In a twist of international intrigue, President Zelensky’s visit to the Oval Office did not go as planned, culminating in a tense exchange challenging the boundaries of diplomatic decorum. As debates flared over military conscription and international alliances, we capture the essence of a diplomatic clash that could have far-reaching implications. From counterterrorism operations to rare earth mineral deals, discover how geopolitical strategies are being played out at the highest levels. Plus, enjoy light-hearted banter as we delve into the world of Broadway and the challenges of jury duty.
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Welcome to the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast. It’s Friday, March 7th, 2025. I’m Eric Hansen, and this week the president addresses Congress, the president of Ukraine absorbs an earful, and former Trump advisor Katie McFarland visits the show. Let’s begin in the House of Representatives where President Trump delivered a message for all Americans.
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There were two moments last night at Trump’s address to the joint session of Congress that sums up the mood of America, The attitude of the American people, the anticipation of great things to come. Two things. I mean, first of all, of course, was the opening line cut one right out of the gate when President Trump got to the podium last night in the well of Congress.
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And to my fellow citizens, America is back.
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You better believe it. In fact, we jumped right on that. You can order your own America is Back T-shirts, coffee mugs, bumper stickers at MikeOnline.com, the Mike Gallagher store. We turned these around quickly. Last night we said, look, people want to express that feeling of satisfaction that America is back. And if you want to express it by wearing an America is Back T-shirt or you want to slap a – it’s not an actual bumper sticker. It’s one of those magnets, car magnets. There’s coffee mugs. What a great gift. America is Back. Those are available for sale right now at MikeOnline.com. MikeOnline.com, the Mike Gallagher Show store. Then the other clip, number 17. This is the same spirit. It was maybe the best night of the best line of the night. A night that just had a, it was a home run from the second he walked in. And everything went perfectly for him. He set the Democrats up perfectly. He actually said, I could cure cancer and they won’t stand and clap. Look at them all sitting there. And then when he brought up a beautiful moment and gave a little 13-year-old boy who’s a cancer patient his dream of becoming an honorary Secret Service agent, they couldn’t clap for that. They didn’t stand up for the little cancer patient. And Trump said that early in the night. He said, I could cure cancer. I wouldn’t even stand for that. And there are, gosh, so many moments. Think about my buddy, Seb Gorka. I was thinking about Dr. G last night when Trump announced, When Trump announced the Abbey Gate killer was apprehended, you want to know who was in the middle of all that? The guy right now tasked with counterterrorism? Our good friend and colleague, Sebastian Gorka. And as I understand it, he was at the airport in the middle of the night, 3 a.m., When the Abbey Gate murderer was taken into custody. We’re going to talk to Seb Gorka on the Mike Gallagher show. Stay tuned for that. So but here and here was the other. I mean, what a night. Look, I’m giddy. I’m bouncing off the walls and there’s nothing anybody can say. I don’t care what kind of Trump hater you are. You’re on the wrong side of this. Have you seen the CBS YouGov poll? It’s like 78% of people who watch the speech approved of the speech. Let me get the number here. I want to make sure I get it right. I don’t want to be accused of hyperbole. This CBS YouGov poll makes the—and they’re not going to widely report on this. You won’t see this on the front page of the New York Times. Check this out. What did I do with it? Holy crap, I can’t find it now. This is unbelievable. That’s like 70… Here it is. The CBS… This is CBS, not Town Hall, not Red State. CBS. Views of Trump’s speech among speech watchers. 76% of people who watched the speech approved of the speech. Only 23% disapproved. And here was the classic line of the night. This is coming from a guy, a president, who is a showman, who is a communicator. I know we always have called the great Ronald Reagan the great communicator. I don’t mean to disrespect the Gipper, but… Donald Trump runs circles around President Reagan in terms of delivering a message. Nobody knows how to deliver a message, a punchline, a narrative better than the 45th and 47th president of the United States. For me, here was the best line of the night.
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The media and our friends in the Democrat Party kept saying we needed new legislation. We must have legislation to secure the border. But it turned out that all we really needed was a new president.
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I mean, my word. This past weekend, Ukraine’s president, Vladimir Zelensky, visited the White House. And before you knew it, a war of words broke out over the war with Russia.
