I don't get emotional about this folks. You shouldn't either. We need their votes to get these people through. Here he is at least signaling that Kash Patel shouldn't have any problems getting through.

We'll see. Keep the heat on. Don't back down for a second, but we gotta listen to what these guys are saying. This is a short clip. Check this out.

Had a good meeting with Kash Patel, the president's nominee for FBI director. We still don't know what the director Ray's plans are, but, eventually, I assume that, mister Patel will be confirmed as the next FBI director.

Again, folks, these guys are this guy is not 1 of these MAGA people. There's no doubt about it. However, I'd rather have this guy on board than not. Don't get emotional about it. Plus 1 minus 1.

Think of it like a spreadsheet. Be transactional like Trump is, and you won't lose. You start getting emotional, then we start to lose the tactical edge. Folks, the 1 of the worst things you can do in a fight or anywhere else, you know, I spent a lot of time on the mats and whatever. Who cares?

And I'm I'm not I'm not trying to pretend to be tough. Your kid sister could beat me up right now. My osteoarthritis. But 1 thing they'll tell you is you don't get emotional, but the minute you start getting mad, you start to breathe heavy, don't get emotional. Stay tactical.

Aisha Hosni put out this tweet. She said Fox. She knows really well about this. As she puts out, Joni Ernst put out a statement on Hegseth. Joni Ernst has been a huge obstacle towards Pete Hegseth getting in there as the defense secretary.

I don't know why Joni Joni Ernst decided to, entirely nuke her entire career. I have no idea, but I'm getting a little bit annoyed. She put out a statement, and you've gotta parse the words. Everybody was celebrating. Oh, she supports HEGSED.

That's not what she said. It's not what she said. Read the statement right here. She says, as I support Pete through the process, I look forward to a fear hearing based on truth, not anonymous sources. Folks, it's it's better than where she has been on it, but she's clearly hedging, and I would not be surprised if she tries to sabotage him through surrogates or somewhere else in the hearing.

Joni Ernst can this is 1 of these senators who again is getting emotional about this. I'm telling you with this sense of pride, she cannot believe, and even political recognized it this morning, that a lot of these senators were stunned by the response of the Magosphere. She is still convinced this is about her. She cannot get past her pride. Joni, here's a hint.

Just come out and say, you support Hegseth, and that's it. You don't have to put caveats as I support him throughout the process. There is still these little kind of buyer beware things she's doing. She's opening the door to sabotage him. Read between the lines on this stuff.

And this is why Pete was on Sean Hannity's show last night and the defense secretary nominee. This is exactly why people on the rhino end of the spectrum and the Democrats hate this guy. They want our military castrated and defenestrated. They want that. They don't want a lethal military.

Because we have a lethal military, it'll establish again the preeminence of the United States, and a lot of these left wing lunatics hate the United States. If you can't crush the military, you can't crush the country. Here's why they hate Pete Hegset. This is probably the best 20 seconds you're gonna hear from him about why this is the guy and the only guy. Check this out.

Well, there's a lot to

be done. First of all, you salute the commander in chief who got those 76,000,000 votes, and he's gonna chart the way, and I'll give him, advice and and counsel along the way. I'll just say what he told me. Return the Pentagon to the war fighters, Pete. Get in there and clean out all the social justice politically correct garbage on top and get back to lethality, war fighting, accountability, meritocracy, and readiness.

Listen. I hate I don't like wasting your time at all. I don't. I've got an hour with you and then 3 hours on the radio. People are policy.

You need to understand that. It's not a cliche. It is an axiomatic truth of politics. The policies don't matter. If you don't get the right people in there, the policy is irrelevant.

Folks, there is a law on the books right now. Section 212 f of the Immigration and Nationality Act that gives Joe Biden the full authority to exclude any class of aliens for any reason out of the country for any length of time. Please, if you doubt me, if you're a liberal watching the show and you think I'm making this up, go look up immigration nationality act section 2 12 f. You can read it. The president can shut down the border right now.

He doesn't want to. Well, he's got the policy, Dan. Policy isn't policy. People are policy. This is why we cannot fold for a second on Hegseth, on Gabbard, on Kash Patel, and this is why we need people like Stephen Miller too.

