The Dan Bongino Show

A 2028 Surprise (Ep. 2522)

84 min
May 26, 2026about 2 months ago
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Summary

Dan Bongino discusses the Kentucky primary results, Tom Massey's potential 2028 presidential run, and attacks on President Trump's security. He interviews U.S. Attorney for D.C. Judge Jeanine Pirro about crime reduction efforts, de-weaponizing the DOJ, and the 250th anniversary security preparations.

Insights
  • Crime reduction in D.C. achieved through aggressive prosecution of repeat offenders (20% of criminals commit 80%+ of crime), not policy changes alone
  • Foreign-funded disinformation campaigns exploit concentrated interests (Israel policy) to infiltrate and destabilize grassroots conservative movements from within
  • Trump administration's regulatory rollbacks (HVAC efficiency standards, immigration processing) deliver measurable economic benefits ($2B+ annual savings) that bypass media coverage
  • Horseshoe theory in practice: far-left and infiltrating 'new jack' conservatives use identical messaging (oligarchy, pedophilia narratives) to undermine Trump agenda
  • DOJ personnel alignment with constitutional oath—not party loyalty—is critical operational requirement for effective law enforcement under new administrations
Trends
Regulatory deregulation as economic stimulus: Trump administration targeting efficiency standards as hidden cost drivers affecting consumer productsCrime statistics manipulation as institutional problem: D.C. police deflation scandal reveals systemic underreporting requiring external audit and correctionForeign influence operations targeting U.S. primary elections through social media amplification of single-issue voters and concentrated interest groupsPersonnel loyalty realignment in federal agencies: selective retention based on constitutional oath adherence rather than institutional tenureBroken windows policing resurgence: federal prosecutors adopting low-level crime prosecution to disrupt repeat offender networks in major citiesImmigration policy tightening: green card applicants now required to process applications from overseas, eliminating in-country processing pathwayMedia credibility erosion: establishment journalists (Kandace Jones) defending discredited crime statistics while ignoring Trump administration correctionsGrassroots movement infiltration: coordinated campaigns by ideological outsiders ('new jacks') attempting to redirect conservative coalition toward single issues
Topics
Kentucky Primary Election Results and Tom Massey Candidacy2028 Presidential Election SpeculationWhite House Security and Presidential Threat AssessmentDOJ De-weaponization and Personnel RealignmentD.C. Crime Reduction Strategy and Broken Windows PolicingJuvenile Justice Reform and Prosecution AuthorityCrime Statistics Manipulation and Data IntegrityImmigration Policy Changes and Green Card ProcessingRegulatory Deregulation (HVAC Standards)Foreign Influence Operations in U.S. ElectionsMedia Bias and Crime ReportingFederal Law Enforcement Priorities Under Trump250th Anniversary Security PreparationsHorseshoe Theory and Political InfiltrationConcentrated Interest Groups and Single-Issue Voters
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People
Judge Jeanine Pirro
Guest discussing D.C. crime reduction strategy, DOJ de-weaponization, and 250th anniversary security preparations
Tom Massey
Kentucky primary winner; filed to run for Congress in 2028; potential 2028 presidential candidate
Andrew Schultz
Called Kentucky voters 'retards' for voting against Tom Massey in primary; criticized for insulting voters
Cash Patel
Credited with crime reduction efforts and fraud prosecution; worked with Judge Pirro on cases
Bernie Sanders
Criticized for decades-long messaging about oligarchy without policy results; example of failed socialist messaging
Kandace Jones
Criticized for defending Biden crime statistics while dismissing Trump administration crime reduction claims
Anna Casparian
Debated Shabbos Castam about foreign funding in elections; focused on Israel policy as primary issue
Darren Cox
Worked with Judge Pirro on pipe bomber case; credited with collaborative law enforcement approach
Rudy Giuliani
Referenced for broken windows policing strategy implemented in New York; discussed with Judge Pirro
Muriel Bowser
Credited by Judge Pirro for supporting crime reduction efforts and partnering with federal law enforcement
Quotes
"I don't care how they did in the past... we're gonna go get this guy and we did"
Dan BonginoMid-show discussion of Judge Pirro's prosecutorial approach
"Law and order isn't about politics. You either fight crime and believe in it or you don't."
Judge Jeanine PirroInterview segment on DOJ priorities
"If you really believe Kentucky voters are retards, then maybe it's a good thing to make this a national fight"
Dan BonginoKentucky primary analysis
"The nation's capital—if we don't make this safe, then woe is the United States"
Judge Jeanine Pirro250th anniversary security discussion
"You're the tip of the spear. You go into that courtroom representing the person who didn't want to be here in the first place"
Judge Jeanine PirroInstructions to prosecutors on courtroom approach
Full Transcript
All America all the time sit down buckle up and get ready for the Dan Bongino show. Folks it's Tuesday although it feels like a Monday for obvious reasons three-day weekend you know why it is a three-day weekend we'll get into in a moment of course many already know. However as it's set off and I hate cliches but in this case it's valuable it's not about barbecues and I think you know that's nice if people get together but it's about a bigger thing. I've got Judge Jeanine Pirro coming up later as a guest on the show today it is her first appearance on the show really excited we're going to ask her about the 250th the whole push to de-weaponize one I would argue the most important United States attorney position in the country Judge Jeanine I work with her she was absolutely incredible during my time there so don't miss that. So big news weekend shots fired at the White House another attack on the President Trump White House quickly some comments on that and then a potential surprise in 2020. I say that because I don't necessarily think this would be a bad thing if these things happen I'll tell you what I mean later because there's been a lot of back and forth on both sides on this I've seen a thousand videos after the Kentucky primary is over about everybody like crashing out and all this stuff I'm just trying to handle this from like a sane objective position about hey here's where we are so a lot to get to today. Today's show brought to you by Birch Gold. 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Text Dan to the number 98998 to see if you qualify for a first time gold buyer rebate of up to $10,000. Again text Dan to the number 98998 today message and data rate supply thank you Birch Gold. Let's go. First folks it was Memorial Day this weekend I want to take a moment to again thank all of the families who have lost a loved one in combat in service of this great nation and that flag behind me ladies and gentlemen the flag it's not about the cloth it could be made out of a napkin it's the symbolism that stands for something bigger and better than all of us alone. That is the unmistakable symbol of liberty and freedom around the world whether it's the flag or the military that backs it up or this powerful freedom loving liberty loving you know God given big R capital rights system that flag is unique and I hate the word unique because it's ironically overused but not in this case there is never been anything like the United States and there never will be again. Wake up every morning and thank the good Lord whatever God you pray to I pray to Jesus Christ and capital G God the Father in heaven I say thank you for having me having me allowing me to be born in this country at this time and you know this country did not have to exist folks don't think it was inevitable it was not a snap it's not some comic book men women people died for the blood died horrible death to the revolution 1812 the Civil War World War I World War II Vietnam Iraq Afghanistan people died horrible deaths so that we can sit here on Memorial Day and have a burger with family and friends and smile have a beer with them we can just enjoy each other's company without the threats of nuclear missiles taking us out because of what our brave men and women did. Folks have been great sacrifices made by my family members I put this out every Memorial Day picture of my uncle Greg who died in Vietnam he received two bronze stars including one with the V device I put out this tweet every single Memorial Day there he is right there and every Memorial Day people respond if you want to look at the tweet yourself with pictures of their own loved ones they lost in combat he died heroically I put his story his official story as per the United States military out again he got two bronze stars first battalion first infantry division that's a big red one I think right for all those in the chat but he saved his he died south of Thu Duc as I tell you in the story below he made first they made first contact he was the lead element of a friendly force when they made contact with a reinforced via Kong platoon using heavy machine guns claymores and small arms fire private first class Ambrose desk to the point of heaviest contact where he provided highly suppressive fire to cover for his comrades trying to get out there he didn't he didn't back away he joined the fight he unfortunately he was mortally wounded saving his friends and received two bronze stars one with the V device for valor thank you uncle Greg I'm sorry I never met you he died after the Tet offensive in March of 1968 just a few months after good man my family was changed forever my grandmother was never the same when she lost her son and a lot of you out there in your family sacrificed to also want to