This episode ventures deep into the controversy surrounding the alleged misuse of taxpayer funds by the current administration, stirring outrage among citizens and sparking debates about accountability. Through compelling listener dialogues, Mike Gallagher amplifies the voices of those concerned about America’s future, simultaneously facing a personal challenge with humor and resilience. Discover the spirited dialogue about conservative movement evolution and the fight against perceived governmental missteps, weaving through calls for auditing and transparency in national affairs.
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We ran a presidential election. If we were playing the Super Bowl, we started our seventh string quarterback. That’s what happened. Okay, you can’t address a problem unless you’re honest about a problem.
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In the relieffactor.com studios, here’s Mike.
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People are giving me advice on the MyPillow text line about how to get through the dreaded closed MRI today. I hate that thing. I did that once years ago. I freaked out. Yesterday I was getting some dizzy spells and some lightheadedness during the show. I thought I was just giddy from the first, you know, two weeks of the Trump presidency. I’m just like, it’s physically affecting me. But I don’t feel 100%. Something is off, for sure. And… And my ears are ringing, which is really peculiar. So I went to the doctor and he gave me all kinds of tests. And he did the thing where you hold his finger up in front of your eyes and you got to follow the finger left and right. And he said, my eyes are jiggling a little bit when I do that, which tells him that there is definitely something going on. And he mentioned something about a tumor, like a benign tumor. And I thought, oh, great. So I’m praying it’s not that. Maybe just some kind of an inner ear infection. But anyway, I got to climb into one of those closed MRIs. They were trying to find an open one for me. And they couldn’t get me in for a couple of weeks. So, Michelle, my great contact over at the doctor’s office, got me into a regular good old-fashioned closed MRI later today. So, a couple of segments today. Joey’s going to guest host. Joey Hudson will fill in for me while I get out of here a little bit to get that test done. And they were telling me, oh, we can get you Xanax or medication. We can sedate you. I’m like, I don’t need to be sedated. I think I can handle it. But it is really… creepy. You’re claustrophobic. I mean, you’re in this tube. You feel like you’re in a casket, buried alive. And you just got to close your eyes and not freak out. And of course, you know how I am, how goofy I am. I’m already kind of a hypochondriac. So I’ll be thinking that I’m going to, don’t freak out, don’t freak out, don’t freak out. And I’ll start screaming and flailing and hitting my head and Goodness knows what. But anyway, just keep your fingers crossed. Say a little prayer that everything is fine and that I don’t have a meltdown in the MRI. Don’t worry, I’ll give you a full report tomorrow. And I’ll give you an update. I think it’s mind over matter. You just close your eyes and you just think, okay, I’m not in this metal tube. They can get me out of here if I freak out. Although yesterday the nurse told me a story at the doctor’s office. He said he went into one of those, and they told him, now we’re right here. Just call out if you need us. Don’t worry. And they slid him in the thing, and he called out. He said something, and they were gone. And he was in there for like 45 minutes, and nobody was – now that’s my worst nightmare. That’s a horror movie for me. I’ll be like, okay, I’m freaking out, I’m freaking out, and they’re not going to answer me. They’re going to go get a pastrami sandwich. They’re going to go down the hall and go into the lunchroom, and I’ll be in that tube flailing and trying to get out. Think about that. That’d be a good premise for a horror movie. You’re in the MRI, and you can’t get out, and… It ends badly for everybody involved. Well, so far, things are going so well, and every day is just a gift. Every single day feels like another gift from God and heaven above. It’s just astounding how many people are just… And I want to deal with why Trump didn’t do this the first time. And I promise I’ll take calls. I’ve got a lot of… A lot on my plate today, so pardon me for being so chatty, but I promise callers hang in there. You’re going to be coming up next. But I was thinking last night, well, why didn’t all this happen with this kind of intensity the first time around? Well, the first Trump presidency, the guy was a reality TV star. He’s not a politician. He hasn’t been a politician. And he came down that golden escalator. And he captured hearts and minds. And he won the election against all odds. He beat Hillary. And he didn’t know Washington. He didn’t know the deep state. He trusted people. And he surrounded himself with, in some cases, rats. Real sneaky, degenerate people who had a nefarious intent. They wanted their 15 minutes in the White House, and then they went off and wrote their books and stabbed him in the back and became part of the whole anti-Trump, anti-MAGA movement. This time around, he is more disciplined and more focused than ever before, surrounding himself with people who are loyal to the America First agenda and loyal to him. And that’s what we elected. That’s the mandate. That’s the mandate right there. You see, we thought he went back to Mar-a-Lago after 2020 just playing golf and licking his wounds. We just thought he just went into hibernation. When in actuality, it appears he was doing his homework. It appears he was planning this epic second presidency and fulfilling his promise that to put America first. What a thing it is to behold, huh? What a thing it is to behold. Cyrus is in North Carolina. Hey, Cyrus, thanks very much for your patience. Welcome to the Mike Gallagher Show.
