December 10th, 2025

On Wednesday’s Mark Levin Show, Gov Josh Shapiro associates radical Muslim elements, including imams in Philadelphia, and providing $5 million to their academy, while hypocritically downplaying his Jewish heritage to non-Jews and emphasizing it to Jews, which is diabolical politics. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born intellectual, wrote an eye-opening article on Somali culture, which Shapiro ignores while funding radical Islamists. Immigrants must be vetted for assimilation potential. Governors Josh Shapiro and Spencer Cox are enabling cultural erosion through political correctness. The Islamist belief system is incompatible with Americanism. Afterward, it’s important to educate the young people about America’s history. They are brainwashed by misinformation and by an agenda they don’t understand themselves, only because they were taught to do it. We need to educate our future generations, teaching them about people the unknown people who founded our country, such as Roger Sherman, Gunning Bedford Jr and Daniel of St Thomas Jenifer. Later, Rep Jim Jordan calls in to discuss his full support for the Antisemitism Awareness Act. There’s a small but potentially growing anti-Israel stance among conservatives and it’s worrisome. He also announces that Special Counsel Jack Smith will testify in a closed-door deposition under oath next Wednesday. Finally, North Carolina Senate candidate Michael Whatley calls in to discuss his race.

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Rough transcription of Hour 1

Segment 1
Hello America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. Man oh man. We got lots of stuff we’re going to get into tonight. But before we do, I told you we’re going to have our little Constitution moments and Revolutionary War moments, because I think this kind of information is very important to try and educate, if not re-educate many of our young people in hearing these things. Now, last night we talked about some of the signers of the Constitution. We also let you know that 70 delegates were appointed, only 55 attended, and only 39 of the 55 actually signed the final document. That little piece of information is unknown by most for some reason. We talked about James Solomon in the Revolutionary War period, the main financier of the Revolutionary War, including the Battle of Yorktown, where George Washington specifically wrote James Madison and said to please contact I am Solomon. I have a mutiny on my hands, potentially. And we got to pay the soldiers and get them some food. And we’ve got this this big battle because the French are going to take their navy out of here in about three weeks if we don’t make a decision. Haim Solomon for a little 804 went this and Tucker Carlson. He was born in Poland as a Jew. He came to the United States and immediately in 1775, joined the Sons of Liberty in New York. Enjoying the early revolutionaries immediately. And he was very, very well known but not known virtually to anybody today. And we’re going to get into this over the course of the next year. We’re going to have a lot of fun with this. And I’ve gone through a number of the men now who’ve signed the Constitution. William Samuel Johnson I’m not going to do it again, but we discussed him. Richard Bassett, Jacob Broome, George Read, William Few. Let’s touch a few others. Daniel of St Thomas. Jennifer. He was from Maryland. Maryland is a mysterious figure. Almost nothing is known about his early years. No one is certain where he’s buried. He was sort of a moderate supporter of the revolutionary cause and a regular but mostly quiet attendee to the convention. Sounds like your typical politician in Maryland. Roger Sherman, who actually is quite well known by a lot of people. But just to make sure I want to underscore who he was from Connecticut, he was a self-taught man as well. And he gave up the law to become a shopkeeper in Connecticut and soon embarked on a successful political career. He served in both the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. He was a key man behind the Connecticut compromise. Was Roger. Roger Sherman. Here’s one. Gunning. Bedford Junior. Gunning Bedford Junior, Delaware. A lawyer by profession, believe that Bedford served as an aide to George Washington during the Revolutionary War. At the convention, he spoke passionately in support of the rights of smaller states. He was from Delaware, after all. John Dickinson, who actually is quite known, known as the. Penn men of the Revolution. Dickinson was. A highly educated, articulate advocate of a peaceful solution to the rift with Great Britain and wrote the famous Olive branch petition a heartfelt but futile effort to get George the third to rethink his policies regarding his North American colonies. Abraham Baldwin. Of Georgia. Having