🦟 1. Chikungunya Outbreak in China
- Main Focus: The CDC has issued a Level 2 travel warning due to a chikungunya virus outbreak in Guangdong province, China, with over 7,000 confirmed cases and spread to Hong Kong.
- Symptoms: Fever, joint pain, headaches, rash, and in rare cases, death—especially among infants, elderly, and those with preexisting conditions.
- Containment Measures in China: Use of drones, mosquito-eating fish, fines for stagnant water, mandatory insect repellent, and hospital isolation under mosquito netting.
- Tone: Skeptical of Chinese transparency, drawing parallels to COVID-19 and questioning whether the full truth is being disclosed.
🏛️ 2. Texas Political Crisis
- Governor Greg Abbott's Lawsuit: Filed against Democratic lawmakers who fled Texas to block a redistricting bill, accusing them of dereliction of duty.
- Legal Action: Abbott is invoking the Texas Constitution and Attorney General Ken Paxton’s support to potentially remove legislators from office.
- Democratic Response: Chairman Wu defends the move as a constitutional stand, not abandonment.
- Illinois Governor JB Pritzker: Defends the Texas Democrats and opposes any attempt to arrest them in Illinois.
- Tone: Strongly supportive of Abbott’s actions and critical of Democratic lawmakers.
📚 3. Interview with Mark Levin
- Topic: Levin’s new book On Power, which explores the nature of power, its historical use, and its impact on liberty.
- Themes:
- The struggle between positive and negative uses of power.
- Concerns about Marxism, Islamism, and indoctrination in education.
- The erosion of American values and the rise of authoritarianism disguised as democracy.
- Tone: Deeply ideological, promoting conservative values and warning against perceived threats to American liberty.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
There is a major story that needs to be on
your radar, and it's one that concerns now China yet
again and the CDC issuing a travel warning over a
viral outbreak in China that is spread by mosquito bites.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issuing a
(00:22):
Level two travel notice. This is much like what we
witness with the coronavirus for a province in China due
to a quote major outbreak, the agency is recommending travelers
practice enhance precautions. As of August six, if you believe
the numbers coming out of China, over seven thousand confirmed
(00:47):
cases of chikungunya have been reported, with the outbreak spreading
to Hong Kong and other provinces. Now, what is this disease? Well,
Symptoms to typically appear, they say three to seven days
after a mosquito bite, and while most recover within a week,
there are major problems that can happen because of this
(01:10):
mosquito born viral disease characterize as being major issues with fever,
severe joint pain, severe headaches, muscle aches, joint swelling, and
a rash. There is also a concern over death even
though it's being categorized as rare infants. They're very concerned
(01:32):
about older adults and people with certain health conditions will
also face high risk of severe symptoms and possibly death.
Yet again, another concern of the similarities we're talking about
here because of what happened last time when it came
out of China.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Now in twenty twenty five, this.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Strand has affected approximately two hundred and forty thousand people
across sixteen countries, resulting, they say, in around nine the deaths.
Chinese authorities have mobilized intense containment strategies, including drones to
locate standing water, insecticide spraying, even targeting individuals before entering buildings,
(02:15):
deployment of mosquito eating fish, fines or penalties for stagnant
water accumulation in hospital isolation under mosquito netting. Here is
more from Fox News Channel about the CDC putting out
the warning for Americans tonight.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
A viral outbreak in China prompts the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention the CDC to issue a travel warning.
More than seven thousand cases of this disease have been
reported so far. State Department correspondent Jillian Turner has details
Tonight Live from the State Department and even Jillian.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Good Evening Breath. The CDC, as you mentioned, is warning
Americans traveling to China about chikungunya. It is a virus
that spreads to humans through infective mosquito bites. It can
cause severe illness, with symptoms that mimic pretty closely dangay
fever and zecavirus, mostly found in Africa. Here's what the
CDC says about it. They say most people, in fact,
(03:10):
you get better within a week. However, some can have
severe joint pain for months two years. Other symptoms include
severe fever and fatigue. The outbreak now is in the
Chinese province goang Dong. It's near Hong Kong, with more
than seven thousand cases reported so far, prompting some pretty
dramatic measures to contain the spread, like mandatory insect repellent
(03:32):
blasts for people entering the area, mandatory property checks for
stagnant water, which attracts mosquitoes and when found is now
punishable by fines or even arrest.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
If you happen to get this, they're quarantining you in
hospitals with mosquito netting and not letting you out for
a week. These are the kind of draconian responses we
saw with COVID. We're seeing it again.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
The CDC says Americans traveling to eight other countries are
also at elevated risk of exposure to the virus, even
if there is no current outbreak there. People at risk
for more severe cases of chicunngunya include newborns, senior sixty
five years and up, as well as people with diabetes
or heart disease. Now, the good news is that, unlike COVID,
(04:20):
deaths from this disease are exceedingly rare. You can also
protect yourself by getting vaccinated against it, or by preventing
mosquito bites in the first place through all the usual
mechanisms insect repellent netting, wearing long sleeves, and staying in
air conditioning.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Right, Jillian turn A live at the State Department, Julian,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
You listen to this warning. And there's a couple of
points here that need to be made clear. Number one,
there's no specific treatment for this, so management focuses on
symptom relief, rest, hydration, over the counterpane relief, and vaccines
as they mentioned, are available in the US and recommended
for travelers that are going to the outbreak regions. But
(05:00):
then the question also comes up, and this is why
I want it on your radar screen. Why are they
treating this in China very much the same way they
treated COVID And are they telling us the truth?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Now?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
They're saying to minimize the risk of exposure, the CDC
advises the use of insect repellent, wearing long sleeved shirts
and long pants, staying in screened or air conditioned accommodation.
They also have a warning for pregnant travelers, especially near delivery.
