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December 19, 2025 โ€ข 52 mins

This Week in Review breaks down the Bondi Beach terror attack, rising global threats, and what it reveals about preparedness and response. We examine the growing credibility crisis inside the FBI, Dan Bongino’s resignation, and the consequences of political self-preservation over accountability. From DOJ dysfunction to Trump-era insiders chasing media validation, this episode connects the dots between terror, leadership failure, and public trust. A blunt assessment of where America stands—and why nothing feels like it’s working.

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Timestamps: 00:00 - Christmas In America Epilogue 13:00 - Terror in Broad Daylight: The Bondi Beach Attack 25:15 - The Department of War Goes High-Tech 34:44 - Kash Patel’s Girlfriend Image Rehab, and the FBI’s Credibility Problem 37:38 - Vanity Fair, Power, and Political Self-Inflicted Wounds 43:42 - Dan Bongino Walks Away — And What That Signals

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today on the Weekend Review, Terror Tacks and Bondie Beach Australia,
the future for the Department of War, Cash Betel rehabilitates
his girlfriend's image, Vanity Fair covers the inner circle of
the Trump White House, and Dan Bongino bids a do
today on the David Rutherford Show. What's Up Team, I

(00:32):
am pretty excited to do today's show. We've been doing
a ton of incredible interviews over the last several weeks.
If if you missed any of them, I highly recommend
you go back and you take a look at some
of these incredible interviews we've done both George Pazzulu, David Clements.

(00:56):
I loved uh Stay interview. I just think we've been
really kind of hitting a great stride. I hope you're
enjoying the content. If you are, please don't forget light,
subscribe and share with all your friends. We've got some great,
great shows coming up. Gonna do a Christmas special next week,

(01:18):
got a great show about Syria coming up too, and
then we're gonna do some really awesome fun end of
the year year and review shows where Jordan and I
are gonna go off on the top stories of the year.
For you guys now, you know, Christmas is always an
interesting time for me. I don't know about the rest

(01:39):
of you, but as a kid growing up, you know,
it was one of those things that I enjoyed it,
but I didn't love it. I wasn't the guy the
kid that was all fired up and would get out
there and hang lights with my dad or you know,
put the decorations on the tree and we sat around
and drank a nag or man. That just was not

(02:02):
our household. In fact, a lot of the time it
was just me and my brother argue in it was
a hectic around the house. I just wanted to get
out and go ride my bike with my friends, you know.
But Christmas was never like this major or do. We
never went to church, we didn't do anything. So when
it comes to my Christmas duties and responsibilities, man, I'll

(02:23):
tell you what, I flat out suck. And I'm not
gonna lie. I'm not gonna say I'm good. I'm not
gonna say I'm the man. And you all you got
to do is just ask my wife for my four daughters.
And the perfect example example of all this was last night.
Again it's what it's the eighteenth and I have yet
to put up any Christmas lights outside of the house.

(02:46):
And it's not like we got a big house or nothing,
but all my neighbors have been done for weeks. Everybody's
done in the neighborhood, and Old Rutt is just dragging
my feet. Now. I always use the excuse where I'm
traveling all the time. Well, I haven't traveled this week.
I was done last week and have really no other excuse.
I said, I got a little sick this weekend. That

(03:07):
helped me put it off a couple of days. But
I'll tell you what it came down. So last night
I get all my I go, I do get a
work at it, and then I'm like, all right, let's
go and get out all the extension cords, right, and
I start going and it starts to rain, and it's
just a little drizzle to start out, and I'm like, okay,
no big deal. But then it starts pissing on me

(03:30):
and I'm like, all right, I'll just do the lights
on the pillars in front of the house, real simple,
round the doorframe. And so I'm trying to run the
extension cords around out in the you know, tucking under.
So nothing can see it. And then finally I'm just
throwing it over the edges and I go to my
first one as I'm you know, having a drink of
my scotch and pretty much just chilling. And and I

(03:54):
go to plug in the first one with the first
set of colored lights, traditional ones because got by the way,
my my light decoration is abysmal on every level, and
I love it that way. There's no continuity. You're never
gonna see the same decorations twice. It's a it's god awful.
But that's why I love it, right, It's it's it's
less than Clark Griswol. So I get there and I'm

(04:17):
getting ready, and I'm like, all right, I go to
plug it in, No no juice right now, I gotta
trace it back. I ditch one extension cord that doesn't work.
Then I gotta go bring the lights. And by then, uh,
my wife comes back picking up one of our daughters
from soccer practice and comes in and I'm just sitting
in the in the gym, in our little garage gym,

(04:38):
and I got my scotch and I got my head lamp.
My my, my, my things are down like this right
I stink from working out, and I'm miserable, and she
walks in and she just starts hilariously laughing at my
ass which was all warranted. Right, I don't claim to
have any protection in this. I deserve every kind of

