On Thursday’s Mark Levin Show, a candidate has every right to challenge election results, as President Trump did in 2020. Any candidate may legally question an election, claim it was stolen, or pursue alternate slates of electors – none of these actions are criminal. Jack Smith’s criminal prosecution of Trump was a major assault on the Constitution and the Republic. Also, this Iranian regime needs to be decisively defeated. They have been slaughtering for over a half a century. Iran’s Khamenei can be taken out without deploying U.S. ground troops. Later, Phelim McAleer calls in to discuss his new verbatim play – October 7. It is drawn directly from survivor testimonies of Israel’s darkest day and is set to be staged at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC on January 28, 2026. Afterward, Mark Meckler, President of Convention of State, calls in to announce that the Kansas State legislature has become the 20th state to pass the Convention of States resolution. Finally, Josh Hammer calls in to express concern over Israel possibly being cut out of the Board of Peace and Gaza reconstruction. The idea of allowing Muslim Brotherhood-linked actors like Qatar and Turkey to influence in Gaza’s redevelopment is self-defeating.
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Segment 1
Hello America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. We broadcast sea to sea every corner of the planet. This is Radio Free America. Radio Free America. We we broadcast in the blue cities and blue states as well. We broadcast in the Communist regimes, fascist regimes. Islamo Nazi regimes like Iran. We’re heard everywhere. And I am blessed to have this platform. And I’m even more blessed to have you. Remember that podcast I was telling you about? The video podcast? We’re almost there. We are almost there. I’m not going to announce the date yet, but we’re aiming into February, into February. We want to do it right. And that means we’ll be on every conceivable platform cable TV, broadcast, radio. Podcast. All through the Internet. Everywhere. Everywhere. I have to laugh at some of these. These thugs and goons on the Internet. Mr. Producer. Oh, your audience is shrinking. Now, actually, we’re doing spectacularly well on all of our platforms. And we’re creating a new one. Well, you’re. What do they call us? You’re a boomer. First of all, I don’t even know what half of this crap means. It’s quite a cesspool, the Internet. But we do the best we can. That’s why certain individuals hang out there and they. They look for the worst of the worst. When I hang out there, I look for the best of the best. But we love radio. Here are the golden age of radios over. You know, in the golden age of Radio’s over, Mr. Producer. When I leave and I’m not leaving anytime soon. I just signed a contract about a year ago. So we’re going to be here a while. We want to thank all of our affiliates. They’re fantastic. We want to we want to thank satellite radio. They’re fantastic. We want to thank everybody that takes this program, platforms, this program. Thank you all. It was at times like this, when things are in turmoil, people listen to the radio because they believe in the radio. They seem to believe in some of us. We’ve got a lot going on today. A ton in addition to the issues, we have some guests. And as we get closer, I will tell you who they are. And I am praying. I don’t always pray. Do you pray a lot, Rich? You do pray a lot. My wife prays every morning and sometimes at night. I think I pray now and then. And I’m praying that we will beat the crap out of the Iranian regime and put an end to the slaughter that’s been taking place there for almost half a century. We can’t interfere everywhere. We can’t be involved everywhere. Some places it’s just impossible. We’re not talking about ground troops, period. But I am talking about taking out Khamenei and that regime. You know, I put on the I put on next and I. Mr. Producer, it’s time to kill him. Did I say that a couple of days ago? And what did they do, ban it or something? What do they do? What are the what they call their. Well, I got slammed for it on X. I get a slap on the hand now if I talk in filthy language, Jew hatred, racism, bigotry, that kind of stuff pretty much hangs there. But. I think he needs to be taken out. I really do. And same with all those who’ve conducted themselves by slaughtering all those poor people. It’s just horrendous. And the poor Kurds. The Kurds have been allied with us. The Kurds fought ISIS. You know, we like to take credit. We beat ISIS. We beat ISIS. Well, we did, but we couldn’t have done it without the Kurds. And there are Kurds who live in millions of Turkey, Kurds who live in Syria, millions of them. And they are always under attack. And this al Qaeda. There’s fraud that’s running Syria and slaughtering them. And they released thousands of ISIS terrorists. I’m reading all the releases from the various governments and all a lot of it is very one sided propaganda. I just don’t, you know, get it. But there it is. And there’s got to be payback for this. That’s my view. Raping these women, killing these women and these young people, it’s just there’s got to be payback for something like this. And we have. Really some stupid people with huge podcasts. I mean, this guy, Joe Rogan is a moron. Absolute moron. I’m sorry, folks. I like him as a UFC announcer. I really do. As a color