July 23rd, 2026

Rough transcription of Hour 1

Segment 1
Hello America. Mark Levin here.  Our number 877-381-3811.  877-381-3811. You know, it’s not frequently that we we hear a floor speech from a member of the House or the Senate that. Really is compelling. It really grabs you. Yeah, that’s what her that’s what happened today on the floor of the House and the Senate. Senator Tim. She a new senator from Montana. You know, we endorsed him strongly here, but he won because he’s a fantastic. Not just candidate, but individual. He’s a combat veteran. His wife is a combat veteran and a successful small business man. And he decided to run for the Senate. Because he’s deeply concerned about this country. Having fought for it, now fighting for it in Washington. I want you to listen to what he has to say. In a clip that’s a little longer than the clips that we usually play, but still not very long. Really? Just a few minutes. But I would encourage you to increase the volume wherever you’re listening to the program. If you have family members, gather them around. Because he explains in exquisite detail. Why we are at war with the Islamo Nazi regime in Tehran. Go! Yesterday, we saw the United States and many others at Dover Air Force Base presiding over a ceremony that is very sacred to those of us who served, and that is a dignified return of remains from the war zone. And that process happens beginning in the war zone through Dover to the hometown of our fallen heroes. I’ve participated in many of those ceremonies myself to include caring friends of mine off the plane. One of those on this bracelet. He was cut in half by an Iranian EFP. This regime that we are fighting does not care about our partners in politics. They don’t care who you voted for, who you pray to or where you live. They want to kill all of us. And then I’ll just say it. They actually do it. And they’ve been doing it for 47 years. This is a war of choice. The Democrats are correct. It’s a war of choice that was begun by a radical lunatic band of terrorists that took over a beautiful nation 47 years ago, took it over with brutality, force and savagery. And the second they took it over, that it is free their people, that it unleashed the largest oil reserves in the world to build schools and bridges. They took it over to murder their own people and to spread their disgusting ideology across the world. And that is exactly what they have been doing. They don’t just say it and talk about it. You don’t have to believe what they say. You can simply watch what they’ve done. They have attacked families, women, children, innocent people. They don’t just attack them and kill them. They rape them. They skin them alive on camera. They celebrate it. They honor those people who do disgusting things that we would put in jail for the rest of their lives in this country. And they do it for fun and they pay them money to do it. And they’re heroes to that nation. They’ve done it to friends of mine. They’ve done it to families who’ve been in this chamber. And the fact that we sit here and listen to elected officials of this country defend these lunatics who want us all dead. They want all of you dead. They want all of us dead. They don’t want us to disappear with a snap of a finger. They want us to be raped, burned alive, and cut into pieces. Watch the video from October 7th. That’s what they want to happen. From Maine to San Diego, from Seattle to Miami. They want this country turned into a burning husk of its former self. And you don’t have to theorize that that’s what they do for the 1983 barracks bombing, where 280 Marines were vaporized in the morning from USS Cole and Achille Lauro. To every terrorist attack from the Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas. These are not humanitarian freedom organizations. They are death dealing cults. And they want all of us to die. Brutal deaths. William Buckley was abducted in 1985. An American military officer. He was skinned alive on camera by the Iranians, American prisoners of war who are captured. They were never called prisoners of war because they were captured by lunatic terrorists. So they were not subject to the Geneva Convention. They were captured and murdered. Power drills through their brains. This is in Iraq. These are families that have dealt with this and they’ve never gotten a single dime. These families have never gotten restitution, and