The Choice Is Clear!

The Dan Bongino Show

Host Dan Bongino interviews Dr. Peter McCullough to discuss the medical fallout of COVID-19 policies and the dangers of future pandemics. Th

Key takeaways

• Dr. McCullough warns that AI could be used to engineer highly infectious and lethal biological weapons.
• Bongino highlights a recent attempted hijacking on a flight to Tel Aviv as a sign of rising global instability.

Main topics

• COVID-19 medical response
• Iranian national security threats

Notable quotes

The risk of inaction is grave.

Conclusion

The episode serves as a warning against political and technological co

Transcript preview

Speaker 7 (0:02) All America, all the time. Sit down, buckle up, and get ready for the Dan Bongino Show. Speaker 3 (0:10) Thanks, Dave. 4-9-9-0 in the chat. I saw that. Speaker 4 (0:14) Dan is always on time. Well, not always, but we do try. If we are not on time for the show at 10 a.m. Eastern Time, live every day like we are today, or 10-0-1, sometimes you're just waiting on Rumble to get back to you. You know, there's a link and all that stuff. If we're not on time, I promise you it's always for a reason. Correct, guys? It's never because I'm like not here. It's always because something popped last minute and I want to make sure I get it to you and I want it done right. So thanks for the compliment. Hey, I have an absolute freaking banger of a show for you today. Do you all in the chat remember Dr. Peter Speaker 3 (0:47) McCullough? Remember the COVID, the total complete government, World Health Organization? healthcare, medicine meltdown, hospital meltdown during COVID. Of course you do. I mean, unless you were just, you know, born a couple of years ago. Remember that debacle? There were very few truth tellers Speaker 1 (1:05) during COVID who were willing to take the risk. I'm not going to take any lectures. I was banned from YouTube, costing me a fortune and a huge number of my audience members on YouTube because I refused to bend the knee. They said, Speaker 3 (1:19) stop talking about masks not working. I said, double barrel. I'm going to talk about it. And they said, OK, you're banned. He was with me for that debacle. And I just refused to listen to them. I was going to tell you the truth. Well, Dr. McCullough was another one warning people. Speaker 4 (1:35) that, listen, a lot of these promises being made about the vaccine and others and a lot of the attacks on ivermectin, horse paste, and all this other crap are fake. He's back today in what I promise you is going to be an eye-opening interview. Some of you still have concerns. Took the vax. Do I still got these spike proteins? What's the deal with that? Is there anything I can do? So we've got a solid interview at the end of today's show. I got that. And just in the beginning of the show, I got to get this out there. If you're a regular P1 listener, you know this to be true. I don't often use Speaker 3 (2:07) my own appearances on cable news on the show because it's usually pretty dumb because I can just say it again myself. However, I was on a freaking roll last night on Hannity and got about a thousand texts, slight hyperbole, but not much from people like, dude, that is the choice. So I want to just play for you Speaker 4 (2:27) snippets of what happened on Hannah. You haven't gotten that much feedback on a cable news appearance in a long time. I got that and a whole lot more. Of course, a really horrific incident last night in a flight to Tel Aviv. We'll get to that, a whole bunch of stuff. Folks, listen, I'm going to get personal for a second. 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Speaker 3 (5:22) We've got a choice to make. It's a binary choice. I wish I can't say this enough. There were. you know, 10 flourishing parties that we could go out there and even pluralities at times. I mean, a parliamentary system is not the greatest thing, but it would even pull people over to one side. We have a two party system for better or for worse. It's what we're stuck with. I live in the world as it is not the world as I want it to be. It's a tough sacrifice to make for all of us. We wish we lived in utopia, but we don't. Speaker 4 (5:51) Sean asked me last night about the Iranian threat. Listen, it's not some stupid flex. Who the hell cares? I was proud to serve you as your deputy director at the FBI. It was the greatest job of my life. But it was an eye-opener. I had been out of federal law enforcement for a little bit of time. And I, as a Secret Service agent, was not in on the President's Daily Brief. The President's Daily Brief is the greatest newspaper in Speaker 3 (6:12) the world. You see things the rest of the public doesn't. When I was interviewing with Sean on his podcast, he said to me, are you comfortable with the decisions on Iran? I said, listen, I know they're not going to be popular with everyone. I understand that. But the risk of inaction is grave. I described that to him last night. I don't know if I've said this on the air before, but it's important. I want you to listen to the three things. Because when you hear about the Iranian threat, the only thing you hear people talking about who haven't read the entire portfolio, the only thing you hear about is the nuclear threat, which was very real. They were going to rebuild it and potentially