that is it for us today. thanks for joining us. i'm shannon bream, have a great week. we will see you for that special show next "fox news sunday." enjoy your labor day weekend. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ mark: hello america i'm mark levin. this is special labor day weekend edition of "life, liberty and levin." we have a great show for you. we'll revisit some of the wonderful guests we had on, and hard working and patriotic, and are great representatives of the country. but before we do that, what is labor day about?

it is cook outs? it is about baked beans. maybe from coleslaw. but that is not what it's about. you can do that any day of the week. that said, labor say is a celebration of you. working american. middle class americans. you know the communist believe, that people at the bottom, would rise up and over throw the capitalist system, the managers and the executives and land owners, landlords and the rest. it never happened. because in our country we had this industrial revolution, what did that do? despite what you hear, 'brought in electricity to every home. cars in every garage. clean water in our homes, i could go on. i know that left likes to

talk about robber banners, the biggest is federal government, these men were not robber barons, they were capitalists they used system, unrestrained to build the greatest economic power on earth, there were decisions made for the body politic, through presidents through congresses and state legislatures and governments, that trim their sails. but all that said, the railroad system and freight system that we benefit today from part of our infrastructure comes out of that central repres "sportindustrial revolution, thi this. they want us to go back to living under trees and sipping water out of the streams, not happening, with that america creates tremendous heroes. and human beings, and one of

them was delighted to meet, johnny joey jones. he i'm bodies that strength. he embodies americanism. he wrote a fantastic book, unbroken bonds of battle, i want to check out this clip. >> you know a tremendous honor to have joey jones with me, i know he is all over fox, and he appears on fox, but he has never been on this program before. and i have to tell you, somebody who really admires a handful of people, i really admire you, joey jones, unbroken bonds. this is an emotional book. it is such a fantastic book. and your humility could be seen throughout this, you don't want to talk about yourself a lot, you want to talk about your brothers, some of whom survived, some did not, some are having issues, this is a patriotic book. you can get it at amazon.com or any other bookstore. but briefly tell us, we know

you lost boeing yo both your legs. but yoke i i don't know if people know how. >> my job in marine corps was to take bombs apartment most people know, you refer to them as roadside bombs, the way that enemy pries to kitried to killou us to put bombs on the ground, my job was to help find them, and then my job was to take them apart and move them, on august 6, 2020 2020 2010, we were trying to get less ied's available for enemy, the they made it a minefield. and after 5 days of taking apart every one that we could find. just by luck and ses, i stepped on one. i stepped on an ied with my

right foot, it blew up and. i woke up without legs any more. i woke up concerned about marines around me. mark: you discussed several of them. your friends, what happens to them and so forth. who would you like to focus on for the brief time we have, i don't think it appropriate for me too pick out one or the other. it is more appropriate for you. >> when you read the book, first these chapter three marines that know each another well, greg, a major, amos benjamin, and danny ridgeway, staff nco . their lives are interconnected. amos was a marine, they men entered him, and danny's mentor was greg's best friend in th the marines,

you read thosey there 3 chapters as a section, we talk all about the time suicide, we need to talk about what it is that drives man to kill himself, they get into the details. of what has been difficult for them to overcome, survivor's guilt is a real thing, think about that times 12 or 20 or 10 years, for them to be in a place now to share this raw emotional part of their life, but say, just a group text of individuals that kept me alive, now a group text of individuals that let me celebrate, i'm in that group text with those 3 and others that is what this book is about those relationships. >> the first third of first half of the book. what kept clicking in my mind was private ryan, band of brothers and even the longest yard. we never really know what

happens to these people, the great heroes after the battles after the war. your book spends a lot of time what happens after and so i think it is so remarkable, u unbroken bonds of battle. i finished reading it last night it is very emotional, it -- i can't properly express myself, i want to say this to people, you see joey on fox all of the time, he is a remarkable man, he will turn 37 soon, first time i have talked to him on television, only time was in radio. he is the kind of guy, you don't need too get to know me, i would like to get to know, quite frankly. what comes across in your book, you are a ri red blooded regular american who was called to duties, stepped up with several of

