June 19th, 2026

Rough transcription of Hour 1

Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811.  877-381-3811. I’m looking at this this entity that keeps track of podcasting, Mr. Producer, who the big podcasters are and it’s always been Geno’s up there. Ben Shapiro’s up there. So I dropped 11 spots. Because I haven’t been podcasting, You understand? I should be dropping 50 spots because we’re revamping this. We’re going to be changing this over the course of the next 2 to 4 weeks. So I literally haven’t been podcasting for three or four weeks. Those of you who are following us know. So when they say, oh, he’s down 11 slots, well, of course I am. There’s nothing to measure. Hey, you crazy, crazy, crazy out there. Well, let’s see here. Looking, looking a lot to do. And I want to start off with something a little different. This is very interesting to me. This is from The New York Post. Twice as many MAGA Republicans. Favor of regime change in Iran is those who want a negotiated settlement. Now, that hasn’t been told that many people, as President Trump’s most fervent supporters prefer overthrowing Iran’s theocratic regime. We see it here. We see it here. We’ve opened our calls like really never before. And you guys have flooded in and the call board has been full. I think we can take eight or nine calls at a time and it’s loaded every time. And. I think pretty much to a man and woman. There might have been one or two, but even those individuals weren’t saying, Yeah, let’s do the deal. They had some issues and questions they opposed. Adrian wanted to wipe out the regime. Now we’re being called hard liners. I don’t see this as a hard liner. The Reagan Institute’s summer survey found that 51% of self-described MAGA Republicans said they wanted the U.S. to install new leadership in Iran. Just 25%. Preferred a peace deal. Just 25% among all Republicans, 50% said they were in favor of putting a U.S. friendly regime in place, 25% against saying they wanted to negotiate a deal. So let’s just go through this. 51% of major Republicans said destroy them. 50% of all Republicans said destroy them. In other words, regime change. And yet, if you listen to the woke right out there or some of these clowns online who seem to be some kind of mobsters trying to enforce an ideology, it’s just very weird. You would think the opposite. You would think the opposite. But it’s not the opposite again. 51% of self-described MAGA Republicans wanted the U.S. to install new leadership in Iran. 50% of all Republicans. So you’re not out of the mainstream of Republicans. Ladies and gentlemen, it’s only 25% prefer a deal or a negotiated settlement. The other 25 or 24 aren’t sure what’s cooking. Among all respondents, a narrow plurality that would include Democrats. 39% wanted Iran’s current leadership to remain. To remain with verifiable limits on nuclear and missile programs. Another 36% opted for a supporting regime change. Again that since this all including Democrats. 16%. They wanted the regime to stay in place. We actually have 16% who are rooting for the regime. The annual survey shows the uphill political battle the president faces to sell his latest deal with the rogue Islamic. State after three and a half months of military action on Wednesday. The president. And his Iranian counterpart signed that memorandum. Actually, I think digitally, I think technically was signed on Sunday. She. Is there anything else we care about in here? The Reagan Institute survey polled 1555 respondents nationwide March 26 to June three. So it’s quite recent. A combination of live phone interviews, online panel text or web responses. In other words, they used every scientific measure possible is a margin of error of plus or minus two and a half percent. So just to recap. Let’s see here. I want to make sure I’m 100% accurate and I will be 51% of MAGA. Republicans want the regime replaced. 50% of all Republicans. And this is a very trustworthy survey that the Reagan Institute does every year, obviously not just about Iran, but other military and national security and defense issues. So I thought you’d find that interesting. I did, because if you again, if you listen to the phony influencers, the woke right and others, you would have thought the opposite. The opposite doesn’t mean forever wars. And let me let me underscore a point. For 47 years, as I explained last evening. Iran and Hezbollah were slaughtering Americans, military personnel and civilians. That 47 year period, with a few exceptions, but not many, was a period where the isolationists, the appeasers and the pacifists won the day. Right. We didn’t go to war with Iran. So that shows you that in a 47 year period, thousands of Americans were killed and maimed thousands. 241 me Marines were killed. 