not a single president has ever stood up to them. Love Donald Trump or hate him, Love his policies, hate ice, love, ice, whatever. There’s never been a single president who has stood up to Iran and hit back. For 47 years, our troops and our families have been absorbing attack after attack after attack all over the world, and their radical ideology does not stop at the Persian Gulf. It doesn’t stop at Tel Aviv. They want to do this everywhere. It’s a global radical ideology and we’ve been fighting it for half a century. We didn’t start this war. We did not. But we will finish it. And forever. Wars are not popular with anybody these days. Both sides that love the attack are forever wars. And I can promise you, being someone overseas, wearing the uniform when you’re fighting for your country, you don’t care what party is in office, but you’re fighting to defend your country. You turn on the news and see your elected officials stabbing you in the back, telling you that you’re failing, that you’ve failed every goal of the war. So what I just heard last time I checked, we’ve like these bastards out an occasional missile strike and boats in the straits. That’s not military strength. Those are the flailing of a failing empire. Those are the failings of a nation in collapse because they deserve it. So I encourage our colleagues on both sides of the aisle, whatever is politically convenient, whatever plays well on Twitter or Facebook. Think about the people who are deployed right now standing on that wall with a loaded weapon who volunteered to defend our country and our way of life because they are there defending us in a just war, because we did not start a war with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. They started with us 47 years ago, and their attacks have gone unanswered for half a century. It’s time to fix this problem and make sure another generation of Americans does not have to fight this murderous, savage adversary. I have nothing to add. To the genius. Of what Senator Sheehy just did. The articulation in the explanation of what we believe in, what we’ve been saying now for some time. Nobody has done it better. Nobody. And he’s speaking from the brain. He’s speaking from the soul is speaking from the heart. He’s speaking from experience. He knows what we’re dealing with. William Buckley. Was a CIA operative. He was kidnapped in Lebanon by Hezbollah. And they tortured him and they starved him. And in the end, they skinned alive, as he says, on video. He’s talking about also. The Iranians and also the Iraqi militia tied to the Iranian regime. Killing. Our soldiers in Iraq when they captured them. With drills. Drills to their head into the brain. He talked about October 7th. And he obviously watched some of that video, if not all of it. 40 some minutes. About how these young people were literally. Tortured in unspeakable ways. Their bodies mutilated while they were alive. The raping of the young women and the boys that were there. Gang raping, videotaping. Burning alive. Cutting off genitalia. And the would seem. Raping the mothers and the daughters in front of the children in the fathers. Murdering them. Tying the babies together, burning them alive. Just really, truly unspeakable things. The Israeli IDF is tracking them down one by one. Every day we see one or more killed in Gaza. One by one, they will track down all 6000 of them. And they’re doing it as I speak. When you hear the attacks on our country and our president taking on this. This this evil. Subhuman. Terrorism. And the prime minister of Israel and the IDF and his people. They’re fighting like warriors. Not like Naito. Not like the Arabs. Especially when we do it shoulder to shoulder. It is something to behold. It is something to celebrate. To celebrate. Isolationism is exactly what our response was. To Iran for 47 years, and we lost thousands of fellow Americans. Many were maimed. But now they were close to getting a nuclear weapon in this president said, no, we can’t do that. Donald Trump, who would rather do anything. Anything that lead a war effort needed to lead a war effort. And he did the right thing. And he deserves our support. Our military deserves our support. Israeli prime minister and their military deserve our support. They’re the best allies we have and they fight like no others. Britain, France, Canada, Australia. What a joke. What a joke. We’ll be right back.

