Aug. 19, 2024 - Sebastian Gorka
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| the I'm Sebastian Gorka and this is America First with our very special guest host, the voice of Dallas, Mark Davis. | |
| Lookit there! | |
| Thank you, Dr. G. Appreciate it very, very much. | |
| It is a joy and an honor to be here on what I believe is, by my calculation, the last of Seb's absent days. | |
| He'll be back tomorrow. | |
| Grant Stinchfield was in last week. | |
| He's always awesome. | |
| Another gentleman with local roots ran for Congress locally, and a huge NRA activist. | |
| I love Grant, and I love Seb, and I love y'all, and I love the opportunity to be here. | |
| I am the happy morning host at 660 AM. | |
| The answer Here in Dallas-Fort Worth and pretty well the guy they call across the platform, across the radio network, across the Salem News Channel. | |
| When somebody ain't there, chances are this guy is. | |
| And so I'm enormously pleased to be here for Dr. G and to be here for you. | |
| Here is what I envision. | |
| First, you know the phone number. | |
| 833-33-GORKA. | |
| 833-33-GORKA, 833-334-6752. | |
| 833-334-6752. | |
| I have questions for you on this first day of the fire hose of nonsense | |
| that will be the Democrat National Convention. | |
| Now, a lot of that nonsense will be coming from actual Democrats, but I have to tell you, | |
| in these last few days, there are some Republicans we have to deal with, or at least they say | |
| they are still Republicans. | |
| Call them the. | |
| Trump skeptical. | |
| And I don't even mean full never Trumpers. | |
| I mean, that's the Adam Kinzinger, Liz Cheney, lost children wing. | |
| There's just no explaining them short of some type of full mental markup. | |
| But I'm talking about folks like Nikki Haley, folks like Mark Short. | |
| I'm driving in today and I'm listening to MSNBC because, hey, I have to. | |
| And on the Chris Jansing show, they welcome Mark Short. | |
| Now, I remember sitting down with Mark Short for some interviews during the first Trump presidency. | |
| He was Mike Pence's chief of staff, good guy in that regard. | |
| But apparently being in Pence world and remaining in Pence world gives you sort of an inner | |
| calling that you need to throw down the spike strips in the way of the Trump re-election. | |
| I don't know why, in order to make yourselves feel better. | |
| I don't know. | |
| We all know what drives Nikki Haley. | |
| It is enormous self-absorption and I think she envisions herself as having a future in | |
| the Republican Party and she may. | |
| There will always be some sliver of the party available for her supporters. | |
| We saw that in this year's primaries. | |
| I mean, the last man standing was a woman and it was her, so okay. | |
| But now that that's all done, now that we have our nominee, there are two kinds of people. | |
| People interested in saving this country and having him win and people who are interested | |
| in something else. | |
| Over in Pennsland with Mark Short, they're interested in something else. | |
| That's why he was whining and moaning on MSNBC, familiar territory. | |
| I gotta tell you, if you want to get on MSNBC, they'll come send a car and pick you up. | |
| Be a Republican who has broken ranks. | |
| Be a Republican who still has some splinter in your finger about Trump that just can't bring you to be on board, where you're going to nitpick and you're just going to whine about, oh, he's off message, or there's something about the ascendancy of Kamala that has somehow distracted him. | |
| I'm going to tell you something. | |
| After you're digesting all of today's news, Tell me if you think he seems distracted in Pennsylvania right now. | |
| See if... | |
| As he describes the way in which Harris and Biden blew up the economy. | |
| See if he seems distracted. | |
| What they're talking about is distracted from the way they wish the nominee would act. | |
| Because from Nikki Haley, who I guess it was Friday, on Fox with Brett Baier talked about, oh, the Republican Party needs a serious change of direction. | |
| Well, we need to stop, as she called it, whining. | |
| We need to stop whining about the fact that she doesn't do interviews What? | |
| The fact that the Democrat nominee is such a coward that she won't sit down with a media culture that adores her? | |
| This is something that just doesn't seem, I don't know, gentlemanly enough. | |
| It just doesn't seem like the wise philosopher king that all of you want who crave the days of John McCain and Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney. | |
| It's not y'all's party anymore. | |
| It's not their party anymore. | |
| It is Trump's party. | |
| Lead, follow, or get out of the way. | |
| As the DNC convenes, if that's what you want to call it, there are multiple questions, multiple thoughts that I have, and let me run some things by you. | |
| First, if we can't beat these people, there is something seriously wrong with America. | |
| Amid all of this backbiting and second-guessing, oh, Trump needs to do this, Trump needs to do that, you know what he needs to do? | |
| Get out there and be him. | |
| Get out there and remind everybody how great things were when he was president, and that will attract enough people to win if America still has a brainstem. | |
| Here's what's interesting. | |
| It's not as up to him as everybody thinks. | |
| And by that I mean there are huge forks in the road, that if he does this he can win, if he does this he won't. | |
| Lindsey Graham, who has good days and bad days, and I thought it was going to be a pretty good morning for him yesterday on Meet the Press with Kristen Welker. | |
| Kristen Welker played that infernal Nikki Haley kind of, the party needs to change its direction, blah blah blah, and then asked fellow South Carolinian Lindsey Graham, do you agree with Nikki Haley? | |
| And In expert fashion, Lindsey Graham said, well, I don't think that Kamala Harris is a lunatic or anything, but I do think her policies were bad. | |
| I think she's the most liberal nominee in the history of nominees, and then went off on a really good point-by-point reason of why she's terrible. | |
| But he just couldn't help himself, just couldn't stop himself. | |
| Then we pivoted into Bad Lindsey, or let's just say Mediocre Lindsey, because I've seen Bad Lindsey. | |
| This was Unhelpful Lindsey. | |
| And it's unhelpful you if this is you, and I don't mean you in the listenership. | |
| Y'all are on board. | |
| I trust. | |
| If not, call me. | |
| We'll help you out. | |
| 833-33-GORKA, 833-334-6752. | |
| 833-33-GORKA, 833-334-6752. | |
| And that is this notion that if Trump gets out there and talks about his policies, he | |
| wins on the policies. | |
| So far so good, because the economy is in free fall. | |
| The borders are a joke. | |
| Our culture is dashed against the rocks. | |
| We have people running things who don't even know how many genders there are. | |
| So yes, on the issues he does absolutely win. | |
| But here's where their treachery becomes clear. | |
| In Lindsey Graham's words, Trump the provocateur, a word he attempted to pronounce, Trump the provocateur, Trump the showman, may not win. | |
| It's all those Trumpy things. | |
| If he were just a blank position paper, oh, we'd win 40 states. | |
| Electoral landslide. | |
| But when Trump gets out there and he's that guy, when he's that Trumpian guy, that is what, to their mind, causes a bunch of voters to scream, run away, and hit the exits. | |
| This is a lie. | |
| Now, are there people whom you can find, whom I can find, we may find them on the phone, and that'll be fun, who will tell you, you know, I'd really like to vote for him. | |
| I really support his policies, but he's too mean. | |
| Or, you know, he just, you know, focuses on too many things that are away from him. | |
| First of all, I think a lot of these people are also lying. | |
| Because if anybody, if anybody has a shred of clarity, I'm going to give you more than a shred of clarity right now and see how it strikes you. | |
| 833-33-GORKA. | |
| 833-334-6752. | |
| If you have a shred of clarity, you will realize that the economy, the borders, and presenting a strong face to the world, the world's on fire, having the things back that were going so well from 2016 right up to COVID, that that's really all that matters. | |
| And if you or anybody else has just some problem or some bug up your butt about Trump stylistically, or the mean tweets, or him saying that Kamala strikes him as dumb, or him saying thus and such, or whatever, that she's a communist, if that all seems off topic for you, if it's a little too spicy for you, the primaries are over. | |
| The choice has been made. | |
| You either want to save the country or you don't. | |
| If you do, great. | |
| Shut up about those other things. | |
| They don't matter. | |
| And get on board and let's save this country. | |
| If you can't do that, then just go be a Democrat because that's what you are. | |
| Okay, so far so good. | |
| Mark Davis in for Dr. Gorka. | |
| Join us, 833-33-GORKA, 833-334-6752. | |
| Follow me on the old ex-Twitter if you like, at Mark Davis. | |
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| The year before I took office, the United States lost over 10,000 manufacturing jobs. | |
| Everybody said you'd never bring it back. | |
| But under my leadership, we created more than a half a million manufacturing jobs in less | |
| than three years. | |
| And that's because of the people that we have. | |
| It is America First with Dr. Sebastian Gorka, and it will be with Dr. Sebastian Gorka, as it properly should be, when Dr. G returns tomorrow. | |
| Mark Davis with you today. | |
| I mentioned just a moment ago that Donald Trump was out on the campaign trail in Chicago as they gather and try to feign and fake Enthusiasm. | |
| And I understand that they're relieved. | |
| They've got to be relieved to be unshackled from the rotting husk that is Joe Biden, who speaks tonight or who will try to speak tonight. | |
| We'll see how that goes. | |
| But they're going to try to portray this as a party that I actually heard somebody say this. | |
| I haven't seen enthusiasm in the Democrat Party, he said, since Obama in 2008. | |
| Are you high right now saying something like that? | |
| I was in Denver for the 08 Obama convention, and that enthusiasm was real. | |
| It was filled by people who disagree with me about everything, but that was the real deal, and he was the real deal. | |
| Again, I disagreed with everything going on, but it wasn't phony. | |
| It wasn't a millimeter thick, kind of like she is. | |
| So anyway, compare what will happen. | |
| Just watch this rollout. | |
| And you want some enthusiasm? | |
| Let's go to York, Pennsylvania. | |
| Trump just moments ago talking about here's something that really matters to people, manufacturing, the economy. | |
| Listen. | |
| The year before I took office, the United States lost over 10,000 manufacturing jobs. | |
| Everybody said you'd never bring it back. | |
| But under my leadership, we created more than a half a million manufacturing jobs in less than three years. | |
| After decades of wage stagnation and income surged, we had a surge like nobody's ever seen before, but it surged for everybody during the Trump administration. | |
| Every group, everybody, men, women. | |
| We had Every household was at a level that they've never really experienced before. | |
| The typical American household saw their incomes grow by more than $4,200 per year. | |
| Everyone was better off when you had a gentleman named President Donald J. Trump at the helm. | |
| Does anybody know him? | |
| Oh, we know him. | |
| We know him well. | |
| And so please share with me the logic that if 10, 15 minutes after that moment in York, Pennsylvania today, if he suggested that maybe the Kamala might not be the sharpest knife in the drawer, that all of a sudden that makes all kinds of people stop thinking about the borders and stop thinking about the economy and say, you know what? | |
| I think I am okay with more of this misery. | |
| I think I am okay with more of this nightmare. | |
| Do not listen for one moment. | |
| To people who are lying to you right now for their own self-serving agenda, their own squish, moderate, John McCain, Mitt Romney-loving agenda that says that Trump's got it all wrong. | |
| He's off his feet. | |
| He's deviating from his message. | |
| He's confused. | |
| He's off his game. | |
| Absolutely not. | |
| You take a look at that rally today. | |
| Tell me if it seems like he's off his game. | |
| All right, we're on our game right here. | |
| 833-33-GORKA. | |
| Let's talk to some people. | |
| The line number is 3. | |
| The great city is Pittsburgh. | |
| Leo, Mark Davison for Dr. G. Welcome. | |
| Happy Monday. | |
| How are you? | |
| I'm fine, thank you. | |
| I was just calling to say that one of the finest men to hold office of presidency in my lifetime was Jimmy Carter. | |
| One of the worst presidents in my lifetime was Jimmy Carter. | |
| The man's character isn't as important as his policies for running the government. | |
| That's all I had to say. | |
| Thank you. | |
