August 3rd, 2026

Rough transcription of Hour 1

Segment 1
Hello America.  Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811.  877-381-3811. You know, folks, one of the things I find particularly annoying is the unwillingness. Of numerous national political figures. To talk about the Islamist threat that we face here in our country. And it is significant and it is growing in one community after another, in one state after another. And it’s not just blue states now. It’s red states as well. And I only raised this. You know, I don’t talk about Buddhists and Hindus or Christians or Jews, that this is a concern because Islamism, the radical jihadist version of Islamism. It’s altogether different. You should listen to what they preach. You should listen to what they write. It’s not Mark making this stuff up. The evidence is swirling around all of us. And they’re building these massive mosques in communities. And these communities are heavily segregated. I call them fortresses. And if you’re Christian, God forbid, Jewish, but if you’re Christian in these communities. And you have a different take on events. You want to show your cymbals and so forth and so on. They’re going to beat you to a pulp. Did you see that over the weekend, Mr. Edison? It’s all over the Internet. Then you have these Islamists from Morocco who pour into. This community in Spain. And what are they doing? The point of this community in Spain. They’re brutalizing the people there. They’ve murdered several people. That’s on the Internet, too. They’ve broken into homes. They broken into businesses. And it’s these left wing governments. All over Europe that it allows this to occur over and over and over again. I don’t believe there’s a another example in history. Where. So-called representative governments or any governments for that matter. Have destroyed their own culture, their own societies, their own populations. In a manner like this. But it’s happening here and it’s happening now and it’s happening very quickly and it is spreading very fast. I had Ron DeSantis on my program Sunday. He was superb. And he made a great point. And he made this point without any. Then any suggestion from me without any prodding from me, he said. I tell people that our national security threat, our greatest military threat is communist China. But our greatest cultural threat is Islamism. And he’s right. And by the way, he would make a great president. A great president. I feel my man Ted would make a great president. I’m not picking presidents right now, but I just thought. What he said was very important and lucky as a governor. He’s running. What is it, the third most populous state in the nation? California. They ran it into the ground there. There’s Texas and have some grave concerns about what’s going on there with the Islamists. And then there’s Florida. We have some Islamist problems there, too, but not the extent to which you have in Texas. But I will tell you. As a resident of Florida, that this guy is unbelievable. He’s just unbelievable. Now that aside, momentarily at least. When we have. Officials in our government talking about the communists and the DSA. I think that’s very important. The Democratic Socialists of America, the Communists, they’re all America haters, they’re all Jew haters, they’re all Christian haters. And they all, of course. Embrace. Their Islamist comrades. But they don’t talk about Islamism. I find that on television, too, the Sunday shows. They don’t talk about Islamism. I find it on almost cable shows. They don’t talk about Islamism. They don’t talk about what’s going on. Why? Why is there some order to ignore? I talk about everything I want to talk about without any order to ignore anything. But it’s very bizarre and it is a very serious matter. And to not talk about both. Because they have congealed, if you will, together. They have. They are fused together, as I’ve been saying now for quite some time. That is the Marxists. And the Islamists. Tonight. Explain it and talk about them. Hand in glove. Is to not accurately point out the the growing enemy within. And I’m. I’m troubled by this a lot. And honestly, I don’t know what we’re doing about it. I don’t know what our ruling class is doing about preventing these Islamists from coming to the country. They’re still coming here legally, apparently, since nobody is said to be coming in here illegally. And are we going through to make sure that they’re all here legally? Are we going through to make sure that the ones that literally put out videos or people have videos they put out of them in these mosques and elsewhere? That they have a citizenship here that we cannot withdraw or reverse. Is there some office that’s looking into this to try and make sure? That we’re doing everything humanly possible to put an end to this. Is Congress passing any laws about this? I don’t see any. See, we don’t need representatives and senators to tell us what we already know. We need them to do something. You see what I mean, Mr. Produce? We already know they’re not podcasters. That would be bad enough. They’re not so-called influencers. That would be doubly bad enough. They’re not opinion givers, although they give their opinions. And that’s important, but they’re literally lawmakers. Lawmakers. I’m just not seeing enough action in this. And it concerns me a lot at the local level, the zoning boards. The zoning boards. Typically they’re appointed. By the local city