A Massive Shake Up On The Trump Transition (Ep. 2376)
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Get ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host, Dan Bongino. You know, sometimes I think we should tape the pregame show. Well, it's not really a show, but me, Justin, Michael, Guy, Jim, everybody chatting. Because some of the conversations are so interesting, they could be segments.

Justin was asking me about the big story of the day. Obviously, the title of today's podcast, a huge shakeup on the transition with Attorney General nominee Matt Gaetz withdrawing a whole bunch of speculation. Is Matt Gaetz going to take another position? Is he going to get seated in the next Congress? Remember, he resigned from the last one, not the 119th, right? Is he going to be appointed senator? Is he going to run for governor? What's going to happen with the seat? How's Pam Bondi? Did Trump plan this? Did he not?

I promise you by the end of this, I'm going to sift it all out. That's why I got annoyed in the chat. For those of you who don't get into the pregame chat, sometimes I get in there early. There was one guy or woman, I just had no idea. If you don't listen to the show in the chat and you're going to comment on me being wrong, then at least know what I said.

Okay, there's, no, that just annoyed me. Some of you in the chat saw that. We're going to talk about Gates. We're going to talk about Bondi. We're going to talk about the rhino hacks that sabotage Gates. A lot coming. Don't go anywhere. Big Friday show. Beam Cyber Sales here. Bongino listeners get up to 50% off at shopbeam.com slash Bongino using code Bongino. Don't miss Beam's biggest sale of the year. Also, the Mike Rogers at the FBI conversation. We can put that to bed.

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Let's get this party started. So yesterday, big, big news. I always like to give you the unnecessary background. I'm sitting upstairs in the cave. We have this dark room with blackouts and, you know, old man chairs and everything. And I'm back there again, like practically snoring like I always am late at night. Because why? During the week, I am the most boring human being on planet Earth ever, ever.

There is no one more boring to me. Friday, maybe Saturday night, usually not both. It's on. Weekdays, I'm Lily White's party by 8 o'clock at night. Okay? I'm sitting up here. I see the Fox camera. You know that sound? Whatever it is. And I'm like, oh, man, what happened? I go groggy.

They're like Donald Trump nominates Pam Bondi, who was the attorney general of Florida for a long time. Let me just get this out full disclosure in advance. I know Pam Bondi. I'm not gonna say I know her well. Again, I don't exaggerate relationships to sound important. It doesn't matter. And it makes you sound like an asshole anyway, but I do know Pam well enough, especially in the professional space. He selected her. You can see his Donald Trump true social post here. If you're not on true social, by the way, you're missing out on all the news. I'm sorry. If you're not on truth,

There's no reason to not have an account. The activity there is just ridiculous. He announces Pam Bondi as his new nominee. I'll say a couple things. First, this is why I got so annoyed at that cat in the chat this morning. Like, Dan, you were wrong. I said, wrong about what? When I'm wrong, which will happen? I don't have X-Men powers. The predictions and speculation, sometimes you're going to be on the wrong side of things. Wrong about what?

The Trump strategy was what? Do you guys remember what I said? Why we categorize this strategy? You ready? This is the strategy. What am I doing? If you're listening on Apple or Spotify, we're playing Rock'em Sock'em Robots. Thank you, Josh, for that. My accountant actually sent me that. It was very nice of you. Thank you, Josh. We appreciate it. It's like a birthday present. He is punching everywhere all the time. Folks, nothing has changed about that. Look at this, the Rock'em Sock'em Robots.

You guys are the best. What would I do without you in the chat? You make my life so it's like a party every day at 11 a.m. So glad you're here. He is punching. Donald Trump doesn't do things because he's dumb. Now, a fair question. Justin asked me, do you think he knew that this would happen?

Do you think he knew that? No, I don't think, I don't think Donald Trump nominated Matt Gates. It's a good question under the assumption that he wouldn't get Matt Gates. I'm not going to sit there and tell, Oh my gosh, it was 72 dimensional chess. And he, no, but I do think he's practicing rock them, sock them robots with the full understanding in his head, because he's not stupid that he is going to continue punching. But here's the thing with rock them, sock them robots, the other robots punching too.

He knows he's dealing with rhinos in the Senate. And ladies and gentlemen, he knew, did you guys not hear me say this for the smart ass in the chat this morning? Do you not remember me saying there are going to be some scalps taken? He's not going to get every single person. Folks, there may be another that goes down. I wish there weren't. I hope he gets his picks, but there may be another because he needs 51. He needs 50. J.D. will break the tie. J.D. Vance. He needs 50 senators.

Folks, the numbers, did we break the chat again? Holy, no, we didn't, okay. He needs the numbers. If McConnell, Mitch McConnell, and these others, and I'll get to them in a second, say, hey, listen, we're not voting for Gates, but we'll give you, what is he going to do? He can't run in there and force Gates out of it. He will be, there's a recess appointment. Yeah, he could try that later. However, we need an attorney general right away.

It's rock them, sock them robots, man. It may not be the only one to go down. However, the replacement folks, everybody has going to have issues, by the way. I saw a couple articles this morning. I know Pam Bondi. I support the selection of Bondi. And I'm going to tell you why. Because I'm not a hypocrite and I'm not using, I forget the personal relationships. That means nothing to me.

