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12/7/16-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

75 years ago the United States was attacked at Pearl Harbor. Japan did severe damage but they knew America would not tolerate it and they feared they just awakened a sleeping giant – and they did. Those heroes fought for an America which cared about freedom, not top-down big government intervention. Also, big government subsidies are not true to Americans and freedom. The vast majority of Americans don’t get and don’t want subsidies. We don’t need a Mussolini type figure walking around determining which businesses will fail and which businesses will succeed, we don’t need that in America. We need freedom, and there’s too little of it. President-elect Donald Trump has a job to do, and his job is to get the government off our backs, we don’t need handouts from Trump. This isn’t a third world banana republic. Just get out of our way and let Americans do what they do best. Later, Soft Bank is going to invest $50 billion in America and create 50,000 new jobs supposedly. Trump thinks this is a good thing, but this will just increase the trade deficit America has. The overwhelming amount of trade deficit is people sending foreign assets into this country. Trump’s job is to put a leash on the government, not unleash the private sector. Finally, Trump should not be trashing Boeing. Boeing is an America company that employs American workers. Currently, they are in brutal competition with Airbus. Trump is going to be a very mixed bag over the next 4 years. Some of his instincts are excellent but others are poor.

12/6/16-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

The Democrats are threatening virtually every person President-elect Donald Trump is nominating to his cabinet, including General James Mattis. They are doing this, because of a 1947 statute that prohibits a former member of the armed forces from serving in a cabinet post within 7 years of retirement. What Trump and his team need to do is challenge this and bring it to the Supreme Court if necessary. The 1947 statute is not in the Constitution. Later, the Electoral College has nothing to do with slavery as Rep John Conyers says. The left wing tenured professors that claim this don’t know what they are talking about. Population should not dictate everything that happens in the U.S. The Framers of the Constitution rejected mobocracy, yet people still want it. Also, support for the Electoral College is the highest it has ever been in America over 49 years of polling according to Gallup. After that, when it comes to foreign policy the president-elect is free to speak to whomever he wants to. Trump spoke with the president of Taiwan and China is running to the U.N. to protest. While they are not going to start a war over it, Trump better start building the military as quickly as possible. We are not the provocateurs or imperialists, but as America we must not appease.

12/5/16-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

There is nothing irresponsible with President elect Donald Trump’s phone call with the President of Taiwan, it was outstanding. China is flexing its muscle, stealing mineral rights, claiming international waters and airspace and Trump can’t take a phone call from Taiwan’s president? China is not going to war over this, but now they understand that Trump is not President Obama when it comes to foreign policy. After that, there are some people who have revealed themselves as dishonest when it comes to capitalism. They are playing the populist game by pandering and promoting Trump’s trillion dollar infrastructure plan. Infrastructure stimulus is based on the Broken Windows Fallacy. When you take a trillion dollars out of the economy you have destroyed a trillion dollars in the private sector. This money could have created far more jobs than the state could. After that, Vice President elect Mike Pence has given up on capitalism and is now choosing authoritarianism when it comes to the economy. Protectionism is not capitalism but it is cronyism and authoritarianism. Finally, John Bolton is the absolute best candidate for the position of Secretary of State. Jon Huntsman, Bob Corker, Mitt Romney and other candidates would get eaten up by America’s enemies, such as China.

12/2/16-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

The purpose of the Constitution is to enable freedom of the individual and set up a government that nurtures our unalienable rights. It’s not meant to provide us with our material wants and needs. In order for the government to do that, someone else’s rights would have to be denied. In addition, progressives were the one who instituted tariffs in this country. The likes of FDR and Huey Long would agree with tariff and protectionist policies being proposed today. Tariffs don’t build an economy or encourage a freedom mentality. What President-elect Trump ought to do is unleash the economy so that more and more people get jobs and wealth is created. This is why Reaganites are needed in the Trump administration. Unfortunately, many conservatives don’t seem to understand this today. The Republican Party is regressing and we have lost sight of liberty. Many are getting caught up by the same class warfare of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. We should not contribute to the degradation that the left and President Obama have imposed on this country. America needs to embrace Reagan, Thatcher and freedom. Later, of course the left wingers in the Senate are not going to pass a statute to confirm General James Mattis for Secretary of Defense. Republicans better steam roll the minority on this one.

12/1/16-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

It appears that President-elect Donald Trump has a pen and a phone too. The president doesn’t have the power to control the economy and businesses, yet Trump wants to punish businesses who want to move overseas. This is a statist move that is in the mold of FDR, Herbert Hoover and Woodrow Wilson. If a president can browbeat a company like Carrier, than he can browbeat anyone. This attack on the private sector is not something that we as conservatives should support. On one hand the Trump administration wants to unleash the economy but on the other hand they want to use the iron fist to control it. Later, General James Mattis would be an excellent choice for Defense Secretary. The big question is the State Department. Do we want a mush as Secretary of State like Mitt Romney or Gen David Petraeus who doesn’t have a good understanding of foreign policy? Then we have Rudy Giuliani and John Bolton. Bolton will control the bureaucracy and has a solid understanding of foreign policy. He is the stand out choice for Secretary of State.