(05:01):
joke or assessment of my almost utter incompetence of Christmas
spirit and festivities. Now, now inside looks beautiful in our
house because my wife does it, and we even wrangled
the kids. We have a tradition where we all put on,
you know, some type of Christmas little outfit and put
the tree up and go get it together. And I

(05:23):
always see my buddy Pete, who I grew up with, awesome,
and we get the tree, put it on, bring it home,
and then we open it up and then the next
night we put all the decorations. But our decorations are
much like our lights outside. Right, We've got you know,
the twenty twenty four election map as an ornament. We've
got you know Trump and his ear fight fight fight,

(05:46):
I've got I've got what's his face from your Christmas
vacation or yeah, Christmas vacation when he's cleaning and cleaning
the shitter Clark. You know, we've got that and so
again it's not like we have these beautiful ornate Chris,
but it's fun. And this year, another insult to me
is the my wife went out and got these pajamas

(06:09):
from Victoria's Secret. Well guess what she got. My jammis
from Victoria's Secret. First, so I put on the pants
and I was like, and they've got like this glitter
gold in there and all that. I'm like, you're serious,
Like you want me to wear Victorious Secret jammies that
are like triple XL So they do sell those there,
and you want me there? And then the girls jumped

(06:31):
in and I was just getting decimated, right, And so
I couldn't wear the shirt. I thought I'd cut the
sleeves off, but I didn't do it. I just you know,
wore a T shirt whatever. But I had those damn
pants on. And so as as this struggle session emerged, right,
it naturally it infects my mind as to the level

(06:55):
with which I'm going to participate in the festivities right now.
Don't get me wrong, I love Christmas. I love the
idea of Christ's birth, I love all this. But again,
you know, I live in a pretty hyper materialistic city,
and so it's not exactly about Christmas itself, more as
long line as like what kind of shit you're gonna

(07:16):
buy and put under the tree? So my point of
all that putting lights up in the rain and being
miserable wet soaking, it's kind of the metaphor for what
we're in right now as an Americans. And so I yeah,
that's it right there. Oh my god. Yeah, I mean

(07:36):
probably more like butt Heead than Beavis, because Beavis seems
like he probably love it in that idea, right, you know,
you know, And I've got the music in the background,
by the way, you know, I've got all the classics,
and then all of a sudden, you know, obviously Mariah
Carey will drop in there, and I just I'm like,
if I hear that song one more time, I'm going
to like strangle somebody. But again, I'm not a bahumbug.

(08:00):
I'm not a scrooge. I love watching the girl's open gifts.
I love giving gifts to other people. It's just the
rigor of the magnitude. Not only does it take up
most of my storage facility, but then I gotta transfer,
then I gotta take down. One year, I left the
lights up for an entire year thinking, oh, I'll just

(08:20):
flip the switch next year with the lights on all
the trees and the house. Well, guess what. We live
in South Florida. Rain storms all the time, storms, So
my light's in that work and I'm still living up
to that one as well. So you know, setting up
Christmas lights in the rain, that's the metaphor where we're
at in America. And I just my message to all

(08:44):
of you is, don't get too distracted by the rituals
of the material aspects of Christmas itself and really just
get focused on spending good quality time with your family
while they make compprehensive fun of you. All right, that's
my intro, my little rant about Christmas. Okay, listen, if

(09:09):
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(09:31):
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(09:53):
and mental activities outside journal based exercises. But again, like
I said, I've been working on these things for about
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(10:16):
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(10:38):
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(11:02):
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wear this hat every day, not even getting Wow, Jordy,
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For sure. It was a strong hat, dude. Yeah, apartment

(11:24):
and then the other thing too. If you're interested, also
in making a Christmas donation to the Operator Syndrome Foundation.
That's the nonprofit that my wife and I and doctor
Chris Free run. We're currently helping five SOFT members in
a pilot program designed to try and help them with

(11:45):
metabolic rehabilitation. That's because our endocrine systems get fried from
endless training cycles and combat deployments. From the gwat SO
metabolic stabilization mental health support we work with a great
organization called the Soft Network. People have very extensive backgrounds
and treating SOFT members with behavioral health stuff, neurogenic response.