I always measure the effectiveness of a pick. How? Folks in the chat, lay it on me, kids. Lay it on me, Bongino Army. By the response of our political enemies. So if I hear on MSNBC that Pam Bondi is even worse than Matt Gaetz, what does that mean? Full steam ahead, kids. No, they didn't say that. Really? Play to cut.

She is a dangerous and effective pick. And that's frankly worse than what we would have got with Matt Gates, even with the deplorable moral background that he has. Well, you think I'm going to tell you something and then automatically flip on a dime, you know, five minutes later. Sorry, drinking some coffee. All right. Much better.

Always measure the effectiveness of a pick by the reaction of your political opponents. If Jason Johnson from MSNBC, one of the most liberal lunatics you're ever going to see on a network. I debated this guy on a spy gate panel, a political, a politicon. I think it was him. What a nut and really stupid too. If he's telling you Bondi is going to be worse.

That says to me, she's the pick. Folks, are there going to be things in the past there? Yeah. I've already seen a few articles. You know, everybody's got, I've said to you before, we all have it. I have it. You're never going to get the perfect pick anywhere. I'm telling you the Trump team knows what they're doing. So I just want to sum this up. No, I don't think they went in there with some seven dimensional chest thinking we're going to do this and that. And then we know he's no, I don't think I really thought they could get them through.

Unfortunately, you know, we've got rhinos in there who just don't want to change their mind ever. How do I know this is what happened? Because look at Gates' tweet, folks. This is what I get paid to do to diagnose for you what happened. You're not here for bullshit. How am I going to waste your time every day for? 200,000 people a day join him. I'm not going to waste your time. Here's a tweet from Matt Gates right before he drops out.

I had excellent meetings with senators yesterday. I appreciate their thoughtful feedback and the incredible support of so many. He says then that it was unfair. He was being targeted and it was becoming a distraction. But read the first line again. I had excellent meetings with senators yesterday. Folks, this is not the Stygian witches, okay? Give me a high. It's fairly obvious what happened.

They tried to push him through. We've got a bunch of rhinos who are still playing cutesy time. And ladies and gentlemen, what's up with cutesy time? It's over. Unfortunately, there are a lot of rhinos in the Senate who don't understand cutesy time is over. And they basically told him, no, that's it. That's as far as it goes.

Now, these cutesy time zeros in the Senate who are never going to understand what's going on or the fight, they don't at all, are probably saying to President Trump in this disgusting, filthy business of politics, you've got three more nominees who may have some trouble. We'll give you them, but you've got to get rid of him. Rock them, sock them, Roblox, man. Send the next one. That's it.

Cernovich nailed it here. Susan Collins and Murkowski, who were hard no's on Gates from Maine and Alaska, respectively. You know, they voted to approve Alejandro Mayorkas and McConnell, who was supposedly another hard no on Gates, voted to approve Garland, as did Collins and Murkowski.

Folks, these people are absolute frauds. You need to understand like these folks will. This is what they do. They will cut a deal to get a communist in there like Mayorkas. And then you put a door kicker in there like Gates. I call that's a bridge too far. Here is the other one. This this is from Charlie, Charlie Kirk site here.

They're saying John Curtis from Utah is saying he was a hard no to that would be really, really disgusting. So I'm going to let them respond publicly. But Collins and Murkowski were pretty public. McConnell, it's really we can't have this stuff, folks. We can't have it. Listen, this is disappointing. I told you they're already trying the Flynn strategy.

They just didn't have the numbers. But if you keep going Rock'em Sock'em Robot style and just moving forward, you just keep pushing through nominees. I'm just warning you in advance. We may lose one more. We may. But if we get 80, 90 percent, sometimes it's the best you can do. When you're not practicing Rock'em Sock'em Robots and you're putting together establishment picks, then what happens? How many do you get?

Folks in the chat, help me. You get 100% because the establishment loves them. Rock'em, sock'em robots comes with a little bit of a downside. Flood the zone. Continue to flood the zone. They're not backing down. They're not doing any of it. The Trump team has no quit in them. It just was a numbers game. That's it. It pisses me off. Should piss you off too. I get it. I am with you 100%. Some people, should we accept this?

He's moved on. There's nothing to accept. It is what it is. I practice realpolitik and I live in the real world. Folks, I just don't want you to just accept the narrative at hand because here's what's going on right now. This is really important. Please stop what you're doing unless you're holding a child, a sharp object, or operating heavy equipment or driving. I'm already seeing it in Politico and Axios. Politico, Playbook, and Axios, their morning email are like biblical-like things for the left. It's where they get their talking points.

They want to drain Trump's political bank account right now. And I'm not talking about money. The left is afraid that the popular mandate Donald Trump have Donald Trump had is going to give him unprecedented political power to move the country back in the direction of freedom and liberty. That makes sense. I can't go forward if you don't understand what I'm saying. They're afraid they have no story now.

They can't say he didn't win the popular vote. They can't say it wasn't a mandate. So now they're just going to make it up. And I've already seen this morning, they're like, Donald Trump's momentum's gone. Matt Gaetz is out. Trump is finished. We cannot let them create a story from the story. It is up to us to pound the table. You have the facts. We have the facts. Pound the facts.

