The Dan Bongino Show

The Aftermath (Ep. 2520)

89 min
May 21, 20269 days ago
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Summary

Dan Bongino discusses the aftermath of Kentucky's 4th congressional district election where Trump-endorsed Ed Galerin defeated anti-Israel candidate Thomas Massie, framing it as a decisive moment for the Republican Party's direction toward universal rights rather than identity politics. The episode features an interview with Jay Feely, a Trump-endorsed NFL veteran running for Congress in Arizona's 1st district, discussing parallels between sports meritocracy and political leadership.

Insights
  • Trump's political endorsement has become a decisive force in Republican primaries with a documented 37-0 winning record, fundamentally reshaping candidate selection and party direction
  • The Republican Party is actively rejecting identity politics and anti-Semitic rhetoric, using electoral victories to enforce ideological boundaries and exclude fringe movements
  • Results-oriented governance (border security, crime reduction, government efficiency) is becoming the primary metric for evaluating political success rather than rhetoric or promises
  • Professional athletes transitioning to politics bring meritocratic mindsets and accountability frameworks that contrast sharply with traditional political operatives
  • The 2028 census will have outsized electoral consequences, potentially shifting 15+ electoral votes from blue states to red states, making the 2028 presidential election strategically critical
Trends
Trump-endorsed candidates dominating Republican primaries, establishing new party orthodoxy around universal rights and anti-identity politicsShift from promise-based to results-based political messaging in conservative media and campaignsProfessional sports figures entering politics with emphasis on meritocracy, accountability, and servant leadership modelsIncreased focus on census reapportionment as a long-term electoral strategy affecting House seats and Electoral College votesWeaponization of government prosecutions becoming a central campaign issue with specific cases (Jack Smith prosecutors, Raoul Castro indictment) as evidenceImmigration policy framing shifting from humanitarian to systemic incentive analysis (welfare parity, asylum law mechanics)Deep state accountability narratives gaining traction with prosecutions of DOJ/FBI officials involved in Trump investigationsReligious and faith-based messaging becoming more prominent in conservative political mobilization (Charlie Kirk memorial service references)Rejection of 'doomerism' and 'nothing is happening' narratives as coordinated psyops against MAGA movementState-level tax policy (property tax, income tax differentials) becoming recruitment tool for red states against blue state migration
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Online prescription pharmacy offering medications including ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, and NAD supplements
Patriot Mobile
Conservative-aligned mobile carrier offering service on major US networks with contract buyout options
American Financing
Mortgage refinancing company specializing in debt consolidation and home equity solutions
Berna
Less-lethal self-defense launcher manufacturer producing kinetic and chemical round devices
CNN
News network referenced for polling data and interviews with Democratic officials
Fox News
News network where Bongino previously worked and where Trump-related coverage is discussed
Southern Poverty Law Center
Civil rights organization mentioned as allegedly funding extremist leaders and involved in hate crime hearings
People
Jay Feely
Trump-endorsed NFL veteran running for Congress in Arizona, discussing meritocracy and servant leadership in politics
Donald Trump
Central figure discussed for endorsement power (37-0 record), policy decisions, and political instincts
Tom Brady
Used as example of meritocracy and success without government intervention, played with Feely at Michigan
Rudy Giuliani
Praised for results-oriented governance and public safety/economic miracles in New York, commented on Kentucky race
Ed Galerin
Trump-endorsed winner in Kentucky 4th district race against Thomas Massie, Navy SEAL Team Six member
Thomas Massie
Lost Kentucky 4th district race to Galerin, criticized for anti-Israel positions and party divisiveness
Karen Bass
Used as example of poor political instincts and lack of results on homelessness despite campaign promises
Spencer Pratt
Republican candidate running against Karen Bass, discussed as example of strong political instincts
Jamie Raskin
Criticized for repeating 'fine people' hoax about Trump's Charlottesville comments
Brandon Gill
Texas congressman praised for confronting Democratic candidate on defund-the-police rhetoric
Carmen Lineberger
Indicted for stealing classified Jack Smith investigation documents and emailing them as 'dessert recipes'
Jack Smith
Referenced for politicized Trump investigation; prosecutor supporting his case now indicted for document theft
Raoul Castro
Indicted for conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals, case highlighted as example of Trump administration results
Nick Shively
Conducted investigation into Minnesota daycare fraud case resulting in federal prosecutions
Buck Sexton
Defended Ed Galerin's Navy SEAL service against accusations of foreign influence
Clay Travis
Discussed Massie's defeat and criticized attacks on Galerin's military service
Harry Enten
Provided polling analysis showing Massie's primary vote collapse from 75-81% to under 50%
Desmond Howard
Used as example of individual achievement independent of government intervention, played at Michigan
Charlie Kirk
Assassination mentioned as catalyst for party unity; memorial service described as major evangelical event
Jim Jordan
Mentioned as person who encouraged Feely to consider running for Congress
Quotes
"We are the party of universal rights okay we don't single out groups of people because of their religion because of their skin color the republican party was the civil rights party it was founded for universal inalienable rights"
Dan BonginoEarly segment
"Donald Trump is the results president this is why the nothing is happening freaking doomers lost you lost guys and ladies out there"
Dan BonginoMid-show
"I would not have got into politics if the president hadn't asked me to you know we've been talking about it for a few years"
Jay FeelyInterview segment
"There's things that are more important than endorsements more important than promotions and standing up for your beliefs about this country and what makes it great"
Jay FeelyInterview segment
"The end result is always failure i mean socialism always fails it's always regression to the mean but they don't care about that they don't care about the impact on our country you know they care about power"
Jay FeelyInterview segment
Full Transcript
All America all the time sit down buckle up and get ready for the Dan Bonjino show folks the doomers yesterday oh my gosh did you guys see it even after the show listen with the death threats and stuff like I get it like we've been down this road before not a good idea on let me just put out in advance very bad idea some of them will figure that out soon however the chugging of bottles of my doll and like anison were like ridiculous yeah I don't know what to tell you like we warned you guys that that probably wasn't the best policy to run on like a one-issue agenda and to get in bed with the anti-semite so and you just didn't listen you somehow thought you had a home here you really don't and that clip of my show yesterday went nuclear and we got even more threats which is unbelievable again when you talk about this country and liberty talk about it with a smile I just I don't know like do you need an extra like travel pack of the mind all do you have some symptoms or something is you're like little gi distress we warned you you just didn't listen I got a big show for you today I've got a and I'm going to open on a bit of something happened to me last I don't want to talk about because it's really important and we've got a great guest the Donald Trump endorsed candidate you know Donald Trump's endorsement is the gold standard I think there's any disputing that now Donald Trump endorsed candidate Arizona congressional district one you probably know him if you're a sports van Jay Feeley NFL stars played for multiple teams he played with Tom Brady in college there's a lot of interesting parallels between his sports career in this so we're going to go into that later don't miss it but I've got a lot of really important content I got to get out for you especially in the beginning so let's get to it today show about to you by Birch Gold listen when there are supply constraints on commodities prices surge that's the way it works you saw it with fuel prices with the 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a text Dan to the number 98989898 to see if you qualify for a first-time gold buyer rebate of up to ten thousand dollars again text Dan to 989898 today message and data rates apply thank you Birch Gold being appreciated so just quickly yesterday I was at an event for my daughter my youngest daughters graduation from grammar school which you know is always a big thing because you're entering into kind of young adulthood in high school different phase of your life I'm going to tell you something they were playing this little powerpoint in the background of the kids and my daughter has been in that school since kindergarten she spent a year or two in a charter school away but she's been there most of her young life and the families and I have become really close in this local Catholic school my my eldest daughter went there too so I've known the principal and others there since the principal was a school teacher I'm going to tell you something watching this I know many of you who serve in the military and jobs that require a lot of travel that it's not possible I get it I was one of my had to move all the time New York I was down to Georgia Maryland Florida I moved all the time but thankfully I had settled down before my youngest daughter got in the kindergarten we've been in this community now basically her entire life down in south Florida and to watch the pictures of even the families and the kids when they were in kindergarten up to eighth grade and to know that we all go up together but the families and the kids and everything if you have the opportunity to give your children that continuity of a community family community local life the same church and all that it is just an immeasurable gift there is no amount of money that can replace that while I was watching the kids they were crying my wife was crying had to go get like a tissue out of the bag watching all these kids grow up together it's just an incredible experience there you go I don't know just my PSA for the day if you have the opportunity take it that continuity when they're younger those are memories I'll never forget I