your trendss -- friends, stepped into the battle, you fought for your country, yo come back and you are still fighting for your country, this book to me among others who could benefit is people who kind of done what you have done, done something like you have done, in different wars, different battles, fields. who might still be struggling with family, and mental and physical issues, what do you want to tell them? >> you know, that is thing we're all struggling until the day we die, closer we come to being comfortable with that and understanding it and working on it every day, instead of thinking you can take a pill and be good again, life is struggle, struggle is life that is part of it,y talked about three guy, you read their chapters is not a happy inninending they still work every day to overcome things but they are in a better

place. right new today aaron hill, one of the chapters on a 135 mile hardest footraces ever. here in the united states in hot sun out west. he is blind, and deaf, he uses a cochlear implant. he is on that run today to remind him today life is till worth lifing, challenges are worth overcoming there is something left in the tank. we have to keep pushing ourselves and motivating ourselves and having en friends to tell us we're worth while, when you read the book, these guys and one me ffemale, the gold star wife, they deal with tur it every day, we learn to overcome them and live with them, and we 11 to be better prepared for next piece of adversity to to hit us in the face, veterans have

tools that anothers don't, but the things we go through sometimes make us forget to use them. mark: what to you tell the american people who are really down on what is going on with their country today. including military. the way we exited afghanistan. abuses of the government. the refusal to enforce the laws many people are giving up. >> hard to respond, i don't think what giving up looks like, i know what failing looks like, i have failed so much more than succeeded. but i don' i don't know about giving up i don't think this country knows how to give up. we may need t to take a breath or time out but we don't give up. our problems are derived from our pros perty work -- prosperity, we have to put

it in perspective. they experienced this country in 1920s, and 1940s, we either had to scrap everything we had to eat or to win a war, those are lessons that cs that can still be applied today. there is always a class of americans that are willing to fight and gu die to keep it that way. and we're only alive as long as we have that. our responsibility to keep the country around for a hundred years and long enough to hand it off and train them and teach them right, have the positive influence is people in your life, you have kids and grand kids or a teach o teacher over a police officer. mark: you are remarkable. so it the book.

-- see to the book. grab your copy, amazon.com. i hear it a "new york times" bestseller it is a "life, liberty and levin" bestseller, go get it. >> god bless you my friend, hope to meet you one day. >> same to you brother, i appreciate you. mark: that is a powerful story, a great man get his fantastic book. unbroken bonds of battle on. whether or not. when we return, who controls the culture, and what can we do about it, my buddy newt gingrich he will tell us, we'll be right back.

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episode of "life, liberty and levin," we are looking back at wonderful guests, we have cib la seen last few years elite are trying hard to push their radical agenda on american people, we are just trying to to live our lives, wh will win, newt gingrich has an idea. >> newt gingrich terrible wrestling match we're takenvolved in right now, how does this turn out. >> i think the american people win. the elites lose. that has been history of all of american behavior. i think that that is judg judge jefferson -- that is why jefferson beat adams, take wisconsin in wisconsin, the left set out to buy a supreme court seat, that makes it political rather than judicial, they out

spend republicans 6 to 1, they won the seat, the media said it was about abortion, no, it was about a corrupt system that outspent the right by 6 to 1. however, the very same day, with very same voters, 79% voted for welfare reform, they also voted overwhelm league to increase the pannalitithe pethe pe penalty on on crime. you have at the way up here, if you will, the "new york times" "washington post" and nbc, corporate boards are going to left, below them there is you an underlying ocean of americans who are repudiating extremism. ure had a superior majority elected in wisconsin, and a democrat switch in north carolina creating a super

majority in republican party. you had a legislator switch in louisiana, see this continual drift against the extremists, that is why i'm in the lincoln tradition. i believe with popular sentiment, anything is possible. without popular sentiment nothing is possible. that is a direct quote from abraham lincoln. mark: maybe i am in o aristotle tradition, in michigan we lost the legislature there and centralization of government, they have succeed on hugely, to impose their will on american people, and other societies as well. you see a president who rules by executive order. hard to reverse that executive order. in frederick country, maryland. i'm just pointing out, i think you are right. >> yeah. mark: but i think they have positioned themselves the rules class to rule.

