January 21st, 2026

On Wednesday’s Mark Levin Show, the Islamo Nazi Iranian regime’s leader Khamenei is executing protesters, even non-protesters on the streets. The media and politicians are growing bored of this and moving on from the issue despite the continuing atrocities. Economic pressure is insufficient, as Iran’s economy is already nearly collapsed – Khamenei must be eliminated and sent to hell. Meanwhile, the Syrian leader is a mass murdering terrorist, not a reformer – he’s horrifically slaughtering the Kurds while ISIS roams free in Syria due to actions by Erdogan and others. Also, NATO issued a statement following President Donald Trump’s announcement of a framework deal on Greenland with NATO Secretary General Mark Root, which could involve the US gaining sovereignty over small pockets of land there for military bases. Trump aggressively moved the needle through his bold statements and negotiation tactics, sparking serious discussions that didn’t exist. Later, Sen Bill Hagerty calls in and explains that Trump is keeping military action against Iran as a viable option by deploying two carrier strike groups to the region, demonstrating an impressive and unique show of American force. This is a powerful message to a regime that only respects strength. He also explains that the protests against ICE are highly contrived and coordinated. They are attempting to destabilize the country by repeating the George Floyd playbook ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

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Rough transcription of Hour 1

Segment 1

Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. Welcome. Half the country is going to get a slam of snow here. I know we are. Virginia Mr. Producer, as you well know, when my residence is in Florida. Now how? Ridiculous Is that. Seriously, how ridiculous is that? But for reasons I cannot explain. Here I be. Here be at. Virginia. So we will get hammered. I believe it starts Saturday night. And I’m talking to many people who are also going to get hammered. Now, those of you who aren’t, you can enjoy yourselves watching the rest of us, but it won’t be fun. Now. I used to shovel snow. It was good exercise, but I’m not allowed to shovel snow anymore because it hurts my chest, quite frankly. You know. The bypass a few decades back and five stents are not allowed to do. Very weird, Mr. Producer, because when it’s really cold outside and if they walk like 20 yards, your chest feels it because your your arteries here tighten up. And that’s why they tell you if you have heart issues, do not shovel snow. And because it’s it could be the last time you do anything. But I find that to be the case. And I’m under the best care, one of the best of places. And I have been for decades with fantastic doctors. Nothing’s going to happen to me. I’m just pointing something out. You got to be careful out there. And I mean, I’m seeing 10 to 14 inches of snow and I hope they’re way off. Fingers crossed. But I don’t know now where I live. That’ll take about seven years to clear up Mr. Wright issue. Our community, you know, there’s only so much they can hand on. You can understand that this is what they do on our streets. Takes a long time because they hit the main street. So we get stuck here for a while. And I’m sure the same applies to most of you, but. You know, don’t hoard stuff. It’ll be a few days. I mean, we got plenty of toilet paper. No need to get more. I’m just being quite serious. What are you going to do? Be holed up and have a toilet paper fight that way? I mean, there’s only so much toilet paper you can use in three or four days. Just. Just saying. Same with milk. People buy tons and tons. Why? By a gallon or two. And your set. You’re set. But people act like they’re going to be gone from a month or two. They’re not going to be gone for a month or two. Quite the contrary. Now, ladies and gentlemen, there’s a lot to talk about, and we shall. But I cannot get my mind off of Iran and the people in Iran. And I know I know the media have become bored with the topic. They’re moving on. I know leading politicians have become bored with the topic. They’re moving on. The Democrats barely ever spoke about it in the first place. But the slaughter is going on. It’s going on. As I speak and the Kurds are being slaughtered horrifically. Now, this guy that run Syria is not a reform al Qaeda terrorist. He’s a terrorist. And the Islamo Nazi who runs Iran. Was a terrorist. Now the Islamo Nazi who runs Iran, in my humble opinion, needs to be taken out. It’s not enough to close down their economy. Their economy is almost closed down as it is. He needs to be removed and sent to his maker so his maker can make. We can send him to help. Guy’s 86 years old. He’s got more blood on his hands. And one can imagine. And there’s more and more stories. You can read them on the Internet. People who aren’t even protesting, who are on the street, they’re just being executed left and right because have animals let loose now? ISIS is now loose in Syria, thousands of them because of Erdogan and the Islamo Nazi. They