quickly if they could, if we didn't stop them. But there were two other things that are really important that could start a regional or world war. I mentioned them last night. I just want you to keep this in mind. I know these decisions aren't popular, but they were necessary. Check this out. Speaker 8 (7:01) I Speaker 3 (7:01) like the fact that Speaker 8 (7:02) our kids won't have to worry about a nuclear-armed Iran. Speaker 3 (7:05) I'm glad you constantly bring that up because it's true. I had the privilege of working for President Trump and you get Speaker 1 (7:12) the president's daily brief. And although I can't elaborate on some of the specifics, speaking in generalities, the Iranian issue had to be dealt with or your gas prices would have been eight and ten dollars a gallon. And just to add to that, it wasn't just the nuclear threat. Again, speaking as generally as I can. There were other threats out there that people in the USIC, the US intelligence community, they're not going to give you all the details because we can't. It would burn sources. But you had things like cyber attacks, given the rapid advancements in artificial intelligence that we've seen, that the Iranians don't care. Like whether their cyber grid got wiped out or not, they don't care. They're not interested in deterrence by mutually assured destruction. They don't care if everyone's destroyed, as long as you're destroyed first. It was also, one more thing, Sean, it was not just a nuclear threat and attacks on our grid. It was also the potential for lethal plotting. The Speaker 3 (8:09) assassination attempts over and over and over again had the potential for massive disruption. I mean, we didn't need another Archduke Ferdinand moment. Speaker 4 (8:18) Now, the liberals, folks in the chat understand where I was going with the Archduke Ferdinand moment. Liberals in the chat and trolls have no idea what that actually means. Put it in Grok or chat GPT or Claude or whatever, and you'll figure it out. It's a reference, of course, to what started World War One, which was the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, Speaker 3 (8:40) Austria, Serbia. Speaker 3 (8:43) Bosnians, regional conflict turned into a world conflict, which turns into one of the most destructive events in human history, World War I. Folks, a couple of points here. I had not, I think, stated on, this is why I played it again today. And I got another part of this coming up in a second. This is critical you understand this. The risk of inaction by President Trump. We've already spoken about the nuclear threat that's been. litigated and still being litigated over and over in the media. Fine. But I want to move on to these other two points. If there is a massive, massive hit on the grid that shuts down power in the Northeast from whatever, from Maine to New York, and that is due to an SIAI generated cyber hit that knocks out power stations and fries transformers or whatever. Speaker 1 (9:33) I promise you the left wing media that is criticizing Trump for his decisions on Iran, despite the fact that they don't know what he knows, right? If that were to happen, they would have his head on a pike. They would be like, look at this loser. He knew about the threat. He didn't do anything. He just wanted to save the midterms. You know they would be saying that. Dan, why are you so concerned about a Speaker 3 (9:57) cyber threat specifically from Iran? Because, folks, cyber warfare is going to get very cheap very quickly. I could argue it's very cheap now with artificial intelligence. Speaker 3 (10:09) The reason a lot of countries that are enemies or at least opponents of the United States or adversaries, China, Russia and elsewhere, they're not our friends. The reason they don't do this is because of what's known as MAD, Mutually Assured Destruction. It's the same reason, thankfully, we haven't had a global thermonuclear war. Why not? Countries get pissed off. Why don't they launch nukes? Because they know we'll Speaker 1 (10:35) launch nukes. And then everybody's dead and they don't want to get dead. The Iranians are not rational. They are not rational. The point I made last night, I was just telling Jasmine, she was walking through, I need you to tattoo on your brain. They don't care if everybody's destroyed the Iranians. That's what they want. As long as they think they're going to meet 72 virgins. They don't care. Listen to me. This is not a compliment to them, obviously, but they don't fear death. They think they're going up there for 72 virgins or whatever they've been told. They don't care if we hit them with a cyber attack and they hit us as long as we all die. That is the asymmetric risk component that liberal media and Doomer critics do not understand because they don't know what's in the portfolio of information. Secondly, it's incredible. You've had people in the podcast space who claim to be President Trump's friend saying over and over, my gosh, if they're trying to assassinate President Trump, we should like hit them hard. I'm telling you, they try over. And of this lethal plotting is an endless loop. You think if they were to, God forbid, assassinate President Trump or a major political figure in the United States, that this wouldn't blow up into a massive regional potential world war? I already gave you the