Dan Bongino & Kash Patel make insane mistake on air - Another Day - Brian Tyler Cohen

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BTC: Kash Patel makes an appearance on Dan Bongino's podcast and they don't talk about the Epstein Files. They probably just ran out of time. This is just another day.

In life, there are certain careers that are much less demanding than others. Jobs where the hours are always the same, stress levels pretty low, and you've got plenty of free time at your disposal. And these days, one of those jobs is apparently director of the FBI.

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Dan Bongino: Really happy to welcome to the show today uh my good friend and current FBI director. He's got a lot going on, so I appreciate his time. Director Kash Patel. Uh Kash, welcome to the show. Good to have you.

Kash Patel: Dan, we miss you. And congratulations on the relaunch of your epic show, America Needs It.

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BTC: That's right. America needs Dan Bongino back on the air to hold his friend and former boss accountable and to expose the corrupt dark underbelly of Washington like only he can because up until two months ago he was a major part of that corrupt dark underbelly.

Now if I'm being honest, the fact that America's two biggest Epstein files crusaders are joining each other at the same time that the files are still front and center in America's mind is pretty astonishing. Since Dan Bongino left his perch as deputy director of the FBI, and more files have come to light, nine men, including Trump, who are now or once were part of this president's administration, have been featured prominently in the Epstein files. So, I'm sure that that was the top order of business.

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Bongino: Let's get right to it. There was another uh episode uh up north of trans violence.

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BTC: Huh. Okay. Not necessarily what I thought Bongino was uh gonna lead off with, but no matter. Maybe he likes to start off with a trans appetizer before really getting into the Epstein entree.

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Bongino: Also on a um another related topic, ANTIFA.

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BTC: Okay, I'm 0 for two here so far. Please tell me that somewhere in this 20 plus minute interview being conducted by the guy whose year-long catchphrase was

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Bongino: That Jeffrey Epstein story is a big deal.

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BTC: Tell me that at least once he brought up the Epstein files.

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Bongino: You know, and it's and it's interesting being outside on the other side now reading kind of, you know, you know, the whole cornucopia of media coverage about what went on there. And then you see, you know, one side saying, well, we haven't seen a focus on public corruption. Then you see the other side saying there's been too much of a focus on public corrupt. I'm serious. You've seen it. You're like, well, one of those is obviously not true.

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BTC: Yes. Not only did Dan Bongino and Kash Patel speak about the Epstein files as much as Trump says I love you to Eric, but somehow after only serving in the FBI for 9 months, Bongino forgot that there are some people in the media who have carved out quite the financially lucrative lane as government skeptics. You know, like uh this guy.

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Bongino: We need to keep the heat on this case, folks. There are a lot of people who are knee deep in the Washington swamp who are not telling you the truth about serious allegations out there that Epstein may have had video and audio of people out there doing things they shouldn't have been doing.

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BTC: Well, I guess our only hope is that one day that guy can get access to one of these people knee deep in the Washington swamp and can hold their feet to the fire. Or..

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Bongino: I think you and I did a pretty good job. You know, it really isn't hard when you focus them on the bad guys.

Patel: Well, it's not hard, Dan. As you know, as an 1811 and a former police officer, it's not hard to do the job you signed up for if you're allowed to do the job you signed up for.

These numbers are truly historic. And that was the foundational tectonic shift you and I put into place in the FBI.

Dan, I'm glad to be back and I just want to let your audience know this historic year obviously not possible without President Trump, but definitely not possible without you as a deputy director.

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BTC: Wow. Uh I'll be honest with uh all this talk about the Epstein Files, it's refreshing to see people getting blown by someone their own age for once. You know, for a party that's been steeped in homophobia for so long, I really admire their bravery. It takes guts to jerk each other off on camera like that. Sometimes progress takes different shapes and sizes.

Now, I don't want to completely undercut all of Mr. Patel and Mr. Bongino's accomplishments at the FBI. Sure, they seem to have abandoned their uh vows to take down anyone involved in the Epstein files, but on the other hand, Dan Bongino did make some instrumental changes at the agency.

