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3/14/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

Vice President Mike Pence called into discuss the Republican health insurance reform plan and the repeal of Obamacare. Pence said that the American Healthcare Act will give Americans the ability to choose what kind of insurance they want to have. He expects that this will help us unleash the full power of the national market place. This plan is better than what the left would do, but it is not good enough. However, Pence said there are several amendments that will be added to the bill this week from conservative members of Congress that will hopefully fix critical errors in the legislation. This Healthcare Act will still leave the pillars of Obamacare largely intact. The Republican healthcare plan is not a repeal and it is not a more free market oriented system. They have a lot of smoke and mirrors built into this and are using propaganda to promote it. We will still be subsidizing people who are required to purchase health insurance approved by the federal government. The plans have to be within a certain required type of policy, such as young adults remaining on their parents’ policy until 26 and preexisting conditions. Later, Republicans are exposing themselves when it comes to repealing Obamacare. Progressive Republicans like Ileana Ros-Lehtinen are not supporting the American Healthcare Act because not enough of their constituents will be covered. After that, Bernie Sanders is claiming that the Healthcare Act being passed will result in the death of thousands of Americans. This is ridiculous. Actually, Obamacare is responsible for people dying. Rationing has already begun especially with our senior citizens and veterans. Finally, John Heubusch calls in to talk about his new book, The Shroud Conspiracy: A Novel.

3/13/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

Early in our Republic, the press aligned with one party or cause and would identify themselves as such. Today too many media outlets are simply dishonest about who they are and what they are doing. They claim to be journalists, pursuing facts but all too frequently that’s not the case. When you dress up partisan politics as freedom of the press, it’s destructive to freedom of the press. It’s time to focus on those abusing their power and more thoroughly call them to account. Also, Sen Mike Lee calls in to discuss the Republican replacement healthcare bill, which has ended up as something different than Obamacare repeal. It’s half repeal and half replace, which is a disaster. He’s pretty sure this bill, as of right now, won’t pass the House or the Senate. Later, John Solomon calls in to explain that the FBI investigated a Trump server in its Russia probe, but no charges are expected. If you were watching CNN you would swear there are connections between Russia and Trump but the FBI has found little evidence. Finally, the big news today is that after 3 years the Arizona state legislator passed convention of states resolution, making it the ninth state to do so. This movement has gone under the radar but if we can get 20 states people will start to realize this is a real movement.

3/10/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

Full repeal of Obamacare through the budget reconciliation process in the Senate is possible and they can do it with 51 votes. Paul Ryan even said on the Mark Levin show in 2012 that 85% of Obamacare could be repealed through this process. But neither the House nor the Senate, have even attempted to pass a full repeal of the law through this process. So why won’t the Republicans do this? Because there are so many moderates and liberals in the Republican party that some of them want some aspects of Obamacare to stay. Also, the NY Times pushed sleazy reporting with their February 14th piece – “Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence.” If there was no evidence of cooperation in their story then why write it? This is a smear job with innuendo and comingling of information with selective leaks. The media are caught red-handed in their propaganda. They wanted so badly to find something nefarious placing Trump’s campaign in cahoots with Russia that they engaged in Alinksy-like journalism tactics. Now, they have completely pivoted. The media are backed into a corner and all they can do is try and flip the story. Finally, AG Jeff Sessions fired 46 Obama appointed U.S Attorneys and the media is trying to make this out to be a scandal. Was there a scandal when Janet Reno fired 93 U.S. Attorneys in 1993 under Bill Clinton? A President has the right to pick his own appointees who he can trust to carry out his policy.

3/9/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

Paul Ryan is way off on RINOcare and not answering any important questions. How much will the average premium or deduction go up or down? How much will the federal government be spending on subsidies for certain individuals? Where is it written that Ryan or President Trump can tell us what kind of insurance we can have? At the end of the day, the problem with RINOcare is that it embraces the Left’s assumption that government involvement is needed to make health insurance affordable. It embraces progressivism and centralization. Republicans have blown it. There is something horribly immoral about RINOcare. Also, Ryan is targeting conservatives, not democrats, with ads promoting RINOcare. Once again the establishment is against conservatives. Later, Sen Ben Cardin, who is Jewish, came out against David Friedman as Trump’s pick for Israeli ambassador. This is a prime example of how liberal Democrats put their party ideology first before their religion.

