The latest developments in the Justice Department’s actions against New York come under the spotlight, as Pam Bondi reveals the federal government’s push to enforce compliance with immigration laws. Our host provides insightful commentary on the legal and moral aspects of using taxpayer funds for immigrant amenities, inciting a spirited discussion on civic priorities and responsibilities. Listeners are invited to weigh in through live calls, fueling a robust debate on what many see as one of the defining issues of our time. Humor and political critique blend seamlessly as the episode shifts gears to assess the shifting power dynamics
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He’s the happy conservative warrior. From the Relief Factor Studios, here’s Mike Geller.
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I went to bed with a smile on my face. I woke up with a smile on my face. Every day keeps getting better and better. The United States Justice Department has sued New York, its governor, and other state leaders… as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration. The new Attorney General, Pam Bondi, announced the lawsuit. She made it very clear. This is a new DOJ. And you’ve got to stop prioritizing illegal immigrants over U.S. citizens. You know, I travel a lot. I’m in a lot of hotel rooms. I’m blessed. I like to stay home. in a nice place, when I’m away from my home, I am so mindful of how lucky I am. You know, I kind of consider myself, in some ways, a traveling salesman. I travel all the time. And living in a hotel is part of my job. And I know there are people who hear my voice. who might not have stayed in a hotel in years, maybe not their whole life. And there is something about the millions and millions and millions of dollars that taxpayers give to luxury hotels to turn them into migrant shelters, as they call it, that makes me crazy. I think about people who would love to have a nice hotel room. I think about a veteran. I think about a widow. I think about a single dad. I think about a senior living in a terrible, terrible condition. And it’s unbelievable to me that Democrats think it’s normal to direct taxpayer dollars to some owner of a hotel and house illegal immigrants for free. For them. It’s not free for us. It’s free for them. When New York says, come to our city, we are a sanctuary. When the mayor of New York or the governor of New York, more appropriately, says, come to our state, come from Guatemala, come from Guadalajara, come from Mexico City, come from Venezuela, come from China, come from wherever you want to come from, come live in our city and we’ll house you at taxpayer expense, it makes me crazy. And I admit, it’s a glitch. I’ve got a glitch here. I obsess over this. So you can appreciate my joy at the press conference yesterday that Pam Bondi held, where she put New York on notice. The Justice Department is suing New York to end these garbage tactics of providing driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, of providing hotel rooms to illegal immigrants, of providing food and education and medical attention to illegal immigrants. As Pam Bondi put it yesterday in Washington, D.C., those days are over.
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If you don’t comply with federal law, we will hold you accountable. We did it to Illinois, strike one. Strike two is New York. And if you are a state not complying with federal law, you’re next, get ready. And the great men and women of law enforcement are standing behind me today. We have FBI, DEA, ATF agents. They put their lives on the line every single day to protect us. And what New York has, they have green light laws, meaning they’re giving a green light to any illegal alien in New York where law enforcement officers cannot check their identity if they pull them over. Law enforcement officers do not have access to their background. And if these great men and women pull over… someone and don’t have access to their background, they have no idea who they’re dealing with. And it puts their lives on the line every single day. Violent criminals, gang members, drug traffickers, human smugglers will no longer terrorize the American people. And that is why we are here today. You will be held accountable if you do not follow federal law. It’s over, it ends, and we’re coming after you.
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Every word of that is music to our ears. Every word of that is worth jubilation, gratitude. Do you realize what we achieved on November 5th? Do you get this? Do you know how terrible things would be if Kamala Harris had been elected president of the United States? Let’s go back to Pam Bondi yesterday, who makes it very clear it is a new day.
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We have filed charges against the state of New York. We have filed charges against Kathy Hochul. We have filed charges against Letitia James and Mark Schroeder, who is with DMV. This is a new DOJ, and we are taking steps to protect Americans, American citizens, and angel moms, like the mom standing right behind me who you’re going to hear from in a moment. New York has chosen to prioritize illegal aliens over American citizens. It stops. It stops today. As you know, we sued Illinois. And New York didn’t listen. So now you’re next.
