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He’s the happy conservative wart. From the Relief Factor Studios, here’s Mike Deller.
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No, I don’t. Yes, I do. No, I don’t. Yes, I do. Here we go. Welcome in. It’s Tuesday. Getting a little bit of a late document and a little behind-the-scenes activity as we ramp up for today’s show. I guess we’re a little bit like the Signal Chatroom text group or whatever the heck it was. What do you do when your team stumbles? I saw… a post from Banshee that was so pitch perfect about all the drama and all the hysteria and all the hyper-partisan or maybe non-partisan responses to this big news that the White House apparently mistakenly shared Yemen war plans with the editor of The Atlantic. The Atlantic hates Trump. The Atlantic is left. Jeffrey Goldberg, the guy invited to the chat on Signal, which is some, I guess, data-sharing app, he is making the rounds, saying, look, I was surprised. I was… And it was a big breach. I mean, there’s no question. It was a mistake. It was a stumble. Now, their side is going to say, stop the presses. Trump himself needs to resign over this. It’s over. It’s over. Pete Buttigieg. unloaded an expletive-laden rant. For some reason, these Democrats think if you use the F word a lot, you sound cool and hip and aggravated. I mean, I think Pete Buttigieg is pretty measured. And he’s slinging around the F. Bob, this is an effing disgrace. Okay, fine. Here’s what Banshee wrote that I think sums it up perfectly, and I’m going to open up the phone lines to you. 800-655-MIKE. Banshee said, one of the most mind-numbing parts of politics is the inability of anyone on any side to ever admit a mistake. Instead, you get dumb qualifiers, obfuscations, and non-denial denials. No one is going to remember this signal thing in two days. Just own it and move on. I think that’s pitch perfect. I agree with that 110%. How about you? No one’s going to know. I mean, no one’s going to be talking about this after the media. I mean, they’ll try. They’re going to continue to regurgitate it for days, maybe weeks. But it is going to blow over. Thankfully, nothing was compromised in the mission. And incidentally, that’s a big part of this. But of course, it shouldn’t have happened. Obviously, it was a mistake. You don’t want to inadvertently invite the editor of The Atlantic into a chat room or a text group talking about bombing the Houthis. And incidentally, is it Houthi or Houthis? Because I was talking to Mark Davis this morning. I noticed he kept saying Houthis. I think it’s Houthis. I don’t know. And I don’t care. Because there was a lot of transparency, frankly, that was revealed over Hegseth’s concerns and how are we going to do this. But none of that’s going to matter. All they want is a scalp. All they want is a head over the mantle. They want a trophy. They want Mike Waltz to go. They want Pete Hegseth to go. All they want to do is disrupt. And look, I’m going to be very consistent here. You’ve got to let them. Let them have their fun. Let them have their day. It was a mistake. Own the mistake, and let’s move on. I trust, and the word is that Trump has no intention of firing Mike Walsh. Mike Walsh has already said he’s not going anywhere. I don’t think President Trump is going to fire anybody in his administration because the mainstream media says so. I don’t see that happening at all. But, you know, we’ll let it play out and let the game come to us. I’ll do what I always do when there’s a big story like this, and I don’t dispute that it’s a big story. And incidentally, trying to ignore it won’t make it go away. I noticed they tried to ignore it yesterday on The Five, which I thought was really, really comical. Poor Jessica was the only one who kind of got her licks in and said, I better never hear about Hillary’s emails again. Okay. Again, let them have their day. Let them have their response, and we’ll move on. Like Banshee said, no one’s going to remember this in two days.
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Mike Gallagher.
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All right, what is the president’s reaction to this story that the media is in a complete meltdown over? They are in a feeding frenzy, as expected. There’s a lot of news to digest, and I promise we’re going to tackle a lot of the other things we have to be about today, including some information about… Mahmoud Khalil, turns out he hid some of his ties to Unraw on his green card application. Uh-oh, that won’t be good for him. We’ll dive into that. But first, let’s bring you to the newsroom. Mike Gallagher Show newsman Roger P. Shulman reporting on President Trump’s reaction moments ago to NBC over Mike Waltz and this whole secure thing, you know, this chat room thing.
SPEAKER 10 :
I mean, Roger, have you ever been on Signal before? Never even heard of it until now, so I’m behind the loop, I guess. Us boomers, I mean, we don’t know.
