On Wednesday’s Mark Levin, On Power examines the concept of power, its manipulation by politicians, media, and ideologues, and its impact on individuals and society. It aims to provoke a deeper understanding and dialogue about power’s application, hoping to serve as a source for liberty against tyranny. Also, Saudi Arabia played a significant role on the 9/11 slaughter of Americans. Their Crown Prince didn’t even apologize once yesterday for what they did to us, and the 9/11 families are probably reeling from this. And Qatar protected the leader of the 9/11 attack from the FBI, before he was able to launch his war on America that killed our people. It’s great that we have a deal with Qatar, but they’ve also spent billions trying to destroy our colleges and universities. Afterward, most House and Senate Republicans signed two letters urging President Trump to reject any nuclear deal with Iran unless it fully dismantles its nuclear program. Later, Zuhdi Jasser calls in to explain that achieving peace requires the complete defeat of the Islamist death cult like Hamas. Western reluctance to confront this ideology head-on, due to fears of appearing Islamophobic, enables its spread and threatens global stability. The only decisive action against such extremism, rather than appeasement or half-measures, can secure a peaceful future. Finally, Sen Bernie Sanders advocates for a communist style national health care system, drawing from the 1936 Stalin Constitution. This raises questions about whether healthcare as a human right means unlimited access to any treatment, who controls doctors’ and nurses’ work hours, and if such a system could force doctors to provide care against their will.
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Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. Man, oh, man. Auschwitz. We are packed. We are packed with clips. We are packed with articles. We got a great guest. And most of all, we have you. We have everything from the fireworks on capitol hill when RFK Jr was testifying. Boy, these democrats are nuts. They’re also sick. Christina, her testimony, what was taking place. We’ve got the clown, Newark mayor and the clown, democrat, members of the house, all of whom should be in a jail cell at some point, I would think. We’ve got Hakeem Jeffries threatens retaliation if Democrat lawmakers are arrested. Excuse me. Assault and battery. I don’t care if you’re a Democrat, quote unquote, lawmaker or not. Mr.. Never mind, Marc. Never mind. We’ve got a big, beautiful bill, as the President calls it. And it is. It needs to get through the house and get signed. We need massive tax cuts. I don’t believe in raising taxes on the rich, quote unquote. That’s not massive tax cuts. That’s Marxist propaganda. And it doesn’t earn you anything with the left and the media. But be as it may, it needs to get passed and it needs to get passed ASAP. He said. But before we do, we’re going to have some fun here. We’re going to have a lot of fun. We always have fun, don’t we? I want to read something to you. I can find a damn thing. Here it is. What I love about this book on power. Is the lessons that it provides up because of me. But the lessons that it provides and it applies to everyday events that are going on in your life, as a matter of fact. Now, it doesn’t come until July 29th. But if you order it now, you’re going to get the most massive discount that anybody gets, because whatever they discount it from today, all the way to sales day, you get the best discount of all. And the way Amazon works is with all its books, in fact, with all its products. It has significant discounts. Before the books are published or even before the products are available in order to encourage people to buy them because they’re a warehouse, they move them in, they move them out, they move them in, they move them out. And that is to your advantage. That’s the inside baseball when it comes to books. So what I do every day, in addition to us getting the clips together, in addition to going through all the news information, in addition all that, what I’ve been doing is going through my book to say, okay, let’s get a few relatively concise passages that are relevant to what’s taking place. And we can have a little bit of fun talking about them and you can see if that’s interest you or not. So I dove into sort of the middle of chapter one on power in our country. The American Revolution. An establishment of a Republican government, were intended to secure the traditions, customs and values of the society as concisely set forth in the Declaration of Independence. Unlike the French Revolution, the purpose of which was to destroy the existing society, not only the ruling monarchy. Indeed, the Declaration is one of the most concise, yet brilliant statements about humanity and society ever authored. This is not to say that other Western democracies lacked similar intentions, but America’s purpose was known and declared before it was even a functioning country. That is from the very beginning, and its ultimate governmental designed the national constitution was a direct outgrowth of this purpose, not an imposition by an elite few. Since the representatives of all the colonies participated in its development from the