go ahead. >> that is -- they are doing what they should do. they are trying to impose on the american people a radical set of values, remember, if trump wins, and i suspect he will, he could undo every one of biden'sic ons t executive order the first day, there is zero possibility that house republicans, and speaker kevin mccarthy will pass anything that is permanent that makes left field good -- feel good. so, you know i like out there, in michigan is a great case nobody has studied two most likely candidates for governor were both knocked off the ballot. not allowed to run. again very much like they are trying to do to trump. i think they michigan would not have been this

democratic had they not rigged the election by knocking the two candidates off. i we say country where the country is moving away from the extremists. and with -- even in new york, we now have a republican majority in u.s. house, because we kept picking up/ sa seats in new york. maybe i'm a permanent optimist because i am a reaganite. the american people in the end will beat the extremists. mark: i hope you are right, we're only beating them if we fight like hell, right. >> that right. mark: that is why parent groups are important and pro life groups are important. all of these people who are rising up like the tea party rose up. very important. because i fear if we lose the last -- next election,

they will be able to enshrine their agenda in ways that will make it extremely difficult to unravel it. >> i think that is right. we have met an extremist opponent willing to dictate to the rest of us either way win or we win, this will be an important election and all of us who are against extremism need to find a way to work together to beat it. mark: that was great, when we return, a great american just serving his country as governor, and was sidelined. by jack smith and other rebreprese-- represent

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>> i'm jon scott, now back to "life, liberty and levin." mark: welcome back america. tonight we bring you a sprsh progrprogram is program to celebrate labor day holiday. hearing from a few fantastic guests, we go to bob mcdonald who was railroaded by jack smith the rogue prosecutor. mark: i thought nobody better to discuss jack smith and his people and their abuses than someone who was victimized by them, that is former governor bob

mcdonald, republican of virginia. governor welcome. maybe you can walk us through this. public int inf integrity session, you are convicted on appeal, they uphold it and then the supreme court says wait, you can't define bribery that way, they said, it was so broad, it could catch almost anyone, but they indicted not just you but your wife, can you tell us about it. >> thank you, mark that was a painful 3 1/2 years from the investigation. until we into the the en vindicated by the supreme court, i knew in my heart from the beginning, and

looking at law and facts that the charges were wrong. you know at the time, david harbaugh was lead one of lead prosecutors in case, he did the closing argument, jack smith was in public integrity from this 5 year stretch. you know we our well i have two of the best firms in the world. they went to the justice department, met with department attorney general of united states and laid out a brief about why they got the law wrong and why i didn't do anything wrong. yet they persisted, mark and and they pulled trigger and indictment started. they have investigators and the money and access to "washington post" through likes, regular leaks. and it took unanimous supreme court to get it right, it was difficult, i

walked away with what he did in lois lerner case, advising people it was okay to go after conservatives and bob menendez and other cases, i think he is overzealous. i think he doesn't do an honest look at the law to see if the facts apply to the law. and so he rather would win than get it right, it may be some of the influence we see now in the decisions he is making in the current cases. that is why the supreme court of united states said, yogot it wrong. you watch up ordinary things that political figures do every day, you put everyone at risk with your view of the law. that is a caution. >> did they try to undermine our attorney-client privilege with your lawyers and you? >> we had leaks of grand jury information, that ended up in the "washington post," which is wrong doing.

