August 6th, 2026

Rough transcription of Hour 1

Segment 1
Hello America.  Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811.  877-381-3811. I begin the show by saying happy birthday to my lovely wife, Julie. And I’m very lucky to have her. I truly am. She’s a wonderful lady, very smart, great lawyer on her own. Cause she’s beautiful. And she’s general counsel at America First Legal, which is a great legal organization run by Jean Hamilton, founded by Stephen Miller. And she works very, very hard and she’s very good at it. So there we go. Happy birthday, honey. Now. You know, I touched on this the other day, but I am interested in your input on this. Now, we have a lot to talk about this evening, but I’m interested in your input. And that’s this. This issue of affordability. I’m reading, watching and hearing. Some people in the conservative movement, or at least in the fringes of the conservative movement, sound like leftists. Some even sound like socialists like. And that is. Younger people today have it harder. Then people in the past. When it comes to student loan debt, when it comes to difficulty buying homes and so forth and so on. And I got to thinking and I’m going to talk about this on Saturdays, Life, Liberty Levin on Fox as well. But I got to thinking, is that true? I mean, is that really true? And then you have isolationist, woke, right? Isolationist, who insist. That the war with Iran is causing inflation. Now we know that’s not true. Inflation was much higher before the war. With Iran. During the Biden regime, inflation was much higher than even under the Biden regime under Carter. When there is no war. Two and a half percent. I remember having to pay that on my. First home on the mortgage. So these statements are not true. And as a matter of fact, the entire defense budget, even putting aside this war, which is a piece of it, the entire defense budget. Is at a very low level in terms of the percentage of the gross domestic product. What’s causing inflation is massive government spending, redistribution of wealth apart from the military. Apart from the military, the military has been slashed and cut and reduced. And that’s what’s causing daily. Deficits, yearly deficits and an overall massive debt. And that’s what results in inflation. And of course, that budget that Biden and the Democrats passed that no Republican at all voted for, which they called it ironically and intentionally lied through their teeth. The Inflation Reduction Act was the Climate Change Act, really, and they just threw. Literally trillions of dollars. At. At these ideological objectives. That’s what causes inflation. Not the war in Iran. They used to say during the Vietnam War that when we had inflation and massive debt, the problem was you can’t fight a war and have massive domestic spending at the same time. There may be some truth to that. I mean, you can do it, but you will pay for it with inflation and so forth. And I believe there’s some truth to that. But all this aside for a moment, the accuracy of the allegation. But my point is, it’s not accurate. But putting this aside. Live a generation of Americans, many of whom are gone now. In their youth. They went through a the Great Depression. Which was extremely difficult with 25% of the population was unemployed. Even those who were employed, many of them were not earning very much. Businesses were folding. At a historic level like we’d never seen before. And yet. Those young people who became our grandparents and great grandparents. They did whatever they had to do, not just to survive. But to claw their way back. Now, that is hard. Now that is difficult. We’re not talking about the price of a burrito or a taco or an extra dollar on a gallon of gasoline here. We’re talking about complete economic collapse. That is difficult. And even as we were coming out of the Depression in the 1940s, there was World War Two. Another was a draft. Of young people. But also many volunteered, like my father, my grandfather. But there was a draft and by the time it was over, 16 million Americans fought in that war. 6 million. Again under very her horrific conditions, I should say. In jungles, on islands. In the middle of the winter in Europe. You know the history. Most of you, anyway. You’ve seen the films. Young people, Young men, for the most part. Many of them didn’t come back. There were over 600,000 casualties and hundreds of thousands killed. Now let’s rewind to today. Circle