Constitutional Convention to the state ratification conventions. So when establishing on our own, our own government, the debates among the delegates to the Constitutional Convention and later the state ratifying conventions focused almost entirely on how to balance the necessity of centralized power to secure the civil society and preserve individual liberty with the recognition that in creating such an entity, they risked imperiling the American experiment if the conferred power was not offset by competing powers. For the framers, the answer was a mixed government. In essence, they adopted John Locke’s overarching governmental model of separating power and might discuss more prescribe more precise description of government divided between and among these three entities legislative, executive, judicial, each with relatively specific and distinct responsibilities, yet constantly competing with the others for power. Now, Montesquieu is the most widely read and cited philosopher during America’s constitutional period. He’s referred to directly in the Federalist Papers multiple times and in his iconic book. It is a remarkable book, The Spirit of the Laws. Montesquieu explained that, and I quote, Democracy and aristocracy are not free states by their nature. Political liberty is found only in moderate governments. But it is not always in moderate states. It is present only when power is not abused. But it has it eternally been observed that any man who has power is led to abuse it, he continues, until he finds limits. Who would think it? He wrote. Even virtue has need of limits, he said, so that one cannot abuse power. Power must check power by the arrangement of things. Power must check. Power by the arrangement of things. What I’m reading to you. The framers of your Constitution and the ratifies of your Constitution read Also, a constitution would be such that no one will be constrained to do the things the law does not oblige him to do or be kept from doing the things the law permits him to do. Indeed. Hundreds of years later, ladies and gentlemen, the late British Christian theologian, scholar, author. One of the favourites for me, C.S. Lewis, underscored Montague’s point about the abuse of power disguised as virtue. He famously wrote of all tyrannies Did C.S. Lewis write a tyranny? Exercise for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omniscient moral busybodies. The robber barons cruelty may sometimes sleep. His cupidity may at some point be satiated. But those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to heaven at the same time, likelier to make a hell on earth. Their very kindness stings with intolerable insult to be cured against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason. The other words treating us like children are those who never will. To be classed with infants, imbeciles and domestic animals. Isn’t that the left, the Democrat Party today and some Republicans to. Tyranny when people are preaching good intentions and virtue. But Askew further warned, as I point out in the book, that should the distinct nature of these branches dissolve, this is crucial to what’s happening today with the courts. Should the distinct nature of these branches dissolve and transition from separation of powers to the concentration of powers, the result would be tyranny. Here’s what he said. When legislative power is united with executive power in a single person or in a single body of the magistrate, there is no liberty because one can fear that the same monarch or a Senate that makes tyrannical laws will execute them tyrannical. Nor is there liberty if the power of judging Judging is not separate from the legislative power and from the executive power. If it were joined to legislative power, the power over the life and liberty of the citizens would be arbitrary. For the judge would be the legislature. If it were joined to the executive power, the judge would have the force of an oppressor. Got it. It’s why this book is important. All would be lost that the same man or the same body of principle men, either of nobles or of the people exercised these three powers that of making laws, that of executing public resolutions and that are judging the crimes of the disputes of individuals. Now notice to monitor excuse observation that tyranny is not unique solely to despots, but it is also to be feared in the form of groups, bodies, mobs, even legislatures. At the same state conventions, they were debating whether to ratify the proposed constitution. In Federalist number 51, James Madison, the father of the document, echoed Montesquieu when he wrote, Human beings are imperfect and ambitious. So we need a government structure that guards against abuses of power. Ambitions be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection of human nature that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself? But the greatest of all, reflections on human nature. If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern, men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men. The great difficulty lies in this. You must first enable the government to control the government and in the next place obliged to control itself. This is a famous part of the Federalist Papers number 51, because