Join Carl Jackson, guest hosting for Mike Gallagher, as he discusses significant news stories impacting the conservative movement. The discussion spans the recent raid on John Bolton, revelations about federal dependencies in red states, and an examination of cultural and governance challenges facing various states. With calls from listeners and expert insights, this episode offers a comprehensive overview of the current political climate and its implications for future elections.
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He’s the happy conservative warrior, Mike Gallagher, broadcasting across hundreds of radio stations nationwide and seen on your trusted conservative TV network, Salem News Channel. Sitting in for Mike today, here’s Carl Jackson.
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Nobody saw this coming. Nobody saw this coming. Carl Jackson in for Mike Gallagher. Thank you, Mike, for allowing me to sit behind your microphone. Mike will be back with you guys next week. I want to thank Tracy Stockwell, just been a fabulous host. Eric Hansen is in my ear. We’ve got Alex Garrett. We’ve got Yasmin Holloway behind the scenes helping out to make the show happen. And again, I just want to thank Mike. Guys, listen, you guys know the news, the breaking news. This is so crazy. Let me tell you something. Yesterday, as I was leaving the studio, I was speaking to Tracy Stockwell. It seems like before I leave, we always have some type of banner going back and forth about the news of the day, what’s going to happen next, what’s going to happen in politics. It’s a fun little conversation we have every time this show ends. Yesterday, I was telling Tracy, I said, listen, This thing with Letitia James, you know, it’s huge. This is a major victory for Trump. The fact that he doesn’t have to pay that big fine, $500 million, whatever it was, that civil fraud case brought by Letitia James with that judge in Garan. And again, these lefties on the court still found him liable of some of those things. So that allows Letitia James to continue with her narrative. Oh, Trump is guilty. Trump is guilty. Trump is guilty. So anyway. I was like, OK, I’ll send you some stories. I do think this is still going to be a big story tomorrow. And she was like, you know, maybe, maybe. But, you know, things are moving so fast with the news. Guys, I started doing an outline. I kid you not. I probably looked through, read 13 stories. I had completely forgotten about that one. That was after, I don’t know, 3, 4, 5 p.m. yesterday. I mean, waking up and there’s new news already. And then all of a sudden, this news breaks with John Bolton. Guys, I got to tell you, I am so seriously thinking. I better invest in Depends. Right now may be a good time to invest in Depends because John Bolton’s home has been raided. as well as his office, no one is above the law. That’s what the left has continued to say over and over and over again, and no one should be above the law. You know, even with this mortgage fraud, these mortgage fraud allegations, you know, I read a story, thank you, Tracy, by Axios the other day, and they were like, Trump’s basically… I’m paraphrasing, but it was something to the effect of Trump’s revenge. Trump gets revenge on some of his enemies, whether it’s the Federal Reserve governor, whether it’s Letitia James, whether it’s whether it’s Senator Adam Schiff. And I’m like, is it revenge if people are breaking the law? Allegedly, is that revenge? These people committed crimes. They committed crimes against a candidate, in my opinion, against a sitting president, in my opinion. And no one is above the law. That includes John Bolton. Listen, I have no animus with John Bolton. I don’t like the man, frankly. But but no one is above the law. And so I suspect that everyone is running scared in Washington, D.C., because for the first time, Democrats understand that Republicans mean business under the leadership of Donald Trump. And guys, let me say this. You’re worried about lawfare. Those of you, there may be some liberals listening, Democrats. Actually, I know there is a Mike Gallagher show. He’s got such a wide audience. All right. So you’re like, OK, this is this is lawfare. This is lawfare. This is this is an authoritarian move. This is the government going after one of his political rivals. Never mind the fact that John Bolton was once a part of his administration. And so, listen, here’s the bottom line. You guys have no authority whatsoever. Liberal Democrats, you have no authority. This isn’t if someone has broken the law, if someone has taken classified documents. Remember, they raided Trump’s home. They raided his personal residence. The Russia collusion hoax we know is a complete and utter fraud. Those of us on the right knew it intuitively. Now many independents, some Democrats, are waking up to the fact that the Obama administration started that Russia collusion hoax and