On Monday’s Mark Levin Show, there’s nothing new to report about Zelensky, who has made significant mistakes that he needs to fix. Although Ukraine is important, Congress should start prioritizing the economy. The focus should be on fostering economic growth and prosperity, and Congress must take urgent legislative action to achieve these goals – President Trump can’t do it alone. Also, the border issue is rarely discussed anymore, which highlights the remarkable impact of Trump’s actions in less than six weeks. Illegal border crossings have dropped significantly, as people are no longer even attempting to enter unlawfully. Despite repeated claims that bipartisan legislation was necessary to secure the border, Trump proved those assertions—made by Democrats—were false by addressing the issue single-handedly. Democrats were so desperate to allow as many illegal immigrants as possible into the country to alter the electorate in their favor. For the Democratic Party, their own power takes precedence over the nation’s interests. Afterward, Sen Chris Murphy and other Democrats met with Ukrainian President Zelensky before his meeting with Trump, urging him not to sign the minerals deal. The Democrats advised Zelensky to prioritize security arrangements. The Democrats’ actions undermined Trump’s deal, and Zelensky was foolish enough to go along with it. President Zelensky is playing into Putin’s hands! He needs to suck it up, apologize to President Trump and do what’s right for his country and sign that minerals deal. It benefits the Ukrainian people with U.S. capital investment, the presence of untold numbers of American businesses and citizens, the gradual re-building of the Ukrainian infrastructure, and the American national security interests that flow from it, etc. Russia and China would be furious with such a deal as the United States will acquire much-needed rare earth minerals. Later, Sen Eric Schmitt calls in to explain that a $36 trillion national debt is unsustainable. It’s great that DODE and Elon Musk are digging in. USAID was a great place to start for DOGE- it was indefensible. Finally, eight years ago on March 2, 2017, Mark first revealed the Spygate scandal on this program, using public records and articles to present the facts. It was based on FBI and White House leaks to the media, which confirmed that Trump was being spied on, rooted in evidence, not conspiracy. For the first time we play that show and hear exactly how the facts were laid out.
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Segment 1
Hello, America, It is me, Mark Levin. Our number is 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. I’m feeling pretty good, but you can tell I’ve got some level of laryngitis. But there’s too many important things going on to avoid doing this show. In fact, I have something very exciting to tell you about our three. Eight years ago. Eight years ago yesterday on this very program, I broke the. The spy scandal. The Spygate scandal was broken right here behind this microphone. Eight years ago yesterday. And so for the first time since the original time eight years ago, I’ve decided. To play that for you. Mr. Producer spent some time pulling it together. And she will see how right in front of you. So I pull these various articles together, public record, put them in the form of an exhibit. Like a prosecutor. Certainly like a litigator. And laid out for you again the first time. May 2nd, 2017. Excuse me. March 2nd, 2017. The Spygate scandal against Donald Trump. Others have taken credit for this. Which is embarrassing to them. Immediately after I did that. We came under a withering attack. And they fought back with very little support from my fellow broadcasters. So on March 2nd, 2017, I broke the story. A day or so after that, everybody. Joe Pollak wrote his story in Breitbart. That weekend. I was asked to come on Fox News Sunday by Pete Hegseth. That weekend, that Sunday. I was given almost a half an hour to go through what I call my exhibits to demonstrate. That they were spying on Donald Trump according to their own reporting, in their own words. The next evening, Sean HANNITY asked me to come on his program. To discuss it as well. And I did. But it started right here on the Mark Levin radio show eight years ago, almost to the day. I remember that weekend. My family and I went to a movie. Getting a call from President Trump. A call from his golf course. He was on the golf course. And I’ve never mentioned this. There’s no reason I shouldn’t. And he said, Holy, holy, holy. Something like that. Look what you’ve discovered here. This is unbelievable. I said, it is unbelievable, Mr. President. And anybody says, Is that conspiracy theory, I want to remind you. All I did was take the time to pull together these disparate news articles in these disparate publications. And put them together. They laid out the case. The. Mr. President, who’s spying on you? And that began the story. That began the whole process. We do that a lot here. We take our time, we digest what’s going on. We analyze it. We discuss it with you. Give me a perfect recent example. Not this Saturday, but the Saturday before actually in this radio program on the Blaze Media Network. But then Saturday on Fox, my opening statement, I laid out the matter of the minerals. In Ukraine. There was not a. Really substantive explanation or I believe, even even the policy with