On Friday’s Mark Levin Show, President Trump gave Hamas until Sunday at 6pm ET to accept a deal for releasing hostages, or Israel would proceed militarily. Hamas responded hours later, which was confounding, agreeing to release the hostages and seeking further negotiations. For now, we should trust the process because we don’t know what’s happening behind the scenes. But countries like Turkey (led by a brutal dictator), Qatar (which funds terrorists and shielded 9/11 mastermind KSM), and Saudi Arabia (source of 9/11 hijackers and Bin Laden) didn’t do anything for any potential peace. Also, Republicans won’t face a political backlash from this Democrat government shutdown. Americans will quickly forget this shtick which is exaggerated by the media. Later, Democratic Virginia Attorney General nominee Jay Jones is under fire after sick 2022 text messages surfaced, in which he fantasized about shooting former GOP House Speaker Todd Gilbert in a hypothetical scenario involving “the two worst people you know,” stating Gilbert “receives both bullets every time.” Jones expressed regret, blaming his GOP opponent Jason Miyares for leaking them. Finally, Dinesh D’Souza calls in to discuss his new film – The Dragon’s Prophecy.
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Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. Holy mackerel. Whatever that means. Is there an unholy mangrove, Mr. Producer? Is it a religious thing or what is it exactly? Don’t all Google it and then call me and tell me what it is I actually know. But anyway. Well, it’s very interesting what’s going on here in terms of the so-called phony shutdown. The so-called phony shutdown is still in place now unless you work for the government and many people who do work for the government are unaffected. The vast majority of you in this audience are unaffected. Okay. Enjoy your weekend. Go out there and get a well-done steak with ketchup. Mr. Producer, isn’t that how you like it? Tell the president I like it. It’s not because I’m copying him, it’s because that’s the way I’ve always eaten it. I’ve told that funny story. And you know what? I like it. Too bad. I don’t like gummy steak gumming away at it, you know. I have mine rare. GROSS. But anyway. So how much the president threw down with Hamas, He gave them until Sunday, 6 p.m. Eastern time. Do they enter the deal or Israel will finish the job. Then about, what, an hour and a half, 2 hours before we came on the air here? Hamas responds. I’ve read the response. I find it a little confounding. They’ll release the hostages. It didn’t say when they had 72 hours to do it. I can go on and on about it. And they want to continue to negotiate all these details. And they seem to want some role in some of this. Um. Look like they were playing rope a dope. Then the president steps in and he issues a statement. And it’s a very positive statement. And he feels that now progress is going to be made, that Hamas wants a deal. So here’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to keep my powder dry and look at this. If things are going in the right direction. And how would I know? I’m not involved in the activities. There’s a lot that goes on behind the scenes. That’s a good thing. I think, again, we’ll know soon enough if this is rope a dope or if this is the real thing. In if it’s the real thing. Good. Good. Uh, honestly, he did send me a few texts before the program. And by the way, he doesn’t do that. So I don’t speak or I don’t give my I always give my opinion, post my thoughts and so forth and so on. But again, I will say this. If he wasn’t the president was some some mealy mouthed, some RINO, some Democrat, I wouldn’t trust them at all. I just wouldn’t. I just wouldn’t. So he deserves a little time and space. And so we’ll see what happens. We’ll see what happens. So. I really nothing else to say. I don’t know what else is going on. And we shall see. We shall see. I do know the president has asked Israel to stop military activity so the hostages can get out. Now, that may be a very good sign, right, Mr. Producer? It’s been interesting to see how many hostages are alive. More than interesting. We’ll see how this works out. But again, I try not to jump in front of this stuff. We’ll see. Everybody knows my view on Qatar. The president has my view. Surely the vice president who monitors social media, I think, or his staff does, everybody does. That’s not a regime to be trusted. It’s a regime that was involved in 911 and October 7th and the Taliban and all the rest of it. Propping up the Muslim Brotherhood, destroying our colleges and universities. Nobody is going to ever, ever convince me. To support that regime, let alone send my grandkids to war, to fight for that regime. That’s never going to happen. Never. And besides, an executive order doesn’t substitute a treaty. If you’re going to bind the United States in a systematic way, in a premeditated way. To a military alliance. I’m not talking about a memorandum of understanding. I’m not talking about, you know, things that happen on the spot where we can be involved militarily. Those things are understood, and we’ve done that throughout the history of this country. But in terms of an official military alliance, which could include infantry, that is troops on the ground by the hundreds of thousands and so forth, that requires a treaty. It requires three fourths of the senators present. The treaty clause is a