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I'm Sebastian Gorka and this is America First with our very special guest host, the voice of Dallas, Mark Davis.
There you go.
A good Wednesday to everyone.
It's the 17th of July.
Mark Davis in for Seb here in rainy Texas.
It's below 140 degrees.
We're thrilled.
And I'm thrilled about a lot of things.
I'm thrilled Trump's not dead.
I'm thrilled at the RNC.
I'm thrilled with last night's show of Unity.
Decidedly not thrilled with the Secret Service.
I want to compare notes Compare thoughts with you.
We got a bunch of guests including our colleague Mike Gallagher from Milwaukee and our number three.
A number of folks we respect.
We want to bounce some things off of but nobody more enthusiastically than with you.
You know the phone number 833-33 GORKA 833-334-6752.
Let's put that thing to use right now.
I'm gonna very rapid fire burst out with some questions for you.
We might be able to knock out a call or two even In this first segment, Jim Hansen's going to join us with Green Beret experience.
We're going to talk some security because there are just so many layers of what we need to talk about.
There's sort of convention stuff, Biden stuff.
There's Democrat news.
I mean, this enormous week of Republican news.
Are the Democrats looking to shoehorn the nomination into Joe Biden's lap in like the next couple of weeks so that they don't have to wait for the convention to do so, to make the Chicago convention that starts August 19th, to make that an afterthought.
An afterthought with rioting on the side, by the way.
The idea here is they can have either another 10 to 14 days of horrible internecine squabbling and blood on the walls and just horrible bad blood between the people who are fused to Biden and the people who absolutely know he's got to go.
That continues to be a very big deal in Democrat circles.
They'd love to wrap that up as soon as possible because no matter what happens, it's enormously counterproductive.
Have you noticed?
Have you noticed that Something about the moment the bullet hit Trump was the moment at which the replace Biden movement kind of had the air come hissing out of that.
It's like, oh, we got bigger fish to fry now.
Some people like to paint that as the Democrat Party saying, it doesn't matter.
We're going to lose anyway.
Which may be true.
I don't know.
You tell me.
In fact, literally, you tell me at 833-33-GORKA.
833-334-6752.
My questions to you are, what does this do for Trump?
What does this do for a movement that has had as its main fuel a very impassioned base, and yet this Convention has been a masterstroke of making the tent bigger in the way that I've always wanted.
It used to be that everybody who used to say, well, what the Republicans need is a big tent.
Most of the people saying that have meant be less conservative, attract the squish moderates.
Let's make the tent bigger that way.
I've always said, no, make the tent bigger by selling conservatism better, selling your candidate better.
And nobody sells Trump like Trump.
And this convention has done the most wonderful job of gathering people who might have been skeptical, people who ran against him, people who don't really like him like Nikki Haley, all now speaking with a unified voice.
It was absolutely wonderful.
In fact, let's get to a little bit of this and then we are going to go straight to your calls.
I have spent, Seb has spent, many of us have spent many, many minutes talking about we didn't want Nikki Haley to be the nominee.
We did certainly do not want Nikki Haley to be the running mate.
In fact, I even caught this this morning.
I'm the happy morning host here at 6.60 a.m.
the answer in Dallas Fort Worth and I still get people especially after last
night where she was a good soldier and did a very nice job.
Yeah, Mark, you know Nikki should have been the running mate. Stop it. Stop it.
I am so past this notion of you got to have a woman to attract women, you got to
have a black guy to attract blacks, you got to have Nikki Haley to attract the
the never Trump No.
No.
It is everybody's job to pull their heads out, look at Trump, realize he is the best answer, the only answer if you have a shred of conservatism, and his best partner is someone who can be a fellow traveler in the revolution that he has created.
This is a changed Republican party and you did not need to dial back and reach back
into somebody who speaks to the past and the globalism and all of this.
But look, I'm not gonna say bad things about Nikki Haley right now
because last night she was pretty great.
Cut eight, let's take a look.
My fellow Republicans, my fellow Republicans,
my fellow Republicans, President Trump,
my fellow Republicans, President Trump asked me to speak to this convention
in the name of unity.
It was a gracious invitation, and I was happy to accept.
I'll start by making one thing perfectly clear.
Donald Trump has my strong endorsement, period.
That's all I wanted. And listen, everybody's saying, well, she didn't really mean it,
or she's conflicted. I don't care. I'm not a mind reader. I don't care. Get out there,
say the right thing, do the right thing. I mean, if, you know, if she was making like,
you know, gagging gestures off stage, that would be one thing, but she didn't.
She was every bit the good soldier. And if people who don't like Trump very much at all,
and people who don't agree with him about everything, like this Amber Rose, who's kind
of a rapper, social media star with squillions of followers, and Matt Walsh, who I love.
Listen, all I ever do is talk about how awesome Matt Walsh is on gender and pretty well everything else.
He was fussing and moaning about, you know, she's pro-choice and she's this and she's that.
What?
She was there for one reason, to say all other things being equal, I think Trump's going to be a better president.
And if this convention, this party, this candidate, this running mate tonight, if they are about reaching beyond the MAGA base, we're good.
We're fine.
We're there.
We're all in.
We're ready to walk through fire and crawl on broken glass.
But if we can bring with us some people who might have a couple of ideologues, Let's hop to line one.
We are in New York.
Ted Mark Davison for Seb on America First.
How are you?
religious differences. But what we have in common is Trump is a better choice
than Biden. That's how you win. I have two words to say to anybody who feels that
way. Thank you. Thank you. Let me say thank you to some calls too. I think we
could wedge somebody in before we're done. Let's hop to line one. We are in New
York. Ted Mark Davison for Ceb on America First. How are you? Welcome and happy
Wednesday.
Thank you so much.
Listen, I don't understand how the President is directing or the Department of Homeland Security, as the direction of the President, directs our Secret Service.
The Secret Service should be above everybody when it comes to the security and safety of the president.
I mean, what do we got to do?
Hire the swift guard to keep the guy safe?
I know, I know.
Ted, thank you.
You've asked exactly the right question and it opens up so many other questions.
Where were the lines of demarcation of responsibility and Where did the perimeter end?
Whose job was it to make sure there was nobody on that roof?
The Secret Service, this Kimberly Cheadle, can she last the week?
Can she last the day?
She's apparently due in, but listen, apparently this afternoon there's some briefings behind closed doors.
And on Monday, the busiest man in college, in Congress, James Comer, So, shocker, hearings.
Here come some hearings.
Always more hearings.
But these are going to be good because it'll sit her down.
And I think the Republicans and Democrats might have some questions for the Secret Service Director, do you think?
There is a Secret Service narrative that is already, and I said on the local show, I said there's going to be bad finger pointing here.
There's going to be a lot of scapegoating and finger pointing because something really bad happened.
There were a lot of dropped balls.
There's no way this should have happened.
and I think the Secret Service, as I said a couple of days ago, is going to start to
blame local law enforcement.
I read a book called Five Presidents by Clint Hill, who you know from climbing up on top
of the Lincoln Continental as JFK was murdered.
He talks throughout that book.
It's great.
Five Presidents by Clint Hill.
And he talks about the interface between Secret Service and local law enforcement.
How important that is.
Well, something didn't happen, did it?
So, Mark Davidson for Seb.
Here's what is happening.
Lots of guests, lots of calls.
Join us as we talk about this amazing week in history.
We will continue.
Thank you.
It is America First with Dr. Sebastian Gorka, except not today.
Oh, it's still America First.
Seb's back tomorrow.
I'm Mark Davis in from Texas.
Lots of you on the phone is going to get right back to you at 833-33-GORKA, 833-334-6752.
I mentioned there were people we wanted to talk to.
Our talk show buddy Mike Gallagher will join us in hour number three.
The great Jennifer Horn joins us beginning of next hour.
And right now, Jim Hansen is here, president of Worldstrat, Green Beret experience, plenty of years spent observing the scene.
Jim, welcome.
It's wonderful to have you.
Thanks for hanging out with us today.
Good to be with you, Mark.
So, as just an entrance ramp to anything we talk about, it's sort of a universal American question, where were you when Trump got shot?
Yeah, I was watching it on TV.
I had it on in the background.
I was doing some work.
And, you know, just in the interest of seeing public events, immediately, everything about it seemed off.
You know, so once we saw that he was okay and he made the epic gesture seen around the world, we took it from there.
And I want to dig a little deeper what you said.
What was it that struck you?
You said things seemed off.
Like what?
The reaction of the crowd was odd, although my favorite thing about it, there's a couple guys directly behind Trump who, instead of ducking down like most normal people would, immediately jumped up and started scanning the crowd for additional threats.
And I thought that was just amazing.
You know, whether they were former law enforcement, former military, whatever, but they just got up, leaned forward, and were looking through the whole crowd trying to either find the shooter or anything else.
And I just, I find that so completely Trump-crowdish.
You know, that it does my heart good.
That's what you get at a MAGA rally.
That is to be expected at a MAGA rally.
Well, speaking of former military experience, that would be you.
So what is your thought with the brain that you have about operations and how they tend to go?
It's a horrible week for the Secret Service, fairly or unfairly.
Just what's your take on all this?
It is one of the more dismal failures for a major security organization in my lifetime.
I'd be hard-pressed to find a more epic example of failure.
You know, everything that was supposed to happen, you cannot ignore the closest building to the stage when a former president is going to be standing on it 130 meters away, which is a child's play shot for anyone with a scoped rifle.
So, in view of that, and I think you phrased it wonderfully well, what should happen?
Ms.
Cheadle is apparently being briefed, or doing the briefing, or getting a briefing.
Probably a lot of give and take on Capitol Hill.
She's apparently due on Monday for an open hearing that we'll all get to watch with James Comer at the Chair and Oversight Committee.
What ought to happen to her?
How many heads should roll?
What does accountability look like in view of these dropped balls?
Unfortunately, in modern times, and especially in the Biden administration, blistering incompetence, even malfeasance, won't get you fired.
She should have been gone the same day.
If she had an ounce of self-respect, she would have resigned the same day once she found out that her organization allowed a shooter within 130 meters to actually shoot the former president of the United States.
She won't do that and she made it worse trying to make excuses as if somehow a 1 to 12 sloped roof which would barely start a marble rolling was too much for Secret Service agents to deal with and that's why they didn't put him on the roof.
She has disgraced herself.
She has disgraced that organization.
She needs to go and they need a top-down look at all of their operations and personnel.
Let's take a top-down look at something that's pretty sensitive, but I want your take on it, especially in view of military background and how passionate you are about this.
Let us stipulate that there are some ways in which women are stronger than we are.
I could not give birth.
Let's also stipulate there are some women who could probably meet the male physical requirements for combat.
