On Wednesday’s Mark Levin Show, most of the media are criticizing U.S. attacks on Venezuelan drug boats as illegal with cherry picked experts who don’t specify what law was violated or rely on vague arguments. It’s an act of war when Venezuela sends in toxic drugs to America. It’s odd that the Democrats and some RINO’s first instinct is to attack Pete Hegseth and not the enemy. The more they hate you the more effective you are. Later, Rep Chip Roy calls in with an update on his race for Texas Attorney General. He also argues that the President of the United States has the constitutional authority under Article II powers to preemptively strike a boat carrying drugs operated by narco-terrorists from Venezuela. Afterward, Qatar is ramping up a charm offensive amid scrutiny over its ties to the Muslim Brotherhood following the October 7 attacks, hosting House Republicans and influencers. Also, Dinesh D’Souza calls in and reveals that Qataris view themselves as the true chosen people due to their effortless oil wealth, freeing the nation from labor. Instead, they pursue financial jihad by deploying resources to purchase influence. For decades, they’ve targeted American universities, funding entire departments like political science rather than isolated events. Recently, they’ve shifted to infiltrating the conservative movement to foster divisions within the right, achieving some success with substantial funding that many are yielding to, and people should recognize this as a paid influence operation. Finally, there’s a new Democrat Party confederacy, where sanctuary cities and states unconstitutionally nullify federal immigration laws under the Supremacy Clause, akin to secession since the Civil War. Democrats disregard the law and Constitution, destroying the country by supporting communities pushing Sharia law and Islamist enclaves to influence states like Texas, with figures like Zohran Mamdani embodying their power-driven ideology.
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Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. You know, ladies and gentlemen, I’ve been looking at mostly headlines in most of the American media lecturing us that the attacks on these Venezuelan drug boats that are aimed to spread death and mayhem in the United States and to kill mostly our young people and others, that it’s clearly illegal. And then they cherry picked the experts who say it’s illegal. Then I went back and I started to go through these articles. And, you know, it’s interesting. They don’t really tell us why it’s illegal. Exactly what law has been violated. And then they tell us all kinds of arguments while we’re not really at war and so forth and so on. So they go into the into the ether to make their case. But I want to make the point again. If. Venezuela. Succeeded. Succeeded in releasing toxins into our atmosphere over our country that were deadly. I don’t think there’s anybody who would question that’s an act of war in Venezuela. Poisoned our water supply system. I don’t think anybody would argue that’s not an act of war. So Venezuela is the source. A much. Toxic illegal drugs that come into our country. Is working in collusion with communist China, Russia and Iran. And succeeds in getting those deadly drugs into our country and killing our people, then I would argue that’s an act of war to. It’s not just a criminal matter. It is a government of a country. That has declared that it is trying to kill and maim American citizens. Now. I understand. Some people are uncomfortable. Uncomfortable. We’re calling a spade a spade. I am not. I understand there’s some people who spent their lives with their faces in the U.S. code, and that’s all they know. Well, that’s not rational, is it? So of course, what Venezuela is doing. Is trying to kill American citizens. The country controlled by the government. A dictator, a Marxist dictator, an illegitimate Marxist dictator in collusion with other enemies and adversaries of the United States. And so when I hear Rand Paul, a radical libertarian. Make suggestions about, quote unquote, due process. In a war like this, you don’t get due process. It’s not a court of law. You have a commander in chief. It’s a completely different process that you’re dealing with. It amazes me. I would argue that 70 or 80 years ago, maybe even 50 years ago, if a president was doing as Donald Trump was doing, the United States would be united behind him Democrats, Republicans, independents and everybody else. Instead, we have Democrats taking to the airwaves at clues accusing the secretary of defense. That is a war. A war