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Good morning, Mr. Mike Gallagher. Hello, Cyrus. Take in my call, and please take care of yourself. I will. Because we enjoy you being on the air.
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Thank you, Cyrus. That’s very kind of you. I appreciate it. Are you as angry as the guy from the video we played a few minutes ago?
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I’m probably more angry. I’m not going to say how angry, because being 75, almost 76, you don’t get there by being an idiot, so I can’t say too much about being angry at all.
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It won’t get you anywhere. Don’t be angry. Don’t get mad. Get even.
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Listen, I’m worried, to be honest with you. I’m angry and I’m worried. President Eisenhower, back in the 50s, said be careful and be mindful of the industrial military state. He made us aware of that back in the 50s. And we have continued to go forward with these underground kind of back door kind of agencies that are acting on their own bequest to do whatever they want to do.
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That’s right. But I’m curious. What are you worried about? Why do you say you’re worried?
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Well, I’m worried as for the repercussions that Trump may face from this. I’m talking about These people are extremely powerful people.
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Yeah, but don’t forget, Cyrus, he’s the most powerful man in the world. Thanks to the American people, we have once again returned him to the Oval Office as the most powerful man in the world. And, you know, we pray for his safety. And incidentally, speaking of prayers, thank you. Everybody’s flooding the text line with prayers for a good outcome on this MRI I’m going to do later today. So thank you so much. It’s like, just makes me feel so good to know how much love. And this is like one big giant family. So thank you. But Cyrus, keep praying for his safety. Keep praying for his health. Keep praying that he gets to continue to do what he’s doing. But remember something. It’s way more than just one man. He’s the first to remind everybody this is a movement. He’s created a movement, and that’s not going anywhere. Hang in there, Cyrus. Thanks for your kind words. Greg’s in Wilmington, North Carolina. Hi, Greg. Hey, Mike.
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Love the show. Thank you. We’ll say some prayers for you on your MRI, too, buddy. Oh, you’re kind.
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Thank you, Greg.
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But listen, you know, you were talking about the difference between Donald Trump’s first term and this term. Well, you know, I wanted to say he didn’t have an Elon Musk.
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You’re right. You’re right.
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He has this person now that is, you know, is digging through the trash and finding all this stuff that we as citizens, you know, we’re suspicious of but never realized. Right. You know, and now we’re getting to where we’re mad, and the clip you showed this morning is so great, but we’re mad because we see how wasteful Our government is.
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That’s just it. But, Greg, you make a brilliant point, and I appreciate it very much. He didn’t have Elon Musk first time around. And when you stop and think about the way they’re melting down on the left over Elon, they know he’s on to something big. They realize this is a massive accomplishment. He has identified one of the most brilliant men in the world, and you can’t dispute that, even though dumbbells like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will try to. You can’t dispute the smarts of Elon Musk. And he’s taken one of the most brilliant men in the world and he said, look, I want you to run an agency or an arm, you’re going to be an arm of my presidency that weeds out the wasteful slush fund of taxpayer-funded nonsense. And it’s amazing. I mean, look, I say it over and over again. You either support an America First agenda or you don’t. You either believe in it or you don’t. And look, not everybody believes in this guy, and that’s okay. This is America. You get to have whatever opinion you want. But a lot of his goals… are an attempt to achieve success for all Americans, Republicans, Democrats, young, old, white, black, Asian, Hispanic. Very, very important. President Trump moments ago spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. We’ll take you to D.C. and share some of his remarks with you next on this Thursday episode of The Mike Gallagher Show. Great having you here.
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He’s the happy conservative warrior. From the Relief Factor Studios, here’s Mike Gellert.
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Consider our hard-earned tax dollars. being funneled into slush funds by a Biden administration that was completely out of control. You know, when we saw the lunatics outside the Treasury Department the other day, and it was every last one of them, Schumer and Maxine Waters, all of them, Elizabeth Warren screeching and howling and chanting, and what are they upset about? Elon Musk discovering… The misuse, the blatant, grotesque misuse of taxpayer money for all of these crazy leftist initiatives all over the world taking taxpayer money. Let me again remind you, USAID is not, repeat, not a charity. This is the biggest media company fiscal scandal that we’ve seen in many, many, many years. And the reason they’re so upset about it is because they got caught. They got caught red-handed. And you ought to be mad about it. Every one of us ought to be angry. We ought to be asking for a refund on our taxes. We didn’t authorize our money going to fund Sesame Street in Iraq. We didn’t authorize our tax funds to go to a pro-politico, fancy bells and whistles subscription to a Trump and MAGA-hating media outlet like Politico. We didn’t fund that. Congress didn’t authorize that. And pay attention to the usual suspects in the mainstream media pretending this is a vast right-wing conspiracy from Mediaite to the Daily Beast, Drudge, Axios. Axios says, oh, this is false information. It wasn’t really funding Politico. The Biden administration was simply buying $75,000 apiece subscriptions to get the super-duper service from Politico. And it turns out Politico, of course, was continually assailing Trump and MAGA. You know, somebody posted on social media, if a Republican administration used federal tax dollars to pay for premium subscriptions at the Daily Wire or Town Hall or the Mike Gallagher Show, The press outlets that are right now pretending there’s no controversy would have their hair on fire. Mark Caputo used to work for Politico. He has shared that Politico editors not only shut down the Hunter Biden laptop story, but told reporters, directed them not to talk or tweet about it. Politico buried and killed stories that highlighted serious and substantive and legitimate concerns about Joe Biden’s cognitive decline. Well, look, if the Biden administration is paying you millions of dollars, you’re not going to bite the hand that feeds you. Look, from where I sit, Politico is done. I don’t know how they survived this. I don’t know how any of these media outlets who were collecting funds from the taxpayer through these slush funds are going to survive this. And every American should be livid. I made a commitment. I’m going to play this guy every hour today. I want you to see and hear this. From an angry black American who is livid at the way he has been used by the Democrat Party and the media.
