In this episode, we explore the latest developments in the New York City mayoral race, with a focus on the contentious endorsement of Zoran Mamdani. Join us as we delve into the political strategies and alignments, examining the critical role figures like Hakeem Jeffries and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez play in shaping the election landscape. Meanwhile, the government shutdown reaches its fourth week, with narratives emerging on both sides of the aisle pointing fingers and leveraging blame. As welfare programs hang in the balance, we discuss who holds the real power in this heated political standoff.
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Welcome to the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast. It’s Friday, October 31st, 2025. Happy Halloween. I’m Eric Hansen. This week, we take the show to Jerusalem. The New York City mayor’s race goes down to the wire and President Trump moves full steam ahead on the big, beautiful ballroom. Let’s begin in New York, where the Democrat socialist Zohra Mamdani held an unsettling rally.
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What?
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Mamdani denies he’s a communist, even though he talks about redistribution of the wealth, seizing private property, and all the same crap from Karl Marx that we know means communism. But, hey, I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. He denies that he’s a communist. I think he’s a communist. You think he’s a communist. But we know he’s definitely a socialist. And so let’s call today’s Democrat Party, now that they’re all on board with Zoran Mamdani, let’s call them what they are. the Democrat Socialist Party. Here’s cut number eight. This is Hakeem Jeffries, the House Minority Leader, with Margaret Brennan on CBS’s Face the Nation, explaining his endorsement of Zoran Mamdani.
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You waited until this Friday, the day before early voting began, to endorse the Democratic Socialist candidate Zoran Mamdani. Why did you wait so long?
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Well, as I indicated last several weeks, we’ve been immersed in the intensity around the government shutdown and the run up to that in advance of September 30th and the expiration of the fiscal year. But I support the Democratic nominee, as I indicated, and we’re in alignment in terms of the issue related to affordability. and the need to address it decisively for the city of New York. And of course, affordability is an issue for people all across the country. From a public safety standpoint, I supported the notion that he would retain Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch to continue to lead the NYPD forward. That’s incredibly important from a public safety standpoint for every community, including as a high priority, the safety and security of the Jewish community. And in terms of the moment that we find ourselves in, Donald Trump represents an existential threat to the city of New York and beyond because of the extreme assault that has taken place throughout this year on the economy, on health care, on farmers, on veterans, on law abiding immigrant communities, on due process, on the rule of law. and, of course, on the American way of life itself. And we all, as Americans, are going to have to be aligned and pushing back so we can end this national nightmare that Donald Trump has visited upon the American people.
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Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump. Okay. Good. All right, Mr. Minority Leader. Glad you made it official. Glad to know that you guys are all on board. And it’s not just Hakeem Jeffries. Hey, AOC. is rumored to be replacing Chuck Schumer for his U.S. Senate seat. She’s already casting her eyes on that seat and to primary Schumer and get him out of there. She is clearly one of the most prominent Democrats in America, and she makes no bones about it. At the big Zoran rally over the weekend, she’s all in.
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city was built by the Irish escaping famine, Italians fleeing fascism, Jews escaping Holocaust, Black Americans fleeing slavery, and Jim Crow, Latinos seeking
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They’re very excited, aren’t they? She’s very excited. Look, this is her moment because the real radical underbelly of the Democrat Socialist Party is being exposed for all the world to see.
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The government remains shut down thanks to obstinate Democrats who’d rather let kids go hungry than work with this administration.
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The shutdown has hit the four-week mark. It failed in a 54 to 45 vote. SNAP benefits are about to run out. Now, I’ve got dear friends in South Carolina who care for a senior. She’s a beautiful woman who is a widow, a widow. She’s alone, and she relies entirely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits. It’s everything for her. And look, I’ve got friends who I know won’t let her starve. They won’t let her go hungry. But there are people in America who are going to go hungry. And the Democrats have absolutely no desire to prevent that pain and that suffering. And they’re willing to admit it. I have to appreciate the transparency. I’ve got to acknowledge the honesty of what some of these Democrats are willing to say. I want to go back to Chris Coons, the senator from Delaware. You see him all the time. He always pops up on television. Back on October the 7th, This is cut number 11. Back on October the 7th, Senator Chris Coons was on CNN blaming the Republicans for the government shutdown.