very, very, very important clause in the Constitution. So. I have serious disagreements with this. But again, that said. I don’t know exactly what to make out of the Hamas situation, but we shall see. There may be things going on behind the scenes that we just don’t know. I hope so. I suspect so. Because I don’t think the president would go way out on a limb if he didn’t think so. I’m reading the tea leaves, folks. Just like you and me. And we have two great life, Liberty and Levin programs this weekend. Saturday. We’ve got Newt Gingrich and Ted Cruz, and we’re going to talk about this so-called government shutdown. I just. I just taped it. It’s a fantastic show. You’re going to love this show. And then we have our great Sunday show where we’re going to have Senator John Kennedy for the first time on my show. He is hilarious. He is. He’s brilliant, this guy. He reminds me of Mark Twain and Will Rogers, that kind of thing. And you’ll learn a lot more about him, too. And I think you’re going to be spellbound by him because he’s going to get half the show. And also, Mark Penn, what we’re going to discuss just how bad off the Democrat Party is. And I don’t see any great middle rising up. I don’t see any great moderates. You know, you see Fetterman and a handful of others, but I don’t see much in terms of pushback. And and one of the things I want to discuss with him is we’re not even talking about within the Democrat Party. The Democratic Socialist Party is not in the Democrat Party yet. They control the Democrat Party. This is how they’re taking over the Democrat Party. These are outsiders in a Marxist Islamist party. In a Stalinist Hamas party. Better controlling the Democrat Party. How does that happen? Because you have nothing but quislings and weaklings and pathetic enough nothings that lead the Democrat Party. And also because the Democrat Party apparently isn’t that far away from the Democratic Socialists. Remember the book I wrote, American Marxism? Marxism customized. For the Democrats and the left in this country. So there’s that. They had a few votes. We’re just playing catch up here on what’s going on, and then we’re going to jump catch up. I love catch. We’re playing catch up here. Then we’ll jump in. There are few test votes ahead in the Senate on whether to open the government because 17% of it is not. And trust me when I tell you, the the bureaucrats are going to make it if they can, as painful as possible. But it shouldn’t be. It shouldn’t be. Uh, that said, they had a few test votes in the Senate and of course, they couldn’t get the Democrats to go along. They were never going to get the Democrats to go along this quickly. I mean, why would they do what they did and then reverse course in three days? So this will go on a little while, maybe a week, two or three, I don’t know. We shall see. They’re playing chicken. Playing chicken over very little. Quite frankly. All right. We’ve got a lot to do. A lot of it’s interesting. A lot of it’s fun. We’ll be right back.
Segment 2
Hat tip to my wifey SCOTUS blog. Good news, America. In a new order. The Supreme Court just cleared the way for the Trump administration to end protected status for thousands of Venezuelan citizens. You know these gang members, among others, living in the U.S.. Justices. The three. The three blind mice, Sotomayor, Kagan and Jackson would not have granted the administration’s request. Thank God we control at least. This court in some instances. So all these Venezuelan. People who are here illegally can now be deported. The Supreme Court just. Green lighted it. What are we going to do? Who’s going to pick the lettuce most? I don’t eat lettuce. Well, I guess my wife’s with me then. I have to. But I’m not a lettuce guy. Lettuce is for rabbits, by the way. So it’s late at night. I’m driving home. I’m pulling into the driveway. And you? I see Mr. Produce with my lights on, Of course. A rabbit. And I want to make sure I don’t run over it. Are there more? Sort of cuddly creatures than rabbits. Seriously? And I’m thinking to myself. In the state I’m in, not mentally the physical state geographically that I’m in. There’s so many predators. There’s bobcats. There’s coyotes. There’s Panthers, believe it or not. It was big dam snakes, anacondas, but not near where I am. These poor rabbits don’t have a chance. No wonder they breed like rabbits. Do you know rabbits breed like rabbits? Mr. Producer. But. But now we know why. And it’s sad. It’s sad when you think of rabbits. You think of the little puffy rabbits during Easter. You understand? The little rabbits and the little chicks. And I’m thinking, what’s going to happen to this to this poor rabbit? And then I pulled in the garage and I went upstairs and. Put on the TV. But nonetheless, seriously, it’s kind of sad. I hate these predators. I hate them. I hate human predators. I hate animal predators. Well, they have to eat, too. I don’t care. I don’t care. I didn’t make the food chain. I’m just saying. It seems so unfair to me. I’ll tell you something else. This scares the hell out of me. Don’t worry. I’ll get to the hard news. This scares the hell out. It really worries me. It’s horrible. I can’t get it out of my mind. Should I share it, Mr. Producer? If you have a small dog, whatever breed. 8 pounds, 10 pounds, 12 pounds. 14, 15. Even 17. 