| And Leo, and thank you, because let's talk a little bit about presidential character. | |
| People talk about how much character matters, and it does. | |
| We would like all of our politicians, all of our leaders, to have enormous wisdom, to be deeply virtuous, and to have been virtuous for their entire lives. | |
| Honestly, Carter probably comes as close to that as anybody. | |
| Was it true of JFK? | |
| Lord, no. | |
| I won't even get started on Clinton. | |
| But I'll tell you what, at least Trump cast his wayward soul to the breeze some years ago. | |
| Clinton was doing God knows what in the actual Oval Office! | |
| So don't talk to me about presidential character. | |
| If you do, then let's focus on what the gentleman was just talking about. | |
| Now, is Trump a redeemed and improved man since his billionaire playboy days? | |
| Yes, he is. | |
| And I'm glad of that. | |
| We all have varying redemption stories from some stumble that we've made. | |
| Presidential character. | |
| You know what presidential character means? | |
| Promising something and then doing it. | |
| You know what presidential character is in this election? | |
| It's about saying, I am going to save this country. | |
| I am going to give us back a border. | |
| I am going to take the boot of heavy-handed government off your neck in terms of the regulatory culture. | |
| I am going to remind everybody how many genders God made. | |
| I am going to improve the economy. | |
| I am going to give young people an opportunity to come out of college or whatever they're | |
| doing in their early 20s and give them some ray of hope. | |
| That is presidential character and Trump is displaying it. | |
| Let us roll to Brooklyn. | |
| Line number is 2. | |
| Judy, hi. | |
| Mark Davis in for Seb. | |
| How are you this Monday? | |
| Hi, I'm pretty good. | |
| Thank you. | |
| You know, I called because I want to say a vote for Kamala is a vote for a teleprompter. | |
| That's what you're voting for. | |
| Because some speechwriter writes her stuff, but when she goes off script, off teleprompter, my God, her true colors come out. | |
| She's so pathetic. | |
| She's so unintelligent and so actually stupid. | |
| I want to say a few things. | |
| She sits there and she's, you know, she says she's going to give money for housing, whatever. | |
| Be careful. | |
| I call it Comrade Kamala, Commie Kamala, because She wants to dictate how many square footage families can live in. | |
| That's what communists do. | |
| You know, they put the foot in and they control everything. | |
| Then they're going to say how many family members they'll tell you. | |
| Now, she wants to go after and punish the victims, store owners, who stick their necks out to keep their business afloat when really Kamala, Comrade Kamala, is responsible for the inflation that caused high prices in the first place. | |
| from day one when they closed the gas pipeline, creating this trickle down effect | |
| with the double pricing of the gas and everything. | |
| And all of a sudden it trickles down to the food and to everything else. | |
| You know, I wanna tell you something I don't understand. | |
| These Democrats, they lied about the Hilly dossier, that came out. | |
| They lied about two and a half years of Russian collusion, that came out. | |
| 51 intelligence officers like John Brennan, they lied about a laptop blaming Russian life. | |
| How did it, they don't stop lying. | |
| How could you trust these communist Democrats for anything they promised instead? | |
| Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Okay? | |
| Whether it's people who are... Judy, thank you. | |
| I got a scoop. | |
| Appreciate it. | |
| Good run there. | |
| Whether it's people in actual elected office or people in the analysis business, The people who gave you the Steele dossier, and the pee tape, and Russian collusion, and who continue to foist the Charlottesville both sides hoax, hoax after hoax after hoax, these are the people | |
| Who say to you now, listen to me now, as I talk about the Democrat convention this week. | |
| Listen to me now and believe me. | |
| I was part and parcel of so many lies and fabrications, but listen to me now and believe me. | |
| This is what they say in today's Democrat party. | |
| This is what they say on CNN and MSNBC. | |
| This is what they say. | |
| So to Judy's point about the teleprompter versus Kamala just extemporaneously. | |
| We're going to get a big chunk of both in the coming days. | |
| On September 10th, and I can't wait for September 10th, that will be Kamala and Trump on a debate stage. | |
| She won't have anything to read. | |
| She won't have any—I was going to say she won't have any comforting moderators. | |
| It doesn't matter what the moderators do. | |
| If they get hostile toward Trump, he'll eat them alive. | |
| So Trump will be all over the place. | |
| She'll have to talk from the cuff, but she'll be on the prompter Thursday night at the convention. | |
| How will that go? | |
| I've got a detail or two about that and more of your calls next. | |
| 833-33-GORKA. | |
| Mark Davis in for Seb. | |
| We'll be right back. | |
| you you | |
| you Welcome back to America First with Mark Davis. | |
| Thank you, Dr. G. We anticipate your return tomorrow. | |
| We are together today, Mark Davis, from 660 AM, The Answer, here in Dallas-Fort Worth, where I believe it's about 137 degrees outside the studio. | |
| So I'm pleased to be here. | |
| I'm just pleased to be anywhere that there's air conditioning. | |
| Things are getting hot. | |
| Topically, things are getting hot on the streets of Chicago. | |
| Oh my, and I don't mean just summertime temperatures. | |
| I mean the fire and fury of protesters. | |
| We've got to talk about that in a minute. | |
| But where I left you, and we'll be right back on the phones with you, and also I want to hear a little, why don't you hear a little bit of evidence. | |
| of extemporaneous Kamala because as Judy mentioned from Brooklyn a moment ago, | |
| when she's on the teleprompter, that's one thing. That's going to be Thursday night. | |
| When she's just freewheeling it, oh my, oh my, that's a whole other universe. | |
| The word salad hashtag just cries at you from every corner. | |
| Now Thursday night, she will be on a prompter. | |
| She will be reading remarks written for her. | |
| So we know she's terrible off the cuff, but how is she at speech making? | |
| And in all fairness, okay, in all fairness, the answer is She's okay. | |
| She's just okay. | |
| She ain't Obama. | |
| She ain't Clinton. | |
| She's not even Biden, back when Biden was coherent. | |
| But can she get through this? | |
| And will the words stir the gathered masses there at the United Center in Chicago? | |
| Yeah, they will. | |
| Will the media hail it as the Gettysburg Address meets Mr. Gorbachev Tear Down This Wall? | |
| Absolutely. | |
| Will the convention give her a little bump in the polls? | |
| It will. | |
| I've described this, that this is kind of her month. | |
| And I guess the only reason I mention that is that while Trump holds events, the attention to oxygen is going to be given over to her. | |
| And a lion's share of that in the modern media culture is going to be about propping her up. | |
| But the honeymoon of August, is going to give way to the harsh realities of September and October. | |
| And that is when Trump's strengths are going to become more evident. | |
| September contains the debate day, the debate night of September 10th. | |
| Let me just give you what we might have in store. | |
| And this isn't even when she's up against Trump. | |
| This is from a culture of reporters that loves her. | |
| Cut number one is Kamala attempting to explain what she envisions for the economy. | |
| We know that there's a great return on investment. | |
| When we increase homeownership in America, what that means in terms of increasing the tax base, not so much a property tax base, what that does to fund schools, again, return on investment. | |
| I think it's a mistake for any person who talks about public policy to not critically evaluate how you measure the return on investment. | |
| When you are strengthening neighborhoods, strengthening communities, and in particular the economy of those communities, What in the world was that? | |
| It's as if you just say, return on investment enough. | |
| and it pays for itself in that way. | |
| What in the world was that? | |
| It's as if you just say return on investment enough. | |
| I'm taken back to when like I was writing compositions in like 10th grade on subjects I didn't know about | |
| and I hadn't done the work and you know, whatever. | |
| I just, I was a pretty good student, but if a subject bored me, eh, you know what I mean? | |
| Maybe that's your kids too. | |
| Maybe it was you. | |
| If there was anything that I could do there's an old saying, | |
| if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with, well, you know what I mean. | |
| I was pretty good at that. | |
| She's not! | |
| See, here's the thing. | |
| I mean, I was somehow able in 10th grade to get some instructors to go, all right, that makes sense, and give me a B at least. | |
| Did anybody think that was even coherent? | |
| All right, to the phones. | |
| Let's go to line one. | |
| We're in New York City. | |
| Sean, hi, welcome. | |
| Mark Davis in for Dr. Gorka. | |
| Happy Monday. | |
| Mr. Davis, happy Monday. | |
| So I'm calling today because I truly believe that NATO needs to be repurposed. | |
| It was originally set up to contain the former Soviet Union. | |
| That Soviet Union no longer exists. | |
| We now have a Christian nation, which is following a course of traditionalism. | |
| So the existential threat to the West is the Islamification and communism that is coming from within the Europe and the | |
| United States. I believe that NATO needs to nip that in the bud. That has to be | |
| their prime directive to go after the Islamification of the West and the growing | |
| threat of communism within our own borders. I think that's coherent, Shostakovich. | |
| Speaking of coherent, I think that, look at that, now Sean for 60 seconds can do this, and he's not even trying to hose anybody. | |
| Thanks, sir. | |
| Appreciate it very, very much. | |
| NATO is, of course, the NA, and NATO is North Atlantic Treaty Organization. | |
| I know that Islam is more of a Middle Eastern thing, but the point he made was a really sound one, and that is the Islamification of Europe. | |
| This is not your daddy's Europe. | |
| This is not your grandfather's London, or Paris, or Munich. | |
| If you've been to Europe lately, it doesn't look like it used to look. | |
| And I don't care where anybody's from or what race anybody is, but just culturally, it's being destroyed. | |
| And that deserves some attention. | |
| And Russian misbehavior does too. | |
| Silly me, I somehow think we can do it all. | |
| Alrighty, John Solomon joins us next. | |
| Mark Davis in for Dr. Gorka on America First. | |
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| Mark Davis with you today, meaning I get to welcome some of the very cool folks that Seb talks to. | |
| How about John Solomon? | |
| How about the founder of Just the News? | |
| Let's check in with Brother Solomon on all things newsworthy. | |
| Hi, John. | |
| Welcome. | |
| Nice to have you here on a Monday. | |
| Good to be with you, Mark. | |
| Yeah, busy Monday. | |
| It is, and it gets busier as the Democratic convention rolls out, and you had a piece on your Twitter feed that John Fetterman won't be there because he differs with the party on Israel. | |
| A gentleman running against Ted Cruz in my state, Colin Allred, I don't know how welcome he is. | |
| The Texas delegation of Democrats doesn't want a lot to do with him because he has dared to say that maybe Biden and Harris have not been so great on the border. | |
| So we don't exactly have the Democrat unity that we usually have, do we? | |
| Yeah, I think that's a very important point. | |
| This is a party that's divided into three or four camps, despite all of the rhetoric and all of the efforts of the legacy media to suggest that the party's on fire. | |
| It's not. | |
| If it's on fire, it's in fire and dispute. | |
| You've got the Israel-Hamas protesters, 100,000 strong in Chicago, by the way, also picking up on college campuses this week as students return for classes. | |
| That's one wing of the party. | |
| Then you have the traditional wing of the party, Then you have those who are still blue dogs who don't feel very good about this. | |
| The All Reds probably fall in that camp trying to portray themselves as more moderate. | |
| Fetterman probably in that camp on some issues. | |
| And it's not a very unified party right now and it doesn't have a unified message. | |
| And I think that that's going to be one of the things you'll see throughout this week, is that what the Democratic Party stands for depends on who is talking and who you're talking with. | |
| And that's not a good sign for the fall. | |
| Kamala Harris last week had to fight off criticisms on the left side of her own economic policy, the one that she was trying to roll out to differentiate herself from Joe Biden, maybe get a leg up on Donald Trump. | |