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Between the Republican majority in the Senate, in the House, and the Republican in the White House, they control whether or not this government is open or closed, what threats they’re making, the ways they’re trying to impose as much pain as possible. This is a Republican shutdown.
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OK, that was October 7th. Fast forward. Oh, just a few short weeks. October 27th. Cut number 10. Here is the same Senator Chris Coons.
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Republicans control the House, the Senate and the White House. Frankly, this is our only moment of leverage. And although a very unpleasant tool to use.
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Can you play that one more time? I want to make sure I’m hearing those words correctly. Again, this is on C-SPAN. This is Senator Chris Coons.
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Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House. Frankly, this is our only moment of leverage, and although a very unpleasant tool to use.
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An unpleasant tool to use. Remember the other Democrat we played for you last week? Used the same word, leverage. They think this gives them leverage. Leverage to do what? They think people starving because their SNAP benefits are going to expire because of this government shutdown is giving them leverage. Now, number one, let’s fully acknowledge the sheer monstrous kind of evil that you have to possess in order to acknowledge this is your only hand to play, forcing the government to shut down, making people starve. And they’re willing to say this is our leverage. They’re absolutely comfortable acknowledging it. There’s a headline over at Axios that says the Democrats might be getting cold feet. John Thune, the Senate Majority Leader, claims he has been told that several Democrats in the Senate are desperate to end the game of chicken that Chuck Schumer is playing with the shutdown. And it is a game of chicken. The only problem is the people suffering from the game of chicken are poor people who are going to lose their SNAP benefits, are hardworking air traffic controllers, members of the military, people in the federal. It’s unbelievable that the Democrats are now owning this tactic. Can you help me understand what leverage you think this gives them?
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Despite the shutdown, President Trump continues the work on his big, beautiful ballroom. But don’t worry, it won’t cost us taxpayers a dime.
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David Brooks is a PBS never-Trumper. He calls himself a Republican, but he’s an absolute Trump-hating establishment rhino. That’s who David Brooks is. And New York Times, PBS, the normal pedigree, for a left-leaning so-called Republican. You’ve got to hear his tortured explanation from PBS the other night as to why… He’s on a panel here with Jeff Bennett, Kimberly Akin’s store. He says, look, it kind of felt wrong, this ballroom construction, but look, it’s the right thing to do.
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So the remarkable scenes at the White House this week is President Trump greenlit the total demolition of the East Wing. You can see it there to make room for a ballroom. The price for this, the price tag for this has now grown to some $300 million. On the screen right there, this is the list that the NewsHour has obtained of the private and corporate sponsors that have contributed to this project. So David, the last time we talked about this, you said the idea wasn’t necessarily a bad one. Do you still feel that way now that the East Wing has been reduced to rubble and dust?
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Well, I must say this. The photos are shocking because there is something sacred about that building. And it feels like somebody taking a claw into a wedding cake. It just feels wrong. But I have long believed that the White House is just too small. You know, it’s built for. John Adams and Abigail Adams, and people have added wings on since, of course. But it’s just the rooms, and the West Wing is so sacred, you can’t touch that. But, you know, the Obamas used to have their state dinners out in tents. And John Kennedy, they had their state dinners, they had to spread everybody in different rooms. So the idea of having a room where we could have a state dinner or a big event, that still strikes me as the right thing to do. And I’m hoping future presidents will scrape the guilt off and make it nice.
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And Kimberly, you could argue that this ballroom project is in many ways the kind of perfect distillation of how President Trump sees the presidency, something that needs to be remade in his image. Do you see it that way?
