On Monday’s Mark Levin Show, what’s taking place in these blue cities, like Los Angeles, Portland, Chicago, is nothing short of breakaway government that defy federal immigration laws and the Constitution. Mayors and governors, such as California’s Newsom and Illinois’ Pritzker, instruct local police to stand down, allowing riots by illegal aliens, their supporters, Antifa, and other groups to physically attack federal agents like ICE and obstruct deportations of criminals. The Insurrection Act has been used multiple times in our history, since 1808, by Democrat and Republican presidents in cases like this. Not only must law and order be restored, but so, too, must our constitutional system against these new Democrat Confederates. Also, Dinesh D’Souza calls in to discuss his new film, “The Dragon’s Prophecy.” D’Souza explains that the film counters left-wing cliches about Israel as a colonizer and right-wing critiques by drawing startling parallels between current events—like October 7th and the ongoing war—and ancient Israelite battles in Hebrew scriptures from 3,000 years ago. Later, Gov Greg Abbott joins the show to explains that Democrat Governors and Mayors support illegal aliens more than American citizens. They’re putting lives at risk. He also explains that the world must remember October 7th. Afterward, in the Oval Office today, the President said he never told Benjamin Netanyahu to stop being negative, he’s been great. Thus, the reporting by Axios’s hitman, Ravid, was false. Will they run a correction? Of course not. Phonies and frauds. Finally, Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears calls in and condemns AG candidate Jay Jones for advocated murder of a former Republican House speaker and his children, then doubled down.
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Rough transcription of Hour 1
Segment 1
Hello America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. What’s taking place in these cities and in these blue states, ladies and gentlemen, is nothing short of. Break away. Government. Whether it’s L.A., whether it’s Portland, whether it’s Chicago, whether it’s Seattle. Other big cities break away government. What I mean by that is you have effectively these enclaves of Democrat Party control mayors and city council. Mostly in blue states with Democrat governors. That will not allow the federal government to enforce federal law under our federal Constitution, in this case, the immigration laws and deportation. We now have instances where the mayors have told the local police to stand down. We have now instances, as we saw last night and before federal law enforcement, ICE and others under attack. Physically under attack. By waves of rightist violent Democrats effectively. I call this the private Democrat Party militia where they want. Mostly illegal aliens, actually, but citizens, too, to rise up to take on ice federal law enforcement to prevent the president from enforcing federal immigration law that was passed over many decades. In which he has the constitutional right and obligation to execute federal law. We see this with Newsom in California. We see it with Pritzker in Illinois. We see it in Oregon and Portland, and we’ve seen it elsewhere. Now the president does have the ultimate authority. Under the Insurrection Act. The Insurrection Act. Of 1807 slash 1808. It’s a federal law that authorizes the president to deploy the military and federalized National Guard troops within the United States to suppress civil unrest, insurrection and rebellion. That’s correct. It’s under Title ten of the US Code. You can check it out yourself. It’s an exception, a significant exception to Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 that typically prevents federal military forces from acting as domestic law enforcement. Now the ACT permits the president to deploy troops domestically under three main conditions. When a state requested. So that’s not happening here. When federal law enforcement is impractical due to unlawful actions against U.S. authority. That’s the key right there. Or when domestic violence or conspiracies prevent inhabitants from exercising their constitutional rights. So it’s under the second condition. Under the second condition. Now, this act has been triggered more than you might know. It