commentator, he’s excellent. But he’s very low IQ, very uninformed. Yes. Acts like him. Really? Well, tell me more about that. He’s just he’s saying things now that are dumber than dumb. Do you know, he thought there were maybe half a billion Jews in the world. He had to be corrected, of course. But it’s not just that. And if you’re if you’re swinging from Bernie Sanders to Donald Trump and you just swinging in between, you don’t have any. Really core principles. In my humble opinion. But he’s not alone. Now, the best that can be said, in my view about him is he’s not Tucker Carlson who came out the other day. And said it would actually be good if Iran had nuclear weapons. And you know what that is? You know what that is, Mr. and Mrs. America, That’s a traitor. Let’s cut to the chase. That’s a traitor. If you think a country that wants to blow us off the face of the Earth ought to have nuclear weapons. I don’t know why you’re here. Why doesn’t he have his new home in Qatar? I mean, they’re all there. They. They’ll take care of him. You believe that the enemy that talks about attacking us and assassinating our president ought to have nuclear weapons, that there would be a stabilizing force? That’s a lunatic. Absolute buffoon. But it’s worse. It’s a traitor. And this is why they played him. They played him the government. The Nazi government in Iran. Saying stupid stuff. Now, you know, it’s interesting. The greatest generation would not have put up with this. They would not have put up with this during World War Two. Franklin Roosevelt would not have put up with this during World War Two. And I don’t think there would be more than a telephone booth full of full of Americans who would put up with it. Period. And that’s one of the thing about podcasting and on the Internet and so forth. You get all these government and foreign bots. You get you get a lot of people watching and listening who who hate us. And they don’t separate that from, you know, red blooded Americans. I mean, that regime has killed hundreds and hundreds of Americans and they ought to have a nuclear weapon. They’d be stabilizing force. You know, just when you think insanity can’t get any worse, it gets worse. And I don’t think the guy’s been visited by demons. I think he is a demon. But look, I don’t want to spend all day on that. I also think he’s becoming increasingly irrelevant. I really do. People are just dismissing him. I do think he ought to, though, put on a white hood in a white sheet. But I don’t even think clansmen think Qatar ought to have nuclear weapons. So he’s one of a kind. He’s one of a kind. And I mean that in the most. You know, contemptible way possible. Because he just is. Now, before we get to all the other things, I want to get to this guy, Jack Smith. Speaking of contemptible. This guy was horrendous. Let me be blunt with you. Any candidate is free to challenge an election. Any candidate is free to say an election was stolen. Any candidate is free to try and get states or second slates are pulled together to challenge an election. None of that is criminal. None of it. None of it. The whole criminalization of President Trump’s challenging of the 2020 election. Is the greatest soul, the constitutional and our republic. I listen to a lot of this testimony from Jack Smith, and I thought to myself, God, what a low IQ disaster. And then the Democrats, of course, the Democrats liquid they’ve become. Like how pathetic these people are. Swalwell. Swalwell should have a bag over his head for what he did to his family, but instead he’s now a candidate for governor. That’s the way it works over there. That’s the way it works. What was it Rogen was talking about? You know, I really think that Donald Trump is using, you know, ICE and all the rest of this stuff as a distraction from Epstein. You believe that, Mr. Edison? I’m like, How do you dumb ass? You don’t even make any. What, are you kidding me? Oh. Yes. So anyway, here’s some Jack Smith. Representative Tiffany, Republican, Wisconsin. The Republicans were great, by the way. Absolutely great to a man and a woman. Cut one. Go. Is there any historical precedent for an alternate slate of electors to be sent to Congress? Is that ever happened before? That had happened. Not anything similar to this situation, but you’re correct. It was in Hawaii. I think it was Hawaii in, I want to say, the 1960 election. So it has happened before that there was an alternate slate of electors that was sent to Congress, which does the electoral count. Correct. There was a prior time that an electoral slate actually twice had to go to where there was litigation and recounts going. Actually, there’s twice that it happened, Mr. Chairman. It happened in 1876, in 1960, that these alternate electors happened. I’d like to ask unanimous consent to introduce the 1960 Hawaii case. I’m done with that. I yield to the chairman. See, ladies and gentlemen, there’s nothing illegal, not even sinister, about sending in another slate of electors, because ultimately Congress decides. And if you don’t send in another slate of electors and you’re challenging the electors in that particular state and you win the challenge, but you don’t have an alternative slate, then you have no electors from that state. So to criminalize this was absolutely outrageous, and he criminalized a lot more than that. Well, listen to a little bit more of this when we return. I’ll be right back.