those sentences are absolute genius. He didn’t invent the idea, but the way he articulated it. I write so much of life orbits around this word, this idea, this belief power, and most of the discussion, to the extent it exists at all in an honest or coherent fashion, is in the form of generalities, sloganeering, demagoguery and the like, used by politicians, media, ideologues and academicians to manipulate, confound and deceive, in which case power is used to control thought, discussion and language. This book is intended to provoke a better comprehension of what is meant by power, its impact on the individual mankind generally, and stimulate a broader examination and dialogue about its application. In doing so, if it succeeds even modestly, perhaps it will prove an additional source for liberty. Against tyranny. It’s a couple of pages out of the first chapter on power. And again, this is just a tiny little taste of what’s in this book. One part. Of the discussion in the reasoning about power. There’s so many subjects in what is a very concisely written book, plainly written, easy to understand. Much of the debate we’re having about the Middle East now, it’s not really debate. We’re right in there. Wrong. Much of the discussion. That’s going on about the Middle East today. Mrs.. An entire point. We Americans, we people in the West, we have no idea. About how the Islamists think. What they believe. We entered her agreements with them, economic agreements, military agreements, maybe even a nuclear agreement. And what does an agreement mean to them? Let’s put aside current events. Go back whenever you want. What does an agreement mean to them in the context of an Islamist ideology? You know, next hour, we’re going to have our friend Zuhdi Jasser. This guy is brave. He served in the Navy. In a significant role. He’s a muslim gentleman. He’s a reformer. It’s important to understand what he says. It’s also important to understand what others have said. Including those who’ve written, who are repeated. Who are taught, who are memorized. In Gaza, in Qatar, in Saudi Arabia, in Iran. All of our new friends. What they think about us. Why they use the money the way they do. And by the way, for all the anti-Semites out there. Talking about, you know, neo cons. It was always a lie that the Jews had all the money. You see who has all the money today, Mr. Brewster? Qatar. Saudi Arabia. The Arabs have all the money. So let’s get that. Let’s get that that hate. Let’s get that. Let’s get that straight now. I’ll be right back.
Segment 2
And I am shocked at the number of people who keep trying to put words. It’s a stunt. It is simple post this morning. The Saudis were behind 911 that resulted in the death of over 2000 of our beautiful American citizens. People who went to work that day minding their own business. And never came home and died in a most horrific way. The brave firefighters, the police officers. We have tunnel to towers. We we support tunnel to towers. The people on the planes died. Horrible deaths. The Pentagon. The Central Pennsylvania. It just seems to me. Saudi Arabia, in exchange for everything it got, should at least apologize to the 911 families, one of whom contacted me. Was that asking too much? I don’t think so. And then, of course, Qatar help prevent the FBI from capturing. They had terrorists behind 911 before he unleashed 911 on our country. It seems to me that’s relevant to something. That’s all. I’ll be right back.
Segment 3
You know those who if you listen to this program over the decades, my principles have never changed. My views have never changed. You can adjust them from time to time depending on what events are taking place. But I don’t get involved in wild gyrations when it comes to policy and that sort of thing. Principles are principles. I didn’t evolve into a fifth column isolationist. I never was, quote unquote, a neocon. I’m not for war. I’m for national security and protecting the American people from an Islamist Nazi regime with a nuclear weapon. This is common sense. Foreign policy. National security is about prudence. It’s not about bigotry. It’s not about sloganeering. It’s not about new ways to look at the world. I’m looking at this Qatar thing. We have a $1.2 trillion deal. That is great. But Qatar is spending billions and billions of dollars trying to destroy our country. It’s destroying our colleges and universities. Does anybody dispute that? President Trump doesn’t. Disputed, He said so in 2017. So who’s the who’s disputing that? Nobody. So I pointed out. I give you the information that demonstrates proves it. It’s called evidence. Here’s the other thing. I don’t agree 100% with any government official, with any politician. None. Not even with Ronald Reagan. And I worked in his administration for eight years. It doesn’t mean I dislike the person, doesn’t mean I hate the person, doesn’t mean there’s a divide, doesn’t mean there’s a defiance. You know, this is a. Immature country that requires mature people. And people have their own opinions. Where I draw the line with this administration in this president is the attempt to destroy him and destroy his presidency and destroy his life. And I fight it. And I fight it more effectively and aggressively than anybody