run Syria. I see things getting a lot worse in the Middle East, not better. I think Netanyahu and the Seven Front War was enormously successful. But I think post this war. You can see what Iran is doing. You can see what Syria’s doing. And I think we we fool ourselves to believe that the guy that runs Syria, some kind of reformer. Unless reforming means slaughtering in the most horrendous ways. KURTZ Our allies, our friends. He’s no reformer. He’s a mass murderer. And so is Erdogan. And so as Khamenei. And Qatar funds it. Qatar supports it. Saudi Arabia funds it. Saudi Arabia supports it. Again, just because they come to our country and they have meetings and they they play the role and so forth and so on, forget it. Forget it. Now. Abel. Fozzie, Yabba dabba doo. The spokesman for Iran’s armed forces had this to say yesterday. And this is by way of a translator. Got one go. We do not pay attention to Trump’s bluster, and we don’t. He knows that if any hand is raised to assault our leader, we will not only cut off their hand decisively and courageously. And this is not just rhetoric, but we will set their world on fire and we will strip them of any security and leave no safer place for them. You see, any foreign government that talks to us this way needs to be dealt with. But. Needs to be dealt with. Now, I’m hoping still when the USS Abraham Lincoln finally arrives and the rest finally arrive, that will blow this regime off the face of the earth. And I feel like the president is well aware of this. I have no inside information. As time goes on. The whole psychology of this changes just because reporters don’t report about it. People start to begin, excuse me, begin to think it’s not taking place. It is taking place right now. And in the long run, more people will be slaughtered than were slaughtered in the first three weeks of this revolution. And that’s the truth. In. These are mostly young people. As far as the Kurds go, they’re being decapitated. They’re being scalped. These are animals. They’re not even animals. They’re subhumans. These killers, they’re subhumans. These Islamist terrorists. I posted one video where one of the ISIS militia was holding up. A piece of the scalp of. Of a occurred he had murdered. The inhumanity is just beyond belief. The inhumanity is just I don’t know how people can tolerate this, even watching it or thinking about it. I just don’t. And then they keep threatening our president. They keep threatening us. Since when do we Americans put up with this? I’m quite serious since. Never know. We’re going to know soon enough. If we’re going to pound the living hell out of these these regimes, which I think we should. There’s a great piece in Real Clear Politics by our friend Roger Zakheim and Michael Stanton, and Zakheim is really sharp guy at the Reagan Institute. And I want to get into this with you a little bit. And we have a lot to cover, and we’re going to cover a lot. President Trump’s golden defense opportunity. Which reminds me, just so the records clear, the Iron Dome in Israel was developed by the Israelis. They signed a memorandum of understanding with the United States in the late 1990s, early 2000. We were having a big problem with Congress. Reagan was having a big problem with Congress when he first came out with SDI. They kept cutting the funds and making it very difficult to get it off the ground. It was being marked, but the Israelis took the opportunity to actually develop it. The Iron Dome was developed by the Israelis and they’ve provided the technology to us. In addition, as we’ve talked about here, they’re way ahead of every country in the face of the earth on lasers, and they’re now actually putting them in the field. And they’re also using them as part of their Iron Dome defense system. So to our credit, we helped provide them with funds. But you see, people don’t understand this. We get back ten times the value that we spend on these things, ten times the value. They take our F-16, they improve it and they give that information to our. Our military companies. We have a missile system, they improve it, they provide that information to us. It’s one after another, after another after another. These people are. Our battle hardened. And sometimes some of the weapons we have that that have not been used in the battlefield, they use them first and they get back to our production companies and they tell them what works, what doesn’t work, and how to improve them, and they provide advice on how to improve them. We don’t have another ally on the face of the earth like this. But of course, Benjamin Netanyahu is going to talk about what they have developed and why shouldn’t he? And I can prove beyond any anything that they did this. The Rafael Corporation, the general in charge of these projects, they go from one project to another because they have to be technologically ahead of everybody else If they’re going to survive, they have to be. So truth be told, we will be using technology that the Israelis developed to help build our golden dome. And we should be proud of that. They’re our ally. I’ll be right back.