Firefighting, Secret Service, but let us also not deny that these things have been mitigated and brought down so that we can have more of the ladies visible in all of the above that I've just mentioned.
Did that almost have a death toll?
It's a problem because it was one of her main goals as head of the organization was to increase that.
I don't think it's too much to ask that whoever is going to be guarding the former president be as tall as he is because one of the jobs of a personal protective detail is to shield the protectee with your body.
You have to have enough body to do that and I don't think that's got anything to do with sex in the slightest way.
So there are some basic standards that need to be met.
If they're met, I don't care whether it's a man or woman doing it, better be the most competent person doing it.
That's the real sticking point.
Indeed.
Without a drop of misogyny.
And I'm surrounded in my entire world by strong and talented and capable women.
But this is the DEI era in all of these realms.
In our last couple of minutes, let's sort of back away from security stuff and Green Beret stuff and operational secret service stuff.
How's this?
You've been watching the RNC?
How's this show working out for you on the TV every day?
I have seen a couple things over the past couple weeks, even prior to the assassination attempt, that showed a tremendous discipline and smart campaign being run by Donald Trump.
He stayed out of the fray and let Joe Biden self-destruct, which was beautiful.
He took him down in the debate and then just stood back and didn't step in in a way that would have made the story about him.
He let Biden destroy himself.
And now that he showed the world that, A, he is a heroic leader, But B, he's going to use this incident to unite the country in a way that the other side cannot, because their entire ideology is based on hating us.
I think the convention is going great.
I think the theme is beautiful.
And I think it's a very positive, upbeat prosperity and security for all Americans theme.
Do you like the J.D.
Vance pick?
I'm not going to lie.
I wanted him to pick someone who brought more votes to the ticket.
I don't think Vance himself brings votes to the ticket, but he brought Elon Musk and Peter Thiel to the campaign.
I'm sorry.
If those guys are willing to play, if they get a guy who understands their industry, which Vance does.
He was a finance guy in the tech world.
He knows their industry.
They trust him to do what needs to be done, because America can't fix itself until our information space is open to all ideas.
And right now, the only place that it is is shows like this and then X. The rest of social and mainstream media is completely biased.
J.D.
Vance will be tasked, I'm certain, with breaking up the Google, Meta, and Apple monopoly, and that's a good thing for America.
It is a very good thing, and it's a good thing for us to have you, Jim.
Thank you very much for your time.
Appreciate it.
Thanks for letting us wander all over the place.
Topically speaking, we really value you, and thanks for being on the program.
In our minute or so before we go, and Jim has a lot of company, and Lord knows I've been talking to a bunch of people all through the veepstakes talk about, you know, get somebody who's a woman, bring women.
Get somebody who's, you know, not white to bring people that aren't white.
Get somebody who's experientially different, and it's not that those are bad points.
They're not.
But I think if you take a look at J.D.
Vance and say, hey, who else does he bring?
Who else does he bring?
I think you'll have the answer to that after tonight.
You will see J.D.
Vance share his biography, share his heart, show what it looks like to be under 40 and really conservative and really smart and an incredible partner for Trump.
So how does he bring additional votes?
Because there are millions of people who will watch tonight and go, That guy's absolutely awesome.
I thought Trump was okay.
I don't know what I think of Biden, but that Vance guy's awesome.
Boom!
You just picked up at least a couple of more votes and I love the pick.
Love it.
Always did.
That's why I lobbied for it for a couple of months.
All right.
More of your calls in a moment.
Mark Davidson for Dr. Gorka on America First.
It's a Wednesday.
Awesome times.
We'll be right back.
Thanks for watching.
It seems like the best thing we can do is welcome wonderful guests like Jim Hansen and others to follow and welcome your calls at 833-33-GORKA and toss out a snippet or two of what a remarkable week we are in the midst of and some amazing things that happened last night.
Vintage Vivek, as he took the stage, take a look.
If you want to seal the border, vote Trump.
If you want to restore law and order in this country, vote Trump.
If you want to reignite the economy in this country, vote Trump.
If you want to revive national pride in this country, vote Trump.
If you want to make America great again, vote Trump.
There was an incredible stretch of Vivek's comments where he said, look, there are some things that we as the Republican Party want to say to you.
And the media doesn't want us to say this, so I'm just going to go direct to you.
If you are black, you've been told that Republicans don't care about you, don't care.
And we do.
We want to make your lives safer.
We want to give you a better economy.
We want you to have When does JD turn 40?
There's some additional cred that that's in August or something.
If you're a millennial like I am, Vivek said, great, we've got millennials working their
way into power.
It depends on the millennial.
I like Vivek and I really like the millennial who's going to be the next vice president
of the United States.
When does J.D. turn 40?
There's some additional cred that that's in August or something.
Come on, man, we'll get you there.
Then he talked to the Gen Zers who said, listen, you're the ones who are going to really have
the fate of the country in your hands.
And if you're in college age or moving through college and you really want to be the revolutionary, you really want to be somebody who attracts attention, you really want to be the hippie, you really want to be the change agent, walk onto a college campus and say, hey, I'm conservative.
And see what the reaction is.
That's the definition of bravery.
Vintage Vivek.
All right, let's hop to your calls.
833-33-GORKA, 833-334-6752.
Line 1, we're in beautiful San Diego.
John, hey, Mark gave us in for Dr. Gorka.
How are you?
Hey, Mark.
Here's what Trump needs to do when he becomes president.
Instead of firing all of these little short-round women Secret Service agents, concentrate them all into the All-Amazon Brigade and send them all to Biden, Obama, And to protect every other Democrat in office, because they never will stop forcing things on us until we force it on them.
And it worked perfectly when Abbott sent a bunch of illegal aliens to New York City and to Nantucket.
The theatrics of that would be undeniable.
John, thank you.
And speaking of my governor, Greg Abbott will be on the stage tonight, and he will have a huge wave of enthusiastic love sent in his direction, and deservedly so, because of his strength on the border.
There was no small amount of people Both in my state of Texas and elsewhere, who were pretty interested in Greg Abbott as a running mate, and I think that would have worked out pretty well too.
There are all kinds of people who are fine.
I think the last couple of times I've been here in Dr. G territory, we've talked about sort of the other people about, you know, kind of the Tom Cotton and the Marco Rubio and Doug Burgum.
There's nothing the matter with Doug Burgum, but I said, For weeks, I said, when Trump makes the pick, I want to say more than, oh, what a nice guy.
Tim Scott, what a nice guy, right?
He's wonderful, a wonderful man, a wonderful Christian, a wonderful senator, a wonderful Republican, a wonderful conservative.
Didn't want him to be the running mate.
Because there's a characteristic that I wanted, that I think you wanted, and that Trump needs, and that is a fighter at his side.
There is so much fighting to be done.
And let's spend a moment on something about the fighting and how the nature of the fighting might change a little in view of the fact that he took a bullet.
Let's spend a minute on this.
We're about to hop right back to more of your calls here in a second.
833-33-GORKA, 833-334-6752.
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You hear much about how this has changed Trump.
Watching him walk onto the convention floor on Monday night and even last night, he is
clearly moved by what is happening.
There has been a veneer around Trump.
He's the tough guy.
He's the bull of the China shop.
He's the M1 Abrams tank plowing through opponents, et cetera, et cetera.
And he is still every bit of that.
I don't think that's changed at all.
I think that what has happened is this might even make, if it's mathematically possible, a better Trump.
And by that, I mean a big heart alongside that big brain and those big MAGA populist instincts.
I think this has absolutely affected him so that on Thursday, when he, when he, I just, I can't imagine.
Vance is going to be great tonight.
Vance is going to be so great tonight.
Tomorrow night, will he be able to start talking before one o'clock in the morning in view of the length of the applause that he's going to get?
And I think that when he does speak there, you're not going to see him less passionate about the border.
Less energized to make America better.
I don't think he's going to take anything out of his quiver of arrows, but I think added in will be a huge heart that says, look, I want to make this country better.
I invite you to come join me.
And I just can't wait.
I just can't wait.
Can't wait for more of your calls.
And guess what?
They're coming next on America First.
Mark Davis in for Dr. Gorka.
Thank you.
Just enjoying Wednesday together with y'all.
Mark Davison for Dr. G on America First.
What an amazing week of history lies before us and we're only half done.
I mean, the first two nights of the convention have been amazing.
Last night, just the volume of people from Nikki Haley to Ron DeSantis to Dr. Carson to Vivek, just so many wonderful voices.
But it's all about J.D.
Vance.
Well, it's not all.
I mean, I've said Governor Abbott will be there.
There will be other speakers.
But the focus will be on J.D.
Vance tonight and then tomorrow night, oh my, Trump himself.
Gauze pad and all.
There's a feed from the floor of the convention in Milwaukee.
Trump's kind of scoping it out, kind of getting the lay of the land before tonight's convention action kicks in.
And I've heard, and I don't know if this happens, is this a good idea or not?
Or like some state delegations are thinking about having big gauze pads on the right side of their heads.
It's kind of a tribute to Trump.
I think it's kind of cool.
Here's my thought.
I'd like to have a big white gauze pad on the side of everybody's head, emblazoned on it a silhouette of the now iconic clenched fist and American flag, which will be a statue in some city soon.
So all kinds of optics may be in play.
But let's go to last night.
I've spent a lot of time in the wake of the selection of J.D.
Vance saying that we did not necessarily have to have somebody who's not white in order to attract voters of color.
We didn't necessarily have to have a woman in order to attract women.
Trump himself, the ticket itself, is going to have to attract women who want a better America.
Attract people of color who want a better America.
I'm confident they can do it.
Now that having been said, on my Fab Five, I think I presented my Fab Five to you, of my favorite picks, and J.D.
Vance was at the top of it, but also on there were Byron Donalds, who is decidedly black, great congressman from Florida, and this woman, who was so great last night, Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
When I was President Trump's White House Press Secretary, the best job I got the chance to take my four-year-old son, Huck, to bring your kid to work day.
Much like Jill now drags Joe to bring your husband to work day.
**Applause** That was, we had some folks over at the house and I have to
tell you that was a highlight.
Many highlights last night.
The highlight of our time together here is our chats with you at 1-833-33-GORKA.
833-334-6752.
Let's go to Line 2.
We are in Arizona.
833-334-6752. Let's go to line 2. We are in Arizona. Jack Mark Davison for Dr. G. Welcome to America First.
How you doing today?
Doing good.
I'm doing great.
I'm a big chomper from way back.
Anyways, here's what I want to say.
As soon as JD Vance blows away Kamala in the debate that she wants, what's going to happen to Kamala after she gets blown away?
As far as being a president or vice president.
As far as I'm concerned, she's a loser from day one.
Period.
Well, it's a fair question, thank you.
Here's my first thought.
If indeed, a thought about, let me go to your question directly, and then to how that vice presidential debate is probably going to go.
