July 16th, 2026

Rough Transcription of Hour 1

Segment 1
Hello America. Mark Levin here.  Our number 877-381-3811.  877-381-3811. I think the Republican primary for president 2028 is going to be more competitive. Then you may think, no coronations. As far as I’m concerned, I’m never into that. That’s what the Democrats do. You’ve got to earn it. And that would include the vice president or the secretary of state, whoever wishes to be president. Senator Cruz. Maybe? Governor Youngkin I don’t know. I don’t know. But I hope it’s competitive. I hope it’s vibrant. No coronations. And I find myself. Well, kind of. Scratching my head at some of the things the vice president says lately. And even before actually, we talked a little bit about this yesterday, the influencers who are influencing our policy on Iran. And of course, the focus is constantly Israel. Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel. And not just the Marxist Islamist left, not just the Democrats, but the woke right. Israel is not bombing Iran. We’re bombing Iran. And I’m glad we are. But who are these influencers who are being paid? If you’re going to make that accusation, bring the receipts. Who are they talking about? Now they don’t talk about Qatar. This country with 330,000 citizens and 1.1 million indentured servants. Basically a slave state. They don’t talk about Qatar, which has destroyed our college and university curriculum and is destroying our K-through-12. Which has its finger in virtually every major business in this country and financial activity. Which supports the mother, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Islamic Jihad. Yeah. That Qatar are buddies. Now, for the average citizen in America, they’re not our buddies. The average citizen in America. They’re not our buddies. And yet we have people who bring up Israel and never bring up Qatar. What exactly is Israel doing that influences our policy when we have public officials, including in the administration, who say they’re not? Or we have public officials in the administration. Who complain about it. What are they complaining about? They get to make their own decisions. But not Qatar. Not a word about Qatar. Not a word about Saudi Arabia. Come 911 or 25th anniversary, you’ll be hearing a lot about Saudi Arabia and Qatar from me. That’s for sure. 25 years. Qatar, the same Qatar that subsidized Madame, his mother. Not a word about Qatar influencers. I didn’t hear that from the vice president and Joe Rogan. Nothing. Then the Epstein case is still in the Epstein case. And you understand they say Mossad and the CIA had to have some kind of role. Where are the receipts on that? They don’t have any. None. Zero. Didn’t even bring up Steve Bannon. The Steve Bannon videos, they didn’t bring those up. Why? And then this part. A bold government. A government that is prepared to act. An act, apparently significantly. Well, I’m a constitutional conservative. I don’t want a bold government. I want an effective government that operates within the confines of the Constitution, but a bold government. That’s what the Socialists won. That’s what the Marxist want. That’s what liberals want. A bold government. We want a bold private sector. We want individuals to boldly go forward and create things and invent things. We don’t want a bold government. Is that what the Constitution calls for? A bold government? What does that even mean? There’s nationalism, populism, crap. What does that mean? That’s not what your Constitution provides. You’ve got three branches with defined narrow powers. Then you have the states. And beyond that, the individual we. We cherish the individual, the sovereign of the person. That’s what the declaration told. You know, we celebrated July 4th, 250 years. Do we even know we’re celebrating? Does the people in government know what we’re celebrating? We’re celebrating the individual. We’re celebrating freedom. We’re celebrating a government that respects the sovereignty of the people, the consent of the governed. We’re not celebrating a bold, interventionist government. Now, if I’m the last man standing yet, so be it. But we have enough of both government in our face, in our wallets, in our purses, in our lives. We have enough of that. And now what are we going to do? We’re going to compete with the Marxist, with the socialists, with the Islamists for both government. We want the government to be strong in the areas where it’s supposed to be strong, like immigration, like national security, securing our sovereignty and so forth and so on, because the states can’t do that. But a bold government. And watch those Israelis and the Jews, Boy, watch them. We’ve never heard that before, have we, America? No, no. Look at the influence that these people have at enormous. So enormous. anti-Semitism are now on the rise because their influence is enormous. So incredible to me. Now, we