Levitt exits, six states vote, judges immune: Daybreak

Correspondent Taylor Mitchell confirmed the exit on air, while the replacement search is not being run through official channels. The White House is not talking much about who comes next, and Mitchell pointed viewers to X for a list of names circulating there.

The departure is "such a loss," Mitchell said, pointing to accessibility and transparency reporters did not have during the Biden administration. Reporters who covered that White House described it to her as a ghost town with no access to the president.

Mitchell also described the prayer routine inside the press shop: Levitt prays with her team before every briefing, and Mitchell called Washington DC 'a place so dark' where they face spiritual warfare.

The host called it a bait and switch: Trump got off Air Force One in Turkey, boarded a military plane, then reboarded Air Force One without anyone knowing. Trump's account this week to reporters: he was just following security protocols.

Mitchell confirmed for a caller that Marco Rubio was on the original flight along with other cabinet members and White House staff. She is personally ready to move on from the story.

Her conclusion from the seating arrangement was that the Iranian threat must have been very serious to take the president off the flight and leave staff behind.

The clip, played on air, has a man sitting in his Tesla asking Grok for the one conspiracy that is actually true. Grok answers that the entire internet was built as a government honeypot from day one, adding that they designed it so we would all volunteer to be watched.

Grok cites ARPANET as DARPA's project in the 1970s and says the deep state does not even need warrants anymore because people signed up for Gmail, Facebook and TikTok. It closes by telling the driver they already know he is asking the question right now.

Host Steve cannot say it is real, but it certainly seems real, and the answer went on with a lot more to it.

The number comes from Fox News polling. The network usually leans left, Host Steve told the audience, so a four-point Rogers lead on that poll would mean he is probably up by six or eight in reality.

The host tied the release to a caller from Michigan, where El-Sayed is on the ballot.

Stephen from Texarkana argued the change would discourage combining bills so that each one could stand alone. He also suggested a bonus if a bill makes it through the entire process.

Steve agreed: let's try something new, I don't mind that idea. Members should not get paid if the government shuts down.

The host tied the idea to Mitch McConnell, not seen since June 14, and a deadline came August 13 so that window is gone.

Host Steve framed the hour as free speech free-for-all Friday and pivoted to what he called John Thune doing absolutely nothing, plus Republicans refusing to get rid of the filibuster.

In the clip, Jeffries calls the conservative majority basically a subsidiary of the MAGA Republican Party and names Jamie Raskin as the next Judiciary chair, saying a variety of different options are on the table.

Steve's rebuttal was that the Court is a subsidiary of MAGA only because critics cannot win cases based on case law and the law.

Caller Joseph from Texas opened with worry about the Texas election and about Heller Rico, and he hates the idea of leaving Texas if it turns blue. He also complained about Islamic temples going up everywhere; Steve answered 'Houston for sure.'

Steve then cited a new report that Talarico got five ballots to the same address and may have voted five times, and that Talarico refuses to talk about it. His conditional was blunt: if Talarico is multi-voting, that will be the end of his ride.

Steve also called Paxton a damaged candidate, a judgment he repeated across the segment.

Talarico calls the Bible propaganda, the host said, and rolled a clip to prove it.

Steve later returned to the Texas race, where Talarico cannot win the state.

Lee from North Carolina opened by calling Steve his second favorite commentator on Real America's Voice behind Steve Bannon, then asked why Mike Lindell did the Amnesty Plus interview, which he read about on Breitbart.

Steve did not see the interview and had no idea about it. His read was that Lindell was never going to become governor, that he would be attacked up one side and down the other and marginalized, and that opponents would dump 10 billion dollars in there to beat him. He cited a little bit of hubris and noted the show carries Lindell's products.

A caller said New England has a lot of nice people but that somehow we keep losing. Steve's answer was that those states are controlled and managed and run as one state empires by the left, and that until that gets figured out it will not change.

He said he would like to see some representation in New England and floated a congressman out of Vermont.

Vermont is set to elect a Republican governor for a sixth term, whom Steve called a bit of a smooshy Republican.

His closing line on the region was that we can do better than Bernie and better than all the folks we have got out there.

Steve said he did the My Pure Health program in 2018 and lost something like 46 lbs, and that he had no idea he could even lose that much. Missy Malone from My Pure Health joined him, and he credited her with changing his life.

Missy told listeners that the belief in calories, willpower and exercise has nothing to do with whether the scale is going to move for most people.

Missy said the practice she does for a living was proved a hundred years ago, and that it is suppressed technology rather than breakthrough technology. Her explanation for why it is not widely available was that the system is about taking care of sick care.