was passed in 1807 and it was triggered in 1808 by Thomas Jefferson on violations of the Embargo Act. Around Lake Champlain. It was triggered in February ten, 1831, by Andrew Jackson. A rebellion suppressed. A slave. Rebellion suppressed. Jan 28, 1834. A ride over labor disputes in Maryland. Again, Jackson called out the military. It was triggered by Abraham Lincoln, April 15, 1861. The Secession of Southern States. The American Civil War. He triggered the Insurrection Act. October 17, 1871. Ulysses S Grant use the Insurrection Act to put down white supremacists and insurgency. By former Confederates. He used it on May 22nd, 1873. To put down violence in Louisiana after a contested election. Grant used it on December 21, 1874, again to put down white supremacists in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Grant used it. You can see how horrendous the post-Civil War period was. Used it in 1874 to put down an attempt by white supremacists to overthrow the government in Arkansas. Grant used it again September 15, 1874. To put down a coup in Louisiana. He used it again October 17, 1876, to put down supremacist white supremacist paramilitaries in South Carolina. October seven, 1878. Whether it be HAYES use the Insurrection Act. There was a war between rival business gang factions in Lincoln County, New Mexico. Chester Arthur. May three, 1882. Gang Violence in the Arizona Territory. Gang suppression. He used it. Grover Cleveland. November seven, 1885, and February nine, 1886. Riots against Chinese citizens in the Washington territories occurred in 1885. In 1886, he sent in the military to protect them. Woodrow Wilson used the Insurrection Act April 28, 1914, to strike an uprising in Colorado. Warren Harding used that August 30, 1921. To stop a strike. An uprising. A West Virginia. June 21, 1943. Franklin Roosevelt to stop a race riot in Detroit, September 23, 1957. You may recall this when Dwight Eisenhower called in the National Guard. Black students were being prevented from going to high school and Little Rock. September 30, 1962, John Kennedy used the Insurrection Act, siege and riot at University of Mississippi due to racial integration. June 11 eight, 1963, used it to govern Alabama, who forbade black students from attending school in Tuscaloosa? September ten, 1963. John Kennedy used the Alabama National Guard again. To open up integration to schools, to black kids. Lyndon Johnson, he used the Insurrection Act. Alabama policemen were suppressing. Suppressing protesters in Selma. July 24, 1967. Again, Riots in Detroit to put down the riots in Detroit, April five, 1968. Johnson used the Insurrection Act to put down riots and multiple states after the assassination of Martin Luther King. November 24, 1987, Ronald Reagan used the Insurrection Act. I was there when it happened. The riot in Atlanta over announced deportations of Cuban detainees. I was chief of staff to the attorney general. I was the top point staffer working with the attorney general in the White House, among many other agencies. It was a vicious, brutal, violent, bloody riot. And we called out the Marines, actually, September 20, 1989, and May one, 1992, George H.W. Bush in the first since looting in the United States Virgin Islands after Hurricane Hugo, he sent in the military. And the second time, the riots in Los Angeles after the acquittal of policemen regarding Rodney King, he used it for riots, suppression. So it is not unusual to use the Insurrection Act. The United States military could be the Marines or any part of the military to put down organized violence in defiance of federal law and public safety. Now we have governors like we had governors in the segregationist South, like we had elements in the Confederate South, among others. The Democrat Party going back to its roots. Sanctuary City. Sanctuary States Nullification of Federal Immigration Law. Obstructing the deportation of illegal aliens, including vicious criminals. I’ve been talking about this for month after month after month on Fox, on The Blaze, on radio, posting it on social media. And I want to thank people who have finally figured it out and now are writing columns regurgitating what I said they should. Of course, without attribution. I get it. I get it. Everybody wants to be smarter. It’s not the way to