January 8th, 2026

On Thursday’s Mark Levin Show, there’s new information that contradicts what the Democrats and their media have been saying about Renee Nicole Good, the woman shot by an ICE agent. There’s been an effort to portray her as a non-activist, but she was a Minneapolis ‘ICE Watch’ ‘warrior’ who was trained to resist the feds before the shooting. The Democrat party and their media are responsible for this shooting with their violent rhetoric. Also, Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson are the worst type of grifters. There are enemies to people of deep Christian faith, Jews, patriotic Americans supporting President Trump, and those opposing the rise of Islamism and Marxism in the country. These grifters, motivated by millions in profits from a niche audience, have abandoned their past personas to preach anti-Semitism, bigotry, racism, Christian-bashing, and America-hating, stabbing Trump and his supporters in the back while using Saul Alinsky tactics to target, personalize, and assassinate characters, often Jews. Later, 17 Republicans joined Democrats in a 230-196 passage of a three-year extension of expired Obamacare health care tax credits. This extension, unlikely to pass the Senate unchanged, imposes tens of billions in costs on taxpayers without systemic reforms, perpetuating inefficient, second-class government-run health care akin to Bernie Sanders’ proposals. Afterward, Iran enforced a nationwide internet blackout as protests demanding the removal of the Islamic government and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei escalated across cities. Protesters chanted “Death to Khamenei” and “freedom, freedom.”

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Rough transcription of Hour 1

Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here. I think this is going to be a very big news breaking program. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. I’ve heard about something I cannot. Repeated right now until I have. An official source for it. You might say, Well, then why are you bringing this up? Because I just want you to know I’m working on it and think what’s going on in Iran? Is a much bigger deal than the media reporting. Have you seen much coverage of this on television, Mr. Producer? You don’t see much, do you? It’s an amazing thing to me. Amazing thing to me. You don’t see much coverage of this at all. If I weren’t talking about who’s talking about it? So I’m going to keep that in my back pocket until I have confirmation of the kind that I need. I don’t always have to be first, but I always try to be right. But we also have some other breaking news fresh from the New York Post. Now there’s been an effort. To portray Rene Nicole. Good. Young lady. The mother was shot and killed. In Minneapolis as a non activist. I’ve been very careful about how I handle this story. I always try to be careful about how I handle stories like this. And I made the case and the point to you yesterday, as well as online briefly. That the Democrats are responsible for a lot of this, and so are the media, because they had people all worked up. They use the most violent inducing rhetoric imaginable. They’re even doing it today. They are ginning up their base and ginning up other people to take action. ICE is federal law enforcement. They carry weapons. They have the right to use the weapons. They’re not there as the Peace Corps. They are there. To. Get and remove illegal aliens. Many of whom are extraordinarily dangerous or under these circumstances can become dangerous. When you have people who are obstructing them physically, obstructing them, throwing bricks at them, throwing frozen bottles of water, Antifa style techniques. And they are funded these NGOs and these other organizations by billionaires as well as foreign countries. These men and women of ice are under terrible, terrible are functioning under terrible conditions. I’ve never seen anything like this before, but the Democrat Party is behind it. The media are behind it. Certain billionaires are behind it. Certain foreign countries are behind it. You’ve got a lot of protesters who are paid, but you have a lot of people out there who’ve been worked up into a tizzy. And so as I said to you last evening, the Democrat Party does have blood on its hands. The Democrat Party does hate America. They let these people in and now they won’t allow them to be removed. And they don’t care who they are. And I also fear and I’m just being honest with you, that that’s why we may lose a couple of justices on the birthright citizenship front, because they don’t want to deal with this. They don’t want to deal with this. Intimidation can, in fact, work. I’m not saying we will. I’m saying we might. I’m worried about it. Now, we’ve learned more now about Renee Nicole. Good. And that’s why I keep my powder dry. Let’s see how these things develop. I’ve watched the videos from many angles. Who is she? This is from the Post New York Post. Rene Nicole Good. The mom who was killed by a federal agent after veering the car toward him was an anti ice warrior, quote unquote, and was part of a group of