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He's here now. Broadcasting them from the underground command post deep in the bowels of a hidden bunker somewhere under to the brick and steel of a nondescript building, we've once again made contact with our leader, Mark Levin. My name's Larry o'. Connor. I'm in for the great one, Mark Levin. And boy, have we got a lot to talk about. Mark's gonna be back tomorrow. By the way. Always an honor and a pleasure to fill in for the great 1-877-381-3811. You know, the last couple of times I've had the honor of being behind Mark's. It's not a golden microphone, is it, Mr. Producer? He doesn't rush. Rush was the only one with a golden microphone. What are we. Is it platinum? Is it? Well, he's kind of, he's. But you know what? He's the blue collar guy. He's like the hard working, hard hat kind of. Let's call it, let's call it the iron microphone. I like that. I like the iron microphone. The last time I had a chance to sit in here behind Mark Levin's iron microphone, I realized after the fact that I'd done all the talking and we didn't get a chance to interact. And my favorite part about talk radio, the world's original social media. And your calls are the comments section. And I promised myself this evening that I will be, or I should say today that I'll be taking a lot of your call. So 877-381-3811. Love to have you chime in here. For those of you who don't know, I am the morning host on WMAL in Washington D.C. america's most important talk radio station. And I also have a daily live news news analysis show, streaming podcasts. I do live on all the video platforms out there for town hall media. I do that every day at noon live. So maybe if you want to look it up, it's called Larry. That's the name of the show. I didn't name it. They just named it Larry. What can I tell you? We have a lot to talk about. I want to talk about Brown University, this latest news conference that we just had about 45 minutes ago. Again, more questions than answers from the elected officials and law enforcement up there. There's something very bizarre about the investigation of the murder of the two poor students up there in Brown University. We'll get to the details of that and I'll play you some audio from that press conference. I also want to talk about how Christmas celebrations and New Year's celebrations are being canceled in Europe, are being threatened here in America. One through line and commonality to all of those cancellations and all of the threats and its radical Islamic terrorists who are trying to disrupt and murder peaceful Christians celebrating Christmas and members of Western civilization celebrating the New Year. But they want you dead. They want to disrupt. They want you to cancel those celebrations as many cities in France, excuse me, in Europe, have already done. And therefore, of course, they have a partial victory there. Their real victory isn't solidified until they murder you, of course, but we're going to talk about that, too. But I want to first start with this story that has all of DC buzzing. And I'm based in Washington, D.C. and so I feel like I can give you a little bit of extra insight from my analyst's chair here in your nation's capital about this interview that chief of Staff Susie Wiles gave to Vanity Fair that then got picked up in the New York Times. And this is a classic case of the media and the machine, the, the beast that is Washington, D.C. culture, taking this story and turning it into, well, something that it's not, and suggesting that in some way this is an existential moment for Susie Wiles and incredibly effective press Sec chief of staff and turning it into some scandal that it is not. That said, there are a lot of people to blame here. But most importantly, I want to know from you, who do you blame? If you know about this story, I'm about to fill you in on it. If you haven't heard about it. But if you've been watching cable news today, you know about this story. If you've been watching social media today, you know about this story. I'll give you the details. And if you already are, read up on it, I'd love to hear from you about who you blame. Who do you blame for this episode here where the chief of staff, Susie Wells, who doesn't give many interviews, has now revealed in this exclusive to Vanity Fair some really damaging and insulting things about her colleagues and the president himself. 877-381-3811 who's to blame for this. Is it Vanity Fair? Is it the New York Times? Is it social media? Is it Cable News? 877-381-3811. The world first got wind of this this morning because of a New York Times article. Listen to how this little feeding frenzy works. Susie Wiles grants an interview to Vanity Fair. And most specifically, a writer for Vanity Fair who, who has made a name for himself over the years interviewing chiefs of staff. And it's funny, these interviews, he even wrote a book, I believe, about chiefs of staff. And the interviews of chiefs of staff for Democrat presidents always are beautiful and glowing and positive and make superstars out of the chiefs of staff. And then the interviews of the chiefs of staff for Republican presidents always end up being huge controversies and incredibly damaging. It's shocking the way that works out, isn't it? And yet Susie Wiles, incredibly intelligent woman, granted this interview to this guy. But, but here's my favorite part. The interview goes to Vanity Fair, and then the New York Times gets an exclusive look at the interview. Now understand this, Susan. Susie Wiles did not give an interview to the New York Times. She gave several interviews to Vanity Fair. Vanity Fair then decided on the day that they published the interview that they would give the New York Times an exclusive look at their interview and their article so that the New York Times could then publish an article about the interview in Vanity Fair. It's like burger king giving McDonald's an exclusive look at their brand new Whopper recipe. This is not how most industries work when they have some level of competition, right? I mean, Vanity Fair and New York Times are in the same business. They're writing articles, they're selling advertisements on their websites and on their print editions. And the more viewers they get, the more readers they get, the better it is for them. Right? And it's like Fox News giving an exclusive to ABC News on an interview they did with someone in the White House. It makes no sense. Unless, of course, you realize that you can't look at these things as though it's some sort of typical industry or typical business or typical free market enterprise where you're trying