crimes. For ordering the killing of survivors of the first attack on one of these drug speedboats. Number one, we know that he didn’t order a second attack. He wasn’t there. The admiral did. Number two. That’s not a war crime. Now they will read to you. Language that says that if people are injured and so forth and so on and they’re no longer a threat. That you no longer target them. Well, that’s all well and good. But as the secretary of war said, Haig said during the fog of war, it can’t exactly pinpoint that the white people in their Senate offices and their in their House offices and media in their offices. Discern. What you cannot discern. In the middle of the action. But all of that aside, don’t you find it odd? That the instinct of these people is to attack us. And not the enemy. Maduro is a genocidal maniac. Maduro is a narco kingpin. Maduro has undermined and usurped two elections in which he lost to the voters. Maduro has hitmen. He’s got armed civilian militia. He’s got, obviously, the regular military. He has accumulated 30 to $40 billion, raping his country, starving his people. He has exported prisoners and mental patients from his prisons and his institutions into the United States. He’s exported an international drug gang into the United States. He has exported in collusion with Russia, China and Iran. God knows the tonnage of drugs into our country, killing and maiming your family members. And the reaction. Of our media and the reaction of the Democrats to a man and a woman and a transition here and the reaction of some of these rhino Republicans, these neo isolationist Republicans as well, is to attack the commander in chief. And the secretary of war. Really quite amazing, don’t you think? Legal fight erupts over a second strike on suspected drug boat. U.S. drug boat strikes don’t cross a line. Let’s see this one. Oh. U.S. drug boats don’t cross a line. They’re legally. Hold on. Damn. Computer. Indefensible. No lines here. It’s just indefensible. Acts. Criminal acts. Wow. How much did Haig said know about the controversial boat strike? The second one in particular. And it goes on and on. Hmm. Well, I’m all for it. It’s in our hemisphere, the Monroe Doctrine. They’re trying to kill our people. No question. What’s going on here? Pushing these deadly drugs into our country. Killing our young people, killing other people. It amazes me. It amazes me what we see here. The Democrat Party open borders, where women by the hundreds of thousands are sold in the sex slavery and pornography. They don’t blink. Unaccompanied children, hundreds of thousands missing, also sold on sex slavery and in labor slavery. They don’t blink. Venezuela pushing God knows how much deadly drugs into this country, including fentanyl. They don’t blink. They don’t blink. Now all of a sudden, the Democrat Party and some of the rhinos and isolationists, they’re very particular about our law. They don’t normally give a damn about the law, but they’re very particular about it now. And they want it applied against Trump and Hegseth. They hate Hegseth. The more they hate you, the more effective you are. That’s how you know they don’t target lame brains. They don’t target lazy individuals. They don’t target ineffective individuals. They target the best of the best. I haven’t talked to Hegseth in months. In fact, I haven’t talked to any cabinet secretary in months. Hegseth is doing his job. Better than Austin ever did it. Better than he ever did it, or whatever the hell that guy’s name is better than any of them have done it. He is reforming the Pentagon by pushing out the DEA. We have more people trying to get into the military now as volunteers than modern anytime in modern history. President is muscling up the United States military. He uses it for targeted operations. He muscles them up. And in this case we’re talking about in our hemisphere, where they’re attacking our children and grandchildren. We have these former federal prosecutors who really are irrelevant, talking about. What should happen in a criminal justice process. You know, I remember after 911. The big criticism, rightly so, was that we treat terrorism and terrorists as a criminal justice matter. Not as a counterterrorism matter, not as a military matter. And so we have a president who treats this as a military matter, as a national security matter, and they’re trying to drag him back into a criminal justice mentality and drag all of us back into a courtroom mentality. This can come to an end immediately. If Venezuela would stop trying to kill and poison our population. It’s that simple. I’ll be right back.
