Latest / The M&M Experience / A Ceasefire in Iran ... So Now What?
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- 0:01Speaker 1: One talk show guy. I love Mark Levin to a
- 0:03Speaker 1: talk show guy. I really love our buddy. Mike Gallagher
- 0:06Speaker 1: joins us in Tampa. There he is, and yesterday he
- 0:09Speaker 1: did his actual show and that was Combat Pay. Because
- 0:13Speaker 1: you were sort of under the weather, we weren't able
- 0:15Speaker 1: to do this yesterday, and that means I was not
- 0:17Speaker 1: able to say happy birthday to my buddy.
- 0:20Speaker 2: Sixty six is the new forty two? How you doing? Man?
- 0:23Speaker 3: Well? I hope you're right. I mean, I was going
- 0:25Speaker 3: to ask you, is there a year? You're a little
- 0:27Speaker 3: ahead of me, So is there a year?
- 0:29Speaker 2: Yeah, sixty eight?
- 0:30Speaker 3: Is there a Did any year in the last ten
- 0:33Speaker 3: years hit you harder than others?
- 0:34Speaker 1: No, none of them do. I mean, numerically, it's kind
- 0:38Speaker 1: of funny. As someone once told me, age is just
- 0:41Speaker 1: a number, a really really big number. It is as
- 0:46Speaker 1: long as I feel like a kid, as long as
- 0:48Speaker 1: I got basic health, as as I don't know, man,
- 0:52Speaker 1: I just feel great, and I'm just so grateful every day.
- 0:55Speaker 1: And I remember when I was twenty, I thought thirty
- 0:59Speaker 1: or forty seemed really old.
- 1:00Speaker 2: When I was forty sixty.
- 1:02Speaker 1: It's just a moving goalpost that always travels and with
- 1:05Speaker 1: you youth full exuberants like yours.
- 1:08Speaker 3: You got nothing to worry about. I feel great, and
- 1:10Speaker 3: I appreciate that. I was just why for some reason.
- 1:13Speaker 3: Sixty six it was kind of like it got my attention.
- 1:15Speaker 3: Sixty five didn't really, sixty didn't bother me. Sixty six,
- 1:19Speaker 3: I don't know. It's just kind of like I got
- 1:20Speaker 3: some miles on this buick, you know, and I'm starting
- 1:22Speaker 3: to think about the miles that are that are adding up,
- 1:25Speaker 3: and you start thinking about your mortality, you start thinking about,
- 1:29Speaker 3: you know, your loved ones, and what mark, if any,
- 1:33Speaker 3: you've left on this crazy planet of ours. So, anyway,
- 1:37Speaker 3: but thank you for the greetings, and sorry I missed
- 1:39Speaker 3: you yesterday. I want to try to follow the bouncing ball.
- 1:43Speaker 3: So in January of this year, the mantra was, Iran
- 1:48Speaker 3: is slaughtering Iranians. Trump must act, he's abandoning them. Taco Taco,
- 1:54Speaker 3: Trump always chickens out. February Trump acts, he had no
- 1:59Speaker 3: right to bomb them. This is illegal, these are war crimes, reckless,
- 2:02Speaker 3: this is warmongering. April, he gives Iran two weeks to
- 2:06Speaker 3: reach an agreement or face more strikes, and they're now
- 2:08Speaker 3: they're screaming, h Taco Taco Iran Won Mark. These aren't
- 2:13Speaker 3: serious people. You can't keep up with any of them. Look,
- 2:17Speaker 3: I almost have more respect right now for this weird
- 2:21Speaker 3: former MAGA faction that is just all against him now regularly,
- 2:27Speaker 3: because at least they're consistent. How can you complain on
- 2:31Speaker 3: Monday that or Tuesday rather that he shouldn't be threatening to,
- 2:35Speaker 3: you know, their civilization, and he's out of his mind.
- 2:38Speaker 3: And look and oh my gosh, he's gonna nuke Iran.
- 2:41Speaker 3: And then when he achieves a two week ceasefire, he
- 2:44Speaker 3: chickened out. He's terrible for chickening Mark. Honestly, you cannot
- 2:49Speaker 3: take these folks seriously. Why try, Why even bother anymore?
- 2:54Speaker 3: Because that's Trump's attitude. I can't I can't keep these
- 2:57Speaker 3: people in.
- 2:57Speaker 1: Fact, In fact, there was a reporter who asked him
- 2:59Speaker 1: earlier this week, what do you say to critics who
- 3:02Speaker 1: say and he shut back, I don't care about critics. Yes, exactly,
- 3:05Speaker 1: that's exactly his effectiveness. And within the same calendar day,
- 3:09Speaker 1: there's this great clip there I can find fifty I'm
- 3:11Speaker 1: sure of California Congressman Roe Conna twenty fifth Amendment it's
- 3:15Speaker 1: war crime.
- 3:16Speaker 2: It's terrible what he's about to do to Iran. This
- 3:19Speaker 2: is awful.
