Dan Bongino opens this episode with the reported resignation of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and the allegations surrounding it, which he links to concerns about Chinese Communist Party espionage. He then turns to the aftermath of the midterm elections, arguing that Democrats are overreaching with threatened investigations of Trump administration officials.
Bongino also examines the White House's response to congressional subpoenas, the Republican Party's messaging problems over affordability, and reported migrant caravans at the border. He closes by urging Republicans to pass a list of priorities, including judicial confirmations, during the lame-duck session before the new Congress takes office.
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Talk about a crazy news morning. You know, the show is obviously live at 10:00 a.m. Welcome, good to have you all here. You know, I love having the Bongino Army with me live. This is different energy to a live show. You know, we've thought quite a bit about moving the time of the show and maybe just going back to, you know, record and on-demand and stuff. You know, you avoid any kind of production mistakes, host mistakes, any mistakes. But there's a different energy live. I had this conversation with Paula yesterday. It's really, it's hard to do a show taped and have the same energy as having thousands of people sitting in a room with you at the exact same time.
I say that, though, because there is an obvious downside. The downside is news breaks sometimes right before you get on the air, without time to properly analyze it. Hence the Bongino rule: give some story 24 to 72 hours before drawing a final conclusion about it. Because facts come out and, you know, you don't want to look like an idiot. And, you know, sometimes it happens. Sometimes you get it wrong. But my gosh, right before we got on the air, around 9:30 or so a.m., Jensen Huang resigned as the CEO of Nvidia, which is a huge international story.
I've got a couple of thoughts on that. And viewed through the lens of my prior position in the FBI, I want to get to that. I also want to get to, folks, the Donald Trump White House. If you thought they were going to take a step back and weren't going to stand their ground, this is a stand-your-ground state in Florida, but it was stand your ground, stand their ground. You're crazy. Something happened yesterday. And again, it goes to show you how the Democrats who just got elected, have not even sworn in and raised their right hands yet, are already so far off message that their own base doesn't know what to do.
Their base, the radical communist base they have, are all pissed off because they don't think the Democrats are doing anything radical enough, even though they haven't even sworn in yet. And these so-called moderates that may have flipped from Republican to Democrat in this election, thinking they were voting on their wallets, they're ticked off too because all the Democrats want to talk about is locking people up. I just want to say to you younger guys, like Justin, are you the youngest one? You are, right? You know, I noticed this younger generation is into eighties and nineties stuff.
If I'm wrong, tell me, but I have a young daughter and they're watching like Friends episodes and Seinfeld. Justin, I'm not crazy, right? Like your sister, right? They lived like my daughter came up to me and she was like, Dad, is this yours? She showed me a CD. Remember CDs? CDs. I remember records, but CDs were like two generations later. Records, cassette tapes, and then CDs. But CDs are even old now. And it was Courtney Love's band, Whole, which I loved. I still love. I mean, it's probably a big lib, but I don't care.
She even I don't even know if she's even alive anymore. Who cares? I love the music. My daughter's like, I love this music. I can't believe you have this. Can I have it? I said, sure. I bring that up because I love watching documentaries because I'm old and it's just, I don't know. I just like it. Folks, I think people forget the greatness of Led Zeppelin. Producer Jim, I'm not kidding. I think when this next generation of kids, Justin, do me a favor, go listen to like Ramble On or A Whole Lotta Love and just listen to like Robert Plant, just freaking tear it up, and Jimmy Page and Bonham and John Paul Jones.
Like, I loved Led Zeppelin growing up, but man, were they good. Holy Moses. You ever see Jimmy Page play the guitar with the violin bow on Days Then Confused? With a freaking violin. Folks, they don't make music like that anymore. Listen, I like rap. I'm not trying to be Jenny from the block. I just grew up in New York. You had no choice. I grew up listening to everything from like Special Ed to freaking Run DMC, we started.
But they're nothing like Jimmy Page playing a freaking guitar with a violin bow. I'm sorry. All you younglings out there, go listen to some Zeppelin, man. Whoa. Could they do it? Journey was more like depressing death music, but it was. Journey was that Steve Perry. Steve Perry was amazing, but it was a little bit depressing. But Zeppelin was insane.
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Jensen Huang, the CEO, is accused of having a tryst with an alleged Chinese spy. Turns out there may have been another woman within the company. Folks, obviously a monster story. Why? This is not a story about so much Jensen Huang's personal life as much as it is about the depths of Chinese Communist Party penetration into America. I can tell you within proper boundaries, without disclosing anything, that the depths of Chinese Communist Party infiltration into the United States, I think, in my opinion, and the opinion is scoped out in a perimeter because obviously I wasn't born when the first, you know, when the first non-shots in the Cold War, you know, were started.
But the Soviet Union did a lot of damage. The Chinese Communist Party, the damage over time is going to be extensive. Folks, the depths of their penetration into our universities, into our corporations, into our agriculture and science space, into R&D departments in even mid and small cap and the firms as well, not just large cap. The depths of their penetration into the medicine space, advanced medicine.
