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Hello, everybody. Mark Levin here our number 877-3813811-877-3813811.

You know, Donald Trump really is something. He's hilarious, he's substantive, and he's very solid on most of our issues, in my opinion.

And he's doing a great job for the country. Imagine what he'd be doing but for the left trying to destroy him. Democrats, the media, you know.

The White House contacted us the other day and said the president would like to talk to me, like to do an interview on radio.

We very much, of course, were interested in doing that.

Late yesterday, we did exactly that and we're going to play that for you in our second hour, our 7pm hour, start at the top of the hour. If you'll stick with us, you'll get to hear that.

He was terrific and we spoke to him over 20 minutes.

And by the way, folks, you notice how phrases that we use here wind up in the body politic.

Silent coup, silent coup was the name of a book many, many years ago.

But as you know, and I'm not going to play it again and bore you, right after the election, the day after the election, because I went off that night and told you that night, this looks pretty good for the president.

We saw what was happening in Pennsylvania, we saw what was happening in some of these other states.

I told you what I felt was going to happen. They were trying to impeach him and indict him because they were so angry.

And they had said things like that even before the election. That is election day.

And over time, it was obvious to me with this collusion stuff and then leading up to the appointment of a special counsel that they wanted to knock him off politically, knock him off.

And so I said, I've got to come up with a phrase that's going to draw the attention of the American people.

Silent coup, silent coup, silent meaning, you know, not a violent coup, but a coup nonetheless.

So let's pick up by a couple of other national hosts, pick up by others and so on. This is typically how it works. That's okay.

The president is saying repeatedly now and he's correct that this was a coup effort.

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