- 3:19Speaker 1: And then he achieves a two week pause and it's like, oh,
- 3:22Speaker 1: he gave in. We're surrendering to Iran's terms. I think
- 3:25Speaker 1: one of my favorites. I don't know who this was.
- 3:28Speaker 1: It was a woman in Congress who said, just because
- 3:31Speaker 1: we've achieved this two week pause doesn't mean he's fit
- 3:34Speaker 1: to serve. Just what in the world can you possibly do?
- 3:40Speaker 2: So? What do you so? What do you expect?
- 3:43Speaker 1: So putting that aside, to talk about the real world,
- 3:47Speaker 1: what happens in the next two weeks, you'll start from
- 3:49Speaker 1: people who say Iran's just going to rearm. It gives
- 3:52Speaker 1: them a breather. It also gives us a little bit
- 3:55Speaker 1: of a breather to make sure that we have our
- 3:56Speaker 1: ducks in a row, to have them straighten up in
- 4:00Speaker 1: fly right.
- 4:01Speaker 2: What's the meaning of the two weeks to you?
- 4:03Speaker 3: It's not going to be easy. In fact, the New
- 4:05Speaker 3: York Post just moments ago released a story saying that
- 4:09Speaker 3: Iran has been intercepted as warning ships despite the ceasefire,
- 4:13Speaker 3: that we're going to bomb you if you go through
- 4:15Speaker 3: the Strait of Hormuz without our permission, which is an
- 4:18Speaker 3: absolute violation of the ceasefire. And that's going to be problematic.
- 4:22Speaker 3: They're ideologically driven. These are not good faith actors, and
- 4:25Speaker 3: this is why this is such a difficult, challenging thing.
- 4:28Speaker 3: But I got a crazy idea, how about let's root
- 4:31Speaker 3: for America. How about let's try to lift up the
- 4:34Speaker 3: United States and the military and those in leadership right
- 4:38Speaker 3: now who are trying to navigate through these very, very difficult,
- 4:42Speaker 3: difficult issues. I'm not sure how this plays out. I
- 4:47Speaker 3: wouldn't bet against Donald Trump. I mean again, this is
- 4:50Speaker 3: a guy who forty years ago wrote a book about
- 4:53Speaker 3: called Art of the Deal that was all about giving
- 4:56Speaker 3: crazy demands and over the top expectations and then knowing
- 5:02Speaker 3: how to negotiate and get the other side to cry uncle. Well,
- 5:06Speaker 3: to some degree, Iron has done that, And make no mistake,
- 5:08Speaker 3: marks we're winning. I mean, we have decimated Iran's military,
- 5:12Speaker 3: we have wiped out their navy, We're keeping them from
- 5:15Speaker 3: getting their hands on a nuclear weapon. All the things
- 5:18Speaker 3: that people like Hillary promised to do if elected, Trump
- 5:22Speaker 3: is delivering on. He's doing that. So you just have
- 5:24Speaker 3: to ignore the critics. You have to ignore the noise,
- 5:27Speaker 3: and you have to ask yourself, why in the world
- 5:29Speaker 3: would anybody want to vote for another Democrat again? Have
- 5:32Speaker 3: you seen the story of what happened here in Florida
- 5:35Speaker 3: Near Fort Myers, Florida. A Haitian illegal immigrant, released into
- 5:40Speaker 3: the United States by the Biden administration's open border lacks
- 5:43Speaker 3: immigration policies, took a hammer and bludgeoned to death a
- 5:49Speaker 3: clerk outside a convenience store. Fifty one year old woman's
- 5:53Speaker 3: this lunatic Haitian illegal is out in the car smashing
- 5:57Speaker 3: her car with a hammer, so she under standalby goes
- 6:00Speaker 3: out into the parking lot. It's all caught on camera
- 6:03Speaker 3: in broad daylight. Mark. He takes the hammer and bashes
- 6:06Speaker 3: her head in kills her broad daylight, right seven to
- 6:10Speaker 3: twenty in the morning. Guy was an illegal again, an
- 6:13Speaker 3: illegal immigrant admitted during the Biden administration's lacks policies. Mark,
- 6:18Speaker 3: How many of these stories? How many of these stories
- 6:21Speaker 3: are going to have to happen before the American people
- 6:23Speaker 3: say there's no way we could elect another Democrat again.
- 6:26Speaker 3: For crying out loud, it's their policies that led to this.
- 6:30Speaker 3: Fifty one year old Robert this poor fifty one year
- 6:35Speaker 3: old woman to get her head blood smashed in by
- 6:38Speaker 3: an illegal It's got to stop. Mark. This is some madness.
- 6:42Speaker 1: It is, and for some horrible reason, the reaction, the
- 6:45Speaker 1: proper human reaction, only happens within the bubble. I don't
- 6:49Speaker 1: want to and by that I mean our conservative bubble.