respect, Well, what would we do with Ukraine? But I just inferred what the president was proposing, that you’d have this incredible partnership, economic partnership. The development of these rare earth minerals that Ukraine cannot develop. Certainly after the war, it can’t turn its back. The amount of economic growth that would occur in Ukraine, the access that we would have to to the rare earth minerals that we desperately need because China, Russia and India are sort of monopolizing that whole area and they are. GUNDERSEN It. Talked about that and that you had a de facto security arrangement because President Trump wouldn’t allow tens of thousands of Americans, American infrastructure, crucial American resources at that point. To be overrun by the Russians or the Communist Chinese. And this has been the basis for everybody. Now, who’s making this point? Everybody’s making this point. We were the first to make. We can go into other areas, too, but I’d rather not. I just want to tell you and our three, the power, our. You’ll be able to hear what took place eight years ago almost to the minute. As the story and this microphone slowly develop, slowly broke. That Donald Trump, the newly minted president of the United States, was being spied on. Based on the leaks from the FBI, the White House and other entities to the media. It was no conspiracy theory. Nothing of the sort. I just read the pieces and put them together for you. I think you’re going to find it to be incredibly fantastic because people forget what took place and you see the extent to which the media. And the Democrat run government are one and the same. How they work together. Mr. Producer, you you took the time to put it back together again. I bet it was really remarkable when you did it. Absolutely incredible. Now, I have nothing new to say about Zelinsky and Russia in the mineral deal. I mean, what are we supposed to do? Just keep pounding the hell out of Zelinski? He screwed up badly, and he needs to fix it. You want to hear my comments on Putin? I detest the man. I think he’s a mass murderer, a genocidal maniac. How many more times do I have to say? Excuse me. But I will tell you this. These are very, very important subjects, incredibly important subjects. And I certainly don’t minimize them. I talk about them a lot. But I do think we conservatives, we Republicans. But start focusing a little bit more on the economy. Peter, start focusing a little bit more. On creating a growth environment, prosperity. President can only do so much with executive orders and he can do a lot. And he is doing a lot. He’s doing a tremendous amount. And he and his cabinet, they’re slashing regulations left and right. Takes time for all this to resonate throughout the country, throughout the economy, and to have an effect. But we desperately need our Congress to take legislative steps. To help. To help. And if the Democrats want to vote no, and if the Democrats want to vote no with a few reprobate Republicans, then so be it. Then so be it. But I think it’s very important. Because in the end, people vote over the economy. We know they vote over the border. And they do vote over war and peace. And let me say something about the border. You see how little is discussed about the border now? What Donald Trump did in really less than six weeks. Really a few weeks. Is stunning. Fabulous and stunning. Illegal crossings are down to a trickle. A trickle. People aren’t even trying anymore. The Mexicans have 10,000 troops on the border. I think we have 10,000. We just called up another 3000. As well as our wonderful federal law enforcement. The northern border is much more secure for the same reason Canada put 10,000 troops there. But as Donald Trump has pointed out today and before. There’s still too much fentanyl coming into this country. And drugs, other drugs. And more needs to be done. Now. He’s right. But look at this accomplishment. We were told over and over again that you needed, quote unquote, bipartisan legislation, the big propaganda that Donald Trump is holding up, securing the border. There’s been absolutely no legislation to secure the border. He’s done it on his own. Like he told Joe Biden, You can do it on your own, too. There’s a couple of takeaways here. Number one, they were so desperate to bring in as many illegal aliens as they could. Birthright citizenship. Chain migration. Change reshaped the electorate, quote unquote, as they as I quote The New York Times from months ago. This was all power play. Remember what I always say for the Democrat Party. The party comes first, the nation comes second. Just like in any communist regime, the Communist Party comes first, the nation comes second. The power position in these communist regimes, it’s the secretary general of the Communist Party, not even the head of the government, because the secretary general pulls all the wires. Pulls all the strings. So the Democrat Party wants this. They’ve sought to destroy a voting system. All the other checks we have on fraud, why they’re voter harvesting its way of ultra early voting. Late vote counting. Anything but paper ballots and showing up to vote. And if you shut the vote, they don’t even want voter ID, So they they want fraud. Because it’s a party of fraud, fraudulent ideas, fraudulent policies, fraudulent votes. That’s who they are. That’s what they are. So they’ve done that. But when it comes to the border, they