gail levine: why?rillo: because the force of him holding her down in the water would leave bruises. gail levine: so what did you suggest? yolanda cerrillo: i suggest he use a towel to hold her down. dennis murphy: yolanda said she even helped him, whip-up the drug-laced concoction to knock wendy out. yolanda cerrillo: he came over and he brought some percocet pills. and he and i started squishing them in-- i think it's a mortar and pestle thing. gail levine: well, what was he gonna do with the percocet pills that you ground? yolanda cerrillo: he was gonna give it to her so she would be drugged. dennis murphy: and then drowned, said yolanda. but she added the plan to kill wendy hit an unexpected snag: at the honeymoon hotel in key west wendy balked at the taste of the drugged cocktail. so escoto tried again later that weekend at the miami fantasy suite hotel. this time she drank the cocktail, but for some reason he couldn't manage to drown her. that's when, yolanda recalled, escoto showed up at her plac

and what about the levin center? well, senator levin was the longest serving senator from the state of michigan. he served six terms, 36 years and he did many, many things. but one of the things he was really focused on was doing good oversight and making sure that those lessons learned from the mccarthy era, the lessons about the importance of a bipartisan investigation, of investigations that are truly committed to finding the facts. he took those lessons to heart. and when he came to the senate in 1979, he really made it his mission to to do everything he could to try to investigate corruption, malfeasance. and just really the performance of government, because he believed in government leave, the government had an important role to play in solving problems and in helping people. but he was concerned that the government, the administrative state that had grown up in the in the aftermath of the new deal and certainly after the great society, that it was not as effective it needed to be. and the government had not r

jim townsend of the levin center. oliver north testimony. did it move the needle in the investigation. well, it certainly heightened the level of of controversy and drama around the investi gation. as i mentioned before, he was a very, you know, kind of colorful figure who, you know, we already had millions of people watching these hearings, millions of people really following every every movement of this. you know, this was sort of in the early days of the 24 hour news cycle. and the you know, there was a media feeding frenzy and when he came forward, he really upped sort of the level of intensity. and the revelation is, you know, that the evidence around him that to some degree he had to admit to indicated that he and some of his associates had shredded documents, had deleted emails, had done a great deal to to obscure the truth, to basically hide what was going on, hide an illegal activity that the congress had explicitly forbidden. so a lot was learned in the course of investigating oliver north and also john poindexter, the national sec

the levin center is all about trying to carry on his legacy. >> jim townsend, director of the levin center, thanks for being part of our congress investigates series. >> thank you, peter. this is a great opportunity to elevate something we think is really important, and that is the power of congress and the responsibility congress has to be the eyes and voice of the people. >> ahead of the presidential inauguration on january 20th, american history tv on c-span 2 presents a four-week series, historic inaugural speeches. each weekend listen to inaugural speeches from franklin roosevelt through obama. on saturday, john kennedy in 1961. >> ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. >> president lyndon johnson in 1965. >> i will leave and i will do the best i can. >> and presenrichard ni in 1969. >> our wealth can be transferred from the destruction of war abroad to the urgent needs of our people at home. >>> watch historic inaugural speeches saturdays at 7:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span 2. weekends on c-span 2 are an intellectual feast. d

mark: hello america i am mark levin this is "life, liberty & levin" saturday but thank you for beingguests mollie hemingway and peter schweizer. were going to dig into the biden crime family. but before we do, no country can survive open borders. no country can survive the kind of immigration quote unquote policies that we have. and we won't. donald trump is coming with you before anyone else is talked about securing the border he's talked about chain migration he has talked about open orders and he is talked about what else? birth right to citizenship while birthright citizenship doesn't sound like it is a right? what is birthright citizenship? where does it birthright citizenship come from? what kind of a country would purposely have something called birthright citizenship? we have it. who put in place? who passed it by the vast majority of countries stay tuned no await you cannot foreigners walking into your country having children and all the sudden they're automatically citizens that is insane they can bait citizenship under their own children by claiming jurisdiction by setting