SPEAKER 11 :
We’re all trying to learn all this technology. The only thing I know about signal is when I pull up to an intersection and it goes from red to green. But it appears that President Trump, as indicated to NBC moments ago, is standing by his man, Mike Waltz.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes, and you mentioned during the last half hour this is going to be a two-day story, and probably tomorrow we’ll be talking about something else. He is standing by him because there’s no harm, no foul. The attack went off that was released to the Atlantic magazine perfectly. There was no resistance, no problems at all, and he says they’ve learned from this, and he’s learned a lesson, and he’s a good man, and he is not going to be removed or anything else. We have so many Ways of getting secret information to the wrong places. We’ve got emails, we’ve got texts, we’ve got all these things that we didn’t have before. And it’s so easy to to have something like this happen. It used to be that secret information was in file cabinets that were locked and handled by certain people. Now, with everything shooting out over the Internet, it’s very difficult to keep a secret. And this was a major screw up. No, no doubt about that. This is something that should not have happened. But since there was no loss of life on our side about it and everything went off fine, I think Mr. Trump is right. is backing his people and wants to move on to bigger and better things.
SPEAKER 11 :
I’m really curious about the journalistic aspect of this in terms of… And let me ask you, because you’ve been covering news for decades, and I’ve been listening to you about the new Howard Franklin Bridge that opened up this morning, and that’s a big story. But you’ve covered state, local, national stories for many, many years. Are you on… let me word this delicately. You know everything there is to know about Florida. I mean, you’re my go-to for everything. In the legislature, I mean, between you and Bill Bunkley, I mean, there’s nothing we don’t know about what’s happening out of Tallahassee. Let me ask you about your relationship with public figures. I mean, you obviously have a good relationship with a number of newsmakers. Would you find it unusual if Mike Waltz had sort of a working relationship with a Trump-hating editor like this guy from The Atlantic? Or is that just part of doing business and you keep open all lines of communications? Do you have contact with maybe progressive or lawmakers who might not share your own personal ideology? Yes.
SPEAKER 07 :
Absolutely. You keep all lines of communications open. I was just communicating with somebody who is a very you could call them a disagreeable person who has nothing to do with our corporate policy or our philosophies. But we keep the lines of communications open in a civil manner just to just to know what’s going on and then keep an eye on things. And Being a patriot and a former military person, if I received some top secret information from somebody, even if I didn’t like them, I probably would take steps. But that’s just me because of my military background. I was in the Army for five years and am a patriot. perhaps even before being a reporter in some cases. I am not going to do anything that’s going to harm this country or put our military at risk. That’s my philosophy.
SPEAKER 11 :
So with that in mind, do you find fault with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic revealing some of the details of this chat room or this group text? Was that a road you might not pursue?
SPEAKER 10 :
I might not pursue it, depending on the situation.
SPEAKER 07 :
If it’s after the fact, I probably would go with it. But if it’s before the fact, before military operations, absolutely not.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right. And for the record, he did this after the fact. So, you know, look, I don’t read The Atlantic. I’m not a fan of, I’m sure, Jeffrey Goldberg. But you don’t fault him. He got notified to be invited on this text. This group chat? And he did what any journalist, frankly, left or right, would do.
SPEAKER 07 :
After the fact, yes. After the fact, yes. But if you’re jeopardizing American lives, not a good idea in my opinion. That’s my opinion.
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He’s the happy conservative warrior. From the Relief Factor Studios, here’s Mike Deller.