went to two schools when I was younger I went to forest brook in smith town and emily parents separated I went to st pancreas up in New York but there's something to be said for that all right getting back to the show uh folks yesterday was a really amazing day because again it reset level set the direction of the republican party we are the party of universal rights okay we don't single out groups of people because of their religion because of their skin color the republican party was the civil rights party it was founded for universal inalienable rights that was the whole point of the republican party we're not going down that path that was clear yesterday I can tell by the reaction on x by the rage bots and a lot of it's just botting but some of it isn't that some people are really pissed off and genuinely believed it was their party and they were going to hijack it you're not we showed you the door it hit you on the ass get out I said it yesterday I'm going to say it again it's not yours you didn't build this party we built this party around universal sets of rights and freedoms not segregated rights for this group that group the jews get this right the christians get this right but no no that's not what we do that's not what we're ever going to do that's not our party you want to go start your own party good luck we don't need you we don't want you this has been an epic week however for president trump I mean all of these folks out there the twitter response to president trump this this week by the lunatics was incredible you're done we're not voting for you in november okay so it's all about you you you're just telling us this entire time it had nothing to do with universal values and everything to do with your one cause here's rachel bade for i think she's from politico indiana g.o.p decimated cassidy out cornyn likely out massy gone v.r.a. gutted this is again this is a liberal perspective however virginia map struck incredible few weeks for trump's political operation you're damn right it is but donald trump's political operation wouldn't work if donald trump didn't uniquely know how to feel where the political wins in his base are and on principle move in that direction he's got a unique set of political skills i'm going to play a clip for you coming up later he just does politics better you may say well that's just an opinion it's not a freaking opinion he's like 37 and oh or something in primaries that's not an opinion that's just a fact look at the damn numbers if everyone else was doing politics as well as donald trump how come they didn't win three presidential elections how come they're not 37 and oh and endorsements answer the question if what you're saying is true and the guy you picked massy who lost is so much better than why didn't he win why aren't his endorsements cleaning up he endorsed a different guy for president why aren't his endorsements i'm just asking questions right that's what you say all the time we're just asking questions this was an incredible week donald you guys know what i'm going with this one donald trump put out a statement oh you do okay good i want to give you donald trump put out a statement about this yesterday now donald trump he i don't know got up a little early looks a little different in this thing but um donald trump put out a statement about the defeat of tom massie and ed galerine's victory in kentucky four and it was an interesting statement i i thought you should if he looks a little different again i think maybe got up a little early in the morning i don't know didn't do the hair whatever it may be but you need to hear this check this out this is your favorite president and today is a tremendous day for a country congressman thomas massie and his undercooked linguine haircut you look at his hair he looks like undercooked linguine and nobody knows hair quite like i do i have the greatest hair they say to me sir your hair is like golden waves of grain and that's the greatest hairdo in the history of the world but uh thomas massie it is stupid haircut and he lost by a lot you think about he lost by a landslide i want to say thank you to kentucky's fourth congressional district and i want to say thank you to the low iq influencers who have no influence at all there are a bunch of fakes and phonies and frauds and now there are a bunch of losers and they did a lot of stupid things with massie who happens to be a stupid person and they caused him to lose you think about it they did a lot of damage to his campaign congratulations to kentucky congratulations to the united states of america they call him mess hall they call him mess hall and uh it's not a nice name but he's not a nice person so congratulations to kentucky congratulations to america and congratulations to all the hardworking mega patriots who are working to make america great again god bless you and thank you for your attention to this matter now he's grown a little facial hair donald trump he started wearing his hats backwards and he looks suspiciously like shawn farish uh who we love a lot like him uh it's amazing he's just getting younger by the day of course we love shawn mutley's in the chat mutley's in the chat people of course broke the mutley rule i said only five mutleys doesn't matter there you go who's that someone right there knocked out the way seven or eight mutleys that's okay that's okay some people put the trump dance emoji it's all up to you however uh we love shawn that's actually very funny thank you shawn farish i want to make sure people uh you can find shawn on rumble as well shawn s h a w n f a r a s h shawn's a good man um all right a little more seriously listen donald trump is the results president this is why the nothing is happening freaking doomers lost you lost guys and ladies out there i'm sorry everyone saw through europe the nothing is happening stuff is bullshit every single day there is a huge portfolio of massive changes to our government from the space i was in to health and human services to trump rx to cuba policy i'm not telling you have to like the changes but saying nothing is happening is making you look like idiots as things happen whether you like them or not now a better more effective approach and i'm not here to teach you how to fight against the trump agenda but i am here to try to show you how logic and reason works a better way to fight this would be to say yeah a lot of things are happening that's not in dispute however we don't agree with them and here's why that's not what you're doing you're just sitting there talking shit into the ether telling people nothing's ever happening as they can watch the freaking news or watch this show and see a laundry list of things happening donald trump is a results guy and when i see other results guys talking about what happened yesterday the aftermath of the race it's not about massy anymore we gotta move on it's about the direction of our party and it's about psyops and about bullshit and moving away from compass true north to like the latest charlie kerr conspiracy theory we're not doing that you're a fringe movement not us when i think of results candidates there is no one i admire more in politics maybe as much with donald trump but not more listen to me beam in there is no one i admire more than rudie juliani no one you know why i i worked for him and i worked for donald trump and they both had the same attitude you know what the attitude is we're gonna do big things small people talk about big people who do big things i they are both big people big personalities they did big things i love rudie juliani thank the lord thank you jesus he's feeling better he was back on the air yesterday this guy performed a freaking miracle in new york as the mayor when i was a young cop a miracle people had forfeited new york there was a look up this headline i think it was in the daily news jerald ford dropped dead new york date new york was finished the new york i grew up and was a mess rudie juliani performed a miracle an economic miracle a public safety miracle because just like president trump he demanded results so when rudie juliani talks i listen rudie juliani was a results transactional spreadsheet sky he was rudie juliani on the race and what happened in kentucky ford and i'm telling you no matter oh there you go you found it ford the city dropped dead he's making it up this was like a huge story obviously in new york about a bailout for new york the city was done except for this guy so when he talks and he gives his perspective on the direction of the party and how important that race was yesterday and the aftermath of it i'm listening and you should too check this out it's a statement by massie the guy defeated by ed galrin in kentucky does he have a family does that do his children hear this this anti-jewish hate that he has but here this man appears at his concession speech this is the mouth of a jew hater and a man who has no right to be in congress but i would have come out sooner but i had to call my opponent and concede and it took a while to find ed galrin in televieve well of course ed galrin is not in televieve that is referring to the fact that uh he was defeated because he opposes the state of israel or he opposes the jewish people or the jewish people unfairly oppose him or the jewish people or the jewish people or the jewish mr massie there is one guy who defeated you and ed galrin of course did a great job when we couldn't have done it without a great candidate like that but you want to blame somebody go pick on him because he kicked your ass his name is president donald j trump and he kicked you because among a lot of other things you're a bad american man i'm going to tell you folks there again there's nobody i respect more maybe as much but not more it's not possible he's a hundred on the scale of people i respect in politics because you know how many you have any idea how many people right now and their kids and grandkids are alive because of mayor juliani in new york you have any idea any idea tens and thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people would have been murdered wouldn't have had kids who had grandkids because of what he did you see how all the real conservatives out there who've actually done stuff and produced results are tired of this bullshit ladies and gentlemen i'm going to make a case you it's not even about the jews it's about this bullshit identity politics leftist shit garbage shit shit shit that's infected people trying to walk into our tent it's not your party man look at another guy who's served nypd cia buck sexton buck and clay great guys good friends he was buck sexton yesterday saying the same exact thing rudy juliani saying like listen whether you love or hate ed galerine the guy was a navy seal you're telling us he's in the pocket of a foreign government are you freaking crazy man the guy was a navy seal you have any idea what he went through to go over and put his ass on the line in tier one high-risk missions for us he's not doing it for the money and