and there was evidence that came that came in during the trial tendered by the government that were things that i talked about with my own counsel, and those came in, over our strenuous objection. it was nothing that was incupper to but it could not have been in. so, yes. i fell that on multiple occasions they had evidence or testimony from my own counsel and my chief of staff who was a lawyer that should not have come in. mark: there is a prior or another victim renzi, they used it to grand jury after

wiretapping. the i it is cuese -- these discussions you had with your lawyers were you surprised. >> they got them through grand jury tell, so many members of staff, ca cabinet and family and friends were all brought before the grand jury. they were marching people in before a grand jury. for some of them, the word they got was, they were strongly implying to them if they cooperated if an in anyway saying faic favorable things about me, they could be charged with obstruction of justice. i am a pro law enforcement person, we have the best justice system in the world, it is not perfect. if you get to a point where you would rather win, and

undermine the rule of law, and you undermine a central tenant of the american justice system and american society that dangerous regardless of which party is doing it. mark: a ou courageous north korean defector. you should be alarmed, we'll be right back.

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mark: welcome back america. you know we had a guest on this program during the course of the year, a defect or from north korea, yeonmi park, she wrote a fantastic book, while time remains. while time remains is say good lesson. -- is a good lesson. >younyoung me park, tell us, you got out of north korea. >> i was born in north korea in 1993, when i was growing up there i believe that my leader was a god who had the magical power to read my mind, i was brain washed to believe that. americans were col cold-blooded, they never

showed us the map of the world, growing up in north korea we didn't have food, i ate a lot of insects and plants, and when i was 13 years old, we had to escape to china to look for food. i crossed the frozen yellow river with my mother at than13, when we go the to china we were sold for sex slaves. two years of slavery, i mit mote amet a zi christian missiomissionary, i walked to mongolia and from there i flew to south korea. mark: so north korea is really a prison colony of sorts run by a dictator who

inherited the country like a car. and the people have no say. and if they dare to speak out they will be killed? >> yes, i remember the very first thing my mom told me as a young girl, don't whisper, the birds and mice could hear me, if i said one thing wrong it was not just killing me but it would kill 8 generations of my family. mark: they go through your family tree to find people you are related to and kill them too? >> yes, if you be one person commits a crime in -- a collective crime, they punish 3 generations to 8 generations, sometimes they punish the in-laws, who are not related through blood but through marriage that is how they make sure no one

can resist the government. mark: you get to south korea. and then you got to the united states how did you get into columbia? >> it was very -- i was studying in south korea university. i was studying criminal justice. i came to america to write my first book in new york city, i heard there was a great university called columbia. i made a transfer from korean university to columbia. mark: you took a the courses, what did you find out while there? >> the first day at columbia, i realized in a way columbia was crazier than north korea classrooms, the anti-western, anti-capitalism, anti-white men sentiment was deeper and way more passionate than in north korea classrooms in north korea classrooms if

we don't say americ say -- at columbia university. the people are volunteering to destroys their own country, they are saying the goal of the they in their life is to destroy the american constitution and rebuilding the nation in name of equity. >> you come to united states, land of freedom after experiencing hell in north korea, you come here, which as reagan said, a shining city on a hill. we have hundreds of millions poof in t people of the world than to come in here, you go to complummia, t columbia, they are trashing the country and the economy system and trashing white people. and you are thinking to yourself, wait, i thought i

escaped this. >> and what is just the professors or students too? >> it was literally everyone, this is what resembled in north korea, i was in north korea, i -- like almost living in a truman show the movie. you cannot ask people what they think, you cannot do a public service, if people raise their opinions, they will get persecuted. and at columbia because we had a concept of safe space, where you don't make anyone feel uncomfortable emotionally there is no diverse of opinions or thoughts in a speech, we were not able to hear the different perspectives. and as soon as i tried to argue to my professor saying that, i believe that there is difference between men and women, it is a fact even north koreans know it my professor said, who says that you cannot be a man and you are brain washed that is how she shut me down in the

clarks aclass, and there say student code, if you make someone pea feel unsafe emotionally, you can get kicked out of the university. mark: for recognizing a man is a man and a woman a i woman is a woman, if you are uncomfortable with that, they might throw you out of the university. >> after the break america, will america remain a super power in we'll be right back.