| And instead it turned into a communism fiasco, as liberals and conservatives said, we don't do price control, something that she put front and center in her policy. | |
| It is a party that has a lot of division, a lot of conflict, and a lot of uncertainty about what it stands for right now. | |
| So tonight we get Joe Biden, and I don't even know how that's going to go, but it seems like low risk, low reward. | |
| If Joe gets out there and is coherent for his address, everybody will go, wasn't that nice? | |
| They'll give him the gold watch. | |
| We'll be done. | |
| If Joe, if it's a disturbingly, jarringly incoherent Biden on the convention stage, at least the attendees will go, whew, thank goodness we dodged that bullet. | |
| So night number one is probably a pretty good night before we get to where Tim Walz and Kamala Harris actually have to Yeah, tonight's about setting to rest the Biden era of the Democratic Party, which Democrats are eager to do. | |
| Republicans this morning dropped the impeachment report, which reminded us that in 2020, we were lied to by Joe Biden and all of the Democrats and the media. | |
| There was an influence peddling scandal. | |
| It was significant. | |
| $27 million flowed in to the Biden family and its associated companies by trading on | |
| Joe Biden's name. | |
| And the president lied to us over and over and over again. | |
| He lied to get to be the president. | |
| That's the legacy that Republicans made clear this morning 12 hours or more before Joe Biden | |
| spoke. | |
| Now, tonight, Joe Biden will try to put his spin on things, but, very quickly, the party | |
| will move on to him like Joe who? | |
| And they will be working on Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. | |
| And there may be some regret down the road. | |
| I think the Walt Harris ticket is probably a little too far left and people appreciate it when they got excited. | |
| And the polling is starting to show some concerns about their far leftward policies and how easy they may be to exploit during the November election. | |
| You've talked properly about the degree to which Joe Biden himself has lied to us. | |
| Let's talk about the cost of lying when it is Kamala Harris herself who has lied to America for the better part of the year when she said repeatedly that Joe Biden is up to this, he's great, he's wonderful behind closed doors. | |
| She was part of that fraud campaign. | |
| Is that forgotten or does that still have legs? | |
| I think it does have legs. | |
| She was part of that cover-up that necessitated this very awkward change in the middle of an election year. | |
| We've never had this before, where the nominee will be coronated, though they didn't really run in the election. | |
| And not because someone died, but just because the party got tired of the other guy or got scared by the other guy. | |
| That's pretty alarming. | |
| She was a part of that cover-up. | |
| She's also a part of the cover up on the border and the effort to declare the border secure | |
| when it's anything but secure. | |
| A hundred terrorists coming across and being allowed to stay in the country by the Biden-Harris | |
| administration. | |
| So, she has a lot of illusions she created. | |
| And most Americans, when they hear her say, hey, the economy is going to be fine, they're | |
| like, no, it's not. | |
| Sit at my kitchen table. | |
| It's not OK. | |
| And I think those sort of lies are going to irk the American people. | |
| Kamala Harris will keep calling things something they're not. | |
| Joe Biden is fine. | |
| The economy is fine. | |
| The board is fine. | |
| None of those three were true. | |
| And even if she says, trust me, I'm going to make the economy much better once I'm in office, ma'am, you're in office now. | |
| You're already there. | |
| You don't even have to come off the campaign trail. | |
| If you've got a head full of wonderful things, if they're worth doing on Inauguration Day, January 20th, they're worth doing in August. | |
| So why not go ahead and do those things? | |
| In our final couple of minutes, obviously it's all about Kamala, all about the Democrats at the moment, but let's at least spend a couple of seconds on Donald Trump. | |
| Who, it appears, will indeed be sentenced about a month from now. | |
| How do you think that will go? | |
| And what are the stakes for him? | |
| Is it one of those things that just won't matter? | |
| The prosecution hasn't mattered. | |
| If he's actually sentenced to jail, I don't think he'll serve a day, but I think he can still be sentenced and have it hanging there, pending appeal. | |
| How do you see this entire thing playing out? | |
| Well, I think there's three things to watch for. | |
| The first is the pre-sentencing report. | |
| The what recommendation do the career people looking at Donald Trump, not as Donald Trump but as any defendant, how they would, what recommendations they would make. | |
| That'll be the first bellwether. | |
| That should come out right around Labor Day. | |
| The second bellwether is will the judge proceed with the mid-September sentencing when, in fact, the immunity ruling made clear that the issues surrounding immunity and official acts need to be resolved before you proceed with a criminal case. | |
| If it doesn't, the third thing will be, will the Supreme Court get involved? | |
| If the judge doesn't acknowledge that, will the Supreme Court get involved? | |
| Today there was an unusual moment. | |
| Prosecutors didn't push one way or the other for sentencing, said, we'll just go with whatever the judge wants. | |
| That's an interesting move for a prosecutor officer that was frothing at the mouth a long time ago to bring Donald Trump to court. | |
| And so I think that they must know something about either the politics of the situation or the court that they're keeping an eye on. | |
| But those three things, the pre-sentencing report, the judge's decision to delay or not, and will SCOTUS, the Supreme Court, get involved, that will have a radical effect on what happens in mid-September. | |
| The Twitter feed is JaySolomonReports, and yes he does, the great John Solomon. | |
| Always great to hear you and even better to talk to you, John. | |
| Thanks so much for your time today. | |
| Yeah, good to be with you. | |
| Thanks. | |
| That is the great John Solomon. | |
| And so, based on some of what John said, let me carry that into our final segment of this hour before we head off into the adventures of the hours to follow. | |
| In fact, if there's anything in John's rendition of events, which is always to the point, 833-33-GORKA, 833-334-6752. | |
| 833-33-GORKA, 833-334-6752. | |
| Mark Davison for Seb, we will continue. | |
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| Final segment here of the first hour and let's spend it on the phone because we got busy times and they are getting even busier by the moment. | |
| Mark Davison for Dr. Gorka. | |
| 833-33-GORKA. | |
| An earlier caller invoked European in a dangerous world and that's a big part. | |
| The border means everything. | |
| The economy means everything. | |
| The culture means everything. | |
| But the kind of president that we present to a dangerous world still filled with bad actors Hi Mark. | |
| Thank you for taking my call. | |
| talked about NATO and threats that are Middle Eastern in origin and Islamist in origin | |
| versus problems we're having across Europe and in New Jersey on Line 1, Elliot, I think you | |
| wanted to attach yourself to that. Welcome, sir. Mark Davison for Sabb, how are you? | |
| Hi, Mark. Thank you for taking my call. You know, the caller before said that NATO's going to help. | |
| Get tied with the UN. | |
| The UN stands for United Nazis. | |
| NATO is Nazi Armed Terrorist Organization. | |
| These people are the instigators of every problem that Europe has and the instigators here. | |
| That's how come they have all these people coming over, these migrants that are coming over to Europe and causing havoc. | |
| The globalists want havoc to strike against Europe so that everybody fights with each other and they can do whatever they want. | |
| Elliot, thank you. | |
| Appreciate it very much. | |
| I think that if we have a problem with Islamism overrunning Europe, and we do, is that did NATO do that? | |
| Or is it more a function that the governments of France and Germany and the UK and Scandinavia are just lost? | |
| I think it's more of a localized problem. | |
| I think if you ask me about NATO, I just don't think it's particularly relevant anymore. | |
| I think NATO as a body is... | |
| It's getting a little long in the tooth. | |
| I'm not saying that it should necessarily be gotten rid of. | |
| I'm probably more amend it rather than end it kind of guy, because we do certainly have, you know, North Atlantic European security concerns. | |
| We can all feel various ways about funneling squillions of dollars down the Ukrainian rat hole. | |
| But I got to tell you, as soon as I say that, how about those scrappy Ukrainians? | |
| Scrappy. | |
| Need to move those words closer together more carefully. | |
| Going across the border and taking actual Russian territory. | |
| What exactly is the endgame there? | |
| But anyway, with all those issues still on the burner and still capable of eliciting a lot of controversy, I feel sort of the same way as I do about the UN. | |
| It is so lost and so broken I'd like to think it's fixable. And do you know who I think | |
| can fix it? The same guy who I think can fix the FBI, the same guy who I think can fix the CIA. | |
| Now, those are uniquely American. | |
| The United Nations and NATO, America is just a part of those. But I think the influence of the | |
| clear-eyed global toughness of Donald Trump can make enormous progress in reforming both the | |
| United Nations and NATO. | |
| And you know what? | |
| If it can't be done in the remaining Trump term, then maybe it's time to scrap it and go with some better plan. | |
| All right. | |
| One hour done. | |
| Others to follow. | |
| Get a line. | |
| Grab a line. | |
| 833-33-GORKA. | |
| Mark Davison for 7. We will continue with more of your calls next. | |
| Thank you for watching. | |
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| I'm Sebastian Gawker and this is the Game of the Month. | |
| It is America First with our very special guest host, the voice of Dallas, Mark Davis. | |
| you Thank you, Dr. G. Appreciate it. | |
| And from steamy, hot Dallas-Fort Worth, I offer you Hot Topics. | |
| And it's not as hot in Chicago, but things are about to be set on fire in Chicago. | |
| And I don't just mean the enthusiasm of the attendees. | |
| Welcome, again, Mark Davis. | |
| Follow me on Twitter, X, whatever you want to call it, at Mark Davis, M-A-R-K Davis. | |
| And again, I'm the happy morning show host at 6.60 a.m., The Answer. | |
| Here in DFW and there's no better show prep for doing the Dr. Gorka show. | |
| No better way to get ready for America first than to do my own show first that I did this morning. | |
| And so I was offering up a lot of things to my local listenership that I will offer to you and then we'll head to your calls at 833-33 Gorka 833-334-6752. | |
| That's how you join us. | |
| I asked my listenership here in Texas. | |
| How in the world do we not beat these people? | |
| And here was the argument. | |
| And listen, I promise you nothing. | |
| I guarantee nothing. | |
| I predict nothing. | |
| I know the way it should go. | |
| If America has a brainstem, this should be a landslide. | |
| How many times have you heard reports say this is going to be a close election? | |
| Oh, it's going to be a close election. | |
| And it might be. | |
| It might be. | |
| But isn't there at least some appreciable possibility that the country is going so badly And this Harris Walls ticket is going to perform so badly that Trump wins 35 states and an electoral landslide. | |
| Isn't that at least a plausible possibility? | |
| And that is something that grows more likely If, as I mentioned an hour ago, we can get some of these wayward ex-GOP troublemakers—I mean, they have free speech, and Lord knows the liberal networks will welcome all the Nikki Haleys, all the Mark Shorts, all the—and these are people who are, again, not full Never Trump. | |
| They won't tell you they hate him and then tell you why. | |
| They will simply—they'll say things that are couched in Sort of treacherous doublespeak, like, well, we want him to win, but we just want him to be at his best. | |
| Or, you know, this is a winnable election. | |
| If only he would—what they mean is, just stop being him. | |
| Just stop being him. | |
| Because on the issues—even Lindsey Graham said this—on the issues, he wins. | |
| But the provocateur and the showman might not win. | |
| Lindsey, it is the provocateur and the showman who won in 2016 And may well have won in 2020. | |
| Anybody suggesting that Trump just needs to go be somebody else, just go be, I don't know, somebody more sedate, somebody more tactful, they're just not paying attention. | |
| Because this is who he is, and it is just that skill set, the brashness, the sharp elbows, the mean tweets. | |
| This is exactly the approach that he brought to governing in 2016. | |