If she is just abjectly humiliated in that debate, if people, you know, view her performance as somehow as bad as Biden's was, and it won't be for the same reasons, because Kamala will actually complete sentences, In the English language, but they'll be her words and that weird word salad.
It will be a very different kind of abysmal debate performance.
If JD Vance just really does mop the floor with her, what happens?
I mean, the short answer is nothing.
I mean, they're not going to, you know, go looking for it's like, well, we got to got to change running mates.
But here's the weird thing.
They're floating debates for the VP debate, floating dates for the VP debate.
Is it is it going to be?
I presume it will be after the convention, when she is absolutely, officially Biden's running mate again, as well as incumbent vice president, instead of, oh, I don't know, the freshly installed nominee because they successfully gave Biden the hook.
So if we presume that it's after the convention, when there's truly nothing that can be done, nothing will happen to her, at least her fate.
on the Biden-Harris ticket.
And please let us be running against the Biden-Harris ticket.
Jill, hang in there, ma'am.
Hang in there, doctor.
I will even call you doctor if you can bring that doctoral influence to making sure your husband hangs tough and stays in there.
Adam Schiff, highest, is he the most powerful Democrat?
Biggest deal Democrat to say.
Joe, appreciate it man, but get out.
That's fresh news today.
So let's go to the debate itself.
If it is horribly one-sided, which it may well be, the media will rush to her defense.
You might say, but Mark, didn't the media tell some truth about Biden's terrible performance?
Yes, they did.
But you know why?
It's because they wanted Biden shelved for somebody could actually win.
Somebody could actually beat Trump.
If it is Biden and Harris and they're the only people that can beat Trump, all of a sudden Biden will become Winston Churchill and Kamala Harris will become Joan of Arc.
They will be heroic.
They will be magnificent.
The apologies, the excuses, the circling of wagons, the protection racket, All of it will be there to protect him and protect her.
So it'll be left to us, US, as Paul Harvey used to say, it'll be left to us in the country to slice and dice how that debate performance goes if it is that bad.
I use the word if for the following guarded reason.
I J.D.
Vance is not going to pummel her.
He's not going to beat up a woman on national television, just as I said, nobody want to see grandpa mugged on national television.
Trump showed restraint and it made Biden's performance actually worse.
It was skillful and disciplined.
And I think Vance will bring the same kind of perhaps the occasional eye roll.
What did you say?
There you go again, a certain subtlety and good humor so that Kamala Harris's worst enemy
on that vice presidential debate stage might not be an aggressive J.D. Vance coming after
her, but it will be her own words just left there to marinate in their own odd syntactical
stew.
I think Vance is just going to bring his best material, which is called facts about the
country and facts about where we are and facts about where we've been.
He's just going to get out there and be J.D. Vance.
The J.D. Vance you'll see tonight will be the J.D. Vance you see on the vice presidential
debate stage.
He's just going to be there and be awesome and make a lot of people go, wow, that guy
needs to be vice president.
He doesn't need to.
Badger, berate or humiliate Kamala Harris.
Certainly not personally.
He'll have some things to say about her record, I would hope.
And it'll be interesting to see how she attempts to reply to those.
Get your popcorn ready.
We'll have that vice presidential debate date for you as soon as we receive it.
We're going to receive more of your calls in a moment.
Mark Davison for Dr. G on America First.
Happy Wednesday.
you you
Welcome back to America First with Mark Davis.
Thank you, Dr. G. Appreciate it.
An honor to be here.
What a privilege to be here.
Are you kidding me?
A few things going on in my own show this morning, and I always plug ahead that I'm in for Dr. Gorka later on.
And everybody, you know, in the hallway after that is like, gee, what are you going to find to talk about?
So much about Trump.
So much about J.D.
Vance.
So much about Biden.
So much about the Secret Service.
We're going to carry all this into the next hour.
So don't anybody move.
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Let's hop to the calls to wrap up this hour.
We are in Philadelphia.
Paul, Mark Davis in for Seb.
How are you, sir?
Hello, Mark.
As far as who should be held responsible for the Butler blunder, remember that the commander of the PA State Police is one Governor Josh Shapiro, a righted candidate or a Pennsylvania candidate for President Biden.
Yes, so?
If you think there's going to be a sacrificial lamb, who do you think it's going to be?
Well, I think it's going to be very Secret Service-centric.
I don't see this.
If the Secret Service is catching all the you-know-what right now, and it seems to be deserved, Secret Service is going to do some finger-pointing about local law enforcement there in Butler Township.
And I don't know if any of that is deserved.
This is why we have investigations.
The likelihood of it trickling all the way up to Governor Shapiro is probably pretty close to zero.
Okay, so let's see where we are here as we come to the end of Hour One.
I threw out all those things of areas to discuss.
Stuff about Trump, stuff about Vance, stuff about Biden, stuff about Republicans, stuff about Democrats, stuff about Secret Service.
Next hour we're going to welcome the wonderful Jennifer Horne.
She and Mrs. Gorka do the Happy Women podcast, which all of you should be downloading if you're not.
And a lot of happy women and a lot of happy men on the floor of the RNC.
Oh, let's talk about people at the RNC.
Somebody, I just, what is it where people who think they're smart say things that are so dumb?
Somebody on Twitter a couple of days ago, I wish I could identify whom, said, hey, here's Tim Scott telling an almost entirely white crowd that the Republican Party is not racist.
And I bet he thought he was just the cat that ate the canary.
I bet he thought he was the star of Twitter X that day.
Oh, look at me.
I just pointed out that a black guy looked out over an ocean of white faces and said the Republican Party is not racist.
Well, this just in.
The Republican Party is not racist.
Do you want to get a lot of love in the room?
Be a person of color walking into a Republican meeting of any kind, of any size, anywhere.
You know how thrilled we are?
You know how overdue it is that people of color start realizing that we got the best ideas for them, too?
This is not just white people land that black people like strong borders, too.
Black people like it.
Hispanics like a strong economy.
The people of every race, every sex, every gender, every everything.
Uh, benefit from conservative policies because our policies benefit absolutely everybody.
We're not the ones who obsess about race or sex.
We're not the ones who lecture you about the pigment or the plumbing.
We're the ones who genuinely say, come one, come all, we are going to make America great again for all of you, for all of us.
And that's the kind of flavor of this convention.
It is Trump's GOP that has done that better than any GOP in my memory.
And I'm pretty thrilled about that.
Thrilled to come back with you for our number two next.
Mark Davison for Dr. Gorka on America First, stay here.
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I'm Sebastian Gorka, and this is America First with our very special guest host, the voice of Dallas, Mark Davis.
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Things that put you in the mind of a cruise.
The woman we're going to talk to now is fresh off one, as is Dr. Gorka, as is Mike Gallagher, who joins us.
Am I the only person who went on this cruise?
What's going on here?
What, they lost my number?
Mark Davis in for Dr. G on America First.
And if you're just joining us, we're in the middle of so many, obviously we're in the middle of a 14 things on the show and 114 things out there in the news.
Trump tomorrow night.
Vance tonight.
The convention so far.
Biden, what's going on?
Will Democrats keep him or get rid of him?
Adam Schiff in California says he's got to go.
Maybe the highest ranking, highest caliber Democrat to say so.
So much to say about the Secret Service and so little of it is good.
So what does lie ahead?
What are we seeing?
Just chronicling history.
And I say that a lot to those of us who do talk shows.
We chronicle history as it happens, and in Southern California, you can't find a better chronicler than the great Jennifer Horne on not just Los Angeles' Answer Station, but also the Inland Empire and CRN Digital Talk and the Happy Women podcast with Katie Gorka.
I'm exhausted just talking about all that you do.
Welcome, ma'am.
How are you doing?
I am doing great, Mark.
And we missed you on the cruise.
I think, you know, I told Mike Gallagher earlier today when I talked to him, I said, you know, after the election, maybe we need to do this again.
And he goes, oh, I don't think I can take it.
I said, oh, come on, Mark.
Come on, Mike.
Let's go.
So I think with your help, Mark, we can all go back again.
I think that would be a great idea.
And if Trump does not win, I'd like the cruise to take me to Australia and leave me there.
Me too.
I actually, it's so funny you just said that.
I said that earlier.
No, drop me off.
I'm going to be the next Barbra Streisand.
Take me out of here.
If he does not win, I don't want to be here.
You know, but here's the thing.
There is the difference between them and us.
I guarantee you there should be an over under on how many Hollywood heads, sports figures, I don't know, will say that if Trump leaves or if Trump wins, I will leave the country.
And they never do.
I keep thinking, great, here's an opportunity, here's another reason to vote for Trump.
We can get rid of Johnny Depp or something like that.
But they never, never do.
I have a feeling, and I almost don't want to jinx it, no such thing as jinxes, but if on the weird off chance that this Trump victory that seems so well at hand does not happen.
I think you and I and everybody that does what we do for a living will be more important than ever because, boy, will we then have a country on life support that needs saving.
But you know what?
Let's not dwell on that because it appears to the untrained eye, or even the trained eye, that things are going pretty well.
How's this convention striking you this week?
I can't even tell you.
It's very emotional, actually, Mark.
I think everybody was tuned in on Monday night when President Trump walked out into the arena for the first time.
There was something different about him.
I've heard a lot of people comment.
Obviously, I think it's all starting to sink in.
I think it's sinking in for many of us.
And it was so touched.
And to see the strength and the integrity of the man that I have supported since he
came down the escalator in 2016 actually resonate, I think, with people who may not have been
such a fast adapter to President Trump.
I think that's really done my heart good.
I think that we are more unified than ever as a party.
I think people know that President Trump is not just doing this for fun.
He's not just doing this to make money, as a lot of the leftists will say.
He is doing this because of his love of country.
And I think it's on full display, not just for Republicans to see, but for all the people who are watching at home who are independents and who are Democrats.
And I really do believe that this is a different time.
And I think we have so much to fight for.
And I think we have so much that we need to have.
Coming in our platform and coming down the road because there is so much at stake.
And everyone always says it's the most important election of our lifetime.
But this is really it.
This is the moment.
And to have a strong leader like President Trump, we are blessed.
We are lucky by the grace of God.
After Saturday, he is here.
And I feel optimistic, but I also feel something different this time.
Special, unifying, emotional.
Everybody in that convention is connected and you can feel it.
That was eloquent, and not just because it echoes exactly what I'm feeling.
This was always going to be an energized event.
This was always going to be inspiring.
This was always going to feel like, okay, we got a country to save, all hands on deck, let's go.
But this This miracle.
And it was a miracle.
We've all seen the diagrams.
Top of Trump's head.
Bullet.
Pathway.
Live.
Die.
Live.
Die.
One inch of head positioning.