When you have the facts and can pound the table too, then pound the freaking table too. I need you guys to get loud on Twitter and everywhere else because people listen.

Here's their new narrative. Put up that Politico thing. Calling Trump's win resounding isn't just wrong. It's risky. No, Trump's win was resounding. We won the popular vote. We swept every single swing state. We took four Senate seats back. Even after redistricting, we still kept the House. We won state houses back. It was a resounding victory. You see how? Did we not tell you? Did we not tell you?

Did we not say last week, Michael, do you remember the show? What did we say? They're going to start putting out the narrative. Oh my gosh, this Trump victory really wasn't that impressive. The Nelson Muntz style. New York Times. Look, you find it weird, folks, all at the same time the narrative comes out?

Gates went down. Trump has no power. Trump's victory was nothing. Trump wasn't never landslide. Look, the landslide that wasn't. Trump and allies pump up his narrow victory. It was not narrow. We kicked your ass in every single swing state. The ass was kicked. Here's the ass. Ass. Ass. Kick. Ass. The ass was kicked. I'm sorry your ass got kicked. I'm sorry. That's your problem. That's your problem.

We did the political ass kicking. You guys didn't want to listen. We told you defund the police and men in the women's room was a stupid freaking idea. We told you to close the border and stop printing money. You gave us the double barrel middle finger. Did you not? Therefore, we fought back with Donald Trump and we won. Do not let them take over with this narrative. You have the power now. You're in charge. It's getting a little already after this resounding victory of

What is that? I saw my friend Dilly. What did he say? The Doomers. The Doomers are already out there. Oh, my gosh. It's over. We lost. Oh, my God. Shut up. Stop the bullshit. It was exactly what you saw last week and a couple weeks ago. It was a kick-ass victory. And, yes, you should celebrate it. We haven't even started the fun yet. I promise you the fun's just begun. I want to get one other thing out of the way, too.

Mike Rogers, there was a rumor, and it was a rumor.

was in the running for the FBI director slot. I strongly endorse Kash Patel for that spot. Deep state operatives on social media are trying to get Mike Rogers in there and they're playing people for fools. If you fell for that, I can't help you. This is not your show, okay? If you fell for the online campaign through deep state accounts on X and you know who they are to get Mike Rogers in there, you got suckered.

I don't know Mike Rogers. I don't want to know Mike Rogers. Dan Scavino, who has, I mean, if anyone has Trump's ear, it's him. He's going to be his deputy chief of staff. Dan Scavino has already said this is not happening. Now, how do I know? What has two thumbs and is always right about deep state campaigns? This guy, this guy. I told you there was a social media campaign to get cash out of there and get this guy in. Okay, Rogers.

A lot of you didn't believe me. Now you're seeing it. How do we know Rodgers was going to be the wrong pick for the FBI? Because of the Dan Bongino axiomatic theory of measuring your opponent's reactions. If your political enemies like Spygate Captain Andy McCabe love Mike Rodgers, then what should you do? Chatsters, bring it, kids.

We should not like him then. You are correct. Here's deep state Andy McCabe. Like, yeah, man, Mike Rogers would be awesome. He is someone who's experienced at the FBI. He just ran for Senate in Michigan and almost won. Lost to Alyssa Slotkin there. If Trump named him as the next FBI director, how would you feel about that?

Keelan, I think Mike Rogers is a totally reasonable, logical selection for FBI director. If in fact, that's the decision President-elect Trump makes. Folks in the chat, I need your help here. I do. This is serious. I'm not being I'm not trying to be an asshole. We got one hundred fifty five thousand people. So this is a good little poll. Do you trust me? Yes or no.

And I'm going to ask a question. I'm not mad at you in advance. I'm going to look at some of it. If you don't, if you don't put in, just tell me why. Tell me why. Cause I want to know, I want to know what I did wrong on this show that you don't trust me. I'm telling you there is a very serious deep state online influencer campaign to stop cash Patel from shaking up the FBI. I know this for a fact.

They want their guy in there, and they are going to do anything to get him in there. Now you hear Andy McCabe, the guy who ran the FBI with Comey when they spied on Trump, going, ah, that's our guy. You don't hear him talking about Kash Patel, do you? Oh, they're talking about Kash Patel. What are they saying? Get this motherfucker out of there right away. We don't want him in there. Guys, please, man, I'm not wasting your time. I love you guys a lot, man. You mean the world to me.

I promise you, man, I ain't doing this shit for the money no more. You can go look that stuff up. I'm just trying to help. I don't want anything from anyone. I'm not asking for anything. Please trust me. I'm not saying Cash is the only guy. There are other guys. Cash, I think, is the best guy. He gets it. He's been public about it. He put his reputation on the line about it. This is not personal.

Rogers was not the guy. There is a big time social media campaign. Anybody, anybody hiding on there pretending like, oh, yeah, this guy. And I'm not again, I can't say this enough. I am all for anonymity online. You do. You have not. That's not what this is about. It's about pretending to be one of us and hiding behind anonymity. That's my only issue. I want to be absolutely clear on that.