They're encouraged now to quote reconsidered travel as infection neer
(05:35):
childbirth can pass to newborns. Vaccinations should be discussed with
the healthcare provider. The CDC is also saying, so this
is a story that I hope I don't have to
talk about again with you. But when you're dealing with
China and what they're doing right now, you have to
wonder what are they hiding.
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another major story, and it deals with what's happening in Texas.
The Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, has now filed a
lawsuit to start the removal for dereliction of duty derelict
(08:24):
Democrats and saying you're not showing up for work. You
fled the state to block redistricting bill, and now we're
going to hold you accountable for exactly that. Governor Abbott
filing the lawsuit Tuesday night with the Texas Supreme Court
seeking to begin the process for the removal of House
Democratic Caucus Chairman Wu and others. The chairman, along with
(08:47):
most of his Democrat House colleagues, fled the state to
block acorum in protests of the GOP's efforts to carry
out their duty of congressional seat redistricting. Today, I took
emergency action, the governor said, to begin the removal from
office of derelic Democrat Texas House members he refused to
(09:09):
show up for special session. Governor Abbot writing this, saying quote,
I filed the suit directly with the Texas Supreme Court
too quickly make clear the authority I have to bring
the lawsuit for removal of legislators from their office now.
On Sunday, Abbot ordered the House Democrats who fled the
state to break quorum to return to work or he
(09:32):
would take action to vacate their legislative seats and appoint replacements.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
This truancy ends now.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Governor Abbot said in a Sunday night statement, the derelict
Democratic House members must return to Texas and be in
attendance when the House reconvenes at three pm on Monday,
August fourth. The governor said he will invoke the Texas
Attorney General opinion to remove the absent Democrats from their
elected office. The governor stated, quote in that opinion, the
(10:00):
Attorney General considered whether Texas law allows for a determination
that a legislator has vacated office if they intentionally break quorum.
The Attorney General concluded that whether a specific legislator abandoned
his or her office such that a vacancy occurred will
(10:22):
be a fact question for a court quote unquote. Sunday afternoon,
Texas House Democrats fled the state to Illinois to stop
the state legislature from moving forward on plans to redistrict
Texas congressional districts. Democratic Caucus Chairman wo a Democrat from Houston,
said the governor is using an intentionally racist map to
(10:45):
steal the voices of millions of black and Latino Texans,
all to execute a corrupt political deal. The derelict Texas
House members ignored the Governor's order and did not return
to the capitol insert. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed
a notice with the Texas Supreme Court in support of
the Governor's lawsuit, saying this Texas is taking every available
(11:10):
avenue to force runaway Democrats to return to Texas and
hold them accountable for breaking quorum. That's what the Attorney
General Ken Paxton said in the statement, saying, quote, under
the Texas Constitution, in Texas law, the Office of the
Attorney General has the legal authority to bring these cases
against the renegade House members. I have alerted the Texas
(11:33):
Supreme Court that I will be making additional filings on
Friday if the Democrats continued to abandon their legislative duties.
Abbott also wrote a letter to the Texas Supreme Court
about his action of filing directly with the state's top
course bypassing the district and appellate court system. The governor
side Section twenty two of the Texas Constitution and court
(11:57):
precedent for those actions, and that's where we go to.
Late Tuesday night, the Supreme Court requests a response from
the respondent chairman wu the Democrat no later than Friday,
August eighth, at five pm. The case number for the
emergency petition is twenty five dash zero six seven to four. Translation.
(12:20):
It's getting very real now for Democrats that there is
a chance if they do not come back.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
To Texas, they can lose their jobs.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Texas Tribune reporter by the way, posting comments from Chairman
Wu in response to the governor's latest action to remove
him and fellow Democratic legislators, saying, quote, I took an
oath to the Constitution, not a politician's agenda. Denying the
governor at quorum was not an abandonment in my office.
It was a fulfillment of my oath. That is the
(12:52):
latest from the Democrats. He said, I took that oath
to the constitution, not the political agenda. And he's hoping
the American people will go along along with him. One person,
by the way, that definitely is going along with him,
is the governor of Illinois, trying to turn this into
his own political moment.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
JB.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Pritzker firing back at Trump's threat to arrest run away
Texas Democrats, saying, bring it on. He's more than happy
to fight Donald Trump. And here's the governor in his
own words.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
Is that, you know, our local law enforcement protect everybody
in Illinois. Our state troopers protect everybody in Illinois and
anybody who's here in Illinois. And so whether it's federal
agents coming to Illinois or state rangers from Texas, if
you haven't broken federal law, you're you know, you're basically unwelcome.
(13:47):
And there's no way that they can be that. Our
state legislators here, the Texas state legislators can be arrested.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
So there's the governor of Illinois saying, Hey, I stand
up for I legal immigrant consider in my state and
protect them all the time. Why not go ahead and
protect some hardcore liberal Democrats from Texas as well. Now,
Governor of Texas, Craig Abbott, he has a very simple
response to JD. Pritzker and anybody else that's criticizing him.
(14:16):
He says, it's all about doing your job, and that's
what the Democrats have abandoned.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
So the Democrats when they return, they're going to be
accountable for certain legal violations, but also for violations of
Texas House rules. And so it's going to be a
bad day for them. And the sooner they get back,
maybe the lesser the consequences. But the longer they stay,
the greater the consequences.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
The greater the consequences. So now here we are at
the Texas Supreme Court, and there's a very good chance
that the governors got this one right and Democrats may
lose their jobs over all of this, refusing to come
back to the state that they said they were representing
and instead hanging.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Out in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
All right, Coming up, by the way, in just a moment,
I'm going to play for you a really cool conversation
I have with a dear friend of my Mark Levin,
the great One. He has got a new book out
called On Power, and I want you to hear what
he has to say about how Democrats have abused power
and just gone rogue in this country, trying to destroy
this country. Why this book is so important. We're going
(15:21):
to have that conversation for you coming up in just
a moment.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
One of my.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Favorite personalities in the history of radio a man that
I describe is a mentor. He may not describe me
as someone he mentors, but I'm just going to throw
it out there anyway.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
He has had an incredible impact on my career.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
A sincere and genuine someone I look up to and
I'm so thankful to have people like this in the
radio community.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
But also in this world is Mark Levin.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
I've had the honor of filling in for him for
several years now, and he is a man that writes
books that when he writes them, you need to pause,
you need to buy him, and you need to read.
