On Tuesday’s Mark Levin Show, in a Senate hearing, Secretary of State Marco Rubio testified on Iran negotiations, emphasizing condition-based sanctions relief and the critical need to address Iran’s ballistic missile capabilities. Any sanctions relief for Iran would fund the regime’s army, IRGC, and security forces rather than the suffering people. We need to arm the Iranian people to enable an uprising. This terrorist regime seeks to destroy America and Israel while the current efforts fail to apply maximum pressure. We should not negotiate with or cut deals with terrorists because it emboldens enemies. The isolationists and the Woke Reich give aid and comfort to our adversaries. There is a growing domestic Marxist-Islamist threat, funded by Qatar, China, and others, that is organizing, building enclaves, and infiltrating politics. In breaking news, there are reports of multiple explosions in Bahrain, hours after Iran claimed precise missile strikes on U.S. bases in Kuwait and the IRGC warned of further seismic responses to American actions. Iran appears emboldened rather than defeated by reading U.S. restraint as weakness. The IRGC needs to be pounded, and the Iranian people need to be armed. Later, the core defect of Marxism is its fundamental misstatement and misapplication of human nature. Rather than being an economic philosophy aimed at equality or fairness, it uses economics and redistribution as camouflage to advance totalitarianism, seeking to control individuals, thought processes, and ultimately create a society of compliant robots. This ideology, like Islam, employs appeal to compassion and justice as propaganda while intending the opposite. It cannot work because human nature, created by God, cannot be intentionally destroyed and rejiggered by man. The practical goal is demographic transformation to build dependent, like-minded societies that can be dominated, eventually extending this control nationally. Finally, Noah Rothman calls in to discuss his book, Blood and Progress: A Century of Left-Wing Violence in America.
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Segment 1
Oh, yes. You know, there’s actually some good news out there. We have a breakthrough on cancer. Pancreatic cancer. We’ve got other things very interesting. We’ll touch on later. You know, despite the hard political nature of the left in the culture, what’s going on? The invasion and all the rest. Other parts of society marches on. Other parts of society. They have marches on. Now, I should tell you. We have a lot of testimony from Marco Rubio today. I’m not going to play at all. Obviously, just a few aspects of it to see. So you see what’s going on on Capitol Hill while most of you are working. Now the Democrats really are the enemy. Of a free and secure America. They’ve done grave damage to this country, the way the left wing parties have done grave damage to Europe and the conservative parties in Europe are not that conservative anyway. They’re about five notches to the left of American conservatives, but nonetheless. Rubio told a Senate hearing today. And this guy, Cory Booker. He’s become a loud mouth unhinged. He wants to run for president. There’s a couple of them that are positioning themselves already to run for president. And I think you can have a fairly. Long conga line of these candidates and they’re all going to be trashing Israel. Netanyahu, Americans and all the rest of it. Let’s take a listen here. Rubio at the Senate hearing today. Booker questioning him cut three ago. We have made our adversary in a stronger negotiating position. We are the strongest nation on the planet Earth and we’re in a stalemate with Iran. And now we’re begging to get back into a deal that you all trashed in the first place. There’s no one begging. Clearly, this is your booker, Senator Booker, your time’s up. Rubio Since he didn’t want to address some of these points because they go to the heart of the matter. No one’s begging for anything here, though. The Iranians might be begging because their economy is losing hundreds of millions of dollars a day that they are losing. Understand, Iran had street protests going on before all of this started. All of those factors, economic factors in Iran are far worse today than they were six months ago when those protests were happening. There have hyperinflation, their currency completely devalued. They’re struggling to make payroll for their government workers. Iran is in a very serious situation. And if it was up to the political class there and I understand everybody there is sort of radical in some way, but if it was up to the people that actually like go to elections and wear the suits and you see on TV, they probably make a deal tomorrow. It’s the issue they’re facing is that the supreme leader and the IRGC corps are a little bit more immune from those pressures until they can be convinced otherwise. And I think that’s the direction that they’re moving in. Because the reality, though, I don’t know where you’re getting this perception that Iran is stronger. Iran has no Navy left. They’ve lost a substantial percentage of their defense industrial base. Iran has lost a substantial percentage of their missile launchers. And their economy is far worse today and I mean far worse today than it was 6 to 9 months ago. And they are looking at hundreds of billions of dollars of reconstruction costs just to get to where they were. Will you keep telling us how we’re winning this war? The president keeps saying, well, the war is over, clearly annihilated. The war is not over. And yet the American people see how we’re losing at the pump and with their costs. And yet