went all the way up to the top, all the way up to Barack Obama. There’s more evidence. Actually, it’s so funny because there was another breaking story about James Comey earlier today or last night. I didn’t even flip through it or didn’t even read through it. But I was like, oh, my goodness, maybe this guy is going down. And I saw it on Just the News verification page. that he, in fact, gave the go ahead to start leaking classified documents. These guys are being exposed. When you break the law, you break the law. I’m sorry, liberals. You have no moral authority to try to say Trump is an authoritarian. This is lawfare. This is that is all you guys practice. And it was fake. Again, going back to the Mar-a-Lago raid, you realize. The sole reason besides undermining Trump’s then candidacy at the time to go after President Donald Trump, they were concerned. I’m speaking of the deep staters within the DOJ and the FBI were concerned that President Trump still had documentation related to the Russia hoax that would get them in trouble. That’s one of the reasons why they raided his house. It wasn’t because Trump necessarily had classified documents. Remember, he claimed presidential privilege. It wasn’t that he had documents. It was that they were afraid that Trump had documents that would get them in trouble. It’s amazing because it’s honestly, we talked about this or we’ve touched on this all week long that everything the left does, they project onto Republicans. So now they’re getting a taste of their own medicine. Well, John Bolton isn’t of the left. Is he? I mean, if he’s undermining a sitting president, his former boss, allegedly, and again, we’ll find out. Kash Patel wrote on X. Thank you, Tracy. No one is above the law. FBI agents on mission. Here’s what Dan Bongino wrote. Public corruption will not be tolerated. Here’s what AG Pam Bondi wrote all on X. America’s safety isn’t negotiable. Justice will be pursued always. Man, I got to tell you, listen, I’m not a big Pam Bondi fan. Those of you that have listened to me before, you already know that. But it seems as of late, I really harken it back to Dan Bongino being willing to straight up say, listen, man, it’s either her or me. It seems to me, since that was probably a good confrontation. Every once in a while, you need some good confrontation to get a fire under your behind, right? And so this, I suspect that’s what’s happened. Because even the information that I was reading last night on James Comey about him classifying or giving the permission or the go-ahead to leak classified information, apparently some of the documents that Kash Patel had released regarding All of this, the Clinton pay for the pay for play scheme, all of the corruption that we’ve seen being released, the memos, the emails, stuff that Tulsi Gabbard has. Well, actually, separate entity. But but all of these all of these memos that have been released by Cash Patel and the FBI. That’s proving John Brennan was corrupt. That proves James Comey was corrupt. That proves that James Clapper was corrupt. They still had a lot of redacted information on that paperwork. Well, according to Just the News, Pam Bundy said, clear the redactions. And now that should have happened in the first place. You get my drift. But something has happened to Pam Bundy. Her eyes apparently have been opened. Thank you, Lord, because this is very important. Guys, listen, if you don’t have the rule of law, you don’t have a country. If you don’t have borders, you don’t have a country. But the reason people flock to the United States of America from all parts of the world is because America is, well, it is the most prosperous and supposed to be the most safest country in the world where you can prosper here, where you can live in safety. where you can chase your goals, chase the American dream, if you will. And the only way that people get to do that, whether they’re American citizens, whether they’re legal immigrants trying to come to this country, even illegal aliens trying to invade this country, they usually hope that they’ll arrive in a country that is better than the one they left. That’s not the case if law enforcement or we don’t have the rule of law. We have more on D.C. as well. Man, just honestly, this is it’s so crazy, man. I’m like, what do I just throw out my outline? So crazy. Darn you, Trump. Spend all that time researching and then you give me new material right before the show. Anyway, Carl Jackson sitting in for Mike Gallagher. The number to call into the relief factor dot com studio. One eight hundred six five five. Mike. 1-800-655-6453. MikeOnline.com. We’ll be back after the break.
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He’s the happy conservative warrior, Mike Gallagher, broadcasting across hundreds of radio stations nationwide and seen on your trusted conservative TV network, Salem News Channel. Sitting in for Mike today, here’s Carl Jackson.
