On Wednesday’s Mark Levin Show, Zohran Mamdani recently returned from a lavish, expensive wedding in Uganda featuring a walled estate and armed guards, funded by capitalists rather than the government. He portrays himself as the victim while yelling at Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams. Don’t believe a word Mamdani says, he would defund the police and disarm the citizen. Rep Mike Lawler calls in to discuss limousine liberal, trust fund baby Mamdani. Lawler warns that Mamdani becoming mayor of New York City would undermine safety and well-being, harming the city and country. Later, in On Power there were early debates among Hamilton, Madison, and Jefferson on interpreting the U.S. Constitution. Despite Hamilton’s role in authoring the Federalist Papers to promote ratification and his advocacy for a strong national government, he proposed ideas like lifetime Senate and presidential terms, which were rejected. Afterward, David Friedman joins the show to express alarm at the unprecedented levels of anti-Semitism and hatred toward Israel, which is worsening monthly and fueled by media misinformation, such as the New York Times falsely portraying a congenitally ill child as starving due to Israel. Also, recognizing Palestine as a state incentivizes Hamas to continue without concessions, making hostage releases harder despite pleas from families. Finally, Steve Hilton calls in to discuss his run for California Governor and Kamala Harris’ announcement that she won’t run for Governor.
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Segment 1
Hello America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. Zohran Mamdani three or four months ago, a number nobody ever heard of. Zohran Mamdani sounded like maybe, you know. A restaurant or something. Or maybe. Maybe sort of a rash. Mr. Producer, why are you limping? I got his arm undone. I gather I don’t know what to do with it here. As your hand, man. Danny, it sounds dangerous. In any event, Zaha Mamdani came back from his fantastic wedding in Uganda. Very expensive wedding. They actually had a walled estate and armed private guards and all kinds of stuff. The press wasn’t allowed inside, of course. He’s apparently a letting me cake Marxist. Not Amy. Kate Marxist. I don’t think anything that they ate. At that letting me cake event. Was provided by the government and there wouldn’t have been much food there, would there? No. Some capitalist in Uganda did it all. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Bizarre and high minded. He came back at a lot of time to think about how he would present himself after the horrific shooting in Manhattan the other day. He decided. He would yell at Chris Cuomo. He decided he would yell at the mayor. He decided that he’s a victim. Yes. How dare you quote me from a few years ago trashing the cops as racists, talking about defunding the cops. How dare you hold me to account? I’m looking to the future. This is what they are. I’m looking to the future. They’re trying to hold me back. Come on, kids. Come on. Rich white people. Especially you women. You voted for me. Vote for me again. I’m looking at the future. Remember me, Mr. Affordability? Oh, yeah. Yeah, me. I’ve accomplished so much in my 33 years. I really have. How about he tweets better than I just ignore any tweets that you know that may offender won’t help my campaign. And of course, he’s he’s ahead of the curve. The guy’s been very prescient. His hate for Jews and hate for Israel. He was way ahead of the curve. It’s all over the place now. There was a great one over there, but caterers and show wasn’t there, Mr. Producer. The Jews control foreign policy. Gee, where we heard that one before. His hood is off, man. His hood is way off now. But anyway, him for another day. I’m focused on a different. Jew hater. American hater Zoran Mamdani. Apparently he’s leading in the polls by a plurality in one poll, by majority, another poll. Guess what we need? A Marxist Islamist. Jew hater. Perfect. It was either that or a hosting job on MSNBC or maybe Comedy Central. Understand Stephen Colbert is looking for a job. Oh, yes. Zoran Mamdani. He should be able to run the housing market and food markets. He should he be in charge of everything because he’s such a knowledgeable young man, isn’t he? Oh, yeah. He even