back. The overwhelming majority of us are unaffected by the war in Iran. Obviously, there are families that are affected, but less than 1% of the American public is in the military, whether it’s active military, the reserves or what have you. Less than 1%. It’s all voluntary. There’s no draft. So young men don’t have to worry about going to war. Back then, they went to war. Many of them volunteer. But you get my point. That’s a tough time. That’s a tough time. We talk about this war going on too long because the price of a gallon of gasoline has gone up. And that’s not always the case, by the way. But think about it. Think about the arguments that are being made today. How insignificant. It’s silly they sound. And online a debate about how much a taco costs. Some people are arguing burritos, some people argue and taco, you could argue a kumquat. It’s just so stupid. Some guy starts with it’s $20. I had to pay $20 for whatever it was, a burrito or a taco. It was only $20 because he used DoorDash. DoorDash, a car delivery food service. Right? Most of it is. So he had to pay for the guy to get in the car, the girl, and drive to him, pick it up, drive to him, give him the taco or burrito and leave the taco on. The burrito themselves didn’t cost $20. You can make a taco burrito for a whole lot less than $20. You can go to Taco Bell and get it for a whole lot less. I don’t want to say I’ve done that, that I’ll upset my wife, but I actually did it the other night. But it’s true. And then all the the comments by so-called conservatives or fringe conservatives. We can’t win elections by downplaying what young people have to put up with. Obviously when you’re young and starting out, you have to work your way through the system. You have to climb the ladder, you have to earn your spurs. You know, the whole thing. You’re not handed an executive job, you’re not handed a $250,000 a year job. You’re not handed a small business to run. Most people aren’t. The average young person has to figure out what they want to do and pursue it. And while you’re pursuing it, often you’re struggling somewhat. I don’t understand. White conservatives are generally like socialists or leftists, and, by the way, undermining the president and undermining our own elections. I’m not saying you have to run on that in an election year. You young people, you know, I’m not saying that, but I’m saying we have to deal with reality. And the reality is they’re now arguing for more government to step in and do something. That’s been the problem. The government stepping in, redistributing wealth, creating economic dislocation and bigger debt, bigger yearly deficits and inflation. Government creates inflation, not business, not the private sector, not you and me. Government creates inflation. And now the Iran military operation has not created inflation. Inflation was bigger under Biden when we weren’t in Iran. Inflation was massive under Carter. Massive. And nobody asked under Biden what the price of a taco was or a burrito. Nobody was talking about affordability in the sense that they’d talk about it today. And I. And people are saying, well. Since this war. Now we have to run on affordability. Excuse me. Mandate me one election by the skin of his teeth. But he won an election campaigning on affordability, and that election was held last November and he campaigned on that issue last summer. Before we went into Iran. So we basically have these sort of woke right isolationists who will use anything who are looking for any argument. Some of them actually believe it. To prevent us from defending ourselves, from taking preemptive military action against a country that has been killing our people for 47 years, promises to have nuclear weapons and is ideologically and religiously committed to blowing us off the face of the earth. I’m happy to engage the substance of this discussion about whether or not we should have gone into Iran. If they’ll just cool it with their little sloganeering from time to time, more than happy to have that debate. But now they’re trying to claim. That that’s what causes inflation or did the price of a of a taco? They sound like the left. They sound like Bernie Sanders, actually. And. Okay. And I’ll say what I actually said about eight, ten months ago, but I’ll say it again. Okay. Ready? No. Young people today do not have it as hard as young people had it 50, 60, 78 years ago. They simply don’t. There. I said it. I’ll be right back.