3/8/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

President Trump is 100% behind the RINOcare replacement plan, which is a combination of establishment Republicans and the Trump administration pushing a massive government program. This plan will create a massive amount of regulation that will have a devastating impact on the economy. They are leaving price hike regulations in place and getting rid of the individual mandate, and then putting in place a 30% fine for those who don’t have insurance and decide to come back in. In addition, there will be tax credits, where the tax payer is going to be subsidizing an enormous amount of money. How will we ever move towards a completive market system for insurers to market to the middle? Also, the government is throwing money at the states to help them deal with high risk pools but it won’t be enough. The Republican plan doesn't address the cost increasing mandates and it will affect Republicans at the ballot box. Why are the Republicans talking like liberals to get their big government program through? Conservative’s opposition is not based on purism or perfectionism but based on promises to fully roll back the core pillars of Obamacare which are hurting the country. After that, GOP leaders, like Steve Scalise are trying to shore up support for the bill are sending a dire message to conservatives. He’s telling principled constitutional conservatives that they have 2 choices, either you support Donald Trump who supports the American Healthcare Act, or you support Nancy Pelosi and Obamacare. These Republicans are acting like leftists and are creating a false dilemma. Later, Jim Jordan calls in to discuss his effort in fighting RINOcare. Finally, the fact that it was revealed that there were wiretaps on a Russian ambassador is outrageous. Why did the New York Times put a story out there about wiretapping if it wasn’t true? What was the point of the story? It was to create suspicion and a false impression.

3/7/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

The problem with the Republican RINOcare healthcare plan is that it is not a market-oriented plan. The substance of this thing is politics through and through. Republicans embraced the progressive agenda, and Barack Obama and the Democrats have won. The worst part is that the Republicans are dressing their RINO plan up with conservative propaganda. Every one of the Obamacare fundamentals is being preserved, because Republicans fear being blamed. In addition, more and more of our society and what the government does revolves around the centralization of power, because the people are apparently too stupid to decide for themselves what kind of healthcare they need. Now, we need politicians, professors and surrogates to develop our healthcare plans. Later, Daniel Horowitz, Senior Editor at Conservative Review, calls in to talk to explain that the new RINO care not only doesn’t replace Obamacare, it doesn’t repeal it either. Also, Rep Dave Brat of Virginia calls in to talk about his opposition to the Republicans replacement healthcare plan. After that, we are leaving our children and grandchildren a broken Social Security system, a broken healthcare system, broken education system and trillions of dollars of debt. We have gone from a nation that was consent of the governed to a nation where the government gets to make every decision for us. What kind of a country do we want to be? Finally, Chuck Todd sounds shocked to hear from James Clapper there were no FISA warrants issued. This is an important revelation. The media in the aggregate have reported about FISA warrants. They allowed this story to hang out there. Are the media so ideologically driven that they have to take ten sides on one issue? At the end of the day, whether there was FISA Court involvement or not or wiretaps or not, the media reported it.

3/6/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

The media have been caught in a web of contradictory lies when it comes to the FISA court issuing a warrant for wiretapping on President Trump’s 2016 campaign. Why is the media now denying that the Obama administration asked for FISA court warrants to surveil the Trump campaign? For weeks the media wanted us to believe that so serious were the connections between Trump, his campaign and Russia, that a probable cause standard was reached to launch wiretaps on Trump and his campaign. Now they would have you believe that there was no FISA warrant and no investigation. If there were no FISA court warrants issued last year, then why did the media report that there were for weeks? When is the media, including Jake Tapper, and Joe Scarborough going to track this down? Why didn’t Chuck Todd or Brian Stelter raise this issue about whether or not there were FISA court orders weeks ago? The media were basing their information on anonymous sources. The media is so ideologically driven they can't even get their story straight. In addition, James Clapper former Director of National Intelligence denied there was a FISA court order. If Clapper is telling the truth, it helps Trump and his presidency. It shows that not only was there nothing, but there was never anything there. After that, is this a criminal investigation or intelligence investigation? You won’t get any help in answering this question from the newspapers such as the New York Times. James Comey should come out with a statement to say, not only did Barack Obama not give an order to investigate the Trump campaign but there was no FISA warrant issued.

