Transcript of The Race for 2028? (Ep. 2454)

All America all the time. Sit down, buckle up, and get ready for The Dan Bongino Show. Ladies and gentlemen, the 2028 Race for President is on. Dan, stop it. Stop the insanity, please. No, I can't because I don't control the insanity, okay? I just report on it, okay? It is on, though. So we got a lot on that today. It We haven't even reached the midterms yet. But as the media cycle has shortened, this is one of the great ironies of politics. And you guys, come on, you all know it's true. Folks in the chat, chime in. As the media cycle has shortened, stories now are five, six, seven hours long. Boom, they're out of the news. Stories that would have been two, three weeks in advance, about 20, 30 years ago. Think about it. When we hit the nuclear reactor in Iran. That's probably like a year long story in the 1970s or '80s was a story for about a week. It was a hugely consequential geopolitical story. And now it seems like it was 100 years ago. As the media cycle has shortened, The presidential election cycle has lengthened. It went from eight months out to a year out to a year and a half out to two years to now we're out to three years out.

You're already seeing things like that. We got to that, but I got a ton to get to. That's a small portion of today's show. Big announcement for tomorrow. Happy, elated, actually, to have as a guest FBI Director, Cash Patel. So we'll get into all the good stuff. We love having him on as a guest. I'm on the other side now, obviously, so somewhat careful what we talk about, but good man. So I'm really happy to have him on tomorrow. So don't miss that. Today, we've got John Solomon coming on later, who has some just really, really informative updates on that Fulton County, Georgia, election case that I promise it'll make sense when I told you, just because you don't see things happening doesn't mean they're not happening. Now you'll see what was happening, and you'll understand a little better why I think election officials in Fulton County, Georgia are in a world of trouble. So that's coming up at about 11: 30, about an hour and a half from now, if you're listening or watching on demand. I've got a ton to get to, including just Elon on this AI thing, and I think he's 100% correct.

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Once onto the open Internet, it starts to spill out there, combinations of various chemicals, viral manipulations that can create superviruses. Now, we haven't been through this before with the whole COVID pandemic. I am very concerned that AI, if it were to get a hold of basic components of this, could create one of these things on its own if it sees itself in an existential crisis. It's not just me saying it. I am by no means an AI tech expert. It's actual AI creating leaders out there who are putting their own financial future on the line by telling you, Hey, we're a little concerned about our own product. Again, I don't want to instill panic in anybody. I'm just telling you these concerns are very real. You have a lot of hostile foreign actors, too, who are very eager to use AI to develop advanced level biological weapons that we don't have any easy counter for right now. The only possible solution is to get AI to develop potential antidotes and vaccines for these things. And who knows if anybody's even going to trust that? This AI future has the potential for explosive economic growth, but the downsides could be very real.

There's also the potential for massive economic dislocation here. However, don't use any Any of this as an excuse to fall into the Bernie Sanders AOC, Universal Basic Income Trap. We don't know what's going to happen with AI and jobs because it hasn't really shown in the jobs numbers yet. The jobs numbers under President Trump are up despite the implementation of AI. However, would What's Elon is saying in this clip right here, I don't think is inaccurate. Here is Elon Musk talking about the difference between a physical jobs that require a hands-on tactile touch, and digital jobs where you're touching a keyboard, maybe or software developing or things like that. This is really important. Check this out.

Ai is really still digital. Ultimately, AI can improve the productivity of humans who build things with their hands or do things with their hands, like literally welding, electrical work, plumbing, anything that's physically moving atoms, like cooking food or farming. Like anything that's that's physical, those jobs will exist for a much longer time. But anything that is digital, which is like just someone at a computer doing something, AI is going to take over those jobs like lightning.

Yeah, I think with that, he's absolutely correct. And that's definitely something we need to be concerned about. I saw this tweet, too, on an account called Raw Alerts, and this was fascinating. It says, Metta is developing some AI program where you can continue to post as patented in AI that can keep a deceased person account active and running, posting, messaging, and video calling by replicating and using their behavior from past data. I don't know if that's true or not, what their plans are for any of these social companies, but I noticed there was this big uproar on social media. Like, oh, my gosh, this is crazy. And I'm going to tell you, all right, unpopular opinion, flame me in the chat if you need to. I'm open. Do your thing, chatsters. I'm looking now. Get ready. Okay, I'm giving you a second. I don't think this is the worst thing in the world. I know, and I'm going to take an ass kicking on it. It's okay. I'm going to tell you the truth. If you don't want to do this, it's going to be an opt-out. They're not going to be able to steal your image and likeness.

However, if you're some content creator, a musician, or an artist who creates digital pieces or something, or whatever it may be, and you want to take care of your family, what better life insurance plan than to be able to continue to turn over your property, your social media pages, to them and allow the AI to integrate and create some product and generate some income for your family? I don't know. Maybe I'm just... It's hard for me to be objective because I have a social media presence on this, but I don't think it's worth it. Just opt out if you don't like it. All right. Enough on that. I always pack in a ton here. By the way, if you have an iPhone, critical public service announcement from the DB show, update your their iOS. Major, major update from Apple. They had some spyware infiltration, some major attack. Make sure you update your phone. I did it this morning. Haven't seen from the other side the threats. It's a big deal. You can look it up, but there was some Apple spyware update. Some of the stuff they can do out there with this new technology is absolutely incredible.

Make sure you update it. Okay, moving on to something you may have seen in the news last night, another tragic story. I'll address this again with John Solomon later. Folks, it appears to be another act of trans violence. Yesterday, you saw the story in the news with this homicide investigation. Folks, when we were over at the Bureau over the last year, we were not letting this go. As I told you before, you see with just the news right here, father who shot five at Rhode Island Ice Rink, which transgender authorities say. Ladies gentlemen, this is obviously getting to be a not only deadly problem, but a very deadly problem that is repeating itself. There is a pattern here. You know for a fact, if this was some devout, conservative or MAGA hat wearing guy shooting up a rink, and this was happening over and over, and Democrats were in charge, you'd all be in jail tomorrow. This is a pattern. When you see a pattern, you look for traits in that pattern. Is it hormonal manipulation? Is it some psychological biological issue embedded that we're missing that leads to these outbreaks of violence in some of these cases.

When we were over there, we had them look at this through an analytical product. This is happening over and over and over again. And we better damn well get an explanation for and get a hold of this because this is not the first, second, or third time this has happened. As more information develops on that, I'll be sure to get it out on this show and my social media platforms as well. However, getting to That's what I wanted to discuss at the beginning of the show today. Folks, the Race for 2028 is already on, and it matters. I get it. I understand. This is another one of those chat moments where you always hesitate to discuss this stuff because it makes it appear like you're driving the news cycle. The news cycle drives the show. That's what we discuss, what's in the news. You're seeing now candidates earlier and earlier start to enter into the race. And what you're seeing now is a gravitational poll of party elders in each direction, trying to pull parties. But you're seeing it now. I'll give you an example. Obama and Hillary Clinton in a clip I'll get to later, trying to pull the Democrat Party back towards closer to the center on the immigration issue because they know it's a total loser to be on the side of open borders.

And then you're seeing AOC go totally crazy overseas. You're going to see this battle play out now. From this point on, it's going to be in the news every single day. You're also going to see it on the right. Some people are staking out claims Some people are staking out other claims. Some people want to be the traditional old-school Conservatives. Some people more the establishment type. Some people on the MAGA brand. Some people are going to run on the libertarian brand. You're going to see that. And I'm going to be able to explain that to you on our side as well as we go forward. But the Democrats are clearly in the counter-irritation mode right now. What's the counter-irritation mode? I described it yesterday. You know those like a Ben Gay and those other pain analgesics? You put them on your arthritis and you're like, I feel better. Well, some of them, the way they work is counter-irritation. You get a pain in your elbow, you put on this capsaicin-type cream, and it's like a hot-type compound, and it distracts you a bit and your nervous system from the pain, right? That's the Democrats' principle of politics right now.