I want you to watch this video. A Stephen Miller on Fox, and you'll see what I mean by people or policy. Stephen Miller is going to be 1 of the lead voices in the Trump administration with Tom Homan and others on moving border legislation quick. This guy understands the law, and he understands how to make the policy real, how to make it breathe, and not just a dead piece of parchment. People are policy.

Do not fold. Hold the line on these nominees no matter what. They're feeling the heat. Don't let down. Don't put any ice cubes on this thing.

Check this out.

John Thune and Lindsey Graham have promised that they can get a full funding package for the board of the most significant border security investment in American history, which would be the biggest domestic policy win in at least 50 years to the president's desk in January or early February. That would mean a massive increase in ICE officers working on the deportation operation that Tom Homan just laid out. That would mean a historic increase in border agents, the pay raise for both, full funding for military operations, full funding for ICE beds, full funding for air marine operations, full funding for all of the barriers and technology that you need to ensure there's never another gotaway entering this country. Now president Trump, regardless, on day 1, is gonna issue a series of executive orders that seal the border shut and begin the largest deportation operation in American history. But you're talking about what would be the largest investment in immigration and border security.

This is something the Republicans have been talking about for decades, but with Donald Trump, this is something that is going to happen. It'll be the most important and significant, as I said, domestic policy achievement in half a century. Then the plan as senator Thune has laid out, as incoming majority leader Thune has laid out, would be to move immediately at that point. They were now we're talking in January, early February, immediately to the comprehensive tax reform packet.

Folks, we have 2 years. We got 4. No. We don't. We have 2 to the midterms.

You have to think in 2 year cycles. The presidency is not 4 years. It's not? No. It isn't.

It's 2 2 year terms, and that's not the same thing. Yeah. The math is the same. I get it. It is not.

The president needs the house. The president needs the senate. We have 2 years. The people he's got set up right now are there for success. There are very few nominees I disagree with.

The, the 1 over at labor, I'm not so sure, I'm fully behind. However, the rest of his portfolio of nominees and the people are policy, they absolutely get what the next 2 years needs to look like, and they understand the way to pull the policy levers to get there. Here's why I'm really excited about the next 2 years. And forgive me, I forgot to mention this early, but there is a difference now. I think you guys are feeling it.

In the chat, tell me if I'm wrong. If I'm wrong, say, Dan, that I'm not getting it. Unlike 2016, where I think we really shocked them, they had they didn't see us coming at all in 2016. They were so shocked. A lot of them genuinely believed something had to have gone wrong.

Some switch broke in the system. I don't know about you, but I'm sensing now they hate us. They're gonna call us racists and Nazis. None of that's changed. I get that.

Don't think I'm naive. I'm not. I understand. I get it. I'm vibing with you.

But are you sensing that they get that they're not gonna be able to pull the same tricks again? Is that making sense? I don't know, Justin. Am I, like, messing this up? I I feel like the resist pink hat routine, like, they exhausted that now, and that's why after yesterday's verdict, this is kinda tying together the beginning.

You didn't see the response you would have typically seen. Because I think a lot of them are recognizing, like, we're gonna have to take a different tact and game plan. The resist weaponization of government thing didn't work. The other game plan they're putting together could be worse. I'm not telling you these are good people.

I'm just saying I do think we have a window here unlike the collusion window last time when the 1st 2 years they did the collusion hoax, which bottled up the presidency. I think we've got 2 years here to do special things. And here's why I'm extra optimistic. Get ready for it. Trump is hip to the media this time.

He always knew the media with a fake news. He's been calling him that since 2015. That's not new. But he's given so many interviews and back and forth right now that if you sense that he's getting really good at this now watch. Here's what I mean.

He's with Kristen Welker who by the way, again, I say and I used to listen to Kristen Welker once in a while in NBC to get a perspective on what the left was thinking. This was not the craziest personal she's totally gone off the deep end. She is now all in with the Rachel Maddow stuff. She cannot give an honest and fair interview. Here she is, but she's not stupid.

Here she is doing the back and forth with Donald Trump, and Trump just completely be clowns her and eats her lunch right here because they're just not ready for Trump 2.0. Watch this.