18 pounds. Have you ever thought about a big hawk or eagle or owl swooping down? And they. They fly fast and their eyesight’s unbelievable. And grabbing your dog or your cat, if you ever thought about that. Right. Now. One of these places I live. I’m not allowed to say now for security reasons. You believe this. I can’t tell you what statement. I am told not to do it, so I’m not doing it. One of these places. There’s hawks that seem to have six or eight foot wingspan and there’s actually eagles while I’m kind of giving it away. Bald eagles. And they’re fast. And then there’s the owls. They’re there at night, dusk and dawn to. And so when I have, like a family member say. Yes. Let them out the back. You know, it’s a little fenced in area. And my wife is great on walking them takes my long walks. They really love her very, very much. Me too. But really her so. You know, like before you go to bed, you kind of let him out and then you bring him in so they don’t wake you up at three in the morning. And these birds are all over the damn place. I mean, they’re not they’re not flocking and flying at us. It’s not the movie The Birds. It’s not Alfred Hitchcock. I’m just saying. They’re. They’re. And they don’t necessarily make themselves known. So I’m scared to death. So when I do that and I take them out back, you know what I bring with me? A baseball bat. And I keep running it through my mind of a bird. How quick you have to be to whack that damn bird. But that’s always in my mind. It’s one thing if you’re walking them on a leash and so forth, but it’s quite another. So I say to family members, Don’t be so cavalier about this. Don’t just let them out the back. Where will let them out the back? No. I mean, you got to be right there. And these and these birds are so brazen, even while you’re standing there, they do this stuff. They do. And I have a dear friend. Who once had a Chihuahua. Years ago. And they were out back. She was with the Chihuahua and she turned around and Jabba was gone. That’s how fast this happens, Rich. She said she knew a bird. Got it. I go, Oh, my God, please don’t tell me these stories. So I figure, you know. Truth is, we all like to share misery because we don’t want to be miserable alone. So I just shared it. I’m sorry. If that leaves a bad impact on you, please don’t call me if this happened to you. That’s just very upsetting. And I’m very, very sorry. I truly am. But I’m doing this as a public service announcement. So you’re careful. Seriously. So you’re careful because these things do happen and they can happen. Why am I talking about this? Well, why not? Now. When we come back, we’re going to talk about us a few other things. You’re going to hear the president speak about this so-called shutdown. Carolyn Levitt, who is. Absolutely. Fantastic. This kid’s unbelievable. Also turns out a man running for attorney general in Virginia. His name is Jay Jones, sent out some texts talking about shooting his opponent. The Republican. The lieutenant governor who’s running as a Democrat in Virginia is an Islamist. We’re having a blast.
Segment 3
Yo, yo. Am I in a good mood, Mr. Producer? Let me tell you why. After 34 days, my brother is back from the hospital. He’s home. That matters. So I should not be in a good mood. President Trump on 01010 Oann. When shutdowns and firings. Cut one. Go. There was an OMB memo going around suggesting that there might be firings during the shutdown. Do you think that will happen if the shutdown goes for a little bit of time, sir? Well, there could be firings, and that’s their fault. And it could also be other things. I mean, we could cut projects that they wanted favorite projects, and they’d be permanently cut. So you could say a lot of people are saying Trump wanted this, that I wanted this loss and I didn’t want it. But a lot of people are saying it because I’m allowed to cut things that have never been approved in the first place, and I will probably do that. Hmm. I say now’s a propitious opportunity. Propitious, wouldn’t you say? Propitious, Mr. Producer? And a big government, the bureaucracy, the Democrats immediately. Why are layoffs needed now rather than a question like what departments will the layoffs be and how many? That would be a fair question. Right. Go ahead. We have a president who are wholeheartedly focused on restoring fiscal sanity. We’re cutting out Mr. Producer. Nobody can hear that taxpayer. We are $37 trillion. You hear me? There’s no more money coming into the federal government’s coffers. And as you’ve also seen since the beginning in January, this administration is focusing on waste, fraud and abuse. And so Democrats have given this administration. Stop, stop, stop, stop. We’ll do this on air. Can the audience hear me? Okay. It’s very weird because I lost contact. So let’s start at the top with the audio. With our North Korean equipment. Cut to go. Why are layoffs now necessary in this shutdown? Because we have an administration. We have a president who are wholeheartedly focused on restoring fiscal sanity to our government and doing the right thing by the American taxpayer. We are $37 trillion in debt and the federal government is currently shut down. There is no more money coming into the federal government’s coffers. And as you’ve also seen since the beginning in January, there’s a bit I have to correct that There’s a lot of money. The money keeps coming into the federal government coffers. I think what she means there is to cover the deficit part and hundred percent correct about that. Yes, go ahead. Focusing on waste, fraud and abuse. And so Democrats have given this administration an unenviable choice to have to take a look at the balance sheet and identify where these cuts and layoffs can be made. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. More cuts. Three go. At the top of the briefing. He made a statement about that. The Democrats are interested in giving health care to illegal immigrants. Yes, they are. U.S. law already prohibits that. It’s a 1996 mark saying that they cannot give unauthorized immigrants any federally subsidized health care coverage through Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act. All right. And let me show you how stupid this question is. Who passed that law. Mr.. Is. Congress. So Congress passes. A budget addition to fund illegal immigrants, then Congress has trumped a prior law. Correct? Doesn’t it make sense what she just said? A budget is a legislative act. And so the reason the Democrats are trying to force this is to impose. The health care spending on we, the American people, through the continuing resolution. They’re not prohibited from doing that. They’re free to do it. We’re trying to stop them from doing it. So the law doesn’t prevent the law that Congress passes can be changed by Congress. So how stupid is this report? Who is this reporter? We don’t even know. They all should be required to announce themselves. I am Fran Berkowitz with Associated Press. Oh, Fran. Here, dummy. Yes. Martha. Martha. Powder here from TNT. Oh. Mohammed Yitzhak from Al Jazeera. Oh, yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yes, they should be required to announce themselves. Go ahead. Dance program. There seems to be a disconnect in the message. Are you denying that Medicaid money has never gone to illegal aliens in the United States of America? Anything? I’m asking you if you can explain the disconnect. Let me help you, madam. She’s a madam. Did you know that, Mr. Bennett? Let me help you, madam. Biden. Biden. Turn the spigot on to provide free health care to illegal aliens. So if that’s breaking the law, quote unquote, then Biden broke the law. But notice she is focused on the Trump administration. For trying to turn off keep turned off the spigot, which she said is the law anyway. So she’s an idiot. In my humble opinion. More than humble. In my accurate opinion. She’s an idiot. And this is what Caroline Leavitt has to deal with every single damn day. She points this out, cut for a go. And it is an undisputed fact, a fact that under the Biden administration, illegal aliens were absolutely receiving taxpayer funded health care benefits. In fact, in fiscal year 2020 for Medicaid, costs for emergency services for illegal immigrants skyrocketed by 142% from the previous year to $9.1 billion. That’s 9.1 billion taxpayer dollars that were going to emergency services for illegals. Between President Trump’s last full fiscal year under his first administration and Joe Biden’s last full fiscal year. Medicaid spending on emergency services for illegal immigrants nearly tripled. There was an increase of 196% between 2020 and 2024. She told her a thing or two right there. She told her a thing or two. Now Hakeem Jeffries. This guy seems like a. A very tepid. Speaker in waiting, he hopes. He’s constantly looking over his shoulder for the communists and the Islamists to stab him in the back. Now, it’s not that this guy is some kind of moderate. He’s a radical kook, too. But then there’s radical, kooky kooks, and they’re they’re way out there. Way, way out there. In fact, some of them are such kooky kooks. That even communist regimes wouldn’t accept them. They’d even Hamas says, Wait a minute, they’re sick. We don’t want them. That’s right. Make mundane. Cat five. Go. But we know throughout the Trump administration, when Republicans are talking about the notion that Democrats somehow are interested in providing health insurance to undocumented immigrants, we can provide health insurance to a stop with the undocumented crap. You did provide health insurance to illegal aliens, foreigners in this country illegally, or they’re undocumented. I know our prisons are filled with undocumented criminals, I guess, but you get the point. America. They did it purposely. They voted against the big, beautiful bill and they said, oh, they’re cutting Medicaid. Yes, they were cutting Medicaid so illegal aliens couldn’t get Medicaid. And able bodied young people who are sitting on their sofa had to work 20 hours a week to get Medicaid a freebie. And so they fought it. And now they say, what do you mean we you couldn’t do that as a matter of law? Well, what do you mean? We never said illegal aliens, should we say so? The speaker, he’s done a fantastic job. Mike Johnson says, okay, take. Take a look at page 57 of what they’re doing of their proposal right there. They want to eliminate that part of the big, beautiful bill that specifically prevents illegal aliens and able bodied people, United States citizens, from getting Medicaid. They want to they want to put that benefit back in there to pay its its page 57 and they highlight it. That’s right. Even Helen Keller could find it. Even Helen Keller could find it. But somehow the Democrats and the left, they can’t find it. Where is it? Where It’s. It’s how I. Yes, I heard our friend Jessica TARLOV from the five. Yes, our friend. She was citing poll after poll after poll where the Republicans are going to