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What do you do when the team that you’re rooting for makes a mistake? The media calls them out. They make it an epic bombshell when you know it really isn’t all that. How do you react? What’s the right way to react? President Trump is not planning to fire National Security Advisor Mike Waltz in the wake of the Atlantic’s reporting of an apparent, well, what is being called a national security breach. Sources initially said that Waltz’s job was safe. He’s not on the chopping block. President Trump himself told NBC in a brief interview minutes ago that Waltz will not be fired. If you haven’t followed it, if you haven’t had the misfortune of stumbling across MSNBC or CNN or the New York Times or the Washington Post, it’s a stunning, breathless, epic failure. These guys are hacks. Pete Buttigieg embraced the apparent strategy of today’s Democrats. just throw around the F-bomb a lot. Former Transportation Secretary using the F-word to post his apparent disdain for what took place. What took place? Well, apparently the White House, the team, mistakenly shared information plans for attacking the Houthis in Yemen with the editor of The Atlantic. If you were going to pick the last person, there’s a lot of irony to all this, if you were going to pick the last person you’d probably leak this to, it would be him. Now, a lot of people are saying, well, maybe it’s perfect, it’s genius, this was the plan, it was all part of the plan. I’m not sure that dog… I don’t know that that explanation flies. I like what Banshee said on social media. Banshee is a social media influencer, writer over at Red State. Banshee wrote, one of the most mind-numbing parts of politics is the inability of anyone on any side to ever admit a mistake. Instead, you get dumb qualifiers, obfuscations, and non-denial denials. No one, Banshee argues, is going to remember this signal story in two days. Just own it. Move on. The story will die. It will deflate if the White House says, yeah, it happened, it shouldn’t have happened, it’s been dealt with. And I believe that’s the strategy and that’s the approach that the White House is about to take. But let’s not give the media weeks of distracting intrigue so that they can devour this story over and over and over again. You’ve got some huge stories that are going to take over, including Mahmoud Khalil’s being accused of hiding key information during his green card process. You know, I watched CBS Sunday Morning, and they did this fawning love letter to Khalil and his family. They interviewed his pregnant wife, and look, it’s a sympathetic story. The wife is pregnant. He gets taken away after leading all these protests at Columbia University. But now there’s some really intriguing information coming out about His ties to this organization, UNRWA, which has deep terrorist ties. Incidentally, here was President Trump’s reaction. He apparently, look, I can promise you that there are plenty of people in hot water over this signal leak to Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic. Here was apparently President Trump first hearing about this controversy yesterday from a reporter.
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Mr. President, your reaction to the story of The Atlantic that said that some of your top cabinet officials and aides had been discussing very sensitive material through Signal and included an Atlantic reporter for that. What is your response to that?
SPEAKER 09 :
I don’t know anything about it. I’m not a big fan of The Atlantic. To me, it’s a magazine that’s going out of business. I think it’s not much of a magazine, but I know nothing about it. You’re saying that they had what?
SPEAKER 06 :
They were using signal to coordinate on sensitive materials. Having to do with what?
SPEAKER 09 :
Having to do with what? What were they talking about? With the Houthis. The Houthis? You mean the attack on the Houthis? Well, it couldn’t have been very effective because the attack was very effective, I can tell you that. I don’t know anything about it. You’re telling me about it for the first time.
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So that was the first he learned about it, apparently, and that’s not going to go over very well. The boss, I’m sure, isn’t very happy. And this happens. You move fast, things are going to get broken. Mistakes are going to get made. And it was a mistake. It was a blunder. Shouldn’t have happened. And I can guarantee you it’s never going to happen again. And ultimately, nothing about the airstrike in Yemen was effective. was affected. Nothing was impacted. Here was Senator Josh Hawley responding to it on Fox News last night.
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We don’t know how much of this is accurate or not, but it looks like even if everything that Atlantic reported is true, it’s the president’s advisors discussing among themselves options they might recommend to the president. And nobody can deny the success of what the president is doing here, which is what Pete Higgseth just underscored. And this is what the leftist media is reduced to. They can’t argue with the policies which the American people support. They can’t argue with This new demonstration of American strength that is keeping Americans safe at home and abroad. And so now we’re griping about who’s on a text message and who’s not. I mean, come on.
SPEAKER 11 :
And that was, of course, reduced to, oh, Senator Hawley says. The only gripe is who’s on a text message. Well, of course, it’s bigger than that. And he said more than that. He’s taken out of context to some degree. But ultimately, it was a mistake. It was a blunder. It was a stumble. Shouldn’t have happened. Okay. Own it. Acknowledge it. Yeah. It shouldn’t have happened. It’s been dealt with. What’s next? What’s next? And there’s a lot of next coming down the pike. 800-655-MIKE. Look, this is not, of course, the end of the world. And I don’t think anybody’s going to get fired over this. But for us to push back and come up with theories that it was intentional or maybe it was deliberate or maybe it was… I mean, going down that conspiracy theory rabbit hole probably doesn’t serve us well. I truly believe that Banshee’s take on this from Red State is perfect. Own the mistake. It happened. It shouldn’t have happened. It’s been dealt with. Move on. Do you disagree? Let’s find out. I want to throw up our phone lines wide open to you here in the Relief Factor studios for a Tuesday. We’ve got a lot of breaking news. I’ve also got a great event coming up in a couple of weeks I want to share with you. I’m going to be in Savannah, Georgia, hosting the Job Creators Network event. annual gala it’s a second annual gala and i got to do this last year and it’s become kind of a tradition you have a chance to join us as well we’ll catch up with alfredo ortiz from job creators network get an update on that event and more in the meantime i want you to join us i mean give me your take maybe i’m all wet on this you agree with me 800-655-MIKE own the mistake when you make a mistake own it don’t come up with obfuscations or dumb qualifiers Hey, made a mistake? Time to move on. Am I wrong? 800-655-MIKE. One call does it all. Call or text us on the MyPillow text line or voice front and center on the Mike Gallagher Show, 800-655-6453.