served as a minister and a tutor at Yale, Baldwin was a chaplain in the Continental Army for part of the Revolutionary War and then turned to a career in the law. Serving 18 years as a member of Congress and then as senator. I’ll touch on one more and will cover some more tomorrow, of course. Daniel Carroll of Maryland. Daniel Carroll, most of these folks you’ve never heard of before. Carroll at a private life and entering public office in 1781, when he was elected to the Continental Congress, he was a friend of George Washington and an acute attendee of the convention. He made around 20 speeches during the various debates from Maryland. And yet Daniel Carroll is not really well known as he. Then there’s James McHenry of Maryland. An Irishman. By birth. McHenry did not migrate to Northern America until 1771. He put his medical training to good use during the Revolutionary War, serving as an army surgeon and thereafter went into politics. His journal is one of the best sources on the debates that took place during the Constitutional Convention. So we also have James McHenry’s notes. Of course, Madison’s notes were the most extensive. And so we’ll have more to discuss tomorrow. The men who signed the Declaration of Independence excuse me, the Constitution of the United States, we’ll get to the declaration. We’re going to move backwards on this, but I thought you’d find it interesting. I want to play a governor, Josh SHAPIRO, who desperately wants to be the Democratic nominee for president. He is spending a lot of time with the most radical elements of the Muslim community in and around Philadelphia and in the state of Pennsylvania. I mean, radical imams. He’s also given $5 million to that radical imams, I guess they call it some kind of academy or something. So he’s trying to play down his Jewish race with non-Jews and play it up with Jews. I hate this kind of politics for these these damnable politicians do this sort of thing. I mean, Josh SHAPIRO plays up his Jewish heritage to Jews and plays it down to Muslims and others. It’s just it’s diabolical, really. You either are something or you’re not. You don’t have to play it up and you’re not to play it down. But I want you to listen to what he said about Ilhan Omar, about the president and so forth and so on. And Spencer Cox of Utah, who’s the governor there? Most of you didn’t know who he was outside of Utah until Charlie Kirk was assassinated. And you saw his his various public comments, which were actually quite good. But the guy’s really quite a liberal rhino Republican. Apart from all of that. Carl Levin go. I think leaders have a responsibility to speak and act with moral clarity. That’s true of governors. And I think Spencer Cox meets that Mark. I tried to meet it. And I think it’s a responsibility that falls on the president of the United States as well. Well, I think this president not only failed tonight to speak and act with moral clarity by attacking a fellow American, whether we agree or disagree on positions in Congress, but what he does when he attacks a fellow American like that is it sends a signal to others in this country that others can be scapegoated, others can be singled out, others can be targeted, or worse yet, others can become victims of political violence. I think the president has a responsibility here, as do and I agree with Spencer, as do all Americans, to try and lift up the rhetoric and tamp down the hate. And I think the president needs to do better. Hmm. Many of you have heard of Ayaan Hirsi Ali. She’s actually quite well known. She’s a formidable intellectual. She’s married to Neil Ferguson. And they’re quite a quite a remarkable couple. And she was born in Somalia. And she wrote a piece in the Free Press that I want to read to you. About the Somali culture in the Somali community, which Josh SHAPIRO does, doesn’t know anything about. And instead, he gets on his high horse and says the things that he says while he’s funding radical Islamists. So I’m going to take a break now, but I want to read this to you. It’s going to be really. Eye opening, eye opening, and then gets into this issue when when people come into this country, they’re supposed to be checked in advance to determine whether they can and will assimilate into this country and if they come from certain cultures. That simply are not going to tolerate that sort of thing, then they shouldn’t be here. And that’s Trump’s point. And if Trump had said it with all the wisdom of Aristotle, they would still condemn him. They would still condemn him for saying it, period. And these are the people, whether it’s Spencer Cox or Josh SHAPIRO or more radical elements, for sure, who would tolerate the the cultural, you know, diminution of the American system in the name of political correctness. And that’s a problem. We’ll be right back.

