Dan Bongino will be the next Deputy Director of the FBI, the country s top law enforcement agency. It is a job that does not require Senate confirmation, not that Republicans have any objections to any of Trump's picks anyway.
00:01:03.920What happened yesterday with President Trump and the targeting of him and his attorneys by this piece of human scum,
00:01:11.420all of these people targeting him in the Justice Department that have forfeited any semblance of allegiance and fidelity to the Constitutional Republic.
00:01:19.480I do not need power drunk pseudo monarchs, little mini tyrants in my supposedly conservative county, though,
00:01:30.400sending out ridiculous childlike amateur hour edicts demanding people wear masks in situations where the risk of transmission is somewhat close to zero.
00:01:40.480You can take your mask mandate and shove it right up your a**.
00:01:46.640The karate man, I never thought I'd have to use it in real life.
00:02:18.520The conspiracy theories, the outrage, the tightness of the T-shirts, all of it surely floats Donald Trump's boat and his music to his ears.
00:02:28.160It's likely part of the very essence of the reason he was selected.
00:02:32.120But the job of deputy director of the FBI in the United States of America is a serious job that affects every person living here, people around the world.
00:02:40.480It's the kind of job that has to be done well by whomever does it.
00:02:43.800If the Bureau stands any chance of actually catching real bad guys.
00:02:48.620As the Washington Post reports, quote, the deputy director answers to the director, serving as the agency's second in command responsible for day-to-day law enforcement operations and all of the FBI's domestic and international investigative and intelligence activities.
00:03:02.680The FBI has 55 field offices, 60 offices abroad, 38,000 staff, staffers in the budget of $10 billion.
00:03:12.220Managing the day-to-day affairs of the FBI is a serious responsibility.
00:03:16.840And traditionally, that post of deputy director of the FBI has gone to a career FBI agent.
00:03:23.820In fact, the FBI agents association says that in a meeting in January before Kash Patel was confirmed, they told Patel this, quote,
00:03:32.440the FBI deputy director should continue to be an onboard active special agent.
00:03:37.500This has been the case for 117 years for many compelling reasons.
00:03:42.220Including operational expertise and experience, as well as the trust of our special agent population.
00:03:48.800According to the FBI agents association at the time, Kash Patel agreed and said that the job should go to a career FBI agent.
00:03:57.280Now, Patel either changed his mind or was overruled, but he's given an already wary workforce, another reason to be suspicious and distrustful of him.
00:04:07.200And the FBI now has at its helm what the New York Times describes this way, quote,
00:04:11.840the least experienced leadership pair in the Bureau's history.
00:04:15.940Donald Trump's choice of a pro-Trump podcaster to be the number two at the FBI is where we start today.
00:04:21.880At the time, it was domestic violent extremism.
00:04:24.740And inside that bucket, by far the largest group of people were white supremacists.
00:04:31.500What happened to those threats and how how might people who are so closely aligned with Donald Trump respond to that?
00:04:43.480Well, I think we are seeing that with respect to the January 6th investigations and the January 6th defendants is just one microcosm.
00:04:53.220And I'm just to be clear, I'm not saying that every January 6th defendant is a white supremacist or, for that matter, a domestic terrorist.
00:05:00.980But the message that's being sent is that the people who are criminals, adjudicated criminals of serious offenses are set free and pardoned.
00:05:11.620And the people who investigated January 6th, which we all saw before our eyes, was something that was, at the time it happened, had bipartisan condemnation, including eventually by President Trump himself,
00:05:27.880you know, half-hearted, but at least he sort of forced himself to say the words, but certainly on the Hill was condemned.
00:05:36.320The people who investigated that at the FBI are now sort of the hunted.
00:05:46.920It is it is to me, it is just remarkable what is happening to this country.
00:05:51.420The fine point of what is going to happen, Nicole, is I think that nothing is going to happen to domestic terrorists who are aligned with and support the policies of the Trump administration.
00:06:07.060I think that you will see targeting of groups that are considered sort of on the sort of so-called liberal side, sort of the Antifa, Black Lives Matter movements.