you're accusing of being in a pocket of a foreign government what kind of a scumbag are you and do you vote for this listen to clay and buck good man check this out for anyone who does not know is a decades long veteran and seal team six member a tier one unit and and honestly just makes massy look like a petty little scumbag you're gonna say that guy's in the pocket of he's in the pocket of israel the seal team six guy the american from kentucky's in the pocket of israel that's that's your attack on him it's just gross man so i i think i think massy got absolutely deserved good riddance i 100 would sign off on the fact that it's gross it's also an insult to the people of kentucky yeah man it is pops mcgroin in the chat tipping us three dollars shit shit shit swear jar you don't have to tip us you know donate it to your favorite candidate or cause but it's shit's not as bad okay that listen i know if it's not i mean come on it's probably not the best word to use but i don't know i'm a what's that it was it was appropriate there i mean all right the f bombs different and there's other ones that are even worse but and folks i i again i i said this yesterday clip one nuclear a bunch of people sent their death threats over what's going to happen to you if i see you and whatever man couple dead the tough guy told you these clown like the comedian losers and stuff these guys are like a buck 20 soaking wet dudes probably never even been in a street fight is a i'm gonna end you bro i'm gonna end you shut the fuck you're gonna end me get cut the way you really believe all this shit we've gone through between you know working in the 75 precinct in eastern new york dealing with like cancer dealing with psychopaths and a pi squad in the new york field office like yes it's definitely the comedian the failed comedian that guy that we definitely you really got us now bro you can clowns you got your ass handed to you gotten barressed you got embarrassed just walk away tail between your legs show some dignity because it's not your party go back to the river to the sea people go back to the terrorist friends of yours we'd cank that fat slob screaming young turd okay guys oh shut the fuck up cank take a xanax cank freaking loser abstain let me tell you something you again you sure you guys want to go into that because we were the ones working to get that out and then your past got exposed and all of a sudden they're all hey whoa you still think it's your party i don't understand like you lost here's the cnn pollster harry antin who seems like to be you know he went as a bad poll he'll tell you and is a good poll he'll tell you so i don't want to be confused with any like maga bias in napoling it's a cnn pollster you still think like it's your party you're gonna come in here take a shit in a punch ball at our party and everyone's gonna celebrate you we're gonna play like scrabble or charades with you we're gonna kick your ass out and tell you to beat it here's harry antin on the party and the direction of the party you you still think this is yours it's not yours it's not yours and we don't want you check this out wasn't surprised at all because the bottom line is this donald trump is the general of the republican party and the republican primary voters are his soldiers and if you look at thomas mass you can see it very clearly you're looking 2020 2022 2024 he was getting 75 upwards of 81 of the primary vote in 2020 and today he gets less than 50 of the vote that's the story that is incredible because you look at it so consistent time after time after time and then wow look tonight folks this is our party be proud of what you did the doors you knocked on the donations you made the candidates the phone calls you made the tweets you sent out the buddies you called the lady you drove to the polls we're not forfeiting our party to leftist partisan identity politics bullshit we are not doing it we would rather we're not showing up in november for you we're gonna show up for the terrorist river to the sea but okay well we don't want you here i already told you yesterday what are we gonna do get on the basketball court with you and you start shooting in the other team's goal why would we want you on the team boom tonight i know it pisses you off have a might all take a might all for your symptoms and he doesn't even know what you know might all is and he's like yeah i know i get the joke all right all right i'm gonna take a quick break but i want to show you coming up folks how i want to talk about this this is a prad ad caron bass i want to mix it in with something that happened yesterday from the nothing is happening files you may have missed involved jack smith and i'm going to tie it all together for you to show you what our party really is it's the party of results and things that are happening that by the way you're under no obligation to agree with but you are under an obligation to tell the truth that there are a lot of amazing things happening you may think they're not amazing but they are happening and that's what we are going to run on things that are happening we're not going to run on bullshit and lying about things that are happening and pretending nothing's happening we're not doing that a lot happened yesterday a ton of stuff happened yesterday the jack smith thing was a story it did not get enough media coverage but you're going to hear it here hey look if i need prescription medication i need it fast i already know what i need i don't need to hear from anyone so if you don't want to wait for an appointment deal with insurance nonsense or stand in another line at the pharmacy god forbid an emergency isn't going to be any longer it's going to 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opinion like a ball of clay shaped in facts his endorsement schedule the results things he's been able to do that no one else was able to do that we're just discussed and talked about in the past i'll just give you a quick example shutting the border oh that's impossible people want to come here yeah people want to come here they come here legally through a port of entry what's the border level is that illegal migrants uh entered into the country zero i thought we were told that wasn't possible we were told after the biden administration well crime rates you know there's nothing you can really do about it crimes a systemic bullshit social disorder blah blah blah there's quote sigman freud or whatever what happens donald trump comes into office crime rates plummet to the rates we haven't seen like put up that new york post we haven't seen these rates ever i thought this wasn't possible we were told government just naturally expands yeah republicans said they were going to cut government look at it crime rate lowest in 90 years uh we're not going to be able to cut government jobs donald trump cuts 10% of the government workforce these are results cut the bullshit that nothing's happening you may not like that's happening you may love crime you may want an open border you may want a bigger federal government then vote against donald trump but don't tell us nothing is happening the reason he's better at politics is he doesn't give a shit about the bullshit focus group stuff he has instincts for what people care about i want to just give you a quick example when donald trump came down the escalator for that 2016 election do you know how many i knew a lot of republican dc type folks and i will never forget being in the fox green room in dc they've they've done the fox studio in dc over like three times since then there used to be a really really tiny green room and i remember because charles crowdheimer god rest his soul who was in a wheelchair was in there at the time and donald trump had announced a couple days before you probably go look up the appearance i did you got to look at the dates and then you'll see it and i'm in there and there's a bunch of kind of establishment talking heads and they were laughing they were like oh my gosh like this is never going to work he's talking about immigration donald trump is an issue nobody cares about this that rapist comment and they're not letting her best in that's the worst they were all wrong donald trump's political instincts won how do we know they won justin because he won the 2016 election that's a fact that's not dan's opinion that's a fact he just has better political instincts for candidates and elsewhere i saw this clip yesterday and it reminded me jackie though who does the makeup in the morning for every you know i also look all shiny and sweating people think you're under police interrogation right they like mattify your face probably tmi but hey that's how this show is right we watched the clips together because she's sitting right here while we're doing the the pre-show thing and i'm listening to say i said i want you to watch this clip i'm about to play a president trump he's uh he's right outside of air force one and they ask him about james talarico who is a far left communist running in the state of texas for the us senate seat against what now looks to be ken paxton after the trump endorsement we'll see what happens there right notice he's not on a teleprompter there's no notes but he knows to hit the exact soft spots texas voters would care about a talarico he doesn't need a focus group talk about it and when he ends up with the vegan comment this one's gonna stay this is this is just his political instincts he knows exactly what to do check this out we have a great candidate i believe in texas and i believe that texas candidate who's ken paxton i think he'll win i think probably he'll win very substantially and i think he'll go on to defeat a very defective candidate a candidate that believes in six genders and he he pigs hits the jesus christ and he's wearing a mask six months ago where's a guy anybody wearing a mask six months ago doesn't get it and he's a vegan he's a vegan in texas and you can't get elected as a vegan in texas that you you guys can laugh about this all you want well then i'll have it anyway anyone out there laugh about this all you want if you're a rancher in texas which is like the barbecue capital of the world i know i'm upsetting some people in louisiana and others i may have a revolt in the chat i'm from florida barbecue is okay down here i've been to texas i don't know what's that place iron fork or whatever man even like the chain barbecue like rudies is amazing then texas is like the barbecue capital this guy's running as a vegan trump just gets in he doesn't need a note card we pulled a focus group uh mr president and they said that the vegan thing is that no no no trump is right texas is right who said that in the chat texas barbecue is just what do the kids say sick and i mean sick like i mean sick like in a quantitatively unbelievable qualitatively good way sick is like i know i'm like 20 i'm 20 you know i haven't i'm i was 20 years old 30 years ago dude justin's like 14 it's like 20 years old you know what's older than that awesome that's what