activists who work to, quote, document and resist, unquote, the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota. The New York Post can reveal now this is completely opposite of what basically everybody else has said. The Democrats and the media. Good who moved to the city last year, linked up with the antis activists through her six year old son’s woke charter school, which boasts that it puts social justice first, quote unquote, and quote, involving kids in political and social activism, unquote. Multiple local sources said, first of all, what a sick school that is. Turning out a little Marxists and Islamists. It’s a sick. Third World is here. Ladies and gentlemen, in a big way. The article goes on, quote, She was a warrior. She died doing what was right, unquote. A mother named Lisa, whose child attends the same school, told The Post at a growing vigil where Goode was killed Wednesday. Good. And her wife, Rebecca, 40, who are raising the child together and sent the boy to South Side Family Charter School a K through five Academy opened in 1972, which has from its inception been, quote, unabashedly dedicated to social justice, education, unquote. According to co-founder Suzy Oppenheim. It was through her involvement in the school community that Good became involved in ICE Watch. That’s a group, a loose coalition of activists dedicated to disrupting ICE raids in the sanctuary city. Similar coalitions have cropped up all over the country, with activists using phone apps, whistles and car horns to warn neighborhoods. When I shows up, I watch. Activists can also turn confrontational with numerous instances of activists ramming agents with their cars in the past. There is a massive increase in this activity going on, and now you know why It’s organized and it’s funded. Rene Good was trained against these ICE agents. What to do, what not to do. It’s a very thorough training. Lisa said again, this Lisa is a mother that sends her kid to the same school. And it’s part of this whole social justice B.S.. To listen to commands, to know your rights, to whistle when you see an ICE agent, she said. I know she was doing the right thing. I watched the video plenty of times, but I also know in my heart the woman she was she was doing everything right. These are quotes from this breaking New York Post story. Could. A 37 year old mother of three was shot in the head and killed as she spent her SUV in the direction of two immigration officers who were conducting an enforcement operation just south of the city’s central business district. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said the shooting, which remains under investigation, was an act of self-defense and so forth. County worker Kristen. Kristen. Peter, 30, who is also at the vigil, said Renee was on the same ice watch team as one of her co-workers and that she herself was attending a meeting of the group Thursday night. So we have these ice watch teams, which are militia, basically. They’re told to block the ICE. Agents warn the population of what’s going on and so forth and so on. Somebody is funding them, Somebody is organizing them. Somebody is indoctrinating them. The Democrat Party is in on this whole thing. They’re on the same team. They would eat meals together, she said as she waved a little bundle of Sage at the memorial, saying school friend Lisa said a lot of families associated with the school live in the area where Good was killed. According to the Southside Family Charter Schools website, it provides, quote, an academically challenging, socially conscious education of diverse learners and declares it’s proud to offer what it calls a social justice curriculum. You know, this is child abuse. This is horrendous. A photo from its Facebook page shows a dry erase board of students hopes and dreams for the future, which includes, quote, Donald Trump’s heart grows three times as big, unquote. The goods had no love lost for President Trump themselves, leaving their Kansas City, Missouri, neighborhood to Canada after the 2024 election with plans to leave the country for good. They lived in the Great White North for a few months before settling in Minneapolis. Rebecca, who is confronting ICE agents outside the SUV at the time of the shooting, was filmed sobbing. Quote, It’s my fault, unquote. After the shots rang out and she realized Rene had been struck, quote, I made her come down here. It’s my fault, she said, her face covered in blood after rushing to her partner’s aid. They shot her in the head over a six year old in school, she said. Now, this is horrendous, obviously, absolutely horrendous. And we all have hearts about things like this. But here’s the deal. These women put their kid in this school, are indoctrinating this kid. So they’re really ideologically. You know, very committed and radicalized by this. These events are taking place. They rushed the front line of the activity. And. This, Renee. When you’re dealing with police and they’re armed and very hostile situations. And you don’t follow orders. It’s not a reason to be shot. But if you hit that gas pedal with a policeman’s arm in the car trying to turn