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He’s the happy conservative warrior. From the Relief Factor Studios, here’s Mike Gellerman.
SPEAKER 11 :
Welcome in. There’s some drama on Capitol Hill. The Senate Intelligence Committee is having a field day with Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard and Radcliffe. This was always scheduled, which of course leads everybody to think, boy, that seems real convenient, the timing of The Atlantic’s revelation that the editor of The Atlantic was accidentally invited into a group text chat over the Signal app regarding bombing the Houthis in Yemen. I visited with my buddy Mark Davis this morning, and he and I both had pretty much the same takeaway. When a mistake is made, you own it. You say it’s going to be dealt with. It won’t happen again. As for whether or not Mike Waltz is going to be out, Nope. President Trump said he’s standing by his guy. The president made it clear that nobody is going to be fired over this because nothing went wrong. The mission went on without any problem. But it was a mistake. And, you know… We make the mistake, we make the flaw, we are all inclined because we’re so tribal and we want to defend our side and they want to defend their side and we all go on the attack. And instead of just owning a mistake… We try to come up with obfuscation and, oh, maybe this is a conspiracy. Maybe it was done on purpose. It’s not that bad. What about Hillary and the servers? Look, when you move fast, things get broke. This Trump administration is moving at breakneck speed. But what is very clear is the Democrats are desperately trying to dig themselves out of a deep, dark hole. That was the theme of an article we shared with you yesterday from Axios. Top Democrats say their party is in its deepest hole in nearly 50 years and they fear things could actually get worse. With the lowest favorability ever, no emerging voice, who’s going to lead the Democrats out of the wilderness? One of my producers, Christian, just told me that among some of the gems that came out of the mouth of Jasmine Crockett, the congresswoman from North Texas, is that she mocked Governor Greg Abbott in a wheelchair. And I didn’t believe it. I mean, I said that’s not even possible. She’s not going to sink that low. She can’t be that vicious. And a lot of Democrats seem to like this lady’s style. Do we have that clip? You know, again, Christian said, well, I’ll play it for you. And I said, there’s no way. There’s no way she’s making fun of a wheelchair-bound governor. As you might know, Governor Greg Abbott, the terrific governor of Texas, was injured as a young man by a falling tree and is paralyzed. Now, I happen to have… a friend and a colleague who is now facing paralysis. And my heart just aches for anybody who is in a physically limiting condition. I can’t even begin to fathom making fun of a political opponent because of their Physical condition. Normal people don’t think that way. But as you’re about to see and hear, Jasmine Crockett is anything but normal.
SPEAKER 05 :
Because we in these hot-ass Texas streets, honey. Y’all know we got Governor Hot Wheels down there. Come on now. And the only thing… Turn it off.
SPEAKER 11 :
I don’t want to hear it. Governor Hot Wheels. She thinks that’s cute to mock Governor Abbott. And she’s thrilled that the Tesla stock, she thinks, has fallen. Although what I saw yesterday is they can’t keep Teslas on the shelves. People are lining up to buy Teslas. President Trump bought one last week. Sean Hannity bought one. He said six or seven of his friends bought one. Imagine a United States congresswoman rooting against an American company because they don’t like the team that the company’s owner is on. Here’s Jasmine Crockett.
SPEAKER 05 :
I’m excited to see that Elon Musk, that his money as it relates to Tesla, well, Tesla’s tanking right now. And I’m okay with that.