Segment 2
All right. Now you’re going to learn something, as I did reading this article from Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a great thinker, great writer, intellectual, just a great American who came to this country from Somalia. And knows the Somalian culture quite well. And here’s what she wrote and is very much worth listening to. All right. Here. Okay. Minnesota takes pride in its restraint, decency and an earnestness that sometimes verges on self-parody. That identity is complicated by the presence of one of the world’s largest Somali communities, which hasn’t simply settled in Minnesota, but is clustered tightly and predictably with the same social logic that governs life in Mogadishu, where I was born. Anyone who knows Somali culture has long known where this would lead. Anyone familiar with Edward Banfield would have predicted it twice. BANFIELD You see the sociologist who conducted the now famous study of a small village in southern Italy argued that some societies are held back not by a lack of resources or brains, but by a world wide view. He called amoral formalism. The villagers of Claremont were neither lazy nor unintelligent. They were trapped in a system that encouraged them to seek the short term interest of their kin, but punished cooperation beyond the family. In his book, The Moral Basis of a Backward Society, it irritated all the right people. It arrived in 1958, just as multiculturalism was beginning. Its a century and it offended the new orthodoxy to a degree that critics all but buried it. The band fields insights are even more accurate today, especially when applied to Minnesota, which is dealing with a crisis that polite society refused to see. Yep, It is a rerun of the reaction conflict over Haitian migrants. Last year when President Donald Trump claimed that immigrants in Springfield, Ohio. We’re eating cats and dogs. Most of the media went apoplectic. His recent description of Representative Ilhan Omar, a Somali immigrant, is garbage, triggered the same reflex. Once again, Trump used exaggerated language to goad progressive elites into defending something that should be indefensible. The bleak state of the immigrant underclass. Trump understands something that both the left and the moderate right have forgotten. That would be people like Josh SHAPIRO and this guy Cox from Utah. Politics is not a dissertation. Rather, it’s the art of emotional direction. He makes people talk about what he wants them to talk about. And beneath his theatrics lies a truth his critics cannot deny. Minnesota is experiencing cultural fragmentation, institutional strain and a near-total breakdown of public trust. A murder rate has surged in Minneapolis. Public money is missing, stolen by local fraudsters, including dozens of Somalis who swiped COVID aid money through a sophisticated scheme. $1,000,000,000 seem to have been pilfered with ease. And one major Democratic politician in the state expressed contrition or even mild discomfort. The theft was treated as an unfortunate administrative mishap rather than a civic scandal. Twin Cities religious leaders assembled Thursday for a long denunciation of Trump. And the tone was predictable, solemn, righteous, utterly detached from the facts. Not one person mentioned the enormous fraud that rocked the state. Not one acknowledged that criminal networks operating within Minnesota’s refugee origin population. The gathering felt less like a reflection and more like a campaign rally draped in vestments. Senator Amy Klobuchar. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and the rest of the state’s Democratic leadership class have perfected the art of missing the point. When Somali gangs terrorized Midwestern neighborhoods and Somali men raped young girls. Politicians avert their eyes, their hapless fry, even butchers a few Somali phrases on local TV. Convinced that linguistic pandering can substitute for the courage he lacks. It would be funny if the stakes weren’t so high. It’s as though acknowledging the cultural dimension of Minnesota’s crisis would break some unspoken covenant. But ignoring culture has consequences. In Minnesota is living with them. To be clear, Somalis in Minnesota are not unique in their patterns of clustering. And the Rigby neighborhood of Stockholm, known widely as Little Mogadishu. Somali businesses dress language dominate public life, and residents endure frequent shootings, bombings, arson attacks, open drug markets and violent gang rivalries. Even worse, the neighborhood produced by world Mohamed Khalaf, a Somali Swedish imam who preached jihad in Rigby before rising to become a senior al-Shabaab leader, is packed, shows how tightly concentrated our lives can generate not only local disorder, but militants whose ambitions reach far beyond their communities.

Segment 3
Let’s continue with this incredibly important piece at the Free Press by Ann Hirsi Ali, scholar and intellectual, An American now came from Somali, was raised in Mogadishu, and she wants you to know about the culture there. The pattern. The pattern in. Just bear with me here. The pattern in Sweden is similar in Britain. Somalis cluster in London districts such as Hackney, Islington, hailing parts of Camden, where unemployment, poverty, dropping out of school and youth crime are persistently high. Some young men drift into gangs like the Woolwich boys, a Somalia linked group notorious for drug trafficking, stabbing a string of murders that unsettled south eastern London. Canada looks similar. Toronto’s Rexdale Ottawa, South End Edmonton’s inner city neighborhoods displayed the same markings. Concentrated settlements, gang recruitment cycles, retaliatory violence. This pattern reflects a dark cultural logic that I saw and lived firsthand. I grew up in a Somali clan based society. Though loyalty to kin was absolute. Loyalty to the nation was theoretical at best when Somalis migrated to Kenya, as I did. The same pattern played out. The shadowy Somalis who had integrated into Kenyan life over decades clashed with newcomers who treated the state is something to be manipulated. Fraud and theft became predictable expressions