September 23rd, 2026

Rough transcription of Hour 1

Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811.  877-381-3811. Like you for joining the program. Okay. I would like to clarify a few things on behalf of I think we the people. Number one. Communist China is an enemy. Number two is she is a mass murderer. Number three, he wants to defeat us economically, geographically, and he hopes militarily. Number four. They have attacked our computer systems, they’ve stolen our technology. They’ve used birthright citizenship to create future spies. And they have heavily funded the tumult, the uprising, the violence in our streets over the last many years. In number six. Despite their lives and they live for a living. JE And the rest of them, they have given coordinates, satellite coordinates to our Islamo Nazi enemies and Tehran, which they have used, which they have used to attack our bases. Including in Jordan and Qatar in the past. Resulting in the death of Americans. Moreover, we are spending and will be spending hundreds of billions of dollars to counter what they’re doing from an intelligence, national security and military perspective. Our private businesses have spent hundreds of billions and won’t spend hundreds of billions more to protect their software, their data, their AI systems. From breach and sabotage by the Communist Chinese. The communist Chinese interfered in the last election. Trying to get Kamala Harris elected. They fail. We should not make any mistake about this. They are an enemy. They are our number one enemy. As a matter of fact. They’re building up their military at a level and with a speed mankind has never seen before. Period. And they are building it up for us to intimidate us. And so far it’s working. The Taiwanese government, which has been an ally for decades since the late 1940. The Taiwanese government a democracy. Had ordered. Military equipment and supplies. Over the years to the tune of billions of dollars. And it’s been on hold. Because the communist Chinese have decided that that’s a red line. So even providing allies was support. Is a red line. Unheard of 20 years ago, quite frankly. Unheard of. Let’s turn to Iran since everybody has been at the United Nations. The Islamo Nazi regime still exists. The early part of this war was spectacular the first month or so. Brutal military action taken with our allies, the Israelis, two of the greatest militaries on the face of the earth. Greatest Air Force is no doubt. Then we slammed on the brakes. We had generals. Advisors. Who advise the president in the United States that now might be a good time to sue for negotiations. Am I view that was the biggest of the mistakes. And we’ve been tapping the brakes and tapping the brakes on and off again, on and off again. Now, we came up with our economic plan, which has been very successful. Except the regime still exists. We will not be able to contain the Islamo Nazi ideology. This is a civilizational battle. It is not a nation state battle. That’s what we mean by globalism. Terrorism is globalist. And the Islamo Nazi ideology is globalist. Anybody who has 10 minutes of understanding. About what we’re dealing with. No paper they sign in the end will matter. No papers. Signs in the end won’t matter. These are ideologies, communism and Islamism. That. Look at the. The long game. Trump will be gone in a few years. They figure the Democrats will be in. They’ll make much more progress. Our enemies will. It’s just a matter of time from their perspective. And the bag will be left for our children to deal with. That’s the second point. I also wanted to mention Israeli ambassador to the United States like Leiter. Yeah. How lighter? He lost his eldest son in the earliest days of the battle in Gaza. As IDF soldiers were going to building the building to try and save lives. Why they were trying to root out Hamas terrorists. The building was booby trapped and collapsed on top of his son and several other IDF soldiers. And he was he was killed. And today, another of his sons. Is on life support. Because of a Palestinian terrorist. There are Palestinian terrorists. Hamas is Palestinian, Islamic Jihad, Palestinian. They give themselves different names. The Palestinian Authority is is terrorist and so forth, because they rammed a vehicle into the vehicle in which his son. In the IDF. Any police officer were sitting at such a high speed. That severe brain damage was done to the ambassador’s son. And the situation is dire. The prime minister of Israel. Netanyahu has gone to the hospital to visit before he comes to the United States. You see those people over there, ladies and gentlemen? Every one of them. Every families affected by what takes place there. They’re very much like us. They’re Westerners. That’s what they are. They’re Westerners. But the Islamists want to push them out of the Middle East. They want to push them out of the Holy Land. They want to take over all the holy sites of Judaism and Christianity and then destroy them. They’ve done that to the rest of the Middle East, where we had Christian majorities in Egypt, Christian majorities in Syria, Christian majorities in Iraq, Christian majorities even in Turkey, Christian majorities in Lebanon. And now there’s barely any Christians in all those countries except Egypt. The Coptic Christians make up about 10 to 12% of the population and they are brutalized. And the Christian population of Lebanon, such as it is and what’s left. They have been brutalized by Hezbollah. But for the fact that the Israelis have taken it, that Hezbollah. The Ottoman Empire. That was Turkey. Brutal. Islamic. Eventually defeated by the British and others. There was a. Secular government that came into power in Turkey. You may have heard of Ataturk. Erdogan running as a nationalist, socialist, Islamist, a party that he created. Been a failed candidate repeatedly. Eventually. Of course, the Ataturk care has been over. But eventually. He won office in a multi-party election, and then he systematically killed and imprisoned his political opposition journalists, police officers and military generals and so forth, anybody who had been there before. Much like Khamenei. And Iran. He had has invaded. And take took over about 40% of Cyprus. A separate country. He’s constantly threatening Greece. By violating their airspace. He’s constantly threatening the state of Israel. And apparently he’s our buddy to. And he wants F-35. He’s the enemy. The fact that he’s a Negro was really stunning given his very close alliance with Putin. And he’s threatening Greece, which is a narrow country as well. And our ally, Israel, and our ally Cyprus. Because that’s what he does. I want to talk a little bit more about all this, and I want to talk about Mamdani. When we return. I’ll be right back.