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Well, I don’t. And listen, we can have a debate, a discussion about how big the White House is and how old it is. I’ve been in that press room. I know that a renovation is called for. But it’s the people’s house and the idea that it has been quarantined. The corporatization is what is in charge of this rebuild in a way that is in no way transactional. I had a lot of people in my mentions today saying, hey, it’s saving the taxpayers money. No, but what are taxpayers paying for? The reason that things that happen in the White House ought to be paid by taxpayers is that keeps the White House accountable to them. Now, who is the president accountable to? Google? Corporate interest meta? Unknown individual donors? That is exactly what the emoluments clause and other constitutional measures are supposed to protect against. Who will the president be beholden to now? The American people or all the folks who ponied up to help pay for this ballroom?
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Gives me a headache. As if donors, private donors, is a new concept to that young lady. And you can see the look on her face of just utter disgust when David Brooks said, yeah, it’s due. How about this headline from ABC News? I saw this over the weekend. Are you ready for this? This is going to shock you. At least two magnolia trees appear to have been removed to make way for Trump’s White House campaign. ballroom. Satellite images. They use satellite images to determine that President Trump’s project to build a $300 million grand ballroom has appeared to take down at least six trees on the White House grounds, including two historic magnolia trees.
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We had a chance to talk to Israeli journalist and broadcaster Daniel Seaman on our visit to Jerusalem. He shared with us what’s happening now in the Middle East.
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Talk to me a little bit about this fragile peace process and perhaps the fragile relationship between Bibi and our president.
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A few things. First off, it’s not complicated. It’s actually straight up. It’s straight to the point. And that’s because that’s President Bush. That’s President Trump. Netanyahu himself also has been seeing this bigger picture for a very long time. So what we have here is two people who are very… keen on where they want to go with uh… we’re part of the middle east the president of the united states is thinking on the global uh… area where he wants to go we’re one of the problems here but there’s a lot that can be done in a lot changing uh… a lot of people say there’s frustration well he may not be pleased with everything the prime minister once but the netanyahu’s the prime minister of the state of israel we have our interest just like the president is the president of the united states he has the american interest Very often, our interests align. There are times that they may not, but we are the smaller country, and therefore we’ll try to do as much as we can, as long as it doesn’t come at the expense of the state of Israel and the lives of Israelis. And looking at this agreement, it’s not a peace deal. It’s an agreement to end this war and do changes that have been necessary for over 30 years here in the Middle East. That means stop appeasing terrorists, stop making excuses for terrorists. It goes back to the also process, the believing that… oh, this is kumbaya, my lord, we just all have to get together, and we have an agreement, and overlook the fact that the other side, meaning the terrorist organizations, are not always following through on it. So this agreement addresses those issues, that if we want to reach a Middle East where all countries don’t have to love each other but can live together, we have to understand a few things. Israel is not the boxing glove of the other countries that they can take it out, their frustrations on Israel. Every side has to uphold its part of it. And if you have countries like Qatar or Turkey or Egypt or the other Middle Eastern countries, they have to abide by their commitments as well. And it’s not only something that the Western countries and the state of Israel have to stick to their parts. If we do it, they have to do it as well. And this is where this is aiming for, to reach a situation where, as I said, we don’t have to love each other, but we’ll learn to live together in the Middle East.
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Can that be applied to the terrorists of Hamas? Because I continue to ask my audience, and my audience asks me, how do you negotiate with monsters? How do you negotiate with a side that is dedicated and committed to your utter annihilation? You know, I grew up in the Reagan doctrine. We don’t negotiate with terrorists. But yet Israel, I think, is forced to have to try. Is there any hope at all that Hamas can do just what you laid out, Danny, and try to – we might not have to love each other, but we have to sort of live together in peace. Is that something – is that a place where Hamas can ever land?
