June 9th, 2026

Rough transcription of Hour 1

Segment 1
Hello America. Mark Levin here.  Our number 877-381-3811.  877-381-3811. There’s a primary in South Carolina that ends in about an hour. And I wanted to bring our friend Lindsey Graham on the program since he’s running in that primary. Senator, how are you? I’m doing good. Yeah, about an hour left. Go get in line. They won’t close the polls. The line is finished. But if you are Mark Levin guy and Lindsey Graham guy and you have voted in South Carolina to do it. But Mark, thank you for all the encouragement and the good friendship we’ve had and I look forward to many more years, God willing. Yeah, you’re very important. The president knows this. Many of us know it. You also come under attack by the same woke right isolationist time and time and time again. That’s all well and good. But if we follow what they say, we’ll be in deep trouble. So tell us what it looks like there in South Carolina. The polls close in less than an hour. People, if you’re in your trucks or your cars and you’re in line, get to the polling place and stay in line, as the senator said. How’s it looking? It’s looking good. President Trump endorsed me. And that means a lot, you know, is done. I’ll beat my opponent. So I just got to get over 50% to avoid a runoff. And I want to do that. I want to win this thing tonight so I can help President Trump with his agenda, you know, in this war in Iran the right way, protect our friends in Israel and try to make peace between Saudi and Israel eventually. But I got to get my election behind me. But yeah, it was good. I got five people running. They all got family and friends. It adds up after a while. But the guy I’m running against, the big guy, $7 million. 6 million. So we need more. Thomas Massie’s and Marjorie Taylor GREENE just endorsed him a couple of days ago. And here’s what Manu would say. We don’t need Thomas Massie. We don’t need a loud mouth critic like Marjorie Taylor. GREENE Trump has enough critics, you know, where he needs reliable allies and friends in the Senate. And I have been that, you know, Kavanaugh got to help get that guy through. I’ll be chairman of Judiciary Committee if I win my election. And I’ll help Trump put conservative judges that you will love on the court for the last two years. And when it comes standing with Israel, man, you’re bonded, pal. Israel is a blessing to America, not a burden. And my opponent does not believe that. So big differences in this race and he’ll be get over the top. And we should be clear, let me underscore this to the audience, especially the people in South Carolina. The president endorsed you. He reject Marjorie Taylor GREENE He’s reject Thomas Massie. And these are the people these really are just kind of lunatics who these are the people who are trying to defeat you. And they claim that they’re MAGA and they claim they’re America first and they claim they’re conservatives. How so? How so? Well, anybody that well just goes to his free country and say that you want it but don’t withstand scrutiny. Here’s what I would say. You can say anything you want, but you know, Thomas Massie is anything but MAGA. He has been the most reliable vote against Trump out in the entire Republican Party. And for somebody to say they want to go to the Senate from South Carolina, we need more. Thomas Massie’s celebrated endorsement. Marjorie Taylor GREENE, who has been a pain in the ass to Trump and got a lot to say. Not much of it makes sense. These people believe that if you leave radical Islam alone, they’ll leave you alone. They have no idea what they’re talking about. You know, we didn’t have an embassy or anything in Afghanistan. And before 911 did that stop that the Taliban from giving safe haven and al Qaeda from attacking us? No. So they live in a dream world where we’re just leaving people alone. You’ll be safe. Well, let me tell you this. If you leave Israel alone, God will leave you alone. So if you want to keep radical Islam from coming here, you need to fight them over there with partners like our friends in Israel. Vitamin their backyard, not ours. Fight them with partners like Israel and others. Not by yourself. So that’s the world they live in. And Donald Trump, myself and you, we live in a real world where you got to protect America. And what’s interesting about these opponents of yours, backed by a messy and Marjorie Trotsky going green just my name for the what’s interesting about them is they agree more with the hard left. The hard left embraces them. The hard left podcasters promote them, the hard nut media promote them. They want these people in and they constant state of attack against people like you and the president. Exactly. I mean, it’s a game they play. If you want to get known as a Republican, you’re a, you know, fond over of saying in other networks, say something bad about Trump, say something bad about me. That’s the oldest game in town. But these people are just aren’t saying things bad and disagree with the president. But Massie literally destroyed the Republican majority by the way he votes. He’s a complete isolationist, has absolutely no sense of what the world is like and what radical Islam is up to. If he were around in the thirties, they would be cheering Chamberlain. He would be believing Hitler is just misunderstood. Well, you don’t believe. Radical Islamists misunderstood their religious Nazis. You know, the real Nazis wanted a master race for the world. Well, these religious Nazis, mullahs and ayatollahs, they want to