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Oh, my gosh. I’m not kidding you. I’m not saying this to be a smart aleck. I could quit right now and be the happiest guy in the world. I’m not going anywhere. I’m just digging in. I’m just getting started. But I could die right now the happiest guy in the world. Lord, take me now. I honestly could. I’m so happy. It’s hard to even put into words what this feels like. And we’re three weeks in. This country’s just getting started. This country is roaring back. Common sense is prevailing. And you know what’s magnificent? They don’t know what to do. They’ve got nothing. From Chuck Schumer to Waters to Pelosi to Emanuel Cleaver, they’ve got nothing. They’re reduced, and I’m not trying to be ugly here. I’m going to try to be on my best behavior. They are reduced to gibberish. I mean, like, literal gibberish. They’re mouthing, they’re going up to a podium and mouthing nonsensical words. Let me give you an example. Missouri’s Congressman Emanuel Cleaver just yesterday said,
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Take your musty millions and musty Moscow rights to the moon. You get your musty hands off of our money or go to Moscow, you musty moon, moon, moon.
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Well, that’s their effect. That’s their strategy. When all this waste is being carved away, when taxpayers are being rescued by the Trump administration, the best they got is Emanuel Cleaver mouthing gibberish. You take your musty, musty, moo-moo hands off. That’s good. That’s good. That’ll work. That’s very effective. That guy makes Chuck Schumer’s approach… look like Winston Churchill. They’re lost. They’re broken. They’re shattered. And it’s just going to keep getting better and better and better. 800-655-MIKE. Welcome aboard. It is Thursday. We’re here in the Relief Factor studios. And I think our best times are ahead. It is a glorious time to be on the right side of history, isn’t it? It is a magnificent… And I do often think of how bad it could be if you’ve been on the wrong side. And I know many of you are listening right now. You’re watching on Salem News Channel. You’ve got your radio station tuned in. You’re hate-listening to me. You’re angry. You’re frustrated. You’re sputtering. How does it feel to know how wrong you’ve been? I’m not trying to be mean here. How does this feel? I’ve asked that question now for a couple weeks. You got buyer’s remorse? Look, come on in. The water’s fine. 800-655-MIKE. One phone number does it all. One call does it all. Call or text 800-655-6453. Hope you join us. There’s no better time than right now to call my friends at PhD Weight Loss and Nutrition to start your journey to a healthier you. As I hear from you about how PhD Weight Loss and Nutrition has changed your life, I know that each one of us has had our own reasons for starting. I started my journey because I gained enough weight and was ready to make a change. I sat down with Dr. Ashley Lucas, and like they say, the rest was history. I lost 53 pounds, and I’ve kept it off. We all have different reasons for starting. Maybe you got a discouraging diagnosis from your doctor. You needed to make a lifestyle change. One grandmother I talked to couldn’t chase her toddler grandson and was afraid he might get hurt in her care. Another gentleman had lower back and hip pain, which forced him to give up golf. He wanted his life back. You want your life back? Do what I did. Start the PhD journey. Make 2024 your year to say goodbye and let go of all those unwanted pounds. Call PhD weight loss and nutrition today to schedule your your consultation. Call 864-644-1900, 864-644-1900, or just go to MyPhDWeightLoss.com, MyPhDWeightLoss.com.
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He’s the happy conservative warrior. From the Relief Factor Studios, here’s Mike Dellery.
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Yesterday, Tulsi Gabbard got confirmed. Today, it looks like RFK Jr. is about to be confirmed. We’re watching the vote. We’ll keep you posted. It’s going to be a good day to stay plugged into the Mike Gallagher Show and the Relief Factor Studios. Welcome aboard. It’s Thursday. Gosh, every single day I wake up with a smile on my face and a song in my heart. I can’t believe how good things are going for us. Every single day seems to be better than the day before. Yesterday, Pam Bondi, the Attorney General, told New York, okay, you didn’t listen. You’re not paying attention. You can’t keep giving driver’s licenses to illegals. You can’t keep circumventing the federal government on this. We are serious about ending the tidal wave of illegal immigration in America. And you’ve got to either get on board or suffer the consequences. So the Justice Department has sued New York. I was intrigued by these confirmation hearings and the way this is coming together for the Trump administration. President Trump’s got to be sitting there thinking, man, I’m glad it’s going a lot better than it went first time around when they were all screaming with their hair on fire. Now it is as if Americans have recognized he was the answer all along. And you’ve got people like Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth. You’ve got mavericks. You’ve got people who are not the quintessential politician by any stretch of the imaginations. And Donald Trump made a decision that Tulsi Gabbard should be his Director of National Intelligence. Why in the world? Why in the world would Mitch McConnell, a lifelong Republican, and the former Senate