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Now, broadcasting from the underground command post, deep in the bowels of a hidden bunker, somewhere under the brick and steel of a nondescript building, we've once again made contact with our leader, Mark. Hello, America. We're cutting right to a news conference, as you know, many of you know, Tiger Woods had a severe accident in Los Angeles today. And so we want to go right to the press conference, go ahead and stuff.

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Also joining us here today is L.A. County Fire Chief Darryl Osbey. And I would like to introduce the sheriff of Los Angeles County, Alex Vin Weber.

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Thank you, Captain Mendoza. Today at seven, 12 in the morning, the Lomita sheriff's station received a call of a solo vehicle collision in Harbor or Hawthorne Boulevard, north of Palos Verdes Drive. We arrived on scene at seven, eight a.m. and discovered this solo vehicle collision. And the sole occupant was, again, Tiger Woods and deputies at the time, they did not see any evidence of impairment, anything that is of concern, obviously, the life sustaining measures that had to be taken for the occupant of the vehicle.

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And Chief Osbey will speak to that regard. And it was a solo vehicle. Unfortunately, during the course of the investigation of this, there was another traffic collision happened with people being looky loos and but that thankfully there was no injuries associated with that. The vehicle traveled several hundred feet from the center center divider at the intersection and rested on the on the west side of the road in the brush, sustained major damage. The vehicle. You've seen all the images of that.

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And with that, our Alameda Sheriff's Station will be conducting the traffic investigation and they'll take from days of several weeks to get the whole thing together. Once the investigation is completed, we will provide a detailed report. It'll be available, you know, based on Public Records Act request. And we will not discuss any further after that point. But at this point, I want to introduce Chief Daryl Osbey, L.A. County Fire Department.

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Good afternoon, I'm Fire Chief Darryl Osbey of the Los Angeles County Fire Department. At approximately seven to this morning, resources from Los Angeles County Fire Station 106 received a report of a solo vehicle accident at the intersection of Hawthorne Boulevard and Verdes Drive North and Rolling Hills Estates. Upon arrival of the scene of the incident with sheriff's scene resources and personnel from the Los Angeles County Fire Department observed a single rollover vehicle incident with one person trapped. The person trapped was extricated by the Los Angeles County Fire Department personnel.

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Earlier, it was stated before the jaws of life was utilized to extricate the person trapped. It was later determined by our personnel that a Holligan to which is used for prying and an acts, was also used to pry the person free from the vehicle. The person was packaged at the incident in stable condition with serious injuries and because of the fact that they needed to be extricated, they were transported to Harbor UCLA Hospital because of the Extrication and Harbor Hospital is also a trauma center, as indicated earlier.

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There's also a second vehicle accident with no injuries. Thank you. All right. And the vehicle involved is a twenty twenty one Genesis is a midsize SUV, but it's funny, all those Idella Manyana in Arcadia, Hawthorne Roundball, North Pole intersection in the Palos Verdes Drive or balloon accident ultimately stick all the unsold vehicles on the vehicle or Volkova Diaz vs. Ichigo Soraya's. The latter always to this intersection here, local Panthera, Al Gore fiester Tiger Woods. If it is the extra extra they'll be.

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That is the L.A. County sheriff now.

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Obviously very good now to provide further information. They actually didn't provide that much information. I'm looking at the Associated Press.

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Tiger Woods was seriously injured today when his SUV rolled over and ended up on its side in suburban L.A. That would be Lomita, California.

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He had to be pulled out through the windshield and his agent said he was undergoing leg surgery, which was alone in the SUV when he crashed shortly before 715, as you heard this morning.

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The cause of the wreck wasn't clear, they think it was speed, although those are some mighty tough turns and corners, they're not making excuses.

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I don't know what took place, but you can go 10, 12, 15 miles over the speed limit. The next thing you know, you're rolling off the side of the hill, I suppose. The two lane road curves through upscale suburbs and the northbound side that Woods was driving on descend steeply enough that signs warn trucks to use lower gears. The speed limit is 45 miles per hour. Images show the SUV on its side with its front and heavily damaged just off the side of a road near a hillside, an ambulance took the 45 year old woods to hospital.

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His manager, Mark Steinberg, said Tiger Woods was in a single car accident this morning where he suffered multiple leg injuries. He's currently in surgery. And we thank you for your privacy and support. He was here for a weekend tournament hosting the Genesis Invitational at Riviera Country Club. Let's see if there's any other information I don't really have any other information available to us.

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Let's go back live to the house, the press conference now.

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The press conference is over and they will continue. That's the extent of that. Oh, there it is. There was no there was no evidence of impairment. So subsequent to that, we're not going to make any. There was no effort to draw blood, for example, at the hospital. Nothing was removed from the scene or found at the scene. No evidence of impairment at this point in time. But I'll let me be. Good morning. Was conscious when you got there.

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Did he say anything to the paramedics who arrived? And can you tell us a little bit more? We didn't use the jaws of life. How exactly did that extrication process take place?

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OK, the information I got back from my personnel and the things that they do is they would do a scene assessment. It was brought to my attention that he was conscious. Now, exactly what was said is unknown, but he was conscious. Our personnel make an assessment to make a determination. Their level of consciousness make sure that their breathing control any serious bleeding and then control and address any serious injuries. It was brought to my attention that he had a serious leg injuries and that was assessed at the incident.

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The jaws of life are used as part of the package to extricate people that are trapped in vehicles. But it was later determined and brought to the attention that the jaws of life were not used to extricate Tiger Woods. We use a Holligan to, which is a tool used for prying, and we also use an ax to pry him from the vehicle. He was taken from the vehicle with see a collar and backboard for special precautions. He was had the proper splints because of the nature of the Internet being in a stolen vehicle rollover and the fact that it required an extrication, that major trauma center criteria, the nearest trauma center to the areas Harbor UCLA Hospital, where he was transported, escaped serious but stable condition.

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Which leg? That I do not know. I was my understanding that he had serious injuries to both legs.

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But this was his decision to go to Harvard, UCLA, or you took him to the closest emergency room. Given his condition at the time, was that severe? That was the determination of where to be transport, it was made by the paramedics and the captain unsign, the reason that Tiger Woods was transported to Harbor Harbor UCLA Hospital is because it's a trauma center criteria because of the nature of the incident. It was a solo rollover vehicle and the damage to the vehicle and then it also required him to be extricated.

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That's one of the criteria that meets the trauma center criteria. Therefore, he was transported to the nearest trauma center, which is Parbat, a UCLA hospital or anywhere other than his.

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It was my interest he was not airlifted. There were no other life, life endangering injuries, to my knowledge, clarifying the waiver question, if you would. I know it's and stuff on that, but any indication of the speed at the time that the vehicle was the most important feature of the gun that you're at 55? Keep going at the time.

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Well, the time it made it crosses center divider to the point that arrested was several, several hundred feet away. So obviously that indicates they were going at a relatively greater speed than the normal. However, because it is downhill, it slopes and it also the curves that area has a high frequency of of accidents is not uncommon in skid marks, but no no skid marks, no brake. And so apparently the first contact was with the center median and from there then cross into the opposing lane of traffic, hit the curb, hit a tree.

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And there was several rollovers during that process.

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Any kind of indication of excessive force that they're going to have to figure that one out.

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That's why the traffic and to make the big bucks that they make.

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And now we've reached out. We've been in touch with with his manager and they did not want to release anything on his condition right now that he's out of surgery and perhaps have been moved to his own room.

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Sure.

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All we know that serious condition as a result of the accident. And that's about all they want to say. You're looking at weather is a factor in this accident, Sheriff. Dealing with weather is not a factor. Sure are. Well, we arrived on the scene at seven 18, they were notified within four minutes and. You know, we got a call from the sheriff's department at approximately 720, 2:00 this morning, our resources arrived on scene at approximately seven twenty eight.

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I don't have the information right now in relation to how long it took to extricate him from the vehicle like.

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No, she already did something her.

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All right, now we're getting to irrelevant, relevant questions from an irrelevant media, but I wanted you to hear most of it. He apparently has serious damage to both of his legs. It's my understanding that this is a top notch trauma hospital with some of the best surgeons really in the country in many respects.

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Nobody else was injured in the accident and the car did. Did leave the ground to leave the turn, enrolled at least once or twice. That must be frightening as hell and. That's all we know, he was not impaired. But I've driven up in those hills, those are those are those can be spooky hills there, tight corners and so forth and. And it can be somewhat frightening. So it's 45 miles an hour, they say, I mean, even if you go 50, 57 miles an hour, 52 miles an hour.

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You may not know what's around the curve if you're not familiar with driving that area anyway, I'm not going to use this show to speculate, but I did want you to hear what we know. I'll be right back.

