June 5th, 2026

Rough transcription of Hour 1

Segment 1

You know, I hate to miss my radio program. I hate to miss you folks. I want to thank Brian Mudd for sitting in last evening. He’s terrific. But my wife sits on the board of our community salutes. And there’s a wonderful man who founded it who leads it. His name is Ken Hartman. And I needed to do this. I needed to attend. And most of these events are at the same time I’m on this program. And let me tell you what it is. 151 young people. Who graduated high school. Just a few weeks back and join the military. All the branches. And we’re sworn in right there. And what our community salutes is all about. And they’ve done this. I think for like 250,000 recruits over the last several years. Because Ken Hartmann sat on a school board and he realized that people were being congratulated for going to Harvard or Japan or this side or the other. And yet. Young people coming out of high school who decided to join the military. They weren’t getting any kind. Of recognition whatsoever, and he decided to change that. And the group is called Our Community Salutes. My wife is on the board. And there are other fantastic people on the board and on the staff. It’s a very tightly run operation. And so impressive is this organization. It’s a very small group. That the secretary of war was invited to speak to these new recruits, and he did. It was the US Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C.. Who’s done a fantastic job supporting this as well. And they’re very much involved in helping. The recruits once they’re finished with their service, to try and find employment with their members, to try and take care of them. It’s just the little things in life that matter, really. And this is a little thing that’s really big thing to so many people. And Pete Hegseth was fantastic. No notes. No monitors. Very charismatic. Really connected with the young recruits. It was just a pleasure to see him there. Here we are in the middle of the war. And he took the time out to do it. And I want to thank the secretary of war. I want to thank our community salutes. And I want to thank Ken Hartman and my wife and the other people who were involved on the board and so forth and so on. And it was my honor. Because my wife, after many years of these events, several times a year, says you have an a tan. And I said, Well, honey, it. It takes place the same time I’m on radio. And I’ll tell you something, folks, I don’t take a lot of time off radio. Some people take off Friday, some people take off here. I take off now and then. When I have family matters or doctors or doctor dental appointments or I’m traveling or something like that, I don’t take a lot of vacation time. I just don’t. And when I do, there’s a reason for it. When I come back, I can explain it to you in part. But I wanted you to know about that. Also tonight, we have a rare occasion. We don’t normally have two guests on one show, but we do tonight, and that’s good. Representative Byron Donalds will be on at 7:20 p.m. Eastern Time. He said threats made against his life. And I want to talk to him about that with you. And then at the third hour tonight. Mike Pence, who’s a big fan of this program. We’ll be talking to him about his new book. What conservatives believe rediscovering the conservative conscience after the Trump presidency. There’s going to be a big battle, I believe, over so many of these things between the the woke right who’s going to claim that they’re populists and nationalists. And yet, as you can tell, they’re becoming economic socialists and international isolationists. Well, that is not conservatism. All those books I’ve written, all these things we’ve talked about over the years were not those things. And nor will we ever be. Because it’s detrimental or worse to this nation. So look forward to both of them. General Jack Keane is a retired four star general who was once vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. I’ve gotten to know him quite well. He’s a friend. As I said, a retired four star Army general. He knows what he speaks. He’s not political in the least. And. He’s just a brilliant, brilliant. Military man. And, you know, many years back, certainly before he was a general, he. Is a Vietnam vet, among other things. And I think it’s very important to hear this man’s voice. You’ve got a lot of podcasters and broadcasters who know nothing about the military, who know nothing about international affairs. They don’t want to know anything. As they’ve talked about before. The Marxist mindset is the world begins today, and that’s where their mindset is. That’s who they are on the on the woke right and the left. I’m concerned about where we are with this war right now that the the slam Nazi enemy regime is making more and more demands. Now. They want $24 billion. We’ve been and I give them a penny. We condemned Obama for giving any money. And I don’t care if it’s some international fund or through a back door or through a trust or through a man or a kid. No, no, because they’ll use that money to rebuild their their terrorist regime. They’re not going to give it to the people. And I have other grave concerns. About dealing with a regime like this. It’s very, very important. You’re going to say, oh, you’re self-promoting. I’m really not. It’s very, very important that you watch. I hope, if he can. Life, Liberty and Levin tomorrow night at 8 p.m. Eastern and Sunday night. 8 p.m. Eastern, because the two monologues and the guests are intertwined. And if you’re not sure if you can set your DVR, by the way, some people say, oh, you’re an old guy, set the DVR. Well, there’s other ways you can record it, but a lot of us use the DVR. What do you use? Most of it is. Most people don’t know what it’s called. They use other mechanisms to record. I use DVR as a sort of an all encompassing word. In other words, I hope you’ll record it 8 p.m. Eastern time tomorrow night and Sunday night. Very, very important. But here’s General Jack Keane on Fox and Friends today. Cut one go. They keep kicking out the idea that we can make a deal. And I think we have to accept the reality. That’s just not going to happen. They have one motive in mind here. Stretch out negotiations as much as possible, get as close to the political situation in terms of midterm elections, and there will be less likelihood that President Trump would ever pull the trigger and go back to military operation. And even if we did make a deal, we can’t hold them a financial lifeline that’ll help them to recover financially, because then they’ll be systematically in time reverse everything that they signed on the dotted line saying they would do. And we know that because they’ve always cheated in the past and they’ll cheat in the future. Iran is going to retaliate regardless of whether we go small or go big. Let’s go big, take down as much of their capability as we possibly can and get these guys as close to collapse as as as a military operation can possibly achieve. He’s right. And by the way, if there is a deal, I don’t think it’s going to be a very good one. I want to talk about the midterm elections in connection to this. People say if we lose, you see, we lost because of people like General Keane and Mark Levin and this one and that one and the president. No, that’s not why. First of all, we’re going to lose. We’re going to lose. It’s going to be over economic matters. Secondly, the front end of this was and has been spectacularly successful. What are they talking about? Spectacularly successful. After the first few weeks, though, we went into a ceasefire that was to last two weeks and its last almost nine weeks. And that’s, I think, where the major mistake was made. From my perspective. And I think the only way out of this and to do it in a in a way where we have victory or something close to victory, two or three weeks of massive military action, we have almost double the firepower we had there at the beginning of it. Take out anything and everything related to the. The IRGC. And for God’s sakes, damn it, arm the Iranian people. Armed the Iranian people. That’s right. That’s how we defeated the Soviet Union. I honestly and I’ve been calling for this for months, I don’t get it. Now, there the reports out there that Mossad was, in fact, arming the Iranian people, the Kurds with the working coordinating with the. With them with their CIA, rather. And Erdogan apparently calls, according to reports, the White House, the president jumping up and down. You can’t arm the Kurds anywhere on my border because he trying to wipe them out. He’s a he’s a loathsome bastard, that man. I love this Ambassador. And so we apparently cut it off. That’s that report. I don’t know if it’s accurate, but it’s it’s kind of smells right, doesn’t it, Mr. Producer? Because I don’t know what the explanation for this is. The Kurds say, no, we didn’t steal weapons. But even if they had and I don’t think the Kurds conduct themselves that way, we’ve been fighting alongside the Kurds to destroy ISIS. And suddenly they’re bad. They’re not bad. They’re good. But then on the Iranian people, do you know, if you go online, you’re going to see some of these people putting their lives on the line, holding up signs and posters saying, arm us. Or send us arms. Arm us. Send us arms. We don’t have to put boots on the ground. There are boots on the ground. It’s called the Iranian people. Anyway, there’s more to come. I’ll be right back.

