On Thursday’s Mark Levin Show, the FBI is actively investigating Joe Kent for allegedly leaking classified information, including allegedly sharing secret details with figures like Tucker Carlson and leaking from a government server to a media contact. Will Carlson publicly deny receiving classified information from Kent or texting with Iranian regime contacts? Later, Iran’s pursuit of weapons-grade uranium, 22,000 pounds which is far beyond what’s needed for heating homes, is clearly for nuclear weapons development. We should be celebrating that the enemy is losing, instead the Democrats complain and call it a war of choice. Also, Washington Free Beacon reporter Jon Levine calls in and discuss his story on NYC’s Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s wife, Ruma Duwaji. Levine reports that old social media posts from her Tumblr account around 2017, when she was about 20, show her sharing images and quotes from Palestinian terrorists, including plane hijacker Leila Khaled with her paraphrase of a quote about dying for the cause, as well as content honoring a bomb-maker killed while making explosives and celebrating Palestinian tourists on International Women’s Day. Afterward, who has contributed more to America’s wealth and job creation—Bernie Sanders or Elon Musk? Musk has created over a hundred thousand jobs, providing paychecks, health care, and pensions. Musk’s wealth does not take from anyone, unlike government taxes paid to Uncle Sam. Finally, Sen Jim Banks calls in and praises Trump’s handling of Operation Epic Fury, describing it as one of the most successful and sophisticated military operations in history. He also supports the Save America Act, which is a critical effort to secure elections and protect common-sense policies.
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FBI Braces for Blowback in Joe Kent Investigation
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Zohran Mamdani’s Wife Celebrated Palestinian Terrorists, Including Plane Hijacker, In Social Media Posts From Early Adulthood
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Republicans overwhelmingly back Trump over Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly on Iran war, poll finds
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Rough transcription of Hour 1
Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. We have a power packed show for you this evening. All 3 hours. You’re going to love it. We are aware. Well, something called notice, dawg. And the Trump White House and Joe Kent and so forth and so on. Host Peggy Leary and Jasmine. Right. It’s a legitimate site, by the way. FBI director Kash Patel has privately indicated a desire to make public as much information as possible about material allegedly leaked by Joe Kent. Resigned this week as director of the National Counterterrorism Center. According to law enforcement, Mr. Produce. Would you open your microphone, please? Have we heard back from Mr. Kent? I am still waiting. I sent him a DM yesterday. Okay. We’ve tried twice. What am I, Daffy Duck? We tried twice to get Mr. Kent on the program, including before he. He did a spectacular propaganda Iranian event. With America’s anti-Semite. America’s Christian hater, America’s America hater. That would be Qatar’s. By the way, he charged for that interview. If you wanted to watch it, he had a sign up for his monthly deal, $9 a month. So I said, Look. Friend of mine watched. I can’t watch this stuff. It’s just too stupid. He watched and he said, guess what? Name was the most often mentioned and a lot by Kantanka tiles. And I said, Let me guess. He said, Yes, you, me. And the reason is, you see, Qatar is a real slimeball. So he says, I’m not attacking him, I’m not questioning him, but he wants to put a target on the back of my head. That’s what he’s doing. And I’m not the only one who is attacking others, too. But apparently he’s obsessed with me. Obsessed with me. So is Deep Throat, Mr. Producer. No, I won’t get into that right now. I’ll save that for another day. Did I just violate my own promise? I didn’t say who she was. Right. Okay, So I never mentioned her today. And I don’t know what people are thinking. You know, during Watergate, the deputy FBI director was obviously leaking. Not obviously. He was outed after he died to The Washington Post, Woodward and Bernstein. And they called him Deep Throat. And they wrote a whole book called Deep Throat. And they did a whole movie called Deep Throat. That’s what I’m referring to, of course. Anyway. Let’s move on. Patel believes class declassification could head off accusations that the timing of the investigation into Kent makes it appear as if the administration is retaliating against him for