(12:07):
We work with several organizations out there, whether it's SGB
blocks or or different ways to support genic recovery and
then orthopedic support. We've got a pretty extensive network of
people that we can help guide you towards some type
of either physical therapy, rehabilitation or actual assistance and figured

(12:29):
out whether or not you need surgery or not in
our orthopedic network. So that's what we want to do.
So if you want go over you can learn a
lot about it. There's actually a free course available on
the website on Operator Syndrome Foundation dot org where you
can learn all about operator syndrome. We've got the paper
that doctor free and Is associates, right, and then you

(12:50):
can also link to Chris and potentially buy the book
as well too. All right, who yeah, all right, Jordi
is there we can view Buddy Let's review. Yeah, let's review.
So the first and foremost the one that we've we've
got to touch on obviously, because we had such a
great show with Sarah Adams and where she talked about

(13:13):
imminent terrorist attacks. I think she was mostly fixated in America,
but she also said all of the western countries are
under this threat as well too. And you know, we
saw recently the two National guardsmen get attacked in DC,
that one poor girl got killed, and all her thoughts
and prayers to her family and her friends over this

(13:35):
holiday that they don't have her. We saw. There's been
some other stabbings over in Europe. We've seen some car attacks,
but the one was most serious that happened last week
was obviously the Bondi Beach attack during the annual Shabbad

(13:59):
Jewish community of event called Hanaka by the Sea. Now,
approximately there were a thousand people around this in attendance
of this, and two men, a father and a son,
opened up a fire on on this crowd of people
and really uh had a decimating impact on the people around,

(14:24):
killing fifteen people, including a ten year old child. Would
you would you hit the top right square there and
play that video for us, Jordi allay, right there, All right,

(14:54):
so let's let's go back. I want to go back
to there's another one where the there was a gentleman
who actually ran in and took the gun away. Oh oh,
hell yeah, pretty brave guy right there, grabbed the gun,

(15:17):
was able to shoot him deadn't in that specific situation. Okay, Jordy, thanks? Wow,
So you see this incredible now. One of the things
that kind of really stood out and popped out for me.
And there's been a lot of commentary one the rate
of fire that these guys were able to sustain with
bolt action rifles was somewhat impressive, in particularly the younger son.

(15:40):
A lot of people are are assuming that these guys
had training of some kind. Obviously, we don't know anything
deeper about why they did it. Now, we do know
that they were that Sajid Akram fifty was the father
was killed police and exchange gunfire. He was a licensed

(16:03):
firearms over owner with six registered guns, all recovered. He
was originally from Hyderabad, India and immigrated to Australia the
late nineties. His son, Navid Akram, twenty four, Australian citizen,
seriously injured, hospitalized and later charged with fifty nine offenses,
including fifteen counts of murder and terrorism. The pair had

(16:25):
traveled to the Philippines in November, staying mostly in a
hotel in Davo, city on Mindonow Island, an area of
historical Islamis insurgents activity right now. Aside from their rate
of fire and their focused attack on this Hanukah celebration,

(16:48):
I think what you also saw was a pretty poor response.
I mean, ultimately the police did get there and were
able to mitigate circumstances. But she saw the heroic nature
of one gentleman who ran out and disarmed the one
guy from his bolt action rifle. But you saw some

(17:10):
other stuff with some of the Australian police officers in
their response, how long it took, how poor the assault was.
So again, it just reinforces to me, in the heightened
time of conflict that we exist in, you can't depend

(17:30):
on law enforcement's reaction, right and what is the greater context.
To go back to what we talked about with Sarah.
You know, there are Joe Kent, who's the Deputy director
of the DNI of Tulci Gabbert. He was on Capitol
Hill recently and said there are at a minimum fourteen

(17:51):
thousand terrorists in the United States right now. So those
were two guys, you know, fifteen people killed could have
been way more depending upon the quality or style or
type of munitions that they had. Imagine if they had
fully automatic ak's or any type of other Imagine if
they had any type of explosive devices, grenades, whatever it

(18:14):
might be, pipe bombs, you name it, or even suicide
vests themselves, the devastation could have been far greater. So
the reality that we have to take into consideration in
all of this is that this can happen at any time,
at any place, at anywhere. Right there are Suitain groups
that seem to be more more inclined to be attack. Obviously,

(18:45):
the Jewish community is on heightened awareness all over the
world right now. There's been many messages around the world
and around the country to say to Jewish communities, stay
on your toes, be able to make sure you know
what's going on all times, also regular communities, because these
attacks cann't take place anywhere in non Jewish communities. Remember,

(19:05):
the idea of terrorism itself is just to terrorize and
demoralize the population. It's not to be to wage a
war or to change it's it's to put induce terror
in the civilian population. That's the reality and that's what's
taken place. So you know, are they going to stop

(19:26):
I don't believe. So. I believe they're going to continue,
They're going to continue to get more elaborate, more intense.
I just I don't think that you can immigrate millions
of people from war torn countries that have a profound
inability to assimilate into your particular culture h and then

(19:48):
also have, in many cases in underlying an underlying conscious
hatred for the political arms of these particular gular areas
which they moved to, whether it's American politics, Israeli politics,
Western European politics, whatever it might be. When you bring

