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Dan Bongino. Welcome to the Bongino Brief. I'm Dan Bongino. Here's the bad news first about the inauguration. You're asking me, do I think the inauguration is safe? After yesterday's briefing, my answer is, Probably not. It pains me to say that. Now, it's one of those things I'm speculating. The inauguration, ladies and gentlemen, hasn't happened yet. I'm just afraid that the people in charge at the top of the Secret Service, and certainly at the FBI, do not know what they're doing. In case you're asking, by the way, about bona fides in this situation, you know what?

I'd ask you guys to take that picture off the wall, but I don't know how heavy it is.

There is a picture on the wall right over there in the studio behind me of the Daily News. It is me at Barack Obama's inauguration where I... Is that too heavy? Look at Michael. Michael's like a big hockey dude.

He's like seven I'm 5 feet tall.

I wasn't sure if it... Here, thank you, Michael. Here. Okay, so here it is. You can see me in the corner right there in the... Is that me right there? No, the other side. Sorry, everything's backwards. Okay, that's me with my right-hand. So thank you, Michael. I appreciate it. So there's the bone of feeties. That was a cover of the New York Daily News. My shoulder's hurt now. That thing weighs 5 pounds. It looked like it weighed 50. Of course, Michael manhandles it. I'm like, proving my point that these are all show that don't even work anymore. It's all for show. If you want to kick my ass, you probably could. But I was responsible for the section of the presidential inaugural route for Barack Obama's first inauguration. I was specifically responsible for the most important section. Again, you're free to foia the Secret Service and ask about this stuff. The section, as you can see in the picture, it's very straight. It's like this. The thing is like this. They're like, Is this straight? We'll put it up later. Very esky, totally straight right there. I was responsible for the section where Barack Obama was to get out of the car.

Let me just say this. I think if President Trump, at this point, given the people in charge of the Secret Service at the top and their known incompetence. I think if President Trump were to stay in the car and forego the walk, I would be comfortable. I have not been briefed in on the security plan. I wish I was. I would like to review it myself because I've done it before and I want to see what they're looking at. I know exactly what it's supposed to look like. Now, here's the bad news first, okay? I said I'd get to it. The FBI, who I don't trust as far as I could throw, the FBI, this is very short, this is a manager at the FBI, obviously responsible for a portion of the inaugural security. Here he is saying that they're not tracking any threats. Do you really believe that there are no threats to the inauguration? Are you insane? Whatever the FBI says these days, I tend to believe the opposite.

Check this out.

We are not currently tracking any specific or credible threats to the inaugural ceremony or to the capital complex. We will continue to work closely with our partners to share information and identify and disrupt any threats that may emerge.

Okay, that's the bad news. Why is that the bad news? Because, again, I don't trust the FBI, and I tend to believe, given their credibility on prior issues, which is zero, I tend to believe the opposite of what they're saying. I would almost rather the FBI come out and say, We're tracking very seriously threats, because then I would believe they were doing something about it. The problem is there probably are very serious threats. Again, I have not been briefed in on the matter. Of course, he could be telling the truth, and I hope he is. I just don't trust them. Why do I not trust the FBI? Because there's no reason to trust the FBI when it comes to anything involving Donald Trump, because they've been on the opposite side of the truth of nearly every major scandal involving the FBI. It's going to take a long time to rebuild trust once Cash Patel, hopefully, gets confirmed. More in a minute, but first. Folks, I've been using the Bone Charge infrared blanket, and Paula has been using the red light face mask.

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Here's the good news. I'm going to tell you this part in advance, and I'm not biased here because I know this individual well. I promise you, I knew Ron Roe well, the director, too, and Ron screwed up bad, the acting director now, and he needs to go. It's not personal. Ron was very nice to me when I was on the detail. Ron is not He's qualified to be the secret service director. I'm sorry, based on what happened in Butler and what happened in Palm Beach. He's just not. There's only so many failures, and by the way, January 6, too, where he was also in the management chain. He's not qualified. The guy in charge of what we call WFO, the Washington Field Office, who is basically running on the ground, inaugural security from a management perspective, is this guy. His name is Matt McCool. His name is public.