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The Democratic Party have lied to us about everything. They’ve lied about being the party of the middle class. They’ve lied about being the party of peace. They’ve lied about being the party that wants to help poor people. What the last several weeks have proven to us all, This is a cadre of criminals and losers and spoiled children of affluent parents who were more concerned about looking good. than actually doing good. These are people who were more concerned about looking like they were doing something for the American people than actually doing things for the American people. And that’s why I’m so angry. Because this party lied to me while stealing my tax dollars. The Democratic Party lied to us all while they brought in millions of illegal immigrants for their own political purposes for the last four years. 20 to 30 million illegal aliens brought in. And now we come to USAID being probably the largest money laundering operation in American history. Congratulations, Dems. You’ve outdone even Bernie Madoff. I’m disgusted beyond words. Disgusted with the waste of money. Disgusted with the fraud. With the way that you people put, the way that you people use color legitimacy and the way you use black people as mules to get us to push whatever agenda you wanted to. The amount of division you used black people to sow upon the American people, you used us for that. And I will never, ever forgive this political party that I’ve gone through personally. Y’all were supposed to be the party of free speech, the party of women’s rights. You have immolated all of those things. And then, as if enough weren’t enough… You then decide that you’re going to die on the hill of USAID, a government audit. You’re trying to prevent a government audit because some of you really are trying to stay out of prison. We see the game now. Y’all been out here telling us that the game was rigged against certain people. Well, now we found out who the people that were rigging the game were. Congratulations. Y’all are never going to win another political race ever again. Not if I can help it.
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Beautiful thing. Isn’t that an absolutely beautiful, beautiful thing to see? And this is the beauty of X. Guy posted a video on social media. This is why they hate X. If that guy had posted that a couple of years ago, he’d have gotten banned. They’d have shut his account down. The FBI might be knocking on his door, for all we know. They stole our tax dollars. And they don’t know what they’ve been exposed to. They’ve been caught, and it’s just beginning. You know there’s going to be more. That’s why they want to subpoena Elon Musk. That’s why they want to lock him up. One of the elected representatives this week on Capitol Hill, some goofy congressman said they need to put him in jail. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And this was a guy, according to my producer, who started out not supporting Donald Trump. Do you know how many people are supporting him now? This guy talks about the Democrats supposedly the party of women’s rights. Really? That’s why we had to have a president yesterday sign an executive order so that biological men can’t compete in women’s sports? And he was surrounded by young women. President Trump was in the Oval Office surrounded by girls and young women and women who were saying in the background, God bless you, President Trump. for letting women compete against women in sports? Not trans women, women. All the cases of people who’ve been injured, women have been injured, by biological men spiking a football, I mean a volleyball rather, into their faces, hurting them. women who were losing over and over after spending their whole lives training and preparing. But we had to have a president. The ridiculousness of having to do this in the first place because we’ve lost our collective minds. And I pray for anybody who struggles and suffers with gender dysphoria. There’s a real shortage of compassion about this difficult issue. And I don’t want to be that person who doesn’t have compassion. I pray for them. I pray that they’ll get some peace and some focus and some guidance in their lives and that they’ll be okay. I hate the idea of people feeling castigated and young people who are suicidal because of the pressures that they face. But even people… in the gay and lesbian community understand that to take a Leah Thomas and say, look, you’re going to compete against women, no problem with that. You identify as a woman, you get to go compete against women. And the Democrats are supposed to be the party of women’s rights? This guy, who started out not liking Trump very much in 2018, thanks to President Trump, now realizes the truth about what the Democrat Party really is. The Democrat Party is lost. And had we not gotten this right this past November the 5th, this country would have been lost. Wait till you see the way Kamala Harris was protected by 60 Minutes. Because the raw video of that 60 Minutes interview… was handed over by CBS, and now it’s public. Jesse Waters did a great job exposing that last night. Where do you see the raw? My Lord. Kamala Harris? All I can say in a prayerful moment is thank God Trump won. Thank God he won. Because this country would be headed right off the side of the cliff under a President Kamala Harris. Welcome in. It’s Thursday. We’ve got a lot to cover. Tons of breaking news yesterday. The President, or actually the Attorney General, suspending federal aid for any of the sanctuary cities. That’s a great start. We’ve got the President at the National Prayer Breakfast today. All kinds of breaking news if you miss a minute of the Mike Gallagher Show. Here in the Relief Factor Studios, you’ll miss a lot. Join us, 800-655-MIKE. Call or text 800-655-6453. You know, there’s a cross that Mike Lindell of MyPillow wears around his neck. And for years, people have said, Mike, can we get that cross? And so I’m real proud to share with you that MyPillow is now offering the MyCross necklace. 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To my friends who are upset, I would say with respect, you know, call somebody who cares. They better get used to this. It’s USAID today. It’s going to be Department of Education tomorrow.