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Here’s the back and forth. And there’s a lot of, you know, drama about who started it, who picked the fight. Did Zelensky start disrespecting Trump? Was it J.D. Vance? And, of course, the Trump haters don’t care about any of it. They just hate Trump. And so, OK, let’s be with Ukraine. But here’s cut number one. This is a little bit of the way this thing unfolded Friday in the Oval Office.
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Mr. President, with respect, I think it’s disrespectful for you to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media. Right now, you guys are going around and forcing conscripts to the front lines because you have manpower problems.
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You should be thanking the president for trying to bring it in. Have you ever been to Ukraine that you say what problems we have? I have been to.
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Come once. I’ve actually watched and seen the stories, and I know what happens is you bring people, you bring them on a propaganda tour, Mr. President. Do you disagree that you’ve had problems bringing people into your military? We have problems. And do you think that it’s respectful? I will answer. to come to the Oval Office of the United States of America and attack the administration that is trying to prevent the destruction of your country?
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A lot of questions. Let’s start from the beginning. First of all, during the war, everybody has problems. Even you. But you have a nice ocean. And don’t feel now. But you will feel it in the future. God bless. You don’t know that. God bless. God bless. You will not have a war.
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Don’t tell us what we’re going to feel. We’re trying to solve a problem. Don’t tell us what we’re going to feel. I’m not telling you. Because you’re in no position to dictate that.
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Remember this.
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You’re in no position to dictate what we’re going to feel. We’re going to feel very good. We’re going to feel very good and very strong. You’re right now not in a very good position.
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You’ve allowed yourself to be in a very bad position, and he happens to be right about it. You’re not in a good position.
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You don’t have the cards right now. With us, you start having cards.
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Right now, you’re playing cards.
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You’re gambling with the lives of millions of people. You’re gambling with World War III. You’re gambling with World War III. And what you’re doing is very disrespectful to the country, this country. It’s back to you. Far more than a lot of people said they should have. Have you said thank you once?
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A lot of times. No, in this entire meeting, you said thank you. You went to Pennsylvania and campaigned for the opposition in October. Offer some words of appreciation for the United States of America and the president who’s trying to save your country.
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Wow. Wow. Now, depending on where you stand with President Trump, you either love that or you were just off the rails in hysterics. And I’m not going to ascribe that to Ed from Naples. I mean, he was just angry at me, but some people were enraged. How about James Carville? How about Carville? By the way, you’ve bleeped all the F-words, right, Christian? Because there were plenty of cursing, lots of cursing going on in James Carville’s complete emotional breakdown over what you just heard. And you can hear it unfold. Trump was kind of sitting there watching the back and forth between J.D. Vance, his vice president, and Zelensky. But then when Zelensky said, well, you’ve got beautiful beaches, but you’re not going to know what to feel if things get worse. That just infuriated. You could see the look on Trump’s face. He’s like, wait a minute, wait a minute. Don’t you tell us what we’re going to feel. Don’t you come into the Oval Office and lecture us about how we’re going to feel and what’s going to happen to our beaches. And that’s when it really went off the rails. But nothing went off the rails. More than Serpent Head himself. And that was the—by the way, people laugh about the nickname Serpent Head. That’s what he kind of goes by. I mean, he was sort of known by that nickname for years, Serpent Head, because he’s got kind of a lizard kind of a, you know, head and everything else. But, boy, did he go off big time.
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where Trump had red splotches on his hand, which I was told by any number of medical professionals, that when you see that condition, the first thing that you suspect is syphilis. We know from any number of videos that his wife died. but doesn’t want to get in the same zip code as him. If you had a spouse that had syphilis, I’m not saying he does. I mean, let me be clear. I’m just asking questions. But what she saw is madness. And I don’t mean madness like I’m mad at you, you mad at me, you didn’t say this. I’m talking about madness like King George III kind of madness. And it could be a combination of being a fat slob, which of course he is. It could be that he can’t sleep at night because his beached whale body can’t… allowed the circulation. I don’t know. I’m not a sleep specialist or a medical doctor. But I think we should revisit the possibility of a syphilis diagnosis. But I don’t think we can discount the fact that what we saw was mad. I’m not going to concede that I’m just asking questions. I’m just making an observation that everyone saw.
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Nice to see James Carville is handling things well. I’m glad he’s having a responsible, mature, reasonable reaction to the Oval Office.
