On Wednesday’s Mark Levin Show, the video with Democratic veterans urging the military and intelligence communities to defy ‘illegal orders’ from President Trump, without specifying what those orders are is shocking. This is unprecedented exploitation, implying the President is portrayed as a law-violating dictator. Democrats pretend to support the military while slashing its budgets under Biden. Also, people are falling for media-reported phony scandals, particularly claims that Trump will withhold or tamper with the Epstein files, which some neo-fascists and influencers exploited all summer to attack him and MAGA. The Democrat criticism is endless exploitation to create pseudo-news and impressions. Later, the House Democratic Caucus is embroiled in internal drama after Representative Jesus “Chuy” Garcia rigged his district’s election by filing to run again shortly before the deadline, followed by his chief of staff, Patty Garcia, filing just minutes before it closed, and then Garcia retiring for health and family reasons, ensuring no primary or general opponents. This is the Democrats manipulating the electoral process to avoid fair competition. Afterward, Trump has been accused of focusing too much on foreign policy at the expense of domestic issues, but he balances both effectively and often intertwines them. This is nothing but media-driven repetition. Finally, Scott Jennings calls in to discuss his new book – A Revolution of Common Sense: How Donald Trump Stormed Washington and Fought for Western Civilization.
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Rough transcription of Hour 1
Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. When you have as we touched on last night and people are touching on today, but I really need to play this for you. Individuals who served in the military, veterans, all of whom are Democrats, put out a video. Telling the military and intelligence communities to defy the president of the United States, refuse illegal orders. As I said before, I don’t know what illegal orders they’re talking about, and neither do they. And. You know, I’ve never seen anything like this, to be perfectly honest with you folks. I just am not people who served in the military putting out statements like this. Because they’re Democrats. Well, let’s take a listen, then we’ll discuss this a little bit more. Cut one. Go. I was a captain in the United States Navy. Former CIA officer, former Navy, former paratrooper and Army ranger. Former intelligence officer. Former Air Force. We want to speak directly to members of the military and the intelligence community who take risks each day to keep Americans safe. We know you are under enormous stress and pressure right now. Americans trust their military. But that trust is at risk. This administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community professionals against American citizens like us. You all swore an oath to protect and defend this Constitution. And right now, the threats to our Constitution aren’t just coming from abroad, but from right here at home. Our laws are clear. You can refuse illegal orders. You can refuse illegal orders. You must refuse illegal orders. No one has to carry out orders that violate the law or our Constitution. We know this is hard and that it’s a difficult time to be a public servant. But whether you’re serving in the CIA, the Army, Navy, Air Force, your vigilance is critical. And know that we have your back, because now more than ever, the American people need you. We need you to stand up for our laws and constitution and who we are as Americans. Don’t give up. Don’t give up. Don’t give up. Don’t give up the ship. That is shocking, is it not? It’s absolutely stunning. It appears no issue is. Without passport exploitation, I suppose. I mean, the inference here is that the president, United States, is violating the law. That he’s a dictator, that he’s putting out orders of this sort. It’s just crazy. Now. God bless Martha McCullum. She had one of these congressmen on her program. And she fought back hard. But he was making accusations against her, telling her how she was coming off and. Not answering her specific question over and over again, which was What order are you talking about? And we dress this yesterday somewhat like you’re telling you the violating orders. Why is in your video? Don’t you mention what you’re talking about. Because they don’t. I just think there’s so many problems going on in the Democrat Party. First of all, it is it has transformed into a truly radical entity. You have Representative Excuse me, Senator Slotnick. Slotkin, who ran for the Senate as a moderate. But she’s been hard left. Mark Kelly, the former astronaut also in the military, runs as a moderate. He’s hard left. I believe Martha had Chris D’Alessio. That Congressman. Who it was. Jack. Jason Crow. I’m sorry. Jason Crow was the congressman she had on. He was obnoxious, arrogant. Offensive as hell. What he was saying in the way he was saying it and interrupting her and accusing her. Various things. We’re just terrible. But she was tough. She was great. And. This is hugely problematic. Every single aspect of this society is under attack. Everyone is under attack. They pretend to stand for the military when in fact. The military suffered under Biden and the Democrats slashing their budgets and so forth and so on. Just terrible. Just terrible. So I wanted to play that for some of you may not have heard it yet. Now I want to get to the Epstein matter that many people were suckered