- 6:51Speaker 1: I don't want to sit here and say that only
- 6:52Speaker 1: conservatives care about, you know, human life, and that liberals,
- 6:57Speaker 1: by their nature are blind and and willfully ignoring horrible
- 7:02Speaker 1: things like this and the reason why these things happen.
- 7:05Speaker 1: It's a big ask to tell the half of America
- 7:10Speaker 1: that's Democrat or Democrat adjacent to admit a seething failure
- 7:16Speaker 1: of the open borders that are the official position of
- 7:20Speaker 1: your party, because in fact, it's asking every Democrat to
- 7:24Speaker 1: go full fetterment.
- 7:26Speaker 2: And look what's happening to him. I don't know.
- 7:28Speaker 1: I don't know if he'll survive a Democrat primary in Pennsylvania.
- 7:32Speaker 1: We would there are Republicans who are probably more liberal
- 7:35Speaker 1: than Fetterman on some issues. I think we'd welcome him
- 7:38Speaker 1: in as a as a Republican if he wanted to switch.
- 7:41Speaker 1: But you're asking for basic earth logic and basic nerve
- 7:45Speaker 1: endings and a basic beating human heart from people who
- 7:48Speaker 1: have put an intentional pause on those things because they
- 7:52Speaker 1: hate Trump's guts and they don't want to admit that
- 7:54Speaker 1: he's right.
- 7:55Speaker 3: And it's all that, and that's all that drives it
- 7:57Speaker 3: is the hatred of one man. It's just a hatred
- 7:59Speaker 3: of one man. And at light and a wise friend
- 8:02Speaker 3: of mine says that hatred of Donald Trump makes smart
- 8:05Speaker 3: people mean are dumb. It makes nice people mean, it
- 8:08Speaker 3: makes funny people unfunny. It's the Mark Davis rule about TDS.
- 8:12Speaker 2: And you're right.
- 8:13Speaker 3: I mean, you would think there would be at least
- 8:15Speaker 3: a handful of Democrats who would possess some humanity and say, look,
- 8:19Speaker 3: this can't happen again. You see that, and the video
- 8:23Speaker 3: have you seen it? It is horrifying. This poor woman
- 8:27Speaker 3: she goes out and says, you know, what are you
- 8:29Speaker 3: doing to my car? And he takes the hammer and
- 8:31Speaker 3: he hits her over the head, knocks her unconscious. He
- 8:33Speaker 3: stands over her and he bashes her head in with
- 8:36Speaker 3: a hammer six more times. And this is a guy
- 8:38Speaker 3: who should he shouldn't be here, he shouldn't.
- 8:41Speaker 1: Ever bed so and taking a look in a granular,
- 8:45Speaker 1: microscopic way at what leads up to the midterms. You
- 8:49Speaker 1: had to be heartened as I was, because I did
- 8:51Speaker 1: not know officially this would happen. You have chronicled very
- 8:54Speaker 1: well what a weird and rough ride Republicans are having
- 8:57Speaker 1: in all these special elections. But who thank you voters
- 9:00Speaker 1: of Georgia District fourteen. You have given an actual Republican,
- 9:04Speaker 1: Clay Fuller about a twelve point win over the Democrat,
- 9:08Speaker 1: to be a Marjorie Taylor Green's successor.
- 9:11Speaker 2: So, hey, we got one.
- 9:12Speaker 3: We got one. But can I but I mean, not
- 9:14Speaker 3: be the wet blanket here? Can I point out you
- 9:17Speaker 3: just point you just said something pretty revealing He won
- 9:19Speaker 3: by twelve over the Democrat. I know that's a district
- 9:23Speaker 3: that that Marjorie Taylor Green and Trump took by about thirty.
- 9:27Speaker 3: You don't find a redor district. Something is going on
- 9:32Speaker 3: with these Democrat wins, especially when you go to earth
- 9:36Speaker 3: logic and you say that doesn't make any sense. What
- 9:39Speaker 3: did the world would would would would anybody vote in
- 9:41Speaker 3: a red district in Georgia for the Democrat With the
- 9:45Speaker 3: policies that we're seeing that are the catastrophic I don't
- 9:49Speaker 3: get it, Mark.
- 9:50Speaker 2: Is it hatred for Trump?
- 9:52Speaker 3: Is it just because of him?
- 9:54Speaker 2: You know what I think about thirty seconds.
- 9:56Speaker 1: I think everybody it's like the sentiment at the bottom
- 9:58Speaker 1: of a lake.
- 10:00Speaker 2: Everybody is all stirred up.
- 10:01Speaker 1: Gas prices wartime things are expensive. So I think that
- 10:05Speaker 1: that if we can have a period of calm when
- 10:07Speaker 1: the war, have the economy get back better, have gas
- 10:09Speaker 1: prices come down, things will look a lot better. From you,
- 10:14Speaker 1: love you, Happy Wednesday. Glad you're feeling better. He's It's
- 10:16Speaker 1: it's happy birthday plus one. So wish him that profusely.