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Democrat members of Congress attended President Trump’s speech this week, but they did not sit quietly.
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I hosted last night our Salem News Channel coverage, and we had kind of a token Democrat on, and he was really a pretty good guy, Rick Unger. Maybe you’ve seen him on, because he likes to go on to conservative platforms. But he’s like a Harold Ford-style Democrat. He’s not really far left. He’s not really an extremist. He tried to make the case last night that the Democrat, and he would not go along with the rabid Democrats of his party. And he certainly doesn’t acknowledge that the Democrats are destroyed. But they are. They are. They’re gone. And Rick Unger brought up an about of whataboutism last night. Well, this was before the speech now, admittedly. I’ll bet Rick didn’t anticipate that all through the speech, the despicable Democrats would be booing and catcalling and moaning and making all kinds of noises and doing their best to disrupt the speech. They did it much of the night. And last night, Rick Unger brought up the fact that, well, remember when Joe Wilson from South Carolina said you lied to Barack Obama? They’re still bringing that up. Well, compare two words, Joe Wilson’s you lied from years ago with Barack Obama. Compare that to what happened last night. Hey, Democrat strategist Rick Unger, you going to defend this?
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We won the popular vote by big numbers and won counties in our country.
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Here is the moment, this cut three, when Al Green had to be forcibly removed because this dummy is standing there waving his stupid cane. He’s the guy that’s preparing articles of impeachment. Good luck. That’ll be a great task, Congressman Green. You’re really doing the people’s work there, representing your district in Texas. Speaker Johnson had to have him removed from the chamber.
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Finding that members continue to engage in willful and concerted disruption of proper decorum, the chair now directs the sergeant-at-arms to restore order. Remove this gentleman from the chamber. Thank you.
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There they went. They got him, took him out. And then, of course, he held the obligatory press conference. But really, when you can’t clap for some of these breathtakingly beautiful moments, you really are gone. You’re broken. You’ve lost your soul and you’ve lost your party. And the Democrats know it.
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In between all the political blustering this week, we had a chance to indulge in one of our favorite topics around here, Broadway shows.
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When Trump reaches about a 75% approval rating from the American people, they will find the Democrats are the problem. They have no solutions. Tampa, Florida. Trump should stand there and just do a golf clap when they start their shenanigans. What’s a golf clap? Anybody know? It’s like the little polite little… Is that a golf clap? Yeah. Eric, what does that mean? Come over here for just a moment before we take some phone calls. You can explain to me what a golf clap is. Was that like a little polite, little, like a dainty clap? What is a golf clap?
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I think it’s just a, you know, like a very polite, like…
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Oh, like a little, like, fingertips in the other palm of the hand very politely.
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Yeah, just very lightly clapping so you’re quiet for the other people on the other tees and so forth. Golf is a very polite game. Not really my thing.
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Not my thing either. But I’m the one that recommended, by the way, in New York that you went and saw Sunset Boulevard. Yes, that’s true. With Nicole Scherzinger, and she was out. She was not there. How do you go the day she’s out?
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Well, you know, I’m not the… broadway aficionado that you are so i just went to see a musical and i enjoyed it it’s a good show isn’t it it’s a great show love the score that’s one of my favorite scores by andrew lloyd weber it’s very lush lots of strings and how about when he goes out onto the street oh that was the start of the second act you know that’s all live right well and that was when i was watching and i loved how the screen comes down i do all that like it’s like a silent movie which i thought was awesome very cool and when he goes out on the street i thought well they must tape that and then he walked No, no, no, no.
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It’s all live. Let me explain real quickly, just a quick for theater fans, for the seven theater fans we have in the audience. They’re doing a production of Sunset Boulevard, and Nicole Scherzinger was like one of the original, was it Pussycat Dolls? Pussycat Dolls, yeah. And she’s fantastic. So the guy that plays Joe Gillis, to start the second act, which is the big Sunset Boulevard number, He starts out in his dressing room, and there’s all these TV cameras. So they’ve got giant screens, these big, huge LED screens on the stage. So it’s a high-tech. It’s Jamie Weber, no relation to Andrew Lloyd Webber, who’s the director. Anyway, he starts out, and they’ve got the camera on him, and he does this walk, this long walk. He goes from his dressing room. He goes down the steps, out onto the street. On 44th Street, he goes, and he’s sick. singing, Sunset Boulevard, and he’s on the street with all these tourists. He’s got security guys all around him. The whole thing is done live. He walks down to Schubert Alley, sings a few more verses, comes back, and they time it out so that he winds up on stage at exactly the button at the end of the number, and Eric, that whole thing is done live. I’ve got some friends who know the production team. They’ve got a plan for when it’s raining. When it’s snowing, think about that. You’ve got an actor out there singing on 44th Street. I want to go down there one night when I’m not seeing a show of my own. I want to find out what time he goes out there because it has to be around and watch him do it.