don’t need a Democrat party like in the Republican Party. We don’t want a Democrat Party lite in the Republican Party. We want a party that carries forward the principles of Jefferson, of Washington, of Madison. That’s what we want. We read our Constitution. The Constitution doesn’t talk about a bold, interventionist federal government. Does it? And what’s wrong with Milton Friedman and free markets. What’s wrong with that? You know, this this new crop of Republicans and whatever they want to call themselves. Again, they remind me of Marxists because Marxists believe the world begins today. All history to be dismissed. We’re just so much better and so much smarter. We know everything with minimal experience, if any. They know what the world is supposed to be like. Well, we want politicians who recognize we are a special country. That the individual in this country rules that we want a civil society. We understand our history. We understand our principles. That’s what we want. That’s what we will fight for. And 2028 is no better time, no better time than to make that clear. And so we have a candidate, whoever that may be. I don’t know who it is yet. I’m not in it. I’m not in on any candidate yet. But we want to be able to contrast. Our belief system not muddy the waters. Not bow to the left. We want to be able to contrast our belief system. With theirs. And what you need are as articulate candidates. Who has the capacity? Who had the belief system. To compare and contrast what we stand for versus what they stand for on the left. As Reagan would say, bold colors, not pastels. Bold colors. That’s what we want. And I’m not going to support anybody who dismisses Ronald Reagan. Bill Buckley, Barry Goldwater, Milton Friedman. No, we’re just so smart today. I’ll be right back.

Segment 2
You know, as Edmund Burke. For many ways, his writings and thinking undergird the modern conservative movement. It was he who explained that. The way the world really works is one generation to the next, one experience and passing on their experiences. Teaching and learning and then passing on what they teach and they learn to the next generation. So it’s one generation built on top of the next, on top of the next. And that’s why historically, Americans and others have always had great respect for the elderly. Because they have. So much more knowledge and experience than the rest of us. So we’re talking about guys in their thirties, twenties, thirties for those who think they know everything. It’s a dangerous mindset. Again, the Marxist belief Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels believed that you got to have a clean slate, that everything came before is to be rejected. Everything. The family unit, religion. Our economic system. We have to start from scratch. Which means you reject all they came before or you destroy it or attack it. And you can see that happening. How they attack our history, how they attack our founders and our founding documents. Now they’re attacking capitalism and our economic system. Let me ask you something, ladies and gentlemen. Do we have a free market? Of course not. We’ve got more regulations, more taxation, more redistribution of wealth than you can shake, shake a stick at. So we have a a quasi free market system, more of a of a mixed economic system. And that economic system is growing increasingly socialistic. And that’s why so many of you are struggling more and more if you have a little businesses and so forth. And the and the cities and states that are more socialistic than others make it harder and harder to earn a buck. Now. We don’t want that. The way Reagan created massive economic growth was embracing the market system. Slash taxes like no president in history across the board eliminated the death tax. Sped up investment deductions for R&D and capital improvements and investments. We had economic exploits. Fusion. Our economy actually grew during the Reagan years. 25%. Think about that in eight years. He killed off inflation. He killed off unemployment. He inherited a disastrous economy. What is the market system? The market system is. It’s commerce. It is commerce. Nobody invented it, as I’ve said many, many times. Nobody wrote and said, we’re going to create capitalism. That’s not what happened. Commerce is the natural state of things. It’s a spontaneous method of exchanging work for pay or for service. That predates our country, that predates much of the West. Why do we refuse to embrace successful presidents? Why do we refuse to embrace successful policies? The Democrats don’t turn their back on FDR. They think he was the greatest president to ever walk on water. That’s their view. Why? Because he was the biggest socialist we’ve ever had. But we rejected our successful prayer. We reject Coolidge, we reject Reagan. They reject Trump. We’ll see. Our time goes on. But when you have people