January 20th, 2026

On Tuesday’s Mark Levin Show, as time goes on, the urgency and immediacy for helping the Iranian people lessens in the public mind and among the decision-makers. Already, the media are losing interest. This is very worrisome. The revolution in Iran cannot succeed without the U.S. Also, it’s essential for U.S. national security to control Greenland. One idea would be to propose a 99-year lease of Greenland to the United States, granting military control, infrastructure development and access to Greenland’s rare earth minerals in exchange for sharing benefits with Denmark and Greenlanders, with an automatic renewal option. This approach protects American interests logically and consistently. Later, the Wall Street Journal’s accidental admission reveals that tariffs are not merely taxes but tools of foreign policy and diplomacy. The Constitution assigns Congress the power of the purse while granting the President plenary power over foreign policy and national security. Tariffs often intertwine these areas, making judicial intervention impractical and unwise, as courts would end up deciding case-by-case whether a tariff is more about national security or taxation, leading to endless litigation. The Supreme Court needs to reverse the lower court, avoid ruling on constitutionality at this stage, and allow Congress and the President to handle such matters through their respective powers rather than ceding decisions to judges. Afterward, in Lee Carter’s opinion piece, President Trump’s approval ratings do not indicate failure but instead demonstrate his successful delivery on campaign promises in a divided America. Rather than softening his approach like typical presidents, Trump has remained a consistent disruptor which has led to stable numbers with no significant erosion of his base. These ratings reflect identity-driven polarization sorting the country rather than persuading it. The legacy media fixates on the low headline numbers while refusing to recognize this stability as proof of Trump’s authenticity and the nation’s discomfort with unfiltered promise-keeping. In addition, Michael Doran, Director of the Middle East center at the Hudson Institute, urges Trump to seize billions of dollars in Iranian assets hidden in Dubai-based financial institutions. These shadow banks enable Iran to evade U.S. sanctions and fund its regime. Freezing or seizing these offshore accounts would deliver a powerful blow to Tehran comparable to a military strike, but with far lower risk and escalation potential, making it a preferable non-military pressure tactic. Finally, Peter Schweizer calls in to discuss his new book – The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon.

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Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. Look, it’s an honor to have you here. Thank you very, very much. As each day passes. And if military action is not taken against Iran, support for it is going to diminish in our country. The media already seemed bored and the urgency and the immediacy of what’s needed and it’s still needed. People are still being slaughtered. There’s a blackout there so you don’t get to watch. You don’t get good here. Is still urgent. Still right now as I speak. And this has been the manner in which that Nazi regime has conducted itself. The other times, protests. Came to the fore, but this time it was even bigger. And if they’re not stop, they are going to slaughter thousands more, tens of thousands more under the cover of dark over a longer period of time. They’ve now tested and they shot it into Siberia with Russia’s. Okay. A 10,000 mile ballistic missile that goes 10,000 miles. Now that hits America. Just so you know. I mean, that’s. Something you need to keep in mind. Certainly I do. I just get very worried about this. I could see early on. I know we’re positioning assets. And I know the president’s a man of his word, but I’m getting concerned now. That the view will be pressed and pressed and pressed. That the more rational position is not to do anything militarily. And I’m very concerned about this because it’s not a more rational position. This revolution in Iran cannot succeed without us. It’s that simple. It cannot. Europe is not going to do anything. Israel can’t really do anything on its own. It certainly would do it with us. But it takes us. It takes us. And I’m guessing that the president I have no idea. But he’s getting more and more advice, isolationist advice. Other types of advice that it’s not worth it. Things have simmer down. And let me play cut one for you from today’s press conference. And I believe Iran came up once. Once. Go ahead, Mr. Producer. So with Iran, they were going to hang 837 people and let it be known that. And we let them know that if that happens, that will be a very bad day for them. And they decided not to do it. They didn’t hang the people. I can’t tell you what’s going to happen in the future, but supposedly they’ve taken that off the table. But they were going to last week they were going to hang on Thursday or Wednesday. One, they were going to hang hang, I think, 837 people and they didn’t hang anybody. So we’re just going to have to see what happens with Iran. There’s a military option. I’m not. I’m not. Okay. I’m not sure why. Hanging is the operative word here. They’re murdering them. They’re shooting them. They’re butchering them. So if it’s the word hanged. There’s other ways you kill people and murder people, and you can do it faster. And of course, my count is now they’ve threatened the life of the president five times. Five times? Five times. So I don’t know what’s going to happen. I know what I think should happen. Very confident about that. But as time goes on, the the urgency of it wears down, doesn’t it? Not for the people in Iran. But for our media, which has the attention span of a snail. So I’m deeply concerned about this. The Kurds are being slaughtered by the Syrians. Our new friends. They’ve let thousands of ISIS murderers out of and would be murderers, had a prison. Turkey’s behind