failed as a rapper. Is that a good thing? I think it is a good thing. Here he is in New York City today. What a disgusting little pig. Cut sex. Go. No matter how strong our gun laws are in this state, we are only as safe as the weakest laws in this nation. And so in this regard, because, ladies and gentlemen, the only way to hurt other peoples with guns. Right. Not fertilizer blowing up entire federal office buildings. No, no, no, no. No. Not gasoline and fire. Was used in Boulder, Colorado. Homemade flamethrowers. Now, come on, Mark. Who the hell is going to do that? That’s right. And besides, are her mom, Danny, and his ilk. They hate the cops. So you want law enforcement? I mean, unlike me, Zoran Mamdani, I have enough money. My family’s enough. My. Well, your high hire private security guards with guns, and we have a wall. How do you like that? Now, you poor bastards who I want to control. No guns and no cops. That’ll be just fine. Won’t in America just fine. Go ahead. As is on all of us too. So it’s not on all of us. Say how I follow the law. I don’t do anything, and so do 99% of the American people and the people in New York. It’s not on all of us. I love this. From the Marxist claptrap to it’s your fault. It’s all of our faults. Now. It’s your fault, moron. It’s your fault, punk, For undermining the cops. Attacking the cops. You disrespect for the cops and now you want to be in charge of the cops. This guy is more dangerous than any weapon. Yes, he is. Go ahead of Alan’s brother. And to put forward a vision of strong vision. We don’t need visions. We need leadership, maturity, knowledge. Not you. I have a vision. You have a vision? Well, then go be a palm reader. You don’t need to be the mayor, you moron. Get rid of the cops, disarm the citizens, get rid of the prisons. This guy’s got it all figured out. If you want to live in hell, he’s got it all figured out. Oh, yeah. Affordability, you know. You know where there’s affordability in North Korea, There really is. He can eat all the insects for free that you can pick off the ground. It’s true. All the tree bark. All the green leaves there for the taking. So affordability and equality right there. Go ahead. And I echo the call from Governor Hochul. Friend. What a leader. He echoes the call from Holcomb, who’s another schmo, right? I echo the call from home. Call it a long flight back from his. From his paradise. Behind the walls in Uganda is his wedding. Oh yeah. Let them eat cake. Let them eat cake, Marxist. He’s going to echo the call of hunger. Well, there’s an effective leader right there, Hugo. Oh, God sakes. In court. Yes, sir. Oh, go ahead. On assault rifles. They’re not assault rifles, clown. Their rifles. That’s what they are. Go ahead. Horrifying to each and every one of us in this room and beyond. But a man with such documented mental health struggles was able to purchase a weapon, leave alone a weapon of such devastating capability. And we know that the consequences of national inaction that we feel them this week in Midtown, we know that they join us in nothing. You weren’t around. You’re in a party on another continent. And ladies and gentlemen, there’s over 300 million weapons in this country. What does he recommend we do with it? I’ll tell you what he recommends. You be completely disarmed. Have no cops. Wouldn’t that be fantastic? Go ahead. So many other places. Right. Thank you. Now, when we return, tries back. He tries to walk back as defund the police. Now, I want to say this to the people who are going to vote for him in New York, which is not this audience, I can assure you of that. But the rest of them, you deserve what you get. But your fellow citizens in New York do not. And those who can leave are going to leave. But there are many who don’t want to leave. They’ve built homes. They’ve built businesses. They’ve built jobs. They’ve they’ve raised families there and they don’t want to leave. And I don’t blame them. I don’t blame them. I guarantee you a majority of New Yorkers are not going to vote for this. Let them eat cake. Marxists, Islamist, Jew hater. That’s right. I said it. And they always fall back the left, aren’t they? Cop hating, law and order hating, American civil society hating leftists on gun control. Isn’t it funny? Like good little Marxist fascists. I’ll be right back.