the car off and another policeman in front of the car who has to move to the left of the car. You’re going to create a problem, aren’t you? You’re going to create a life and death situation. And these men and women in ICE, they have been through it and through it and through it again. I fear for New York. You’ve got Madame me there. I fear for Chicago. Got Johnson there. Minneapolis. He got this. This real head case. Fry, who was there all during the George Floyd riots and so forth and so on. These Democrats cities with these Democrat mayors, Democrats, city councils, Democrat judges, many of them in blue states with these Democrat governors and Democrat attorneys general, they have all been radicalized. They’re fighting for power through immigration. They’re fighting for power through the obstruction of ICE and other law enforcement. They want to control this country. They want to control you and me. They want to impose their will. And that’s what this is all about for them. And then when something horrible like this happens. They try to turn it on the system, they try to turn it on law enforcement. They try and turn it on. Donald Trump or other Republicans who are trying to do something about what’s taking place in our country, which is destroying our country. And the enemy is here. The enemies here. The Department of Education has done us a great favor. Nobody nobody has done more to expose the amount of foreign money going into our schools, our colleges than I. Nobody. Taking what information is put out by very respectable research organizations and so forth, and putting it out over and over and over again. Qatar is a terrorist state. I don’t give a damn what anybody else says. Qatar is a terror state and they bought podcasters and they bought politicians and they bought lawyers and they bought lobbyists. 330,000 citizens in that country, about a million. A million indentured servants in that country that they treat like slaves, like dirt. They pretend to the West that they’re very democratic and they want to help fund and support Hamas while negotiating. What is this? J.A. Qatar is the biggest foreign funder of U.S. colleges for the Department of Education. If you listen to this program, I’ve told you this over and over. I watch my show on Fox. Qatar’s be the largest source of foreign funding for the United States and higher education institutions, according to data displayed in a new U.S. Department of Education paper portal. The portal, which went live on January two, explains that under Section one, 17 of the federal law, federally funded universities are required to disclose twice annually any gifts and contracts from a foreign source that are worth at least a quarter of a million in a calendar year. Tim Walberg, chair of the House Education and Workforce Committee, told Jane’s the Jewish News Service that our college campuses are being flooded with foreign cash, but every single dollar given by our adversary. It comes with strings attached. America’s adversaries exploit these financial ties to steal research, spread divisive propaganda, push indoctrination and undermine free speech. Here again Like I wrote in on power, like I wrote in the Democrat Party Hates America. Like I wrote in American Marxism, my last three books, The Fusion of the Marxists and the Islamists. And they are destroying our country there in our educational system. Colleges, universities, K through 12. Though the radical left teachers unions. They want to come between you as parents and your children. Unbelievable. Everything I’ve said is happening. Everything I’ve written about is taking place. I’ll be right back.

Segment 2
Planning to get something out of the way because there’s a ton to cover tonight. And I’m thrilled that you’re here. Ladies and gentlemen, there are people in our lives who disappoint us, right? Some of you have family members and friends and even acquaintances and so forth. But you got to get over it. You got to get through it. And you have to recognize who they are. Right? Tucker Carlson is one of the most loathsome individuals to ever have a microphone. And a camera in front of his mouth and face. He’s diabolical. He treats his audience like crap. He manipulates his audience. He tries to bring in as many foreign eyes as he possibly can. As grifters do, he’s tied in tight with individuals who are also tied with foreign countries. I don’t know if he’s getting money directly or not. I don’t much care. I don’t know if he’s built that home in Qatar or not. But he’s undermining support for our country. Support for our faiths. And he’s doing it every day pretending. Pretending that he’s MAGA America first. He clearly is not. Megyn Kelly. Is a grotesque grifter. She couldn’t hold a job. She couldn’t make it on cable and network TV. He’s now found her niche. He’s got a foul mouth like a drunken sailor. A drunken Marxist. Yesterday in her interview with Tucker Carlson, or maybe it was this morning her dripping hatred for Judaism and the blood libels where as sick as it gets, you need to abandon these people. You need to you need to demonstrate to them you won’t tolerate it anymore.

