In today’s episode, Mike Geller tackles the issue of sanctuary city policies and their implications on American society. Reflecting on public figures’ controversies, Mike discusses Hunter Biden’s legal battles and shares a momentous tribute with the Food for the Poor campaign, drawing listeners into personal tales of dedication and charity. Mike invites active participation in shaping perceptions and policies that influence national dialogue.
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He’s the happy conservative warrior. From the Relief Factor Studios, here’s Mike Geller.
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I hate it when there’s a story about somebody else’s misery and I enjoy it. I feel so guilty when I saw this headline. Broke Hunter Biden asks judge to throw out the laptop lawsuit because he’s millions in debt and he lost his home in the L.A. wildfires. I shouldn’t take any satisfaction from that. But I admit, I do. Guy got a preemptive pardon from his dad after Joe Biden shamelessly promised he would never do so. Hunter Biden, I believe, is a broken, troubled man with all kinds of nefarious intentions. He asked a federal judge yesterday to drop the laptop hacking lawsuit that he slapped against a former Trump White House aide because he’s millions of dollars in debt. He said his dwindling sales from his artwork and memoir has him in significant debt, keeping him from litigating this case against Garrett Ziegler. Now, you understand, he sued him. So he’s suing the guy, and now he wants the judge to throw it out because he’s broke and he can’t afford the lawsuit. I mean, why am I enjoying this so much? It’s like seeing the meme of Nancy Pelosi from the president’s speech the other night. I told you about the picture on the left which showed her, the video of her ripping up Trump’s State of the Union speech. One of the most tawdry, classless, grotesque acts I’ve ever seen in major political life. Ever. Ever. Is there anything worse, really? Well, they got pretty bad this week, didn’t they? With their stupid paddles and their booing and their hissing, carrying on, the goofy guy with the cane waving that around. But the meme showed how it started. And how it’s going. I love those how it started, how it’s going memes, don’t you? And how it started was Nancy on the left ripping up Trump’s State of the Union speech. How it’s going? Did you see her in her seat at the speech Tuesday night? leaning on a cane. I swear, it looked like she was sipping whiskey out of the cane. I don’t know if she was drinking something out of it or if she was chewing on it. She’s all hunched over. And I know she suffered a broken hip. She fell down the steps a couple months ago. And at her age, that’s not good. And I take a lot of… satisfaction from that. And that’s wrong. I know it’s wrong. I know it’s sinful to enjoy somebody else’s misery. Look, it could be any one of us. We’ve all been through rough times. There are highs and lows in everybody’s life. But watching Hunter Biden and Nancy Pelosi, two of the most odious figures of our lifetime, crash and burn this way, I just feel a sense of satisfaction. Am I wrong? 800-655-MIKE. 800-655-6453. Welcome aboard. We’ve got a lot to cover. We’re going to check in with our buddy Joey Hudson. I’m going to try something today. Because I’m in a good mood. We hit a benchmark in our Food for the Poor campaign. And I’m excited about this. But I’ve got big news with Joey Hudson. Because it’s no secret that Chris DeGaulle, who has heard on a number of stations around the country in the Salem family before me, he drew on his Philadelphia base to take him over his food for the poor goal of $40,000 today, which is great. Now, he’s kicking my butt. And it dawned on me, I’m good for Chris, and he’s a great guy, and I’m so happy for him and proud of him. The Food for the Poor campaign is something we do to feed the starving. It’s a beautiful Christian ministry that means so much to all of us. It means a lot to me personally. They built a house for me, for my family, I should say, in honor of my late wife, Denise. There’s a Denise Gallagher house in Jamaica that a family is proudly living in right now that Food for the Poor donated in my wife’s memory. That’s the kind of relationship I have with Food for the Poor. I’ve always been the donor king at Salem. everybody’s just having a fun time pointing out that Chris is ahead of me pretty considerably. He went over his goal today of $40,000. He’s at like $43,000. We’re around $31,000. And I was looking through the list of donors because I’m a little bit of a jerk that way. I do like competing, although I’m not really mean about it. Hugh Hewitt is typically mean about it. He spikes the football, and he likes to do his Ohio State analogies and everything. And Chris is such a good guy, you can’t get annoyed. I’m just thrilled for him. But this audience has always led the pack. It’s not about me. It’s about you. this family of listeners and viewers to this show. And as I was looking through Chris DeGaulle’s donor list for the Food for the Poor campaign, he drew on a whole bunch of Philadelphia donations because Chris has been a local host in Philadelphia for years. And he’s got a loyal following. Because he’s brand new nationally. Well, I got to thinking about this today. What’s really my home base? You know, I live in Florida, spend a lot of time in Florida, spend a little bit of time in New York. But my real home is the upstate of South Carolina. Ratings came out yesterday for News Talk 98.9 WORD. My goodness, Tara and Bill and Charlie, and yes, yours truly, huge ratings today. Our show is number one in its time slot in the whole market. I’m so proud of that. I love that place. And Joey Hudson, my dearest friend in the world, he’s going to join us at the bottom of the hour. We’re going to talk about a couple of – obviously, we’re going to talk about some breaking news. We’re going to talk about, you know, the headlines that