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Much love in. Are you worried about America's future times of trouble are full of reasons to despair, but those who built and preserved our country didn't despair. So to do our part, we need to draw on the books, the history and the ideas that gave our forefathers and mothers strength and inspiration. Hillsdale College was founded in 1844 to teach these very things, and it teaches them still today. We can all study these things, all with Hillsdale College professors right in our homes through Hillsdale Free online courses, we can study the history of our civilization, the wisdom of ancient and Judeo-Christian philosophers, and the writings of Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

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We're going to monitor the news, the wire services, we learn anything new about Tiger Woods, you'll be the second to know after me, I promise you that. There's a couple of very, very important pieces of news out there today and not from the usual media sources from the federal US has an outstanding piece. Emblazed has an outstanding piece, and I want to discuss them with you. There's a gentleman I mean, let me let me do this just for a second, folks, bear with me, J.

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Michael. Waller said he doesn't know who Jay Michael Waller is, you know who he is, Mr. Producer.

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The senior analyst for strategy at the Center for Security Policy. So you serious person? Former professor at the Institute of World Politics, a graduate school in Washington, former instructor with the Naval Postgraduate School, is an instructor lecturer at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center excuse me, at Fort Bragg.

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And I want to read something to you.

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It's going to take a little while, so get comfortable. I want to read something to you, but I think you're going to find it worthwhile. And I want to remind you, this is from January 14th. 2021. January 14th, 2021, it's gotten almost no attention. The deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol bore the markings of an organized operation planned well in advance of the January six joint session of Congress. A small number of Khadra appeared to use the cover of a huge rally to stage its attack.

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Before it began, I saw from my vantage point on the west front of the Capitol, what appeared to be four separate cells are units. I'm reading this to you just to show you what absolute lies have been perpetrated against the president and so many of his supporters. No one Plain-clothes militants, militant, aggressive men in Donald Trump imagi gear at a front police line at the base of the temporary presidential inaugural platform. Number two, agents, provocateurs, scattered groups of men exhorting the marchers to gather closely and tightly toward the center of the outside of the Capitol building and prevent them from leaving three fake Trump protesters, a few young men wearing Trump or mega hats backwards and who did not fit in with the rest of the crowd in terms of their actions and demeanor, whom I presume to be a for other leftist agitators.

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And for a disciplined uniform column of attackers, a column of organized, disciplined men wearing similar but not identical camouflage uniforms and black gear, some with helmets and GoPro cameras are wearing subdued Punisher's skull patches. All of these cells are groups stood out from the very large crowd by their behavior and an overall demeanor. They didn't all appear the same. Not until the very end did it appear they were prearranged plan to storm the Capitol building and to manipulate the unsuspecting crowd as cover and they say follow on force.

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This article is a first person eyewitness account draft of the night of January six and morning of January seven, so it's not affected by other news coverage or information. The only research AIDS I used were photos and videos that I took from my phone. I've witnessed and participated in scores of protests since the 70s when I was a high school student, I was trained by professional agitators from California. Apart from my professional background and experience, nothing in this article is derived from any third party information or analysis.

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And I want to continue this. I understand it's a few weeks old, but I went back and looked at it again and I said I was remiss not to bring it up at the time. So I'm bringing it up now. There's a reason for all this. So stick with me. I'll be right back. Are you worried about America's future times of trouble are full of reasons to despair, but those who built and preserved our country didn't despair.

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So to do our part, we need to draw on the books, the history and the ideas that gave our forefathers and mothers strength and inspiration. Hillsdale College was founded in 1844 to teach these very things, and it teaches them still today. We can all study these things, all with Hillsdale College professors right in our homes through Hillsdale Free online courses, we can study the history of our civilization, the wisdom of ancient and Judeo-Christian philosophers, and the writings of Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

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We can reacquaint ourselves with our Constitution. We can learn how the Constitution has been undermined and more importantly, how it can be recovered. Friends, as we fight in defense of family, faith and freedom, let us draw on the best of the past with Hillsdale guidance that saved the greatest nation on Earth. Begin learning today at Lhevinne for Hillsdale Dotcom. That's 11 for Hillsdale Dotcom. Live for Hillsdale Dotcom. Mark Levin, tough as hell. That's why I like Mark Levin and I'm not sure a lot of people like him.

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He's tough as hell, but I like him. I love a call in No.

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Let's continue with this eyewitness on January 6th who wrote this really contemporaneously shortly thereafter. Originally had planned not to attend any of the several pro Trump events scheduled for that day. The last minute, a companion. I decided to see what we could see late that morning, around 11, 30, I walk from near Union Station to the Senate side of the Capitol Hill on 2nd and D Streets NW. And I noticed a small number of Capitol police dressed in full riot gear with shin guards and shoulder guards, one carried a black baton with side handle.

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That's all schooled, I call it the officer giving him a thumbs up.

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The police appeared to be readying to board a van or bus, although the Capitol was only two and a half blocks away, crossed behind the Russell Senate Office Building to Constitution Avenue near the Capitol. Past some of the out of towners who pointed at the Capitol and asked if it was the White House, then walked for about 25 minutes up Pennsylvania Avenue toward an empty freedom park.

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A rally had just taken place there and moved to the eclipse, the large lawn between the White House and Constitution Avenue.

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President Trump was speaking to a huge crowd at the Ellipse, although the Freedom Park rally broken up to assemble the Capitol before we arrived. Now, for such a massive event, police presence was light, District of Columbia police and small group, a D.C. National Guard, had relaxed demeanor, keeping it professional distance from marchers and other pedestrians as they usually do. A few police and National Guard gathered around a mobile device to listen to the president make what sounded like and comments.

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A while later, we saw from a a block away that marchers had begun down Constitution Avenue from the Ellipse to Capitol Hill, mostly along Constitution Avenue. We passed down 13th Street to join them. Although the march was in protest of fraud in the 2020 election and people were recounting the president's energizing speech, the mood of the crowd was positive and festive. Strangers stopped to talk to one another along the way, resisting but ultimately giving in to offers from street vendors hawking Trump Imagin memorabilia or taking pictures of the Washington landmarks.

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Some along the way talked enthusiastically about President Trump joining them on Capitol Hill as if he had said something about in the Ellipse speech. I didn't want to pop their balloon by saying that he undoubtedly would not. There was an exception in the air that he would be there, an expectation, I should say, of the thousands of people I passed or who passed me along Constitution Avenue. Some were indignant and contemptuous of Congress, but not one appeared angry or incited to riot.

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Many of the marchers were families with small children. Many were elderly, overweight or just plain tired of frail traits not typically attributed to riot prone and by the way, and neither to an insurrection.

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Some said they were police officers from around the country, many were properly shirts or carry propolis back the blue flags.

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Among the hundreds and hundreds of flags, perhaps thousands displayed over the next few hours, I saw only two Confederate battle flags and white supremacist sign and one white supremacist sign. So that's three, two flags. One sign that's all he saw, I thought would feature prominently in news reports represent a false image of the crowd. A large group of African-American men sported shirts that said Blacks for Trump figured that journalists would emphasize the solidarity, racist sign and Confederate flags deliberately ignoring the rest.

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I took note of the fact that many demonstrators were black, Asian and Latino with a strong presence of Vietnamese and Chinese Americans.

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First time you've heard that, right, American? The D.C. government had placed only one portable toilet along the 16 block Constitution Avenue route. Gee, I wonder why. And five more near the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue near the Canadian embassy. The federal government opened the Ronald Reagan building so people could use the bathrooms, so I understand the D.C. government had a total of six of these porta potties out where he saw. But the federal government opened up the Reagan Center so people could use the bathrooms.

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The city had provided few trash bins, D.C. usually provides a large number of toilets and trash receptacles along March routes. Yet remarkably, little litter could be seen in the streets, people crush their plastic water bottles and food wrappers and stuffed them in their pockets and a few marchers picked up the occasional trash along the route. This is what I remember from the Tea Party protests. Observations about the toilets and trash are noteworthy because in my experience with and among large protest groups in Washington, the large leftist crowds tend to be angry and leave trash in the streets and urine in the shrubs.

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None of that anger showed in the January six crowd along Constitution Avenue.

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Now, although the crowd represented a broad cross-section of Americans, mostly working class by their appearance and manner of speech. Some people stood out, a very few didn't share the jovial, friendly, earnest demeanor of the great majority, some obviously didn't fit in. Among them were young 20 somethings wearing New Trumper Magga hats, often with a visor in the back, showing no enthusiasm in either looking at the ground, glowering or holding out their phones with outstretched arms to make videos of as many faces as possible in the crowd.

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Some appeared awkward, the way someone's body language inadvertently shows the world that he feels like he doesn't fit in. Few seem to be nursing a deep churning rage. They generally covered their faces with cloth masks as opposed to the pro Trump people, few of whom wore masks at all. They walked often hands in pockets and clusters of perhaps four, six, but at least one of them frequently looking behind these outliers groups, looked like trouble. I presume these fake Trump protesters wearing tea for something similar.