(20:11):
these people in, it's been shown that they're not going
to assimilate and they're going to cause problems, whether it's
through the dilution of your natural class of people that
populate an area and trying to overtake and gain political power,
whether it's through terrorism, whether it's through just taking over

(20:34):
the culture of local neighborhoods or area. This is what
is taking place, and if you're not aware of it,
then you need to climb out from under the rock
you've been living for the last eight years and recognize
that this is the new norm. So what do you do?
Go get a weapon and start training immediately. I just
took my daughter and her boyfriend of a couple weekends ago,

(20:57):
which was awesome. Now she's going to get dialed in
taking my wife and my oldest daughter a training here
in the next couple of days, just to get them
back down then and then I'm going to take my
younger three and a more uh a more introductory training
base at the end of the break here soon. So
get out there and train right. Also, increase your situational awareness.

(21:21):
Head on a swivel uh. If you're in a public place,
just just take a look around, what doesn't seem right,
what doesn't seem wrong, you know, and get an assessment
of what normal actions look like in your environment that
you live in. Dwell in all right.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
Is uh yeah, if you're in that situation, you know,
is the general idea of situational awareness and get off
the X is that kind of the esercent.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
What I always teach my daughters to do if they
go to the mall and I say, hey, listen, be
aware of an active shooter you're at school. Is first
you you stop, drop, look and listen. Right, you know,
most guns fire if they're standing out. You know it's
gonna be point at target point opportunity. They're going to
be looking for a stationary target. So right, get down,
get low, get behind cover, concealment. Right, cover is the

(22:13):
bullets can't go through it. Concealment is the person firing
the weapon can't see you behind the cover. But the
bullets can still go through and reach if they shot
through it. So stop, drop, look, listen. Right, then what
do you want to do? You want to identify where
the threat is, where it's moving, what direction, and then
make the determination how you're gonna either hard point yourself

(22:35):
or you're gonna escape. Right. Nothing beats distance from from
these types of shooters. Right, So if you are in
and you know one of these situations, best thing, in
my opinion, is you turn and run. Now. Also be conscientious.
If you're running, right, you want to run in a

(22:58):
way where you can ba right. You want to think
about bounding. These are short bursts. Right, I'm up, I'm running,
I'm running. I'm running. They see me, and then I
drop again and I'm up, I'm running, I'm running. They
see me. I drop again, right, and you kind of
or you zigzag when you run right. When I remember
when I was a new guy at Team one. We

(23:19):
had a British SAS soldier come over and talk about
what it's like patrolling in an urban environment. And what
they would do is they would patrol in this tactic
called bubbling right, and they would walk down the street.
They would take two steps to the right, squat down,
take a step forward, stand up, zigzag overwalk normal, and

(23:39):
they would interrupt in an inconsistent and irregular pattern their movement.
So if someone was training on them with a sniper,
all of a sudden irregular movement that throws them off,
they might move to another target. So, you know, the
biggest thing is which direction is the gunfire coming from?
How close is it? Do you have a safe egress

(24:02):
route if you don't, make sure you have those interrupted
bounds right. Also, you know, if you are trying to
protect your loved ones, you might want to think about
creating diversion. Right, you move kind of in proximal relation
to the shooter, start drawing their attention towards right, throw

(24:24):
something in their direction, break something near them, get them
moving away. And then once you start those diversions, allow
the people that you're with or care for to make
sure tell them exactly I want you to run one
hundred meters to that car, get behind it for ten seconds.
See if anybody' shooting at you, get up, run another
fifty meters, so on and so forth to break contact.

(24:44):
Get off the ax. That was great, Thank you? Yeah,
all right again, I just want to say all our
thoughts and prayers are with the people who were killed
in their families. This is gonna be a tough holiday
season for you, tough Honka for you, tough Christmas for you.

(25:05):
But just know that there are good people in the
world that are ashamed of what took place and are
sorry that you're in this level of pain. All right,
Next one Department of War and are in their modern
fork focus. Bring this up because I thought this was fascinating.
It really, I think we're seeing a massive shift away

(25:28):
from the traditional military industrial complex, which essentially had been
controlled by about four or five big industries. Right You've
got the raeth Yonds, the lockeed Martin's, the Boeings, you know,
all these mega firms that have really had a focal point.
But but what I thought was interesting. I want you

(25:50):
to listen to this is the chief technical Officer of
the Department of War, and can you open that up,
make that big and then and then let's listen to
this guy if we could, Jordy.

Speaker 3 (26:02):
So applyed AI is number one. And the reason they
call it applied AIY is because the big companies Opening
Eye and Profit XAI, they're all of that's in hundreds
of billions of dollars in AI and AI infrastructure. So
all I need to do is take that into adaptive
for for the department, So apply it. So that's one.
Two is scaled hypersonic weapons, So hypersonic missile.