There's a reason why they're always a bestseller. And he's
got a new book out called On Power. It explores
the nature of power, its historical uses, good and bad,
the impact on liberty. Mark, thank you for coming on
(16:13):
and I'm excited about this book. I got an advanced
copy Reddit cover to cover, and I don't think the
timing of this book could have been any better, especially
coming after what we just saw with the Biden regime
and the auto pen and the abuse of power. It
can be used for good and bad, There's no doubt
about it.
Speaker 8 (16:32):
First of all, thank you for that intro. You are
a terrific person and a great radio talent as well,
and I really appreciate it, brother, And it's always a
thrill to be back in your community, Memphis. Yeah. So
I wrote this book On Power, and I'll tell you
why ben because in addition to the point you raise,
which I definitely want to get into, I just started
(16:53):
the thinking, started thinking that I'm not sure we're addressing
this issue of tyranny in our liberty properly, because when
you really think about it, the Revolutionary War wasn't photover liberty.
This footover power in order to acquire or preserve liberty.
And I got to thinking, you know, liberty without rights
(17:15):
is non existent. Rights without powers non existent. So power
is the bottom line. And you bring up what they've
done to Trump, but they're trying to do to Trump,
the Obama Hillary scandal and others. It's all about power.
In fact, this whole battle over budgets, that's about power.
Open borders so they can swamp us with new congressional
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districts for Democrats, same thing, trying to control the Supreme
Court and potentially pack it. It's the same thing you
see the Democrats, the Marxists, the islam As, they get it.
They're for power and they try to do everything they
can to acquire it. We are on defense. We're trying
to defend power versus power, that is divided power, separation
(17:57):
of power. We're trying to defend the art rigins of
our founding, which is really not about power. It's about God,
the sovereign, We the children of the sovereign, and on
earth where the sovereign, where the people as individuals and
as a society. And then we fuse that with the
enlightenment which we embrace, to apply that kind of sovereignty,
(18:18):
which is is Mondesquez said in others power versus power.
So we we don't explain this, we don't think it's
through in my humble opinion, and doing this all these
years to just throw out, you know, shibboleths or something
at a surface level, it isn't going to do it anymore.
So this is why I argue that we have got
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to really understand we are for positive power, their negative power.
What does that mean? Their abuse and use of language?
What's the purpose thought control? And so for coercion, obedience, manipulation.
What do we really mean by liberty in the sense
of power, What do we really mean by rights? And
(19:00):
I feel with all these things going on the rise
of Marxism and Islamism, including in our own country a
far more aggressive Democrat party that is unmoored completely really
from our founding and our requirement as citizens now to
teach our children and grantchun than other people what it
is that we should stand for because we don't get
(19:20):
it in the schools. That's the point of the book.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
You mentioned the schools there, and look, I'm getting older
now I say that, and I'm not joking.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
I'm going to hit gosh, who is it forty four
in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
I've got three sons, I know, right, I got twins
or six and a nine year old turned nine couple
days ago. And what terrifies me the most now is
the education that they're going to get from someone that
wants them to have the power over them, to make
them hate this country. You look at the report that
came out even last week, Mark, and it talked about
(19:52):
how the Chinese Communist Party has in essence completely infiltrated
our education system at the highest levels, including the ivy LEA,
buying access to the minds of our young people. That
is something that concerns me. I know, you don't have
to do this anymore. You can retire if you wanted to.
I know why you do it. You love this country.
It's why you write these books. But how concerned are
(20:14):
you about the abuse of power coming from other influencers
who are grabbing our kids' minds in the public schools
and also at our universities.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
Very very And when you read the chapter on language,
the nature of the language that's used, what's allowed to
be said, not allowed to be said, new words, new
definition of words. This whole idea, wokeism and DEI and CRT,
it's all intended to destroy our connection with our founders
and the belief system that brought us to where we
(20:44):
are today. And that's why I write these books so
people have relatively easy access to the information, the tools,
the arguments, because we have to go around the teachers' unions,
we've got to go around the college faculty, we've got
to go around the media. We've got to inform ourselves
and educate ourselves. And we as parents and grandparents, we
have an obligation. And sometimes you'll succeed and sometimes you'll fail.
(21:07):
To try and pass this on to our kids and
our grandkids because they're not getting it from these institutions. Now,
I'm all for school choice. I think what the President
Trump's doing with these colleges and universities is absolutely fantastic.
And those that's a battle that's fought say over here,
but the battle that's fought in our private lives needs
(21:30):
to be a different kind of battle. And I mean,
I hear young people going on about this, Montdamie, why
don't we try socialism? What's the problem? What's the you know,
what's the Because they haven't been told anything, they haven't
experienced anything, they haven't lived in a certain circumstances that
tell them what's wrong with it. So we have to
do that. And that's what I'm trying to adjust here,
(21:52):
not just for young people, but for all people among ourselves,
and in terms of projecting it to other people, we've
got to get down to the crux of the matter.
If somebody says I can't afford food, and we respond
with liberty, it goes in one ear and out the
other ear. If somebody says, look this guy Mandami's we're
gonna have public grocery stores, and I said, well, that's great.