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That was one of the first things I thought. I should come here and just be like, watch him come out and sing. It is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen.
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It’s so neat. I know. So anyway, I’ve got a quick fun story and then we’ll get back down to business. So I’ve got a friend who just got cast in one of the most iconic musicals on Broadway. And she’s never seen the show. And so I’m going to take her to the show. And here’s what’s bad about what I do for a living. I don’t want people to know who she is because I’m afraid she’ll get flack for being friends with me. Isn’t that awful? You’ve just got to be aware of stuff like that. And I’m always mindful. And she’s like, no, no, no. I’m like, no, no, no. I don’t want to get you in trouble. But it’s really neat. She’s a dear friend. It is a big role. It’s an iconic role. It’s an iconic show. And she’s brilliant. She’s so talented. And she’s never been to the show. She doesn’t know the show. I mean, she knows the music because she had to audition for it, but she’s never seen the actual show. So she’s going to be my guest because her husband is otherwise engaged this week. So I’m going to be her date. So that would be pretty neat. It would be neat for me to watch her watch the character that she’s about to step in for, and she’s never seen it before. So anyhow, little things like that make me happy. Portions of our show brought to you by MyPillow. And the flannel sheets are 50% off right now. You’ll save over 50% the flannel sheets mega sale from MyPillow. Look, you know what Mike Lindell was put through. You understand the way they’ve targeted MyPillow and tried to shut them down. But you keep standing in their way, and MyPillow goes strong thanks to your support. MyPillow is excited about their first ever mega sale on overstock clearance and brand new products like the flannel sheets. And Mike is also offering right now as a thank you to you. The multi-use MyPillow 2.0 with the roll-and-go case, regularly $49.94. It’s now just $9.98. That price is unbelievable. The multi-use MyPillow 2.0 with the roll-and-go case. For just $9.98. And they’ve got cases with American flags and Bible verses. You’ve got to use the promo code MikeG. Limit 15 per customer, please, because of that incredibly low price. MyPillow.com. Look for the Mike Gallagher specials. Click on that box. And then with anything you order, enter the promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG. Or call 800-928-6034. 800-928-6034. MyPillow.com.
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It’s the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast. I’m Eric Hansen. This week, President Trump maintained his relentless pace, signed a series of new proclamations and executive orders, including one that makes English our country’s official language.
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I’m handed a story that just puts a permanent smile on my face. President Trump will sign an executive order that would, for the first time, make English the official language of the United States. Did you know that English has never been designated our official language? The U.S. has never had a national language at the federal level. And of course, hundreds of languages are spoken in our country on a regular basis, but Bill Clinton issued a federal mandate that required federal agencies to provide language assistance to non-English speakers. And there’s a cost to that. There’s a price to that. Now, agencies will still, according to the Wall Street Journal, agencies will still be able to provide documents and services in languages other than English, according to a White House summary of the order. But the summary of the order says that the goal of making English the national language is to promote unity, establish efficiency in the government, and provide a pathway to civic engagement. I’m old enough to remember when we talked about expecting immigrants to assimilate. I’m old enough to remember that. I had to deal with a big company this week on the phone. I had to make a lot of phone calls, which I generally dread. I hate calling customer service, especially when you know you’re going to get somebody likely from Mumbai. You’re going to get a lot of call centers are headquartered in India. A lot of call centers are overseas, right? And I have a big-time flaw. I have an absolute weakness. I can’t understand people’s accents. And it’s me. I know it’s me. I think it’s a glitch I’ve got. I have trouble with a thick English accent. I tried sitting through Game of Thrones. I couldn’t understand half of what those people were saying. So even a British accent throws me. But there is something about