of an underlying worldview. The Sadducees saw themselves as part of Kenya. The newcomers saw Kenya as a resource. Banfield would recognize all of this insanity. A more aural formalism. In other words, more of family culture is a cultural blueprint assumes that resources are scarce, the world is dangerous, and survival depends on extracting maximum benefit for one’s own family. Nation building makes no sense from that perspective of a road is built. The question is not how will this help the community, but which family will control access to it? If foreign aid arrives, the question is not how to distribute it fairly, but which family will claim control over it. The mindset explains why Somalia collapsed. It explains the dysfunction of Afghanistan, Haiti and parts of North and West Africa. It explains why Minnesota now faces problems it can’t make sense of, let alone solve what Minnesota, Sweden and Britain and Canada all have done repeatedly is confuse compassion with abdication. They assume that if they offer refugees safety, housing, welfare and job opportunities. They will integrate into modern civic life. But in societies ruled by multiculturalism, integration never comes. Newcomers revert to the only social model they trust the family, the clan, the inner circle. The state becomes a distant entity to be milked repeatedly and without hesitation. How many times have I said here on this program on Fox and elsewhere? That the Islamist. Belief system in culture is incompatible. With constitutional Americanism. Now there are Muslims who’ve gone through this. Reformation, thinking process and so forth, like our dear friend Zuhdi Jasser and so forth. I’m not talking about him. I’m not talking about him. And there’s literally Muslim countries that are in modern. Moderate Muslim countries. Indonesia is an example. I’m not talking about that. You know damn well what I’m talking about. Iran, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and more. Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the mother ship Muslim Brotherhood. She goes on. Clustering preserves, trauma, carries for it all rules and recreates the dynamics that spur people to leave in the first place. But it also fuels the logic of retribution, the law of violence, and the conditions in which extremist ideas take root. The good people of Minnesota should be alarmed. Trump, for all his bluntness, grasps the central problem the left does not. The moderate, right, refuses to like Cox, the governor of Utah. Yeah. It’s very, very important. When Somali crime spikes, we’re told not to blame the community. These are individual acts. But when Trump says something provocative, these same leaders claiming he endangers the community. You heard that from SHAPIRO. SHAPIRO when I played his his clip. So which is it? The goalpost shifts depending on who needs political protection. See your point. When crimes are committed, it’s the individual. Even though the community, the crimes are increasing. Don’t blame the community, but they defend the community. Governor Tim Walz, who rushed to denounce Trump, insists that the Somali culture bears no responsibility for the violence tearing through the state. Yet he is quick to criticize the culture of police officers during the riots that followed the killing of George Floyd in 2020. The solution to the chaos isn’t mysterious. It’s what worked for the saidWe in Kenya while work for Italians, Irish, Jews, and countless others who came to America before the age of multiculturalism. Full assimilation. Full assimilation. No clustering. No parallel societies. And you see the efforts also by Islamists. They create Sharia communities, which apparently supported by the neo fascist right to help Somalis and to help Minnesota. We must insist on a civic identity that supersedes clan identity. Those who refuse should not remain in the country. A nation cannot survive as an archipelago of imported codes. Trump’s bluntness may offend delicate sensibilities, but at least he’s honest. His crass comments shocked. But they are. They also expose the deeper flaw in America’s immigration philosophy. If Minnesota wants a future that resembles Minnesota, it must make a choice. It must make a choice. Assimilation or fracture. Cultural cohesion or cultural evasion. A functional society or a patchwork of rival loyalties. And this matters because Somalia is a nation where rape is not simply common, but often treated as routine. Where femicide killing women still occurs. And where accountability is weak. If newcomers don’t undergo a full cultural and moral reboot, that is true assimilation, then they will carry those assumptions into the societies that receive them. The stakes are higher than most leaders are willing to admit. But the path forward is clear. The question is whether anyone in Minnesota’s leadership is brave enough to take it. And the fact is that Josh SHAPIRO, governor of Pennsylvania. That Cox, the Rhino Republican governor of Utah, are not brave enough. Simply not. And few politicians are other than Donald Trump. That is the truth. Here is Spencer Cox and Utah K-12 go book. I disagree with with with Congresswoman Omar. I think she should be voted out of office. And I think I can do that without attacking her religion or her race or her ethnic background. I think that that’s that’s really important. I I know that the president disagrees with me. He and I have had these conversations. I have to say, during the Charlie Kirk shooting, in the conversations we had, he talked to me about nonviolence and and in trying to be a voice for that. I understand he’s not interested in in uniting the country. And he would tell you that I think if he were sitting here with us tonight, you see what a weasel this guy is uniting the country around. What? He has no comprehension. And he doesn’t want to have any comprehension. He’s a political weasel. About what Ayaan Hirsi Ali has spelled out in the Somalian community. And what’s amazing to me is when you look at the Islamists and this is a word that they that they use to characterize themselves sometimes in Islam as in what saddle, I said, it’s all they use to