19 excuse me, pilots were killed. And the list goes on and on and on. Isolationism in the face. In the face of Islamism, communism. Fascism is also a death cult. And so I would say to the woke right and their ilk, you won the day for 47 years and the result was widespread mayhem, assassination attempts on the president by the Iranian regime and his daughter. The slaughter of Marines. The slaughter of airmen, sailors. American civilians. And that’s what you get in the face of a a revolutionary Islamist regime. You get, you get killed if you don’t stand up for yourself and defend yourself. That’s the truth. Now we went through the memorandum of understanding and went through it as objectively and honestly as I can. And. Unlike some people, I’m always going to tell you the truth about these things. I wish they would sync up with where the president is on this, but maybe he is with us on this. I don’t know. But. I’ve got to tell you the truth. When I look at something and I go through it and I went through at one point. By one point. By one point by one point. And we’re not the only ones who did that. The Iranians and Hezbollah did, too. And as a result, today, Hezbollah killed four IDF soldiers. They were basically incinerated in a tank. By a killer drone. Israel responded. Went right after the terrorists killed about 80 of them. And now there’s a so-called cease fire between them. I’ve been listening to some people speak about. Israel and Netanyahu. And I want to make a few points. Let me do this first and foremost and want to call out the Washington. Examiner here. I want to read something to you from The Washington Examiner by Clare Carter. It’s a disgrace. I promote this website all the time, but we’ll never do it again. The headline is Mark Levin says Iran War should Continue after 2026 elections. Listen to this. As Netanyahu reportedly lobbies right wing pundits. He hasn’t lobbied me. I won’t even talk to him. Didn’t even ask me. I’ve told you folks that I’m on nobody’s payroll. I don’t work for anybody. I haven’t talked to Netanyahu at any time during this war or the June bombing, but what if I did? So what? But I didn’t. What if I did? So what? I’m not talking to Qatar. I’m not talking to Iran. I’m not talking to Saudi Arabia. I’m not talking to Russia. They’re our enemies and adversaries. But the article goes on. Conservative podcaster Mark Levin on Tuesday said the United States should knock out Iran after the midterm elections. So I said, maybe that’s an idea. We dragged them on. I did it right here. I spoke to you. We drag them on like they try to drag us on and then after the midterm elections are behind us, then we hammer them again. Saying the recently signed peace deal was rushed and offers a great deal of benefits for Tehran. Actually, that’s her summation. I spent a lot of time going through it, analyzing it with you, posting it online. She doesn’t even put a link. Not even a link. Again. Her name is. Clare Carter at the Washington Examiner. Levin. Here you go. A close ally of President Donald Trump, who is pro-Israel, made his remarks shortly after reports ready circulated that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to sway public opinion about the Iran deal through right wing influencers. So I made my remark, which apparently was connected to this report in the Israel, and I don’t know it was national news or whatever it’s called. I hadn’t even seen it. But as soon as I saw it, I said, I have no idea what that means. None. So why would she put that in there, Mr. Producer? And why would she put that in there without contacting me? It’s a smear. Time for a change in strategy, Levin said in an ex post. We should consider slow walking the enemy, building up our munitions, our oil reserves, get the price of gasoline down, get through the midterms, then knock them out. Instead of rushing to a deal. Building up their oil industry. Transferring billions to them. Actually like that idea. And maybe the White House will eventually come to that conclusion, too. I’m not pushing it. Just the thought I put out. Levin has been critical of the memorandum of understanding between Iran and U.S. since details started coming to light about the language in the document he has frequently posted to social media in support of Israel’s attack on the Hezbollah operations in Lebanon, which were included in the cease fire agreement. What was included in the cease fire agreement can’t be right. She means Hezbollah was included in the cease fire agreement and since April 8th. What she doesn’t say. If they have violated hundreds and hundreds of times. According to Israel sources speaking with CNN. Here we go again. Netanyahu is not sold on Tehran’s intentions in citing the deal with Washington because Trump has signed the MCU with Iran setting the stage for 60 days of negotiations. The prime minister reportedly trying to utilize conservative media figures of lawmakers, including Levin, to get his message out. I don’t have a call. Why is she writing this? Then I went back and looked. It was some anonymous source who mentioned that this was going to happen and throughout my name. An anonymous source. I’m a real source if you want to talk to me. Again, I’m not going to be intimidated into not talking to Netanyahu or the president of the United States or Netanyahu’s opponents or the president of Israel or whomever I want. But they try to infer that the opinions I gave are somehow tainted. Not bloated Bannon’s or Megan Kelly’s or pure moron or all these. No, no, no, no, no. I think all these podcasters or radio hosts, if they’re getting any money from foreign governments, let’s say it. Let’s see it. I’ve got no problem with it. And it goes on. And it goes on. I just wanted you to be aware of this. It’s so pathetic. I’ll be right back.