quitting his post and publicly breaking with the White House over its war on Iran. The source said, Look, I don’t talk to Akash Patel now because I don’t like him. I do like it, but there’s nothing to talk about. But I would advise him over there publicly. Openly. Don’t worry about these people, Cash. They have no clout. They call themselves influencers. They’re influencers. Nothing they’ve tried to do to sabotage this country has worked. And 100% of MAGA supports Trump and 0% support them. So we’ve got another poll in the New York Post that I’ll get to in a moment. The FBI is investigating alleged leaking of classified information by Kent. According to two government officials, it’s actually according to for some aforesaid four months, the investigation is complete. The findings will be sent to the Justice Department, which would then decide whether to file criminal charges. Now, it’s very interesting, this guy, General Mike Flynn, who’s turned out to be a real whack job and he’s not the only one. I know all these people who you thought were good, who I defended personally day in and day out. Yes, very. Very absurd. But I can’t control it. It’s them. It’s not us. Now that said. They’re putting things out there. He better not be prosecuted. He not be tried. They’re not saying he didn’t do it. They’re not saying you shouldn’t have done it. They’re not saying, well, let’s wait for the evidence. What they’re saying is they’d better not prosecute. Can’t. So now he’s immune. He’s immune because he undermined the president and allegedly leaked. I’m not done with this article goes on. The defection of Kanter, a former Green Beret commando with strong MAGA credentials. What are the strong MAGA credentials? The guy voted for Bernie Sanders in 2020. He was a Democrat. He switches to Republican now in 2020 votes for Sanders. There’s I mean, he voted for for Biden in 2020. I don’t have any idea. Well, I couldn’t have. He voted for Sanders. You get my point in the general election. So he’s a recent Republican. He wasn’t always a Trump supporter except when he decided to run for Congress twice and lost. And all of a sudden he moved, right? Now he’s move left. It set off a firestorm in Washington. Quote, I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started the war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. So Bloomberg taking the bait and not just them. They contacted us, you know. Is it true Mark Levin lobbied for for the war? I didn’t lobby anybody for anything. Everything I said was behind this microphone and on television. Everything. Everything. Like crazy. I. Tucker said it. So he’s dead. This guy has leaked so much to the media. They work very closely together. You think these are now these woke right types are very close to the media. Politico. Bloomberg. Washington Post. New York Times. Because they trade on this stuff. They want to they want to undermine you and me, Mr. and Mrs. America, red blooded Americans. So these are all grifters and they trade on this stuff and they trade on gossip. They always say, you know, the establishment, they are the establishment. Look, look at the woke right podcasters. They’re the establishment. They’ve been in the media. And by that pretend journalist. Oh, I’m a journalist. I am a journalist. He used to support taking out the ballistic missiles he used to support. I wanted to question him. I’ve got everything right here. Like a good prosecutor. I’ve got it right here. I’ve got my questions. I’ve got the documents. I’m ready to roll. And Joe Kent won’t show up. Now either his lawyer told him, don’t do it. Ecotourism told him don’t, because obviously I would ask him about all his communications with Qatar also. And why not? Our Megyn Kelly. Or Candace Owens or anybody else. I want to know who is communicated with. And I guess he hasn’t leaked. He has no problem. He can say, look, I talk to these people all the time, but I never gave them confidential, classified information. That’s a perfectly legitimate answer. Maybe they’re all friends. But that’s not. Really what I’m talking about is it? But I’m a journalist. I can talk to. Shut up, you idiot. A law enforcement source said FBI agents had determined Kent shared secret government information with disaffected MAGA media figures like Tucker Carlson. This is what they wrote. I don’t know if this is true. I want to know. I put a post out on social media all over the Internet, and I said to Tucker Carlson, Hey, look, look. Just tell us. Just tell us, did Joe Kent provide you with any government information? Did he provide you with any confidential classified information? If not, just say no. Nobody gave me any classified or confidential information. I can say no. Now, what about