Segment 2
All right. We be back. By the way, over a guest in three or 4 minutes on the program. I find this fascinating. You know, I rarely talk about plays or movies or documentaries or anything of that sort, but this is an extraordinary situation. Next Wednesday, January 28th, 7:30 p.m. at the Kennedy Center, at the Kennedy Center at the Terrace Theater, there’s going to be a remarkable movie, a play by a couple that we’re going to have on to talk to you. And this is an Irish Cup. And they were in Ireland on October 7th. They’re not Jewish, obviously. They learned what happened. They learned how their government, the Irish government and their media and the BBC responded. They knew it was wrong. And they know well the media and the BBC. And they wanted to go and they did go. These are award winning journalists, filmmakers. New York Times best selling authors, best known for Gosnell, the trial of America’s biggest serial killer. Remember that movie American? A veteran foreign correspondent for the Financial Times and The Economist’s. McAteer. He produced and co-wrote the film and authored the companion bestseller Gods Now The Untold Story. As I mentioned. It debuted number three on Amazon. His career spans coverage of Northern Ireland troubles, documentary work for the BBC, the CBC and RTP. Miller. These are serious people. And they and they’ve decided to tell the truth. And it it is a verbatim play. Of what took place on October seven. The Unreported story. And so I’m posting now. Were you able to get the email, Mr. Producer? We’re having a hell of a problem with Microsoft and AOL. But we will get it up there eventually. It’s the Kennedy Center. Next Wednesday, January 28th, 7:30 p.m.. You can look it up yourselves and Google it as soon as we have some kind of Internet back. We will in fact post it. But it’s an honor to have him as a guest on the program. Right after the break. We’ll be right back.
Segment 3
Phelim McAleer is a very well known play writer and journalist and filmmaker. He is a man of Ireland. His wife fan is woman of Ireland. They saw what happened on October seven from afar. They were shocked. They were also shocked at the kind of reporting. That they were reading from European media outlets, they were shocked at the reaction of their government in Ireland. And they dropped everything in November 2023 to go to Israel, a country they never visited before. And they’re not Jewish. They wanted to see for themselves what had taken place. And they were so horrified and so moved. That they’ve done an entire play on the subject based on the interviews, the verbatim interviews that they that they had. And this play will be at the Kennedy Center next Wednesday, January 28th at 7:30 p.m.. Everybody who is in and around the Kennedy Center area, Washington, Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia and so forth, I would encourage you to get tickets online. I’ve just posted this on my social sites. It is a great honor to have Phelim McAleer with us. How are you, sir? I’m great Script by Mark. It’s a great honor to be on your show, too. Well, it’s my my great pleasure. So you arrived in Israel and tell me from there, what did you do? You wanted to find out exactly what took place and you felt the need to do something about this. Yeah, well, I mean, I’m we’re journalists, right? And, you know, they talk about journalism being the first rough draft of history. And we feel the way it’s been reported that this major story was being reported. And we were really worried that no one was going to write that first draft. Everyone was talking about the electricity being turned off in Gaza and the war in Gaza and this and that. And no one was talking about October seven. You know, no one was talking about the fact that there would be no war in Gaza if it wasn’t for October 7th. So we just felt it was so important that the world knew what happened on October seven, because good people we knew and Ireland, good people we knew in America, we live in Los Angeles, they they were just following the mainstream media and thinking that somehow this war just started on October 8th and didn’t really know what happened before that. And, you know, the media and lefties did a really good job of of pushing that story. So we we just got there. We found out. But we knew we we we contacted everyone who we ever knew that had any connection with Israel. And, you know, the unfortunate thing is, Mark, it wasn’t hard to find these stories in Israel. Everyone had a story. It was a massive blow to Israel. It was a massive story. It was a massive tragedy. But it’s also a story of heroism, you know, a story of people doing good things, people being brave, people fighting back, people doing the right thing. And so we just let the people talk. Tell tell us what happened on October 7th. Tell us also what happened on October 6th because you were at peace. Tell us about your peaceful life. And then when the war came and every word on stage, I just want to say that every word on stage at the Kennedy Center is going is verbatim. We’re not adding any of our opinions, any of our journalistic contacts, nothing like that. Some people suggest that we should do no, we’re telling the truth about what happened in Israel on October seven. It really is the first time this has ever been done, and it’s so crucially important. Again, I want to remind people, January 28th, Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., the Kennedy Center, you can get the tickets online, you can go to any of my social sites. We’ve just put that up there. So you arrived, you go to this area. What did you see? What did you smell it your senses took in this this area, Right. Well, look, we didn’t even have to go down into the Gaza