Speaker 1 (26:27):
It's sort of like it's kind.

Speaker 3 (26:28):
Of geek term for defense nuts, but but it's it's
like a nuclear weapon that you're midking or it doesn't
have to have be nuclear, but it could travel at
over five times to speed the sound over mock five.
That means it could get from China to the US
and thirty minutes or vice versa. So they developed those

(26:50):
and we have two, but we're they're really expensive, so
I'm trying to scale them and make them cheaper. And
there's a lot of companies, frankly in this area that
are working on that. Another one is scaled directed energy,
which is this constant so I'm not shooting down yeah,
you know, space lasers shooting down things from space, shooting
down things from on the border that are coming over,

(27:11):
like drug drones. How to use energy to do that?
And then the fourth one is what we call contestant logistics.
So if you're in a fight or battle in a
forward place, like you know, somewhere you know, near China
for example, and you're not it's not a home game.
They call it the tyranny of distance, right, it's really

(27:33):
far away. How do you do things food, water, energy,
munitions and make those things available in those areas so
that you know it's a you know, we can win.
And then there's one called battlefield information dominant. So right now,
like sensors and what you can hear and what you
can see, it's all advanced really fast, so everyone can

(27:55):
see everything online and you know, in the air and
through the air and so on. So how do we
dominate the information that we're getting in the battlefield.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
So if we ever have a conflict, we demand awesome?
So those are kind of all right, you know, and
I think of all this, the first thing that pops
into my mind is, all right, great American defensive postures
advancing into a place of the modern era. Obviously, we've
learned just an unbelievable amount of information from Ukraine and

(28:26):
Russia's fight their battle. We've learned a tremendous amount from
what was going on in Israel fighting Hamas because you know,
unfortunately the battlefield from the GWAT days that those days
are over and it's a whole new, advanced technology world.
And so to be able to see this guy articulating

(28:49):
this investment is awesome. The other thing is that it's
going to create greater opportunities for smaller companies to break
into the defensive space. And I believe, excuse me, I
believe that that's the key to growth in our future. Right,
You've got to break up these juggernaut firms. You've got

(29:09):
to get rid of them. You've got to not get
rid of them, but just isolate them into things that
they do at scale, do well, but allow all these
different technology companies to come in. And you know, Sean's
had an incredible amount of these guys on his show
to really show what's possibility from Andrill to all these others.
And so that's the future of the battlefield, regardless of

(29:31):
whether you want it to or not. I mean, I
think within. You know, we already see robot dogs. We
see robot little track machines and video gathers and all
this stuff going on. We see drones at every level, size, shape,
we see projectiles, we see you know everything. I guarantee
in the next ten years we're going to see robots

(29:53):
on the battlefield as well too. Right, you know, Optimus
Prime with you know, fully out fitted with his militaristic
kid on, and you know, you wheel you know, twenty
of those guys into a town and they're just sitting around,
looking around, seeing where the guys are. And you know,
internal you've got you know, four hundred pounds of C

(30:16):
four that's strapped around Optimist you know, the Optimist robots.
And again, my point of all this is that there
is a cataclysmic shift taking place because the modern battlefield
is not going to look like the past battlefields at all.

(30:37):
We're not fighting guys in caves anymore. We're not you know, yeah,
we got the Houthis or whatever, but you know, the
modern fronts in particular. You know, I believe there's a
definite shot at a kinetic war with Russia in Eastern Europe.
I believe there could be a greater kinetic war in

(30:57):
the Middle East. Potentially, maybe that emerges out of Syria
or some of these other places. For sure, even I
think we could have grander conflicts in Africa or in
South America. I mean, how we've got battle carrier groups
in the golf, We've got a Golf of America, got
them off of Venezuela, We've got them off off Taiwan.

(31:19):
That could go at any minute. So we are being
forced to add at and escalate our advanced technology and production,
which I love. The other part of that is that
I'll tell you what, you better apply some of that
money to some of the young twenty four year old

(31:40):
men out there that are are are no doubt being
either dissuaded or or trying to be manipulated with a
ton of cool commercials coming out from the Army, the Navy,
Air Force, Marines. Seeing a ton of that out there now.
But also so I think, you know, from that American

(32:03):
patriotic mentality, I think that needs to be a focus.
You saw recently that Israel and its allies around the
world are spending you know, hundreds of millions, if not
billions of dollars on gaining control of the rampant rise
and anti Semitism that's around, so they're going to wage
this information war against it. Right, Well, I think America

(32:30):
needs to do the same as it relates to young
men and reinvigorating them that this country is the greatest
country on earth, that provides the greatest opportunity to live
in as semblance of freedom that exists. But you also
got to convince these kids, hey, this is worth it.
It's worth going because after past performance Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam,