this thing still hasn’t been resolved. Every day he tweets out, Oh, we’ve obliterated them, we’ve annihilated them. They’re going to surrender. But yet we still find ourselves spending billions of dollars a week. Yet, Senator Booker, you weren’t gone way over and beat him. Interesting back and forth. Mr. Producer, Cut Forego. Let me just lay the predicate here, okay? Iran’s desire to build a nuclear weapon was going to be built, was going to be effectuated behind a conventional shield. They were going to build for themselves so many missiles, so many drones, so many conventional weapons, including a navy, that at that point there’s nothing you could do about it. What they tried to do is they were going to try to build a conventional shield and hide behind that conventional shield and basically say to the world, if you come and do anything about our nuclear program, we will overwhelm you with missiles, we will overwhelm you with drones, and we will overwhelm you with our Navy. And you will not win. You will not be able to do anything about it. They were seeking that point of immunity, which is why the president chose to act to deny them that point of immunity. Operation Epic Fury. Some of you didn’t like it. Some of you did. It was highly successful in achieving its military objectives, which is dramatically reducing the defense industrial base of Iran. The ability to build these missiles and to build these drones, especially the missiles program, substantially degraded a substantial percentage and all of the exact numbers of the Department of War, because I’m not a general and I’m not here to speak as a military planner. But a substantial degradation in the number of launchers that they have as well. They still have a lot of drones because these are easy to make. We all know it’s not an Iran challenge. This is a global challenge and it’s playing out every single day around the world. I mean, Mexican cartels are using UAV against each other, and we should imagine at some point may even use it against our own against our interest. So this is a pervasive problem around the world. The economics of it is something we have to solve for. But nonetheless, even their drone building capability has been eroded. Today, there is no Iranian navy. There is no such thing. There’s a bunch of Boston whalers with machine guns on them. But there is no navy. There is no Iranian navy. It lies at the bottom of the ocean and we’ll see them within a number of years, be prime fishing spots because they’ll turn into reefs. So my whole point is that the the Iranian conventional shield has been substantially eroded. Eroded. Now, in the aftermath of those two, things have happened. The first is they entered into a cease fire. They agreed. We agreed to stop. But part of that agreement is that they would reopen the straits. They did not. At which point the president decided and I think appropriately, we can’t have a world in which Iran, only Iranian ships get through the straits. And so if they’re going to if they’re going to shut down the straits for everybody, we’re going to shut down the straits for them. And we have done that through a very effective blockade. And, by the way, through the seizure of sanctions, ships in the Indo-Pacific as well. The cost to Iran every single day and lost revenue is in the hundreds of millions of dollars that they are losing in lost revenue that they’re not generating as a result of that. I’m listening very attentively and I will comment after we’re done here only to say this conventional shield he’s talking about. I haven’t read anywhere that that’s on the table in these negotiations, these ballistic missiles. You’ve heard me talk about it here. You’ve heard me talk about it on Fox. You’ve heard me talk about it on my video podcast. Are their most powerful conventional weapon. And this is what some of the Arab countries you’re talking about, Israel’s definitely talking about saying. They cannot have the capacity to make thousands and thousands of ballistic missiles because those can blow up our cities. And I don’t hear a lot of talk about that. And I talked about that in two monologues over the weekend on Fox. Have talked about it here. I’ve posted about it. I still haven’t heard a lot about it yet. Will be does mention how significant that can be. Well, it is. Cat five go. But the president says they also need to make commitments on their nuclear. Chris Murphy, the lowlife, start over. Please go ahead. But the president says they also need to make commitments on their nuclear program. That’s what I’m asking, what I see, what what commitments do they need to make in order for this straight to be resolved? The second I have to agree to as part of this. So in addition to the straights, that’s the predicate that opens the door to face to face. Two is they have to commit to very specific negotiations on highly enriched disposition of the highly enriched uranium that still is buried deep in a mountain somewhere. They have to they have to, you know, America, as I listen to this back and forth, I have to be honest with you. I’m always honest with you. I’m straight. That’s why you’re here, right? Sounds like a lot of talk from both sides here. This is a terrorist regime that wants to blow us off the face of the earth. We have them on their backs. Yes, we’re killing their economy, but the regime lives on. They eat. It’s the people who suffer. We keep saying they’re going to rise up and yet we don’t give them the tools with which to rise up. In the past, the United States military did exactly that throughout the world to defeat the Soviet Union without a single ground troop. In the Soviet