This was a miracle on Saturday.
And since then, there has been something that has been sort of Draped around the entire process, the convention, the commentary about it.
I know the way that I've been talking about it.
And I think that you're right, too.
And none of us can read minds, but I think that when he speaks tomorrow night, he's not going to shelve any of the very sharp and focused things that he has to say about the ways in which America needs to be made better.
He's not going to soften his thoughts on the border, or on making the economy better, or any of that.
But I think there will be another element that he's always had, but maybe hasn't shown so much, and that is the heart that beats inside his chest, the heart that his family recognizes.
Seeing Laura last night as the RNC co-chair, and his actual sons and daughters, I think you're right.
I think there's something organic happening here that, if possible, expands his appeal even more.
Well, and I also think people are more willing to see it.
You know, sadly, what the mainstream media, the leftists, even people in our own party, they've tried to do is make President Trump into a cartoon character, right?
They've tried to vilify him.
And so I think that iconic shot, which probably should have never been taken, that picture with his fist in the air, because that was a really dangerous thing to do in the Secret Service.
We have so many questions about that.
But that iconic shot, seeing his face and knowing he just went through that and he says, fight, fight, fight.
I still get goosebumps.
I think we all get overcome with emotion.
The world saw who President Trump is.
Probably the person, Mark, that you've already seen, that I've seen.
That's why we're such ardent supporters.
But the world saw it.
The country saw it.
And so now there are people, I think, who are willing to explore that.
And what's been interesting about this convention, and I don't think that this was actually part of the plan, but somehow it has become the plan in such a short amount of time, but it seems like the speakers are actually talking about the human side of Donald Trump, right?
They're killing the cartoon image, right?
They're getting rid of just the guy that we know on television and they're
talking, Lara Trump, about him being a grandfather and a father.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders was amazing last night talking about what a great friend and a support
he was when she was working for him in the White House.
And I think we have to remember that.
You know, President Trump has been through it in an effort to fight for us.
And so I think what's been really nice is actually seeing those stories that don't oftentimes get told because we're really focusing all on his accomplishments.
I think it's been a really good blend so far, his accomplishments plus the human side of Donald Trump.
Completely right.
And I'm glad to see that focus come around because for years and years, I've been in the company of a lot of Republicans who do vote for him and vote for him without hesitation, who say, yeah, I like his policies, but I don't really like him much.
I don't like the tweets and he's a little too caustic.
And I don't like the sharp elbows, which by the way, if you vote for him, I don't care.
But I've always answered those folks by saying, you know what?
I absolutely love the guy.
He loves this country.
He brings this passion.
You mentioned four minutes ago or so that he didn't have to do this.
The people who say, oh, he's just in it for himself.
If he was in life for himself, he'd be playing golf at Bedminster and not getting shot.
This is something sacrificial that he has done.
And he's done it for you.
He's done it for me.
And tomorrow night, he'll tell us how he's going to do it for every American.
How can I not love that about someone?
I know.
And what I particularly love, and you know, I've had so many people, especially he's, you know, look, he's actually had trouble with my demographic group, right?
White suburban women.
And he's always struggled with that.
I never felt that, that sense of disgust or don't like the mean.
I love it all.
And you know why I love it all, Mark?
Because it's real.
I don't want someone to stand up in a polished suit telling me a bunch of lies and failing me.
I would rather have someone who shows me who he really is, who has a little fun, who's no-holds-barred, and just tells me the truth.
And I hope that people are waking up to that, because that is what I've seen about President Trump.
The mean tweets never bothered me.
In fact, I say sometimes we need more mean tweets.
People need to realize that life isn't always roses and that you need someone to tell you about things how they really are in order to fix them.
And so I think maybe that's resonating a bit and maybe the people who were turned off by those tweets and the tough words, well maybe they're seeing a different side now.
Indeed.
About a minute and a half, but I'm going to carry it to the next segment.
If you can stay with us, I hope you can.
Certainly.
Let's spend a moment on the woman thing.
And as a woman, I think the other thing that made Trump appeal to you, honestly, is that you're conservative.
You're views at his are the same, so that'll always create a nice match.
Give me 60 seconds now, since I've been too blabbery, on the notion of needing to soften the conservatism in order to attract the so-called suburban moms.
No way.
I don't think we need to soften it.
I think, in fact, women want a strong leader, right?
We want someone who isn't Joe Biden.
We want someone who looks like they can put a sentence together and stand up.
I think softening would be absolutely the wrong thing.
I think more of what President Trump has already done, and that is focus on a populist message.
And what do people, what are they concerned about?
Health Heart Pocketbook.
Make it matter to them at the grocery store, at the gas pump.
And we've seen what Biden's policies will do for four years.
We've seen what Trump's policies did for four years.
And you have to have people ask themselves an honest question.
What worked best for them?
The answer is Trump's every single time on every single issue.
Jennifer Horn is here, and she's going to stay here, and then you can join us too at 1-833-33-GORKA.
Stuff we're talking about, if you want to weigh in, even with a different take, we love that.
That's what we do.
That's why we have phone lines, 833-334-6752.
And you can find Jennifer, of course, on those two answer stations in Los Angeles, in the Inland Empire, and of course in that Happy Women podcast with Katie Gorka.
So do stick around and Jennifer and I will be back and you all can join us at 833-33-GORKA
as we continue on Wednesday on America First.
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It is a Wednesday on America First with Dr. Sebastian Gorka, but not just any Wednesday.
First of all, Seb, not here.
I am.
Mark Davis filling in from 660 AM.
The answer in DFW and the Salem News Channel, Salem Media Group, North Texas headquarters.
Always great to be here.
And it's always wonderful to be here on America First, but especially this week.
Are you kidding me?
How fortuitous that we get to hang out together and welcome great folks like Jennifer Horn, host on not one but two Southern California radio stations, all kinds of other things going on with her and radio and TV, and the Happy Women podcast with Katie Gorka.
So continuing, Jennifer, let's talk about another woman, Nikki Haley.
I did not want her to be the running mate.
I absolutely did not want her to be the nominee.
Not because she's mostly bad, but I had big gaps between her and my vision of what my nominee and running mate should be.
All that said, I think she was wonderful last night in stepping forward, being the good soldier, and doing that whole unity thing.
What about you?
I'm glad she was there.
I have to say, I was kind of disappointed with Nikki Haley along the campaign trail, but I think it's important that she showed up.
I'm happy that President Trump asked her to come, after the shooting particularly, because I think it shows that the party needs to come together.
I just have to tell you, as much as I love some of the things Nikki Haley did when she was ambassador at the UN, there's something about listening to the speech.
It's like she—you're a voice person, you're a radio guy, Mark.
I feel like she's narrating like a Hidden Valley Ranch commercial.
I think if politics isn't working out, I think she's got a future in voiceover.
I don't know.
So, but, you know, it was nice to see her there.
And, of course, Ron DeSantis, who disappointed, I think, so many of us during the primary.
But, you know, he came out and he was fired up.
He was kind of the Ron DeSantis of old a little bit.
So I think that was important to have him there.
And, you know, of course, Marco Rubio was really, really great as well.
It is not the little Marco of a few years ago.
He has grown.
Full grown Marco.
Listen, let's talk about growth and redemption and change.
I've certainly experienced it in my life.
I know we all have.
Marco and he said, don't say polo.
Funny.
I enjoy that.
But let's talk about growth and redemption and change.
I've certainly experienced it in my life.
I know we all have.
And sometimes it is about changing your views when your views need to evolve.
And with Marco, he was a border softie and he got better.
In my own state, Ted Cruz, a huge Trump skeptic, he got better.
My former governor, Rick Perry, called Donald Trump a cancer on conservatism and then wound up in the cabinet.
And yes, J.D.
Vance, did J.D.
Vance throw down the H-bomb on Trump in 2016?
Yes, he did.
Full context, he said, I don't know what to think about this guy.
He could be like the next populist hero or America's Hitler.
I don't know.
Oh, and everybody's bringing me this.
And I said, listen, that was eight years ago.
Has he changed his mind?
Yes.
Did he open his eyes?
Yes.
Did he open his mind?
Yes.
Good for him.
Maybe a few million others should do the same.
Yeah.
And I would also say, first of all, as just this is personal for me, I can't stand when people use Hitler unless they're talking about Hitler.
So, you know, we're going to give a little demerit to J.D.
Vance for that.
But I think he's fabulous and I'm excited to see what he can do as vice president.
We all make mistakes when we talk for a living.
What I do think is important to underscore is that when a lot of these people said that, they knew television Donald Trump, right?
They didn't know political Donald Trump.
They didn't know what he was actually set up to do.
And I think what changed the minds of people was that the proof was in the pudding mark.
He was able to go in And under duress, I mean, under like everything that they threw at him for four years, from the media to the Democrats to people in the in the Republican Party, throwing everything they could to try to stop his agenda.
He was the most effective president of my lifetime in four years.
So I think that opens people's minds up, right?
I mean, it's hard to deny the success in his record, especially when you consider the circumstances that were swirling around him.
During the break, we were talking off-air about this terrible, horrible week for the Secret Service.
How much of that is deserved?
They are human.
They do make mistakes.
But mistakes of this magnitude make people go, what?
Yeah.
And sadly, the Secret Service is one of those jobs where you don't really get to make mistakes.
I mean, I know we are all human, but I think we need to do better.
And I am someone who has not been trained in law enforcement, but I can tell you if I look at a field and I see a building with a direct line of sight at the person I'm supposed to protect, you better figure out how you're going to do it.
And then if you do have a mishap, if you do have a mistake that ended the life of a man who seems to be a
hero, a father and a husband and a former police chief, you don't go on national television and say,
well, we couldn't have agents on a roof because it was sloped. I'm sorry, it's a terrible answer.
And I think Kimberly Cheadle really needs to step aside while this investigation is going on. I think
she should probably just resign.
It seems to me that if she said the buck stops here and if she's taken responsibility for that agency, she needs to remove herself from that situation.
And we need real answers.
I mean, the fact that we're now learning that the guy was there for three hours and he was pacing around, showing anxiety on his face in front of the security checkpoint.
And then people saw him walk into the place with a full ladder.
And a gun and the Secret Service knew he was there for 30 minutes.
People in the crowd saw him with a gun pointing it in the direction of the president for two minutes and nothing was done.
These are not the kind of mistakes that we can see in this country and I don't care if they're protecting Joe Biden or Donald Trump.
This is inexcusable and they have to take responsibility for it.
Last thing on Secret Service, and it's once again great to have you because I can say it, it means something different if you do, whatever your view may be, there will be fairly or not a lot of attention paid to the number of women agents.
I totally believe that if you have stringent requirements for size and strength, totally believe some women will meet them.
Won't be many, but some will.