Majority Leader, vote against her? I wanted to get a take from a leftist… a leftist perspective. Malcolm Ferguson wrote a piece at New Republic. New Republic is a leftist site. And the headline is, Mitch McConnell explains his sad, lone, no vote on Tulsi Gabbard. Now, they’re complaining, of course, from the left. What they’re mad about is that McConnell couldn’t get any other Republicans to vote against her. They write, Mitch McConnell has gone from being one of the most powerful men in the GOP, the face of conservatism, to failing to convince a single Republican colleague to vote no with him on Tulsi Gabbard. The former Senate Majority Leader was the only Republican to vote no on Tulsi’s confirmation. McConnell said in a statement after the vote, the nation should not have to worry that the intelligence assessments the president receives are tainted by a director of national intelligence with a history of alarming lapses in judgment. Entrusting the coordination of the intelligence community to someone who struggles to acknowledge these facts is an unnecessary risk. Well, Mitch McConnell is essentially telling Donald Trump, you don’t know what you’re doing. This is a blank you from McConnell to President Trump. No other way to describe this. How do you think President Trump feels about Mitch McConnell stabbing him in the back like that? How do you suppose Donald Trump… receives the no vote from Mitch McConnell. I’m going to go out on a limb and say, not well. Not well. I don’t know what kind of a factor Mitch McConnell is going to play in Trump 2.0. And I’m curious as to what you think. I don’t know if Mitch McConnell has any juice, any impact, any effect. Is it just a ceremonial no vote? Is he going to ceremonially keep sticking his thumb in President Trump’s eye? Look, we remember what he said from the floor of the Senate after January 6th. Mitch McConnell was real revved up then. And he appears to be revved up now. Headline from the New Republic, Mitch McConnell explains his sad, lone, no vote on Tulsi Gabbard. He did the same thing with RFK Jr. Breaking news. Mitch McConnell is the lone Republican vote against RFK Jr. So it appears that Mitch McConnell… has become the 2025 version of Adam Kinzinger. It appears that the former Senate Majority Leader, and I think now we can kind of confirm it, after his lone vote moments ago against RFK Jr. to be the Health and Human Services Secretary, it appears that Mitch McConnell is prepared to be the lone Republican functioning in the U.S. Senate as the never-Trumper. I want to get your take on it all. 800-655-MIKE. One call does it all. Text or call us. The MyPillow text line is open to you. 800-655-MIKE. Give me your reaction. Again, Mitch McConnell voting against RFK Jr., who is expected to… Get confirmed. It might require the tiebreaker. We’re going to see. We’ll find out. But again, just like he voted against Tulsi Gabbard yesterday, he just voted against Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So tell me what you think about Mitch McConnell’s role in the Trump era, in the Trump 2.0 era. 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. Hope you join us.
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Some breaking news.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been confirmed. It’s all but official. It’s not exactly official. He’s got 50 votes. He needs, of course, a majority. J.D. Vance will be the tiebreaker. Right now it stands at 50 to 46. You know, I’m thinking only Donald Trump could get somebody like Bobby Kennedy confirmed as the Health and Human Services Secretary. Think about this. Think about what we’re witnessing as a country, and it’s what makes the left absolutely crazy. It’s what makes Mitch McConnell crazy. I mean, for Mitch McConnell, a guy who’s a dinosaur, been around for a long time, this is a guy who understands that the apple cart has not just been pushed over, it’s been nuked. Donald Trump took his gold-plated limousine and ran over Mitch McConnell’s apple cart. And he can’t believe it. Can’t believe it. Just can’t get over it. And he’s just not going to let him govern the way he wants to govern. He’s not going to let it happen. 51 votes now officially for RFK Jr. No tiebreaker needed. RFK Jr. The vote is still open, but RFK Jr. has now gotten enough votes to confirm him. And I want you to picture Jeb Bush getting Bobby Kennedy Jr. confirmed. I want you to picture anybody. Picture any other Republican. Mitt Romney. I mean, first of all, none of them would go within a million miles of people like Tulsi Gabbard or Pete Hegseth or Bobby Kennedy or Seb Gorka, who I spoke with this morning. We want to get Seb back on the show soon in his role, in his counterterrorism role, because, look, the terrorists aren’t going to rest. And we always have to be diligent. So what do you make of a lifelong stalwart Republican like Mitch McConnell? Let’s start with Scott in the upstate of South Carolina, 22 past the hour. Welcome aboard, Scott. How are you? I’m doing great, Mike. How are you today, buddy? I’m great. Appreciate hearing from you.
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I think what we’re seeing with Mitch McConnell would become very commonplace if we ever enforce term limits. He’s running rogue right now. He announced he’s not going to run again. He doesn’t have to answer to his constituents. He doesn’t have to answer to the Republican Party. And that’s why I just hope the listeners realize we need to get out and primary these rhinos now. instead of waiting and hoping for term limits.