I don't want anybody. You don't want to tell anybody that is your business. That's why I advertise VPNs and everything else. I am all for it. Free speech, anonymous free speech, 100%. I just don't want you working for the deep state, effing with our people and pretending you're one of us. That's bullshit. And you know what you're doing. Please trust me. All right, enough. I'm just, I'm really passionate about this, folks. We don't clean up the FBI. It's all dead.

And why is this whole online campaign to get depressing against these guys depressing? Because the deep state's power, folks, is still growing. We still got a couple months left of this shit until Trump swears in. I'll show you what I mean in a second. They're just outright giving us the middle finger now. He's like doing a gi now.

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He's in Oregon? Oh my gosh, he flew across the country. So if you see him at this flesh and blood thing, say hello. You can't miss him. He'll say hello. And that's it. He'll never say another word to you. Guy is a man of few words. Okay, back to the show. Why is this all depressing? When I say all depressing, I don't mean I'm happy about the way everything, I'm ecstatic about the way everything's going. But the deep state's power is still growing today.

And I get depressed a little bit about what's going on online, these sabotage campaigns against actual change agents, because it takes so much effort to fight back against it when the comeback is nothing but BS, okay? Here, this is a short one. So Christopher Wray, the FBI director, and Alejandro Mayorkas, our corrupt DHS director, they were told to come testify in front of Congress. They have to go. They

They basically just flipped Congress off. That's it. They gave him the middle finger and said, we're not going. And what's going to happen? Nothing. That's why, because they're sensing right now, if they don't fight back now and start to like, would Trump prove the next four years, that there's going to be some serious, as I said to a friend last night, the people coming in know where the bodies are buried and they all got shovels. And that's what they're afraid of. That's why Ray and Mayorkas are hiding. Watch this.

Welcome back. Quick update. The Senate hearings on the threats to the homeland has been postponed indefinitely. Senator Rand Paul says Mayorkas and Wray are refusing to provide public testimony. They're just not showing up, folks. So again, work boots got to get back on and we got to get back to work. I want these guys up there right now. I want them on the record. There's still two months to go and the Biden team can do a lot of damage.

The deep state smear campaigns, folks, do not fall for them. Can we go out of order a little bit here? Can we put Pelosi up first? I want to show you something. This video was sent to me by a friend yesterday. I played it before on the show. It's old. It's not new. Folks, they are so terrified that people coming into these cabinet positions know where the bodies are buried and they got shovels, brothers and sisters, that they are doing anything to smear them. It's what happened to Gates, who I wish we could have kept.

But we didn't have the numbers. And that is on them, those centers we put up there. But I promise you they're going to come for Pete Hegseth next. Listen to me again. I'm asking you as a friend, do you trust me? Do you trust me? Pete is the guy. Is he the only guy? No. Is he the best guy for the job? I believe so. I've known Pete a long time.

He is the guy. They are going to come for him next. Do not let it happen. He is a decorated member of our military with a history of heroism on the record. He is a good man.

Folks, every single person nominated for everything has baggage. I'm sorry. It just is the way it is. Fallible human beings make mistakes all the time. It does not mean that they should be kept out of leadership positions when they can be change agents because of mistakes.

It was an issue with Pete, an allegation that he handled years ago. Of course, they're trying to smear him. Here's Nancy Pelosi years ago talking about what they call the wrap-up smear, where you just launch something into the media, you throw a shit grenade, and then you walk away from it and just let the liberal media destroy people's lives. That's what happened at Gates, and that's what's happening to Pete, and do not let it happen. You want to hear Nancy Pelosi explain herself, the wrap-up smear?

Check this out. It's a self-fulfilling problem. You demonize and then you, we call it the wrap-up smear. If you want to talk politics, call it the wrap-up smear. You smear somebody with falsehoods and all the rest and then you merchandise it. And then you write it and they'll say, see, it's reported in the press that this, this, this and this. So they have that validation that the press reported the smear.

And then it's called the wrap-up smear. Now I'm going to merchandise the press's report on the smear that we made. I mean, what else could you possibly need to hear? This is what the Democrats do. They launch a shit grenade into the media. Oh, we heard about this allegation 10 years ago. Really? What came of the allegation? Oh, nothing. It was just an allegation. I can allege anything. I can allege that Nancy Pelosi has Martian DNA. It's an allegation.

Justin goes, I believe it. I'll start an online campaign on social media. It doesn't mean it's true. And folks, again, for those of my haters on the left, I want you to go back and do me a favor. Oh, Dan, you're just saying that because it's Pete. Bullshit, go yourself. That's bullshit and you know it.

When your boy Andrew Cuomo, the far left radical governor of New York, had accusations leveled against him, I want you to go look back. I think it was on Outnumbered on Fox or one of those shows or Harris Faulkner. I defended him. Dan, you defended a liberal Democrat? I defended him because he's a citizen of the United States. And what did I say? I said there are allegations. I don't like Andrew Cuomo at all, like not even a little bit.

But he is entitled to due process. Pete got that due process. There was not a charge filed and he handled it. That's it. This is bullshit. This is what they do. Here's my friend Pete. And I don't tell you this because he's a friend. I tell you this because he's a good man. Don't let them destroy this guy too. Don't. Don't. President Trump has picked his team. That's the end of it.