the whole thing. But now we’re being told that the prison was shut. Excuse me. Thousands of ISIS terrorists have been released and God knows how many Kurds have been murdered and raped. And these are our allies. This are people who have fought with us through thick and thin. What’s the status of that? No idea. I’ve never been a fan of this envoy. Thomas Barrack, as you well know. I’ve talked about him here. I’ve posted about him. And I think he’s a disaster. He makes excuses for Syria, makes excuses for Turkey, makes excuses sometimes for Hezbollah. And please don’t tell me he doesn’t. I know what I hear. And often trashes Netanyahu. I don’t know what his problem is. But I’m not impressed in the least. I’m just saying. So, look, we’re going to keep monitoring this. You see what’s going on. You can’t just switch like a light switch, turn things off and on and say, okay, well, it’s better now in Iran and the lights are off, the communications are still killed off. It’s better now. Why don’t they turn the lights on and and turn on the communications? They’ve already said they’re going to keep killing these people. They’ve already said they’re going to execute them. Whether they execute him with a bullet in the back of their head or hang them. That is dead, in my humble opinion. And it’s not so humble. It’s really out of fury at this point. So I wanted to point that out. The president has had many, many, many successes over the course of the year. This is his one year anniversary as president in the second term. And I want to talk about some of these things. Let’s talk about Greenland for a minute, because it is a lot of people worked up. I have an editorial here at sea by The Wall Street Journal, and they pretty much print the position of the establishment Republicans and. It says here for more than 75 years, the fondest dream of Russian strategy has been to divide Western Europe from the U.S. and break the narrow alliance that is now possibility as President Trump presses his campaign to capture Greenland. No matter what the locals or its Denmark owner thinks. And it goes on now. What’s at the core of this? At the core of this is the president is rightly concerned. We cannot defend our country. If Russia or China in a war. Takes Greenland, which they can do in about 14 seconds. And uses it as a launching base against the United States. In blocks our navy. Now people aren’t thinking who write these things. You recall. He talked about the Panama Canal, ours. And we’re going to take it back. What happened? Well, the communist Chinese took over the contract for both ends of the canal. Even though we build it, our people died building it. We spent our resources there and was given, quote unquote, back to the Panamanians under conditions that, you know, we would be able to use it and so forth. Well, the communist Chinese, while the places in the world were very interested in managing it and took it over. Well, they don’t have control over it anymore. Their companies are not running it anymore. Now, we didn’t take the canal and we don’t own the canal anymore because of the stupidity of the establishment Republicans. But we run it, so. Okay. So the southern part of our hemisphere now our our navy can move from the Pacific to the Atlantic and the Atlantic to the Pacific. Okay, look at a map. Go north. What the president sees. Obviously, he’s been briefed on as well, is that the Chinese and the Russians have key choke points geographically around the world. And one potential area is Greenland. Now, the Dutch are incapable of defending Greenland. NATO’s incapable of defending Greenland. It’s not even geographically part of Europe. So the president sees that and he says, okay, we need that to defend ourselves. Very simple. That’s how he views things in America’s interest. Denmark says, Well, that’s ours, you can’t take it. And yet it is and it isn’t. Because it has its own government. And so forth. So it’s kind of an independent. And yet not independent territory in many ways. With links to Denmark. So the president says, look, we need to have Greenland to protect the United States of America. By the way, I would say this is exactly why the Israelis are saying sorry, your board of peace, Gaza. Gaza was ours. Gaza can’t be populated by Qataris and Turks, their military. It’s too much of a grave threat for us. So I would say that it’s similar and even more so in the case of Israel, is it not? I’m very consistent about these things. Very logic is logic. So in the case of Greenland. Europe gets up in Hamburg. Why? Because they know they’ll never going to fight a war with us. So they’re very tough when it comes to us. Very tough. So I have an idea. My own idea. Maybe they can save face and we can protect ourselves. How about a 99 year lease? Al Green went to the United States where we control the military aspects and have access and will share with them and the Dutch to the rare earth minerals. Of which they are much in of which they do not mind very much. Greenland’s a very big place. It’s bigger than Alaska. Take a look at it again on a map. It’s got almost a minuscule population there. It’s impossible for them to defend it. So my thinking is and look, I am not the negotiator working out details. We do a 99 year lease. We build a military infrastructure there as we see fit. Docking for our subs, among other things. And we have access to the rare earth minerals that we need and we don’t with the Russians and the Chinese to take that. And they have their eyeballs on that, too. In a deal with the the people in Greenland. What did they call a Greenlanders? I don’t know. And in the Dutch? With an automatic right of renewal for 99 years. Unless we choose not to. I don’t know if they go for it or not, but it just seemed to me to make sense. So he. Okay. It’s your country. You have it. Now, this is what we want to do. I think it’s a good negotiating position, don’t you, Mr. Producer? Well, that’s my thought. I’ve passed it along. I don’t know if it’ll. Matter or not. But just the thought as a as a backup position. We’ll be right back.