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However, that entire afternoon, I saw none of them act aggressively or cause any problems, at least not from my vantage point. A second outlier group also stood out while many marchers wore military camouflage shirts, jackets or pants of various patterns, and states are wearing in all shapes and sizes here and there, one would see people of a different type, wiry young man in good physical condition dressed nearly in what looked like newer camouflage uniforms with black gear, subdued patches, including Punisher's skulls and helmets.

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They showed tidiness and discipline, they strode instead of walked, moving at a more rapid pace than most of the people, sometimes breaking into a short jog and generally keeping to the left side of Constitution Avenue in pairs of two or small groups of three. Unlike others in military clothes who tend to be affable and talkative, these sullen men seem not to speak to anyone at all. As we would see, they were the disciplined, uniformed column of attackers. So we walked about three blocks behind the front of the march to the Capitol with perhaps two or three thousand people ahead of us, the D.C. Metropolitan Police were their usual professionally detached selves, standing on curbs or street corner crossings and exchanging occasional greeting for the marchers.

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But shooting the event is routine and at the lowest threat level.

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When we crossed First Street Northwest to enter the Capitol grounds with the Capitol Police had jurisdiction, I noticed no police at all. Several marchers expressed surprise. Passing by a few days earlier, I noticed that with presidential inaugural platform construction underway. The Capitol's West Front Lawn had been blocked off with plastic. On this day, there was no barrier blocking the paved footpath with its high granite curbs on either side leading up to the Senate side of the Hill. The openness seemed like a courtesy gesture from Congress, which controls security.

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But that appearance of low threat level made no sense, American flags flew over the Senate and House chambers indicating that each House Congress was in session. Vice President Mike Pence was supposed to be there to certify the electoral votes, for better or worse. This was a historic day in Congress, yet no Capitol Police appeared anywhere from what we could see. And I commented on to my companion that it was very strange for there to be no police during a joint session of Congress with or without gigantic crowds.

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At a low point of ground, we crossed on top of what looked like a length of black aluminum fencing that had been placed flat over a wet area of mud or dead leaves in the walkway. The only thing out of place and what was becoming a funnel of people marching in from the broad merger of the Six Lane Constitution Avenue and four lane, Pennsylvania Avenue, any Senate staff parking lot and park to the footpath, what looked like tens or even hundreds of thousands of people surged down the avenues, as far as one could see.

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The marchers became denser as greater numbers of people funneled into the paved path footpath going up Capitol Hill, but almost everyone seemed talkative and happy. The path was interrupted by a few steps and a handrail in the middle going on until a second set of steps ended at a plaza at the Capitol's crypt level.

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The first thing we saw was the temporary news media tower built for cameras to transmit the upcoming presidential inauguration. As if at a party, some younger Trump supporters had climbed the tower, waving American and political flags. The towers stood before the painted wooden inaugural stand itself with its VIP section above the balcony like protrusion, where Joe Biden will be sworn in as president.

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Windbreaks or something similar made of metal scaffolding and covered with a facade of white cloth or plastic sheeting, rose above the north and south ends of the Capitol. You see how detailed this man is given his background, his profession. No police could be seen on the platform for now, no police could be seen anywhere. People kept surging in from Constitution Avenue in the plaza, quickly filled up and overflowed onto the lawn. Everyone squeezed closer and closer. With most in high spirits, some trouble began in the front near the base of the inaugural platform itself, but we could not see what was happening.

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Many of us looked on our phones for texts or Twitter messages to find out what was happening, but there was no functioning wireless service to many people, the phones in too small an area overloaded the cell phone transmission facilities. The U.S. Capitol Police recruit a special kind of professional. They're sworn to defend one of the most important building complexes in the country, the U.S. capital and its sprawling congressional office buildings.

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More importantly, their mission is to defend one of three coequal branches of the federal government every day, they deal with thousands of tourists and visitors from around the country in the world. They have to be serious with their mission, but constantly show patience with the often frustrating and even annoying throngs of ordinary visitors and those who consider themselves very important people. And normally, the Capitol Police are excellent at communicating with crowds, but not today, he says.

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A contingent of perhaps 30 to 50 Capitol Police emerged that the top of the inaugural platform. Above the VIP section and worked their way down to the spot where Biden will take his oath of office. Remember, this is from January 14th. It was after 117 p.m., according to my camera, they were armed with paintball type long guns that fired capsules of pepper, irritant tear gas launchers on long guns that I could not identify from my position. Something was happening on the plaza level below them, but we couldn't see.

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To our left on the Senate side, a scuffle had already broken out, but we were so packed so tightly that we couldn't see or hear the biggest feature was the imposing edifice of the Capitol itself. The party, like guys up the camera tower and the endless crowd of people flowing in with colorful flags, American Magga, South Vietnamese, even one from Kazakhstan. Many eyes were on the Capitol Police and their black tactical gear, bright yellow, green safety vests and weapons.

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Some out of towners wondered why the police were there when they were all propolis and 94 were present. Others say they did Seante for wearing backward Maga hats, so the police must have been waiting for them. I quietly wondered why so few police were present for a crowd this size or any size.

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Then something happened at the front of the crowd is a champagne cork pop to release pent up human energy. It seemed like a scuffle, but from 40 feet back, I couldn't see. People started chanting USA, USA and other slogans, some press was streams of profanity about Biden, Nancy Pelosi and the steal. For a few seconds I saw what looked like police in a tussle with some of the marchers up front, what appeared to be an organized group in civilian clothes.

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This organized group or the cell I call the plainclothes militants, they fit right in with the Magga people. Suddenly, energy surged from the front of the crowd as the anti riot police above on the inaugural platform visibly tensed up. Some cited their pepper. Some cited their pepper ball weapons toward the densely packed people. One fired a tear gas canister not at the plainclothes militants at the front line, but into the crowd itself. Then another flash grenades went off in the middle of the crowd.

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I'd seen a. riot police in action before they moved with a decisive sense of purpose. Now, the Capitol Police crews seemed confused, as if without a leader or perhaps inadequate rules of engagement, these professionals seem directionless. Some clambered up and down the inaugural platform steps, others milled back and forth at the swearing in level. Most of the police ended up leaving the surreal scene. Nobody could tell why. No bullhorn or sound system could be heard for the police to communicate with the swelling mass of people, the tear gas change the crowd's demeanor.

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There was an air of disbelief as people realized that the police whom they supported were firing on them. What are you doing? We support you, someone yelled. Tear gas waved through the crowd, a low grade irritant, fortunately, as if the sun warning to disperse, but nobody could disperse. Some tried to leave the area, but more kept flowing in from Constitution Avenue, making an evacuation impossible. All of a sudden, propolis, people felt the police were attacking them and they didn't know why, instead of running away, the people stood their ground.

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Something seemed to break loose a second time toward the front, but we couldn't tell what it was, younger members of the crowd climbed the scaffolding inside the north facade of the inaugural platform and waved flags from the top. The crowd cheered. More tear gas canisters struck a girl in the face, drawing blood. The pro crowd went from disbelief and confusion to anger. A few dozen members of the crowd, mostly young men, raced up a narrow path on the stone steps behind the facade and limestone wall facing a few police.

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The top. Well, it goes on, ladies and gentlemen. And the bottom line is this, he points out there were organized provocateurs. That the massive number of people there had no intention of doing anything violent and didn't have a heart break more when I returned my in.

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Are you worried about America's future times of trouble are full of reasons to despair, but those who built and preserved our country didn't despair. So to do our part, we need to draw on the books, the history and the ideas that gave our forefathers and mothers strength and inspiration. Hillsdale College was founded in 1844 to teach these very things, and it teaches them still today. We can all study these things, all with Hillsdale College professors right in our homes through Hillsdale Free online courses, we can study the history of our civilization, the wisdom of ancient and Judeo-Christian philosophers, and the writings of Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

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We can reacquaint ourselves with our Constitution. We can learn how the Constitution has been undermined and more importantly, how it can be recovered. Friends, as we fight in defense of family, faith and freedom, let us draw on the best of the past with Hillsdale guidance that saved the greatest nation on Earth. Again, learning today at Leavin for Hillsdale Dotcom. That's 11 for Hillsdale Dotcom, live for Hillsdale Dotcom and.

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There was some testimony today. About protecting the Capitol building, and we have contradictions and perhaps lies. It's not clear yet. Between the chief of the Capitol Police, the former chief. The former sergeant at Arms, I believe, of the Senate, sergeant arms of the House. We're told the reluctance, supposedly the Pentagon to send National Guardsmen. What a mess. The reason I spent all this time reading that gentleman's eyewitness account, because he's a serious man.

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Is because it underscores the extent to which there was preplanning, it underscores the extent to which militia entities got involved in this. It underscores the extent to which that this was not an incitement to an insurrection, neither an incitement nor an insurrection. And that the entire attack on Donald Trump has been an exploitation of a violent riot that did, in fact, a tear on Capitol Hill not by his quote unquote supporters, but by violent militia types, and that the media continue to push a fabrication as they continue to cover up what happened to the White House when Donald Trump occupied it and what happened to the Portland courthouse.