3/3/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

Dan Bongino Contributing Editor of Conservative Review fills in for Mark. All of a sudden the Democrats remember who the Russian ambassador was, because as a member of the Senate, Jeff Sessions met with him. Sessions has a reputation of being an upstanding and honest guy, even among Democrats. Now that he is Attorney General, all of a sudden he is dishonest. Democrats are using this as a false bludgeon to take out the Trump administration. This massive treasure trove of evidence against Sessions is nowhere to be found. In addition, an illegal wiretap on Gen Mike Flynn happened under the Obama administration. They were imbedding people in the bureaucracy. Before Barack Obama left office, those bureaucrats had a job to sabotage the incoming administration. They were there to violate federal law and release sensitive information. If this is allowed to happen without media exposure and investigation, what does this mean for our country going forward? No one thinks this is even a mild controversy, that there are people in the government committing felonies to take down President Donald Trump and his administration. This is what unprincipled people do. After that, the conservative movement is a proud movement. We want to keep our money, pick our own healthcare and choose where we send our kids to school. We don’t do what the left is doing. In addition, the Democrats are trying to make Trump look like the worst thing ever, which is their usual line about Republican presidents. You would think principles would take over and the liberals would see the truth. Fortunately, Republicans haven't changed their mind on Jimmy Carter, and FDR’s new deal. At least they are not trying to rewrite history and call destructive liberal policies great.

3/2/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has recused himself from the investigation between President Donald Trump and Russian ties. Did Sessions give 20'% of uranium to Russians like Hillary Clinton did? No, he didn’t do anything like that. He met with the ambassador as matter of his duty as a senator not as a surrogate for the Trump 2016 campaign. However, Republicans in the house and Senate insisted that he recuse himself. You can bet Republicans will throw these guys overboard just like they did with Gen Mike Flynn. The left's desire to destroy this administration is insatiable, and they are not going to stop. Did Eric Holder or Loretta Lynch ever recuse himself on anything? This is so pathetic that Republicans are all over T.V. saying Sessions should recuse himself. Republicans like Kevin McCarthy are running for the hills whenever liberals attack. The bigger scandal here is that we've had Obama administration holdovers within intelligence agencies surveilling the Trump campaign and leaking information to the public, in hopes of getting Hillary Clinton elected. Those are police state tactics! Nothing Gen. Michael Flynn or Sessions have done are even in the same category as that. This is a massive scandal, the likes of which we have never seen. The real question should be, was Barack Obama as President using our intelligence services through the FISA court to gather information on their opponent? In addition, where did the information on Sessions come from? The Obama administration knew exactly what they were doing. They loosened NSA information gathering rules weeks before they left office. The information was then grabbed and spread to plants in the government. Finally, Dr. John Eastman, Law professor at Chapman Law School calls in to talk to discuss Trump’s fascination with Andrew Jackson. Jackson vetoed every bill by Congress that attempted to work on local and state projects.

3/1/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

President Donald Trump gave a terrific speech on Tuesday. It will resonate with most Americans because of the conservative aspects and the patriotic packaging of some liberal policy items like family leave and infrastructure spending. Of course liberals and Democrats are furious because Trump is politically hijacking their issues. Rather than trying to hang onto their constituents they are letting them go. However, it’s frustrating that Trump is trying to win the Reagan Democrats with big government policies. He should instead win them over with free market economics and unleashing the economy. Trump was extremely effective in advancing both conservative and liberal policies. Maybe this is what the American people want and what the Republican Party has become. In addition, there was not a single thing mentioned about the debt by Trump, the Democrats or Republicans. Nobody wants to talk about the debt because they created it. After that, the Democrats are despicable and acting like children during the speech. They still can’t accept the outcome of the election. Finally, it has been 5 years since Andrew Breitbart has passed away. He had an exceptional and brilliant way of communicating conservative ideals.