they said when i was 13 it's freaking awesome he just knows he doesn't need a focus group he's just better at politics now now because i practice what i preach on the show and trying to impart upon the audience the benefits of political strategy we can use to impart upon our candidates some good advice to go and win here is what political instincts that are really genuinely awful and not based in results but based in flowery talking points look like this is an interview between cnn and los angeles mayor caron bass who's desperately trying to hold on to her seat against spencer pratt who i'll play in a little bit not just yet i want to sandwich the segment who has by the way another candidate who has incredible political instincts incredible political instincts because he's been a public figure i think for a long time reality he just like donald trump he knows what's going to work and what doesn't he doesn't need a focus group this is what the lack of results and terrible political instincts look like she's asked about homelessness which she ran on on her campaign the homelessness problems gotten worse even cnn's like do you have anything to say or you're just going to give us more talking points and bullshit watch this talk to jake tamper in 2023 you said that your goal was to end street homelessness in la by 2026 it's now 2026 and we haven't ended we have not ended it and we're not close to ending it how are you so off well uh basically when i said that it was at the beginning of my term i am very committed to achieving that goal i didn't anticipate some of the bureaucratic barriers that i would experience but i am prepared to take those on now notice how the woman takes no ownership over the decay of los angeles at all despite the fact that she's the freaking mayor the only thing about la is like new york they both share a snake pliskin line escape from new york and escape from la that's the only thing people want to do some of you will get that not justin because he's 14 i know that there were two movies about escaping from places and they were la in new york because that's what people are doing she takes no ownership it was a bureaucracy notice how donald trump said we're gonna build the wall we're gonna shut the border down and what happened he built the wall and got the border shut down and then you get to do this well he didn't build all the wall you're not gonna build a hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of miles of wall overnight the point is he said what he was gonna do and he did it and now the border shut caribbean i'm gonna end homelessness it's worse not only did you not do anything misfeasants it's malfeasants it's even worse we'll get him right there you go jesson we'll get we'll get him next time there you go we'll get you're like oin 40 in an nba season we'll get him tomorrow contrast that again with president trump and good republicans who go out and do stuff and don't just talk shit all day president trump is tired of dealing we're gonna start calling these tick problems tick you mean like i got a twit no i don't mean a tick like that i mean a tick like the bug because these tick problems have been embedded in the american skin for a long time and a lot of other presidents who just didn't want to deal with it just thought oh my gosh i'm not sure that's for me i'll kick the can down the road i'll take no ownership of it donald trump sees his second term as the opportunity to handle legacy problems prior presidents congresses and us senators governors as well have not handled we got a problem with venezuela and maduro maduro's in a u.s prison we got a problem with the castro brothers okay we're gonna win diet that happened yesterday too again i i thought nothing was happening i thought nothing was happening you don't have to like what's happening but you telling people nothing is happening is making you look like a dipshit gets me every gets me every time i love like that presented by the dam bonzino shower at the top like it's all official here was a fox coverage yesterday of the indictment of roul castro something people have talked about forever but now is happening check this out today we are announcing an indictment charging roald castro and several others with conspiracy to kill us nationals just just for nearly 30 years 30 years the families of four murdered americans have waited for justice my message today is clear the united states and president trump does not and will not forget its citizens i want to say living in south florida to the very substantial cuban community that has supported freedom and liberty and escaped from the horrors and death and destruction and starvation of socialism this president never forgot about you ever don't give us his bullshit nothing is happening man you look like idiots got your ass handed to you yesterday because you lied to people you have to like what's happening but this is a president who's not about talking points he's not Karen bass he's about doing stuff and not all of it's going to be universally popular every second of the day but he's not leaving it on the table or kicking the can down the road for the next guy to kick down the road to like lucy with the freaking football and the peanuts because he's decisive and he's not like Karen bass he takes ownership over problems and he does things about it things about it can you see the libs of tick tock i know it's a little bit out of a bit i want to show you a tweet by uh libs of tick tock chai who's fantastic here's another thing again we were told wasn't happening we had this nick surely surely expose i'll get into that later with jay feely coming up nfl player running for congress nick surely great independent journalist does this expose i'm minnesota by the way that case was going on for a long time there's over a hundred process successful prosecutions in the case however we were told after that nothing's going to happen well yesterday breaking miniapolis daycare owner featured in nick surely's video fahima aga mohammad charged with wire fraud and conspiracy for allegedly stealing 4.6 million to false claims to federal and state programs everybody's innocent till proven guilty but again donald trump's team uh had to vice president vance and uh associate attorney general colin mcdonald leading the task force these cases have been going on for a while this another one this is another dub racking up w's dubs everywhere i haven't done that in a while everybody loves luck lucky trump strikes again lucky strump lucky trump strikes ral kashtro indictment minnesota cases left and right ringleader did died incredible just lucky trump it keeps happening every single time i want to tell you what i want to play the slots next to this guy i want to play blackjack i suck at blackjack i always lose mr president can i ask you a favor i know you don't drink you don't like vices but if you wouldn't mind if i go to the casino down at fort lauderdale would you mind just sitting over my shoulder while i play do the lucky trump thing it seems to be working for you it's always luck is president just luck by the way how come karen bass isn't lucky how come kathy huckle isn't lucky how come mom dami isn't lucky how come brandon johnson in chicago is not lucky if it's luck and probability how come there because it's not luck and by the way this happened yesterday too president trump is right next to air force one and uh he was asked a question about crime rates and i mean cash and todd i i keep hearing how everybody's going to be fired the nothing is happening crowd the doomers really president trump seems pretty happy i don't know about you but i work for the guy seemed pretty happy with us we were there he was my first guest on the show it's almost like people are bullshitting you because people like me who are trying to represent the real maga movement it's almost like the doomers who want to f our movement up and piss all over the tent we're lying the entire time to you check this out over the weekend mr president we suggested that there's still people in your doj and fbi that are waiting you out they're waiting until your your administration is over to get back to work do you think those people are still in the doj and fbi i hope not well available to seek them out we'll seek them out we'll get rid of them okay because you have in every agency you have scum and certainly they did in the fbi and doj but todd blanche is doing a fantastic job cash is doing a very good job so we'll uh we will prevail i've been standing here a long time with you many years right and they've been saying i think it's it i think he's troubled here i am you know we just it's a very constant situation but i think you're going to find that uh we have great people in the fbi and we have great people in the oj todd blanche has really been doing a great job and a lot of things to come we have a lot of things that are coming i want you to pay special attention rewind that if you're watching on demand rewind the last 10 seconds of that the exact same psi op doomers who tried to destroy president trump in the primaries you hear what he said there the same people who told you i was a done deal and i was over these are the same people talking smack about my doj and fbi it's the same op bro i'm so proud to stand with you and the real conservatives out there who support this administration and don't fall for the bullshit all the time but now i want to sandwich this with political instincts and that nothing is happening crowd and the doomers because you're no different than caron bass all you do is talk a lot of shit and don't actually do anything can't produce an election result you can't actually run a party you can't do any of that there's another guy out there this spencer prat running against caron bass who we started with in the beginning who just constantly like distances herself from any agency at all oh it's not me the bureaucrats did it l a in terrible shape because this guy you're the mayor man i'm going to listen to this this is spencer prat we'll get him next time caron bass spencer prat's given an interview with a news outlet and they ask him a listen why did you align more and run as a republican rather than a democrat and this just goes to show you that people like caron bass can talk all the smack in the world but when the homeless guy she refuses to do anything about sits in front of your house takes a shit on your porch and drops a needle there all of a sudden that problem becomes personal i want you to listen how the republican party in the conservative party is the party that personally cares about you knocking on your door asking about what you do they don't blame other people and that's how people become republican you know what they say everyone's a democrat till they get robbed listen to spencer prat say just about the exact same thing check this out are you a republican when i was a hated reality star yeah i got so many death threats i had so much security and police and what did they tell me to do get a gun this