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All right. Welcome back to the Mike Gallagher show. I am your guest host, Carl Jackson, sitting in for Mike Gallagher. Guys, in case you missed it in the first hour, just huge breaking news of the day. The FBI has raided the home of John Bolton as well as his office. Just to recap, FBI agents raided the D.C. area. home of President Trump’s former national security advisor, John Bolton, today in a high-profile national security probe. This, according to the New York Post, federal agents busted into Bolton’s house in Bethesda, Maryland at 7 a.m. this morning. It was ordered by FBI Director Kash Patel, a Trump administration official told the Post. Here’s what FBI Director Kash Patel posted on his ex-account. No one is above the law fbi agents on mission i don’t know if there’s more to come or not but i’m telling you I am seriously thinking of investing in depends. And guys, listen, this is the way that it needs to be. I’m sorry. A lot of people out there. Oh, this is lawfare. This is revenge. Again, there was an Axios article talking about how President Trump was seeking revenge against Adam Schiff and Letitia James and the and her name escapes me right now. But the federal federal reserve governor. All of them allegedly committed mortgage fraud. And I’m like, is it revenge or justice? If people have broken the law, they’ve broken the law. I mean, it’s as simple as that. So is that revenge or justice? I think it’s justice. I think it’s justice. The left always says no one is above the law. Let’s see if they really mean it. Let’s see if they really mean it. We saw the lawfare against President Trump, even raiding his personal residence, all to perpetuate this Russia collusion hoax. The man was almost assassinated twice in one summer. I mean, just absolutely insane due to the rhetoric and the nonsense from the left. And that’s what they wanted to see. We still barely know anything about the first attempted murderer Basically, they cremated his body so fast it was unbelievable. So anyway, so that is out. That’s happening now. Again, no one is above the law. Callers, if you want to call in to the ReliefFactor.com studio, 1-800-655-MIKE, 1-800-655-6453. A caller dropped off in the last hour. If you’d like to call back, I’ll make sure I get you on, move to the top of the charts. He mentioned something about RICO. I suspect that’s what Jonathan Gilliam, former Navy SEAL, was alluding to when he said, listen, I think also what we have to start looking at, and he’s talking about specifically this Russiagate or Obamagate, since Obama was the head of it, but now we’re starting to find out that James Comey basically gave the green light for his underlings to leak classified information, apps, allegedly, maybe, John Bolton did as well, or at least has some classified information that does not belong to him that he shouldn’t have in his possession. And apparently he used some of that information in his 2020 book. So we’ll have to wait and see. But just that breaking at the this morning, I mean, just unbelievable. The news is just moving, moving so swiftly. It’s crazy. OK, let me get to what I wanted to talk about early. OK, so what I mentioned in the first hour and what I intended to start with. And now I’m barely getting to. It’s just crazy. But this is talk radio for you, man. You got to move with the news. You got to move with the news. All right. So this is from The Federalist. Again, a new report shows red state institutions are just as left wing as their blue counterparts. And guys, so when we win elections, we got to do what we say we’re going to do. I mean, it’s as simple as that. A comment trope trotted out in defense of the modern GOP is that for all its shortcomings, electing Republicans to positions of power is better than electing Democrats, the columnist writes. If that agreement is true, then why are the institutions in so many so-called red states just as left-wing as their blue state counterparts, the columnist writes. I’m looking here at my notes. Right between my formerly fingerprinted fingertips because I have another story that I want to tie into this regarding the mayor of Boston, Michelle Wu. So I’m trying to remind myself to not forget that story and tie it in. It’s very important. A new report authored by the State Leadership Initiative. And obtained by The Federalist reveals how many Republican run states, quote, remain deeply entangled in the same bureaucratic bloat, cultural drift and economic stagnation. There are many big differences, while red and blue states often defer on on big issues like gun rights and tax policy. The 2025 State Leadership Index shows how the implementation of these policies, specifically those in red states, quote, often operate within a left wing framework that remains fundamentally unchanged. I mean, again, I go back to my example of of Ohio and and I think Ohio is getting better. But I have family members that live in Ohio and they would talk about how these blue cities inside of Ohio, Cincinnati, so on, et cetera. Oh, yeah. Just real quick. I mean, I read through so much stuff. It’s insane. All right. So so this just popped into my mind. Little ADD. All right. So while I’m talking about Ohio real quick, Cincinnati, you know where those the the white people were beat down. Allegedly, one person may or may not have said the N-word. So now you’ve got even pastors out there saying, oh, these white people should be charged the same as the black people who literally almost committed. I mean, that was attempted murder, in my opinion. So now they want the whites charged with the with the exact same type of crimes, despite the fact that the one woman that almost lost her life literally was just trying to step in to break up the fight when they almost killed killed her. Now there’s new news in Cincinnati. They have just rejected opening up a museum for police officers there. It’s because they’re woke. Nonetheless, despite those blue cities, Cincinnati, Columbus, so on, etc., it’s still a predominantly red state, even in the legislature, and they don’t act like it. That’s an example. I go on. State leadership initiative was founded to do the legwork to get red states to live up to the campaign promises their elected officials made to their citizens when asking for their votes. This report shows that in huge aspects of governance, red states need to be more than blue states need to be more than blue states with lower taxes. Noah Wall told the Federalists this report is a call to action to change that. So the SLI index, here’s what they score. It scores and ranks states based upon various metrics that are divided into three primary subcategories. And those categories include governance. Now, governance measures the effectiveness and ideological alignment of a state’s bureaucracy. Second, economic vitality, which measures whether a state is advancing material prosperity and building a sustainable economy. for long-term strength. Third, cultural strength, which evaluates the health and resilience of communities. All right. So you’ve got economic vitality. You’ve got cultural cultural strength. You’ve got good old fashioned governance. When examining the governance of U.S. jurisdictions, LSI found an alarming level of federal dependency among red states. This, according to the analysis, seven. Listen to this. Seven of the 10 most federally dependent states are red. I was shocked to hear that. Seven of the 10 most federally dependent states are red. Guys, we got to help a brother out. Who’s the brother I’m talking about? Donald Trump. You can’t just fight on the national level. Not in my own backyard, as they say, NIMBY. We’ve got to pay attention to state and local races and hold those politicians accountable too. Donald Trump isn’t going to be here forever. Donald Trump can’t run states. That’s going to be up to the politicians that we elect and up to us. More of this on the other side. Carl Jackson in for Mike Gallagher.