SPEAKER 11 :
They think, and I’m glad she kind of connected the dots there so I can get into the brain of a leftist lunatic like Jasmine Crockett. They think they’re personally hurting Elon Musk if they can tank the Tesla company itself. That somehow a guy who’s worth… How many billions and billions and billions of dollars? If one of his companies goes under, they feel satisfaction at that because they want to hurt him financially. I don’t want to sound like they do and be mean-spirited or vicious here, but it doesn’t exactly take a Rhodes Scholar to recognize that when you’re rooting against an American company with thousands and thousands of American employees, Elon Musk, if Tesla went away tomorrow, he’d be just fine. You know who wouldn’t be? The hardworking… tax-paying Tesla employee, the service providers, the technicians, the people who work on the front lines, on Tesla dealers all over the country. You know, there’s a line that the cruelty is the point. Jasmine Crockett is a cruel person. petty, vicious, vindictive lady. And I hope Jeanine Pirro is right that Jasmine Crockett is the one to watch. I hope the Democrats think she’s the solution. Because if she’s the solution and the Democrat, that brand of leadership takes over, oh boy, this country’s gone. This country is gone. 800-655-MIKE. 14 past the hour. Welcome aboard. We’ve got a lot to cover here on this breaking news Tuesday. And I’m going to take you to Capitol Hill. We’re going to listen in to some of the testimony. Tulsi Gabbard made it very clear to the hysteric Democrat senators that no classified information was revealed or leaked in that group text over Signal that accidentally invited the editor of The Atlantic to participate. Banshee is right. Great advice on this whole drama. And it’s a mind-numbing part of politics. It’s one of the ugliest parts of politics. It’s the inability of anyone on either side to admit a mistake. Instead, you get dumb qualifiers, he wrote, obfuscations, and non-denial denials. No one’s going to remember this story. Nobody’s going to remember the Signal thing in two days. Own it and move on. The story will die sooner and completely be deflated if the White House and the intelligence officials said, yeah, it happened, it shouldn’t have happened, it’s been dealt with. Let’s not give the vicious mainstream media any more… fat to chew on. You disagree? We’ll find out. One call does it all. Call or text us on the MyPillow text line, 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. Welcome in.
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It was a mistake. And there’s no reason to get all upset. They’re going to be exercised over this as we would be if the shoe was on the other foot. I mean, Jessica Tarloff got her little dig in yesterday on The Five. I love the dynamic of a show like The Five. I do, too. And here’s what I love about it. I always am fascinated by what they won’t cover. The Five didn’t touch this story with a 10-foot pole, and Jessica Tarloff wanted to. So in her first round, you know, they go through rounds, and they do topics, and then They all have rotating hosts. It’s kind of an interesting and it’s a very successful format, obviously. So Jessica couldn’t resist. She’s answering some question about, you know, I don’t know, college campuses. And then she got into this story. She added it on her own and she said, and I don’t ever want to hear another word about Hillary’s emails again.
SPEAKER 12 :
And seconds later.
SPEAKER 11 :
What do you mean, go?
SPEAKER 12 :
Seconds later, Jesse threw down about Hillary’s emails.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, of course.
SPEAKER 12 :
And properly so, because when Hillary acid washes scrubs as people hammer it on phones, it’s on purpose. It is intentional subterfuge. I know. This appears to be a genuine human mistake on the part of an administration that absolutely is going to keep America safer than these jokers ever did. So you’ve got Hillary and Mayor Pete daring to step forward out of whatever cave he’s living in now to go, this is a major F-up. Have a seat, son. I’ll let you know what we need from you about national security.
SPEAKER 11 :
You’re right. But like Banshee said, two days, this thing is over, and we’re going to move on. Look, let’s be honest here. When you move fast, you break things. And things are getting broken. Mistakes are going to be made. I love the clip, and I’m going to find it. And I mentioned this to you yesterday of Elon in the White House saying, look, we’re going to make mistakes. The key is when we do, we got to own it. We got to fix it. You got to know about it. I have to admit, I was a little surprised at Pete Hegseth’s reaction.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, he comes on the plane and somebody asks him what’s going on when national security issues are being talked about in a way that allows a reporter to be added to the chat by mistake. And he immediately goes into an attack on Jeffrey Goldberg, which, by the way, he’s 100 percent right. Jeffrey Goldberg is a weasel. However, the story appears to be true, and maybe his better approach would have been what you’ve described, is to say, look, okay, if that wasn’t great, we’ll handle it, and blah, blah, blah. But anyway.