acknowledge my grandfather since past I died in 2002 Frank Bungino fought in World War two I've found some of his stuff years back this is his patch from he was a 38 39th quartermaster division they delivered basically fuel and supplies to the front lines there it is right there that was his patch I didn't know what this was when I first found it in a bag so he also had some cool stuff in this bag he had his prayer book from World War two and a little handy German speaking guide and here's his bad little uh the mascot thing when he died and then I found this too this is a certificate he brought back a uh a fabric national Browning 1910 and it had the uh when they took over the Fabric National factory the Nazis in World War World War two they would stamp the Nazis Nazi insignias on the weapons I still have that so it's a family heirloom he brought it back and this was a certificate from his captain acknowledging that it was taken from from the Germans so thank you to everyone who served it's um it's an unimaginable honor for me as a citizen of the United States to know that people like you also swore allegiance to the Constitution too thank you so much for everything you did all right folks it was a big weekend a lot happened uh yesterday being Memorial Day I we were off we were off not because we didn't want to do the show because it's just I'd rather you spend some time with your family I you know we we love the show but it's there are more important things in life but there was a big news weekend this weekend I was sitting there and I thought please don't tell me this is happening again and it did um another attack at the White House the subject in the case that had numerous contacts with the mental health system this is a reporter live on the air doing a live shot at that pebble beach area on the north grounds of the White House where they do all the live press avails and you can see her response as they hear I think it was 17th street in Penn where if you want to look it up on a Google map or an Apple map or whatever you can see it's right there she hears the shots fire play that if you got President Trump has said a deal is close only for the two sides to remain far apart shots fired right there and that and by the way remember a lot of those mics have gated I'm not audio guy but you guys are they have like gated compressors right so you're hearing that and it's still loud that's not how that sounded in real life in other words if I'm not going to do it but if I were to scream you're going to see me scream you're going to hear it elevation but you're not going to hear it as it actually sounded because the compressor compresses it so that was a lot louder she of course did the smart thing and takes cover right away you want to stand there with gunfire however folks I'll be on Sean Hannity's show tonight talking about this and some other things um this president is obviously the most I say obviously because the data backs it up the most threatened us president former president former in between we've ever seen he is going to require just the quick takeaway point on this this president is going to require we hope he lives a long life after this presidency too he is going to need presidential level security forever it's not negotiable I'm just hoping the next administration republican or democrat does the right thing this appears to have been a case of the mental health system this this subject in the case had numerous contacts with the mental health system the secret service does try to categorize people that constantly threaten the president different categories of threats class one class two and class three so I don't know where this guy was on I'm probably was a class three uh however there's just not enough people in the secret service to be watching these people all the time there's just not I think it's way past time by the way I said it and I know director Kern's moving in the direction here they've got they've got to dramatically expand the special the secret service special weapons team it's known as cat counter assault team it's a SWAT team for the secret service they've got to expand that dramatically and they got to start using them I think even around the White House grounds where typically that's a uniform division role they made some adjustments there too but Donald Trump is just the most threatened figure in modern politics I think anywhere in the world and we've got to meet the moment we cannot have anything happen to President Trump so there is uh there's there's my two cents on that okay switching gears because again a lot happened and we rolled into Tuesday got Judge Jeanine coming up folks the Kentucky primary race with Massey was about bigger things than Tom Massey and we're not going to be talking about this endlessly however there is a potential that Tom Massey may come back and run for president he's already filed to run again in 2028 which is first congressional seat and by the way that's the system if he thinks he's got ideas to win um good for you throw your name back on a ballot let the people that's democracy it's how it works you know no one should be shut out of a system because you don't like them or like their ideas let you know let the people decide the people did decide in Kentucky for however I bring this up because there are people you know you ever see that movie like new jack city like there are these new jacks who we've just seen them like over the last couple years and if we had like a MAGA tent right oh there we go thank you guys Tom it's uh Massey for Congress I filed with the EFEC to run for the 2028 house race I wouldn't be surprised if he runs for president either but there are these people like that just showed up the new jacks in the tent they insult everybody in the tent I told you like they show up at the party they take a big dump in the punch bowl and then they wonder why people who have busted their ass for the Republican party the conservatory and movement people who have you know stood by and and knocked on the doors and done the sweat equity work they wonder why people get pissed off well this stuff doesn't help okay here is I saw this clip this weekend um this is Andrew Schultz and Charlemagne I don't know right so he calls him Charles Charlemagne the goddess whatever he doesn't really talk much but this comedian Andrew Schultz like this kind of stuff really doesn't help calling the voters of Kentucky quote retards I'm pretty confident like that's really not an effective mechanism especially when you're the ones who fell for the PSYOP and the concentrated interest cause not us it's actually happened check this out I mean after seeing these retards in Kentucky vote in this latest uh I think it was a primary it was a primary um congratulations guys like for for a long time I've hated it when people just like especially like coastal elites just like shit on you know uh southern states and they say that they're like dumb and all this other stuff I hate it I think it's so stupid you never even been to these places how dare you like throw these I agree you know horrible things on these people and then an election like this comes up and they fucking fall for it and it's just like congrats man you guys lived up to every single stereotype that anybody has ever said about you um number one I how do you think it was a primary did you guys catch that and did you and did you catch that because like I think it was a primary you what do you mean you think it was election days in November like you didn't maybe don't listen I'm not telling you what to talk about or not talk about I love I am the free I put my money in my ass on the line for free speech long before I had these people you know I invest in platforms that people get on there shit on me all the time good for you that's what free speech is about but what do you mean you think it's a primary you don't know how elections work and you're calling the voters of Kentucky retards does that is anyone in the again the production room is anyone else I you know they're the retards folks a lot of these people were never part of our movement I'm just telling you like this is a big op this is a huge op there is so much foreign money being flushed into the United States to wipe out the MAGA tent from the inside I'm stunned more people don't pick up on it and then to accuse other people of being quote retards and falling for an op you fell for is really stunning so uh Massey may run again in 2028 he's not ruling out the possibility I'm talking about for president that's hence the title of the show today it's already filed to run for a congress let's go a little out of order the one where he says that he's going to have a little issue though because on the campaign trail he's already said like if he wins or loses he's not running it I mean people do this all the time I wouldn't necessarily you know nail him on this one however he did say he wasn't going to run again and now he's already filed so whatever he's got that to do with check this out I have got to get past may 19th if I if I lose on may 19th I am not doing any more government ever I'm not not running for president not running for governor uh it's it's a sign from god or the people are both that I you know we should go back to the farm all right you know whatever people say that all the time however he was on was it meet the press this weekend where Kristen Welker or is a Kirsten Welker I don't really care to be honest with you was on this weekend and is already dropping hints about a presidential run now hold brave heart stuff before we get there I'm going to paint for you two scenarios and I actually think one of them wouldn't be a bad thing folks if you really believe and and I'm quoting someone else so these are not my words if you really believe that Kentucky four voters Kentucky district four voters are quote retards um and are too stupid uh you know a bunch of hayseeds or whatever stereotype you want to impart upon these amazing Americans