are being made and what to make of it all. But I also want to – if Chris can draw on his Philadelphia – base, I’ll bet Mike Gallagher and Joey Hudson can draw on our upstate South Carolina base. So Joey’s going to join us at the bottom of the hour. And of course, we love Joey. He’s going to be filling in for me Monday because I’m going to be off on jury duty. Oh, brother. I can’t believe it. I got that dreaded notice in the mail. And people get real annoyed at me. Oh, you should do your duty. I don’t want to miss the show for jury duty. Some dispute about somebody’s tree that’s hanging over somebody else’s yard or somebody suing somebody for an auto accident. I don’t want to be on that jury. With my luck, I’ll get stuck on like an OJ jury that takes 19 months. I’ll have some quadruple murder case. I just cannot believe I got roped. I didn’t get roped into it. I mean, I do have to do my duty, and I got to show up Monday, so Joey will be filling in while I’m at jury duty. And, of course, Joey is a familiar face and voice to you nationally and a big, big part of the upstate South Carolina community as well, where he is a native son. Pride and joy of the upstate. Joey will join us in a few minutes. Here’s Rick in Pennsylvania. A little bit about, I mean, Rick, when Nancy Pelosi ripped up the State of the Union speech, I remember almost getting physically sick to my stomach. I was so angry. I flew into a rage. Now I see her all hunched over, leaning on her cane, chomping on her dentures, looking broken. Am I wrong to take some satisfaction out of that image, Rick?
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You’re definitely not wrong, and I agree, and you shouldn’t feel bad one bit. I mean, to take pleasure and enjoyment of watching Xi and Hunter Biden, and I can think of four or five other people that I’d love to see the same demise. I know. But, I mean, why, you know, do they not investigate these people? Just like the guy with the cane. I mean, he has to have… something against our country or he’s doing something that’s just not, you know.
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I mean, Rick, you just nailed it. They seem to hate our country, don’t they?
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They hate our country.
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They hate Americans. They hate you and me. They have to deal with the fact that the vast majority of Americans are totally on board with what Trump is doing. And they hate it. And that means they hate us. They do. You’re right. Well, I feel bad about it. I appreciate your support and your kind words, but I feel awful. I don’t like seeing Nancy Pelosi look like this broken, wretched, you know, shell of a woman. I don’t like Hunter Biden. you know, crying about being broke and he lost his home in the wildfires. I mean, you know, he’s loved by people. She’s loved by people. She’s a wife and a mother and a grandmother. But it’s hard not to be hateful when you know how much they’ve directed their hatefulness towards the United States. Is it wrong to say they appear to hate America and hate you and me? Donald Trump Jr. said that on the plane. I want to play the clip for you and see what you think of what he said about their shameful behavior at the president’s speech the other night. Welcome in. It’s a Thursday. We’ve got a lot to do here in the Relief Factor studios. Our number is 800-655-MIKE. 17 past the hour. 800-655-6453. Look, maybe Hunter Biden can, if he’s so broke, he can start a GoFundMe campaign. I mean, it worked for Luigi. There’s a lot of kooks and crackpots out there that seem to want to support, you know, an alleged monster, a cold-blooded cowardly killer like Luigi Mangione. That guy’s raised hundreds of thousands of dollars. Well, maybe Hunter can go that route, huh? 800-655-6453. Call or text. Join us here on the Mike Gallagher Show. I just got the daily report for our Food for the Poor campaign. Look, if the new kid on the block, Chris DeGaulle, beats us in the campaign, I’m in big trouble. I’m giving up. You can’t let that happen. If you like what we do… Because we’re all doing this together, this Food for the Poor campaign. I’m going to give you the phone number that I didn’t give you a moment ago. I just need 400 people to pop in 100 bucks. Let’s get 100 people today to donate $100. Food for the Poor. This is what we do. We do this a few times a year. And here’s the phone number that I left out before. If you want to make a phone call, have your credit card standing by and call Food for the Poor. 844-860-HOPE. That’s 844-860-4673. Or you can go to mikeonline.com, click on that banner at the top of the page, or just text the keyword food to 800-655-MIKE, and we’ll send you back the link. And thank you, thank you, thank you for supporting our Food for the Poor campaign. Come on, let’s get there. Come on, 400 people. Wouldn’t it be amazing? How astounding would it be if I could touch the hearts of 400 people, maybe even you, Ed, in Naples? Instead of being grumpy at me, feed starving children. Clothe the naked. Feed the hungry. Partner with the Christian ministry. All I need is 400 people to donate 100 bucks, and we’re there. We’ve got our goal. Maybe we could do it today. Go to mikeonline.com, click on the banner, or call 844-860-HOPE. call 844-860-4673. However you reach out, I do hope you’ll join me as folks just like you all over America step up to help our friends at the Christian nonprofit international relief organization, Food for the Poor. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Mike Gallagher. Donald Trump Jr. said something about his dad’s speech this week that really resonated with me. And I’ve been thinking a lot about this narrative that Democrats really do hate the American people. And a lot of people hear that and they roll their eyes and they think, oh, that’s just rhetoric. That’s hyperbole. Stop being so melodramatic. But listen to what Don Jr. said about it.