They know everything they've run on in the last decade has been absolute shit. They know it. The open borders, Obama's disastrous pullout from Afghanistan, the DEI initiatives, the Latinx crap, all All of this stuff, they've defunded the police, not Obamacare, which sucks so bad. It now needs more taxpayer money, even though it was supposed to be cheaper and they're willing to shut down the government. Think about this. Every single thing the Democrats have run on... Tell me one single thing. Folks in the chat, tell me one single thing the Democrats are running, a serious substantive policy issue where the Democrats turned out over time to be right. Defund the police, freaking disaster. Obamacare, freaking disaster. The economy under Democrats, freaking disaster. Anything? The culture wars, disaster. Dei policy, disaster. Everything they've done is a disaster. Medicaid, going bankrupt. Medicare, going bankrupt. Social Security, going bankrupt. We've got to clean this entire mess up for these people. They can't run on everything. They cause you the pain, so they need the counter-irritation. They have to start another distraction to get you away from thinking about everything they do that sucks all the time. Weaponizing government, It went disaster.

You see this in action here. Did you see this clip with Eric Trump and this clown interviewer? What is this? Daily Mail or something? Telegraph? This interviewer, Eric Trump, agrees to go on. And do an interview with this guy. And unbelievably, after a decade plus of the Democrats, the Libbs, and hack-goon Republicans who hated Donald Trump, weaponizing the government, whether it was through Arctic Frost, Mar-a-Lago, the raid at Mar-a-Lago, whether it was through the civil trials up in New York, LaTisha James, whether it was from Twinkies up in New York. The list goes on and on. Crossfire, hurricane. All of these various operations, weaponized government take out Donald Trump. This guy, this interviewer, has the balls to tell Eric Trump, Hey, man, I think you guys may have been making a big deal out of this. It just seems like standard politics. Standard politics? They raided a former president's freaking house, you clown. And thank God Eric Trump kicked right back on this. This is what I'm talking about by counter-irritation. And then blame the Republicans to make it out like they're the ones weaponizing government. Check this out. I take that point. My point is that some of the siege that you faced, and I understand why it was very personal and distressing, can you accept that some of it was just people legitimately disagreeing with your father's policies and using every lever available, as people generally do in politics, in order to push back?

No, no, no. Hold on one second. I mean, there are politics, and there is peaceful discourse, right, over the fact that two people might disagree on abortion. People might disagree on gun rights. People might disagree on the limitations of freedom of speech, right? People can have these disagreements on either side, and they can do so, and they can debate certain things, and whoever wins that debate, and the populace ultimately wins. That's different than raiding somebody's house. That's different than subpoening their children with the intent to literally try and bankrupt a company. That's different than calling every financial institution and telling them to a person. That's different than making up dirty dossiers where saying that there are golden, you know what's happening with prostitution when it was totally fabricated and paid by the opposition. That's criminal type behavior. That's not democracy. That's not the debate of ideas where people can have different perspectives.

Folks, one of the goals of this show, and we've been doing it a long time, about 10 years, a little over 10 years now, has always been to take a whole bunch of information and distill it down. Distill it down into digestible bits so it's easy to understand. The counter-irritation principle, once you notice it, you can never unnotice it. You can't unsee it. They do this all the time. They cause you pain on whatever it may be, DEI, Obamacare. And then they go and blame the other party for the problem they caused, causing a distraction from the irritation they caused. This media guy is clearly playing into that by downplaying the vicious attacks against Donald Trump. We all know that are a matter of freaking historical record. They're not a matter of opinion. And he makes it out like, oh, you guys are just winding and moaning. Yet, during at least my tenure there at the FBI, when we went and built cases that were indictable and prosecutable later, when we built cases against Comey, LaTisha James, Bolton. I had to write them down. Sometimes they don't come to mind right away. We had a lot of them.

Gavin Newsom's chief of staff, the Kathy Hochul staff member. We built cases against the New Orleans mayor and others. There was an entire police department in one case. We had to build a case on these public corruption files. We were immediately accused, despite these cases, building the probable cause the right way based on hard is we were accused of politicizing the place. This is the counter-irritation principle. Look, I just pulled this random article out. What is this? The Milwaukee independent or whatever. How Cash Patel weaponized the FBI into a political tool for charge of retribution against critiques. We actually had to go and build cases the right way. And this is the counter-irritation principle. This is exactly what these people do. You see it over and over again. And the liberal goon media provides the gaslighting air cover they need. And that's why these people continue to do this, because they know, they absolutely know, they will never, ever be called out. So I'm going to get to this in a second. But here's what I mean by, again, by 2028. They're trying to establish now the moral high ground as well for their candidates, that they are on the right moral arc of history.

They're the good guys. They're the Beatified white knights in this whole thing. They are totally full of shit. They started this, and they're just pissed off that we're ending it. That's it. Here's what I mean. Obama, I'll play this in a second. But Obama over there in a podcast interview he had done, is insisting like, Oh, the Democrats are really the good guys here. We have the moral high ground. We're trying to help people. Tolerance coexist and all that bullshit. This has to stop. Don't fall for counter-irritation. This is the real Democrat Party. Here's just a brief supercut. We'll some of it. Of Democrats in the real language they've used. It's already there. You can see it. It's on tape and digital bits. This is how they refer to you. Don't tell me they're the good guys. Check this out.

That Donald Trump is Hitler.

I wouldn't see that.

I don't think any Democrat has.

I actually- All those images of masked men, the secret police, something familiar in Germany.

And 700 active duty Marines sent not overseas, but to the second largest city in the United States of America, militarizing the streets of my city, masked men.

In this rogue Department of Justice, going out to do the bidding of this Timu Hitler.

I don't even know what to call him.

I've called him so many things, but this want to be Hitler for sure.

Trump actually reenacting the Madison Square Garden rally in 1939 that neo-nazis, fascists in America.

You all got the white supremacist galore, okay? Like, all of them. You got the proud boys. You got the neo-Nazis. This is who aligns with that. So inherently in who you are, you all are violent. And most of your violence has to do with people that got a little bit of milling in.

The Save America Act is yet another Republican attempt to intimidate and suppress the votes of anyone, anyone who threatens their extremist white supremacist agenda. Talks about the blood of America.

This thing goes on all day. I asked these guys to put it together. It could have been 10 minutes long. This is the counter-irritation principle. Again, call Republicans, Nazis, and fascists. Set up this moral divide where you're on the right moral arc of history. Put them on the other side of said arc, and then ignore it completely and distract people away from the rhetoric you've used in the past, repeatedly. Here's a segment I was talking about with Obama prepping the battlefield already for both the midterms in 2028. They always make this faux moral argument. It is time for us to call bullshit on it and expose it at every turn. We have the media channels now to do it with the fragmentation of the media environment away from the big three networks anymore, where we have the voice now. We're in control. We're the media now. Here's Obama trying to claim the moral high ground on this, despite what I just showed you. Check this out.

The other side does the mean, angry-Temagogy. Exclusive us/them, divisive politics. That's their home court. Our court is coming together. Our court is...

Look, a great example.

Wasn't political. Bad Bunny's halftime show. I knew you were going to say that. Well, it resonated. It was smart because it wasn't preaching. It was showing.

It was demonstrating and displaying.

This is what a community is.

I'm not even going to get into the Sad Bunny and the dopey halftime show. It wasn't even in English, even if what Obama is saying is accurate, that it wasn't divisive. Nobody heard it anyway. The native language in the United States is English. Listen, this is important where I'm going with this. Why are we talking about 2028 and the moral high ground and all this Other stuff. Folks, the last year of my life really just changed me. I mean, really changed me. We all change every day. Every day you learn something new, even small things. But governments always scared me, always. It should scare you, too. Federal is '51, right? If men were angels, and we're not. Government scares me. I'm going to repeat this from now until I go 6 feet deep, hopefully no time I'm soon. I'm okay. I'm okay. I should never say that because then people ask me, I'm okay. I'm okay. But I am going to repeat this forever. There is no fix to government. There's only fixing it. Government is only people, folks. People can override process. People ask me over and over, again, I've covered it on the show probably five or six times just in the three weeks we've been back.

Do you feel like the FBI is fixed? Nothing's ever fixed. You can fix things which we have and institute guardrails and processes which we did, a lot of them, some public, some not. Nothing is fixed. The price of a healthy constitutional republic, ladies and gentlemen, is eternal vigilance, not temporary vigilance. Eternal vigilance. Every single day, things can change for the better or for the worse. Well, that's pretty simple to understand. No. What I'm getting at is, I hope we don't lose the midterm elections, and I hope we don't lose the presidency in 2028. But if we do, breaking those processes and moving back to a weaponized government, ladies and gentlemen, you're not going to create a new agency out of it. There's more agencies and more. It doesn't work that way. Bad people do bad things. What does it have to do with 2028? The people running now on the Democrats side, are a dangerous combination of stupidity and hunger for all the wrong things. Government scares me. Government led by stupid smart people terrifies me. For those who are new to the show, the most dangerous people in the world, bar none, are stupid, smart people.

