The Dan Bongino Show
The Dan Bongino Show

Sep 19, 2026 · 56 min

Bongino links AI criticism to crime and immigration enforcement

Bongino Weekend Report - Week of 09/14/26

The episode connects attacks on Kamala Harris’s technology comments with arguments for tougher federal crime-fighting and immigration enforcement.

3 key takeaways
  1. 1Dan Bongino mocks Kamala Harris’s explanation of artificial intelligence as evidence of political and technological incompetence.
  2. 2He praises Kash Patel and the FBI for targeting violent crime and drug markets through Operation Viper.
  3. 3Families’ testimony at a sanctuary-cities hearing drives Bongino’s case that existing immigration laws could prevent deadly tragedies.

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The brief

Dan Bongino opens with satire about artificial intelligence, then targets Kamala Harris’s explanation of digital information and argues that data depends on physical infrastructure.

The focus shifts to Kash Patel and the FBI, whose capture of all ten people on the bureau’s most-wanted list becomes evidence for Bongino’s broader law-and-order argument.

Operation Viper brings that argument down to specific crime-fighting efforts in Memphis and Philadelphia, where federal authorities target violent crime and drug markets.

At a sanctuary-cities hearing, testimony from grieving families supplies the episode’s emotional center as Bongino argues that enforcing existing immigration rules could prevent deaths.

Bongino recounts answering a call from Donald Trump during the broadcast, then closes by joking about a satirical trailer and its Trump impersonation.

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