Segment 2
You know, Mises, the great Austrian economists, many of you know, said we all sound like Marxists now. I’ve mentioned that before, haven’t I, Rich? I would add we all sound like appeasers and isolationists now. Would you agree? That Rich to a great extent. So maybe the left is one that you and I mean, maybe the left has already won because we have a lot of people who claim to be conservatives, but certainly don’t sound like that’s because the so-called populists, nationalists, formerly conservatives, are starting to sound like the left. At least to me. I listen to what people say about this war in Iran, where the overwhelming majority of the American people have no direct role whatsoever, no fear of a draft for young people whatsoever. And I think to myself, How the hell. How the hell? Did we win World War Two? We were attacked. Well, Iran has attacked us again and again and threaten us with nuclear weapons. We have to wait to be hit with a nuclear weapon. How the hell did we even form an army to fight the Korean War? The Vietnam War? I mean, I sit here and I wonder. A gallon of gasoline. That’s going to determine the election? I don’t think so. There is multiple issues. Nature of the candidate, the nature of the message, how united and coordinated. These campaigns are the strategies that are being used and on and on and on. We know the history of off year elections about incumbents and presidents and the party of the president and how they do. And there’s a lot. In fact, let me do this. I posted about this earlier. And, you know, when I post things, I give them a little thought, sometimes a lot of thought. So I don’t just plop them up there. You don’t just plop them up there. Let’s see here. One moment. Let’s see here. I want to read this to you. Give me a second. The reason so many people accuse me, the reason so many young people have moved left is because of the failure to get our K-12 schools under control. The radical teachers unions who brainwash the kids because of the failure to get our colleges under control and we allowed them to be populated were tenured Marxist Islamist faculties and DEA personnel because of massive legal and illegal immigration from the Third World and a lack of vetting and assimilation because of the massively increased role of government in every aspect of our economy, creating all kinds of disincentives and financial dislocation. So now for some it appears their response and their answer is listen to the kids and accommodate their demands. Yet just two years ago, Trump won a landslide election and held both houses of Congress. But listen to the kids. Look, this is a tough election cycle and it always was going to be a tough election cycle. For starters, we know the history of off year elections for incumbent presidents. Obama got his butt kicked in 2010 by the Tea Party. I was an integral part of it, but they doubled down. And now look at the Democrat Party, the DNC infiltration of Marxist Islamists. They never abandoned their radical ideology, but they hit the gas pedal. There are certainly things we can do better, no question about that. I have a list of them, including the lack of a decisive victory in Iran rather than early on tapping the brakes and seeking a premature deal. So be it. There’s precious little time left. Rather than starting post-election Duma finger pointing and positioning oneself as a face sage when seeing the obvious six weeks before the actual election. How about we put our minds and resources and efforts toward fighting as hard as we can, given all that is at stake? You can be concerned and say so, but stop dispiriting voters before they vote. You could be creating a self-fulfilling outcome. Shove the predictions. Let’s get going. I’ll be right back.

