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 d…