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5/16/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

There is a concerted effort by the media and the Democrat Party to take out President Donald Trump. The latest in the New York Times is that a memo written by James Comey in February claims that Trump asked him to end the investigation into Mike Flynn. This is a self-serving contemporaneous memo. According to the memo, the President told Comey that he hoped Comey could let this go. Comey is a leaker and person who destroyed the FBI. He doesn’t like the way he was fired and the fact he was fired, so is striking back. If this is obstruction, why would Comey wait 2 and a half months later to show this memo? Only after Trump fired him does this become a major issue. Comey is really a modern day J. Edgar Hoover. This is just another phony scandal with the disgusting and deceitful left wing media. Congress should ask Comey where his memos are and how many he has and should be directed to preserve those memos. In addition, we have Democrat media outlets like the New York Times receiving classified information via leaks. The leakers are committing felonies. The irony is that the leakers are undermining the President and Israel yet nothing is done about them. What is being done to Trump in this presidency is unprecedented and worse than what they did to Ronald Reagan. Later, Trump said repeatedly that he would move the embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, now he won’t even recognize that the Western Wall belongs to Israel. Why is it that we recognize 219 countries and yet with our closest ally we refuse to put our embassy in their capital? We have to get permission from Hamas, Mahmoud Abbas and others to acknowledge our closest ally who shares intelligence with us.

5/15/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

President Donald Trump campaigned vigorously and unequivocally on moving the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Trump appears to be in the midst of betraying that promise. Why would the President say he would move the embassy to Jerusalem if he didn’t mean it? So quickly and easily has Trump gone into the lap of the bureaucrats and the DC swamp. The President wants a peace negotiation between Israel and Palestine. A two state solution for Israel is a final solution for Israel. The Palestinians claim the entirety of Jerusalem and even Jewish sites that are over 3,000 years old. In addition, So far Rex Tillerson in his own way has said that we are going to listen to all interested parties. Tillerson, like H.R. McMaster has given the Palestinians their own country. It is shocking how the President has seemed to reverse course. Tillerson sounds like he is Secretary of State under Barack Obama. The Ottomans divided up the territory. Before that the land had been owned or passed on by word of mouth. The Palestinians never had a legitimate claim to Judea or Samaria. The idea that the Israelis can't have foreign embassies put in their own capital, is allowing radical Islamic terror groups like Hezbollah and Hamas to have a veto. The indigenous peoples in this area were the Jews. After that, the Democrat party is out to destroy everything and anything in its path and works very closely with the praetorian guard media, especially CNN. They drag out these Ivy League professors to tell us that Trump has committed impeachable offenses yet can't even name the crime of offense. Then we have Chuck Schumer out there who wants the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General to resign. Meanwhile where is the Republican leadership, Mitch McConnell, John Thune and John Cornyn? They are not only not charismatic but are pathetic and fail to articulate conservative principles. Finally, the Washington Post, through anonymous sources, has reported that Trump has revealed classified information to the Russian Ambassador and Foreign Minister. Why should we believe the Washington Post which prints propaganda? Tillerson, Dina Powell, and H.R. McMaster were all in the room with Trump during the meeting and all say that no classified information was revealed. This is absurd and will be the next drumbeat. According to McMaster, at a press briefing on Monday, it didn’t happen. McMaster could not have been clearer. The media has been trying to take out the President from day one. Their go to people are the Democrats on Capitol Hill. Which Democrats and which members of the Intelligence Committee were briefed?

5/12/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

Most Americans, according to Facebook interactions, cared less about President Trump firing James Comey than other events in the Trump Administration. Americans cared more about the inauguration, the healthcare replacement attempt, and Mike Flynn. Also, was the firing of Comey unconstitutional? No, the President has plenary power to appoint and fire people in his administration. Comey was not fit to remain FBI Director, his judgment was a disaster. Also, you don’t seize the power from the Attorney General and do what Comey did. He laid out the case for the indictment for Hillary Clinton and then pulled the plug. There was no grand jury and 11th hour subpoenas were used just to make it look like they were doing something. Despite what the Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe had to say, many FBI agents were furious with what Comey did. All of a sudden both Comey and McCabe are angels. What we have here is that the left has conquered the media. They are fully out of the closet. They bring the biggest malcontents from the Democrat Party and pretend they are newsmakers. Later, some are calling Trump’s firing of Comey a constitutional crisis, or even comparing it to the assassination of JFK. What they say doesn’t matter, there is obviously nothing here. After that, Missouri has passed a Convention of States Resolution making it state number 12 to do so. People love their country and the Constitution and want to save them. Later, the left is starting to push another movement related to the use of the 25th Amendment. The left is now hoping, pushing and strategizing to make Trump look like an absolute insane buffoon and dangerous. There will be arguments about the Vice President and majority of the cabinet acting to remove him from the presidency, and then Congress making the decision. A small cabal of politicians with a very radical and anti-American base are doing everything they can to overthrow this administration.