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Guys. Amazing State of the Union on Trump Force One heading back to Florida. Just so we’re clear, so you understand just how deranged the Democrats are, though, they couldn’t stand up for a 13-year-old kid with cancer who has made an honorary agent of the Secret Service. Think about that for a second. Democrats couldn’t stand up when tonight in breaking news, they announced that they captured the mastermind of the Abbey Gate terror that took the lives of 13 US Marines in a disastrous Afghan withdrawal. Perhaps one of the most embarrassing moments in American history. They couldn’t stand for those things, let alone about a thousand other things that make total sense and benefit Americans. That’s where the Democrat Party is today. They hate you. They hate our country. And they’re imbeciles. Remember that in midterms, guys. Don’t forget the energy. Don’t lose any of that. Vote them out.
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You know, I truly believe and hope that we continue this energy through the midterms. Who knows if that’s sustainable, because right now we’re flying pretty high. Republicans are hitting all the right notes. You saw the poll numbers after Trump’s speech, 76 percent of speech watchers. In the CBS poll, approved of Trump’s speech, 76%. You know that means there’s a lot of Democrats that like what he said. His poll numbers right now are through the roof for the speech. And the poll numbers for the Democrats and all their shenanigans with their stupid paddles and their signs and their booing and their hissing and their Al Green, they carry on as if they hate Americans. They carry on as if they hate this country. Do they? Do they? Let me ask Crystal in Atlanta. Crystal, do these Democrats hate you and me?
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Hold on a second. Crystal. Oh, hey.
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Hey. You are on the way. We got you out of a… What were you doing there? Were you ordering some food or something?
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No, I was given some bags to a Goodwill place.
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Oh, good for you. You’re doing the Lord’s work. Look at that. Making donations to Goodwill. I love it. All right. Well, we’ve got 60 seconds. Do they hate Americans?
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Yeah, well, I’ll tell you what. For a long time, I couldn’t figure out why Democrats hated Americans. But then after the Doge came out and they showed us how much money has been stolen from the Treasury Department. Right. I mean, trillions of dollars. And we have no concept except, you know, with the Doge thing, it shows you a little line how much a trillion dollars is. It’s incredible. But anyway, it finally came to me, especially when they also said that USAID had given, I might have the figure wrong, $150, $250 billion to Soros. And I thought he was always using his own money. No, he’s not using his own money. He’s using our money.
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He’s the happy conservative warrior. From the Relief Factor Studios, here’s Mike Deller.
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I don’t really know if it matters that Al Green just got censured in the House of Representatives. I mean, what happens with a censure? Nothing. They make a statement, oh, bad, bad congressman, bad congressman. The Democrats tried to delay the formal proceedings today in the well of the House by standing there like a bunch of dummies singing. singing spirituals. There were 10 Democrats, though, who voted to censure Greene. You might want to know who they are. Probably, you know, not a bad idea. Congressman Ami Barra from California, Ed Case from Hawaii, Jim Costa from California, Laura Gillen from New York, Jim Himes from Connecticut, Chrissy Houlihan from Pennsylvania, Marcy Kaptour. Remember her? We played her clip this week. Looks like she got her comeuppance when she got a lot of flack. for all the nonsense that she was spouting from a press conference earlier in the week. But she voted to censure Al Green, Jared Moskowitz from Florida, Marie Glusenkamp-Perez from Washington, and Tom Swozy from New York. Am I saying that right? I always wondered. Swozy. Yeah, Tom Swozy, Democrat from New York. Those are the 10 Democrats who went along with the Republicans. Did all the Republicans vote to censor, or did Thomas Massey vote not to censor? You know, you can always count on him to go rogue. But I don’t know that it matters. I mean, look, their shocking behavior this week speaks volumes. This is who they are. And… The bottom line is they’re stubborn. They’re defiant. Here’s Al Green himself. This is the guy. And I love the cane. Always love when he waves the cane around like Thor’s hammer. You know, he’s like Luke Skywalker with his lightsaber. Only his is this gold-plated cane. Got to be gold, you know. You don’t want to have a silver-plated cane. You got to have a gold handle on that. I’ve never seen him lean on the cane. I don’t even think he uses the cane to help him walk. He just waves it around. And he very clearly made it very obvious he would do it all over again.