mark: hello america i am mark levin this is "life, liberty & levin" saturday.s good to be back. it's good to have you back to prove it to great guest through governor ron desantis and gordon chang appeared before go to our guests, isn't it strange when you have an entity that is at war with us but we do not accept the fact that they are at war with us? i am talking about islamic terrorists. all over the world that infiltrated our country. every aspect of our country, our culture, our government and academia in our media they are here. right now as i speak the war against america by the islamic terrorists. they have infiltrated our country. and yet we have this horrendous islamic terrorist attack in new orleans. by shamsud-din jabbar. the first thing out of the mouth of the senior fbi official is, they are not sure it is terrorism. they dumped their not sure it's terrorism? you seat ladies and judgment we cannot win a war if our american citizens are going to die if we do not acknowledge we are in a war with islamic terrorism. apparently the federal bureau of in

mark: hello america i am mark levin and this is "life, liberty & levin" send eight to sunday ts restssor jon r friend ben shapiro as well i'm not a very happy camper not in the least as a result of and actions taken by the united state supreme court in a five -- four order the other day that you are generally familiar with. this is an order that basically told the trump lawyers in new york go ahead and proceed with your judicial abomination. and you will have no recourse. now, i want to discuss this at some length i think some of the legal analysis is fantastic but it's way off point. the issue here is not just what happened in that courtroom for what happened in that courtroom in manhattan was a disgrace of jury instructions, prejudicial testimony phony laws, ignoring the immunity and the supreme court and so forth and so on. the fact the judge ruled he's not going to imprison the president of the united states is not a victory to me. let's start from the beginning. we have something called the supremacy clause. why do we have that question of deltoid why we have that wit articles e

"life, liberty & levin," that show is up next. ♪ ♪ ♪ hello america i am mark levin this is "life, libertyin" send everything for being here with two great guest tonight representative jim jordan chairman of the house judiciary committee we want to know if they're going to look into these pardons and our friend katie pavlich but before we go to them i want to make a statement. somebody who is spent at least half a century and the conservative constitutionalist movements. the three great conservative constitution presidents of the last century calvin coolidge, ronald reagan and donald trump. has the potential to be the greatest of the three. i want to give you a little bit of my background for those who do not know. i don't just come on you because i have a tv show. i come on here because i have decades of experience in the conservative movement with the constitutional movement and the liberty movement. i want you to know with my background, when i say donald trump is a potential being the greatest conservative president in the last century, i mean it. 1976 and 80 i worked in the primaries

america i am mark levin this is "life, liberty & levin" saturday but thank you for being here with two gases studenandformer speaker newt gih superb attorney david but before we get to them, let me first say this. the people who are facing this horror in california, our hearts and prayers go out to you. we as a nation will not leave you fending for yourself. were not going to happen. any corner of america who gets our help as far as i am concerned the first responders we cannot thank you enough. on this program and on my radio show we thank you on days when you are not facing life-threatening situations. but on days like today we are humbled that you do what you do. the vast majority of us could never do. god bless you thank you and be safe. and now we need to have an honest discussion ladies and gentlemen. politics aside, static aside, let's look at california. one of the great states that used to be really fantastic natural resources it was the land of opportunity when i was growing up everybody said go west go to california if you want to be successful. foot to make something of you

mark: hello america i am mark levin and this is "life, liberty & levin" saturday. at the top of the burger would start with her friend trey yingst who was in tel aviv. trey yingst, we have this deal obviously with thomas. i have a couple of questions for you before so i think is important for the american people to know the prime minister of israel is not like atthe president of the united states. particularly in is really how these fractured parties, these tiny parties were three, four, five out of 120 members can bring down the government, correct? >> absolutely paid as a prime minister's big challenge as he got this deal together with the help of the americans and the egyptian far right members of the coalition who serve the hostages get released we have to be able to go back into war against hamas. that some of the details of what we will talk about in this agreement. >> in fact they can go back up i've read correctly from the various published reports of three phases if hamas does renege or start shooting missiles at israel and so forth and so on, israel has t

