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The Dan Bongino Show

Their Excuses Aren't Working Anymore | Episode 207

20 Jan 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

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Everybody, welcome to Vince on a Tuesday. Great to have you with us. I hope if you had a long weekend that it was a great one. It is glad to have you. I am very glad to have you back with me. I've got a big show ahead today. We hear from the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, Harmeet Dhillon, today. It's the interview that's got the whole internet talking. We'll share that.

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with you get your reaction to it if you're in the live chat and then coming up on this program mark hauck stops by that's right the father and the family who are absolutely terrorized by the biden administration accusing that father of violating something called the face act the face act

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Chapter 2: What recent events led to the Assistant Attorney General's comments on arrests?

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Well, we just saw the FACE Act violated, for real. In Minnesota, this past weekend, as deranged lefties poured into a church, invaded it, and terrorized the Christians who were assembling for their weekly service. We'll talk to Mark Houck about what should happen next. That's all ahead on this special edition of Vince. It is so good to have you with us.

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This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. We've got a lot that's developed since the raid by those deranged lefties in St. Paul, Minnesota over the weekend. Every level of the United States federal government is being attentive to the crimes that were committed this weekend. And yes, those were crimes.

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And yes, the Trump administration is now telling us there will absolutely be arrests.

Chapter 3: How did Don Lemon's involvement in the church protest come under scrutiny?

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related to that raid on that church. Now, who's going to get arrested? Is Don Lemon going to get arrested? Is that deranged birgo that's screaming in the faces of the National Guardsmen in Washington, D.C., and then goes into that church in Minnesota? His name's William Kelly. Is that guy getting arrested? Well... It remains to be seen who gets the handcuffs placed on them.

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But as far as you and I are concerned, every single person who decided to pour into that church, invade that space, violate the First Amendment rights of those Christians, and menace the children inside of that church, all of them deserve justice. Every single one of them. And that's the subject of my next interview.

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Harmeet Dhillon is the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights for the United States Department of Justice. She's a patriot.

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Chapter 4: What is the FACE Act and how was it allegedly violated?

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She's been in the fight for a long time. She's been fighting for civil rights from outside of the government. And now she's in a unique position to do something to protect our civil rights within The government. I spoke to her yesterday on the big national radio show. We had a brief, but I think important interview. She covered a lot of ground.

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And I want you to hear this because I think it's super important that you hear what the government is actually up to right now and what the limitations are. I asked her, why aren't these guys in handcuffs now? What's the explanation? And she gives you some answers.

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For the live chat, I want you to pay attention to this interview, take a listen, and then I want to get your reaction on the other side. Here's my interview with the Assistant Attorney General of the United States for Civil Rights, Harmeet Dhillon. It is good to have you with us, Harmeet. Thank you so much. Yeah, thanks for having me, Ben. Okay, so what stands out to you?

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There's a bunch of radical lefties. They invade this Baptist church in St. Paul yesterday. What are the things that you are watching or were looking at very closely?

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Well, we have sent prosecutors to Minneapolis who are working together with the U.S. attorneys and the FBI's office. We're reviewing all the video that people have put out there. We're getting video from the church itself. We've already spoken to the pastor. The attorney general initiated that. She's checking in with me every couple of hours on it, and I can tell you it's the top priority for us.

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We are looking at violations of the Federal Faith Act as well as the Klan Act and related statutes.

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And how quickly could you put someone in handcuffs? I saw you posting on social media today that one of the impediments to progress there could be federal judges. What should we look for?

321.343 - 337.243 Harmeet Dhillon

So here's the sequence of events in real life. I'm seeing the thousands of tweets of panicking, dunking on the DOJ for not immediately arresting people and asking questions later. That's not how it works in real life. in real life, you do an investigation, you, you get it, get your charges together.

337.283 - 358.628 Harmeet Dhillon

There may be further charges later on, but for arrest warrant, you have to get a federal judge to sign off on it. Now, yesterday was a Sunday. Today is a federal holiday. And even when it is not a federal holiday, these judges are not doing things at the pace that we would like. We've had a huge volume of arrests in Minneapolis and they're, you know, they're doing a handful of them a day.

Chapter 5: What actions are being taken against those who invaded the church?