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I'll be right back. From the Westwood One podcast network. He's here. Now, broadcasting from the underground command post, deep in the bowels of a hidden bunker, somewhere under the brick and steel of a nondescript building, we've once again made contact with our leader, Mark. Hello, America. Mark Levin, our number eight seven seven three eight one three eight one one eight seven seven three eight one three eight one one. There's been a lot of time, I'm sure, in the next several years straightening out the facts and the record because we have quite a liar in the White House, he's surrounded by liars.

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And, of course, the media is filled with propagandists on his behalf. If you ever heard of Dr. Francis Collins. Over here, Dr. Francis Collins. Director of the National Institutes of Health. He was falsies boss. And. Falchi. You know, people ought to put a. A sort of a management chart up on the screen, so you understand Falchi is not in charge of all the health and medical and scientific operations of the federal government.

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He's in one area, infectious disease. That's it. There's a lot of other areas, cancer, diabetes, and I can go on and on and on. Excuse me. He's not in charge of any of those. Infectious disease, a very narrow area, very, very critical area. But you would think he's in charge of the economy, he'll tell you about travel and the border and, you know, it's just incredible how this man has been made up to be some kind of.

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You know, Renaissance man, he's nothing of the sort. Now, Francis Collins was director of the National Institutes of Health. And falsies boss. And it was doing an interview with Axios, the left wing site on HBO. And hat tip to Blaze Media. I want you to listen to this carefully, please cut 14 go.

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Let's talk a little bit more on the Trump administration masquerading as side. What do they get? Right.

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The operation warp speed, for which I give a great deal of credit to Secretary Isar, was a effort that many of us were not initially convinced was going to be necessary. And it was thought about as a Manhattan project. Those words were used sometimes to describe what needed to happen in order to get all parts of the government together in an unprecedented way to test up to six vaccines and rigorous trials and to do this at risk manufacturing so that if any of those trials happen to work, you would already have doses ready to go into arms.

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That would not be the way things are traditionally done. That effort and the recruitment of Dr. Moncef Slaoui was an incredibly important step forward that the administration deserves credit for, because that did motivate a lot of actions, a lot of coordination. The fact that we in December had not one but two vaccines that had gone through trials of at least 30000 participants and had been judged safe and effective by a very rigorous and very public FDA process, is just breathtaking.

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That that got done in 11 months from when we first knew about this virus is at least five years faster than it's ever been done before.

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Now, this interview has not appeared on NBC, CBS or ABC. It has not appeared on CNN or MSNBC. It's not transcribed in The New York Times or The Washington Post because Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health and Falsies Boss. Just destroyed utterly and completely the narrative that has been pushed by Falchi, the narrative that's been pushed by Biden and his surrogates, and that includes in the media. And therefore, I'm going to play it again.

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I got so much to do this evening, but I'm going to play it again, because if I don't, you're not going to hear it. All over the country. So this is a professional, this is a scientist, this is a government employee, Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health and Falsies Boss. And I want you to listen again to what he says, because it contradicts everything that's coming out of Biden's mouth, hatzakis mouth, everything that's coming out of the propaganda mill.

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And what amazes me really is Donald Trump, people say, look at the the cup Rashi is and the braggadocio and so forth. Even though he talks about how they developed the vaccine, he's never really done it in a way. That is all encompassing or comprehensive, where he could he could spend 10 minutes just laying it all out, but the problem is the media would pooh pooh him and undermine him and attack him. Why is it that Dr. Foushee doesn't speak this way when he's asked this question, why doesn't he say the truth?

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Now, remember, Foushee wasn't in charge of this, he was not in charge of this. But Falchi knows the facts. Foushee knows that the development was done as a result of operation warp speed. Everybody knows. That the production of these vaccines and the upward trajectory where we're going to have enough for everybody by mid, late summer, everybody will have been vaccinated, had nothing to do with Joe Biden. That the production of the vaccines, that the dissemination and the use of the vaccines, that this was all in place, that's the genius of what the prior administration did.

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They had to beat back and beat down the bureaucracy. And whip them into shape in order to get this stuff done in the private sector, working with the federal government. But it's a story that needs to be told as a story that should have been told before the election. It's one of the biggest cover ups that we've seen, what Trump and his people accomplished here is. Unparalleled in human history. And to hear Biden come in and plagiarize and try and steal credit and we're going to produce all of this, we're going to produce all that, he's not doing anything differently.

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In fact, you want to know the truth. He's along for the ride, he's along for the ride. These things were developed while he was attacking and undermining Donald Trump and blaming him for every death in the country. Let's listen again, again, Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Falsies Boss, cut 14 go. Let's talk a little bit more on the Trump administration masquerading as side. What do they get? Right.

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The operation warp speed, for which I give a great deal of credit to Secretary Salazar, was a effort that many of us were not initially convinced was going to be necessary.

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So stop. So here we are, the bureaucracy. One of the leading men in the bureaucracy, one of the leading scientists at Operation Works. We're very skeptical. Very skeptical, the bureaucracy, we're skeptical. Go ahead. The Manhattan Project, those words were used, so they said they were going to turn it into a Manhattan project, which is exactly what they did. And so internally, they were kind of mocked and laughed at a Manhattan project.

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Oh, great. Sure, sure. Go ahead. Did it happen in order to get all parts of the government together in an unprecedented way to test up to six vaccines and rigorous trials and to do this at risk manufacturing so that if any of those trials happen to work, you would already have doses ready to go?

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Let's stop. And we talked about this months and months ago. Trump, the businessman, what he did here is he said, you know what, while you're testing the vaccines and we can't be sure they're going to work, we're going to start immediately to be producing them. We're going to start to produce them and we're going to spend billions of dollars beginning to produce vaccines. So if any of these six vaccines work, we're going to hit the ground running and start to vaccinate people.

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Remember, Trump said, you can wear a mask, you can shut down the economy, this isn't going to stop the virus. What stops a virus is a vaccine and therapeutics. And he said it over and over and over again. It's hard to miss it. And so he is the one who decided we're going to start developing and manufacturing, prepare for distribution, each one of these vaccines, just in case any one of them works. That had never been done before.

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Both the speed and the development and the speed in the production and distribution had never been done before, ever. Ever. Go ahead. That would not be the way things are traditionally done, that effort and the recruitment of Dr. Moncef Slaoui was an incredibly important.

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So what does Trump do? What does the administration do? They bring in this top expert. Respected across the board. Who had significant private sector experience and put him in charge of operation warp speed. And you can hear Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, saying this made a difference. All these things made a difference. They made a big difference. We never did anything like this before. So he didn't just leave it to the bureaucracy, Trump, he brought in an outsider who was respected to oversee Operation Warp speed because Trump was serious about it.

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They developed these vaccines in record time, and it's already pouring capital money into the production. Distribution and storage of the vaccines in case any of them meets the criteria set by the CDC, among others. He's pushing it as fast as he can, developing it as fast as he can, trying to get it into people's arms as fast as he can. Now. Leave it right there, Rick, what is Biden doing at the same time? He's attacking Trump, he's accusing Trump for every death that's occurred.

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He says Trump's not doing things fast enough. He didn't get the test fast enough. He didn't get the people Haiti fast enough. He didn't get the beds fast enough. He's not getting vaccines fast enough. And by the way, he's getting them too fast and we don't trust it. He's cutting corners. Remember all this? I couldn't even contribute his support for the effort. Go ahead. Administration deserves credit for because that did motivate a lot of actions, a lot of coordination, the fact that we in December had not one but two vaccines that had gone through trials of at least 30000 participants and had been judged safe and effective by a very rigorous and very public FDA process is just breathtaking.

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Listen, even the head of the National Institutes of Health Falchi box. Is shocked at how this was pulled off. He's out there now talking about masks, wearing two masks, wearing them till 2021, 2022, shutting down the economy. He's way out of his lane. He knows nothing of what he speaks is the infectious disease guy. In my opinion, his ass ought to be fired. He did a lousy job. He takes no responsibility and has no accountability.

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People are saying over half a million people die. He's the infectious disease guy. But here we have Dr. Francis Collins. Even his mind is blown by the extent to which operation warp speed did what it did. He's even he's even wow, you know, we've never done this before. Look at all the things. Look at all the things that were done under operation warp speed. Go ahead.

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That got done in 11 months from when we first knew about this virus is at least five years faster than it's ever been done before, five years faster than it's ever been done before.

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And I want you to noodle on that for a second. Five years faster than it's ever been done before. Now listen to me. If Donald Trump had not been president, if he did not surround himself with these various people, if he had not launched Operation Warp Speed.