| It is exactly the approach he would have brought to governing from 2020 to now, and wouldn't we be a darn sight better off if he had been governing for the last four years? | |
| So that is exactly the mindset that he needs to bring to this election as he promises to bring back not just his policies, but his personality, because they both worked out pretty darn well. | |
| 833-33-GORKA. | |
| I've got a lot of thoughts about how this week is going to go in Chicago, about the problems that the Democrat Party has painted itself into a corner about with regard to Israel and some economic things and people even on her own side giving Kamala a tough ride on the Middle East. | |
| Hey Mark, you're doing a fine job as usual. | |
| Appreciate you. | |
| Listen, Kamala Harris made a really actual, accurate, truthful statement. | |
| We're on line one in Atlanta. | |
| Steve, hi, Mark Davis in for Dr. G. | |
| Happy Monday, welcome to America First. | |
| Hey Mark, you're doing a fine job as usual, appreciate you. Thank you. | |
| Listen, Kamala Harris made a really actual, accurate, truthful statement. | |
| And that is, leaders don't tear down their opponents, | |
| They lift up the people. | |
| And that's absolutely true, but it's ludicrous coming from her, which many other statements from the left have been ludicrous like that. | |
| And so that should have been the laugh line on Colbert the other night, because they've done everything but kill. | |
| Donald Trump. | |
| They have ripped him a new one financially, electorally, legally, and, you know, God, God, God bless God for saving him in Butler. | |
| But, you know, for that statement to come out of her mouth, I don't know that there's an adjective in the English language or any language to describe that disgraceful statement coming from her. | |
| It is. | |
| And because I heard the same thing. | |
| And what she said was that leadership is not measured by whom you, but how you, you know, tear people down or it's how you lift people up. | |
| And as I heard that, I thought, okay, she thinks she's lifting people up and she is lifting liberalism up, leftists, communists, socialists. | |
| I'm sure they feel quite uplifted by her agenda. | |
| But let me give you the list of people who Trump is uplifting. | |
| Conservatives, which is about half of America in one way or the other. | |
| How about small business owners? | |
| How about people who are suffering every time they go to the grocery store? | |
| How about people who are suffering because our border is porous? | |
| I'll tell you who somebody Trump is uplifting. | |
| The unborn. | |
| You want to talk about women? | |
| How about saving women at the starting blocks? | |
| How about saving them in the womb? | |
| Those values are being uplifted by Trump and that's something that Kamala Harris has no interest in whatsoever. | |
| Hey, Steve, thank you. | |
| Appreciate it a lot. | |
| I stunned him with my wisdom, as I hope to do with you. | |
| Or I may infuriate you and we got phone lines for you, too. | |
| And that's 833-33-GORKA. | |
| 833-33-GORKA. | |
| Let's spend a little bit on how this week is going to go in Chicago, both in the hall and outside the hall. | |
| It's going to be interesting. | |
| Tonight with Biden, Whatever. | |
| They're going to shower him with appreciation. | |
| Appreciation for having been president and having served his party for a long, really long time. | |
| It'll be kind of a gold watch moment. | |
| I get that. | |
| It will be... | |
| There'll be gratitude. | |
| There'll be relief. | |
| Democrats gathered at the United Center tonight watching Joe Biden talk. | |
| Oh, and by the way, we also get Hillary. | |
| More on that in a minute. | |
| This is why God made the DVR. | |
| Is Fox going to cover this wall-to-wall? | |
| I think they will. | |
| I mean, I think they'll cover it better than MSNBC covered the Republicans right offhand. | |
| But as you get Joe on stage, the gathered delegates there at the United Center will look up at him and they will have in their liberal hearts gratitude for stuff he has done over the years, as well they should. | |
| There will also be, you know, being them, there will also be a certain amount of enormous relief that as they look at him they go, thank God this isn't Thursday night! | |
| Thank God this is not Thursday night! | |
| Because Thursday night is when the actual nominee delivers remarks. | |
| And do you know what kind of cluster that could have been? | |
| What if he blinks out halfway through the acceptance speech? | |
| What if just, you know, what if Iran attacks Israel during this convention anyway? | |
| And by the way, I think that's why they sent Secretary of State Antony Blinken so that that wouldn't happen, because then you'd have Democrats Doing precisely nothing as Iran attacks Israel. | |
| And obviously that's what this administration has done. | |
| Absolutely nothing in terms of meaningful support for our ally Israel. | |
| So tonight is Biden night as Hillary As Hillary gets ready to—let me get to her in just a second. | |
| Let's get to some goals first, because in her heart of hearts, don't you really wish—don't you really think that Hillary wishes that she were the one delivering the Thursday night acceptance remarks? | |
| And isn't there a strain of—as everybody went nuts and said, oh, it's going to be Michelle Obama. | |
| It was never going to be Michelle Obama. | |
| She has zero interest in this job. | |
| It's actually work. | |
| But Hillary knows that it's work, loves the work, and will never get over never having been president. | |
| Alright, let us roll to line one. | |
| We're in Phoenix. | |
| Hey Pat, Mark Davis in for Dr. Gorka. | |
| How are you? | |
| Hey Mark, I am well. | |
| Hey, listen, my point is that we're all Trump voters. | |
| I'm a Trump voter. | |
| He couldn't do anything to keep me from voting for him right now. | |
| But the people we're after are the independents, the people that are kind of on the edge of voting for Trump. | |
| And I think to get those people, he needs to explain some of his policies a little bit better. | |
| Instead of saying just build the wall, he's gotta say... | |
| Well, we need to build the wall because we are putting the cartels in charge of the border by allowing this illegal immigration. | |
| He has totally done this. | |
| He has totally done. | |
| I mean, first of all, if your point is be detailed and don't just deal in slogans, absolutely. | |
| But if you just watch him, just watch. | |
| I'm sure there's a full video already of what he did in Pennsylvania today. | |
| It's filled with economic nuts and bolts. | |
| He's doing this. | |
| I guarantee you. | |
| Well, pay closer attention and get back with us. | |
| Whether it's Seb or me or whatever, because I really think he is. | |
| And Pat, I appreciate you. | |
| More of you are coming up next on Dr. Gorka's program. | |
| Mark Davis filling in on America First. | |
| Glad you're here. | |
| 833-33-GORKA. | |
| Let's see who's on to talk about stuff next. | |
| We'll be right back. | |
| Thanks for watching! | |
| Happy Monday, everybody. | |
| Mark gave us in for Dr. G on America First. | |
| Phone number is 833-33-GORKA. | |
| And we are about to head back to those phone lines. | |
| Why don't you add yourself to those phone lines as we have some free time to sort of stretch our legs here. | |
| And we've got some great guests coming up either later this hour or next hour. | |
| We're going to have a wonderful opportunity to talk to John Lott, who's always great on Guns and Crime. | |
| And we're going to talk Borders with Todd Bensman. | |
| That's all great. | |
| Love that. | |
| But really love mixing it up with you and seeing what your thoughts are as the Temple of Doom The Democrat National Convention gets underway in Chicago. | |
| As we get ready to go to calls, let me share something with you that is, I mean, literally 15 seconds. | |
| It is such genius. | |
| You have probably heard it said that a large part of Trump's success and a large part of Trump victory November 5th will involve just reminding everybody who Kamala is, what she stands for, what she does, what she has done, what she will do. | |
| That is a superb, superb point. | |
| This that we're about to play is not a Trump ad, but it should be. | |
| Somebody cobbled together just a couple of moments of her speaking on Friday in Raleigh, North Carolina, when she rolled out the price controls, the ridiculous communist philosophy of price controls. | |
| So there's just a little bit of her laying the groundwork of why she's doing this. | |
| And then at the very, very end, somebody did a little splice, a little edit, that gave us 15 seconds of greatness. | |
| A loaf of bread cost 50% more today than it did before the pandemic. | |
| Ground beef is up almost 50%. | |
| I'm Donald Trump and I approve this message. | |
| There you go. | |
| Just take that little tagline, I'm Donald Trump and I approve this message | |
| and attach it to any one of a number of things that she says. | |
| Oh my goodness gracious. | |
| And it's interesting because we're going to get a large dollop of things she says in the prepared speech-written teleprompter variety on Thursday night. | |
| And then not so very long after that, here comes September 10th, her unscripted Unprotected, on a debate stage, will the ABC moderators coddle her and get hostile toward Trump? | |
| Maybe. | |
| In a weird way, I don't think so. | |
| CNN gave us Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, who both hate his guts, and they were on pretty good behavior. | |
| And I have a feeling that David Muir and the ABC team might do the same thing. | |
| If they do, great. | |
| If they don't, if they're asking impertinent, hostile questions, Trump will eat them alive just as he does the same to her. | |
| So, I don't see any way in the known universe where that debate night goes well for her. | |
| Well, today's show is going very well for me. | |
| I hope it is for you. | |
| It's Dr. Gorka's show. | |
| He's back tomorrow. | |
| Mark Davis in for Seb. | |
| 833-33-GORKA. | |
| We are online, too, and we are in Indianapolis. | |
| Craig Mark Davis in for Dr. G. Welcome. | |
| Happy Monday. | |
| Mark. | |
| Hi, Craig. | |
| How are you? | |
| Hey, I'm good. | |
| Hey, I am a trumper all the way. | |
| What I would love to see him do is just back off of it a little bit. | |
| Just get off of the rhetoric like he did in the last debate with Biden. | |
| You know, don't call him names. | |
| Don't call him stupid. | |
| Don't do that. | |
| Just say what the policy differences are and let it speak for itself. | |
| That's what I hear from My people, my friends that are liberals and to the left. | |
| Oh, whoa. | |
| Okay. | |
| So wow. | |
| All right. | |
| Hang on a second. | |
| So what do the, what, give me an example of how a liberal friend of yours, and by the way, we should all have liberal friends. | |
| It's fun. | |
| It's exercise. | |
| What, what, what's an example of how they phrase something? | |
| Um, you know, when Trump says, oh, that's stupid or she's, you know, that's a stupid comment, you know, that kind of thing that shut them off kind of immediately, you know, he's got, he's going for, The middle of the road, undecided people. | |
| And to do that, he's got to get them to listen. | |
| The policies are certainly the way to go, but that didn't make all of the decision and all of the capacity in the midterms in 2022. | |
| So when you talk about a liberal friend of yours, are these people who, despite their liberal track record, might be willing to consider Trump and you're concerned that it's a lost opportunity unless he does these things? | |
| Potentially. | |
| Potentially. | |
| I mean, some of them, they're not going to vote for him regardless. | |
| But if he could, go ahead. | |
| Actually, that's why I asked, and thank you for that answer. | |
| Because if it's people who don't like him anyway, maybe they're not the people to be paying attention to when they offer him campaign advice. | |
| Maybe what they are thinking, and I can't read anybody's minds, but I've become familiar with this mindset, It's people who want to sabotage him. | |
| They know that at least part of the reason he could win and win big is not just that the policies work, but because he's a straight shooter, a plain speaker. | |
| He calls things as he sees them. | |
| She is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. | |
| She is a communist. | |
| I don't think anybody cares about the race stuff and he doesn't spend hardly any time or any time really talking about that anymore. | |
| But on the notion of what kind of I agree. | |
| of candidate she is. | |
| She's terrible. | |
| And the notion of her on the world stage, staring down Putin and President Xi | |
| and the Islamist regime of Iran, that's terrifying. | |
| And it's perfectly okay for him to spend time talking about that. | |
| So I want you to get comfortable and everybody else who's really interested in him | |
| in winning to get comfortable with him just being him. | |
| I agree. | |
| All of that is true. | |
| But the people that are middle of the road that I call, that are friends of mine, | |
| not quite total liberal, but they're leaning that way. | |