who sacrifice and bust their ass and in farms and factories every single day so people can do like comedy shows and things like that if you really believe their quote you know retards then I actually think maybe it's a good thing to make this a national fight you'll see the clip in a second but if Tom Massie wants to run on you know the uh presidents a pedophile agenda and he really thinks like Israel's the number one issue for every American out there and he fell for this sigh up because it's not it's not there are people who value the upsides of a relationship understand there were downsides too I promise you like if it's your only the only thing you care about and I got a clip coming up about that you are in the minority of minorities if you really think this is a national issue then let's hash it out so scenario one Tom Massie runs for president let's see how he does on the republican primary in the and yes Andrew it will be in fact a primary before the general that's the way these things work you don't have the primary after the general all right so let's hash it out you know other people have run on these agendas before within the republican party and then it's kind of a national referendum what are you going to do call the whole country quote retards if he doesn't win okay second is if he runs under a third party agenda it's only to hand the election to the democrats that's it there is no math I wish it weren't the case I wish we had you know a healthier republican I'm not telling you the republican party's been cured of all its ills in the maggot era I get it however there is no math for that if you don't get to 270 because there's a third party ticket splitter in the electoral college the race goes to the house and in the house there are not enough third party independent members to sway the election it's going to be a republican or a democrat that's it so that scenario is just handing it to the democrats you're just handing it to him here he was uh tom massey on kirsten kristin welker's show this weekend kind of hinting at the possibility of even running for president in 2028 we'll see what happens anybody could do it you want to try try but I think we do need to have this national fight right now check this out I will not rule out anything and right now I'm not going to rule in anything look I've spent the last five days on my farm with my grandkids and my cattle and my peach trees and it's a pretty nice life I don't know if I want to screw that up again I've been in congress 14 years fighting every hour that passes I get decompressed a little bit more it's like coming up from the bottom of the ocean and um I'll take some time and decide what's next but I I think I will stay engaged in some way or shape maybe it's from the outside folks the problem here I and I've tried to explain this and people just don't get I don't know like do you believe in receipts or not I know if you're in my audience you do I know it bothers people who hate my gods and believe me I I fully align with the anjane theory of life god rest her soul that was my godmother obviously my mother sister self praise things however numbers are numbers we have probably the largest maga podcast out there we just do so if this movement was so dead as a doornail how come you can't build a bigger audience than this audience and I say that because every day I see these things with these like little half-assed two-bit like failed podcast people like this guy's crashing out that guy's crazy the only person crashing out is you I didn't lose I didn't lose my my candidate one I don't even know what you're talking about you fell for the op and the op is a simple one you made your whole campaign about this foreign influence or money trying to pump into American politics that the only issue you should care about all the time is Israel that's it daddy I don't know what how many times we have to tell you go down to your local deli bodega supermarket quickie mark whatever the hell find a place in the simpsons go in there and tap the random republican voter on a democrat it doesn't even matter and ask them what the number one issue is you're going to find in the real world that you were the one who fell for this op this is what I mean I saw this debate this weekend between Anna Casparian who's is she one of the young turds she's one of the turds I think right I think she I think she was one of the turds well either way she aligns with the turds and you know that that fat slob kank always screaming and yelling into the kankasore screaming into the microphone when he's not shoving a twinkie in his mouth all they want to tweet about oh spank spank sent the whole week he spent the whole weekend that was actually a slip I was good but it's good spank spank spent the whole weekend tweeting again about Israel and they're wondering why they're losing elections here's a debate between uh Shabbos castam bougham and Anna Casparian and all they want to talk about is well a lot of money came into ed gallerine's game a lot of money came in the masses campaign to Kamala Harris spent a billion dollars what what's your point check this out it's interesting that you talk about Zionist billionaires because actually Jeff yes funded thomas massies campaign as well I find it interesting that you don't talk about nyak the nationally run in american council I find it interesting you don't talk about the council on american Islamic relations I find it interesting you don't talk about the Jordanian Muslims the moruq family who also funded him you don't talk about the Iranian uh Joe keney who I hope I'm pronouncing his name correctly I find it interesting that you're talking about how apac has this ability to simply fund elections with any money they want yet morin gallindo who said that american zionists need to be put in internment camps actually won her election yesterday Chris rab who said that the bondai beach massacre which killed 10 jews by an islamist including a nine year old girl matilda he said it was a false flag he won his election yesterday so if apac is you know buying any election they want how come they didn't buy those elections why do they allow those candidates to win so again if you want to focus on money then sure thomas massie also raised 15 million dollars from islamist groups from far left democrats he won on your show repeatedly but look kamala harris raised a billion dollars on our show repeatedly she's so she's you may the she's still excuse me excuse me he went on your show the day before the election all right you can't just lie i he came out to go on your show the day before the election have technical issues and had to drop off i am making the point that even if you have money in politics which i want to get rid of that still doesn't translate into forcing kentuckians to not support a candidate kamala harris had a billion dollars and she still lost what you're telling me that 60 000 kentuckians who wanted strong borders who wanted dhs funded who didn't believe that donald trump was a pedophile they were forced into voting against thomas massie no they didn't like the guy that's elections come down this is my point do you understand how this is the the foreign trump has no agency and his voters are stupid puppet master theory no agency like no control over their own lives like a principal agent problem that this foreign government the kentucky quote you know retard voters fell for the that's what this is it is an insult on its face it's an insult on its face there was money spent on both sides you just can't digest the fact that despite mountains of money on both sides that the guy who was out there spouting the you know israel israel ebbstein class pedos old you just can't accept the fact he got smoked what you're crashing up what's crashing out but you guys that seems like a bit of projection you should look that up just like the primary dates you should check that out a couple of things every prediction you guys made on the other side on the this is all about israel it failed every prediction the audience wasn't going everything you said about the show failed everything you told the audience oh the maggot thing is dead failed and you fell for the oldest trick in the book you fell for the concentrated interest problem when there is a small group of people who made their entire lives about this one issue and you think it's the guy sitting next to you in the wah wah it is not i i i don't know what else you need to see the election was not close i don't know what else you need to see you could continue to run on this and i promise you will continue to lose in the primary process now you may win something in the general because there are a lot of leftists like grand platner and others who are totally aligned with this foreign israel buying everybody and their and their votes of people are too stupid kentucky voters or retards there are people on the left to align with this too but that's not our people those are the new jacks walking in the tent ladies and gentlemen this is the horseshoe theory of politics that eventually when you get one of these concentrated interest cases especially what involves foreign influence or perceived foreign influence in a campaign and how voters are quote retards and stupid and everything else the horseshoe theory is you eventually get elements pretending to be on both wings of the party who horse you around and meet each other in the middle a lot of these folks pretending to be part of the maga movement are saying the exact same thing far leftists are talking about the pedos and the governor trump administration is calm it's the same bullshit that a lot of the leftist people are talking about it's the same thing folks these people on the left they don't care about fighting nazis there's a guy running in main with a freaking nazi tattoo on his chest i'm going to show you what i mean in a minute and some of the most hat tip mays more for this bernie uh bernie sanders compilation i saw it on uh