is right no people don't like guns but la was dangerous if you're hated so i got a gun my wife got a gun and then we needed ccw's the only people that supported a ccw was the republican that was what i aligned with my safety my personal safety my family's safety i know people don't like guns but when people are threatening your life and your own security is telling you you need to have home protection trained to it's not like just i went to the you know go through the proper steps that was my you see how there's like not a script he's not reading off index cards he's just telling you an honest real story like hey i didn't want to die and i want my family to die we had a lot of threats so you can talk all you want about how you don't like guns but when it's personal and you're going to get killed like all of a sudden you need to protect yourself they're very kind of trumpian instincts that's the difference between us us and the democrats that have no political instincts whatsoever all they have is bullshit talking points folks the nothing is happening file again is growing by the day i mentioned in the beginning of the show an enormous case that i was actually surprised did not get more coverage this is a huge breakthrough cash put this out yesterday people who are concerned about you know the weaponization cases which you should be i've assured you many times that things are happening whether you see them or not and the doomers are just lying to you and don't even know because they never worked in the damn government they have no idea here's cash but tell you yesterday a former managing assistant united states attorney who supported jack smith's politicized investigation of president trump has been charged with stealing confidential investigation documents how did that happen we were told nothing was happening there was no investigation going on carmen lineberger and again everyone that deserves their day in court innocence they'll prove and guilty i actually believe in that other than the left allegedly emailed the confidential material to our own personal email disguising them as dessert recipes to conceal them from record searches how did this happen i thought nothing was happening here was john salomon yesterday doing about a minute hit on one of his shows talking about this hugely important case ladies and gentlemen there were a lot of things happening the doom and goom cloud cloud class cloud class clouds excuse me are running out of bullshit talking points check this out the raid on marlago while this prosecutor was in support of that case she helped jack smith bring those charges she herself was charged wednesday for allegedly illegally emailing herself a copy of the classified report that jack smith wrote the report that a judge said could not be released to the public she disguised the material i'm not making this up as cake recipes and then tried to move them to her private email address but the justice department's tech team discovered it and now the indicted prosecutor carmen mercedes lineberger faces multiple felony counts she's been charged with two counts of theft of government money or property the destruction alteration or falsification of records of federal investigation and concealing removing or mutilating public records she pleaded not guilty this is a sort of case that brings accountability to a deep state that sometimes feels it could do what it wants that it treats the american people's product as their own tries to take it as their own remember not that long ago john bolton the former national security advisor was similarly charged for trying to move classified information to his private email this is another example of that seldom do we see a prosecutor prosecuted themselves but today we see that i ended with that because that's the most important point that has rarely happened before ever where a department of justice fbi investigation prosecutes one of their own prosecutors it's happening now and then nothing is happening people well i promise you it doesn't matter because that's not the point the point is to get you not to vote we'll just move on to the next thing and the minute someone else is indicted arrested they'll move on to the next thing it doesn't matter to them i need you to understand there is an op being imparted upon you that you can ingest or throw up and i strongly suggest you throw up the poison because it will kill you and it'll kill this entire movement from people who aren't even part of our party this is organized destruction they'll just move on to Pete next and bobby kennedy next it's not about what's happening or not happening it's about destroying the entire maga 10 and you want to empower the left i i this real i'm telling you man this cracked me up this morning for all the wrong reasons the best response you can muster to yesterday's election because you're not happy is that we're gonna vote democrat for the commies in the next election you just out of you just showed your ass you just dropped your pants and showed everyone your ass no one wants to see it like the blue moon seen in Greece we're not interested you just showed your ass it was never about conservatism or conservatism liberty or freedom it was about sabotage and when you failed the next way to sabotage is to vote for democrats you want more of these people you got the brandon gill clip i'm i'm really enjoying brandon gill's performance in congress you know i always say don't fall in love with politicians fall in love with results brandon gill's been doing an amazing job he's been on the show twice congressman from texas he is up on the hill uh just the other day and there was a former liberal candidate for mayor in new york who ran on like a defund the police agenda this is what you want to vote for you understand that you vote for the caron basses or people like this or mom dummy that there is a very good chance not only will your wallet be drained but your blood too after your shot because violent criminals run the city you want to vote for the defund the police people i'm so glad brandon gill took the opportunity to call this lady out on this bs check this out during your your mayoral race a few years ago you said quote i'm going to take a billion dollars from new york city police department do you still think that's a good idea well i'm here to talk about hate crimes not my run just asking if that's a i'm asking from a public's i stand by my run for mayor and i appreciate stand by that statement to try to drive dollars to public safety you have to cut the police budget and change what we mean by policing do you still stand by that statement as well i stand by the need to invest in community safety to ensure that i defund the police a vibrant civil rights community that is able to participate in our community safe from hate and bias community safety by defunding the police i am here to say that i'm really grateful we have the southern parvy law center because it is doing work including with law enforcement you think that you think defunding the police makes our community safe okay thank you congressman gill for not letting these people off the hook ladies and gentlemen snapshots sound bites and contrast don't ever forget it that's politics that's a sound bite a minute or less that paints a contrast the contrast is defund the police and die support public safety and your kids live and don't step on needles and have some homeless person stab him in the neck hey there you go one minute sound bite snapshots very few people do it as well as him right now rising star up on the hill can we do the raskin thing i know i get the xio stuff i got a really important thing about why this next presidential election by the way is critical and i get it like of course you want to but no no i mean like critical critical i'm going to show you a chart it'll make sense in a second but i want to get to this first because i just want to show you again how we can never let these people live this stuff down on the left you have to constantly paint the contrast you can't just assume see you and i out there and especially in the chat right well this is a political show it's not a sports show so you and i by default know more about politics than others it'd be like doing a sports show about the yankees you're going to know more about the yankees in here it's like some reflection of our wealth or value it's just an expression of what we do you cannot impart that upon every other person you come into contact with people living busy lives i guarantee you when you talk to people going you know the left was the party of defunding the police you want needles homeless people and violent criminals in the community i can guarantee you upwards of 20 30 40 percent of voters you talked to i probably never even heard that they ran on that another thing they're going to say to you all the time that you have to constantly hammer on is you have to debunk trump hoaxes the impeachment hoax the collusion hoax don't assume these people know these are hoaxes they don't they drank the kool-aid and why because democrats lie about it all the time unbelievably after debunking this shit for 10 years to find people hoax it came up again with this clown zero fraud jayme raskin democrat congressman from maryland and a human being devoid of any character traits whatsoever that are qualitatively good here he is on the hill again with the trump fine people hoax yet again check this out president trump has coddled and cultivated the extreme right for as long as he's been in politics after the infamous unite the right rally in charlotte'sville in august of 2017 when neo-nazis marched on a synagogue and the university of virginia chanting jews will not replace us when a homicidal extremist drove his car into peaceful counter protesters and killed heather higher trump could only bring himself to say that there were some very fine people on both sides you know what's incredible about this clip the splc which is part of the hearing southern poverty law center is under indictment for funding some of the leaders in this you'd be like have some shame raskin have some shame they don't care they have no shame you have to constantly remind people how full of shit these people are every time they bring that up you should be like oh the one that's alleged to be funded by the leftist southern poverty law center you talk about that one and trump said that white supremacists were very fine people because i'm pretty sure he said they should be completely condemned like he said the opposite justin's giving me the big way he's like i have you have evidence he's got receipts this may be the first time you're hearing this but here's the actual speech jayme raskin you're full of shit full of shit you're a lying fraud here's the evidence check this out but you also had people that were very fine people on both sides you had people in that group excuse me excuse me i saw the same pictures as you did and you had people and i'm not talking about the neo-nazis and the white nationalist