(22:13):
So now he'll have the power to decide whether you
eat or you don't eat. And he'll have the power
to decide what you do eat and what you don't eat.
Is that okay with you? Or whether your shelves are
filled or they're not filled. So there are ways to engage.
And I think when you get down to the core
of it, it is about the distribution of power, a
positive distribution or a negative distribution of power.
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that I think is very scary about where we are
in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Is going back to the point you made a second ago.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
How easily people are willing to just give up their
own power and say, here, government make all the decisions
for me. Did we get to this point because we
become lazy as society or is it because of indoctrination
in society or a little bit of both. And also
there's now a new culture. Let's be clear, that is
hate America. America is evil, America is bad. So therefore
(25:26):
communism or socialism or Marxism must be tried.
Speaker 8 (25:30):
I think these are two points and they're very good.
I think that first point, you know, De Togfa kind
of talked about it, when government gets involved in all
things small and large, you're creating a different kind of people,
a different kind of mentality, and you are kind of
reverse engineering human nature. Whereas you know you want free will,
certain things motivate you and so forth. It wears you down,
(25:53):
It gets you used to subsidies, it gets you used
to being pounded on about what's wrong with you, what's
wrong with your ancestry, what's wrong with your race, that
sort of thing. I think the second point you raise
is it's a very nefarious problem, which is the poisonous
leakage into our system of these ideologies that have as
(26:14):
their purpose not to compete, but to destroy not even
the government, the society and to destroy the culture. And
this is what people need to understand. We are trying
to defend limited government, which is very important. They're destroying
everything that undergirds it, the civil society which comes before government,
and they're trying to grab control of it. So they're
(26:37):
about centralization of power, the imposition of their ideology. They're
about brainwashing, fear mongering, while they promise redistribution, while they
promise more liberty, while they you know, it's like the
People's Republic of China. I think they're about the people
or a republic. They'll take the word democracy, democratic socialism.
(26:59):
Those two words are oxymorony. They don't work together. Socialism
about the government controlling the means of production and the
distribution of resources and material and wealth. That has nothing
to do with democracy in any way. We've got to
challenge this, We've got to break it down and say,
excuse me, we're the ones who believe in participatory democracy, republicanism.
(27:20):
We're the ones who believe in the free voluntary commercial
activity among people. And then we need to explain what
that creates. What that creates is a massive middle class
like no other society ever on the planet has experienced,
where we live better than any king or queen one
hundred and fifty years ago. We have more access to
(27:42):
more kinds of food. We switch a we hit a switch,
the lights come on, we turn a foscet on. We
get clean cold water, clean hot water. You have bathrooms
in your home, You have mobility in cars. You go
on a plane forty thousand feet in the air. You
may not like the peanuts you're getting, but think about
what's actually happening. You compare this. This is a result
(28:04):
of America. This is the result of a society where
power is distributed properly and where the individual, the individual
is the sovereign and the people are the sovereign. Conversely,
seventy percent of the world lives in tyranny and poverty.
And what do they have. Are they flourishing republics or democracies.
(28:24):
Do they believe in consensual government or participatory Of course not.
And so you have to compare something with something, not
something with their ideology.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
When you wrote this book and It's a book that
I would encourage you to grab by the way. If
you haven't read other books by Mark Levin, you should
grab them. They're incredible. This new one on power, exploring
the nature of power. It's historical use is its impact
on liberty and really democracy and authoritarianism and disguised as representation,
especially what we're witnessing in New York City with this
(28:58):
mayor candid there. When you were writing this book, were
you writing it for a specific person, were you writing
it for young and all?
Speaker 2 (29:05):
What was your mindset when you were writing it?
Speaker 8 (29:08):
First of all, I wanted to write it differently, in
a way where I could take some complicated subjects and
make them very digestible, understandable, actually find and enjoyable to read,
and yet challenge people's thinking or somebody might say, oh, yeah,
I thought about that. I never really developed my thoughts
(29:28):
on it though, and that sort of thing, and yeah,
that's a different way of putting this, and it's an
important way of putting it. So my view is this
book is written for anybody, particularly people who are trying
to figure out the swirl of Marxism and Islamism in
our country. Why it's starting to take hold, how we
confront it, how we address it. But also, as one
(29:51):
fellow told me, he's going to give it to his
kid who's going into college, so they have something to
counter what all these professors are going to tell them.
And you'll also notice, Bend that the book is more
compact than most of my books. It's two hundred and
eight pages long. And again I wanted to make it
accessible to anybody and everybody. And so this book on power,
(30:13):
it cuts to the chase and it explains that in fact,
when you go to the ancients or more modern history
or today, is a constant struggle over who exercises power,
how power is exercised, whether power is going to be
exercised by you or over you. And the term that
(30:36):
I use now to describe the Democrats and these Marxists
and Islamis is authoritarian democrats. In other words, if they'll
go through the voting process as long as they win,
but if they don't win, they'll try sabotage, you know,
a Trump or Republican that will use the unelected bodies,
the bureaucracy. Mostly they created these lower court federal judges
(30:58):
that aren't in the constitution to counter or to usurp
the electorate. They don't really care about the electriate except
if it gives them power. They don't really care about
the well being of the average person unless they can
persuade them to support them. And we know this because
Marxism has only killed one hundred million people. You know
that's pretty bad. And Islamism today hasn't gone through the
(31:21):
Reformation or the Enlightenment. It is stuck in the seventh century.
It's primitive, and our nation was founded on Judeo Christian values.
And the bottom line is is Marxism or what I
call American Marxism, and Islamism are absolutely incompatible with Americanism.