Segment 2
Yeah, it’s frightening out there in America. Finding out they’re not done with this, Zoran. The Jew hatred now is coming from the radical left and the radical right. And it is constant. It’s coming out of. The media organs in this country and throughout the West. That’s pretty frightening. Pretty frightening. I’m going to talk to you a little later about a report in something called The Independent. That is a newspaper. And they hired somebody named Justin Barra, Garner, Barra, Gioni. Remember who we work for? Mr. Producer Who was it? Mehdi Hasan. Mehdi Hasan is an Israel hater and worse in Google his name. It’s a video out there with them. It’s a real sleazeball punk. That’s right. Many a sleazeball punk. Of the worst kind. So this guy writes Fox News media. Mark Levin shrugs off starvation in Gaza because malnourished Palestinian baby has pre-existing health issues. That’s the title. Of this pic of this sleazeball basically defending Hamas and terrorism. Not a negative thing about Hamas and terrorism. Not a word. No wonder he wrote for Hassan. Another pig. And the same day we have Qatar’s sent out there. All the hoods are coming off. All the hoods. All the hoods are off now. If you want to know who’s what, it’s there for everybody to see. That’s my opinion. And they’re promoted by media, right? That’s owned by a Jewish guy, Dan Abrams. He promotes them all. He promotes them all Must be a self-hating Jew. I’m just guessing. I don’t know. Just my opinion. Let’s go back to the next one. Zohran mandamus in New York City to. Today he tries to walk back his defund the police cuts seven go. And he said effectively, if you don’t like it, perhaps you should retract some of the words he has said previously about police being racist or anti LGBTQ or that they should be defunded or dismantled. So this is a little bit of what Marcia asked. But as you, Roland, reflected that, I feel, in fairness to you about talking about growing and reflecting and always having conversations, he’s growing and reflecting. In other words, he’s a political Marxist. Let them eat cake. Hack is not growing and reflecting is a demagogue is a propagandist. But then that’s the media, what to expect. Here’s what he said. Go. You hadn’t said some of those things a few years back. Now this is all canned. It’s all he’s got, His answers all prepared. Nothing about this guy is sincere, EARNEST, nothing. Go ahead. Statements in 2020. Were ones made amidst a frustration that many New Yorkers held. At the murder of George Floyd and the inability to deliver on what Eric Adams of all people described. As. You know, as he sits there and thinks barely he’s a liar. This guy’s pathological. He’s a psycho. So because of George Floyd, all cops are racist and we should defund the cops. Really? All cops are racists, even the black cops and the Hispanic cops. The Asian cops, the Muslim cops, they’re all racist to. You look at the NYPD, you look at the diversity in that police force. Take a look. So he said these things in 2020 because of George Floyd. So you’re a moron. You’re a moron. So all cops are racists. We should defund the police in New York. Leave our neighborhoods crime infested, our people unprotected. Destroy the cops and their families. Literally defund the police. That’s what he said. Like Black Lives Matter. He’s a good Marxist. He really is. Now, does this make sense to any of you? That’s it. And he thinks this is a defense. Go ahead. Write for all of us to be able to enjoy safety and justice that we need not choose between the two. I know who said we should choose between the two. How do you have safety and justice if you don’t have cops? You don’t have safety or just a studio. Yeah. Murder, rape and mayhem, don’t you? And the weakest among us, the children and the women. They go first. Go ahead. Far more comfortable in the past, whether it be here, the past matters. How I know not to you Marxists. You don’t want to look at the Marxist past and the hundred million dead now. Forget about the past. In other words, forget about history and experience and knowledge. Forget about all that. Stop reading books. Just listen to Mamdani. He’s our new savior. He’s a demigod. Oh, yes. More when I return.