because they should be condemned totally they should be condemned totally they should be condemned totally but you had many people in that group other than neo-nazis and white nationalists okay condemned totally so the so i first i'm here i didn't know this either it's incredible it sounds like he was condemning white nationalist and neo-nazis totally he said it's almost like he supported a candidate yesterday's race to who renounced this stuff too it's just incredible like how jayme raskin you absolute fraud you fake phony full of shit all right i mean do you have kids man aren't you embarrassed you've seen the video raskin you're not stupid you're just a freaking liar with no human dignity whatsoever you disgust me boom tonight scumbag absolute scumbag trump said the opposite it's actually recorded condemned totally thank you folks why is it so important please do not go anywhere for this and again i have jay feely coming up next he's an amazing candidate trump endorsed candidate in arizona former nfl player by the way we're going to ask some different questions i we i get it we can talk about all the issues we're going to get there but i want to hear about some what parallels between sports and what it's like to play and what it's like to run so don't go anywhere going to be an interesting interview but i want to get to this too the 20 uh 2020 uh 2028 presidential election lost track of time there is absolutely critical it's critical because we have a census coming up just a couple years later you know the census obviously the liberals listening i'm sorry we count all the people why is counting the people important because counting the people determines how many states have had population growth that get extra members of congress every district has about 750 to 790 000 people dependent on when they counted right so if you have a million people that move into a state you're going to get an extra congressional seat the last census was rigged everybody knows it uh was it 2020 totally rigged totally got screwed up president trump fought against it the courts heard him on it it was totally rigged florida should have gotten extra seats texas should have gotten extra seats it was a scam and if we lose the white house in 2028 the next census is going to be a scam too why does the scam census matter the scam census matters because not only do republican states lose likely republican members of congress they also lose electoral college votes in the presidential election because the electoral college picks the president the popular vote does not the electoral college is the number of congressmen plus your two us centers you have another congressman you have another electoral college vote to get to 270 electoral college votes and when the presidency i'm sorry for civics 101 but again there are liberals listening who know nothing and doomers who've never heard this before either this is what's likely to happen in the next census if it's conducted according to the law and not a scam census like the last one potential electoral college apportionment changes california would lose five seats new york three illinois two origan one minnesota rhoda island one pennsylvania wisconsin noticed those seats in the electoral college and house of representative seats are in largely blue states minus five in california you have any idea the hit that is to the 270 to win and where are they going florida plus four texas plus four idaho north carolina tennessee utah plus one delaware plus one arizona plus one georgia plus one ladies and gentlemen this will change electoral politics forever it says down below look four years ahead you can see why top democrats are worrying they're screwed you better worry because you are screwed and i'm telling you if they win the presidency they are going to do everything they can to screw with the census we gotta win i'm gonna take a quick break here and we get to my guess you're not gonna want to miss this interview my swear jar contribution datman pluv to us at all right you know we know some tether good thank you i appreciate it you guys i know i'm trying i'm trying but yeah it's incremental we're getting there jasmine every day gives me a little report today she's like d maybe d- but we're trying it's the thought that counts summertime expenses in 2026 are stacking up 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he's pretty excited about this interview i actually i don't you know a lot of times we get solicitations for people to come on and want to come on the show and we just don't do a lot of guests this is a reverse solicitation i went to my guys and said hey go get jay feely because i thought it was such a fascinating campaign and one of the reasons i think uh folks like you who played in professional sports which are just pure meritocracies you're either good or you're not like no one pays for a poor player on the field you're gonna lose you're not gonna have any fans but they're interesting parallels having you know you and i share a lot in common outside of our athletic skills you played in the nfl i played streetball on the corner but you know i ran for office was in broadcast television you were as well these are merit-based spaces you don't produce eyeballs in your lobes and you don't produce in your case field goals you know you're out but it's not just about you i think that's where the parallels and are going to benefit you well in congress are are are are interesting you also need supporters you need your constituents in congress fans in the nfl you need a team around you activists doorknockers that's your offensive line you know that's your long snapper you know these are not irrelevant parallels i think that's why a guy like you could be very well suited to congress if you were in fact to win well i didn't know dan that being a team player was such a such an anomaly uh in dc when i when i got there and i started talking about hey i want to help people i want to make sure that we keep the house anywhere you want to send me around the country if somebody needs help and i can help them raise money i want to do that and you know they're like oh it's so refreshing to hear that we don't hear that very often i was like really like you know you look at the two parties they've never been further apart ideologically how are we not all on the same side however how are we not all fighting together understanding what we're fighting against and where they want to take our country so you know for me and and just like you was it was a willingness to set aside the broadcasting career and you know really to be honest with you is it was an easy job that i worked five months of the year you got seven months off it paid you really well you got to go do nfl games you know that's what i've been doing for the last 10 years and you know i was willing to to put that aside to end that career to give it up because i felt like it was time to serve and there's there's a few times in your life where you get that opportunity to do something for something greater than yourself and i think to be really fulfilled and to love your life you have to be committed to things that are greater than yourself and for me football you know obviously when i was a team was that way but my family my faith those are the core fundamental things that are bigger than me that you're committed to and now trying to impact our country and being willing to serve in congress and because this is such an important swing seat here in arizona you know that's why i wanted to do it that's why i wanted to give up that job we're talking to jay feely j j a y f e e l y check them out on on x and elsewhere and and what's your website i just want to be sure people can look you up jay feely for congress dot com i appreciate it all right we got that on the screen right now for those of you watching uh live you can check that out uh you know jay one of the things about running for office you know i know wells it's a very um it's a humbling experience and i think people who are in the content creation space whether it was sports on your end or politics on this end like i do it is a very very purifying experience to have to go and knock on the door of the plumber boston is asked to make sure like your home sanitation system works every day a farmer who's putting food on your table who let's be honest in our space and broadcast you you know you're on a microphone all you see is a screen most of the time but to have to knock on a door and to ask people for their support but then listen to them like what matters to you how can i help you is really i mean it i'm not being dramatic it is it is a purifying experience for the soul especially for guys who are insulated behind a microphone and a tv all the time and i'll bet you knocking on the doors you'll probably find in that same experience it's good to get out and talk to people who uh who really make america work that's what's great about doing this you know it's getting to hear people's dreams and hopes they're their failures i don't think we talk about failure enough in this country every time i give a speech and i go talk to people i did a mens group last weekend at a church out here you know in arizona and i and i encourage those men be willing to talk about your failures you know i heard a navy seal one time came into one of the teams i was on and he talked about that and he just said that you know if i'm not as a commander if i'm not willing to talk about my failures maybe somebody dies because of my pride and i think so often you know we're the same way especially as men you know we we fight hard and we drive towards goals and we overcome you know whatever obstacles that are in our way you know but we don't then go back and be willing to say here's where i failed here's where i failed as a father here's where i failed you know as a husband and i just think we need to do that more often when you're going out and talking to people they're telling you about their dreams and their failures and what their hopes are and what hasn't happened and what's holding them back and you know we're supposed to create equal opportunities and pathways to success that's our job in in the office and you know you can't control outcomes because we can't control behaviors but we can control those pathways and and for me like that's what's fun right like okay how can i get government out of your way how can i foster an opportunity for you to go be great and to accomplish your dreams and then to hear about your dreams and your goals and your family and the things that are that are important to you so it's fun for me to get out talk to all those people and you know try to put myself in a position where i can go help people that's what my wife and i have always tried to do dan you know when we were in you know when we're playing in the NFL and then and when we're broadcasting we always try to use the blessings that god gave us to have an impact on other people and i'm i'm still idealistic it hasn't jaded me enough to think that that's