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But I will tell you, I appreciate you. No anger. The officers who escorted me out, they were kind to me. I don’t blame the speaker for anything. Friends, I would do it again. I have to be candid with you. I’m not trying to in some way insult you. This is a matter of principle. This is a matter of conscience.
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You think it’s principled to interrupt the president of the United States who is giving an address to the joint session of Congress? You think standing there screeching, you have no mandate, is principled? Here’s a Democrat from Massachusetts melting down over Republicans… proceeding with censure efforts against Al Green.
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They sprint to the floor to censure Al Green because he hurt Trump’s feelings. It is pathetic, Mr. Speaker. Now look, we know what this is all about. Republicans don’t work for America. They don’t work for you. They don’t work for veterans. They don’t work for the teachers or the nurses or the firefighters or the factory workers or the waitresses or the farmers. They work for Trump.
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So the Democrats are going to Democrat. They’re going to melt down. They’re going to sing We Shall Overcome. They’re going to pretend that somehow Al Green is a victim of some sort. But I think we ought to focus on policy. I think we ought to focus on policies that the American people are rejecting. The censuring of Al Green means absolutely, virtually nothing. You heard him say, I’d do it all over again. So I guess every time the President of the United States is going to speak before the American people and Congress for the next four years, Al Green’s going to make a fool out of himself. I mean, at one point, at some point, you’ve got to say, should you arrest somebody? Should you impeach them? Al Green is the guy who is once again for the 97th time preparing articles of impeachment against Donald Trump. Shouldn’t Green be impeached? That kind of stuff matters. Remove the guy from office. Hit him where it hurts. Censuring doesn’t mean anything. And let’s talk a little bit about policy. Let’s start with the sanctuary city policies that the Democrats favor. To my dying day, I’ll remember the mayor of Philadelphia doing his happy dance when a judge ruled in favor of Philadelphia becoming a sanctuary city. Can you imagine celebrating that? Dancing? What’s his name? Jim, is it Keene? And he was out there. Do we have the happy dance of that Philadelphia mayor? I will never forget this. I don’t know why that image sticks in my brain. I mean, it seems to me that if you’re a sanctuary city, if you say to illegals, come here, we won’t prosecute you. Come here. You can take our health care services for free. We’ll give you free health care. We’ll give you free education. We’ll give you free cell phones. We’ll give you food stamps. Come here. And you want to celebrate that? I would think a normal response would be, well, look, we have an obligation to our neighbors to the south. We have an obligation to trend the Aragua and the gang members to give them a safe place to, you know, rape and pillage and maim. We want to make them happy, but we’ve got to do it with a heavy heart. We’ve got to do it with passion. We’ve got to do it because we care. But you wouldn’t celebrate it, would you? If you’re watching right now on Salem News Channel, again, this is the mayor of Philadelphia. It was the sanctuary city crap. was being litigated in the courts, and some goofy leftist progressive judge came along and allowed Philadelphia to be a sanctuary city, and when the mayor found out, this is what he did. We are a sanctuary city, yeah! I can’t believe, I mean, he was dancing. We are a sanctuary city, and he gives a high five. And to see an old man like that bounce on his toes and dance like that, I mean, super awkward, super cringy. But these mayors of these blue cities somehow think it’s virtuous to be a sanctuary city. It’s not a necessity. It’s not just out of a labor. It’s not a labor of love. It’s something they crave. Listen to the Boston mayor yesterday on Capitol Hill, Michelle Wu.
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You belong here. This is your home. This is our city. We are the safest major city in the nation because we are safe for everyone.
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Oh, really? Really? That’s going to be news to Lake and Riley’s family. That’s going to be news to any of the families who have lost a loved one to an illegal benefiting from sanctuary city policies. These guys are… crazily out of touch with the American people. Here’s Brandon Johnson. Now, this kook, this guy, I never thought anybody could make Lori Lightfoot look like Maggie Thatcher. But this guy, wow, what a piece of work Brandon Johnson is.
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Our efforts to improve public safety by building trust with and investing in our communities are working. Violent crime is down in Chicago. The city ended 2024 with its lowest homicide rate in five years. The city is also safer because of our welcoming city ordinance. That law makes sure that the city’s police resources are focused on our local priorities.
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You know, there’s a part of me that wants them to keep doing this. Keep going. You keep doing this because you’ll never win another election. I got to believe there’s plenty of Democrats who are sitting around saying, no, no, no, that’s a bridge too far. Where do you hear Jim Jordan? I’m going to give you, if you’re frustrated at Michelle Wu and Brandon Johnson, wait till you hear Congressman Jim Jordan with the mayor of Denver. You’re not going to want to miss it. Welcome aboard. It’s Thursday. We’ve got a lot of things to celebrate. We’re in the middle of our Food for the Poor campaign, and we’re getting closer and closer to hitting our goal of $40,000 to feed starving children all over the world. I’ll give you an update on that. Portions of our show brought to you by MyPillow. Make it a MyPillow Thursday. And make it a point to call us at 800-655-MIKE. Let’s talk about these sanctuary city policies and get ready for something that will be music to your ears. Jim Jordan taking on the sanctuary city of Denver’s mayor. That and more coming up here on the Mike Gallagher Show.