00:06:20.000Now, granted, obviously, if they violate the law and they engage in violent conduct, they should be targeted.
00:06:25.080But I don't think you're going to see an equal sort of hand here in terms of how people are treated for conduct, not their First Amendment views.
00:06:37.040You see how Dan Bongino, who's a friend and a colleague, fellow podcaster, you know, streaming media, and Dan's, I've known Dan since he did the congressional runs back when he just left the Secret Service.
00:06:57.520Dan, Dan, to them, Dan Bongino makes, makes Cash look like Judge Webster.
00:07:06.700They're quoting Cash, but now has Cash agreed that it should be a life for me?
00:07:11.800They're making Cash look like the, the, the, the essence of probity.
00:07:15.760Because Bongino's there as the, as the deputy, remember, the deputy runs the building.
00:07:23.120President Trump could not have sent a stronger signal that he wants major changes over the FBI.
00:07:31.000You put Cash Patel, you put Dan Bongino, you got Emil Bovee, and you got Pam Bondi at Justice.
00:07:42.020And, you know, you're ready to rock and roll.
00:07:56.060Anybody that questioned the 2020 election would be you.
00:07:59.840There's a report coming out of Brazil, in fact, I'll get to later, that the questioning of the stolen election of Bolsonaro, which he's been indicted for,
00:08:08.380and I guess they're, they're very different, their, their trials already kind of started on a coup d'etat,
00:08:14.720that they were also looking to target yours truly, Stephen K. Bannon in the war room and others,
00:08:22.960media personalities on the right, like Tucker Carlson, who, who questioned Lula's victory, the stolen victory of Lula.
00:08:31.920Well, hey, yo, Brazilians, I ain't, I wasn't afraid of Nancy Pelosi or the crooked justice system here.
00:08:40.200I'm certainly not afraid of you guys, a bunch of Marxists down in Brazil who are going to be swept away here quite quickly
00:08:46.900and imprisoned, I think, for many, many decades, particularly the chief justice, the, that court is the most corrupt thing.
00:08:55.260I haven't seen a court like that since the Nazi courts in the 1930s or the Moscow show trials.
00:09:02.040Neil Pinkston joins us, a lawyer, a couple things, and in fact, I want to play, Neil, first off, Neil, you're in the law profession.
00:09:09.820When you hear people like Cash Patel and Dan Bongino selected by President Trump to head up the largest law enforcement and counterintelligence,
00:09:19.360because, remember, the CIA supposedly is not supposed to do anything domestically, it's all the FBI.
00:09:24.100From someone in the legal profession, particularly, you've been very involved in the Jeremy Brown situation.
00:09:30.160You're very involved in this Appalachia situation with Tyler Burlage.
00:09:36.100What does it mean to you as a lawyer when you hear that President Trump selecting disruptors
00:09:40.260into the, into what's been heretofore referred to as the nation's premier law enforcement operation, sir?
00:09:49.360Well, sir, first, thanks for having me, but I think the term disruptors is misleading to the public.
00:09:59.660I'm a former prosecutor, elected district attorney, and the thing that the president has done
00:10:05.440and those in his cabinet in law enforcement that he's chosen is that they understand that the prosecutor's
00:10:12.100duty's role is to seek justice, not to seek victories through political ends.
00:10:17.640And I think any time you have someone in charge, and particularly the president of the United States,
00:10:23.820that wants prosecutors to focus on facts and law and justice, then that's a good thing for all Americans.
00:15:05.340You know, we're trying to get pretty involved in helping these J6 guys sort out the adjudication or getting to the bottom of what happened to them
00:15:14.160and why they were locked up and what happened when they were locked up because a lot of this is unacceptable in addition about getting up on their feet.
00:15:22.440But I want to play this clip, and I want to bring Neil back.
00:15:25.340Let's go and play it from this afternoon's MSNBC.