red steve's twitter this morning it is just epic how they've been bernie sanders has been saying the same thing since basically the early 1990s and suckers still fall for it whether clinton was president bush was president obama was president biden was president trump was president he's been saying 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earth stop telling me about scandinavia that's a big government welfare state model the government does not own the means of production like they did in the soviet union which was a union of soviet socialist republics don't just look it up it is never worked so mom dami who's talking exactly like these people in for straight the new jacks trying to infiltrate our movement they want to just out of the system destroy the whole system the whole system that's led to most successful country in the on the on the face of god's green earth here's mom dami this weekend that socialists are going to have to clean up the mess clean up the mess left by who other socialists does he realize the blasio was the mayor the blasio was a socialist himself cleaning up the mess by who listen this bullshit socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money if anything my friends it seems that you eventually need a socialist to clean up the mess on january 1st i told new yorkers that city hall would hold a singular purpose to make this city belong to more of its people than it did the day before for 102 days we have endeavored to do exactly that folks i the reason i'm discussing this now is it goes back to the issue i opened with in the show involving what happened in kentucky and elsewhere do not mistake a concentrated interest and a rage bot set of posts on x for the real world it's not the real world just kicked a lot of people in the nuts last week when they realized like oh shit twitter isn't the real world it is not the world of people who want hardcore socialism in the united states exists only on tiktok snapchat x and other social media platforms that is it nobody is giving up their private property no one is giving up their job to work for a government wage no one's giving up the price mechanism in favor of rationing that's what capitalism is there is nobody doing that this is strictly an online subversive mechanism foreign governments pumping money into the united states to make you believe that this is some huge grassroots effort to overthrow capitalism they've been saying the same thing forever why do you keep falling for this there are listen to me no successful examples of socialism communism that have ever worked in human history without torture and save men death destruction starvation there are none because people yearn to be free it's not some freaking poem man it's the real world nobody wants to give control their money their job or their kids to the government they don't because the government doesn't know shit about your life that's called the knowledge problem look it up in your favorite ai system freedrick iac the knowledge problem the government doesn't know anything about your life so what do they do they do this bullshit astroturf campaign they've been pulling for years if bernie sanders was so effective follow me get that mace more clip ready if bernie sanders had such a grassroots army of people grassroots army of people that really believe this that socialism's a better way we want to work for the government we want rationing we don't want to own anything we want the government to collectively own our businesses then how come bernie sanders has not been able to move the needle on this since the 90s the answer is because it's bullshit it's largely foreign funded funded ops being conducted on you to make you believe you should forfeit over your agency and your freedom to people like bernie sanders who's never had a real freaking job in his life and is a millionaire himself here's bernie sanders for decades with the exact same bullshit message he's been pumping up people's cabooses forever and people still fall for this check this out this great country of ours is moving very rapidly in the direction of oligarchy the united states of america today is increasingly becoming an oligarchy more and more moving toward an oligarchy we are moving in the direction of oligarchy we will move even more rapidly in the direction of an oligarchy this great country is evolving into an oligarchic society it is called oligarchy and that is the system we are rapidly moving toward this is a budget that moves our country rapidly into the direction of oligarchy a handful of billionaires are moving this entire planet toward an oligarchic society start off with the bad news which is pretty bad and that is that under donald trump this country is hurtling rapidly toward oligarchy folks he's been saying the same thing for decades this guy is full of shit he's got this big mass movement that hasn't moved the needle one bit because the movement's fake no one's giving up their kids their health care their money or their business to the government because what the hell does bernie sanders know about running your business this guy couldn't run a freaking taco stand and justin brought up a great point he's like man this guy if you listen on apple and spotify watch the video it's on maize moore's x account as well this guy is not aged a bit but the weird thing is he's always looked old like he looked in 2018 has old as he is he looked the same way in 93 usually go out usually not aging a bit would be a compliment like what the hell is this guy taking some kind of like special stabilization serum that he only hit in 1993 after aging prematurely he's full of it they've been running on the same crap there's this cabal and they tried it again in kentucky there's this cabal of the ebstein pedo class and the white house and they're stealing everything from the only person trying to steal anything from you is the bernie sanders class and a bunch of new jacks trying to jump in our tent to try and jump in our tent to get you to forfeit your freedom away that's it donald trump's big beautiful bill what did it do it gave you back more of your money donald trump's deregulatory efforts where there's not a bunch of red tape telling you how to run your business gave you back agency and decision-making process linda mcman and their push and the trump department of education elsewhere to constantly support school choice gives you back more of your education freedom to make decisions for your kids it's the exact opposite of an oligarchy what are you talking about why do i bring it up now because there's an election coming up in november someone should tell that guy he's a little confused but there's an election coming up they're called the midterms maybe inform him too that the house of representatives they're up every two years the senate they're broken up into classes a third a third a third the senate races are every six year the senate term of office is every six years so a third of the senate is up this year and the senate race in main the candidate in main has an actual nazi tattoo he is a democrat and everybody loves him i thought the democrats told you they're the party fighting the nazis i thought that's what i thought that's what they said here's bernie sanders at a rally for grand platner with the nazi tattoo forget the nazi thing for me i can't believe it's forget the nazi it's to be just for a second i want you to look at what the sign on the stage at the grand platner with the nazi tattoo rally says with bernie sanders sounds like the same shit he's been saying since 1993 because it is check this out we will not just fight the oligarchy we will defeat the oligarchy and the political system that it maintains we will defeat the political system that it maintains the politics of susan collins a politics a politics that turns politicians into millionaires but tells you to be grateful for crumbs it is a lie again from a dude who has never managed to build anything create products that add value to society just like that bum bernie sanders who's never had a real job because he can't because he has no life skills they don't have any skills to add value so they run on the politics of envy that this class of people in the trump administration trying to steal everything from you sounds kind of like what you heard in the primary right it's the same op man these people are totally full of shit they are not allies i saw this this goes to show you too i saw this in the wall street journal this weekend there was this fascinating article by this you know wealthy new yorker saying that this tax on second homes which sounds great my gosh you have a second home in new york you're so rich they totally completely either lie to you or too stupid to know how an economy works there's this piece up about this second home tax a wealthy new yorker's case and this julia matclaw says i pay the highest income tax rates in the nation why shouldn't part timers contribute something too she said hey the difference is their income comes from outside of new york they spend less than half the year that's because they don't live there by the way they pay tax on the business they do in new york they pay taxes when they buy and sell the homes they paid sales taxes in new york when they buy stuff do you realize these people have to lie to you all the time all they do is run on the politics of othering like the other guys trying to they never worry about themselves it's always about my gosh some rich millionaire bought a second home in new york how is this impacting your life some homeowner wanted to sell a tax was paid on uh on uh on the income they make in new york they pay sales taxes and by the way they don't even live there so they're not using sanitation services they're not calling the police they're not sending their kids to the public schools most of the time this is like a win-win for you these people don't get it or they don't want you to get it there is no in between on this right i mean the