St stupid, stupid people are no problem. They typically know the limits of their own knowledge, and they stay in their lane. Smart, smart people are smart because, again, they know the limits of their own knowledge and stay in their own lane. They're, ironically, both of those groups are not dangerous to you because they know the limits of their own knowledge. What's a smart, smart person? A neurosurgeon Who doesn't try to change your oil? He's super smart. He's a neurosurgeon. He's going to destroy your car. He's never changed oil in his life. Doesn't matter if he's a freaking neurosurgeon. A stupid smart person is a very smart neurosurgeon type or PhD who does not know the limits of his own knowledge. That's an Obama and others. He's not dumb, but he talks about things completely out of his space as if he's some authority figure on it, and then he lies and manipulates people. That is Newsom. And that's AOC, although I can't really call her a stupid smart, but she's like a stupid just trying to be smart person, but equally dangerous. Newsom and AOC should scare you. They are this unbelievably horrible witches brew combination of arrogance and stupidity that is really, really extremely dangerous for your Civil Liberties.

Here's Newsom. This is what I'm talking about. This guy will say anything to anyone at any time aggregate, accumulate, and weaponize power. Anything. Here's a cut of Newsom saying two completely diametrically opposed things, trying to make the opposite point because he thinks the point works for him depending on which way the political winds are blowing. The first part of this clip, he's telling you how Trump isn't going anywhere. The guy's like a king. He's not going to leave. Fashionism, whatever, all this other shit. Then in the second clip, he's making the case that, Hey, man, you can always rely lie on California. Don't worry, Trump's just temporary. He's going away really soon. Well, which is it, man? Which is it? The answer is whatever thing he can say as a stupid smart person to accumulate, aggregate power and get people into his tent. Watch this yourself. You or lose your country. Again, it's not about Democrats. It's about all of us. You're absolutely convinced. I'm absolutely-2028. You've seen it. He's tried to steal the last election. He's trying to rig it in plain sight. I hope if there's nothing else I can communicate today, Donald Trump is temporary.

He'll be gone in three years.

California is a stable and reliable partner in this space.

It's important for folks to understand the temporary nature of this current administration in relationship to the issue of climate change and climate policy. Which one is it? The answer is it's neither for him. He doesn't Having... Asking him which one is it as if he's guided by some load star political principle, is an insane question. He's arrogant and stupid. The worst part, he doesn't even realize he made different arguments because he doesn't have any principles. The principle is, how do I appeal to an audience here to get them on my team despite the fact I have no guiding principles? This is dangerous, folks. I told you in the beginning of the show, I'll address it with John Solomon again later. The threat environment now to the United States is very, very real. Very real. It is in the present, the present. I said present, I meant present. I'm sorry. Present right now. It's not going anywhere. When you weaponize these tools with people like this who have no guiding principles, do you get where I'm going with this? Forget about privacy. You can throw in the dumpster and light it on fire. Forget about your money.

I want to show you this clip of AOC. She gets into it with this Argentinian politician who has to correct her stupidity here on a wealth tax. Why, again, is this dangerous? A wealth tax, folks, the government in the future, when everything is going to be digital, okay? Even if there is no, and hopefully there isn't, some digital national currency, it is impossible right now to live your life on a cash-only basis. I mean, on a subsistence way, excuse me, yes, you can survive and buy an egg McMuffin in the morning with cash. Even then, the purchase is probably tracked somewhere through an inventory control system and video cameras. However, you're not going to be able to live a normal middle class life on a cash economy anymore. You're not. Everything is tracked somewhere, someway, somehow. As we go forward with the aggregation of these intelligence tools, the government has the power right now, and it's going to get even more powerful and magnified in the future to watch every single thing you do. Why does that matter? Because when you're stupid smart people, the Democrats, notably people like AOC, goes there to say, you know what, we need a wealth tax.

I want you to understand what a wealth tax is. It is a tax on assets you have that you have not cashed out. I can Let me get it really simple. I have a Mickey Mano baseball card my mom bought for me when I was, I don't know, 16. The card was probably 100 bucks back then. I think it's not a really valuable one, but I think it's worth like a thousand now. So 10X. Factor out inflation, it's maybe 7X, right? Who knows? Imagine getting a bill from the government for the capital gain on that tax of, say, $900, but you haven't sold the card. Imagine that bill coming for your house, even though you haven't sold your house. Some piece of art someone gave you, a watch you inherited from your grandfather. I'm a boy. I like watches. That's what a wealth tax is. But Dan, I don't have that money. I'm not liquid. These are just things that were given to me on your own. Yes, it's part of your wealth. They want a tax. They're already looking at it in California. People are fleeing. Aoc and her stupid smart people crony zeros want to implement this thing nationwide, a wealth tax.

You doubt me? Don't listen to me. Listen to them.

So when you run for president, are you going to impose a wealth tax or a billionaire's tax? I don't think that anyone, and that we don't have to wait for any one president to impose a wealth tax. I think that it needs to be done expeditiously. You have the recipe that many Latin American countries apply many, many times. That is some relief in the short term, but end up being a tragedy for the future. It's like a public huge public expenditure, price control, sometimes wealth tax, and you end up... Wealth goes away and you have just the tax and you don't have wealth anymore.

This is just math. You can't force people to pay a tax on assets they haven't liquidated because they don't have the money. So then what happens in order to pay the tax bill on the whatever artwork you inherited or whatever it may freaking baseball cards, comic books, who the hell knows? You've got to sell it to pay the tax, which leads to everybody selling at the same time, which crashes stocks, crashes bonds, crashes any equities, crashes every single asset you have. It's just not common sense. It's common sense to you and me, not to these idiots. 2028 is going to be a critical election because the people, at least the early speculation about AOC and Newsom, they are a dangerous combination of arrogance and stupidity that I'm telling you will be the downfall of this place. I'll show you in a minute how the media, by the way, runs cover on this in terms of the immigration. Just quick, Gee, put up that Bloomberg piece. Here's the media running cover for AOC's disastrous appearance over in Munich. Word Salads, AOC tests their foreign policy waters at Munich conference. I want you to listen to this.

Normally quick to respond. Aoc was at a loss for words, saying, This is, I Blah, blah, blah, word selling. But she recovered the cogen response. Sure. Sure she did. Meanwhile, if anyone else had said that, Donald Trump, JD Vans, Marco Rubio. They be all over. It's such bullshit. They run absolute cover for these people all the time. I'll show you what I mean with this clip, Maysmore clip. It's a great account on X, M-A-Z-E-M-O-O-R-E. I highly recommend it, especially for those in the space, great clips there. Got a hat tip. It's the right thing to do. People do a lot of hard work in the space, and they deserve it. Quick break, and I'm going to get back to that. Also, John Solomon coming up about Fulton County, Georgia. He's got some really eye-opening information on the FBI search warrant and the election integrity case down there. Important, hugely important. If we don't trust the process, the results don't matter, folks. You got to trust the process. Right now, people understandably Many do not, and I don't blame them. All Family Pharmacy, they're running a big President States sale with 47% off the medications everyone's asking about.

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Thank you, American Financing. So, of course, as you know, the left-wing media, the Pretorian guard of bullshit, they must run cover for these stupid smart people, these dangerous combination people of arrogance and stupidity, the AOC knew sometimes. Because if they don't and they're exposed for who they are, like when you put her in front of a camera, I don't know her response. You see the fairly obvious thing that these people don't know what the hell they're doing. California, the Just look at U-hallss leaving California and go into the state of Texas. They're not going in the other direction from Texas to California. In some limited circles, ladies and gentlemen, that's called a clue. Watch how the media, now that immigration is constantly in the news, given that President Trump shut down the border, shut down the border. We've had, again, for multiple months now, zero illegal migrants admitted into the country. That is a staggering number. Any other president President of any other party would be taking a massive victory lap, would be given a gold medal at the Winter Olympics, an honorary one. But because they can't give them credit, I want you to notice how they try to...

Now, the separation, they're separating kids as Trump administration. It's awful. They're actually rescuing kids. But here's how they covered the kids in cages back when Obama was in charge. Hat tip, Maze More for this clip, finding this gem. Listen to the language and the framing, and I'm going to play a clip of Tom Tom Homan, actually saving the kids, many of which the Biden administration abandoned. Check this out. Inside the walls of this facility along the Arizona, New Mexico border, at least a thousand kids, some as young as elementary age. They huddle in foil blankets in a country not their own.