| You gotta get in the door. | |
| You gotta get in the door. | |
| I think that's a good point. | |
| That's a solid point. | |
| I understand. | |
| And you know what I would say? | |
| I think that's a good point. | |
| I think that's a solid point. | |
| I think that over time. | |
| In a way, the election is like tomorrow. | |
| But in the real world, we got a lot of time here. | |
| And if they pay attention, if they pay attention to the debate... | |
| Send a copy of, somebody's got it on YouTube by now already, his Rumble or something, his rally in Pennsylvania today. | |
| It was great, talking about the economy. | |
| Send them that. | |
| Say, this is him being who you want him to be, and he doesn't really, he says her policies are terrible, but it's not like he gets really horribly personal about her or anything, nor will he in the debate. | |
| I think he'll be on pretty good behavior in the debate, and it will drive her crazy. | |
| So, if they pay enough attention, they will find enough moments where he's being the kind of candidate you're talking about being, and then you throw in the fact that the country is going to hell, and we do need a border, and the economy is terrible, that even those wavering independents should be convinced. | |
| At least some of them. | |
| At least enough of them. | |
| Craig, thank you. | |
| Appreciate it. | |
| Great to hear from the fine city of Indianapolis. | |
| Think of it as A roll of the campaign dice. | |
| If he dials back in a really noticeable way, on the kind of sharp-elbowed, brash New Yorker that he is, if he dials that back, might there be a couple of independents who go, oh, that's better. | |
| I'm more comfortable now. | |
| You know what? | |
| Maybe. | |
| But what's the price of that? | |
| I think a lot of people—and I don't think he's going to lose anybody out of the MAGA base. | |
| I don't think hardcore red hat wearing people are going to go, he changed! | |
| I'm out! | |
| That's not going to happen. | |
| But the people for whom—for all of those people I just mentioned. | |
| The independents who just think he's a little too spicy. | |
| There are independents and moderate squishes and folks who just aren't really that ideologically wired. | |
| Who look at the world and look at the country and say that that brash, plainspoken Trump is exactly the guy we need. | |
| Don't change, sir. | |
| Don't change. | |
| Mark Davidson for Dr. Gorka. | |
| I ain't changing. | |
| More of your calls next. | |
| Stay here. | |
| you you | |
| Oh Bye. | |
| Welcome back to America First with Mark Davis. | |
| Thank you, Dr. G. Mark Davis in for Dr. Gorka on America First for today. | |
| The good doctor is back tomorrow, but we are here together today. | |
| And that's been magical, especially on the phone lines, all kinds of interesting folks with interesting things to say on day one of the Temple of Doom there in Chicago, the DNC, and various things about the path forward, what we're going to see this week, what we're going to see on the debate stage with Kamala | |
| Harris on September 10th there with President Trump and what we're going to see on the campaign | |
| trail in these remaining 70-ish some days before we save the country. Please let us save the country | |
| on November 5th. Let us roll to line three. We're in Orlando. David, hey, Mark Davison for Dr. G. | |
| How are you? Good Monday to you. | |
| Hi, getting there. | |
| Hi. | |
| Yeah, my main concern is there's a lot of problems playing here in the election because if Trump wins, | |
| You know the BLM and Antifa are going to come out of the woodworks over this and | |
| And if Kamala wins, or Kamila wins, the only way she's going to do that is if they cheat like they did with Biden, and American patriots are going to get involved then. | |
| Well, all right, let's take a look at the prospects for violence either way. | |
| If we lose and it looks like we lost fair and square, that'll be unbelievably depressing. | |
| I'll be so busy mourning for my country that I won't be in the mood to riot. | |
| Of course, I never am. | |
| I think others might feel similarly. | |
| If we lose by a hair and we smell a rat... Well, let's go with what history gave us last time. | |
| We had a sliver of folks at the Capitol who did not handle that well. | |
| I believe on our side that what you'll see is a lawful, determined, and righteous form of protest. | |
| I'm going to trust our side not to go nuts and burn the country down, even under the worst of circumstances. | |
| Now let's go to the other side and say if Trump wins. | |
| If Trump wins, will the violent—here's the difference between our violent streak and theirs. | |
| The folks who went a little nutty at the Capitol, or a lot nutty at the Capitol, was a small percentage of a small percentage of folks who actually went to the Capitol to deliver the proper message that maybe that flawed electoral result shouldn't be rubber-stamped. | |
| If Trump wins, I would love to think that there aren't enough violent leftists to set our cities fully ablaze. | |
| But I can't be confident about that. | |
| I can't. | |
| So no matter what, God bless law enforcement. | |
| Let's just make sure they're on their game and making sure that however this result turns out, that we do not have cities on flame, as Blue Oyster Cult once said. | |
| All right, let us roll in Houston online for John Mark Davidson for Dr. G. How you doing? | |
| Good afternoon, Mark Davis. | |
| My name is John. | |
| And I absolutely hate to agree with Lindsey Graham. | |
| Then don't. | |
| On what point? | |
| Let's talk about it. | |
| On what point? | |
| I absolutely believe that Donald Trump, I'm 65 years old. | |
| Donald Trump has been one of the top two presidents of my lifetime. | |
| But there are a lot of people out there that get their feelings hurt. | |
| When somebody is being what they perceive as mean, and there are a lot of people, I believe, that will vote against Donald Trump, not necessarily for him. | |
| I understand. | |
| I think, John, I think that maybe you're hearing anecdotal things and exploding them into something real when they are not. | |
| Did this hurt him in 2016? | |
| Obviously not. | |
| Did it hurt him in 2020? | |
| I don't think so. | |
| He got more votes in 20 than he did in 16. | |
| So this notion, everybody's entitled to their their personal preferences of style, everybody, sure, that's | |
| fine. | |
| But the notion that Trump being Trump drives away an appreciable number of voters that | |
| could be the difference in November, I just think that's phony. | |
| I don't believe it for a minute. | |
| Well, you could be right, and I hope and pray that you're right, but I absolutely know a | |
| couple of people that continue to be absolutely butthurt over some of the things that he says. | |
| And I love the guy. | |
| Let's do this. | |
| Let's do this. | |
| Are they friends of yours? | |
| Are they people you speak with on some regular basis? | |
| They are friends of mine that I've known for a long time. | |
| Okay, then please get with them, do this, and then either get with me on my local show at 6.60 a.m., the answer, or listen, we're in Gorka land now. | |
| Call Seb back and say, hey, I called Mark back on August 19th. | |
| Get with them and say, look, I hear you. | |
| I understand. | |
| Maybe you wish you were some wise philosopher king. | |
| That's fine. | |
| But do you want to save the country or do you not? | |
| Do you like the economy? | |
| If so, vote for her or stay home. | |
| Do you think the border is awesome? | |
| If so, vote for her or stay home. | |
| How many genders are there? | |
| If you think there are 37 of them, then vote for her or stay home. | |
| But if you have a ray of sanity about any of those things, get over yourselves—say that with love, maybe rephrase it—get over yourselves and over these irrelevant side issues and save the country. | |
| And there's only one way to do that, and that's vote for him. | |
| Deliver that message and report back and let me know how it went. | |
| Mark Davison for Dr. Gorka. | |
| We will continue. | |
| You You | |
| You It is America First with Dr. Sebastian Gorka, Mark Davis, and for Dr. G here in steamy hot Dallas, Fort Worth, where I'm the very happy morning host on 660 AM, The Answer, and the guy they call across the network, audio and video, when it's time to just be there and fill in for somebody. | |
| Dr. Gorka returns tomorrow, but we're here together now, and we're here together on the phones with all kinds of things going on about the DNC, about the campaign ahead, other stuff in the news. | |
| All of it's welcome. | |
| Your thoughts are welcome. | |
| 833-33-GORKA. | |
| 833-334-6752. | |
| And we are in Chicago on Line 1. | |
| Ralph Mark Davis in for Dr. G. How are you? | |
| 334-6752 and we are in Chicago on line one. Ralph Mark Davis in for Dr. G. How are you? | |
| Good afternoon Mark. Good to hear your voice. | |
| Hey, look, a lot of people vote for different reasons, but I think a powerful motivator is fear of the unknown. | |
| And people don't like not knowing things, and I think an effective communication about Kamala is that just like we don't know who's been calling the shots for the last three and a half years, we won't know who's calling the shots when Kamala's in charge. | |
| In fact, I'll even write the commercial, have a couple of puppets, Let them see the strings, let people see the gloved hands, keep the identity of the hands a mystery, and have the little Kamala puppet kick the little Joe Biden puppet in the butt. | |
| The strings get set down, and Kamala is still being operated by the strings, but we know it's not her. | |
| She's too dumb, and she's too incompetent to run the country. | |
| All right, let's unpack that for a little bit. | |
| First of all, glorious visuals. | |
| I could almost see it in front of my face as you were describing it. | |
| We know Joe Biden's not running the country now because he simply can't. | |
| We know Kamala is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. | |
| Not all of our presidents have been mental giants on either side. | |
| Who do we think—I think the only way that works is almost if we can make a pretty strong suggestion of who is. | |
| And I know we can be glib and say it must be the Obamas or the Clintons or Valerie Jarrett or Susan Rice, but that just kind of sounds like a conspiracy theory. | |
| So, I mean, what would be the meat behind the suggestion—and I'm not saying it's a bad suggestion—that if she were president, she just wouldn't be running things either. | |
| I would use the words that came out of Obama's mouth when he talked in an interview openly said his ideal third term would be in his sweats in the basement someplace phoning it in. | |
| I mean this is the guy who described How you would do it? | |
| Now, I think it's a combo platter of things. | |
| I think that there's certainly the ethos of Obama, like tea, steeping through the whole Democrat tea cup. | |
| But I think it's big money donors. | |
| It's definitely the liberal side of the administration. | |
| And I heard somebody very adroitly point out this morning that, and I didn't know this because I don't know the inside baseball of Washington, but if you take a look at Biden's administration, a lot of his top appointees have been plucked from Elizabeth Warner's staff. | |
| And Bernie Sanders staff. | |
| There's a whole lot of them. | |
| But that happens. | |
| I mean, if you have a Democrat administration, you're going to get people who migrate over from other noteworthy Democrat names. | |
| It's not that you're not on to something. | |
| I think you are. | |
| In fact, let's let that marinate a little bit. | |
| Ralph, thank you, and see how we might deploy that to maximum effect. | |
| On debate night, September 10th, predictions are a challenging thing these days, but I'm going to come close to making one right now for you. | |
| She's not going to do well on that debate stage. | |
| She's just not. | |
| And that might present an opportunity to ask the question, even if it's not saying the Obamas are running things from their mansion nearby, Or that there are marionette strings attached to her, which could all work up to a point. | |
| How about leaving it at, look at that, look what we just saw on the debate stage. | |
| Do you want her in the Oval Office? | |
| Do you want the famous 3 a.m. | |
| phone call to come to her? | |
| Do you want a dangerous world to look at the leadership of the United States and find her? | |
| I think there's a brand of that that could work. | |
| We're in Denver on Line 3. | |
| Jim, hey, Mark Davison for Dr. G. How are you doing? | |
| Hey, good. | |
| Thanks for taking my call. | |
| You know, the point I wanted to make is I listen to, like, Lindsey Graham or, you know, other people saying that Trump should just focus on policy and not make any attacks, personal attacks, that kind of thing. | |
| You know, I just think that If that's all he did is talk about policy, I don't think that anybody, any of the liberal media would even cover anything he talks about. | |
| So I think it's, they find certain pieces of Trump's speech, speeches, and they, you know, talk about those. | |