this news that Trump is going to for the first time ever make English the official language of the United States that makes me ecstatic. I am just bursting with joy today and gratitude that we got it right. On November 5th, the American people got this right. There’s so much coming at us. There’s so much happening every day. It’s hard to keep up. And in the last 24 hours, there have been a series of stories. They’re peculiar stories. The Epstein files and all of the drama and the intrigue about that. I don’t even know half of what people are talking about. The FBI is allegedly withholding… revealing high-prominent, high-profile people who were on the Epstein list. I don’t exactly know what the Epstein list is. Was it people on the plane? I saw somebody post something last night on social media. I think it was maybe Brit Hume, I don’t know who it was, said, look, is there proof or evidence at all that any of these people engaged in illegal or illicit behavior? Because there were a lot of friends of Jeffrey Epstein. Some people that we like a lot. Donald Trump. I don’t know if they were friends. And then I understand that once President Trump knew about who Epstein was, he kind of banned him from Mar-a-Lago. But there’s a lot of people that hung out in Epstein’s circles. I don’t know that being his friend means you’re a pedophile or a rapist. Or an abuser of other people. So it’s a weird story. The Hackman story is a weird story. I don’t get it. The police are now saying no evidence of any kind of gas leak or carbon monoxide poisoning. So that’s bizarre. There’s just a lot of kind of odd stories going on these days. But this is wonderful news. For the first time ever, first time ever, we are going to see, we’re going to live in a country where English is the official language. And I don’t know about you, I couldn’t be happier. I’m bouncing off the walls today.
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President Trump made another big announcement. The Abbey Gate bombing mastermind was captured this week and returned to the U.S. to face justice. The president’s senior director for counterterrorism, Dr. Sebastian Gorka, told us how it happened.
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Can I first get your gut reaction to what happened in the White House the other day when Zelensky appeared in the Oval Office? What were your thoughts about the way that unfolded, KT?
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Well, I don’t think it was planned. I think it was President Zelensky seemed to think he could retrade that deal for the third time. Remember, this was the third time he basically turned that deal down. He turned it down two weeks before when the Treasury Secretary had an agreed document that he went to keep to sign. And then at the last minute, Zelensky said, no, I don’t think I want to sign it. And then a week later, Marco Rubio went to Munich for the Munich Security Conference. And again, by prior agreement, a document signed. about the rare earth minerals development. And Polinsky said, no, I don’t think I want to sign it. So I think when he went to the White House, he really thought he had President Trump by the tail. I think he totally miscalculated that the words to look for in no matter how this conversation goes forward are security guarantees. Right. Now, Zelensky says we have to have security guarantees from America before we have a mineral seal, before we have a ceasefire, before we have a peace agreement. And what he means by that is American boots on the ground. In other words, we’re not going to let him be part of NATO, but he’s going to kind of sneak a backdoor version of NATO in by insisting that Americans have to guarantee any security agreement. And that’s when President Trump hit the roof because he said, no, we’re not going to do this. You just want to stop. You want to forever war. You don’t want to have a peace agreement. You don’t want to go to the negotiating table.
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And you could see President Trump’s temper rising in that meeting. You could watch his body language. I mean, and you’re going to go into the Oval Office like a petulant child, practically, if you’re Zelensky, and start to browbeat J.D. Vance and Donald Trump. That’s not going to go well. It just isn’t. And for people who watch the whole thing, because, you know, we saw the 30-second, 60-second, two-minute soundbites on the evening news. But if you watch the whole meeting, people… walked away from that saying, wait a minute, that wasn’t Trump or Vance’s fault. Zelensky, you say it wasn’t planned, but didn’t Zelensky go in with an agenda? Do you buy the theory, KT McFarland, that folks like Susan Rice and Antony Blinken were really behind Zelensky’s public performance?
