The Dan Bongino Show
Nightly Scroll With Hayley - Trump, Elon bring Astronauts HOME!
Tue, 18 Mar 2025
Stranded astronauts Butch WILMORE and Suni Williams touch down just moments before Nightly Scroll begins! Hayley covers the exciting breaking news. Plus, Hayley reacts to another violent attack on a Las Vegas Tesla station, Tom Homan’s savage response to those resisting the Trump administration’s border agenda, Vice President JD Vance’s NEW job, Don Lemon and the Democrats prioritizing interesting new party leaders and more. Vice President JD Vance to play key role with RNC to 'fully enact MAGA mandate,' grow GOP majority in 2026 Socialist Venezuela Compares Trump Deporting Tren de Aragua Thugs to the Holocaust Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: How did the astronauts return from space?
Hello, everyone. Welcome to Nightly Scroll. I am starting the show off tonight with breaking news. As of three minutes ago, the astronauts who were stranded in space for nine months just landed off the coast of Florida. I'm going to bring you the updates as we get them. And we have the video here from NASA, the capsule, the SpaceX NASA capsule just landed in the water.
Splashed down two minutes ago. We'll listen in here. Dragon Freedom has returned home with NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Sonny Williams, Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov. They're back on Earth after approximately 17 hours of a return journey from space.
The SpaceX recovery ship and team have been waiting for Dragon's splashdown, and they will now make their way to the splashdown location. The teams have been ready and waiting about three nautical miles away, so it's going to take them about 30 minutes or so to make their way to... Copy, stable one.
We see the same.
This is very exciting. So on board here are members of the crew nine who left for the International Space Station nine months ago. They went down in June or when they went up in June, I should say rather, and they were only supposed to stay there for eight days. And they were there for nine months. There were a lot of issues going back and forth.
Some of them might have been political, and a lot of them had to do with technical difficulties with the Boeing Starliner that they went up on. They couldn't take that Starliner home. Elon Musk had another craft, but then there were issues with that just days ago. It's been very, very tense.
You know, I last week on the show, I played a video from Butch Wilmore's daughter, Darren, who's been pretty outspoken on social media about, you know, how much she misses her dad. And she talked about all the things that he had missed holidays while he was up there for nine months. And she talked about how excited she was at the prospect of him returning home this week.
And I'm so happy to report that Elon Musk has made this happen along with NASA. So very, very exciting news here. There is... I just feel so much joy. This is this is an amazing day for America. This shouldn't have been political. These astronauts, they have been up there conducting experiments and, you know, they shouldn't have been up there that long.
But I'm so, so happy that they have returned home. This was the capsule that you're seeing right now is the SpaceX Dragon capsule. It was expected to crash down or splash down, as you see right here. If we could pull that video up again. at 5.57, and it was right on time. It was right on time, so now the crews are coming to retrieve them. Very, very exciting. And this all started just on Sunday.
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Chapter 2: What issues delayed the astronauts' return?
He said, Vice President Vance is not only one of our party's most talented messengers, He is also a thought leader who has helped remake the GOP into the party of working Americans representing the forgotten men and women of our country. I agree. I you know, I didn't know much about J.D. Vance aside from the Hillbilly Elegy story and of course, his time in the Senate.
I feel like a lot of Americans can agree with me that during his debate, I was my eyes were opened. I saw him as not just a man with a wonderful story, not just a man with political aspirations, but I thought, wow, he is a master communicator. I was so impressed by his just his demeanor and how he held himself and how he answered all the questions. He had an answer for everything.
I was very, very impressed with Vance's debate performance. And now, you know, as vice president, we loved seeing him in the Oval Office taking on Zelensky side by side with President Trump. We love to see this. You know, I think I feel like vice presidents in the past, they're just kind of like a shadow figure or they're, they're walking in, you know, they're just, they're behind the president.
They, whatever they do is kind of in the shadows. Like we don't really know. Um, but JD Vance is definitely, he's in the spotlight and I like to see that. And he's a young voice in the party as well. So I think that that's important. He's got a young family, a wonderful family.
So, yeah, I didn't know that the vice president could hold a job like this in the Republican National Committee, but I think he's a great person for the job. I mean, who better to rally the troops and to lead fundraising efforts ahead of the midterm elections. We don't want to see another pink splash. Remember the last midterm elections?
Everyone thought that after COVID, people were going to be disaffected with Democrat Party and they're going to come over in this huge red wave for conservatives. And we didn't see that. We did see that in this past presidential election for Trump, you know, winning every swing state and making inroads with these other voting blocs. It was very impressive.
but I think it's smart to capitalize on this momentum and not let it go. And again, I mean, who better than JD Vance to lead this charge? So I'm excited for that, but it begs the question, I'm excited for the future of the Republican party, but what does the future of the Democrat party hold?
Yes, oh, and Vince is going to be interviewing JD Vance, the vice president of the United States on Thursday. So I hope you all tune in for that. Rumble.com slash Vince at 10 a.m. Do not miss it. That's gonna be a very exciting interview. I've been super impressed with Vince's debut and all the shows that he's been doing this week. So I know that this will not be any different.
Definitely tune in for that. But here's a photo of a CNN poll. CNN did this poll. And they asked, you know, thinking about the Democrat leaders today, which person reflects the core values of the Democrat Party? This is shocking. AOC was the top candidate. Democrats apparently think that she is the future. And this is scary to note, but she is old enough to run for president in 2028.
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