Segment 2
I must tell you, America, I am deeply. Upset about what’s going on to the people in Iran. It really has grabbed my heart and my soul. Same with the Kurds in Syria. These are our friends. These are our allies. It just. It does rip me. It tears at me as I know it does. Many of you. The inhumanity of all this. The abuse of these young, beautiful people. The Kurds have fought with us shoulder to shoulder. I don’t care what anybody says. That guy is no reformer. He’s Al Qaida in Syria. The overthrow Assad with Turkey’s help. Turkey’s aligned with them and ISIS. Turkey’s going to be on the board of peace. Turkey wants to put troops in Gaza. Netanyahu’s no fool is not going to be pushed around. But every major party in Israel, except the two Arab or three Arab parties opposes Turkey and Qatar being. In Gaza. I mean, I oppose Qatar and Turkey and Saudi Arabia being in America. Quite frankly, I’m sick and tired of it. Them throwing their damn money around, buying our country, buying our politics, buying our sports teams, buying. Higher ed and K through 12. They are destroying our educational system. They are shoulder to shoulder with the Muslim Brotherhood, with Hamas, with the Taliban, with every terrorist group on the face of the Earth. And they’ve been lobbying the administration against advising. They called advising. Attacking Iran, as has Saudi Arabia. Who gives a crap what they think? So this has me very troubled. Very troubled. All right. When we come back, we’re still waiting for the Supreme Court on tariffs and much more. I’ll be right back.

Segment 3
Back to the Wall Street Journal. Why the tariff case is such a big deal. And it is. The world is waiting for the Supreme Court to rule on the legality of President Trump’s emergency tariffs. And Mr. Trump’s weekend tariff spree against European allies underscores again why his abuse of his authority needs to be reined in. Now, this is interesting. The title is Why the tariff Case is Such a Big Deal and the World Is Waiting, Mr. Producer. Now, why is the world waiting? They don’t even realize what they just said here. The world is that foreign countries, Mr. Minister. Foreign countries are waiting to see what we do with the tariff. So terrorism just attacks then, right? It’s about foreign policy and diplomacy. And let me read the first sentence again, because they don’t even realize they just started making the case, because my argument has been whether people like it or not. The issue over the power of the purse and the power over foreign policy. One to Congress, one of the president is indivisible. You can’t bifurcate them. The framers gave the power to both. They gave the power of the purse. To Congress, but they get the power of a foreign policy to the president. And tariffs involve. International trade. International commerce. National security and diplomacy. They don’t come in one box or the others. And the worst thing that could happen is that judges and in the end it would be trial judges would make the decision in every instance. Then when a president decides to put in a tariff. 770 of them. How is that that on every other issue? How are you going to run foreign policy? How are you even going to run the economy? When judges who have two or three clerks substitute their decisions for the other two branches. That is, the court shouldn’t be involved, as a matter of fact. Congress isn’t even a party to any of this litigation. Congress hasn’t done anything about Trump in his terms. Now, if you think the president has overreached with his tariffs as The Wall Street Journal does, because they speak for Wall Street, if you think that’s the case, then you’re like the new Congress. We the people and the elected branches. Deal with this. But this can’t. Can’t have a politburo of lawyers. We’re going to sit down and decide how these things are going to be decided. They go on. Mr. Trump unleashed a new tariff volley against several European countries to coerce Denmark to sell c Greenland to the U.S.. Okay, you don’t like it? Wall Street Journal. But that’s exactly the point. He’s using tariffs there not to raise money. But to achieve a foreign policy end the same way. The week before, he used tariffs 25% against any country that does business with Iran. That wasn’t about raising revenue. That was about national security and foreign policy. So we’re going to have judges make these decisions. What countries, other countries be able to come into court now and say, wait a minute. Every industry will hire more lawyers to go in front of more. Carefully chosen judges. Can you imagine the disaster? I’m defending the Constitution. It’s not a matter of for or against tariffs. If you don’t like what the president does with tariffs, then the next president you want to vote for, then make sure they don’t use tariffs. Now, Ronald Reagan wasn’t being on tariffs, but he was huge on quotas. And the constitutionality of a president putting in place quotas, like telling Japan you’re not selling any more motorcycles into this country for a period of time, like telling Japan you’re not selling any computer boards into this country for a period of time. That’s what he did. And he did it on a whole host of products. Right or wrong. The issue is who decides the opinion and decides the decision makes the decision. Now, whether you like it or