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A hundred percent. It’s that same group of people that have been in the Obama administration and then in the Biden administration, and they were the ones that discouraged Zelensky from going to the negotiating table a year into the Ukraine war. They’re the ones who said, quote, whatever it takes, as long as it takes. Mike, I went to Eastern European countries last spring and summer and right before the election to try to explain to some of the government leaders, this is what America first means. This is what it means for you. And every Every place I went, they kept saying, well, we think that America is going to give Ukraine whatever it takes as long as it takes. And I said, no, that’s, you know, new sheriff in town if President Trump wins. The United States will push everybody to the negotiating table, end the war. And then the advantage to Ukraine is once the war is over. The United States, everybody will invest hundreds of billions of dollars into Ukraine, joint venture deals. And then when President Trump, I think, brilliantly came up with this idea of having America help develop Ukraine’s rare earth minerals. You know, we don’t have any. Russia has some. Ukraine has a lot. China has a lot. We don’t have any. So it would have been good for us. It would have been great for Ukraine because it would have been an economic boost to them. And frankly, it would have guaranteed their security. Because if the United States is going to put thousands of American engineers and miners and project managers in eastern Ukraine, where the rare earth minerals are, do you really think that a president of the United States is going to walk away from maybe a trillion dollar American investment? No. And do you really think that Vladimir Putin is going to be dumb enough to kill thousands of Americans on his way to Kiev? No. So Donald Trump had figured out an economic way, a trade way, a business way to give Ukraine what it wants and needs, which is a security guarantee. Not boots on the ground, not another war, but get out of the war and have an economic relationship with Ukraine.
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If we had an honest mainstream media, KT, there would be a real true analysis that says just what you says. The conclusion is this really is brilliant. The mineral rights strategy is a brilliant one. And the media is so invested in tearing Trump down, they never give him the benefit of the doubt.
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Katie McFarland served in the first Trump White House, and she captured the Ukrainian president’s major misstep this week perfectly.
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Let’s welcome to the show, from the White House, the Deputy Assistant to the President, Senior Director for Counterterrorism, Sebastian Gorka. Dr. G, the joke around the halls is we’ve never seen you as almost giddy as you were last week when you were at the White House. You smiling, you have this fierce sense of optimism and accomplishment, and this has to be just a few weeks into your tenure or… a giant feather in the cap of President Trump and the White House and certainly in the counterterrorism efforts. You got the bad guy, Seb.
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Yeah, it’s never been said that Dr. G is a guy who walks around smiling a lot. I think Jesse Waters, I think Jesse Waters once on The Five many years ago called me the scariest guy on television. True, true. But you’re right. For the last 42 days, I’ve been walking around this building with this rictus grin 18 hours a day, because, you know, just keeping up with the president is an incredible, incredible feat of joy, because America is back, like that first line from last night. And a little bit of inside baseball. I haven’t given any interviews since 3 a.m. yesterday morning when we were at Dulles to receive the heinous plotter behind the deaths of our Abbey Gate 13 players. servicemen and women and i’ll reveal to you right now um i live i live in a skiff right now a secure compartmented information facility so this is you know classified documents can’t take a cell phone in there day one on the afternoon of january the 20th because i’m old school i got a whiteboard mic and i wrote up the priorities for the president in the realm of counter-terrorism And equal number one at the top was getting our hostages back. And right next to it was the letter J. I didn’t write it out for reasons of operational sensitivity back then. But J was the nom de guerre of Jafar, the mastermind, or as the president called him yesterday on the call with the families before the speech. the monster behind Abbey Gate. And my number one priority for the president, for Mike Walsh, the National Security Advisor, was to locate and neutralize the man responsible for the deaths of the Abbey Gate 13. Yesterday, it was better than a movie. It was truly surreal, Mike. I was there with members of my counterterrorism team on the tarmac at 3 a.m. with Attorney General Pam Bondi, with my friend, director of the FBI, Patel Cash, with my other friend, John Radcliffe, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, all of us waiting for the man. And then we stepped up onto that plane and we saw him. We brought on board the members of the intelligence community who had been hunting him for three and a half years. And we just realized viscerally, Mike, President Trump kept his promise to the families of those 13 fallen.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, and you kept your promise to President Trump. I mean, I’ve got chills right now as you describe that scene at three in the morning. I know you’re limited. I would assume you’re limited on some of the things you can tell us. But are you able to share how we got him?