property taxes do they not know that folks compare that with the results administration the trump administration which has been racking up w's left and right and you'll see why the new jacks trying to infiltrate the tent want to destroy this thing before the midterm this is the nothing is happening crowd it is the biggest bullshit scyop you have ever seen i got judge janine coming up in a minute we're talking about a lot of things that happen i love when they send out these uh they're like bangazis here did you miss the bangazi around i mean like are you just that stupid coven did you miss the coven arrest deep statement did you miss those two like do you guys ever pay attention do you know anything was it a primary yeah it was a primary retards in kato you didn't know it was a primary and you're calling kentucky voters retards compare that with the w's administration the winds racking up left and right do you understand that the safest united states in us history by numbers homicide rate the crime rate the safest united states you've ever lived in you live in now thanks to people like judge janine and president trump and what happened at the fbi in a dea under president trump's leadership you live in the safest united states ever even if you don't believe any of the crime numbers one number it's inevitable you'd have to it's homicide nobody nobody doesn't report a dead person correct justin if you knew someone in neighborhood that died it's pretty likely like their family's like hey where's my kid where's my dad nobody fails to report a dead person if it does it happens rarely and they'll find some body floating in the river it is so rare the homicide rate is the lowest it's been in modern us history there's no argument in numbers but i want you to see how again horseshoe theory how the left wing media aligns with the bullshit nothing is happening when tons of things are happening crowd to make you believe shit that isn't real here's kandelanian fusion kandelanian one of the biggest scam artists in the media guy who's been called out so many times for like running bullshit ops on people here's kandelanian hat tip maze more here back in 2024 when the biden administration got caught fudging the crime numbers versus the crime numbers now so just to be clear biden's team fudges the crime numbers he defends them the trump team cleans up the crime numbers and i'll get to that with judy in a minute how they did that and he doesn't believe them now this is all bullshit this is horseshoe theory summed up in one clip check this out the latest numbers from the fbi which come from cities by the way the fbi doesn't make these numbers up show that violent crime overall declined by a rate of 3 in 2023 the republicans and others are pushing the narrative that this data is wrong that crime is somehow up when it's down violent crime has declined significantly over the last few years and appears to be continuing to decline it's a good news story it's too bad that not everybody is prepared to accept it sources are telling us is that there's no larger number of fugitives or or rastis being taken off the street it's just simply a numbers game it was remarkable to hear cash patelle really lean into these stats which our sources say are basically bogus these stats do not reflect additional suspects being taken off the streets is what our sources are telling us these stats uh just don't add up and patelle is claiming credit for things that really aren't real kendall anion is a moron folks i lived it kendall anion fusion ken who's been exposed even by liberal outfits as a deep state media hack is totally full of shit what ken doesn't want to tell you is put up that house gop thing the biden team was fudging the numbers so were a lot of liberal police departments by under reporting by not waiting for reporting to come in we were the ones who cleaned up the numbers and because president trump told places like washington dc and elsewhere you better clean up your reporting get us an accurate number it's even more impressive it's even more here house gop 2024 discreetly revised data shows violent crime is increased under this administration despite misleading claims from democrats that was under the biden team kendall anion doesn't want to tell you anything about that and then when like the homicide rate drops off the face of the earth by both percentage and raw numbers he doesn't want to admit any of it it's the horseshoe theory he's no different than the new jacks trying to tell you constantly despite amazing unprecedented things happen nothing's happening they didn't do anything what did they do they didn't do it did everything you know many people are alive right now because of this crime crackdown they are totally full of shit then they told you nothing was happening nothing was happening in the fraud scheme too vice president vance and collin mcdonald the assistant attorney general have been absolutely cleaning up on these fraud schemes here's just a quick hit on a ton of more arrests they pulled down on this thing stuff's happening all over the place they just want you to believe nothing's happening so you don't go out and vote for more good things to happen it's an op learn to see through it and you'll never get fooled again and you won't be a as he retards in kentucky check this out today we are announcing criminal charges against 15 defendants in minnesota for fraud schemes that targeted over 90 million in taxpayer dollars let me be clear upfront about something this is not the end of our work in minnesota this is not the end of the beginning of our work in minnesota this is the beginning of our work in minnesota the fraud here in minnesota is shocking i'm just gonna tell you man that that opening clip has really bothered me i've referenced it a couple times i mean can you imagine you're you live in kentucky for in god's country out there you do nothing more than go and exercise your god-given big all right to vote for the candidate of your choice you've done nothing wrong you go to church you work hard you take care of your kids maybe you take your kid to a sports game once in a while university kentucky football game or something like that and some elitist snob podcast dude is calling you a retard because you fell for the nothing is happening op yeah donald trump's just sitting in dc to do what to make more money like he needed it you think janine and me and others who went in there and gave up successful shows and she was on the five it's only the most popular show on tv pete hegseth had a great gig going you think people are doing this to go there and jerk around at you what the hell is wrong while you're sitting on your podcast count kentucky voted retards here's another here's even little things and they're not they're only little because president trump does so much i you know it's like dog years with president trump like a year of president trump's like seven years of everyone else he was another thing you have folks out there you ever had your air conditioner repaired recently i live in florida air conditioners break down here in florida all the time like every 10 minutes so i had a guy in my old house come by h vac guy and he's like dan these systems are just garbage i'm like how are they garbage like cars have gotten better computers have gotten more powerful he said it's the lefties they can't make an h vac system under these ridiculous government regulations work anymore he's if you have an air conditioner made in the 80s it's probably better than an air conditioner was made five minutes ago i said really he said yes he's like it's not me it's not me it's these systems he goes i can bring in five six other ones they're probably gonna still have issues too that was all because of the the the green hysterical world's gonna end into bernie said the oligarchy's gonna do it here's president trump again a little thing in his world a huge thing for everyone else who just doesn't want to die of heat exhaustion in their house in florida and get a freaking ac that works here he has cited some regulations to make sure you get an air conditioner that works this is the donald trump racking up w's agenda check it out today is my honor to be discussing the taking of a very historic action to substantially lower costs for consumers protect hundreds of thousands of jobs and save americans well over two billion dollars a year by officially terminating the biden administration's ridiculous regulations imposing costly requirements on refrigerators and air conditioners it's ridiculous unnecessary and costly and actually makes the machinery worse anyone in the chat in the hvac business or the hvac business in kentucky then we definitely loved it because i know people are busting their ass working for us we would love to hear from you everything he said there is true the winds are happening every day do not fall for the horseshoe theory new jack bullshit here's another one cbs immigration judges there's a problem the problem is for years we've let the court system on the immigration side atrophy so what does president trump do about it they fix it exclusive the trump administration this week on boarded more than 80 new federal immigration judges in their push to expedite deportation and they're cracked down on illegal immigration i i don't nothing again every day things are happening that the nothing is happening crowd is telling you not happening and when they happen they ignore them and then people fall for it by calling others names maybe people didn't fall for it maybe people like in kentucky or elsewhere are what we know them to be smart educated hardworking voters who care about the communities who are following what's happening and are liking it and want more of it has that ever occurred to you more happened this weekend too there's been a another uh it's still going on right now up in new jersey that folks they do this all the time everything the bernie sanders far left aoc democrats grand platner and everyone