Captured by border patrol agents, they came here illegally. It's the first public look from immigration officials on what might be the country's fastest-growing immigration problem. According to US Customs and Border Protection, nearly 25,000 unaccompanied miners crossed the Mexico border in 2013.

So far in 2014, that number has almost doubled to nearly 47,000. Some may eventually be reunited with friends and family in the States, while others may be transferred to private shelters where they'll wait in a country ill-equipped to handle their needs as it comes to grip with a growing humanitarian crisis. Notice how they portray it, Oh, my gosh, we're coming to And look, the administration is doing such wonderful things. You're saving all these kids. And then yet, when the President has to deal with a bunch of people who sent their kids over the border by themselves, this President, he had to clean up the situation and rescue a lot of these kids. No one gives President Trump, Tom Holman, Christie Noem, or anyone else any credit at all. A matter of fact, they shit all over him at every opportunity. Here's Holman correcting the record yesterday. Media people, you're going to pick up this story? You're going to run with this outside of Fox News, which to be the only one ever covering it? The massive humanitarian effort to clean up the situation, spaghetti Brains Biden left for us, this mess at the border, millions of people in here leaving their kids at the border to walk across here, no parents, no guardians, Some of them being abused.

What about that? Check out Homan on this.

3,300 children. Last administration, over a half million children smuggling this country, released to unvetted sponsors. They lost track of 300,000 President Trump has already found 145,000 of them. In Minnesota alone, over 3,300 missing children we found that the last administration wasn't even looking for.

They weren't even looking for them. No, they sense they've got a problem in the midterms. The Democrats know this. Here's the problem, folks. You may be saying, this is a fair question in the audience out there. You may be saying, Dan, if the Democrats know they've got a problem on the border issue, to be clear. We talked about a number of things. They bullshit on defund the police, the failed Obamacare. But focus right now just on this one. The open border policies of the Biden administration clearly have given them a political black eye. And a lot of Democrats know this is an issue, a significant issue. They may never be able to get past. So why aren't they changing it? Why don't elected Democrats who want to get reelected, Senate races, House of Representatives races, they want to be the President. Why not just say the obvious, Hey, guys, we can't have open borders. It didn't work. Biden screwed up. Because, folks, Between social media, gerrymandering of districts, and big donor money, and the left wing culture space, you don't want to be... You don't want to get flamed out early, trying to be a moderate.

You want to appeal in the primaries to the space because that's where the money and the energy is. It's very simple. That's why you don't see a lot of them speaking out. Hillary Clinton, who I doubt is going to run again, but who the hell knows with her? Hillary Clinton, and I'm not... The woman's a train wreck. All right? Forget it. I'm just telling you, she's probably not running again and sees this as a problem. And she's trying with Obama to pull the Democrats away from this insanity because they realize it's going to be a huge black eye in the midterms in 2028. None of the other ones have the balls to state the obvious that this open borders thing was a disaster. Check this out.

I think we need to call it for what it is. There is a legitimate reason to have a debate about things like migration. It went too far. It's been disruptive and destabilizing, and it needs to be fixed in a humane way with secure borders that don't torture and kill people.

Folks, people are policy, man. People are policy. And the left wing gravitational pull of insanity, whether it's a grotesque, open anti-Semitism, open borders, defund the police, shitty Obamacare, whatever it is, the gravitational pull for you to not speak out against this stuff, if you are a Democrat, is strong. I'm telling you, these people are really super organized on social media or elsewhere. They are out there running openly now. Did you see this candidate up in New York, Albert Cawas? This is a candidate for state senate up in New York. I want you to listen to the way that she talks about what happened on 9/11, partitioning the blame away from this scumbag terrorist who did this. I will listen to this. This is where the Democrat Party is. Make no mistake. This is the thing that even 10 years ago, when the Democrat Party, people would be running away from. Hey, she's not part of our brand. They love this stuff now. They embrace it. They're candidates. People love them. Probably raise a fortune trying to get this state Senate seat. This is probably the most infuriating clip of the show thus far, but check it out anyway.

You need to see what's going on so we can fight back. Check this out.

Capitalism and racism and white supremacy, et cetera, and Islamophobia, have all been used to colonize lands, to take resources from other people. And so this is a long trajectory. And we're just seeing the manifestations of that continuation with 9/11. And so a lot of times people are asking us to respond about an attack. If you look back historically, A lot of us come from lands that were colonized, lands where wars are being waged, a lot of times because of US policy or the policies in Europe. I find that we can connect over that, but then also the idea that we have to apologize for a terror attack that a couple of people did, and then there is no apologies or reparations for genocides and for slavery, et cetera, is something that I find comprehensive.

Folks, you understand, with the left, this is mainstream thought right now. This This is the You deserve it crowd. Whether it's October seventh or 9/11, this is the You Deserve It crowd. This is mainstream thinking on the left right now. This is not a fringe. People are policy. Is the government fixed? The government's never fixed. There's a fixing process. You elect bad people, they can unfix it real quick. We're at a really, really dangerous inflection point in our history, where, again, these sensory The ownership tools, the technological tools, again, I'll address that with John Solomon coming up in a little bit, the trends over in Europe, the squelch-free speech. If Elon Musk and Chris at Rumbel and Donald Trump hadn't fought back against censorship. Ladies and gentlemen, we'd all be in the digital media gulag right now, all of us. But that can still happen. That fight isn't over. Basic principles are at risk. Basic Civil Liberties are at at risk in every election right now. I don't care what you call me, folks, on the left. I see it all the time. These are mannequin fights. They are. Every single election is the most important one.

That is not hyperbole. That's not panic. It's the freaking truth, man. This stuff can switch like that. I'm going to do a compare and contrast, and you'll see what I mean here, how basic principles are at risk and your basic Civil Liberties are at risk because the left doesn't have any principles. Did you hear about what happened in Calvert County? Calvert County is a county in Maryland, since Southern Maryland know it well, ran for US Senate in Maryland. I lived there for a long time. This is one of those stories that's, again, almost hard to believe, except for the fact that it actually happened. Charlie Kirk, God rest his soul, his organization, Turning Point, now run by the great Erica Kirk, who's doing a great job trying to keep the organization going. They wanted to start a chapter in a school or do some presentation in a school in Calvert County, which what's the problem? No big deal. I want you to listen to this with school officials down there at this meeting saying how they should call Child Protective Services on this group because there's not going to be any parental supervision. What would it Folks, this is who they are.

You don't have to ask them who they are. They tell you. But watch this. And then the next video I'm going to play is a teacher's union in Florida telling a bunch of kids to walk out of school, which could be a really dangerous situation, and not caring about any of this child protective services stuff. Which one is it? Check this out.

Students are widely recognized as vulnerable population. They are in critical developmental stages and especially susceptible to influence. For this reason, safeguarding measures, parental involvement, and transparency are essential. All Board of Education members in this room are mandated reporters under state law as I am. Based on the circumstances surrounding this event, a report was made to Child Protective Services. All of this was provided along with-Thank you for your comment.

Child Protective Services, because Turning Point wants to do a presentation at a school. Are you certifiably insane? Do you need an intervention by a mental health professional? Call Child Protective Service. Man, this could be dangerous. Turning point to school. Can't have that. But yet here's the left, Florida Teachers Union, which are dominated by lefties. They have this student up there advocating for a walk out school, which, by the way, could be actually dangerous. You got to get some kid hit by a car or something like that. Advocating for a walk out of school. No concerns whatsoever about contacting Child Protective Services for this. It's almost as if these people are full of shit because they are. Watch this.

So when Florida students are confronted with videos of ICE rates, of families being torn apart, and of Americans being murdered for using their constitutional rights, they respond.

They organize, they speak out, and they do what American students have always done in moments of injustice. They stand together and demand safety for their peers, their families, and themselves.

And that response, while framed by some politicians as radical, is rather than reasonable.