into another phony scandal. Folks. Why do you believe most of you don’t? So the generic view. Why do you believe? With the media reports. Why do you believe what The New York Times has to say it, or the other entities or even some of the neofascist who were June and July and August jumping up and down, attacking Trump? He’s withholding the Epstein files. What’s in there is destroying MAGA. You remember this went on and on. Mr.. All summer long. All summer long. Here’s Chuck Schumer on the floor of the Senate today. Listen to this. Cut tango. Once the president signs the bill, he must apply and executed faithfully. There must be no funny business from Donald Trump. He must not use the excuse of frivolous investigations to release some Epstein documents while intentionally hiding others that deserve to be seen by the American public. This is not an invitation for Donald Trump to pick and choose to show you how diabolical this man is and how they are. We talked about this a little bit yesterday. There have to be redactions of certain people’s names. Not offenders or would be offenders. But completely innocent people who contributed to the investigation, who were interviewed because people had questions and and investigators found them to have no role whatsoever. Those are the people that need to be protected. Certainly. We always do that. But what what Schumer’s anticipating is there may be some of that sort of redaction. And so no funny business. So now it’s funny business. And now they’re all pulling the same thing. Here is some guy, Robert Garcia, Democratic California, Carl Levin, go. Do you have concerns that the files may have been in any way messed with, tampered with? Of course I have those concerns. And I have to say, I don’t trust the Department of Justice, but let me lay something else out, which it’s important to that point. We know that right now the president has a choice to make. He can be honest. He’d come clean and release the files to the American public and the justice to the survivors. What we expect he’s probably doing is by launching this kind of new sham investigation where he’s only going after. So there’s already he claiming a sham investigation. So it’s never going to be enough. Because it was never intended to be enough. They will exploit this as much as they possibly can. They will try and create impressions and pseudo news. They already have done that, but they’re going to continue it until they find another thing to latch on to. And it’s important that all of us be mindful of this and not fall for this trap as so many. Neofascist so-called influencers have and did. It’s crucially important. That when accusations are made. The fact that accusations are made, that’s not enough. Especially from the press, especially when they’re anonymous. I’ll be right back.
Segment 2
We’re going to have CNN’s Scott Jennings on the program for the first time in our three. I hope you’ll join us. Very good guy. I met him a couple of weeks ago, actually, for the first time. And I don’t watch CNN, but but I see some of the clips. He’s really solid. Over. Read stay report. House Democratic Caucus devolves into Romper Room as retaliation plan for one who went rogue. So here we go. That is the gist of the latest drama playing out among the House Democratic caucus after the lower chamber voted on Tuesday in favor of the resolution. With 23 Democrats crossing the aisle to vote with Republicans. What ended up being a deeply humiliating moment not just for Representative Jesus Chuy Garcia, but for Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who had urged his caucus to vote against it. To vote against what? Well, let’s find out. In a nutshell, what angered her enough to call for the resolution was Garcia essentially rigging it. That is the election in his district so that his chief of staff, Patty Garcia, no relation, would have no primary or general election opponent, with him announcing his retirement over a health and family concerns one week after filing to run again. And then one day after Patty Garcia filed her nominating petition to run for his seat filing, it passed just minutes before the November 3rd deadline. So this guy files that he’s going to run a week before the deadline. The incumbent does. Then his chief of staff fails right before the deadline that she’s going to run. Then he drops out. Mr. Producer. Isn’t that sleazy? Perez’s district is considered a swing district. And while I haven’t heard any talk of a primary effort against her, rumors are swirling that a type of retaliation is being discussed by the House Progressive Caucus for the crime of her exposing her party’s duplicitous nature. In other words, the leftists are coming after her. For voting to expose one of her Democratic colleagues dead. To ensure that he would have his chief of staff take his seat without any primary challenge whatsoever, They rigged the system. Congressional so-called Progressive Caucus members are privately discussing introducing a retaliatory measure against Representative Perez, Democrat Washington, over her efforts to rebuke Representative Garcia. Democrat Illinois. Axios has learned the move would escalate simmering tensions between Perez and her Democratic colleagues that some lawmakers say is ruining what they had hoped would be a week of unity. Oh, yeah. Epstein. A week of unity. So far, the only guy that’s gotten caught up in what’s been released is this guy. Larry Summers, who’s a big Democrat. Former head of Harvard. I believe you worked in the Clinton