Segment 3
Mamdani is a Marxist Islamist. He’s a Jew hater. Obviously, in Israel, Hayder is an America hater. Is an Italian hater is an Irish hater. Is a Polish hater. As I told you before, he got elected. And I’ve told you since. You’ve been working to depopulate New York City, all five boroughs. Most ethnicities and most people of certain faiths, uh, in order to create a majority Islamist, Marxist, illegal alien city. Where he and the DSA and his party can never lose. And they will take full control of the city, the financial center of the United States. Looks like Los Angeles is about to fall to a communist. Of course, they call themselves socialist, but we don’t put up with that crap here. Looks like it’s going to fall. As one city after the other will because our ruling class. There’s a lot of talking. And precious little acting. Even many of the conservatives among them. There should be a brain trust by now over at the Department of Justice, various congressional committees. To figure out how to address the enemy that’s already here and how to remove them. We have major obstacles. The courts, which twist the due process, provision of the constitution and applying it to immigration. We have a Supreme Court that has done great damage with birthright citizenship. But we ought to take the easy cases first. The denaturalization cases. In other cases, withdrawing visas and deporting individuals. We’re now in Congress. Create special courts to handle this outside of Washington, DC. Congress has the power to create judges and eliminate judges. At the lower court level. And so the Libyan idea has been to create. A relative handful small number of courts. Outside of Washington, D.C. And I don’t mean in the perimeter, I mean away from Washington, D.C., where cases can be heard and brought. And at the same time. Push like hell. If necessary, to adjust these laws. Of course, there will be opposition from the Democrats. You’ve got to take them on. You got to fight them. If we lose, we lose. But you got to have a fight. You got to take them on. Are they? The populist nationalist border. They talk a lot. They got more hot air than anybody else. They’re so busy attacking traditional conservatives. And constitutionalists. They don’t seem to have time for the enemy. Fact, because of what they do, they are a distraction. Even though they’re small in number. Things need to get done and be done. Marco Rubio. Reporters at the UN today. One go. I think the Iranians are under this illusion that Democrats are going to win in November and the president will no longer be able to do things against them. I just don’t think they understand our system very well. Other countries do, but they don’t seem to. In our system of government, obviously, Congress, the legislative branch is a very important branch of government. I served in it for 14 years, so I understand its powers by also understand its limitations when it comes to the national security of our country, when it comes to the imposition of both sanctions and the use of military force. The president has extraordinary powers. Every president does. He’s a commander in chief, both constitutional and otherwise, to be able to carry out those functions. So I think that the Iranians are fundamentally misreading our political system. And I think the president made it very clear yesterday for him the Iranian issue is not a political issue. It is the fact that for generations now, for almost 50 years, every American president and frankly, every country in the world for the most part, agrees that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon, But ultimately no one ever does anything about it. And he’s going to do something about it and he’s doing something about it. And it comes at a price and at a cost, there’s no doubt about it. But the cost of not doing something about it is substantially higher, especially for future generations. And this is. What is so impressive and courageous about what Donald Trump has done. Taken on the Iranian regime. I think he’s got a lot of peaceniks and doves around him, I think. General Keane is an Air Force general, and I’ve got no problem with the Air Force, but certainly no problem with the Air Force. But maybe there’s a different type of general that needs to be leading this charge. I can tell you. Cooper who’s an admiral. Is much more gung ho. My understanding is than Cain. But whatever the reason, it may be time to change some of these advisors. And bring in generals and or admirals who know how to win and want to win, rather than looking for constant off ramps, which is what we’ve been reading about. There are no easy off ramps. And he tried to ammo you. I told you that was a disaster. It was a disaster. They’ve tried other things of that sort. And again, I think that’s sort of the doves trying to push their perspective and so forth. I think early efforts at negotiations before they were truly militarily defeated and was was a bit of a of a trip up. And I think the failure to arm these people. Maybe we’re arming some, but we’re not arming enough. We are is something that’s that’s a mistake. But I’m not going to undermine the president or stab him in the back. I think his effort here to stop the Iranian regime is historic and it’s crucial. And you’ll get people say, well, really, he should have attacked after the midterms as if the Iranians are going to wait around with their nuclear program. We had Stephen Whittaker on this program, and he broke news when he said. That the Iranians told him that they were within ten days of having an 11 nuclear warheads. Do we have to play that over and over again, Mr. Producer? That’s what he said, was it not? That’s what they told him. And our intelligence had a lot of information, too. So you’re president of United States and you sit on