The interview offered a detailed look into how the FBI, under the direction of Bongino and Director Kash Patel, is approaching both domestic and international threats during the early stages of a second Trump administration.

Hannity opened by asking about the FBI's top priorities. Bongino responded by stating that their first objective is preventing large-scale terrorist attacks in major U.S. cities.

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

He explained that this concern is not hypothetical—it shapes their daily operational briefings. Working closely with Patel, Bongino said their mission starts each morning with this scenario in mind.

But he emphasized that other serious threats are on equal footing. He pointed to cyberattacks that could disrupt infrastructure and foreign efforts to infiltrate U.S. intelligence operations.

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

Hannity then brought up the southern border. Bongino acknowledged the scale of unlawful entry and said the concern extends beyond numbers to intent.

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

He said FBI teams are deployed early in the morning to carry out removals and disrupt plots before they can be carried out.

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

On the topic of how the Bureau classifies certain acts, Bongino said they are taking a more direct approach.

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

He noted that acts involving targeted violence and extremist slogans will be treated as terrorism.

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

He added, "What the hell do you want us to investigate it as? A freaking grand larceny auto?!"