I also believe that these have absolutely been reduced so that we can achieve the magic of diversity.
What do you think?
I'm sitting and talking to you from Los Angeles right now and we have a police department and a fire department in Los Angeles that has been completely overrun by DEI, right?
With the lack of support for law enforcement that's left a lot of vacancies and those vacancies have been filled and the standards have been lowered.
I have no problem with women in law enforcement, with women in the military, with women in the Secret Service, if they can meet the same standards as the men.
But I also think we have to recognize that you cannot put a woman who is 5'5 in front of a man who is 6'3.
So if we are going to have female agents, they need to match in stature.
And that is the same for men, by the way.
We need to have men and women match the subjects in body size so that they can actually do the job they're supposed to do, which is protect them at all costs.
And so it's not for me, the answer is not ridding the Secret Service of every woman, but it's about not reducing standards, reducing standards to accommodate people based on gender or skin color.
Let's make sure we're working on merit because this means people's people's lives are at stake.
About 30 seconds each.
What's something you'd like to hear from J.D.
Vance tonight and something you'd like to hear from Trump tomorrow?
I think from J.D.
Vance, I just want to get to know him better.
I think we know some of his story, obviously, with Hillbilly Elegy, but I want to know where he stands on foreign policy.
I think he'll spend some time there.
I just want to hear what he thinks about these issues that are going to dictate the 2024 election.
And from President Trump, I am just so happy to see him behind that podium, Mark.
I think that he is going to bring us a unifying tone.
I think it is going to be a magical speech.
He's already a great speaker, and I think given the circumstances, it's going to be emotional.
And I hope he shows that side to people.
They need to remember that he's a human being, too.
Fifteen seconds.
Is he going to be on the prompter or is he just going to riff for some of this, do you think?
Can he stay on the prompter?
You know, I actually think he does both.
I mean, President Trump masters that beautifully.
He has to tell a prompter.
And you've seen him give speeches.
He goes off and he'll talk to you for ten minutes and then get back on prompter again.
And that's where he's best.
We could be up pretty late, but it's gonna be worth it.
It's always worth it to spend time with you.
Jennifer Warren, thank you so much.
Happy Women Podcast.
Two big radio stations in Southern California.
Find her there and find her here because we love having her here on America First.
Mark Davis in for Seb.
So the questions I just asked her, let me run them by you.
833-33-GORC.
What do you want from Trump?
What do you want from Vance?
And what do you think about everything going on?
I'll be right back.
Thanks for watching!
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What a time to be alive.
What a time to be doing a radio show.
What a time to be listening to a radio show and a TV show on the Salem News Channel, whether you're watching us or listening to us or both, just so you're consuming the product.
We are grateful.
I'm grateful personally.
Mark Davis here in Dallas-Fort Worth at 660 AM Answer on the Salem Media Group HQ here in North Texas.
Great to be with you.
Great to be in for Dr. Gorka.
And if you're just joining us, no shortage of stuff.
I want to be ambitious about this so we can shake a stick at all of it.
Trump is tomorrow night.
Vance is tonight.
What would you like to see?
What do you think will happen?
How is this convention going for you?
What have you liked?
Is there anything that you haven't liked?
There's plenty not to like about the Secret Service week that they are having.
I just don't know how long Kimberly Cheadle can last.
There was a behind closed doors briefing of sorts.
I can't imagine how that went, but we're all going to see how it's going to go on Monday as Kentucky Congressman James Comer is going to welcome her in front.
And I think both Democrats and Republicans are going to have at her.
That's going to be brutal.
And maybe it deserves to be because this is just this is a This is a fail that is so epic it invites head scratching.
And I am the last to jump on a conspiracy train and I'm not gonna do it now.
But I can see what guides people to go, how in the world could something like this happen?
There is a book called Zero Fail by an author named Carol Leonig, L-E-O-N-N-I-G.
And Zero Fail is a reference to the no margin for error, a life that the Secret Service leads every day.
And of course there have been moments of failure.
Clint Hill, who also wrote a great book called Five Presidents about him.
Protecting Eisenhower and Kennedy and Johnson and Nixon and Ford.
It's wild.
Five presidents in 16 years.
And he talks a lot about the difference between, or the borderline between, the relationship between the Secret Service and all the local law enforcement, wherever they go, in America or in another country.
It's so much about local law enforcement.
And I don't think this feud is over between the Secret Service and Pennsylvania local law enforcement.
I think that is going to get ugly, and so are the hearings about all of this as we try to find out what the heck happened.
All right, let's see what's going on on the phone lines.
We are in the Tar Heel State of North Carolina on line 2.
Keith, Mark Davis in for Dr. Gorka on America First.
How are you?
Yes, I'm doing great.
How are you doing today, Mark?
Good, thank you.
Yeah, I just had three concerns.
I just wanted to kind of mention.
Number one priority is the safety of President Trump and being that the Secret Service can't be trusted, in my opinion, Trump needs to get a security detail that's going to include ex-Navy SEALs, Marines, you know, Delta Force, someone to keep him safe.
That's the number one priority.
Let's take them one by one.
I can understand that point.
How in the world does he say, I reject secrets, I decline Secret Service protection, I'm bringing in my own guys?
I don't know, Mark, it's just a comment, but I feel that's the number one priority is keep
the president safe.
Number two is, of course, you know, they're going to they're doing their there's nothing
barred from what they what they might do, including, you know, the vote.
And they're going to try and take it by, you know, rigging the vote or somehow.
That's just point number two.
Well, and on point number two, let's show up in such vast numbers that whatever fraud happens is suffocated by our turnout.
What's number three?
Okay, number three.
Yeah, number three is, and I just wanted to mention a couple of things, too, that I heard on talk show host, which they're saying, I heard Tucker Carlson say that to overcome this crisis, We're going to have to sacrifice ourselves, and that rhetoric needs to be toned down on both sides, and I just don't really... I can't subscribe to those quotes.
I try to remain conversant on stuff Tucker says, and I really like him in virtually all ways.
I don't see... bringing the temperature down on both sides doesn't sound very Tucker-like to me, so are you sure about that one?
I don't know if Chuck exactly said that.
I'm going to go, no.
But it does give me a chance to talk about that for a second, so I will.
Keith, thank you.
Appreciate it a lot.
Let's talk about that temperature.
Are you familiar with the term both-sides-ism?
Both-sides-ism is when people falsely say that things are roughly equal over here and over here when it is decidedly one-sided.
Both-sides-ism was when people said America and Russia both have nukes and that's both equally bad.
Well, that, of course, was a crock.
Russian nukes existed to tyrannize the world.
American nukes existed to thwart that tyranny.
And we did.
Are there the occasional conservatives who get a little too hot-headed?
Sure.
You betcha.
But it is the Hitler imagery, the he's-a-threat-to-democracy smear, the constant smears from a Democrat party that has no interest in talking about issues.
Theirs is the vitriol that is the story of the moment.
Don't let anyone tell you differently.
Mark Davidson for Dr. Gorka.
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Trump, things about Vance, his wonderful choice for running mate, speculating what the Democrats
are up to and what in the world they're going to do with a clearly just unsustainable prospect
of Biden as the nominee. I remain firm, really firmly 50-50.
I think it is a coin flip. I don't mean that they'll use a coin flip to decide. I think it's a
50-50 chance whether he's the nominee I know Earth logic is to look at him and say, good lord, there's no way he can be.
And that's true.
That's accurate and principled to make that observation.
But how exactly do they get rid of him?
And will they even be able to at all if he just won't budge?
So just another angle of some things we can talk about here at 833-33-GORKA.
To the phones in California on Line 1, Mark.
Mark Davis, welcome.
How are you?
Good Wednesday to you.
Hey, Mark.
How are you?
Hi.
You know, Democrats have really proven themselves to be pretty vile people.
Within 48 hours, Biden was back on the attack, shouting crazily and raising his fist at the clouds and everything.
But what I really wanted to get to is that when I watched Trump walk down the hall, I think it was the other, on Tuesday night, and I'm watching him carefully, watching his face, I sensed a spirit of kind of almost disbelief that this country would do this to him.
I mean, we kind of thought they would do this.
I don't think he really believed that they would try to murder him.
And I'm probably projecting that, but that's what I got out of it.
But it's all we can do because we can't read minds, but let's unpack that a little bit.
Uh, in a way, I think I'm prone to lovingly disagree.
Cause I think if somebody had asked, imagine an interviewee, an interviewer asking Trump last month, last year, do you think somebody will try to kill you?
Can't you almost see him saying, you know, they might, I'm pretty unpopular.
Pretty people are pretty passionate.
Uh, you know, in certain circles about me, when you're really trying to change, when you're really a force for change, when you're really attacking the establishment in both parties, there are people are going to hate you.
So you know what?
Maybe they will try, and I hope they don't succeed, and thanks to everybody who... That sounds kind of Trumpian, so I think what you saw, and then I'll give you the floor back, I think if he seemed just really thoughtful, calm, measured, even subdued, I think he was, I don't want to say overwhelmed, but deeply moved and touched by that crowd, as he will be on Thursday night.
I think there's something about getting shot, I hope never to be able to tell you that firsthand, that is sobering and makes it reflective.
I think he was just deeply moved by the whole experience and perhaps by God's own hand in protecting him.
That would be my thought.
What about you?
Yeah, I think there's a lot to that.
I mean, it's a weird thing to think that somebody who has never served in the military is now basically a combat veteran.
There are people who served 20 years in the military and never get shot.
Trump has.
There's something to it.
There's a hall of honor for getting shot and a real hall of honor for reacting to it in the way that he did.
Hello.
Are you okay?
the American flag, the fight, fight, fight. There will be a statue. If somebody's not crafting a
statue of that already, they should be. Mark, appreciate it.
Thank you, sir. Let's stay in California on line two. And Bob, that is you. Mark Davis in
for Dr. Gorka on America First.
Welcome. How are you doing? Hello. Are you okay? I can.
Yeah, I'm hoping that they suggest at some point that it's a felony to hire an illegal, a misdemeanor
to harbor them, and that no social services other than health will be provided and illegal
except travel back to their home country or to the country they landed in through which they entered
here illegally, because that's the only way they will work. Works well.
Works for me.
And from Trump to Vance to the debates that lie ahead, I just can't wait for J.D.
Vance versus Kamala Harris, whatever date they circle on the calendar for that, because I think those are exactly the kind of contrasts that are good to make.
Because even some Democrats and people of both sexes and all races, they seem to think that secure borders are a good idea, Bob.
So I think those are good things to stress.
Thank you.
Thank you, man.
Appreciate it very much.
All right.
Speaking of good things to put on a teleprompter for your speech, it was a pretty amazing night last night.
We talked a little bit about Nikki Haley.