example where it's happened in World War I. It's not just one thing. The risk of inaction was off the charts. It had to be done. And the fact that now the straight is under our control and the Iranians got. F'd like you wouldn't believe. They tried to blockade it. We blockaded their blockade. Now the oil's coming out, just not the Iranian oil. Their economy is in shambles. Folks, they have no way out of this. It hasn't been without Speaker 3 (12:32) risk on our side. It hasn't been without some downsides on our side, too. No one's going to tell you otherwise. I'm telling you the risk of inaction was grave. And by the way, to all the, you know, troll, fake, bot. critics out there and a Speaker 4 (12:47) few living bodies like the Auburn kid who must fell on his face. I can't, I'm sorry. Oh, look at you. You're just a war monk. Oh, okay. Sure. Absolutely. Speaker 3 (12:58) Yes. That's, that's, that's absolutely true. You know, I've advocated, I only ran for office, like against most of these. This was not an option. It was not an option. Speaker 3 (13:09) Secondly, folks, elections are binary choices. Nobody likes two-party systems. They don't. I wish there was a good independent who'd run one day and could siphon off votes from both parties on an America, on a better America tomorrow agenda that both sides could agree with. But we'd have Democrats who are crazy, liberals who are crazy, progressives who are crazy, and you've got some fake Vox Maga people Speaker 1 (13:32) who don't want that. They pretend they do, but they don't. There is a choice. I know everything, everywhere, all the time is never going to be Speaker 3 (13:39) peachy. I get that. I get that. It's not going to be, you know, a McDonald's birthday party with orange drink and great burgers when you were kids. That's not what's going to happen. It's the real world. There are problems we have to deal with. But it is not, and by the way, I put out a Speaker 1 (13:55) tweet about this yesterday. This is not me saying, oh, well, choose the better or the worst. I'm not saying that at all. I've already told you, I think the Trump two-year record is one for the history books. Oh, what do you base that on? Gee, I don't know. I'll explain it in this clip. Like we have actual numbers to back it up. And then today the inflation number came in and the inflation number was lower, lower, lower than expected. I'll play that for you later. But Sean Speaker 3 (14:20) asked me last night, hey man, Give the pitch. You're in an elevator. We got 30 plus days to go. Why one party? Why the Republicans in this midterm election? Well, here it was. Check this out. If Speaker 8 (14:30) they get in Speaker 3 (14:31) touch, describe in detail what you see Speaker 8 (14:34) coming, because I see nothing but, you know, free, free, free, unfulfilled promises and the failure of socialism. What do you see? Speaker 4 (14:44) I'll tell you exactly what they're going to do. I'll use the big areas, the economy, healthcare, education, the economy. You're going to see a spending blowout like you've never seen before. They believe in modern monetary theory. Here's what that is. Just print a whole bunch of money and it's not going to have any impact on the economy. We saw that's obviously false with Biden peaking at 9 % inflation, averaging 5 % inflation, multiple points ahead of the Trump administration trying to clean up the mess. Healthcare, you're going to see another massive spending blowout on healthcare Speaker 3 (15:12) move to the Bernie Sanders program, which is going to cancel. cancel your private insurance. It's in the bill. Please read it. Education, you're going to see kids forced back in and off school choice programs, some schools that are working back into a public school system, indoctrinating your kids. You're going to see men in the women's room again. You're going to see a defund the police movement. You're going to see ICE officers doing their job in jail. You're going to see subpoenas to, you know, FBI agents and others who just went out and did their jobs and got away from this weaponization crap. You're going to see them up on the hill. If that's the America you want, it's all about contrast, folks. It's one or the other. It's a binary choice. I wish we had more than two parties. We don't. Those are your choices. Contrast with the Trump Speaker 1 (15:52) agenda. Closed border, safest streets you've ever seen, lowest poverty rates on record, highest median household income you've ever seen on record, Speaker 3 (15:59) lowest jobless rate in decades. Those are just the facts. It's one or the other. I think the choice is easy. Speaker 4 (16:06) Why chatting in the chat says I look different on Hannity. It's lighting. That's in a truck. A tiny truck, by the way. It looks big because you got the studio, the TV in the background in the truck. It's not. It's like one of those Amazon delivery vans in Manhattan. So you're like squeezed in there. So the lighting is always different. I promise you it's the same me for better or for worse. It's tough to make this face look different. Good job, Jackie. By the way, that was... Jackie's, you know, stuff she puts on. I just left it on. What the hell? I'm like, I don't know how to do this stuff. I don't know how to do it. Folks, Speaker 3 (16:42) we have a choice. I'm asking a question. I'm