else. I fight against these efforts to destroy this man. And I will continue to do so. You know why? He’s my friend. And God forbid if the other side wins because they are nuts. That doesn’t mean I’m going to agree on everything. I understand there are websites out there. I understand there are isolationists in other buffoonish individuals who want you to believe. They want to express my opinion. There’s something nefarious about it. There’s something notable about it. I’m on the radio 3 hours a day, five days a week. I’m on Fox with two shows. I’m on The Blaze. I write books. It’s important that you and I have a and we do this special relationship and this loyalty. People don’t always have to agree with me and they don’t. And you don’t. That doesn’t mean you hate me. I’m going to tune you out. Maybe you will. Maybe you won’t. But so what? In terms of my viewpoint, how do I even adjust my opinions with all the gyrations that go on or the changes that go on? My opinions, my opinion? What I am not is a sycophant. And so the left media is confused about me. I thought he was a sycophant. So when he disagrees with Trump, that’s very notable. I’m not a sycophant. I express my own opinions. I think Donald Trump is a fantastic, historic president. I have my own opinions when it comes to a whole bunch of issues, especially when it comes to terrorist regimes and what they’re doing to our country and what they’ve done to our ally, Israel. That’s it. As a red blooded American. So a lot of the reporting, a lot of the media are by people who want hits, people who aren’t subscribers, people who are grifters, people who stir the pot. I don’t sit here and stir the pot. When I deal with people like Chatsworth Osborne Jr, I’m reacting to them. He got my face may get my face again. I’ll slap his ass again. That’s fine by me. Okay. I’m not going to obsess over it. I’ve got other things to do, other things to discuss with you, with the country, to say we have an economic system to protect. We want these tax cuts across the board, across the board as deep as possible. You know, I love the Democrats. Tax cuts for the rich. Spending for the government. That’s what they want. Spending for the government, open borders, illegal aliens, all kinds of people coming into the country harming us. That’s what they want. We have to defeat them. We have to fight them. So when it comes to President Trump. You know, 80%, 90% of the issues we agree on. And he has persuaded me. On a number of issues. And I feel when he asks, I persuaded him here in there, who knows? That’s the nature of being a rational human being. That’s the nature of thinking and thinking for yourself. It’s not controversial. These headlines are crazy. That’s nuts. Yeah, well, yeah, that. Crazy. The Republican Party. I’m proud of them today. I’ll be proud of them when they pass the massive tax cuts. There’s a lot of reasons to be proud of the Republican Party under John Thune. Mike Johnson. And Donald Trump. A lot of reasons. And the Jewish insider. Most congressional Republicans insist on no enrichment from Iran to letter signed by the majority. Overwhelming majority of House and Senate Republicans urge Trump to reject any nuclear deal without complete dismantlement of Iran’s nuclear program. Why? Why are they doing that? Bought by the state of Israel. Excuse me. It’s the Arabs with all the money that are busy buying everything and everyone in sight. They’re the ones with the money. Qatar more than anybody else. Nearly all Senate Republicans, nearly all Senate Republicans sent a letter to President Trump today urging him only to agree to a nuclear deal with Iran that requires the full dismantlement of Tehran’s nuclear program. 80% of House Republicans, 177 lawmakers signed on to nearly an identical letter. Now, the Senate letter, led by Senators Pete Ricketts, Ted Cruz, and co-signed by every single Republican senator except Rand Paul, of course, calls on the Trump administration to follow through on its explicit warnings that Tehran must permanently give up any capacity for enrichment. That’s the language. And I support this too. We can get Iran to do that. No need to drop arms. If we can’t, then there is a need to protect our country. The House version of the letter was led by Representative August Pfluger, Republican Texas, the chairman of the Republican Study Committee, the largest conservative caucus in the House. The Republican Study Committee is the largest conservative caucus in the House. Every Republican in the Senate except Rand Paul. I would say that that’s an overwhelming position of the Republican Party. The letters, drafts of which were first reported by the Jewish Insider last week, serve as a clear message to the president from congressional Republicans. I don’t think it’s a message to the president. I think what they’re showing the president is. We support what you’re trying to do. You said the total dismantlement and we agree we are behind the total dismantlement. They said you and your administration have therefore correctly drawn a red line against any deal that allows Iran to retain any enrichment capability, the Senate letter reads, pointing to the language used in Trump’s national security presidential memorandum on Iran. In conference from him and Steve Westcott, his Middle East envoy, about the need for full dismantlement. We cannot afford another agreement that enables Iran to play for time, as the Obama deal did. The Iranian regime should know that the administration has congressional backing to ensure their ability to enrich uranium is permanently eliminated. As I said. This wasn’t throwing anything at Trump. This was endorsing his stated position. The letters make the case that verification protocols to allow limited Iranian nuclear enrichment, as were used under the 2015 Obama deal and had been floated by some administration officials, are no longer a viable solution. So, folks. 