| But I think if, if that's all, if he just talks about policy, you know, then, you know, are we going to even hear what Trump says? | |
| That, that, that is... | |
| That is a fascinating take. | |
| So, not to put words in your mouth, but I think the takeaway is that as we gather, as some people gather, not me, but some callers do, and God bless everybody, to wonder how much these Trumpian moments might hurt him, the one way in which it might help him is it's those kinds of edgy things that makes the hostile media culture pay attention to him more, and that winds up making it a net positive. | |
| Right, I agree. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Totally. | |
| I agree. | |
| I was kind of rephrasing, not rephrasing, but agreeing with you in return. | |
| So lots of agreement in the room. | |
| Agree, disagree. | |
| Jim, thank you very much. | |
| Appreciate it. | |
| Best to everybody in Denver. | |
| Let us next roll to Gene in Nevada on Line 4. | |
| Hey, Gene. | |
| Mark Davison for Dr. Gorka. | |
| How are you, sir? | |
| Yeah, I'm doing fantastic, Mark. | |
| Hey, you know, we have a unique perspective here in northern Nevada. | |
| As we get to inner California, at will, and retreat back into Nevada before we have our wallets looted by California costs. | |
| I mean, just south of me, if I drive toward Yosemite National Park, I transition from $3 gallon gas to $7 gallon gas in the blink of an eye. | |
| And we're lucky to get in and out of that state before and conduct our business before our wallets are looted. | |
| But I don't think a California Democrat has ever been president. | |
| And we're talking about putting a California Democrat in the White House. | |
| And everybody who has been to California and traveled in California and visits California knows it is an unmitigated disaster. | |
| And I think the American people better understand that. | |
| When they take a look at her. | |
| Gene, I think that is bright. | |
| Time is calling. | |
| The clock is beckoning. | |
| So thank you. | |
| Appreciate it. | |
| Beautifully put. | |
| Because if there are things that are going to work, it's taking her own words and presenting America with them and taking her own state and presenting America with that. | |
| Let's not turn America into California. | |
| Let's not turn any more of our cities into San Francisco. | |
| More of you next. | |
| Mark Davison for Dr. Gorka on America First. | |
| Stick around. | |
| Thanks for watching! | |
| Bye! | |
| Bye! | |
| you you | |
| you How time does fly with plenty of topics to cover, plenty of | |
| calls to work our way through and plenty of guests awaiting us in the next hour. | |
| Stick around, much more to come on America First. | |
| Let's wrap up this hour. | |
| Let us head to the phones. | |
| We are in Phoenix, and that's Line 1. | |
| Rick, Mark Davison for Dr. G. Welcome. | |
| How you doing? | |
| Hi, Mark. | |
| Thanks for taking my call. | |
| Hey, in regards to your caller who suggested Kamala and Biden as puppets, You asked the question, who would be running things if Kamala was in? | |
| And I think the answer to that question is, who has been running things the last three and a half years? | |
| Okay, if we start with a stipulation that neither you nor I or anybody has any specific certainty to that. | |
| If you have a president who is virtually incapacitated, who is likely to be running things, I think the first place you go to are some of the other most powerful people in his party. | |
| And that brings you to Chuck Schumer in the Senate, brings you to Nancy Pelosi in the House. | |
| Then you go to other people who are out of office whose influence still really means something. | |
| And with that, I guess you mean the Obamas, plural, and the Clintons, plural, all weighing in to see to it that Biden's underlings do things that this party brain trust thinks are the best idea. | |
| So that would be my speculative answer. | |
| But the thing is, that's why with the earlier caller, If Kamala wins, I don't know that she's a puppet, because I know she's not smart about the world, not smart about the economy, but she's at least awake and has a handle on the levers of power, at least as they're practiced in Washington. | |
| So I don't know that she'd necessarily be as willing to sit there and take orders from Schumer or Pelosi or the Obamas or the Clintons. | |
| What about you? | |
| I kind of think she might be willing to, for the sake of the power that would accrue to her and the fact that being president would be a very lucrative accomplishment for her. | |
| It would, but she'd already be president. | |
| I mean, how much power can you get? | |
| She would have already won. | |
| And I got to tell you, if you become president at that point, it's like, you know what? | |
| It's time. | |
| Maybe I've been listening to people. | |
| Maybe it's time for people to start listening to me. | |
| There is an interesting point about her. | |
| She's still a young woman. | |
| And if she—oh, God, it's just so depressing to talk about if she wins, but I'll play the game for an additional minute and then get out of this hour and just go gargle—that she'd have to be thinking about at the end of her one term, and please, God, let it just be one term, And then Trump may be back in 2028. | |
| Who knows? | |
| He's tanned, rested and ready. | |
| But then after the DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy, you know, Sarah Huckabee Sanders primary, who knows what we would then have. | |
| But she has to be thinking about her life after the presidency. | |
| And if she thwarts these powerful Democrat brain trusts, I don't know, there may be a cost to that in private life thereafter. | |
| But I'll tell you what, as Trump will tell you, success is its own reward. | |
| But how in the world can a woman with those views have any expectation of success? | |
| I have an expectation of another hour, and your calls, and more guests, so come on! | |
| Mark Davison for Dr. G, 833-33-GORKA. | |
| Dr. G, 833-33-GORKA. | |
| Be right back. | |
| You You | |
| You Thank you, sir. | |
| And you will thank me for telling you that Dr. Gorka, his own self, is back tomorrow with stories of what he's been up to and where he's been. | |
| And I'm here today with stories of stuff in the news, where we're all headed this week at the Democrat National Convention. | |
| Oh boy, Biden tonight, Barack Obama tomorrow. | |
| That's going to be so weird. | |
| And I guess, what do I mean by weird? | |
| The gathered attendees may pass out with glee, but they will think back to the way that it was when they had a nominee who could actually string sentences together, remain awake, and actually energize people, energize Democrats at least, with some level of oratorical brilliance. | |
| And then fast forward 48 hours after Tuesday night, tomorrow night, and then you get to Thursday, and then you're going to get her. | |
| And I'm just sorry. | |
| I've heard so many people, they're trying so very hard to gin up enthusiasm light years beyond what actually exists. | |
| Is there relief? | |
| Is there, you find that they've been the big hashtag? | |
| It's joy. | |
| It's joy. | |
| It's vibes. | |
| Great. | |
| Yeah, they're in a better mood than they would be If they were streaming into Chicago to elevate the remaining husk of Joe Biden, yes, there is relief in their hearts and on their faces. | |
| But when Obama shows up, still in fighting trim tomorrow, I mean, shoot, Hillary tonight is going to be pretty good by, again, Democrat standards. | |
| Both she and Obama tomorrow, every speaker, With the possible exception of Biden tonight, we'll be better at this than their nominee is. | |
| So enjoy yourselves, guys. | |
| We'll see how it all works out. | |
| Now, part of how it all works out, there's prepared remarks and then there's speaking off the cuff. | |
| Let's just get a little bit more of this because this might be a little bit of what lies ahead on September 10th when she's not reading off a teleprompter. | |
| She's standing at a lectern and Donald Trump is, you know, 12 feet away. | |
| This is cut to just this is Kamala riffing and this is what she does. | |
| And that's what our election is about. | |
| Our election is about understanding the importance of this beautiful country of ours in terms of what we stand for around the globe as a democracy. | |
| As a democracy, we know there's a duality to the nature of democracy. | |
| On the one hand, incredible strength when it is intact. | |
| What it does for its people to protect and defend their rights, their liberty, their freedom. | |
| Incredibly strong and incredibly fragile. | |
| I just need a minute. | |
| Maybe you do as well. | |
| I hope you're not driving. | |
| Just what? | |
| Just what? | |
| There's no universe in which that debate night goes well for her. | |
| There are a couple of other things that aren't going so well for her. | |
| Let's go to cut five. | |
| A, B, C. Listen, all the networks are going looking for voters. | |
| Well, the voters giveth and the voters taketh away. | |
| Here is, now I will tell you a hundred times, I don't care as a conservative. | |
| Nobody should but just specifically as a conservative. I don't care what race anybody is. I don't care what sex | |
| anybody is I care about as a candidate as a person as a voter as a | |
| policymaker as a pundit I care about what's up here in your head. What's in here in | |
| your heart? | |
| What your spine is made of and do you make sense? | |
| So I will I offer that up only to tell you that this is an actual black woman that ABC | |
| Found in cut5 and let me show you how that worked out I'm leaning towards Trump | |
| And why is that? | |
| A lot of the stuff Kamala says is kind of like what Trump has said like no taxes on tips | |
| Was something that was kind of reiterated by Trump beforehand | |
| She's just kind of been caught up in a lot of lies Whoa | |
| Surprised that didn't. | |
| If there was still such a thing as the cutting room floor, that's where that would be. | |
| Last thing, local reporters. | |
| How'd you like to be working for, like, the mighty WGN in Chicago? | |
| Here is a reporter working for WGN and the story she's obviously covering. | |
| And please note this. | |
| Listen, I don't know if I have this, you know, in Dallas or Fort Worth where I work. | |
| Is there a company that you call when the rioters come and it don't look good? | |
| Who you gonna call? | |
| I mean, is there a campaign like that running in your town? | |
| In Chicago, they've got one. | |
| And it's good that they do, because they're going to be needed. | |
| Local WGN Channel 9 coverage. | |
| As you can see behind me, you'll notice that the front of the Garland building is covered in plywood. | |
| It's basically covering the windows and the door. | |
| and that's be able to protect the building and I should say the entrance of the building | |
| from any potential unrest that could happen once the DNC does come around here | |
| since we are anticipating some protests to take place. | |
| Now, the Chicago Board of Services says their crews have been busy the last few days | |
| boarding up businesses to get ahead of potential damages. | |
| Now, so far, they've secured 12 locations around the West Loop, Downtown and Daily Plaza area | |
| with plans to board up additional businesses this weekend as a preventative measure if protests | |
| related to the DNC erupt violently. | |
| If you got a blue city and the convention's coming to town. | |
| Listen, I will start a business that boards up windows and I can quit this media gig because I'll be making so much money. | |
| Oh my goodness gracious me. | |
| Let's go to line four. | |
| We are in Phoenix. | |
| Steve. | |
| Hey, Mark Davison for Dr. Gorka. | |
| How are you? | |
| Doing great, Mark. | |
| Hey, I love your show. | |
| I listen to you a bunch, and frankly, I even think I like you a little more than Seb, although I like Seb so much as well. | |
| Oh, stop it. | |
| No, no, sir. | |
| All right, listen. | |
| All kidding aside, record this. | |
| I'm going to be the best caller you've ever had. | |
| Here we go. | |
| No, no pressure. | |
| On that whole debate, on that whole debate of is Trump too bombastic to score some, like, you know, comedy points versus stay on messaging? | |
| I get it. | |
| If he stays on messaging and it's boring and vanilla, like the caller said a couple minutes ago, OK, it may lose some people, but here's the reality of the situation, OK? | |
| And by the way, I got the Trump bona fides, Trump gear. | |
| I've lost clients, I've lost my business because I've publicly expressed support for Trump. | |
| I've got it all, OK? | |
| I am true blue Trump, a thousand percent. | |
| But that doesn't mean he's not immune from constructive critique. | |
| And I know that he's never going to be as polished. | |
| Yes. | |
| Yes. | |
| you, Megyn Kelly, Ben Shapiro, Charlie Kirk. He's never going to be as fluent a speaker | |
| as those guys, but hear me out, hear me out, okay? There are times instead of calling her | |
| a dumb moron, he could say her policies are moronic. These policies are incredibly destructive. | |
| Here's why, and I like the fact that he used props this past week when he had all the grocery | |