just figure, look, we need more votes. And so we will use immigration as a political tool. To increase our ranks in the decades ahead. That’s as simple as it is. That’s black and white. That’s what they did. And he stopped it in its tracks. Now, the problem is when he ceases to be president. Another Biden tape can come in. Another radical Democrat can come in with a fundamental transformation of America and all that crap and reverses executive orders. So this is why Congress really needs to begin to step up on these domestic issues. Whether it’s energy. Cutting taxes, cutting spending. Building up the military. Securing the border. I think the bill that the House passed. Was an excellent bill and addressed this. There’s some issues with the Senate Republicans on what kind of taxes are best and so forth and so on. They better stop the green eyeshade crap right now. Now is not green eyeshade time. Maybe next year’s green eyeshade time, but not now. Get a jumpstart this economy. And now got a jumpstart it. The promise was made to the American people that prices would come down, the economy would be robust, and Congress has to chip in. And they need to chip in quickly. Of course, the Democrats want to shut down the government and blame them. Forget about what the Democrats want. Who cares what they want? If the Republicans stay united despite this guy MASSIE If the Republicans stay united, they can get this done. Then get it across the border, because when it comes to spending and budgets, ladies and gentlemen, the filibuster is suspended. That’s an agreement that’s been made over the course of decades. For budget resolutions. It does it go through that process so a simple majority can get it done. It’s a big opportunity. They have the wind at their back. They’re going to have headwinds. If they don’t if they don’t act relatively quickly. I’ll be right back.
Segment 2
You know, I feel bad for my friends in New York. I’ve started this radio program. She’s 23 years ago or so. I didn’t start in a small town. I started in the biggest of ABC in New York when it was owned by ABC Radio Networks. And back then, radio, ABC Radio Networks was a great network. And it sold its radio stations and the next company sold them and the next company sold them. And here we are. Beautiful stations run beautifully. And, you know, ladies and gentlemen, been watching for a quarter century what takes place in New York. And the Democrat Party is getting sicker and sicker. And more and more pathetic. With the slop with a slop that it throws at the voters for from mayor every four years. And it’s even gotten worse. It’s even sloppier than usual. Really a mess. And over the course of this election, we will be monitoring this. We will be coming in on it because it is the nation’s biggest city, after all. But good God, just a disaster. I’ll be right back.
Segment 3
You know I will mention this with respect to Zelensky and Russian Putin and all the rest of it. We know, thanks to Michael Goodwin writing in The New York Post, his smarts and looking at the social media of a guy named Chris Murphy was the senator from Connecticut. This guy is very evil, the very evil guy. Low IQ, very evil. This guy, Chris Murphy, you see him all over TV. I don’t even I only aspired to be a senator. In any event. He and others of his ilk. Met with Zelinski before Zelinski met with the president. On Friday. And he because he posted about it, I paraphrase urged Zelinski. To basically. Undo the deal that he was there to sign. The minerals deal. And Murphy and the others counseled him. To demand security. Requirements and all the rest of this. But Donald Trump is trying to do here is get the economic ties done in advance of even negotiating with Russia to lock in a special relationship with Ukraine, the Ukrainian people, an economic relationship which in effect is a geographic relationship, which in effect is a at least quasi national security relationship. It’s common sense. And to do so in a low key way. This is what I explain the first one to explain. Saturday before last. A brilliant stroke. Really? But then you have Democrats counseling Zelinski that it is a disaster that U.N. security assurances from the United States. Now, first of all, whether we provide security assistance to Ukraine or not, what are your security assurances? What does that mean? And secondly, Donald Trump is highly unlikely to provide that. So Chris Murphy and the Democrats, they talk about sabotage. They sabotage to this. They are the ones that undermine this deal. Unless it is, Alinsky was foolish enough to go along with it. But they’re getting away with this. I think that a handful of people like Goodwin. Nobody’s pointing a finger at Murphy or the others. Certainly the the Democrat Party, Pravda, Al Jazeera media are not. They’re not pointing a finger at Murphy saying, Hey, you did this. This was your plot. This was. Was. This was your plot. This is what you did. And now you run around and talk about trumping in the back pocket of Putin. When you did this, you’re in the back pocket of Putin. You’re empowering Putin, this mineral deal. Putting all this static aside, all the commentators aside, think for yourselves. This mineral deal. Would have been a disaster for Putin and Russia, A disaster for Asia and China. That’s what it would have been. And I hope it happens. I hope the president doesn’t pull away from this. I hope his