Union. Any of ours, that is. So if we’re really going to put the pressure on them and really pinch them. In my humble opinion, we’re not doing everything we should do, including arming the people. I’ve brought that up and the Kurds come up. Okay. The Kurds say, no, we weren’t given arms and we didn’t steal anything. I know Erdogan in Turkey hates the Kurds, tries to eviscerate them. I know the Syrians hate the Kurds, try to eviscerate them. The Iraqis hate the Kurds, try to eviscerate them. These are good people who have fought side by side with us, just as Israelis have fought side by side with us. And yet. We seem to caves from time to time to the Arabs and even the Iranian demands. Do we want to win this thing or not? Then armed the people there asking for arms. I have posted a video of a woman who has now put her life on the line, who held up a piece of paper. And you know what the paper said, Mr. Producer? You saw it. Send us arms. Did you see that? I would guess she’s late thirties, forties, years, years old. Looks like a professional woman. Just put her life on the line. Because they barely opened up their internet and said, Send us arms. Send us arms. I just don’t get it. Is our CIA too weak? Under Bill, Casey was strong. This is what we used to do in the Reagan administration. I don’t understand it. I don’t even understand the reason that’s been given why we’re not doing it. Open the straits. Okay. And we certainly deal with them. You know, I can shut the streets. Ballistic missiles. So what’s the. What’s the situation with that? I just feel like we go back and forth. We want them to do this. They have to agree to do this. They have to agree to do this. We agree to do this. How is this enforceable? What are we going to do? Have a permanent presence over one third of our Navy there. That that’s that’s not realistic. That’s not possible. We’re going have an agreement that the next administration, our administration can rip up because it’s not going to be a treaty, apparently. So these are serious questions I’m asking not to attack, but to be helpful, positive questions. I’m asking about how this will work. Cat six. Go ahead. In order to get to that second phase, are you willing to release sanctions or release frozen money that the United States is withholding from right now? Everything that’s been discussed with them is that any sanctions relief now? Remember, sanctions come there’s international sanctions. There’s congressional sanctions are executive sanctions. So some we can release and some we cannot. But any sanctions relief is condition based, which means it has to be in return for the reason why those sanctions were put in place in the first place to stop One moment. Just as a general matter, sanctions relief means they get money somehow. The administration’s indicated they don’t want to give them cash because it looks too close to what Obama did. So somehow UAE releases money or somebody does. Maybe Qatar. They lift sanctions. They can sell some oil. Where’s that money going to go? How can you go to the people They just slaughtered? 50,000 people. It’s not going to go to the people. It’s going to go to the army going. To go to the IRGC. It’s going to go to the the security forces. It’s going to go to the regime so it can sustain itself. That’s where it’s going to go. Right. My wrong about anything I’m saying. If you think so, feel free to call up. Am I wrong about anything I’m saying? I’m just using reasoning, common sense on what we’re dealing with and how our politicians act on these things. Go ahead, Ram. So, yeah, look. Iran is being sanctioned because they enrich uranium. Iran is being sanctioned because they’ve highly enriched uranium. Iran is being sanctioned because of their nuclear activities. If they agree to give up those things, there will be sanctions relief associated with their commitment and compliance. You will not get those agreements. Chris Murphy should be there with a bag over his head. He should be embarrassed by himself. But some of these people don’t know shame or circumspection. We’ll be right back. \
Segment 2
I want to touch on another subject. Then we’ll move on. And that is this report in Axios, which is a rather left wing news site by somebody named Barack Ravid, who is a radical leftist. He’s Israeli. He’s written for the most left wing media outlets in Israel. By left wing, I mean, radical left couldn’t hold jobs there. So he’s picked up by Axios. And there is non-stop leaks to this guy from people in the White House who are trying to undermine the president. The relationship we have with the state of Israel and the prime minister there, and he’s wrong all the time. And yet Axios keeps him on, doesn’t fire him. His sources are always anonymous. Oh, he’s. They never correct the record at Axios. He never correct the record in this last leak that we talked about last night was very, very destructive to the president, to the prime minister, to our country, the state of Israel, and gave direct aid and comfort to the enemy. There would be Iran and Hamas. Furthermore, I don’t think. We should be talking to Hezbollah that has killed hundreds of our soldiers, Marines and Americans. It is a terrorist organization of the worst order. It has our American blood on its hands. There was a time when when it was official American policy that we didn’t negotiate with terrorists or terror regimes. Now we seem to be negotiating with them and Hamas and Iran and all the rest. And where is it getting us exactly? I don’t think very far. Now, that said, that report and the the foul language that was reported in that report was a lie. I’ll be right back.
