Mark R. Levin's Blog, page 60

3/24/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

A big congratulations goes to the Freedom Caucus, the true constitutional conservatives, for stopping this disastrous RINOcare bill from passing. Republicans should be listening to the Freedom Caucus who took a principled stand, but instead are attacked. The Republican’s had 7 years to prepare for this to bring in different factions and address the fundamental problems of Obamacare. The problem is a big chunk of the Republican Party is utopian progressive and many do not want to repeal large parts of Obamacare, including HHS Secretary Tom Price. They voted 60 times to repeal but they refused to do it when they control both houses of Congress and the Presidency. If the Republican Party can’t repeal Obamacare how else will they deal with the other entitlements? In addition, the Democrats don’t have an answer because they helped cause it. The Democrats have destroyed our healthcare system and they are cheering today because they want to keep it destroyed. It is time for really smart conservative intellectuals and economists to begin to unravel what the left wing intellectuals did with the disastrous Obamacare. After that, President Trump’s comments on Friday were outstanding as he showed enormous humility on the defeat of the Republican replacement bill. It was a mistake for Trump to get behind it but he is right that a better bill is going to come out of this.

3/23/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

Devin Nunes is under brutal attack because he has changed the narrative on the Trump-Obama surveillance story. These surveillance distribution activities and leaking is on the hands of the Obama administration. All the focus has been on President Trump, but he wasn’t conducting surveillance on Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. Now where are all supposed to trash Nunes because he had the brass to take this information to the White House. What Nunes took to the White House had nothing to do with Russia and none of the Republicans are coming to his defense. Are they demanding an investigation into this confirmed surveillance of the Trump transition team? No. Sen. John McCain, for one, is running around supporting the Democrats. After that, possibly, suspicious, may, appears, premature, largely circumstantial, not conclusive are all words that describe CNN reporting. This is pathetic and disgusting. These media reports are a joke and ideologically driven. All these investigative activities and all of these leaks occurred from and during and as a result of the Obama Administration. Later, some Republicans who were for the Paul Ryan health care proposal from day one have done nothing to improve it. This is not about Republicans, Democrats, politicians or bureaucrats but about the American people. The Republicans promised to rip out Obamacare by the roots and they are not doing it. Finally, we don’t know what kind of justice Neil Gorsuch will turn out to be, but he has been a superb candidate. The idea that Gorsuch is supposed to answer every trick question by Democrats to get confirmed is just a spectacle. Chuck Schumer is going to filibuster Gorsuch. This will be the second case in U.S. history that a Supreme Court nominee will be filibustered based on his judicial philosophy. The philosophy that Gorsuch has, is what constitutional conservatives believe, follow the Constitution.

3/22/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes has discovered that the intelligence community did collect information on American citizens involved in the Trump transition team. These innocent Americans’ names were unmasked and were widely disseminated around the intelligence community. These names were revealed in scores of reports that were brought to him by an unnamed source. In addition, this had nothing to do with Russia. If it is not in the course of an investigation between the Trump world and Russia why would the intelligence community have unmasked the names of U.S. citizens? Rather than protecting these American citizens the intelligence community chose to circulate them through intelligence reports. President Trump needs to see what is out there on him in these reports. The question should be who ordered this? Have you noticed how quiet members of the last administration have been? There is a conspiracy of left wing silence. If this had been the Obama transition team and we had any inkling of this kind of information, the media, and even Republicans would be very adamant about tracking it down. Later, Sen Mike Lee calls in to talk about the GOP’s replacement plan for Obamacare. People pushing this bill seem determined to get it to pass even though it’s a bad bill. What is it about Republicans that they abandon repealing Obamacare? We want more choices. Federalism and free markets bring about more competition and bring costs down. Adding amendments to this bill is not going to fix its fundamental flaws. Also, a lot of congressman have been told this is the best we can do under current Reconciliation rules, but this is not true.

