On Friday’s Mark Levin Show, a U.S. F-15 has been downed in a desolate area of Iran. One crew member has been successfully rescued, while search efforts continue for the second. President Trump declined to discuss specifics of the ongoing search and rescue operation and said that the incident would not affect negotiations with Iran. Also, the White House has requested $1.5 trillion for defense in the new budget. This is a great proposal – national defense is the federal government’s top responsibility. Later, the Democrats are telling us, repeatedly, that if they win the House, they will impeach the president and conduct a reign of terror against all who work for him, all who have worked for him, and do everything possible to cripple his presidency. We should not roll over and play dead as they burn down the country. Afterward, Mayor Zohran Mamdani released an Easter statement that completely omitted any mention of Jesus Christ, despite Easter specifically celebrating Christ’s death and resurrection. This statement was issued intentionally on Good Friday, part of a deliberate pattern by the Muslim mayor of New York City. Finally, Col Allen West calls in to give an update on how the military is conducting their search and rescue mission for the missing F-15 fighter pilot. He also expresses his annoyance at the media Iran war coverage, viewing it as unconscionable criticism during active operations, akin to opposing troops on D-Day.
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White House Seeks $1.5 Trillion for Defense in New Budget Request
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GOP Rep. Stutzman: Can’t Leave 400 KG of Enriched Uranium in Iran if IRGC, Ayatollah in Power
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Zohran Mamdani Omits Jesus’s Name in Good Friday Message: ‘We Mark a Day of Sacrifice’
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Segment 1
As you know, a. Down fighter jet. We have here and we just went up to date. There’s nothing new over the last few hours. Down the US fighter jet. There was a search for one of the crew members. One of the other crew members has already been found successfully rescued. It’s in a fairly desolate area. It happened at night. It is now about 1 a.m. in change. In Iran. The feeling is that they will find him. The U.S. intelligence and satellites and everything we have is looking for him. As are the Israelis. So there’s that. And if we have any new information, I’ll let you know. In our three, we’re going to have our friend Allen West on the program to talk to this. Talk to us about this. As you know, he’s a hardened combat veteran. And we will talk to him. He’s also a great guy. So there’s that. In an over media mediaite one of the most disreputable sites. And yet there is an interview there that they point out. Garrett Haake, very nice, reported NBC News Live blog this afternoon in a brief phone interview. President Trump refused to discuss the specifics of ongoing search and rescue efforts in Iran after an American jet was down. What did he expect? The idiot? What did you expect? But he expressed frustration about some of the coverage of what is plainly an intense and sensitive military operation. Asked if today’s events will affect any negotiations with Iran. The president said it would not. No, not at all. No, it’s war. We’re in a war, Garrett. The president really does have his head screwed on, right? You know, the really does. And you look at Iraq, all the planes that went down and so forth. That’s not to diminish this. It’s just to put some context into this. And context is important. Now everything is is on the move to try and find this member. And I feel they’re going to find him and hopefully alive and well. I think they’re going to find it before the Iranians. It’s not any populated area and so forth. And what I’ve been watching and hearing is what they basically will do is figure out a radius in which he’s likely to be and then protect that radius from the Iranians and others. With gunships, with the helicopters, with whatever is needed, with whatever is needed. The president also posted a true social as the search continued for the American pilot who ejected more than 15 hours ago. Keep the oil and he won Trump’s second truth post of the day. And he’s been pressuring countries that rely on the Strait of Hormuz for the majority of their oil to retake the strait from Iran, which has been blocking shipments with mines and missile strikes. And I don’t know why they don’t. Other than half a or so slashed their defense budgets, they don’t have much of a navy, I guess. I guess. And so that’s where we stand. And we are monitoring the wire services. And if something changes, you will be the first to know, as in any news breaking evening when I’m on the air, we monitor our news wires that are out there, several of them. If there’s any change, you will be the first to know. That’s the situation