They had set up, they had the balls to set up effectively what were police departments in major U.S. cities, the Chinese Communist Party police departments. I don't mean like armed police. I mean like surveillance police units to watch citizens in Chinese diaspora communities. They're absolutely shameless. Their infiltration into politics. You saw with Feinstein, the former senator from California, Smallwell. I mean, these are just now the allegations against Jensen Huang.
Folks, they're very smart and they're also not very good people. The leadership of the Communist Party team, I'm not talking about the entire country, obviously I wouldn't speak in broad strokes. They're pretty awful. They are a threat, a legitimate threat to our national security. And you need to be extremely, extremely careful in these spaces. I hate tropes and clichés. Like if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck.
But if you see someone who fits many of the criteria of possibly being a foreign spy in your business and your political office or elsewhere, there is nothing racist or bigoted about asking questions. Do your background homework. They are a very, very sophisticated group of foreign actors on the espionage front.
Fair question. What did you guys do? We did a ton. There are things I'm sorry I can't talk about, nor you didn't pay me to talk about them either. You paid me to go get the job done and not disclose ways we do it, or else they would know what we're doing. We revamped that entire operation. The stories over time about what Cash and I and the DOJ did, as it's available and it'll all get out. But I promise you, our attention was resolute on the matter.
But do your homework on this. If it quacks like a freaking duck, it's probably a duck. And let me just say one more thing before I move on to the Trump White House coming out swinging against all of this crappy and thrown on the wall against them. The Chinese Communist Party knows how to leverage identity politics. Listen to me. This is not a blink needed. I'm telling you straight. Corporations, political leaders, the minute you start asking questions, one of their first responses is going to be, oh my gosh, that's bigoted and racist.
This is just anti-China racism. They do that on purpose because they know the left will jump right in bed with them, literally and figuratively. If you have questions, ask them. Do not be cowed. We weren't. Okay. So folks, the left has a real problem right now. The implosion on the left is going to continue. Now, I'm not telling you this is going to benefit if the right, if the right doesn't dust off.
And when I say right, I don't mean the political right you out there. I mean elected folks at the state, local, tribal, territorial, and federal level. It's time to dust off. The freaking elections a week ago. That's like multiple dog years. Forget it. It's time to move on. It's time to fix the party and create a contrast. We're serious. We're going to get to work in the final lame duck session. We're going to become the party of good quality ideas while we watch the left engage in emblemless impeachments, weaponization of government, talk about everything other than they think got them elected, affordability. The implosion is already going on.
We have to take advantage of it by being serious actors in the space. We don't have a choice. We can't just forfeit the country. There's nowhere else to go, even if you wanted to. The Trump White House is absolutely done with these veiled threats from that loser Robert Garcia, that congressman who's going to jump and take the chairman spot in one of the oversight committees. He's out there talking about, I'm gay, I'm petty. I thought you were canceled for saying stuff like that.
This is his word, not mine. This is an actual Democrat congressman. He's not talking about affordability or wallet, anything. He's out there talking about, we're going to start hauling people in for acting as basically agents of the president, which is their job if you're hired as a cabinet, sub-cabinet, or an official in the executive branch. Who do you think the chief executive is? It's the freaking president who was elected by the people. He's not unelected because the legislative branch, the party in power, lost the elections.
He's a separate branch of government. You don't know this Robert Garcia? I don't know, but I'm gay and I'm petty. What kind of stupid ass line is that? White House is having none of this. And there's not a both sides argument. Folks, sometimes there is. Listen to your buddy Dan here. Whenever the subject of government debt comes up on this show, when I was on Fox or elsewhere I had my show there, I admit because it's true to people that the exploding government debt is a both sides argument.
Republican and Democrat lawmakers and presidents have signed on to this national debt program that's exploded. We spend money we don't have. You win. There is no both sides argument on the weaponization of government. There is none. The cases our Department of Justice and FBI worked in the public corruption space were against Republicans and Democrats who had broken the law where the evidence was properly predicated. The Democrats didn't know such thing. You had people lying under oath to a FISA court, making stuff up to go and use handcuffs on President Trump and his team.
They're not the same thing. Dude, there is no both sides argument. Please cut the stuff. The Trump administration cleaned up the mess you left us in the federal law enforcement operation that was purely weaponized. And we had to clean up your mess and we proceeded on evidence. You just can't accept that. This is not both sides. Here's what I mean. I want to play this clip for you. Here's Joe Kernan at CNBC. He's a pretty good guy.
Works at CNBC, which is a left of center kind of outlet business station, as you know. But sometimes he'll delve into politics. Joe Kernan has Democrat Pete Aguilar on. And again, he tries to make this fake phony argument that, hey, all this stuff we're going to do to lock up Trump officials for acting in the interest of the executive branch and the people who elected them. We're just doing what you guys did. No, no, you're doing nothing of the sort.
And then he brings up hilariously the infamous Loretta Lynch. Loretta Lynch, the former Democrat attorney general, meeting with Bill Clinton on the tarmac. And he calls it a conspiracy theory. And he also, he seems to forget how Eric Holder, Obama's AG, attorney general, used to openly brag about being his boy and wingman. Oh, oh, we got the receipts. Here's Joe Kernan first with this Pete Aguilar. There is no both sides argument here.