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No. And this agreement doesn’t try to reach that. It understands who we’re dealing with. When you have jihadist terrorists, they’re not looking for it. They don’t care what happens. They have one goal, that they announce it. They don’t hide it. They’re very clear on it. They want the destruction not only of Israel. Israel is the first domino in that sense. It’s the entire world that is not Muslim. And they’re not hiding it. They’re here with us, and they’re trying to destroy us. And they’ll never back off from that. And they don’t care whatever civilian casualties they have on their side. They don’t care what the sacrifices they have to make. They’re going to continue with this. So this agreement addresses precisely that thing by involving the other countries around here, saying to them, and this is what the United States is saying to them, You want to resolve the tensions here? You want the Middle East to go in a different direction, a better direction, a direction where your countries and your people, your populations can reach what the Western world has? So let’s put an end to these kind of organizations. It’s their responsibility, not the Hamas. Nobody has any doubts about what the Hamas is about. But now the Arab countries will have to address those issues if they want this to change. Now, will they do it? Not necessarily, because for them it’s also a way of appeasing these organizations that none of them will have any of such organizations in their own countries. No jihadists, no Hamas, no Palestinians. But they will have to make sure that the entire Middle East is not threatened by them. So this is what this agreement aims for.
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Promo code MikeG. This is the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast. I’m Eric Hansen. Back in New York City, our candidate of choice suffered a surprising blow to his support from a friend of our show. What?
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Here’s Dov Heikin. I want you to hear from a guy who’s been a guest on our show over the years. Dov was a former Brooklyn assemblyman. He’s a tremendous advocate for the Jewish community. And that’s the part that makes me a little crazed. I can’t stop thinking about how Jews in New York have to be feeling knowing that an anti-Semite zealot like Zoran Mamdani is on the verge of getting elected. So let’s listen to what a prominent Jew, a great advocate for the Jewish people, a tremendous ambassador for Judaism, a guy that I’ve known for years and respect and really appreciate, and he’s been on the Curtis Sliwa show. Train, from day one, when others were saying, Dove, there’s no way, there’s no way, Dove Hyken has said, no, no, you’ve got to go with Curtis. You’ve got to go with your heart. You’ve got to do what’s right. You know what a scoundrel, what a scum Cuomo is. You know what a bad guy he is. You’ve got to go with the only candidate who can really turn this city around. You can’t possibly say, well, we’ve got to go with the lesser of two evils like Andrew Cuomo. That’s been dove-hikened all along. Until now.
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My friends. This is truly a very difficult moment for me. Four months ago, I endorsed courteously with the mayor. But today I am asking you, pleading with you to vote for Andrew Cuomo. Here’s why. New York City is in a critical moment. If Mamdani wins, the future of our city is on the line. That’s not politics. That’s reality. A man who associates with someone who said America deserved 9-11 and another individual tied to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing is simply unfit to run this city. He’s pushing ideas like free buses for everyone and government-run grocery stores and free everything for everybody. That’s not progress. That’s disaster waiting to happen. Now, look. I have my issues with Andrew Cuomo. They’re well known. And I understand if some of you feel the same way. That’s exactly why this moment matters so much. We do not have the luxury of misplacing our votes. I like Curtis. I still think he’d be a great mayor. But right now, there’s only one person who can stop Mamdani, and that’s Andrew Cuomo. You don’t have to love him. You don’t have to like him. You just have to save New York City. So I urge you to vote for Cuomo.
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It’s got to be a bitter pill for Curtis Lewa to swallow. Of course, because Dove and many others, Sid Rosenberg, real popular New York City talk show host, been friends with Curtis for years. He, too, has abandoned Curtis.
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This week, we welcomed the former Israeli ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren.