master religion and we’re not going to let them head. And Trump has been great, just finished a job in Iran. So there’s a lot at stake here. And domestically, they’re you know, they’re just completely out of touch with the average conservative person in this. This is not conservatism is what we’re both saying. They’re not conservatives. And I know what a conservative is. I worked for Reagan’s campaigns in 76 and 80 and his administration eight years. And same with President Trump. We’ve been working very hard with him and so forth and so on. That’s not to say people don’t have disagreements. That’s different than trying to sabotage the president, undermine the president, stab him in the back. That’s what Massie has done. That’s what GREENE has done. That’s what they all have done. They’ve literally turned on him and are trying to undermine his agenda, whereas you’ve stuck with him and you’re trying to advance. Now, let me ask you this. So so at 7:00 Eastern time, the polls closed in South Carolina. Yeah. If you’re in your car, you’d think a knight, he’s got a shoe. And no, you got to get to the polls. At least in South Carolina, they actually have primaries, unlike California, Maine, where they have those jungle primaries. You’re Republican, you vote Democrat, you vote. And and people are telling you who they prefer, who’s more who’s the most effective? A lot of these people who pretend they’re outsiders, they’re not outsiders. I mean, this guy is backed by Massie, who’s been in Congress many years, backed by by Green, who got out of Congress like two months or two days after her pension kicked in. Yeah, Joe Kent, who got fired? Another one. Yeah. So birds of a feather. So the bottom line is listen to Mark. If he’s still got time to vote. Vote. I appreciate it. I got to get over 50 and, you know, with me, you know what you’re going to get? You don’t get a reliable guy when it comes to national security, a defender of Israel. You’re going to get a guy that can help President Trump when he needs me the most. And I’m excited about the last, you know, the next two years, 27, 28, I’ll be chairman Judiciary Committee. Do you like conservative judges? I’m your best bet. It’s not just talk. I actually did it. And there’s a big effort by the president and the secretary of war to significantly expand the defense budget, which is long overdue. And I can tell you, your opponent, your main opponent, he will be one of these votes like Massie, like like Green, and he will undermine the president, United States on votes like that, don’t you think? 100%. It just these are these are isolationists. You know, I him and Bernie Sanders, you know, sort of fit in the same mold politically, but they are attacking me and Trump for taking a run on you know as well as I do. If we hadn’t acted, they would had enough 90% enriched uranium to make eight or ten bombs. They’re weeks away. So if you don’t get that, that means you don’t understand the world. But yeah, that’s all I can say is Trump did the right thing. I’m going to stand with Trump on the stand with our friends in Israel. Israel’s a blessing to America and not a burden. And we’re going to you know, we’re going to keep the Reagan Trump movement going. Reagan Trump is a hell of a movement, and we’re going to keep it going. All right, Senator, I know you got 45 minutes left and you have some things to do. Good luck to you today and this evening in South Carolina, South Carolinians are good, solid, loyal patriots. They’ll do the right thing in a minute. Amen. God bless you. God bless you. Well, there you go. We’ll be right back.

Segment 2
It’s a variety of things going on here in America, number one. And some of these Republican primaries, you have these Tucker Carlson types who are running. I will fight each and every one of those as they undermine the president MAGA America first constitutional conservatives as they promote Islam and Sharia law against Judaism. Christianity. And you know the rest of it. And so that’s how I’m making those determinations. And then when you look at Maine, you got a you got a Democrat who’s running, who was a neo-Nazi, now is a communist. He’s a vile pervert who’s done things in public I don’t even want to discuss. He’s manhandled women. And I can go on and on and on about that. Guys. Trashed hero heroes who served in the military, one of whom was shot four times. We don’t need that. We don’t need a Bernie Sanders, you know, sycophant who’s got all these other issues that they go along with it. And hence, I endorse Susan Collins. That’s the binary process. When you go into the voting booth, you have to make a decision. And my decision is better. Moderate Republicans. Even RINO Republicans. To the enemy. To the enemy. That’s how bad it’s gotten out there with the Democrat Party and some of these buffoons who are on the woke Reich. RJC h. Now an Apache helicopter was shot down by an Iranian drone. Of course, Iran says while the Apache helicopter shouldn’t have been there wouldn’t have happened. Right. That’s international airspace. That’s international navigable waters. And these Apache helicopters are no joke. They are massive. They are powerful. But these drones become a problem. And the president of United States. He announced that we’re going to respond militarily. He announced we’re going to respond militarily. Let me see if I can find his exact statement here, folks. Give me a second. