This week’s episode covers a range of pressing topics, beginning with the significant military operation overseen by President Trump. Hear firsthand accounts and insights into the precision bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites and the complex geopolitical ramifications that followed. Join the discussion as we provide analysis and reactions from key figures, as well as the emotional undertones captured in Trump’s national address.
SPEAKER 12 :
Welcome to the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast. I’m Eric Hansen. It’s Friday, June 27th, 2025. This week, Democrats have their candidate for New York City mayor, and it’s a doozy. Plus, Dr. Phil diagnoses the ills of the DNC, and Dr. Sebastian Gorka visits the show. We begin with President Trump’s decision to bomb Iran’s nuclear sites. What?
SPEAKER 09 :
It is righteous to support a president who has said over and over and over again, if elected president, I will prevent Iran from being able to fulfill their promise to take out their enemy with nukes. And when he does it, we’ve got people who are perfectly content to harp and chirp and chip away. And I’ve had it. Let’s listen to the president. I can play the whole speech. And I can’t often say that about President Trump’s speech. This is probably the first time ever that I can say, you know what? We can take a couple of moments and play President Trump’s address to the nation uncharacteristically on time at 10 p.m. Eastern Saturday night and uncharacteristically brief.
SPEAKER 13 :
Here he is. A short time ago, the U.S. military carried out massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime, Fordow, Natanz and Esfahan. Everybody heard those names for years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise. Our objective was the destruction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world’s number one state sponsor of terror. Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success. Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated. Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace. If they do not, future attacks will be far greater and a lot easier. For 40 years, Iran has been saying, death to America, death to Israel. They have been killing our people, blowing off their arms, blowing off their legs with roadside bombs. That was their specialty. We lost over 1,000 people, and hundreds of thousands throughout the Middle East and around the world have died as a direct result of their hate. In particular, so many were killed by their general, Qasem Soleimani. I decided a long time ago that I would not let this happen. It will not continue. I want to thank and congratulate Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. We worked as a team like perhaps no team has ever worked before. And we’ve gone a long way to erasing this horrible threat to Israel. I want to thank the Israeli military for the wonderful job they’ve done. And most importantly, I want to congratulate the great American patriots who flew those magnificent machines tonight and all of the United States military on an operation the likes of which the world has not seen in many, many decades. Hopefully, we will no longer need their services in this capacity. I hope that’s so. I also want to congratulate the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Raisenkane, spectacular general, and all of the brilliant military minds involved in this attack. With all of that being said, this cannot continue. There will be either peace or there will be tragedy for Iran far greater than we have witnessed over the last eight days. Remember, there are many targets left. Tonight’s was the most difficult of them all, by far, and perhaps the most lethal. But if peace does not come quickly, we will go after those other targets with precision, speed and skill. Most of them can be taken out in a matter of minutes. There’s no military in the world that could have done what we did tonight. Not even close. There has never been a military that could do what took place just a little while ago. Tomorrow, General Kane, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth will have a press conference at 8 a.m. at the Pentagon. And I want to just thank everybody and In particular, God, I want to just say we love you, God, and we love our great military. Protect them. God bless the Middle East. God bless Israel. And God bless America. Thank you very much. Thank you.
SPEAKER 09 :
You don’t often hear President Trump have a little catch in his voice. And I don’t know about you, but I detected some emotion when he thanked God for for blessing our troops and our country. I detected a sense of relief that not one hair was harmed on one member of our military. These brave men and women who flew, what, 30-plus hours from the middle of the country, our country, over to Iran after a decoy They sent planes out west to the west. They were detectable. They sent our B-2s out east. They were undetectable. And it was a brilliant mission.
SPEAKER 12 :
It only took a few days for Israel and Iran to agree to a ceasefire in the wake of the U.S. bombing. How solid is it? It may be too soon to tell.