Segment 2
As you can see, it’s taken a while to move our carriers from here to there, and that’s normal. They moved them out of the Middle East, but it’s taken a while to do that and. Like I said, our friend Roger Zakheim and Michael Stanton have a piece that Real Clear Politics, they say Lost in the News coming out of Greenland in Iran was President Trump’s announcement earlier this month that his next defense budget request would total $1.5 trillion. If enacted, this would be the largest peacetime defense budget increase in history, surpassing even the budgets of President Reagan’s buildup. Excuse me. President Trump ran on a peace through strength platform and over the past years exercised American military strength to restore deterrence. Now, for the first time, the president is paring his use of the military with a peace through strength budget. And if leverage correctly, he will succeed not only in weakening America’s adversaries, but also in revitalizing the US military for future generations of Americans. The first year President Trump’s second term was defined by his restoration of deterrence using military force across a spectrum of conflicts. Operation Rough Rider neutralized a non-state Houthi threat emanating from Yemen, while sophisticated uses of force against Iran and Venezuela degraded junior members of the axis of evil. Although Iran is here, the Golden Dome, the Golden Fleet and the Drone Dominance Initiative seek to reinforce nuclear and conventional deterrence against China, a superpower rival undertaking the largest nuclear and naval buildup since World War Two. President Trump’s use of the military has been decisive and operationally impressive, but it has not come without costs. Munitions shortages have complicated missions, while inadequate force structure has left the Navy and Air Force with too few ships and aircraft to effectively operate in critical regions of the world simultaneously, as we see right now. These shortfalls are reflective of a military utilized at a wartime pace, yet funded by flat defense budgets more suited to the post-Cold War era of the 1990s rather than the world in 2026 excuse me, Cholera in the 20 tens. Persistent operations in the Middle East, combined with sequestration caps at home, resulted in a decade of neglect for the U.S. military. Defense planners were forced to make damaging tradeoffs between immediate needs and building tomorrow’s force. The president’s request is $500 billion larger than the Pentagon’s FAA 26 budget and throws these tradeoffs out the window, depending how the request is executed, can result in a 20 to 50% increase year over year and amount to a 4 to 5% of GDP dedicated to national defense. And that’s what it was under Reagan, by the way. 5% will allow the Pentagon to build at scale and integrate next generation platforms while sustaining urgently needed modernization programs already in progress. And what else would it allow? As to be in all sizes needed. Last time the Pentagon belt for both the present and future was the eighties. It was the Reagan budget during Reagan’s second term. Growth allowed next generation technologies such as GPS, infrared precision guided munitions to become ubiquitous throughout our military. It’s needed badly. We’ll be right back.

Segment 3
Well, let’s move to Greenland. I don’t mean move, move to Greenland. Can you imagine? That must reduce or be the snowstorm we’re getting every damn day. I can be like Buffalo, New York. Nothing against Buffalo, of course, but I don’t know how people tolerate it. But we will. We can handle. Now, I’m not a fan of this media website. They just are trashing Trump left and right. It’s become Media Matters. That’s Dan Abrams. And Abrams is a Democrat. He left winger and they have figured out a model with the most hysterical titles as possible. And just stir the pot endlessly and trash Trump 80% of the time, maybe 90% of the time, but they’re right here. Alex Grifter writes A would be Alex Grifter. NAITO released a statement shortly after President Donald Trump announced he and NATO’s secretary General Mark Root, had formed a framework of a deal on Greenland. The NATO’s statement came amid new reporting from the New York Times that the deal may include the US being giving sovereignty over small pockets of land and in Greenland. Trump has recently vowed to acquire Greenland from NATO’s ally Denmark, including by using military force, although he said today that that wasn’t the case. They’re going to need to update their propaganda. NATO’s spokesperson, Alison Hart, released a statement saying the Secretary-General had a very productive meeting with the president, during which they discussed the critical significance of security in the Arctic region and to all allies, including the United States. Let me just stop there. See President Trump. There’s a couple of things that by now we know about him, but others should learn about. He moves the needle. He moves the needle, by the way. He states things which upset the establishment, which upset the media. Which can upset people some of the time. He’s talking about, we’re going to take Greenland, we’re going to push Greenland. And why does he do it that way? Does anybody think he’s going to send troops to Greenland? That’s Anybody think he’s going to bomb Greenland? What’s he doing? It’s the art of the deal. And the way he says these things and then follows up with them like this has hugely important consequences. Hugely important. Now there’s literally a discussion. If the story is correct. About certain sovereignty pockets, small pockets that the United States would have sovereignty over for military and commercial purposes. Now, that wasn’t even a discussion 24 hours ago. And furthermore, I want you to look at a