Segment 3
We’re here with Mike Lawler, Republican New York. Pretty close to New York City actually in a a marginal district that tends to lead Democrat and yet he has succeeded in getting elected there. You know, Mike Lawler, I listen to this guy, man, Danny, and he started he’s slick. It’s not that he’s bright. It’s quite the opposite. He reminds me of like an 11th grade Marxist sitting in the back row, you know, in the high school and spewing stupid slogans and so forth and so on. What do you make of this guy? Well, Mark, I actually served with him in the state assembly for one term. We both got elected in 2020. And, you know, he is your quintessential limousine liberal. Do as I say, not as I do. This is a young man who was a trust fund baby. You know, his parents made a lot of wealth. His mother is a Hollywood producer and a Bollywood producer. His father is a Marxist professor at Columbia. And, you know, he has lived a life of luxury. And meanwhile, he’s talking about, you know, seizing the means of production, banning private property ownership, freezing the rent free, busing, government run grocery stores, defunding the police. Legalizing prostitution. And, you know, this is a disaster for New York and for the country. If you have an avowed Marxist, a someone who has engaged in such dangerous rhetoric and and promoting policies that would undermine the safety and the well-being of New Yorkers, and he becomes the mayor of New York City, the largest city in America, the financial capital of the world. This is not just bad for New York. It is bad for the country. I want you to listen to this, he said in June 2021. Now, this is only four years ago. The guy’s 29 years old. He’s an adult. He’s 33 now. He wants to be mayor. So he didn’t say this, You know, when he was 17 years old. He said it when he was in the state legislature serving with you. And was he lying then or is he lying now here? Listen to this. Cut ten. Go talk about defund the NYPD. The entirety of the push is defund the NYPD and refund all of these different social services and things that actually create safety. Social services don’t create safety. Cops create safety. Everybody with two brain cells to rub together know that. What? What do you make of this? It’s complete lunacy, he says. Today, as he came back from his Ugandan wedding. He says today that while he learned that what he said then was wrong, that that was at the height of the George Floyd situation. And people were angry and, you know, he was wrong. He’s not trying to defund the police. But meanwhile, throughout this campaign, he’s talking about eliminating the unit that actually showed up at the shooting at NFL headquarters and Blackstone headquarters the other day. He wanted to eliminate that unit. And he said that just as recently as a month ago. And so then you look at what he’s talking about. How. We need social workers to show up on the scene. Listen, social workers provide a valuable service, but they are no substitute for law enforcement. And the fact is that New York City became the safest big city in America because the police were allowed to do their jobs and go after the criminals, protect victims and enforce the law. Under Bill de Blasio and to a degree, Eric Adams and certainly under Zola on mandates that all of that would be lost and you would have lawlessness and chaos ruling the streets of New York City. And, you know, you can’t fix these things. When I watch this city starts to depopulate, once the decrepit notion of these things start to sink in. People leave. They don’t look back. They go and all the jobs go with them or the opportunities go with them. All the safety, the tax base goes with them. Now, listen to this one also in 2020 about eliminating prisons. So he would eliminate the cops. Look, I’d take this guy at his word. The stuff he’s saying now is B.S. He meant what he said. And even if he can’t get rid of the cops altogether, he will cripple them. He will undermine them. He will limit their funding. He will do things that effectively prevent them from from doing what they need to do. And he’s attacking he’s targeting the most highly trained unit in the NYPD. That should tell you plenty. But listen to this from 2020. Cut 11, go our prisons obsolete. Who come through with the quotes with the titles of the books? I have to say that actually, I haven’t read that as yet, but I think that frankly. I mean, what do they serve? Right. Right. I think we have to ask ourselves that. Which is that? You know, I think a lot of people who defend the Castle state to defend the idea of it and the way it makes them feel. I think this guy’s a psycho. You want to know the truth? What does he mean? The way they feel today? He blamed all of us, by the way, on what happened to those four poor souls, including the cup. It’s all of our faults. Which means he blames nobody. But in any effect. What do you make of this? No