what politics is really supposed to be about it should be sacrificial and you're supposed to be helping those people achieve their dreams i feel the same way you know uh well will freeman told walter warriorms one time when you talk about liberty talk about it with a smile we live in the greatest country on earth that's just an objective fact military power economic power we're just an incredible country now you are the donald trump endorsed candidate i wasn't going to throw this one but i think it's important given is what is it 37 and 0 record i mean that's that that would be an incredible record in sports anywhere um however in politics you know political endorsements in the past jay really don't carry a lot of cash they don't they may get you some earned media you know the deal get on tv if it's a big big name but i've never seen anything like the donald trump endorsement which is an absolute game changer and again that's a statement of objective fact his candidates win other candidates just don't that must have felt pretty good knowing you got that kind of wind behind your sails there yeah absolutely and to be candid i would not have got into politics if the president hadn't asked me to you know we we've been talking about it for a few years i was done at mar-a-laga a few years ago with jim jordan and and president trump and jim asked me hey do you want to stay afterwards and watch a usc fight with me and the president i was like absolutely so we know we sat down on a couch and uh president sat right in between jim and i and we we talked you know ufc fights for three hours and talk politics and you know that's when they really started to talk to me about running and we still had two girls at home and in high school you know all about that dan you know and you're putting your family you know on the back burner at times and i didn't want to leave my kids yet and so i waited and this year was the year that i said okay you're like i'm willing to do it and especially after they tried to assassinate president trump like that was a day when he got shot i was like okay i'm willing to serve i'm willing to put aside my my comforts to get out get in the arena to get off the sidelines and you know to have his support and you know just to know that you're somebody that will fight for him i think he knows over the course of the last you know the entire time he's been running when they've asked me to do something i've been willing to do it you know whether it's going down to a rally in yuma or coming to the r&c at the white house and that always cost me something because in broadcasting they don't like especially when you do something conservative like if you do something liberal they're gonna celebrate you they're gonna repost if you do something conservative you do something with donald trump and then i get called to the principal's office all the time and for me that there's things that are more important than endorsements more important than promotions and standing up for your beliefs about this country and what makes it great you know that that's worth it to me and it's worth the cost and i was always willing to bear that cost and you know i'm willing to bear it in office as well now and and you know it's it's a family endeavor like your wife has to be fully on doing that your kids have to be fully on board and doing that because they're going to sacrifice as well yeah you know it's really refreshing to hear you say that because i've never said this before on my show or elsewhere but there were other positions that had come up in the past that were offered and um i just my children were just too young and i just didn't think it was the right time and i now by the way i never knew obviously i can't tell the future i mean that's tautological but i didn't realize like later on those opportunities would open those doors again when they were a little older but we do have to thank our wives and children because you're going to be in dc an awful lot and it is an enormous sacrifice for the family um as well but you know the way i used to think about it i know the way you probably do as well as i i used to think between whether it was me or my family like this is nothing compared to these men and women overseas who are away on six-month tours where you know let's be honest i'm i was walking in the fbi office on the seventh floor i wasn't worried like my life was gonna end you're out in like the mountains of kandahar or something with your children at home maybe you get a Skype once a day you may not come back like that may be the last time you talk so when i look at that that's like a small less sacrifice compared to what these heroes do yeah there's no question i got a brother in the air force and one on the coast guard i thank them all the time for their service and you know what they're willing to do for this country um you know and what i tried to do as a dad certainly doesn't relate to military service but i wanted my kids to have that same gratefulness for this country and so we decided early on we were going to take them on projects and we were going to go to you know war as mexico or down to Haiti after the earthquake or over to malawi africa and make them engage in these projects where you're helping people and you get to see how you know people in the other parts of the world live and how grateful we should be for the opportunities that we have here and i wanted them to have a heart of service like my wife and i do and you know that was the best way i could figure as a dad to do it and looking back the impact that i had on them you know the the heart that it created them for other people and you know a desire to serve a desire to help people but more than anything in appreciation for this country i i think it's the best thing i did as a dad you were an elite player in the nfl you played all over the country and i want to get to that in a second because i think it's going to provide you even though you're in arizona district one uh if you win you're voting on issues that affect me too they're not specifically arizona it's a national house a representative seat it's parochial in the election but not the ramifications of it however you did play in college at uh university of michigan the big house i'm dying to get there there's really i mean i'm an auburn fan so forgive me for a minute however that is one of the top five experiences in college sports and a death valley too but there's nothing like the big house so you're playing there you know tom brady and desmond howard desmond howard i believe one of the heisman trophy the tom brady was a very good college quarterback but was drafted in the seventh round i mean was almost in mister irrelevant status in the eighth round yet they both had amazing careers and i thought that would be an interesting question for you in your political ideology because that kind of speaks to the conservative ethos of individualism that it's nice to have a constitution for contract law for our military for public safety we understand that a court system we get it however the government didn't make tom brady great and the government didn't make desmond howard great they both came from a totally different trajectory wound up you know nfl basically like hall of famers it goes to show you you just get out of the damn way a guy like tom brady who is arguably the greatest of all i think definitely the greatest quarterback of all time just get out of his way let the guy take over and do his thing and i promise you know bernie sanders did not make tom brady the goat well you see the michigan helmet behind me i love i love michigan goat blue always and it was special to watch tom and people ask me all the time like did you know tom was going to be so great in college and candidly i always say no like i had no idea when when he got drafted in the sixth round and he was he made the team the first year as a fourth string quarterback i was thrilled i remember calling him he like hey dude i'm so happy you made it that's awesome and you just didn't know that he was going to become who he was but i did know and what you did see was that he had those leadership capabilities and that he was going to work harder than everybody else and if you have a humility which he always did even after he won all the super bowls he had a great humility to him that allowed him to lead really well and it allowed he allowed bill bellichick to be really harsh on him because everyone else then say if bill treats tom that way and he holds tom so accountable what's he gonna do to me and so that created the atmosphere of accountability on everybody else and tom was willing to do that despite all the super bowls he had won but then he had that great leadership ability the ability to bring everybody in to a collective goal and you know i mean you look at politics and how fragmented we are even for me like the disappointment that i've seen since charlie kirke was murdered and i i honestly thought that would bring our country together i thought it would bring our party together more than anything when i went to the memorial service out here it was one of the greatest evangelical events of my lifetime like it was so heartfelt there was you know a stadium full of people praying honoring god honoring our country thanking god even in the midst of you know this this horrible tragedy and you know my wife and her back we were walking out of the white house when we found out about charlie and you know we were just both gutted and she burst into tears i remember laying bed that night and she said you know jay are you are you sure you want to do this and i said i'm more resolved now than i ever had like i know god has put me at this point at this time for this reason and you know i i just thought that after what happened to charlie our country and our party in particular would understand what's at stake and the fight that exists on the other side that they they believe heart heart wholeheartedly that the end justifies the means and they will do whatever they try to assassinate the president they did assassinate charlie kirke and instead it's kind of fractured our party you've seen the party go down and it's disappointing to me especially leading into this midterm where we know how important it is you know if we lose the house that president trump will be impeached nothing will be codified nothing will be accomplished in the next two years and you just listen to what democrats say they want to do listen to what camila harris has said right i want to get rid of the electoral college i'm going to stack the supreme court we want to go to an election where the popular vote decides who the president is we want to add portorico and dc estates like these are all the things they've said they want to do you don't have to we don't have to project it they want to fundamentally change our country and they want their their answer to losing to trump has been to move further to the left to embrace aoc and bernie sanders and mondom and democratic socialism and so i