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In the relieffactor.com studios, here’s Mike.
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I made a vow to get better at following up on things I say I’m going to talk about. If you’re a longtime listener or viewer of this show, you know I often get on a rant and then I lose track and I forget that I was going to do something. So I finally came up the other day. I said, why don’t I just put a notebook, a good old-fashioned notebook in the studio? So I brought it. I was over at Barnes & Noble the other day. Boy, did they get mad at me. I read that the Barnes & Noble in St. Petersburg is going to close today. And I asked the lady, the very unpleasant lady behind the counter, and she took my head off. That’s not true.
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That’s not true. That is not true. That is a rumor.
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I mean, well, excuse me. Sorry. I mean, I know you’re testy probably because other – she said, everybody’s asking me about that. I hope it doesn’t – I like Barnes & Noble. I like bookstores. I like browsing and looking at – anyway, I found a notebook. at the Barnes & Noble, and I’m going to start writing down things that I say I’m going to talk about when I forget to talk about it. So I almost forgot to remind you that if you loved that video clip of that guy, and Christian says he knows right where that guy is. He’s on the Pelham Parkway in the Bronx. So this guy is apparently in New York, made a selfie video, just a rant as an angry American who said, The Democrats have been lying to me. The Democrats have been using me as a black man. They have been stealing our taxpayer money, our tax dollars. And look, this guy didn’t start out as a Trump supporter. He sure appreciates what Trump is accomplishing now. If you want that video… All you have to do is text the keyword ANGRY to 800-655-MIKE. Just text ANGRY to 800-655-6453 and we will happily send you back that great video that Elon Musk reposted. That’s why it’s gotten millions and millions of views. But this is what’s happening. Americans have had their eyes closed. They’ve been brainwashed. And doesn’t it feel good to be vindicated? Doesn’t it feel good to be right? Look, these Democrat mayors, now they’re reaffirming their sanctuary city status. Good, then you’re going to lose federal funding. And then you’re going to have to pass that on to your taxpayers. And they’re going to have to bear the brunt of all the federal dollars you’re going to lose because you are stubbornly creating a magnet for illegals to come into your city. So let the Democrats dig in. They got nothing. They’ve got nothing. Speaking of the MyPillow text line, I really appreciate all the prayers that are coming in. I shouldn’t have even told you about it because I don’t want to get bogged down with this. Joey Hudson is going to fill in for me for a few segments today because I’m going to go get an MRI. Look, I’m more worried about the closed MRI than I am what they’re going to find. But I’ve been having a ringing in my ears, and yesterday I got – I’m really feeling weird, like dizzy and woozy and lightheaded. And I went to my doctor yesterday, and he ran some tests. Blood sugar is fine. Blood pressure, everything is fine. But then he did the test where – you know how he can put his index finger in front of your eyes, and you have to follow his finger with your eyes. You go left to right and right to left. And when he did that, he said my eyes were like – jiggling and wiggling back and forth in a way they’re not supposed to do. He said, well, that tells me something’s going on. And he thinks it’s probably maybe an inner ear kind of a thing. He goes, you’ve got an inner ear maybe disturbance. It’s probably just vertigo or something. Who knows? But he ordered an MRI. He said, look, let’s not leave anything on the table. Let’s rule things out. And he said something about a tumor that could be a kind of a benign. He says it’s almost never cancerous. But it’s not malignant, but it’s a benign tumor that they have to remove that presses against your ear thing. I don’t know. And all I heard, of course, was tumor. You know me. I thought, oh, great. Just my luck. I mean, just when things are going so great, that’s all I need. And it’s probably not that, but let’s rule it out. So I’m going to slide into that MRI. Hopefully I won’t freak out. As I’m walking out of the doctor’s office, one of the nurses said, yeah, these MRIs, they can be scary. I got slid into one a couple years ago, and they told me if you get panicky, just speak up, and we’ll bring you out. Well, I started to speak up, and they left. That’s what’s going to happen to me. You wait and see. I’m already freaking out about this closed MRI. Poor Michelle at the doctor’s office tried like heck to find an open MRI somewhere in Tampa Bay, and the first appointment was like three weeks from now. And I’m like, I don’t want to worry about this for weeks. Again, you know me, so I’m already going to the dark place. I’m looking