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earlier on the four you see law, san francisco professor david levine told us, the supreme court saidee speech concerns in upholding the law. >> we don't know quite how much the government knew, and it was enough to persuade a lot of congressmen, members of congress at a time when they can't agree on what to have for lunch together. right. >> professor levine added that it's possible the law could also be used against other companies. up next, remembering a beloved golden state warrior coach who passed a year ago and the new award in hison dave's been very excited about saving big with the comcast business 5-year price lock guarantee. five years? -five years. and he's not alone. -high five. it's five years of reliable gig speed internet. five years of advanced securit. five years of a great rate that won't change. it's back. but only for a limited time. high five. five years? -nope. comcast business 5-year price lock guarantee. powering five years of savings. powering possibilities. comcast business. it's an operation staff member who best exemplified an assistant coach who died one y

for more on the implications of these actions, we want to bring in professor david levine from uc collegefrancisco. professor. appreciate you coming back here. absolutely. yeah, let's let's start with the issue of immigration, because as we as we say, the president is promising a more strict enforcement when it comes to immigration in this country. he has declared a national emergency when it comes to the border. and he cited a number of other executive orders related to immigration, including one to. or he wants to, at least with an executive order, end birthright citizenship in this country. and i think that's one that kind of jumps off the page to a lot of people when you look at at some of these orders that are going to be tough to follow through. legally speaking, how difficult is it going to be for the president to undo birthright citizenship in this country? >> very, very, very, very difficult, alex. the reason why is it is in the 14th amendment of the constitution. the reason why it's there is to reverse one of the most heinous decisions the united states supreme court ever wrote,

& levin" sunday.ve before inauguration 47th president. you and 47 and 45 you get 92. call her in my regular mention grover cleveland second term was in 1892 the only other president to up to nonconsecutive terms. thought i would tell you that, why? i thought it was kind of cool. we are going to have a fantastic inauguration and thank god we are. i want to remind you the efforts of the legal system by judges, by prosecutors the so-called department of justice which i called the department of injustice. they wanted to prevent this day. they wanted to prevent the american people from being able to elect donald trump president they sought to put them in prison right until the 11th hour they're trying to smear donald trump with reports. to generate sixth report, 153 pages worth the biden regime, america garland these so-called attorney general. chuck smith the unconstitutional prosecutors skip town as fast as he can i put out a report condemning donald trump laying out how they would've held him criminally

uc college of the law professor david levine expects a bold start. >> pardoning insurrectionists from january 6th, 2021. if he wants to pardon some or all of them. those are valid like that. nothing anybody can do about those because the pardon power is so clearly all powerful with respect to federal crimes, and it is totally within the purview of the president. that's at one end. at the other end, let's say he issues an executive order purporting to take away birthright citizenship. meaning if you are born in the united states, you are automatically a citizen of the united states. that goes back to the 14th amendment, that goes back to reversing the dred scott decision with respect to african-american slaves. and so the idea that he could change that with an executive order, i think, is extremely unlikely. >> tightening border security and adjusting asylum rules are also expected to be priorities. trump's second term administration is also likely to look different. >> eight years ago, when he came in, he picked a lot of people who were conventionally qualified for these very senior p

levin: i have a few seconds left. my concern is that since the passage of the pact act we have seen increases in v.a. enrollment which is a good thing. in my district it was between 4000 and 5000 new enrollees adding health that did not have it before. that is why we passed the pact act. i am concerned that in less you evolve, adapt, or simplify your methodology in determining budget protections we will run into this again and again, and it will get worse before it gets better. i do not want to be sitting here and i know the chairman does not want to be sitting here with your ministration and amy -- and a new administration and have this happen again. what confidence can you give us that it will not happen again? i am out of time. mr. jacobs: ok. there is a fundamental structural challenge that we have. the organization is going to make improvements on the lessons learned. we will increase production estimates and refine the portion of claims granted but, in less you tackle the -- unless you tackle the largest issue w

well, joining us now is doctor hagai levine.is the head of the medical team for the hostages and missing families forum. he's also a professor at hadassah medical center and hebrew university with a long history of treating former hostages. doctor levine, thanks so much for joining tonight. you've met with released hostages before. and of course, every hostage, every situation is different to some extent. but can you tell us what the most immediate concerns are for young women, like those who were released today after so long in captivity? >> well, it's difficult to say. as you said, it's different from person to person. it's heterogeneous and it's multi-system assault. so for each hostage that is released, we need to identify what is the most important issues to tackle for she or for for her or for for whom. so here it's 471 days. it's the first time that we get people that were so long. young women and, you know, obviously we are very, you know, the mental health rehabilitation is going to be very long. so i need that, you kno