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If he had not been an outsider and a businessman who took the whip to the bureaucracy, who wouldn't take no for an answer. Five years. How many people would die in five years if we didn't have a vaccine? How many people would lose their jobs in their businesses over the next five years if we didn't have a vaccine? Two vaccines. What would happen to this country, to the people in this country, to the psyche of the people in this country, but for this unbelievable success of Trump's operation, warp speed?

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You'd be looking at a completely different country with far more deaths in the as far as the eye can see. That's what Donald Trump did. That's what the Trump administration did. And that's not what Biden is doing or would have done. I'll be right back. My love in. Over 2000 of you, my listeners, made the switch from overpriced wireless carriers to pure talk over the past few months. We want the rest of you to join us and to see what we're talking about.

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Meanwhile, we get these. These crazy statements, these crazy statements intended to scare the hell out of people.

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For which politicians and their surrogates are never held to account, ever. Ever John Kerry has spent his life as a serial liar from the moment he testified in front of the Fulbright Committee trashing his fellow soldiers in Vietnam. Throughout his so-called career. He's married very well, never married a poor woman, by the way. Only enormously rich. And now it's climate change. He's lied about what he's done with the Iran deal going behind the back of Secretary Pompeo and the Trump administration, undermining our policies there now undermining them again.

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Now, climate change, here's a guy that lives better than virtually anybody else in the United States of America. He's the top one millions percent. But he's never earned an honest dollar in his life. Again. The Heinz family made the fortune, the Mellon family, yeah, he married a melon and then he married a Heinz. I'm sure it was love at first sight, Mr. Producer, nonetheless. Kerry says we have nine years to save the world, nine years now.

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What kind of an idiot is that? Rather than being the climate czar who travels the world. He should be institutionalized in a padded room. I guess with Biden, but nonetheless. Peter Doocy, who's actually a real reporter, very sharp young man. He's at the White House press briefing today and he confronts Psaki about this incredible Kerry claim that we have nine years, ladies and gentlemen, nine years. Well, if we only have nine years. Then why do we care about increasing the minimum wage or making sure Social Security is working or anything?

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In other words, if doom and gloom occurs in nine years, why do we give a damn about all the stuff?

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Cut five go. Last week, the climate envoy, John Kerry, said that there are only nine years left to save the world from the effects of climate change. As president, I'm sure that assessment nine years, I don't have a new timeline to it to give you from here. I can confirm for you, though, that the president agrees with former Secretary Kerry that it's a crisis, that time is of the essence. We need to act quickly.

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And that's why climate is a key part of his agenda.

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We need to act very, very fast, as fast as possible so there's no circumspection. So there's no analysis. So there's no experience people involved. We must add fact that we have an abstraction, we have a theory, we have a claim, and we must act on it immediately. We must destroy our capitalist system. We must grow our economy. We must stop eating meat. You must stop flatulence and by the way, I recommend that, Mr.

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Producer, all these things you must do, you must give up your cards, give up your big homes, move in the tiny and tiny areas. Except, of course, when we have a China virus, then we got to move further and further apart. But nonetheless. These elites and these crazy ass Marxist activists are destroying our country. Destroying our country, Kerry got what he wants, his kids got what they want, their families were living high off the hog.

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May I say? It's your children and grandchildren that can be affected by all this alarmism and all this phony pseudo science, it's such crap. You got that Jeremy Peters and Philip Bump, Mike talking too fast for you. I'll be right back. Mark Levin, Radio's principal patriot call in now at eight seven seven three eight one three eight one one. I talked earlier about falsies boss, right?

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So here is Falchi, and I guarantee you there are scientists and medical experts throughout the federal government, they can't stand this guy because they know what he is. They know what he is, he's like the Stormy Daniels of of of science, Mr. Producer, or if you get my drift. And so Alisyn Camerota, who is a no nothing buffoon, hence she works at CNN as a host. I want you to listen to how Falchi answers this, unlike his boss, the National Institutes of Health director.

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Who gives credit where credit is due? I want you to listen to Foushee. This guy is so unscrupulous. In my view, so unethical. Cut 11 go when you go back when we when we replay now, exactly a year ago, President Trump saying we have it very much under control. We've had no deaths the next day, he said it's very well under control.

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You know, this is amazing. The president that president had daily press conferences. So out of God knows how many words, hundreds and hundreds of thousands of words. Daily press conferences even open to the likes of a Jim Acosta and other reprobates and miscreants and malcontents. They cherry pick what the man said over the course of a period of time. She'll never mention all the things Trump said about operation warp speed, about getting therapeutics, about getting vaccines in record time, she'll never say anything about that now.

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Well, she. Ladies and gentlemen. No. Next thing they'll say something stupid, like he said, to put detergent in your system, the idiot Biden said that today. Trump never said that. Go ahead, if a few days later he said everything's under control, I mean, we're very, very cool, we've done it very well, everything's really under control. Do you think that his denial and lack of facts contributed to this level?

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Let's stop for a second. Donald Trump's been out of office since January 20th. This is a very vicious, poisonous leading question that she throws out there.

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Still, the effort to blame Donald Trump for the China virus, which you're not allowed to call the China virus. They act like it's the Donald Trump virus, and yet Donald Trump has done more and did more to wrestle this virus to the ground than all those Democratic governors combined. Then everyone in the Biden administration and including Biden combined, he did more than anybody to save lives, potentially millions of lives. As I said in the first hour, if he had followed protocol, if he had followed the Falchi CDC, NIH protocol, they'd still be searching around for vaccines, a five year process at a minimum.

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We know that the director of the National Institutes of Health just told us and we know it is a matter of unequivocal fact. Five more years of this. The fact that we have vaccines, the fact that people are trying to get them, the fact that they're being distributed is no thanks to Foushee, quite frankly. Certainly CNN and the Democrat Party, no help from them, have a so-called covid-19 relief bill. Were they given 350 million dollars? That's one third excuse me, billion, one third of a trillion to Democrats cities, Democrat governors.

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To bail them out now, how does that help you with the virus? Bailing out teachers unions, spending money on schools that aren't open. Funding abortions. Oh, yeah, this all helps with the virus. So what is the genius little future you have to say go? Well, I think I mean, I I'm not comfortable going back and directly criticizing, but it's really almost self-evident. He is really diabolical, isn't he? Let's try something unusual.

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I interviewed this man in March, he must know by now that I despise him. But nonetheless, Mr. Davis and I'm 64 come on the radio show.

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Tell him for an honest. Objective interview. Man to man. Man to man, one on one. Let's see if it. He shows up everywhere else. Everywhere else. Now he's a. Not just a public figure, he's on the public payroll, so he should be willing to come on the Mark Levin Show that has an audience for a billion times bigger than Alisyn Camerota. He should be willing to talk to you, ladies and gentlemen. He shouldn't just go on shows where they're going to pat him on his head.

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I have some serious questions I want to ask this man. Let's see if he's up to it. We're moving fast and furious, as they say, we've got a lot to cover this evening. This Peter Deucy. You can tell when he asks a question, he asks a question. He's like the kid next door, you know, he's so polite. He so matter of fact, he says it's not like this drama queen, Jim Acosta, he was a drama queen, you know.

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He's not that way do far more professional. Far more professional. More levelheaded, but he asks really good questions. But you can see on Pesach, his face, she starts to it starts to do weird stuff, Mr. Producer, like you're watching the movie Alien, doesn't it? Her face goes into contortions. Contortions, almost one eye goes in one direction, one eye goes in another direction, you can start seeing the face crinkling up and in lifetime, it's really something.

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And all he is, is asking a question. So Biden has sent word south of the border, ladies and gentlemen. Come one, come all and come as fast as you can, as many of you as you can. So what's happening? Children are being sent north to cross our border without adults, which means they're subjected to what? All kinds of vile activity, no doubt. They're coming across, trying to come across. Biden has said if you seek refugee status, you don't have to wait in Mexico anymore, even though we have a wonderful agreement with Mexico thanks to Trump.

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You can wait in the United States, which means they're not going to wait at all. We know as a matter of statistical fact, unequivocal fact, yet again, science, science, that people don't show up for their administrative hearings two years later. A small fraction, like under five percent do. And so off into the shadows, as they say they go. In addition, we're not deporting anybody anymore unless they've, you know, been caught on camera killing or raping somebody, otherwise pretty much they can stay.

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And then we have this capture and release thing going on, oh, you're here illegally. Yes. OK, welcome. I want you to think about something, let's talk about core principles before I get to this. What kind of a country treats its citizens worse than foreigners who haven't even arrived yet? What kind of a country does that? Why do we have open arms for everybody in the world, but not open arms for United States citizens, we're always going to have immigration, some kind of managed immigration.

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That's fine. But that's not what the Democrats are doing. They're taking that which is illegal and they're normalising it. And they're normalizing it if people coming across the border, we don't know how ill they are, we don't know what diseases, if any, they have, what illnesses of any they have, they're not being tested for covid-19, despite the fact that it's the Trump administration that developed the test by just along for the ride. We have no idea.