They lied under oath, used the FISA courts, and a weaponized FBI to target people. And now they're just pissed off accountability's coming their way. Check this out.
Blanch is acting like the president's personal attorney, oh, by the way, which he was, rather than the United States Attorney General, the chief law enforcement officer of this country. That's the line. And this administration crosses it time and time again.
Congressman, if we lived in a perfect world, I'd be nodding. But do I need to mention Merrick Garland? Do I need to mention Eric Holder, Janet Reno? Who was on the plane with Bill Clinton, Loretta Lynch, and Warren, Bill? I mean, come on. I mean, I love you. I love you, Congressman. But I mean, you know, he delivered that with a straight face, which is what I liked.
No. And if you want to talk about your 12-year-old conspiracy theories about planes, that's fine, Joe. The American people are getting crushed at the cost.
It's the gay quote. And they think.
It was President Obama's wingman who said that.
Receipts incoming, leftists. I know you're going to claw at your face, crap your diapers. I get it. Scream at the moon like a bunch of faux werewolves. I get it. I get the clawing. Don't leave red marks. I hope you trim your nails. Everything Kernan just said is true. Todd Blanch, the attorney general, and Kash Patel, and me so far, although I'm on the outside now, I don't recall any accusations that whether it was the John Bolton case or the Jim Comey case or the Ilhan Omar case, that we made any of this up.
Are they out there? Show me in the chat that we just fabricated the evidence. Bolton pled guilty. Many of these cases were started under prior administrations. You're just pissed off we finished them. And you're claiming that because Todd Blanch had a relationship with the president prior, that he somehow corrupted. Put meat on that bone, Aguilar. Put meat on the bone and give us an actual accusation of corruption that makes sense without looking like a bozo on camera.
Because I've got evidence that you're full of crap. The attorney general's office was completely corrupted under Biden and Obama. Here's Eric Holder himself, Obama's attorney general, bragging about being a wingman and I'm his boy. What? And you're talking about Todd Blanch being corrupted without putting any meat on that skeleton at all? Come on, man. Give it a rest. Really? Check this out.
Stay around for all four years?
Well, I don't know. We'll see.
Come on, man. Come on. Come on.
We need you.
I got to ask. Come on, attorney general, please.
Well, I'm happy. I'm still enjoying what I'm doing. There's still work to be done. I'm still a president's wingman, so I'm there with my boy.
Yeah, yeah.
And so, you know, we'll see. We'll see.
The most, I would argue, corrupt attorney general in modern US history, maybe in US history, worked under Obama. The Obama team, members of the executive branch, and their FBI admitted to lying to fabricate a charge to attack President Trump and his family and his team. There are no such charges against this administration at all.
You just don't like that we had to clean up your mess. And then he says this Pete Aguilar's joke, what a bozo, that it's a conspiracy theory that former attorney general Loretta Lynch, Democrat, met with Bill Clinton, Democrat president, on a tarmac when Bill Clinton's wife, Senator, former First Lady, and presidential nominee for the Democrats, Hillary Clinton, was under investigation.
So I just threw it in AI because I bet you think I'm lying. Liberals clawing your faces, peeing your diapers and all. Is it a conspiracy theory that Lynch met with Clinton on a tarmac in Arizona while Hillary Clinton was under investigation? No. No, it wasn't. The meeting on an airport tarmac in Phoenix was a documented historical event, not a conspiracy theory. Look, they even threw it in a date, guys. That's crazy. June 27, 2016. While Hillary was under an active FBI investigation concerning her use of a private email server during her tenure as Secretary of State.
There it is. There it is. I thought that was a conspiracy theory. Folks, the Republicans got a lot of problems. Got our asses handed to us on not even a silver platter. It was like a platinum platter. We just freaking lost Mississippi. Alaska ain't looking great either. They could have 56 seats.
That's depressing. It is. But what's your options? I'll tell you what. My option, the one I take, there's no fork in the road. There's only one road. And that road always goes in the same direction. The president said, fight, fight, fight while getting shot in the head, nearly tried to bankrupt him, tried to put him in jail. All he's asking is that we fight back. And we've got two years to do it. I'm not giving up, folks.
And the implosion on the left is going to set up an opportunity for a generational contrast right now in the next two years. A generational contrast. I promise you they are about to go crazy. Not even about. They're going crazy. Men in the women's room, confiscatory taxes, all kinds of identity politics crap, wiping out the Electoral College, packing the Senate, packing the courts.
If we are the party of reason, rationality, and ideas, it sets up an opportunity to start to regain trust amongst voters that abandoned us in the last cycle. Folks, the contrast is going to be epic. They did not vote for this party of Democrats to sit there and engage in two years of hearings, but they're going to do it again. More receipts incoming. In this next clip, I want to play by this congresswoman, Yasin Ansari.
I actually discussed this with Vince on his radio show yesterday. I don't like teasing things up unnecessarily. It's stupid. However, folks, this is really disturbing because I know what you may be thinking out there. If you're in our military, law enforcement, you're in HHS, and you're a deputy assistant to the deputy, assistant to the deputy deputy, and you're like, they're not going to come for me. I'm sorry, but that's not what they're saying.