It's rational, and in a moment like this, it is required. Folks, I said at the beginning of the show, these people aren't just disingenuous. They are wrong on every issue of consequence in your life. They are just wrong. There's no my truth, your There's only the truth. These power hungry liberal lunatics are wrong on every single issue of your life. I wish I could just crack the ice on this and get through to people and ask them to think reasonably. They are wrong. Everything they told you was bullshit. Listen to their own words. Health care, oh, Obamacare, we're going to cut costs with Obamacare. It's going to be so effective. Everyone's going to get health care. It didn't do any of that shit. Costs have exploded so bad. They had to shut the government down to get more money. Defund It'll make streets safer. It'll make people more comfortable with the police. It'll be we'll all roast marshmallows together. Crime went up after the defund the police thing in these liberal cities. Nothing they tell you is true. The most dangerous one, and I'm going to get into this with cash tomorrow. The most dangerous bullshit Syrup of Ipikak, they shoved down your throat, was this war against law enforcement.

Folks, people die, make no mistake, because liberal big city mayors, and even now, refuse to enforce the law. When you let violent criminals do violent stuff, no surprise, they do violent stuff and people die. Then you get these dumb ass Liberals whose safety and security is provided for by a lot of these law enforcement officers out there, putting their asses on the line to keep them safe. You get these freaking Karens out there attacking cops. Did you see this video, the one viral? There's this police officer. He's sitting in front of a school, and he must have just been at an accident scene. You could see him on his terminal in the RMP, the car. You can see him processing the paperwork. And some lady comes up, What are you doing here? What are you doing? He's in front of a school. That's great. I know at the schools in my county, people clamor to get the police in front of the school. Some of them pay their own money to have police officers off-duty stay in front of school. Why? Because they want their kids safe. These people have gone so crazy to defund the police left that have lied to you about everything and been wrong on every issue of consequence at a time that may cost you your life one day, that they attack police officers for sitting in front of a school doing paperwork.

This is probably the craziest thing you may see this week. It's not over yet. From the Karen left, check this out. What am I Why are you here? I was just doing a collision report, ma'am.

Okay. Okay. Are you guys going to be here much longer?

Until I'm done doing my job.

Because one of the teachers, when I dropped off over there, said you all been circling since about 8: 00. Okay. Well, I'm just doing my job, so the quicker I do my job... Your job at the elementary school since about 8: 00 AM? I wasn't here at 8: 00 AM. There was a collision here at the elementary school? You have a good day. I'm going to continue to do my job. You You look for us, and you're scaring these families. Okay. Well, I'm going to continue to do my job. You should probably go do your job where your job lives. Because I don't see that it needs to be right here all morning. I'm going to explain something. The person that I was just working with, who left approximately five minutes ago, this was a collision report for them.

I'm doing my job.

I give them all their information. Can you maybe, for a second, acknowledge that you could be a really upsetting site for people right now? If I'm just doing my job. I get it. I do. I get it. But for us to be able to collaborate with you all at all going forward, you're going to have to show us some humanity. You're going to have to show us that you understand the circumstances What do I...

Gee, you know what I'm laughing at right now? Usually a good... By the way, folks, Gee's going with a new hair. Gee does this thing, he grows his hair out and this big full beard, like he's going into the Amazon for months. And then he shaves his face, his head, everything. He comes in like a different guy. You don't even recognize him anymore. He's not in the shaved head, no beard look again. Good for him. Whatever. He doesn't know. You have got to see the chat. Go back. Do me a favor, even if you're watching this on demand, read the comments right around this. The chat is going absolutely wild on this moron. The lady, this poor police officer, this deputy, haven't And by the way, Mr. Deputy, I don't know your name. I didn't look at the badge thing. My eyesight isn't that great. Whoever you are, thank you for being a professional, having to deal with an absolute life loser like this, Karen. Can you imagine going to work every day for, I don't know, 60, 70, $80,000? You guys aren't getting rich off this. Some poor guys in an accident, you're filling out the paperwork, you're in front of a school, which they should want, and some character, Why are you not here?

Why are you here? If she posted this, proud of this, that is astonishing that you're proud of this. Why are you here? You're scaring the kids. The kids are probably grateful. They're outside, You know who's scaring the kids? Freaking Karen lady. You're scaring the kids. Count Karen. Oh, I knew it. I'm going to give her that. You're scaring the kids, Count Karen. The kids are probably wondering, why is this Karen lady bothering the nice deputy outside? What? What is wrong with you lunatics on the left? Are you okay? You need treatment? You need a cream for that or something? Folks, listen, I am absolutely 100 % a civil libertarian with regards to law enforcement. They need oversight, too. So did I when I was there. No human being should be given absolute power. We have civilian complaint review boards, we have inspections, we have internal affairs. Police officers are fallible, too. But the assumption built in by the left that everything the police officers do is either scary or frightening or they're bad all the time is just as dangerous as the other assumption that we should just let everybody do what they want with no in a site.

Why? Because they're dealing in decisions every single day about their life and death. Construction workers have to do it. It's a dangerous job. They got to pay attention all the time. You're a construction worker at a really dangerous site or an electrician, you make one wrong move, boom, you're dead. Police officers, that happens at every single interaction they have can break bad like that. And it does. Here, I'll show you. This is another video. It's making its way around social yesterday. This is why I can't stand these Karens that just, Sure, question police officer is all you want. The guy was a total professional. You have to be an asshole about it and assume the guy's doing something wrong. Hey, can we help you? I'm just filling out the paper. Oh, thank you. Deputy Officer. Thanks for being here. Appreciate it. That's it. I want you to watch this interaction out of a Bellevue Police Department. I'm going to V-O this for me, Guy. My voice is over. Watch what's going on here. Police officer responds to a scene. Let's watch it from another perspective. Watch what happens. Look how quickly that breaks bad. If you listen on Apple and Spotify, they respond to a scene.

There's no indication It's not going to be dangerous at all. You can see Bangura standing over here with a knife right in the split second before the other officer shoots Bangura. Bellevue police raced to help the officers. Once they got him into custody, they recovered this knife. Look at that thing. Look how quickly that thing broke bad. Police officer gets out of the car within seconds. Guys, well, he talks to him for a little bit. And within seconds, he ponces on him with this knife. Look, this is how this whole thing starts. And he stuck between himself and the car. And you got Karen's, What are you doing here? You're scaring the kids. Scaring the kids. This poor guy shows up to work. Who knows? A couple of hours later, he's got some guy trying to plunge a freaking steak knife into his chest. Maybe just give the guy the benefit of the doubt. And thank God for body cams, by the way, because now you see, look, you see how quick... Look at that. You see that knife? Thank you, Gee. Do you watch or listen on Apple and Spotify? Please just fast forward this point in the show.

You don't have to watch the whole thing over, but watch this video. I'm not telling you that we don't need accountability. I'm just telling you that we don't have to go in there like Karen's off. Shut up. Cricket Loser. Thank you, that police officer, for taking care of business. All right, I got John Solomon coming up on the Fulton County, Georgia, election case. Big news. Tomorrow, FBI Director, Cash Patel, will be a guest. We'll get into all the good stuff tomorrow. So please don't miss that show. Really appreciate it. I got a couple more things I want to get to, and we've got a quick break, and then we go to John. So there you go. We've got a lot of show left for you. So folks, I They told you that they're not just disingenuous to defund the police open borders left, that they're wrong. They've been categorically wrong in everything. And one of the things that's really gotten under my skin is this argument over the Democrats winning on health care. How the hell are they winning on health care? Everything they've told you about Obamacare is bullshit. But you're seeing it now in action.

I'm on social media all day. Putting together material I think is relevant to you in your daily life. I see a story, I pick it out, I send it to the guys, and I try to put an angle on it that makes sense for everyone out there. I want you to watch this video that I went around the Internet yesterday and again, went viral. A lot of viral videos out there these days with TikTok and all these other video platforms in Rumble and X. This is a video by a pharmacist who takes a short video of his pricing screen behind the counter. And he's talking about how they pay a certain amount for a drug. And then what the insurance companies charge the customer. This thing went crazy because the disparity is so large. But I'll just explain to you when this is over, why this thing went viral, obviously. But second, there's a reason this happened. And this is what boggles my mind as to how the Democrats claimed the high ground on health insurance and health care. Check this out.

Hey, come here. Tell me how this makes sense. We have a medication that costs $4 to dispense. You bill to the insurance and they want to charge the patient $97. 06. Say that again. We have a claim for a prescription that costs less than $4. The insurance wants to charge the patient $97. So what are we going to do? We're going to get yelled at by the patient. And they're going to blame us for their insurance charging them that price, saying, We made it that price. Love you, CBS.

