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The Dan Bongino Show

Dan Bongino discusses the political and societal implications of artificial intelligence in a high-energy episode that blends commentary on

Key takeaways

• AI regulation is being politicized, with Democrats prioritizing ideology over practical national security concerns.

Main topics

• Artificial Intelligence regulation and political motivations

Notable quotes

"When he gets in there, we just need to go rock them, sock them robots and just nonstop hit them with something new every single day."

Conclusion

Bongino urges his audience to remain vigilant and proactive in defendi

Transcript preview

Speaker 3 (0:02) All America, all the time. Sit down, buckle up, and get ready for the Dan Bongino Show. Speaker 2 (0:10) All right, I got to tell you, I'm a little bit overwhelmed by content today. For the first time in a while, you know, it hasn't been the craziest news season of all. It hasn't? No, I mean, compared to what we went through pre-election, right? Fellas, ladies in the chat, every day was something new. Mar-a-Lago went down, multiple assassination attempts. We had a primary going on. The new season's been a little bit slow, relatively speaking. This is not one of those days. Speaker 1 (0:40) I gave a speech last night, my first one in a long time, only my second one since I've been out. I just want to give a shout out for some of you who remember. This is for P1s only. You may know what this is. Speaker 2 (0:52) We got to know. People send a lot of these. I hear they're like collector's items. This is Rock'em Sock'em Robots. It says on the side, caution, do not handle arms at any time. Let's violate the caution because we don't ever listen to rules anyway. You can like. Punch people with this. So thank you to the guy who gave us the Rock'em Sock'em robots. For Speaker 1 (1:12) those of you who forget, because it's going to tie into my message in the beginning of the show last night. And thank you, Randall J45 in the chat says he was there last night for the speech. There's another Rock'em Sock'em robots behind us here. Remember I was saying how when Trump gets into office pre-election, pre-47. That when he gets in there, we just need to go rock them, sock them robots and just nonstop hit them with something new every single day. That's important. Keep that thought in mind. All right. In case any of you are wondering. So thank you, Mr. Rock them, sock them robots. Speaker 1 (1:48) Okay. It was some speech last night, though. I got a little bit of a quickie piece of video from it because I don't get out too often. Security reasons, the other stuff. I don't mean to be dramatic. It's not some victim. Whatever. I just, it's a lot of pressure on everyone else. It costs them money. They got to hire security. It gets to be kind of a pain in the arse, if you know what I mean. So I was happy to be out. Thank you to Club 47. All right. I got that. Kash Patel, FBI director up on the hill. Speaker 5 (2:18) Another video. And there we go. Rock'em Sock'em Robots in the chat. Again, you guys got emojis, emoticons for everything. I Speaker 1 (2:27) got another video that's going to blow your mind of how unserious the Democrats are in a very serious time. AI threats, Iran, China, Taiwan, Russia, Ukraine. You really want these people in charge. Why are they Speaker 2 (2:39) always dancing? Why are they always dancing? Stop dancing. Go do some work. Speaker 1 (2:45) I told you I got a lot going on. 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Go today to patriotmobile.com slash Dan. Don't wait. Or give him a call at 972-PATRIOT. Use promo code DAN50 to get 50 % off all wireless plans for three months. patriotmobile.com slash Dan. Thank you, Patriot Mobile. All right, fellas. Let's go. Folks, I was really glad to get out last night. I saw so many wonderful people. I ran into this just incredible young man. The dad was telling me, the father, that he wants to go in the FBI one day. And, you know, I've got to... a real soft spot for the next generation. You know, I think it's our job. It's our job to make sure that we, you know, do our best to tutor them and help them and find the values that we found that made liberty and freedom so invaluable to us. So I gave a speech last night, Club 47. It's down in the West Palm Beach area. To put it in context, it is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, pro-Donald Trump MAGA club in the country. Thousands of people show up. We had, I think, what, they sell 2,500 tickets last night. It was crazy. In like 24 hours, Justin put together this video. He was with me last night. You'll see me even having to stretch out before I get on stage because my back doesn't really work too well anymore. I'm falling apart. I'm like a rotting piece of meat. Check this out. Speaker 7 (6:41) He's going to get impeached again. Everyone's going to go to jail over trying to do the constitutional thing and fix this prison. Speaker 5 (7:04) Some of you in the chat, I noticed caught on the visual when I was just stretching my back out. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not going to, some of you caught that. Yes, you are correct. Those who caught it, Speaker 2 (7:17) make no mistake. I'm not just a believer. I'm a practicer too. I'm a practicer too. And Speaker 7 (7:25) by the way, so is my whole crew. Speaker 5 (7:29) Yes, I know you. I know Justin is a practicer. You caught it? Who said it? Wait, wait, who was that? Area 71. Okay. It was a great speech. Thank you for having me. So Speaker 1 (7:42) I'm not going to go over the whole speech. I just want to quickly state I don't generally write speeches, but I do put together ideas in my head. I mean, if you want me to go speak at a club, I'm not just going to show up and wing it. People are. or sometimes they're paying for tickets, Speaker 2 (7:57) maybe raising funds for a club. So it's my job to put together a good speech. But I generally don't write things Speaker 7 (8:04) out. Nobody wants to see someone giving a speech, turning pages, because what's the first thing they think? Speaker 2 (8:10) Damn, how many more pages of this are left? I don't care how good. So don't read speeches from, it's just a bad idea. If you're not going to use a prompter, then you got to like, just go for it. I'm pretty comfortable talking on camera. Obviously, I do like 500 hours of live content a week. So I'm used to it. But there were three takeaways from Speaker 1 (8:29) last night's speech. Three, you need to remember. And I was talking about them in terms of the midterms, midterm elections and the next presidential coming up. There were three big fights this MAGA movement has ahead. Speaker 1 (8:41) Three super important fights. Apathy, and this goes back to Rock'em Sock'em Robots. Speaker 2 (8:47) Not you, you all are here. I'm not talking about you, I want to be clear. But there are people out there who are marginal voters. Maybe they vote in elections. Sometimes they do. Sometimes they don't. There's an apathy that's set in after we win. Where Donald Trump's administration did so much stuff so fast. Folks, I'm not BSing you. Brothers and sisters, I'm not BSing you. I could go down a... List of things. Shut the border almost immediately. Crushed the violent crime rate across the country. Stomped on a bunch of terror networks. I mean, the BLM arrest, the Southern Poverty Law Center, all of these arrests and all of these indictments that came out that I think the Trump administration, because of Rock'em Sock'em robots, they were hitting hard and hitting fast all the time, that I think they almost became victims of their own Speaker 7 (9:34) success. That people have now, some people, not you again, some have forgotten how much stuff has been done in less than two years. So there's an apathy that's set in. So it's up to us to go out and motivate people again to say, we got to show up, we got to win. You want Speaker 2 (9:52) this guy impeached? You want to stop these amazing things? Speaker 2 (9:57) The Speaker 1 (9:57) second thing, apathy is the first of the three problems we have, is socialism. Obviously, we've talked about it on the show. I don't need to. We'll go into it today. But you know, socialism, Speaker 2 (10:07) ladies and gentlemen, it's not just losing to the other side. It's losing everything. Your freedom, your house, the wealth you've earned in your entire life, hopefully to pass down to your kids, your religious freedom. Socialism is not a law. Socialism is the end. And if we don't recognize this fight and say, well, I'm going to sit home because I'm punishing Republicans. I already told you Republicans are not the solution to all your problems. Democrats, however, are the cause of all your problems. And if we lose to socialism, you're only punishing yourself. Speaker 1 (10:41) And finally, I've discussed this often, the organized op of doomerism out there and internal sabotage. Apathy, socialism, sabotage. These are the three biggest fights we have going into this midterms. The sabotage is real. Is it being financed? Yes. Is all of it being financed? No. Some people just don't remember all the good stuff that happened. I'm telling you the sabotage is real. It's troubling stuff. So Director Patel is up on the hill today. I'm going to go up in a minute. I just want to throw this photo out there. Folks, again, the numbers. I was up there last night. There were Speaker 2 (11:17) 2,000 people, 2,500 tickets I think they sold and filled an entire ballroom in a hotel. People, 10 rows deep standing in the back. Some people hadn't even heard. These are really active folks. Hadn't even heard about some of this stuff. This is just some of the stuff that would happen in the greatest year the Trump administration, thanks to their leadership, has had in the history of the FBI. FBI reports record decrease in violent crime in 2025. Violent crime numbers plummet around the country. 2025, the biggest violent crime drop in 90 years. Killing and other violent crimes dropped sharply in 2025. This is kind of a big deal. It was the best year they've ever had. Because under President Trump's leadership, we went in there, and I said at the speech last night, if you can find it online, I told the FBI personnel from the management on down, bring me scalps. Scalps of bad guys. No, not literal scalps, you lunatics on the left of violent stuff for them. Bring me bad guys. I want bad guys. You want bad guys? I want bad guys! I don't want BS. I don't want stories. Well, we can't find bad guys. The local police departments will find bad guys. Go help them find bad guys. And we started new task forces. I said, every community in the country has police officers out there every day. They know exactly where the drug slingers are. They know exactly where the gang bangers are. Go find them. Maybe there's not a federal crime. You can still help. You're going to go help. Bring me scalps. Speaker 2 (12:48) One of them said one time, well, damn, we're not cops. You're not cops. You're damn freaking right you are. Under this administration, you are. And this FBI, I'm right. You don't like it? Go find a Speaker 5 (12:57) new job. Being a cop is an honor. Being a cop is an honor. Some people don't like that Speaker 1 (13:05) word. I don't care. I was one. I