5/11/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

Most of the views the Trump administration have taken were supported by the Acting FBI Director, Andrew McCabe’s testimony. McCabe made the point that the investigation into Russian collusion goes on, even without James Comey. According to McCabe there has been no effort to impede it. Comey’s firing had nothing to do with taking resources away from the Russia investigation. Also, the only people who mention Russia are the Democrats. Russia was never mentioned by the Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General or President Trump in their correspondence. Can Chuck Schumer give us one name of one Russian, Trump colluded with? No and the Democrats can't give us a single federal criminal statute violated by Trump. What’s even more disgusting than the Democrats are the Republicans, who don't stand up and fight and they join in against Trump. These hearings don’t appear to be helping the Democrats very much. After that, Comey’s call not to prosecute Hillary Clinton frustrated many FBI agents. Some of those were very vocal about these concerns. Who were they and why don’t we hear anything from them?

5/10/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

Anyone attempting to compare James Comey’s firing to Nixon’s Saturday night massacre is a legal and historical illiterate. One key difference is in the context of the two narratives. Trump wasn’t, like Nixon, attempting to stop a special prosecutor from doing his job. Rather, he was following the advice of the memo drafted by deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein, a career prosecutor confirmed by an overwhelming bipartisan majority in the Senate. Who do you trust? This deputy attorney general, who has spent a lifetime in the law, or Chuck Schumer, a partisan political hack, who has spent a lifetime as a demagogue? Also, Democrats want a special prosecutor to look into the reasons for Trump firing Comey. If we are going to appoint a special prosecutor, appoint one to prosecute Hillary Clinton and her mishandling of classified information. After that, did Trump issue an order saying no more investigation of Russia collusion? No. Can Schumer name one Russian who colluded with Trump to help him win election? He can’t because there wasn’t one. James Clapper has said there is no evidence of collusion. However, there is lots of evidence that the Obama Administration surveilled the Trump campaign. Finally, David Garrow calls in to discuss his new book, “Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama”. The book explains that before Michelle, Barack asked another woman to marry him, but politics got in the way.

5/9/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

James Comey has been informed by President Trump that he has been terminated. Trump acted on the recommendation of AG Jeff Sessions and Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein has been determined that Comey cannot not effectively lead the bureau and there is now a search for new leadership. This is obviously about Comey's decision in July of 2016 to release information and lay out the case for not indicting Hillary Clinton. Notice that Barack Obama didn’t fire him. Comey was a loose cannon and drama king. Also, the Democrats, in chorus, are now claiming that Comey's firing compels the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate Russia, among other things. Totally predictable. The Democrats and the media will try to turn this into a Watergate-like scandal despite the complete lack of any parallels. They are all excited with their talking points of Russia, the Saturday Night Massacre all over again, and Watergate. And the media are very upset that it was not leaked in advanced to them. The truth is, Comey should have been fired and Hillary Clinton should have been indicted. She endangered our national security through her careless handling of emails. She set up a private server in her home to get around the official system and violated the federal statute and tried to cover it up. Trump needs to go on offense and call out Chuck Schumer and the Democrats for the politicization of this.

5/8/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

The General Michael Flynn hearing is exactly how you destroy an American citizen. Former Acting AG Sally Yates is suggesting Flynn has done something wrong, but no one will say what it is he’s done and Flynn wasn’t even there to defend himself. Don’t you think that because somebody leaked the identity of Flynn that they would have leaked what he said. Yates said she was concerned about Flynn because she and the DOJ knew he wasn’t being forthright with Vice President Pence and knew Flynn could be blackmailed by the Russians. So the DOJ was in fact informed about the unmasking of Flynn. We can’t have the government leaking this stuff. Yates says she can't reveal in an open setting about the unmasking of Flynn. This suggests that she had other discussions over what and who was in that report. In addition, when you consider that the Democrats have worked with Russians over the decades this Flynn stuff looks like small potatoes. Ted Kennedy actually did commit treason and corresponded with Soviet agents. Did Flynn deal with Soviet agents? No. There is no evidence of collusion between Mike Flynn and Russia or Trump and Russia. Also, Sen John Kennedy grilled Yates, who was fired by President Trump after refusing to enforce his executive order on immigration. Yates’ job was to presume that President Trump’s executive order was constitutional, as the office of legal counsel concluded, and enforce the order on behalf of the government and the people of the United States. The Constitution supported President Trump’s executive order and Yates and the Democrats didn’t care. Finally, Landmark Legal filed a request with the FISA court for an investigation into leaks against President Trump involving Russia. This request was denied. This could mean that there is no effective FISA warrant in place or the FISA he judge has already ordered an investigation.