(32:54):
the track record, and these kids know this now, they're
not stupid. You can just do go look at some
of the polls that have been done or interviews on
the streets on college campuses. You know, will you fight
in the next major global conflict? The answers generally, and
what I hear is no. I mean, obviously, increase numbers
of recruitings up, and I think that's because of Pete

(33:16):
and the great job he's doing been Sean Parnell and
the messaging there. But you better start doing some messaging
on America itself, right And the way you begin to
do that immediately is you stop the clown show and
you start inditing people. Right, we need to get some
people that have contributed to some of the massive corruption

(33:38):
schemes we've ever seen. Now one of these is obviously
the Epstein files that are supposed to be released tomorrow.
Maybe we'll do a little quick addition, I'll do a
hit online a video on that on Instagram or X
I'm gonna start doing more of those, and you can
follow me at Team frog Logic as my personal and

(33:59):
you can follow this show at David Rutherford and that's
on TikTok, Instagram and Facebook, and then on YouTube at
the David Rutherford Show. But on on X it's at
De Rutherford Show. That's the only place it's it's abbreviated,
all right. So I think what you have is you

(34:21):
have this challenge to rehabilitate kind of what the Trump
coalition believed what's going to take place, because you are
not going to get people that will volunteer for another
kinetic war unless you start ending some of these shenanigans. Now,

(34:42):
you know what I see is I see a much
greater focus on their own personal reputations trying to be
rehabilitated instead of their political actions. And that's problematic for me.
One of the most ridiculous ones I saw this week
was FBI director Cash but Tell going on a podcast

(35:10):
with his girlfriend, and what the pretense? I believe after
listening to it. And she seems like, you know, a
lovely woman. They seem happy together. But when have you
ever seen a director of the FBI on a podcast
with his girlfriend? All right, play this for me, will you? So?

Speaker 4 (35:29):
I just Claire for you're not Jewish? I'm not You
are not from Israel? No, so how did we get to?
Are you a Massada agent?

Speaker 1 (35:38):
You know that's a great question. I too have that
question for the internet, actually, you and me both. No,
I'm not sure. I'm not Jewish from Christian Christian.

Speaker 3 (35:48):
I'm Ourmenian.

Speaker 1 (35:49):
So you know, I'm not really sure how we got there.
I've never been to Israel, I, you know, love to go.
It's just it. The stamp isn't even on my passport.
And I'm just as confused as everyone else is.

Speaker 4 (36:01):
Because the Internet, to this point of the personal attacks
on you and your relationship are not only from the
far left, but are from the far right as well.
And how have you dealt with those attacks? Do you
let it?

Speaker 1 (36:15):
You know?

Speaker 4 (36:15):
Are those things you guys discussed. Do you let it
roll off your sleeve, do not read it. I think
there's a lot of people out there, especially young women,
who are attacked in other ways from their friends, from
their groups, and that's something we all struggle.

Speaker 1 (36:27):
Right, stop the ship for me, right, just stop, and
I appreciate it. All Right, here's the reality. You cannot
bring your personal life and try and live this kind
of pseudo star slash government employee type thing. It just
doesn't work for the American public. And the more you

(36:49):
try and rehabilitate and I have from inside information that
director Patel reached out to several large scale podcasts to
try and get her on to rehabilitate this whole relationship. Meanwhile,
this guy's using the FBI jet to fly up to

(37:10):
Nashville to hang out with her or whatever. And granted
I get it, yeah, awesome, Yeah, But again I also
this does not help. This does not help the image
of cash Bettel, it does not help the FBI, and
it does not help confidence in young people as to

(37:30):
the fact that this administration was supposed to be all
business and getting rid of corruption. But it seems like
there's other intent now, the other one, and this is
the one that holy shit, this is the one that
I can't even wrap my mind around. Who in the

(37:52):
right mind would ever even do this? And that is
the Susie Wiles interview in Vanity Fair. You bring that
one up. So yes, all right. First off, all I know,
if you were a part of the g WATT in
any way, shape or form, you remember when the Great

(38:13):
Stanley McCrystal was taken down, how Jordan you probably too young,
you don't remember this, But the Great Stanley mccrystals one
of his aides thought it would be a good idea
to let Rolling Stone follow them around in the GWATT
and like see how cool they all were or whatever.