professor levine, thanks very much for being with us this morning.an you please tell us a little bit about the condition of these three women and just how they're doing after so much time in captivity? >> phil stacey, as you see behind me, the picture of herzl envisioned israel. he said, if you desire it, it is not a legend. so to see emily and rami and doron here hugging their families, getting medical treatment and in israeli medical center is like a dream come true. we know from speaking with released hostages and already now they said the recovery could not be complete without bringing home all their friends from captivity. all the remaining 94 hostages in israel and all around the world. we need everyone to come back home. the hostages to their homes, the palestinians in gaza, to their homes. and it's now time today for president trump. and we want to thank president trump and president biden for their support to to do whatever it takes to make sure that the deal is continuing in accelerated pace until everyone is coming back home. >> can you ta

joining me now is aaron levine at bank of america.on, thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> let's start off with this. you are a big consumer bank. core business is consumer deposits. half of the revenue for that with the net interest income. the money you make on the loans. why would you want people putting money in investment accounts? >> think about what is important to the client and how they achieve the long-term goals. for us, it is banking, lending and investing. that is the north star ten years ago making sure our clients have access to all three. we have fantastic relationships from the banking standpoint, but clients say i want to save for retirement or my child's education. you have to invest in the future for that. we want to make sure they have access to it. >> we are looking at the growth of accounts in the last 10 or 15 years or so. almost $15 million. you want to look at the younger people. a third gen zers or millmillenn. why target them? >> i'm proud of the team and it is a great day to hit the 500 billi

all right, let's get more on all of this by speaking to john, this is alex levine, who joins us now from a televi tv's from the hospital where the full female hostages currently being treated. so let's talk about the hostages. by like israel says, that's a hamas list does show the 8th of the next 33 hostages to be released in this 1st phase of the see saw deal. uh that can you give us a sense of how is rarely is a reaction to that news to yes, go, well 1st of all, i'm a until the very yeah, and the hot to the cold, the minutes on where the for females soldiers are being held and treated here, of course, they will stay here until this wednesday, or maybe even the 1st day because of the day there will be another cycle for more hostages being released. maybe one of them is going to be a gum, which is the 5th, a female soldier that will be, or should be released, and the joint them and the this a hospital. now, in regards to the list, the mazda has provided it's a numerical list. it's not on list with names and the condition of each of the hostages. and that is really officials are saying th

first, the amazing carl levin and now gary peters, i would like to say with a one-two punch from michigan. as we all know to be effective, it's not necessary to agree with someone on everything. in fact, i don't agree with anybody on everything. it's only necessary to agree on one thing, one problem that needs to be solved and then agree on the way to solve the one thing. then we look for another colleague across the aisle to workh on one thing. that's how positive change happens. we all realize with all the incredible demands on our time and the constant additions and changes to our schedules, it's hard to find time to get to know each other on a personal level. over the years i've been so grateful for the bipartisan women, senators' dinners, the international travel that we have. they're so important. and playing christmas carols on the piano at the prayer breakfast is something i've thoroughly enjoyed. exchanging stories about our families, our faith, our personal challenges have made a real difference. it's been a great honor for me to serve as a member of the senate democratic leader

side our two great senators, senator stabenow and senator peters and work with the late senator carl levin. we protected the great lakes to support the men and women of the auto industry and to clean up that terrible pfas contamination. to speaker pelosi, a masterful legislator, a masterful task tissue and thrvment is no one better in this business or where i have learned from. thank you for never forgetting about the people of flint and always fighting for america's children. to give a punch and take a punch for those kids. she has done that. democratic leader hakeem jeffries, a true and honest friend, a classmate from our 2012. we joked about my good friend is tossed about in this body pretty loosely. but he is an honest and true friend and incredible leader for our house democratic caucus and i thank him for the trust he placed in me to serve in the house democratic leadership and serve as the co-chair of the democratic steering committee. we came to congress together along with an amazing group of people in 2012. they are all friends. we share a special bond. and i am grateful to three