Segment 2
You know, we’ve talked about this before, the absence of war. Is easy to defend. Until you’re attacked. Let me repeat that The absence of war is easy to defend until you’re attacked. You don’t have to go back that far. 25 years to 911, Right. Everybody wondered what happened. What happened? How could this happen? Why were we ready for this? Then eventually we had a commission. Commission members investigated, investigators investigated. We put out a report. You’d think we’d learned our lesson. What the president is doing here is preemptive to ensure that this enemy doesn’t have a nuclear weapon and that this enemy can’t use a nuclear weapon. To blow us off the face of the earth. Because that’s their mentality. That means there is no room for mistakes. There’s no room for. I wonder what happened. Why were we ready? Why didn’t we do anything? As hundreds of thousands of people are dead. In some mushroom explosion and not just one multiple. But don’t worry, the price of gasoline will be down. Don’t worry. Don’t worry. The Democrats, who always raise the price of gasoline and energy. We’re very concerned about it right now. Not about climate change, you see. And that nonsense. The fact is that this regime has already killed enough Americans and maimed enough Americans, and it’s killed and maimed enough people. And I, for one, celebrate the fact. Now they’re under attack. And their leaders are being killed. I celebrate the fact that we have the greatest military on the face of the earth. Which is operating in an exquisite fashion. They celebrate the fact that Israel has a great leader and Netanyahu. And a great military and a great intelligence service. And that they’re our closest ally and they demonstrated and they’re working with us to fight and kill this enemy. I celebrate that. I do want to remind you. I want to remind you, as we talk about Hezbollah and Hamas and the Houthis and as we talk about the Iranian regime. That Erdogan in Turkey is aligned with Iran. That he, in fact, has given safe harbor still to Hamas leaders that he helped fund Hamas. That he has supported Hezbollah. I want to remind you of all these things and why he shouldn’t have F-35s. Under any circumstances. And let’s talk about Saudi Arabia, where we heard today the president. He’s talked about civilian nuclear energy for Saudi Arabia. Which is bizarre. They’re in the middle of a desert. They’ve got more oil than they know what to do with. But that said, some might say, well, the UAE has it. Yes, the UAE does. But they weren’t involved in the attack on us on 911, 25 years ago, were they? Were they? And just because the UAE has it doesn’t mean others should. So I oppose F-35s for Turkey. I opposed civilian nukes of nuclear energy for Saudi Arabia. We’ll be right back.

Segment 3
President at the EPA headquarters today asked about Iran and a deal cut one go. We’re doing very well against the Islamic Republic of Iran. We’re doing extremely well. They would like to do something, but I say they’re not ready yet. They need more of the same. They’re not ready yet. They had some evil intentions. We cannot let them have a nuclear weapon. If we did all this that I’m talking about, about your data centers, isn’t that important. When they start blowing away communities one by one, we cannot let them ever even think about having a nuclear weapon. And that’s exactly what’s happening. They’ll never have a nuclear weapon. Hmm. You know, he’s one of the few people in Washington really has has this straight is right on about what the priorities are. But the Democrats, they would sell out our country for votes for power. I wrote all about it in my book on power. That’s all they’re focused on, truly. That’s it. Marco Rubio with reporters in the Philippines today cut to ago. Do you rule out striking civilians? I think I saw, you know, guys, I saw Iraqi foreign minister who the other day say or something about their policies, an eye for an eye. The president’s policy is a head for an eye. I mean, honestly, that’s what it’s going to be. I mean, they will pay a very heavy price for the things they’re doing. They’re already paying a very heavy price. You guys don’t know because you don’t cover it. You’re not in Iran. You’re not on the street. They don’t have a free media. But they’re going to continue to pay a very heavy price. Their industrial base has been decimated. Their defense industrial base has been decimated. They’re losing launchers. They’re losing radars every single night. They are suffering billions of dollars in damage and their economy is a disaster. But despite all that, these people who are calling us every day begging, let’s do a deal, they send us messages to other countries, third countries. I mean, they’re running out of countries to send even. I had countries here coming up to me. Oh, I just spoke to the Iranians. They want to do a deal. The problem is, every time these people do a deal, they either break it or after they make it, they want to change the deal. So they’re probably not ready to do a deal yet, but they will be soon because the price they’re paying is very high, despite their tough talk and their flowery language and their stupid Lego videos they put out. I’ve never seen them, but they put these things out on social media despite all that bravado. They are suffering tremendously and they’re going to suffer more until they come to their senses. They’re not there yet, unfortunately, going. No, they’re not there yet. Here’s more. Rubio Cut three. Go. Did you talk Russian about Russia sharing information with Iran targeting U.S. troops? Well, who says that they are? Are they not? Who says they are at the knowledge that Russia was enabling in some ways Russia, Russia and China? But that’s a different question for you. Just ask me who said that they’re doing nothing reporting that they’re reporting in the media. Oh, then it must be true. That’s in the media. It’s a leaker. I’m not going to let me say, let’s imagine that were true. I certainly wouldn’t discuss it in the press. I’ve