Segment 2

The Lebanese president has named Joseph Owen a U.N. and to understand Lebanon, at least at a cursory level, understand that the government and the army is separate from Hezbollah. It’s almost like there’s two governments and two militaries. The problem is Hezbollah is much more powerful. And back in the 1980s. Actually the 1970s, there was a civil war there. And in the 1980s, Iran, which of course had the revolution of the Islamo Nazis in 1979, funded an armed. What it creative, which was Hezbollah to take over the country so they could attack Israel from there. In the 1980s also, and I can beg in the prime minister of Israel sent the IDF in there and there was a massive war. And the IDF had significant casualties, but they pushed them back further into Lebanon and they took a buffer zone in the southern part of Lebanon while an agreement was signed in 1983. That we helped. Negotiate between the parties and Hezbollah would be disarmed. The government will be turned back over to the Lebanese people and so forth and so on. Within two years, Hezbollah violated it and ripped it up. And we had an obligation under the agreement to do something about it, but we’ve never done anything about it. So now it’s all over again. And Israel said, you know, we’re not buying it this time. You’ve fired like 100,000 rockets into our country and you’re still firing them even during this so-called cease fire. And they’re depopulating parts of Israel, big chunks of it. The northern part of Israel, like 20, 25% of the country. And it’s a tiny country. And citizens are being killed and military is being killed and buildings are being destroyed. And Israel said, right, that’s enough. And they went in again. And they want to take them out permanently. And their main base, their main networking area is outside of Beirut. And the president said you can fight defensively if you’re hit hit back, but we don’t want you going near Beirut. Mr. Producer, he says. And this is where they had the phone call. And Netanyahu was very angry and the president was angry pushing back because the Iranians said, if you don’t tell the Israelis to stop attacking Hezbollah, there’s no deal. And the Israelis are saying, What do you mean, tell us not to attack Hezbollah? They’ve been attacking us. We got to deal with this. And so that was the tension. In that phone call. And so there was some kind of an agreement where Israel would hit only if there really hit hard. You know, it’s our position. If he kill one soldier, we’re going to. We’re going to then really unload on you. Well, they’ve killed more than one of the Israeli soldiers. So Netanyahu Netanyahu’s taken a lot of people back home in Israel because the people are saying, what are you, a lapdog to Trump? And really a lapdog to Iran. Iran is calling the shots. The U.S. responds and now you’re going to follow. And he said, no, I’m not going to do that. We’ll try and work with the administration. But we we are a sovereign nation and we’re going to have to do what we have to do to protect ourselves and our country, too. That’s where we are. But Iran is trying to link that with a negotiated deal with the United States and Israel. And the president of Lebanon is saying, no, you don’t. President of Lebanon is saying you have nothing to do with Iran and what’s going on there. I want you to hear from him in a moment. We’ll be right back.