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All right, welcome back to the Mike Gallagher Show. Again, I’m your guest host, Carl Jackson, sitting in for Mike Gallagher as he’s on the Patriots Alaska cruise. Mike will be back with you guys on Monday, so I know you’re looking forward to that. The number to call in to the ReliefFactor.com studio, 1-800-655-MIKE, 6453. I’m so thankful for Mike allowing me to sit behind his microphone and trusting me behind his microphone. He’s got a big one. He is one of the top radio hosts. In the entire country. So it’s always humbling to sit behind his microphone. And I always want to make sure that that I do a good job for one. And also that I don’t do anything to destroy Mike’s name in any way, shape or form. So I’m so appreciative for that, along with the group, Tracy Stockwell, Eric Hansen. That’s in my ear. We’ve got Yasmin Holloway, Alex Garrett, everyone making things happen as we go. So just a word of caution. And then I’m going to get to some because there is some good news on the conservative front are starting to see. I think we’re starting to see Democrats like in the D.C. area. Like the story that I showed or shared the other day of the black woman that was fully expecting the, you know, I don’t know what type of crazy tactics that she that she always hears the left talk about when it comes to policing. Sometimes policing isn’t going to look pretty. Right. They’re catching criminals. All right. Give the guys some grace. It’s not going to look pretty. All right. But she was expecting to see, I guess, beat downs in her community and all this kind of stuff. She wasn’t sure. You know, the left has been calling Trump a Nazi. So you get the National Guard in the district and you get the Metro Police Department there. And she’s freaking out, scared of how they’re going to treat her fellow citizens in her community. And then she sees how they treat them, how they arrest them or detain them if it’s the National Guard. before handing them over to the Metro Police Department. She starts noticing that, you know, there were always some shady characters that she had to worry about walking outside of her front door. And then within a couple of days, she’s noticing that, you know, the sun is a little brighter. She’s got a little more pep in her steps. She feels good about walking outside her front door. And she’s like, oh, my goodness, the troublemakers are gone. This is a good thing. Maybe I should tell them other communities that they need to go to and start cleaning them up. That’s what happens when you fight back. If you’re just neutral, if you’re a rhino and you think you’re doing a service to the country, I’m sorry. You can be friends with Democrats. You can be friends with liberals. Just don’t adapt their policies. Why? Because our policies are better. Our policies work. That’s what Trump is proving. Oh, you’re just a Trump lackey. I’m a lackey for agreeing with policy, something the Democrat Party can’t do. Anything, anywhere the left wants to go, you guys notice the Democrat voters go? What do you start seeing on X? What do you start hearing from Democrats? Oh, Trump is a Nazi. Trump is an authoritarian. They can’t even spell it. I mean, it’s insane, but that’s what happens. Getting back to this column from the Federalists. The writer goes on to say, obviously, I mentioned the three indexes that are scored, governance, economic vitality, cultural strength. When examining the governance of U.S. jurisdictions, as I stated earlier, the SLI found an alarming level of federal dependency among red states. According to the analysis, seven of the 10 most federally dependent states are red. That is insane. with federal dollars comprising nearly 40 percent of the state budgets. I’m talking about states like Mississippi, states like West Virginia. The columnist writes, this is not sovereignty. It is soft capture. And he couldn’t be more right. Upon further analysis, the conservative group found other governance similarities shared by many red and blue states alike. Notably, the report shows that a significant number of red states boast a disproportionate amount of public school, city and other government bureaucrats. On the economic vitality front, the index found that overregulation continues to be a big problem in many red states, with SLI noting. Quote, excluding outliers, there is hardly a difference between the average number of regulations in red states and blue states. The report’s subcategory included additional discoveries such as that state budget growth is comparable between red and blue states. They’re virtually the same. This has got to stop. This is not what we’re fighting for. It’s not what we’re voting for. We’ll be back. Oh, OK. In that case, got another 40 seconds. Sorry. So the article goes on. SLI also flagged numerous concerning factors after examining the cultural strength of U.S. states. Notably, the organization highlighted that while, quote, Red states outperform blue ones on marriage rates and fertility. And most red states, fewer than half of teenagers are raised in intact families. Guys, that is how the Democrat Party destroyed the black community. We’ve got some solutions on the other side. So you guys stay tuned. Carl Jackson in for Mike Gallagher.