does is performance are like the oligarch they're the oligarchy everything is performance so what do the democrats do there's a nice facility in new jersey now here's what the democrats won't tell you because they know it's memorial day weekend and there's probably not going to be any public visitations the democrats of course you guys know this they show up and they're like hey they did this strategically well we demand to be like lord keeping us out they're going nobody's keeping you out you did this as performance art so there was a bunch of chaos you know there's a bunch of chaos we saw this weekend you see this a nice facility of course this is all they have folks keep in mind a number of these people in this facility have orders of removal because they committed serious crimes in the united states so what happens the performance art democrats who show up want these people released into your communities they want you released in their communities to rape assault burglarize your homes rob you and potentially murder you because they don't give a shit most of these people i guarantee you don't even live in this community in new jersey the only differences president trump and his department of justice and his ice team and dhs right now aren't having any of your bullshit so of course the democrats in front of the mic i want you to advocate i want you to have just be honest democrats just say like we want rapists and murderers back in the community just say what it is because that's what you want of course another thing happened this weekend on the immigration front because again i keep hearing it wasn't just over injustice but in dhs too i hear the doomers again president trump's not doing enough about illegal immigrant really i lived in are you kidding me it was priority number one for the administration to lock down the border and make sure illegals left the country now he's taking it even a step further if you're applying for citizenship through the visa green card process now a lot of these folks are going to have to go and do it from overseas oh my gosh that happened yeah that happened again in the context of all the president trump's massive changes this may seem like a little thing it isn't it isn't in president trump political dog years we did seven years of work in one this is how much stuff happens that you miss out on if you don't watch shows like this and listen to the doomers shows check this out there is an enormous change in u.s immigration policy tonight the trump administration says any non-citizens in the country who have applied for a green card must leave the country indefinitely even if here legally and regardless of whether they have a spouse or children then they have to wait for their green card application to be processed outside of the country folks please i'm i'm really i'm begging you as a friend as a friend we've managed to maintain despite all the nonsense and crap an unbelievable friendship with you all out there over years and years of doing this show i'm just asking you common sense wise like not not to my uncle's you guys get it but the people who may pop in and out of the show and fell for the doomerism just think for yourself just go look this stuff up that stuff happened the crime rate collapsing happened the homicide rate happened the border being closed happened ice deporting people and murderers out of the community happened president trump's war on red tape and regulation even for things like freaking air conditioners school choice and other issues happened his reforming of the immigration process happened the redistricting efforts where republicans have come out on top happened all of this stuff happened this happened please man just do the the receipts are there and don't fall for the kandelani and bullshit who when biden's team got busted cold manipulating crime data he once said oh they did these guys are terrific and in a minute trump cleans it up i don't know cash patel he doesn't know what he's talking about these aren't people who've been taken off the street really ken as ken to look up what a again a ufap warrant is here he was ken silverscene at the intercept the cia's mop up man la times reporter cleared stories with the agency before publication who's that article about from 2014 kandelani in so here's what's happening you have people inside the fbi there's still who are hiding who've been they buried themselves like ticks in the fbi they go and leak to kandelani in because they weren't able to do in their joe biden fbi what we did and take bad guys off the street by expanding our partnership with state local and territorial and tribal law enforcement agencies they just weren't able to do it you weren't able to produce president trump's crime rates being low and homicide rates being low so what do you do you go lie to kandelani in who's more than happy to be your mop up man you just got caught if you're not seeing the live stream yet thank you to everyone in the stream channel too for tuning in live i love the live stream live stream because the show doesn't take callers so you're all callers at this point you can all jump in dive in a day uh a after memorial day and again uh thank you to all of our families out there sacrifice i've got judge janine dan i absolutely love your desktop it's just gorgeous mars luam in the chat this is a paula design paula did this so big hat tip to paula the queen um she designed this whole studio is her idea all the stuff in the background even the uh the brick the bricks are from uh new york and so is the the real bricks that's not like wallpaper or anything like that and then that iron um that iron piling right there is uh from new york too so hat tip to paula she designed all of this so she did a great job thank you for noticing that all right i got judge janine piero coming up in an interview that promises to be fire uh don't miss it stay tuned quick break here hey summertime expenses in 2026 are stacking up faster than ever from those pricey family vacations and record gas prices to looming tuition and camp fees for many of us it feels like the only 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888-994-7660 or visit them online it's a dotnet address at americanfinancing.net slash bonjino welcoming to the show for the first time one of my really good friends and just the change agent of the highest order in the dojo doj judge janine piero us attorney for washington dc judge welcome the show good morning and let me just say first that we all miss you here in washington i'd personally miss working with you on some of the great cases that we worked on but uh i'm sure everything is uh everything's fine in your life now that you don't have to live in dc yeah dc i tell you it was an interesting change you know it brings up quite i wasn't gonna go but what's the adjustment been like for you i mean i know what it was like for me obviously you're on the most popular show in conservative media the five i mean just ridiculous ratings uh you're asked by the president to serve i mean i kind of know the story a little bit myself but what was it like for you to just pick up with your life and you got every got your dogs you got this beautiful house and just to go down and take over i would argue the most important u.s attorney spot in the country well first of all you know i think dan that it is you reach a point in your life when you say that you know who am i and when the president called there was no question that if you took that classic yellow pad and you did the pros and the cons well the cons were definitely against taking the job but the pro was something bigger and longer and more um more complete and that was that this is really who i am and it brings me back to my root stand because i you know you know my background prosecuted judge da all that and it's really who i am and so this is united states attorney's office is different than any other office in the country it is the only one where the united states attorney is a double hatter and what that means is i am a u.s attorney handling all kinds of federal cases but i'm also the local da handling street crime and i don't think that there's anywhere more important in the country to handle street crime than in the place that two years ago had the fourth highest murder rate in the country and so you know for all of that you know hyming and hawing the truth is you have to decide who am i what am i about what do i want to do in my life and this is what i want to do and as for the adjustment dan washington is very different you know uh we're in it's kind of a talk about new york city being a concrete jungle well in washington it's very i'm in the middle of you know the the nation's capital a lot of buildings a lot of federal buildings and all i'm looking for is a decent tomato at the end of the night there's no bodegas in in dc i don't understand it but i am it took a while but i'm happy now no i i know you've been uh you know we had uh you know many uh an office meeting together and i gotta tell you it was such an honor to work with you you know i just want to tell the audience to get your perspective from the inside you know when you came on you you were such a transformative change engine that what i liked about your take was you said i don't care how they did in the past and i'll give two examples of things you did you know in conjunction with us and your partners over there you came in and you said listen um bangazi bakush like this guy's been you know they've wanted this guy forever like why didn't we get him and the answer basically was because we just didn't want to i guess like they just didn't want to put in the effort you said bullshit like we're gonna go get this guy and you did and we got him and you know he's got his right to a trial everything else however but i it's more about process anything in second i remember sitting in my office after operation viper in memphis and we were sitting there and you looked at me like we're gonna do the