envelope. We went to this hotel, a small hotel in Tel Aviv, And the moment we came off the plane, you walk into the lobby and there is a monument to a waitress from the hotel who had been murdered at the Nova Festival. It was everywhere. It was a country traumatized. You know, it lost, you know, in some respects, You know, two things came out of the stories. People find faith after October seven, but to some extent, they were losing faith in Israel. They thought they were safe. They thought they were secure. They thought they had you know, we’re almost there, that they had the best army. But it really shook their faith in Israel. But people would gain their faith by people. People fought back as well. So we went on to you know, you hear a lot about Tel Aviv as this vital place in the Middle East. But there are other places I’m thinking of, like the tone of Alpha Kim. We went to Alpha Kim, where an off duty police officer heard the shots, left the house with a pistol and nine bullets and took on heavily armed Hamas terrorists. He rescued an IDF soldier, protected him with his body. When the shots were fired, he rescued a shot rabbi who and sheltered him while the bullets were flying. He rescued a family from a rooftop who were trapped there. And then he went and killed two terrorists. He had a pistol and nine bullets. So the stories, October seven, the play is a story of tragedy, obviously, but it’s also a story of heroes, of people who fought by and said, we’re not taking this. And so, look, the problem with the play was how do you cut these stories down as 14 stories there? How do you tell the truth about what happened but not make it 100 hours long? You know, so it’s the stories are compelling because the truth is compelling. Mm hmm. When you interviewed, you reviewed a lot of people. When you interviewed them. Yeah. It was emotional for them and emotional for you and your wife, right? Yes, it was. I mean, it was funny. The the funny thing is, normally when you’re Irish and you go as a journalist somewhere, people are very welcoming to you, you know. It’s an advantage being an Irish journalist. People know they you’re neutral. I’ll tell you, it wasn’t much of an advantage in Israel. People were looking at us as Irish people going, You’re going to tell the truth about us. Are you sure? So how they get over that little barrier but convinced people that it was very emotional. It was very tough. But, you know, I’m not I’m never a fan of those journalists who like to talk about how the story affected them. You know, it didn’t it wasn’t done to me. I had a job to do. We had a job to do was to tell their story, you know, And, you know, so you have to almost put your emotions to the side because you have to push these people and you have to get the truth and bring them through the most dramatic day of their life. It’s a it’s a it’s a tough job, but it’s a it was a pleasure and an honor to do it. And and I’m so happy and honored that they trusted us with their stories. But know, of course, it’s a it’s an incredibly tough time for these people. Israel was a nation that was traumatized, I feel, immediately after October seven. Mm. Tell us a little bit, maybe about one or maybe two, the people you interviewed that had an incredible impact perhaps on you? Yeah, Well, as I was saying, I mean, this is very Itamar Ali’s a police officer who left the home with nine bullets and a pistol, as I say, killed two terrorists, rescued maybe a dozen people. There was the IDF soldier he rescued was hit with five bullets. He was so badly injured, the medics thought he had been hit by a rocket. He’s alive now because Itamar wouldn’t leave him on the street. Itamar covered him up as the bullets came and then dragged him to safety. So Itamar was an amazing man, a true Israeli hero. And very sadly, Itamar died of natural causes ten days ago. He’s a young kid. Yes. Ten days ago, he was 41. He. He felt guilty. He felt guilty about surviving. 48 people were killed in his his town of Alpha King. And he says. And I got through without a scratch. And I was in everything. He says he felt guilty about surviving and all his friends, you know, some of his friends didn’t. And tragically, he died, I think, of a heart attack ten days ago. He was 41. He had four children. So we’re dedicating the play at the Kennedy Center to Itamar. Ali’s a true hero, a modest man, you know. And, you know, very funny. These people, you know, they say everyone would have done this. I didn’t do anything special. I’m going, No, you don’t understand it. That’s just. And you? Not everyone would have done this. And then there was Zaki. Zaki Mizrachi, who broke Shabbat, An Orthodox Jew who broke Shabbat. He. He was a cook. He drove a Coca-Cola van, and he installed the Coca-Cola drinks at the Nova Festival. So he knew exactly where the festival was. He knew exactly how to get there, the back roads, how to get in through the service place. So he went in and rescued, did multiple trips back and forth, rescued 100 people on Shabbat. And all these all these secular kids at the party couldn’t understand how someone would break Shabbat because they don’t know much about, you know, festivals and what can and can’t do. And he was so happy that he was showing people there’s more to the Orthodox and than what they may think. So a modest man, but a hero again, he’s one of those guys anybody would do. I’m sure anybody would do. And I’m going, you drove into the know of a party a dozen times and rescued 100 children. No, no. People would not do that. You know, he did it without a gun. So it’s amazing. You know, you know, these are amazing stories. And by the way, this there’s a lot of tragedy in this play, but there’s a lot of resilience, you know, And the people