That was all... What is that? A dose of reality on TikTok? A dose of real life. Hat tip there. Folks, why is this happening? I'm not going to go into a big healthcare economics segment, but you know it. When you have this third-party payer problem and the government becomes a third-party payer. In other words, the government takes over the majority of healthcare, which about 35 to 40 % plus of health care, the government's that third-party payer. When the government's paying, the patient's not really looking at the price often because the government's paying. That's the third party. The insurance company, by the way, or in some cases, the pharmaceutical provider, is not worried about raising the price because they know the customer is not paying anyway, he's not going to complain. You see this with insurance companies and the government. When you break down those barriers and you enable the customer to buy direct, like a lot of what President Trump is trying to do now with TrumpRX and elsewhere, is it going to work? We're going to see over time, is to try to break down the third party payer problem so they can't cost shift around.

It's turning into a huge problem. Cost shifting. Charge people with insurance who have a third party pay, who aren't going to be worried at the price. More money than people who are paying direct because people are paying direct care. We'll charge them five bucks, and whatever we lose on that, we'll just charge to someone else. This is not complicated economics. And by the way, some Republicans played into this, too. Remember, when we tried to implement basic reforms to Obamacare, it was McCain, former Senator John McCain, who gave the thumbs down. Another issue I want to talk about with John Solomon before we get to him is the Save Act, because we're going to be talking about Fulton County, Georgia, and the massive election problems they had down there and the, irregularities. This was a government case that passed a probable cause muster. A career agent, not a political appointee, the FBI went up in front of a judge and swore that these facts were true When a judge said, Hey, you've got enough probable cause for this search warrant. That's a real problem. It's a real problem because if you don't have faith in the electoral process, the results, ladies and gentlemen, aren't going to matter.

That's why this Save Act, National Voter ID, is so important. Showing you how disingenuous these people are. Here's Chuck Schumer again in an interview. They are desperate to pull out this race card to try and stop the momentum. Bust this filibuster now and get this thing passed. You're not going to have a Republic left. Check this out. About 83% of the American people, including the majority of Democrats, support voter ID laws.

The voter ID laws that, first, each state can have its own voter ID laws, and some do and some don't. But secondly, what they are proposing in this so-called Save Act is like Jim Crow 2. 0. They make it so hard to get any voter ID that more than 20 million legitimate people, mainly poorer people and people of color, will not be able to vote under this law. We will not let it pass in the Senate. We are fighting it tooth and nail. It's an outrageous proposal that shows the political bias of the MAGA right. They don't want poor people to vote. They don't want people of color to vote because they often don't vote for them.

Now, here's Chuck Schumer, decades ago, talking about how ID and government benefits may not be the worst idea in the world. Again, these people are full of shit. I I wish the supporters, their supporters on the Democrat side would see, vote for them if you want, don't vote for them. It's a free Republic. Vote for whoever you want. I'm just telling you, voting for bullshit artists, just use their own words. Here he is taking the exact opposite position. Check this out.

Where people go. They're asked for a Social Security card. In fact, one way to prove you're a bona fide person who can have a job is to ask for a driver's license and a social security card. This is an anti-fraud amendment. All over where we go, people say, Well, why can't you stop illegal immigrants or others from coming here? The number one answer we give our constituents is when they come here, they can get jobs, get benefits against the law because of fraud.

Here's another 10, by the way, on the full of shit counter for the Democrats. The Democrats tell you, Oh, we're the education party. We want your kids to get a better education. We just need more money. Okay. But you know there's this federal program for for tax credits? Here's how it works. If you're an individual or an operation that donates money for scholarships for kids for school choice, you can get a tax credit for it, and the federal government will assist in reimbursing the states with some money. There's no such thing as free money. We get that. But the money is coming from the federal government. So the states, liberal states who think free money from the government is free, you think they would take it, correct? Liberals, I'm just saying, of Liberals, this is for you. Basically, the federal government is saying, There's no strings attached. We will give you the money if you allow school choice in these scholarships. That's what it says. The state doesn't have to do anything. All they have to do is take the money. So Libbs are probably like, Yeah, we should take the money, right? No, Whoa.

Why? Because it involves school choice. And teachers unions are in charge, not in fact, actual people who give a shit about your kid's education. Check out this Wall Street Journal article about this. Again, these people are full of it, man. Governors who refuse education dollars. Their viral in opposition, talking about the Democrats, is revealing. Extra resources are what educators say they want, right? Why do the unions oppose receiving them? It seems they so abhor the idea that a scholarship might help the parents choose which school their kid goes to that they're willing to reject support for students in their own members' classrooms. Ladies and gentlemen, vote for who you want. I'm just telling you, one side of the aisle is entirely full of shit. Give us more Education Dollars. Okay, here they are. No, not those. Not if the parents get to pick. You go to the schools, we tell you, because the unions give us money. I thought it was about the kids. Take a quick break, and I'm going to get to John Solomon. But just last night, if you watched, I know I haven't been doing a lot on The Guthrie case because it's wall to wall and there's true crime podcast, and this is a political podcast, so a tragedy nonetheless.

But last night, I did comment on the DNA process, and folks, it should have went to an FBI lab because what I said is true. The FBI has to take the submission from an accredited law enforcement lab in Arizona, which now has the DNA has to be shipped back from Florida when it's done. It's just creating a ton of unnecessary delays. And nothing drives me crazier, by the way. I'll let you know a little secret. When I do commentary that's accurate and some chucklehead comes on later and fox it, there's no idea what they're talking about. Well, I disagree with it. I don't really give a shit if you disagree with it. You're just wrong. You don't know what you're talking about. It drives me nuts. That's why sometimes I hate commenting on these cases because that happens all the time. Everybody has to find something crazy to say. Frustrating. Paula is like, Better say something about it. The Presidente, Guy. She says, You got to put in the show. You got to put in the show. All right, John Solomon, coming up in just a minute. Listen, you've heard me talk about delete me in the past.

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It's an honor to be with you. Let me just say this. I've covered the FBI for 35 years. This is my 35th year covering the FBI. The FBI of February, 2026, is a vastly different agency than the one President Trump inherited in in 2025. They don't go after Catholic at Latin Mass anymore. They go after terrorists with drones trying to penetrate our skies. They don't go after parents at school board meetings. They go after gangbangers and sex traffickers. That market decline that has occurred in last year in violent crime is a direct result of the work that certainly started with the president that you and Cash achieved. I've covered this bureau for a long time. I've seen a lot of people promise stuff get done. You guys got stuff done, and you got it done faster, quicker, and more efficiently than any time I've seen in my 35 years covering that place. So bravo to you, and welcome back to the Airwaves.

Listen, that's a very nice compliment. I really appreciate it. Your reporting on everything that's going on has been incredible. And I think you just said it. It's great to take personal victory laps, but that's not what happened here. The leadership of this President allowed us, you know him very well, John. He allowed us the leeway to do our jobs. Nothing we did there is rocket science, and nothing. I mean, what we did, we went and arrested violent criminals. We got out to bad actors who weaponize a place. And shockingly, you got people back, focused on the mission. And then the mission got done. I mean, it's not really that hard. So One of the cases I know you've been following intensely is this massive search warrant operation in Fulton County, Georgia, on the election process down there. I saw you a couple of your articles at just the news. Com. And you had written about the... They noticed irregularities. Now, we never get out ahead of the story. We're not the left wing media. You were very clear, and I agree, we don't know if it's going to change a vote count or not. This is about right now, irregularities in the process, because the process as much as the result matters, because if you don't trust the process, you're not going to trust the result, even if it is accurate.

That's exactly right.

Yeah, listen, that's what this is about. This is about restoring a voter trust in a place that has had a two-decade record of not being able to do the most basic vote counting, not being able to do it right, not be able to follow the normal procedures that are required by law. And what a lot of people forgot, but not the FBI, is that when you're an election official, if you knowingly and willfully don't follow the law either because you're incompetent or you have some cricket scheme going on, you're going to be prosecuted for not administering the elections according to state law. That's what this affidavit points out, that there are the statutes, Section 152 of the federal code that says, If you take on the job of an election administrator, you better darn follow the law. If you don't follow law, and it turns out it was willful and intentional, you're going to get cuff slapped on you and you're going to be charged with a felony. What we learn in this affidavit, this is hysterical, if you read the New York Times the last couple of weeks, you'd swear that The FBI just went back in and looked at some old stuff and came up with nothing, but they decided to search anyway.