advisers, Watts and Rubio. Who else is there? Whoever else is advising? Vance. I hope they tell you, Mr. President. We’ve got to find a way to get Zelinski. To really apologize what she should be and to get Zelinski to sign it. And they will sign it. Zielinski has nowhere else to go. You go to Europe, look at what Europe has done. Europe spends almost nothing on its military 0.2%, not even 1% of their GDP. You want to know when there is a massive military buildup? It was under Reagan. Do you know what percentage of the gross domestic product Ronald Reagan applied? To military spending with his great secretary of state, Caspar Weinberger. Do you know what percentage it is, Mr. Putin. Almost 6%. The greatest. Funding and resource development of our military since World War Two. He built up our military like no president before. Except for World War Two. No president since Donald Trump came in the first time he built up our military, too. The Democrats are always flat lining it. But he built up the military to. And we’ve got to do it again. We’ve got to do it again. Very important. But the point is that the Europeans aren’t doing it. And I’ve posted my opening statement from last night’s life, Liberty and Live in. It’s on my. All my social platforms. If you’d like to listen to it, I’d pull out all the evidence that the Europeans not only can’t do it, they won’t do it. In the four biggest. Well, the European countries with the four biggest economies. Do the most talking. And the least amount of spending. Germany, Britain, France and Italy. And Germans, new so-called conservative. He’s another jackass. He’s stabbing Trump in the back, left and right. So Germany is filled with big mouths. Britain’s leaders are big mouth, the crowns of big mouth, and they don’t put their money where their mouth is. They’ll put some, but not enough to make a difference. So Zelinski has another opportunity. You know, Zelinski would do himself a big favor. Stop talking. Do what you need to do. And get what you need. Ladies and gentlemen, let me be clear. The Trump plan is not charity. We get desperately needed minerals. I will give you an idea on how this should be done. Benjamin Netanyahu had a put up a Joe Biden. Who tried to overthrow his government, who went around his back to meet with the equivalent of the secretary of defense and Secretary of State, who went around his back and met with opposition party leaders who helped fund radical left wing NGOs to overthrow his government. Who leaked to the Israeli media and the American media through Axios and Politico and The Washington Post and the New York Times. Smeared Netanyahu left and right. So if anybody had a reason to condemn Joe Biden and Blinken and Sullivan, it was Netanyahu. But he didn’t. Same with Obama. Obama treated him. Very disrespectfully. Smeared him. Undermined him. But Biden literally withheld weapons to try and prevent Netanyahu from defeating Hamas. From defeating Hezbollah. From defeating Iran. No president did do Israel and the Jews there. What Joe Biden and his regime did to Netanyahu, and yet he muscled through. He didn’t come to the United States and confront him. Even though I’m sure he is grinding his teeth every step of the way. So what? Just happened. The administration decided the Trump administration, these these weapons that were withheld, this boycott, that they were going to get them to Israel, that Israel had paid for them, and they were going to get them to Israel on an emergency basis. They cut through all the red tape and the bureaucracy. And this is how Netanyahu responded to that. And let me tell you something. Israel’s gotten a tiny percentage of the amount of money Ukraine’s gotten. Don’t get me wrong, Ukraine needs support. Or it’s going to collapse. And when it collapses. Poland won’t be the next target because Putin all the Putin boys out there who kiss Putin’s ass. He has said he’s going to take Poland if he needs to, if he wants to. Here’s Netanyahu in a video message yesterday. Cut five. Go. I want to thank President Trump for his unwavering support for Israel during my recent visit to Washington. I said that Donald Trump is the greatest friend that Israel has ever had in the White House. And President Trump shows that friendship each and every day. He has shown it through his visionary plan for Gaza. This is a plan which Israel fully supports. He’s shown it by sending us all the munitions that were being held up. This way he’s giving Israel the tools we need to finish the job against Iran’s terror axis. And he has shown it by fully backing Israel and putting the pressure to release the hostages were truly belongs on Hamas. Israel has accepted President Trump’s envoy, Steve Whitcomb, plan to extend the temporary cease fire by 50 days. During that time, we can discuss the conditions for a permanent cease fire that will end the war in Gaza, in which God’s plan half of the hostages would be released right away and the remaining half would be released if we reach an agreement on a permanent cease fire again. Israel has accepted this plan. I accepted this plan. But so far, Hamas has rejected it. Hamas had also put forward positions for a permanent cease fire that are totally unacceptable. Israel has decided to stop loading goods and supplies into Gaza, something we’ve done for the past 42 days. We’ve done that because Hamas steals the supplies and prevents the people of Gaza from getting