August 17th, 2022

On Wednesday’s Mark Levin Show, the CDC received a blistering report regarding its handling of COVID and it was determined that it fell short of expectations and will be shaking things up. Contrary to what it sounds like the CDC will likely shake things up to make things more political while instituting additional woke policies. Then, Liz Cheney lost her election and keeps burping up platitudes about democracy instead of discussing our constitutional republic. Cheney is all about her and no one else especially not the American people in Wyoming. Cheney is no Abraham Lincoln, she’s actually more like Benedict Arnold. Later, FL Gov. Ron DeSantis blasts Biden for adding 87,000 IRS agents to target the Administration’s political enemies and raise money for the ruling class’s pet projects. This massive spending and tax law will not reduce inflation, it will only empower the government and hurt the people. Also, under the Espionage Act, the people that write these classified documents have the responsibility to retrieve said documents, the responsibility is not the President’s. Will anyone that produced or delivered classified information to President Trump be prosecuted? Afterward, Paul Manafort calls in to discuss his new book “Political Prisoner: Persecuted, Prosecuted, but Not Silenced.”
Manafort added that he was imprisoned in solitary confinement with a 10 million dollar bond for an alleged Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA). Manafort details how the feds only mistreated him in order to get to Trump by any means necessary.

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Rough transcript of Hour 1

Hour 1 Segment 1

I’ll be on Hannity tonight, nine thirty PM Eastern Time. I hope you’ll watch now. The Center for Disease Control. Has received a blistering, blistering report. Excuse me, that’s cholera, a blistering, blistering report. About its conduct. Since. You know, we had the virus and so forth trying to pull this up for you, and I want to remind you this whole nursing homes situation. That we were the first to talk about this when we were tipped off on the air. By a doctor who was an administrator at a nursing home. And I would go through the stats that were provided by the CDC and I would tell you. But the definition. I’ve just covered it’s confusing, it seems overly broad. That the direction that was being given. Was contradictory, I had people on my show, Life, Liberty and Love in. People behind this, Mike. And of course, I wasn’t attacked as a denier. He was a denier of what I don’t deny there’s a virus. Of course, I didn’t deny that there’s a virus. But there were a lot of questions to be asked and the CDC was not up to it, and one of the reasons. Is because of politicization, which is not. A top subject of this report, because they would respond to Democrat interest groups like the teachers union. Which really wasn’t part of the report either. And of course, we have Fauci who said don’t wear masks and then wear masks. Wear boots, wear burqas, wear goggles, double mask. And nobody serious was buying any of that, except, of course, the media pushing the agenda. And now the CDC director, Walensky. She now admits the CDC did not reliably meet expectations on covid-19. They had had a review of its structure, systems and processes. Now they’re going to have a shaker. The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today acknowledged the agency fell short of expectations. Its handling of the coronavirus pandemic announced drastic changes for its operations. Walensky said for 75 years, CDC and public health have been preparing for covid-19 and in our big moment, our performance did not reliably meet expectations. And of course, Fauci is one of the reasons. And of course, his hair should be kicked out and kicked out fast. My goal is a new public health action oriented culture at CDC that emphasizes accountability, collaboration, communication and timeliness. Notice she doesn’t say. Eliminates politics. The agency in April announced a review of its structure, systems and processes, and the review came after criticism the agency was slow to alter covid-19 guidance in the face of changing science often produce confusing recommendations that were difficult for the public to decipher. Changes would also include the appointment of Mary Wakefield, a former Obama administration health official. To lead the agency’s move toward a stronger public health focus, additionally, the