Segment 3

Talkers magazine is a self-serving liberal publication with a phony list. A phony list. And Michael Harrison is a phony. That whole operation is phony. The company I work for doesn’t spend any money in advertising, and there nor should anybody else, as far as I’m concerned. What a disgusting joke. Absolutely disgusting joke. We’re putting this list together now. It’s not necessarily based on data and information and their ratings and just our sense of our sense. The family sits in a circle. Tiny staff. They decide who they like and who they don’t like, and they know I can’t stand them. Did you know with the 12th biggest show in America? One more the second. Provably the second. That’s how disgusting they are. So they put that list out to be relevant because people use it. People use it to promote themselves, to promote others, to attack others, and so forth and so on. It is. A joke. And everybody industry knows it’s a joke. The broadcasters know it’s a joke. Here’s the Lebanese president, Joseph Owen, on CNN today. Cut to go. It’s not your country. It’s our country. It’s our obligation. It’s not your job to interfere into our country. Let me let me set it up again. He’s talking to Iran and about Iran that’s trying to drag Lebanon into the Iran war debate in the deal debate. And they’re saying, what are you doing? We have nothing to do with you. Let’s start at the top. Cut to go. It’s not your country. It’s our country. It’s our obligation. It’s not your job to interfere in our country. I reject the statement totally because our people being killed, our people, our houses are being destroyed. They are using Lebanon. As a chip bargaining chip. In that negotiation was the United States. It’s unacceptable. And here also, Hezbollah must understand that. Hezbollah must understand that no other way. But. To sit and talk. No other way to solve this problem and to save what’s left. Except through negotiation and diplomacy. Here you go. Now, back in that period, I was talking about the assassinated Hezbollah, the president of Lebanon, who was Christian. He was very charismatic, won by a huge number, and his brother would eventually run and he’d become the president. But Lebanon was a beautiful, beautiful country. Beautiful country. My family’s known people who had to flee there. There’s almost no Jews left. And it was majority Christian. Now it’s about 30 to 35% Christian. But. He’s exactly right. He’s saying, Hey, look. You’re using us in your negotiations with the United States to blackmail Israel and the United States now? No. And he’s right. It’s 100% right. We’ve got a lot to get to here. And I guess I want to keep going. Max Miller, Republican Ohio was on the floor of the House Wednesday. He’s one of four Jews in the House of Representatives. Anita about had it with Rashid Talib, Rashida Talib. And we’ve told you about her ties to terror front groups and her. Her vile propaganda against the president. The horrendous thing she says about the United States, our country. The horrendous thing she says about Israel. Her parents came here. They’re Palestinian and extremely radical. Here we go. Cut. Three ago. If my colleagues on the other side. I actually cared about the people of Lebanon, which is clear. They don’t. They would cheer on the elimination of these bloodthirsty terrorists, not advancing meaningless resolutions to denigrate American foreign policy, only to embolden them. For decades, Iran has used Hezbollah to project power throughout the Middle East and the process Hezbollah has weakened the Lebanese state and repeatedly drawn Lebanon into conflicts that serve Tehran’s interests well. I can appreciate the passion for my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. I do not appreciate their lack of education and understanding of what is really going on there. So let us be clear. Hezbollah is a terrorist organization. The gentlelady from Michigan and its members are butchers that you like to hang out with. To a certain extent, no nation can be fully sovereign when an armed group operates outside the authority of its elected leader. Oh, I’m sorry. We are getting a little emotional. Gentleman will suspend, Gentleman will spin, but he is. I certainly believe you advocate for them. Yes. You advocate for terrorists on a daily basis. The House will be in order for a terrorist regime every single day from the general area, from Michigan. The House will be in order. The House will be in order to associate yourself with them, your colleagues, colleagues and friends. Now, this is a serious topic. We will debate it respectfully and deliberately. Is the gentlewoman from Michigan making a motion to take down? Mr. Speaker, I am. That is a direct attack on my character and I will say the words down. Gentleman from Ohio. Mm hmm. And she does hang out with terror front group members. Absolutely. 