11/30/16-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

Leftist cities around the country, with the support of the Democratic Party and President Obama, are nullifying federal immigration law by stating that they will not cooperate with law enforcement agencies in enforcing immigration. They are behaving like Civil War-era pro-slavery states. By refusing to follow the law these Confederation cities and states are lawless. If confirmed Attorney General, Jeff Sessions should go into federal court and seek a court order compelling states to comply with federal law and enforce immigration law. If nullification is the new norm then it’s a new game. The left has far more to lose from nullification than anyone else. The left is all about Federal regulations and imposing their will on states and local communities. If they can nullify Federal Law than any other state can as well. After that, there’s nothing new about President Elect Trump’s plan to spend a trillion dollars on infrastructure. FDR, LBJ, Woodrow Wilson, Ike Eisenhower and President Obama have all spent like crazy. The money won’t even go to repairing roads or bridges but to new projects that the government comes up with. Later, it wasn’t tariffs or protectionism that is keeping Carrier in the U.S. It’s just the opposite, it was free enterprise and the promise of tax cuts and decreased regulations.

11/29/16-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

When it comes to Donald Trump’s cabinet, it’s make the Establishment and Goldman Sachs great again. With the nomination of Elaine Chao, the wife of Sen. Mitch McConnell, for Secretary of Transportation and Steven Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs employee, for Treasury Secretary, it’s quite obvious that President-elect Trump and the Republican Establishment are now partners. This is not Trump draining the swamp, this is the swamp draining Trump. Conservatives need to be more vigilant than ever. Has anyone seen any Sen Ted Cruz supporters nominated for cabinet positions? Trump hasn't had a good appointment since Mike Flynn, Jeff Sessions, and Mike Pompeo. At the end of the day personnel is policy. Without principled and loyal cabinet secretaries the Trump administration is putting itself in a failing position. After that, there is no mandate for populism, nationalism, and big government who picks winners and losers. . It was conservatives near the end who decided the winner of this election; we were the neithers. Later, Kellyanne Conway said the Trump election was a landslide. This is not the case as Trump is 44th in a line of presidents who won the Electoral College. He won 56.9% of the Electoral College and this is not a landslide by any historical measure.

11/28/16-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

Fidel Castro is finally dead. He murdered tens of thousands of innocent human beings, ran drugs, almost started a nuclear war and even banned Christmas. Now people like President Obama, Canadian PM Trudeau and leftists in America are heaping praise on him. The left in this country loves dictatorships as long as their side is in office. Progressives and socialists all have the taint of Marxism so they defend it. No one on the hard left will condemn Castro. After that, an 18 year-old Somali refugee, Abdul Razak Ali Artan drove a car into a group of people on the Ohio State campus then jumped from the car and slashed people with a machete before he was fatally shot by a hero police officer Alan Horujko. This police officer deserves the Presidential of freedom, not these millionaire actors and athletes. Later, Donald Trump won the presidency of the United States because he received most of the Electoral College votes. Now there is effort under way to smear Trump and the country and attack Trump’s mandate by a recount in some states. It’s the same left wing goon mentality that undermines our country and the Constitution. The goal of the left is to delegitimize the election results. This started with Al Gore after the 2000 election when he demanded a recount after losing to George W. Bush.

11/25/16 - Mark Levin Audio Rewind

Dan Bongino, Contributing Editor at Conservative Review fills in for Mark. There are a lot of people that conservatives can thank for the Donald Trump victory. Some of them include, the leftist agitators at Trump rallies, Jonathan Gruber, Paul Krugman and others on the left. In addition, those who wanted to agitate violence at Trump rallies only motivated Republicans to come out and vote for Trump. The agitators no longer have Walter Cronkite and others in the media to cover for their actions. Now they can be exposed by social media. Later, the left is having a total and complete meltdown over some of Trump’s appointments. Liberals are now outraged over the appointment of Myron Ebell to head the EPA. After that, the whole idea of the Electoral College was to prevent states like California, Texas, or New York from taking away the rights of smaller states. The Framers wanted the rest of the country to have a say in what was going on.

11/24/16 - Mark Levin Audio Rewind

We bring you the best of Mark Levin and wish you a very happy Thanksgiving. Congratulations to President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence. It was not Trump who defeated Hillary Clinton. Rather, the constitutional conservatives who went forth and voted for him are the real victors. Trump won by running on one of the most conservative policy records and agendas of any modern president. It wasn’t until later when we held his feet to the fire insisting that he embrace conservative principles that he was able to do so. Now it’s time to get to work on implementing that conservative agenda. And we’re going to insist that on these important conservative issues that this Republican monopoly advance our principles, the principles they said that they would institute. Also, the National Republican Senatorial Committee had nothing to do with the success of the Trump campaign. They didn’t even come out to support Darryl Glenn for Senate in Colorado. Glenn, an African American military veteran lost his race by 2%. The NRSC didn’t spend one penny on his race because they want to keep conservatives out. Finally, one thing Republicans and Democrats should be able to agree on is that FBI Director James Comey needs to be fired. Being an FBI director is not a job for a politician.