same thing in dc the boss wants to clean it up i said let's go for it and you just went in there and said i don't care if we haven't done it in the past and put our feds on the street we're gonna do it now and look at the amazing results two incredible things you did well you know it's almost good to come in and to be somewhat blindfolded in terms of what was done because i know what works i mean i i did what i did for 33 years uh and uh it was real clear to me that there was a malaise that this office was a neglected office uh and bakush in particular you know there's one thing dan that i'm going to share with you that i really haven't told anyone and i don't know if you recall but in 2012 we were all talking about bangazi and unfortunately uh you know the the death of ambassador christ evens and the other three uh uh operatives who were there the cia uh at the cia at the compound there the truth is that we fought talking about whether or not was a peaceful pro pro uh uh uh protests that want to ride or whether it was you know people just want there to burn down the embassy and when i got into the office i said pull the bangazi file and so we pulled it and we had drones dan we knew what was going on and i looked at these drones and it was clear to me dan that there was no peaceful protest there was no one who got there and said you know we object to the united states being here these mo's they're mfers they came in with rock and propel grenades because they knew what they were going to do and when they couldn't break into the ambassador's residence they went out and they got killed to burn him out and i remember saying to the prosecutors in the room dan well the nation and hillary clinton you know we were all fighting it was a peaceful protest no it wasn't yes it was no it wasn't we know for a fact that it was not a peaceful protest the drones made it clear they came there to tear the place down and i remember saying to the prosecutors did you know the whole country was going crazy about whether or not this is a peaceful protest or it was just a brigade that came in to tear us down and they said well yeah i said well why didn't you guys say something and they would they said it's not our job and i said you know what you're right it wasn't your job but now that i'm here i'm going to make it clear what it was the truth is they came there to kill people there was no question about it and so at that point i got an indictment for the ringleader bakush and with you guys with you and cash we were going to get over there and i can't say where to bring him back and i was at the f-talk at the transfer of control and dan and cash and i were the first ones on the plane i wanted to look at this guy but yeah it's incredible unless you go in there and say i want this done inertia rules and i couldn't allow i couldn't allow that and the other thing is dc street crime you know it as well as i do dan and it's all about as as you know broken windows i'm taking the lowest crimes and we're going for it but here's the problem in dc the problem in dc is that you we can't charge you with a crime if you're under 18 and that means if you're 16 and 17 and you just burglarize or you assault someone or you assault someone with a deadly weapon i can't prosecute you i can only prosecute you are under what we call title 16 in dc if you commit murder rob one burglary one or sexual assault one those are the worst crimes and only if you're 16 and 17 then i can come in so all of these juveniles who eventually reach the age of 18 and i get my hands on them they've got a record a mile long because they've been taken to the family court there's no real consequence the purpose is rehabilitation it is not retribution it is not punishment it is not deterrence it is simply to make sure that these kids get help and they don't they go to an ice cream social they go to yoga and they're out and that's when i said no more and i had a team here and i'm very proud of the team now of u.s attorneys although we're down still 73 from 150 but the truth is that they were not taught to be the tip of the spear most of them in superior court i had to fight with people to ask for detention which is bail for us in new york i had to fight with them you ask for bail in every case the guy is charged with an assault with a violent crime what do you mean the guy strangled the woman what do you mean you know when they said well the judges aren't going to give it to us and dan it's a whole changing of the mentality and it's going fine here it's we're much better than we were and and folks you know me i may forget because uh you know i always say like donald trump political life is like dog years because he does so much so fast the last year and a half right feels like seven to ten years you can't believe it was just a year and a half i mean everything that's happened has been so transformative but you know the crime in dc has dropped almost geometrically and i bring up the broken windows example because you and i are very friendly with rudy juliani nobody knows new york state uh law enforcement better than you i mean you lived it yeah but the theory of broken windows which you and i discussed in my office many times is the idea that crime is not rampant crime is rampant in a small group of people they commit 80 plus percent of the crime so if you go and get these people off the street it drops and the results you brought forth for the president who could not have been more supportive of these efforts by the way he hates it judge you know the president's not doing it for politics he's not running again and dc wouldn't vote for him anyway he just hates it he drives around the streets of dc he sees a homeless problem in crime he goes fix it judge fix it now he could not have been more supportive you did it and look at how much the crime rate's dropping imagine three years what it's going to be with more of these concerted efforts well you know the president has made it very clear that you know he wants dc safe and he wants it beautiful and the interesting thing about that dan and you're so right you and i get it it's not just safe it's beautiful and beautiful speaks to the broken windows it speaks to if you live in an area where there is no respect for property or the quality of life people just treat themselves and each other differently so making it beautiful as soft and benign as that may seem is very relevant to making it safe and uh when he came in and he said well give you whatever you need and he brought in the federal support and the truth is you're so right it's that 20 percent that are the force multipliers they are the ones who are committing the violent crime and unfortunately in dc you made reference to the fact that he would never win in dc and he didn't 95 of dc voted for kamala harris and that is reflected when now and then we'll get a grand jury they'll say no we don't want to indict someone for assaulting a cop even though the statute is perfectly attuned and set for that particular scenario they'll say no no no no true bill or you know the classic sandwich case that's the one that everybody laughs about under the statute that is a crime and they were like they're not going to indict and they're not going to convict and it's all about grand jurors saying things like is this part of the president surge well if it is what's it to you well they want to indict and it's really that simple and so by bringing in our federal partners whether it's you know the marshals and the fbi and we've got the park police the capital police the metropolitan police and i can't i can't talk about this without giving credit to mayor muriel bowser who has joined the president and joined us in making sure that dc is safe and the mpd is a great police department sure they've had trouble trouble you know with deflation of numbers and my office did that investigation before anyone else did and now when we talk about a reduction of crime 50 60 percent it's not just a reduction based on the numbers it's even more because they had deflated the crime numbers meaning that the real crime numbers were actually higher and so the drop in crime is even more significant because there were problems within the department where they were trying to lower crime now let me give you an example so if you go to way if there's a robbery for example in a cbs or a drugstore the police would come and they take a report and then after a while they'd say you know what we're going to come in once a month you give us the reports of how many robberies you had so then they would file it as one robbery instead of 22 robberies that month you know so the drop in crime the president trump doesn't get enough credit for is even more significant and so i think the word on the street now is that you know they're going to prosecute you and they're going to fight and i tell my prosecutors every day you're the tip of the sphere you go into that courtroom and you go into that courthouse you are representing the person who didn't want to be here in the first place it's the criminal who made the decision to victimize another human being and we're there irrespective if the judge pushed back if the jury pushed back pushes back that's not your problem i'm your problem and if you don't make sure you fight with with all of your with vigor and with everything that we've got then you don't need to be in this office so we have turned things around and i'm very proud of it you know judge at such a critical point you just brought up that this president is not about bullshit or fudging the numbers like if this president wanted to fudge the numbers he would not have had you look into it because looking into the crime manipulation scandal in dc like you just said would buy simple mathematics make the problem worse not because the problem is worse but just because the math was corrected so he said fix it anyway and we're still gonna reduce the crime rate so i just want to tell you like what what the judge said there is