Segment 2
If you look at what Donald Trump does, he’s trying to keep drugs out of the country one another. The government is trying to force them into our country. Those are acts of war. I don’t care what all the pinheads have to say. President has secured the border. Now he’s having to find the individuals who are in our country, led into our country by the Biden regime and the Democrats who are here to blow up our buildings, kill our people. Destroy our government. Destroy our schools. So he’s trying to deal with that and he’s taking some of the most aggressive stance against immigration from countries that breed this kind of terrorism. Countries that experience this kind of terrorism, countries that aren’t effectively really countries for that matter. They’re lawless rogue regimes. And he’s trying to protect we, the American people, from those aliens and those people and trying to remove them. President Trump supports the cops who are trying to protect us from predators, whether they’re homegrown or they’re not homegrown. No. We should be out there celebrating what he’s doing. Celebrating him because he has the guts to do what he’s doing and most politicians simply do not. And so we have the spit ballers in Congress. Finally, they wake up. Do they wake up to defend? The country? No. Do they wake up to deport illegal immigrants? No. Did they wake up to secure the border? Some did, some didn’t. But they wake up when it comes to trying to destroy a Pete Hegseth. They wake up when it comes to trying, of course, to destroy Donald Trump. And one of these men. Done. They’re trying to act in the best interests of the country and to protect us, to protect us. This is going on in our hemisphere. Under the Monroe Doctrine. This is going on in our communities and our neighborhoods, in our schools, in our streets. And if they had their way, these Lilliputians, these quislings, it would continue to go on and go on even more. They claim to care about people. They don’t care about us. They simply don’t. What’s a few more deaths? What’s a few more deaths? President trying to deport illegal aliens. That’s the law. It’s funny, they talk about what’s the law? That’s the law. They don’t have to be serial criminals. They don’t have to be rapists and murderers. To deport. You’re here illegally. Get the hell out. And even when he’s trying to deport violent criminals who are here illegally, foreigners who are in our country illegally maiming our people. You’ve got Democrat Party mayors and governors and city councilman and the rest. Trying to block them. Trying to block him. So who is it? Who is it? They’re trying to protect the American people. There shouldn’t be an ideological issue. It shouldn’t be a partisan issue. But it is. It’s both. The Marxist Islamists want more illegal aliens. They are violent. They reject our republic. They reject the Judeo-Christian values that undergird our country and our society. They seek to reverse what we’ve created. Through immigration. The Democrat Party cares about one thing power. They are power hungry. That’s it. They’ve always been power hungry. That’s it. Party before country. Party before country ideology. Before party and party Before country. That’s what they are. And that’s what we’re up against. And so now they’re very worried about two druggies drug. Distributors who are on a boat. They got blown up twice. I’m going to be perfectly honest with you. I could care less. I don’t give a damn. I don’t give a damn. And I expect that the vast majority of the American people don’t either. You got Rand Paul out there. Either Pete Hegseth is lying or incompetent. Now, how about Haig said this Telling the truth is very competent and is courageous. Unlike you, you weasel, unlike you, you weasel. You’ve got Hakeem Jeffries out there calling the secretary war, the so-called secretary of defense, so called from the so-called speaker wannabe. These are cowards. These are buffoons. Mark Warner. He can barely complete a sentence without making an ass out of himself. Trump and Haig’s sets are the biggest crowd of wimps you’ve ever seen, Hague said. A combat veteran. Warner. A moron. I’ll be right back.