Segment 2
Ladies and gentlemen, the truth. Our ideas. They win elections. It’s been my contention, and I think the president might even agree with me on this, that MAGA most of it anyway. Most of you are former Tea Party activists and supporters. Tea Party didn’t just go away. No. And we here have been part of the Tea Party movement from day one with my book, Liberty and Tyranny. You people now with websites. Podcasts, self-identified influencers, narcissistic in that respect and more. Who think they. They know what you think. Who think they have your pulse. They have no communication with you whatsoever. They have no connection to you whatsoever. The purest form of communication, mass communication is this one. Conservative talk radio. This is part of the reason why many of these so-called podcasters and influencers. Don’t go on radio or ignore radio. The fact of the matter is that I can hear from you that you hear from me. We know what our ratings are. We know how big the audiences. We know we have affiliates really in every corner of the country, in every state, every county, every town, every city. That’s the nature of what I do in particular. And I know how you feel. I know what you think because you tell me. And because I have these discussions with you each and every day, 3 hours a day, five days a week. And these other people are sitting in their basement. They turn on their laptops or they’re using their iPhones or their iPads or whatever they use, and they’re popping off as if they have some sense of who you are, what you think, what you believe. They have no sense. And many of it. They just seek to project on to you. You could be the general population, Republicans, conservatives, MAGA, and who knows what from their perspective. They project their ideology onto you and they insist this is what you want and what you believe. They know the foggiest idea and most of them are dead wrong. We’ll be right back.

Segment 3
I’m feeling great today. You know why, America? My printer’s working, My laptop’s working. And most of all the com the so to the core, to my ability to communicate with you and broadcast with you is working. Yesterday we had a hell of a problem. Today it’s like it’s smooth as ice as we say. Smooth as ice. What’s that? Ah, yeah. Got a good point. I hope I didn’t jinx it. Now, this guy El-Sayed is a cancer in the body politic. And I’m really getting sick and tired of these racists, these bigots, these anti-Semite Jew haters. Islamists. And Marxists. Putting down my country. Putting down you. When you when. When these guys put down America, they’re attacking you. They’re attacking your grandparents, your great grandparents. They’re attacking you. America is you. And I’m sick of these people, many of them newly to this country or their parents, newly to this country. They show up. They’ve contributed absolutely zero to this nation. Zero. Or individuals. Maybe their families have been here a while who’ve contributed absolutely zero to this nation. Like Bernie Sanders has contributed nothing but Elsayed. Hassan Puka. They’ve contributed nothing. Zero. Not their family, their parents, their grandmother, nothing. And they come here and they tear us down like we’re some kind of third world country. And they exploit, as we’ve talked before, our liberty, our freedom of speech. In order to destroy our liberty and our freedom of speech. Now you know who gets this? You know who understands this the most? Not these so-called college educated, because I think those two words don’t go together anymore unless you’re in the hard sciences like physics, you know, something like that. But if you’re not in the hard sciences, if you’re in the behavioral sciences, like political science and social science and something like this, you won’t get it. You’re probably a radical kook. Not everybody, but the vast majority of you. And you know I’m right. Or use some other sort, of course, like journalism. Or something of that sort. You’re probably a lost soul or, you know, being in those classes or having been in them that most of the people you were there with their loss, now they’re gone or they’re off on the left doing something stupid or whatever. But what’s interesting is the 15 counties in Michigan. The 15 counties in Michigan that are overwhelmingly blue collar. No college towns. They went for al Saeed’s opponent. He didn’t win a single one of them. Not one. I’ve told you before that these communist revolutionaries, they don’t come from the quote unquote, the people. They come out of universities. They were teachers, They were lawyers. Castro was a lawyer. Mao was a teacher. Lennon was sort of a philosopher. And down the line. Now, there are exceptions to that, of course, but. But I’m talking about the big cases. And it’s that way today. It’s that way today. So the revolutions are