SPEAKER 09 :
As best as I can understand it, Iran sent a lone rocket towards Israel. Israel, of course, intercepted it, thankfully. But then Israel unleashed hell on Iran. And President Trump is not happy. He is headed to the NATO summit. You could tell he… Well, I guess you could always… Understand how angry somebody is when they drop the F-bomb. All the things I’ve done in my career, I’ve never had to bleep a president. I mean, this is him intentionally talking to reporters moments ago as he boarded Marine One. But his characterization is perfect. It’s pitch perfect. This is what’s so hard about the Middle East. They’ve been fighting so long, and they’ve been fighting so hard and so blindly, they don’t know what they’re doing. They don’t know up from down. And he’s mad about it. He doesn’t understand it. Ceasefire was in place. A missile goes from Iran to Israel. Israel says, OK, here we go. And they unleash hell. And Trump hates it so much so that he actually used the F word, which, of course, we will dutifully bleep here on the Mike Gallagher show.
SPEAKER 03 :
Do you believe that Iran is still committed to peace? Yeah, I do. They violated it, but Israel violated it, too. Are you questioning if Israel is committed to peace? Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I’ve never seen before. The biggest load that we’ve seen. I’m not happy with Israel. You know, when I say, OK, now you have 12 hours, you don’t go out in the first hour and just drop everything you have on them. So I’m not happy with them. I’m not happy with Iran either. But I’m really unhappy if Israel is going out this morning because the one rocket that didn’t land, that was shot, perhaps by mistake, that didn’t land, I’m not happy about that. You know what, we basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the they’re doing. Do you understand that?
SPEAKER 09 :
Ouch. Holy cow. Never heard him fired up like that. For all of the bluster and all of the bravado, he’s relatively measured. You know what I mean? He doesn’t really… And I don’t know that that isn’t measured either. He’s just saying, you know what? These guys have got to stop messing around. They’ve got to calm down, he said. And they’ve got to knock it off. And it sounds to me like he’s more frustrated with Israel than he is Iran. Do you get that take? It sounds to me like that’s the issue here, that Israel overreacted. And, of course, one wonders, well, what’s Iran doing? If there’s a ceasefire, then make sure that the ceasefire is in place and you honor the ceasefire. Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
The conflict in the Middle East stirred up both sides of the aisle, so much so that even the president’s supporters are fighting with one another.
SPEAKER 09 :
Who would you rather be mad at you, Marjorie Taylor Greene or Mark Levin? I mean, this back and forth, I hate this. I really do. Mark Levin is just taking on, and I love Mark, always have, the great one, as his friend Sean Hannity always calls him. I’ve known Mark for years. I’ve interviewed Congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene for a number of years. They’re going at it like War of the Roses. This is like a Glenn Close movie or something. Marjorie Taylor Greene started out, and she opposes our intervention at all with this. She doesn’t want us involved in any way, shape, or form. She says, my thoughts on bombing Iran, I don’t know anyone in America who’s been the victim of a crime or killed by Iran. But I know many people who’ve been victims of crime committed by criminal illegal aliens or murdered by cartel and Chinese fentanyl drugs. Her concern is that we’re going to take our eye off the ball here in America. She says, I’m Gen X. I’ve watched our country go to war in foreign lands for foreign causes, and on and on. Real long and, you know, very compelling arguments. I want to fund American interests and issues. I want low inflation, low interest rate. Americans are exhausted by all this stuff in the Middle East. That’s not disloyalty. Critical thinking, having my own opinions, is the most American thing ever. I pray for the safety of all people and an end to the constant demand for America to go to war. Enough is enough. So Mark Levin responds, Marjorie Taylor Greene, shameless nitwit. How incredibly dumb is this Marjorie Taylor Greene? She doesn’t know anyone in America who’s been a victim of a crime or killed by Iran? You mean the thousands of Americans, especially military personnel, killed and maimed by the Iranian terrorist regime? Well, then she responds, I also don’t know anyone who watches your show on Fox News. And my last name is Green, and she spells it properly with an E, G-R-E-E-N-E. Well, Mark then responds, MTG, God, are you stupid? And you keep banging your head against the wall. Thankfully, POTUS ignored you and hit the Iranian nuclear sites. You seem very upset about it. I’m not going away. You’re on my radar. Yikes! She’s on Mark’s radar. So then she concludes this exchange for now by saying the following. This is extremely sick and disturbing. Mark, you have the exact same tone and language that the psychopaths use that send me death threats every single day. You should be fired from Fox News and shame on Fox if they condone this. Let me introduce you to my friend Jesus. He says, blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called the children of God. I will do my best to pray for you, but I will be watching now. She said, there was once a great president the American people loved. He opposed Israel’s nuclear program. Then he was assassinated. I am for peace. I oppose war, including war’s Israel wages. Should I feel that my life is in danger now, too? Anyway, you get the picture. I don’t like any of that. I don’t like seeing these guys. And he’s also, Mark is also fired up about Tucker Carlson. He’s going at Tucker with both… Guns blazing. And look, I don’t want to get on his radar either, but I think they all got to calm down a little bit here. Aren’t they all sort of on the same side? Don’t you think that… People can have a disagreement about the role that we’re playing without getting so vitriolic and personal and hateful and mean.