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All of the reporters in Gaza are Palestinians, and those people fall into three categories. Some of them identify with Hamas. Some of them are intimidated by Hamas and won’t cross Hamas, which makes a lot of sense. I wouldn’t want to cross Hamas either. And the third category is people who actually belong to Hamas. That’s where the information from Gaza is coming from. And if you’re credulous, then, of course, you’re going to get a story that makes Israel look pretty bad.
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No doubt, man. Listen, I don’t care what anybody says. Israel should take back Gaza. They should have never given it up in the first place. There’s no such thing as a Palestinian. I’m sorry. I mean, these people, ask yourself, why is it that the neighboring Middle Eastern countries don’t want to take the people from Gaza? Why do they want to stick them with Israel? Listen, I don’t want any innocent person in Gaza to die. But the truth of the matter is the vast majority of them voted for Hamas. They teach their children to hate Jews from literally almost the moment they’re born. I mean, it’s absolutely nuts. The Gazans will be much better if Israel has the area under control. Right now, it’s just a demolished construction site, a demolished war zone. Gaza was a failed two-state solution. I’m so tired of these leaders, whether they’re in America or I don’t care if they’re Republican or Democrat or whether they’re Europeans that are letting Islamists invade and take over their countries. Like, what moral authority do they have? Just please shut up. Israel needs to take back Gaza. I mean, it’s as simple as that. I don’t know what they’re waiting for, frankly. I wish they hadn’t postponed it. I just, you know, I hate to be blunt, but I feel like more hostages would have been alive if they would have just given the United States even the middle finger. It’s a sovereign nation. It’s a sovereign country. They were attacked. That was their 9-11. They have the right to not only defend themselves, but to go on offense like we did in the United States so it doesn’t happen to them again. That is our greatest ally in the Middle East. I mean, it’s simple to me. I mean, I saw a conservative so-called podcaster equating Netanyahu to Hitler. What a freaking moron. The guy has huge followers. Huge followers. By the way, follow me. I’m not going to say something so stupid. At Carl Jackson Show. At The Carl Jackson Show. X Instagram. And Facebook. All right? And subscribe to my podcast. All right, now, getting back to this, and I want to go to some wins. Actually, let me do this real quick. Well, let me wrap this up, and then Rod and Bill, I see you out there, so I’m going to get to your calls. But I also want to tell you some good news and ways in which we’re starting to see cultural shifts towards the right that are really good. We’re seeing Republicans fight back at a federal level. We have to see more at a state level. I have the benefit of living in Florida. And so it’s not perfect, but we live under a pretty doggone good governor. So I’ll share some stories that have occurred here in the state of Florida as well. But getting back to this index again, you have some red states that receive just as much federal funding as blue states. As a matter of fact, seven of the top 10 are red states. Many of these red states are just as heavily regulated as the blue states. And it’s because they always work within the framework of the left. Oh, you guys are racist. You guys are Republicans. You know, oh, we’re OK. So as Republicans, we’ll do this, but we don’t want to offend you. So we won’t go this far. No. When the left gets the opportunity, when they’re when they’re in office, look at what they’ve done. Look at how they’ll just destroy the country. The index also cited high violent crime rates driven by blue cities. You know, you’ll have you’ll hear lefties even calling the shows like Mike’s. Oh, well, crime is bad and crime is high in red states. There are some red states that have high crime rates. But I think the only one that is legit, and you have to check me on this, I believe in Indiana there’s some areas where crime is pretty bad. But actually, what happens is red states that have these big blue cities in them, there’s major crime in the big blue cities that are run by Democrats. And that’s why some Democrats will say, well, listen, crime is high in red states. No, not overall, just in the areas in that red states that you guys run. That’s virtually every single state. The index, again, cited violent crime, homeownership, affordability issues, SLI, and cultural problems. SLI concludes its index with a list of action items for Republicans. Among them are recommendations to downsize the bureaucracy. They’re doing that in Iowa right now with Governor Kim Reynolds. Kudos. And, quote, implement mandatory sunset provisions. that force, close quote, that force state lawmakers to revisit and reauthorize programs rather than expand them unchecked. The group also advised GOP politicians to, quote, make family policy a central economic agenda, ensure law and order. especially in blue cities. That’s what President Trump is doing in D.C. I can recall being a little hoodlum back in the day and hearing Bill Clinton basically question what a traditional family is. You know, that literally that played a part in my my my parents brought me up with the right morals. I heard Bill Clinton say that. I’m not going to lie to you. I was already doing some dirt. Don’t get me wrong. But I justified continuing