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You know, I have to tell you something. I have been on the fence about term limits for years. I’ve always appreciated the argument, we do have term limits, it’s called the election. But the problem is, people like Mitch McConnell have a stranglehold on their constituents. And it’s almost like a guaranteed shoo-in that they’re going to get re-elected. I guess you could argue, well, look at Liz Cheney. The voters of Wyoming utterly and thoroughly repudiated her. They rejected her big time, right? But she wasn’t a congresswoman in Wyoming for 100 years like Mitch McConnell. So I have to tell you, Scott, I think Lindsey Graham’s never going to lose.
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He is going to get primaries this time, Mike. There is a huge force in South Carolina of people talking about getting out to vote. We need 60, 70 percent turnout, not the 9 to 13 percent we normally get to be him and get him out.
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Well, you could be right. I doubt it, but you could be right. Anything could happen. But again, the typical established… Incumbents never lose. They just don’t. And it’s the power of the incumbency. And that’s why I think you’re probably right. I’m starting to believe more than ever in term limits. And I just think it’s time. Lindsey Graham’s, I mean, Mitch McConnell’s a good example of that. And Lindsey Graham, whatever you think of him, he is not setting out to be a perpetual thorn in the side of Donald Trump. I would argue that Senator Graham has been pretty enthusiastic over the Trump agenda and has supported him. You know, Senator Graham, interesting guy. I think he believes strongly in trying to find common ground. He reaches across the aisle more than a lot of us find would be comfortable. But I think, to be very blunt, Lindsey Graham gets a bum rap. And I know that’s not probably popular with a lot of people who are angry and don’t like him, but Lindsey Graham is no Mitch McConnell. He’s just not. He’s not. You know, Senator Graham, from my perspective, was sort of joined at the hip with John McCain. John McCain passed away. Lindsey Graham sort of became his own man. And, you know, I’ll take Lindsey Graham over Mitch McConnell any day of the week. Maybe you don’t see it that way. Let’s find out. Peggy in Ocala, Florida. Hi, Peggy. Welcome to the Mike Gallagher Show. How are you?
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I am just fantastic with Robert Kennedy coming into office.
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Pretty big day. Pretty big day, huh?
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I’m so excited. So excited to be an American.
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And I’m glad I got to be the one to deliver the good news to you, Peggy.
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Oh, I’m telling you, I’ve been crying and screaming until you came on.
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Good. Good. I love it. I love it. I love it. What do you make of this Mitch McConnell no vote?
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I just want to remind everybody that it’s China Mitch. He’s married to the largest bank in China, so he’s been a rhino forever, and it’s no surprise.
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All right. Thank you, Peggy. I appreciate it very much. Richard and Alexander, where are you? You’re in North Carolina, right, Richard? Yes. Welcome to the show.
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Thank you. First, prayers for your health. Thank you.
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Thanks a lot.
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I think I’m just wondering if Mitch McConnell is part of that deep state swamp.
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It’s hard not to wonder the same thing, Richard. You just have to figure there has got to be some driving force that would make Senator McConnell want to be the loyal opposition to Donald Trump. I mean, that’s what I mean about making that comparison to Lindsey Graham. Senator Graham is not part of that never Trump loyal opposition. Far from it. But again, breaking news, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been confirmed to be the Health and Human Services Secretary. It’s another glorious day in America.
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The Mike Gallagher Show.
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In terms of the war, you know, a million and a half soldiers, young people have been killed. I’ve met many. Yeah, and it’s a terrible thing going on, so we want to get that done. I think this could be the very important element. You could be a big part of it, actually, because it could be a big, important part of getting the war over with Ukraine.
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In the ReliefFactor.com studios, here’s Mike.