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Here it is. Let’s see. I don’t have it. Okay. Well, in any event, he posted it. And they’re calling it defensive and pinpoint it. Now they can call it a cucumber if they want to. It’s not defensive and it’s not so pinpointed. Now, ladies and gentlemen, when 11 ballistic missiles were shot. Into the state of Israel that could have killed thousands of people. What did the president what did the prime minister do? Their prime minister responded militarily. Militarily. Right. And he was asked not to. Then he was told, okay, go for it, but don’t do too much. And then the woke. Right. And others castigated him. Right. He was castigated. Now, certainly we haven’t reached the point where if the enemy tries to kill hundreds, if not thousands, of Israelis, the response needs to be limited. But if they attack one of our helicopters, well, we’ll do whatever we choose to do. Right. The fact is that we should beat the hell out of them militarily and Israel should be able to do exactly the same thing. Because my question to you folks is how much longer is this going to go on? How much longer are we going to have DeLay? We have a deal in two or three days. It’s going well and then some kind of a a a military attack by the enemy. Whether it’s Hezbollah or Iran. I think the American people are getting tired of this. I think people are going to need neck braces. Their heads have to turn so often on this. I don’t think it helps our country. I don’t think it helps Israel. I don’t think it helps us during the mid-term elections. I don’t think it’s helpful. Now, this isn’t a vicious attack on the president or anybody else. These are my opinions. People can take him or leave him. I understand. With the dummies, with the anti-Semites. I understand where they stand. I understand where the woke right stands. The Tucker Carlson’s and the Piers Morgan’s. And to Steve Bannon’s in the making Kelly’s. And all the rest of them have their heads up their asses. I got it. I know they have their own agendas. They don’t matter. They don’t matter. Here’s President Trump on the tarmac last night. About Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel heading back when they were attacked by Iran. Cat three Go. What do you make of Prime Minister Netanyahu when you spoke to him? We had a very good conversation and he was hit and he hit back. And I can’t blame him for that. But he was hit. He hit back and now they’ve called it quits. So they’re going to just leave each other alone for another week or so. But it’s they hit us now. They hit us. Ladies and gentlemen. Look what we’re dealing with here with the Iranian regime. Look what we’re dealing with here. It is a hostile force to us, to the Israelis, to the Gulf Arab countries. It’s not going to stop. Maybe it’ll stop for a week, two weeks, a month. But ultimately, it’s not going to stop. Anybody who knows anything about them knows this. Go ahead. And you could say about 3000 years if you really want. But certainly it’s been going on for 47 years. But no, he hit back. He was going back and forth. And now they both agreed through major stop. And we’re in the final throes of what will be a very, very good deal that will not allow. By the way, you notice one of two things with our ally, Israel. They either say nothing because they don’t want to interfere or they support us. Isn’t that right, Mr. Peterson? They’re not telling us how to do it, when to do it, where to do it, how long the door to make a defensive, to make it targeted, to be present. They’re not getting into that. They know that we’ll do whatever we need to do, whatever we choose to do. Right. I’m just saying that really needs to be the the plan for them to stop the fence is self defense. Now, I know my haters out there really want to see Israel blown off the face of the earth. It’s not going to happen. Not now. Not ever. I’ll be right back.

Segment 3
All right. Welcome back, folks. Here’s the tweet by the president earlier. I’ve just been informed by our great military. The last night the Iranians shut down one of our highly sophisticated Apache helicopters while patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz. There are two pilots and while both of are safe and uninjured, nevertheless, the United States must of necessity respond to this attack. Well, of course we should, and strongly so. And imagine if it were 11 ballistic missiles, for God’s sakes, aimed at our country, aimed at our population centers. That’s why Benjamin Netanyahu had to respond. But he wanted to respond more forcefully. He wanted to really put them down once and for all. But he’s pulled back. He’s pulled back. And so now they take out one of our helicopters the next night. That’s a problem. And they’re not done. Trust me on that. They’re not done. Here’s the CENTCOM tweet. U.S. Central Command forces began launching self-defense strikes against Iran at 5 p.m. Eastern tonight. The commander in chief’s direction in response to yesterday’s downing of a US Army Apache helicopter. The mission is a proportionate response to unjustified Iranian aggression. I think the key is for the IDF, call it proportional and defensive, you know, Mr. Producer. I think that’s important. But this. Underscores the point more than anything that I can say where it hit an Apache helicopter. Two of our pilots. Almost killed. Saved. And we’re not going to put up with it. The president, United States said, by necessity, I have to respond. 