Segment 3
We’re here with our friend Chip. Roy. Chip Roy how’s your campaign going, my friend? Mark, I hope you had a blessed Thanksgiving. Yes, sir. Campaign campaign is going great. We’re you know, we got all over the state of Texas, of course, now back to my day job and trying to, you know, get my colleagues to stand behind the president in all ways that we can and and deliver and. Well, but look, the results are good down in Texas. Polling is showing me way up in the polls, you know, and we’re just, you know, try to run strong and early voting starts in mid-February. So we’re feeling good. Now, you’re running for attorney general of Texas, and that’s a big job, isn’t it? It is. And as you and I have talked about it, it’s difficult because I’ve got so many good friends that I’ve and I’ve really enjoyed what we’ve done here in Washington and changing the institution and delivering, you know, alongside the president, the big, beautiful bill. And we’re still working. But but it’s also a time to go back and make sure that we fight for Texas, because if we lose Texas, we lose America. And we were, as you and I talked about, we’re under assault. Open borders, the these the Marxist Islamist attack, attack on Texas, what they’re doing with that big city, what they’re doing with Sharia law, what they’re doing with mosques. And we’ve got to address it. And you’ve got to have somebody smart enough to be able to deal with the complications of, you know, First Amendment jurisprudence, but is willing to stand up and call it out and and stand up and call out the radical leftist that are putting criminals on our streets. And, you know, God’s given me the background and the experience to be be a part of fights, but also to understand the law and and to be a former prosecutor and to be there at the right time. So putting my name out there and we feel good about it. You know, Jim, I am reading a lot of these news stories and hearing a lot of former federal prosecutors say that our military actions against Venezuela to try and keep their drugs out of our country are illegal. And I don’t care if I’m the only one that says this, they’re absolutely not your legal self-defense. There’s a whole lot of arguments that can and should be made as far as I’m concerned, about the right to keep these poisons out of our country. I mean, if they were if they were putting toxins in the air or in our atmosphere of our our country, that would be an act of war. If they were poisoning our water, that would be an act of war. And so now they’re poisoning our people. They’re using Russia and China and Mexico, Mexican cartels. But we know it’s them and we know it’s not an individual or a cartel. We know it’s a government, a government that is that is trying to kill as many Americans as possible as it enriches itself. What’s your take on this? Well, I think this is actually a really important question. And, Mark, you’re one of the smartest lawyers I know. I know you care deeply about the Constitution you’ve written. I don’t know how many books about it. You and I both share a commitment with separation of powers, making sure that we’re we’re watching law carefully. I don’t think this is a close call. And I’m watching all of this hand-wringing over it. And and look, I say that as someone you know me, if I thought that this was an overstep, I’d say so because I actually have a duty to. So I’m looking at this and I’m objectively I’m going, okay, I’m trying to think of as if this were a Democrat, if I just disagreed with them on other issues. Do I think a president United States can act preemptively to go hit a boat that you’ve got narco terrorists running fennel with good intelligence, that it will get into the United States and certainly kill Americans? And we know they’re doing it. And by the way, that we’ve declared any number of these cartels as terrorist organizations, rightfully so. By the way, do I think the United States has the ability under his article to. New powers to do that? Yes, I do. Now, have I explored every angle of every limit over years and what it all looks like? No, And I’ll. I’ll pay attention to it. But the president has a duty to defend us from those who are trying to kill us, especially when those organized cartels who have been at war with us for decades. Let me underscore your point. You know, during the Reagan administration and under the State Department back then, George Shultz, it was the position of President Reagan and Shultz and Weinberger and the others that America has an absolute inherent right to defend itself against any illegal use of force. And that would include deadly drugs that are pouring into our countries from Venezuela. That’s making a fortune from the government of Venezuela. And these assumptions are supported in if you look at the DOD Law of War manual, the United States, I’m quoting, has long taken the position that the inherent right of self-defense potentially applies against any illegal use of force, unquote. So this criticism of the administration’s use of force against a government that is using cartels and other third parties to bring killer drugs into our country, to kill hundreds of thousands of Americans, if that’s not self-defense, both under the defense policy and under the broader policy of the United States that’s been in existence for a half a century. I don’t know what the hell is. Well, Mark, correct me if I’m wrong, but from my memory and I haven’t looked at it in a while. If you go back over the last decade, you have probably upwards of 500,000 Americans who have died from some variations of synthetic opioid, driven primarily by fentanyl. If that is true, notwithstanding, whatever fault lies with the individuals in America who might take some drugs they shouldn’t or whatever. If you have half a million Americans that have been killed this way, how many were killed in World War Two? If I remember about 400,000. 