100%. Go, go. Researcher on the Internet. It’s all over the place. So I don’t know what she’s offended by. She’s a bomb thrower. And she’s not the only one. Now we got this Hanway guy who will be the elected congressman. From a dark blue district in New Jersey. This guy has ties. Ties to the Blind Sheikh. Real solid ties to the blind cheek. This guy is, you know, these people are, in fact, terror loving individuals who are dressed up as Westerners, you know, wearing suits. And so I don’t care if he served in the military or not. You know, Lee Harvey Oswald served in the military. Most people who serve in the military are great, but there are a few people who aren’t so great. This guy is one of them. Just like any walk of life. Just like any walk of life. It’s disgusting. These people are disgusting. One of the guests I’m going to have on I think it’s Saturday is Zuhdi Jasser. Muslim lieutenant commander in the Navy. A real heroic figure. Who finds these Islamist to be absolutely contemptible. Which is one reason I hope he gets elected from Arizona, because somebody like that confronting. These terror loving Islamists would be very, very important in the House of Representatives, as far as I’m concerned. So they got this guy ham away. He is bad. He is bad. But the Democrat Party is the vessel through which these people run. The Marxists, the Islamists, the man dummies, the Talibs, the Omar’s, the Bernie Sanders. This guy Ham way Plattner from Maine. We’ll get back to him more as well. Representative Ro Khanna used to try to present himself as a moderate. He used to contact Mr. Producer and wanted to come on, says, No, I’m a moderate. I’m the kind of Democrat Mark would like. I smelled a skunk, didn’t I? Rich, immediately. So he represents a portion of Silicon Valley. And their investigations, raising questions about how his family made millions and millions of dollars while he was in the House of Representatives, because apparently his wife apparently his wife was trading and so forth and so on. But we don’t do that anymore. You know, all these guys are disgusting, pretty much. So here he is. Cut for about this guy. He came away with his ties to the blind sheik and worse. Go. Obviously, that was a terrorist attack. And the people who committed those terrorist attacks should be locked up for life. That they were a moron. The blind sheikh died in prison. Dumb. Let’s go ahead. And no zero sympathy or toleration for the terrorists who did that attack or who did 911. I will say that I met Dr. O’Malley and Tammy Duckworth endorsed him partly because. Why? So what? We’re supposed to suspend our common sense, our reasoning capabilities because he helped save time and damage. Tammy Duckworth, who’s a radical Democrat now. And from what is it, Minnesota or Wisconsin? I think it’s Minnesota, but whatever. And. She’s a left wing bomb thrower now. But why does that matter where Tony, the guy, not only has ties to the blind Sheikh, but he testified in his defense during the trial as some kind of a character witness. And he helped write his speeches and his press releases. Are you kidding me? I don’t care who endorses them. 700 people in that district died on 911. 700 people died on 911 in that district. And those twin towers. And the Democrats nominate this guy with like 26, 28% of the vote. I explained how it works. Do you last night? Right. The night before. The Islamists are heavily populated in these. In these areas, almost segregated areas, but very heavily populated. So when it comes to primaries in the vote is very low, low voter turnout, as it was in New York, 20 some or 30 some or 47% of the people voted. They came out in New York, 97%. Same deal in this district in New Jersey. They’re not running as Republicans, are they? Hello? No, they’re not. They’re running as Democrats. And that’s how they win these slots. They’ve got it down to a science all over the country. When the Democrat primary in purple or dark blue communities and you’re in like Flynn or in like Muhammad, I guess. Go ahead. It’s life during the Iraq war. So, again, we can look through a person’s life and find a statement, find an incident that puts him in the worst light. But overall, in my view, Dr. McGuire, someone who saved Tammy Duckworth life, can you can you believe how they make excuses for this? They make excuses for this. Because they don’t have a problem with it. It’s okay by them. Whatever it takes. We want victory. We want power. I’ll be right back.