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Thank you.
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Individual that was released from the county jail on Friday in the city and county of Denver. That’s all you know about him?
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I do know that he was facing charges that the… Venezuelan gang member arrested by Border Patrol on September 20th, 2023, released into the country by the Biden administration. A few months later, he’s arrested in your city, charged with aggravated assault. On March 11th, 2024, he’s charged with motor vehicle theft. stole a car, and then on March 20th, 2024, Mr. Gonzalez is charged with felony menacing. Six days after that last charge, I send you a detainer, which includes an administrative warrant. Basically, it says if you’re going to release this bad guy, this gang member who allegedly stole a car, menaced people, and assaulted people, give us a 48-hour heads up. Is that right? Did that refresh your memory?
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I do know about the detainer request. I do know that we provided a notification of release.
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What kind of notice did you give ICE when you released him?
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We gave him notification. I’m not sure how long in advance it was.
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I do know that there was one hour notice, and you released him five days ago, right? Why not give them more heads up? Actually, let’s put the slide up. Let’s see what it says here. Let’s put the slide up. This is what the Denver Sheriff’s Department, it’s kind of hard to see, so I’ll read it. It says, Denver Sheriff’s Department ICE notification being released to the streets. ICE simply said, just release him to us. You release him to the streets. Why not release him to ICE?
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Thank you. What we’ve done, and we do this regularly, we’ve done 1,226 of these, is we notify us.
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I’m asking about one. I’m not asking about the 1,200. I’m asking about Mr. Abraham Gonzalez, who’s a gang member from Venezuela, stole a car, assaulted someone. You had him in your custody for how long? I know that we released him. 345 days you had him in custody. And I said, hey, can you give us 48 hours heads up? I don’t know. You gave him one hour notice.
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Mr. Congressman, we notified them of release. There were six ICE agents present when he was released, so they had enough time to respond and to be present. Respond where? To the jail where we released him from. So we released him to, we notified them of the release time. When we notified them of release, they come to the jail facility to pick them up.
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Why didn’t you say, that’s not what you said. You said you released him to the streets.
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Did you release him to the streets or release him to ICE? What we do, sir, is we release him from our county jail and we coordinate with ICE on that release time and release date so that ICE can come and pick them up from that location. Pick them up where? In the parking lot? Yes, sir. They’re on the facility property. Guess what happened in the parking lot? I know, sir. I’ve reviewed the video. So I looked at it. I’ve talked to the sheriff last night. One of the ICE officers got assaulted, didn’t he? I reviewed the video, sir. They had to tase the guy, didn’t they? Would you like my answer, sir? No, I’d like the answer. Did they tase him? I know that there were six officers that had multiple tasers. I saw the video. If you keep him in the facility and they come in the facility and get him, does it take six officers? Probably takes two, doesn’t it? So we’ve been doing these, as I mentioned, 1,224 times, 1,226 times. This is the first time I’ve been made aware of there’s been an incident like this. So I reached out to ICE after I saw the video. I’ve coordinated with their team and offered to sit down and see if there are procedures we can change.
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It’s a simple question. Make sure this works smoothly. It’s a simple question. You can release him in the parking lot, give ICE one hour notice, and they’ve got to send six officers to arrest this guy. Or you can say, hey, what? Here’s what we’re going to do. We’re going to hold him. You come in and bring two officers in, and you turn him over there. Why not do it that way? We have a city ordinance.
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You know why you don’t do it that way? We have a city ordinance that governs. Because you’re a sanctuary city. This is the whole point. No, sir, I disagree with you. Because I’ll tell you why. If you talk about sanctuary as a definition of shielding people from law enforcement, we do not do that. What we do do is provide services. In this context, what we did is we coordinated the release.
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An officer got assaulted because of your policy, which says we’re going to release him to, in your words, not mine, to the streets. They have to arrest him in the parking lot. They bring six officers. When they could have had one or two just come in your facility in the jail and take the guy there. But you won’t do it that way. I’ve seen the video. I’ve reached out to ICE.
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I’ve offered to sit down and coordinate on strategies. If we need to make adjustments to what we do on releases, we’ll do that. This is the first time in the 1,226 releases I’ve heard an answer.