that. That would be utterly unbelievable. Unconscionable. So the threat was imminent. Regardless of what anybody else says. And they had thousands of ballistic missiles. Once you’ve reached the threshold of the ability to build a nuclear warhead and you have thousands of intercontinental ballistic missiles and you put one on a ballistic missile, you’re set to go. And then you can blackmail, you can threaten. But in their case, they said they were going to use them. Now you’re president of the United States. You’re the commander in chief. The buck stops at your desk. You can’t ignore that. And this president didn’t ignore it. And he deserves credit for that. Not stain and attacks and. Viciousness and so forth and so on. I see we have some Republicans are saying we’ve got to get out of this now. But they never tell us what to do. What do they want to do? The cut and run Republicans. Are going to cost us the election. They need to stop. They need to stop choking. Stop choking. And get tough. There’s a lot of issues they can run on, but they’re not. There’s simply not. But they can. Give people a reason to run for. For you to vote for you. And they will. And it can’t just be. The other guys are nuts. That’s okay. And that’s needed. Don’t get me wrong. But there’s also a lot of good things. A lot of good reasons. But I do think we’re having to deal now with a very bizarre. I don’t know if it’s only geology or Pratt or what it is. That suggest that 21 year olds or 25 year olds have the answers and that we need to we need to listen to what they say. Of course we listen to what they say. They’re our kids and our grandkids, but they don’t have a tremendous amount of experience and background and so forth. Some of them are largely regurgitating what they’ve been taught, unfortunately, in high school and college. It’s our job to guide them, to teach them. Certainly that’s the case. We’ve done them some damage here, not controlling our government schools and our colleges and universities. I don’t mean to push our ideology or I should better say our philosophy. But to stop them from being brainwashed by the enemy. And after decade and decade and decade, this is what you get. Also, we act like there. Like their weak. I can’t get a job. I can’t pay my mortgage. All the young people that have gone off to the wars and have been drafted, all the young people who started with nothing and built something. All the young people. I went to work doing jobs maybe they didn’t want to initially do. Maybe working hours. They didn’t want to work. In order to to build a foundation from which to. To do what they want to do. We’ve got more subsidies, more grants, more programs than ever before. Apparently, it’s not enough, according to some. And that’s what Missy’s meant. Like we all sound like Marxists now. And when it comes to a war in which the vast majority of American people have no role. You all sound like pacifists and isolationist now, like it’s the 1930s before the big buildup. I’ll be right back.

Segment 4
I’m a little fed up with the cut and run Republicans. We got to find a way out of this war. So there they are, giving aid and comfort to an enemy that doesn’t want us to find a way out of this war. As a matter of fact, I think they’ll drag it on. If we have discussions, they’ll drag that on. They may intensify their missile attacks at some point. Then we have the Arab countries always self-serving. Of course, they don’t give a damn what happens to us. And they’re telling the president, No, no, no, no, don’t start up again. Don’t start up again. This war should have been fought to destroy this enemy, to replace this regime, to arm the Iranian people, to get it over with as brutally and as quickly as possible. The people will rise up if given a shot, if they’re given weapons, like under the Reagan doctrine. The Trump Doctrine has also been very, very important not to ignore any further the threat of a nuclear thermonuclear war in which they strike first. No. In many ways, I view this as a peace mission. I certainly have. We have candidates who are running who apparently don’t know how to speak. Some of them have. There’s spaghetti for spines. They’re going to lose. There’s nothing we can do for them. They’re going to lose. It’s the ones who are smart. Or principled or visionary who articulate they will win. They will win. It was 18 months ago that Donald Trump had a historic landslide victory. We weren’t relying on 25 year olds back then where we. Mr. Producer. And all their advice and so forth. We have this element. This sort of socialism lite, isolationist, heavy. Element. It is exactly what Mrs. talked about. They sound like Marxists. And I’ve added and. Pacifists and appeasers. But that’s not who we are. That’s a prescription for defeat. That’s a prescription for disaster. Absolute disaster. They say, well, those 1980s principles don’t work. Those 1980s principles are actually based on Judeo-Christian belief system, the Enlightenment. They’re the only principles that work. Let me repeat, they are the only principles that work. You get some fat slob podcasters behind a microphone who think they can reinvent the wheel when they really do nothing. He got others who may work at a think tank who think they can reinvent the wheel. They collect a lot of money. They have a lot of big lunches and dinners and seminars. And they haven’t done crap either. They literally haven’t. And what are they doing today? Are they rallying the American people? No, they’re trying to dispirit the American people. They’re Dumas who are already. Already acting as if we’ve lost, trying to present themselves as some kind of a sage. And position themselves. That’s not the way we work here. You, Mr. and Mrs. America. Me? We’re on a mission. And we’ve done this for many years. We’ll be right back.