roll. But that’s the problem. That’s the times we live in today. So right now, Portland, Oregon and Chicago, Illinois, are breakaway cities. Under the tutelage of breakaway Democratic governors. There’s rioting by illegal aliens and their supporters. In these cities. There is Antifa in Portland. Which is a violent. Violent. Lawbreaking organization. That is attack that city for a half a decade and longer. In Chicago. You have a mayor. Who is a Marxist. Who hates law enforcement. And crime is through the roof. You have a governor who wants to be president. A billionaire who thinks the way you become president. Is this stop the enforcement of federal law. We have a supremacy clause under our Constitution that does not allow these breakaway cities and states. Sanctuary cities and states are trying to nullify federal immigration laws. I’ve said again and again. It’s now violent. The governor and these mayors, the governors and these mayors are essentially using illegal aliens and their supporters, Antifa and other domestic terrorist type organizations. To fight. Federal law enforcement to usurp the federal Constitution. We haven’t seen it this bad since the lead up to the Civil War. Now they’re electing Marxist Islamists who hate our country, who hate it, who hate our founding, who hate the West. All Democrats. Well, no other Democratic socialists, they find support. And power in the Democrat Party. And the Democrat Party operatives, the language they use. They call it the whistle blowing. They’re encouraging violence. Despite the fact. That Donald Trump is almost assassinated twice, despite the fact that Charlie Kirk was murdered, he was assassinated. Despite the fact that Steve Scalise. Was critically wounded and almost died a decade or so ago. Bernie Sanders supporter. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. This death definitely has the stench. Of the Civil War. We’re not there yet. But it has the stench. And that’s exactly what’s taking place. These are not neo confederates. They are effectively confederates for what that word means. They are breakaways. And they’re trying to ensure. The power, the Democrat Party, the power of their ideology. By maintaining in this country. People who are not supposed to be here. By using their power. Their local law enforcement or the lack of use of local law enforcement to help federal law enforcement. To ensure that these people stay. And there’s one other thing that is truly notorious there is sending a signal to the U.S. Supreme Court on birthright citizenship. And this is my great fear that they will intimidate enough for these justices. There is literally zero constitutional basis for birthright citizenship. There’s not a single statute that codifies birthright citizenship. But these breakaway cities and states are making it abundantly clear. That they are prepared to go full bore, violent. And so are there rogue, detestable activists. Radical federal judges. We’ll be right back.
Segment 2
As you know, ladies and gentlemen, there has been a campaign to vilified, by the way. Let me let me start this. I told you the other day I have never taken $0.01 from any foreign government, including Israel. Not a meal at a plane trip, not a hotel room. Not a anything. Zero zero. Not directly. Not indirectly. Not in-kind. Nothing. Now, what amazes me about this is Qatar and these other Arab countries, these other fiefdoms, these other embeds have spent billions on our country buying businessmen, buying politicians, buying influencers and podcasters. Nobody asked them about the source of their money. And they’ve got blood all over their hands. They’re bought and paid for propagandists for Islamists. Now, if anybody prominent accuses me of this, I’m going to sue the AT. I’m the cleanest guy on radio. Well, there’s many of us, but certainly among them. But that’s not going to happen. We’re not going to put up with it. And the other thing is we’re getting hit on my sites when I post things. Some of you were saying, oh, these comments are so horrendous. By firing government bots, particularly out of Pakistan. So just understand that a lot of the crap and the claptrap and hideous words that you’re seeing, some of it’s clearly from domestic sources, but a lot of it is from Muslim and Arab countries. I’ll be right back.