400,000, right? Yeah. So more people have died in the last decade than died in World War Two. And I realize that different time zones, time constraints. But that’s what we’re talking about. The president of the United States taking what I would call as lawful preemptive strikes against organized terrorist cartels that are doing this purposefully. And I think the president has Article two authority to do that. Yeah, me too. Now, if Congress disagrees, Congress can cut off the funding. The War Powers Act. I don’t even believe that’s constitutional. That’s never been tested. But that said, Congress can cut off the funding if they don’t do the votes to cut off the funding. They can impeach a president. They don’t have votes to impeach a president. They happen to lose this constitutional battle. That’s the way it goes. But I can go back to Noriega, excuse me, in Panama. We sent our Marines in there. They shot their way in to 300 of the Panamanian military and civilians, maybe more dead, 23 of our Marines killed for the purpose of capturing Noriega, who was another drug kingpin who was pushing drugs under a country through Colombia. I know I was there toward the end of the Reagan administration, and it was the early Bush administration. We captured him. We prosecuted him. And it was all about changing that regime in our hemisphere to protect our country. No declaration of war. And Congress wasn’t informed. And so the effort was underway because they were afraid it would leak. So there is precedent for this sort of thing. Well, And adding to that, I do think we have to be smart as Republicans to be clear to the American people the stakes, because if we’re not clear about the war that is being waged, again, true, whether it’s the dangerous cartels in this case, the already described the deaths from fentanyl, that also just the chaos and the destruction of the Western Hemisphere, the dismantling of the rule of law, the pressure that that that then puts on immigration into our country. If we’re not honest about the organized effort of the Marxists and the radical leftist and Islamists that are trying to destroy Western civilization in our country. And if we’re not willing to empower our executive and to stand behind our executive within some degree of reason, you and I both would apply equally to Republican or Democrat president some limits if we if we see something being too aggressive. But President Trump is right. His instincts are right. And what he’s doing and what Secretary Hagel said they’re doing is they’re it is correct that we should be stopping these evil actors from killing our people and corrupting the Western Hemisphere and making us a weaker, less secure country. It is about time that we reclaim our position. Was hemisphere in a Trump doctrine for the 21st century? Yeah, I mean, I just look at it as also the common sense of it. If you know, somebody down the street is giving drugs to somebody else in the neighborhood for the purpose of spreading it in the in the high school. You can have as many people at that high school trying to prevent kids from using drugs and so forth and so on. But that guy who’s been who’s behind it and so forth, you got to address that. And I can tell you that the founders of this country and the framers of the Constitution wouldn’t be wouldn’t be hesitant about this. Look at the Barbary pirates and so forth. Another case where there wasn’t a declaration of war, John Adams kept trying to pay them off. Pay them off, pay them off. Jefferson comes in and says, That’s enough of that. He sends, What is our Navy over there? And they go to war and they try to free what are these European slaves that have been enslaved by the Somalians, ironically, and others. And I just I just feel like they. Sometimes some of these arguments are so stupid an absurd. There are black and white cases. But why is it that the left and some of our isolationists don’t get me wrong? Why is it that their knee jerk response is to attack Pete Hegseth, to attack the commander in chief and they have no answers on what to do about all this drug stuff? I think at the end of the day, it is it is comfort in being able to talk about it from the comfort of our homes in America. It’s why I know this is going to sound a little different, but stick with me for a minute. The the people that I trust in the world who really, truly. Now what happened in December? Hold on. We lost you for about 10 seconds, Chip. I’m sorry. Try that again. Yeah, You’re back. Yeah, I’m in D.C.. Sorry. I don’t know why the cell signal back, but I know why you’re in D.C.. But that’s a whole other story. Go ahead. Right. The Eastern Europeans, the Africans that have been subjected to tyranny, who