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Of course, that was a big development. Trump with a lengthy phone call with Russia’s Vladimir Putin yesterday attempting to put an end to the war in Ukraine. And, of course, Trump negotiated the release of that high school teacher from a Russian prison. Three and a half years that guy languished in a Russian jail cell in the Biden administration. They didn’t get him back. Trump comes along. Three weeks later, the guy comes home, Mark Fogel. It’s just extraordinary, all the things that are happening. And the Democrats are only left with embarrassing themselves. You know, when you embarrass yourself, and anybody in the public eye, I always tell my team, just never let me embarrass myself. I’ve had some doozies of moments where I have thoroughly humiliated myself. I’ll never forget going to Santa Rosa, California. I had a weird, goofy station there. They liked me. They didn’t like me. But they brought me to the market. And in Santa Rosa. And they had tons of people at this restaurant waiting for me. And we had to make this long walk across the parking lot. So there’s all these cheering people. This was years ago. Eric, do you remember when this happened? I’m walking across the parking lot with the program director of that station in Santa Rosa. And there’s all these people waving, Mike, Mike, cheering, and I got all excited, and I’m waving back. I mean, I really felt like a big deal. And I tripped over the curb in the parking lot, and I rolled around like a bowling ball. And the whole crowd, of course, gasped. They thought I was dead. I mean, I went down like a sack of potatoes. I have never been more embarrassed in my life. That was my big entrance. Rolling around like a hobo in the gutter. I ripped my pants. I got dirt on my face. I mean, I went down hard. No wonder they kicked me off the station eventually. No wonder they didn’t want me anymore. You never want to embarrass yourself. And so yesterday we played that horrific, squealing, wailing, that singing, we’re going to be doge, we’re going to be. And then you had Maxine Waters and Chuck Schumer with their goofy chanting. And I thought, well, it can’t get any worse. Every single day these Democrats are holding rallies and they just keep embarrassing themselves. And I thought, well, yesterday, that takes the cake. The stupid singing to the Pete Seeger folk song, a commie, like Pete Seeger, you know, a communist folk song. What a shocker that they would change the words, change the lyrics to that. We will beat Elon Doge. We will beat Doge and Elon. So I thought, well, they’ve hit rock bottom, right? There’s no way it can get any worse. Yesterday, along comes another rally, and one of the featured speakers was Congressman Emanuel Cleaver, Democrat from Missouri.
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Take your musty millions and musty Moscow rights.
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to the moon you get your muster hands off of our money or go to moscow you muster you musky moo moo moo you musty moo moo moo i mean they and they cheered for that i’d get a rubber i’d get like a butterfly net and just put it around him and get him into the home where he belongs And the anger is over the way. You take your hands off our money, you musty moo-moo-moo. Musty moo-moo-moo. Now, you know Elon Musk is going to have a field day with that. He’s going to mass-produce T-shirts that say musty moo-moo-moo. Does he say musky moo-moo-moo? Somebody thinks he was going to say MF-er, and he stopped himself. Is he a preacher? Is he a minister? So you know what he was about to do. He was about to say MF-er, and he stopped himself, and instead of saying musky MF-er, he said musty moo moo moo. Let me listen to it one more time. You tell me if you don’t think that’s what he was about to do. He was going to say MF-er, and he caught himself because, after all, he’s a preacher.
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Where is it? Where’s the clip? Take your musty millions and musty Moscow rights to the moon. You get your musty hands off of our money or go to Moscow. You musty moo, moo, moo.
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It’s like talking and speaking in tongues. Maybe that’s what he was doing. He’s a pastor. Maybe he was filled with the spirit. You musty moo, moo, moo, moo. What’s today going to bring? I mean, what are they going to do? Are they going to light themselves on fire? Are they going to self-immolulate themselves? What’s going to happen next? What’s going to go on next? What’s going to happen next with these Democrats, these poor, pathetic, pitiful, broken Democrats? They’re broken. Trump broke them, which is astounding. I never thought I’d see it. Tom, Staten Island, New York. Love Staten Island. Staten Island. How you doing, Tom?
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How you doing, Mike? Nice to talk to you. At least you show a long time. Long time listener, first time caller. Thank you, Tom. You’re fantastic.
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I appreciate you very much.
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I’m a senior citizen. Staten Island’s doing okay. New York is all screwed up.
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I know, but Staten Island is like an oasis in the desert over there. I mean, I love it.
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Yes, it’s like 80-90% Republican. I mean, you’ve got problems, but it’s like a suburb of New York City almost. I know. Oh, I know. I know.
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You give Frankie Five Burrows Morano my love, all right? My good buddy, Frank Morano. Good, good, good guy. Yes, he is.
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I’m just calling. I’m a senior citizen here. I was in Vietnam, business, whatever. But I was one time a liberal. I’ve gone to the right. But I think, you know, your shows are great. But, I mean, you made a good point about Trump is a killer. He’s going to get New York, too, I think. It’s an unbelievable movement here now. We’ll see what happens. But I was calling about McConnell. Sure. Yeah, I think he has no power now. But, I mean, he reminds me basically, like you said, a lifetime politician, never worked a job in the government all his life. And similar to Biden and Senator here, Schumer, he’s another one, Schumer.