right now, and it will change eventually. That’s for sure. Now, let me get this also. Bear with me, folks. Bear with me. Bear with me. Are the phones working today? Rich? Okay, Well, we have that going for us. Let’s see here. Well, that’s weird. You know, we’re taking a lot of outside hits on our equipment. I’m taking it on my laptop. I’m taking it on everything else. Makes you wonder, doesn’t it? Makes me wonder. Anyway. Hold on one second. I seem to be one of the enemy number one. Enemies of the enemy. Okay. Here we are. Here we are. Okay. White House seats 1.5 trillion for defense in the new budget request we’re touching on Iran. I figured I’d mention this. Something I support. Strongly. Strongly. The request, which arrived as part of President Trump’s new budget, would amount to roughly a 40% increase from what the United States spent on the Pentagon this fiscal year. Now, what they don’t tell you is the percentage of the GDP. It would be about what Reagan spent. It would be about what Reagan spent to rebuild our military. So when they say, wow, look at that, it’s 40% increase. It may be 40, could be 33, could be 41. I don’t know. But that’s what’s going on. The administration cut the proposal with a call for 73 billions in cuts spread across many domestic agencies. Good. And then they put out ones that they hope will annoy people. Of course, the Democrats are defunding TSA. The president stepped in to fix that. But that doesn’t bother The New York Times too much. The idea some to a fiscal blueprint that could add trillions of dollars to the brimming federal debt. Now, do they ever mention now when they talk about Obamacare or massive new spending for some massive wave of illegal immigrants that they would care about the brimming federal debt? Of course not. So the number one responsibility of our government is to keep us safe and secure. States can’t do that. Cities can’t do that. We can’t do that as individuals. That is the number one responsibility of the federal government. Period. Number one. And so we rely on them to do it. And you can see we need shipbuilding. I mean, we’re so behind on ships, it’s not even funny. And we need people who are skilled in that. And we’re trying to do all that. And Trump’s trying to do all the right things associated with that. Very, very important. We need ship. We don’t even have much of a commercial shipbuilding industry anymore. That’s really shocking when you consider we have an Atlantic Ocean and a Pacific Ocean off each coast, right? And that some of these other countries, particularly China, have a massive navy and they’re building it up massively even more. So it’s a big deal. Mr. Trump, they say, urge Congress to approve most of his new defense money more than 1.1 trillion. To enact the remaining 350 billion using the same special legislative tactic that allowed Republicans to clinch their tax cuts in 2025. Such a move could also enable GOP leaders to boost funding for the president’s mass deportations, despite Democrats objections. So if you really want to know what the Democrats are thinking. You read The New York Times, you read Politico, you read Axios, you read all this crap. But I just wanted to point out, I think the president is doing the right thing. We need to do this. And we also need to cut other parts of the budget significantly. Significantly. I’ll be right back.
Segment 2
We have Marlin Stutzman, Republican of Indiana, on CNN today. Let’s listen to what he has to say. I believe we supported him once for the Senate, didn’t we? Or the House? Mr.. Is three years ago. Cut to go. All kinds of watchdogs say Iran’s got about 400 kilograms of enriched uranium nuclear material buried in Esfahan. It’s still there. It was there before the war began. It’s there now. And last night, the president said, I think the plan is to watch it by satellite. Do you think that that is satisfactory? Does that satisfy you if the United States ends this war and there’s still 400 kilograms of enriched nuclear material in Esfahan, is that a win? Not as long as this regime is still in power. I mean, we should never trust this regime. This has been going on for 40 years. And if the IRGC and the Ayatollah are still in power in Iran, it will always be a problem because these guys are they are true believers that if you don’t agree with them and their religious beliefs, that they are going to some either, you know, eliminate the person or they’re going to get a nuclear bomb in order to leverage the rest of the world. And so I think that this there has to be a regime change here. I am not afraid to say it because we know that this regime has been. Yes. And I say right now, I agree with this. This congressman, they got to go. They got to go. Go ahead. Seem change. Does that mean you don’t think there has been? Because the president said last night there was regime change? Well, and again, I mean, I wish these reporters would stop playing gotcha