(38:34):
Rolling Stone comes out and does an incredible hit piece
on the whole military, including the Crystal and his whole thing,
you know, and I ended up Mcrystal end up getting
fired and you know all his aids, you know whatever.
But like this whole again, this idea of I'm going
to you know, kind of intensify my reputation by you

(39:00):
using you know, media to enhance it. Now I get
that to go on political talk shows or podcasts and
try and get your message. I mean, I think JD
Vance has done a brilliant job with that. But Vanity
fucking Fair. Listen, I have been reading Vanity Fair since
I was a young man, right, it was in my

(39:21):
house all the time. This was before they were when
it was just kind of a Hollywood magazine, and they
did these great stories. But when you look at that
right there, like, right, what is Vanity Faery? For all
of you who don't know who who why would you know?
But Vanity Fair has been associated with one of the
most you know, accomplished photographers in history. Your name is

(39:44):
Anni Leebowitz, and she has done these remarkable, unbelievable photographs
of people, portrait protographs. They're historic. In fact, my mom
has several Anti Lebowitz coffee table books with these. There's
some of the biggest things ever, right, you know. And
they used to have wonderful uh writers that did really

(40:06):
pretty interesting expos as before I, you know, figured out
they were the opposition. And you look at the first
picture with Susie Wiles close up. Now you look look
at that like that's like a mug shot picture of her.
Megan's terrify reference that again, go to the next one.
This is the press secret Stary Levitt and if you,
you know, look in you can see where she got

(40:28):
her lip injections. It's so close and all the wrinkles
and imperfections in her face go to the next one.
I oh, they got that close. And then you look
at this and it looks like, you know, it's they're
trying to sell this. And obviously when you go in
and you listen or you read about some of the
quotes that you know, we're in this and she talks

(40:50):
about you know, different you know, different things that came up,
like the Epstein files came up, and she was kind
of incoherent about that, uh that she said she opposed
the initial January sixth pardons. Uh, you know, she admitted

(41:11):
flaws in the deportation process. You know, Uh, there was
she talked about a huge disagreement internally with with UH tariffs.
You know, she praised Trump's focus on peace in the Gaza,
sees fire, but then you know, defended his actions on

(41:31):
these you know, cartel boats in the Caribbean and attack
on Iran. You know, so this guy this feature by
Christopher Anderson, I just like who who goes? Obviously Susie's
the one who greenlit that thing because she's at the
top of the food chain. But but why do you

(41:52):
do it? Like, what's the rationale? Oh, it'll just make
us look stronger with our base, right, Well, we'll we'll
be able to cross over and bring people into the
fold who are radical leftists who only read Vanity Fair,
who hate who all have Trump arrangement syndrome. This is

(42:13):
gonna benefit us. That's when you start to go, oh, okay,
so this person believe this was a good idea. So
that's why it appears like there's some pretty distinct disagreements

(42:33):
throughout President Trump's presidency so far. Whether these disagreements came
with the Elon Muss stuff, or the firing of some
of the people on hegsa's staff early on, or you know,
some of these decisions that are made, like you begin
to realize, like these people, you know, if you go

(42:55):
to Vanity Fair, there's a reality that your your ego
might be a little bit bigger than it needs to be. Right,
if I was the chief of staff for President of
the United States, I would want no press whatsoever. Right
you turn that over to press people, you don't do it.
I don't want to know. I don't want to talk

(43:16):
to you. I don't want any of my people talking
to you, especially someone from the opposition. It's insane to
me that this was allowed to happen. And really it's
pretty poor judgment and just more along the lines of
hanging Christmas lights in the rain, right, like, what the
hell are we doing here? So all right, enough about

(43:39):
that now the last one, obviously the thing that really
stands out to me, which is indicative to this whole
thing and the whole kind of fiasco of a lack
of action from the Trump administration and indictments, a lack
of action on exposing the things he said he promised

(44:01):
to expose, a lack of action on U in Congress
itself with Mike Shnson. It's not like anybody's poll numbers
have shot through roof. It's not like Mike Johnson is
being forced to codify any of these changes in any
meaningful way. It's and we're a year in, we're full

(44:23):
year in. We got three lefts, one left before the midterm.
And if the story I did recently that the elections
are already whatever you know, I mean, what you think
they're not going to flip these next elections, especially the
lower smaller ones and all these pivotal blue or or
purple states or red states out there. So the last
one that really embodies the whole craziness to me is

(44:47):
uh Dan Bongino, the deputy director of the FBI called
it quits. Now, Will you.

Speaker 2 (44:52):
Read that for me, JORDI, yes, Dan Bongino says on
X I will be leaving my position with the f
in January. I want to thank President Trump, Ag Bondie,
and Director Patel for the opportunity to serve with purpose.
Most importantly, I want to thank you, my fellow Americans,
for the privilege to serve you. God bless America and

(45:14):
all those who defend her.