not, that’s politics. That’s policy. We’re talking about the Constitution. Though he didn’t say. Presumably he’s doing so under what he has claimed is his power in an emergency. Are the Union National Emergency Economic Powers Act. I’ve never been fond of using that. Because then you have narrowed your focus. But see, they have to write that because presidents have used tariffs before, long before this statute even existed. McKinley being one of them. But Mr. Trump wants ownership of the of the island. This is Greenland on his legacy resume. That’s you know, the problem with this guy policy go in the others and I know who go is very well. Is they hate Trump. Those. They do these. Not all of them. But he’s the head. He’s the head man over there. And by the way, I like the Wall Street Journal, but I’m taking issue with this and these issues. I mean, you got an article in here. I don’t know the last time I read this newspaper. You’ve got an article in here or a piece by Mitt Romney. What does Mitt Romney have to say in a letter, I should say my country before my tax bill like raising taxes. Good old Mitt Romney is righteous and. There he is. You can raise taxes on me. I’m wealthy. But what about the impact on the economy? It’s not a matter of raising taxes on the wealthy. And so there he is. But there’s a great piece in here. Hit Iran in its shadow bank accounts by Mike Doran. Michael Doran is superb. He’s the director of the Middle East Center at the Hudson Institute. We’re going to have on the program, as a matter of fact, in. About what? 40 minutes or so next hour to discuss some of this. We’re also going to Peter Schweizer with his new book that I helped him launch on Sunday, which is a stunningly good book, very important as well. And not just do authors. I do them if they’re great, they have great books, they’re great thinkers, and he’s certainly one of them. But the tariff issue, if you’re saying a president can’t you know that he’s gone too far, he’s going to. What does that mean? And who decides, okay, let’s say the court and this is what I talked about over the weekend on Fox, because a few of the justices watch the show. And this is what I’ve been talking about with you before the weekend and since the weekend behind my microphone here, which is so that the court says the president doesn’t have the power to do this. It doesn’t have the power to do what? Any tariffs. How about any quotas? Nothing. So they just took tools away from him that are very powerful. What? Foreign policy? National security tools. If another country decides tomorrow, you know, we’re putting 1,000% just as an example. Tariff on America’s widgets President has to wait for Congress to act. Well, how well freeze over By the time Congress will act, they can’t even get a budget done. Now, the framers understood this. They didn’t give this foreign policy national security power to Congress. They gave them the power of the purse, which they’re screwing up all the time. That’s why we have almost a $39 trillion debt. Trump didn’t do that. Congress did that. We like to think that, you know, the Senate is a deliberative body and a lot of people support the filibuster because it slows things down. It’s slow. You need 60 votes, which are very, very hard to get. And so it’s a laborious process and that’s a good thing, but it’s not a good thing when you’re dealing with foreign policy and national security. It’s a bad thing. Now when you’re heading into treaties, that’s a good thing because you want the full body politic. It’s a treaty bigger than a deal, bigger than an agreement. But we’re talking here about tariffs. Paris. The Wall Street Journal is taking the position that judges who make this decision. What do you mean? Mark, they say Congress. No judges. Judges will make these decisions because there will be litigation and continuously, if a specific tariff with a specific country and specific products are industries, are more national security or more tax intended. And if the president doesn’t decide, somebody has to decide, it’s going to be these judges. So let me be clear and let me underscore a point. The Wall Street Journal, whether they’ve backed into it or not in an editorial that is very ignorant because it doesn’t play out how these things actually work in the real world, has decided the president does not have the power to do what he’s doing. Therefore, Congress has the power. Really? And what about the power over foreign policy? What if a tariff relates to that? You’re going to litigate it in front of a judge. Yes. And they appeal it to a circuit court and it goes back to the Supreme Court. It’s idiocy. What the court should do is reversed. The lower court reversed them. We’ve asked them and say, no, we’re not getting into the issue right now, at least on whether this is constitutional or not. We’re going to let the Congress and the president have the flexibility to duke it out or not. Or not. Because they each have a power. The power of the purse, the Congress, the power of a foreign policy. It’s utterly clear he has plenary power of a foreign policy goes to the president. You can’t. You can’t divide them. In the vast majority of cases. And the Wall Street Journal’s case may come out in the very first paragraph and they tell us why you can’t. But somehow they missed it. I’ll be right back.

