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Chapter 1: What is the purpose of this special episode?
Get ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host, Dan Bongino. So it's Friday. It is my birthday week. So we took a little day, me and Paula, to go do some Paula and Dan adventures, which always lead to... Really incredible, sometimes ridiculous Monday morning updates.
Chapter 2: Why is Dan Bongino celebrating his birthday?
Yeah, I want to thank you all this week for all your wonderful birthday wishes too. And then, you know, giving us the shot again to take the number five spot on PodTrack. We are the fifth most popular podcast. In the country, according to PodTrack, thanks to you. So I deeply appreciate it. You made for such a great year for us.
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Chapter 3: What are the best segments from the Dan Bongino Show?
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Make sure you check it out. Give us your feedback. We'd love to hear it. Check this out. Folks, this was hilarious. Everybody was emailing me last night. Hey, Dan, did you see this clip on CNN? Tapper and Van Jones were talking about cutesy time. I swear to you, I thought it was bullshit. I thought people were messing with me. I'm like, they wouldn't be talking about cutesy time being over.
What the hell would CNN be interested in cutesy time for? The clip, however, is real. Took me a few minutes to find it. I'm usually pretty good, lickety-split, but I don't actually have CNN on my bingo card, so it took me a second. I got my spots for Fox and OANN and even MSNBC. But let me just say in advance before I play this clip. It's about me and potentially the Secret Service.
You know the whole story. I've already addressed it. I've not spoken to President Trump about that at all, folks, at all. It's come up on podcast interviews. Of course, he's got a thousand things on his plate. I'm just going to leave that there. However... you know, the president asks you do something. He has not. I just want to be crystal clear on that.
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Chapter 4: What did CNN say about Dan Bongino?
This is really important because everybody's talking about this. Like this was some kind of like, especially the way CNN's addressing it. So I haven't heard anything like this. However, I want to say in advance, I'm not mad at all. And I'm not even remotely bitter about Van Jones and Tapper, you know, talking about me and kind of quietly taking a shot at me.
You know, they barely mentioned the fact that I had a decade plus in the Secret Service, five years in the Presidential Protection Division, was with the NYPD, was a Republican nominee for Senate and House. Not that you got to like kiss my ass, but it's always like the right wing personalities. If the only thing I've ever done is politics in my life. whatever. I'm not mad about it.
These guys are, you know, opinion people and they talk about the news and the stories in the news. So I'm fair game like anyone else. And I, in the scope of things, this really wasn't that bad. I mean, it was like they were taking a heavy duty pot shots, but it is kind of funny. Cutesy time is over. It's gone national. Well, it was on CNN. So I'm not national, but he checked this out.
It's pretty funny.
Chapter 5: What is the significance of 'cutesy time'?
CNN is reporting that right-wing media personality and former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino, by the way, like years ago, we would have him on to talk about Secret Service issues on this show. He is being considered for Secret Service director. Here's to some of what he said on his podcast today on how he views the new administration.
Cutesy time is over, and we led the way. And a lot of people are recognizing that, folks. Cutesy time is over. I'll say again today, on Wednesday, people are policy, and it is time for us, because we are the news, to double down on the MAGA agenda.
Van, you're going to have to stop being so adorable, because cutesy time is over. No, but seriously, in all sincerity, that does reflect an attitude of so many of these picks, which is it's time to really, really shake up Washington. And a lot of people think, a lot of Trump supporters think that he went with establishment picks last time. That was a horrible idea.
He wasn't able to really drain the swamp. And now that's what they're doing.
You have to believe a lot of things that are not true for this to make sense. What is the problem you're trying to solve with our intelligence services? We get a chance to walk around here and not have bombs blowing up all over the place because our intelligence services are doing a fantastic job keeping us safe. If you think that sending a wrecking ball through our...
Okay, now I deserve the chance to respond, right? Like I said, I'm not mad. I'm not bitter. It's a news story. I'm fair game like anyone else. But so are you guys, right? Jake, Van, you guys are in the public space, so you're fair game too. I get the chance to respond. So what's the problem, Van, we're trying to solve? I should say we, I'm not in the administration.
I have not been asked, but assume I was. Say I was the Secret Service director, sitting there with Ratcliffe and Tulsi and hopefully Kash Patel at FBI. The problem we're trying to solve, you completely... right over your head, missed. I love how he says, did you guys hear this, Michael? He goes, you know, the intelligence community out there and all these other people.
By the way, Secret Service isn't part of the intelligence community. They consume intelligence. They don't produce it. However, they do consume a lot of intelligence because they want to make sure they can get the threat right, right? We are not completely safe. There's a major war in the Middle East that broke out because our intelligence community missed a 9-11 style attack in Israel.
There have been terror attacks where people have been on the FBI's radar and they missed it. Why? Because the FBI has been too busy. This is what the CNN bubble looks like. You may have missed these stories, Van. Did you miss the story about the FBI and the Moms for Liberty, the FBI and the pro-life movement? These are threats to the United States.
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Chapter 6: How does Dan Bongino critique the left's identity politics?
Lefties, please keep this up. Jasmine, I suggest you and Tim Miller get together over coffee at a Starbucks, have a macchiato or whatever. It's kind of a left-wing place. You guys would be great together. Get together the agenda for the Democrats' midterm platform. Make it about following women and men into bathrooms when you're the opposite sex. It's a great idea.
and keep telling white men and women across America busting their ass to stay ahead in this country with inflation, that they're somehow oppressing you while you're paying $200,000 a year to sit in Congress and have someone kiss your ass all day. Yes! Keep it up, Jasmine. We love it. The judge has ruled. Folks in the chat, you think it's a great idea? Get this woman in leadership.