00:15:27.540Like pattern like that before, just targeting of DOJ employees or FBI employees or whoever is sort of, you know,
00:15:34.840on their list of people that they don't like, even if they're not able to prove these underlying conspiracy theories,
00:15:40.620they'll find some nugget that they can sort of blow up and make into this sort of media circus
00:15:44.320and have a lot of willing participants on that on Capitol Hill and sort of just stir up some sort of controversy around that
00:15:51.380and purport to have found something that was untoward or wrong, right?
00:15:56.820So I think that that's probably what we can expect, that, you know, even if they're going to go in and say,
00:16:00.860oh, okay, actually the FBI didn't set up January 6th, for example,
00:16:04.720they'll find some communication that they're just going to zero in on and blow that up into a big scandal,
00:16:09.740and you'll have a lot of Republicans on the Hill who will be, you know, willing to go along with that.
00:16:14.160There's just so many threads that they've thrown out there about January 6th itself
00:16:18.160because their counter-narrative has been changing over the course of these several years,
00:16:22.800where initially we went from a universe where there was pretty widespread agreement
00:16:26.360that January 6th was bad, to we went to this whole different, you know, universe that we live in now,
00:16:31.780where even though polling shows that most Americans oppose the pardons for really violent January 6th offenders,
00:16:37.220there's still this enormous contingent of Americans who believe sort of just patently absurd
00:16:41.240and ridiculous conspiracy theories about January 6th itself.
00:16:44.100And that's, I think, what they're going to be exploiting or finding something to sort of feed the beast
00:16:48.240to bring to the president and say, hey, look what we found, and blow it up into a big media event.
00:16:52.860I just think that's kind of inevitable what we're going to see coming down the line.
00:16:58.440Remember that. We'll play that. We're going to run the sprockets off that one.
00:18:13.880He's being held, apparently, on that case because someone, we're not sure where in the line of communication,
00:18:21.380feels that the pardon issued by President Trump for Mr. Brown and other J6ers doesn't apply in the fact that it wasn't on January 6th or maybe wasn't at the Capitol.
00:18:36.700But if you read the pardon, it's events related to.
00:18:39.960And in the government's appellate brief and in some of their search warrant affidavit,
00:18:46.480they talk about January 6th related activities leading to a search of his residence in the Middle District of Florida.
00:18:53.800So everyone is very clear that it was January 6th related.
00:18:59.920Somehow he gets transferred to federal prison in Atlanta.
00:22:06.880You know, folks that need help, it looks like they're kind of on the down and out.
00:22:10.140Or guys like Jeremy Brown, the people don't run and try to help.
00:22:14.320Why do you go from a former prosecutor to a guy that takes on, you know, some of these shaggy dog clients?
00:22:20.220I think that when I was a prosecutor, I had sometimes a reputation for taking on unpopular causes.
00:22:30.400And as I said before, lawyers seek justice.
00:22:35.040And in this case, there are justice that needs to be sought.
00:22:39.360And I'm also one that understands where the prosecution comes from.
00:22:44.280So I'm able to help people understand both sides of the situation.
00:22:48.500And I think based upon that, that's why I get involved in, you know, it's, I enjoy challenges and trying to help these people that should be helped.
00:22:59.800And because you definitely take on challenges.
00:23:04.720I'll mention one last thing, too, to think about with Jeremy Brown is many prosecutors offices across this nation have what they call conviction, conviction, integrity units.
00:23:16.500And if a conviction isn't integrous, if it doesn't stand, then it should be vacated.
00:23:21.680We know that's the same situation with Mr. Brown.
00:23:25.240And so if that same philosophy applies in other crimes of murder, rape, armed robbery, whatever, that we've seen convictions overturned or vacated,
00:23:36.280that legal philosophy is no different, no matter who it is or what they have alleged to have committed.
00:23:44.220And we know Mr. Brown has a presidential pardon and should not be held in custody.
00:24:20.820We spent time with some of the J6ers, had an opportunity to, and we're going to, we're trying to get help, get that a little more organized.
00:24:30.380But you hear some of the stories of what these men and women went through.
00:24:40.220There's some horrific, horrific examples.