662.623 - 671.514 Harmeet Dhillon

And the final point I'd like to make for you regarding this issue is that... that Minnesota prosecutors should be prosecuting this, and they aren't. So they're the first line of attack.

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Yes, they are. There's a lot of Americans out there who want their country back. They're rooting you on. Harmeet Dhillon, Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department. Thank you. Keep up the good work. Thank you again. Harmeet Dhillon appearing on the big national radio show yesterday. We had a quick phone call, but I think an important one.

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And I'm watching here in our live chat on Rumble, a lot of reactions to this. A lot of people like Harmeet Dhillon. They think she's very competent. By the way, all of that was very well-explained. on her part.

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Some of the reaction I'm seeing, people are saying, well, how is it that the left arrests and then ask questions later, and then the right tries to, you know, basically gather evidence and then make the arrests? That's because we're the ones who follow the rule of law. That is the distinction. We are the ones who follow the rule of law.

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We're the ones who respect and maintain and uphold the Constitution. The left is trying to tear it up. We are trying to hold this country together. But one of the overwhelming reactions I've seen to this, not just in our live Rumble chat today, but also yesterday as I posted this interview live to the web, just thousands of people writing in.

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And a lot of the reaction was frustration, frustration, just that we've gone on so long and we haven't seen the big shock. show-stopping arrests that are necessary to get our country back in order. Harmeet's right, by the way.

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The Justice Department deserves credit for every arrest and prosecution and imprisonment that they've secured, and that includes of nearly 100 Somalis who've been defrauding the United States of upwards of $20 billion, people just being thrown behind bars. I love that. And that deserves a lot of attention.

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The thousands of children who are being rescued from these awful situations of sex slavery and disappearing into the country, being forced into slave labor. The Trump administration is just rescuing people like crazy. So there are lots of things to be proud of.

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But the big thing that you and I want in terms of writing this ship is a very real and successful prosecution and conviction of the people who've just been hurting this country. And that includes anybody who dared pour into that jail and sorry, poured into that church rather over the weekend.

Chapter 6: What insights does Harmeet Dhillon provide regarding civil rights?

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Well, who's up next? Harmeet is a proven warrior. She might be perfect for it. Something to think about. All right. More in a moment. I've got Don Lemon was in that building. Don Lemon is absolutely spazzing out right now that the Harvey Dillon in the United States Department of Justice is paying attention at all to his behavior this weekend. I'll get to that.

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This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease, and it's not a substitute or alternative for care from a health care provider. Thank you to BrickHouse. Great people. One other thing here, many other things here, but let me just, while I'm thinking about it, you heard Harmeet Dhillon say that Minnesota authorities could have acted immediately.

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On Sunday, after this gross violation of the civil rights of those Christians takes place in Minnesota, Minnesota could have moved. They could have arrested everybody involved, but they did not do that immediately. So it is sort of another sign, it's an explicit sign, actually, of Minnesota's insurrection. The insurrection continues.

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Local authorities are giving double-barrel middle fingers to their own people and to the people of the United States and the federal government of the United States. No, we're not gonna enforce these laws. No, we're not gonna protect our own people. So if you have a state that's in open insurrection as a result of its leaders' decisions, what recourse do you have? Well, the Insurrection Act.

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What is that, if not another invitation for the Insurrection Act, if Minnesota won't arrest the bad guys who menace Christians inside of their church? Obviously. Another call for the Trump administration to step up on that issue. It does sound very insurrection-y, Zoidborg. I agree with you. Very insurrection-y. And Don Lemon is insisting that he's not guilty of anything.

Chapter 7: How does Mark Houck's experience reflect on the enforcement of the FACE Act?

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Will you, Don? Just keep going with that, that any scrutiny you receive is white supremacy, that when you break the law, it's everybody else's moral failure for noticing. Now, you broke the law.

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There's video of you all day hanging out with these lunatics, buying them coffee and donuts in the morning, concealing their true intents, saying you couldn't point your camera at them because they were giving out the details of what they were about to do.

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Going with them to the church to menace the Christians, going to the pulpit in order to disrupt the minister in the middle of his sermon and then leaving and then bragging about how protest movements terrorize children. You said, look at those kids or they seem so traumatized, but that's what protest is supposed to do.