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We lost a lot of public support. The time to rebuild confidence with the party is now. It's not when the Democrats take over. We still have the levels of power. Here's a clip that should bother the hell out of you. Here is this representative, Yasin Ansari. Folks, they're coming for you too. You think they're just coming for Pete Hegseth or Kash Patel or John Ratcliffe? No. They're going to go all the way down the chain, probably down to college students, like Alyssa Slotkin said, that clown Democrat senator from Michigan. Anyone who has any attachment to the Republican Party whatsoever, you're a target too.
You really want to live in a country like this? I thought you voted on affordability. You did not. You did not. If you think you did, you got sucker. Check this out.
I wonder if he's doing the president's bidding. Do you think President Trump should be impeached?
I mean, I have long supported impeachment of President Trump, whether or not that is a priority in the next Congress. That is not the debate here. I also, let me tell you this, I also think that people down the chain at the Pentagon who carried out these orders need to be investigated. This is not just about that. This is why people like Senator Slotkin and Senator Kelly, Congressman Crowe, went and said, if you are being asked to carry out illegal actions, you do not need to do so.
That is why that video was created to begin with. So that is why it's important for everyone who works for these individuals who are making these decisions takes very seriously what the Constitution says and what types of orders they're being given. This is all very, very serious. And there is going to be a world beyond this administration.
Folks, these people are political tyrants. I mean, this is the kind of language used by fascists and tyrants and totalitarians collectivists also throughout human history. But they're coming for you too. Folks, I told you when we got in there, voting matters and showing up matters. You can do all the damage repair you want to the front fender of your car that got hit.
You can fix it up, paint it, put the clear coat on it, and it looks amazing. And then the second Democrats get behind the steering wheel, they just run it into a light pole again. Here's AOC talking about affordability, which they claim got them elected and wallet issues. Just kidding. Here she is again, endlessly focused on the I word impeachment. I thought they were focused on the A word, affordability. No such thing for them, folks.
They're focused on a lot of A words. Abortion, all this other crap that they want to talk about, aborting babies and all this other garbage. But affordability in your wallet? No. That's not what they're focused on at all. Check this out.
There are so many criminals in this administration. It's hard to figure out who should be the order of operations. There are going to be many, many, many investigations. I imagine many subpoenas, and we have to follow wherever the evidence takes us.
Folks, we got a real problem though too. In addition to the fact that AOC, Yasin Ansari, Alyssa Slotkin, and others are now openly saying, hey, when we take hold of these elected positions and potentially the presidency, where we route the executive branch of constitutionalists and put in weaponized tyrants. Outside of that, folks, we have a real problem. And the bigger problem here is messaging. You're going to hear this word on TV all the time, but no one ever says anything about it. What does it mean? Like putting stuff on a freaking breakfast cereal box in the morning?
Like what does messaging mean? Folks, messaging means penetrating through the mist of academia, the entertainment community, the sports community, even as my friend John Rich tells me, even the country music community. A lot of that's gone woke too. We are not doing a good job here. We're not. Because people really believe they voted on wallet issues. And in liberal states where they just routed the Republican Party, the wallet issues are the worst. I saw this story right before I got on the air from Breitbart. I mean, you're living in Massachusetts.
This is Warner Todd Houston. Democrat-led Massachusetts is 50% more expensive to live in than the US average. This place is as blue as blue gets. I don't understand, like for all of the consultant class, and I don't say that out there as a pejorative or anything, but all of the Republican lawmakers, what are we doing on this messaging front? You have to go out and get people who've marketed a product successfully. We've got to do something to change our pitch to the American voter.
Because they say they're doing, we're doing this. We're voting on government corruption. The most corrupt people around were Merrick Garland, Holder, Obama. They were corrupt. What do you mean you're voting on corruption? We're voting on our wallet and affordability. You live in states that are totally unaffordable. That is clear evidence that there is some breakdown. Maybe we should divorce ourselves, not from all political consultants. Some of them are good. Some of them are doing a crap job. How is it our signature thing?
Public safety, national security, the economy, sound borders, school choice. How are we losing on these issues, or some of them, to Democrats where it's the exact opposite? This is a screenshot from Justin's phone from Grok. Which states have the highest cost of living? I told you I voted on affordability. Hawaii, Massachusetts, and California. Most of the states in the top 10 are deep blue states. So I don't understand what you were voting on. I understand what you think you were voting on, but that's not what you were actually voting on.
And folks, the Donald Trump White House is not taking any of this stuff lying down. They understood last time at a Trump 45 that they had a real problem. The problem was you had people playing along, oh, with the Mueller probe, and it was that stuff was all garbage. They realized now that there was no effort to like weed out corruption. That was purely weaponized government actors trying to target people. You know, I say to you all the time, having worked in law enforcement at the state and at the city and federal level, right?