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Dr. Oren, let’s talk about the Hamas yesterday, and this is a huge conversation today here in Jerusalem and all throughout Israel and the world. Hamas staged the discovery of remains that belonged to an Israeli hostage. Video showed the terrorists, hours before they handed the partial remains of the dead hostage, drones, being flown by Israel, captured the moment members of Hamas tossed a body out of a building, wrapped it in white sheets. They then were seen dragging the body to the center of a hole, attempting to bury it under dirt and sand once the body was mostly hidden. The Hamas members then signaled for an excavator to come and dig up their supposed new find. It’s so hard for me to understand how you negotiate with people like this. Mr. Ambassador, how does Israel, how does the United States and the role that President Trump played in this fragile peace process, how do you negotiate with monsters?
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Well, I’m going to be less than diplomatic, Michael, by saying that beats me. I don’t know. They’re a terrorist organization. They’re not an honest player. At best, they’re Lucy with the football. And they engage not just in physical terror, they engage in emotional and psychological terror. And imagine sending body parts of hostages back to their loved ones, literally one part at a time. That’s what they do. That’s what a crime family would do. And that’s who they are. And there’s only one way to negotiate. And that is if the negotiations are backed with credible military force, a credible threat. And I think it was very important that President Trump this week acknowledged that Israel had a reason to strike back at Hamas. We have a situation now where we have American military observers, about 200 of them, plus observers from other countries, including some countries that aren’t particularly friendly, like France and Spain, monitoring our military movements in Gaza. And perhaps at some point maybe trying to limit them. That would be a very big mistake. Big mistake, first of all, vis-a-vis Hamas. Hamas will take advantage of it, as they have already this week. And they will project an image of, let’s say, less than strength. For Israel throughout the Middle East, the Middle East is an area that respects strength. It’s because of that strength we have the Abraham Accords. That’s why these countries make peace with us, not because they love us, but because they admire us, because we are strong. And we have to keep up that image, keep up that image, keep up the reality, and we’ll get more peace, more security.
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I read your work on Substack and you, of course, have clarity with Michael Oren at Substack. And I was fascinated by your open letter to the Jews of New York. Let’s take it to the United States here for just a moment. And you point out with this upcoming mayoral race in just a few days in New York City, there is one candidate. Of the three on the ballot, there is only one that insists that of the 195 states in the world, only one has no right to exist. Are you as mortified as the rest of us at the prospect of Mayor Zoran Mamdani?
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I’m mortified. I’m scared for the Jews of New York. I’m scared for the United States of America. This is the direction the Democratic Party is going. I greatly fear it. But here is a person who checks all the box of what constitutes anti-Semitism. He says he’s not anti-Semitic, but everything he says is anti-Semitic. He wants to erase this state. He wants to erase me, my family, my kids, my grandparents. He wants to erase the studio in which you’re sitting. And the way it gets erased is not by peace. It’s by globalizing the intifada. The intifada that killed 1,000 Israelis by suicide bombing between 2000 and 2005. He wants to globalize it. What does that mean? He wants to bring the Antifa to New York, too, and kill those Jews, too. And, you know, there’s a list of democracies in the world. It’s a very short list. You know, I had states on that list, you know, Canada, Great Britain, Australia. Israel is the only country on that list that has never known a second… of non-democratic governance and has never known a second of peace. Never known a second of peace. And there’s one democratically elected leader of that country, and that democratic leader, not the leader of Russia, not the leader of Venezuela or North Korea or Iran, who Mamdani would arrest if he came to New York, and that is the democratically elected leader of the state of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu. So is that not, by definition, anti-Semitic? In the last 24 hours, the new one, the new sensation coming out of Mamdani’s mouth was a recording he made just before he started running for mayor, 2023. where he says he basically blamed police violence against black people in New York, on the state of Israel, on the IDF. That’s a classic anti-Semitic trope. We are dealing with a card-carrying Jew-hater. And so my letter to the Jews of New York says, Albany, do you know who you’re voting for? Yeah, you know, he wants to give you free buses, and yeah, he wants to give you discount stuff in grocery stores. But is that worth the safety of your children, your families, your future?
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Think about it.