Here's Pete up on Capitol Hill addressing this, handling it like he should. Check this out. I want to thank the president of the United States for this amazing opportunity to be nominated to be a part of this. It's a great opportunity to not take like, I just want to thank the vice president of the United States, she advanced, she spent the morning with me, and the Senate of the United States. We take very seriously the pricing consent role that the U.S. Senate has, we look forward to engaging the right

In that process, we take absolutely nothing for granted. And we open the opportunity to talk to any senator that wants to talk to us. Did you sexually assault women in London, California? I have, as far as the media is concerned, it's very simple. The matter was fully investigated and I was completely clear. And that's where I'm going to leave it. Thank you very much.

Folks, we have already put establishment picks up there in 2016 who had amazing resumes. We did. And what happened? They abandoned us. I want people up there with amazing resumes who know what they're doing and are willing to be leaders in a tough time. He's one of them. You're never going to believe this coming up next. You may actually believe this. There's a big controversy about this clip because we're still not convinced it's real.

We're not. Justin's like, I'm with you, brother. I sent him this clip yesterday from The View of Sonny Hostin having to read another legal disclaimer on the air. And he's like, that's the one from the other day. I go, I thought so, too. Do you believe The View had to issue a correction on the air again? On the same freaking story.

Do you believe this shit? Folks, I promise you this is not AI. This is the craziest. I got that. I also CNN going after Tulsi with the wrap-up schmear. Don't go anywhere. Big show left. Get your friends in here. Let's blow up the audience today. Hey, on MyPillow, a large retail store just canceled a big order. But you know what? MyPillow is going to make that work for you. Why? Because for the first time ever,

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It happened again. This is not a remake of the other day. You want to talk about how the wrap-up schmear works? Here's the problem. That Fox case has a lot of people scared over the whole thing. It does. Now the media people are freaking out. Here is Sonny Hostin having to make a correction again about Gates and Hegseth. Showing you, measure your reaction. We're in the right, they're in the wrong. Check this out.

I have a legal note. Matt Gaetz has long denied all allegations and has not been charged with any crime. Gaetz previously dismissed allegations that he paid for sex, saying that, quote, someone is trying to recategorize my generosity to ex-girlfriends as something more untoward.

Another legal note, Pete Hegseth's lawyer said he paid the woman in 2023 to head off the threat of a baseless lawsuit. He has denied any wrongdoing. Just call the show Legal Note from now on. Or Really Long Music. We'll be right back.

That is not the same correction. We had to check the clothing. We had to check the AI feature. Folks, we are in the right. They are in the wrong. They are freaking out and smearing people because they don't have anything else. Double down, gas pedal to the floor, 9,000 RPMs. And please, folks, we've got a lot going on. Can I just mentally prepare you? If I'm saying this too much, shut me down. Just say, Dan, shut up. We get it. I won't take it personal.

I just want to reiterate, there are going to be other scalps. And I don't necessarily even mean in the nomination process. I just mean politically. Donald Trump could be the most powerful politician. He could have won 50 out of 50 states. Not every single thing is going to go through without a hitch.

It doesn't mean he politically lost. It just means it's part of the process. You rock them, sock them robots, and you flood the zone, and eventually you're going to get a wide receiver downfield and score the touchdown. That's it. Don't get all depressed about this stuff. Stay active. Stay frosty. Stay on your senators. Keep up the fight. But please, don't be one of these doomers online. I know that's not you. I don't mean to sound like an asshole. But you see people online who are already, like, ready to throw in the towel. Stop.

Stop. You don't even know what Matt Gaetz is up to. There could be another spot in a recess ready for him. Stay tuned.

I want you to watch this. I want you to see, I want you to watch CNN here. Put this again, the smear into action. Now, news outlets are supposed to be fierce defenders of the Bill of Rights and the First Amendment. They're specifically mentioned freedom of the press in the First Amendment. Notice, they don't mention cops, sanitation workers, pilots. You don't have a special carve out in the First Amendment. The media does. They are supposed to be at the tip of the spear of free speech. This is one of the most amazing clips you'll ever see.

They're coming after Tulsi next. The smears are going to come out. I promise you they're going to come out for DNI nominee, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who, again, I support. I trust the Trump vision on what he wants to do with government, period. If I didn't, I wouldn't have voted for him.

Here's CNN, unbelievably upset that Tulsi stands against government surveillance of American citizens from an actual media outlet. Justin Fleming, this actually happened. Listen to this. She's also been a longtime critic of American actions abroad and specifically how intelligence agencies gather information. Here's some of that new reporting from CNN's Katie Billis.

Jeremy Herb and Daniel Strauss. Quote, where she is perhaps most at odds with the agencies she may soon be tasked with leading is her distrust of broad government surveillance authorities and her support for those willing to expose some of the intelligence community's most sensitive secrets. It's also where she may come into conflict with Trump's own past record. And

You see it? The Nancy Pelosi, the wrap-up smear. Oh, he made me piss. That's what he's going to make the whole thing about. The whole thing. The smears are coming. Just plow straight ahead. We may lose a legal issue, a political issue. We may lose another person. Don't get depressed about it. Fight, fight, fight like freaking hell.