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no that's not what protest is supposed to traumatizing children in order to achieve political goals is terrorism it's not protest that's terrorism you're terrorizing someone in order to affect the political outcome in order to secure power you're disgusting A protest is when people peaceably assemble to make their voices heard and to tell their leaders that they want something different.

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That's a protest, not what you just did. That was just menacing Christians in a church. It's disgusting. So yes, Don Lemon's under investigation. You heard Army Dylan say it a moment ago.

1207.724 - 1236.212 Don Lemon

and he says you know one of the reasons they're going after him is because he's the biggest name and he's a gay black man in america and america's out to get him look it's an intimidation tactic and you know i said i don't understand how i've become the face of it when i was a journalist i do understand that i'm the biggest name there and i'm also as i was on with my producers this morning you know you and kylie talk all the time my producers were saying i said how did i become the face of this and my producer said don you're a gay black man in america

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What does Don have to do? Didn't he marry a white dude, by the way? He's trying. He's trying. What does he have against black men? Why didn't he marry a black guy? Don, he's unbelievable. I mean, he's so brazen. He's just he's ridiculous. He is a narcissist. The guy's crazy. And so, yeah, no, he feels the heat. He doesn't. He doesn't like that everybody's paying attention to him.

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So yesterday he called for backup. He said, well, somebody's got to protect me. And if you're in Minnesota, if you're ever in trouble with the law in Minnesota and you're working to advance the goals of the radical left, who else would you call than the attorney general of the state, Keith Ellison? Keith Ellison, who is a former congressman,

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and an Islamist and now the attorney general of the state of Minnesota, a guy who does not believe in upholding the rule of law. He's as corrupt as the day is long. And he was caught on tape, remember, talking to Somali donors who were asking him to help take pressure off of them. as investigations were going after all of the fraud. And he said, sure, sure.

Chapter 8: What are the implications of recent legislative changes in Virginia?

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Would that not be cause for rioting? Would that not be cause for utter chaos? What is he even talking about? oh, you just got to deal with it. It's just the kind of thing you got to deal with. No, it's not. No, it's not. In fact, the people who poured into that church are lucky that they didn't have a table flipped directly into their faces.

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I mean, there was extraordinary levels of Christian patience on display from the people inside of that Baptist church who were stunned by what they were encountering and who tried to gently talk everything down into a cooler event. But I'm telling you, you crossed the wrong person. Someone's going to put a fist straight through your face in an event like that.

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I'm talking sincere Christians who are looking to defend their churches. It's getting too crazy. And Keith Allison is the Attorney General of the state making excuses for all of this. That's totally fine. He just shrugs it off. You're wondering why Minnesota has become a complete dumpster fire? Look no further than the state's attorney general who keeps breathing life into all of this.

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Speaking of somebody who should be arrested, somebody who should be charged, we got this guy on tape promising to take the investigations away from these Somalis. It seems pretty clear to me what's going on. And the attorney general of the state of Minnesota is not the only person person in the prosecutory level that's pulling this kind of bullshit.

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The Minnesota Assistant Attorney General is a woman called Ann Keeling. And she was just caught inside of encrypted messages communicating with anti-ICE groups. Here's the Daily Caller. They've got a piece up on this today. Minnesota's Assistant Attorney General was allegedly active participant in anti-ICE groups. This is Ann Keeling.

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She offered her assistance to activists in an anti-US Immigration and Customs Enforcement group chat, according to an ex-account on Saturday. Of course, leftist groups have been ramping up their activities after Renee Good got herself killed on January 7th.

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According to Crime Watch Minneapolis, an ex-user who obtained alleged photos from one of the anti-ice signal chat groups, Keeling made contact with the group through a person who was a member, notifying them of her position in the department and asked for assistance. Direct contact here of helpful, the text said. Ann helped with two friends from Pizza Luce who got detained yesterday.

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So she's running around trying to help illegals. Hi, all. My day job is Minnesota Assistant Attorney General. I work for Keith Ellison, she says in the message that's passed along. We've heard your concerns through our consumer hotline. We're seeking detailed information from the public right now to help us.

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If you or someone you know has information to share with us along these lines, and they want, and then it gets cut off. But in other words, if they want to share it, here's how. They go on to say that she is happy to take messages on Signal. Now, Signal... is, of course, an encrypted messaging service. This is designed to be out of public sight.

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