council, town council, board of supervisors, whatever you have. And typically developers are on their or somebody else is on their whoever is on there. These boards need to be filled with patriotic Americans, conservatives. Who say no. Now we’re not going to do this. And I don’t want to hear about freedom of religion. This is nothing new about freedom of religion. Fact. If you want to make the case we’re defending freedom of religion because there’s an intolerance among the Islamists. For religious diversity in this society. You know, it’s interesting. My wife Julie. And about a fortnight longer than that, actually. A videotape of. Well, anyway, was a videotape. Have a great rabbi. And I should play it for you actually, without talking about it, but I’ll just hit it quickly. And he said. You look at the three Abrahamic. Religion. Judaism than Christianity. Then Islam. Judaism and Christianity. Do not require you. To believe in God. Pray to God. Through their religions. They understand. That there are people who worship God through other faiths. And that you can worship God through other faiths, even though there are disagreements among the faiths. Obviously not Islam. Islam insists. Through Mohammed and the various writings. That the only way. You can pray to God that’s tolerated. The only way. That you can worship God is through Islam. I thought, number one, that is brilliant. And number two, that is frightening. It puts a fine point on it, doesn’t it? And so Islam is a very, very intolerant and violent. Faith. Those who haven’t gone through the Reformation process and so forth, like our friend Zuhdi Jasser. But he, more than anyone else, points to it, as do others. And says these are the fundamentalists, these are the people who they call it political Islam, which it is. But Islam, by its very nature, is political. Christianity is not. Judaism is not, Hinduism is not, Buddhism is not, and so forth and so on. But it is the only of the three Abrahamic faiths. The only one. That says the only way to pray to God, the only way to worship God. The only way to acknowledge God. Is through Islam. Judaism doesn’t say that about Judaism. Christianity doesn’t say that about Christianity. In fact, we talk about Judeo-Christian belief systems doing. That is the core of the issue right there. That’s the core of it. That’s the core of it. Rabbi Sacks, who unfortunately passed away a few years back. Was basically the chief Orthodox rabbi of. Great Britain. He’s put he was. Number one scholar probably in the world. Among Jews, I would argue not just Orthodox Jews, but use period. He was a brilliant, brilliant man. I’ll be right back.

Segment 2
You know, I used to make fun of Josh Gottheimer, the congressman from northern New Jersey. Like earning him a little credit here. He’s been taking on the communists and the Islamists like few others. Like few others. And yes, he’s Jewish. But he also is not a communist. And he cares about his party. Believe it or not, I care about the Democrat Party. I don’t want us having to be concerned every election cycle. If we Republicans don’t win and the Democrats do win, that we’re going to lose our country. I’m old enough to remember when that wasn’t the case. The Joe Lieberman’s of the world. The scoop Jackson’s. Patrick Moynihan. John Kennedy’s. So many. So many. But that’s not the case today. That’s not the case at all. And if you stand up and you’re a Democrat to this movement like Fetterman does and Gottheimer does, and a few others, but not many. You really putting your career on the line, your political career? You absolutely are. Because these these excuse me, these Democrat primaries, they’re low turnout events. And so when you have a real hyped up. Bunch of revolutionaries, whether they be Islamists or communists, are both. You know, you’re putting your career on the line through these primaries. So here he is on Fox News yesterday. Curry go lobs. I’m a very proud common sense Democrat and I don’t think DSA members are Democrats. They’re socialists, right. And I’m all for them having their own party if they want one. But if they’re trying to take over our party, that’s unacceptable to me. And their values, their ideas and, you know, are certainly not in line with ours. And they don’t support our leadership. They’re trying to use the Democratic Party as a vessel for their ideas. And as you heard in some of these conventions, literally, they’re supporting the Communist Manifesto and Trotsky. They’re anti-American, they’re anti-cop. They don’t believe in borders, you know, And frankly, the good news is there’s only about 150,000 of them registered and there are 45 million Democrats. And so we should make it very clear that they’re not Democrats and they’re not welcome in the Democratic Party. And you should. But the problem is your leadership does not. And all I keep hearing is big tent, big tent, big tent, big tent for Trotskyites, big tent for Maoists. Big chance for Jew haters, Christian haters, American haters. It’s not a big tent. It’s a mental institution. It’s a big mental institution. And yet here we have. When we return. Here we have. Joe Manchin, Heather Manchin, I guess that’s his daughter. I think it is. But in any event, they’re on with Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation. She’s a disgrace and she’s shocked that Mantia won’t support a socialist candidate. They’re not socialist candidates. They are Marxist candidates. I’ll be right back.