Make her the minority leader. I don't care. Crockett, Harris, 2028, Guy's looking into it now. Guy's going to put, they're going to put a campaign sign together. I want this woman running for president. This has worked so well. Folks, this stuff is, this will, this is going to be the death of the Democrat party. But do you understand? Dan, stop telling him. Listen to me, brothers and sisters.
Listen to your boy. I'm in a really good mood today. So much good stuff going on. So much. I am in an amazing mood today. Couldn't wait to do the show. Listen to your boy here, please. Please. It doesn't freaking matter how many times we cover this stuff and make fun of them for doing it. They cannot control themselves. Do you understand that? I mean, you sound like an asshole.
They can't stop because they don't know anything else. Jasmine Crockett doesn't know anything about anything. Either does Tim Miller or else his predictions would have been correct. He's been on the wrong side of everything along with his entire team. They don't know anything. All they know is insult division politics and identity politics. They can't stop. Hey, hope you're enjoying the show.
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Chapter 7: What is Dan Bongino's take on the current political situation?
Don't kill the messenger. I'm not telling you I agree. I'm just telling you what happened. Remember, they can only lose three because you're going to have 53 Republican seats. You need 51. Well, Dan, how can they lose three? Then they'd only have 50 because J.D. Vance, as the vice president in the incoming administration, is the tie-breaking vote.
The vice president is also the president of the Senate. I know you know this. I'm sorry. There are liberals listening. I'm serious. You have no idea. So the president of the Senate is the vice president. So you effectively, if you have parties of the same kind in the majority in the Senate and the White House, you actually have one extra vote. So they can lose three. So Murkowski and Collins.
Collins was a hard no. Murkowski was a pretty close to hard no. My guess is Tom Tillis, who is up for reelection in the next cycle from North Carolina, he does not want this to become an election issue, so was probably squeezing them.
And my guess is a lot of these other Republican senators who were squishy, and you know we have a lot of them, unfortunately, probably went to the president and said, listen, Again, don't kill the messenger. I'm just telling you, knowing the disgusting dark world of politics, this is probably what happened. They said, we've got 100 days with you.
Essentially 100 days before basically the midterm election season hypes up. This is how they think. We are going to have to push through a lot of stuff. Voter ID, the SAFE Act, the RAINS Act, the tax cuts. We're going to have to push through a lot of stuff, and it's going to burn up a lot of political capital.
You're asking me to go to my voters, some squishy Republicans in the state I'm up in, and you're asking me to take on water for this issue.
kill your boy i'm just telling you the answer should be back yes we're asking you to do that because we played cutesy time in the past and we keep getting rolled however that's not how a lot of these guys think a lot of them are weak their constitution is poor pun intended they don't have a stiff spine they're not ready for a guy like gates who yeah doesn't come without personal controversies no doubt
But again, I'm not Tinder dating the guy, okay? I like women and I'm married. I'm interested in a guy who's going to go and kick in some doors and get the bad guys out of the justice department. Was he the perfect pick? No, there's no perfect pick for any position. I tried to explain this in a couple of prior episodes and a few people beat me up on the comments. That's okay though.
Your input matters too, but you're wrong. A couple people said, Dan, this guy was terrible. I wanted this guy. And then I responded back to a couple of them on online, on social. And I was like, yeah, but this guy's got this, this, and this to deal with. Re-election this if he leaves the seat. And oh, thanks, I didn't know that. There's a limited group of people who can do this.
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Chapter 8: What are the implications of the recent political picks?
Sir, I'm not here to talk about the laptop. I'm here to talk about the FBI cyber program.
You are the assistant director of FBI cyber. I want to know where Hunter Biden's laptop is. Where is it? Sir, I don't know that answer. That is astonishing to me. Now you're telling me right here is that as the assistant director of FBI cyber, you don't know where this is after it was turned over to you three years ago. Yes, sir. That's an accurate statement.
Let's tell you what, Mr. Chairman, I seek unanimous consent to enter into the record of this committee the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop, which I'm in possession of.
Folks, that's why they don't want him in there. You know, I repeat points over and over on the show, not to be repetitive or to waste your time, but because one of the best lessons I ever learned about trying to be informative and entertaining is tell people what you're going to tell them, then tell them and then tell them what you told them. It's the only way to have it sink in.
Policy is not policy. I know many of you think we live in a constitutional republic. We do in Florida, in Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, Montana. We do. The citizens of New York, Illinois, California, who are being subjective to a socialist style of government, absolutely do not live in a constitutional republic. They live in a
socialist or semi-socialist country where policy is nothing more than a suggestion. I can't give this example enough. If you think policy is policy and the law is the law, and Dan, what are you talking about? People aren't policy. Policy is policy. I just ask you to reflect on the Joe Biden student loan debacle. The policy is crystal clear.
You cannot raid the treasury to go give money to people to pay off their loans at our expense. The Supreme Court has smacked this guy down on it, Biden, twice now. And he keeps doing it. So I'm asking a serious question. If you're questioning me, fair enough. Dan, come on, stop that. People aren't policy, policy's policy. Okay, policy says he's not allowed to do it, but he's doing it anyway. Why?
Because the people matter. Joe Biden's a communist. To each according to their abilities, from each according to their needs. That's what they do, socializing the economy. Socializing the fruits of people's labor. From each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs. Sorry. Get your stuff right. He's socializing...
the fruits of your labor by giving them to other people, despite the fact that the, quote, policy tells them he can't do it. So if policy isn't policy, especially in liberal states, and people are policy, then we're going to need people in there that understand, I don't mean to confuse you, that policy is policy. Does that make sense? And Gates got that.
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