3/22/17-Mark Levin Audio Network

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes has discovered that the intelligence community did collect information on American citizens involved in the Trump transition team. These innocent Americans’ names were unmasked and were widely disseminated around the intelligence community. These names were revealed in scores of reports that were brought to him by an unnamed source. In addition, this had nothing to do with Russia. If it is not in the course of an investigation between the Trump world and Russia why would the intelligence community have unmasked the names of U.S. citizens? Rather than protecting these American citizens the intelligence community chose to circulate them through intelligence reports. President Trump needs to see what is out there on him in these reports. The question should be who ordered this? Have you noticed how quiet members of the last administration have been? There is a conspiracy of left wing silence. If this had been the Obama transition team and we had any inkling of this kind of information, the media, and even Republicans would be very adamant about tracking it down. Later, Sen Mike Lee calls in to talk about the GOP’s replacement plan for Obamacare. People pushing this bill seem determined to get it to pass even though it’s a bad bill. What is it about Republicans that they abandon repealing Obamacare? We want more choices. Federalism and free markets bring about more competition and bring costs down. Adding amendments to this bill is not going to fix its fundamental flaws. Also, a lot of congressman have been told this is the best we can do under current Reconciliation rules, but this is not true.

3/21/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

There was a horrific situation involving the alleged rape of a 14 year old high school girl by 17 and 18 year old men from El Salvador and Guatemala, one of who is here illegally. These atrocities continue to happen because of America’s current open door policies. The book “Men In Black” showcased how illegal immigration became normalized in the country and how illegals continue to receive benefits once they entered the country under the guise of the Equal Protection Clause in the Constitution.The court has nationalized the issue of immigration and has taken it away from Congress and it began in the 1960s. Free schooling, welfare benefits, in state tuition. Virtually every benefit that is available to American citizens is also available to illegal immigrants. After that Mark Meadows, Chairman of the Freedom Caucus calls in to talk about Obamacare and the GOP’s effort to replace it. We are not doing anything to bring the cost of healthcare down and are just throwing federal dollars at it. The American Healthcare Act doesn’t get us to a free market healthcare system and requires all these magical mandates for the consumer and insurance companies. Republican leadership doesn’t really want to appeal Obamacare. They are just using propaganda to get it through. Later, Jeffrey Lord, Contributor at Conservative Review, calls in to discuss how the left wants to transform the judiciary. It doesn’t make any difference who the nominee is, these leftists have stolen what once was a dignified process. Finally, Craig Shirley calls in to talk about his book, Reagan Rising: The Decisive Years, 1976-1980.

3/20/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

The House Intelligence Committee hearing Monday was pointless. The Committee neglected to ask the important questions. Why wasn’t FBI Director James Comey and NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers asked about the NY Times reports about Obama White House officials receiving intelligence information and spreading it with various agencies and who were the source of those leaks? The Russians did try to interfere with our elections, but we already knew that, that’s not the issue. The issue is the conduct of these agencies, who has been leaking, what information was shared, and who shared it. If Comey can’t assure the American people that the leaks will go uninvestigated, how come it’s fine for Comey and the FBI to investigate alleged Trump and Russia ties? Also, the Russians we are told, wanted Trump to win because they hated Hillary Clinton. Can anybody name a single policy that Hillary Clinton had that was truly harmful to the ambitions of Vladimir Putin and the Russian government? Finally, the purpose of the Constitution is to defend the individual and his or her liberty and create a government that supports that. The phrase, “living and breathing Constitution”, is always promoted by progressives. An activist court that upheld Plessy vs. Ferguson believed in a living and breathing Constitution, so did FDR with the internment of Japanese Americans and the court that upheld the Roe vs Wade decision. You want judges to apply the facts, not a living and breathing ideology. Having an originalist interpretation of the Constitution like Neil Gorsuch has nothing to do with supporting slavery, or being anti woman.