Steve agreed on air: sick people are worth a lot of money.

The segment tied the company back to Nikola Tesla, whom the guest called the pioneer of quantum physics and the reason her company exists.

She also said there are 2,800 systems inside the body, part of her argument that scanning is not new science.

Caller Deborah from Washington asked whether proof of a stolen election would make Biden's pardons null and void. She was specifically concerned about Fauci, who she said does not have a pardon.

Steve's answer was that Biden was certified as president and that there is no constitutional recourse for a fraudulent president. He said he has asked constitutional scholars, attorneys and election people, and there is no remedy.

He repeated that no honest person believes Joe Biden got 81 million votes, then said there is nothing to be done about it. His phrasing was that therein lies the problem.

On the autopen pardon question, he said that this far into Trump's second term it has not been overturned, so we get to live with it.

Connecticut, Minnesota, Vermont, Wisconsin, South Carolina and Alabama are all at the polls. South Carolina's special primary has nine candidates, including Lindsey Graham's sister.

The vote comes one day after a Charleston Air Base was renamed in Graham's memory. The state GOP chairman said turnout is likely to be low around the state and called it the most critical decision made in a generation in South Carolina, urging voters to call friends, neighbors and fellow Republicans.

A runoff is set for August 25th if there is no clear winner. Whoever wins becomes the Republican nominee for a full Senate term in November.

A Kansas City, Kansas school district spent $150,000 on cell phone lockers after the state banned phones at school. Students get a card, lock the phone up, and get it back at the end of the day.

The hosts cheered the policy. Steve's line was that you made it through school without mommy and daddy having a cell phone in your hand, and your kids can make it too.

In Japan, Kamomoto General Hospital was mid-abdominal-surgery when a 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit. The surgeons covered the patient and finished the operation, and the patient was fine.

The hosts treated both stories as evidence that people can manage without constant connection and that professionals finish the job in front of them.

The guest was introduced as Lance Laruso, founder of the Blue Line Lawyer Institute, a former law enforcement officer, author of 'When Cops Kill' and 'Blue News,' and FOP 2021 attorney of the year.

Steve framed the segment with a case he said was in headlines days earlier: a man released and less than 24 hours later murdered somebody, with a long rap sheet. A caller had asked what can be done to hold judges accountable; Steve said judges have immunity in his understanding of the law.

Laruso's answer was that judges are generally immune from civil action if you disagree with them, and that we do not want judges liable for calls somebody does not like.

Steve drew the line at the difference between making a call we do not like and getting people killed. He cited people arrested 20 times, 40 times, a hundred times, especially in New York City, and pressed that the immunity argument leaves voters with no recourse.

Steve conceded crime stats may be down but said they are down from a catastrophic level, pointing to the Biden administration and the flood of illegal immigrants.

He estimated the majority came to find work, then asked about even just five percent of the millions who came to rip people off, through a daycare center scheme or violent crime.

Laruso's final litmus test was to look at how many hundreds of law enforcement officers are shot every year, and at what happens to the men and women who police the streets.

Steve said John Solomon is declassifying information on all sorts of topics, much of it bogus investigations predicated on bogus information. The Russian hoax, he said, stays in the headlines because every passing day brings more information about what really happened.

A Russian hoax attorney is sending new demand letters agreeing with President Trump that it was corruption from the start, per the host's framing.

The names he listed were Brennan, Comey, Clapper, Obama and Biden. The guest introduced for the block was Kimberly Herman, president of South Eastern Legal Foundation.

Steve also asserted that Hunter's laptop was real and that Russian interference helping Trump was not.

In the last 45 or 60 days, Steve said, John Solomon produced a treasure trove of hidden, lied-about information that should be front-page news. The major news networks, the New York Times and the Washington Post will not cover it, in his account, because they would have to admit they lied and were part and parcel to the scam.

He named Katherine Herridge and Sharyl Atkinson alongside Solomon, describing them as an endangered species and like animals at the back of the zoo in a cage.

He said he was at the White House the night the president gave his speech and watched mainstream reporters treating Solomon like a clown and laughing him off.

He said he is taking Anthony to buy a trailer, calling it boy time. The bit closed with a joke about cracking a couple cold ones.

Steve said refiners fear an administration change bringing a you-can't-do-that order, a court challenge or a shutdown. His figure was roughly a billion dollars per refinery to build, a gamble no company wants to take on that risk.

He noted one refinery is reportedly being built now in Brownsville, Texas, and framed it against the fact that no new refinery has gone up in 50 years.

Earlier in the segment he restated his own numbers: roughly 14 million barrels produced and 20 million used.