not coming from the bottom up. They’re coming out of the universities, the colleges. The elite, the elitists. Harry Enten, a data analyst or the data analyst for CNN, is very good, actually. Now, says the Democrat odds of winning Michigan because of our side is quite low or it’s dropped quite significantly. Here’s here’s what he said. Cut one, go. You know, once outside became the favorite for that nomination. And now that he’s actually become the nominee, Democratic chances have fallen dramatically. You can see it right here. Cast your prediction. Let’s take a look here. A chance to win the Michigan Senate race. You go back to April. At this point in the month, Dems had a 79% chance. Look how that number has fallen dramatically down. We go on to Lake Michigan now. We’re talking about just a 59% chance, while Mike Rogers, the Republican nominee, look at this, 21% chance, basically doubling now up to a 41% chance. So the people are putting their money where their mouths are quite skeptical at this point, or at least significantly more skeptical that Democrats will be able to hold on to the Michigan Senate seat with El-Sayed as the nominee, though I still should note he is the slight favorite here. Well, let me say something about this. This is very troubling to me. That is a 59% chance of winning, they say. The betting odds. Now. I don’t personally believe that. But I’ve told you, when people come up to me and they think I’m Nostradamus and they want me to tell them, Are we going to win? Is this going to win is accurate? I say that’s not the right question. The question is, what are you doing to help us win in your own role, in your own, your own community and your own street? What are you doing? Because if you’re doing nothing, it’s going to be harder to win and we may lose. That’s always my answer. That’s always my answer. So I don’t like this 59% chance of winning for a guy that dismisses 911. For a guy who chooses Hamas over the elected government of Israel. For a guy who does hate Jews even though he pretends he doesn’t. For a guy whose family’s linked with the most extremist terror front groups like CARE, His father in law’s relationship with care in Michigan is significant. And things of that sort. These are all telltale signs. These are all realities. And it amazes me that on the radical left, whether it’s communism or the Islamism and so forth, if somebody has a relationship with the Klan or neo-Nazis or something like that. We conservatives, Republicans are appalled and we reject them. And there’s no way we would be. Circling the wagons around him or her. No way. But that’s not how the Democrats work. Power. Power and more power. That’s how they work. If you read my book on power, you know what I mean? Mike Rogers, the Republican who’s nominee, who’s running against El-Sayed at a rally yesterday, cut to and I think a lot of you can identify with this go. Ever in my lifetime thought I would be running against a guy who believed that America deserved 911. I’m telling you, this is about the heart and soul of our country. The whole country is looking at us. Here in Michigan, they’re looking at you and they’re hoping we do everything that we can do together to make sure that we stop this in its tracks. You cannot have an anti-American 911 America’s fault candidate win an election. And I don’t care where it is. But we’re not going to let it happen here in Michigan. Amen. Amen. The battle lines are drawn. The pro-terrorist pro-Hamas pro-Muslim Brotherhood. pro-Al Qaeda. Promo. Pro marks aside and versus us. Said on me now yesterday. Cat three go. Actually, I believe it’s CNN. If it’s Kaitlan Collins on CNN yesterday, go. He said that you need to renounce people like the left wing streamer Hasan Piker, who was campaigning. Why do they call him the left wing streamer? You know, a left winger would be somebody like, you know, a George McGovern type. And years pass something like it’s not a left winger. Not a left winger. It’s an Islamist Marxist. Why won’t CNN call these people what they actually are? Go ahead. In Michigan on Monday night, late last night as well. Do you have any plans to to do that? Look, I’ll tell you this. I’m less focused on folks who are campaigning with me, more focused on the folks I’m campaigning to. And I think it’s important to have all these clever lines. Yet the company you keep does matter. And he is close to this cousin Puka, who said that we deserve 911. He says he has no allegiance to this country. Who says Mao is one of the greatest men ever walked the planet? He wears a mao uniform and we were supposed to ignore all this. I mean, would you be seen with a person like that? Would you befriend that person or have that person befriend you? Ladies and gentlemen, I wouldn’t be anywhere near a person like that. And yet I’m more focused on who I’m campaigning