really important you brought something up before too i wanted to hit on and again for the audience this is not any kind of excuse but just an explanation because we were dealing with the same thing at the fbi when the president swears in obviously is uh 47 obviously you and i met and ran into some people who just weren't having it they were there for politics i'm not talking about all of them but a good number of people were there because of politics they didn't swear allegiance to the constitution they swore allegiance to the democrat party a lot of them left some of them were fired in our case it was about 10 of the workforce but in the doj and the fbi but you in particular it's just not easy to bring people on board you got to make sure you get you know people who want to adhere to the constitution uh you know people who are for they have to be obviously qualified attorneys so you're getting there but i guess the gist of the question is you're dealing with some heavy personnel turnover and basically a shortage right now u.s attorneys and still getting the job done you know it's so true i mean there are people who have been here dan that you know they've watched us come and go and they have absolutely no concern about what the priorities are for a particular administration well that's very different than the way i see things and what i've been able to do is i have been able to recognize who is competent who is essential who has institutional knowledge that i need to keep but make no mistake if your agenda is not aligned with mine you're not going to be here i'm not one of those people who came in and said everybody goes it doesn't work that way because dc this office in particular has the highest turnover nationally even before we got here it's just the nature of you know the way people work here and if you look at anyone's resume dan it's very interesting they're in a position for a year or two and then they jump to another agency or they jump to a law firm or they go private then they go public in new york it's like if you're not with a firm for four or five years what's wrong you couldn't cut it it's different here but what i want these people here to understand and they do now and i think we've got we turn the ship around a great deal is that if you want to fight the fight and if you want to make sure that we are doing what we're supposed to be doing irrespective of politics then you're on my team because law and order isn't about politics you either fight crime and believe in it or you don't if you don't i don't need you and if you're incompetent lazy or think you need more time off than you get i don't need you if you think you need to work at home i don't need you i need you in the office and that's one of the things that i had the biggest problem with but now there's no question everybody gets it everybody's here dan people would work two weeks and get a day off for free wait a minute if you work two weeks that means every month you get two days off in addition to sick in addition to vacation paternity maternity we've got mental health leave we got every freaking time to leave the only thing we don't have is dog bereavement leave okay everybody's on leave everybody's at the doctor's everybody and then i i gotta tell you my favorite is there was he was going to be windy one day main justice sends out an email saying don't come in the next day it's going to be windy are you kidding me you get your ass in the office and i'll tell you if you don't need to be here you know it's just a different mentality well i listen i've known you outside of the space inside of the government space you've never changed the bed i i can tell you folks sitting in that big old deputy director conference room cash has a better office but i had a better conference room right you have a great conference room oh when it and you know the judge and i be sitting there with this crew of attorneys and fbi and the judges folks i'm telling you she is absolutely no different if you think this is a shtick you don't know judge you need like it's not i had fbi people in the room like oh shit she really is that same person we saw in the five you know i remembered then when we were in that in that room in one case that we solved and you were you were the force behind it and that's a pipe bomber i'll never forget we went in there we sat with all the fbi agents they had been working on it for a long time uh and you were like well what about this and what about that you and i are like what about this what about that you know we may not have worked there but we still had common sense and you know what i got to tell you uh darren cox washington field office i work with him every day i love the guy i love the guy you know it's a little bumpy but now we're in a situation where we talk at least once a day and uh it is a it's a phenomenal place once you get all of everybody on the same page there's incredible resources intelligence here and uh but i think i think you are listeners and your viewers should know that that pipe bomber wouldn't have happened about you there's no question about it you you were like thorn in your side you weren't leaving until that one i know i drove him nuts i'm those guys i was like not not good enough nope nope yeah darren darren got it from day one like he understood that you're getting this guy i matter of fact i remember you know when we got the uh a suspect in the case i remember i i was i was sitting down and i get a call and whenever you know just like you when you get a call on your work phone it's it was almost never good like it was always a problem no one's calling you to say hey what'd you have for breakfast we're scrambled so it was darren and i was like oh what happened darren he goes you sitting down i go oh shit yeah i hate it when he says that he goes i'm pretty sure we got a suspect in the case i was like you're kidding and he's like no remember that thing we did i said yeah and i said all right good man you know we you and i i know you gotta run but last question here but you know you and i started was kind of trial by fire there was no like uh intern period i think it was like week one those two diplomats were shot in israel we get woken up at one two in the morning you and i are on the streets at the crime scene and it was i mean it was just like there was no stop it's horrible yeah it was horrible it's horrible dan and the truth is that uh we just announced we're seeking the death penalty against alias rodriguez for the cold blooded murder of iran lashewnski uh and uh karen milgram uh the truth is that watching their bodies being taken off the street putting body bags on a rainy cold night in dc band stuff we're gonna end this we're gonna end this i mean you we adjust i was only there a couple months i think that was like week one and now i thought yeah it was yeah it was the first week i was the first night they woke me they were slamming them i can't i remember you came in you were you you were i was late because they couldn't i yeah they were knocking on the door and i can't hear anything and i live a little bit away from the scene so you were there yeah sarah milgram by the way sarah milgram sorry sarah milgram iran lashewnski yeah so one last question the 250th obviously a no specific threat that we know of everything's being monitored but the 250th uh you're the u.s attorney for dc a lot of people are going to be in dc i'd imagine you got your office on uh you know with the antenna up and and going for us yeah yeah well there's no question dan and we've seen it before people cross the country and come to dc to commit political violence they see dc is the place where they can express their political violence whether it's lackamal and the shooting of the national guardsman or the white house correspondence dinner co-lalin uh we're going to see more of that shooting of uh of uh secret service uh but we are we are in high alert until the fourth uh i believe there's going to be an infusion of even more national guard if we don't make this nation's capital safe then you know woe is the united states and we're going to do everything we can and we continue to do everything we can to make sure that people can come here enjoy this country it is a beautiful country the nation's capital all the monuments i mean uh and it's really as simple as making sure that law and order is enforced in a way where people know it they understand it you're going to get the death penalty we're going for the jugular you commit a crime here you're going to pay for it sad simple you know judge uh i had really high expectations when you got the appointment i knew who you were i'm like this is going to be amazing and you so far surpassed them i mean you were such a nuts and bolts like go get them kind of no bullshit like that answer is not good enough kind of person and to watch you in action was a distinct pleasure so thank you such an honor to have you on your show of course you're welcome back anytime thanks for damn we love you thank you so much really and you know what god bless this great country and keep telling the truth indeed amen thanks judge judge jenny pierrow folks she is um to say a go get her you know you hear that about a lot of people there just be a nice i'm not just be a nice because she doesn't care about nice she cares about results i never forget sitting in meetings with her like nah that answer is not good enough figure it out nope nope get it go get it give me a better answer she was great thanks so much for tuning in today really appreciate you got hailey coming up at noon rumble.com slash hailey you got vince colonace every day at 8 a.m rumble.com slash vince eastern time of course please check them out two of our better hosts they're really kicking ass in the space and we love it also download the rumble app it is free if you want to watch online you can do that too rumble.com slash banjino just click that follow button really 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