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Hello America, Mark Levin.

I'm sorry I wasn't here Friday utterly unexpected.

Turns out I've COVID again. You can probably hear it over the microphone.

And I got quite sick Friday afternoon, so I had a bow out.

Who sat in for me, Mr. Producer? Brian Mud, who's wonderful. He came in at the last minute. I want to thank Brian.

And I've been duking this out all weekend, but we have a system set up here. It's really a portable system where I can do this show from pretty much anywhere.

So that's what I'm doing right now. You can sound I guess I sound a little bit like Phyllis Diller, but that's not my intention of course.

I'll be fine. I'm just basically not going anywhere. Hang it out in two rooms. And that's the way that goes.

So that said, I have been posting things. I write these things up.

So I'm going to Mr. Producer, Mr. Calls Green, or these guys have been posting away all weekend. Here's the thing.

There's several narratives out there that I just don't accept, including from a number of friends of mine, colleagues of mine.

We're not angry with each other. We're not fighting with each other. Brett Hume and Mark Thieson over at Twitter.

They're looking at the numbers. They're big. Let's just be honest. McConnell proponents.

And I saw this in the tea party, 2010. I saw it when Ted Cruz was taking on McConnell. How they all attacked Ted Cruz.

My problem is McConnell, which I'll get to in a minute, go much deeper than even then even this last election. He is a very poor leader.

Now they can point the judges all they want. Joe Biden is kicking our ass on judges right now.

Just slaughtering us. We're not filibustering their judges. He's actually beating now the rate of judicial appointments that Trump had and Reagan had.

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