presents, no cops. But he’s trying to walk it all back. Oh, it’s the height of insanity. I mean, he wants to defund the police. He wants to decriminalize prostitution. He wants to legalize drug use. You know the insanity here and what you’re hearing, the sad part is he’s not alone in believing this. There are there are colleagues of mine in Congress. There are colleagues of mine that served in the state legislature that agree with him. And, of course, the voters of New York City just made him the Democratic nominee. And so you look at this, this lunacy where you’re talking about what do prisons do? Prisons protect society. Prisons ensure that criminals, violent offenders, child rapists and murderers don’t go back out on the street. And meanwhile, we have a parole board in New York State that has been releasing child predators, top killers, and the worst of the worst over these last few years, precisely because people like Zoran Mamdani have been fighting for, quote unquote, criminal justice reform. You know what criminal justice reform is, Mark? In their mind, the victims are garbage. The police are the criminals, and the criminals are the victims. That’s what they believe criminal justice reform is about. Sky really, really bad. And he’s got a good shot at it because, I mean, basically you have the mayor running and Cuomo running and Sly were running. And apparently at this point, nobody wants to get out. Am I wrong about this? This is the fundamental problem. And look, I’m supporting Curtis, but as everybody everybody has got to take a very cold, hard look at this. And between Cuomo, Adams and Curtis and the other minor candidates, the fact is everybody’s got to put ego aside. They got to put party aside. You cannot allow a Marxist socialist to become mayor of New York City. And the only way to defeat him is going to be one on one. So over the next few weeks, whoever is best positioned, in my opinion, that’s who everybody has to get behind. And believe me, Andrew Cuomo is no prized possession. So many of the problems facing New York were at his hands. He signed Kessler’s bail into law. He signed congestion pricing into law. He banned natural gas and shut down Indian Point. He made New York a sanctuary state. When you look at what Zuma on Monday he is proposing and what he would do if he becomes mayor of this city. It will make Cuomo look like Margaret Thatcher. This is really a problem. And I think everybody is going to have to put their egos aside and unify behind somebody. And, you know, hopefully it’s Curtis, but whoever it is, ultimately, everybody, in my opinion, has got to get behind. Otherwise they’ll run. Man Danny will be the mayor of New York City. And I agree with you 100%. And these Republicans and others who say that’s a great thing, we’ll run against him all over the country. No, it’s not a great thing. He’s going to destroy New York. And other people will say, wow, if the Democrats don’t move hard left and so forth, they’re going to lose the cities. It’s never a good thing to elect somebody, a Marxist Islamist, in my view, and an anti-Semite on top of it and a moron on top of that. It’s never a good thing to elect somebody like that, let alone to the biggest city in the nation, the financial center in the nation, and one of the most important cities in the entire world. I think that’s a huge problem, don’t you? I think it’s horrific. And look, having been born and raised in New York, lived here my whole life, you know, I was in my fifth day of freshman year of high school on 911. New York is the greatest city. It’s a great state. It has been besieged by horrible leaders who have run it into the ground. But on Monday, me becoming mayor would be a disaster for the country because all the bad things that happened in New York don’t just stay in New York and you start you will start seeing socialists, Marxists like me running for office in every major city across the country, and it will be disastrous. So we have to end this in the bud and make sure that he is not successful on Election Day. And that really requires everybody rallying and unifying not by party, but recognizing that on Monday he should not be mayor of New York City. With you. I’m with you 100%. And in a case like him, he can win with a plurality. That’s the problem in a lot of cities need their voting systems. You can have the plurality. You don’t have a majority win a plurality, but you you control 100% of the city. That’s the problem. Mike, Lola, how is your race real quick? Well, we’re doing well. I announced last week that I’ll be running for re-election to Congress. Obviously, my seat is one of only three in the country that a Republican holds like Kamala Harris won. So it’s going to be at the top of the Democratic hit parade next November. And certainly we are going to do everything we can to hold on and win re-election here. I already have seven announced opponents, one