| items out there and just showing the numbers. $2.00, time out, Mark, time out. $2.00 versus | |
| $5.00. | |
| Actually, Steve, actually, Steve, the time out goes from me to you lovingly. | |
| Stay right here, stay right here, please. | |
| Because here's where your best caller ever status started to fade. | |
| When you say the same tired things that other people have said that just don't make sense. | |
| The notion that instead of calling her a moron, say her policies are moronic. | |
| Great! | |
| Lovely! | |
| And he's not calling her a moron 15 times a day, but if every once in a while you got that New York sharp elbow, the notion that this hurts him is simply false. | |
| Wrap up strong, Steve. | |
| You're a good guy. | |
| Okay, thank you. | |
| I appreciate it. | |
| First of all, I'm from New York City, okay? | |
| And my old man actually met Trump on the street one day when he was in sales walking on 34th Street. | |
| So, I love the, you call sharp elbows this and that. | |
| I'm not trying to get rid of that. | |
| I'm just saying, Mark, be smart about it and strategic about it. | |
| Sure, go right ahead. | |
| You bet. | |
| Okay, listen. | |
| I know this to be true. | |
| Please hear me out, okay? | |
| There are, I don't know, five, six hundred thousand yentas out there, suburban moms, that he's going to piss off with the comments and he could jeopardize and lose their vote. | |
| I don't think so. | |
| I just don't think so. | |
| I think that is a wild exaggeration, Steve, but you're awesome, and I'm glad you're here, and best to everybody in Phoenix. | |
| The 500,000 yentas, that's a strong army. | |
| Just know, just know, I can see, here's what, not to be amateur psychologist here, let's talk a little bit about projection, what people sometimes do. | |
| Is they take something that strikes them as wrong or that hits them the wrong way, or maybe not even them, but they talk to one person. | |
| Maybe you got one friend, maybe two friends who say, you know, I've been a Democrat voter for a long time. | |
| I've grudgingly voted for Biden. | |
| And I'm thinking about what to do this year, but I just really don't like Kamala. | |
| And I'm really thinking of voting for Trump, but his whole style is just like fingernails on the blackboard to me. | |
| Here's the thing. | |
| If that is your friend saying those things, give your friend focus. | |
| It's like what I told the guy to tell his actual friends. | |
| He invoked actual friends to me. | |
| I said, get those friends, gather them over coffee or the beverage of your choice and say, look, all these things you're saying about Trump stylistically, none of it matters. | |
| What matters is saving the country. | |
| What matters is saving the country. | |
| So pull your head out, get over yourself, and vote on the issues, and don't worry about mean tweets. | |
| This is awesome. | |
| You guys in Gorkaland, this is the theme song for the people boarding up the windows. | |
| When the rioters come and it don't look good, who you gonna call? | |
| The company in Chicago that boards up the windows. | |
| We'll be right back with Mark Davis back in a moment for Dr. G. | |
| We'll be right back. | |
| And we'll be right back. | |
| you you | |
| you it is the monday installment of america first with dr sebastian | |
| gorka dr g back tomorrow mark davis with you now here in the state of texas where hello you could say border | |
| issues are very much front of mind to us because there the border is just a few hours south of | |
| Of me. | |
| Now, I'm well up in the state in Dallas-Fort Worth, but been to the border, talked to many people who have been. | |
| This gentleman has been and is fresh back from some key locations. | |
| It's the wonderful Todd Bensman, who's a wonderful fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies. | |
| Todd, welcome back. | |
| How are you doing? | |
| Tell everybody, we were just sort of talking and riffing off the air, tell everybody where you've been, what you did, and we'll use that as what you saw, and we'll use that as a point of departure to talk about this week at the DNC and this campaign season. | |
| Sure. | |
| Well, I just got back late last night from Panama. | |
| I've been two weeks down at the, uh, covering the Panama, uh, Panama's Darien gap on the Columbia side first for a week on the Columbia side among the immigrants who are moving into the gap. | |
| And then on the Panamanian side for a week to see what was happening on the exiting Panama side of the, of the gap. | |
| Um, so there's a whole lot of, um, sorry about that. | |
| There's a whole lot of, um, yeah, there's a whole lot of material, uh, coming, uh, reports that I have not even had a chance to write yet. | |
| But the reason I was there in the first place is because the, the new president of Panama has decided to close the gap. | |
| And that's a huge policy U-turn for Panama the first time ever that I know of. | |
| Where the governor, the government there wants to actually shut down all of the illegal traffic coming through there on their way to the U.S. | |
| border. | |
| Now keep in mind, about a million and a half plus illegal immigrants have crossed from Colombia through that passage, and all of them are inside the United States today. | |
| So whatever the Panamanian government wants to do with this gap matters a great deal. | |
| To the American border and to American border security and policy as a whole. | |
| Do you feel that as Democrats gather and try, I don't know if they will try or how they will try, to say that they deserve to be trusted on border issues? | |
| I mean, the actual border czar herself will deliver an acceptance speech on Thursday night. | |
| Do you feel like we have a grasp of this? | |
| That there's nothing like a problem getting really, really bad, as the border has, to wake people up to some of its nuts and bolts? | |
| Is it kind of a silver lining there, at least this year? | |
| Well, the problem with the border and illegal immigration really is that the country is pretty low information. | |
| And I mean, all sides of the partisan divide and everything in between. | |
| And so it's very, very easy for the Democrats to say something that is just simply not verified or not verifiable. | |
| That sounds pretty good. | |
| For example, right now they're saying, well, The border is at the lowest illegal immigrant crossings that we've seen since Donald Trump, since the first days in office of Joe Biden. | |
| And that's kind of true. | |
| The numbers are really low. | |
| But then nobody ever points out that they've been flying hundreds of thousands over the border so that they don't have to count them coming in and they've been passing hundreds of thousands more over the land port so that they also don't get counted. | |
| So if you count those, Which is just as many people coming into the country as we're coming in illegally, then it doesn't look so great. | |
| But it's a low information environment out there about this sort of thing. | |
| People don't know that. | |
| What do you mean? | |
| They're flying them in? | |
| Yes. | |
| For nearly two years, they've been flying somewhere on the order of 500,000 people from all over the world into U.S. | |
| cities on these kind of Legally questionable entry permits that nobody's approved. | |
| No congressional approval for these things. | |
| Let me ask you about that because there are two seconds. | |
| Get that in a second because I want to hover over that for just a minute because I myself have seen in going to DFW to fly somewhere, anywhere, and others have reported back to me at various airports, that there'll be a curious gaggle of Families with, like, Red Cross blankets, cell phones. | |
| I mean, they don't look destitute or, you know, they don't look like they're about to die or anything, but somebody put it to me in a call the following way. | |
| It didn't look like necessarily the kind of family that looked like they just paid for a trip to New York City, yet that's where they were going. | |
| Is that, and I don't want to draw conclusions, I don't want to jump to conclusions, but is that the kind of optics in various American airports that might be common under what you've just described? | |
| Yeah, there are many different kinds of operations going on through our airport systems. | |
| I mentioned just one of them, which is, you know, they call it the CHNV program, you know, four different nationalities that they've allowed to fly in from foreign countries into U.S. | |
| airports. | |
| You can't really tell the difference. | |
| I mean, they look like anybody else. | |
| I mean, you don't know really who they are. | |
| And that's the design. | |
| They don't want you to be able to tell. | |
| But then there's other operations where, you know, the government wants to move people off the border into cities and not make them ride buses. | |
| So there's money out there for airline tickets. | |
| And there are NGOs out there that are providing guidance and escorts for families to all parts of the country. | |
| There's individuals that are just crossed the border and got in a couple days earlier, and they get a pass to go to the airport and fly to wherever they want to go. | |
| And so there's all this sort of thing happening. | |
| But I'll tell you this, as somebody who travels a lot, domestically and foreign, If you know what you're looking for, if you have a kind of high information, if you know what you're looking for, you see them everywhere throughout our entire national airport system, all the time, in every city, if you know what to look for. | |
| So, it's just a matter of that, you know, we've had three and a half years of non-stop Multi-million dollar, multi-million person years of people coming in from abroad over the border and they got to go somewhere. | |
| They have to transport all around the place and all around the country and they're still doing that. | |
| You can see them at bus stations and at airports and everywhere. | |
| Well, let me do 60 seconds right now, and then if you got another segment, we'd love to do it. | |
| Is this something that when Trump becomes president, and if we're blessed with a Republican Senate and a Republican House, that the spigot of funding for this operation can just instantly stop? | |
| Or is it baked in so much that it'll take a while to bring this ship to a halt? | |
| It might take a little while. | |
| Look, there are hundreds of millions of dollars, billions of dollars earmarked Through FEMA, through USAID, through the State Department, multiple sources of just the floodgates of cash going into aiding and supporting the movement of illegal immigrants from abroad, over the border, and also, once they're in, to resettle them. | |
| But the spigot can be shut off pretty quickly. | |
| Let me use that as a point of departure. | |
| Hang in for one more segment, please. | |
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| Welcome back to America First with Mark Davis. | |
| It is great to be here for Dr. Gorka, and if he were here, I somehow magically know exactly what he would be saying at this time. | |
| He would be saying that the greatness of America is, at its core, our freedom. | |
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| Todd Benzman here, and we've been spending time talking about a wide variety of things, Todd, and I wanted to run something by you involved in a conversation I had with former State Senator Don Huffine, a friend of mine, tough border hero, and he couched it in terms of We've got to get Mexico to cooperate, whatever that would even mean, because I've always viewed our protecting our border as an American problem. | |
| I don't even know what we want Mexico to do. | |
| But he had a kind of a multi-pronged idea. | |
| And one of them involved getting tough on them economically by banning remittances that if you're not a citizen, you can't send money south of the border. | |
| Is that the kind of thing that would deliver a sting to Mexico to get them to act better, whatever acting better means? | |
| I'm not sure about the mechanics, the legal mechanics of doing that, or even the logistical mechanics of taxing remittances. | |
| I don't know if it's going to take an act of Congress or something like that. | |
| But I do know from experience, recent experience, that the Mexican government responds very well to sticks. | |
| Diplomatic sticks. | |
| When Trump was in office, he said, hey, we're going to tax your exports to the United States. | |
| We're going to tariff them progressively up to 28% on all products if you don't do what we need you to do on our immigration policy, our initiatives. | |
| Remain in Mexico, COVID pushbacks. | |
| We're gonna take away your security assistance money that we give you in the hundreds of millions of dollars Right now if you don't if you don't do it, and they the Mexicans complied fully held back the tide of in their southern provinces and all but close their own | |
| borders down to deportations, all kinds of stuff going on down there. | |
| That's amazing. | |
| They're doing right now for the Biden administration, the Biden administration | |
| in December went down there, cut some kind of a deal. | |