And that's what the other side is peddling, and this
(31:42):
is what we need to confront.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Grab it.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Mark Levin's new book On Power explores the nature of power,
its historical uses, and the impact on the libertary liberty.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
It's literally entitled on Power.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Get it wherever you get your books Amazon, Grab it
for your kids, your grandkids, your family, your It is
a master read.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
I've read it. It's phenomenal. Mark. I appreciate your time.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
I also mean this sincerely, thank you for being such
a good friend to me over the years, give me
advice in my career, and just vowing me to fill
in for you and your show has meant the world
to me. I appreciate it. You've been such a good
man to me and my family and I mean that sincerely.
Thank you so much for being a part of my
life as well well.
Speaker 8 (32:23):
First of all, if you weren't a great person and
didn't do great things, I wouldn't have done it. But
you are a great person and you deserve as much
attention by as many people as possible. So does absolutely
my pleasure and honor you. Take care of yourself. God
bless you, my.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Friend, see you soon. Grab his book on power markle
then it's out now.
There is a major story that needs to be on
your radar, and it's one that concerns now China yet
again and the CDC issuing a travel warning over a
viral outbreak in China that is spread by mosquito bites.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issuing a
(00:22):
Level two travel notice. This is much like what we
witness with the coronavirus for a province in China due
to a quote major outbreak, the agency is recommending travelers
practice enhance precautions. As of August six, if you believe
the numbers coming out of China, over seven thousand confirmed
(00:47):
cases of chikungunya have been reported, with the outbreak spreading
to Hong Kong and other provinces. Now, what is this disease? Well,
Symptoms to typically appear, they say three to seven days
after a mosquito bite, and while most recover within a week,
there are major problems that can happen because of this
(01:10):
mosquito born viral disease characterize as being major issues with fever,
severe joint pain, severe headaches, muscle aches, joint swelling, and
a rash. There is also a concern over death even
though it's being categorized as rare infants. They're very concerned
(01:32):
about older adults and people with certain health conditions will
also face high risk of severe symptoms and possibly death.
Yet again, another concern of the similarities we're talking about
here because of what happened last time when it came
out of China.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Now in twenty twenty five, this.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Strand has affected approximately two hundred and forty thousand people
across sixteen countries, resulting, they say, in around nine the deaths.
Chinese authorities have mobilized intense containment strategies, including drones to
locate standing water, insecticide spraying, even targeting individuals before entering buildings,
(02:15):
deployment of mosquito eating fish, fines or penalties for stagnant
water accumulation in hospital isolation under mosquito netting. Here is
more from Fox News Channel about the CDC putting out
the warning for Americans tonight.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
A viral outbreak in China prompts the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention the CDC to issue a travel warning.
More than seven thousand cases of this disease have been
reported so far. State Department correspondent Jillian Turner has details
Tonight Live from the State Department and even Jillian.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Good Evening Breath. The CDC, as you mentioned, is warning
Americans traveling to China about chikungunya. It is a virus
that spreads to humans through infective mosquito bites. It can
cause severe illness, with symptoms that mimic pretty closely dangay
fever and zecavirus, mostly found in Africa. Here's what the
CDC says about it. They say most people, in fact,
(03:10):
you get better within a week. However, some can have
severe joint pain for months two years. Other symptoms include
severe fever and fatigue. The outbreak now is in the
Chinese province goang Dong. It's near Hong Kong, with more
than seven thousand cases reported so far, prompting some pretty
dramatic measures to contain the spread, like mandatory insect repellent
(03:32):
blasts for people entering the area, mandatory property checks for
stagnant water, which attracts mosquitoes and when found is now
punishable by fines or even arrest.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
If you happen to get this, they're quarantining you in
hospitals with mosquito netting and not letting you out for
a week. These are the kind of draconian responses we
saw with COVID. We're seeing it again.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
The CDC says Americans traveling to eight other countries are
also at elevated risk of exposure to the virus, even
if there is no current outbreak there. People at risk
for more severe cases of chicunngunya include newborns, senior sixty
five years and up, as well as people with diabetes
or heart disease. Now, the good news is that, unlike COVID,
(04:20):
deaths from this disease are exceedingly rare. You can also
protect yourself by getting vaccinated against it, or by preventing
mosquito bites in the first place through all the usual
mechanisms insect repellent netting, wearing long sleeves, and staying in
air conditioning.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Right, Jillian turn A live at the State Department, Julian,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
You listen to this warning. And there's a couple of
points here that need to be made clear. Number one,
there's no specific treatment for this, so management focuses on
symptom relief, rest, hydration, over the counterpane relief, and vaccines
as they mentioned, are available in the US and recommended
for travelers that are going to the outbreak regions. But
(05:00):
then the question also comes up, and this is why
I want it on your radar screen. Why are they
treating this in China very much the same way they
treated COVID And are they telling us the truth?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Now?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
They're saying to minimize the risk of exposure, the CDC
advises the use of insect repellent, wearing long sleeved shirts
and long pants, staying in screened or air conditioned accommodation.
They also have a warning for pregnant travelers, especially near delivery.
They're encouraged now to quote reconsidered travel as infection neer
(05:35):
childbirth can pass to newborns. Vaccinations should be discussed with
the healthcare provider. The CDC is also saying, so this
is a story that I hope I don't have to
talk about again with you. But when you're dealing with
China and what they're doing right now, you have to
wonder what are they hiding.
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another major story, and it deals with what's happening in Texas.
The Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, has now filed a
lawsuit to start the removal for dereliction of duty derelict
(08:24):
Democrats and saying you're not showing up for work. You
fled the state to block redistricting bill, and now we're
going to hold you accountable for exactly that. Governor Abbott
filing the lawsuit Tuesday night with the Texas Supreme Court
seeking to begin the process for the removal of House
Democratic Caucus Chairman Wu and others. The chairman, along with
(08:47):
most of his Democrat House colleagues, fled the state to
block acorum in protests of the GOP's efforts to carry
out their duty of congressional seat redistricting. Today, I took
emergency action, the governor said, to begin the removal from
office of derelic Democrat Texas House members he refused to
(09:09):
show up for special session. Governor Abbot writing this, saying quote,
I filed the suit directly with the Texas Supreme Court
too quickly make clear the authority I have to bring
the lawsuit for removal of legislators from their office now.