Let me ask you this about

January 6th. I wish you could be a if you you know, you have such potential. If you could be just just non biased, you hurt yourself so badly. I'm telling you, they deleted and destroyed all the evidence. Everyone knows it.

And you slough it off like it doesn't mean anything. No. I'm just

saying they deny it. That's all I'm saying.

Listen. If I did it, you would be standing up in that chair shouting at me. And you know what I'd do? I'd say, you got me. They have they have done something so illegal.

They have a committee sworn to. And because it was so bad, the only reason they did it is because the testimony turned out to be in favor of me.

These guys are just talking. The the whole production crew over here. There's 3 of them sitting over there. And it was just saying the same thing that you and I were talking about here. We're just saying, are you guys in the chat?

You agree with me or not? Yes or no? That he's gotten so much better with the media now. You know, in the beginning, he was never a bad interview, but I don't know. Sometimes there was an entertainment factor to it that the tactical factor got lost.

Is is is that kinda making sense? Yeah. Yeah. Like, it was kind of like you just said, like, an acquired taste in the beginning. Like, it was entertaining, but the tactical back and forth and some of the points will get lost.

He's gotten really good right now at staying on point and issuing, like, a devastating counterpoint that comes out of nowhere. You know, what's the best punch in the world? The 1 you didn't see coming? They just don't see it coming. He's just gotten really good at this.

Now this is huge. I'm gonna make a big announcement here too. Well, it's a big announcement contingent on them making a big announcement if they make 1. I might listen to this clip first. Because they understand that the press absolutely tanked in submarine their first administration with bullshit collusion hoax stuff, pee pee tape stuff, the spy gate thing.

They get that now. These guys know cutesy time is over. Here's Caroline Levitt. He's gonna be his incoming press secretary after, Spicer and Huckabee Sanders and Kaylee. Caroline Levitt is very good at her job.

Carolyn Levitt is indicating now that they are gonna divvy up the press room differently. Here's my big announcement. If the Trump team wants the biggest political livestream in the world, that's our show. If they wanna give us a seat in the press room, I, number 1, would be honored and would absolutely accept it. But I will hire someone next week.

I will let everyone know I will hire a Dan Bongino show correspondent. Folks, we have a bigger audience in the Washington Post and New York Times. Is it it's totally up to the Trump team. It is not my call. I will take it.

We will take that seat for the Dan Bongino show. You don't have to put us in the front row or anything like that, although we are bigger than most of these outlets. Right? But the Bongino army, would you not be honored to have a seat in the press room? I know I'd be.

We will hire someone. Man. I will hire someone. So we'll put him in there. Here's Caroline Levitt saying, hey, man.

Status quo in the press room is over, so I'm down for this. This sounds great to me. Check this out.

Any plans to change the way the briefing room works?

Well, let me preface by saying that there has never been a more transparent president than Donald Trump. We saw that in his first term. He consistently called the press into the oval office when he was signing bills. He took questions from them directly. That's something the press I know is yearning for.

They have not had that over the past 4 years. So their transparency and their access to the leader of the free world will be increased and also to the press secretary as well. We will be holding briefings in that room. I think as far as the landscape of the briefing room, it needs to reflect the media habits of the American people in 2024, not in the 19 eighties. And president Trump won this election by utilizing nontraditional, non legacy media voices outside the beltway.

That's clearly who the American people are listening to. That's how they're digesting their news. And I think it would be irresponsible of us not to include some of those voices in the briefing room.

I'm totally down. I am down. I will hire someone, and I could probably do it next week. I am down. Your call, not mine.

It's your press room. You divvy it up as you see fit. I'm just saying, here's my humble opinion. Here's who I think should be in there. I think the war room guys should get 1.

I think, Crowder should get 1. I'm just going on basically live stream audience and digital. I think the daily wire should get 1. I don't wanna leave anybody out. I think we should get 1.

I think Charlie Kirk's team should get 1 too. I mean, these are basically the guys with the biggest audiences. I mean, if you wanna reach actual where the media now, actual people through the media, then I'm, you know, I'm sorry to say, but that's where it is. That's where the audience is. You know, you can also give other outlets, you know, Breitbart, the caller there.