We talked about Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
There are some people, and I reached out to them over the last few months, who said, I really like the Trump policies.
I really like him, but he's scary and the mean tweets and blah, blah, blah.
And those folks were all in for DeSantis.
And it wasn't a small number of people, but it was not nowhere close to large enough to ever, ever, ever threaten the Trump renomination.
And this was kind of easy to see coming.
There was nothing.
There's nothing the matter with DeSantis.
He's great.
Great governor.
Great guy.
Might be a great candidate in 2028.
By the way, I think I've heard this already.
Not to bury us in 2028 talk while it's still 2024.
Trump is truly done constitutionally after this second term.
And then you may be looking at his running mate, J.D.
Vance, and Ron DeSantis, and Vivek.
Maybe Nikki comes back to attract the squishes.
And maybe Marco Rubio and who knows who else, the 2028 primary season is going to be lit.
But before we get to that, let's stay where we are here.
DeSantis last night, here's Cut Five.
He was just great and the crowd loved it.
It is the values of this Republican Party that reflect our nation's founding principles.
We believe schools should educate, not indoctrinate.
We stand for parents' rights, including universal school choice.
We support law and order, not rioting and disorder.
We seek a strong, focused United States military, not one distracted by a social agenda.
We reject entrenched political class, and we demand term limits for members of Congress.
There you go.
What more do you need?
It is ultimately about issues.
I mean, here's the thing.
It's about issues.
You had to have the right viewpoint.
You had to have the right agenda to be considered by conservatives as the proper standard bearer for the Republican Party.
DeSantis has those issues.
Trump obviously has those issues, but also has the spirit and the fighting energy and exactly the personality to make those things happen.
That's who this party Wanted.
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Thank you.
Thank you, Dr. G. A couple of minutes here to wrap up this hour, and then we're going to take all this material, all this golden material that is in our talk show grasp.
Trump tomorrow night, Vance tonight, Secret Service under fire.
There's metaphoric under fire, and there's literal under fire.
We had a former president under fire, and surviving that and thriving in this week at the RNC has just been an amazing drama.
Great, how are you, Mr. Davis?
So, I have two questions.
talking about all of it with you. 833-33-GORKA. Let's go to Orlando.
Scott, Mark Davis in for Dr. G. How are you doing? Great, how are you Mr. Davis?
Good, thank you. So I have two questions. In my small-minded belief system, I don't
think there's any rational path to the White House other than President Trump. I
don't think there's anything the Democrats could do to get someone else
other than President Trump into the White House in November.
I just don't think it's possible.
Legally speaking and rationally speaking.
So my question on that matter is, does that mean that it is likely or possible the Democrats will then turn around and stir up civil unrest and start burning down cities again, so at the end of four years they can say, see?
That's what happens when you let Republicans in.
So would this unrest happen on the path to the election in an attempt to change their fate?
Or would that kind of horrible violence happen after the Trump win?
I think both.
The first probably not.
I think if they're really so sure they're going to lose, I think they're never going to slink away.
But I just think they'll be mean, nasty, and bitter like a caged animal.
And pardon me, thank you for bringing it up, and maybe this is, I don't know, it's a speculative exercise.
I've heard a lot of people say, and I've wondered whether I want to agree with it or just kind of let the game come to me and hope that it's not the case.
That if you take today's unhinged left and throw in a Trump victory after all they have said and all they have done and all the cheating they will try to do and the cheating at which they will succeed for X number of votes, if we really do what I've said 10 times today and we'll say 10 more, show up in such numbers that their cheating is rendered numerically irrelevant, And Trump really is brought back to the White House?
Will American cities burn?
I don't want to say that they will.
I'd like to have more faith.
Although, how can I?
You know, the BLM riots, I had faith, you know, after the whole George Floyd thing, too.
And that faith was ignited in the flames of various cities and the riots that happened.
So, I don't want to sit here and say, book it, rely on it, American cities will burn if Trump wins.
So, let me just say, it won't surprise me if they do.
And I hope that they do not.
So, there we are on that.
You may feel differently.
You may feel differently on anything I've said today.
That's why we have phone lines.
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with our very special guest host, the voice of Dallas, Mark Davis.
The voice of Dallas, Mark Davis.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Appreciate it, Dr. G. It is hour number three of three, and that means that, wow, after we leave you to other shows across the Salem Radio Network and the Salem News Channel, they get the entrance ramp to what should be an amazing, amazing night.
This is going to be some, tonight and tomorrow night, are very different in a couple of ways.
And let me riff on that a little bit and then we can do some riffing together.
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Tomorrow night is a guy we know all too well.
We've known him for the better part of a decade as a candidate and president and ex-president and should have been president and soon may again be president.
We've known him for a really long time.
It may be, I don't want to overemphasize this notion of the different Trump.
If you hear another hundred people say, oh, he's a changed man.
Listen, he may well be.
If I get shot, I'll probably be a changed man.
I hope not to find out.
And the change that people are talking about is that Trump has just been a, as somebody who is a non-politician.
He is in some ways kind of a political animal, a political predator, going after with great delicious aggressiveness exactly the targets that he seeks.
And it's not as though he's been heartless or cruel.
I know we talk about the mean tweets.
You know what the mean tweets are?
They're direct.
They're no BS.
That's what the so-called mean tweets are.
But I don't think that as a result of the bullet on Saturday that we're suddenly going to get warm, cuddly, Alan Alda-style Trump on Tomorrow night, and I certainly hope not, and I don't think that we will.
But I think it might add an element.
We've always known that he is—let me give you something that a hundred people said about Trump.
That while he hasn't had the most evangelical walk through life, evangelicals love him.
And I have to explain this to people all the time.
How can evangelicals love him with the marriages and this and that?
Well, here's why.
It's because there's such a thing as redemption.
And he is the M1 Abrams tank plowing through the wokeness and the leftism that endangers all of our religious freedom.
So, you know, there have been people from Marco Rubio to Ted Cruz to others who have been the kind of fellow evangelical soldier that we could have walked with, you know, into a presidential campaign.
But what we've really needed is the guy who, irrespective of his journey, stands as a redeemed man today Ready to engage in the kind of battles that give all of us religious freedom.
So anyway, the reason I'm mentioning that is I think there will be a faith angle to Trump's speech tomorrow night.
I don't think he's going to be, you know, spouting out a lot of Bible verses necessarily, but I think he's going to talk about how he felt the protective hand of God and views the protective hand of
God around this country and wants to be God's agent in saving this country and allowing us to turn back
to the kind of godly values that our country was built upon and
So I think you'll get some of that I think the other part of the change to Trump that you'll
get is a don't call it humility because please it's Trump I think it'll be a kind of an inclusiveness in a good way.
We're going to use that word in a good way.
The good kind of inclusion is the Trumpian Republican Party that seeks to include people of every race and both sexes and every religion as long as you're on board for what he wants to do.
And what does he want to do?
Make America great again.
So I don't care if you're an Eskimo soccer mom, let's go make America great again.
I don't care if you're a, you know, a lesbian, black, former Democrat, or current independent or moderate.
You want to come vote for me?
Let's make America great again.
I think that's the kind of thing we'll get tomorrow night as well.
So tomorrow night...
Tonight is a guy we know very, very well who may come at us with a slightly different flavor, and I think that's going to be fascinating.
Tonight is a guy that most of America doesn't know at all.
I mean, I do, because look what I do for a living.
You probably do because you listen to shows like this.
The Ascendancy of J.D.
Vance.
I would love to just send everybody, is it on Netflix, wherever it is, and have everybody go watch Hillbilly Elegy like now.
The story of coming from poverty and a family rife with dysfunction.
And then to join the Marines and then to come out and seek public office and become a senator and now become probably, at least for the moment, the odds-on favorite for 48th President of the United States.
What an American story that is.
What an incredibly, uniquely American story that is.
So I love it and I look forward to that as well.
Last night was fantastic.
We had some moments to reflect on, and one of my favorites was Dr. Ben Carson.
A lot of people wanted Dr. Carson to be Trump's running mate because, hey, black guy gives you that.
And as I've said, I think we spent way too much time talking about that.
I don't care about the pigment or the plumbing.
Would Ben Carson have been a great running mate?
Absolutely!
Not because he's black, but because he's awesome!
I probably said, might have said it here filling in, I don't know if we need to come at America with two septuagenarians.
I didn't say that so much lately because, again, I may not care about the pigment or the plumbing or the age.
Doug Burgum's problem to me was not that he was roughly my age, also known as too old.
I don't mean too old like Biden too old.
I wanted a generational choice.
I wanted a Someone who could take the torch in the Trump generation and carry it for like the next 30 years.
I wanted that person and that was not going to be Ben Carson, although I love him.
And it wasn't going to be Doug Burgum, even though I respect him.
Is it J.D.
Vance?
It sure is.
But having shown some love to Dr. Carson, I sure did love this.
I saw President Trump, a dear friend, escape death by mere inches, and my thoughts immediately
turned to the book of Isaiah that says, no weapon formed against you shall prosper.
Well, let me tell you the weapons that they use.
First, they tried to ruin his reputation, and he's more popular now than ever.
And then they tried to bankrupt him, and he's got more money now than he had before.
And then they tried to put him in prison, and he's freer and has made other people free with him.
And then, and then last weekend they tried to kill him, and there he is over there alive and well.
**Applause** Have I mentioned that I love Dr. Ben Carson?
Have I made that clear?
Surely you can understand.
He and his wife, Candy, they are a force of nature.
To the phones!
To the phones!
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Ann, Mark Davison for Seb.
Happy Wednesday.
How are you?
I'm great.
Can you hear me okay?
I can.
Excellent.
I loved what you were just saying.
So, really quickly, I just have two points.
I believe the assassination attempt was definitely an inside job.
Here's why.
Well, I'll tell you why.
Because we've been hearing that the Secret Service and law enforcement knew about this suspicious guy with a gun for 30 minutes.
My question is, in my mind, At the moment that they knew that there was a strange guy around with a gun, why did they not take Trump off the stage immediately?
We have absolutely no idea of what their level of awareness was and no reason whatsoever to believe that the agents at the stage were acutely aware of the threat on the building.
No idea whatsoever.
Now, is anything possible in today's crazy world?
Sure.
But to go jumping into inside job a few days later is just not a mentally stable place to be.
And I love you.
Truly do.
And you know what?
And I don't even really blame you.
I don't.
Because listen, how crazy is it?
The conspiracy theories, the crazy conspiracy theories of last week or last year are this morning's headlines.
So no, I begrudge you none of that.
And I appreciate it.
Maybe let's use that as a point of departure to talk about how very weird this is and what could make somebody plausibly think that.
I don't blame anybody for anything.
Are you kidding me?
I just don't want to lead the charge into inside job bad Tom Clancy novel territory just yet.