SPEAKER 11 :
You want to know what the worst part of this story, way bigger than any supposed threat to national security or whatever, the end of the world and everything. And here’s the biggest question. Why is Jeffrey Goldberg on anybody’s speed dial in the Trump administration? In other words, it suggests that there’s a relationship there, and this is a Trump-hating left publication. So, I mean, you know, that goes back to our often – Do you engage with the other side? Do you talk to reporters?
SPEAKER 12 :
Speaking of which, first of all, that was going to be my first answer to your point, is this administration will have a bunch of reporters in their contact list. Being reporters, most of them are going to hate this administration, but there’s going to be some communication. Speaking of communication, I know you love your text line and I love mine. On our text line yesterday, right after you and I finished yesterday, somebody had a little something they wanted me to ask you about having communication with the other side. And I had it in front of me, and I’m going to totally mess it up. How is it that Mike Gallagher yesterday gave us the large lecture on on we must connect with the other side and hear them and be open to them and hear their views, which, by the way, is a worthy point to be made.
SPEAKER 11 :
Which is, incidentally, a total mischaracterization of what I said. But go ahead. That’s not what I said.
SPEAKER 12 :
It’s the same schizo Mike Gallagher who mere days earlier was headstrong hammering anybody who thought it was a good idea for Gavin Newsom to welcome Charlie Kirk. So help me out, schizo boy.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, it’s fair. I mean, look, I was asking, I was pulling a Tucker Carlson yesterday. I was just asking the question. I was just asking the question, should we reach across the aisle? No, I mean, I didn’t say, look, I think it’s fair to acknowledge the temperature is pretty high right now. And families, you and I have talked about families being torn apart. I hear every day, heartbreaking stories. Little old lady from Long Island yesterday, whose only sister, and they’ve been best friends for 80 years, has cut her out of her life. And she won’t talk to her. It’s up to us to persuade the other side. And I get what your point is. And you’re right about, look, I guess you’re trying to persuade Gavin Newsom maybe not to be who he is. Gavin Newsom wants to run for president. But incidentally, apparently so does Jasmine Crockett. Wow. Can I make a prediction right here, right now? Let me make a prediction. 745 Central Standard Time, Tuesday, March 25th. She’s going to go too far. She’s going to say something. Well, she already has, but I mean even farther than she’s gone. I mean, she’s going to really step in at one of these days.
SPEAKER 12 :
In terms of, because this is the 30th District, South Dallas County, Member of Congress. The once for the forever Eddie Bernice Johnson seat. And Eddie Bernice looks like Margaret Thatcher compared to this woman. And she’s mouthy and she’s edgy and she’s hard left, which makes her a darling on MSNBC. And she and she’s a racist and and a hater and a smear merchant. Lately, though, in a weekend interview on Channel 5, she had this talking about the Colin Allred race against Ted Cruz. And you’ve got to hit him hard and you’ve got to aim for the head and. And listen, as much of a fool as she is, I’m going to give her some latitude as I would give anybody for using metaphors in political battle. I’m not so much worried about that. But she did also say, because Saturday is March 29th, right? You know this is the Tesla day of action or the day of outrage or the day of insanity. So I got to tell you, out at Legacy West in Plano, some of my favorite restaurants are along that stretch. There’s a Tesla dealership there as well. I’m not going to say don’t go. I ain’t going. just three hours down the road from where I’m sitting right now, Austin, bombs found at a Tesla dealership. The violent left is on parade. And when people show you what they are, pay attention.
SPEAKER 11 :
And please do not debate whether this is domestic terrorism or not, because it certainly is. And I guarantee you, there’s a whole lot of people going to be spending a whole lot of time in prison for these violent actions against Tesla.
SPEAKER 12 :
And all the Teslas have cameras. What, it’s called sentry mode? Nine cameras. If I walk up in Kia Tesla today, you’re going to see me as well as people are seeing me on the Salem News Channel.
SPEAKER 11 :
Correct. Oh, it’ll be all over. Well, these are not the brightest bulbs in the box, but that brings me back to Jasmine Crockett, because not only is she celebrating the demise of Tesla and urging Texas crews to be, you know, essentially assaulted, she also said something that was really shocking. She gave an interview where she said, I don’t care about any legislation. I just want to take down Trump. I mean, this, like you said, when people say who they are, believe them.