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And yet they're talking about we got a trace you and follow you, make sure that you've had the vaccine and you're not sick anymore. What about people coming across the border illegally? What are you, a racist and a white supremacist? None of this makes sense unless you understand that the goal here is to empower the Democrat Party. They only follow science of science, helps them have science, doesn't help them. They reject it. Look at the schools.

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Look at the schools. And so they talk about these cages at these facilities for children. The fact is they were never cages. They were never cages, they're trying to give you the impression that you're walking into the zoo and there's kids being kept in cages. These sites are opened up. To people to review people who have responsibilities for health and for children. The reason they're in these facilities is because where else are they going to go? We don't have, you know, a whole development to send illegal aliens to.

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We don't have a whole housing system we do for detention. But I mean, that can handle all these children. We don't know if they're coming with their parents. If those people are their parents. We don't know if they're coyotes. We don't know what's going on, which is what Trump kept saying. I don't know who they are. Of course, we have to separate them. What if they're being molested? We don't know. But, of course, just like the death toll on the China virus, they exploited it.

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They accused Trump of caging little children, caging them. Now, of course, we know Obama actually built the cages, if you want to call them cages. And let me go further. The Obama Biden administration actually first built the cages, those photos that were all over the place in the news and so forth. Those are cages built by the Obama Biden administration, which they put little children in there.

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But they're humane, you see, when the Democrats bill cages or they interned Japanese Americans or whatever they're doing, that's humane, they're humane. And so now there's an overflow. There's an overflow of people coming in, so now what are we going to do? So Peter Doocy puts it the Jen Psaki. Who goes through a whole. Just listen, K12 go, it's the same facility that was open for a month in the Trump administration summer twenty nineteen.

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That is when Joe Biden said under Trump, there have been horrifying scenes at the border of kids being kept in cages. And Kamala Harris said basically babies in cages is a human rights abuse being committed by the United States government. So how is this any different? We very much feel that way. And these are facilities let me be clear here. One, there's a pandemic going on. I'm sure you're not suggesting that we have children right next to each other in ways that are not covered safe, are you?

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I'm suggesting that Kamala Harris said that this facility putting people in this facility was a human rights abuse committed by the United States government. And Jill Biden said under Trump, there have been horrifying scenes of border at the border of kids being kept in cages. Now, it's not under Trump, it's under fire. This is not kids being kept in cages. This is this is kids. This is a facility that was.

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Let's just stop. It's the same place, same places, they're the same places. Ladies and gentlemen, the same exact places. Whereas big media, where's big tech? Where the immigration front groups were the civil rights front groups. Were the Democrats jumping up and down out of concern, Kamala Harris, nowhere to be found, of course. They created this whole situation to begin with, back under Obama, Biden, they've created it again. Trump used them for like a month, maybe tops 45 days to try and find a way to address and then close them down, they're open again.

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Oh, it's different, though, you see, because well, because what because what their children know, no, you don't understand why Democrats really believe in equality and actually we believe in equality. Go ahead. I want to follow the same standards as other HHS facilities, it is not a replication, certainly not what it is a replication.

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It certainly is. It's an absolute replication, why are you lying? And were the media? Where's Jeremy? What's his name, Pitman's, what's his name? I always forget that guy's name, Mr. Producers', not very helpful. What is it? We're all blanking. Where's Philip Bump? And Jeremy over there at The New York Times, where are these people, why aren't they Huntingdon's down? Why aren't they doing front page stories on this? We know why they're in the tank.

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We have a little treat for you at the end of the program tonight, Mr. Producer did it. I wasn't aware of it, but he's a good man and that is the four or five minutes.

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I think it's four or five minutes. Right, Rick? Where Rush? Inducted me into the Hall of Fame the next day because he couldn't make it, it was snowing in November 1928. It's not about me, but it's about what he says because it's actually pretty, pretty cool. Again, not about me being so great, but it's the way he does. And I think that is pure rush, which is why we're going to miss him. So.

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Now, broadcasting from the underground command post, deep in the bowels of a hidden bunker, somewhere under the brick and steel of a nondescript building, we've once again made contact with our leader, Mike. Hello, America. Mark Levin here, our number eight seven seven three eight one three eight one one cheesman. Eight, seven seven three eight one three eight one one muscling through here, his rush would say perhaps with one nostril type on my back, given that I had this.

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Septum surgery, you're going to tend to my nose every now and then. OK. Mitch McConnell has announced that he's going to support Merrick Garland for attorney general, you know this Mitch McConnell. Is such a disaster, this guy, Merrick Garland, didn't merit in any respect confirmation Merrick Garland and I'm calling him Merrick Garland. He shouldn't have won confirmation yesterday. Well, enforce the immigration laws. He wouldn't say. When asked about the domestic terrorism that took place night after night, day after day at the Portland courthouse, I mean, this man works in a courthouse for a living.

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He said it's not necessarily domestic terrorism. He said, France, if it happens a night and nobody's there, you know, if it happens at night and nobody's there, what if it happened tonight and nobody was in his courthouse in Washington, D.C.?

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What kind of a stupid comment is that? He demonstrated that he is political through and through. There are people that Biden have nominated to the highest positions, the Department of Justice, including the Civil Rights Division, who are out and out racists, the bigots. What this nominee, Clark, has said about Caucasians is unbelievable. You have individuals like her, in my view, who are part of this black separatists or black nationalist movement. Called critical race theory.

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All over the Democrat Party now and all over this administration. It's so dangerous and so destructive. So this is the man who would head the department and Mitch McConnell says, and by the way, he's interviewed by Politico, what did I tell you? He's a big leaker to Politico. The media really does not hate Mitch McConnell. They slobber all over him at National Review. They slobber all over him, the editorial pages of The Wall Street Journal.

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And he gets the kid glove treatments at The New York Times and The Washington Post. And Politico just loves him, their head is so far up his nostrils, it's not even funny. McConnell will support Merrick Garland nomination for attorney general five years after blocking the judges back to the Supreme Court. The reason the judge's path was blocked by the Supreme Court was because Obama broke norms again. That is, he nominated somebody in the last year of his presidency.

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And the Republicans refuse to help them. Now, that's typical. We've gone over those facts over and over again, but they're too complicated for Marianne, leaving no relationship to me. Thank God at Politico, she's a little too slow. That's what happens when you have lower IQ individuals moving into journalism. I do, McConnell told Politico Tuesday afternoon when asked if he plans to back Garland, the Kentucky Republican did not elaborate on his decision. It's funny, Politico, New York Times, Washington Post, they'll all get an interview with McConnell, never me.

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Because he hates you, he hates conservatives, he hates the base, you're the problem, the left he can give away because you know what McConnell wants is power, even if it's ruling over a minority in the Senate, he wants to be the guy ruling over it. That's it. And who who is a greater danger to him? We are conservatives. Unbelievable. Now we have this. I couldn't believe my eyes there for a minute, Mr. Producer, I turn on my computer and.

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Republicans released a bill to gradually raise the federal minimum wage to ten dollars an hour. Now, who's proposing this, Mitt Romney and my friend Tom Cotton. Now, I would just say, as a matter of principle, why are senators deciding what the minimum wage should be in businesses throughout this country, small, large, medium start ups. Why are they setting wages for anybody? Where did they get this brilliance from? How do they know? How do they know?

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And so for millions of Americans, the rising cost of living has made it harder to make ends meet, but the federal minimum wage has not been increased in more than 10 years. Now, Romney has put out, you'll recall, a minimum income for children. Are families with children now he wants to control the minimum wage, so this is Massachusetts Mitt. That's what we have now. Massachusetts Mitt. And so what Republicans do is they basically take these Democrat ideas and they water them down.

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And they water them down. Our legislation would raise the floor for workers without costing jobs and increase the federal minimum wage to ten dollars. It would increase without costing jobs, how do these guys know that they have no idea? Look, let me give you an example. How can I put this, my parents ran a very small retail shop outside of Philadelphia. And they sold things that weren't necessities, they didn't sell food and sort of thing, they sold.

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Some furniture they sold, some porcelains that were imported, they sold some jewelry, things of that sort, a nice retail shop.

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There is no way they could have paid any of these minimum wage salaries to anybody. Period. Year to year, their income was unpredictable. If we had a deep recession like we did in the 70s. They did quite poorly. It was tough for us to be, you know, to meet ends. Other years, they did better. Obviously not, you know, like John Kerry and Mitt Romney and the others, but they did better. The point is Mitt Romney and my friend Tom Cotton, they don't work in these little stores.

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They have no idea what's going on. They have no idea what's going on on that street in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, if their stores competing with each other, if their stores that are basically barely holding on.