Segment 2
Hello, hello and hello again. So I want to pick up on something with you folks. New York Post. Florida man indicted for allegedly plotting mass shooting of Jewish employees at advocacy group. It’s in the New York Post. And it says here federal prosecutors said that on December 23, 2024, Pemberton. Yo, yo, yo. These damn advertisements. Kendal Pendleton, 27, of Greenville, is charged with an attempted hate crime. Using and carrying a firearm during a crime of violence and possession of a short barrel rifle. Federal prosecutors said On December 23, 2024, he attempted to carry out a shooting at an office belonging to Ready for This, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, AIPAC. The demonization of AIPAC. Which is an organization that is set up by Americans, that employs Americans, that raises contributions from Americans who are Jewish to promote those causes and those views like the ACP does for blacks. And if Catholic organizations, for Catholics and on and on and on and on. But this hépatique has become. You know, the same thing as Israel and neo cons, just the racist. Woke right and others, the left, Islamists and the Marxists. And so this hate is just growing and growing and growing and growing based on conspiracy theories and so forth and so on. I want to continue this when we return. Just sickening beyond belief. We’ll be right back.

Segment 3
For 47 years, we didn’t respond militarily in any real way to the Iranian regime’s murder of our military personnel and civilians. The policy practiced by presidents before Donald Trump was exactly as the isolationists appeasers have professed demand today and demanded before police attacked Iran’s nuclear sites last June. And this February is the first president to take real military action. Putting aside different views of the most you, the forever for was and is being fought by an enemy that believes in forever wars. We certainly haven’t fought a forever war against Iran. So what are these people talking about, Mr. British? And by not taking the steps we needed to take, we lost many, many and underscore that Ash. Okay. Here’s Brian KILMEADE, our friend of ours on Fox and Friends today. Cut to ago, kind of shocked to see J.D. Vance go after Israel yesterday. I wish he would be that tough with Iran and Israel if this is the reason they put these talks on hold. Israel had four IDF soldiers killed. What do you expect them to do? And if you want them to go along with the plan, you should tell them what’s in the plan. They were not even in the talks. All of a sudden they’re roped into it. So it’s up to Iran to tell Hezbollah who does whatever you tell them to knock it off, and then Israel will knock it off. Mm. But it’s easier to tell Israel or knock it off because Hezbollah is never going to knock it off. Isn’t that the truth? General Jack Keane on Fox and Friends today Go. Yeah. I mean, the Iranians here certainly are trying to drive a wedge between the United States and Israel. And to a certain degree, they’ve accomplished some of it. The Iranians cannot make a claim dealing with Lebanon. Lebanon is they they don’t own Lebanon. Lebanon is an independent country. Obviously, they have an organization inside of it made up of Lebanese citizens called Hezbollah. It operates under the orders of Iran, for sure. Yeah, and they’ve had significant political and obviously military influence in that country for years. But their principal reason for being there is one is to defend Iran against an attack by Israel and to to attack Israel. And also it’s a major export of terrorism outside of the region. So they have interest there for sure, but we should tell them to stand down. You are not going to make a claim here. The reality is the major lesson from October the seventh that the Israelis have have learned and it’s obvious looking at it, is you cannot permit proxies on your border to have capacity to attack. That can never happen again. Hamas in particular, and Hezbollah specifically here. And that is what is happening here. Hezbollah was building up infrastructure in the south and then began to despite the cease fire on April the 17th, a special cease fire dealing with Lebanon. They conducted over 2000 rockets and drone attacks into Israel, which are still going on in the last 48 hours that have been going on. That’s the reality of it. He’s right. He’s got a lot of bravery. He’s had bravery in his past. He was a. The unit commander. I think the right phrase is in Vietnam when he was much younger. He’s seen a lot of war. He’s seen a lot of killing. He’s seen a lot of horrible injuries. And he’s a retired four star Army general. That is a big deal. And when he speaks, people listen. People. Listen, President Trump at Joint Base Andrews today unveiling the new Air Force One cut seven go. And now we have an agreement that was signed last night and it’s 60 days after make a deal. Otherwise, we we will do things that won’t make them happy. But I don’t think it’s going to get to that. I think it’s going to be very good. Remember, if we do that, then all of a sudden you’re not going to have the oil flowing out of the strait too quickly because people that own billion dollar ships total have missiles flying