him? Inquiring minds want to know. Tucker. A second administration official said that Kent leaked classified information from a server to a member of the media. Now, this is why the media are circling the wagons around Kent and around the woke, right? Neo fascist because they all work together. That’s the dirty little secret. I don’t work with these media types. They do, and they’re doing it to trash Trump. Isn’t it interesting, the media? It could be Bloomberg. It could be The New York Times, whatever they know. They know that Tucker Carlson is a is an anti-Semite. They know. That is a Jew hating scum. They know these are Christian hating scum. They know that he is the front for Qatar and Iran and all the rest of it. I believe he is anyway, certainly a mouthpiece. And yet they still work with him. They still work with him. Do you think they would have worked with Goebbels during World War Two? Mr.. Probably right. Yeah. What am I even asking that? Now that FBI nor Carlson immediately responded to requests on Thursday. Why, Tucker, what is wrong with this request? Did you receive any confidential or classified information from Kent? Simple question. You talked about these texts. Now, clearly your text I talked about this last night. You had texts with foreign governments, did you? That’s okay. Did you? For me, my question is focus in like a lawyer, like a prosecutor. Will you texting the regime in Iran in the lead up to the war? During the war? Were you there? An enemy? We’ve declared. That they’re the enemy. Were you or were you not texting with the enemy? It’s that simple. Was he? He clearly was. I mean, at the Sunni was because he was trying to get out. Look at my text there now. And that’s it. Farrah, they’re going to investigate. When you read this article and look, I’m only basing it on public information. I don’t have any inside information. I don’t even want it. I draw my own conclusions and use my own rationality and experience. The guy comes out last week. Well, the weird video looks like he’s you know, it looks like a kidnap video out of Sweden or something. And anyway, and you can see his wedding himself, he’s saying. Hey, hey, hey, hey. You know what? What? Where do you see them? Under investigation. Where it is that the CIA. Excuse me. I can’t do that pre-pubescent stuff where it is. That they’ve been looking at my texts. Where it is. That the CIA released them where it is that I’m being investigated for a fire investigator violation where it is. Really? Why are you being investigated for FA investigation and why would the CIA have your texts? And I told you this at the time, the only way the CIA would have. Tucker Carlson’s text. Is it because he was on their list to monitor? It’s because, as they are monitoring the Iranians in every way possible, because it’s a lead up to a war and it’s a war. And we need that intelligence information. I’m not violating any state secrets. I didn’t say how it’s done or where it’s done because I don’t know what they’re doing. But I do know generally that’s what they’re doing. Why wouldn’t they? Obviously, some techs came away. Look at this. What? Tucker, You know, there’s not many Tucker’s out there. Tucker What kind of name is Tucker? Are many Tuckers out there. Look at this look, which in this text and this one and this. Here’s the point. Talk. Who knows if he texted them and what he texted and if he texted them and said, the weather’s beautiful out there, okay, that’s fine. Nobody cares. But if he’s texting them, something else. That’s different. That’s different. See, this is why they hate my guts. Because I figured this stuff out explaining it to you. I explained it to you last week. I’ve explained it to you earlier this week. I explained it yesterday. I’m explaining it again. I mean, the press if the press said to me we’re now talking about. So Kent went on. They write Carlson’s popular online show Wednesday, his first public appearance since his departure on the show. Carlson highlighted Kent’s longstanding view that a U.S. war with Iran would be disastrous. That’s not Kent’s long standing view. Would strengthen China and the rest. CARLSON Frame the situation, one in which powerful government figures are caught in a lie in trying to silence. So Bloomberg wants to know if I lobbied the president. Now, this happens because this is a attempt to change the narrative. Look at that. Mark Levin lobbied the president on behalf of Israel, but I didn’t. Everything I’ve said is public. Public. Public. I certainly wouldn’t have sex with the enemy. That’s a fact. So I’m curious to know. Tucker can come clean. He already put out that video. That raises a lot of questions, does it not? We’ve got a lot more. I’ll be right back.