and get serious. Okay. The president said that you’re talking to a member of the House. Why does he want regime change? You don’t pursue it. What does he mean by regime change? You don’t pursue it. How would he pursue regime change? You don’t ask him. Instead, it is endless. Gotcha. Which is why CNN sucks. Why all the media suck? Go ahead. I do. And who he’s talking to and how he is negotiating with the people in Iran. So if he is comfortable with a new person that’s taking power, then that’s that is a new leadership in Iran. And I think that that’s what’s important. We can’t let the old guys stay in power. We have to let the Iranian people have their country back. It also creates an ally in the Middle East. It brings stability to the Middle East. You know, watching the Gulf states stepping up through this conflict is really remarkable. This wouldn’t have happened ten years ago. And to have Qatar and Saudi Arabia, Israel all working for the same goal here to take off the head of the snake is truly remarkable. And I think that that’s that’s what I mean when I say there’s got to be somebody new. It’s exactly right. No, I first brought up this issue publicly of the enriched uranium that is used for nuclear bombs, the 60% and 90% that it’s buried deep under the ground, that our bombers have siphoned it up and so forth and so on. But it’s still there. And I surmised that that’s why the president, in part, in addition to the Straits, is sending and talking about special ops and the 82nd Airborne and the special Ops in particular, they are trained to do this sort of thing, even though it’s complicated. And so they’ve been training for decades to do this sort of thing. Nobody again diminishes the. Complications involved. But then on the other hand, that’s one of the things the military practices to do, trained to do. I brought it up, pointed out what I thought was something important. And then we get Mark Levin says we should send troops into Iran to get the enriched nuclear material. Maybe we should. We’re not talking about sending a massive numbers of infantry. Maybe we should. I mean, they maybe they have to go into these places to destroy the uranium or extract it. And maybe we should. But I don’t know. But why would we take it off the table? And that’s what I know. Why would we take it off the table? And I should be worried to bring it up because of the word warmonger. They called Harry Truman a warmonger when he dropped two atomic bombs, they called. More than him. Theodore Roosevelt, a warmonger. They called Woodrow Wilson because of World War One a warmonger. They called FDR a warmonger. Truman, a warmonger. Johnson A warmonger. Nixon A warmonger. The Bushes were warmongers, they said. Reagan was a warmonger. And now Donald Trump, you see, is a warmonger. No rational distinctions are discernment between different situations. This is why I always talk about prudence over ideology. You’ve got to look at the facts. You got to look at the situation there unique in each case. And so everything is not Afghanistan. Everything is not Vietnam. Everything is not Iraq. Everything is not World War Two. Everything is not, you know, the civil War. Some things are different. A lot of things are different. This case is different. It’s not a forever war and it’s not going to be a forever war. President is not a warmonger. And I’m sick of these comedian podcasters and these broadcasters who’ve done nothing but then broadcasters who’ve done nothing and contributed nothing. Telling us like they’re leftists, like they’re part of the Marxist Islamist coalition. No, no, no. We can’t do this and we can’t do that. And we shouldn’t do this and we shouldn’t do that. It’s really quite preposterous. So we should take everything off the table. Everything. And just leave it to the Iranians to decide. Now, that is suicide. That is suicide. And we’ve got to do what’s right for us, for our children and our grandchildren. That’s what we need to do. This guy, Chris Van Hollen, is a liar. He’s a psycho. Absolute psycho. He’s in the media all the time pushing his pablum. The Democrats have no rational way to stop the Iranians. They’ve appeased them. They have funded them. They gave them a deal where they’d actually get nuclear weapons in 10 to 15 years. They’d have them right now. For the Iranians. It wasn’t fast enough, so they violated that deal. Then we have Biden that lifted sanctions. So they got 140, $180 billion. To help build up their their war machine. So they have no earthly idea on how to deal with this, any of it. Quite the opposite. And so everything Trump does. Every way Trump does it. Whenever Trump does it. Is not only a blunder, they say it’s an impeachable offense. And I’ve about had it up to here. I’m sick and tired of it. And we got this one reprobate. Ro Khanna on me now, yesterday talking about how they’re going to impeach the president as soon as they take the house. I’ll be right back.