00:24:42.660And you have to ask yourself, and this is what Pam Bondi, Emil Bovee, right, Todd Blanche over at Maine Justice, you're going to have folks at the Southern District cleaning out that rat's nest.
00:24:57.180You already got Ed Martin, the great Ed Martin, Phyllis Schlafly, headed up Phyllis Schlafly's organization for years, and I'm so proud of Ed.
00:25:03.500I remembered he was a lawyer, but he was really running the Schlafly organization for so long, I'd go out there and give the speeches and work with those folks and just thought the world of her she was in.
00:25:14.240I think her last film she made was a film I made that she was a big part of, one of the stars in, Fire from the Heartland.
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00:31:49.260Like I told you, I'm really proud of University of Arkansas finance professor in discussion today with Philip Patrick saying he's assigning it to his students.
00:32:00.020So you're getting like a free college course?
00:32:28.720They're supposed to, I think, give some details tonight.
00:32:30.500Now, look, you're going to have a lot of nomenclature come out in the next 24 hours.
00:32:34.300Just remember, when you hear these massive cuts, Elon and the budget guys are talking two separate things.
00:32:40.760When Elon talks, when he talks about Doge finding waste, fraud, and abuse, and they got these things, and he talks about taking a trillion dollars, he's talking the way you should talk on an annual budget that is about six and a half or seven trillion dollars.
00:32:54.680First, removing a trillion dollars of cost, therefore cutting the deficit by a trillion dollars from two trillion to one.
00:33:00.400When you hear the happy talk on budgets, please always remember this.
00:33:05.900When you hear these massive numbers of two trillion and all this, it's kind of nonsense because it's over 10 years.
00:33:13.540And really, when you look at the way they roll it in, it's always in the out years, four, five, six, seven, eight, which is irrelevant.
00:33:20.980The only thing that matters is the year that you're in and the appropriations you're in and the next year.
00:37:31.340People in this country are not looking for handouts.
00:37:33.280But since you've invited the world here to compete with them for jobs and also to crush the healthcare,
00:37:40.020so they all got to go to the emergency room to crush their education, so two-thirds of these schools are teaching English as a second language,
00:37:49.200how do you expect the American citizens in those classrooms, black and Hispanic, white working class, Asian, how do you expect them to get ahead?
00:37:55.500That you invited the world here to crush them economically, to compete.
00:38:04.560And now we're talking about remembering this whole thing that when you talk about – so keep in mind this year, which is the CR on the 14th of March, midnight.
00:38:17.140You got to get this thing sorted for this year, which I think is going to be a mess.
00:38:21.120And not listening to us, you should have gone back to the single subject bills.
00:38:23.920At least let's have an adult conversation.
00:38:25.580We got to stop playing hide-the-football and using the process to obfuscate and confuse people.
00:38:32.660The reconciliations are kind of a sidebar, important but a sidebar.
00:38:38.460And when you talk about these cuts, are they meaningful or are they just another performative drill?
00:39:54.560Well, it was the first group to say back in 2021 this inflation reduction is going to be – it's going to be – it's going to drive inflation, right?
00:40:10.840That everything that's set up to do, it will do the exact reverse.
00:40:17.460Everything they did to try to increase – get back aggregate demand had already been done with President Trump.
00:41:59.840If you hear the phrase conservative wins, you know you're being sold a bill of goods.
00:42:06.820This is why I think it's more important than ever on Birch Gold just to understand and get from Philip Patrick and the team, understand why gold has been a hedge in times of financial turbulence.
00:42:19.400You're going to have turbulence on here, no doubt.
00:42:22.440To get to what President Trump's trying to accomplish, not just geo-strategically but geo-economically.
00:43:09.580I mean, the U.S. veteran whose service was used against him, that was one of the worst to me,
00:43:15.060is that they're going to use that against you as if that makes you more of a terror threat.
00:43:20.700But the biggest thing to me on all of this, Steve, is connecting it to the entire injustice system that you experienced that so many others have.
00:43:29.140What shocks me, I don't know if I've told you this, I have a friend who's in the FBI,
00:43:33.340and when this first started happening, when they started going after J6ers, because I was there on J6.