already told you guys yesterday something, and I was very clear about it. Nothing that Iran is doing, nothing that anyone is doing to help Iran is in any way increasing their ability to target Americans. But what you need to all understand, because we’ve explained this repeatedly, is Iran has spent the better part of 20 years not just sponsoring terrorism, but building long range rockets, short range missiles and drones. And they were intending to build them a lot more. They were intending to double their stockpile of this stuff you’re seeing them use now. They were going to double that and they were going to use that and hide behind that to say we’re untouchable. We can now do a nuclear weapon and you guys can’t touch us. So we’re overwhelm your air defenses, which is why the president had to address this threat. And he did. And he should have another president should have done it earlier. The world will be a safer place because we addressed it. Unfortunately, you know, in the short term, it creates disruptions. But you know what’s really disruptive, a nuclear weapon in the hands of these radicals. That’s perfectly put. Perfectly put. And you notice, Mr. Producer, in America and one attack on the state of Israel. Now, one attack on the prime minister of Israel, like we’re used to hearing from some of these people at the White House, not one. Nothing, because Israel hasn’t done anything. Incredible, isn’t it? Then we have the House of Representatives, a handful of Republicans joining the Democrats to vote. Against the war, quote unquote, the War Powers Act. The War Powers Act has always been unconstitutional from the moment it was passed in 1973. Nonetheless, they keep playing these games. Does Congress. You have the power of the purse name, nothing more. That’s all they’ve got. It’s a lot. But they don’t have the votes because, for instance, if they use the power of the purse and they had a majority and they said we’re cutting off funds for the war in Iran, president would veto it. They don’t have two thirds of members of the House or the Senate override his veto. And so they play these games with the War Powers Act, which clearly would undermine the whole budgeting and veto processes, wouldn’t it? So Gregory Meeks, Democrat of New York, he’s on Capitol Hill with reporters. And keep something in mind when Democrats take military action, as Obama did. Against Libya. Then they don’t want to hear about the War Powers Act. They want to hear about it. Some Republicans do. It’s the War Powers Act and vice versa. Here’s Gregory Meeks, Democrat Cut Forego on War powers. Congresswoman, Congresswoman Jayapal said that you’re pursuing potentially a legal strategy to enforce the War Powers Resolution that was adopted. Can you speak a little bit more about how you’re doing there? I’m dropping a resolution today to first to the speaker. This is all performative. Nothing’s going to come of this. It’s all to try and convince their base and other miscreants that this is something effective. All it does is give aid and comfort to the enemy. They see this division. They use this Democrat party and radical left wing and woke right neo fascist propaganda against our troops. And they use it to try and advance their agenda. Go ahead. The administration for not following the personal resolution driven resolution that was passed in both the House and the Senate. And so therefore, we don’t care what passed in the House. In the Senate. So what? If something’s unconstitutional, they can pass whatever they want. It’s still unconstitutional. Go ahead. The resolution today when we get back next week. You know, it’s an amazing thing. It’s an amazing thing how they keep saying the president violates the Constitution, that the president is a dictator and they try and use this as an example. And yet. And yet. In the Alice in Wonderland. That is the House of Representatives. In the Senate, it is they who are defying the Constitution is they who seek to undermine the president’s war powers. It is they who are lying about separation of powers and who has what power and who does not. Congress has the power to declare war should it choose to do so. But it is not a prerequisite to going to war. And I’ve explained this the original language. Congress has the power to make war was removed. In the first draft of the constitution, change would declare war. The president has the power to make war. He’s the commander in chief. And if Congress rejects it, they can try and use their budgetary authority to do it. But they have no independent authority. Independent authority to make those decisions. It doesn’t exist. So who is it today? Who is defying the Constitution and undermining the Constitution. It’s people like Meeks. It’s Congress, not the president. Go ahead. So that we can now go to the courts and sue the administration, but not follow the courts and sue the administration. And the court. Ultimately, the Supreme Court had no idea with the lower courts. So many of them are corrupt and that rogue judges will do exactly what I just said. Exactly what I just said. And then I’ll attack the court. I’ll say with the pack. The court that the right wing controls the court. And yet every single president of both parties, every single one since this, this phony law was passed and it was passed over the override of Gerald Ford. Actually was passed, I think, in 1975, not 73, but it doesn’t matter. It was passed and the override over the override of Gerald Ford. And so they think they keep using this. Every president, every single one could talk about Obama or Biden or whomever you want has said, no, it’s unconstitutional. And they make it like Trump is conducting himself in an illegal way. Certainly is not. He absolutely is not. But they don’t care. Ladies and gentlemen, this is all about votes and power and undermining the president. These people are literally, literally rooting for the enemy. The enemy who I just described to you how hellish this enemy is. They’re literally supporting the enemy. We’ll be right back.