Segment 3
Look, the Democrats are telling us repeatedly that if they win the House, they will impeach the president and conduct a reign of terror against all who work for him and all who have worked for him and do everything possible to cripple his presidency. Now, what are we going to do about that and how are we going to prepare to confront this? How are we going to prepare Mr. Produce or no down there? How are we going to prepare to confront this? I don’t expect on the spot immediate answers. But I do think we should roll over. We should not. Mr. Peters, I do think we should not roll over and play dead as they burn down the country either. I’m just correcting some of the things that I wrote for Mr. Producer there. Sorry about that, Rich, but it’s we should not. And so I’m going to start talking about this more and more. I’m going to start talking about this on Liberty’s voice to get into some specifics. And I may not be able to actually get into here on our video podcast. And we’ll certainly do it online as well. But we don’t have to roll over and play dead for these Democrats as they try and destroy the Trump presidency. He was elected president of United States for four years. Not until they win back, quote unquote, the House of Representatives histories on their side. No question doesn’t mean it will happen. But we need to prepare, be prepared in case it does happen as they’re running around making threats. Here’s an example. Roy. The con man Kahana. On me now, yesterday, this guy is getting increasingly radicalized. He represents part of Silicon Valley. He went to the same law school I did in Temple University in North Philadelphia. He contacted us when he first got elected. He wanted to come on. He was pretending to be a moderate, but he wasn’t a moderate. It’s a liar. And now, of course, he’s not on. Cut one go. The Democrats win the the House and possibly the Senate in November. There’s a better than even chance Donald Trump gets impeached again. Absolutely. He should be impeached now. I mean, he’s taken us into a disastrous war threatening war crimes in Iran in terms of knocking out people and plants and knocking out the. First of all, I don’t know if this guy’s first or second generation, but he’s a moron. He’s an ignoramus. Knocking out power plants, knocking out electricity. We’re not carpet bombing and just bombing everything and anything, which is what we’ve done in other wars. Quite frankly, we’re not using Agent Orange. We’re not burning down cities. We’re not dropping nuclear weapons, nuclear bombs. We’re not doing any of that stuff. Which we’ve done in the past. We’re trying to prevent that. We’re trying to prevent that. From the other side. So he says here he talks about disastrous wars, threatening war crimes, knocking out people’s plants and knocking out electricity. This guy is a thug. He’s a complete jackass. And they have plans already. He can’t keep his mouth shut, but he’s made it clear they’re going to try and impeach the president if they take over this over the House. And if they have a one vote majority, that’s what they’ll do. Because they’ve destroyed the whole notion of the impeachment clause in the House and in the Senate. Both. Notice Mallorca says, okay, they block that in the Senate. They didn’t even have a trial. They called it a summary judgment, which is not in the Constitution. They’ll do anything. They’ll do anything. I despise the Democrat Party of today. Despise it. And punks like this. Go ahead. And the Democrats will impeach him once we take back the House and should impeach him for all the things he’s done. And depending on the Senate, he may face conviction. If we get the 60, especially if the his numbers keep going down. If his numbers keep going down, you know, the polls. And that’s the basis for impeachment, of course, that in a thousand other things. High crimes and misdemeanors. Just because you disagree with the president on the issue of war. Just because you don’t have the votes to stop it. That is the power of the purse. Yes. Because you you scream violations of which there have been none of the Constitution or even the War Powers Act, which is unconstitutional. You don’t have a president for that. Was Lyndon Johnson impeached over that? No, not at all. Was Nixon? No. Was John Kennedy? No. Was Truman, A page for the two atomic bombs? No. And I can go on and on. This guy, Ro Kahana. I don’t know if he’s American citizen or not. I hear he is. Otherwise he couldn’t be a House member. But he doesn’t act like it. He acts like a mouthpiece for the enemy. He acts like a mouthpiece for the Islamists. He acts like a mouthpiece for Hamas. Islamic Jihad, Muslim Brotherhood care, Iran. That’s right. I said it. And maybe his sorry ass should be expelled from the House of Representatives. And of course, the enemy loves jokes like this. They use the comments of jerks like this. To spread their propaganda as he gives aid and comfort to the enemy. That’s right. Gives aid and comfort to the enemy. Then there’s Van Hollen in the Senate. Van Hollen in the Senate. What a what a post this guy is cut for go. They’re nowhere near any kind of ballistic missile that can reach the United States. So this was all. Yes. Let’s wait around until they are, huh? That’s a great idea. Let’s wait around till they’re very powerful that they have ballistic missiles that can reach the United States. How we know, I don’t know. They have one that could go 2000 miles and we didn’t know about that. But don’t worry. Then Holland says we got to wait, even though they tell us what they want to do with their ballistic missiles, even though they tell us they want to put nuclear warheads on their ballistic missiles. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland Democrat, says we should wait. Wait for what? Wait for what? What are we waiting for? What are we waiting for? And notice how cold blooded these bastards are. They don’t care. 50,000 Iranian people slaughtered in two or three days. That they’re young people. They couldn’t give a damn. They instead, they’re trashing Israel while they’re promoting policies that protect Iran. That’s the New Democrat Party America. Stands with Iran, stands against Israel, but more than anything else stands against the United States. We should wait. According to this genius Senator. And what if he’s wrong? What if he’s wrong? What if this bomb is wrong? Oh, well, we’ll do an after action report, but nobody will be around. Nobody. We’re surrounded by munchkins. We’re surrounded by by appeasers, by people who hate our country. They would rather hate our country and see it attacked than Donald Trump be a victor as commander in chief. Go ahead. By the president had states to try to justify his actions. While Americans are here hurting here at home. We’ve lost 13 of our service members, hundreds wounded. Oh, this is a guy that he opened his big, fat mouth when we lost 13 of our service members with Joe Biden surrounding in Afghanistan getting. Did he? I don’t remember it. Did he go on every damn TV show? Did he complaining about how Biden did that? Not a word. Not a word. Nothing. Now he’s the defender of the military, especially those we’ve lost. Did he say anything when Biden looked at his watch and got tired? When that plan came to Delaware. To Dover, Delaware. But the caskets? Nothing. He didn’t say anything. But if we’re going to talk about people dying, what has he done about the people who are killed in Baltimore? What is this piece of, youknowwhat done about the people who are killed in baltimore every single week? And what is he done about that? Not a damn thing. Nothing. But he says he’s worried about casualties. These are demagogues. They are the worst of the worst. They are the lowest of the low. We’ve reached a point in America. We’ve reached a point that we’ve never reached before with this party opposite the Democrat Party. They’re scum of the earth. We’re going to impeach the commander in chief. Well, they’re going to impeach him in the middle of a war. They would if they. Good. What are these people stand for? What have they done that’s good for the country? Name one thing. Bring in tens of millions of illegal aliens, many of whom are killers and rapists and pedophiles and God knows what else. Taking people’s jobs, taking up their apartment space. That’s a good idea. Trying to prevent eyes from deporting them. Is that a good idea? Shutting down our airports and TSA. Is that a good idea? To how good are these people? What are they doing to make the nation a better nation? What are they doing for the middle class? You, Mr. and Mrs. America? How have they improved your life? Before Trump came in? Member Trump’s certainly been in office 14 months. In his second term. They drove up prices everywhere. They spent money like drunken Marxists. They created huge inflation. That we’re still trying to recover from. They pushed out billions of dollars to leftwing front groups overseas, the left wing front groups. Passing away our money left and right. What did they do? And ever promise that they’re going to raise taxes on you like this? Smashburger the governor of Virginia, who’s destroying the Commonwealth of Virginia? One governor. Who lied her way into office, claiming to be a moderate because she worked at the CIA. Now it looks like she worked at the KGB. Taxes everywhere. 52 new taxes. On hard working Virginians. 11 congressional seats. The Supreme Court of Virginia in 2021 created the congressional map. Now they have a vote taking place right now with Obama running ads. Vote yes. Vote yes. So we have real integrity in our voting system, they claim. And if they get what they want, they’ll be ten Democrats and one Republican. See. They don’t care if the franchise is lost. If you’re Republican, it’s okay. They want felons to have it who are still in prison. Remember, Bernie Sanders was asked the question you would allow somebody who’s a mass murder is on death row to vote? Yes, I would. I definitely would. Well, you know, you’re not a mass murderer, but. Well, why? Why? Why? So in Pennsylvania. In Pennsylvania, in Virginia. They’re letting felons vote. That Republicans will be disenfranchised. And that’s okay. Only certain people can’t be disenfranchised. Wait a minute. Shouldn’t there be equality across the board? No, of course not. They’re not going to change the Supreme Court and pack it like a Politburo. Even the Democrats. In the thirties when FDR tried that. They’re the ones who rose up and stopped them because they controlled Congress. Not today. They’re all in change. The Supreme Court changed the Electoral College, changed the congressional districts, changed the voting system all year. Add four more Democrats. Senators added D.C. and Puerto Rico. They got it all figured out. America, they’ve got it all figured out. And impeach anybody who’s a Republican is ever president. That’s it. Every Republican president has had to face something like this. But not like Trump. Kasich. Trump. It’s just overwhelming what they try to do. This is a war on you. I wrote the book The Democrat Party Hates America. Why would you say such a thing? Why would you write a book like that? It’s the longest book I’ve ever written. I could have written it twice as long. The Democrat Party hates America. How could you say that? Chapter and verse, baby. Right. From its very founding up to today. I’m not encouraging you to buy it. No, it’s an older book of mine, but. The Democrat Party hates America and it’s demonstrating every single time that it hates America. But of course, it wraps it in. We’re doing this for the people. We’re screwing up the airlines and the lines for security, for the people. Don’t you know we’re bringing in foreigners by the tens of millions, including would be terrorists and murderers and the rest For that people, we’re driving up costs. Oh, yes. With massive inflation to reward all of our Democrat left wing kook friends for the people. And then they have the you know, what’s the commonness? What about affordability? They ask affordability. I’ll be right back.
Segment 4
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