Segment 2
CIA director John Ratcliffe being questioned by Josh Gottheimer today at a hearing. Cut one go. If left unchecked, do you think Iran would have the ability to develop missiles capable of reaching the United States? Yes. Did Israel force the U.S. hand and make us take action, as some have claimed? No. Director Garver. Do you agree with the CIA director assessment on that last question? A muscular yes. So Israel had nothing to do with pressuring anybody. But that won’t stop the media. Working very, very closely with its woke right neo fascist friends. Here’s Netanyahu in Jerusalem today. Cut to go. And I want to close these opening remarks with one other fake news, and that is that Israel somehow dragged the U.S. into a conflict with Iran. Does anyone really think that someone can tell President Trump what to do? Come on. President Trump always makes his decisions on what he thinks is good for America and I think what is also good for future generations. But they won’t stop the media. The Woke Reich. They’re planning stories with each other. They’re trying to continue with that propaganda that it was the Jewish lobby and other Jews in Israel. And Ratcliffe says, never happened. Netanyahu says, never happened. Most importantly, Trump says, never happen. But it doesn’t matter. That’s the narrative they want. I’ll be right back.
Segment 3
Netanyahu today in Jerusalem cut three go. Under President Trump’s visionary leadership, America and Israel are acting together in Iran with great determination and unprecedented strength. Operation Rising Line is designed to remove the extra central threats posed by the Ayatollah regime, the regime that is wage war against America and Israel and the people of Iran for 47 years. It chants Death to America, death to Israel, and it delivers death to its own people. Our goals. a31. Removing the nuclear threat. Second, removing the ballistic missile threat and removing both of these threats before they’re buried deep underground and become immune from aerial attack. And third, this means creating the conditions for the Iranian people. To grasp their freedom, to control their destiny. Is that complicated to people? I don’t understand. Of course not. Then finally cut for a go. But I think if people are honest, if leaders are honest, they would understand that we’re not only fighting their our fight, we’re fighting their fight. I speak to dozens of world leaders. Dozens. They all know that. And privately they all say that. They said that privately. But I say publicly the world owes a debt of deep indebtedness, deep indebtedness to President Trump for leading this effort to safeguard our future. No, no, no. You don’t understand, Bibi. You dragged us into a war. I dragged us into a war. The media wants to write that script too. So stupid. Here’s the president with the prime minister of Japan today. Cut six go. And I saw what was happening in Iran. And I said, I hate to make this excursion, but we’re going to have to do it. And I actually thought the numbers would be worse. I thought that it would go up more than it did. But we’re doing a situation where it’s completed. We’re going to have a much safer world. And the prime minister agrees with me, and then she considers it to be terrible. What I think every country does, just about every country does. Iran is a serious threat to the world, to the Middle East and to the world. And everybody agrees with me. I think virtually every country agrees with me on that. So I wanted to put out that fire. And I said, you know, if I do that, oil prices will go up. The economy will go down a little bit. I thought it would be worse, much worse. Actually, I thought there was a chance it going to be much worse. It’s bad and it’s going to be over with pretty soon. Hmm. Here you go. There you go. Cut nine. Cut numbers. Producer, Go. No, I’m not putting troops anywhere. I said cut nine, cut nine. Little world. And the military equipment, the the power of the. Some of this weaponry is unthinkable. You don’t even want to know about it. Oh, you could end this thing in 2 seconds if you wanted to. But but we are we are being very judicious. But we want to do. Don’t forget, Biden gave away. I rebuilt the military in my first term. Biden, who gave away so stupidly to Afghanistan a lot. He he didn’t want to move and he was too lazy, too stupid to move it. But it was a very small I mean, it was a lot, but it was very small relative to what I purchased and what I built. We want to have a good. We want to have vast amounts of ammunition, which we have right now. We have a lot of ammunition. Mm hmm. And finally cut ten. Please go. But honestly, in Japan, China, Europe, parts of Europe get a lot of they roll through the strait. We get done practically with less with less than 1%. We don’t have to be any percent. We don’t even I think we do it just to be nice. But we think of it, we don’t use the strait, we’re defending the strait for everybody else. And then in the case of they know they don’t want to help us defend the strait and they’re the ones that need it. But now they’re getting much nicer because they’re seeing my attitude, they’re getting