Segment 3
Welcome back, America. From me, you’ll get the unvarnished truth and will tell you exactly what I think and why I think what I think. I don’t operate in conspiracy theories or bigotry or racism, for that matter. Absolutely don’t. Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation. She’s shocked that Joe Manchin won’t support a socialist candidate. But they’re not socialists, ladies and gentlemen. They’re communists or Marxists either, depending on what you prefer. Marxist is the more. Accurate word. But let’s do this. Here it is at night. Why so many of these Sunday shows are just terrible. Seven, Nine, of course. Cat nine, go. How could you ever support a self-described socialist candidate? No. No way. I know. And it’s a good idea. I support the good ideas. But how could you support some of the crazy stuff they’re for? Using their platform, for dismantling everything that we know, whether it be whether it be the structure of government, Congress itself, or the Senate they want to get rid of. And then they start talking about all the crazy things. No police, no this, no this, no that. Are you crazy? We want we want a crime free area. We have to have police for that. We want a strong defense. We want a strong border. But if Democrats can’t say that and they start lining up with the socialist demands about what you ought to be a socialist, the energy will be gone. There will be no energy. Okay? We have right now a tremendous amount of the energy we’re producing. And the world depends more on us than ever before. Hmm. And I love the way they call themselves democratic socialists. If you’re a socialist, you can’t be democratic socialism in its definition. You know, mode is the government owning the source of production? And property. How’s that Democratic? And then, of course, you need the heavy hand of a very strong police state, don’t you? Every one of these communist regimes. That’s what they’ve got. And yet they will say these things and they’re not challenging in any effective way. Ever. Which is why they don’t come on this program. I’ve told you before, I don’t talk to other radio hosts and podcasters in this crap. I want to deal with these people who are elected or seek to be elected. We’re so-called scholars, that sort of thing. And so we have somebody called Mallard Cairo. She’s Colorado First Congressional District, a Democratic socialist candidate that is a Marxist. And she’s on PBS’s firing line with Margaret Hoover. Now, it’s unfortunate because firing line when it was William F Buckley Junior was really a show I had to watch every single weekend. And I was a teenager. I just couldn’t get enough of it. And often the great Tom Soul was on the program. Or he might have Milton Friedman on the program. He had leftists that he debated with to not know their hosts, you know, professors, activist scholars, that sort of thing. So here she is. The first one speaking is Kairos, and she knocked off a very liberal Democrat. I believe this is Denver, the first District cut tango. I don’t think there’s anything more American than subscribing to an economic philosophy that, as the evidence shows, is the only one that’s actually capable of delivering things like life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I really can’t. Socialism has proven to deliver on the values of the Declaration of Independence more than capitalism has. Yeah. You know, when we talk about capitalism, you know, one of the things that folks talk about with capitalism is a theory is that it’s responsible for, you know, delivering people out of poverty here in the in the US, more people out of poverty around the world than any other economic system. Yes. Which isn’t the entire story. At the same time that a lot of folks were getting delivered out of poverty, there were a lot of social safety programs that were also being created. At the same time, a lot of fair labor laws that were being enacted. Okay, let’s stop. Let’s just stop. We wouldn’t have electricity. The switch. If it wasn’t for capitalism. We wouldn’t have running hot and cold clean water if it wasn’t for capitalism. We wouldn’t have the automobile or trucks if it wasn’t for capitalism. We wouldn’t have the most. Plentiful and variety of food on the face of the earth if it wasn’t for capitalism. Our farmers. Our truckers. Our grocery store owners. We wouldn’t have the vast majority of the things that we have. And what is the most successful and prosperous society mankind