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Yeah, just the light. You’re right, they’re losing their clout, aren’t they, Tom? They’re losing their relevance. And maybe that’s what it comes down to, is they just can’t. accept their fading relevance. There’s no question about it. I mean, there’s just no doubt that no one wants to lose that grasp of being relevant and staying relevant, you know? So, hey, thank you for your kind words. I want to remind you, I know you guys are getting some snow in New York and Chicago. It’s chilly, it’s cold. Portions of our show brought to you by MyPillow. They’re having the first ever mega sale on overstock clearance and brand new products. And the one I’d recommend, the flannel sheets. You’ll save over 50% on this season’s flannel sheets. Queen size only $59.98. Look, Mike Lindell was put through hell. You know the whole story. Support MyPillow. Support a great American company out of Minnesota. The pillow that started it all, the classic standard MyPillow, you get it for as low as $14.98.
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Which side are you on?
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Which side are you on? I thought I’d keep this in people’s heads for exactly 24 hours. Because Mike… As we mocked the latest weird drunken frat party of Democrats, they were singing this at an anti-Doge rally, anti-Elon rally, right? Was that the event? It’s a real song. It’s a real song with history. Pete Seeger recorded this in 1941. Stone-cold communist Pete Seeger. So good source material for these people. But that’s a real song. I did not know that.
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I thought they might have gotten their creative juices flowing. Well, they did rewrite the lyrics.
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Because we’re up against Elon, up against Doge. We’re going to walk up, punch him in the nose. I mean, I don’t even know.
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Before we dive in, let me, of course, extend my deepest condolences to you and Lisa and the whole team. When you hurt, we hurt. And you said something about the loss of your friend Jeff that really resonated with me. Jeff would love nothing better than to see people support Jeff. your efforts to feed starving kids. And what a beautiful gesture that would be. And I’ve gotten even a couple of texts saying, how can we help? And of course, I said, look, you could make a donation to Mark’s Food for the Poor campaign.
SPEAKER 11 :
It’s 660antheanswer.com. Click Give Life, and there’s a little line item you can put in there. Do it in honor of Jeff Williams. In honor of Jeff Williams. Just a beautiful thing to do, and thank you.
SPEAKER 10 :
And in honor of Mark Davis, because I know you’re hurting. In fact, I know it’s weird to connect these two stories, but I think it applies. You and I talked about a friend of mine that we had kind of a fracture in our friendship over Trump, as so many people do. And this friend who lashed out at me a little bit and really hurt me, frankly, in terms of a position, because I didn’t see it coming from him. He’s a good, good man. And I was hurt, and I stewed about it and talked to you a little bit about it, and you stewed about it. And then overnight, he wrote me a note that was as gracious and loving and wonderful as I would have expected from him in the first place. Hey, I’m sorry I handled it this way. I would have liked to have done it a different way, and I should have. And I’m sorry, and I treasure our friendship and hope we’ll always be friends. Now, I shared that with you. And when I first shared it with you via text, you were a little abrupt. And then you shared with me the loss of your dear friend. And your point was… In this short time we have on Earth together, we don’t need to be sniffing at each other over politics, even something as important as the direction of the country. Look, it’s politics. We’re Democrats. We’re Republicans. We’re right. We’re left. But, you know, in a blink of an eye, a years-long friendship, and I’ve had a years-long friendship with this person, too, that I’m referring to, Can be gone just like that. What? Because you’re you’ve got a fit of peak because you’re you know, you’re not happy with the way the the election went or the you don’t like Doge or you don’t like, you know, you know, come on. And and you and then you said that you said and you this is typical Mark Davis. And I’m ripping the curtain back so the audience can hear this. You said to me, forgive me if I’m a little less gracious than I normally would be because of the loss of my dear friend Jeff. I think about that, frankly, with divorces. You know, if you’ve lost your partner to death, when you hear about people who kind of give up on their marriage, I always think, wait a minute, I’d give anything to have five more minutes with her. So hold the people you love in your life close to you. You’re going to have disagreements. You might not like Trump. You may love Trump. But don’t dispatch with abandon your lifelong friendships or family members or sons or daughters or husbands. It’s not worth it, Mark.
SPEAKER 11 :
You just never know what’s going to happen. You said that it’s kind of a disconnect. No, it’s not a disconnect at all for you to bring this up. It’s exactly the kind of thing that I’d be happy for people to carry with them as we talk about this is don’t let little things rob you of one moment of a friendship, a family relationship.