crazier than the next. But if folks want to support us, they should text win 28507. My race cost $42 million last cycle. It’s probably going to be about 60 million this. So we need to we need all hands on deck if we want to keep the house and make sure that we enact the Republican agenda. What is that? What’s that site again, please? You can text win 28507 or go to Lawler for Congress dotcom that’s post those Mr. producers. So if I endorse you again, does that help you or hurt you? Absolutely. Appreciate your support, Mark. You know, we’ve done a lot of great work, especially as chair of the Middle East and North Africa subcommittee. I’m very focused on what is happening in the Middle East and your support for Israel and everything that you’ve done to stand up and combat anti-Semitism here in America has not gone unnoticed. And I certainly appreciate standing alongside you in that fight. Well, I absolutely endorse you 100%. You’re a great congressman, particularly from that district, for God’s sakes. I mean, I love the district, don’t get me wrong. I love all the people there. It’s home. It’s home of the Clintons and George Soros. Yeah. Not to love in spite of that. All right, brother, you take care of yourself. Is smart. Talk to you and be well. We will post that. You know, every district is not a you know, it’s not a 30 plus Republican district. They get to fight for these seats. We need Lawler’s seat. We’re going to need some of the others if we’re going to be able to continue the Trump agenda, quite frankly, and fend off this mandate, any type of cancer that’s going on in this country. By the way, I want to thank all you folks that are now buying on power. They’re not preorders now. They’re actual orders. You go to Amazon.com, you order, you get it tomorrow. And the book should be showing up at many of your and many of your front doors. Now, many of them showed up today. Barnes and Noble has a great supply of them. Wal-Mart goes to several of the other stores do. I cannot thank you enough. I am spending really. I started at 6 a.m. this morning. I will end about 11 p.m. tonight and I am every day conducting interviews, trying to explain to people why this is such an important topic on power. You’ve heard with Mike Lawler, I was talking about Madonna. You’re going to hear a story soon about Bernie Sanders that I told many years ago. But I want to tell again because this guy’s all over TV, his embrace by the media, they love him in the Democrat Party, and he’s a Stalinist, not because they say so because he is. And this is where we’re going. You look around, there’s some very, very troubling signs there. Very unsettling. We have people, so-called self-appointed narcissistic influencers. We’re talking about the Jewish lobby, the Jews controlling foreign policy. I don’t think Donald Trump would agree with that, do you? But they sound exactly like them on dummies. And this is a huge problem. It is a huge problem. And people are not condemning them. People are are trying to pretend that they can they can walk a fine line. You can’t walk a fine line. This isn’t a time for a fine line. It is. Absolutely not. Then you have all this this the effects of the illegal immigration and what that’s done to our culture, what it’s doing to our school systems, the lack of assimilation, the divisions, the. The importation of. Of ideologies and cultures that are very destructive rather than assimilating into the American culture. I am deeply, deeply concerned about all of this. All of it. In this book on power. It addresses all of it in a way that. And I think you’re going to find very important. We’ll be right back.
Segment 4
Next hour, I want to dig into Bernie Sanders. You’re not going to want to miss this. You know, as I was digging into this in 2014, I saw that Thomas Hall, who’s an elderly gentleman and a fantastic human being. In 2024. He basically came out of retirement and he he praised Donald Trump as a strong leader. His defiant response to being shot at. I’m a huge fan of Thomas. Huge fan. Grew up watching him, learning from him, reading him. One of the greats, truly one of the greats. And the man who wrote a piece on Bernie Sanders. Ronald wrote that. At the Hudson Institute. At least he was professor At least he was really in his life. He was a member of the Communist Party. You know, we should listen to these people like Thomas Muller. And in his career, he was a Marxist. That’s right. And there were others. There are others. Members of the Black Panthers. We should listen to these people because they saw it from the inside. I hope you check out Amazon.com. If you don’t typically go to bookstores or retail stores and grab your copy of Aunt Power, right now, it’s under 20 bucks. It’s number two on Amazon Number one, non-fiction. A lot of your fellow Americans are into it. I would encourage you to do it or go to your favorite bookstore. I will be right back.