CDC will strengthen the response team for health emergencies, according to The New York Times. One of the other things they want to look at is diversity at the highest level. So let me tell you this. You ready? I think a lot of this. The response is the opposite of what you. A normal regular American would think. I think we’re going to get more. Of the world politics in this department, this agency. More of an. Not less. That they’re going to remain political when they talk about communications and. And so forth. They’re bringing in an Obama flack. As if that’s going to clean up anything as we know it won’t clean up anything. I am owed an apology, many people around an apology, I don’t expect one. I’m just underscoring the point. And of course, there are fantastic. Fantastic. Experts. Yale, Stanford, Oxford. Yeah, Rockefeller College. So many in so many other places. We’re out front and knew exactly what needed to be done. And they were not only ignored in many cases, they were derided and of course, big tech and the oligarchs. They rejected any contrary opinions, even from experts and scientists. The medical doctors, they banned them. They banned them, they gave them the scarlet letter. And now we know also that the CDC work and the White House work. With these big oligarchs from tech world who now have received 50 billion dollars or so from you and me. In order to silence contrary voices. And that’s the problem you see, ladies and gentlemen, the more centralized the government gets. The more ideological. The more it is invested. In pushing its agenda no matter what. That’s the problem with centralized health care decisions, that’s the problem with centralized environmental decisions. That’s the problem with centralized economic decisions. You know, stollen, yes, stollen. Stalin. His people were starving, the Russians were starving to death. But he was not going to give up the commune’s. We’re not going to give up his massive stealing of private property. The reorganization of agriculture. And so he and his people put out lies about production lies. And when they wouldn’t meet their goals, he would have the people in charge of the process, he’s executed because it wasn’t the ideology, you see, it was the people. Because they can never give up the ideology till they have. It’s the ideology. CDC admits it failed to respond effectively to the covid crisis sweeping reorganization aimed at changing the agency’s culture and restoring public trust. Plans to make the agency more nimble. I’m just reading what they say. It admits flawed covid-19 response. And it says it’s laid out a plan to become more nimble and accountable. I don’t think so. And if you bring in an Obama in. If you’re talking about walkers and effectively, none of that’s going to improve science. None of it’s going to improve the management of the organization. You see the CDC, like HHS, like all the rest of the alphabet. Has enormous red tape, layers and layers of. Long in the tooth, bureaucrats starting with Fauci, among others. And they’re not talking about the kind of changes that are needed to truly fix it, market oriented competition, checking more advice from serious outside scientists and medical doctors. They haven’t even acknowledged, let alone apologize for their work with the big oligarchs and big tech to silence people actually know what they’re talking about. Now, why are they coming out now and doing this? Why? Because they believe the Republicans will take the House when they take the House, they will have to testify and there will be investigations. And they’re going to point to this great report that they’ve done. And how they responded to it that we’re going to make changes, we’re going to do much better. We’re going to be responsive to the public. We’re going to. We’re going to consult this one and that one. And we know we have a problem. So this is. A preventative effort. To take some of the heat off. God willing, when the Republicans take the House, because they have said that this will be one of their top issues. So they want to come in and defuse the whole thing. We you know, we worked on this and we we agree and we have a problem and we’re really working on changing the bureaucracy and the response and and we don’t disagree and blah, blah. No, no, no. They need to be held to account. This overhaul, they’re talking about a major overhaul. Why do you think they’re making such a big deal of it? I’ll be right back.