Segment 3
Hamas agreed. According to the Saudis and others, not to launch any more rockets or drones at it. Israel. It was announced that they did, and then they launched. Scores of rockets and drones at Israel. We’ve had a cease fire on since April eight. Two months. That’s been violated every single day. Look, folks, here’s the thing. I’m a patriotic American. I’m 68 years old. My family came to this country now 120 530 years ago. They fought in World War Two. I can’t pretend these things aren’t going on. With a with a regime that wants to get nuclear weapons and tens of thousands of ballistic missiles that one day can reach us, That makes it clear that it wants to destroy our country in the West and Jews and Christians and anything in between. What am I supposed to do? Come up here like these other people pretend otherwise. Like these walk right types. I’m talking about the survival of our republic and I’m called a warmonger or mag is under attack or whatever it is. It’s it’s really quite bizarre. Very sick. Then I deal with these people every day. And they have a following. And they’re poisoning our. The minds of so many of our fellow citizens. And they’re encouraging and involving the enemy overseas. It’s not like talk radio or network TV. Cable TV’s all over the world. But more than that, the podcasting is all over the world. So the enemy takes great hope. And encouragement from what these people are saying. The Megan Kelly’s. The Steve Bannon’s. Tucker Carlson, You’ve even heard the Muslim Brotherhood. Praise them. You’ve heard Iran, praise them, you’ve heard Qatar praise them, Saudi Arabia, praise them. It’s shocking. But I’m not going to sit here and say your bill of goods or or blow smoke at you. They’re negotiating with terrorists who want to destroy us is a great idea. I personally don’t think so. They’re cutting a deal with them is a great idea. The president knows what I think. The whole world knows that. I think to the extent anybody cares. I don’t think that’s a great idea. And so what do you do? You have to destroy the regime. It wouldn’t be the first time we as Americans have destroyed regimes that seek to destroy us. But apparently that that’s just not something we do anymore. And what’s amazing to me is that people who want us to take a quote unquote, off ramp or come up with some quick deal or something like that are the ones who keep talking about we don’t want any more forever wars. But if that regime is left standing in some form or some way, it’s a forever war. That’s what it is. And the isolationists are suicidal. They were suicidal before World War Two officially broke out against us before we were attacked at Pearl Harbor. In fact, the isolationists. About 100 years ago, the 1930s. They were extremely organized, extremely effective. There are hundreds of thousands of them. One of their leaders and spokesman was Charles Lindbergh. Was Father Coughlin, who would be viewed as sort of the modern podcaster, Tucker Carlson type or Kelly type or any of these fools and buffoons. And so we were not properly armed. We were not psychologically ready. And we got hit. And we were way behind and it cost us many more lives. Because the enemy had had gained such footholds. And had such tremendous industrial production in assembly lines. While the isolationists were. Not in the majority, but they had significant voices that limited our ability to prepare and to be ready. And this is what’s happening today in a different form and in a different way. But it’s happening. See I see what President Trump has done here in launching this military operation to get Iran is heroic, as historic, as iconic. The question is, how do we bring this to a result? What result do we want? Let’s not pretend the regime is gone because the Navy’s gone in. The Air Force is gone. Who we negotiating with? The regime, who’s still firing ballistic missiles and drones? The regime who’s still slaughtering their own people? The regime. We make a deal, the communist Chinese are going to stop funding them. Of course not. Are the Russians going to stop helping them? Of course not. The North Koreans. The Pakistanis? Of course not. And if they violate the deal or some aspect of the deal, what are we going to do about it? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. We won’t have the will to do anything about it. People are already tired. I think people are tired of the back and forth and the back and forth and the back and forth. So far, this is one of the shortest quote unquote, wars we’ve ever been involved in. Not the shortest, but one of them. And what do you think China’s taking from all this? They couldn’t be happier. We’re beating the crap out of this enemy. We took out their leadership and fought within 48 hours, poised to truly destroy them, to arm their people. And we hit the brakes. I don’t know why. But we did. There’s a lot of reasons that have been given none of them to make sense to me. And we’ve been in a cease fire that is more fire than cease. This enemy is not going to go away from some paper agreement. Its never honored a single paper agreement. Am I supposed to pretend otherwise? Am I supposed to lie to you and mislead you? That doesn’t mean I’m not on Team Trump. I absolutely am on Team Trump and I’m doing everything I can publicly and otherwise to try and affect an outcome. I think that’s in the best interest of we the people, the American people. That’s what I do. That’s what I believe in. Our generation has to take care of business. So our children and grandchildren are exposed. That’s the truth. That’s the truth. I am not going to mislead you. I am concerned. The Democrats gave aid and comfort to the enemy. The world. Great podcasters have given aid and comfort to the enemy. The Marxist Islamists here at home are organizing. They’re taking over