talking the way they talk. Well, it tells you a ton. Tells you a lot. It tells you a lot. Have people read Bill Buckley, how brilliant he was, the battles he fought. To helped create the modern conservative movement. Did people read? Do they understand what Barry Goldwater did to create the modern day Republican Party? The people understand that Milton Friedman was the brains behind massive economic growth. Do they understand Reagan was a one of a kind president? Who won 49 states and almost won 50 states. He lost by 3000 votes, Minnesota, which means he really lost by 1500 votes. The greatest vote getter Republican in American history. Popular vote, Electoral College vote. I know people will say, well, the demographics were different. We had a lot more white votes. But even then, when you compare the demographics to the demographics, when we had a lot more white voters, nobody accomplished what he accomplished. Nobody. Why do we reject and dismiss success? Political success. Economic success. Foreign policy success. He destroyed the Soviet Union. But don’t worry, we have people today are much smarter. They don’t have the experience. They don’t know the background. Then Robert managed the damn thing. He was governor of the biggest state in America. No, no, no, no, no. He doesn’t count. And Freeman doesn’t count. And Berkeley doesn’t count and Goldwater doesn’t count. We’re going to do things new, but they’re not new. Socialism lite is socialism lite. It was Macy’s who said that we all sound like Marxists now. We all talk like Marxists now. He’s right, isn’t he? It was. He passed away. But he was right, wasn’t he? Who out there is talking about unleashing. The American spirit who out there is talking about. Opening up the economy. Donald Trump. But who else out there is almost nobody. Almost nobody. Too many who are socialist lite big government lite. Democrat like, that’s not how we’re going to win. Certainly not in landslides. That’s not how we’re going to attract young people. We should direct our focus on young people, reject authoritarianism and talk to them about freedom and liberty, which many of them will enjoy. I’ll be right back.

Segment 3
Tom Cotton was on Fox this morning. He was asked about this influence campaign from Israel. And he sits on a he may be the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, certainly a senior member of that committee of nine. And I want to play for you what is the video with the audio. It’s sped up not by us, but whoever edited it. But it is accurate. So listen very carefully. Here we go. No, Dana, I’m not aware of any intelligence about a secret influence operation to try to change American public opinion on negotiating under the memorandum of understanding. To the extent American public opinion does change, I suspect it’s because of what Donald Trump says, that Iran’s leaders are revolutionary fanatics. They’re scum, they’re sick, they’re evil. And last week, they started randomly shooting up shops and their neighbors again. These are not people that are serious about making a deal. They’ve never been serious about making a deal. As President Trump said, the last couple of weeks have revealed that that’s why we put the blockade back in place. We put sanctions in place. We’re hitting the military targets in southern Iran that allow them to harass the Strait of Hormuz. Come in the president, with those actions. I think we should just declare we’re going to keep the strait open through the Southern channel as the ships coming through and help protect them from arresting the Iranian strikes and finish the job of putting Iran’s military in a position where it can’t continue to consistently harass the strait. That’s what the victory would look like here. We’re not that far away from it. So this is a mature, seasoned veteran. Veteran of politics. Veteran of the military. Really I’m quite serious about this says no, there’s not some influence campaign. We’re not aware of any influence campaign. Really quite astonishing when you think about it, isn’t it, influence campaign? And of course, it’s not Qatar. It’s not the Arabs, not the Islamists. It’s the Jews in Israel. Now, if people think that some of us are going to put up with this, they’re dead wrong. And I’m not just talking about Jews. I’m talking about. Christians who care about our country and so forth and so on. We’re all in this together. And we have to defeat the Marxists in the Islamists and the woke right. The Tucker Carlson types and his ilk, we can’t afford we can’t afford to turn this country over to any of them. So our children and grandchildren suffer. We just can’t do it. And I’m going to use every ounce of influence I have behind this microphone, behind the camera in books that people read anymore. I don’t know. And we’re going to push back. We’re going to push back. 100%. They always underestimate us here. Always. And