SPEAKER 04 :
I read your written testimony last night. I read your written testimony last night. Four and a half pages. And you used the words safe, safer, or safety 13 times. Talking about my job is to protect this business, safety of the people in Denver. We’re prioritizing making sure everyone in our community is safe. That’s a lie. Because it was not safer for the ICE agents who are part of your community. No way was it safer. The safest thing to do is to say, ICE, we got him in custody. Come here. We’re releasing. We held him 345 days. We can’t hold him a second longer. We can’t wait for you to come inside the building. We got to let him go. So you have to arrest him in the parking lot. That is how stupid sanctuary policies are and what they mean to the community that you put at risk and to the ICE officers, the ICE officer who was assaulted. And they had to use a taser on him. It’s not good. Mr. Chairman.
SPEAKER 11 :
That’s the way it’s done. Congressman Jim Jordan with a sanctuary city mayor of Denver.
SPEAKER 14 :
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SPEAKER 12 :
We have a Supremes birthday, Mike. Was four-year-old Mike grooving to some Supremes 1964? I like him now. No? Yeah, but not back in the day. It is not Diana Ross. It is not Florence Ballard. It is Mary Wilson’s birthday. She would have been 81, passed away back in 21. You know, everybody, 1964, you think about the Beatles. But here in America, just 1964, this was their very, very first hit. And then after this, this is where did our love go. Then you had Baby Love. Come see about me. Stop in the name of love. Back in my arms again. All in 1964. Wow. That’s a library. That’s a library. That’s what you could call a series of successes, Mike. An amazing series of successes. An amazing parade of good things happening to them. Does this parallel to anything that might be happening in our lives, in our politics, in our country?
SPEAKER 11 :
I see what you did there. I got it. I see where you’re going with this. You know, I am really glad to see the real, real epic pushback, not only on the Democrats who wouldn’t stand for the little cancer survivor, but the media folks. Rachel Maddow. calling the awarding of the Secret Service honorary membership to Little DJ disgusting. Yeah. Nicole Wallace saying, I hope the little boy doesn’t wind up committing suicide someday as a cop. Because of Trump supporters. You know, an apology would go such a long way. Would it? Well, it would.
SPEAKER 12 :
But that implies self-awareness. That implies a sense of embarrassment. That implies a conscience. I know. All of which is destroyed in the hearts of the twisted hearts and minds of these people. They have to be so dark.
SPEAKER 11 :
They have to be so… I mean, look, I keep thinking about what aboutism. If our side did that to them, we ought to call our side out, too. I mean, this is a little boy who’s lived with cancer for six years of his life. He already has been bullied for wearing the little cop uniform because they’ve made him an honorary police officer. His father told the New York Post of Rachel Maddow, she needs to shut her mouth if she has nothing nice to say. This lady didn’t even serve time in the military, he continued. I was on the USS Kitty Hawk. She doesn’t need to put her bad energy on us. I don’t know. I mean, I think – I kept thinking they ought to just – the right thing to do would be to apologize at this point, apologize.
SPEAKER 12 :
Of course it would. I mean, well, the right. You know, guess what? The as is true with many apologies. The really right. There’s no time machine available for this. But the really right thing to do is to not do such wretched in the first place, not say such horrible things. And, you know, it’s like a pendulum. And I was talking in the first segment that. Not so many years ago, conservatives would say and do conservative things. The left and its media machine would rise up to smear it, and it would kind of work. We’d kind of have us on the ropes. We’d kind of be like, oh, wow, what do we do? It’s a total new day. They’re crazy attacks, as horrible and perverse as they are. The good news is they don’t land. They are punches that don’t land. They are met with instant derision, even from some inside Democrat land. Right. And so that leads me thinking, let me ask you the question I’ve kind of broadly put out there in the universe. Have we ever, I don’t want to say had it so good, although it’s tempting to phrase it that way, but in terms of the strength of the conservative message, the strength of a Republican president and the intellectual vacuousness and the flat out insanity of the left, we’ve never been better positioned. And I just, I’m enjoying it, but I also want to direct its energy toward really doing what we can in this amazing moment to make the most of it.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, we have to sustain it. And I think you’re completely correct that to me the real glaring difference between Trump 2.0 and the first round is the Democrats were more organized and were more focused on trying to thwart his agenda. You know, at least they had – now, we look back at it, it was all nefarious, the Russian collusion hoax. That handcuffed him for practically his entire presidency. Now we’ve got the courts and even the Supreme Court that can be the obstacle to getting the Trump agenda done. Did you see the video of Trump shaking hands with the Supreme Court justices during the address and the look on Amy Comey Barrett’s face?
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, no, no.
SPEAKER 11 :
She does. She looks at him like he is just dumb.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, are we projecting? No, I don’t know.
SPEAKER 11 :
If you look at the video, you can see the look on her. I mean, I’m fascinated by the psychology of this. First of all, I’m intrigued… That the justices are even there. Because it has to be all kinds of awkward for them. Because if you remember during the speech, he called them out at one point and thanked them for some ruling that went his way. And I’m thinking, they can’t like sitting there, having a president kind of prop them up.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, they also really don’t like having a president insult them, as Obama did, where Alito at one point went, not true, not true. Correct. He didn’t go full Joe Wilson. You lie! He didn’t do that. But you’re right, it is weird, this supposedly apolitical, robed gathering of people there at this most political event.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, and I don’t know what has happened to Amy Coney Barrett. There’s something… And I watched a clip this morning of Megyn Kelly when I was getting the show put together and wanted to come up with some things for you for our segment. And incidentally, part of my routine used to be going to the Drudge Report. No more. What happened to Drudge, Mark?