Hour 1 Segment 2

All right, folks, Liz Cheney lost in Wyoming, you may have heard by 40 percent, give or take, and she was never serious about being a congressman or representing Wyoming. She compares herself to Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln. First of all, Abraham Lincoln was born dirt poor in a log cabin in Kentucky. Liz Cheney was born a spoiled rotten brat. She was raised in Northern Virginia, in McLean, Virginia, which is a very wealthy suburb of Washington. She believes she’s entitled. She has done nothing profound, she has said nothing profound. She is a narcissist through and through. Who believes that she carries the future of the country on her shoulders? God forbid. She keeps burping up platitudes. About democracy. She should mirpur platitudes about Republicanism. She keeps burping up platitudes about the Constitution. While she serves on a committee that has as its purpose to violate the Constitution, including. The Separation of powers doctrine. That committee. And Cheney have not treated a single witness the way witnesses are to be treated, particularly individuals. Against whom she is very hostile. Liz Cheney rejects due process. Due process that’s going backward a thousand years or more. She rejects the idea of an opposition. She rejects telling the truth by cherry picking information. And she rejects Americanism, despite all of her bravado. Liz Cheney. Is about Liz Cheney, it’s why she had a Hollywood film crew. All set up for her speech in Wyoming with a beautiful background, the mountain, the American flag, American flag. And her speech, her speech wasn’t to the people of Wyoming. Her time in Congress wasn’t for the people in Wyoming. She lost her seat not because she’s Abraham Lincoln. But because she is a self aggrandizing. Luser. Who did nothing for her name? Stanely is one congressman and they need a congressman who’s going to protect them from this administration. Not throw with Nancy Pelosi in the press. We’ve invited Liz Cheney on this program. She will not come on the program. She will not come on the program, and now it’s clear and it’s been clear that she’s used this entire. January six, rogue operation to try and promote herself. To create a political platform she would not otherwise have. To get press attention. Slobbering, salivating. Press attention. There she certainly never received before, it’s not hard to get it. She’s not Abraham Lincoln, she’s Benedict Arnold and the Benedict Arnold. Within the Republican Party. Or populated throughout CNN, MSNBC pages of The New York Times and The Washington Post. They know how to get attention, they’re effectively grifter’s. They want to be famous, not by hard work. But by stabbing people in the back. You can see it on The View. You can see with Cheney. Nicolle Wallace. Mr. Stephen Schmidt. And there’s so many I can’t keep track. So Liz Cheney. Wants to be president. And you don’t elect their ladies and gentlemen, you don’t support her if you don’t embrace her, and obviously you’re part of the problem. You’re against the country. If there’s a new civil war, I would say that Liz Cheney is on the wrong side of it. More Jefferson Davis than Abraham Lincoln. Kipsang. Liz Cheney never spoke out against the outrageous attacks on Trump when they tried to. Destroy his election both in and outside the government tried to remove him from office. She voted once for that, tried to criminalize his administration. She doesn’t give a damn about this country, about her.