they make a big mistake. Tens of millions of you. They make a big mistake. You see, these people have no influence whatsoever. The vote yesterday, Tom Massing Oh, we love our Tom Massey says no pants gate says bloated Bannon. Says Marjorie. Traitor, gangrene. And the list goes on and on and on. They have no influence. None. Every single Republican voted opposite of what all of them wanted, except for Massie. Because Massie is a radical libertarian head case and now he’s sort of a Marxist socialist. That’s it. And their positions align with 103 House Democrats who voted the way they wanted them to vote. They’re in the wrong party. They’re in the wrong party, then the wrong movement. That’s for sure. But that was Tom Cotton this morning on Fox. Dana Perino an and Bill Hemmer asking very good questions. That’s a hell of a good show, by the way, if you’re able to watch it. I can’t watch it all that time. But when I can catch it, I catch it. They have a lot of great shows on Fox, actually. Martha McCollum, a big fan of hers. John Roberts. And help me out, Mr. Producer. Sandra Smith. That’s a great show. Well as a great show. They’re all great shows, really. They really are very, very good. Harris Faulkner’s program. I can go on and on. I shouldn’t have started, but I’m a big fan of Fox and Friends. During the week. I think they do a great job. Ainsley and Lawrence kill me. Really, really good. Those three in particular. Really good brother. HANNITY And the rest, though, I’m not going to name the whole lineup, but you know who we mean. Just great. And Ingram. Jesse. Yeah. I’ll even say. GUTFELD What do you think? He’s good. Trey’s good. Okay. Did I miss anybody, Mr. Producer? I said, Trace. Oh, Trace. Jack Gallagher. I’m sorry, said Trey. I meant Trace. Very good. Lot of these people, I don’t know. You know, I don’t hang out in New York or L.A. or whatever. I haven’t been on some of their shows. Not because they an ass just because I do what I do, but. Outnumbered is always good. Yeah. The weekend hosts are great. They really are. They’re great. We love our Marine. And. Who else do we have? Lara Trump We have. All right. I’m testing my memory. Forget it. Gowdy I like Gowdy a lot. You know, initially I wasn’t a gal. I like him a lot. He came on the program. He was great. I like him a lot. Marco Rubio. A lot of people want him for president who talk to me, actually. They talk about him all the time. I don’t know what he’s going to do. He doesn’t sound like he’s interested. But what do I know? I don’t know anything. Marco Rubio at the State Department this morning. They’re going after these left wing hoodlums who push violence and terrorism, the Antifa types. And it’s more than that. Cut one. Go. For far too long, however, our counterterrorism doctrine has had a blind spot. A blind spot when it comes to extremist violence from the political left. Even today, the very idea that far left terrorism could be a serious threat is treated as a right wing fever dream or worse, as a dangerous fascist conspiracy. It’s treated this way by many in the press, by many in academia and our universities, and by many of our legacy institutions. You will no doubt see the dogma rears its head in the coverage of this very conference. In spite of the clear and the undeniable reality, in spite of the objective numbers and statistics, in spite of the fact that in this room today there are representatives from across the political spectrum. We will hear this organized, that this kind of organized violence and terror will be dismissed. It will be dismissed as a partisan fiction. A whole industry grew up in our countries around the study of extremism. We have think tanks and fellowships and journals and consultancies with the unspoken understanding among them that the only kind of political violence that was a true threat to our system that ends up sorry that only one kind of political violence was a true threat to the system. A blast a bomb planted by a neo-Nazi group was a nefarious and murderous act of evil. It is, but a bomb planted by a Marxist revolutionary. Well, that’s just merely a tragic excess of idealism. Perhaps it means perhaps its means were misplaced or overzealous, but its ends were virtuous and just. That’s the implication of how they treated. Mm hmm. Right on. Cut to go. For years, this extraordinary ideological prejudice was embedded in the way we talked about political violence and extremism. It was repeated again and again until it was accepted as the neutral and objective baseline. So entrenched, so entrenched in the mainstream conventional wisdom that it came to be regarded as an apolitical fact. It is the reason why here in my country, so many people in positions of power have repeatedly dismissed acts of violence and even terrorism as legitimate forms of political expression, so long as they served a left wing cause. It is