map, pull it up on your iPhone, pull it up and whatever you use. Look at a map. Look where Greenland is. Look why it’s so important. Look at the Arctic. Why are the communist Chinese and the Russians together working so hard? They have ten bases in the Arctic. Ten? Why are they doing that? They’re doing it for their subs. They’re doing it for their for their fleet. They have an enormous number of icebreaker ships. We don’t we’ve now been ordering icebreaker ships under Trump icebreaker ships. Biden didn’t do anything. Of course, Obama didn’t do anything. So the president sees these problems and he tries to address them. And you got to move the bureaucracy. You got to move the culture, which apparently is not. These days. Sufficiently concerned to move the needle. He is. He is. That’s what’s going on. They go on discussions among NATO’s allies on the framework of the president. Reference will focus on ensuring Arctic security through the collective efforts of allies, especially the seven Arctic allies. Negotiations between Denmark, Greenland and the United States will go forward aimed at ensuring Russia and China never gain a foothold economically and militarily in Greenland. Why? There’s about 12 people that live in Greenland and it is a massive we call it an island. It’s really kind of a continent, but it is massive. Much larger than Alaska. And it’s there for the taking in the president’s thinking if a war breaks out. Russia and China are going to take Kremlin really without firing a shot. And down the road they’re going to steal all the rare earth minerals out of there, of which there is an enormous amount which have not been mined. President refused to offer any specifics of the deal. When pressed by CNBC’s Joe Kernen in an interview shortly after the announcement, but said the deal would be forever and confirmed he was dropping the threat of additional tariffs on Europe. The Times reported. NATO’s members discussed a compromise in which Denmark would give the United States sovereignty over small parts of Greenland, where the United States could build military bases, according to three senior officials familiar with the discussion. That would be part of the discussion. But for the fact that President Trump has done what he’s done. And he gets no credit from the Washington ruling class. None. And the Democrats belittle him. The Democrats attack him. Democrats went over to Greenland to stand in unity with the government over there. This is what they do. The Times added. The idea came from Root, a former prime minister of the Netherlands, who is seen as being close to Trump. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive diplomatic matter and said the idea was one of Mr. Roots he had been pursuing through the officials who attended the meeting, compared it to the United Kingdom spaces in Cyprus, which are regarded as British territory. I think it’s brilliant. If they can get that done. It’s brilliant. I really believe that. And. There’s not a Democrat who wants to be president. Who would have thought of it or done it? They would capitulate to the communist Chinese and to the Russians, as they did to the Iranians, as they did to the Palestinians, as they did to Venezuela, as they did to Cuba, as they have to all of them. Let’s be honest. But in this case, none of this would be happening. But for Trump and remember what else he had said when he came into office. Panama’s eyes. The Panama Canal belongs to us. Our people died building it. We engineered it. We built it. Many thousands of people died building that it should never have been given away. And now that the Chinese are running both ends of the canal with contracts with Panama. It is a dire national security threat, and it’s in the Monroe Doctrine, our hemisphere. And we’re going to take it back. So what happened? They threw out the Chinese. And now we run both ends of the Panama Canal. Nobody even talks about that anymore. Nobody except me, of course. So that’s what’s happening. Now the president is asked questions when he’s in Davos. He gave a significant speech, I thought. And he’s asked about. This Board of peace. What if Hamas doesn’t disarm in two or three weeks? This is the one area I’m getting more concerned about, the so-called port of peace, Hamas disarming. We’ve lowered the bar. We’ve lowered the standard. We’ve changed phase two. They’re supposed to do it within days. It’s been now months and months. But let’s take a listen to this. Cut to go. I mean, I think we have peace in the Middle East. There are some little situations like Hamas. And Hamas has agreed to give up their weapons now. You know, they were born with a weapon in their hands. So it’s not easy to do. When they were born, they were born with a rifle in their head. It’s not an easy thing for them. But they that’s what they agreed to. They’ve got to do it. And we’re going to know, Jared, over the next two or three days and certainly over the next three weeks whether or not they’re going to do it. If they don’t do it, they’re going to they’ll be blown away very quickly. They’ll be blown away. You know, we have 59 countries that are part of that whole. Let’s stop right there. Blown away by whom? Are we going to get into a war in Gaza? No. We’re going to set jet fighters over there. No bombers? No. We’re going to send troops. Of course not. So who’s going to blow them away? We’re going to have to rely on the Israelis again and the IDF. Country. 