in that dirt when I heard Bill Clinton say that. He was the president. Well, if he says that, it made me question my belief system. How many more? How many more people out there? I mean, it’s just crazy. For years, conservatives, this is the SLI, here’s what they say. For years, conservatives kept their eyes on Washington, missing the quiet decay in their own state governments. Red states are full of voters who believe in limited government. But the bureaucracies running those states often serve very different values. This index is the first to connect the dots. The point here isn’t to score rhetoric. It’s to audit power. All right. And I absolutely love that. But I do want to give you some good news because conservatives are fighting back. We actually saw that in Boston with that Michelle Wu who said, listen, ICE agents, we’re going to protect our city. We follow the law. No, you don’t. No, you don’t. You’re breaking federal law. So ISIS flight him back. I said, okay, we’re going to flood the zone. That’s how you do it. Liberals are used to getting a pass. No mas, no mas, no mas. That’s what the Trump administration is teaching Republicans. No mas. There’s a boundary line. All right, I’ll get to this. I’ll get more of this on the other side. Let’s take a call here. Let’s go to, do we have time, Eric? OK, let’s go to Rod. Rod is in Detroit. Rod, welcome to the Mike Gallagher show. You’ve got the mic.
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Yes. OK. Hello. I spoke with you previously, too, about this issue, which which needs to be every time anybody gets on a mic needs to be in the top three. What they need to be talking about stopping violence. But now here’s the mix. mental illness and violence. It has to be stopped. But here’s the key thing, though. I told you that too, bro, when I spoke to you that Trump needs to spread this to every city, not just Washington, D.C. So when you go to the major cities first, Detroit, New York, California, send a National Guard there. But after the National Guard leaves, you need to be putting everybody Condemnation will be tougher. The laws will be tougher. We’re going to bring in capital punishment. This has to be a step by step situation.
SPEAKER 04 :
Hold on. Hey, Rod. Hey, Rod, Rod, Rod, Rod, Rod. Hey, hold on. Hold on. Hold on. All right. So I just want to have a conversation with you. Listen, I agree with you. For those of you, Rod has called me before, I believe when I was in for elder. But anyway, Rod, we disagree politically. Rod is a liberal. We agree on crime. So I respect that about Rod. But Rod, let me here. Here’s the here’s here’s the problem. I agree with everything you said. Now, when it comes to Washington, D.C., you may or may not know that one of the first things that President Trump said is we’ve got to clean up the homelessness. We’ve got to get these people in mental institutions. Anyone that has committed crimes, we need to get them in jail if they need to be assessed for mental problems. So that’s one of the things he said. He does not listen. This is very, this is very, very important, Ron, because I know you’re a Democrat. I appreciate we’re on the same side as crime.
SPEAKER 05 :
Let’s have a conversation because I
SPEAKER 04 :
Wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold on. Let me finish my point. Let me finish my point. So he can’t just go into any city like Detroit unless there’s a prerequisite reason to do so. Like Los Angeles, where you see ICE agents that are being beat up by Los Angelinos, then he has the authority to bring the National Guard in. So it is a matter of authority. However, let me say this, Rod. You’ve got the power. you’ve got the authority if you’re down for stopping crime i’ve got to ask you rod what are you doing in michigan to make sure that your streets are safer because honestly you are the trump of detroit you’ve got the power what are democrats doing are you electing democrats there excuse me are you ready let’s do let me let me do my rebuttal bro
SPEAKER 05 :
I’m talking about if I’m the president right now, he has to be the first to put out there and go to these states and say, look, I want to have a sit down with every last one of you lawmakers and say, you better up the ante with the sentencing and the laws. They have to have more time in jail. But here’s the key thing, though.
SPEAKER 04 :
Rod, he’s doing that.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, no, no, no.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, he is. I’ll get to a story. Go ahead. I’ll let you finish.
SPEAKER 05 :
We’re not going to separate mental illness and violence. Mental illness and violence are mixing in. It has to be stopped because it’s mixing in together. Your mental illness people who are. They’re not homeless people, but they’ve got mental illness problems, but they’re doing the violence. They’ve got to be stopped. They’ve got to be put in jail longer. They’ve got to be caught, captured. They have to know, look, bro, you’re going to face the death penalty, man. Keep playing around. I hate to be that way. Listen, they think we’re playing with them. Some of them may have a little bit of a mental illness. They want to exploit that and think they can just get away doing what they want to do. I said this from day one. I said this from day one before Trump was even saying it. You have to get into these cities, these major cities first, these big cities, Detroit, New York, California, and make an example. Bring all the laws up. Five years for violent. Start with five years. Listen, I’m just I’m just I’m just running out of time.