In fact, I have a It's kind of a policy for how to navigate stuff like this when things get really weird and you start to wonder, ooh, what if, what if.
Take every what if in your head and put a pin in it and stick it on the wall and say, okay, that would be terrible.
Let's wait for any possible evidence of it, any reason to actually Invest in this conspiracy theory, oblique thought, post that somebody issued.
Just wait.
Just let the game come to you and wait for evidence of that.
There will be so much attention paid to Secret Service misbehavior, not misbehavior, I do
it malfeasantly, Secret Service failure, failure that we're going to learn some things.
So let's see what we learn, sit tight till we do, and react to what we learn.
Sound good?
Mark Davison for Dr. G. It's America First.
We'll be right back.
Welcome to the World of Tanks.
I'm engaged in a little career game.
It's called, On How Many Shows Can I Talk to Mike Gallagher?
There's his, where he sometimes graciously welcomes me, which is always nice.
There's mine, my local show, where we have the Eminem experience, where he joins me 735 Central every morning before he does his own show.
And when I go fill in for other people, if Mike happens to be, oh, I don't know, in Milwaukee at the RNC, let's put another notch in the belt and go to the hall and say hi to talk show icon Mike Gallagher in Milwaukee.
Welcome my friend, how are you doing?
I mean, I ran 17 miles in about 10 minutes because I realized we mixed up central time with eastern time and I confirmed to Jeff That I'd be there, you bet, at 445.
And I was like, whoops, no, no, no, no.
So we got our time zones mixed up.
And I'm glad you texted me and you said, look, don't ghost me.
I've been plugging you.
I'm ready.
So I made it through the myriad of security measures and the guard dogs and the barricades.
Here we are, because I don't dare be late for my buddy Mark Davis.
Well, I am so very, very grateful.
From the Media Broadcast Center.
What do you think?
I just finished a little riff where I said, tomorrow night is Trump, who we know like the back of our hand, but it might be a slightly different Trump.
Tonight is J.D.
Vance, who you and I know because of what we do for a living, and the politically plugged-in listeners and viewers do.
But what do you think we get from Vance tonight?
Well, Vance is going to be Vance, although everybody is being given the marching orders, as I understand it, from Team Trump, that, look, we're unity.
We're unity this week.
We better be unity.
I expect that Senator Vance is going to deliver a message of unity as well.
Everybody is talking about how the shooting Saturday night has changed President Trump.
And Laura Trump, his daughter-in-law, told me this morning in as much.
Now, what does that mean?
Well, I think it means that he knows, I believe from what they're saying, he knows that we're not going to win without a unified Republican Party.
And so, I also talked to Senator Ron Johnson, who admitted that the wrong text got entered into his teleprompter for his floor speech, where he was a little edgier than they had wanted.
That was written before the assassination attempt, Mark.
What would be an example?
We all know what unity means, but what would be an example of the kinds of things that we might not hear that we otherwise might have?
Yeah, I think in breaking it down in layman's terms, they want to take a little bit of the edges off.
They want to soften it to some degree, and they want to be able to deliver a message that says, you know what?
Sure, we're going to be different ideologically, and we're not going to stop fighting.
I mean, for goodness sakes, Trump stood up, blood pouring down his face and said, fight, fight, fight.
That's not going to change.
He wasn't changed then.
But in Ron Johnson's case, the rhetoric was steeper.
It was more, I don't know.
I am so riveted to what Trump is going to sound like, look like, be like tomorrow night.
and they wanted to, I think he wanted to soften that and team Trump wanted to soften that a little bit.
And that didn't work exactly because again of the teleprompter error.
So I don't know, I am so riveted to what Trump is gonna sound like, look like,
be like tomorrow night.
And Mark, as you know, to quote a line from a famous musical,
I'm gonna get to be in the room where it happens because I'm gonna be on the floor listening
to president Trump and watching him tomorrow night here at the FISA forum.
We are so, so eager to see exactly how this goes and to hear what everybody here in Salem land has to say about it and what all the listeners and viewers have to say about it.
So if last night was about unity within the party, because there's Nikki Haley and there's Ron DeSantis and there's everybody who ever ran against him.
I had a lot of former critics and skeptics.
Unity within the party.
Next two nights are about unity for the country and maybe a little less Biden is a scourge and Kamala is a mealy-mouthed disaster.
There'll be time for that.
Maybe it's more of a, hey, here are our ideas.
Come to us.
We're going to make the country better.
We're going to make the economy better.
We're going to keep you safer.
And you know what?
I totally approve of that strategy.
And with the news that President Trump is going to attend the funeral of Mr. Kampatari, who was killed, that's powerful.
I mean, his widow wouldn't even take the phone call from Joe Biden.
So she has spoken to President Trump, and of course, indeed, he is planning to attend this firefighter's funeral, and that kind of casts Appall over everything.
Everybody understands the fragility of that moment Saturday a little bit after 6 p.m.
in Butler, Pennsylvania.
And Mark, I made the mistake of peeking into social media, and my goodness, people are saying, Michael Steele!
the former Republican turned MSNBC.
Yeah.
He is now tweeting and posting, we need to see the medical records.
Well, how, what's the extent of the injury on Trump's right ear?
What's wrong with these people, Mark?
I mean, do they know exactly what's wrong with them?
My gosh, how sick is that?
Michael Steele?
I get it from some of the real extremist trolls.
This guy's supposed to be an established MSNBC, you know, sage.
You want to see his... How about open your eyes and look at the blood that was coming down his face?
He is an established MSNBC sage, and the sages at MSNBC are hate-mongering weasels.
So he is playing exactly to type.
He's completely in character.
It absolutely is.
So last thing, a couple of minutes.
We've talked a little bit about Vance.
We've talked a little bit about Trump.
Once this thing is all said and done, we've got to figure out who we're running against.
And I've given you credit forever, as long as you've been saying there's no way it's Biden.
But this has kind of reshuffled the entire deck.
I don't even know how much that question... The Democrats are looking to try to shoehorn him the nomination a couple of weeks early.
Is he going to be the nominee?
Is there still a way to replace him?
Mark Adam Kinzinger is the first prominent Democrat to publicly call for Biden to step aside.
Adam Schiff.
Adam Schiff.
I say Kinzinger.
Easy mistake to make.
Yeah, no kidding.
They're like twins.
They're like, you know, one could switch one for the other.
They're both the same.
They're birds of a feather.
No, Adam Schiff, now a powerful, prominent Democrat, calling for Biden to step aside.
Mark, I would argue that the assassination attempt makes it even more likely that Biden will step down.
Really?
Because they know they can't win with this guy.
Trump demonstrated a strength and a resiliency that Joe Biden could only dream up at the condition he is in.
Have you seen the reports making the rounds?
And Biden himself has confirmed that if there's a medical condition that he's been advised of, that he will be willing to step down.
That's the latest wrinkle.
Oh, he's going to step aside, Mark.
He's going to tell the country he has a medical condition.
His doctors have advised him to step down.
They can't win with Joe Biden.
They can't win with Joe Biden.
He's going to step down.
It'll be Gavin.
It'll be Kamala.
It'll be somebody other than Biden, because they know they don't stand a prayer of beating Donald Trump with Joe Biden.
Well, in the last 45 seconds, is there any way for it to be anybody other than Kamala?
Kamala, you can't sidestep the woman of color.
No, you can't.
She'd have to be on board with that.
I doubt that she is.
But you're right.
I mean, if you're throwing the woman of color to the curb, that's not a good look.
That's not a good look at all.
So it's probably Kamala.
And my gosh, I like our chances even more with Kamala Harris.
That's our line, but you've argued before anybody younger is going to give them a little bit of an advantage.
Anybody younger is going to be better than Joe Biden in the condition he's in.
So I'm telling you, Mark, I thought a little bit about it first day.
I thought maybe not.
No, I'm doubling down.
Biden will not be on the ticket on November the 5th.
That is Mike Gallagher.
You can hear him in the morning, see him in the morning, Salem News Channel, Salem Radio Network.
Hear him with me, 730 Central Time, Central Time, here on 660 AF.
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God bless you, and it's so great to talk to you, no matter on what show it may be.
You betcha.
Alrighty, tell you what let's do.
Let's hit this bottom of the hour break, come back and talk to some more of you.
Mike gave us fresh material.
I've suggested that it's really up in the air about replacing Biden.
Mike says they absolutely have to now, which of course makes sense.
What are your thoughts on this and anything else?
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of President Trump attending the funeral.
I think this is, they are making, apparently looking at a number of different reports, they are looking at The possibility they're making plans for this.
New York Post, a couple of hours ago, funeral details announced for Corey Comperatore, hero firefighter killed during Trump assassination attempt.
In this somewhat short segment, let's just dwell on this a second.
Let's remember him because we've talked so much about how Greatful we are that President Trump was spared, that he is not dead, he was not killed, but a magnificent hero firefighter was.
A hero not just because he's a firefighter, but because he dove and protected the bodies of his wife and child in this process.
Funeral details have been announced, a public procession, is scheduled for 2 p.m.
Thursday from Freeport Community Park in Freeport, Pennsylvania to Lobb Hall in Freeport.
Visitation will be 2 to 4 p.m.
and from 6 to 8 p.m.
at Lobb Hall in Freeport, Pennsylvania and a private burial will follow.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Cabot Methodist Church There's a New York Post story.
You can look at that yourself.
Funeral details announced for Corey Comperatore.
Can you imagine the imagery that lies ahead, whether President Trump goes or doesn't?
I was just talking to the guys during the break.
When someone who's a very, very big deal decides to attend a funeral or is invited, I'm sure he'd be welcomed.
But two things happen.
Number one, there's enormous Emotion and import and gravity to this.
It is a beautiful, beautiful thing for President Trump to show up there in person to pay respects to a man who just wanted to go to a rally because he liked him.
As was said so many times as night fell on Saturday, Corey Comperatore just wanted to go to a Trump rally and died because of it.
For President Trump himself, To show up at the funeral is something that is... it's poetically beautiful.
It is also a massive pain in the neck.
Security-wise, it's a nightmare.
And so, okay, whatever anybody wants to do.
I don't ever want to say, hey, you can't go.
I don't want to tell the family to say, hey, don't invite him.
I mean, whatever anybody wants to do, do.
Whatever the sincere emotions are here and whatever.
I'm all about that family.
Whatever Corey's family wants to do, whoever they want to have there is great.
Whoever they don't want to have there is great.
I'm going to defer to them in all things.
And in fact, Trump's attendance aside, just think about this.
When you have a firefighter who dies, like fighting a fire, or a cop who passes away in the line of duty.
The line of motorcycles, the line of flashing lights.
Just look what we are, what's going to happen in front of our eyes on Thursday.