has ever established if it wasn’t for capitalism? She can talk about all these government programs. But government programs mean nothing. Zero. If you don’t have a broad middle class that earns a very good income, certainly compared to the rest of the world. And creates the wealth that can be taxed to create these government programs. Let us not confuse one with the other. I love them when they always talk about what? Unfettered capitalism. Unfettered capitalism. We don’t want unfettered capitalism. We haven’t had unfettered capitalism in 125 years. But let us be abundantly clear that it is capitalism. It has created the prosperity and wealth in this nation that has created the vast middle class in this nation. Not government. A government could do it. North Korea would be the most prosperous nation on the face of the earth, wouldn’t it? Cuba would be one of the most prosperous nations on the face of the earth, wouldn’t it? And I can go down the list, couldn’t I? The people in Venezuela have been starving and starving and starving some more. But that’s turning around because what? Because the communist leader has been captured, is in prison, charged with what he was trying to do to our country, Murdered God knows how many people. Like his predecessor did. Is there any question? The capitalist and open societies are more prosperous or more humane than communist regimes, and they’re police states. There’s no question about it, is there? And so they’ll talk about look at this. We have Social Security, we have this, we have that, we have this. Yes, we do. And they bankrupted it. It’s going bankrupt in six years. There. I’ll talk to you about fair labor laws. Fair labor laws don’t mean a thing if you don’t have a job. And the reason you have a job is not because of fair labor laws, it’s because of capitalism. Go ahead. Rights that workers were taking back to make sure that they were not working in unsafe conditions, to make sure that they were earning fair wages. And that is not capitalism, Right. Unfettered capitalism, but it is capitalism. Every one of those institutions, every one of those businesses, large, medium and small, are created by capitalism. And they make, quote unquote, fair wages, pensions, medical coverage all possible. All of it. Socialism does not. Because socialism doesn’t create anything. Socialism is about the government. Owning the big chunks of the private sector. Socialism doesn’t create prosperity. Where does it create prosperity and how does it do that? How is it even possible for it to do it? Go ahead. Where the capitalists, the owners of the means of production are the only ones that are calling the shots. And you are lucky to have this, aren’t the only ones calling the shots. In fact, capitalism is very, very, quote unquote democratic y. Anybody know? You’ve heard of the stock market, right? Whether you believe it or not, most of you are in the stock market. Most of your pensions have some relationship to the stock market. Or you can be if you wish to be. You can be if you wish to be. And also you have the freedom to move around. That’s not true in these communist societies. You have a job on an assembly line and you’re going to work on that assembly line. For 30 years, whether you want to or not. If you want to in America, fine. If you don’t, you can do something else. Not so in communist regimes. That’s your job. That’s your status. That’s it. Would you rather work on an assembly line in America or an assembly line in Russia? Would you rather work on an assembly line in America or an assembly line on any in any communist regime? Of course, in America. You don’t have people leaving America to move the communist regimes. You have people trying to escape communist regimes to come to America. That. Is freedom. That is mobility. And they’re not coming here for socialism necessarily. Not coming here for communism. They’re coming here for freedom and, yes, capitalism. Tell me how many of these socialist societies, quote unquote, can a poor person get rich? None. Zero. Because you don’t have the freedom to do it. Go ahead. Deal with the conditions. Socialism is about delivering democracy in the workplace. Socialism can’t deliver a democracy in a workplace. How does socialism deliver democracy in a workplace? It doesn’t. Go ahead. The say about the conditions that they’re working in, about negotiating for the kind of the conditions that they’re working in. Tommy. Where conditions better. In American capitalist