pay a price for this. Oh, they’re going to pay a price for this. Really? The Republicans don’t pay a price for this most of the time. You want to know why, America? Because what’s going to happen two, three, four weeks from now, if the government is opened up, nobody’s going to remember it. Nobody’s going to care about it. Because it wouldn’t have mattered. This is a Washington schtick. This is a thing. People aren’t going to vote. A year and a half from now. I remember when they shut down the government 18 months ago. That’s right. Nobody’s going to remember that. It’s like the State of the Union address. Everybody gets, you know, three weeks of pre State of the Union, a union hawking in promoting. And then, you know, how did they say the last State of the Union address when they say three years ago, This is when the nation comes together. Everybody’s watching. They’re poised. Every man, every every, every word matters. That’s right. Every syllable that’s very carefully crafted. A very important historic speech. What did he say? I don’t remember. How did it affect your life? It didn’t affect my life. The media push this stuff like the shutdown. How did it affect you as 90% of the American B had it? What affect me? The shutdown. What shutdown? The government. Oh, I can’t go to a national park at the Smithsonian this weekend. Well, the vast majority of Americans aren’t anyway. How do we make it hurt? We get to affect air travel? Yeah, We got to do something. And then they sent out the cameras to the media there, like at an a monument in Washington, D.C. that nobody ever goes to. So the three people who are going to go there, they shoved our Chad. I can’t get in. What has this done to your vacation? What is it? What is it done to little seven year old Sally? What’s the imposition that was placed on you? It must have been horrendous. It must have been such a waste of money to travel from Baltimore to Washington. You were going you were going to see this and and now it’s closed. What do you say? The media sickening. I’ll be right back.
Segment 4
Folks, here’s what I’d like you to do. Seriously, at the top of the hour break if you’re home. Set your DVR for 8 p.m. Eastern Time Saturday at 8 p.m. Eastern Time Sunday. The Fox News Channel. That’s my slut Life, Liberty And Levin and I don’t talk about that DVR enough I’m told and I think that’s right. In that way or record the show. And if you’re out watching football, staring at the ceiling, doing whatever you do. It’ll be there to watch later. I know we do that just in case. It’s the truth. We try to watch it live, but if we can’t, we have a DVR, and it’s actually kind of fun. So I to encourage you to do that little overnights out there. Go ahead and set it and then you don’t have to think about it again. And these shows this weekend are really fantastic. And some of the guests I mean, I only have four guests. Many of the other shows on other channels, too. They have four guests in about 4 minutes, don’t they? Most of it is. So I do the long form interview because I believe in it. I believe in it. And. And I believe I am. I have top notch guests, top notch authors. Top notch subjects. And the reason is if you’re going to spend time watching it, I want to make sure that time is worthwhile. When I do my opening statement, I’m going to make sure there’s enough substance there. Interesting things, history, economics, whatever it is. So you watch the show and you say, you know what, I didn’t know that stuff. I’m glad I watch. Same when I do the radio show. I don’t just want to be, you know. Part of the chorus line, part of the Rockettes, if you will. Not that I could be, but that would be kind of weird. But you know what I mean? So there’s some real weirdos running for statewide office in Virginia. Virginia is for lovers and apparently for nutjobs who are Democrats running for office. National Review. Audrey Thalberg, the Democrat attorney general nominee in Virginia, Jones, fantasized about shooting former Republican Speaker of the House. This guy wants to be attorney general. He could get elected to. It’s sick out there. The Democrats nominate the sickest of the sick. On August eight, 2022, a Republican state legislator received a disturbing string of early morning text messages from a former colleague, Jay Jones, who now wants to be the attorney general of Virginia, is running as the Democrat. Jones, who at the time had recently resigned from the state House after a brief stint representing Norfolk, had strong feelings about how the political class was eulogizing recently deceased former state legislator Joe Johnson Junior, a moderate Democrat with a long tenure in Virginia politics. Republican legislators, led by House Speaker Todd Gilbert, had begun making public statements honoring Johnson’s memory. They’re honoring a Democrat and his legacy. And some of those statements were making the rounds in state legislative group chats around 8 a.m.. Jones shared those feelings with his former state legislative colleague, Republican House delegate Carrie Conner, in a series of texts obtained by National Review. He derided Jones’s political criticism. Damn, that was for Mark. He wrote to Conyers suggesting he’d meant to send the text to someone else. And yet that realization didn’t stop him from joking about that post. Gilbert would say anything about me if I died. And then he talks about the bullets. I’ll get to that when we return.