But if you wanna reach digital audiences, that's where it's at right there. Those are the people who have the eyeballs and the earlobes, and that's thanks to you. You're you're the eyeballs and the earlobes, not me. I can only watch the show 1 time. Speaking of which, I'd be remiss if I didn't talk about this.

Guy, by the way, hates stories like this, but I think this 1, he'll give me a kind of a carve out on because this is freaking weird. And it's even weirder because there's a family connection in here. Everybody said, what is he talking about? Michael and Evita. Evita's mom and dad live in New Jersey.

They live in New Jersey and actually got some video on 1 of these things themselves. You know, Rachel from Fox, Rachel Campostuffy, and Sean who is the, transportation secretary nominee, they actually got video. These things, what things? What are you talking about? What the is up with this drone thing in New Jersey folks?

This is the weirdest thing I've ever seen. For strict liability purposes alone, you would think someone would have come clean at this point. You you get what I'm saying? Legally speaking, if 1 of these things kind of crashes on someone's house, you would think, like, 1 of these companies would at least tell the gov the governor, Phil Murphy, who's a commie, but he's still the governor of New Jersey. So we'll have to put aside the communism for a second.

You think this guy would know who these things are? He's the freaking governor. Now he's either playing really stupid, which is possible, but I doubt here, or he genuinely doesn't know what the hell these truck sized drones are doing hovering over sensitive locations in New Jersey. I want you to listen to this part. This is very, very important.

Here's the governor of New Jersey who's either playing dumb or we got something really kinda big on our hands, and no 1 wants to say what it is. Check this out.

These are apparently very as I understand it, very sophisticated. The minute you get eyes on them, they they go dark. And, you know, we're obviously most concerned about, sensitive targets and sensitive critical infrastructure. So we've got military assets. We've got utility assets.

We've got the president who elects 1 of his homes here. This is something we're taking deadly seriously. We've got good cooperation out of the feds, but we need more. And that's that was my plea.

Finally, how long how much longer do you think you're taking

care of that? Don't know, but, if we have news, I'll come I'll I'll let you know. The the minute we know something, I'm not gonna hide it under

a bushel. Governor, you have you know, people saying, you know, I saw a drone in a was spraying something, or I saw a drone crash in my yard and set it off an alarm when I tried to go near it. There's a lot of fear Yeah. From New Jersey residents. I mean, what is your message?

Well, the the message I just gave but by the way, we're we're not aware of any nefarious drone that has crashed. Or if or if there is 1 that's crashed, could someone please call me and let me know where that is? There are a couple of rumored, downings for 1 reason or another. 1 of them was a toy. The other 1 was never found.

But having something having our hands on equipment that's on the ground would be helpful. No question about it.

Listen. I was suggesting who said it. He does have a lot of experience playing dumb. So he could know, you know, Occam's razor here. Given all possible explanations, the simplest is he's a commie, so he's stupid.

So maybe he just is dumb. I gotta tell you my first read on it, though, licking finger here. Lick at my finger, seeing where the winds wind's blowing. I'm not sure he's playing stupid. Now I'm gonna tell you something.

We in my last line of work, we obviously did security in the air as well. You do the, you know, the bubble. You call it the protective bubble. Bubble meaning above and below. There's a lot of stuff I I will not talk about for obvious reasons, but the air picture is really complicated.

You've got things like an ADIS, an air defense identification zone, a frizz, a a flight restricted area. Right? You've got things like the den, which is this what defense enforcement networking system. Folks, you can't just go and randomly and repeatedly fly shit in the air without somebody noticing. That this guy likely doesn't know as the governor of New Jersey what this is.

I gotta tell you, has me a little bit concerned. There's something not right about this story either. And I've waited. The Bongino rule applies. Could it be something like some manufacturing company testing some new form of delivery drone as I heard on Fox this morning?

It could be. It's certainly possible. I just find it unlikely that a company like that that would engage in that kind of commercial activity is engaged in such secrecy that the mayors, the state police, the local police, and the governor of the state have absolutely no idea. I'm telling you when I did protective operations, everybody knows what's in the sky. Everyone.

Almost all the time. There's something out trust your friend, Dan. There is something not right about this. What a big week this is for us, by the way. Got the big party coming up on Friday.

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