The way a constitutional republic works, think about this, is some complainant walks into an NYPD police station, files a police report. My house was broken into. The police department goes out, fingerprints, and they look for the person. They conduct an investigation. The way a tyrannical, fascist, totalitarian top-down government works, which is what these new Democrats incoming want, now Trump's going to get in their way over the next two years, and they're fighting back now, is that they walk into the police station and say, I want to target Donald Trump or White House Counsel Will Sharf.
Well, do you have any evidence? No, find the evidence later. That's what they're doing. Listen to everything they say. They're doing the opposite. That's the mark of a tyranny. Find me the person, I'll find you the crime. Bury him, right? Some of you know what that means. Folks, they're fighting back. Elana Treen from CNN covered this yesterday. White House Counsel Will Sharf sent a letter up there to the Hill, and he basically said, hey, listen, unless you guys have some legitimate legislative purpose for all of these subpoenas, we're going to ignore it because we have privileges as well.
We are a separate branch of government in the White House. We are not in the legislative branch. We have powers. You have powers. They're allowed to say things from the legislative floor up on Capitol Hill, and they have certain immunities. The White House has certain immunities from legislative overreach too. Put up that tweet. They sent this letter yesterday, and they were like telling them to go pound sand. White House Counsel Will Sharf said to this guy, Robert Garcia, who wants you to know he's gay and petty, by the way, that beyond being inconsistent with the clear, well-recognized constitutional limitations on your investigative functions, threats to executive branch officials designed to deter them from public service or to abuse or instill fear in them may cross the line into blatant criminality.
You want investigations? You asked for it. You may get investigations. Here was Hugh Hewitt on Fox yesterday discussing exactly this issue. The Democrats that got elected to Congress are not FBI agents. They're not intelligence analysts at the CIA. They're literally legislators. If there's no legislative purpose to their oversight, they're not allowed to engage in endless fishing expeditions just because they're pissed off that Donald Trump's the president for two more years.
That's not a thing. Have you ever heard of checks and balances, vertical and horizontal separation of powers arguments? Are you not aware of how any of this works? Of course they are. They just don't care. This is a good segment though. Check this out.
White House Counsel Will Sharf returned volley in a three-page letter with nine paragraphs that's laying the evidentiary basis in detail as to why some subpoenas will be considered by the White House to be illegitimate. They are arguing that threats are not covered in the Article 1, Section 6 authority that Chairman, incoming Chairman Garcia, just referred to. And what White House Counsel Sharf lays out is you folks are in the business of intimidation. We will not be intimidated. And in fact, you are crossing the line of criminality if you intend to intimidate members of the administration as opposed to your appropriate investigative procedures.
However, members of Congress have a big substantial grant of immunity. Article 1, Section 6, Speech and Debate Clause extends to their staff as well. It doesn't mean that they can get away with anything. And what I think we're going to see is a replay of the Clinton years when in the impeachment proceeding against Bill Clinton, they invented a new privilege a day basically when Bill Clinton was under the microscope.
There's a point to this. Hugh Hewitt is correct. I'm old enough to remember this. When Bill Clinton was going through the whole Monica Lewinsky sexual scandal and the White House executive oval office bathroom, whatever the hell was going on, probably kids listening. You get the point. Dress stains and all this stuff. It was like every day was like, is this really happening? How many of you remember that, right? Bill Clinton and his team in the White House would fabricate imaginary privileges that didn't exist.
One of them he mentioned, I know of well, I was not, I didn't get on there with the Secret Service until 1999, the last years, last year of the Bill Clinton presidency. But I was there when he was president. That's how old I am. But this had still reverberated throughout the Secret Service. Remember this. There was a special agent in charge. We call him SAICs. The FBI calls them SACs. They don't like when you call them SACs over there.
We call them SACs. But then they call them ASACs. I never, whatever. I just stick with my. But there was a special agent in charge of Bill Clinton's detail, PPD, the Presidential Protective Division, okay? The guy's name was Larry Cockle or something like that. And he was around President Clinton all the time. They wanted him to testify. It became this huge media blow-up that how is it going to impact Secret Service protective measures in the future if a protectee like President Clinton was afraid his own inner sanctum security agents were basically going to tell on him or whatever.
Folks, this was a huge story. However, there is nothing in the Constitution that even mentions the Secret Service. They didn't come about to what, 1865? They're not even mentioned. They just made this up. What I'm trying to tell you is not to give you a history of Bill Clinton getting war or no, you know, in a way blue stained dress and all this other crap. What I'm trying to tell you is this is going to get tied up for two years.
So if you're a Democrat out there and voted on your, I voted on my wallet and affordability, you are going to get two freaking years of subpoenas. We fight the subpoena. They go to the court. They lose. They fight it at the appellate level. They win. Goes back to the Supreme Court. Then they claim another privilege and it's privilege and it starts all over. I don't know what you think you were voting for, but none of that you're actually going to get. You are going to get a giant kick in the sack. There you go. You see what I did there?
Probably why the bureau guys don't like being called SACs. They like being called SACs. They didn't like it. They hated it. But I would do it anyway sometimes. It wasn't going to be just what we called them in the Secret Service. You're not going to get any of that. The Donald Trump White House is just going to say, well, Bill Clinton argued this. So we're going to argue it too. Folks, watch the carnage ahead on the Democrat side. But see if the Republicans have, I'm going to give you the Republican argument in a minute of what they can do to start to rebuild confidence.