regime. Not to her credit, Representative Perez is not letting the threat of retaliation keep her from speaking out. Her latest revelation is that some of her fellow House Democrats actually congratulated Garcia for what he did to the electoral process. And she is to be attacked. Smeared character assassinated and potentially defeated because she stepped out. In revealed. And revealed. What was being done to ensure that there wouldn’t be a fair election or any election at all for a primary battle in what would be an empty seat that the incumbent. How sleazy is it? He feels that he’s running the week before the deadline. Then right before the deadline, his chief of staff files that she’s running and then he drops out so nobody else has time. Why? Because nobody else filed. Because they didn’t want to go up against the incumbent. So he obviously worked it out with his chief of staff. And hopefully the voters, if it’s a marginal district, will do something about this. Just to show how sleazy these people are. It’s like Stacey Plaskett, the Democrat, Virginia, a Virgin Islands rally. She was on CNN today. No regrets. Proud that she was texting Epstein during the hearings and using questions that he was relaying to her. Proud of it. K12 go if individuals are not involved in illegal activity. So extending his criminal enterprise or his financial enterprise or all of those things, I think that you need to look at what people are doing moving forward. Wait, let me just better understand that. What is that point? Because at the time he was a sex offender and it had been detailed all the sexual there were a lot of people who have done a lot of crimes. And as a prosecutor, you get information from people where you can. I’ve interviewed confidential informants. I’ve interviewed narcotics assistant for Criminal case. You’re not talking about prosecuting anybody. You’re talking about a hearing. And in the case of Epstein taking information that he’s texting to you and regurgitating it. So this has nothing to do with who you talked to in the past. Nothing. Zero. Go ahead. And others. And that doesn’t mean that I’m their friend. That doesn’t mean that they are friendly with me. It means that they have anybody said your friend or they’re friendly with you. Although it is strange. Have you had your confidential cell phone number? Personal number? I’m not insinuating anything sexual. I’m just saying how weird it is. She obviously was collaborating with him. He obviously reached out to her somehow and got her number. And she used information that he passed on to her during the course of the hearing to try and screw Donald Trump. And she says, Look, I get all this kind of stuff. Former prosecutor. No, no. That has nothing to do, you know, prosecuting anybody. You’re not undertaking a criminal investigation of anybody. Your representative. Go ahead. And that I’m trying to get at the truth. And that’s what I did. So no regrets, basically, is what you’re saying. I’m moving forward. She’s moving forward. Okay. Let’s move forward. I’ll be right back.
Segment 3
I don’t understand. Every time Israel drops a bomb, it’s on our news. But how come every time Russia unleashes missiles and bombs and drones against. You know. It’s not Ukraine. It’s not on our news. I don’t see it. The. Gladstone Institute is really one of the great institutes, a lot of thoughtful writers. You got Khalid Abu Tamir, who is a brilliant man, and they have people writer who are Americans of Arab descent or Jewish descent or whatever, and they do a fine job, really excellent job. And there’s a piece that’s very important here, and it says, and you’ve wondered this, you’ve told me this why most Arab countries do not want Palestinians. What is that all about? Countries such as Jordan, he writes. And Lebanon had extremely negative experiences with the Palestinian Liberation Organization. In other Palestinian armed groups who were trying to overthrow or destabilize their governments. Black September in Jordan in 1970 and the Lebanese Civil War 75 to 1990. Arab leaders often make strong statements as true condemnations of Israeli actions and attend high profile summits that express solidarity with the Palestinians. The gestures, however, apart from Iran and Qatar, are often not matched by decisive steps. The refusal of the Arab countries to absorb Palestinians, including ex-prisoners, is proof why it would be a mistake to rely on the Arab countries to help rebuild and demilitarize the Gaza Strip. President Trump. Let’s see here, he says, needs to bear this in mind. I think President Trump has does bear this in mind. As a matter of fact, by now, most Arab heads of state see Palestinians as having caused immeasurable harm wherever they have gone in, as having rewarded with treachery whoever stretched out a hand to them. For the Arab leaders, the Palestinian issue is just another tool to advance their political objectives, shore up their own popular support at home, or unite various factions against a common enemy. I think you see a lot of this with the Saudi Arabia. More Arab leaders and Shorty rights will continue to pretend that they are eager to help the U.S. administration with its efforts to implement the 20 point plan in reality. They will continue to do their utmost to stay away from the Palestinians, apart from helping them to regroup in the in the Gaza Strip. I think that’s mostly correct. Well, we know they don’t want Palestinians in their country. Even though their fellow Arabs, fellow Muslims, they want nothing to