SPEAKER 01 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
And here’s the real tricky thing. I’m going to ramp it up a little more if you’re going to go down this path. Sure. Be the peacemaker. Swallow your pride. Be the peacemaker. Well, they really said something mean to me or, you know, they really dissed me or they really shut up. I don’t care. I don’t mean grovel to somebody who’s horribly mistreated you and is unrepentant. But if there’s been a long estrangement. Or just there’s just bad blood. Be the person who steps forward and says, look, you’re my brother, sister, husband, whatever. You’re my brother. You’re my friend. You’re my whatever. I don’t want this to define whatever time we have left together, whether that’s one minute, one year or 15 years. Let let’s heal this. Be the healer. Be the peacemaker. Don’t let you. Well, he wounded me. Screw it. I don’t care. Be. And listen, if they tell you to go take a hike, at least you tried. You did the right thing. But I wonder how many relationships could heal today or how many fractures could be amended today if people did that. And I hope that happened.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, look at what happened with this friend of mine. I mean, he sort of let me know how he felt and how different we were in terms of what we believe in and kind of was sort of closing, sort of trying to close the door on an aspect of our relationship. And when I expressed how, frankly, how hurt I was and how, look, if you ever change your mind, I’ll be here. I’m your friend. Well, that’s what I think did it. And so that’s the peacemaker. That’s saying, look, You know, I get it. And that doesn’t mean abandon your principles. That doesn’t mean you stop believing what you believe in. Agree to disagree, but be a bigger person. Absolutely. But we’ve stopped agreeing to disagree. That’s what kills me. It’s like it’s my way or the highway, and you’re evil. No, I’m evil. No, you’re the devil. No, you’re a fascist. And it’s like, come on. I mean, we’re… You mentioned about you and Jeff going through 9-11, and I remember that, of course, like it was yesterday. I was in the Empire State Building the morning of 9-11. And in the weeks and months after that, we weren’t bickering about who was the Democrat and who was the Republican. We were unified, Mark. We really were. Even in New York, where honking the horn at one another is just like a wave. I mean, it’s like a tip of the hat. You do that in Dallas, you might get shot. You lay on the horn at the red light. But nobody even honked their horns at each other for weeks and weeks. Denise pointed that out. She said, did you notice? Nobody’s even honking. I thought, I know. It’s different. It was something. I would long for that. And you know what is the worst irony of all? Trump wants that unity more than anybody. Of course. He does. He talks a lot about unity. They ignore him. They don’t believe him. But he means it. He wants unity. He wants us to be greater together. He wants this country to be great. He wants middle class people to pay less at the grocery store. He wants everybody to pay less in taxes. He wants the roads to work. He wants the borders secure. He wants us to be a proud, vibrant, prosperous nation again. Why would anybody be against that?
SPEAKER 11 :
thing how is anybody against government efficiency how is it you you know you know the answer of course it is because they’re you know because half of america or whatever or half of our you know political system loves the grift loves expansionist collectivist government needs for it to be this big and so when trump and elon roll in and actually do something about it for the first time in let me check my lifetime uh if you bet it’s going to be a shock to the system It’s a shock to my system in a hugely positive way. It’s like, wow, these things we’ve dreamed of for years actually making government smaller rather than just breaking our arms, patting ourselves on the back for reducing the size at which it grows. These are different times, and I’m thrilled. So the people who have fed the trough of that government largesse, you bet they’re going to be testy.
SPEAKER 10 :
You bet. You bet. And they don’t like it. But see, they’re not even just testy. And that’s the tell. That’s the giveaway. They’re hysterical. Hair on fire. Raging, screaming little housewives from Oregon who are congresswomen. Oh, I hope my kids don’t hear me saying F Trump. Well, then don’t say it, dummy. What is wrong with you? What is wrong with you? Meanwhile, here’s Trump talking to Putin about maybe ending his war in Ukraine.
SPEAKER 11 :
Here we go. Is he going to go there? Are they going to maybe meet in Saudi Arabia? Will we have Trump in Moscow, Putin here, sitting down with Zelensky? I don’t even know what that looks like, what the settlement, what the compromise would look like. But if this happens, and I certainly hope that it does, And on Saturday, he lays down the line in the sand about if we don’t get the hostages back, all hell will break out. At first, Hamas had said, we’re not giving you anybody because you’re threatening us with lifting the ceasefire. Now it’s like they’re blinking a little. Now they say we’re going to give back the people who we had originally said we were going to give back on Saturday. What do we got? About 48 hours or so. I think we may be getting more people than they say.