SPEAKER 04 :
Listen, I’m running out of time. I don’t disagree with you. The problem is more. We need more Democrats that think like you. I mean, you’re making great arguments. Wait, wait, wait, wait. No, no, no, no, no. I’ll let you make your point. So I’m going to finish up my point. I appreciate the call. So we need more Democrats that think like you. What President Trump is doing, even with ICE going in and demanding that people clean up their streets, they’re trying to set an example with D.C., hoping that other leaders will follow their lead. The problem is, Rod, in blue cities, Democrats don’t want to do it. The president doesn’t have the authority to do it under the Constitution. It is a state issue. It’s a local issue. We can’t get past that. All Trump can do, and I will agree with you here, start putting them on blast even more. Look at what we’ve done to D.C. in one week. Where are you at, Chicago? So I do agree with you. Maybe he should use the bully pulpit more to call out these different states. But frankly, he’s been putting them on blast. He’s been calling himself the law and order president. But we don’t disagree. I’m just telling you, he doesn’t have that type of authority. So Democrats are going to have to step up. And they don’t want to work with him, Ron. They don’t want to work with him because they don’t want the crime to end. These people are sick. They’re perverted. I wish you’d change parties. But anyway, I understand your pain. I agree with you. Mental illness, a big problem. Crime, a big problem. They’re tied in together oftentimes. So is homelessness. A great portion, vast majority of people that are homeless have mental issues, but they should still go to jail. Frankly, they commit crimes and suffer the death penalty. Anyway, Carl Jackson in for Mike Gallagher. We’ll be back in a few.
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He’s the happy conservative warrior. Mike Gallagher, broadcasting across hundreds of radio stations nationwide. And seen on your trusted conservative TV network, Salem News Channel. Sitting in for Mike today, here’s Carl Jackson.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, welcome back to the Mike Gallagher Show. Again, your guest host, Carl Jackson, sitting in for Mike Gallagher. Thank you, Tracy Stockwell. Although, Tracy just offended me. I’m debating on whether or not I should say what she did on national air. I’m debating on it, Tracy. All right. Also, also, Eric Hansen is in my ear. We’ve got Alex Garrett. We’ve got Yasmin Holloway helping out behind the scenes. And of course, you and the listening audience, you can call in live to the ReliefFactor.com studio or the text line 1-800-655-MIKE. 1-800-655-6453 or go to mikeonline.com. Okay, so there is some good news. I got to talk to you about wins. Unfortunately, there’s still some big stories that I wanted to get to or more philosophical stories that I wanted to get to. I don’t know that I’ll even be able to get to them. Like I said yesterday, I was talking with Tracy. We were talking about the big win that President Trump had with this civil case. with the New York Appeals Court throwing out this $500 million judgment, this penalty against Trump in this Letitia James case. And I was like, okay, we’re probably going to start with that. It’ll probably be one of the top three stories. So much hit. I mean, it’s just been insane. It’s been insane. Not to mention, obviously, you have the FBI raid on John Bolton’s home and office this morning because he may have used classified documents in order to write his book in 2020. So we’ll have more on that as details emerge. I want to get to this because some good things are happening now. I was complaining in the last hour, but there are some solutions. Remember, that story or that column from The Federalist gave us some solutions. What red states need to do in order to solidify safe environments and prosperous states for everybody. You don’t have to listen to woke liberals. Here’s what people don’t get. This is what people don’t get. I need you to understand this. There is no such thing as leftism. I used to say liberalism, but the Democrat Party, they’ve become socialists. There’s no such thing as leftism behind closed doors. Carl, what do you mean by that? What do you mean by that? Here’s what I mean by that. You can find any liberal, any leftist, any Democrat that’s successful. They’re probably going to have… A traditional marriage, traditional family, good jobs, you know, raise their kids the right way, want their kids to get educated, all of that good stuff. But because of their lifestyles, they probably have, or because they’ve been brainwashed in some schools, some caller called in. the other hour and last hour and mentioned that. So perhaps brainwashing in some of these elite institutions and now elite institutions are becoming K-12 in the United States of America. Conversations for another day, but conservatives are starting to fight back in that arena as well. These people don’t believe the stuff that they spew. You think there’s liberals… Behind closed doors. I mean, like consider Washington, D.C. Remember those liberals that we saw protesting in Union Station against VP Vance, Sec. Dev Hegseth and Stephen Miller, calling them all types of nasty names, saying all types of