Segment 4
By the way, as the great ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, who we adore, and my family and of course, my stepson works with him. He’s pointed out the Martin Luther King was a Christian Zionist. And he wondered if Tucker Carlson will smear him and attack him now, too. And that is the truth I played the audio for. Are you? Last night. For hangings. Today, 13 people were, in fact, hanged in Iran and Syria. Tabriz, Iran. And come and Shiraz. 13 people were hanged. I’m sure many more were slaughtered with bullets. Certainly more efficient. And that’s all we know is about those 13. But look, that’s the point, is they’re slaughtering people, raping people, torturing people, murdering them at an ungodly rate, and that we’re going to help them or we’re not. I’m on the side of absolutely 100%. For a thousand different reasons. Starting with morality. Then moving on. National security. The entire region, the entire country protected. World. Thousand different reasons. The regime only exists because we’ve allowed it to exist. And I frankly don’t give a crap what Qatar or Saudi Arabia have to say. Fact. When I hear Qatar takes one viewer, Saudi Arabia takes a view. 99.9% of the time I take the opposite view. It should be nowhere near Gaza. They shouldn’t be promoting the regime in Iran against the people of Iran. I know why they are. Look, folks, these are. Inbred monarchies. They hand the country over from one child to the next, a nephew or niece, whatever. This is the kind of thing that existed prior to the Enlightenment. Prior to the Enlightenment. And that’s why the Islamists hate the Enlightenment. They want monarchies. They like feudalism. That’s what they are. That’s what they believe. They like indentured servants, foreigners who come in and can’t get out. And they want to conquer the world just like the other monarchies did hundreds and hundreds of years ago. But they used terrorism. Islamism. So this is a throwback, as I keep saying, they are a throwback to the seventh century. And this whole idea of feudalism is a throwback. Of course, the pre enlightenment. So these are barbaric primitives. Some of them have a lot of money. Tried to poison the West with their money. Buying lobbyists, buying law firms, buying media outlets, buying our entertainment industries. And worst of all, poisoning our children and grandchildren to turn against us. And of course, putting outposts all over our country, all over Europe. These things don’t just happen. Wow, Look at that. How did that happen? How do you think it happened? That’s why Peter Schweitzer’s book is so important. And quite frankly, my book on power is so important. It’s why this show is so important. To be perfectly honest with you. Very important. And what we say here and what we do here. And I’m like a Doberman. I don’t give up. Once I have. You know, somebody’s pant leg in my mouth. I don’t let it go, Mr. Producer. I don’t let it go. And I’m not gonna let it go. Next hour. As I mentioned, we have Michael Duran, who is the director of the Middle East Center at the Hudson Institute. Very good organization. He says Dubai based financial institutions helped Tehran escape sanctions. The US has the means to stop it. Well, if we have the means to stop it, we need to stop it. We need to stop it. And if you want to take a more. What should I say? Local view of this thing. We need to stop Khomeini for us. This guy is not going to go away. Your children and your grandchildren are going to be threatened by this guy. I just told you. They successfully fired a 10,000 mile ICBM into Siberia with Russia’s okay and assistance. Remember when people used to say, Hey, it’s 7000 miles away. Who gives a damn? I give a damn. They give a damn. I mean, I don’t understand why people don’t get this. I really don’t. They throw around slogans like March Forever Wars. Who’s talking about it forever? You know, first of all, evil is forever. Those of you who have faith, you know, evil is forever and has to be confronted. The issue is how do you confront it? How do you deal with it? You don’t pretend it doesn’t exist. And people don’t have faith. No. From common sense. That is true. You have a lock on your door. Why? Why do you like your cars? Why do you avoid certain neighborhoods? Why do you have guns? Why do we have police? Because evil exists. And with Islamist regimes. It existed in 2000. Because that’s what they believe. That’s what they say their faith believes. Conquering. Destroying, killing. Eliminating even other Muslims. How many more people have to die before we wake up to this? I am on the side strongly of helping the people of Iran, and I cannot understand why there aren’t more. I think the American people are. But they shouldn’t be complicated. It shouldn’t be complicated at all. We are a people who saw what happened in the 1930s. We are people who saw what happened in Cambodia. We are people who saw. What happened in Africa. 100,000 people slaughtered. In six months. We’ve seen this. Don’t tell me we’ve gotten used to it. Please don’t tell me we’ve gotten used to it. I’ll be right back.

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