thought that would coalesce and bring us together and and i still hope that happens you know but when you see the response on on our side to to what's happened um you know it's it's kind of heartbreaking to me yeah jay you know i was at charlie's memorial in arizona too and uh i couldn't agree with you more you know there's a spirit realm out there when carrie jobb i think that's her name the faith-based singer was singing for your family and your children and everybody was singing along if there's a spirit realm i'm telling you we were in it like i look i had i'd never heard i know she's very popular i i just hadn't heard that before and i looked at gale this lawyer who worked for me at the fbi who was with me i looked at her and she looked at me and we both had this look like this is another worldly experience right now and you're right i had hoped that people would level set on the left and realize that the conservative party which is strongly vigorously anti-violence pro-civil liberties i had hoped they would take a you know track in the different direction um and they didn't and it's really sad i was mentioning before how you having played all over the country uh new york down in miami i mean we share that in common too lived in new york i'm now a florida resident i um escaped to freedom you're in the free state of arizona now but that's got to give you a really fascinating perspective because i have to imagine when you were playing for the giants versus uh versus the dolphins your tax rate was probably a little bit different and you know what when it's personal like that you're gonna start to vote different you know i was living in jersey when i played for both the giants and the jets and so you know you had like 13 income tax your property tax like my property tax in new jersey the exact same home here in arizona i was paying four thousand dollars a year in property tax in new jersey was 36 thousand dollars a year like it's it's crazy you know and then i went to sell the house in jersey and there's this one percent fee to sell your house and you're like what is this and then like well it's an extra tax that you add on it you know there's all these taxes and madami wants to raise more taxes you know and you see these policies though all over the country you know you see washington doing the same thing california with their desire to have a wealth tax and a lot of democrats nationally are talking about a wealth tax again now and they don't see that the end result is always failure i mean socialism always fails it's always regression to the mean but they don't care about that they don't care about the impact on our country you know they care about power and accumulating power and creating division in this country division among the classes because that's what keeps them in power and you know i that's why we need the right people to run you know you need people who've already been successful who don't want to go there to enrich themselves that have that servant mentality and truly embrace that i want to go there and serve the people and try to create a better economic environment for our kids and our grandkids like damn that's what i care about more than anything like how am i going to create an environment for my kids and my grandkids where they will be economically successful if they go and they work hard and they do it the right way you know and and there's a there's this great example we we brought this young man from haydy when i started doing work he was our translator down in haydy and one day he said you know i asked him what his dreams are he wanted to go to the u.s and go to college and i said you know we can do that and so we got him an education visa and moved him into our home and paid for him to go to college here in arizona grand canyon university and and you know he he came from nothing his home was destroyed in the earthquake and he went there and he worked his butt off and he got a he got a three three gpa he got an internship he went back got his mba he got married he bought a house like that is the american dream and you know you can come from nothing and if you work hard and you do it the right way you can be a success and you know the democrats don't want to admit that they want to say all these awful things about our country and our past and you know how terrible it is but the reality is if we are still the the beacon on the hill and we need to embrace that and hold it and tell young people that you can accomplish your dreams if you want to that's what's great about sports it's a meritocracy go out there and perform better than ever anyone else and you can keep your job if not you're gonna get fired you're gonna get set home you gotta go get a real job yeah that's why i think those life skills you know you learn getting to the nfl or just you know it absolutely invaluable for those listening on apple and spotify we're talking to jay feely feely l y check them out running for congress in arizona one uh donald trump is endorsed jay uh jay um last question for you but um you know what you had mentioned i didn't intend on going here but you mentioned the wealth tax and i this is a really important issue with me because i've been at every end of the socioeconomic spectrum you know my my mother worked a checkout counter in the supermarket you know my father was a plumber and a building inspector i love them both they both busted their ass to give me these opportunities i had no silver spoon i lived above a bar at 64th place of myrtle avenue i worked for the government as an agent and a police officer and then thanks to this amazing audience they've given me you know a lot of a lot of a lot of gifts and benefits to this life that i i thank the lord for every day if i believed for a second that giving that additional money to the government would make us collectively as a society better and more prosperous i would do it in a minute the problem jay and it's a hard argument to make is having experienced later on in life with a family member who became addicted to government benefits is it's not that you're not helping them that's not the problem it's that you're actively stealing from them the opportunity to do what a guy like you did which is to work harder and get better and not rely on someone else to constantly catch you when you fall it's the same thing with the illegal immigration argument if you make it easy oh just come in the laws don't matter for you you're teaching people from day one that what made this country great the rule of law order the process of getting in here even if it is difficult it's worth it you're teaching them that there's a cheat sheet economically in an immigration system and you're actually hurting them it's not that you're not helping it's not misfeasants jay it's actual malfeasants and that's what drives me bananas about this whole argument i took my son dan down to the border i got you know when i got into politics i said i need to go down there and see it myself and you know we went where hardly anybody can get to it takes an hour and a half driving all the way back to see where the actual spot is still in arizona we have like a 26 mile gap in the wall and you know the fact that the by the administration stopped the wall is unbelievable to me but when you get to where the gap is and they used to have this big encampment down there and they literally would welcome everybody across the border and they would you know they would have wi-fi there all these NGOs would have food and cell phones and you know all this stuff basically was like a staging ground and you were it was like a welcoming party come on in come across the border and we're gonna help you we're gonna give you all these backpacks and stuff and send you on your way and you know the by the administration changed the asylum law you know all this but it's so important to keep talking about they changed it it's not it wasn't remain in Mexico anymore when you claim asylum and you weren't adjudicated right there at the border they released you into the rest of the country and then you know it would take an average of five to seven years to process the asylum claim then they changed the verbiage that when you when you claimed asylum you were now lawfully present which then gave you the rights to go and get snapped and to go on welfare and to get medicaid and all the all the benefits so you're creating the system where you're telling people come across the border you know and when the average person on social security makes about $1,700 a month but the average welfare recipient in minnesota the Somali population makes like $1,800 a month no way can somebody who paid in their whole life your dad is a plumber working his whole life painting and social security and he gets $1,700 a month from the government of his money that he put in and somebody who comes here on asylum he decides i don't want to get a job and they're going to get more than he gets like that system is not right it's not sustainable and that's what we need to fight against doesn't mean you don't love immigrants doesn't mean don't have a heart for people it means we want to create the right system and what joe biden and and the democrats did they put politics before the protection of americans your first job in office is to protect the american people they didn't care about the people who were going to get murdered and raped as a result of their immigration policy because they wanted to create power they wanted people to come here they wanted to give them amnesty and they wanted to create a voter block that could never be beat and and and if they get back in power that's exactly what they're going to do again so refreshing to see a candidate coming from celebrity who's done his homework on snap and catch and release i i'm not often but i've seen it before where they come in and think you know i'm just going to ride this wave no you got to do your homework so that's that's impressive jay the website again for my audience jfeeleyforcongress.com we need everybody engaged in get engaged in the midterms make sure that you vote it's so critical that we keep the house and we keep doing what president trump has been doing their administration the way they're trying to change this country for the better for our kids and our grandkids at least a generational opportunity to really hand down an incredibly incredibly wealthier more prosperous i just the country with president trump in charge guys like you and brandon gill and others in congress i've never been more optimistic about the bench jay feely thank you so much for coming on you're welcome back anytime we'd love to have you back uh you know right before right before election day as well so really appreciate it thank you congratulations on the donald trump endorsement thank you my brother jay feely folks former nfl player now throwing his hat in the ring arizona congressional district one it's an enormous district in arizona covers a lot of indian country 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