them. It uses these supplies to finance its terrible scene, which is aimed directly at Israel and our civilians. And this we cannot accept. We will take further steps if Hamas continues to hold our hostages. And throughout this, Israel knows that America and President Trump have our back. Thank you again, President Trump. Thank you for all you’re doing to return our hostages, bolster our security and provide a future prosperity and peace for all the peoples of the Middle East. See, there’s a guy who wants to win his wars. It is the wars against Israel but wants to win them. It’s not thinking about ego. He’s not think about anything else. He’s thanking the United States and specifically President Trump because he had to deal with Biden. Obama. A statement similar to that. We go a long way was with Trump. I’m sure Zelinski would put out a video like that. Say, you know, I’m very sorry about what took place in the Oval Office. I didn’t anticipate that that would turn into such a mess. And I just want President Trump to know that. We are deeply appreciative to the United States for the support it has provided to us. And we want to thank President Trump and the American people. We want to thank the American military. For all that you have done to help defend the Ukrainian people. And we would like. To form our relationship, our economic relationship. An economic partnership. Ukrainian, the American people working side by side in Ukraine. Mining minerals. That the United States needs and wants. Providing the investment in the capital, the money that the Ukrainian people need so desperately to rebuild our society and create a prosperous nation. So he should say, I just want to be as clear as I know how. That we are indebted. Two, the United States were indebted to President Trump and his administration. And we would like to proceed with this. With this economic arrangement. And we look forward to future discussions. And how to bring this war to an end. In a way that protects Ukraine and our people. It puts an end to. To the death that’s taking place. You know, something to that effect. I don’t know why that’s so damn hard. I don’t. I really don’t. Now, you notice, ladies and gentlemen. You notice. That if I repute annoyed. I’d be going up and down about how poor Russia feels. Surrounded. Yeah, by democratic countries like the Balkan states. They can’t fight their way out of a paper bag because they’re too small. They don’t have any industry. Yeah, they’re surrounded by Poland that wants nothing to do with a war with their with Russia. They’re surrounded by Romania, another small country that wants nothing to do with a war with Russia. So ridiculous. They’re surrounded and. Surrounded. Surrounded by what? Oh, Naito. Surrounded by Naito. You know, it’s funny. Two a few years ago. The Russians never said squat about the Balkan states getting in NATO because they don’t have any serious military. This has nothing to do with any of that. Putin is Stalin, too. He is Putin’s KGB. Putin said the worst thing that ever happened was the collapse of the old Soviet Union. He said more than that. He said. Poland has too many Russian speaking people in Romania, too many Russian speaking people to be viewed as Poland or to be viewed as Romania. They’re nothing more than an extension of Russia. I’ll be right back.
Segment 4
You know, one of the things that annoys me here is, number one, the Putin crowd within our midst. I’m talking about you and me within our midst. They really are rallying to Putin. They are thrilled. They have an affinity for this dictator, this fascist, genocidal maniac. We’ve seen this before in our midst almost 100 years ago. The the drawl of a of a Hitler before he was a full fledged. You know, power in power and committing his acts of genocide. But his message was very attractive. It was attractive to the likes of Joseph Kennedy, was attractive to the likes of Lindbergh and a whole crowd of Americans until we were attacked, of course, at Pearl Harbor. And then they said, wait a minute. But that said, we see this mentality, too, here. From some people. On the other hand, it’s a joke. When I read some of these people, some at National Review, who keep pounding the desk, panning in the desk, this isn’t who we are. It’s Trump who’s the out. Not Zelensky, not Zelensky. Neither of them are sellouts. But none of these people who do this have any idea on how to fix this. They just like to hear themselves. Hit the. Hit the keypads and it’s self-righteous indignation. Right. Go on and on and on. This is what we should be doing and this is how we do it. And they’ll get absolutely nowhere. Nowhere. They’re there screeching. Their howling has no impact. So what is their purpose other than their grandiose self-righteousness? There is no purpose. Now we want to convince the Republicans they need to stand up. This was a good deal. The public availability of what the proposal was would have helped Ukraine and would have helped Ukraine defend itself. Americans would be present there. American businesses would be present there. Our bulldozers are miners. Is our capital our investment? Better than the Marshall Plan? As a first step. They won’t even acknowledge that. Which is why they’re pathetic, too. They’re no better than the Putin, which, to be perfectly honest with you. All they do is like, behave themselves. Hit the little keypads and the computers. I’ll be right back.