to that than who is. You know, campaigning with you. Excuse me. We can walk and chew gum at the same time. We’re focused on both. Go ahead. With the folks who you want to elect you. I think that’s clearly what’s gone wrong with Senator Fetterman. It’s clear he probably doesn’t spend much time in Pennsylvania because he was campaigning with Bernie Sanders and now spends a lot of time in Pennsylvania. In fact, whenever he’s on our show, he’s calling in or he’s from doing Pennsylvania. So why is he attacking Fetterman? Because Fetterman is calling him out, one of the few Democrats who says, this guy’s crazy. We shouldn’t be supporting this guy. He’s hurting our party. There’s no way, no way we should be supporting this guy. And so, in other words, you have to attack him in. Well, I don’t know how much time he spends in Pennsylvania. A lot. Go ahead, nurse. I don’t know if he still thinks he’s a Democrat or not, but look, I’m hoping to get still thinks he’s a Democrat or not. He is. The kind of Democrat that Pennsylvanians typically like, but a Democrat or not. Let me ask you something, ladies and gentlemen. This is this underscore the problem. So the Democrat Party now is like outside. Pro care and terror groups and terror front groups. Pro Marxism. anti-Constitutional. He says basically that’s what the Democrat Party is today, I guess. Go ahead. Can hash that conversation out in person. But for right now, I’m focused on winning my state so that we can win a Democratic majority majority in the fall. Mm hmm. Hassan Piker. Today, his buddy. Cut, forego. At some point we got to realize, like this 911 stuff is just only being weaponized as a way to to make Muslims and Muslim candidates look bad like it’s a it’s a it’s a permission structure for. Okay. Ho, Hey, hey, hey. Look. Ho! You were born in this country, your parents took it back to Turkey, where you’re radicalized. Then you came back here to go to college and you’re a piece of crap. That’s all you are. Your piece of gum on the bottom of my shoe. Not because you’re Muslim, because you’re disgusting, disgusting puke. That’s why. Now, let me explain something to you. You’re the one who said. Said that we deserve 911. You’re the one trashing Muslims. You’re the one smearing Muslims. You’re the one giving Muslims a bad name. People hear what you say and they respond to it. And we’re not going to close our ears and our eyes to it. We’re not going to be intimidated by your beliefs or anybody else’s. We’re not talking about Islamophobia. There’s no phobia. It’s reality. What comes out of your big, fat mouth. And when people take to the street, whether it’s Fifth Avenue, whether it’s Dearborn, a stay or some other part of this country where thousands of military age men are marching down the street, not praying, marching down a street with flags, beating their chests, clicking their heels, we notice they want to be noticed. Well, we notice and we’re not going to just roll over and play, don’t you, stupid? You know what, bum? How that bum. I’ll be right back.

Segment 4
All right. Running out of time. Hasan Piker probably sick of this guy, and so am I. But I use him as a foil. And it’s important that we use him as a foil because he’s representative of the poison that is spreading in our country. And it will destroy us if we’re not aware of it. We don’t call it by the name it is. We don’t confront it and defeat it and crush it. So he calls Haley Stevens voters. That is the voters who voted for her and not L.Z.. And he barely won, by the way. He calls them Islamaphobic phobic pieces of s. Islamophobia, pieces of us. And here it is. Cut five. Go. Like everyone being like Abdul, There’s a ton of work to do. Mending bridges. Here is the intake nuke for you. Okay? You are all unbelievably Islamophobic pieces. Okay. Okay. This is what Americans need to understand, especially Democrats. You are despised and hated by these people. Do you understand? They are conquering your party. They’re taking it over and they’re more than happy to do it with your support, with your votes. You’ve got to break loose from this mindset. Where? Party, party, party, party. I’ve always been a Democrat. My parents were Democrats. We vote Democrat. I can’t vote Republican. We hate Republicans. You need to understand. That when you’re in line at your precinct and when you’re sending in your ballot via the mail. If you’re voting Democrat today, you’re voting with these people and you’re voting for these people. Do you understand what I’m saying? You can’t say anymore. I reject this. But I’m a Democrat and I’m voting Democrat. No, you don’t. Rejected them. They are taking over your party. And when you’re voting for Democrats, despite the fact that they’re taking over your party, you are destroying yourselves. You’ve got to think more independently. We’ll be right back.