Hour 1 Segment 3

The liberals want to silence, but you can talk to me at eight seven seven three eight one three eight one one. Well, I want to read something to you. I really hope you’ll be able to listen to everybody. Just stop what they’re doing. I want to read something to you, and I am looking for it now. OK, Mark, we stop what we’re doing now. What the hell do you want? I’ve got it. I’m getting there. Computer’s a little slow. Let’s see here the Espionage Act. Of 1917, most, if you haven’t read it, most of the people commenting on it haven’t read it. Most of the former federal prosecutors coming in haven’t read it. And certainly most of the meta media. Have not read it. And it says something that’s very interesting and I’m going to wait till the after the break to read it to you because I want to make sure I have the right section. That it’s going to be a point after I really studied this, studied, that’s history, but really studied it this morning, I’d studied it before. And it really does need to. We discussed at some length. And I’m going to do it here with you first. So we will we’ll wait till I find the actual the correct text, you know, this law has been changed over the years and I don’t want to use the wrong. The wrong text. Rhonda Santurce on at a press conference today on the 87,000 more IRS agents, and I want you to understand. This is going to have a direct impact on each and every one of you. It’s not the first year, second and third year. One go, I think, of all the things that have come out of Washington that have been outrageous. This has got to be pretty close to the top. And I think it was basically just a middle finger to the American public that this is what they think of you. All these problems we have to deal with and they think the way is to do. Eighty seven thousand IRS agents. There’s going to be more people in the IRS than like a lot of these other agencies combined. Now, they’re not putting very much money down at the border, I can tell you that right now. But they want to be able to do it and unleash them on American taxpayers. And so so that’s wrong. Fortunately, you know, that’s one of the reasons we don’t have an income tax, is because if you don’t have an income tax, you don’t you don’t empower revenue agents. Once you do that income tax, that gives them the ability to really go in and potentially talk. And it’s going to be targeted at people that the government doesn’t like. Now, think about what he said there, think about the difference between Iran to scientists in Florida. This is the reason we do not have. And income tax. You don’t have to worry about an income tax audit in Florida, concessional income tax. But you do have to worry about an income tax because the Democrats now. Have doubled the size of the area, doubled. There’s no one hundred and seventy thousand employees at the IRS when you add the 87000 new agents. And they’ve told you what the purposes. They’ve said what the purpose is to collect more revenue, but then they lie to you and they tell you it won’t affect you. It won’t be it won’t affect you because Joe Manchin is going to make sure it doesn’t cut to go. We’re going to follow all the way through. I’m going to follow to make sure the IRS doesn’t harass anybody. And I would encourage all of my all of my political friends to make sure their staffs are in contact with the IRS. I want to make sure the EPA doesn’t overreach and it’s balanced of how they do it. You know, there’s always a way to go out rather than going out with a cease and desist order, go out with an idea of how you make such an idiot. So just keep electing Joe Manchin, he’ll make sure the IRS and the EPA don’t abuse its powers or their powers. Now, how ridiculous is that? He just voted to massively expand their powers. But this was a massive tax bill, a massive, massive regulatory bill. A massive. Climate change bill, which has has a purpose. To destroy your prosperity, and it’s going to. And a massive centralization of health care bill, it is now destroyed research and development for new drugs. With price controls. It’s told the pharmaceutical companies, if you don’t meet the prices that we set, we will tax you at ninety five percent. That’s what this idiot voted for. That’s what he voted for. They keep calling it the Inflation Reduction Act. They lied to you. Not only does it fail to reduce inflation, the vast majority would a massive spending and tax bill right in the teeth of stagflation. Here is Joe Manchin asked by Fox News’s Hillary Vaughn, cut, go, is it misleading, misleadingly college completion production act for Americans when it’s not going to be the for no fever, it’s not going to make everything much cheaper for them. Why would it? Why would it? Well, it’s an opportunity. We never saw anything happen immediately like today’s turn the switch on and off. Nobody talked about turning the switch on and off, moron. And now we know America, West Virginians. Hardworking men and women of this country that there was an invisible hand behind all this. Bill Gates, who apparently is quite the sleazeball. But that aside. The second richest man in the world. The second richest man in the world. He feels your pain if you’re a coal miner, he feels your pain if you work in an oil refinery. He feels your pain if you work on a rig, feels your pain if you fill up your car, your truck. No, he doesn’t. He’s a fraud and a phony. But his invisible hand was behind mansion. Working with Schumer cut go at maintaining that dialogue, including in the last month where, you know, people felt like, OK, we tried, we’re done, it failed. And because I believed it was a unique opportunity, my trying to bridge the communication gap and encourage people to make one more effort, you know, by because of the relationship we built up over time, you know, we were able to talk even at a time when people weren’t listening, you know, and, you know, I wouldn’t have wanted to be in his position in the last six months have been all right. Hey, Johnson, you got to wonder how this guy ever made a nickel. Must be as good luck, Mr. Producer. But that aside, there were a lot of. Figures in the background operating in the dark, in the shadows, in marijuana, smoke filled rooms, a lot of people. Who were involved in this, who got what they wanted, who got the money they wanted? They got the tax increases they wanted. Who got the subsidies they wanted? Out of your view, the view of the American people, and we simply cannot rely on the corrupt media to give us the facts, all they do is look at this. Joe Biden’s had a hell of a week. Look, look at all his successes. That’s what we get from these morons. That’s when we get nothing more, nothing less. But we know it’s fantastic and now we’re going to have clean air. What’s next? We haven’t done enough. What’s next? So they haven’t even allowed the trillions and trillions they’ve spent and have borrowed to settle into the system. So we can all enjoy their massive centralized policy. Before they go at it again. With another nearly trillion dollars. And guess what? It’s not just one trillion. They’re going to fund this stuff over and over and over again, it creates a benchmark. He creates a bottom block, we spend almost 400 billion dollars on, quote unquote, climate change. I propose we increase it. It’s so desperate out there, we need to spend five hundred billion dollars next year. That’s how it works. That’s how it works, because their policies never work. That’s how it works. I’ll be right back.