SPEAKER 12 :
Legal cannabis sparked a fierce debate in Texas this week. Mike stirred the pot of this controversy with his pal Mark Davis on the Eminem Experience.
SPEAKER 09 :
I walked into the studio today and I got buried with all these text messages. People are mad at my buddy Mark Davis in Dallas because Mark’s mad at Governor Greg Abbott. of Texas over a THC ban. Apparently the Texas legislature wants to ban marijuana, and Governor Abbott, I think, if I’m understanding it correctly, is going to veto the ban. So Mark has written a column. In fact, Tracy, see if you can find Mark’s column in the Star-Telegram. He wrote a column denouncing Governor Greg Abbott, saying that he betrayed his constituents by promising to veto this THC ban. And he did veto it. It would have banned THC, of course, the active ingredient in marijuana. And Abbott vetoed the ban. He called for a special session to reconsider the legislation. Abbott is pushing for legislators to regulate hemp and fully fund an enforcement division in the state. Now, his lieutenant governor says that Governor Abbott wants to legalize recreational marijuana. And that, let’s face it, that’s the goal here. That’s the agenda that a lot of people have. I don’t know if it’s Greg Abbott’s agenda or not. And I don’t want to touch this issue. You talk about kryptonite. Look, all it does is infuriate people who want recreational marijuana legalized. This is not medicinal. Everybody knows this whole thing about medical marijuana is a ruse. It’s a scam. This weekend I was in New York City. The whole island of Manhattan smells like it’s under a giant cloud of marijuana with everybody smoking pot on every street corner and marijuana, you know, cannabis dispensaries or whatever you call them on every street corner. And look, this is weird for me because I got a lot of vices. I got a lot of faults. I have lots of problems. I’m impatient. I’m selfish. Until I found PhD weight loss, I eat too much. But I don’t drink or smoke pot. I don’t do anything that alters my behavior. I don’t handle it well. I don’t like how it makes me feel. I don’t like getting drunk. I don’t like getting tipsy. I’m pretty much a teetotaler. And I know it’s funny when I go out to eat with people and everybody’s ordering wine and scotch and bourbon and I have my Diet Coke and everybody looks at me like, oh, Mike’s an alcoholic. Too bad. Poor Mike. Yeah. I’m not an alcoholic. I just don’t like what it does to me. And I don’t like how marijuana makes me feel. I mean, a couple times years ago when I was a kid, I tried pot and not a good experience. So I’m in a weird place with this because I feel like I’m utterly unqualified to weigh in. I know that people who want recreational marijuana are adamant and they are passionate about And they’re loud and they’re angry at anybody who wants to take it away. Mark believes that marijuana is just a horrible scourge on society, that just legalizing yet one more mind-altering substance is a bad idea. I get it. I understand how he feels. But I have a feeling that in many ways that ship has almost sailed. But I could be wrong. I don’t want to touch it. So this is one of those rare times when I’m going to say, please don’t call me and yell at me about the medical marijuana issue. Because I know how volatile this thing gets. Mark wrote a piece of the Star-Telegram article. about the betrayal. I mean, here’s another piece by Eleanor Dearman. Is this Mark? I guess this isn’t Mark’s column. I guess somebody else wrote a column about the same thing the other day. But we’ll get our hands on Mark’s column here in just a moment. I think marijuana causes a lot of harm that people don’t want to acknowledge, to be honest with you. It creates an attitude of sort of apathy and lethargy. But again, I’m just a boring teetotaler. I don’t know what it might feel like for somebody who has got a real, truly challenging medical condition that might be alleviated by THC. I’m just not equipped to even tackle it. My mom was a cancer patient. 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SPEAKER 12 :
Promo code MyG. This is the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast. I’m Eric Hansen. Secretary of State Marco Rubio appeared on CBS’s Face the Nation this week where he absolutely smoked host Margaret Brennan.