much nicer. But just as far as I’m concerned, it’s too late. You know, UK wants to send aircraft carriers now. And I said, I want the aircraft carriers before the war. I don’t want them after the war is one. They want to send me aircraft carriers after the wars, there’s practically nobody to shoot out of. He listen to this man. He knows what he wants to do. And yet the media keep trying to act like. He’s a supplicant or something that he can be. Pressured and this, that and the other and so forth. It’s just very weird. He’ll ask your opinion. He’ll do stuff like that about anything and everything, depending on. The mood he’s in in so far, but he makes his decisions. He decided, especially in matters of war and peace. Pete Hegseth is a hell of a secretary of war. I think he’s fantastic. He’s taking some incoming from the usual woke, right? The neo fascist and others. But he’s in a. Many ways. He reminds me of young Caspar Weinberger. And Caspar Weinberger wasn’t as passionate in speaking as Pete, but he. He was a bulldog, just as Pete is. He’s doing a fantastic job. I mean, there’s a lot a lot to do when you’re secretary of war. You’re overseeing all of this activity. It’s on you. All the branches. And they’re having spectacular results. He’s very happy, passionate and excited about it. And he should be. Those are our men and women. That’s a good thing. Everybody’s supposed to be dower. Chin on the ground. Well, I’m always me. No. Our troops are advancing. Our forces are advancing. One tear after another. Here he was this morning. K12 go. I stand here today speaking to you, the American people, not through filters, not through reporters, not through cable news spin. A dishonest and anti-Trump press will stop at nothing. We know this at this point to downplay progress, amplify every cost, and call into question every step. Sadly, TDs is in their DNA. They want President Trump to fail. But you, the American people know better. Yes, there are reporters in front of me, but they are not our audience today. It’s you, the good, decent, patriotic American people. You, the hardworking, taxpaying, God fearing American patriots. The media here. Not all of it. But much of it wants you to think. Just 19 days into this conflict that we’re somehow spinning toward an endless abyss or a forever war or a quagmire. Nothing could be further from the truth. Here for me. One of hundreds of thousands who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, who watched previous foolish politicians like Bush, Obama and Biden squander American credibility. This is not those wars. President Trump knows better. Epic fury is different. It’s laser focused. It’s decisive. Let’s go to Cut 13. Please go. Today, we’ve struck over 7000 targets across Iran and it’s military infrastructure that is not incremental. That is overwhelming force applied with precision. And again, today will be the largest, largest strike package yet, just like yesterday was, as I’ve said, from day one. Our capabilities continue to build. Iran’s continue to degrade. We’re hunting and striking death and destruction from above. Iran’s air defenses flattened, Iran’s defense industrial base, the factories, the production lines that feed their missile and drone programs being overwhelmingly destroyed. We’ve hit hundreds of their defense industrial bases directly. Their ability to manufacture new ballistic missiles has probably taken the hardest hit of all ballistic missile attacks against our forces. Down 90% since the start of the conflict. Same with one way attack waves, then kamikaze drones down 90%. Now the Iranians are still. Shoot, we know that, but they will. Shoot a lot more if they could, but they can’t. The last job anyone in the world wants right now. Senior leader for the IRGC or Basij. Temp jobs, all of them. And to borrow a page from Admiral Ernest King in World War Two, we’ve decided to share the ocean with Iran. We’ve given them the bottom half. Now some people, even people I like that’s cocky that know that’s a leader. Who’s doing very, very well and doing what he’s supposed to do and what our brave men and women in uniform are supposed to do. One more from Pete. I’m playing these because I know a lot of you are actually working when they have these press conferences, so forth. So cut 14, go. Iran has terrorized the United States and our interests for 47 years. Their core industries, not not steel or agriculture. Tourism. Their core industries are state sponsored terrorism, proxy militias, underground networks, ballistic missiles, and a violent messianic Islamist ideology chasing some sort of apocalyptic end game. A regime like that, refusing to abandon its nuclear ambitions is not just a regional problem. It’s a direct threat to America, to freedom and to civilization. The world, the Middle East, our ungrateful allies in Europe, even segments of our own press should be saying one thing to President Trump. Thank you. Thank you for the courage to stop this terror state from holding the world hostage with missiles while building or attempting to build a nuclear bomb. Thank you for doing the work of the free world. Mm hmm. We’ll be right back.