SPEAKER 12 :
I don’t think it’s him anymore. I think it’s his name. I think it’s been farmed out to somebody because I did too. That used to be – it’s funny. It’s like talk show nostalgia. We kind of all went from – having big stacks of newspapers. Remember newspapers? Did you ever own an exacto knife? Where you would literally go, hence the term clippings. Because we’d have the Rush Limbaugh stack of stuff. It wasn’t off his printer. It was stuff off a newspaper, at least in the early days. But then in the early Internet days, in the stone knives and bearskins era of the Internet, it was the Drudge Report, this compilation of all kinds of things, usually with kind of a conservative bent. Not anymore.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, I can remember seeing the early TV images of Rush in his studio, and he always had the Drudge Report up on his computer screen. You know, I mean, I think Matt Drudge and Rush were friends. And look, let’s think about it. You know Rush would be all in for the Trump agenda. You know Limbaugh would be cheering him on.
SPEAKER 12 :
I hear his smile. I feel his smile from heaven every day.
SPEAKER 11 :
I do, too. So I don’t know what happened. Something broke. And the last time we talked about this, you had said that. And then I got a bunch of texts and emails saying, no, no, no. He’s still running things over there. He did not divest himself of the operation.
SPEAKER 12 :
Listen, maybe he’s one of those folks who liked Rush, liked Reagan. But did Trump break Drudge? Because he was referred to as Trumpski, right? Which is just a Russia, Russia, Russia smear on the Drudge report itself just a few days ago.
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh, no. Every day is anti-Trump. Look at it today. You look at the headlines today. It’s anti-Trump headline after anti-Trump headline. There’s nothing positive. Drudge aggregates all these articles that are negative about the Trump administration and the agenda. I don’t know what happened. But anyway, so I was going through all this this morning, and I found a clip of Megyn Kelly from her podcast. And she makes a great observation. She says, what’s with the so-called conservative women justices? They’re always squishy. Sandra Day O’Connor was ostensibly a conservative. She often voted with the liberal side. And look, Alito is stunned at this latest ruling. The court caved to the left on U.S. aid disbursements, usurped Trump’s constitutional executive authority. They’re letting a district judge tell Trump that he can’t rightfully suspend $1.9 billion in foreign aid payments. Well, John Roberts, who’s the perennial disappointment to us. Shocker. And Amy Coney Barrett sided with the liberal justices. Alito couldn’t believe it. I mean, he was furious in his dissent. He said, does a single district court judge who likely lacks jurisdiction have the unchecked power to compel the government of the United States to pay out and probably lose forever $2 billion taxpayer dollars? Thank you. The answer to that question should be an emphatic no.
SPEAKER 12 :
And the arguments made on the other side, which I actually… It’s a good thing to do. Read some stuff every once in a while. The arguments made before the court about maintaining these payments and freeing up these payments was the kind of argument that you usually get that appeal to the leftist judiciary, that the payments are good. The payments are nice. People like the payments. The payments do good things for people, none of which has anything to do with the way the constitutional borders are drawn for this court.
SPEAKER 11 :
And see, you know, there’s a lot of theories about Amy Coney Barrett in particular. Here’s a text message right away from Todd in Denton. She was a deep state plant. Trump got bad advice on selecting her by nefarious people in the old cabinet. Now, the reason I think there’s some merit in what Todd said… You know, I’ve talked to Seb Gorka about this. There were some bad people in Trump 1.0.
SPEAKER 12 :
Funny you mention that because two minutes ago you were talking about Trump 2.0 and just how smoothly things are going. Actually, your quote was that there were people, most of the folks on the left, folks in the media, that there were folks who were trying to impede his agenda. Some of the folks who were trying to impede his agenda back in the first term were in the actual White House. He had saboteurs around him.
SPEAKER 11 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 12 :
And he doesn’t anymore. And the difference is an amazing thing to see.
SPEAKER 11 :
It’s night and day. Just absolute night and day. My theory about her is that she was thoroughly spooked by the protesters who got very close to her house and her kids. And look, these are humans. Who wouldn’t be? You’re right. You’ve got people showing up at their house with these awful, threatening protests. And she’s described as a soccer mom. She had the minivan before she became a justice of the Supreme Court. And she just does not want to tick off the angry, rabid left. And they are rabid. Did you see any of the testimony of the sanctuary city mayors yesterday?
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, yes, I did. Tell everyone about that, Mike.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, I give you Michelle Wu. Can I play a little clip for you? By all means. This one is classic.