out at the sun. The sun is just a little brighter today. I’m wondering if I’m, you know, if I’m long for this world because I’m a bit of a melodramatic person. But he said, yeah, I called and they were gone. I hope they don’t forget about me. I wonder how long it takes. Do you know, Eric, how long these things take? Joey thought it took an hour. And Tom Trout said, nah, it’s 10 or 15 minutes. They’ve got to put the dye in you and everything. And they do the imaging. I don’t know. So anyway, thanks to Joey, who’s going to guest host a little bit for a couple of segments. And then we’ll be back in the saddle again tomorrow. And then looking forward to celebrating everything together, celebrating this amazing first year of the Trump administration on the Patriots Alaska cruise. This summer, this August, August 16th through the 23rd, we had Joel James on the show yesterday. Now’s the time to sign up. Because, look, this is going to sell out quickly. Larry Elder and I will be your co-hosts. We’ll be joined by Jersey Joe Piscopo. Joe’s going to be on the ship along with Jennifer Horn. Space is limited. It’s more than just a cruise. We’ll have fellowship together. We’re going to be… dining and sightseeing, and then we’re going to do all these great events on the ship. Seb Gorka and I had the privilege of hosting, what, 400 or 500 of you this past 4th of July. I want you to join us again for the second annual Patriots Alaska Cruise, August 16th through the 23rd. For details, go to TravelWithSalem.com. TravelWithSalem.com. Just go to TravelWithSalem.com. You’ll get the itinerary, the pricing, and everything else. Or you could just text the keyword Alaska to 800-655-MIKE. Just text the keyword Alaska to 800-655-6453. And away you go. Join us. Join us for an amazing, amazing journey. Here’s John Stewart. Now, John Stewart, not a dumb guy, smart guy. From The Daily Show, he kind of scaled back his hours, but he’s still doing stuff on social media. And here he was on Comedy Central. You know that ghastly chant that Chuck Schumer tried to lead? We won’t rest. We won’t rest. Elon Musk has to go to jail. We’re upset. We’re not going to take that. Here’s Jon Stewart begging the Democrats, please stop putting Chuck Schumer front and center.
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Democrats, can you please stop f***ing trotting Schumer out there? Every time Trump traverses into the unreal, he’s not good at this. What is the decision-making process here? Hey, who should we get out there to effectively battle one of the most savvy presidential media manipulators in history? I don’t know. How about Schumer? He’s uninteresting, but at least he’s monotone. Oh, wait. And Chuck, before you go out there, you look too young. Put on these readers and lower them on your nose.
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I mean, they’re turning on themselves. They’re eating their own. Do you have that Chuck Schumer chant from the archives, Christian? I mean, it was so bad. In fact, Tim Ryan, the former Democrat from Ohio, went on social media and said, are you kidding? This is the best we’ve got? After this Schumer chant, and this was this unhinged rally they had on the steps of the Treasury because they’re hysterical about Elon Musk and Doge. And the reason the Democrats are upset about it is because the jig is up. They’ve been caught. They’re being exposed, and they don’t know how to stop it. So here’s Chuck Schumer standing next to crazy Auntie Maxine and that lunatic Al Green who’s waving around his gold-handled cane, and this was the best Schumer’s got. I’m going to stand with you in this fight and we will win.
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We will win.
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We will win. We will win. We will win. We will win. We will win. We won’t rest. We won’t rest. We won’t rest. We won’t rest. Thank you, everybody.
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Yeah, great chant. So Democrat Tim Ryan, former congressman from Ohio, posts on social media, I just don’t even know what to say anymore when I see this kind of stuff. Is it Saturday Night Live or real life? Does anyone really think this is the future of the country? This is the only alternative to Trump’s America? It’s just so depressing. Yeah, they don’t know what to do. They’re flailing about. Al Green yesterday waving that cane. Boy, I hope he has that cane with him all the time. That cane makes it. I know about impeaching. We’re going to impeach Trump. Oh, are you? Okay. You knock yourself out, Congressman Al Green. You’re doing your Texas district proud. Wave that cane around. Just don’t hit anti-Maxine in the head, please. And Mitch McConnell yesterday fell down the steps again. We don’t need any accidents up there with all the seniors who are on Capitol Hill. Wait till you see the unedited version of the 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris. Jesse Waters broke it all down last night on Fox News. Got that next.
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Mike Gallagher.