5/5/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

Does the Republican healthcare plan repeal Obamacare or any significant part of it? Some say it repeals taxes, but so does actually addressing tax policies. Republicans needed a win and that seemed to be their only goal. The American Healthcare Act is still government healthcare with subsidies. The Republican Party now supports federal government run healthcare. Republicans are for serving Socialism through debt whereas Democrats do it by raising taxes. The utopian goal of a single payer system by the Democrats is what is creating this problem in the first place. How do you make healthcare more affordable? You drive down costs through innovation and competition. That is what we used to do. Later, Donald Berwick (former Obama Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) let the cat out of the bag in 2008 when he said any civilized healthcare must redistribute wealth. And who will decide what polices you can have or what care you can get? The government. Also, Obamacare for the left is not about healthcare or preexisting conditions, but is about a constant push to a centralized state. We can never go back to healthcare system largely uncontrolled by the federal government. The statists won’t give up the reins of power because they are the evil masterminds. They wrap it all in the notion of compassion and standing up for the little guy. Whatever the issue is, the agenda is to drive us away from individual liberty and constitutionalism. The principles of our Founders and those written in the Declaration of Independence are largely rejected.

5/4/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

The biggest news on Thursday is that the Texas statehouse just passed an Article V, Convention of States Resolution and they are the 11th state to do so. As we get closer to 20 states this will be the biggest issue to restore the Constitution. The left is getting ramped up and ready for attacks and so are some conservative media. After that, you have Democrats are going on and on about deaths that are going to happen because of the Republican healthcare bill passed in the House. Then you have Republicans claiming that they are on their way to completely repealing Obamacare. Both parties are lying. The American Healthcare Act (AHCA) is about 90% Obamacare and does not repeal Obamacare’s cost driving mandates. It actually increases federal tax subsidies for preexisting conditions, which will become a slush fund. The AHCA is not a private competitive system and does not repeal or significantly change the structure of Obamacare. Later, there is no escaping tragedy, the question is how to deal with it. The leftists take these horrific situations and nationalize them as if the government will fix them. Someone should remind Jimmy Kimmel that the vast majority of doctors and nurses do not work for the federal government. They along with hospitals, lifesaving drugs, health technologies and the vast majority of health care are provided by the private sector. Finally, President Trump tweeted out that Susan Rice refusing to testify is not good and he is exactly right. Democrats are saying they are only interested in Trump and Russia. They do not want to look into the use of Obama’s domestic surveillance.

5/3/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

In order to accomplish anything meaningful going forward, the Republicans and its members must adopt a more radical, but realistic, approach to address the progressive status quo in American politics and culture. Too many conservatives have simply accepted as effective power the minor concession of the progressives as they drive the political and cultural agenda. The reason for all this capitulation on almost everything in the GOP platform? Consent by silence on behalf of conservatives and Republicans. We live within the construct of the progressive movement, not within the constitutional structure that was established at the founding. Rather than confront the Left at the base of their arguments, Republican officials by and large live in fear of principles they proclaim at election time but reject at governing time. As a result, they’ve become accomplices to the will of their supposed adversaries who rotely repeat the propaganda of the Democrat party and the progressive movement. After that, James Comey said he had to do what he did with Hillary Clinton or risk the credibility of the justice system. But the problem is that Comey is wrong and it is self-serving. He changed the statute of gross negligence by his own intentional misinterpretation of it. Hillary purposely evaded security measures at the State Department and what she did with setting up a private server was unconscionable. What Comey should have done was propose that Hillary be indicted. In addition, Susan Rice decided not to testify before a Senate subcommittee on the alleged Russian hacking. She refused to testify because the senior Democrat on the subcommittee, Sheldon Whitehouse, was not involved in the invitation. Rice considers Lindsey Graham's invite a diversionary tactic. Why is Rice clamming up and why is Sheldon Whitehouse covering for her? To add, Jimmy Kimmel shared a very moving story about his baby’s heart surgery to show that everybody should have access to doctors and hospitals. Would his son have survived, had he been treated under the UK healthcare system which is what the left wants here? Does Kimmel truly understand what he is advocating for? Finally, President Obama in 2016, massively expanded efforts to search NSA intercepts for information on Americans. Government officials in 2016 carried out over 30,000 searches for information about Americans. Who is going to look in into this?