not being a jerk. I'm not mad at anyone who's upset about, you know, the spike in gas prices. Why would I be mad? People have real concerns. You know, folks, I grew up middle class, okay? I can't tell you enough. Like, my mom worked at a supermarket. My dad was a plumber. And a building inspector. All right? We grew up above a bar, 64th Place and Myrtle Avenue. Go put it in your Apple or Google Maps or whatever. I don't even know what it is now, a deli or something. We were up on the second floor. Look at the corner there. That was our apartment. It was not some fine living and dining situation, I promise you. I'm not going to be lectured about anyone about what it was like to went to, you know, I went to city schools. And I went to a state school because I couldn't afford a lot of this stuff. I mean, we barely paid our tuition growing up. Thank God for Sister Jane in St. Pancras took us in this Catholic school and let my mom pay late pretty much all the time, if ever. Yeah, I know what that's like. I know exactly what it's like. I had, you know, middle class jobs. I stacked shelves in the supermarket. I was a police officer in New York. What do you Speaker 1 (17:57) think they make? $500,000 a year? I'm not diminishing your concerns at all. I'm telling you, you've got one record, the Biden and the Democrat record. Speaker 3 (18:07) You have the record. It already happened. 9 % inflation peak, 5 % average under Biden. The inflation numbers just came out today. They're two points lower. Does that mean inflation is a concern? Speaker 1 (18:20) Absolutely not. Does that mean Donald Trump's record is far better than Biden's? I just gave you the numbers. If you want, if inflation is your biggest concern, than voting for the Democrats, what you're telling me is, I'm sorry, but you're not really interested in the number. I don't know. I don't know. I'm not trying to insult anyone. I'm just giving you the numbers. 5 % inflation or 3 %? And Trump won. It was like 1.9. So his overall record is far better. You have a choice. It's never a perfect choice. I'm going to ask you this, too. Do you want this back? Speaker 3 (18:57) You know Nick Shirley. I like this guy. Independent journalist. Goes out there, does man on the streets and other stuff. Man on the street interviews. Exposed the Minnesota Learing Center. Missing an R. So Nick Shirley went out to Oregon. I was interviewing some people in the liberal belly of Portland, Oregon. You want this stuff back? This is one of the craziest interviews I've ever seen. It's about, I'll play about a minute of it. This is what's going to be empowered again. Chop zones, Antifa assaults on the courthouse, defund the police, sky-high inflation, restricting gas production so the gas prices go even higher. That is your choice. You want this lady Speaker 1 (19:35) and her lieutenants in charge? This is probably one of the craziest interviews I've ever seen. Should we let 12-year-olds do drugs? Yeah, why not? Kumbaya, s'mores, defund the police. We could all sing together. I'm not kidding. Check this out. Speaker 2 (19:50) I Speaker 5 (19:51) think it's marvelous. The diversity, seeing everyone, the homeless living outside. What Speaker 8 (19:58) should the United States do to try to combat the fentanyl crisis here? Should they allow people to use drugs openly here in the streets of America? Speaker 5 (20:04) I think that... We have to be taught as young children how to use drugs. We've used drugs since we've been cavemen. So if we don't start teaching the Indian way where we have them at 12 years old going out in the wilderness or doing whatever, doing quests, vision quests, and taking drugs that way, we are going to end up taking drugs the way we are and it's not working. So why don't we teach our children the spiritual way? And I would say that the Native Americans had that. Did Speaker 8 (20:38) you ever do meth? Speaker 5 (20:39) No, no, no, no. I did try cocaine, but I never liked it, thank God. How old were you when you Speaker 8 (20:45) started doing hard drugs like cocaine? Speaker 5 (20:47) I didn't do hard drugs. Speaker 8 (20:49) Okay. A Speaker 5 (20:50) little marijuana, a little LSD, but that was it. Speaker 8 (20:54) Kevin, should Peele be starting to use drugs at 12? Absolutely not. She is absolutely delusional. Speaker 1 (21:01) Thank you, Kevin, for bringing some sanity to Portland. For the record, for the record, I have not done cocaine. You get this on the record? Do we have a record somewhere? Andy, can you create an official record at some point? Put it in a spreadsheet. Dan's for the record, okay? Here's point number one for the record. Speaker 3 (21:19) Dan Speaker 1 (21:20) has never done cocaine. Dan is me. Shouldn't be talking about myself in the third person. Or LSD. What was the other one? Meth. I create the record. Please, thank you. Andrew's writing it on the board right now. Dan has not done. You got to put the three drugs she mentions. Cocaine, meth, or LSD. Nor do I have any intentions of doing so. You can throw a Motley's in the chat, but I'm serious. It's a heart attack. And no, I don't think 12-year-olds should go on a. Speaker 1 (21:52) Dan is not done. Do not erase that. Thank you. That is the official record on the board. Andrew's handwriting is as bad as mine. He said 12-year-olds should go on a vision