I mean, this week we're filled with the imagery of the convention and we're going to have a balloon drop apparently, and apparently in pure Trump style, it's the biggest balloon drop ever.
Of course it is.
I think a million and a half balloons or something.
A million and a half, is that right?
No, I'm confusing it.
Had the biggest balloon release in 1986.
I think that was a million.
There's like 150,000.
Whatever.
It's the biggest indoor balloon drop ever, or so I'm told.
The spectacle of this week is very upbeat, relief, joy, prayerful gratitude, etc, etc.
There'll be plenty of gratitude next week as well at the funeral of Corey Comperatore.
It'll be gratitude for his life lived, the kind of hero he was for his community, the kind of father he was, the kind of husband he was, the kind of guy he was.
And for President Trump to want to join in that showing of gratitude is a beautiful, beautiful thing.
But the imagery that we are going to see is going to be one of those – because listen, you talk about the police community, the firefighter community, the military community.
When these communities start to show their love and start to show their appreciation, To witness that is something, I mean, it's emotion on top of emotion because we have, of course, our feelings and our prayerful regard and our wishes for Cory's family, but also our appreciation for people who do what he did for a living, for firefighters, because they can die any day.
You know, it's not usually from an assassin's bullet.
It's because they walked into a burning building and died in a burning building.
Guess what?
Whichever the case, we just love and appreciate our firefighters, as we love and appreciate our police, as we love and appreciate our military.
And not to finish on a partisan note, but I will tell you, this is the kind of Republican convention that reflects that no matter what.
Love of country, love of military, love of cops, back the blue, love of firefighters.
I mean, Democrats love firefighters too, I'm sure, but it's just not the same.
You're not going to get a lot of that imagery in Chicago next week.
They'll appreciate the cops who are trying to quell the riots outside.
I guess they'll appreciate those cops.
I appreciate your input.
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A couple of segments left.
Let's see what we can do on the phones here at 833-33-GORKA, which is 833-334-6752.
We'll go there in a second.
As it looks like the House of Biden may be about to topple, or not.
I still figure it could go either way.
A lot of people think it's just... Listen, I know a million times, look at him.
There's no way they can go with this, right?
But if he doesn't budge, I think they're stuck.
So we'll see how that all goes.
Let's say they do change.
Let's say they are working with Kamala Harris or they somehow sidestep her and yet Gavin Newsom or Josh Shapiro or Gretchen Whitmer or whoever, the policies aren't going to change.
I mean, you'll have somebody who's, you know, younger and able to complete sentences, but the policies are going to be the same.
And as Trump himself has said, and I think J.D.
Vance will say tonight or in various ensuing interviews, it doesn't matter who you guys cough up against us.
We're running against open borders, and that's any Democrat.
We're running against a terrible economy, and that's any Democrat.
We're running against people who think there are 47 genders, and that is any Democrat.
So some of the speaking slots that have been given at the RNC have been to people you've never heard of, folks you don't know, just regular folks who have stories to tell that are emblematic of either how great the Trump presidency was and would be again, or how horribly consequential in a bad way, the Biden years have
been.
There was a mom named Ann Fundener who lost her son to fentanyl poisoning, fentanyl that
she believes was in the country because the borders were open, and she's right about that.
And I think we know why the borders are open, Ann Fundener, last night at the RNC.
In a moment of peer pressure, he tried something that someone gave to him, and it took my baby's
life.
We did everything right.
I had those conversations with him and fentanyl still found my son.
And on February 27th, 2022, our lives were shattered and our baby was gone.
This was not an overdose.
It was a poisoning.
His whole future, everything we ever wanted for him, was ripped away in an instant.
And Joe Biden does nothing.
I hold Joe Biden, Mala Harris, the borders are.
What a joke.
and Gavin Newsom and every Democrat who supports open borders responsible for the death of my son.
I watched that as it happened and and my heart just spilled out metaphorically on the living room
floor. I uh I I thought about the path that she's been through and what she must be feeling and how.
And I heard some people say, well, she's just lashing out from her grief.
Well, she is grief stricken.
She should be grief stricken.
And her anger is righteous.
And it is well-aimed.
I mean, did Joe Biden hand her son the fentanyl that killed him?
No.
But his policies left open a border that allowed it to get in.
And by the way, when Trump is president, do fentanyl deaths drop to zero?
No.
But there'll be a lot less of it.
Will crime drop to zero?
No, but I have a feeling if we have a message coming from the top in government that we're actually going to punish crime, we'll have less of it.
If we have somebody in the White House who knows how many genders there are and says maybe we're not going to mutilate our children in this horrific transgender radicalism cult, then maybe we'll have less of that.
It's all about the tone that is set from the top.
To the phones, we're in Arizona, line 2.
Greg, Mark Davis in for Dr. Gorka.
How are you doing?
Good Wednesday to you.
Hey, good Wednesday to you as well.
You and I are similarly aged, so I'm sure you can remember a lot of the Democrats' speeches that were done in the 80s, early 90s even.
Sure, sure.
They didn't seem unpatriotic.
They seemed, okay, nice guys, little different idea, just thought government should pay for a little bit more, government should do a little bit more.
But it wasn't a race to find out how many body parts of a child we could cut off.
It wasn't a race to find out how many open borders we could have.
And maybe too late in the programming, but it would be kind of cool to have somebody read a speech from anybody in, say, 1988, and then read another recent post from AOC or even Joe Biden or something.
I'll give you one.
The first one that comes to mind is Mario Cuomo, Chris and Andrew's dad, when he, of course, had been governor of New York and he was the keynote speaker.
I want to say the 1984 Mondale Convention.
Go revisit that.
There's a lot of it in there that I agree with.
And you've pegged it exactly correctly.
And also, well, here's our age, or mine and my longevity in this crazy business.
In 1984, I had been doing talk shows for two years already.
And even as a dumb, young, wet-behind-the-ears kid, I was taking calls from people, from Democrats.
I was establishing my youthful conservatism.
And people would call up about as Divergent as it got is you want to spend too much money.
You like affirmative action too much, and I think it's racist.
You want to tax people too high.
There was the beginning of some environmental extremism that I was pushing back against, etc., etc.
But that was it.
It wasn't like they hated me or hated God or hated Christians or hated the flag.
Greg, thank you.
I appreciate that for launching me off on this rant.
I make mention often that Democrats, okay, Democrat candidates, because I know there are Democrats in church every Sunday.
I know there are Democrats who read the Bible.
I know there are Democrats who really do love the country.
I know you are out there.
But you're not represented by and large by today's Democratic Party, officially speaking, the people who run for and win offices voted for by you guys.
These tend to be people who are no longer comfortable about invoking God as JFK did, no longer comfortable about seeming patriotic.
You know, as Hubert Humphrey and Scoop Jackson did.
Now, it's as if... I have a client on the local show, Simon's Flags in Irving, Texas.
They're a flag store.
I said, listen, I hate that the bottom line is that if you go put a flag in front of your house, we probably know who you're voting for.
We shouldn't!
There ought to be a flag out in front of every Biden voter's house.
There's not.
Some, maybe, and maybe it's you if you're listening, and I'm full latitude to you if that's the case.
But when did patriotism become just us?
Honoring the Constitution become just us?
Well, you know, when did honoring the police become just us?
You know what?
It's unfortunate that that's the case, but if that is the case, we're going to own it, and we're going to tell people about it, and that's how Trump's going to win November 5th.
Mark Davis in for Seb, right back with some final words.
stick around.
I'm going to be doing a video on how to make a strawberry cake.
I'm going to be using a strawberry cake pan.
I'm going to be using a pan with a little bit of
butter.
I'm going to be using a pan with a little bit of butter.
We spent a lot of time talking about Vance, talking about Trump.
It seemed just in the interest of fair play and, you know, bringing down the temperature.
We ought to give a little bit of Joe Biden.
This is Biden before the NAACP.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is what we might be running against.
I know.
I know you're saying, Joe, you may not have a Congress.
Well, guess what?
Y'all told me I couldn't pass the Inflation Reduction Act.
Y'all told me I couldn't face it.
Anyway, we did it.
We're going to bring rents down.
As I said, we're going to build two million affordable homes and cap rent increases of five percent a year.
So corporate landlords can't.
God.
Anyway, I don't want to get going.
I'm going to get very upset.
But there's gouging America.
And by the way, not only saves lives, it will save taxpayers just what I did on the first round on dealing with Medicare.
It saves the taxpayer 160 billion dollars!
Because they don't have to pay these exorbitant prices to these, anyway.
Anyway, we'll see what happens in the days and weeks to come.
Let's see what happens in the minutes to come.
Let's take a couple of folks.
Everybody take about 60 seconds apiece.
Let's begin in Los Angeles.
Line 2, Eric Mark Davison for Seb.
Go!
How you doing?
Hello, Mark.
Real quick, who was the last speaker that you just aired?
Oh, interesting.
That was DeSantis, and most conservatives love term limits.
I like the idea of them, but I'm intrigued.
That's the only thing I don't agree with that he said, but oh, interesting.
That that's a that was DeSantis and most conservatives love term limits.
I like the idea of them, but I'm intrigued.
If you don't tell me why.
Because there are good people.
There's two reasons.
First off, there's good people in there.
You turn limit them out and you throw the baby out with the bath water.
And secondly, that's not the solution.
The solution is educating the voters better than we have been.
Strong, strong point.
Eric, thank you.
Here's the deal.
I like term limits.
I love the idea of a citizen legislature, people there for 50 years.
But I don't want to have to get rid of Ted Cruz.
Boom.
See what I mean?
It seems arbitrary.
Eric's right when he says the solution is to have educated voters bouncing people, you know, and getting rid of it.
But it's so hard to do.
It's so incredibly hard to beat incumbents.
And that's why people love term limits.
So we'll see.
Let's do 30 seconds.
We're in Toronto.
Ruth, hi.
Welcome.
Welcome to America.
Nice to have you.
How are you?
God bless you, and God bless America, and God bless Donald Trump.
Thank you.
I'm calling because even now I was just talking to one of my friends, and she was trying to donate, and she lives here in Ontario.
No, can't do that.
Well, I don't know, but she was trying.
I do know, and you need to be an American citizen.
But let me do this, since you've been so kind, why don't you get you and her, do you know some folks in America?
I bet you do.
Fire up the phone lines, tell them why you think that we need to vote for Trump, And we'll thank you later for if we win a state by three or four votes, you'll be why.
Thank you, Ruth.
God bless you.
Oh, Canada, our home and native land.
God bless you.
God bless all y'all.
Thank you to Jeff and Eric and Alex and everybody.
Thanks to Dr. G for letting me do this.
Follow me on Twitter at Mark Davis.
And that ought to do it.
I'll see you next time.
They ask right here on America First.
Have a great day.
God bless America.
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