SPEAKER 09 :
Every time I see Marco Rubio give an interview to a hostile reporter, I get more and more impressed with this guy. So he went to CBS, Face the Nation. And Margaret Brennan once again got demolished, as she often does, by guests who are in the know. Can you imagine a TV anchor scolding the Secretary of State, who obviously is literally in the room where it happens, who’s right in the middle of it all, right in the middle of the planning, the meticulous military precision operation that took place, Margaret Brennan is trying to tell Marco Rubio about intelligence, about tactics, about our military. I mean, the audacity of it. I get asking questions. But when you act like you’re smarter about something like Operation Midnight Hammer than the secretary of state. You’re embarrassing yourself. Somebody posted over the weekend on social media, at this point, it’s just flat-out abuse to send Margaret out to get demolished on TV by Marco Rubio after the adults have to clean up Joe Biden’s mess. Check out this exchange.
SPEAKER 10 :
Are you saying there that the United States did not see intelligence that the Supreme Leader had ordered weaponization?
SPEAKER 11 :
That’s irrelevant. I see that question being asked on the media all the time. That’s an irrelevant question.
SPEAKER 10 :
That is the key point in U.S. intelligence assessments. You know that. No, it’s not. Yes, it was. No, it’s not. The political decision had not been made.
SPEAKER 11 :
I know that better than you know that, and I know that that’s not the case.
SPEAKER 10 :
But I’m asking you whether the order was given.
SPEAKER 11 :
And the people who say that. It doesn’t matter if the order was given. They have everything they need to build nuclear weapons. Why would you bury things in a mountain 300 feet under the ground? Why do they have 60% enriched uranium? You don’t need 60% enriched uranium. The only countries in the world that have uranium at 60% are countries that have nuclear weapons because they can quickly make it 90. They have all the elements. Why do they have a space program? Is Iran going to go to the moon? No. They’re trying to build an ICBM so they can put a warhead on it.
SPEAKER 10 :
That’s a question of intent. And you know in the intelligence assessment that it was that Iran wanted to be a threshold state and use this leverage. How do you know what the intelligence assessment says? I’m talking about the public March assessment. And that’s why I was asking you if you know something more from March.
SPEAKER 11 :
But that’s also an inaccurate representation of it. That’s an accurate representation of it. That’s not how intelligence is read. That’s not how intelligence is used. Here’s what the whole world knows. Forget about intelligence. What the IAEA knows, they are enriching uranium well beyond anything you need for a civil nuclear program. So why would you enrich uranium at 60%? if you don’t intend to one day use it to take it to 90 and build a weapon. Why are you developing ICBMs? Why do you have 8,000 short-range missiles and 2,000 to 3,000 mid-range missiles that you continue to develop? Why do you do all these things? They have everything they need for a nuclear weapon. They have the delivery mechanisms. They have the enrichment capability. They have the highly enriched uranium that is stored. That’s all we need to see. Especially in the hands of a regime that’s already involved in terrorism and proxies and all kinds of things. They are the source of all instability in the Middle East.
SPEAKER 10 :
No one’s disputing that. I’m not doing that here. And they were censured at the IAEA for that enrichment and for violating their nonproliferation agreements. I was simply asking if we had intelligence that there was an order to weaponize, because you said weaponization ambitions.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, we have intelligence that they have everything they need to build a nuclear weapon, and that’s more than enough.
SPEAKER 09 :
I know I shouldn’t laugh, but all I can do is find that comical. The host of Face the Nation is telling the Secretary of State what the intelligence assessment is. You heard him at one point say, how do you know what the intelligence assessment is? He’s sitting there, I’m the Secretary of State, dummy. What are you doing sitting there, you know, at your anchor desk telling me what the conclusion is of our intelligence community? I am the Secretary of State, you know.
SPEAKER 12 :
We got an insider take of the U.S. bombing in Iran this week when Deputy Special Assistant to the President and our old friend, Dr. Sebastian Gorka, appeared on the show.
SPEAKER 09 :
Sebastian Gorka serves as deputy assistant to President Trump, senior director for counterterrorism, the National Security Council. I don’t know, Seb, if you could hear before you joined us, but your friend and, of course, colleague Pete Hegseth saying, look, when President Trump speaks, the world ought to listen. He fulfilled that Saturday night, didn’t he?