9 million people have already lost a thousand soldiers, the equivalent of 35,000 American soldiers. And they’re going to be expected to go back in after they were urged to get out after the enemy was surrounded there in Gaza City. And they’re going have to go back in. Now my fear is none of this is going to happen. That. That’ll be a claim. By the Palestinians and envoys and others. Well, effectively, they have disarmed so we can go forward. And you got you got countries like Turkey involved and Qatar of that. That is, in my view, absolutely ridiculous. That’s my view. Countries that sponsor Hamas, sponsor Isaias, support Iran, the Iranian regime. I mean. You know what I mean? It’s ridiculous. So we’re going to see how it plays out. In my view. Maybe things are quiet down for the three years that President Trump is president, but it’s not going to quiet down forever, that’s for sure. You now have more ISIS murders. Who’ve been released from prison in the last 48 hours. Thousands of them. Thanks to the Turks. And thanks to the Syrian regime. We have a piece in the Free Beacon that in fact, Hamas is rebuilding the rearming. So it’s going to be harder to disarm them. And, you know, that could be some kind of a kabuki dance or something like that by the Turks and the Qataris and so forth, who I despise and I certainly don’t trust. That’s how I see it. Let’s cut three ago, please. I think it’s the greatest board ever formed. And we call it the Board of Peace. It’s what it is. It’s about a peace. And it started on Gaza. And I appreciate what you said on Gaza because it shows we were involved every. No peace is peace. We have peace in the Middle East now. And you might have Hamas. We have. But you don’t have peace in Iran. You know what? A peace in Syria, that’s for sure. Lebanon. Hezbollah was effectively defeated by the Israelis. Hamas was effectively defeated, but has survived by the Israelis. We took out. Thank God. The nuclear sites in Iran. And they promised to rebuild them. But that’s the state of play. Go ahead. Reframe here and there. But basically that’ll be taken out if they don’t get rid of the guns and they’ll be then they will be very unhappy people. You know, they have no choice. They will be eliminated. They made a deal to get it. You have Hezbollah in Lebanon. We have to do something there and you are causing a lot of problems. But again, the Israelis are doing something there. I think what the president is saying, we’re going to allow the Israelis to finish them off and finish the other ones off. It’s not going to be so easy Now they get to go back in there, house to house al Qaeda, Ali. To do it where I think means the Israelis with our backing and with our military support, armaments and so forth. Those who keep asking why were we aligned with Israel are really buffoonish at this point. It’s you have to be a lunatic to wonder. Go ahead. Well, we actually have peace in the Middle East. And the president was very instrumental. He really helped us. One of the most and we’ve had great help from a number of countries. But Egypt has been great. The president has been great. Actually. Egypt hasn’t done crap, in my humble opinion, except ensure that the Palestinians in Gaza couldn’t get out. I’m just giving you my opinion. I’ll be right back.

Segment 4
The president cut four in Davos. Go. Had we not gone in and knocked out with those big beautiful we just ordered 25 brand new ones, the latest and the greatest, the B-2 bomber take them. They went in there at 2:00 in the morning with no moon, no light, no nothing. And every single one of those massive bombs hit its target, 100,000 pound bombs hit its target, every one of them. And then a tiny good news is when they went in, all the radar was knocked out, all the ground to air, surface to air. Russian missile systems were highly advanced. They were knocked out. By the Israelis who basically cleared the path. And the genius of these bombers was that they went in unnoticed. Very significantly high in the sky with these massive bombs and they pinpoint hit their targets. That’s the genius of this. Go ahead. Hundred miles away, we hit two sites with Tomahawks, which is an unbelievable weapon. So, you know, we did our job. If we didn’t do that, you would have never had peace in the Middle East. And the countries like Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar could never have and others could never have signed anything because you would have had this dark cloud. And the dark cloud was Iran with nuclear Iran. If we didn’t take them out, they would have had a nuclear weapon within two months. They were very close to having the nuclear weapon and we hit them hard and it was a total obliteration. If they may try again, But they’re going to have to try from a different area because that area was obliterated. And let me just say that it was a a historic decision by the president. If you remember back then in June, there were forces within. Now I won’t even say the MAGA movement, these neo-Nazi forces who are trying to hijack the MAGA movement, which in many ways is the old Tea Party movement, to pressure the president against doing that and to pressure the president against supporting the Israelis going to war with the Iranians. None of this would have happened. None of it. Go ahead. We did. And because we did that, we were able to make peace. If we didn’t do that, I would say Jared and Steve. If we didn’t do that, there was no chance of making peace because the countries I just named and other countries could have never signed up if they were afraid. They were afraid. But, you know, put patting Qatar on the head and Saudi Arabia on the head and the UAE on the head. What did they do? Did they do something, Mr. Producer? No, no. The Israelis were on their own with backing from the United States. That was the bottom line. While Europe was demanding a Palestinian state, while our Western media was printing lies about the Israelis committing acts of genocide and starving people. All lies. It’s obvious now. I’ll be right back.

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