3/20/17-Audio Rewind

The House Intelligence Committee hearing Monday was pointless. The Committee neglected to ask the important questions. Why wasn’t FBI Director James Comey and NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers asked about the NY Times reports about Obama White House officials receiving intelligence information and spreading it with various agencies and who were the source of those leaks? The Russians did try to interfere with our elections, but we already knew that, that’s not the issue. The issue is the conduct of these agencies, who has been leaking, what information was shared, and who shared it. If Comey can’t assure the American people that the leaks will go uninvestigated, how come it’s fine for Comey and the FBI to investigate alleged Trump and Russia ties? Also, the Russians we are told, wanted Trump to win because they hated Hillary Clinton. Can anybody name a single policy that Hillary Clinton had that was truly harmful to the ambitions of Vladimir Putin and the Russian government? Finally, the purpose of the Constitution is to defend the individual and his or her liberty and create a government that supports that. The phrase, “living and breathing Constitution”, is always promoted by progressives. An activist court that upheld Plessy vs. Ferguson believed in a living and breathing Constitution, so did FDR with the internment of Japanese Americans and the court that upheld the Roe vs Wade decision. You want judges to apply the facts, not a living and breathing ideology. Having an originalist interpretation of the Constitution like Neil Gorsuch has nothing to do with supporting slavery, or being anti woman.

3/17/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

President Donald Trump mentioned a “talented lawyer” who spoke on Fox News and immediately certain news outlets said that Mark Levin was the one Trump was referring to. That was not Mark but Judge Napolitano. This shows how corrupt, partisan, incompetent, and diabolical the media in this country is. They cannot help but lie deceive and insinuate, because Mark exposed them. The media needs to be held to account on the so called Trump and Russia ties. They have been caught red handed including the New York Times, the Guardian, CNN, BBC and others. You have to be the lowest of the low to promote a left wing meme that somehow the Russians were in collusion with Trump. They keep pushing it out there to delegitimize Trump and his election. We know that Barack Obama wasn't wiretapping Trump's phone calls. Now we want to know if the media’s past reports on Russia and Trump collusion are true. Now the media is trying to reverse course. Were they lying to the American people or were they telling the truth? After that, 5 judges on the 9th circuit went out of their way to rebuke their 3 colleagues on the 9th Circuit panel who decided to block Trump's travel ban. The judges who blocked Trump now are applauded for what they do by the liberal media. This is a rogue judiciary and tyranny. If we can’t rely on judges to be judges, we are living in a third world banana republic.

3/16/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

President Trump’s budget proposal is overall oustanding, however the one part of the bill you won't hear discussed in the liberal media is the debt. The national debt is out of control, but the left-wing media doesn’t care. Instead they will act as the Praetorian guard of big government and viciously attack any attempt to reign in profligate, wasteful federal spending. This is unsustainable. After that, the media is putting out statements by Intelligence Committee members saying Obama didn’t order the wiretaps. The fact that these chairmen said what we already knew is of no consequence. Information was shared with the White House about the Trump campaign. What was the information? We have a right to know what police state tactics happened and now the media just wants us to move along. Later, there are people in this country who want to use power to destroy our liberty and they are succeeding. Conservatives are not dividing the country, the left is dividing the country. They want to use the iron fist. to impose their will. Those of us who push back shouldn’t be apologizing. We have to be smarter and more resolute. Finally, if you are below the poverty line, rather than expand Medicaid, people should get vouchers to buy their own private health insurance policies. This would help unleash these companies to create all kinds of policies, that don’t need the approval of government.

3/15/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

There is no evidence that Barack Obama ordered a wiretap of President Donald Trump in Trump Tower. However this is not the issue. The issue at hand isn’t whether Obama ordered any sort of surveillance on Trump or his team, it’s whether he knew anything about it. News accounts are pretty condemnatory of what the Obama administration was up to. What is curious about all this is that the media is not tracking down Obama, Loretta Lynch or Obama staffers to get to the bottom of the story. The media let the Obama administration get away with it. In addition, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes is concerned about the incidental collection of individuals tied to the Trump campaign and unmasking of Americans names for political purposes. Regular Americans want to get to the bottom of this. Later, did Rachel Maddow commit a felony in disclosing Trump’s tax returns from 2005 on her show? It is a close call. She has First Amendment rights, but it doesn’t mean that she is immune from criminal charges. After that, a federal judge, Derrick Watson, in Hawaii blocked Trump’s new travel ban, hours before it went into effect. We have judicial anarchy taking place right now where judges are seizing plenary authority from the President on immigration. There is nothing unconstitutional, racist or bigoted about what Trump is trying to do. We have to admit in this country that progressives have won so we can fight back. Ben Shapiro of the Daily Wire calls in to discuss the travel ban in more detail.