are not allowed to carry out their faith. They understand freedom. They understand that you have to protect it constantly. And there are a lot of people, Democrat or Republican, that have gotten to safe and comfortable in our environment in the United States, that they’re willing to accept tyranny, lawlessness, danger to their own people. And they don’t realize that we have a free will. When my great great grandfather moved to Texas. He was a Texas Ranger right outside of Austin in the 1870s battling Comanche Indians. Now, you didn’t just sit back and go, Man, Well, I hope somebody comes and protects me. You had to just step up and protect yourself. We got cartels who are trying to profiteer on the death of our children. That’s insane. And we should stop it. And we shouldn’t allow the Western Hemisphere to be this complete chaotic environment. He’s right to try to get Argentina as secretary. Dustin is right to try to figure out how to get strength there and push China out. We need to reclaim our rightful position in the Western Hemisphere. It’ll make our country materially safer and stronger. And it starts with dismantling the cartels. Well, I hope the Texans elect you. I think they will, because we need you there, not just for tax cut taxes, obviously, but the whole country, the the Islamist activity taking place in of all places, Texas is unbelievable. The trade, the effort to try and impose Sharia law in various communities to create Islamic only communities. I want to have you back. Chip, I want to go through this with you as well, because in many ways, Texas is becoming ground zero. There are other states that are ground zero to Michigan. Some in some ways New Jersey and so forth. But definitely Texas. The the the eye is on Texas to flip Texas, to change Texas. And I’d like to discuss with you as well, if people want to help you, Chip Roy, get elected attorney general and I strongly endorse some folks, is a dear friend of mine. Where do they go? Well, thanks, Mark. Chip Roy Qcom. You can find me on Twitter at Chip. Roy, Roy, Tex. And I appreciate your support and your friendship. Keep doing what you do and we need you out there. Great voice for freedom, obviously, and and all that you’ve done to stand up in defense of the Constitution. And I’m deeply, deeply appreciative of your friendship. But importantly for all the listeners out there. We have to understand that they’re at war with us and you can’t win a war that you don’t recognize exists. So we’ve got to. We’ve got to suit up. Now. You’re the best. All right, Chip, you you be safe out there. Take care of yourself, brother. God bless. Figure Mark. God bless you, too. He and I go way, way back. We don’t always agree on everything, but we almost always do. That’s the truth. And he’s a great man. And I very much support him for. I mean, Attorney General Texas, is there any question about that? He would be absolutely fantastic. We need men and we need women with a character like Chip. We really do. A lot of these battles are at the state and local level. I’ll be right back.
Segment 4
It’s amazing to me how the Democrats in some of these republics, how cocksure they are that this is a crime. Now that is as asinine as it gets. And yet here we have the Washington, D.C. propaganda mill. It is an it is a machine spewing out the same thing, targeting Hegseth. And you have to ask yourself, why do they keep targeting him? Because he’s effective. That’s why they keep targeting him, because he’s young, he’s charismatic. He’s a combat veteran. He knows what he’s doing. If he were a 78 year old general. And mumbling during hearings. They would be lavishing him with praise. But he’s trying to do things that need to be done, and he’s doing it at the direction of the president of the United States. So they figure they’re going to attack the president, but it might be easier. The lower hanging fruit is a cabinet secretary like him. He’s been an outstanding secretary of defense. Period. Outstanding secretary of defense. I don’t think we give this Cabinet the credit that it deserves. And. Yes. And yes, I find that Pam Bondi has been an outstanding attorney general. And I find the leadership of the FBI and Kash Patel and Dan Bongino to be superb. I know that agency. That agency is part of the Department of Justice. I was chief of staff under Attorney General Meese, who, by the way, turned 94 yesterday. Happy birthday, Mr. General. One of my great mentors. It’s a very difficult agency to reform and to run, but I think they’ve done an outstanding job. I know the Grifters, the phony influencers who run over to Qatar, the phony podcasters who are desperate for eyes in order to make their millions. They have to have people to trash. I get it. And one day, Brother Bongino will be back behind the microphone. And these people will rue the day. He’s a great patriot. And one day Kash Patel. We’ll be able to speak his mind. They will rue the day. Oh, they will. And Hegseth. I want to thank him. I want to thank him for what he’s been doing with Venezuela. I want to thank him for what he’s been doing in the Middle East. I want to thank him for the things that he’s doing in helping to build up the military, their morale as high as can be. And the number of people are signing up voluntarily for his service. I’ll be right back.