SPEAKER 12 :
And that’s what she said about Tesla, too. Herbert said, all I want on my birthday is to take down Elon. Let’s take down Tesla. And I guess she could be talking reputationally or policy-wise, and I do give latitude in certain ways. But when your party is attacking people and people on your side are engaged in a wave of domestic terrorism, you might want to raise your hand.
SPEAKER 11 :
You might want to pump the brakes a little, which is kind of what the theme was of the show yesterday. And it was kind of an interesting conversation because I was asking, should we pump the brakes a little bit? Do we make more? Here’s what set me off. I had a guy last week call the show, and we mixed it up really big. But I know who he was. He’s that troll guy. He’s the call guy. You know who he is. He calls shows, and he tapes the reaction from the conservative hosts. Who cares? And he posts it on his ex-account with 13 followers. Mm-hmm. and that’s how he gets his jollies. But he wants to really, really argue, and he called the other day, and I think I was kind of… Influence because I knew who he was. He didn’t know that I knew who he was. But we have a way here with our phone system to know when someone like that’s calling. Because he’s real sophisticated. He spoofs phone numbers. He uses different numbers, different names, different parts of the country. It’s a whole big thing for him. But when we started arguing, I found myself heating up the conversation. I was interrupting. I was arguing. And I’m like, you know what? And he was making arguments. And we all do that, Mark. I mean, present company included. We all try to shut down the other side too much probably and not listen when somebody’s trying to make a point that we disagree with. And I’m wondering if we shouldn’t kind of ease up on that approach a little bit, let them vent, let them speak, and try to win them over. You know what it is, Mark, and you and I talked about this. It’s the spirit of Charlie Kirk going on to college campuses. Yeah. That’s what he does. And he’s not in shouting matches with these college kids. He’s trying to effectively persuade them that their way is lost, that their progressive instincts are wrong. And he does a powerful job, a masterful job. Look, this guy is a treasure. And so I kind of saw a bunch of those Charlie Kirk videos before the show yesterday, and I was kind of having a good conversation with him. And it was. It was helpful. And I do appreciate the criticism because you’re right. I don’t want to platform Gavin Newsom. I don’t want to make him palatable. Hey, let’s end on a positive note. I played a clip on my X account. You can follow me at GallagherShow on X. The Buc-ee’s Experience. Oh, I don’t know about this. There’s a young lady. Have you heard this? I have not. There’s a young lady.
SPEAKER 12 :
Having just done some Texas Hill Country, we stopped at both the Temple Texas Buc-ee’s and the Buc-ee’s right by the Texas Motor Speedway on the way home. So I’ve got a face full of Buc-ee’s experiences just in the last couple of days.
SPEAKER 11 :
It’s the funniest clip, and it’s so real. I know we’re over time. Can I play it? Do we have a minute and a half, or are we too late?
SPEAKER 12 :
We do not.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay, we do not. So tomorrow, remind me tomorrow to play for you the Buc-ee’s. What are you going to tell me about it? It’s her. It’s this young woman in a car extolling all the virtues of Buc-ee’s in a hysterical way. You do all your Christmas shopping there. There’s not just tchotchkes there. You can get bathrobes. All the food groups. All the food groups. You walk it all the hell. Well, of course, she jokes about that, like beef jerky is now a major food group.
SPEAKER 12 :
There’s a wall of jerky. There’s a wall of jerky.
SPEAKER 11 :
You go and get a brisket. The bathrooms, she said, are cleaner than most of America’s operating rooms. Correct. And the stalls are floor to ceiling. You could go in and file your taxes in a stall. She’s right. I mean, oh, I’m going to play. Let’s start tomorrow. Can I play this for you tomorrow? You’re not going to want to miss it. Let’s get it out of the way tomorrow, and off we go. You got it. All right. Happy Tuesday, my friend. Own the mistakes and move on. Two-day news cycle. Precisely right.
SPEAKER 12 :
It’s not a big deal.
SPEAKER 11 :
It’s not a big deal. I love you. I love you.
SPEAKER 12 :
That’s Mike. He’s going to share more love. 10 o’clock, soon as we’re done, right here on 660 AM. The answer.
SPEAKER 09 :
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SPEAKER 13 :
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