On Sunday, Abbot ordered the House Democrats who fled the
state to break quorum to return to work or he
(09:32):
would take action to vacate their legislative seats and appoint replacements.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
This truancy ends now.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Governor Abbot said in a Sunday night statement, the derelict
Democratic House members must return to Texas and be in
attendance when the House reconvenes at three pm on Monday,
August fourth. The governor said he will invoke the Texas
Attorney General opinion to remove the absent Democrats from their
elected office. The governor stated, quote in that opinion, the
(10:00):
Attorney General considered whether Texas law allows for a determination
that a legislator has vacated office if they intentionally break quorum.
The Attorney General concluded that whether a specific legislator abandoned
his or her office such that a vacancy occurred will
(10:22):
be a fact question for a court quote unquote. Sunday afternoon,
Texas House Democrats fled the state to Illinois to stop
the state legislature from moving forward on plans to redistrict
Texas congressional districts. Democratic Caucus Chairman wo a Democrat from Houston,
said the governor is using an intentionally racist map to
(10:45):
steal the voices of millions of black and Latino Texans,
all to execute a corrupt political deal. The derelict Texas
House members ignored the Governor's order and did not return
to the capitol insert. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed
a notice with the Texas Supreme Court in support of
the Governor's lawsuit, saying this Texas is taking every available
(11:10):
avenue to force runaway Democrats to return to Texas and
hold them accountable for breaking quorum. That's what the Attorney
General Ken Paxton said in the statement, saying, quote, under
the Texas Constitution, in Texas law, the Office of the
Attorney General has the legal authority to bring these cases
against the renegade House members. I have alerted the Texas
(11:33):
Supreme Court that I will be making additional filings on
Friday if the Democrats continued to abandon their legislative duties.
Abbott also wrote a letter to the Texas Supreme Court
about his action of filing directly with the state's top
course bypassing the district and appellate court system. The governor
side Section twenty two of the Texas Constitution and court
(11:57):
precedent for those actions, and that's where we go to.
Late Tuesday night, the Supreme Court requests a response from
the respondent chairman wu the Democrat no later than Friday,
August eighth, at five pm. The case number for the
emergency petition is twenty five dash zero six seven to four. Translation.
(12:20):
It's getting very real now for Democrats that there is
a chance if they do not come back.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
To Texas, they can lose their jobs.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Texas Tribune reporter by the way, posting comments from Chairman
Wu in response to the governor's latest action to remove
him and fellow Democratic legislators, saying, quote, I took an
oath to the Constitution, not a politician's agenda. Denying the
governor at quorum was not an abandonment in my office.
It was a fulfillment of my oath. That is the
(12:52):
latest from the Democrats. He said, I took that oath
to the constitution, not the political agenda. And he's hoping
the American people will go along along with him. One person,
by the way, that definitely is going along with him,
is the governor of Illinois, trying to turn this into
his own political moment.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
JB.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Pritzker firing back at Trump's threat to arrest run away
Texas Democrats, saying, bring it on. He's more than happy
to fight Donald Trump. And here's the governor in his
own words.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
Is that, you know, our local law enforcement protect everybody
in Illinois. Our state troopers protect everybody in Illinois and
anybody who's here in Illinois. And so whether it's federal
agents coming to Illinois or state rangers from Texas, if
you haven't broken federal law, you're you know, you're basically unwelcome.
(13:47):
And there's no way that they can be that. Our
state legislators here, the Texas state legislators can be arrested.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
So there's the governor of Illinois saying, Hey, I stand
up for I legal immigrant consider in my state and
protect them all the time. Why not go ahead and
protect some hardcore liberal Democrats from Texas as well. Now,
Governor of Texas, Craig Abbott, he has a very simple
response to JD. Pritzker and anybody else that's criticizing him.
(14:16):
He says, it's all about doing your job, and that's
what the Democrats have abandoned.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
So the Democrats when they return, they're going to be
accountable for certain legal violations, but also for violations of
Texas House rules. And so it's going to be a
bad day for them. And the sooner they get back,
maybe the lesser the consequences. But the longer they stay,
the greater the consequences.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
The greater the consequences. So now here we are at
the Texas Supreme Court, and there's a very good chance
that the governors got this one right and Democrats may
lose their jobs over all of this, refusing to come
back to the state that they said they were representing
and instead hanging.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Out in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
All right, Coming up, by the way, in just a moment,
I'm going to play for you a really cool conversation
I have with a dear friend of my Mark Levin,
the great One. He has got a new book out
called On Power, and I want you to hear what
he has to say about how Democrats have abused power
and just gone rogue in this country, trying to destroy
this country. Why this book is so important. We're going
(15:21):
to have that conversation for you coming up in just
a moment.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
One of my.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Favorite personalities in the history of radio a man that
I describe is a mentor. He may not describe me
as someone he mentors, but I'm just going to throw
it out there anyway.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
He has had an incredible impact on my career.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
A sincere and genuine someone I look up to and
I'm so thankful to have people like this in the
radio community.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
But also in this world is Mark Levin.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
I've had the honor of filling in for him for
several years now, and he is a man that writes
books that when he writes them, you need to pause,
you need to buy him, and you need to read.