over them. Don’t love mines all over the world. Hmm. Kate Go. President She’s coming here in September, but we’re going back for a big conference that’s in China. I said, I do that, and I want to thank China, because to be honest, I asked President Xi not to get involved with Iran, and they get 50% of their oil from the strait. But I asked him not to get involved and he said he wouldn’t and he did. And very nice, actually. Very nice. So I appreciate that. All right. Now, China did provide, as did Russia, some technical information, satellite information to the Iranians. That’s why they were able to hit our base and hit some of the other bases and locations and so forth. So there was assistance, as far as I know, there was some assistance as well in that regard. I want to get back. I didn’t lose my place to this guy in Florida. So this guy has been indicted for plotting a mass shooting target Jewish employees at an AIPAC office, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. In Plantation, Florida. Again, I want you folks to understand, because there’s a lot of horrendous lies out there. This is an American organization. Like any other group. Religious group. Minority group. Majority group. Business group. It’s a political action committee. It’s made up of Americans. It employs Americans, and only Americans can contribute to Iraq in the amount of money they actually spend in campaigns is dwarfed. Dwarfed. By other political action committees, whether they be religious, whether they be race related, whether they be business or labor PACs or whatever they are. He was reportedly armed with an AR 15 style rifle equipped with a silencer. He was ready to go, I guess. The Palm Beach Post previously reported that AIPAC was the targeted group. Documents didn’t specify the specify the non-profit. Critics over back have said the group defends the actions of conservative Israeli governments. So what? Including expansionist settlement policies in the West Bank. This this is. This is the New York Post. That’s called Judea and Samaria. They’re not expansionist policy policies. And aggressive military campaigns while opposing conditions or restrictions on US military aid to Israel. Let me tell you the truth about a PAC. I’ve never been a fan of them over the years because I thought they were too squishy. And in fact, they would support a lot of Democrats in the past. They’ve gotten better they’ve gotten more conservative as. My Dhami and his ilk and the Marxists and their ilk and the universities and what’s going on there. Are pressing their agendas, so it pushes back. It’s not allowed to push back and they get a write up like this. Investigators traced Pemberton using cell phone geolocation technology. He allegedly planned to volunteer for a PAC in an effort to gain access to the group and carry out a deadly attack. Authorities said he left his home on December 22, 2024, with two rifles and a pistol after leaving a note to his family. When he arrived at the building, it believed to be a packed courthouse. The structure was empty. Law enforcement initially became involved in the case when Pemberton’s father called the Gainesville Police Department out of concern over his son’s disappearance. The newspaper reported that Pemberton left a letter apologizing to his family and discussing his adversity to authority, quote unquote, and the, quote, flaws of modern day. So you can see where the extreme libertarianism and the Marxism and the anti-Semitism and the Islamism becomes just one big vegetable soup. The newspaper reported that Pendleton left a letter apologizing to his family and discussing his adversity to authority and the flaws of modern day. As I mentioned, living in a flawed system haunts me in ways I cannot describe, he wrote. I am breaking the loop. Pemberton was pulled over in Tallahassee on Christmas Day 2024 while driving a rideshare vehicle. His abandoned pickup truck was subsequently found by authorities on the side of the road. The time he allegedly told authorities that he was on his way to Alabama to deliver one of his guns to an acquaintance. No arrest was made during the traffic stop. Pemberton’s father was notified, traveled to Tallahassee and Bortus and brought his son back to Gainesville. On December 26, 2024. Pemberton agreed to be interviewed by investigators who asked if he had intended to commit an act of violence. Quote, I really don’t know if I was going to end it with my life or not, he said. I hadn’t gotten that far yet, entirely dependent if I ended up getting caught. If caught, that was the way out. These are people prepared to go down shooting or killing themselves? Pemberton was arrested the following day. Fox News Digital has reached out to Apple and so forth and so on. It’s pretty frightening, don’t you think, Rich? You never know when your number is going to come up. You’re just minding your own business. Apparently you’re in the wrong building. You just don’t know. That’s why you stand by your principles and your beliefs and your values. You don’t need to compromise what’s so essential in your life. You try and live a good life, you try and do the right things and hopefully you’ll live a good and a long life. I’ll be right back.