all types of crazy stuff. You really think those people, those people don’t go back to the don’t go back to the hood. They don’t go back to crime-infested areas. They want to be absolutely safe. As a matter of fact, they’ll be the first people to call 911. If they see a homeless person on their doorstep, they’ll be the first person to ask them to leave or to call the police to remove them. Liberalism does not exist behind closed doors. Liberals aren’t living behind closed doors and saying, man, I hope Uncle Sam takes more of my paycheck this week. You know, even these people that are basically pro-abortion on the left, you know, obviously there’s a lot of single women that will do it. But there’s not a lot of when you look at people that grow up with traditional values, even on the left, they’re not they’re not having abortions for their kids. It doesn’t exist. Liberalism or leftism doesn’t exist behind closed doors. all of us i don’t care if you’re a democrat republican even leftist i guarantee you when it comes to the basic necessities of life or safety and prosperity we agree the vast majority of times it’s up to republicans to make sure they fight for that to fight for we the people Because what they see in these state legislators or what you see in D.C. is oftentimes just political theater. Let me give you some good news because I got to make sure I do this. All right. So we talked about fighting back this week. Michelle Wu, you guys heard her. Michelle Wu, Boston mayor. We’re not breaking the law like Trump is. We’re going to keep our community safe. We’re this, we’re that. A bunch of left-wing kooky platitudes. Can’t believe these people. They talk like little kids. They’re grown behind adults. So she doubles down. They had a deadline to cooperate with A.G. Pambundi to cooperate with ICE. Instead, she’s going to stand strong. She’s going to be Boston strong. Now, normally, right, we’re Republicans. Well, we don’t want to shake the boat. We don’t want people to see what we’re going to do on camera because, God forbid, we’ll lose the midterms. No, you get this stuff over with now. You make these people comply. You make them follow federal laws. Hat tip daily wire right here in my formerly fingerprinted fingertips. ICE to flood Boston after leftist mayor rejects Bundy’s sanctuary policy demands. After leftist Boston Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu attacked A.G. Bundy’s order to dismantle the city’s sanctuary policy, acting ICE director Todd Lyons fired back on Wednesday saying, saying the agency would flood the zone. Flood the zone. So she was expecting, okay, maybe they’ll calm down. I’m going to stay strong. I’m going to score some cool points. Meanwhile, she’s got illegal aliens in Boston mad at her today because they wish she would have just shut her pie hole because now ICE is coming back for seconds because she opened her big mouth. That’s the way you win. That’s the way you win. Carl, that’s so discompassionate. You’re not a passionate person. You’re not a nice guy. Shut up. You and I both know that if an illegal took your job, you’d be mad. You and I both know that if an illegal murdered your family member, you’d be mad. You and I both know that if it was your family member in that minivan that went under that illegal alien’s diesel truck, you would be mad. Let’s stop pretending like we don’t share the same values because we do. The difference is, Republicans, for the most part, we try to live it and our policies even protect the moronic left. So because the mayor doubled down, so did Pam Bundy. So did ICE. So they have already arrested a thousand illegal aliens, the vast majority of them violent criminals inside of Boston. You’re welcome, Boston. And now since your dopey mayor spoke out trying to be a little tough girl, well, you’re going to have the privilege of being more safe. Thanks to the Republicans. Again, you’re welcome, Boston. I could go further, but I want to make sure that I get – I get so frustrated. All right, so I study a lot when it comes to this stuff, and I literally only finish like 20% to 30% of my – Of my research. And I want to punch myself in the face sometimes. So I like to get through it. But oftentimes it’s just when news breaks, you just can’t. You’ve got to go with the news. When we get back to something else that’s got to disappoint the left, Generation Z, they’re becoming more conservative. And we got to talk about the illegal alien front and what Marco Rubio did when it comes to new truckers, what Mexico is no longer seeing, or at least not as much of. Guys, I’m telling you, when it comes to illegal immigration, despite the fact that the left flooded the zone with probably 15 to 20 million illegals, Trump is starting to put a dent in that number. We’re not going to be able to get rid of all these people, not in this four years. But Lord willing, we will win in 2026. You guys see how I seem a little more cautious with that. All right, Lord willing, we’ll win in 2026. We got to keep the House, got to keep the Senate. We got to win the White House again in 2028 so we can finish the job. But we’re doing great work. Trump is now. We’ll talk about that when we get back on the other side. Callers, I’ll take your call as well. 1-800-655-MIKE. Coming to you live from the ReliefFactor.com studio.
