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Hello, America. Mark Levin, our numbers 877-3813-811-877-3813-3811.

Let me start the program tonight by acknowledging the sad passing of Bob Beckle.

Bob Beckle was an extraordinarily close friend with Sean Hannity.

And I got to know Bob Beckle through Sean Hannity.

One of Sean's birthday parties. We all got together. We played golf a couple of times all of us.

He was a big supporter of the Freedom Concerts. Beckle was an old-time liberal.

Partisan as hell. Old-time Democrat liberal.

Ron Mondale's campaign. I used to mock him about that all the time since Mondale won one state, Minnesota, by the skin of his teeth against Reagan.

He had a tremendous sense of humor.

And to get to know him was to like him a lot.

There were times that Gator Two ago when the meaty would try to do these hit pieces on me and they'd call people like Beckle.

And Beckle would say, I like Levin. He's very smart and blah, blah, blah. We both like dogs very much. That sort of thing.

That sort of thing.

And he had a number of personal issues and demons that he fought for much of his life, particularly up to the end.

He was a man of deep faith. He was a born-again Christian.

And while you and we may have disagreed with him on many issues, when it came to issues of faith, there was very little disagreement, frankly.

As I said, he was an old-time Democrat like a scoop Jackson Democrat, something of that sort.

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