SPEAKER 16 :
What a day. Holy cow, what a time to be alive. And last night, I watched in amazement as Jesse Waters sort of exposed the raw, unedited video that was released by CBS online. under orders by the FCC to prove that Kamala Harris was, in fact, made to look good by 60 Minutes. When’s the last time you think 60 Minutes ever edited an interview with Donald Trump to make him look good? But it’s precisely what they did with Kamala Harris. Now, Jesse did a segment. I want to play this segment for you because it was so powerful and so important. He talks to Michael Schellenberger, who’s an investigative journalist over at Substack. But it was a great segment. I wanted to share it with you today.
SPEAKER 04 :
We got our hands on the raw footage of Kamala Harris’s 60 Minutes interview last October in the heat of the election. Harris, Hail Mary with CBS. But the network was caught deceptively editing this answer. Watch.
SPEAKER 09 :
But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening.
SPEAKER 11 :
We’re not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end.
SPEAKER 09 :
But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening. The Wall Street Journal said that your administration has repeatedly been blindsided by Netanyahu. And, in fact, he has rebuffed just about all of your administration’s entreaties.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, Bill. The work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by or a result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region. And we’re not going to stop doing that. We’re not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end.
SPEAKER 04 :
Trump sued CBS for $10 billion, and it looks like they might settle. But before that happens, the FCC released the full interview, unedited, and we have the tape. They talked for an hour and left a lot out. Here’s an answer that never made air. Watch.
SPEAKER 09 :
I’m trying to understand how it is that with this emphasis on the border, the numbers of crossings quadrupled under the first three years of the Biden-Harris administration. How did that happen?
SPEAKER 11 :
There are a variety of factors that relate to what we have seen globally. and what we are not immune from at our own border in terms of what we have seen in terms of surge of immigration and irregular migration. And there are solutions at hand, but we’ve got to have leaders who are solution-oriented, which we’ve been and are.
SPEAKER 04 :
CBS also cut out their host pressing Kamala on how she’s going to pay for all of her giveaways.
SPEAKER 09 :
If all of this makes so much sense, why has this not been done? You’re dealing with a Congress that is divided, that many are in opposition to not only you but your policies. So how are you going to make this happen?
SPEAKER 11 :
Bill, if I approached my life as though, well, it’s never been done before, therefore it cannot be done, I wouldn’t be sitting here in this interview with you.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s the truth. Then 60 Minutes tossed Kamala a big fat softball and she swung and missed.
SPEAKER 09 :
The most basic of questions. Why do you want to be president of the United States?
SPEAKER 11 :
There are many reasons, but probably first and foremost, I truly believe in the promise of America. I do. And I love the American people. You know, we are a people who have… ambition and aspirations and dreams and optimism and hope.
SPEAKER 09 :
That’s why you want to run. That’s why you want to be president.
SPEAKER 11 :
That’s why I’m running. That and some other reasons.
SPEAKER 09 :
But you’re asking the American people to make you the most powerful person on the planet. Why do you deserve the American people’s votes?
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, first of all, I have a career and a history of being very clear that I think of my role of leadership, and in particular now for the last four years as vice president and moving forward as president, if the voters will have me, as being a leader on behalf of all Americans.
SPEAKER 04 :
Kamala wasn’t the only one having a rough night. One of the crew guys misgendered Madam Vice President. Is that what you needed?
SPEAKER 02 :
Yes, sir. Yes, ma’am. 36 of silence.
SPEAKER 04 :
Michael Schellenberger is the founder of public news. Do you see anything scandalous about what CBS did here, Mike?
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, a little bit. I mean, I just sort of forgot that that’s how she talks.
SPEAKER 04 :
It was actually enjoyable watching it again. I don’t know why.
SPEAKER 18 :
I mean, it’s like the easiest stuff to memorize. You would think she would have memorized it by then, but it feels like she’s trying to figure out why she’s running for president every time she’s asked.
SPEAKER 04 :
It’s like a month before the election, and you’re on 60 Minutes. She’s like, why do you want to be president? She’s like,
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, let’s see.
SPEAKER 04 :
What?
SPEAKER 18 :
Amazing.
SPEAKER 16 :
I’ve been, yesterday I was getting dizzy and lightheaded, so I went over to the doc, and he gave me a bunch of tests, and he said, yeah, something’s going on. You know how they take your, you know how the doctor takes his finger and puts it in front of your eyes, and they go left and right, and you’ve got to follow back and forth? It scared me for a minute, but yes, I am familiar with that as well. Right, well, listen, I’ve been there too. I’d rather have him do that. Yeah, I like where this one goes. Exactly. But he said, my eyes, when I go back and forth, left and right and right to left, are jiggling a little funny. Okay.
SPEAKER 17 :
It’s like failed field sobriety. That’s what usually happens on the roadside.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, it’s like, oh, crap, I failed the test. So he said, look, we’re going to order an MRI, he said, just to make sure nothing’s serious. He said it could be an inner ear thing, you know. That one’s okay if you get wobbly at all. I’m just kind of dizzy. I mean, look, I think I’m just giddy with the first 17 days of the Trump administration.