Segment 3
I’m not going to elaborate at this time over what I said before the break, but I’m telling you now that these people are your enemies. If you’re a person of deep Christian faith who believes in the Holy Land. If you’re Jewish, if you’re a red blooded American who supports this president. If you’re concerned about the rise of Islamism and Marxism in this country, these people are not your friend. Ben Kelly was praising Nick Fotis today. They interview each other. These people, they promote each other. They’ve got a business model that is antithetical to what you believe and know. They are poisoning the youth even though they’re middle aged. You think they’re edgy? This is a cancer on our public square. A cancer. When our political and governing system. They’re not influencers. They have no influence on the president. He rejects them. Nothing they demand gets done by them because he doesn’t agree with them in, nor should he. This nation is not. Support suicide, national suicide. You have freedom fighters around the world who are desperately trying to throw off these communist regimes, these Islamist regimes. And they stand with the communists in the Islamist regimes. Maduro. Khamenei. Putin. Many of you are veterans. Maybe your active duty, maybe your National Guard. Many of you are police officers, firefighters. These people are trying. To suggest to you that they’re what they were ten, 20 years ago. They’re not. They’ve decided in order to make big money, millions of dollars. In ways they couldn’t make them before. His two. It’s to focus on a niche. Hey, niche. They’re not America first. They hate America. They hit our values, our system. They rode the president. In the last election. Now they’re stabbing him in the back. We have to be able to use our own discerning qualities and character and characteristics. In order to help save the country, whether it’s the Islamist, Marxist Islamists or whether it’s the neo fascist and the and the woke right and so forth and so on. They had the same thing in common, the destruction of our country. This the to try and dispirit us. And they do this every day online and elsewhere to dispirit us. And then you saw Alinsky’s Tactics. We’ve talked about that before, right? To target personalize character assassinate. So they they do that with a handful of people, usually Jews, but others, too. This is. A grotesque burlesque show, if you will. They lie. They spin. And remember the reason you love conservative talk radio, the reason you loved Rush Limbaugh is because he I. We respect you. And we love this country. Tucker Carlson hasn’t lifted a finger for this country in any of our movements. Whether it’s the Tea Party movement, convention of states movement, even in the in the MAGA movement, he just shows up. He likes to be at UFC, likes to be at Mar a Lago, but he hasn’t done anything. Megan Kelly tried to sink Trump in that first debate. It was grotesque what she did. Now she’s riding a wave. Now she’s stabbing him in the back. But even more than that, ladies and gentlemen, these people are stabbing you in the back. They’re becoming incredibly rich by preaching anti-Semitism, bigotry, racism, Christian bashing, American bashing. They can say what they want. But they put out their own videos. There’s an entire record of who each and every one of them are. If you had people like this on talk radio, they wouldn’t survive. They couldn’t get ratings. They couldn’t get advertisers. So they couldn’t get program directors in and media companies to put up with it. So they create their own platforms, many of them. Have foreign excuse me, have billionaires who fund them. I’m going to start my own podcast and I’m funding it myself. No foreign government. No billionaires. Nobody. Not even a major broadcast company. I’m in negotiations right now looking at a contract. They’re talking about you shall do this. You shall not do that. I ripped it up. I shall do what I choose to do. It’s a completely different platform. Do I need to do it? No, I don’t need to do anything. I can retire this minute. My running for office. And I’m not running for office. Believe it or not, this is about. An altruistic, an earnest effort. They’ve had my whole life. To fight for our country. But we have to have the guts or at least the knowledge to to recognize what’s taking place. We cannot have racists and bigots. Destroy our movement. This is the modern day clan. That’s what it is. It’s the modern day clan. If they put on white sheets. Obviously, it’s a wait a minute. That’s the Klan. The fact that they wear expensive dresses and or they they dress like hunters or they wear base excuse me, cowboy hats or whatever. There’s still effectively wearing white sheets. There’s no difference between the Klan and many of these people. Many of them. No difference at all. Now, some of them talk the very clever way. I think Tucker Carlson sort of has this effeminate way around him about him and the way he talks. Years and years of private education. Grew up extraordinarily wealthy. He cares about the little man. How so? In what way? In no way. Megyn Kelly has had more positions than the happy hooker. Except there’s a big differences in their Mr. Produce. She’s not happy. She’s not happy. She’s always in the attack mode. She seems to think. They always have to attack people and and so forth. And so I’m a counterpuncher. That’s one of the reasons I like Trump so much. He’s a counterpuncher. I’m a counterpunch. You leave me alone. I leave you alone. That said, if you’re going to attack my country, you’re going to attack my faith. You’re going to attack my brother and sister Christians going to attack our founding. You’re going to attack Churchill and and trying. Create some redeeming values around Hitler. You’re going to platform Holocaust deniers. You’re going to platform individuals who trash our country and then pretend you’re only asking questions. I’m sorry. You have to be challenged. Ten months ago, these people weren’t challenged and I decided I’m going to challenge them. And now they’re being challenged broadly. And I’m thrilled by including by some politicians, although not enough. Not enough. I’m convinced they’re not mentally ill. Tucker and Kelly and Bannon, I’m convinced. There were. This type of grifters. The worst type. That they will prostitute themselves for a buck. They don’t care where it comes from. They don’t care how they earn it. I’m convinced of it. And that’s the best I can say about them, because if they actually believe it. Then they’re just pure evil incarnate. These are very, very bad people. They hate you, Mr. and Mrs. America. They’re trying to bamboozle you. They’re using the same propaganda and tactics as the Marxists and the Islamists. In fact, they agree on many things. They over the overlap on many things. It’s a big problem. All right. More to come. I’m still trying to check out this information that was provided to me, but I’m not going to give it to you unless I can be 100% certain of it. Because one of the things we never want to be here is used for propaganda purposes. But I don’t think that’s this. So we’ll see more to come. I’ll be right back.