| We don't know whether they were carrots or sticks or what, but until the | |
| November 5 election, they've got a deal for the Mexicans to really hold the | |
| tide back and they are doing that. | |
| I've been to Mexico two or three times, interviewing the soldiers, watching the operations personally, and it's working. | |
| They're chasing down immigrants and tackling them and putting them on airplanes and buses and sending them back down to the South. | |
| It's a big secret as to what exactly the administration did to get them to do that. | |
| But it's certainly doable. | |
| What is the Mexican government mindset as waves of their people cross our borders to come here? | |
| I'm thinking that in an odd way, the Mexican government might lament the loss of good, hardworking, solid citizens But celebrate the loss of people who might be a drain on the social service system. | |
| So it's kind of the coin flip of what we get. | |
| Do we get some honest, hard-working folks? | |
| Yeah, I guess we do. | |
| But do we also get some folks who are going to go immediately on welfare? | |
| Yeah, we do. | |
| What does the Mexican government think about the waves of people from their country to ours? | |
| Well, first of all, a quick correction on that is that most of the people coming into the U.S. | |
| under this border crisis are not from Mexico or even Central America anymore. | |
| O.T.M.s. | |
| O.T.M.s. | |
| Yep. | |
| They're Venezuelans and they're from 150 other countries. | |
| This thing is the most multinational we've ever seen. | |
| Mexicans do, of course, come through, but the Mexican Government has its own self-interest, and that is we don't want to get stuck with the hot potato. | |
| We don't want to be stuck to care for hundreds of thousands of people. | |
| We want them, we want what they want, which is to pass through, to pass the hot potato on to the U.S. | |
| So if nobody checks the Mexicans, they're going to send them through. | |
| That's the way it works. | |
| All those countries south are going to send them through. | |
| Nobody wants to get stuck with them. | |
| And that's their mentality. | |
| That's their national interest, unencumbered by any other external factors. | |
| The way to make it their national interest is when you say tariffs, when you say, I'll give you $100 billion, then it becomes in their national interest to shut things down. | |
| Excellent. | |
| Todd, we always appreciate you. | |
| Everybody, go follow Todd on Twitter at BenzmanTodd and get your copy of Overrun, How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. | |
| History. | |
| Todd Benzman, always appreciate you, sir. | |
| Thank you very, very much. | |
| In a moment, let's go talk to somebody else we love around here. | |
| John Lott, let's talk some guns, some crime here in DNC Week. | |
| What in the world can these people say to argue they'll make it better? | |
| Mark Davidson for Dr. G, be right back. | |
| Welcome to the Golden Gate University Meditation Center. | |
| This is a live broadcast. | |
| Please stand by. | |
| We're going to get started in just a moment. | |
| How's that going to go? | |
| Oh my gosh. | |
| In a moment, we're going to talk to John Lott on guns and crime. | |
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| Speaking of firearms, nobody chronicles their value and their constitutional underpinning better than on the subject of guns and crime, our friends John Lott joining us on the program as he often does here in America First land. | |
| John, welcome. | |
| How you doing, sir? | |
| Great. | |
| It's great to talk to you again, Mark. | |
| Thanks for having me on. | |
| Great to have you. | |
| How will this Democrat convention gathering in Chicago right now, will they even mention the Second Amendment? | |
| Will they address the fact that a lot of voters looking at Kamala think she's a gun grabber and some Democrats actually do own guns? | |
| I assume they'll go to their base to some extent and talk about the need for quote-unquote common-sense gun control regulations that they have there. | |
| You know, obviously Kamala Harris seems to have backed away over the last couple weeks from some of her issues she's had on crime, on illegal aliens, on guns. | |
| But, you know, all somebody has to do is go and watch the videos of her from a few years ago where Not only did she say she was for the confiscation of guns and that she was willing to go and do it with executive orders, but she did it passionately. | |
| So it's one thing to go and just have a position that you change, but Position after position, if anybody watches the videos, will know that she passionately held these different positions just a few years ago. | |
| And look, Biden has been the most anti-self-defense president that we've had ever. | |
| And Kamala Harris, if anything, ran to his left in the 2020 presidential campaign. | |
| While he was for an assault weapons ban, she was for confiscating existing guns that were there and for using an executive order. | |
| And the other thing that people don't realize, I don't think, is that She's actually been the gun control czar under the Biden administration. | |
| Biden set up an office of gun violence prevention, and just as with the border, he said that she was in charge of trying to take care of the southern border more than just the root causes. | |
| He also said that she was supposed to be the one who oversaw their actions. | |
| You know, different types of rules that they've had, the National Gun Registry that they've put together, the different types of rules that they've had on people being able to go and buy and sell guns. | |
| You know, those are ones that have been pushed by this new office in the White House. | |
| Let's spend a moment on one of her favorite things, and there's some mythology about this. | |
| Gun buyback programs, where all we're going to do, we're going to get those nasty guns off the street, where people, it's all going to be voluntary. | |
| People who want to give us their guns, they can bring us those guns, and we'll give them money. | |
| What's not to love? | |
| Tell me the problem. | |
| You don't have an option. | |
| Either you take the money that they're given or you're committing a crime. | |
| She points to Australia as being the example that we're supposed to follow. | |
| Australia didn't produce the benefits that people claim in the media. | |
| It's often just statistical malpractice. | |
| You know, here's the thing. | |
| They bought about 28% of these guns that they had in Australia in 96 and 97. | |
| People were able to go and buy guns again after that, and by 2010, the gun ownership rate in Australia was above what it was before the buyback. | |
| If gun control people are right, what you should have seen is a sudden drop in the different bad things that they're pointing to, and then an increase over time as the gun ownership rate went back up. | |
| What you actually see is that in the 15 years prior to this confiscation, Firearm homicides, firearm suicides were falling in almost a perfectly straight line. | |
| And then, uh, firearm homicides actually stopped falling when the buyback occurred. | |
| You know, just imagine you had a perfectly straight line that's falling over the entire period. | |
| You could pick any point along that line, and the after average is going to be below the before average. | |
| You'd supposedly want to look, is it falling at a faster rate or a slower rate after the confiscation? | |
| Is there some discontinuity that was occurring? | |
| And in fact, the fact that it stopped falling afterwards, you would think would be evidence that it didn't quite work out the way that they were claiming. | |
| And with regard to suicides, total suicides actually rose after the buyback occurred there. | |
| And so I'm not going to go and argue that the confiscation actually resulted in an increase in suicides, but it sure as heck didn't reduce the number of suicides there. | |
| And, you know, anybody who just looked at the You know, the numbers year by year, rather than just these simple misleading before and after averages, would understand that. | |
| But she's multiple times, multiple times has said she wants to model our gun control laws under what they've had in Australia. | |
| In fact, probably even going even further because she wouldn't allow people to go and buy those guns again. | |
| It is a particularly timely visit as the Democrats gather in Chicago. | |
| John Lott, follow everything he does, read everything he ever wrote, and follow his work at the Crime Prevention Research Center. | |
| John, thank you as always. | |
| We really appreciate you. | |
| Thank you for being there, Mark. | |
| He's great. | |
| That's John R. Lott, Jr. | |
| Check him out. | |
| So, as we take a look at Second Amendment issues, Immigration issues, the things we've covered this hour just with two wonderful guests, John Lott and Todd Bensman. | |
| And then as we go back to the prior hour and some of the stuff that you and I were talking about in our big free-for-all with calls, where many of you called in to talk about what Trump should be doing and what he shouldn't be doing. | |
| And boy, we certainly immersed ourselves in that. | |
| I think what we come down to is a certain logic that says that it's not binary. | |
| It doesn't have to be one or the other. | |
| Trump being Trump and describing how his policies are better is good. | |
| Describing how she's a horrible candidate is also good. | |
| And providing evidence from her own words and her own policies of how horrible a candidate she is, that sort of completes the picture. | |
| Or at least it should. | |
| Is it November 5th yet? | |
| No, but just about time for the end of the show. | |
| I got something special for you to close things out in just a moment. | |
| but Mark Davis in for Dr. G. | |
| Thank you. | |
| If you don't believe me when I talk about how crazy price controls are, if you don't believe Republicans and Democrats who have told you how flat out insane Kamala's price controls plan is, then maybe believe this man, Milton Friedman, just a genius on matters of economics. | |
| I think he passed away back in 2006. | |
| Here he is in 1978 on the campus of Kansas State University. | |
| If you don't believe me, believe him. | |
| I am afraid that the chances that we shall have price and wage controls are unfortunately not negligible. | |
| It is a device that governments have repeatedly resorted to to try to cover up the effects of their own policies. | |
| It is offered as a cure for inflation. | |
| It is not a cure for inflation. | |
| It has never been a cure for inflation. | |
| It is an alleged cure that is far worse than the disease, because its effect is to repress the symptoms, to repress the consequences of the more basic force. | |
| I always say that if you want to analyze wage and price control, the simplest analogy that brings it home It's to think of a kettle on your stove in which there's water and the water is boiling. | |
| It's got a cover on it, and the boiling water is threatening to throw the cover off. | |
| Now, the obvious sensible thing to do is to turn down the heat under the kettle. | |
| Another thing you can do is to take a brick and put it on top of the kettle, and at the same time turn up the heat. | |
| That is precisely what President Nixon did in 1971. | |
| When he simultaneously put a brick on top of the kettle by freezing prices and wages, and at the same time launched on a more expansive monetary and fiscal policy, which turned up the heat under the kettle, and what happened? | |
| The lid of the kettle blew up, you held it down for a little while, and then you had a 12%, 13% inflation. | |
| That has been the experience every time, not simply over the last 20, 30 years, but for 2,000 years. | |
| Emperor Diocletian tried the same thing in Rome 2,000 years ago with identically the same results. | |
| So I have nothing but a negative opinion about wage and price control. | |
| It was awesome even before he got to the Emperor Diocletian. | |
| I just love, love Milt Friedman so much. | |
| Let me tell you about a weird moment. | |
| I played that on my local radio show this morning, 660 AM, The Answer, here in Dallas-Fort Worth. | |
| And with Milton Friedman in my head, I said he was part of one of the incredible talk show moments ever when he was on Phil Donahue talking about how the free market is the best solution for any type of kindness. | |
| I mean, Donahue was talking about how, you know, America is filled with greed and corporations are greedy. | |
| And Milt Friedman said, listen, I mean, everybody has a self-interest, and it was just a golden, golden segment. | |
| And then just hours later, I heard of the passing of Phil Donahue at the age of 88. | |
| Now, Phil Donahue's and my politics were not the same, but watching him every day from my teenage years on, knowing anything could happen at any moment on that show, Kind of made me want to emulate it myself. | |
| And look where it got me. | |
| Fill it in for Dr. Gorka. | |
| So rest in peace, Phil. | |
| Welcome back, Seb. | |
| And let's save America. | |
| I'll see you soon on the Salem News Channel and Salem Radio Network. | |
| I'm Mark Davis. |
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