SPEAKER 17 :
I do. I find my head spinning as well in nothing but good ways.
SPEAKER 16 :
I mean, we’ve always heard about first 100 days. How about first 17? I mean, you know, lost in everything that’s happening right now with that magnificent, beautiful moment where he signed the executive order, no boys and girls sports, and you got emotional. I heard you as I was driving in get kind of cracked, your voice cracked a little bit. You were… It’s a big moment. All these appreciative women saying thank you for not, you know, facing, like you said, a spiked volleyball in my daughter’s face at 50 miles an hour. But we also forgot that Pam Bondi ended federal funding for all the sanctuary cities. That’s right. That’s a big deal. You know, before we get to all of it, and Doge finding out about our tax dollars funding Politico, and incidentally, contrary to what the mainstream media is squealing, it is true. Our taxpayer dollars have been funding Politico.
SPEAKER 17 :
Take 30 seconds on how that happened.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, before I do that, I want to lay the groundwork for something. Of course. Because I’m just stunned. I’m astonished that all this has happened in 17 days. And you know what? You inevitably ask, why didn’t this happen first time around? Well, the answer is pretty easy. We all thought that after 2020, Trump went home to Mar-a-Lago and just played golf and licked his wounds. But he didn’t. He was doing his homework. He was assembling a team, and he was putting together an agenda and a strategy. And he said, if I get back in again, this is what it’s going to look like. And he spent the four years in the Mar-a-Lago wilderness thinking, plotting and planning and scheming and readying his offense, his assault against the deep state, his assault against the weaponization of the court system. He knew he made mistakes, and look, he admits this. He made mistakes with having people in his administration. No Washington. He trusted people too much. Sometimes he trusted the John Kelly’s of the world and the Comey’s of the world. And these are these were bad, bad actors. These are people acting in bad faith. They wanted their 15 minutes in the White House and then they wanted to write a tell all and rip Trump because they thought it was fashionable. And it was. Well, it was at the time. But boy, has the tide turned. It’s so different now. So let’s go to the Doge thing real quick and talk about this is the best part. We know your kid gets his hand caught in the cookie jar. Your kid either says, yeah, dad, I did it. You caught me. You got me. Or, no, no, no, no, no, it’s not what you think. It’s not what you see. My sister did it. Well, that’s what right now Drudge, Mediaite, Politico, even Axios is trying to do. They’re trying to claim that all this wasteful spending that has been uncovered is a vast right-wing conspiracy. Exactly. Exactly. Oh, it’s just a conspiracy. I mean, look at Daily Beast. Politico goes toe to toe with MAGA over these false money rumors.
SPEAKER 17 :
And stop. Let’s do this together because a lot of people might be driving around going, what is the Politico thing? What is the Politico thing? Describe. You probably do it more briefly than I can. The notion to which there was money being funneled to a massively expensive Politico subscription service.
SPEAKER 16 :
USAID and the federal government has been, thanks to Elon Musk and his team of Doge youngsters, and yeah, they are young kids.
SPEAKER 17 :
Some of them are 19. More on that in a minute.
SPEAKER 16 :
Go ahead. I know. And so they have uncovered this massive, epic, fraudulent spending. Slush fund. It’s a slush fund where millions and billions of dollars of our money. Understand something about USAID. USAID is not a charity. They’re not a philanthropic group. They’re an organization that was signed into law by John F. Kennedy in the early 60s with a stroke of his pen. And it has turned into a leftist, you know, slush fund for, you know, operas in Paraguay and Sesame Street in Iraq and all this nonsense. But it’s our money. It is our money. So then it comes to Politico. They find out that Politico has gotten millions of dollars from the slush fund. Well, look at Mediaite. MAGA influencers pushed erroneous claims that Politico was being funded by the United States Agency for International Development. The false claims surfaced. Now, here’s why they say it’s false. Politico evidently has something called pro-Politico. Yeah, buddy. You could spend $75,000 if you want a really super-duper subscription with a dashboard. Oh, you get a dashboard. You get, yeah, yeah, 75 grand for a subscription? Well, and they got a gazillion, got a bunch of them that the federal government was funneling into Politico. Here’s the best… My hand really wasn’t caught in the cookie jar from, I get it from Axios. This is the best one of all. Ready? Headline, Doge targets Fed’s media subscriptions. MAGA Media, it’s all MAGA, of course, they determined that the government paid Politico $8.2 million in the last 12 months for Politico Pro policy content. That spending fueled, says Axios, a false conspiracy theory that USAID was funding Politico. That turned into dozens of viral posts. It’s a prime example of how false information sweeps through social media and it could spell trouble for other media organizations with government subscribers. Well, I hope so. I would. Let’s hope it does. Now, here’s the best part. Are you ready? I’m ready. You ready for the… They have to do a disclosure in this article pretending this is a vast right-wing conspiracy that taxpayer dollars went to Politico? Disclosure… Our Axios Pro products provide in-depth policy and industry news to paying subscribers, including government employees. Last year, $5,550 in payments were made to Axios as part of an FCC subscription, according to the government’s database that tracks federal spending. They’re having to do a disclosure. We do it too, they’re saying. So on the one hand, they’re saying… Yeah, pay no attention to what you’re really seeing here. Nothing to see here. Move on. This is an amazingly glorious time, Mark. And how do you know?