Segment 3
So the mayor of Chicago is about a negative seven popularity poll number just declared ice free zones. So it’s a breakaway city. It’s a city with a mayor who. Actually, he’s copying the worst of the Confederates. Up to and including the Civil War. With his nullification of federal immigration law and their attempt to usurp the president’s power under the federal Constitution to enforce that law. An ice free zone is declared sanctuary city, he’s declared. These are all efforts, efforts to break away from the federal government in this regard anyway. And they cannot be put up with. And eventually they’re going to need to trigger the Insurrection Act, which I just read you. The long list that’s been triggered about 20, 25 times in the past, starting with Thomas Jefferson. Now, before we get to that, there has been a an insidious, vicious campaign against the prime minister of Israel out of the pages of Axios and other places. Probably mostly by staffers and bureaucrats. And the usual. Trashing the relationship between Benjamin Netanyahu and President Trump. And it’s been an ongoing propaganda campaign. From within our government to, by the way. I want you to listen to what the president had to say about this today. And our friend Dinesh D’Souza is with us. And I want him with us because he has this fabulous movie we want to talk about. But I also want to thought about this as he listens in Cut Sex Go. It is reported by actress of the Week in entertainment called Prime Minister Netanyahu. We all have to stop being so negative and to take the win when it came to the masses response to that. Is that true? No, it’s actually he’s been very positive. He’s been very positive on the deal. Everybody is, I think every nation, as we have just about every nation working on this deal and trying to get it done, something that you could say 3000 years, if you look at it in certain ways and you could say centuries. But this is a deal that incredibly everyone just came together. They all came together. No, easy has been great. They’ve all been good to it. And in the negotiations, do you have any red lines in terms of Hamas disarming and whatnot? Are there are there certain things are met? We’re not going to do it, but I think we’re doing very well. And I think Hamas has been agreeing to things that are very important. This is why when I read things in the paper about Israel and the Jews and Netanyahu, senior White House staff, Anonymous or senior officials, anonymous people in the know Anonymous. I mean, I attack them, but I know it’s not Trump. That’s Trump. Dinesh D’Souza. Am I right? Trump. I mean, Trump here is trying to do something that has been attempted for 50 years with no success. I mean, Mark, you and I are old enough to remember the Carter peace plan and the Clinton plan. There have been so many presidential efforts to fix this, and they haven’t even made an inch of progress. And here you have Trump on the verge of doing something really quite remarkable. And how wicked it is that you have people here in America trying to drive a wedge, a poison pill between Trump and Netanyahu right in the middle of this process. I mean, it’s hard to believe that these are people who have the best interests of the US or MAGA at heart. I don’t think they do. Now you’re 100% right. Now, I wanted to bring it back because I want people to watch this movie. You know, I’ve now watched this. I’m going to tell you some. This is a tour de force. This is incredible what you’ve done here. The Dragons prophecy, folks, this brand new film. And, you know, in radio like TV, Dinesh, you know this as well as anybody. People come and go in the audience. You know, they have different things to do. I want you to remind people what this tour de force is all about and why you did it. I mean, it goes back to the Bible. I mean, nobody has really presented it this way. That’s right. We’ve heard a lot of kind of cliches from the left. Israel is a colonizer. We’ve heard now critiques from the right. But what the film does is it enlarges the perspective. One of the extremely startling points that is made by Jonathan Cohn, who is the author of the book The Dragon’s Prophecy, is that some of these things we’re seeing in front of us, October 7th, the war, the aftermath of what’s going on. There are parallels to this in the Hebrew scriptures. You can find these parallels in the battles fought by the ancient Israelites 3000 years ago. Now, when I first heard that, I found it a bit hard to believe but compresses this point with a certain kind of rigor and determination that is just so much fun to watch. He says, for example, that the name Hamas, which by the way, in Arabic, means something like force or strength, but in Hebrew. Hamas means violence. It means destruction. And you find it in the Hebrew scriptures. It says things like, Lord, save me from Hamas or the men of Hamas. Hamas dwells in the dark places. This is straight out of the scriptures. So what we do in this film is we we go back to the past. We also draw on biblical archaeology to