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♪ ♪ mark: welcome back america. other than the democrat party, i think your gravest threat is china. we had a guest on this year,

david mccormack who talked about it and wrote a fantastic book, check it out. go ahead. >> >> our country is in peril as a super power, we're in peril in so membership -- many ways, get to know david mccormack when he was running for republican nomination are in senate in pennsylvania, i realized quickly, this is not just some guy who wants to be a politician, he knows a lot. and has a lot of great ideas. and david mccormack you were a u.s. army paratrooper, a successful businessman. he has writ written a fantastic book, super power in peril. on amazon.com. and major bookstore, a battle plan to renew america, people talk about renewing america. i read your book, it was obvious you put a lot of

thought into this. welcome, give us a background, you were a paratrooper. >> well, thank you so much for having me great to see you. we had a chance to get to know each other a bit during campaign, i grew up in rural pennsylvania. playing football and wrestling that got me to west point, i went to 82 understand airborne division and served there. got to first gol gulf war, i spent 9 years in military. it formed everything that i think about in america. >> america in peril. you have super powers in peril. if you had to pick one or two. what are greatest threats. >> i started writing this back before i ran for senate, i thought that country was headed in the wrong direct, economically, and a national security perspective and spiritually,

the america that we know and love was slipping away, decline is not inevitable. i focus on a number of things, first, educate our people, we need to 5 56 -- fix our schools and have parents involved and choice to give all kids great opportunity. we need to confront china. we need to uncouple key strategic industries and bring them home and hole chihold china account able. we need to secure america through a strong defense and putting big tech in check and by really changing our institutions, leading our instutions away from the progressive woke policies

that are undermining all that is core in our fundamentals about america, that agenda, that battle plan is what the book outlines. mark: the culture in many ways has been devoured or deeindeeing doe vowrd -- being doe vow. >> this is the battle of our time domestically. getting our cul culture back. >> if you want to change the direction of the country in america you need to win election and have great ideas, but you need leadership in place to bring us back to fundamentals. we see that in our schools, and where they are teaching a history of america that we would not recognize. we see it in military, u.s. army released climate change

policy before releasing war fighting tragedy for under the biden administration, we see it in business, woke ideology is hijacking some of fundamentals of capitalism and free enter fries, this is across the board, we need leaders in place to fight and take us back to those fundamentals and have a vision and plain for all that america can be. >> it does outline it, one thing that i like about your book, we hear about these things during the course of an election, you said, no, we have to keep at it. when elections take place or not, that is the only way we'll achieve what we need to achieve. that is renewal of america. >> when we come back. i have a final word to share with you in. on this labor day week, we'll we'll be right back.

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while creating shortages of drivianddriving up costs of oth. crime is out of control on our streets, public transportation and schools but police budgets are slashed many prosecutors and judges coddled violent criminals print our borders are wide open to millions of foreigners who seek entry into the country's drug and criminal cartel or country by the tons. brutalized migrants by using them as indentured servants and slaves. the list goes on. what does this have to do with labor day? every day is labor day. every date we citizens make this country were cap the government, not the bureaucrats not the politicians they are incompetent they get an hour way imagine if the cut in half and constitutionally permitted to do. imagine the prosperity, the freedom, imagine well, maybe we ought to stop imagining it and engage put our forefathers did

it. our ancestors did it. the laborers built this country and what it is today. not the government, not the bureaucrats not the politicians. this is a day to remember it as is tomorrow, the next day and the day after that. thanks for joining us at. see it next time on "life, liberty, and levin ♪. trey: good evening and thank you for joining us i am trey gowdy it is a special edition of sunday night in america. even in this seemingly fractured and partisan world which we find ourselves there is still a few things which we can all agree we can agree education has the power to transform lives. we can agree at knowledge is good. critical reasoning leads to eight search for facts facts should guide our search from the truth. we can agree soo