why during those George Floyd so-called George Floyd riots in the summer of 2020 as criminals and extremists burned and looted their way through American great America’s great cities and nearly brought the country to its knees. City governments all across the country simply refused to prosecute the people conducting these acts of violence and terror. It is the reason for the now infamous image, and I recall this of a news anchor from a very prominent age. See a news anchor standing in the neighborhood, consumed in flames. Meanwhile, the cry on on the bottom read that the protests were mostly peaceful. This. This was something worse than a double standard. Left wing violence was not just excused. It was treated as sacrosanct, a protected class unto itself. That era has to end. Hmm. Mm hmm. Really good. Cat three Go. This is a distinctive and unique evil. It has always been driven by a hatred, above all else, a hatred for civilization itself. It is a revolt of the worst against the best. A revolt of the weak and the cowardly against the strong and the good. It is perpetrated by those who cannot build, who cannot create, who cannot achieve great things, and take their revenge upon the world for their own inadequacy by seeking to destroy those who can. This is what radical leftism is. It may wear various different slogans and ideologies across place and time. They can call themselves anti-capitalist or anti-imperialist or communist or anarchist or Marxist. But the fundamental character is always the same. It’s always the same. It is a poisonous resentment cloaked in the language of equality and justice, liberation, an overwhelming need to tear down what greater men have built to wreck, what is beautiful and what is right on behalf of people who are only filled with ugliness and have nothing else to offer the world through violence and through terror. They once again seek to impose their ugliness on all of us. Very well said. One more cut, forego. And today, we face a new wave of this old evil here in the United States. The share of left wing terrorist attacks and plots has risen to levels not seen in decades in Germany. Far left violence has jumped by more than 40% in just the last year alone. In Greece, more than 80% of radical violence is now driven by far left and anarchist actors. These these are not abstract statistics. Americans have seen what those numbers mean. An all out assault on our immigration officers, sniper attacks, explosives, armed ambushes, a transgender shooter opening fire on Catholic elementary school students as they pray. His gun marked with slogans like Where is your God now? A health care executive executed in cold blood in the streets, multiple assassination attempts on a sitting president and the murder of the greatest conservative activist of a generation. A man who happened to also be a husband and the father of two young children shot and killed while speaking to a crowd of students. Yeah. So true. I’ll never quite get over that one. Just I don’t see myself for much. The nation getting over it. The haters will hate because that’s what they do. They hate it over Charlie. They hear over Lindsey Graham. They hear over Rush Limbaugh. Just a matter of time till they hate over yours truly. And they hate you, too. We’ll be right back.

Segment 4
Now I want to read something to you from the Jewish Insider. Adam Smith, Democrat, Washington State. He is on the Armed Services Committee. Says he was pressured to vote against Israel aid by violent far left activists. Violent far left Act activists. His home was vandalized and a staffer was assaulted. Over his stance on Israel policy. Now, I would like the president and vice president speak out about this, particularly the vice president. Or anybody else, for that matter. So this congressman’s home was vandalized. A staffer was assaulted by far left. Thugs. Who opposed his position on Israel because he’s a Democrat. Now, is this going to get national attention anywhere? I don’t think it will. I don’t think it will, but it should. And it’s not being reported. It’s not being reported at all. Except by me. And I’m going to post it. Did I send it to you, Mr. Producer? It froze the damn thing. All right. I think I did send it just now with a statement. But what do you think about that, America? The way you take on communists and Islamists. Is with our principles, with our values and our ideas. There are much more attractive. Then the propaganda and the sloganeering and the agitprop of the left. They simply are. Much more as far as I’m concerned. You really ought to try it. But first, we need to learn it, right. First with the leak. We need to learn it. Yeah. All right. When we come back. There’s a lot more. I’m writing something for social media as I speak. Let’s see here. There we go. You may want to check it out. All right, folks. God bless you. We’ll be right back.