SPEAKER 08 :
I’m really shocked by those who pretend that they were MAGA voters and for all those with Trump derangement syndrome who are surprised that we pulled this off. I was in the White House Situation Room on Saturday evening. And everybody who was surprised by it has been asleep, has been a Rip Van Winkle for the last decade. God bless Caroline Leavitt, who just last week from the podium here at the White House said, you do know that even before he ran in 2011, President Trump, as a private citizen, said Iran should never acquire nuclear weapons. And then… If you go back to that momentous occasion, Mike, I know it’s seared on your cerebellum in that beautiful golden tower in Manhattan when he came down the escalators and he gave that speech where he declared, I’m running for the presidency. Part of that speech. was exactly this. He said, we will never permit Iran to acquire nuclear weapons. Why? Because it’s a fascistic, theocratic regime that calls for the destruction of America every single Friday. So now he’s the commander-in-chief. It’s just another promise kept. And can I just go to that little clip you played of my friend Pete and the amazing Chairman Kaine? There is… Tom Clancy doesn’t come close to this. I’m sorry that the TV shows, the movies, the Jason board doesn’t touch this. The idea that we had this package of stealth bombers fly halfway across the world. Nobody knew they were coming from here. as opposed to Diego Garcia. And the fact that they did this mission without one shot, Mike, being fired, without one Iranian interceptor, one fighter plane getting off the launch pad. Why? Because we are the greatest military force the world has ever seen. And as Pete said, you better listen to the commander in chief, the president, Donald J. Trump.
SPEAKER 09 :
You know, you’re one of the strongest straight shooters I’ve ever met. I want to get your wisdom, your common sense reaction to those who are second guessing Saturday night’s military success. Whether it’s, you know, the Democrats and Hakeem Jeffries or all the Democrats are lining up. This was awful. This is an impeachable offense and all this other stuff. Does that mean, Seb… that they actually support Iran’s nuclear ambitions? I posted that question on social media over the weekend. I thought, well, look, this is kind of a binary choice here. If you don’t like stopping Iran from being able to advance their nuclear aspirations, does that mean you want Iran to have nuclear aspirations? Is that oversimplifying things, or is that how you see it?
SPEAKER 08 :
No, it’s very simple. I mean, what is Iran? Go back to the photographs of our 50-plus hostages taken in the embassy in 1979. Go back to the Beirut bombing where hundreds of U.S. Marines were killed by an organization that was funded and controlled by the regime, the proxy masters in Tehran. Go back to just the nature of the regime. I mean, really, the party that says they’re for the small guy, for ethnic minorities, for LGBTQ, LMNOP, this is a regime that throws people off rooftops if they’re homosexuals. This is the regime that beats women and sometimes shoots them to death if they take their head scarves off their heads. So it’s worse than what you said, Mike. If you’re against Operation Midnight Hammer, the most exquisitely sublime perfect military operation of the modern age, then not only are you on the side of Iran, you’re also in favor of them acquiring nuclear weapons. It truly is that simple, my friend.
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New York City residents faced a terrible choice this week in the Democratic mayoral primary. Vote for an anti-Semitic, anti-police, radical socialist or disgraced former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Guess who they chose? We reached out to New York defense attorney and talk host Arthur Idalla about what comes next.
SPEAKER 09 :
What about the things he can do? And that’s what terrifies a lot of normal people who can’t believe that the Democrat voters did what they did last night.
SPEAKER 04 :
So my phone has been blowing up with people like us. Here’s, you know, you talked about in one of your commercials about your age. People who were out yesterday in 100-degree weather campaigning vigorously for Mamdani, they do not remember pre-Rudy Giuliani New York City. They don’t remember. My office in Manhattan is right next to Bryant Park. People go there in the afternoon and watch movies and have a cocktail. In 1989, if you walked through Bryant Park, you weren’t coming out without getting robbed, beat up, terrorized, assaulted in some way. They forget what Times Square was like with all the pornography and the crack and the knives and the scariness. These kids, they don’t know that. So that’s the direction, you know, this city would be going in under Imam Dhani. Unless, unless he won, he was smart enough to hire a great police commissioner. As much as you want to brag on de Blasio, he did have Bill Bratton as his police commissioner.