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Yeah, and it’s really important, and we’re so happy the president mentioned this last night. We worked with the Pakistani government, who have their own counterterrorism problems in their country, but they shared this issue with us that ISIS is a threat. And so in the AfPak region, the border region, They located this individual a couple of weeks ago. They told us they had him after we confirmed it with some intelligence capabilities we have unique to us. And then we deployed something called the flight team, the FBI flight team that goes on a jet to that location, interviews the suspect, verifies their identity, identity biometrics. And then he confessed. He confessed to our FBI agents this weekend. And then we we got that flight plan filed. And and then we we got him back here yesterday morning. And the A.G., the deputy A.G., Uh, Emil, um, uh, released the, um, the, um, the charges. So I will be filing, I will be posting on social media, the, the charge sheet used, used against him. And this is, we have him banked to rights. Not only do we know it’s him. Thanks to the incredible work of our intelligence community, he also confessed to multiple terrorist attacks. So this is a big, big win, not just for the president, for the civilized world, Mike. This man is in handcuffs right now in a facility not far from where I am sitting.
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On Monday, Mike will not host the show because he has jury duty. Any idea how he can get out of it?
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Incidentally, I will be off next Monday. Joey Hudson is scheduled to fill in. I got the, I finally, it’s like trying to outrun father time. You can’t escape father time, and eventually you can’t escape a jury duty summons. Oh, brother. Don’t even get me going on serving on a jury. It’s been a few years since I was called. Of course, I always get dismissed. They take one look at me and they say, we ain’t putting this guy on a jury. Now, with my luck, I’ll have to serve on like the OJ trial. I’ll see you in Christmas. I’ll see you at Christmastime. I mean, what am I going to do? This is awful. And, you know, I know people, oh, it’s your duty and all that. I wish we had professional juries. I wish we had people that were paid to go in who knew the law. Everybody in the courtroom is a professional except the juror. And now here I am going to have to miss work, and I hate missing work. With all that’s going on, you think I want to be a jury duty? I’ve got to show up at 8 o’clock in the morning, be there all day. And pray I’m not, look, I’ve already got a strategy. I’m ready. I’m going to go in there and they ask me what I want to serve. I said, yes, I do. I think everybody should be hung from the highest tree. Guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty. Hang them. Traffic violator, hang them. I want everybody executed. I can either do that or I can start babbling. Maybe I’ll just start like talking, speaking in different like gibberish and picking at my forehead and asking, do you see that guy up there on the roof? You see him? I see him. Do you see that guy in the ceiling? I’ve got a whole lot of strategies here. If you’ve got any advice on how I can get out of this, And I can’t get out. I know I can’t get out. And I know people are going to get mad at me. Oh, you should, it’s your duty. You should be proud. I’m not, why? Let somebody else do it. I mean, look, I don’t think I’m any more important than anybody else. But this is kind of an important job. I’ve kind of got responsibilities here. It’s only the state of the whole country that hangs in the balance. And I’m going to be off with some dispute because Gladys is upset that Elmer’s tree limb is leaning over her yard and she sued him. And I’ve got to serve on a jury to decide whether Gladys is going to get a settlement from Elmer or not. Excuse me for not wanting to go. And I do not know how to get out of it. I could be exempted if I was pregnant. People are going to get so mad at me. You wait and see. Somebody’s going to call. Some Karen will call the show. You need to do your duty. You need to show up. You need to be on a judge’s American way. Here’s Georgia. Mike, I got out of jury duty like this. Didn’t shave for nine days, wore a flannel shirt and a National Rifle Association hat. I kept the hat on in court until the judge scolded me for disrespect. The first lawyer asked me if I was a member of the NRA. I said, yep, lifetime membership. The lawyer said, you are dismissed, sir. Yeah. You are out. Here’s Ohio. Mike, whenever I get called for jury duty, I always tell them my two favorite Clint Eastwood films are Dirty Harry and Hang Him High. I always get dismissed right after that. Mike, this is Ann from Florida. I had to serve one time and they asked, is there anyone here that believes that the defendant does not testify that he could be guilty? I raised my hand. I was the only one that raised my hand figuring I would get out of this. Well, it turned out the prosecution picked me, so don’t raise your hand. I’m telling you, I’m going to say everybody’s guilty. I think everybody’s guilty. That’s what I’ll say. I’ll say, I think everybody did it. Guilty, guilty, guilty. Hang them high. Cannot believe, there’s, how do I not, gosh.
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And that wraps up the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast for Friday, March 7th, 2025. Be sure to subscribe to all of 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.
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