Because folks, it's going to take a ton of work. That was an ass-kicking last Tuesday of just historic proportions. We lost a seat in Mississippi. How the hell do you lose Mississippi to a guy I read this morning, maybe connected to some Soros network money and something like how the hell did we lose that seat? But we've got to start to rebuild confidence.
Because it's our party. We built it. This MAGA movement that elected Donald Trump just two years ago, you did it, folks. You voted. Many of you donated. You showed up at events. You knocked on doors. I'm not forfeiting that because some liberal nut job told me I have to and the country's over. They told us the same thing when they elected Barack Obama. We told them to go pound sand. The Tea Party revolution started. Watch the carnage ahead as you see the Democrats distance themselves further and further from issues they thought the public were buying.
They did. It's the economy, stupid. Here's a post by Dems Deliver. Deliver what? On X. About the A word, affordability. Just kidding. Breaking. I hate these breaking things. Oh my gosh. This is like, oh, not breaking. Jasmine, it's like something broke. No, I mean breaking. I hate it. It's so annoying. Dems Deliver, breaking, all caps. Texas Democrats introduce a bill to end the state's affordability ban, A word, no, abortion ban.
They just cut the breaking. Just added it up.
Yeah, I know. I know. Ghee hates it too. Ghee was going to put like, we just didn't mention White House the other day. Digital White House because we hate that so much. It's so annoying. If we ever did it on my social, because I don't manage all of it, we have to stop that. Jason, if you, I don't think he does that.
They had the little siren.
I know. The siren in motor car. Oh, I hate it. It's so freaking irritating. Texas Democrats focused on the A word, abortion, not affordability. Folks, watch the carnage ahead as people start to realize they got freaking rug pulled. They got rug pulled. You ever see that movie, Wolf of Wall Street, the Pump and Dump? Talking about Bill Clinton, that's dangerous.
However, this is a different pump and dump. Wolf of Wall Street, they would pick these penny stocks. They're basically worthless. Off like the pink sheets or whatever the hell they call them. They would just call up these investors who got suckered and they'd say, hey, invest in whatever. Joey Baggett Donuts Bagel Company. It's going to be worth millions. They invented a new way to make bagels or whatever. People would be like, wow, give me $10,000 worth. The stock would fly up because there was no liquidity to this thing at all.
And then they would just dump it and sell it and make like 100X profits. That's what just happened. You got pumped and dumped. They pumped you up. Oh, we're going to fix the economy and affordability. They don't care about any of this stuff. This is the craziest thing I think I've seen yet. Here's Hakeem Jeffries, who is extremely likely, by the way, to be the Democrat speaker of the House. Hakeem Jeffries, I need you to keep this in mind, portrays himself as a sane, rational Democrat, the voice of reason, a bridge builder.
I'm not one of those crazies. He is. He's a straight-up lunatic. He's asked a question on this interview. This is insane. This is lunacy about not only opening the borders, but going into foreign countries, grabbing illegals, and bringing them back. No way. That's crazy. About affordability. Oh no, not no way. Yes, way. It's all here. On tape, as we used to say back in the day. Check this out.
Dozens of DACA recipients are among those already deported under this administration's immigration crackdown. Would you support efforts to bring them back into the U.S.?
Certainly. Anyone, whether they are a citizen, whether they were here lawfully, whether they are DACA recipients who've been treated unfairly and unjustly by the administration, we need to provide remedial assistance to them and undo the damage that's been done to the country, to law-abiding immigrant families, and to the American people over this last 20 months or so.
Folks, as we dust off from the electoral disaster of last Tuesday, do you see where I'm going with this? That we have to dust off because this is what's going to happen to your country and there's nowhere else to go. Now we're discussing the Democrat Party, by we, I mean them. Now we're discussing in the inside of the Democrat Party. They're chatting about taxpayer dollar expenditures to go in what? Fly planes into foreign countries to bring back illegals again?
Do you understand how insane this is? There is a generational opportunity in the next two years with Trump in the White House to say, look at these lunatics, this dark, dirty background, then this lustrous diamond, these Republican ideas out of this MAGA administration. You have a generational opportunity to do this. You got to start to rebuild trust. You got to do something. I'm going to get to that in a second, but I wanted to play you this too because folks, elections have consequences.
That's pretty clear. The migrant caravans. You mean from the Biden administration? No, I mean right now. What do you mean? We have the border effectively shut down. We do. Words got out. All kinds of countries around the world, Mexico, South America, Central America, all of them just found out the open borders Democrats are now back in charge in border states and in the legislative chamber. And what did it take?
It only took minutes for a bunch of international open borders, NGOs, non-governmental organizations that want to destroy this country to gather thousands of people for a migrant caravan headed here under Biden, no, right now, because they heard the Democrats are back in charge. Here's Secretary Mark Wayne Mullin, DHS Secretary, saying, you're not going to be let in. I don't know who told you this. You're not coming in. President Trump is still the president for two years. That is a federal issue, our federal border.