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They have no idea what's going on. They talk about a living wage. It's not about a living wage. It's about living. That is whether or not a small retailer can even survive. Everybody's not Amazon. And so this one size fits all is repugnant to those of us who believe in competition. Free market systems, even mixed market systems, capitalism, it's repugnant people in Washington, D.C. happen to get there and they say and will gradually do this and it won't cost jobs.

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You have no idea what it'll cost. So they take a bad idea and they watered down and then it's supposed to be a good idea. Now it's a bad idea. Now, there are some businesses that can't afford to pay more and some of them are very competitive and they're going to pay more than 10 dollars an hour, some of them are going to pay more than 15 dollars an hour. That's fine. That's good. There's competition in business and there's competition excuse me, and there's competition in labor.

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This is basic stuff. You can't tie to the cost of living and the cost and the rate of inflation, that has nothing to do with whether or not people walk into somebody's store and spend money. What's good for Laurel, Mississippi, may not be good for New York City or vice versa. What's good for a small store that has two or three employees and a store down the street that may have twenty one employees? It's not the same thing.

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Well, it hasn't increased since 2009. Well, who cares? For certain individuals, that may have increased a whole lot, depending on what they're contributing to the business or if they moved on to another business, people aren't required to stay in these same places if they're not earning enough money. That's why we have what's called mobility. And so I was quite surprised to see this, quite frankly, from Tom, not from Romney, Romney is, you know, looking for any any level to be relevant and to be patted on the head as a really good guy.

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So for Romney. Something happened that the United States Department of State today that was just precious. Finally, somebody other than Peter Doocy. Called out this administration for their lies and their contradictions to see does it in a very, very friendly way. Jim Acosta always showed up like he was sitting on a cucumber or something. But there's another guy that we used to listen to a lot, Matt Lee at the Associated Press. And regardless who's in office and so forth, this guy is an old school journalist.

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And when we come back, I want to hear you excuse me, I want you to hear him. I want to hear you, too, but I want you to hear him. Address the the new Spok, create the Department of State, who's trying to take credit for something that occurred as a result of the Trump administration, it's precious. We'll be right back.

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Matt Lee at the Associated Press, this guy is a little bit curmudgeonly, which is kind of a cool thing, I would know. And also he's very straightforward.

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You don't have to agree with him, but he definitely doesn't take sides.

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Do you remember some years ago, a couple of years ago, I guess Donald Trump was sitting across the table. He had his staff and Chancellor Merkel had her staff.

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And he was very direct with her.

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And the whole world watched. We told her to cut it out with the Russian gasoline pipeline.

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That we're pouring all this money into NATO to defend Germany and these other countries from Russia, and she is subsidizing Russia and the war machine over there by using the the gas that comes from the Russian pipeline, which, of course, is a national security problem, including for Germany and those other countries. But us, too, because then Russia can blackmail these countries and control the extent to which they get energy.

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And remember when the. The old time farm policy types in the old time, reporters had covered the old time farm policy types and the Democrats, they are all appalled, he said.

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What he did. What? What, you don't do that? No, you don't do that. Well, of course, he was right again.

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And so what Trump did is he enforced his opposition. Threatening to cut the money we give to NATO unless Germany and some of these other countries cut it out, as well as these various corporate arms of these various states.

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And Pompeo did the same thing, they will put them on a list. Were they were not going to do business with the United States or as much business with the United States unless they cut it out, so much for Donald Trump being Vladimir Putin's lapdog. He never was and never would be. But that's just the nature of the media. They lie in their corrupt. Well, I want you to listen in just a minute, Tony, but it's but it's very good.

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Matt Lee, who covers the excuse me, the AP at the State Department at press briefing today with a spokes idiot, Ned Price. And they're back and forth at one go, so we'll continue to work closely with Germany, we'll continue to work closely with our other allies and partners in Europe to uphold Europe's own stated energy security goals, admits a bit disingenuous to claim credit for the 18 companies winding down.

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All of this work was done under the previous administrations, have only been a month for maybe only been in office for a month. Right. Are you telling me that in the last eight more weeks, these 18 companies all of a sudden decide to say, oh my God, we'd better not mean anything? I am I am speaking for that. I that you guys are taking credit for stuff that the U.S. administration did.

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I am not looking for the Department of State, OK? The people who have been working this, the people who are working this now or the same people a month ago or the same people three months ago, three months ago.

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So I wrote this one following up on that. So the administration is committed to ensuring that that pipeline is not completed.

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Our position on this has not changed. To match point, we have the same position that the previous administration had. It is a bad deal. It is bad for Europe.

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It is in contravention of Europe's own stated energy goals, commercial juu of geopolitical view or world view. We're talking in terms of geo right now.

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We get the idiots in the back row. Hey, is it bad? Morally bad? Shut up, you idiot. But Matley called him out, you see, and then he had to say, yes, it's the same position, it is the position that was set by the Trump administration. It was not the position of the Obama Biden administration. It has now become the position of the Biden administration. And those 18 companies buckled because of the Trump administration, which was Lee's point when he said, aren't you being disingenuous?

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Yeah, they lied through their teeth. Same thing. Same thing. They try to take credit where credit is not due and they try and tear down their predecessor. This is what the left always does. This is how they operate. By the way. As it turns out. The writers. Who charge the Capitol building on January six aren't the only ones. To found their way into the Senate chamber and take over the seat of the president of the Senate, the president pro tem or the vice president who sits in that seat, they're not the only ones to have done that.

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Mr. Producer, are you aware that. Joseph Robinette Biden. Joseph Robinette Biden, now there's a man, a lunch bucket man, if there ever was one. Joseph Robinette Biden. He had tipped to rumble. Turns out he once walked into the chamber, took that very same scene and was arrested. It was before he was elected to the Senate, of course, he was only 21, as he tells the tale. But think about it, 10 years later, he's a United States senator and he's working with segregationists.

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White supremacists, this is the thing, the only person to actually work with white supremacists to support segregation. Who ran for president was Joe Biden, yet they try and stick that tag on Donald Trump. And it's his supporters who voted for him. Anyway, check it out, cut six, this is from July 31, 2007. So what was that like walking into the great Senate chamber at 29 years old? You know, I walked in when I was 21 and I got arrested.

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I was it was a Saturday. I was down visiting some friends at Georgetown University. And I came up on the Saturday morning because I always fascinated with the Senate. And then the Saturday session, I walked up those days, no guard stopping everywhere. And I and they just got out of session. I walked in the back. All of a sudden I found myself in the chamber and I was stunned. I walked up, sat down. The presiding officer seat guy grabbed me by the shoulder, said, you're under arrest.

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Was he topless wearing a hat with horns on it? Is he the guy, Mr. Producer? That's what that guy did, what, January 6th? I have no idea if this is true, Joe Biden is a serial liar. I have no idea if this is true, but if it is, isn't it interesting? Not really. Joe Biden, such an idiot when I was 21, I'm walking around, there's no guard. Let me tell you something.

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I used to go to the Capitol all the time, get on that same train from Philadelphia. Go to Washington, D.C., get out of the Union Station, my buddy and I, usually Eric Christiansen, sometimes our buddy Jack too, we'd we'd walk to the Capitol building, we get the passes, we'd sit in the Senate gallery or the House gallery all day long, take the train back at night because we were fascinated by it.

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There weren't a lot of police around and you could walk around, but any idiot knew. You don't walk on the Senate floor and sit in the president's seat except Joe Biden. And now the idiots are president. I'll be right back. AMEC, the Association of Mature American Citizens, is one of the fastest growing organizations in America now, over two million conservative members strong, and I'm one of them EMAC believes in and stands up for the values that we constitutional conservatives care about more than talk.

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Mark Levin, America's mentor of conservatism, go now at age seven seven three eight one three eight one one November 19, 20, 18.

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Little over two years ago, that's how it was. I've been voted into the Radio National Radio Hall of Fame, and thanks to you folks, my beloved audience. And because of you, it was the most votes ever. Not because I'm the greatest ever, but because you're the greatest ever. And it is a great honor to be nominated. And then to be. Chosun. And chosen by you. And there really wasn't any question who was? Who I wanted to.

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Introduce me and. And into the Hall of Fame induction, into the Hall of Fame, if I could have had two, I would have been Rush and Sean, of course. But as Sean acknowledges. It's rush rushes the is the genius rushes the man. Who made all this possible for you to listen to? And so he was very upset, it was a terrible weather day, we almost didn't make it. We almost didn't get to the to the event we got there very late, there was a terrible snowstorm.

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My wife, Julie, and my mother in law, Sylvian. Nobody else could get their. The airports were shut down. There was no other service, so we drove. Actually, my wife drove I was extremely irritated by the whole thing trying to get there, but nonetheless, we got there. And so Rush was pretty upset that he couldn't fly in. Because he he, more than anyone, is responsible for my doing radio. And so, unbeknownst to me.