love it. When I grew up, I played cops and robbers. I didn't play police officers and robbers. Speaker 1 (13:13) We're not cops. Speaker 5 (13:14) You're damn right you're cops. You don't like it. There's a freaking door Speaker 1 (13:17) behind me in the conference room. Use it. Bring me scalps. Speaker 1 (13:23) We'll go into a little bit more of that later. But folks, you got a really serious administration in charge. We did this entire show yesterday on AI. I'll touch on a little bit again yesterday. But thank the Lord, and again, I don't use his name in vain. I mean it, Speaker 2 (13:37) that Kamala Harris is not in charge. And in this really serious time, you know, FTOs, foreign terrorist organizations, drugs, fentanyl, that President Trump AI is in charge and not this other idiot. Look at these people. This is the other Speaker 7 (13:52) side. This is the mayor of Chicago. This liberal lunatic, Brandon Johnson. What is with the dancing? Can we, why are we dancing? You're in Chicago. Chicago. There are movies made about crime sprees in Chicago. What are you dancing about? Why is he doing the robot guy? Didn't they stop doing that in the 80s? I was alive in the 80s. I'm pretty sure that wasn't even cool in the 80s. Was anybody else here alive in the 80s? Nobody did that. It's like, why is this guy dancing? Speaker 7 (14:29) Dude, Speaker 2 (14:30) you're the mayor of Chicago. We have a big FBI office in Chicago working overtime to help your excellent police department, by the way, the cops in Chicago who do a great job at great risk to themselves. He's doing a... Speaker 7 (14:47) Why is he freaking dancing? Brandon Johnson, stop doing TikTok videos, Speaker 2 (14:52) dancing with your other Democrats. We're going to put together a montage. You stay tuned for tomorrow. We didn't have enough time today because I got a lot to get to of Democrats dancing. Stop dancing. Get to work. Speaker 7 (15:04) Here's another one. Justin Pearson was upset. This guy, isn't he running for Congress in Memphis and Tennessee where we did Operation Viper and cleaned up his city? What's he doing? He's freaking dancing. Stop dancing, bro. Stop dancing. Just get to work. Just get to work. You want to do a quickie thing? You know, Trump can, okay, we don't need the video. We just stop. Just go to work. Speaker 7 (15:35) Trump's earned the right to do his little thing. What if you're the mayor of Chicago and the place is falling apart? I'm sorry. Speaker 2 (15:47) Folks, thank you for... Where are you right now? Dan, I'm home. If you're home alone, then there's nothing you can do. If you are in a group of people watching this show, because some do, turn to the guy next to you. No, I Speaker 7 (15:59) don't Speaker 2 (16:00) make it weird. And just be like, thank you. I don't want to do that. Do it anyway. At least think it. Thank your fellow Americans for electing President Trump in this time where the AI, development of AI could lead to a huge increase in our economy and great stuff, or it could lead to Armageddon if stupid people were in charge. Thank the Lord and your fellow voters right now that President Trump is in charge, unlike these Speaker 1 (16:25) other frauds right now. On the radio show, we covered this yesterday, but I didn't hit it on the podcast because the content's different. Some of the content's different. We do some original stuff for radio. I had to put this on there. Thank you, Producer Jim. Speaker 5 (16:40) This was Kamala Harris as vice president trying Speaker 2 (16:45) to describe what artificial intelligence is. Now, I want you to keep in mind, this could be the greatest invention ever. Or just like nuclear power and everything else, if it's misused, it could lead to some problems. And you want someone like this in charge? Thank your neighbor and your fellow voter and all those Club 47 people who showed up last night that we got this president in office and not this numbskull sitting there talking about artificial intelligence. It's intelligent. That's artificial. And it's two Speaker 5 (17:17) letters. It's two letters. Thank you. I couldn't count. I thought it was seven. Check this out. Speaker 8 (17:22) part of this issue that should be articulated is AI is kind of a fancy thing. It's first of all, it's two letters. It means artificial intelligence. But ultimately what it is, is it's about machine learning. And so the machine is taught. And part of the issue here is what information is going into the machine that will then determine, and we can predict then if we think about what information is going in, what then will be produced in terms of decisions and opinions that may be made through that process. Speaker 2 (18:03) Folks, okay, listen, I'm really trying hard not to laugh. This should really be of the edutainment. This should really be the educational portion of this and not the entertainment. So I'm trying hard not to laugh, but we got it. What? Speaker 7 (18:25) There we go again. And the bus and the wheels turn around. Someone said in the chat. What is with this woman and the word salads? She just randomly throws words in a bowl like with carrots, beets, onions, whatever the hell you throw in there. Whatever you throw in there. You like spring mix, arugula, and she just like throws it up in the air and she just sits there and invents it. And it's like the two words. Can you imagine if she was Speaker 2 (18:55) in charge? I want you to put in perspective right now what we're dealing with. with this AI moment. On one side, we could cure cancer Speaker 7 (19:04) and diseases that have plagued humanity since humanities began. Since the... But what Australopithecus Africanus,