SPEAKER 10 :
You got that right. And meanwhile, the former Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, struggling to explain his sad, pathetic, lone no vote on Tulsi Gabbard. You know, somebody, Malcolm Ferguson over at New Republic wrote, Mitch McConnell has gone from being one of the most powerful men in the GOP, the face of conservatism, to failing to convince, this is the way the New Republic, the lefties look at it, to fail to convince a single Republican colleague to vote no with him on Tulsi Gabbard. The only Republican to vote no on Tulsi, Mitch McConnell.
SPEAKER 11 :
It’s virtue signaling. It’s posturing.
SPEAKER 10 :
It is.
SPEAKER 11 :
It took me until a couple of days ago to go back to 60 minutes of last week or week before to see the profile they did about him. And they talked to his biographer. And listen, all biographers should be fawning and sycophantic, I guess. So it’s, of course, it’s somebody who thinks well of Mitch. And the interviewer asked, I think it was Norah O’Donnell, asked, what is Mitch’s most courageous moment? I know what my answer would be, because there have been some. Keeping the Supreme Court seat open in 2016 when Scalia died so that the people could decide which president would fill that. Nope. It was his finest moment. Know what the biographer said his most courageous moment was? Condemning Trump for January 6th. Sticking up for funding for Ukraine.
SPEAKER 10 :
Thank you. Unbelievable. Hey, by the way, you mentioned Norah O’Donnell. This just shows how disconnected I am from broadcast TV.
SPEAKER 11 :
I don’t really watch a lot.
SPEAKER 10 :
Have you seen it?
SPEAKER 11 :
I watched it on its first night. I kind of like it. It looks like a really high-toned local newscast. That’s right.
SPEAKER 10 :
A weather guy with a weather map. I mean, it’s bombing, apparently. The trades are all writing about how it’s not very successful so far, but it’s a week out of the gate. You know, I like that Maurice Dubois. Maurice Dubois is good. He’s a New York City-based anchor, and I remember when I lived there, I enjoyed him. But CBS has always been sort of the also-ran, haven’t they?
SPEAKER 11 :
Especially in the mornings, where the morning battle was today versus GMA. I remember Harry Smith, they had CBS this morning or something like that. They’re a big, powerful network with a legacy.
SPEAKER 10 :
And now Gayle King, because it pays to be Oprah’s BFF. When you’re Oprah’s BFF, you get all kinds of perks. Yes, it does. Gail King, my goodness. Oh, well. Anyway, hey, look, hang in there, and we’re praying for you. We’re praying for your family. We’re praying for Jeff and his beautiful wife and kids. I met Jeff, and what a great guy. Just a prince. And you know what? I know it hurts now, but you remember something. As time heals, and it does, all those warm memories of your trip to Israel and all the stuff you guys did together, they will fill you with joy and gratitude and And believe me, he knew what a blessing Mark Davis was in his life. His wife knows what a blessing you and Lisa are to their lives. And that’s a gift, Mark, that you give without even intending to give it. So I’m with you.
SPEAKER 11 :
He was a blessing in ours. And so let’s all be blessings in each other’s lives and do all those wonderful things. It’s funny you mention about there’s an old saying that when time heals, and of course it does, There’ll be a time when your tears will be replaced by smiles, when remembering won’t make you cry as much anymore, but you will smile. And I’m already doing both kind of at the same time. My buddy Jeff Petroulis, who used to work with us in the VIP realm, said everybody’s got pictures of me and jeff and our whole posse they’re all trading them back and forth you know like teenagers now he sent me a picture of me and jeff in the bap studio and jeff is festooned in tcu purple because of course and we’re and we’re both wearing um big orange and white elephant ears because i guess was the the promotional stuff from horton here’s a who or something like this and we’re just looking so matter-of-factly into the camera wearing massive cloth elephant ears with big smiles That was my buddy.
SPEAKER 10 :
That was Jeff. Well, you look at the pictures on your social media, you can see the twinkle in his eye. You see that mischievous kind of that big smile, and golly, I mean, you know. What a man. Just cherish those memories, my friend. I will, Ben, and I cherish you, and I love you so much. And we love you, and we’re hurting with you, Mark. Hang in there, my friend. Thank you, man.
SPEAKER 11 :
Love you. That’s what a friend is, too, by the way. That’s Mike Gallagher, a friend to all, and he’ll begin his friendly show at 10 o’clock as soon as we’re done on 660 AM The Answer.