to compete and win and get the more viewers and get the more customers and sell the more ads. No, no, no, that's not really their goal, is it? They're all on the same team. They're all on the same side. They all have the same interest in destroying conservatives, in destroying the Trump presidency. So Vanity Fair gives the New York Times an exclusive to look at their article so that it can get more Oxygen and more attention because ultimately their goal is, is to damage President Trump. I, I would guarantee you that more people have read about Vanity Fair's interview with Susie Wiles in the New York Times instead of in Vanity Fair, and Vanity Fair is fine with that because they're not really in business. They're activists. Now, I want you to hear this paragraph from the New York Times article this morning that went viral. It went crazy. It went nuts. This is all they talked about on Morning Joe show over there or on CNN or on George Stephanopoulos. It was this paragraph, and I am going to read you the paragraph and I'm going to deliberately tell you what is actually quoted from the Vanity Fair article versus how Peter Baker, the New York Times reporter, described what was in the Vanity Fair article. It's just one paragraph. Stick with me. Over the course of 11 interviews, Ms. Wiles offered pungent assessments of the President. Hold on a second. 11 interviews? She's only been the chief of staff for 11 months. What was this one interview a month? What? Yeah, I might be giving you a clue as to who I blame for all of this. I do want to hear who you blame. 877-381-3811. 11 interviews. What in God's name? Over the course of 11 interviews, Ms. Wiles offered pungent assessments of the President and his team. Mr. Trump, quote, has an alcoholic's personality, unquote. Vice President J.D. vance has, quote, been a conspiracy theorist for a decade, unquote, and his conversion from Trump critic to ally was based, not on principle, but was, quote, sort of political, unquote, because he was running for Senate. You get the picture here, right? We're almost done. Elon Musk is, quote, an avowed ketamine, unquote user and quote, an odd, odd duck, unquote, whose actions were not always, quote, rational, unquote, and I swear I'm not exaggerating it, and left her, quote, aghast, unquote, Russell T. Vote, the budget director, is, quote, a right wing, absolute zealot, unquote, and Attorney General Pam Bondi, quote, completely whiffed, unquote in handling the Epstein files. All right, so that paragraph right there, with this just machine gun, rapid fire blitz, the entire West Wing with as much ammo as possible destruction of the President, the Vice President, Elon Musk, Russell Vote, the OMB director and the Attorney General, all in just that one little paragraph that got all of Washington D.C. ablaze today. They love this stuff. The entire beast of Washington loves this stuff. And I gotta tell you, When I saw this, it raised some eyebrows. Geez, Susie Wiles, what the heck? But you noticed how the vast majority of this paragraph in the New York Times characterizing their exclusive look at the Vanity Fair interview, the vast majority of it is not actually direct quotes from the article. Now, we're going to dissect one of these quotes in a moment and really break it down for you. Specifically, it's the one concerning President Trump with a alcoholic's personality. Boy, that's pretty damaging. Although anybody who knows anything about President Trump knows that he doesn't touch alcohol or drugs or anything that would alter his mind. And so, you know there's more to that story, right? Of course. Now, if you have Trump derangement syndrome and you just hate the president, you relish this, you love it, and you don't think to another level about it and try to say, wait a second, that makes no sense. He doesn't drink. What does that even mean? It doesn't matter. It sounds bad. It sounds like an insult. So we're off to the races with it. All right, in a moment, I'm going to fill you in on the entire quote, the entire context of what Susie Wiles said. And also, by the way, J.D. vance, earlier today, he had a rally up in Pennsylvania and he was asked about this, and he responded brilliantly to the accusations that he is a conspiracy theorist for the past decade. Before we get to those two items, let me just dissect these other things real fast. Attorney General Pam Bondi completely whiffed in handling the Epstein files. Well, duh. How is that controversial? I bet if you asked Attorney General Pam Bondi, she would probably agree that the Epstein files matter was not handled perfectly, to say the least. Remember, she handed out the binders to influencers. Not radio hosts, not journalists, not broadcasters, not writers, not people who have supported President Trump from a thoughtful perspective. And in a. No, no, no, that doesn't matter anymore. We just want influencers. So she handed out binders to influencers. And of course, the binders that contained what we were told was Epstein data had nothing in it. Of course, it was a whiff. It was terrible. And I think that everyone in the world knows that there's nothing controversial about Susie Wells saying that Russ Vogt, the budget director, is a right wing, absolute zealot. Well, I mean, he would probably quibble with the word zealot because that sounds a little disparaging. But I mean, ultimately guilty. I mean, that's why I want him on that wall. He's one of the most effective members of the President's cabinet because he's right wing. I mean, that's hardly a criticism. Elon Musk, this is my favorite one. Elon Musk and ketamine user. He's said that already publicly. And then Elon Musk is described as an odd, odd duck. Well, that's a huge revelation, isn't it? I mean, set my hair on fire with that one. Who doesn't think Elon Musk is an odd duck? Elon Musk's mom would admit that her son is an odd duck. You know what? You try to be the richest man on the planet and invent a brand new multi gajillion dollar electric car and then invent an entire fleet of rockets that can blast off into space and then re land on the planet with an eventual dream of getting to Mars. Try not being an odd duck when your brain works that way. So we've broken down every sort of quote unquote disparaging commentary on members of the cabinet except for the President and the Vice President. We'll get to those in a moment. But honestly, what's the damage here? Well, the damage is what was said about the President. And we're going to give you the details and the context and the real quote on that in just one moment. My name is Larry o'. Connor. This is the Mark Levin Show. Mark Levin.