authenticate the historicity of the Bible. And not only that, but to show through clay seals and stones and inscriptions that the Jews were in this land going back 4000 years. They are the original or Aboriginal if you want inhabitants of this land. And then we bring it to the present. And we also look at some biblical prophecy, pointing to some signposts in the future. So it’s a it’s a unique film for me because it integrates politics with spirituality, with the Bible and even with a hint of biblical prophecy. And you demonstrate unequivocally. This is the land of the Jew, of the Jews that the so-called Palestinians have no claim to any of it and never have. Well, here’s the weird thing is that the people who lived in Gaza 3000 years ago were called the Philistines, but they are not Semitic peoples. They are not Arabs. They came from Europe. They came from across the Mediterranean. They came from places like Cyprus. And so it is a matter of fact that the that the Palestinians, so-called, don’t have their roots in Gaza the way the Jews do. And what’s remarkable now is not just that they’re authenticating the prophet Isaiah or King David, you will find minor figures in the Bible mentioned in only a sentence or two, and suddenly a clay seal comes out of the ground and it’s the royal steward of King Josiah in the sixth or seventh century B.C. or it’s some guy who was hanging around with King Zedekiah at the time that Jeremiah was preaching against him. So there’s no way, you know, people said for decades the Bible was written centuries later by people who made stuff up and they embellished things. Nobody would even know who was the royal steward to the king 300 years later. And yet here is the seal and it’s in the Bible. And here it is jumping out of the Bible and into the pages of archaeology and history. Hmm. The name Palestinian. That nomenclature was actually invented, wasn’t it? 1965 by. An Egyptian. Well, it was Arafat. Egyptian. Yasser Arafat. But guess what? Where did he get it from? Going back to the early centuries after Christ. What really happened was that there were some Jewish revolts and the Roman emperors to insult the Jews decided, let’s punish them by taking the name of their land, Israel and Judah, and get rid of it. And let’s replace it with the name of their ancient enemies, the Philadelphia stuff. So this was actually an infliction on the Jews by the Romans. And then fast forward to the 1990 in the middle of the 20th century, and this name was picked up. So it was essentially dishonest from the beginning. And it remains dishonest today. Hmm. Are you hoping, in addition to generally educating as many people as you can about this? It’s very propitious. I mean, the timing, it couldn’t be better. But also pushing back on the elements, certainly on the left, the Islamist Marxist elements, but certainly on the kook right, the sort of the denier elements which seem to not only be unloading the worst kind of poison on the Jewish faith and Jews, but also in Christianity with this notion of replacement theory. The replacement theory, I think is utterly radical. It’s so radical not just to some dispensation, all the Protestant stuff. It is heretical from the point of view of mainstream Christianity. I believe it was Pope John Paul, the second who said very famously, I’m paraphrasing and slightly, he says, it is the promised land for everybody. I’m sorry, it is the Holy Land for everybody, but it is the promised land to the Jews. And what he’s talking about here is that the covenant of the Old Testament. With Abraham remains intact. Yes, spiritually there is a new covenant in Jesus. But that doesn’t mean that the old covenant has been repudiated or somehow God gave the land to Abraham and his descendants in perpetuity. And now suddenly he’s changed his mind and wants to take it back. That’s absurd. Hmm. And yet this attitude is being pushed on on broadcast platforms and is certainly embraced by the most sort of poisonous elements out there now. It is. And I think it’s even more dangerous from the right. Look, we expect it to be coming from the left, not to mention the fact that on the left you have this insidious alliance between the cultural left, the kind of LGBTQ left and the Islamic jihadis. Some people have called it the Red Green Alliance, Red, referring, of course, to communism and green to the colors of Islam. So we kind of expected from the left. But this coming from the right, I think is particularly poisonous. It divides MAGA. It essentially helps radical Islam because, look, there’s a street fight. The the nation of Israel is fighting for its life against the global jihadis. To undermine Israel is quite simply to help them the global jihadis. And it’s also to help the cultural left in this country. So how can that be good for MAGA? How can that be good for America? It’s not. And yet here it is being aggressively pushed and a lot of young people are falling for it. It’s part of the reason I wanted to jump Foursquare into this debate. What the film does is it both is timely, but it’s also