FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino opened with a blunt warning: the FBI’s top priority is stopping American cities from being blown off the map

The first question was about the top priorities of the FBI and the answer was horrifying.

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino opened with a blunt warning: the FBI’s top priority is stopping American cities from being blown off the map.

“We can't have New York, D.C., or L.A. go boom,” he said.

That possibility, he stressed, is not theoretical—it drives every morning briefing.

Alongside Director Kash Patel, Bongino treats it as their baseline mission.

But bomb plots aren’t the only threat keeping them up at night.

Right beneath that headline concern, Bongino pointed to two equally urgent dangers: cyberattacks capable of crippling infrastructure and foreign actors targeting U.S. intelligence.

“The massive cyber threat, the counterintelligence threat,” he said, are now “co-equal priorities.”

And then there’s the border.

With millions crossing into the country, Bongino says the real danger lies not just in the numbers—but in the intentions of those slipping through.

“There are people here… who want to do bad things—I think that is fairly obvious.”

The first question was about the top priorities of the FBI and the answer was horrifying.

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino opened with a blunt warning: the FBI’s top priority is stopping American cities from being blown off the map.

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That’s why, according to Bongino, FBI teams are already in the field before most Americans wake up—tracking threats, executing removals, and dismantling plots before they materialize.

“We have our FBI teams out there at 4:00 A. and 5:00 AM—removing these people from the country, while still preventing a terror attack.”

And for those still pushing euphemisms or soft language around terrorism, Bongino had a message:

“We're not the Federal Bureau of freaking word games anymore.”

If someone attacks civilians while shouting extremist slogans and hurling incendiary devices, it’s not going to be labeled “civil unrest.” It’s going to be called what it is.

“We're damn well going to investigate it—as targeted violence and a terror attack.”

Then, with frustration rising, he drove the point home.

“What the hell do you want us to investigate it as? A freaking grand larceny auto?!”

No more games, no more spin. Bongino says the era of political caution is over.

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