I'm not giving anything up. He briefed yesterday, so it's not like I'm giving up his name.

He gave a public briefing yesterday. I know Matt very well. I've got a very long work history with him, a lot longer than I had with Ron Ro. Matt is a very competent guy. Matt is a very smart guy. Matt knows protection. Matt, very importantly, knows tactical work as well as a lot of experience on the tactical side. He's overseeing this. Here he is during the briefing yesterday saying that they're looking at out of the box thinking on this one. I hope he's correct, but check this out.

I would say what's different is we are in a higher threat environment.

What is the difference in comparison to the last inauguration or previous inauguration?

Last inauguration? Yeah. I would say we have a slightly more robust security plan. We've been planning for this event for 12 months along with our partners. It's an ever-changing threat environment, and so we stay flexible. If we see that, Hey, we need to shore this particular checkpoint up, we do that. What's different? We've learned. This is our fifth NSSE this year in the Washington field office. We've done 83 NSSEs. Each one we take a look at, and If there's areas where we need to improve, we do it. But what I can tell you is that we are 100% confident in the plan that we have put in place for this inauguration, that the public and our protectees will be safe.

Well, ladies and gentlemen, that puts me at ease a little bit because, again, I know Matt to be a very competent guy. Just to clear up some of the jargon, not a knock on him, but professionals talk in jargon a lot. He refers to NSSEs, how they've done a lot of those. Nsses are National Special Security Events. Why is that significant? If something is designated a NSSE, a National Special Security Event, the Secret Service is in charge of the security plan. I have said in my reform proposals for the United States Secret Service, as As much as I adore my prior colleagues in the Secret Service, the ones that didn't screw up in Butler and the ones that didn't screw up the management chain in Palm Beach and everything else, and on January sixth, the Secret Service should no longer be in charge of NSSEs. They shouldn't. They should be a part of it, but they should not be in charge. You have other federal entities that should be more of a complete task force model. The Secret Service does not have the bureaucratic pull to do the things they need to do, to make people do the things things they need to do.

I'm not sure that makes sense, but there are other entities that can take this away from the Secret Service. They should not be in charge of NSSEs. They should be in charge of presidential and vice presidential security in their families. That's it. All the other stuff needs to go away. If President Trump and the team decide they ever want to talk about this, it's something I plan on bringing up. I've been talking to members of Congress about it extensively. You want to keep the President and his family alive, there's only one way to do it. It's to dump everything else the Secret Service does and focus on keeping them alive. It's not complicated. Here's Matt McCool again addressing something that I am deeply concerned about. It is the air picture. Folks, I can't tell you this enough. Explaining the damage drones can do and why they are a critical threat is very easy. Human beings can't fly. I can't say this enough. If you see a drone overhead and there is not a vigorous plan to take it down, countermeasures, electronic interference, whatever you plan on doing, netting, basically making it a harder target. I don't know what their plan is.

I'm just telling you, I'm hearing from sources it's not nearly as strong as they're claiming. Let's hope I'm wrong and that these sources, that there's updated information. Here's McCool again from the Washington field office talking about a drone plan saying, Hey, don't be alarmed. We're going to have drones in the sky, too. Okay, I hope he's right, and I hope they've got a good plan. Watch this.Secret.

Service's comprehensive security plan will continue to use drones as part of our protective posture. Do not be alarmed if you see these assets during the inauguration or in training in the days ahead.

By the way, dude, it looks like...

Come on, dude. He was a friend of mine. I don't talk to him. I say was, not that he's not now, but we don't really talk about you anymore.

He looks like he's cut out of central cast. With a name like McCool, it's perfect, right, for this guy? He's as competent as he looks. So let's hope that drone plan. If they can knock out the drone plan, I am convinced on the big six, they're all set. Tactical, medical, chembio, airborne, IED, fire, geological disturbance stuff. I think on the other big six threats, they're good to go. It's this freaking air picture that really scares the shit out of me. That was a clip from the Dan Bongino show. You can watch the full show on Rumble. All you have to do is go to rumble.

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