Segment 4
The President of the United States. Very important because I get a sense that tonight is going to be. A much bigger onslaught against the enemy than than in the past. And there’s some inkling. I don’t have evidence of this yet, but I’m reading the tea leaves, that is. Or I might be involved. Maybe not. But they’re making warnings to the enemy about what they’re capable of and what they will do. If there’s any effort to fire even a single missile into into their country. We also know that B-1 bombers were heading into that region as early as 36 hours ago. Including leaving. The UK using using UK bases. The fuel and so forth. There are a number of refueling planes, additional ones that Ben-Gurion Airport. So they can be protected there. Those planes are not just for jet fighters, but they’re mostly for bombers. And I think if not tonight, maybe tomorrow night, maybe over the weekend, I think we’re going to see something a little bit more aggressive. My view is good. But let’s hit real sites that really mean a difference to these people. Let’s get real sites. It had the potential of taking them out. And I will continue as long as I can to make the point that we must arm the Iranian people. That is our position. That seeks. To take down the regime. That is effectively the only way we can pull it out by the roots. Because we’ve announced in advance again and again and again and again that we’re not sending in any ground troops. We’re not sending in the Marines. But we have an opposition built in right there that is motivated. Many of them want retribution for what’s happened to their young people, their children. And over the 50 years that this regime has been in power, what’s happened to their families, period? We should at least give them the opportunity to do that. I mean, you’re looking at people in Iran. That have risen up three different times. And I’ve been slaughtered three different times, especially this last time. And it’s one of the reasons why we decided to get involved. The president decided to get involved. He said help is on the way. And so I just think we need to do what we did effectively in the 1980s. If we can’t do it, we have a real problem. We need to do it. I mean, if we’re technically incapable of it, that is a very concerning point. But I suspect. Other than that, we have third parties like Iran and Turkey, who is a genocidal murder. Who objects to it. And the Arab states. My view is they can shut up and watch. You’re going to learn a lot over this weekend. And life, liberty and love in Saturday and Sunday. You’re going to learn all about what we do for the Arab countries in the Middle East. They talk about Israel all the time. You’re also going to learn a lot about what Israel has done. With our most sophisticated military equipment. How it’s actually improved so much of it. It’s given that technology to us and how we’ve put it on our jet fighters, on our missiles, on our tanks, and actually use some of it to save the lives of our soldiers. You can learn all about that. And much, much, much, much more Saturday. On Life, Liberty and Levin it as one on one. One guest. General Jack Keane and me. Sunday. One on one. One guest. Victor Davis Hanson. And me. I’ve just decided when the guest is. Really quite an important voice. I want to get back from time to time to one on one interviews. I don’t mind. Please don’t get me wrong. Having two guests on one program. But from time to time, I want to get back to having one on one interviews. I grew up with that kind of important talk show, and I have felt for a long time, at least since I started doing my own television show, that that’s needed again today. So that’s Saturday. Whatever recording device you have, DVR or whatever, I hope you’ll send it. 8 p.m. Eastern Fox Sunday 8 p.m. Eastern Fox. I hope you’ll set it as well. We’ve got a lot more, folks. We’ll be right back.