There's a reason why they're always a bestseller. And he's
got a new book out called On Power. It explores
the nature of power, its historical uses, good and bad,
the impact on liberty. Mark, thank you for coming on
(16:13):
and I'm excited about this book. I got an advanced
copy Reddit cover to cover, and I don't think the
timing of this book could have been any better, especially
coming after what we just saw with the Biden regime
and the auto pen and the abuse of power. It
can be used for good and bad, There's no doubt
about it.
Speaker 8 (16:32):
First of all, thank you for that intro. You are
a terrific person and a great radio talent as well,
and I really appreciate it, brother, And it's always a
thrill to be back in your community, Memphis. Yeah. So
I wrote this book On Power, and I'll tell you
why ben because in addition to the point you raise,
which I definitely want to get into, I just started
(16:53):
the thinking, started thinking that I'm not sure we're addressing
this issue of tyranny in our liberty properly, because when
you really think about it, the Revolutionary War wasn't photover liberty.
This footover power in order to acquire or preserve liberty.
And I got to thinking, you know, liberty without rights
(17:15):
is non existent. Rights without powers non existent. So power
is the bottom line. And you bring up what they've
done to Trump, but they're trying to do to Trump,
the Obama Hillary scandal and others. It's all about power.
In fact, this whole battle over budgets, that's about power.
Open borders so they can swamp us with new congressional
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districts for Democrats, same thing, trying to control the Supreme
Court and potentially pack it. It's the same thing you
see the Democrats, the Marxists, the islam As, they get it.
They're for power and they try to do everything they
can to acquire it. We are on defense. We're trying
to defend power versus power, that is divided power, separation
(17:57):
of power. We're trying to defend the art rigins of
our founding, which is really not about power. It's about God,
the sovereign, We the children of the sovereign, and on
earth where the sovereign, where the people as individuals and
as a society. And then we fuse that with the
enlightenment which we embrace, to apply that kind of sovereignty,
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which is is Mondesquez said in others power versus power.
So we we don't explain this, we don't think it's
through in my humble opinion, and doing this all these
years to just throw out, you know, shibboleths or something
at a surface level, it isn't going to do it anymore.
So this is why I argue that we have got
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to really understand we are for positive power, their negative power.
What does that mean? Their abuse and use of language?
What's the purpose thought control? And so for coercion, obedience, manipulation.
What do we really mean by liberty in the sense
of power, What do we really mean by rights? And
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I feel with all these things going on the rise
of Marxism and Islamism, including in our own country a
far more aggressive Democrat party that is unmoored completely really
from our founding and our requirement as citizens now to
teach our children and grantchun than other people what it
is that we should stand for because we don't get
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it in the schools. That's the point of the book.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
You mentioned the schools there, and look, I'm getting older
now I say that, and I'm not joking.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
I'm going to hit gosh, who is it forty four
in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
I've got three sons, I know, right, I got twins
or six and a nine year old turned nine couple
days ago. And what terrifies me the most now is
the education that they're going to get from someone that
wants them to have the power over them, to make
them hate this country. You look at the report that
came out even last week, Mark, and it talked about
(19:52):
how the Chinese Communist Party has in essence completely infiltrated
our education system at the highest levels, including the ivy LEA,
buying access to the minds of our young people. That
is something that concerns me. I know, you don't have
to do this anymore. You can retire if you wanted to.
I know why you do it. You love this country.
It's why you write these books. But how concerned are
(20:14):
you about the abuse of power coming from other influencers
who are grabbing our kids' minds in the public schools
and also at our universities.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
Very very And when you read the chapter on language,
the nature of the language that's used, what's allowed to
be said, not allowed to be said, new words, new
definition of words. This whole idea, wokeism and DEI and CRT,
it's all intended to destroy our connection with our founders
and the belief system that brought us to where we
(20:44):
are today. And that's why I write these books so
people have relatively easy access to the information, the tools,
the arguments, because we have to go around the teachers' unions,
we've got to go around the college faculty, we've got
to go around the media. We've got to inform ourselves
and educate ourselves. And we as parents and grandparents, we
have an obligation. And sometimes you'll succeed and sometimes you'll fail.
(21:07):
To try and pass this on to our kids and
our grandkids because they're not getting it from these institutions. Now,
I'm all for school choice. I think what the President
Trump's doing with these colleges and universities is absolutely fantastic.
And those that's a battle that's fought say over here,
but the battle that's fought in our private lives needs
(21:30):
to be a different kind of battle. And I mean,
I hear young people going on about this, Montdamie, why
don't we try socialism? What's the problem? What's the you know,
what's the Because they haven't been told anything, they haven't
experienced anything, they haven't lived in a certain circumstances that
tell them what's wrong with it. So we have to
do that. And that's what I'm trying to adjust here,
(21:52):
not just for young people, but for all people among ourselves,
and in terms of projecting it to other people, we've
got to get down to the crux of the matter.
If somebody says I can't afford food, and we respond
with liberty, it goes in one ear and out the
other ear. If somebody says, look this guy Mandami's we're
gonna have public grocery stores, and I said, well, that's great.
(22:13):
So now he'll have the power to decide whether you
eat or you don't eat. And he'll have the power
to decide what you do eat and what you don't eat.
Is that okay with you? Or whether your shelves are
filled or they're not filled. So there are ways to engage.
And I think when you get down to the core
of it, it is about the distribution of power, a
positive distribution or a negative distribution of power.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
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that I think is very scary about where we are
in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Is going back to the point you made a second ago.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
How easily people are willing to just give up their
own power and say, here, government make all the decisions
for me. Did we get to this point because we
become lazy as society or is it because of indoctrination
in society or a little bit of both. And also
there's now a new culture. Let's be clear, that is
hate America. America is evil, America is bad. So therefore
(25:26):
communism or socialism or Marxism must be tried.
Speaker 8 (25:30):
I think these are two points and they're very good.