SPEAKER 17 :
And how do you doubly, triply know? Look at the react. They’re holding rallies. Schumer and others clasping hands. In these weird chanting, yelling moments, nobody elected Elon. Nobody elected the deep state scoundrels who tried to savage the Constitution and destroy our lives under Biden either. Nobody voted for Connelly. There wasn’t one vote cast for her in the primary. At least our unelected people are helping the country.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, and I can put your voice this morning. Thank God he won. Thank God he won on a loop. You saw the 60 Minutes. You watched it, right? I sure did. This woman is a stone-cold dummy. We are so lucky because not only policy-wise did we dodge a bullet, but she’s a moron. And when you see a 55-minute video that shows her in her own— natural setting you know with bill whitaker unedited she’s a moron she she is so vapid and the truth is there wasn’t anything that really i’m kind of like you on this i was a little lukewarm okay so they edited it that did i’ve been in television and broadcasting for years 60 60 minutes is notorious for editing You know, there’s a technique that 60 Minutes and other shows like that use all the time. They’ll use what they call a cutaway. They use a reverse, and it makes it look like there’s a pause and there’s no pause. They do that all the time. It’s actually very, very shrewd the way all the reality, like, for example, the reality TV shows, they do that. One of the characters, you know, will say something on the show, and then it looks like there’s, like, stunned silence. There’s not stunned silence. They’ve edited in a 10-second pregnant pause to make it look like people are just looking at it.
SPEAKER 17 :
Katie Turek interviewed a bunch of gun activist folks, NRA supporters, and asked them a question, and they created silence to make it look like they were stunned and unable to air it.
SPEAKER 16 :
answer that’s what i mean so that happens all the time with editing but at the end of the day here’s what we know 60 minutes did bend over backwards to try to make her look better they edited out the word salad she gave an answer on israel you couldn’t translate that if you held a gun to your head she’s a she’s a moron and she’s babbling like an idiot and bill whitaker’s even looking at her like what are you talking about so they edited that out they left that on the chopping room floor that’s what trump’s complaint was you think they’ve edited out anything to make trump look good ever In the history of the industry? I’m going to go with no.
SPEAKER 17 :
I’m going to go with no. And you mentioned Israel. Can you imagine how Israel would be feeling? Netanyahu visiting, and he was on Hannity last night, got some excerpts of that. And, of course, it is a wild, eye-opening thing, the notion of America having anything to do with Gaza. I think that’s designed. Maybe he means it. Maybe it’s just another kind of a device to get everybody. Did you hear what he said about it? Oh, I know what he said. Basically, why not? He’d be saying it’s brilliant. He loves the idea. And I think it creates the necessity. It prods us. It prods the world to imagine Gaza prosperous and peaceful, which it ain’t going to be under blood-soaked Palestinian rule. It’s just not. And once people think, wow, it could be that way, and maybe if they don’t like America having a big footprint there, you know how else it might be that way? Let Israel run it again, as it once properly did.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, like you said the other day, you asked the perfect question. Where is Gaza? What country is it in? It’s in Israel. Is it in Turkey?
SPEAKER 17 :
No, it’s in Israel.
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, Mark, Mark, Mark, come on. Don’t you know? It’s in Palestine. Wink, wink. Wink, wink. Back at you, buddy. Where’s the government of Palestine, huh? Yeah. Where’s their Treasury Department? Where’s their Doge? Oh, my goodness. And what a day. And you’ve got great things you’re doing. You’ve got a big heart, and I know you guys got a food for the poor campaign.
SPEAKER 17 :
We’ll talk about it tomorrow because we’re out of time. Because the last real thing that I want to do with you in these last 30 seconds or so is there’s a meme going around, and I want to leave it with you, and it goes like this. You know, Mike, I haven’t seen liberals this upset since yesterday.
SPEAKER 16 :
Inject it into my veins. When I climb into that MRI, put that into my veins.
SPEAKER 17 :
I’m thinking about you praying for good, uneventful stuff, everybody, because we need you for many, many more decades, man.
SPEAKER 16 :
Thank you so much. I’ll see you tomorrow. I love you. I’ll see you.
SPEAKER 17 :
And is Mike Gallagher ready for you today? Right after we’re done at 10 on 660 AM, the answer.
SPEAKER 14 :
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