do with them. It’s kind of interesting, isn’t it? And our friends at the Washington Free Beacon. Truly one of the great websites. Here’s an obscure Belgian nonprofit. That far more than 1000 international Criminal Court cases against Israeli soldiers that has ties to Hezbollah. Now, this is why we don’t belong to the International Criminal Court and never will. Because they could be people. Other countries can be bringing all kinds of cases against our soldiers in our leaders. And then we have. Voluntarily agreed to the jurisdiction of this this so-called court, which is left wing, which is largely anti-Western, believe it or not, and certainly hostile to America. The hen Rajab Foundation’s co-founder, Diab Abdu yabba dabba do. Has described himself as a very proud former Hezbollah member. Yeah, that’s interesting. Lebanese Belgian activist IU Babu Jhajjar, who co-founded the Hin Rajab Foundation in late 2024. Said he’s very proud. Former Hezbollah member. He was arrested by Belgian authorities and talked to. For inciting Arab riots in Antwerp. And as repeatedly pledged his allegiance to Hezbollah and Hamas on social media. One of Europe’s leading anti-Israel activists. He allegedly remains linked to organizations the report says associated with the US designated terrorist groups like Hezbollah, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and so forth. The group does not publicly disclose its funding structure, but the watchdog report identifies that as part of Hezbollah’s extensive business network ties to families and local diaspora connections across Europe, Latin America and Africa. The networks, the report says, are known to support front companies, informal trade, layered laundering operations through used car exports, counterfeit goods, commonly commodity trades facilitated through relatives and friendly businesses. And the article goes on with exquisite detail. What do you make of that, America? With all these front groups, with these these organizations, it’s really, really appalling. So you really have to pierce their. You know, these layers in order to get to the bottom of what’s going on here. So this is an as Hezbollah group based in Belgium. Which creates the impression that it has nothing to do with Hezbollah or anybody else for that matter, on that sort. And clearly, it not only does it is. So that’s very troubling as far as I’m concerned. And they file all these complaints again. Which is why we should never and will never be part of. That so-called court. Hakeem Jeffries, by the way. He’s asked about Stacie Placid and the texting. With Jeffrey Epstein. What does he have to say about it? And by the way, he is a primary opponent. Some Marxists who worked with Randamie, I believe, on the City Council. Here’s Jeffries. Cut 13 Go! Obviously a lot of movement up on Capitol Hill today. And you heard Stacey Plaskett there. She was arguing her texts with Jeffrey Epstein were not illegal. But in your view, were they appropriate? Well, Stacey Plaskett is not accused of violating any House rule, any law, any statute. And she’s clearly and unequivocally denounced Jeffrey Epstein. And I think what the survivors fought for today is the type of transparency that came out of the House. It’s amazing she’s asked about her. This plaskett and he addresses everything but that. And. Then goes on the attack. She’s a good lady and then goes on the attack. Go ahead, say to Donald Trump’s desk where hopefully he’ll sign it into law, because at the end of the day, all the American people asking for is just the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, which is why these Epstein files that Donald Trump and his administration has been hiding for months need to be released, hiding for months, and yet the Biden regime never released them. Go ahead. Appropriate for her to be texting with Jeffrey Epstein 11 years after he pleaded guilty. I mean, I have not had a conversation with Stacey Plaskett to discuss this issue because we’ve been focused today on making sure that there was a decisive vote as it related to the Epstein File. He didn’t have to do anything to make sure there’s a decisive vote. All but one gentleman and he is a gentleman. He had made very good, strong arguments, voted to release that. The president asked to release it. He was browbeat it and browbeat it. And you Democrats said, see, we defeated him. Unfortunately, too many Republicans who got sucked into this. As they get sucked into all these phony scandals. People should step back and think about these things that are coming from the media. There’s a lot of leaks taking place and so forth. A lot of agendas behind the scenes and we need to focus on that. Go ahead. The work of Representative Massie of Roxana, but most importantly, the survivors. Do you plan to talk to her about it? I think that we successfully defeated Guy won’t answer. He just won’t answer. Look how they stand up for their own no matter what. No matter how pathetic. Go ahead. That lacked any basis was uncredible, was not credible, and was being brought by an individual who was trying to weaponize this issue to reinvigorate his own failed gubernatorial campaign in South Carolina. It was rejected on a bipartisan basis on the floor today. That’s the end of the story. Now, I was just asking if you personally were messaging with Jeffrey Epstein, who was the at that point a registered sex offender. Is is it appropriate for a member of the House Democratic caucus? That’s third time we’ve been asking this question, and I’m going to give