SPEAKER 12 :
Mayor of Boston.
SPEAKER 11 :
The Boston mayor. And you saw Jim Jordan go after the mayor of Denver, which was classic. We’re going to play that whole five-minute epic rant. But the mayor of Boston. I just have a little 15-second clip. Sometimes all you have to do is play the Democrats in their own words and then sit back. We don’t even have to give it a lot of analysis. Here I give you. The proud Sanctuary City Mayor, Progressive Michelle Wu of Boston, Massachusetts.
SPEAKER 01 :
You belong here. This is your home. This is our city. We are the safest major city in the nation because we are safe for everyone.
SPEAKER 11 :
Ah, that’s their… Everyone. Everyone? Really? Everyone? That’s their… Brandon, that goofy Brandon Johnson in Chicago tried that approach. We’re safer because of illegals.
SPEAKER 12 :
Ask Lake and Riley how safe it is when you’re not paying attention to immigrants.
SPEAKER 11 :
Ask the family of Jocelyn Nguyen. I mean, these people are out of their minds. And I have to tell you that the sanctuary city hill that they’re dying on really confounds me.
SPEAKER 12 :
And they are dying on it because I know you’ll play it and I will too. These mayors said these things. We’re safe for everybody. You know, we want to – just being unresponsive as question after question after question, including from our own North Texas star, Brandon Gill. Do you believe in this? Do you believe in this? And they – answered by not answering. They were, these mayors were absolutely eaten alive by Republican questioning, which again, didn’t always happen back in the past. These people would sit down and sometimes Republican questioning was a little clumsy and not real skilled and wasn’t quite pointed enough. Not anymore. Didn’t mean to interrupt. Just,
SPEAKER 11 :
buried. They were just buried. It was extraordinary. And finally, yesterday I had a chance to visit with our buddy Seb Gorka, who’s now involved in counterterrorism efforts in the White House. He was on the tarmac and got on the plane at Dulles when they got the mastermind behind the Abbey Gate bombing who arrived in the United States. What an extraordinary moment that was. And Seb, I mean, he even joked about it. He said a few years ago, Jesse Waters called me the scariest guy on television or radio. And he is a little imposing, I have to admit. But you know what? He is absolutely ecstatic over the success. And look, it just took a few weeks into the Trump administration.
SPEAKER 12 :
Who wouldn’t be happy? And the picture I have burned in my brain of Seb yesterday, he posted it, him with the biggest smile you could possibly have welcoming a guest to the White House. DJ Daniel.
SPEAKER 11 :
That’s right, DJ.
SPEAKER 12 :
Just kneeling down and putting his arm around this young man and loving on him and showing him just basic human decency, something Nicole Wallace has no concept of.
SPEAKER 11 :
And the moment of the Abbey Gate announcement that President Trump made, they couldn’t even stand for that. They didn’t stand for that, Mark. They had their stupid little paddles. I mean, the cringe factor is getting worse and worse. I just saw a video of like five women of Congress, including that insufferable Jasmine Crockett. Choose your fighter. And they’re like dancing up and down and bopping up and down. They got nothing. Keep it up, ladies. Keep it up. You’re right. This is as good as it gets right now. And I love it. I’m loving every minute of it. Happy Thursday. By the way, Quick programming note, I got jury duty Monday. Okay. I am so enraged at this. I’m walking in there.
SPEAKER 12 :
You’re going to throw down the talk show card?
SPEAKER 11 :
No. I’m going to say, hang them high. I want them all executed. Exactly right. I think traffic, you run through a red light, you need to be executed. I’m going to tell them I’m a conservative talk show host, and I believe in the death penalty for any infraction against the state. I’m going to, I mean, look.
SPEAKER 12 :
But it’s a Florida jury. They may name you foreman.
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh. I’ll be on like the OJ trial for 87 weeks. I’ll see you. I can’t believe it. Exactly. See you for the J.D.
SPEAKER 12 :
Vance inauguration.
SPEAKER 11 :
What happened last time you’ve been called for the J.D.?
SPEAKER 12 :
I’ve had it a couple of times. Exact same thing. I’m in there for 30 minutes.
SPEAKER 11 :
And they dismiss you, right? I’m gone. Yeah. Well, I hope they dismiss me because I want to be – I’m going to start babbling. I’m going to show up like in a hefty bag. I’ll wear like a garbage bag. No. I’ll put a tinfoil hat on, and I’ll start babbling. I’ll start babbling. He has a plan. I’ll be singing show tunes. Saw Book of Mormon last night in St. Leon Broadway. It still holds up, but very blasphemous.
SPEAKER 12 :
Trey Parker, Matt Stone, love those guys.
SPEAKER 11 :
Funny stuff. All right, happy Thursday, my friend.
SPEAKER 12 :
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SPEAKER 09 :
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Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review – 07.11.25