11 ballistic missiles fired into Israel. If the Israelis fighting Hezbollah because they have fired thousands of missiles and tens of thousands of drones into that country, forcing Israel to depopulate the northern part of the country. And we have talks to Axios and talks to this newspaper and that newspaper and another newspaper that is is upsetting our negotiations for another deal. While, so be it. Maybe this is upsetting negotiations for another DOJ response to the attack on our helicopter. The fact of the matter is, you got to respond and hard to call it defensive and proportional. Call it a watermelon. I don’t really care. We’re dealing with the same enemy. The same enemy. So there needs to be some coherent understanding of what all of us are up against. All of us. Yeah. I think it should be pretty clear by now, don’t you, Rich? Yeah, you would think, by the way. Just a little piece of information to help out. The vice president and I do this in a very positive way. Please don’t misinterpret. There was a historian, NBC News, that from a leak out of the Pentagon, but not a. But not out of the senior Pentagon officials. Not not from a Pete Hegseth who’s a fantastic. Fantastic. SEC more. Secretary of war. That Israel’s spying on the United States is so egregious. That they’ve been placed in a special category. Where they really have to be examined and monitored and this, that and the other in the White House almost immediately put out a statement and said every part of that is false. Every part of it is absolutely false, said the White House. Now the woke right. The propagandists. The crazy podcasters keep pushing it. They want to believe it. They keep pushing it. And the vice president was asked about it yesterday and he didn’t seem to know that the White House had put out a statement. So I just want to say publicly for everybody to hear. So there’s no question. Check the White House statement, sir. You will see. That that question. Was was addressed by the White House. Well before you were asked about it. So no, Israel’s not doing that. Why do I have to keep directing these lies? Because that’s all they’ve got. Genocide in Gaza, starvation in Gaza. The liberty. Oh, that one’s all over again. Even though that’s been explained 4 billion times. You know, ladies and gentlemen, we shot down accidentally British. Aircraft. British aircraft was an intentional unfortunately and I mean, unfortunately, friendly fire happens. And that’s exactly what happened. And I’m not going to go through the whole story. It’s been investigated a thousand times and yet. Thomas Massie goes to the House floor and wets himself over it and keeps pushing it. I get some new issue that’s never been resolved was resolved decades ago. Decades ago. But it doesn’t matter. They hate America, these people. They hate Israel. They’re providing aid and comfort to the Islamist Nazi regime in Iran. They provide aid and comfort. To the assassin mass murdering dictator in Moscow. Putin. That’s what they do. And in fact, that is what they are doing. All right. Ed Markey. S guy has a real creed, an absolute creed. And he’s. He’s a Democrat senator. He was congressman forever a Democrat senator from Massachusetts that has no Republican congressman, as you well know. He’s on MMS now. Yesterday. Me now yesterday. And he is thrilled that Obama and his deal with Iran. Well that in short, Iran will get nuclear weapons. He is thrilled with them. Cut, forego. John Kerry and Barack Obama ensured that the International Atomic Energy Agency would be able to go anywhere they needed to go in order to determine. Excuse me, that is a lie. I’ve studied this backwards and forwards and I’ve explained it to you folks to. They had to give notice to the Iranians. They couldn’t show up any time, anywhere. That’s a phrase of art anytime, anywhere. The Iranians said no. They had almost three and a half weeks notice each time. That the IAEA, the U.N. arm. I was involved a monitoring all this to move centrifuges and other things. If they even allowed the IAEA in, that’s in their report. And yet here you have Ed Markey lying through his teeth. Lying. About what was taking place. Go ahead. Unions were violating the nuclear agreement and there was no evidence that they were doing so. And in fact, what? Ladies and gentlemen, this guy is such a lying piece of crap. Such a complete demigod. There is no evidence the Iranians were violating the nuclear agreement. The European Union said there was the IAEA. That’s the U.N. said there was. They were before we decided to get out very wisely. Again, go on the Internet. Look at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. Look at Tony Blair’s group. They have a website. Just look yourselves. This man gets on television and just lies this guy, Ed Markey. Go ahead. Banks were at least a year away from getting a nuclear weapon because. Shut up, you idiot. This guy is bad, but this is what passes for. For information these days. This is what passes for infamy. It’s disgusting. This guy is disgusting. All these Democrats are disgusting, as a matter of fact. This is what they do. It’s a complete lie. But look how they talk. Look how they talk in defense of the Iranian regime. How come you didn’t get behind the microphone and talk about the 50,000 innocent souls that were slaughtered a few months back and the ones that are being executed, hanged and otherwise murdered. As the Democrat Party and the Democrat senators had press conferences on that. Have they? If they have, I hadn’t seen them. Certainly not often. Has anybody else? No, I don’t think so. It’s amazing. What we’re dealing with here. How truly awful these people are. And they are truly awful. I’ll be right back.