all are resilient. All of them have found more faith than they had. And a lot of them, you know, have had their faith, their faith in you know, in many of them, many of the kids in the party were were liberal or progressive or not pro-Palestinian by any means. But, you know, I had thought that there was a solution there, and they’ve had to rethink everything now. Hmm. Same with these kibbutz. Same thing. They actually hired Palestinians out of Gaza. And and they those many of those Palestinians participated in and the slaughter of these families. Yeah. This play is a must see, folks. Next Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. at the Trump Kennedy Center and go online and purchase your tickets. I would encourage you to do it. This is the real deal. This is the real deal. Why did he. Well, let me first let me tell the public. The play was off-Broadway for six weeks. It was the only production they required police presence and security for the entire run. Why do you think that was? Well, you know, because this is not because America. I mean, it’s hard to say these words. I mean, a lot of not a lot of them. Right. But there are many some Americans now who want to cause violence to Jewish people. You know how it is that maybe it’s a hard thing to say. I never when I came to America 15 or 20 years ago, I never thought that was never something I thought would ever arise. I know that people people want do not want Jewish voices to be heard. And this is the ultimate Jewish voice as well. You know, this is unfiltered accounts of the most dramatic day in Israel’s history. You know, when I first produced the script, me and my wife, some people said, well, this needs is context. You need a journalist character in the play to have contact. And I’m going, You mean to life? Hmm. You know? You know, the left love this thing of. Verbatim theatre or verbatim verbatim works, but they always add in composite characters or characters for context. There’s no composite characters here. There’s no journalist characters tell you how to think. It’s just people’s different opinions and different experiences. And so, you know, you don’t need me to tell you. You look at me. In DC itself, two people were killed less than a year ago for walking out of a Jewish event. You know, I think one of them wasn’t even Jewish. Or maybe that’s from I can’t remember, but no one was Christian, so. Yeah. Yeah. Shot in the back. So. Yeah. No, I just want to tell people it’s not. It’s people. Some of the Holocaust historian went to see it in New York, said, I felt. I thought I would. My heart would. I would hear my heart breaking when I went to the play. I didn’t. Instead, I left encouraged. Because, you know, it’s a play about resilience, as you know, and what’s next and also what happens. But what’s next? Everyone saying at the end, everyone thinks, what are they going to do next? Well, let me just say this. You and your wife actually are quite courageous to do this. I’m told it is a it is a crucially important play and it’s not a complete downer, as you point out. There are there are heroes in this, too. And and but it is it is unvarnished. It is the truth. And I just want the audience to know if you are in or around the Trump Kennedy Center. I want to encourage you to go next Wednesday, January 28th, 7:30 p.m. and you can go online to October seven the play dot com, October seven the play dot com. You can hit the link on any of my social sites too. I really think this room should be filled because this is important and it is also and you know what but you and your wife did committed your lives to doing this. It was it was really spectacular of you to do this. And I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. And I want to thank my wife for bringing this to my attention. So God bless you, my friend. We’re doing fine because this is what journalism journalism is supposed to be. This is what journalists are forced to do, you know? Yeah. I mean, I don’t want to say, you know, you know, well, this is what we’re put on the air. I think all although I think this is what we were put in the air to do. I think. Yeah, a funny only foreigner, only an average man could do it almost. You know, I think people were too traumatized in Israel to do it. And only I could go there, only an outsider go and say, we need to corral these stories. Your story is not your story is part of a bigger thing. And we need to make it a bigger thing. And I will say one thing before I go. Yeah, the thing that really surprised me that of course it shouldn’t surprise me. There was humor there too. Yeah. Even in the darkest moments, they were making jokes. And yeah, it was amazing and that was amazing. Of course, when I think about of course, this is this is who they are, they laugh, you know? Yeah. At the darkest times they make jokes, but, you know, as you do. But I’m going to I’m going to have to go because they’re yelling at me in my ear here just because it’s called a heart break in radio. But I want to thank you so, so much, whether you want it or not, and your wife, too. And God bless you, my friend. Everybody turn out. We’ll be right back.
Segment 4
I thought that was it’s a remarkable gentleman and his wife in a very, very important play. Six weeks off-Broadway in New York. So it’s so it’s a very important play. And I encourage all of you who are in the area or want to come to the area in Washington, D.C., go to the Trump Kennedy Center. And again, you can order them the tickets online and we link to it on my various social media as well. I think it really be worth it. What the what that couple did is just incredible. And it’s a play. So but it’s a play that’s completely factual. And we’ve got a lot more. And I’ll be right back.