Speaker 1 (45:18):
So in my mind, what this is is a big
double finger, double barrel, as he says on a show,
to everybody that was counting on him. I know I
was counting on him. I know he was our only
best hope in the FBI to you know, completely expose,

(45:40):
bring all this stuff out, get rid of the corruption,
and do what he had been ranting about for eight
years ranting. And I've been a massive bonding. I started
listening back in sixteen because he had the best assessment
of Russia gate by anybody by far. So I've been

(46:01):
a massive Mangino fan for a long time. Twenty twenty stuff,
whole thing, and what I hear, what I'm seeing is,
you know what, this isn't worth it. Nothing's gonna get fixed,
Nobody can fix it. I'm gonna go back. I'm gonna
make millions and millions of dollars on my show. But
I will tell you this, I bet his his viewership
takes a hit for sure. If he comes back on

(46:24):
the air and does not expose everything he saw, like
everything he saw, then his viewership will be cut and
slashed in half because who's gonna believe him? How do
you believe a guy that prefet goes into such depths
on Epstein, Russiagate, illegal election, like hours, hundreds, if not

(46:47):
thousands of hours on this, and then not a single
mffort gets indicted while he's in there. I mean, you
can argue Colly and Bolton, but like, where are the Clintons,
where's Obama, where's Brennan, where's Clapper? Where's all these other people?

(47:07):
McCabe whatever the lawyer and his is you know the
lay to lawyers? Right? How about Avril Levine? How about
all these other people. How about in the FBI what
we saw Christopher Ray the J six. Where's the exposure
on how many informants were in the audience that day? Nothing? So,

(47:32):
you know, there's a part of me that's like, good
for you, Bong gino way to walk away. But there's
also a part of me that feels betrayed because I
had hope. I believed you were going to be a
guy that was going to do the right thing, and
me and potentially millions of other people believe like you didn't.

(47:55):
You did not live up to what you promised you
were going to do. You not live up to what
you profess that you would do if you went in.
None of it took place. And now you're saving your
ass and your career by getting out and walking away
from it. So now if there's something else, if they
threaten your family, they threaten all that, then I understand

(48:16):
hopefully you'll someday let us know, And that's entirely a
possibility for sure, But I just I again, this is
one of those things where I go, you know, to
plug in the plug to flip the lights on in
the cold, wet and I go like this and nothing
comes on. And that's kind of the way I feel

(48:39):
right now going into this holiday season at the end
of this week, is that America is plugging things in
and nothing is lighting up. All right. It reminds me
of Doge with Elon one hundred percent. That's exactly what
it is. I mean, Joe Rogan. Elon Musk goes on

(49:00):
Joe Rogan and essentially says, there is hundreds of billions
of dollars in fraud every single year in Medicaid, Medicare,
and Social Security, hundreds of billions five six, seven hundred
billion dollars annually in this and not a single thing

(49:20):
has been done. Nothing's codified, no investigation, nothing, nothing that
we are aware of has taken place. So why would
he want to come in get into these fights with
these politicians who are just there to keep the saint
the status quo in place. Why would you start these fights?
Lose your contracts for SpaceX, lose your contracts for whatever,

(49:43):
right your your stock gets shortered or tank, which I
don't think can happen to them because he's the only
one actually manufactured anything. But you know, he's the only
tech company that's actually not built on a myth. But
you know, the reality is you have a guy that
truly will be the third, the third massive letdown for

(50:07):
the American people. And that's Dan Bongino's resignation, So the
other two being Elon and then Trump himself, right, all right,
So that's all I got for the week in review.
I hope you all are going to put your phone down,
stop watching X and Instagram, and you're gonna spend the

(50:29):
next week and a half or so with your family,
spending time getting outside, going to church, praying with your family,
doing fun shit, playing soccer, going to the beach. Jordy,
you and the baby and your beautiful wife, go do
something outside, enjoy yourself. Because it is the Christmas time.

(50:49):
I will hit everybody with a Christmas show next week.
Just talk about that. But again, if you want to
know more, or you want to get a good Christmas
gift for anybody, go check out our online courses or
a schwag on David Broutherford dot com. Give us a follow,
subscriber like on all the social media platforms. One final
thing before I hang up with you, and you're gonna

(51:11):
love it. Next week, on December twenty sixth, I will
be hosting the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show on
the twenty sixth. All Right, it's gonna be super fun,
a whole Christmas show. We're gonna have calling, you're gonna
be able to call me in on national radio. We're
gonna talk about Christmas, a Christmas hangover, Christmas eating presents,

(51:32):
bad presence, good presence. We're gonna talk about Christmas arguments,
Christmas craziness. We're just gonna go deep on this. So please,
if you want, check me out on the Clay and
Buck Show next next December twenty sixth, a week from today,
and for my debut hosting that show. All Right, everybody,

(51:54):
God bless you, God bless your families. Jordi, thank you
so much. Thanks to Jesus, Rice my Lord and Savor
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