Segment 4
Jon Karl, another leftist, this time with ABC News. He was on the phone with President Trump. He says here he says the president said, and I quote, I think it’s very important to respond. They shot down a helicopter and we are responding as we speak. This is a response to what they did, they did with our helicopter last night. And I believe the response should be very strong, very powerful. And that’s what this one is. This one is okay, folks. My hallucinating, Mr. Producer. Is there a double standard here? Surely not. If Netanyahu put out a statement like this, he’d be attacked viciously. Viciously. By the goons on the Internet and other people and so forth. Unbelievable. Let’s see here. There’s more of this. There’s more of this. So you. It’s awful. They shot down our helicopter and we oughta we had a slam the hell out of them. And apparently we are. And that’s what a great leader does. But then you can’t pull back an ally. Or if an ally says, I got to do what I got to do, then. Then publicly disagree with them after 11. Can you imagine if 11 ballistic missiles were shot into New Jersey? Just New Jersey shot in a New Jersey. Let’s say, from Bermuda. That’s off the East Coast. And we say, okay, now we’re going to really deal with, you know, we’re in the middle of something here. Don’t screw it up. Shooting back and forth. Here’s the thing. We have people like Glenn Greenwald, who has a very sick little midget. He is a boy from Brazil. Who does all the bidding for all our enemies, whether it’s Iran or Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Communist China, Russia, in my view. Like the rest of them do. Like the rest of them. So when I give my opinion, like here that I give to you millions of millions of you, I’m being said to be viciously attacking. Am I viciously attacking Mr.. I never viciously attack our president. I have way too much respect for him. And he’s my friend. These are not easy decisions. But I give my opinion. He calls me. I get my opinion. I give my opinion on TV. They don’t want me to give my opinion. Period. It’s the same exact opinion. No matter what the form. No matter what the occasion. Same exact opinion. I think behind the scenes going on. Nothing secretive going on. But most of you share the same opinion. It’s just common sense. It’s just common sense. That’s because we have no allegiance to Qatar. We have no allegiance to Putin. We have no allegiance to JI. We have no allegiance to the crown prince of Never, never land. We have no allegiance to Iran. We have no allegiance to Turkey. All these people do. Try. They visit. Literally. Visit Russia. Visit Qatar. And whatever the hell else they do. There are so many of them. Their words are used by the enemy, Iran. They’re used by Saudi Arabia. Look, let’s put it this way. Let’s take a look. Let’s take a little drive through the Middle East. Saudi Arabia involved in 911. Qatar involved the 911 by protecting the man who would become the leader of 911. When the FBI was on his tail. So that’s Saudi Arabia, Qatar. Should we go on Iran? 1979 violent revolution. They take our embassy personnel hostage. Reagan’s elected. They’re scared to death of Reagan and they release them. That’s Iran. Lebanon. Hezbollah controls Lebanon. Hezbollah killed hundreds of our Marines, hundreds of our embassy staff and two embassies in Africa. Assad killed Americans in Saudi Arabia. So we have Lebanon. Let’s go on. We have Gaza. The whole now of Hamas, which has killed Americans. Saudi Arabia. Qatar. Iran. Gaza. Lebanon. And yet we listen to the people who lead these countries. And the man who leads Israel has been warning about Iran his entire career. Has helped build up his nation’s economy, has helped build up his nation’s armed forces. Which fought alongside us just a few months ago in a spectacular fashion. Honestly, like no ally we have. While the Europeans were sitting out, they wouldn’t do anything about the Strait. They didn’t want to do anything about the nuclear weapons. Israel was all in. Now Israel’s the problem according to the woke right accorded the Islamists, according to the Marxist the Democrat Party. And unfortunately, some others, too. And fortunately, some others too. Well, an Apache helicopter was hit, crashed. The two pilots are safe. And tonight, we are bombing sites slamming sites in Iran. And I do not hear the prime minister of Israel. On or off the record. Trashing us in the press. Whether we call it a defensive. Pinpointed or focused attack or not. It is what it is. My view is both countries. Should be free to do what they need to do. To put an end to this. Preferably together as we did at the outset of this war. But as the war was stopped. And we have now almost aa2 week cease fire that’s almost 9 to 10 weeks old. And the firing continues from Hezbollah and Israel, from Iran into Israel, and now Iran against our forces, which has been going on, on and off now for a month or two. I just ask you, the American people. Is this what you want? That’s what I’m asking. We’ll be right back.