Segment 4
One of my great heroes, Thomas Sowell. It’s got to be about 95 right now. I know he’s not well enough to appear on TV because I’ve asked him in his last book. He has to come on my show and only my show, which is what we did on Fox. In 2010, 15 and a half years ago, he was asked by Peter Robinson, who does a great job as a good guy, was a speechwriter for President Reagan. And I like him. I don’t know him well, but I do like him. And he’s very impressive. He was interviewing Tom Soul 15, 16 years ago. Listen to this. 15, 16 years ago. Cut. 26. Go. Let me ask you this. Do you consider it then, the duty of the president of the United States to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear war? That’s clear to you. I don’t I don’t know what earthly chance we have or the Western world has once Iran has those weapons. You know what? Well, what about this notion of of deterrence? It worked during the Cold War. You know, the the the Russians did not want us to blast Moscow off the bat. The Iranians have said themselves, going back to Ayatollah Khomeini, that that their top priority is not Iran, but Allah. And so if they get into a war in which Iran is knocked out, but they then strike a blow out of there, they’re happy with that. And failing any serious sign that the United States would attack. Would you say that it’s the duty of the prime minister of Israel and his cabinet to order an attack? Oh, absolutely. It’s what they think of how pathetic this is the the fate of the United States of America. It would be in the hands of a country smaller than Lake Michigan. Absolute genius. That was a one minute discussion. One minute. And good job, Peter. 100%. Outstanding. Really good. I like the guy. We love as so Camisole stands with us. Doesn’t stand with these woke right neofascist. You’ve accomplished nothing. Tell me something. Is Tucker Carlson ever even written anything that you’ve read? No. Megyn Kelly? No. Steve Bannon. No. Owens. Good God, no. Go right down the list. They were anything profound other than Jews, Jews, Israel, Israel. Jews in Israel? No. Nothing. Nothing. And what people don’t understand. You understand because you’re you’re in my audience. This is conservative talk radio. This is something that Bob Grant did, something that Rush Limbaugh did. This is the home. Of Americanism. They ignored it their own at their own peril, their own career peril. They don’t understand how big this is. They’re all on the Internet. Well, it’s big. Very big. And. You don’t stand with them. You stand with the president. You don’t hate Israel. They hate Israel. There’s nothing to hate. There’s nothing to hate. Do I owe you something, Mr. Producer? I want to finish the hour one more time with that interview with Thomas Sowell and Peter Robinson just one more time. There’s a ton to do the next 2 hours of the program. Go. Let me ask you this. Do you consider it then, the duty of the president of the United States to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear? That’s clear to you. I don’t I don’t know what earthly plans we have or the Western world has once Iran has those weapons. You know what it’s about. What about this notion of of deterrence? It worked during the Cold War. You know, the the the Russians did not want us to blast Moscow off the bat. The Iranians have said themselves, going back to Ayatollah Khomeini, that that their top priority is not Iran, but Allah. And so if they get into a war in which Iran is knocked out, but they then strike a blow for Allah, they’re happy with that. And failing any serious sign that the United States would attack. Would you say that it’s the duty of the prime minister of Israel and his cabinet to order an attack? Oh, absolutely. It’s what they think of how pathetic this is that the the fate of the United States of America would be in the hands of a country smaller than Lake Michigan. I ask you folks, you stand with Tom Soul and Megyn Kelly. He time you stay with Tom Soul and Nick for. You stand with Tom Sole, a Joe Kent sandwich, Tom Soul or Tucker Carlson? I mean, seriously, Seriously. The President of the United States knows what the hell he’s doing, okay? He knows what he’s doing. I’ll be right back.