That is not what this agent did or this team of agents led by the agent who writes the affidavit. He uses a very important word. The FBI has substantiated these regularities, and he puts them down on paper. Five major irregularities that violate Georgia law or violate the federal requirements for election administration. In most of them, the reason he's been able to substantiate it this agent, is he got Fulton County to admit they did all those things. That is great gumshe work. It's not some conspiracy theorist on some blog saying this. An FBI agent went in and got Fulton County to admit, Yeah, we did that. We double counted ballots. We lost ballots. We didn't follow the proper procedures. That is a great tribute First to the agent who did the work. Secondly, it's how you get things fixed. The Fulton County has to be punished for bad behavior so that the next election, they do it right.

John, one of the things you pointed out, which I want to make sure the audience tattoo's on the brain there, is this was a career agent. It wasn't some politically appointed Jack Smith special prosecutor. It was a career agent whose credibility is on the line, who raised his right-hand in front of a judge in a court of law and said, I solumly attest that these facts I've put forth in this affidavit are accurate. He could be in a world of hurt, including his credibility being eviscerated and losing his job, but potentially jail time for knowingly lying, as we've seen in the past. This past, the probable cause muster for a search warrant. This was not some random, politically selected out of the Ether case.

No, that's exactly right. There's an amazing moment in the affidavit. He refers to Witness Four. Witness Four is the former elections director for Brad Raffenberger, the Secretary of State. The FBI is relaying, the agent is relaying to this guy who oversaw the election, knew that Fulton County had problems. He's like, Hey, we didn't know some of this stuff. That's troubling to me. The people who supervised Fulton County at the state level were surprised by what this FBI agent was able to substantiate, what he was able to get Fulton County to admit. I think that that is such an important part of a process. There probably will be some punishment. Some people probably played with the vote count to make things match in the recount because they were such a mess. They couldn't get the vote tallies to match, or they probably faked it in some way. Whatever the case is, the real opportunity here for the American public, for the people of Fulton County and Atlanta City, is this is a moment of reckoning that will make their elections better if the process is allowed to play out. That agent is going to help the people of Atlanta trust their vote counts greater in the future because of the work he did, and he should be applauded.

John, you would think in this segues nicely to my next question about the Save Act, but you would think this would be a bipartisan-supported effort. If, as we indicated earlier, if people don't trust the process, it doesn't matter who wins, a Democrat, a Republican, a libertarian, a conservative, a green party. It makes no difference. If you don't trust the process, the end result and institutions entirely collapse. Getting to my next question, though, the Save Act. I know you've been following that as well at justthenews. Com. The filibuster hurdle, it doesn't seem likely we're going to be able to bypass that. However, I've been strong on my opinions. I'm open to others. I don't get hostile when other people object. I think if there was ever a time to bust the filibuster or enact a speaking filibuster, we have to go to the floor. The Save Act, which would save our elections, institute voter ID and integrity measures. I think this is the time to do it because the Democrats are going to do it when they take hold, if God forbid, but if they take hold of the Senate next time.

It's funny to realize what a high threshold the Senate has become to common sense. The clays and the calhouns sat on their feet during the formation of years of this country, and they debate it until they dropped. Our founding fathers did it at the constitutional conventions in the formation of this country. All through World War II, we did it. Now we have a bunch of lazy senators who want to threaten the filibuster and not get off their feet and talk and really represent the people and stand for what they believe in. All the American people are asking John Thune to do is to restore the Senate to the way it used to work before Mitch McDonald's Lazy Filibuster ideas came into play. I think that the American people are going to be there. Here's what I think is going to happen, Danny. I think you probably know some of this because you had a foresight into some of the things that the Bureau now knows it was kept from the American public. I think Donald Trump is going to change the narrative in America. I think he's going to change some senators' minds, and he's He's going to do it by revealing some of the things that Chris Ray and Chris Krebs and other major officials who were in charge of the integrity of our elections and who told us it was a perfect election in 2020.

He's going to start revealing some of the intelligence that was kept from the American people. We're going to see that our foreign adversaries have monkeyed with our system more than we knew, more than those driver's licenses coming into Chicago that you helped get all of us to understand about a few months ago. China sending fake driver's licenses substances to help Joe Biden in. There are going to be significant efforts by foreign power, some friends, some enemies that were trying to meddle in the system, and they got pretty far down that path. I think when senators realized their state could have been targeted, when senators realized that the intention of the identities of some of their voters might have been assumed, I think there's going to be a different debate in America. I think if the President takes the time to educate people and show them that maybe the stories we got from the last leadership weren't I think he's going to pick off the votes, and then the American people are going to put some pressure on John Thune, and they're going to surgically implant a stiff back, and he's going to change that filibuster for this particular thing, make it a standing filibuster, make the Democrats talk to the drop, and And then we'll get a vote in the summer.

But I think there's some big, significant, and very troubling revelations about the vulnerabilities of our elections that the President is about to unve on the American public.

Well, you've got a good pipeline on that, so I have no reason to doubt your information at all. Speaking of which, while we're on the topic of national security, and election security is national security, fundamentally, one of the things you've been writing about is evolving technology threats. I've seen it just the news, many articles about everything from grid attacks to drones, the drone warfare, current environment, not the drone warfare, future, John. You saw a spider web with Ukraine and Russia. I mean, that was an incredibly sophisticated attack. This is not the threat of the future. It's the threat of the present. This President gets it. I think that's why his Don Rohe doctrine that we better dominate this hemisphere because the threats aren't what they were in the '60s. But like I said, industrial control systems, electromagnetic pulse attacks, biohazards, AI generated bio weapons, drones from the sky. You need a guy in charge who gets it and is not playing a little cutesy I was not pussy-footing around. And this President understands that. And one more thing, I mean, I've thrown on, but no pun intended. However, the President, as you well know, every morning is reading a daily brief that the journalist class does not get.

He understands the depth of the thread, and that's why some of the things he's doing don't seem to make a lot of sense. I'm talking about the knuckleheads on the left, but makes sense to guys like you and me who probably understand he's not just making this up.

The threats are more real than any in our life. It's easier to be driving this down the street in America someday soon, and some bad guy will have a small drone that will drop a small munition on you and you'll die in your car. That's really a reality. October seventh, 2023, which was the day of infamy in Israel when Hamas carried out that heinous crimes against humanity, the thousands that they killed in Israel, also was a wake-up call to our intelligence agencies because they saw in real-time an Iranian proxy, a terrorist organization using drones as part of their attack. Then shortly after that, the Houdi rebels, who traditionally favored missiles and shooting at our ships and our troops, suddenly also went to drones. It was a wake-up call that terrorists, much like the Ukrainian and Russian armies, which adapted their technologies to go to small mobile drones that can get through defense systems, that the terrorists were doing the same thing. But Joe Biden's team did nothing, despite all that evidence. The second When Donald Trump came in, one of the very first things he did is he constituted a counter drone task force inside the White House led by Seb Gorkum.

Then you and Cash got placed into the FBI. You guys opened what I think will be the premier line of defense against drones. You're training all future federal law enforcement agencies how to counter drones, how to detect them, how to know what they're capable of doing so that you can solve and prevent terror attacks before they occur. This was something that was sitting right in front Biden administration, they turned a blind eye like they often had done. But very quickly, the Trump administration has put together, really, I've talked to some foreign partners. I was with some European leaders yesterday. They are floored how quickly the United States has hardened its defenses. If you take this with the Golden Dome, which will be our future missile shield, the completion of Ronald Reagan's Star Wars program, we will be far more safer in the next few years than Joe Biden would have ever put us on a path towards. That's a credit to President to Trump, but also to all the people under him, like what you and cash did. Most people didn't even know the FBI had created a counter drone school. You guys got it done.

You didn't go pat yourself on the back. You just got the job done. These are the things that change our security. And the drone threat was very real. It's now we're in a much better position to guard against it than we were just 13 months ago.

Yeah. Your analysis of what happened is accurate. The President got in the office was like, executive order, drone school. Thankfully, Sebastian Gorka He was a great teammate inside the White House. We got going. I remember going and talking to Dan Bishop when he was at OMB and the great Russ vote, just unbelievable guys over there. And we were like, Hey, we need some money, drone school. And they were like, Okay. And then in What was it? And then hat tip to my chief of staff, Fred Regan, who took it, took that and ran with it, too. And in three months, I think that thing was up and running. We had a lot of cooperation from ATF, too. But this President, that's just how he rolls. He's like, we got a problem? Fix it right now. I don't want to hear any bullshit. While we're on that topic- Getter done. Yeah, getter done is right. He should put that on a bumper thing. I'm sure it's a trademark somewhere, but he can get around it. The Rubio speech over in Munich, I think, again, combined with the Vance speech from last year, I think perfectly illuminates this President's new national security posture with regards to foreign partners.