I think that first point, you know, De Togfa kind
of talked about it, when government gets involved in all
things small and large, you're creating a different kind of people,
a different kind of mentality, and you are kind of
reverse engineering human nature. Whereas you know you want free will,
certain things motivate you and so forth. It wears you down,
(25:53):
It gets you used to subsidies, it gets you used
to being pounded on about what's wrong with you, what's
wrong with your ancestry, what's wrong with your race, that
sort of thing. I think the second point you raise
is it's a very nefarious problem, which is the poisonous
leakage into our system of these ideologies that have as
(26:14):
their purpose not to compete, but to destroy not even
the government, the society and to destroy the culture. And
this is what people need to understand. We are trying
to defend limited government, which is very important. They're destroying
everything that undergirds it, the civil society which comes before government,
and they're trying to grab control of it. So they're
(26:37):
about centralization of power, the imposition of their ideology. They're
about brainwashing, fear mongering, while they promise redistribution, while they
promise more liberty, while they you know, it's like the
People's Republic of China. I think they're about the people
or a republic. They'll take the word democracy, democratic socialism.
(26:59):
Those two words are oxymorony. They don't work together. Socialism
about the government controlling the means of production and the
distribution of resources and material and wealth. That has nothing
to do with democracy in any way. We've got to
challenge this, We've got to break it down and say,
excuse me, we're the ones who believe in participatory democracy, republicanism.
(27:20):
We're the ones who believe in the free voluntary commercial
activity among people. And then we need to explain what
that creates. What that creates is a massive middle class
like no other society ever on the planet has experienced,
where we live better than any king or queen one
hundred and fifty years ago. We have more access to
(27:42):
more kinds of food. We switch a we hit a switch,
the lights come on, we turn a foscet on. We
get clean cold water, clean hot water. You have bathrooms
in your home, You have mobility in cars. You go
on a plane forty thousand feet in the air. You
may not like the peanuts you're getting, but think about
what's actually happening. You compare this. This is a result
(28:04):
of America. This is the result of a society where
power is distributed properly and where the individual, the individual
is the sovereign and the people are the sovereign. Conversely,
seventy percent of the world lives in tyranny and poverty.
And what do they have. Are they flourishing republics or democracies.
(28:24):
Do they believe in consensual government or participatory Of course not.
And so you have to compare something with something, not
something with their ideology.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
When you wrote this book and It's a book that
I would encourage you to grab by the way. If
you haven't read other books by Mark Levin, you should
grab them. They're incredible. This new one on power, exploring
the nature of power. It's historical use is its impact
on liberty and really democracy and authoritarianism and disguised as representation,
especially what we're witnessing in New York City with this
(28:58):
mayor candid there. When you were writing this book, were
you writing it for a specific person, were you writing
it for young and all?
Speaker 2 (29:05):
What was your mindset when you were writing it?
Speaker 8 (29:08):
First of all, I wanted to write it differently, in
a way where I could take some complicated subjects and
make them very digestible, understandable, actually find and enjoyable to read,
and yet challenge people's thinking or somebody might say, oh, yeah,
I thought about that. I never really developed my thoughts
(29:28):
on it though, and that sort of thing, and yeah,
that's a different way of putting this, and it's an
important way of putting it. So my view is this
book is written for anybody, particularly people who are trying
to figure out the swirl of Marxism and Islamism in
our country. Why it's starting to take hold, how we
confront it, how we address it. But also, as one
(29:51):
fellow told me, he's going to give it to his
kid who's going into college, so they have something to
counter what all these professors are going to tell them.
And you'll also notice, Bend that the book is more
compact than most of my books. It's two hundred and
eight pages long. And again I wanted to make it
accessible to anybody and everybody. And so this book on power,
(30:13):
it cuts to the chase and it explains that in fact,
when you go to the ancients or more modern history
or today, is a constant struggle over who exercises power,
how power is exercised, whether power is going to be
exercised by you or over you. And the term that
(30:36):
I use now to describe the Democrats and these Marxists
and Islamis is authoritarian democrats. In other words, if they'll
go through the voting process as long as they win,
but if they don't win, they'll try sabotage, you know,
a Trump or Republican that will use the unelected bodies,
the bureaucracy. Mostly they created these lower court federal judges
(30:58):
that aren't in the constitution to counter or to usurp
the electorate. They don't really care about the electriate except
if it gives them power. They don't really care about
the well being of the average person unless they can
persuade them to support them. And we know this because
Marxism has only killed one hundred million people. You know
that's pretty bad. And Islamism today hasn't gone through the
(31:21):
Reformation or the Enlightenment. It is stuck in the seventh century.
It's primitive, and our nation was founded on Judeo Christian values.
And the bottom line is is Marxism or what I
call American Marxism, and Islamism are absolutely incompatible with Americanism.
And that's what the other side is peddling, and this
(31:42):
is what we need to confront.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Grab it.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Mark Levin's new book On Power explores the nature of power,
its historical uses, and the impact on the libertary liberty.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
It's literally entitled on Power.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Get it wherever you get your books Amazon, Grab it
for your kids, your grandkids, your family, your It is
a master read.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
I've read it. It's phenomenal. Mark. I appreciate your time.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
I also mean this sincerely, thank you for being such
a good friend to me over the years, give me
advice in my career, and just vowing me to fill
in for you and your show has meant the world
to me. I appreciate it. You've been such a good
man to me and my family and I mean that sincerely.
Thank you so much for being a part of my
life as well well.
Speaker 8 (32:23):
First of all, if you weren't a great person and
didn't do great things, I wouldn't have done it. But
you are a great person and you deserve as much
attention by as many people as possible. So does absolutely
my pleasure and honor you. Take care of yourself. God
bless you, my.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Friend, see you soon. Grab his book on power markle
then it's out now.
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