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He decided to give me a two minute heads up that only he would call me flee or flee or Mark. I'm going to induct you on the air. I'm going to do it on radio because you deserve it. And what's the reason I'm playing this is because it's not even about me. It's just the way he communicated, as you'll see. And how observant he was. So let's begin. Cut 13 go, Mark Levin has had a an amazingly diverse life.

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He was the spokesman and liaison. He was the chief of staff for the attorney general, Ed Meese, during the Reagan administration. He is an accomplished lawyer. He started the landmark legal foundation, was a conservative legal fighter, one c three activist group that represents conservative causes in courts all over the country. He has, but he grew up loving radio. He grew up loving talkradio, grew up practicing talk radio, pretending to be on talk radio when he was driving around on his car, he would listen to people calling him to talk shows and ignore the host and answer them himself.

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He seemed to one day and sit in and watch the program came down and then he said, You want to go for a drive afterwards? I wanted to show him, no, no, I need to talk about what just happened. He talked about I just saw he was a student of it. He realized that he didn't. He's not one of these people who thought he could do it and knew it all from the get go, he really studied it from the ground level.

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He has become one of the most listened to radio talk show hosts in America at night. His national show is from six to nine p.m. and now has the Sunday Night Show on Fox, but has his expertise is the Constitution and what he's done there? This is this is something that is crucial. To succeeding in a mass media form like radio, you've got to be able to take complex things, complicated things and boil them down to their essence to make them understandable.

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You cannot sit here and read magazine articles to people and then say, this is important to listen to me, listen to me. You've got to be able to explain that yourself. You have to be able to know it. Mark Levin is a constitutional scholar in addition to being a radio broadcast professional. And while it might be said he's self-taught, he has he has studied from the best and really taken the time to learn it, he didn't get into it to be famous.

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He didn't get into it to be known, didn't get into mass media like some of the other people do. He got into it because he really believed the American people needed to know about things that he was passionate about and he wanted to tell them about. One of those things is the Constitution. A constitution can be a very esoteric, a very deep. You let a bunch of lawyers and constitutional experts start talking about it and they will bore you silly.

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You will become disinterested in it and you'll think it can't be that complicated and it probably isn't, but this is what intellectuals do. What Mark has done is take a scholarly and genuinely intellectual interest and expertise and understanding of the Constitution. And not only made it. Understandable. To a mass audience, he's made it fascinating, he's made the governing document of our country fascinating to people who otherwise are like Alexander. They think the three branches, the three chambers of the House, the Senate and the White House.

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Levin has one of the most educated and knowledgeable audiences in all of radio, and there's no better use of the medium than that. To teach, to inspire, to inform, so it is with a great respect and honor that I induct Mark Levin into the Radio Hall of Fame. There's a couple of them, but this is the big one, the Radio Hall of Fame. And I regret that I couldn't be there Saturday night when he actually went in.

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That was supposed to be doing this then. So I promised I would do it today since I couldn't be there. And that's it. It really is a it's a special thing. And for people in radio, it is a tremendous honor. You know, lucky I don't have a ditto cam here. Lucky. He played that for you so you could see what an extraordinarily humble man he really was. He didn't get up there or get behind the mic and say, Mark would be nothing without me, I should mark everything this, that and the other.

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Listen to how he spoke. Off the top of his head, although he did tell me he took a few notes. And when I was with him. In the past, more than recent times, he was right, I was studying what he was doing. He was like a fat.

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He'd finished his radio show, You Saudek Mark, let's go get something. I said, well, let's talk first. I want to talk about some of the things you were doing.

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He said, OK. He gave his time, he'd give you the shirt off his back. You need to understand I wasn't anything special when I first. Got to know or meet or speak to Rush. He didn't need to talk to me or any excuse me or any of these things, and I'm not the only one that's had this experience. They're pretenders out there that think they know him, they don't know him. They don't know him, you know him, his audience, my audience, you know him.

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He revealed himself to you he would wear his emotions on his sleeve for you. He really would. And he will be buried tomorrow. The body will be buried tomorrow, but everything else will live on the soul, the spirit. His profound impact on each and every one of us. I told you, this isn't the situation like with so many others in media and elsewhere where, OK, we did our two days on Rush. Now let's move on.

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I don't do two days on Rush. Every day. Rush is with us. As we battle for our own liberty, the liberty of our children and our grandchildren. Because he showed us how to do it. He was a very courageous man because they wanted to destroy him, but he wouldn't permit it, he wouldn't permit it. All right, I'll be right back.

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XM Satellite, Patrick in Florida, how are you? Yes, Patrick. Good evening, Mark. Thank you so much for taking my call. Yes, sir. I, like so many others, really, really are going to Miss Rush deeply. I knew him and similar way that I did Reagan for somebody, I never met my wife. I felt like it was somebody that I didn't know. Yeah. And that offered so much to Americanism. And I enjoyed it every day, listening to him for years and years.

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And I've enjoyed listening to you for years and years and years. And I never had the opportunity to speak with Rush. And, you know, it's always hard to get on the show. I'm deeply grateful I was able to get on today, but I wanted to tell you I have the opportunity. Thank you very, very much for the education, for the insight, for the common sense that you offer every day. And it means a great deal to a whole lot of people.

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And I just I have no other way to express my gratitude to you and posthumously to Rush Limbaugh. Thank you very much.

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Well, first of all, you're very, very kind. You're very, very kind. And I appreciate and I want you to know that I appreciate what you had to say.

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And there you are in Panama City.

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But you're enjoying the weather right about now, aren't you? Well, we've been a lot a lot luckier than the rest of the country, but, you know, things can always turn on a dime. Oh, yeah, of course. I'm sure you remember a couple of years ago we had a Cat five hurricane. But, yeah, it's been very mild here. And and we've pretty much nothing's rebuilt here. And I feel very lucky. And I live in a very deeply red area of Florida.

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So I'm very, very thankful for that. And men like you, people like you are partly responsible and I appreciate it.

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You're very kind, Patrick. God bless you, my friend. Bill, Sierra Vista, Arizona, the great KNST country, how are you, Bill?

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I'm great, Mark. Thank you so much for taking my call. You bet. You know, in the military, we have guys who sit behind the lines, way back behind the front lines at headquarters, staging areas, safe zones in a tent somewhere. And these guys are trained in a single purpose task. They go to accounting school or fuel quantity accounting school. They're they're basically clerical. We have no training in the battlefield. Tactics are not combat arms.

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And we in the military always lovingly referred to these guys as Realm's or E.M.S. I'll tell you the first two words. You can figure out the math, but we call them rear echelon EMTs. And these guys didn't go anywhere near the front lines. They had no idea how to employ the assets that they counted if they had access to or control of. And that is exactly what fallacy is. He's around is an army. He's like crap game. Don Rickles and Kelly's heroes, and it was a great guy, has managed to promote himself up to this battlefield commander.

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And it just amazes me that he's out there promoting some kind of tactics and how to approach this thing.

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Isn't it amazing, Bill, that he comes under absolutely no criticism on these television programs?

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Never. I agree. No, they just hold him up because he was a foil against Trump and now he is a mouthpiece for Biden. You can't have such a political hack and such an important position. And there he is. This is his second time around with Biden. He likes Biden. They failed when he came to Saaz.

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And quite frankly, if it wasn't for Trump. There be many more dead and over a long period of years, thanks to what he did with these vaccines, not Falchi. All right, my friend Bill, I appreciate that very much. You take care of yourself, buddy. Lauderhill, Richardson, Texas, on the Mark Levin app, how are you? No, my man here. How are you doing? Big man, I want to talk to you for a long time.

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Thank you. You are a wise man beyond your years. I'm a young African-Americans, and you taught me a lot about the Constitution. So thank you for being my professor. But let's get the businessmen, these Republicans, whether they or if I didn't know their opponents. Mark, the leadership is like four or five steps behind the Democrats you saw in the election. I mean, now you have Lindsey Graham now going down to the border. He's been an offensive most of part of the Red Sea.

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Now he's going to the border. So trying to figure out what is going on with his leadership. Well, I agree with him that we need to get done with which McConnell has to go.

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McConnell is the reason we don't have a majority in the Senate. McConnell's the reason we don't have a proactive agenda. McConnell is the reason we don't engage effectively and strategically against Biden. And all that's going on today says he's going to vote for this Garland, who's a disaster.

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He led the attack on Trump. He wanted Trump criminally charged. Now he says he's going to use the National Republican Senatorial Committee to go into every state where all of us live, a guy from Kentucky, and determine and influence who our nominee is going to be for the United States Senate.

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I've had enough of 78 year old Mitch McConnell, Kentucky, and send him back to Washington all they want. But he's not my senator and he's certainly not my leader now. Now, you got a call more often than I will by listing every single day.

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Thank you, Mark. I'll think about running for office Monday, so we'll call again.

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Let's talk about it. Thank you all out there. God bless each and every one of you. Thank you. From the bottom of my heart. I'll see you tomorrow. From the Westwood One podcast network.