towns. I’m going to get into this soon. People are not realizing the extent of the radicalism and reach of man Dami. That he’s involved in helping to recruit. Islamists and Marxists of the most vile kind that support terrorism to get them elected to Congress. He’s involved in that. He doesn’t view his role as simply as the mayor of New York City. You know, when you’re a mayor of New York City, you figure that’s a big enough job. No. He views his role as well beyond the five boroughs. Well beyond well beyond the state. He wants to reach into Congress. You have a communist Stalinist from Vermont. Bernie Sanders doesn’t give a damn about what happens in Vermont. He’s the same way doing the same thing. The revolution is here. The Marxist Islamist revolution is here every bit as it is in the Middle East. In Africa, in Southeast Asia, and in Europe. We’re the big Satan. We’re the ones that really need to be conquered. And the strategy is to create these segregated. Enclaves, these fortresses, if you will, of Sharia law and Islam, where imams control. But Qatar and other oil rich fiefdoms in the Middle East and elsewhere. Our funding them. Where do you think all this money comes from with thousands of mosques popping up all over the country? And the communist Chinese are involved in it too, helping to support the Islamist movements as well as Antifa. And the radical left. We’re supposed to sit here and take it. The Democrat Party is in on it. 100% in on it. They’ll talk about affordability, they’ll talk about the price of gasoline, and they’re laughing at us. Because this is the way they hope to secure power. And like the Islamists in the mark. Mark says never give it up. Never give it up. That’s why they want to change our constitutional republic. That’s why they attack the foundations of this republic. But I’m not going to sell you a bill of goods here and tell you that I feel that. You know, stepping in between Israel and Hamas to stop Israel from destroying Hamas is a smart move. I think it’s a bad move. At the behest of the Iranian regime, which is supposedly doesn’t even exist anymore. Seriously? I’ll be right back.
Segment 4
The people of Israel are demanding victory. With the Islamists, Iranian regime and Hezbollah. There’s an election there in October. In our country, many people are demanding we cut and run, make a deal and get out. There’s an election in November. Therein lies the rub. Those of us here, those of us here who insist on an actual victory over the Iranian regime and Hezbollah because we see the grave danger to our country and the world. I’m going to post this to our country and the world. If the regime survives, are said to be Israel first is. When actually we are American first. Right. Make sense, Mr. Producer. You’re working with me, folks. We’re actually American first. Who also whose position I would say not only seeks to secure our country far into the future, but our allies as well. But you see the Jew haters, the isolationists, the Marxists, the Islamists, maybe a little of each. They try to exploit this. That’s what they do. They try to exploit this. Next hour, there was another hearing. Markwayne Mullin at the Senate hearing today. And here he is having to defend against the Democrats the ability to detain and deport illegal aliens. Including the most horrendous type of criminals. And as I’ve said over and over and over again. The Democrats let them in and the Democrats insist that they stay. Have you ever heard? A Democrats speak out. Against the Islamists who are in this country. Have you ever heard them speak out against the radical imams who are leading them? Have you ever heard them concerned about the number of mosques popping up by the thousands? Have you have you ever heard them concerned about some of the things that are being said, which I play here over and over? They never complain about it, ever. Ever. Netanyahu. Israel. Yes. Trump. Maga. Yes. Businesses. Capitalism. Yes. Never the Islamists. Now, that should tell you everything you need to know. And never the Marxists. Because they’ve all embraced Marxism. Marxism creates poverty. Impoverishment. You see the problem with the Bernie Sanders of the world, and I’ll use him as a foil. Is there redistributing wealth before the wealth is even created? Let me repeat that so the backbenchers can use it. They are re redistributing wealth before the wealth is even created. They’re promising redistribution. They’re promising freebies. Even though a community cannot sustain it. But they promise it anyway. They’re destroying our health care system with Obamacare in their answers. What a more comprehensive, centralized government run. Health care system, national government health care system for the entirety of the population. Where there are no private health care options. Zero. We’ve tried. They were public housing a failure. In fact, anything that’s controlled by the government other than what the government is capable of actually doing. Like national security. Sometimes it fails there. It’s a failure. If we had only government run grocery stores, we’d starve to death. If we only had government run clothing stores, we’d be naked. If we only had government run housing, we wouldn’t have a roof over our head. And if we did, it would be infested with criminals and cockroaches. I don’t know how many times humanity has to go through this false. Marxist utopia. And I was thinking about this late last night, like two in the morning. You ready? An epiphany. Marxism is said to be about materialism, right? The material dialectic that Marx kind of adjusted Hegel ism by its power materialism. And you hear the Marxist screaming about it all the time. And yet, in my view, it’s not even about materialism. If you ever really think about it. You interested in pursuing this, Mr. Producer?