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And finally, the Trump administration has a new initiative with which we are not entirely comfortable. So we’d like to make this public service announcement. If you’re operating in a legal drug smuggling boat anywhere near the U.S. shores, President Trump may have your number.
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This is not the easiest thing to deal with. I just have this funny, weird feeling. instinct that we are a country that does give due process even to the bad guys. Now, I don’t know that it’s needed. I don’t know that it’s necessary. I don’t know that it’s legal or illegal, rather. But it just makes me uncomfortable. And it’s not my favorite thing. But I trust you’ll talk me out of the way I feel. Kelly’s in Louisville. Kelly, welcome to the Mike Gallagher Show. Happy Monday. How are you?
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Hey, I’m good. Yeah, I agree. They don’t deserve due process. That’s reserved for Americans. We didn’t give Osama bin Laden due process. Or the Nazis, you know, people were, when we’re at war, you don’t stop and say, well, wait a minute, we’ve got to go to court before we can defend this line. Right.
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But you mentioned the Nazis. I mean, there were Nuremberg trials. There were all kinds of trials. That was after the fact.
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That was after they surrendered. Right.
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That’s true. That’s true. And this is an act of war as it’s playing out. It just feels to me like one of the things that I don’t like is how we’re desensitized to these kinds of life and death, real world experiences. This is like a game of battleship. Oh, look, look at the video. Oh, look at the bad guys on the boat. Oh, look, let’s blow up another boat. Aha, we got another one. And And this issue, incidentally, is very personal for me because I’ve had friends who’ve lost children to fentanyl overdoses. I know what a scourge it is. I understand what a scourge it is. I completely get what a blight it is on this country. I just… I just think about us blowing up boats that are apparently coming in here, bringing deadly drugs, and just killing people. Eddie’s in Pennsylvania. Hey, Eddie, welcome to the show. How are you? Yeah, how are you doing today? I’m good. Thanks for joining us. What do you think?
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Actually, in my humble opinion, they have the Coast Guard trying to stop these boats. If they run from the Coast Guard… Blow them up. That’s their due process.
SPEAKER 12 :
Right, right.
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They’re bringing illegal drugs into the country. You know, you get a cop car behind you and you don’t pull over, you go to jail. Well, the Coast Guard tries to stop you and you don’t stop.
SPEAKER 12 :
Right, so you do think that the Coast Guard then should give, there should be a chance for the Coast Guard to stop them before we blow them up?
SPEAKER 14 :
I agree. Yes, absolutely.
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All right, because I don’t think that’s even in the process. I don’t think anybody’s attempting to stop them. We’re just dropping a bomb on their head and saying, you know, au revoir. We’re just blowing them to smithereens. I don’t think there’s any – this is not like a police chase where we’re making an attempt to stop and they’re evading. They’re just coming across the waters, doing their awful, awful thing, and we’re dropping bombs on them. And I’m – it’s just not – it’s not my favorite thing. 800-655-MIKE. And look, I’m completely, if you disagree with me, if you completely think I’m out to lunch, understand, I’ll get it. I really will. I wanted the guy from Louisville to, you know, let me have it. So he lost all respect for me. Now, I hope you don’t lose respect for me because I’m sharing some honest feelings. I don’t know. Maybe I’m having a bad day. Maybe it’s the glasses.
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Maybe. Yeah.
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And that wraps up the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast for Friday, October 31st, 2025. 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. I’m Eric Hansen. We’ll see you back here next week on the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast.
In this episode, we explore the latest developments in the New York City mayoral race, with a focus on the contentious endorsement of Zoran Mamdani. Join us as we delve into the political strategies and alignments, examining the critical role figures like Hakeem Jeffries and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez play in shaping the election landscape. Meanwhile, the government shutdown reaches its fourth week, with narratives emerging on both sides of the aisle pointing fingers and leveraging blame. As welfare programs hang in the balance, we discuss who holds the real power in this heated political standoff.