Hour 1 Segment 4

By the way, you know what’s funny about the CDC stuff, the press will act like they never defended everything and anything said by issued by the CDC black, like they never trashed skeptics. They’re supposed to be skeptical. The whack like this was all science, they’ll just move on and pretend they had no participation. In giving this agency. It’s free will. That they had no participation trying to shut down other experts and scientists and medical doctors. That they had no role in trying to humiliate. People like me, of course, they can’t, but they tried. Who dare to raise questions about the information that we’re getting that doesn’t even add up or make any sense, and I want the media to understand this is why you’re despised. This is why you’re hated. Now. I want you if you can stop eating dinner. Stop making dinner. Stop buying dinner if you’re in your car. Raise the volume on your radio if you’re online, raise the volume on your computer. Your handheld device. I want to read something to you. And the Espionage Act of 1917, there is a section E, there’s section one, part E. I want you to listen very carefully to this. Whoever. Being entrusted with. Are having lawful possession or control of any document writing, code, book, signal, book, sketch, photograph, photographic, negative blueprint, plan, map, model, note or information relating to the national defense. Through gross negligence. Permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust. Or to be lost, stolen or abstracted or destroyed shall be punished by a fine, if not more than 10,000 hours of by imprisonment for not more than two years or both. Now, this is the section of the law that applied to Hillary, but that’s beside the point. It’s right there. At the beginning, whoever being entrusted with. Are having lawful possession or control of any document and so forth. Permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody. Or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust and so forth. Mr. Producer, in the first instance, who is entrusted with the document. That would be the agency that creates the document, correct? Being entrusted with having lawful possession. Why is it said that this applies exclusively or at all, but exclusively to Donald Trump? If you are interested. Let’s figure the CIA director, but there’s a lot of munchkins involved in this, but you’re the CIA director. Your agency has created this document. You’re entrusted with it says being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control it, you’re entrusted with control over this document. And you give it to the president of the United States. It remains your responsibility. To ensure that that document. That you delivered to the president or to anybody? Or to anybody. Is returned to its proper place of custody. That’s what it says, proper place of custody. So what am I saying? This law was never intended to apply to a president or even a former president. It was intended to apply. The individuals much lower in rank than that within the federal government. So why do we ignore the fact? That any classified document that was brought to President Trump has president. Secret. Top secret proven beyond. Donald Trump did not create that document. Donald Trump was presented with that document. The person who’s entrusted with the document, that is its creation, its maintenance. It’s security. Is the agency in the person? You presented it to the president. I’m not talking about the National Archives. I’m not talking about the White House counsel. Who created. And provided the president in the United States with the documents that were in the boxes that were removed. Which agencies, which individuals? Because it seems to me, ladies and gentlemen. That the application of Part E under Section one. Well, the Espionage Act of 1917 quite clearly applies to the people. Who brought the classified information after was created by somebody other than the president. Who brought it to the president? They were entrusted. With making sure that that document, if this statute is applicable and the section is applicable. With ensuring its return. And it’s safe keeping. And the question is. If they fail to do so by gross negligence, they committed a felony. My being quite clear on this, Mr. Producer. I notice not one of the legal analysts or any of the other frauds and phonies and buffoons have pointed this out, that’s the purpose of this paragraph. But they’re so busy applying it to Trump, they’re so busy trying to figure out how to screw Trump. They’re not reading the plain language. If they’re not applying it to the people to whom it should be applied, I want to get into this a little bit more now. If anybody brings this up, you’ll know who they stole it from, because I’m surrounded by plagiarists. But that said. This is a very, very important point. Whoever being entrusted with. Entrusted with through gross negligence permits, the same to be removed from its proper place of custody, the documents on the president’s nightstand, let’s say it’s President Obama. That’s a violation of this statute.