you the same exact answer. But he didn’t give her any answer, did you? No. You’re a coward on this issue. There’s no question about that. No question about that. But what about what about Jefferies himself? In fundraising. In an email. Cut. 14. Go. Well, let me ask you about you, because the White House has been highlighting an email that I’m sure you’ve seen today that Jeffrey Epstein got in 2013. They say it shows you were soliciting money in dinner from an Epstein. The email was not sent from you, sent from a political concern to consulting firm called Dynamic G. It says, We are thrilled to announce we are working with Congressman Hakeem Jeffries. Shoot us an email or give us a call if you would like to get involved. What’s your response? Do you recall that email being sent to Jeffrey Epstein from from that team? Of course, I have no recollection of the email. I’ve never had a conversation with him. Never met him? No, nothing about him other than the extreme things that he’s been convicted of doing. And that’s why, you know, I’m just strongly supportive of the effort backing the survivors to make sure that everything can come out, whatever is in those Department of Justice files. So you never got a donation from Jeffrey Epstein or anything like that? Certainly not. Hmm. Certainly. No, no, that’s a low standard. But nonetheless. We finally got the files. Now if there’s any redactions. Well, then. Then Trump’s hiding something. So, you know, this is a complete phony scandal as opposed to Trump. It certainly is a complete phony scandal. I mean, what took place was horrendous. Pedophilia is horrendous. Epstein got away with it for a very long time, as did others. I mean, if it’s your daughter, your child, you’d want more than life in prison for a guy like this, wouldn’t you? I certainly would. It’s grotesque. And yet they’re trying to hang it on Trump and there’s nothing to hang on Trump. Nothing. I’ll be right back.
Segment 4
President Trump at the US-Saudi Investment Forum today cut five five Mr. Bridges ago. We’ve had good relationships and frankly, not good. You didn’t have a good relationship with Barack Hussein Obama. You didn’t have a good relationship with Sleepy Joe Biden, but you had a great relationship with me. And now it’s as good as it was. And probably even better if you think about it, because we took the dark cloud away from your country. It was called Iran and its nuclear capability. And we obliterated that very quickly and strongly and powerfully. There were people, people who opposed that. It’s still mind boggling. The extent to which they spew their hate and their poison at me and others is because we certainly supported the president’s act. It’s the president’s decision. And when’s the last time we talked about a threat from Iran with nuclear weapons? Not since the president hit those sites and our pilots with their bombers at those sites. Go ahead. Cloud over the whole Middle East. And now they want to make a deal. They want to make a deal. They want to see if they can work out a deal with us. And we’ll be doing that probably. But that was a terrible cloud that you had to live with for a long time. 22 years. They were thinking about doing that, the midterms. That was even before the beatings, those beatings, what machines, they were, they flew in. They were undetectable. Then they dropped their payload and every single bomb hit its exact mark, which was a shaft going deep into the mountain. And every single one of them hit and it was total obliteration. And then I was criticized by some of the fake news for saying the word obliteration was too strong. Perhaps they had no idea. Nobody saw it. Three days later, when the Atomic Energy Commission went, they said it was total obliteration. Beyond obliteration, they said, But they want to make a deal. We’ll see what happens. Now let’s jump the cut. Seven Go. Americans have rejected the failed and they were really failed far left models that you were looking at of high taxes and massive spending, soaring costs, crushing regulations and trillions of dollars in green new scams. Everything was a new scam. Green, green, green. Look, I’m all for the environmental, everything. I’m all for climate change. You know that new word? Climate change used to be global warming. It’s global warming. Well, that didn’t work as they coming down. They did the global cooling thing. They’d love it. Then they just said, We can’t keep up with this. It’s too much. So we’ll go perfect. Where it’s climate change, they’re covered. If it rains, if it snows, if it’s warm, it’s climate change is destroying the world. Remember, the world was supposed to have been gone two years ago. They gave us 12 years, Howard, to live, right? 12 years went by. That was 14 years ago. The world was going to burn up, let it get actually much cooler. And that is people let us conspiracy out there. We have to investigate them immediately. They probably are being investigated. He is something else. He is funny and he is to the point and he exposes his nutjobs. He certainly does. And there’s only one Donald Trump. And we we’re very lucky to have him. And he’s making these deals with the Saudis. And I happen to know for a fact that he feels that this investment, the amount of money that Saudi Arabia is investing into the country and it’s not a big deal that they get some of our jets and so forth and so on, considering considering what that money in the country will do create jobs, create new businesses. And so that’s that’s the plan. I’ll be right back.