You're not coming in. But they got the word that Dems are in charge. Wait till these migrant caravans start showing up again. And this imagery is on the nightly news every night. They're going to be like, wait, wait, wait, I didn't vote. I voted for like affordability or something. You did not. You just thought you did. Check this out.
All claimed asylum in Mexico, which means that legally they don't have a right to claim asylum in the United States because we have a First Nation Agreement, meaning that when you go into a safe nation, which is Mexico considered a safe nation, you consider and you claim asylum, you also can't walk through there and then go into the United States. Now, the Biden administration turned a blind eye to that. Trump administration put a stop to that, which is why we have the most secure border because of President Trump's strong leadership that we've had in America's history. So we don't believe they're getting here, but we have been very clear.
I have been very clear with my counterpart in Mexico. If they allow them to continue to come north, when they get to their northern border, our southern border, we're not allowing them to enter. So now they're just going to have a crisis around the southern border, around their northern border. We believe this caravan will probably break up. The reason the intel that we're getting, the reason why they formed is because they were trying to pressure Mexico into accepting their asylum cases. Evidently, that has happened. So now what takes place between now and the next few weeks will depend on Mexico.
But I will tell you right now, zero chance we allow them to enter the United States.
You are not coming in here while President Trump is president. Now, the fact that these migrant caravans working with non-governmental organizations are relying on Democrats to finagle the rules and let them in, they are not coming in, should be a signal for you in the next 2028 presidential and legislative elections that it is going to be open season if this vote gets screwed up again and you get suckered by the affordability argument. They have no intentions of taking down that path.
They will open this border again and repopulate the country with tens of millions of people who are not here legally. What more evidence could you possibly need? Mullin's already telling you on instruction from the president, you are not coming in. To those who listen to the show, if you're one of the 44,000 people here right now, spread the word, you're not coming in. There's going to be some humanitarian issue in Mexico as you've got all these people sitting there. They're not coming in. I don't know who told you that or who lied to you, but you better spread the word.
You are not coming in here other than legally through a port of entry. We've got the opportunity in these next less than 60 days now till this new Democrat Senate and House is sworn in to do incredible things. Will they, folks? I'm not up there. I'm not an elected member. All I can tell you is there are a couple of people, even people I don't necessarily agree with all the time, on the Senate and House side, a couple.
I don't know and haven't spoken to every member, but I have spoken to a couple of people who are pretty familiar with the DC swamp, although not members. And they said that there are a lot of serious people up there who realize that they screwed up. Screwed up the messaging. They didn't get enough done on the House and Senate side, that a lot of it was left to the White House and executive orders that can be overturned. And they do sense an opportunity to do something. Will they do it? Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know, but I'll tell you what they can do. I'll tell you what they can do. There was an interesting segment on Laura Ingraham's show last night where she busted out about eight to ten things that are possible.
I'd like to see all ten, but honestly, if they can get even half of these done, it's a small, small step. Small, but not a relevant step in rebuilding trust that's been squandered. I'll show you what I mean. And it's some big ticket stuff, but they have the votes to do it, but they got to want to. I can't force them into it. You can. You can call them. I call mine. I talk to my congressmen and senators.
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The website is preparewithdan.com. That's preparewithdan.com. Prepare today. Go to preparewithdan.com. Please don't wait. Emergencies don't announce themselves. Thanks, my Patriot Supply. Now, I told you we have a generational opportunity to contrast good, quality, solid ideas with the Republican Party willing to do something in contrast to the last two years up on the hill. I'm not going to tell you nothing got done, folks. There's no need for doomsday stuff. We did. They got the big beautiful bill and they were dealing with a slim majority in the Senate.
So a lot of these things they couldn't get through there. They weren't filibuster proof. They weren't willing to dump the filibuster. I thought they should. As my opinion, you know it didn't work out. They're probably the Democrats going to dump the filibuster now. But I just want to show you stuff that happened just over the last few weeks. Stuff that you know I know a lot about. Cash put this up yesterday, FBI director. Three more indictments against Iranian-backed operatives indicted on eight counts for roles in terror attacks. In 21 months, they've disrupted more than 1,300 terrorists and made nearly 7,000 foreign terror organization-related arrests.
So 1,000% increase. We want to stop this? No, we don't want to stop this. We want to continue over the next two years to produce these results. Here's the DOJ press release on that. While the Democrats sit there and argue over and over about who in the White House they can bring in to pay freaking legislative fake oversight fiddlesticks with. Here's another piece from Axios, a left-leaning outlet. Again, this is just from November 12th. Is that today? I don't even know the date. Murders plunge another 15% in America's biggest cities.
These things matter, folks. They matter. Continue to bring it. Continue to bring results while the Democrats sit there up on Capitol Hill screaming about each other over if they should subpoena Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio, or Will Scharf. But you got to start somewhere. You have to start the process of rebuilding trust in this party. This party, the Republican Party, ladies and gentlemen, is a brand like anything else. I hate that word because I can't stand influencer culture.