SPEAKER 09 :
But this guy wants to, but he wants to defund the police.
SPEAKER 04 :
I know, I know.
SPEAKER 09 :
He wants to replace— I’m terrified. Look, Arthur, I heard somebody allege that he wanted to actually remove the police from high-crime neighborhoods in New York. I thought, that’s not possible. That can’t be. I saw it with my own eyes and heard it with my own ears. He said it in an interview. He wants to remove police because too many people get arrested in high crime neighborhoods and they get persecuted because they’re people of color. He wants to replace the cops with social workers. Every bit of the rabid, crazy, radical agenda that you imagine, you dream up, he believes in. He thinks these things.
SPEAKER 04 :
Before I lose you, Mike, let me give you a little breaking news. I spoke to Andrew Cuomo this morning at length. I spoke to Eric Adams’ campaign manager. I missed Eric Adams’ call. He called me as well. The bottom line is they both understand that one of them needs to be the next mayor. They both believe that they should be the next mayor if the polling shows that one of them, it’s all out to beat Mamdani. Now, you got Curtis Lee running as a Republican. That’s a problem because he’s going to draw votes from normal people as well. Somehow or another, the smartest New Yorkers have to get together and say, this is the one guy who can beat Mom Donnie. Whether it’s Sleewe on the Republican line, whether it’s Eric Adams as the incumbent on the independent line, whether it’s Cuomo on an independent line, but whoever is the most likely to beat Mom Donnie has to be the one person. Everyone coalesces around and run against, and because this kid can’t be the mayor of the city of New York, we would be in for a world of hurt.
SPEAKER 09 :
You know, I think about a guy that I’ve known over the years, John Katsimatidis, who is this— I was going to mention his name.
SPEAKER 04 :
I was going to mention his name. He’s got to be a real kingmaker here and say, look, the polls show that Cuomo’s best to beat Mamdani, or Eric is best to beat Mamdani, and the other guy has to endorse whoever is leading in the polls.
SPEAKER 09 :
And John’s a high-profile Republican and, of course, a broadcaster. He owns WABC and, of course, he appears on AM 970, The Answer, every night. But he also owns the Gristini’s supermarket chain. One of the agenda items for this lunatic is to funnel funds, to confiscate funds from corporate grocery stores to fund city-owned grocery stores so that there’s no profit on groceries. Now, that’ll put Gristiti’s out of business. And I believe I saw an interview, I think, with John a few weeks ago. He said, if this happens, we’ll pull Gristiti’s out of the city. We’ll have to.
SPEAKER 04 :
We’ll have to. That’s what I was talking about with Joy Reid last time on CNN. So you get a billionaire like John Katsimatidis who says, I’m going to pull this out. I’m going to pull that out. My primary reason is no longer to be in New York City. I’m going to move out to my house in Quag in the Hamptons. That’s it. That’s the domino effect and everything starts falling. So, you know, we need, as New Yorkers who are educated, who are mature, who know what history has held for this city and how bad it could be. That’s the problem. The young people don’t know about how bad the subways was, the graffiti, the grime. So those like the John Katsimatidis of the world have to come together and say, look, guys, all three of you can’t run. Sliwa, Cuomo, and Eric, we got to pick one, and that’s our guy.
SPEAKER 12 :
Dr. Phil rarely expresses a political opinion, so when he does, it is worth taking notice. His diagnosis of what ails the modern Democratic Party is devastating.
SPEAKER 09 :
I want you to hear Dr. Phil’s rant. This is a great monologue about the Democrat Party of 2025. He says it’s unrecognizable. And I wanted to play a big chunk of it because I thought you’d appreciate what Dr. Phil had to say about today’s Democrats. Here it is.