But don't let one loss set you back. Here, can I, I know I'm beating this thing up. Forget it. One quick thing. I'm sorry. You notice how the Democrats I told you were going to regroup right away? They just took one of the worst electoral beatings they've ever taken in their lives. You think they're sitting on their asses? No. The New York Times already writing stories telling you you didn't see what you saw. It wasn't a landslide. I can look at the numbers. Oh, that's not, that's other kids. Wait, thank you. That's right. You see? They want to demoralize you. Please don't fall for it.

Why? Because, folks, Biden has two more months. I'm not even sure he's running the White House. We'll just call it the Biden regime because no one's even sure he's running the White House anymore. The Biden regime has two more months to destroy the country. We got to stay on our toes and stay frosty. We can't get bogged down in any one thing.

There is a major, major scandal brewing. They are trying to pack the country full of more illegals in the next two months. And if you don't think they can get a couple hundred thousand, maybe a million more people in here for their demographic destiny argument, that's their argument. I can play the clip for you. Then you're wrong. Did you hear about what they're doing with this app now? That now you just got to log on the app, you come into the country illegally, you don't even have to check in.

You think they would have learned their lesson from Lake and Riley and others? No, you doubt me here. Listen to Fox on this. Check this out. Biden administration is quietly loosening immigration policies before Trump takes office. This according to the New York Post. It reports the administration is testing a new app that will allow illegal migrants to bypass in-person check-ins at their local ICE office.

Did I not tell you about the schism? The schism on the left. Forget about us for a minute. We won. There are immigration open borders hardliners who understand the only path to winning politically in the future is what they call demographic destiny.

The schism on the left, the far lefties have not moderated a bit since the landslide. They've gone crazier. Listen to your boy. I'm not bullshitting you. They are not moderating at all. They're telling the Biden team, hey, man, we got to get more illegals in here, not less. And it's happening right now. It's why we got to dust off and get ready to go. Why?

because they know folks they are in real trouble in the future here's the good news it's a friday show this isn't the last story i got a lot more for you but i want to that's why i don't want to say leave you but you need to pay attention i teased this story yesterday i'm going to take a minute on this because this get everybody in here everybody tell a friend they need to hear this this is going to be the best story you hear all day real clear politics was this in the show notes

It was yesterday, I think. Bongino.com slash newsletter. You can access our show notes. You need to read this article by Daniel McCarthy in Real Clear Politics. It is so good. The title, pay attention to this. Why Democrats are losing tomorrow's elections today. Folks, you think this landslide was bad? I've got news for you. I don't want to get crazy and get ahead of ourselves. We're still dealing with the transition hasn't even happened yet. I mean, he's not sworn in. But leave this up a second.

The future only looks worse for Democrats. Why? Because the next census, which is coming up, when is the next one, guys? Can someone look that up? When's the next? It happens every 10 years. But the next one, California is on track to lose four congressmen

New York's going to lose three. Illinois, two. Oregon, Minnesota, and Rhode Island, they're going to be down one. What do all those states have in common? Hold on, we're scratching our heads. Oh, shit, they're all liberal blue states. Yes. Really? They're going to lose a bunch of congressmen and electoral seats? Who's going to gain them? Oh, my gosh, look at this. Texas is going to pick up four.

Florida, three. Idaho, Utah, and Tennessee, each adding one. Michael, what do those states have in common? Florida, Utah, Idaho. That's good. That's why we pay them the big bucks. I was waiting for him to say they're red. He said freedom. You're damn right. Folks, the Democrats, 2030. We are right around the corner from this. The Democrats are effed.

Please understand the reason the open border and demographic destiny, which they discuss all the freaking time matters to them is because people are emptying out of liberal states in droves and they are moving to conservative ones. Not only keep in mind, the house has flipped back and forth within about it.

10 or less member thing a couple times, meaning the margins in the House of Representatives for majority are thin. If California loses four seats and in Texas and Florida get a combined seven, ladies and gentlemen, there's a chance the Democrats may lose the House for 30, 40 years. The presidency, they're finished. The Electoral College, we're up. We're almost at 217 before the voting starts. You think they don't know this?

This is why they are pouring illegal immigrants into the country. They talk about it all the time. We've got to stop this. And illegals should not be counted in the next census, period. You see why they fought against this? This is a huge scandal brewing right now.

And by the way, for all the Republican rhinos who were, you know, making a big stink about Gates and Tulsi and Pete and Bobby Kennedy who voted for these other hacks. Did you vote for this loser? Here's Javier Baccaria, sometimes known as Javier Becerra. You know who he is? Because Joe Biden doesn't. Joe Biden, Joe Biden appointed him. Joe Biden calls him Javier Baccaria. It's not his name, bro. It's Javier Becerra.

Here's who he is, Joe Biden. He's your Health and Human Services Secretary. Here he is up on Capitol Hill. You want to see a scandal about how bad the open border situation is? Do you realize they've been sex trafficking kids across the border and the address they're using for their homes are strip clubs? No. Listen to yourself. Are you familiar that in that report, it revealed that children were pimped out by their aunt, which it turns out the aunt wasn't even...

related to the child, the so-called aunt. Are you familiar with that story that was in there? There are a number of incidents that are reported in that Florida report. Some of them I can probably recall better than others. Some of them I would challenge and dispute, but that one I don't remember. And do you remember the teenage girl that was in a house with unknown men with no private bedroom for her?