timeless. It engages this debate. I take the question that Tucker Carlson posed to Ted Cruz. I take it straight to Netanyahu, and I have Netanyahu commenting directly about it, commenting on the Jewishness of Jesus. It’s all extremely fascinating. But then I want the film to move into a kind of transcendental mode where it rises above this debate and gives people, in a way, the spiritual resources for the kind of renewal that I heard talked about at Charlie Kirk’s funeral service, the idea of rising above all this, recognizing that it’s a spiritual struggle, and that ultimately we have to take sides, each one of us, whether we want to be really on the side of God or whether we want to be on the side of the dragon. And that’s the movie The Dragon’s Prophecy. It is a fantastic movie. I want you to check it out today. Wednesday, it’s released in a number of theaters and and online as well. Where do people go, Dinesh? If they want to go to the theater, they want to watch it online. It’s ubiquitous. People need to get their hands on this. Where do they go? The best place to go and the one place to go is the website. It is the dragons, plural. The Dragons prophecy film dot com. It’s in theaters tonight, but it’s also in theaters Wednesday night. And then Thursday it goes into streaming and DVD. You have to buy your theater tickets from the website. You can’t buy them at the theater. You can’t buy them at Fandango. Just go to the Dragons process, be filmed and plug in your zip code and boom, the theaters around you will pop up, buy your tickets, see it in the theater if you can, because I make these films in a highly kind of cinematic and spectacular way. So there’s nothing like being with fellow conservatives, fellow Jews and Christians watching it together. It’s that’s a unique experience. But if you want to watch at home, no problem, wait till Thursday or sign up for the streaming now and you can watch at home as well. This week, Very, very, very important movie must reduce and make sure again that we put up that site. I want to encourage you folks to go to the theater. If you can’t to watch online come Thursday, whatever you do, just watch it. It’s going to have a major impact on you and a major pushback against so much of the lying and the static and the propaganda from the media and self-appointed influencers. Dinesh D’Souza. Fantastic, my friend. God bless you and thanks for doing this. I really appreciate it. Thank you. All right, you two, what a great guy and his wife’s great. We met. They’re part of my family. And he and his wife at this city, a David special event city. David, you know, predates Jerusalem. And. They were they been able archaeologically to uncover more and more and more of it. It’s absolutely stunning. And you have where the where the pilgrims walk, where Jesus walked the poor. Uh, that he used and others used. Jesus was a practicing, well-known rabbi. Raised in a Jewish. Belief system. When you read the New Testament and you read the people who surrounded him, they were Jewish. The connection between Judaism and Christianity. Is not debatable. Not debatable. For faithful Christians who understand this. And there’s a battle now underway between the. The anti-Semites who try to wrap themselves in the Christian church. And real Christians and pastors and others saying, wait a minute, you don’t get to rewrite our faith like you’re trying to rewrite the faith of Judaism. And the truth is. But in the Holy Land, the Israelis are fighting those who have destroyed Christian Christianity in their countries as much as they can. They’ve destroyed it. They’ve destroyed the churches. They’ve killed the people. They’re still working on it in Syria. In Egypt, Christians are abused like hell. That’s the battle. I’ll be right back.
Segment 4
Well, ladies and gentlemen, there’s two very big stories out there. In addition, all the other stories, and that is. That is Jack Smith, the former rogue so-called special counsel. Monitoring private phone calls. The Republican members of the Senate in the House. And when you put that on top of what they did to Donald Trump, Obama and the rest. You can see what we’re dealing with here in America. They throw out all the words, all the cliches about authoritarianism and Hitler and all the rest. These people are extraordinarily dangerous and they’re extraordinarily violent. And they’re getting worse. And I want to talk about that. I want to talk about this guy running for attorney general in Virginia. You’ve heard all about him. Now I want to get into it more deeply. There’s nothing new that I can report to you on this so-called negotiation involving Hamas and so forth, other than to say. Israel. Don’t give another inch. On anything. Don’t agree to anything else. You made a deal. Now there’s additional negotiation. Qatar’s involved. Egypt’s involved. Qatar and Egypt. Back, please. Qatar does back Hamas. Don’t give another inch. Period. What did you say, Rich? I couldn’t hear you. All right. We’ve got a lot more America in this very busy Monday. We’ll be right back.