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The Democratic Party seems to have gone off the deep end. Maybe we need to blow it up and bring it back to its roots. The real story is that the Democratic Party is not a progressive party anymore. Now, I’ve often said, I’m not really into politics, so what am I doing talking about Political parties. Well, I’ll tell you why I’m talking about it. Because I’m talking about it from a cultural standpoint, and I strongly believe, psychologically, we need two parties in this country. We don’t just need the Republican Party. We just don’t need the Democrats. We need two parties in this country, but they need to be real parties. And most of the Democrats I talk to tell me that they didn’t leave the Democratic Party. They say the Democratic Party left them. They say it was hijacked by the extreme left liberals, that the fringe took over the party. And so it’s not what they thought it was. It’s not what it has been all this time. Right now, it’s just a pathetic party sending America back to the Stone Ages. Yeah! Making up a bunch of ideology that doesn’t make common sense. It’s not really about the people. Now, look, we know it. Real Democrats know it. Here are the headlines. Democrats are deeply pessimistic about the future of their party. Another headline. Another one. what happened to the democratic party the squalid state of our present political institutions points to a failure of not just individuals but the system as a whole now someone i respect greatly told me and i quote the existing democratic party has become the party of hamas hate and waste is it fair to call the democrats the party of hamas well In April, a Pew study, 69% of Dems are anti-Israel. Now, shortly after October 7th, 22 Democratic House representatives voted against a resolution condemning those supporting Hamas at U.S. universities.
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You would agree that this is this is calling for the destruction of the state of Israel. This is this is after the senator. Oh, it’s not. This isn’t calling for the killing of Jews.
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I don’t know that person and I don’t know that sign.
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Oh, you don’t know what this means.
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Now, understand Hamas has been around since the early 80s. And since that time, they have murdered 48 Americans. They’ve held American hostages. Edon Alexander was just released a few weeks ago. But yet we have Democratic representatives voting against a resolution to condemn them. Democratic Congressman Richie Torres called out his party last month.
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If you’re an academic or an activist, a politician or a journalist, who is downplaying or even denying the genocidal ideology at the core of October 7th, then you are not part of the solution. You are part of the problem.
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You’re either with Israel or you’re against Israel. And if you’re against Israel, then you’re on the same side as Hamas. They want to eradicate Israel.
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What do you think it means from the river to the sea?
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That means they want to completely wipe Israel and everybody in it off the map. Is it fair to call the Democrats the party of hate?
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In March, Representative Jasmine Crockett said, And all I want to see happen on my birthday is for Eli to be taken down.
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This is not a one-time thing.
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It’s Ted Cruz. I mean, like, this dude has to be knocked over the head, like, hard.
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The history of hate speech. This seems to just keep popping its head up. Hillary Clinton. You can put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. When Trump gave his address, it wasn’t a say of the union. He was just kind of giving an almost hundred-day message. The Democrats wouldn’t applaud a young black child who had overcome brain cancer or the return of Mark Fogle, who was held hostage in Russia. Now, people say, okay, come on. That was a ploy. They were put there to play on the heartstrings. Of course. There was no question that they were there for effect. They were very real stories. And real people respond to real stories. D.C. is often about theater, and the Democrats sat on their hands. Somebody needs to talk to these people. How do you think this is playing? As far as waste, Democrats even waste their own money. $20 million study on how to speak to American men. Hell, Robin will tell you that without even charging you. They passed a $1.9 trillion spending package during COVID. Where did that money go? Well, $350 billion of it went to bail out lockdown blue states. $50 million on climate justice. $200 million for the Institute of Museum and Library Services. $50 million for Planned Parenthood. Maybe it’s time to ask, what would a new Democratic Party look like? Well, I’ll tell you what I think it would look like if it was robust. And I want it to be robust. Everybody thinks, oh, you’re a big Republican. You don’t know that. You don’t know how I vote. You don’t know what I think. I look at policies. I look at positions. There are a lot of things I agree with the old Democratic Party about, some things I disagree with the current Republican Party about. But here’s how I would look at a Democratic Party that I felt like would be really robust and good for dialogue. A robust Democratic Party would respect the law. If it didn’t like a given law, it would lobby Congress to change it. It would not vilify those enforcing it. It would not say defund the police. It would not be throwing rocks at ICE agents’ heads. If they didn’t like the law, they would get into Congress and change it.
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A little bit of a just kind of a common sense monologue from Dr. Phil that I thought was appropriate. He’s right. The Democrat Party is unrecognizable. Not a party that my late parents would recognize, probably your parents. So we’ll see how things go, but I thought you’d appreciate Dr. Phil’s wisdom.
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And that wraps up the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast for Friday, June 27th, 2025. I’m Eric Hansen. Be sure to subscribe to all the podcasts and follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And if you like the show, be sure to share it with a friend. We’ll see you back here next week on the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast.