Segment 4

James Zogby is has an Arab background. He’s, in my view, very anti-Israel. That’s just my view. It’s also a pollster. And he just a few hours back posted all three of Netanyahu’s main opponents in Israel in the next election, condemned him for surrendering to the United States and agreeing to a cease fire in Lebanon. They say he sold out, became a vassal state of the U.S.. And he concludes, So if you’re thinking getting rid of Netanyahu makes Israel better, think again. So I told his anti-Israel, I take his information. And put it a better way in a different way. As I’ve said to you before. Ah, for reasons that are really inexplicable to me. Stopping. You know, almost nine weeks ago or whatever it is. And finishing what we were doing with Iran is extremely unpopular in Israel and many of the Arab states. And also the the effort to try and prevent Israel from effectively defending itself by going on offense and taking out Hezbollah is extremely unpopular in Israel. And Netanyahu is taking an enormous amount of heat. And that’s why that phone call was very apparently. Difficult. Because the president has a different view of how he wants to go. Then the Israeli people. And the Israeli people want an end to it because they’re the ones taking incoming missiles left and right. And if not now, when? And they certainly don’t want a bad deal where we’re giving them 24 billion. Whether it’s over time or meeting certain metrics or through some bank or through the Qataris or however however it will be played with. And you can also see the Lebanese people and their government. They’re fed up with the Iranians and they’re fed up with Hezbollah, too. So the people who actually live in these war zones, the Israelis and the Lebanese people. They want these enemies eliminated. And. And. Well, even more than them, the UAE is another one. You know who doesn’t want this war to end? Erdogan in Turkey. Because he’s a killer. These are murder. He doesn’t. In other words, he doesn’t want Iran taken out. Finally. And once and for all. He does not. I’ve heard this guy Hemingway now, Right. Well, he’s not the only one. We’re going to start this and then we’re going to carried over to the next hour. This guy, Graham Plattner, wants to be a United States senator. Maybe I’m. Dating my sir. But I remember when you wanted to be a United States senator, you had to be a stand up citizen with real character. Excuse me. Cholera. If you’re a pervert, if you send texts that are disgusting, if you manhandle women and you cheat on your wife. If you have a Nazi tattoo on your chest, but then proclaim, I’m not a Nazi anymore, I’m a communist and God knows what else is going on with this guy. The way he mocks and diminishes his fellow soldiers, one of whom took four bullets. Another of whom was one of the greatest snipers of all time who died. What kind of a reprobate? What kind of a bum? What kind of a pig is this? And the Democrats are circling the wagons. Yeah, it’s starting to starting to peel a little because they’re looking at some polls that are uncomfortable for them. But Bernie Sanders, it’s all in. Elizabeth Warren’s all in. Chuck Schumer’s all in power, baby power. They don’t care if he got a Nazi turned communist, a pervert, a woman. Brutalize her. They don’t care. They don’t care if it’s a robot, for God’s sake. In fact, they don’t care if it’s an Islamist who supports terrorism.