Are you familiar with the sponsors that utilize a strip club in Jacksonville as an address for where a child should be settled? -Carnison, as I said, I don't have the information on that Florida grand jury report in front of me. I certainly can go back and take a look at it and try to get back to you. -Strip clubs sending young females into homes with multiple males without separate bedrooms. Yeah, I wonder why they're doing that.

You think the Democrats give a shit? No, folks, they're pushing to fly more illegals into the country. You think this landslide changed their mind? The schism, it changed the moderates' minds, the Carvilles or the fake moderates, but you get my point. They classify themselves that way. You're going to see Van Jones and others try and bring these people over. The lefties are going to go crazy, like crazy pills, freaking nuts.

That's why it's time for us to dust off and get right back in this fight. Don't let any one issue bog you down. Anything. Anything. Keep the agenda in mind. People are going to be, you're going to walk straight ahead. People are going to be throwing stuff at you, spitting on you. The goal is that there's the finish line right there. We've got two years to get it done.

If we can fix this thing and fix voter ID and close the border, that Real Clear Politics article, which I saw Justin just added to today's newsletter if you want to read it, bongino.com slash newsletter. It's free, of course. Read it. The future, ladies and gentlemen, is so bright. I have never felt so good. I'm not pumping sunshine up your ass, man, I promise. Between if we can get a hold of AI, the CRISPR technology in medicine, developments in cancer treatments,

The developments we've had all over the place with material sciences and computational computing and quantum physics and all of this stuff, the electoral dynamics changing in the country, the Trump phenomenon, black voters and Hispanic voters finally seeing how much we've wanted them and welcome them. The country is going to be so much different, but it's all, all, and I mean all of it is going to hinge.

On the next two years, we have got to, I had Mike Lee on the other day. We're going to put it on our weekend interview show on the podcast if you missed it on the radio. Please listen to it. He talks about how they can use reconciliation in the Senate to push forward so many amazing things. I promise you the future is bright. I got a lot more here. Don't go anywhere. But I want you to enjoy yourself this weekend. But just understand the fight is on. The left is already dusted off and they're right back in it.

Folks, the culture war is so important here too. Changing the culture over the next two years is going to be pivotal. Andrew Breitbart was a genius. He said once, politics is downstream of culture. Folks, he was not kidding. The culture has to change. And when I say culture, I hate when I say that I'm not specific.

The culture of fear that has surrounded the MAGA movement. I'm not talking about the 176,000 people here in the chat right now. You guys all got balls. There are a lot of people who were afraid. They're the fence sitters. They didn't want to wear the MAGA hat. People asked them who they supported. They were like, they'd have to caveat it. Well, you know, I would vote for Donald Trump, but I don't like it. They're the fence sitters.

We need them. I wish we didn't. But as you're seeing what happened with Gates, unfortunately, the softy squishes, we need them. It's a numbers game. Don't get emotional. Spreadsheets only. Spreadsheets only. Spreadsheets only. Don't get emotional about this shit or else you're going to get burned. We need these people for the numbers. I wish we didn't, but we do. The only way we're going to get them to see the light

We only have a, what, two-seat majority in the House right now? We can't lose these people, folks. We have to change the culture so that the culture of fear works in the other direction. That they understand we're the majority now and that they're afraid of going against the majority opinion. Do you understand what I'm saying? The culture is changing.

These little Trump dance things, this is a huge deal. This is not a small deal. Folks, I don't care about politics in sports or entertainment at all. I don't. Actually, I'd rather it not be there at all. But that's not my fault. I did not introduce politics into sports and entertainment. Sports and entertainment people did by jamming Colin Kaepernick in our face and his socks with cops depicted as pigs.

So if there's going to be sports and politics, then you're damn right that I'm going to sit there and clap my hands when a couple of guys want to do the Trump dance. They ain't jamming it down anybody's throat. They're not asking the NFL to put Black Lives Matter or Trump Lives Matter on the field.

Here's Scott Jennings on CNN addressing exactly this point. It ain't us who brought politics into this. It's the left. And now they don't like it that a couple people do the Trump dance? Tough shit. Check this out. The Trump dance is kind of weird. It's new-ish, and it's ridiculous, which also makes it trendy. Right.

Yeah, it's like a TikTok dance. Yeah, it is, right. And so, you know, I don't think that's going to be something that players are going to be doing into next year. It's just kind of something new that players are doing. And they all, you know, when you make a play, you celebrate, you want to do something that's fun and trendy. And they're doing the Donald Trump dance because that's the fun and trendy thing right now. I don't think it's right to equate

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I see these things as totally different. I don't see these players necessarily participating in politics as much as they are just sort of participating in the current pop culture. I think they're two totally, totally different things. And these players are not out there trying to browbeat their teammates into joining them if they don't want to. You see why this bothers them? I hope I'm explaining this succinctly but accurately because it matters.