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some of the senators who didn't society for him voted for rachel levine.ind of invisible if you -- incredible if you think about it. if you remember rachel levine from hhs, he thinks he's a woman, i guess. jason: yeah. they voted for fauci, they voted for a lot of these people. their support is just mystifying to me because i think they made a great case. also john ratcliffe, excited to have him at the cia director. he's out. in that position he immediately releases a report that i found fascinating and i know we're going to talk about later. rachel: yeah. it did come out of the lab. jason: yeah. [laughter] and that was the cia you should biden. rachel: i didn't need to be in the cia to get that one. [laughter] charlie: yeah, exactly. they have a firm grass. of the obvious. rachel: yeah. charlie: but it is kind of interesting because with, of course, everybody's talking about rfk, tulsi gabbard and kash patel being sort of the biggest boulders to get up the hill. but, of course, appreciate last week people were talking about pete pete leg and kristi noem.

caroline: alex levine working double time. let's talk about what else president trump has been unveiling at a sweeping program to speed up ai infrastructure is one of them. stargate the initiative will see softbank, openai, and oracle forming a $100 billion joint venture to build up new data centers. i want to talk about more of this. it involves other technical players like nvidia and microsoft. we are joined by the ceo of the ai governance platform credo ai and member of the ai advisory committee formed under the previous administration. it feels as though the safety is going to one side and it is all out investment in infrastructure , governance does not matter. >> hello from davos. good to see you. we are seeing a slightly different narrative on the ground. we are seeing there is a lot of excitement around artificial intelligence which is powering every industry. here at davos we have leaders from the top companies, we have governments represented. artificial intelligence is the top of the day but more importantly it is tr

slotkin: thank you for referencing the great carl levin. i was a cia officer and add three tours inside iraq and have worked for four different secretaries of defense, democrat and republican, proudly come and watch them make decisions that literally determined the life-and-death of americans in the dark of night. i'm also a democrat representing a state that trump won. we won on the same valid. so i understand the president trump has the right to nominate his people. we are going to have policies we disagree with. all of that comes very standard. what i think i'm most concerned with is that no president has the right to use the uniformed military in a way that violates the u.s. constitution and further taints the military as that apolitical institution we all want. our founders designed a system so that we weren't going to use active duty military inside the united states and make american citizens potentially scared of their own military. we went through our own experience with that with the british. as the secretary of defense, you will

in 1978, another one of my mentors was carl levin was elected to the united states senate. he had been a city councilman in detroit, a part of a of a, you know, political family as well. and they both brought this sort of passion for their communities, but also a sort of gentle spirit to the political conversation. and i suppose if i had not been witness to their service, that i might not have been motivated to do this work, but it kind of fit the way i think government ought to work. you know, you fight hard. you you work hard, you advocate as tough as you can, but you treat people with dignity and respect and that seemed fairly normal back then. it seems almost quaint in the environment that we find ourselves in now long time c-span viewers will know your uncle's name. kildee you ran to replace him. what did he tell you about running for the job? did he want you to do it? and what advice would you give you back then? he he encouraged me to get involved. government. he called you know, i had been in local government for decades before he retired from congress in 2012. and

uc college of the law professor david levine expects a bold start. >> pardoning insurrectionists from january 6th, 2021. if he wants to pardon some or all of them. those are valid like that. nothing anybody can do about those because the pardon power is so clearly all powerful with respect to federal crimes, and it is totally within the purview of the president. that's at one end. at the other end, let's say he issues an executive order purporting to take away birthright citizenship. meaning if you are born in the united states, you are automatically a citizen of the united states. that goes back to the 14th amendment, that goes back to reversing the dred scott decision with respect to african american slaves. and so the idea that he could change that with an executive order, i think, is extremely unlikely. >> tightening border security and adjusting asylum rules are also expected to be priorities. trump's second term administration is also likely to look different. >> eight years ago, when he came in, he picked a lot of people who were conventionally qualified for these very senior p