businesses. Or in communist controlled businesses in Cuba. In North Korea. In Nicaragua. In communist China. Or you name it. And by the way, we haven’t even gotten to the issue of civil liberties, have we? No. Go ahead. Fair for the labor that they are contributing to whatever industry it is that they’re working in. And I also think that, you know, when folks think of capitalism as we have the greatest middle class on the face of the earth, the wealthiest middle class, on the face of the earth, the best fed, the best clothed, the best house, middle class on the face of the earth, because the middle class. Small business people. They’re not all union laborers, but we have union laborers, non-union laborers. All kinds of people are in the middle class. Of course, we don’t have classes in this country, so we have to play along and discuss this stuff. And really the opportunity to make something for yourself and. To become wealthier, if you wish. It is only in a capitalist system. You don’t hear all the great stories coming out of communist societies or socialist economies. Are people starting from the very bottom and getting wealthy? Do you? Do you? And where all the patents were, all the inventions coming from, whether it’s medical technology, whether it’s drugs that improve your life or extend your life. Where do they come from? They come from socialism and communism. Or do they come from capitalism? There’s plenty of countries out there, folks that are communists, plenty of countries out there that are economically socialist. And everybody’s free to go join them and have a hell of a good time. But you wouldn’t do it, would you? Because you wouldn’t have half of what you have. And you wouldn’t even get to decide if you get to keep it. I find it interesting that she never mentions when she talks about these programs that the government has, like I said, that they’ve destroyed Social Security, the destroying Medicare, that they’re giving Medicaid to illegal aliens. So they’re destroying that program. They never talk about the massive debt they’re creating, which creates inflation and affects all of your pensions, all of your savings, all of your income. They never talk about that side of big centralized government, do they? Never. Now, I never talk about the hundreds of billions of dollars that are wasted every single year. Of your hard earned tax dollars. Every year. Quarter of $1,000,000,000,000. Quarter of $1,000,000,000,000. They never talk about that. The waste and the graft and the corruption. Through their redistribution of wealth. Funny she didn’t mention it. It’s funny. Margaret Hoover didn’t either. I’ll be right back.

Segment 4
And as continue her Mr. Producer, let’s see more of her malarkey cross. By the way, if she’s the same one I’m thinking of, and I get confused because they’re all kind of flunkies, I think she’s like 29, 30. She is a failed lawyer or something of that sort. That’s my recollection. If I’m wrong, so be it. Which one is it? Let’s go to 11. Go. Are you a communist? No, I’m not a communist. How do you tackle the criticism that some members of the DSA, including half of the DSA leadership who seem to call themselves communist? Yeah, well, you know, some members of the Democratic Party are proudly proclaiming themselves as capitalists, and it’s a big tent. Right. But again, at the end of the day, it’s up to the voters. Right. Until first of all. Right. What is up to the voters? She’s asking you what you stand for. Not that it’s up to the voters. Yeah, she’s economy. She just doesn’t want to say it, folks. That’s the bottom line, because she’s afraid she loses her race. Go ahead. Plane communist actually wins an election then. It’s just noise from the Republican Party. There’s no one who’s actually winning with that. Why are they using that rhetoric? Because I think the Republican Party and frankly, the oligarchy that largely stands behind the Republicans are they’re calling themselves communist, these others, because of the Republican Party and the oligarchy that stands behind the Republican Party. Now, many of you are Republicans, right? Well, what’s the oligarchy that stands behind us? Do you even know what the hell they’re talking about? Look how they talk about us. We Republicans, we’ve an oligarchy behind us. Like who? What? What are they talking about? What oligarchy? We don’t have a George Soros, Dewey. No, we don’t. An oligarchy behind us. What a fraud. Phony and fool. I’ll be right back.