Bongino Weekend Report - Week of 09/28/26

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All America, all the time. On the side of freedom and liberty, your voice of hope and truth is here. The Bongino Report, PM.

With Dan Bongino.

Dan Bongino (0:32)

Folks, I'd like to tell you we got a big show today, which we do. So I'd like to tell you, I just told you. But we've got a pretty big week. Producer Jim, correct? We've got a lot going on. Correct.

In the entire Bongino, Inc., whatever you want to call it, family. You know, Vince Colen Aces on Nationally on Radio 12 to 3 He also has a podcast on our network. You can check out rumble.com/vince.

He has an interview with Vice President Vance. He was recording today, Monday. Will air tomorrow, Tuesday at 8 a.m. Eastern Time, on demand anytime after that. So please check that out. I'm sure they'll break a lot of news. That's a great get by Vince. Congratulations on that. We will also be using some of the clips on our show. So in case you miss it, you can check that out. You see how we're like, Jim, that's like a total. I told Vince, I go, I'm totally stealing some of your stuff for the show. He's like, hey man, it's not stealing if I tell you to use it. So we're happy for him. Good job, Vince, getting that one. And we have a big interview this week with the man who took my spot at the FBI after my year there, the first year of the Trump administration. FBI Deputy Director Chris Rhea will be interviewing this week. You will hear some of that on Bongino Report AM, Bongino Report PM, and on the podcast. So don't miss that. OK, it is Monday. It is great to be back with you. I sometimes do a weekend update because I love you all and feel like we should all kind of know each other a little better than me being behind a radio. And there's nothing more rewarding than going out and seeing listeners to the show who tell me things about my life I'd even forgotten. They ask me about like Lucy and her health bars, and I'm like, how do you know about the health bars? Joked like you said it on the radio a year ago. I'm like, you remember that? Unfortunately, I don't have a huge weekend update because this weekend was a really, really busy work weekend. No, it's not one of those ridiculous humble brags. Everybody works for a living, but we did have a lot to get done. So had an interesting date night, Friday night. We just kind of hung out in the backyard a little bit, but nothing really that exciting. However, we did have all of this going on, trying to coordinate all these interviews and everything like that.

So I like a theme to shows, because it's like kind of reading a book. You want to know in advance what the book's about, right? You don't want to go into a book and go, the book about nothing, and then you read it, it was a great book. I wish it was a murder mystery. I would have recommended it in advance. Today's show is not a murder mystery. Today's show is about contrast. It's going to come up often in today's show. We have an election coming up in just about 40 days. And one of the primary tactical tools that good politicians, on both sides, yeah, I'm not saying they have good ideas, I'm not a Democrat, obviously, but people who are good at getting votes, that make some good politicians, that's what they do, are really good at a couple of things. They're good at sound bites. They're good at snapshots. No, they're not photographers, but they know what a good picture looks like.

And they know how to paint contrasts and how to ask questions.

How to avoid assertions and ask people questions.

But the contrast component of this is so critical, and you're going to see it throughout today's show today. As I don't only tell you, hey, here's what the president's leadership has led to over the last two years, President Trump. Again, there are some areas of concern. No doubt I am not downplaying your genuine concerns about cost of food, diesel, fuel prices. That is all very real. The question is, if that is the one issue you're voting on, if you were to withhold your vote and basically allow Democrats to win, will that issue you're voting on get better or worse? And the answer, I can tell you, with absolute certainty, absolute certainty is 100% that Democrats will make it worse.

And I'm not painting this as being on the margin at all. I am absolutely convinced President Trump's agenda has led to some remarkable spreadsheet items. Spreadsheets, put the numbers in front of me. Median household income, highest it's ever been. Jobless rate, 57-year law, I'm only 51 years old. We haven't seen a jobless rate this low since six years before I was born.