Dan Bongino, at the time his deputy director, changed the bureau's fitness test for new agents, replacing, among other things, sit-ups with pull-ups. Bongino said, "You can have the best female agent take down the biggest case in our history, but if on the ring door camera video she's out of shape or overweight, that's going to be the story." Which is so true. If we've heard one refrain from the Epstein survivors over the years, it's all we want is justice, but it better not come from some chick with flabby arms. But that's probably just some woke liberal bias of mine talking.

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Patel: I think the media, and you would know this better than I, at the core of it knows how successful this FBI has been, and they hate that it's this FBI that delivered it and not the prior administration's FBI.

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BTC: Yes, the media hates it so much. That's why they couldn't find anyone to corroborate their spite-based stories. I mean, besides the 45 people who work at the bureau or who left last year, that broke the tradition of not speaking about the press without permission, but still did because they felt it was their duty to say that Kash Patel's first year as FBI director was marred by vendettas, mismanagement, and meltdowns, which I believe is more commonly referred to as the holy trinity of incompetence. But Kash clearly sees things a little bit differently.

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Patel: It's not a creation or manufacturing of information. It exists. It's just a willingness that you and I and this building's new leadership took to say we're going to look at the facts that exist. We're not going to try to make up facts that don't so we can serve a political narrative.

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BTC: That's right. The last thing Kash Patel wants is to put out incorrect information that simply serves a political narrative.

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Patel: You cannot bring a firearm loaded with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It's that simple. You don't have that right to break the law and incite violence.

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BTC: Phew. Thank God there's not some woke liberal running the FBI anymore. Otherwise, he'd try and take your Second Amendment rights away.

I mean, I mean this with all sincerity. What on earth was the point of this interview? Dan Bongino handed in his badge, redawned his truth crusader hat, had the head of the FBI on his program, and didn't ask him shit. In fact, he just made up excuses for their inaction while in office.

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Bongino: That's the thing in DC is that's why the batting average isn't always going to be a thousand. There are there's no good call to be made or someone else would have made it. There's just really tough decisions where, you know, there's a shit call and a shittier call. And listen, that's what we signed up for. That's how it rolls.

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BTC: Dan is right. When you're in DC and part of the FBI, your batting average is not always going to be a thousand. Although, normally batters put in a slightly more effort instead of every swing being done with a pool noodle.

Dan Bongino left the government and relaunched his show a month ago, promising his fans that big things were going to happen.

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Bongino: Welcome to the Dan Bongino Show. It's kind of a big freaking deal.

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BTC: And yet, for all of his claims of government corruption, cronyism, and rampant institutional fraud, Bongino never thought to ask why the FBI is formally refusing to share evidence in the killing of Alex Pretti. Because that seems pretty corrupt to me. Or what the FBI is doing seizing ballots in Georgia? And he never had an interest in pressing the head of the FBI about the fact that numerous Epstein co-conspirators have recently been revealed in the files, even though a certain someone said otherwise.

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Sen. John Kennedy: You've seen most of the files. Uh who, if anyone, did Epstein traffic these young women to besides himself?

Patel: Himself. There is no credible information. None. If there were, I would bring the case yesterday that he trafficked to other individuals. And the information we have again is limited.

Kennedy: So the answer is no one.

Patel: For the information that we have.

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BTC: Right, which if I'm not mistaken is all of it. Not once did the redactions come up. Nor did Bongino ask Kash about this list of 300 names put out by the DOJ to muddy the waters. Nor did he ask why Pam Bondi decided to talk about how great the Dow was doing during her congressional testimony about the Epstein files. And that would be an abdication of duty for anyone, but especially for two guys who built their entire brands on raging against the machine.

But now, not only are they the machine and denouncing anyone who dares question them, but the guys who promised to drain the swamp and uncover the Deep State pretty much just took part in the biggest jerkoff session since Lauren Boebert scored those half-price Beetlejuice tickets on StubHub.

How do these men have any credibility anymore? An entire 20 plus minute interview and never once mentioning the Epstein Files. That is their whole thing. It's like seeing Billy Joel and he never plays Piano Man. That's like watching a Warriors game and Steph Curry never shoots a three. It's like going to Salt Bay's restaurant and having him season your food with a grinder. To have the number one and number two guys at the FBI talk for over 20 minutes about absolutely nothing while also ignoring the biggest scandal on the planet that they not only shined a light on, but are now doing their damnedest to cover up. As someone once said…

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Bongino: …it's kind of a big freaking deal.

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BTC: I couldn't agree more.