Segment 4
I just mentioned Iran, where the isolationists won the day and it cost thousands of Americans their lives. In body parts until President Trump stepped in to deal with the nuclear sites last June and this February. So we can we can debate the issue on the menu, but let’s get that abundantly clear. The isolation has had their way. And worse, some of them were actually funding the enemy for a half a century, and the result was death. A lot of it of our people. You look at World War Two. We didn’t get into that war until we were attacked. And by that time Hitler was on a movie, had built up his military industry. We were on our backs. We had to do things we wouldn’t normally do in a republic. Effectively nationalizing industries, at least for wartime. A massive draft. Trying to get in place as fast as we possibly could. A lot of people lost their lives because we were not prepared and we were not ready. Again, the isolationists won the day until we were attacked at Pearl Harbor. So these people keep talking about forever wars. They seem to think that some of us who are traditional conservatives who believe in a strong national security, military second to none, that if we’re going to have men and women in the military, that they need to be the best prepared and protected, that somehow that’s a forever war or warmonger. No. It seems to me the warmongers, the enemy and the isolationists are playing right into their hands. Communist China would love nothing more. And for our nation to be led by an isolationist. Donald Trump is not an isolationist. Again, he’s the first president out of eight. He’s the eighth one since 1979. Who has taken real military action against this enemy. Again, we can discuss this, Matthew, and we should. We shouldn’t be silenced. But those who opposed this president taking the action he took. When he killed more Americans, among others, and they would have a nuclear weapon. And yet have tens of thousands of more ballistic missiles. I don’t understand how that prevents a forever war. I don’t understand how that’s in America’s interest, period. It’s not in America’s interest. And so isolation and isolationism caused death Americans death. And it caused death in the lead up to World War Two. The enemy’s preparing, preparing, preparing. We can see them preparing. We sit on our hands. So the isolationists make the argument of the leftists and the Democrats and the media. I don’t make that argument. They make that argument. They’re very thrilled now that we have a memorandum of understanding and they don’t even want you to read it. They don’t want you to understand it. They don’t want you to distill it. They don’t want you to discuss it. They want you to accept every piece of it. Even though it’s just the predecessor to a deal that’s supposed to be negotiated and they tell you to shut up because they don’t care. They just want out. Well, I care and you care. It’s very important. This isn’t ideological with you or with me. This is America first. And we have a say in this, too, and we want our representatives to hear what we say to. That’s natural. That’s normal, and that’s okay. I’ve got all kinds of clips. From all kinds of Democrats. Trashing the president. And I’m not going to play any of Mr. Produce. I’ve just decided. No. Mr. Producer works hard to pull this stuff together. But I. I’ve just decided that. Why should I give them voice, considering that they exist for one reason To sabotage our country, to sabotage our president, to sabotage our military? Why should we do that? Well, we’re not going to. Because that’s not really a discussion or debate worth having. Sometimes there’s no discussion, a debate worth having because the person is so repulsive or unconscionable or just plain dumb in any illogical. Why would you debate somebody like that if you want to debate somebody who’s relatively intelligent? Has information. Maybe a scholar or just somebody you may have a disagreement with. That’s fine. But if you’re going to debate somebody who’s challenging your right to exist, your face. You know your ethnicity. That’s not a debate. That’s an attack. And you shouldn’t respect that person, let alone debate that person. Dismiss that person. We’ll be right back.