Segment 4
We’re going to do some circling back, but I want to cover a few points here, and I want to explain to you why the right things don’t get done in Washington, D.C. This may offend some people, but in the Republican Party. But I can’t control that. CBS News The House approved today a three year extension of health care tax credits that expired at the end of last year, with a group of Republicans joining Democrats to propel the measure to passage in the lower chamber and a 230 to 196 vote. 17 Republicans joined all Democrats in favor of the measure. The legislation is unlikely to pass the Senate in its current form, but some lawmakers are hopeful it will serve as a starting point for a broader compromise. The outcome came after four Republicans cross the aisle last month revolting against their leadership that joined Democrats in forcing a vote on the issue. This is on Obamacare. Obamacare. And so essentially, they voted to extend the credits on Obamacare. Now, what’s the problem with that? What’s the problem with that? It’s a massive black hole where you, the American people, are going to have to spend tens of billions of dollars. And if it stands like this, there will be no reforms, no serious, extensive systemic reforms. So for three more years, if this passes like this without any changes in the Senate, you’re going to be on the hook for more. This is why I talk about the debt. This is why I say Washington cannot and will not. In a significant way address the death. And this will be passed on to future generations. And this is. Due to Republicans who have these very tough districts, don’t get me wrong. And they are tough districts. And they don’t want this as a campaign issue. I understand that. And they’re also, aren’t they? They want people to have premiums that are affordable. I get that, too. But I think it’s extremely shortsighted. How are we going to get these things under control? You can’t touch Social Security, can’t touch Medicaid. You can barely touch excuse me, Medicare. You can barely touch Medicaid. And now we have this. This Obamacare cancer where people get. Really insufficient second class health care. At a premium price. And that’s what happens when you have government run health care or government run anything which Bernie Sanders wants to impose on all of you. Many of you who have health care plans that you like through contract negotiations or whatever. Those would all be eliminated, all wiped out. And of course, Obamacare was the first step in doing it. So rather than fixing this, getting control over it, demonstrating to the American people that there are other ways. This is being extended for three years by the vote in the House. Overwhelming number of Democrats, four Republicans moved, which meant that the Republican leadership couldn’t block it, and then others joined them, said, What the hell? We don’t want to be seen as in favor of high premiums. It’s hard to try to combat that in a campaign with a 30 seconds 62nd ad. But you and I, Mr. and Mrs. America, we’re stuck with the bill. And a lousy product. Obamacare. This is why the president is not thrilled with this sort of thing. The president is elected by all the people, not by marginal districts in this side and the other. And he sees this. And this president has spoken out about it, but he may be forced. To buy into it? I hope not. The you never know. This is why things don’t get done. And yet they’re celebrating as she we can prove that we can get things done. Now. You can prove you can spend money. That’s what you proved. The tax credits extension was at the center of the government shutdown, right. CBS, which stretched through October and November to become the longest in history. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, a New York Democrat, led the effort to force the vote with a discharge petition. And so there you have it. And for Republicans, sign that discharge petition, got the vote to the floor, had the votes. And now you and I are going to pay more money. We actually are. What’s going to happen is it’s going to be added to the debt and your children and their children going to pay more money. It all will come crashing down. Most of you listening will be dead and gone. But your children and your grandchildren going to have to deal with this. And you know what happens when that happens? The country is destroyed. Because when people are hungry. The people go without the basics when they can’t feed themselves because the value the dollar is is useless. In fact, paper money is absolutely useless. Everything you’ve saved is useless. You can’t pay your mortgages, you can’t pay your bills, you can’t pay anything because nothing’s coming in. Nobody cares about a constitution. The country collapses. We’ve seen this before. This is just another another chink in the armor. There’s nothing moderate about there’s nothing compromising about this. This is a sellout. I don’t like it. I don’t need to hear about the practical politics of the moment. Worried about. The effects of this, the accumulative effects of all these programs are what’s taking place and the utter lack of responsibility. You could not get away with this. If you’re running a business, you can’t run. You can’t you can’t have books like this. You just can’t. I’ll be right back.

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