80% of the House Republicans, every single Senate Republican. But Rand Paul stands with me and I with them. The president of the United States has said. Unequivocally this is his position. I back it. The Republicans back it. It’s the fifth column. Isolationists who don’t back it. The chat where it’s. And the other the other lunatics. They don’t back the president. We do. The letters make the case that verification protocols to allow limited Iranian nuclear enrichment. No way. That was the Obama deal. The letter goes on. The scope and breadth of Iran’s nuclear build out have made it impossible to verify any new deal that allows Iran to continue enriching uranium. The letters criticize the Obama deal, which they called deeply broke, and they praise Trump’s decision during his first term to withdraw from that deal, noting that he said at the time it allowed Iran to continue to enrich uranium over time, reach the brink of a nuclear breakout. And I’ve told you here several times. He called me to his side. He signed the document that withdrew the United States from that agreement, and he handed me the pen. Goes on to detail the Biden administration’s alleged undoing of that pressure functionally re-implementing the nuclear deal, as they described it, as you predicted, those policies. They say to the president indeed allowed Iran to reach the brink of a nuclear breakout, which is where they are today. The Biden administration made these concessions without any reciprocal concessions from Iran. And Iran even ceased providing international inspectors access to significant parts of its nuclear program in the early days of the Biden administration. So this is the consensus of the Republican Party, including those who were just elected, including those in MAGA. That’s right. This is the consensus of every corner of the Republican Party, whether it’s MAGA, whether it’s RINOs, whether it’s conservative constitutionalists, which are MAGA, really Tea Party, whatever they label themselves, they call themselves. The lunatics with the Soros coat crowd. It’s a small cabal. That’s what it is. Big mouths. Thugs bully, people, threaten people, but they’re nothing. They’re a paper tiger, I promise you. That’s what they are. A paper tiger. I’ll be right back.
Segment 4
By the way, last night show people love last night’s show, if you notice that much of it is. Okay. You can find last night’s show from MarkLevinShow.com on our Web site. We have all of our programs that are there. Mr. Producer went out of his way, did a wonderful job with the Chatsworth Osborne part of the show. You can get that on Rumble or you can get it on YouTube. So it’s all out there. Even Mediate picked it up with one of their crazy ass headlines. But nonetheless it’s there and you can listen to that. That part of the show or you can listen to the whole show again at the Mark Levine show that com. Apparently it’s. Apparently people loved it. Well, that’s okay. When you love it, we love it. We’re going to take a little break at the top of the hour. Soon, I hope you’ll go to Amazon.com and grab your own power copy. I really want you to lock it in so you can get the best discount possible. And when the book comes out, we’re going to spend some time on it. And going to discuss it here more length because of its relevance and importance, I believe. We’re going to discuss it on The Blaze. We’re going to discuss it on Fox, Sean HANNITY, and then on HANNITY Show on a long time. And the reason is Sean has been concerned about my leg and my health. I said, that’s enough for that already. I’m doing great. So he has offered and I’ve agreed that the first major interview, the launch of the book will be on his program. We have to figure out how to do that. Since he’s in one part of the world and I’m in another part of the world, but we’ll figure something out. But I want you to get a copy as soon as it comes out. On power, this book is written for you, and you’ll realize it after you read it. I think you’re really going to love it. When we come back, we’re going to have our friends, Zuhdi Jasser and I. Zuhdi Jasser is a national treasure. He’s very courageous. He gets a lot of threats on his life. He’s the president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy. He’s a straight shooter and he tells it like it is. I think it would have been extraordinarily useful if Zuhdi were on the trip. Giving some advice to the president and envoy to the Muslim world where he could have given advice to the president, giving advice to the other envoy. But he’ll give us advice and information when we return. We’ll be right back.