The whole The idea now is, listen, I get it. It's cute to talk about friends and all, but this isn't an episode of cheers. Norm, when everybody comes in and is drinking at the table. This is, as you just said, it's a serious world with serious problems, with evolving existential threats, evolving by the minute. This is no time for tea and crumpets. And I think Rubio and Vance both illuminated this new idea that, guys, we're willing partners. We have a seat at the table for you. But the price of admission is you got to up your spending for your own damn militaries because we're not going to defend this little dinner table with the security all on our own now.

Yeah. No, you couldn't assume it that better. And he also found, I think, the important lineage that Europe is running from right now. He said that we came from you. I mean, leading America. We came from you. We were formed on the notion that we defend freedom. But in the last decade, your continent has turned its back on freedom. You have imposed restrictions on freedom on your own people. You're suffocating free speech. You're suffocating the freedoms that made Western civilization what was great. We are not willing to walk from that. We are leading the way. We will fight for freedom. Your seat feels a little bit empty at the table right now, but it's always there for you. So come on back home. Stop letting freedom erode in your own country. Stop letting your borders erode. Stop letting your security go to hell. Stop letting the bad guys win a war that doesn't require a firing a shot. And get in the game with us because that's what makes our path of Western civilization so We are the beacons of freedom. It was eloquent. It was the perfect, and you said it right. You have to look at the Vance and Rubio speeches as a two for over a 12-month period.

Last year was the shame and a kick in the ass speech. Today was, this weekend was, Hey, we kicked you in the ass. Now we want to give you a path back. Here's the thing. Donald JMP always leaves a path open. That's what makes him such a great negotiator. Rubio gave that path, and I think he won some hearts in that thing. I heard a lot of people in Europe, I was with the Europeans last night, who felt like he made some inroads and woke some people up.

Yeah. It was just an amazing speech. I really appreciated the sentiments. You just brought up something. A couple more questions. I'll let you go. We're talking to John Solomon. If you're listening on Apple or Spotify, he has justthenews. Com. Fantastic website, bookmark it. The Digital Services Act, which is a wonky thing. You may be in the audience like, why would that concern me? It should because it's Europe's entree into digital censorship. It basically does this whole hate speech thing. Well, the problem with hate speech, nobody wants to hate speech. That sounds horrible. Of course, it's hate speech. You call that hate. The problem is who gets to classify what hate speech is? When you put a government in charge of what hate speech is, John, it conveniently becomes pro-Maga voices who like Donald Trump. The DSA, Digital Services Act. Artic Frost. Yes, Artic Frost, which, I mean, thankfully, we uncovered. And I walked I went over to the Senate myself and briefed the senators on it. I couldn't believe what I was looking at. I mean, this is the entree into full-blown censorship in Europe that I think vice President Vance last year, when he gave a similar speech, was warning against.

Like, Hey, guys, we're not going to tolerate this crap. If you want to be allies, then act like it on the freedom and liberty front.

Yeah, no, you have it exactly right. And we are two four-letter words away from censorship in America. They are Elon and Musk. If it weren't for him going in and just getting Twitter and moving it to X and creating a foothold in America. Then President Trump putting truth right behind it, truth social, we would already be where England is. A lot of people here probably don't know this, but if you're in Great Britain, you could be arrested for a thought crime. You could be sitting silent 100 yards from an abortion clinic, and some cop would say, I think you're praying for that abortion clinic. Slap on the wrist. Or you can make a joke that somebody finds offensive. Many have made it in the last year, and they've ended up in handcuffs in Great Britain. Freedom of speech is nearly dead in Europe, in the Western parts of Europe, particularly in the United Kingdom. Americans are trying to put the shock panels on Europe saying, What are you guys doing? Wake up. Don't let this extraordinary freedom be eroded the way it is. We have to hold the line. The Digital Service Act of European Union is a major backdoor for how the globalists, the one government, the single thought leaders in the world want to impose their will by.

We have to fight it with every bone in our body, with every fragment of our spirit. The good news is that's what's happening. The Trump administration at every front with Rubio at the State Department, the Justice Department, they are slapping back any effort to put a muzzle on the American people like what Europe's doing. They tried it here. That's what the Biden era was about. That's what the disinformation board was supposed to be about. We defeated it once. Our enemies went and they created a backdoor through European Union to come back and get us. Donald Trump's too coy and too keen on that. He's already figured it out, and we are going to push back. I think the next big negotiations with the European Union will be cutting out major exclusions so that American tech companies don't become slave to censorship in the future.

John, I think when the history books are written on this, hopefully through a clearer lenses, I think there are going to be three people who are going to be heralded as the free speech warriors against the anti free speech totalitarians. I think it's going to be Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and I think Chris Pavlovski from Rumbel has a huge role in that, too. I agree. I'm a friend of Chris's. I'm not in any way objective. He's an amazing guy. He is. I'm not trying to be objective at all. I'm just telling you from personal experience, when foreign governments, when we were getting banned left and right on YouTube for COVID, for election stuff, whatever. And foreign governments went to him and said, take this stuff down or you're out. He said, I'm just pulling out of the whole country at his own business expense. And I think those three, Elon, if Elon doesn't buy Twitter, forget it. We're done. We're cooked. I got to tell you, Donald Trump's electoral prowess, I think he wins anyway, but the margins might not have been... If it wasn't for Elon, I'd be able to tell the truth. Yeah.

And if President Trump doesn't open the door in the war on political correctness, no one would be saying it anyway, so it wouldn't matter about the darn platform. Those three, I think history is really going to judge them very kindly. Last question for you, justthenews. Com. Justthenews. Com. We're talking to John Solomon. This outbreak of transviolence, another Another episode we had last night. Unfortunately, this is just happening all too often now. If this was a guy with a MAGA hat and it was one isolated, albeit always tragic episode, and a Democrat was in charge, it'd be a national crackdown. It'd be illegal to wear a red hat. We'd all be in a gulot. Yet we've now seen repeated episodes. We see Nashville and Minneapolis. It's over and over.

We were there- Canada last week?

Just last week. We made sure to to do an analytical product on this against a lot of people there who didn't want to do it at the FBI. We said, get it done or get the hell out. And we found some really bizarre patterns. This is a problem.

Yeah. In fact, I was just talking about this in Real America's voice. The FBI's work in profiling and understanding why so many trans shooters have become activated to lethal in the last two years is so important. You have done all the work that our scientists at the NIH and others refuse to do a long time because they were advocates. If someone wants to change their body to something it wasn't intended to be, there's clearly something wrong. Then to force that change by putting in large amounts of chemicals or very invasive surgeries, it creates potential psychological damage and psychological pressure that seems to be behind these acting out. You look at the father, he mows down his own family yesterday at this ice rink. I can't even imagine someone that gets to that level. But you look at his final social media post He's like, If you don't like the fact that I'm transgender, I'm going to take it out on you. That is a very serious, very scary trend. The trend lines are there. The data is there. There's some good signs that the medical community is backing away from imposing these treatments, these surgeries and drug treatments on young people.

That's a good starting step. But we got to get a grip on those who are adults that potentially are taking time bombs. Nobody wants someone to get to a point where they just mow down their family. That's what happened yesterday. I do think the FBI's leadership on this is going to be a key part. They've been able to find the data, the narrative. The data doesn't lie. The narrative is there. Now we just got to put the solutions in place and get these people who are moving towards violence help before they take that final step of acting on that violence. I think that's the prevention step that the FBI put in place with that analytical product that they did in the last year.

Yeah, it's important because if we're going to get our BAU and other behavioral analytics unit and others to analyze the problem, first you got to find out what the darn problem is. John, I really appreciate over the last year you giving us the chance, Cash and I, to explain ourselves. We weren't looking for anybody's pats on the back or anything. We're just looking for an honest story to be told, the good, the bad, the indifferent. And we appreciate it. A lot got done. It's a lot more work to be done. There's no reason for a celebration. Like I said, there's no heroes in DC. But I really appreciate you telling the story about the things that did happen, the drone school.

It was a hell of a story. It's still unfolding.

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