These visual representations that it's safe to go in the water again. Oh, look, I was afraid to call myself a Trump supporter. Now my favorite NFL tight end is doing the Trump dance. Maybe I can go out with my MAGA hat. Do you see? Oh, man, I wish we would have had that person dancing video. Do we have the dancing video? Yeah, do we have that? Can you find that for me? I hate to ask you last minute. We only got two more down, one guy today. But I want to show you, if you can pull it up, I want to show you his video.

The culture happens. You ever read that book on killing? It's a, it's a book about actual killing and war and the history of it. It's an amazing book. It's called on killing. It's one of the, it'll change your life, right? It's written by, I was at Dan Grossman. Is that his name? I miss, forgive me for getting the title wrong. I'm pretty sure that's it. The book talks about sheeps, sheep, dogs, and wolves. You guys were the sheep dogs. Okay. You were British. Okay, cool. Play it in a second.

You guys were the sheepdog. You were. You all out there were the sheepdog. You were protecting people's freedoms even when people didn't want to protect it themselves. This was you.

The crazy guy's dancing, and you were the first person to jump in and dance with him. Everybody else was like, I'm not going to dance with that other guy. Look, man, he looks weird. That's all silly. But then another sheepdog comes in and is like, you know what? Here he is. Like, I'm going to dance with these two guys. And then you're going to see what happens.

Once the two sheepdogs protect him, other sheep start coming in because it's safe. And then more sheep realize it's safe because they see people dancing, whether in the end zone or in the UFC ring. And then everybody else on the outside realizes, hey, why was I being a sheep? I should have been a sheepdog too because the sheepdog movement looks pretty cool and I don't want to be a dork. And now

look, there's more. And then there's more. And then there's more. And then more. And then all of a sudden everybody realizes, shit, I'm in the minority not being with the sheep and the sheepdog here. So I don't want to be a sheep anymore. I want to be a sheepdog too. That is one of the most powerful videos at that music festival you'll ever see. It is not the first person dancing that changes the world. It isn't.

It's the first person that jumps in and makes it safe for everyone else. That was you. And I love you for it. No, that was you. And you should all take a bow. I know self-praise stinks, but you deserve it right now. I'm serious. Pat yourself on the back. Four years ago when everybody dumped on Donald Trump, garbage, candy, terrible, we need someone else. What did you say? Bullshit. I'm standing behind this guy in this movement. There's something there. And you know what? There was something there. There was something there. And you guys were the sheepdogs.

But please, if you notice in that video, the guys dancing don't go, hey, don't come join us in the dance. We were here and you guys were sitting down. They don't do that. We need the numbers. They're different than you. Yes, they were sheep when you were sheepdog, but we need them. Don't get emotional about it, folks. Spreadsheets only. If we can add them as a plus one, take it because we need it. The real world sucks sometimes, but it's about a numbers game. I want to play this clip for you too because it matters.

This is why CNN is freaking out about Elon. What does Elon have to do with this? Ladies and gentlemen, Elon provided the platform by which we could show you that video. Dan, it's on Rumble. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about Elon made it safe to talk about free speech again, which made it cool to be against cancel culture and not cool to be the canceler.

This is why they're terrified that Elon's platform is becoming more representative of what America looks like. They loved it when it was 75% or so liberal and everybody was like, oh my gosh, look at those dorks dancing. Then all of a sudden Elon buys it. Normal people are allowed to speak again. And then people realize, holy shit, 50% of the crowd really is like me.

Listen to this CNN segment. You'll see this is one of the most important things we've ever discussed. Change the culture, you change the politics. Don't change the culture, you're going to lose every time. Watch CNN freaking out that Twitter now looks like all of us, not just liberal America. Check this out.

So the reason one of the big reasons he bought Twitter slash X is because he wanted to make it his own platform, remake it in his own image. And I think this really gets at it. Look at this. The party I.D. among those who regularly use X slash Twitter for news back in twenty twenty two. Sixty five percent of those who regularly use Twitter slash X for news were Democrats. Just thirty one percent were Republicans. Look.

get where we are today. Just a completely different picture. Now it's basically split between Democrats at 48%, Republicans at 47%. And what I should note, Mr. Berman, is this now, this new overall makeup matches the overall electorate far better and

More than that, John, look at where Mr. Musk's net worth is today versus where it was just two months ago. He is the richest man in the world by far. Two months ago, look at this. His net worth was $252 billion. Look at where we are today, $314 billion. He is by far the richest man ever to be on this planet. So yes.

He's not as popular. Yes, Twitter slash X perhaps is not as popular, but it's a much different platform, one that more represents Elon Musk's, let's say, political instincts, and he is now a far wealthier man.

You see how they got to take a shot at him and imply this is all about money? Elon, I think, is losing money on Twitter. The guy has been a warrior for free speech. What he did to change Twitter changes the culture because what you believed was true before in an artificially inflated platform where it wasn't safe to dance because you thought you were only one quarter of the population, what he changed it to more adequately represent America, and now 50% of people realize it's safe to go up and dance?

Folks, it's going to go down as just a generational seismic shift in American politics. And I got to tell you, listen, I'm an equity holder in Rumble. I love it. But we owe Elon a debt of gratitude. I love Chris at Rumble too. But what he did, it's going to change the country. I promise you, it's a big deal.

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