characterize themselves. The Islamists. Have no intention of assimilating to anybody else’s culture. Their intention is to secrete. Themselves in other cultures and destroy those cultures. And this is why he, Spencer Cox, is wholly unfit to be anything more than he is. This is why Josh SHAPIRO should never be president of the United States, ever. It’s not about bigotry or racism in this respect. And if you want to use different language, that’s perfectly fine. But the nub of the matter is there’s certain cultures that people grow up in and they bring those cultures with them and they have no no intention of shaking them off. None. It’s the Palestinians in Gaza. It’s the Palestinians in in other parts of Israel. They have no intention. They raise their children to want to kill slaughter. That’s what they do with imams in this country right now, whether they be in Texas, whether they’ve been California, whether they be in Michigan, whether they be in New Jersey or wherever they are. You are preaching, you overthrow the United States. Who are preaching killing. I’ve posted a lot of this. You can go to memory, dawg. M.R.I. dot org. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. A dear friend of mine, Mort Klein, is the president of ZOA. He is the child of Holocaust survivors. Is a dear friend. He’s a very, very decent and kind person. He was testifying today, I believe, in front of the House Judiciary Committee. But he came in from Philadelphia to Union Station and he was with another friend of ours. Adam Turner’s a big boy, big guy. And. There is sort of a permanent protest taking place at our Union Station. This is the nation’s train station. Trashing Jews, trashing the usual. And he decided to have a debate with one of them and more. It’s not that big. And this guy got in his face and call him a kike. For Jews. That’s like the N-word. Right in his face. In the United States of America, they have these bullhorns. They’re using bullhorns, they told me, right into the faces of National Guardsmen who are standing there right in their faces claiming First Amendment right. You don’t have a First Amendment right to do that. You know what that is? That’s assault. It’s not battery, but it’s assault. You don’t actually have to touch somebody. Look it up yourself in any legal dictionary. You don’t actually have to touch somebody to assault them. Did you know that, Mr.. And if they have the fear of being battered, that is also in many localities in states considered assault. This is the United States of America. This is only been going on the last few years. We’ve reached the point now that there are so many people in this country who’ve been imported into their country by the Democrats who hate it, who will not assimilate. On top of that, decades of indoctrination and brainwashing with a Marxist ideology. And here you have the fusion I’ve been talking about now, everybody. Yeah, you got the Marxists and you got the Islamists, you know, and I was talking about this. Nobody would touch it. They were scared to death. Just like when I took on Mr. Jew hater Tucker Carlson. Nobody wanted it. What are we going to do about him and do anything about him? Confront him? Now. Everybody’s a tough guy. The more the merrier. That’s my view. The more people of goodwill out there, the better. But the problem with the Somalian community. In Minneapolis. Is a cultural problem. And it’s not going to go away and it’s not going to be fixed, especially when you have people like Walz, SHAPIRO Cox, Klobuchar, FRYE The whole. Political. Establishment. Whole political establishment. Both parties. Who want you to believe. That this is a problem with individuals. Except when they don’t want you to believe it’s a problem with individuals, that it’s a problem with the community. This is a problem with a community. Where each individual reinforces. The cultural attitudes and beliefs. That they learned and were raised on in Somalia. And they’re here. And they’re not going to reject them. Or from parts of the Middle East. And they’re not going to reject them. They’re going to use them. There is simply no allegiance whatsoever to America, to America’s culture. None. Zero. I’ll be right back.

Segment 4
Here have a piece In Breitbart, Minnesota. Nearly every Somali household with children is on welfare. Again, not because they’re lazy, but because they want to take advantage of the system for their personal needs and their family needs. The hell with the taxpayer. The hell with the government. The hell with the whole country. That’s her point. More than eight in ten households headed by Somali refugees in the state of Minnesota on one or more forms of American taxpayer funded welfare. New data published by the Center for Immigration Studies reveals that’s a great group size. Now, remember. You’re not supposed to be in this country unless you are self-sufficient. Unless you can demonstrate that you can provide for yourself. The data based on ten years of data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey shows drastic disparities between native born American households and Somali born households. In Minnesota, where nearly 80,000 residents have Somali ancestry compared to zero who had Somali ancestry in 1990 zero. In particular, the data shows 81% of Minnesota households headed by Somali refugees are on one or more forms of welfare, including 27% who are on a cash welfare, 54% food stamp, 73% Medicaid. It’s also a reason why the expenses are going through the roof. I’m going to complete this article, too, later. And when we come back after the top of the hour, and I’ve got another one, too, just just to underscore the point. These are very serious matters of America, and we need to be able to discuss them regardless of what these politically correct nincompoops have to say. There’s a reason why certain communities do certain things. There’s a reason why the Somali community in Minneapolis, 80,000 strong, are doing what they’re doing. It’s not per chance. It’s not by accident. It’s not because of racism or bigotry. It’s because of their culture. More when I return.

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