It's sickening. There are people that are like, I'm a brand. Shut up. But there are brands. There are brands you can relate to kind of a series of if you ask people when you describe a product, let's say a Ford Mustang, give me five or seven words you think of when you think of Ford Mustang. That's your brand. You know, speed, power, engine, sleek, fast, whatever. BMW, what do you think of? Roadster, smooth drive, German engineering, whatever.
That's your brand. What's the problem with the Republican Party now? You ask them about the Republican Party brand and you're not going to like the five or seven words that come out. Folks, again, I'm not being hyperbolic. I fully understand the legislative limitations of a one or two-vote majority in the House and not having a filibuster proof and resilient United States Senate. I get it. But we clearly have a brand issue because that was an ass kicking.
You're in charge for 60 more days. We're still paying you. You have an opportunity while you still have the majority. Nothing changes until January to do things. Here's a short segment from Laura Ingraham's show last night. I want you to listen to this checklist of items. They could get done. They can do it. They have the votes. The only reason they won't do it is because they don't want to. If they want to work long hours, which no one feels bad for you, nobody. They want to work long hours, then get it done.
Here's Ingraham on this list of punch ticket items they could get done before the end of the year. That would be an incredible first step towards relieving some of the strain on this Republican Party brand. Check this out.
Exactly. The debt spending, deliver tax relief through reconciliation, codify Trump's border agenda, ban sanctuary cities, speed up permitting, voter ID, and confirm as many Trump nominees as possible. The Senate, for its part, is finally moving on some of these judicial nominees. I've been complaining about this for months and months, advancing three late last night. Four additional nominees cleared committee today. But man, time's running out. They're not exactly burning the midnight oil, though. The Senate only worked until about 9:20 last night. But both the House and the Senate need to start working.
Guys, up there. Listen, whatever, man. You don't have to take advice from me or my audience. Whatever. I'm just telling you. You have an opportunity here to say, hey, we heard you. We're going to take a first step to get that mile down the road. Every journey starts with a first step. He hates stupid clichés, right? But it's true, is it not? Imagine passing a reconciliation bill that codifies tax cuts, cuts government spending, leans out the government workforce while pushing through all of the, what is it?
Something like 45 Trump judges. Yesterday, I said two appellate court judges. It was actually three. That's huge. That is huge. Most cases die there at the appellate court level. They don't make it to the Supreme Court. Imagine pushing that through, pushing that through, codifying some of the immigration changes in law so the next president, if it's not a Republican, can't wipe them out. Now, listen, I have some disagreements and presentation style with Senator Kennedy.
However, this is a very accurate, calm, and sober assessment of what the current United States Senate, which still has a Republican majority, needs to do in the next 60 days. We have got to get these judges through. It's going to require a little pain, but that pain will be worth it. Many of you leaving office, I just want to appeal to you as human beings. If you're saying, oh, it's a fait accompli, it's done, or we can't do it besides my career's over, whatever it is, I'm not going back into politics.
I'm telling you as a human being, you better be damn careful about that because you're going to change your mind at some point. Want to get back in and people are going to ask you what you did. If you got down that checklist of items and punched them out, that alone in 60 days would be freaking impressive. And at least take the first step towards rebuilding the brand. Here's Kennedy from the floor talking about exactly this. Check this out.
Obviously, we concluded that we have a lot of nominations, presidential appointments, and judicial appointments that we have to address for the remainder of this Congress. If we don't pass, if we don't confirm these people, my Democratic friends will not, I can assure you. So we have to do that. Because of our rules, that requires time. And my colleagues and I are committed to spending whatever time it takes between now and the end of the year, including Christmas Day, including Christmas Eve, and including Thanksgiving.
But in my opinion, that's not enough. That's not enough.
Folks, we said that in the chat. Ech nala be breaking. Dan literally hates the word break. I see what you did there. I see what you did there. Literally. That's very good. Very clever. My eyes just gazed over and I caught that exact comment. That is clever. I hate literally too. Breaking did work. It got me to pay attention. I know. It sucks. I'm like horrified. Folks, Senator Kennedy is right.
If these next 60 days, we got that entire list of items passed, a reconciliation bill, some border bill, the judges through, all the judges through, that would be amazing. It would be really good. But I'm not even here telling you like that's the end. We'll be okay. Party's all saved. Brand, brand, whatever's saved. No. But it's a first step. And it's the only first step. We have no other choice.
Please. I'm asking as someone who's been through the Tea Party revolution, the MAGA revolution, was a young, young boy with the Reagan revolution. I was born in '74. He got out of office in '88. I was 14. He's the first president I remember. I've been through this. Again, I've been a candidate. I've been on the ballot. I've been off the ballot. I've supported candidates. Some of them let me down. Some of them didn't. I'd like to tell you, you know we picked winners every single time. Some candidates we supported got smoked.
But folks, I've never given up on that flag over my shoulder. You know yesterday was Veterans Day. Brave men and women stormed the beaches of Normandy, fought against the horrors of slavery and the Civil War, fought against a nearly unbeatable opponent in the British Empire in 1812 in a revolution. We lost a political race. We're going to dust off and we're going to come back.
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