On Monday’s Mark Levin Show, President Trump is calling the shots in the Iran war. He acts in U.S. interests by viewing a nuclear Iran as a grave threat, and maintains a close alliance with Israel through military, intelligence, and personal ties with Benjamin Netanyahu. He’s not secretly controlled by the Israelis or an Israel lobby as Joe Kent and Tucker Carlson suggest. A recent CBS poll shows strong support among Republicans for the war in Iran, with 92% of MAGA supporting Trump’s position on the issue. Also, several Arab states, including the UAE and Saudi Arabia, openly desire the destruction of Iran’s regime and support regime change, a point rarely discussed, especially by critics of Israel. Since Trump launched the actions against Iran, combined U.S. and Israeli strikes have inflicted massive damage on Iran’s extensive military infrastructure, which has led to a more peaceful Middle East. Later, Sheridan Gorman, an 18-year-old college student, was allegedly murdered by an illegal immigrant. A life senselessly ended by someone not supposed to be in the country all because of sanctuary cites and Democrat policies. Joe Kent calls in to explain his resignation from the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center.
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Rough transcription of Hour 1
Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here, our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. Really big show. In the power hour. Hour three, we will have Joe Kent. We very much look forward to talking to him. I’ll be interviewing him. Got a lot of questions for him. Most of you don’t even know who he is. Other than he resigned in a huff. You shoot a letter, but most of you don’t know a lot about them. You’re working men and women. You know, time to focus on him or. People that promote him and so forth. So we’ll get to learn a little bit about him. We have some very important questions to ask him. We’ll see how that goes. President Trump made it clear this morning he’s no fan of Joe Kent. He said the following. Cut th4 go. Look, I’m not a fan of the guy. If you look at and you never cover this. If you look at his shoes whenever he went on the attack. If you look at his troops or his statements, he was all for everything. All of a sudden, he wasn’t. He was a man that I met at Dover. He came in his wife, Michelle. He remarried fairly quickly. His wife was killed. And I felt badly for. He ran for Congress. He lost. He ran for Congress again. And he lost. I said, you know. He’s a guy. Nice guy. He seemed like a very nice guy. I bet him he was pretty heartbroken. Pretty. But I said, you know, it’s a shame he ran for Congress twice. Call him up, give him a job in the White House. Smart. They gave me a job in the White House. And this is what he does to me. You know, being a nice guy doesn’t pay off too much for the sake of it. He loses twice to Congress in not very good campaigns. Sure to one, but he loses twice. How do I get him? I have my people call him because I didn’t deal with him for the most part. I saw him a couple of times, but I never dealt with him at all. I had no idea his ideology was left or right y whatever it is, I can say this. He said very strongly that Iran is not a threat. Iran has been a threat for 47 years and there’s not a country in the world that doesn’t agree with me on that. So I take this guy, Joe Kent, who lost twice for Congress pretty badly and tough, and it was devastated. And I know that he lost his wife. So instead of letting him live out his life a brilliantly, have my people call him and offer him a job in security essentially in the White House. Now, what does he do? He goes out and he says that Iran is not a threat to get published. And I probably signed up with CNN or maybe signed up with your division of Newsmax. I don’t know, but probably signed up with CNN or somebody. But if you look at his tweets, actions or truth, whatever he is is I don’t know because I don’t follow them. What he said is 100%, he agrees with me. All of a sudden, he leaves. I never knew he had a problem. Now I hear they’re looking at him for leaking this farcical situation just to put it to rest. He lost twice badly. He also lost his wife. He’s remarried since he lost his wife. I feel badly for him. So I tell my people, reach out to him. Give him the job at the White House. This is the. Thanks again. Yes. Mm hmm. Yeah. But Joe thinks the Israelis are in charge of everything. Like his buddy Tucker. And his buddy Candace Owens and his buddy Megan Kelly, that whole cabal. You listen to Donald Trump. Does that sound like the Israelis are telling him what to do? Ladies and gentlemen? Does it sound like I’m telling him what to do? Does it sound like Ben SHAPIRO is telling him what to do? Does it sound like the Jews have control over Donald Trump? We’ll get into this later with Joe Kent. Maybe. Maybe not. We’ll see. But it’s so sick and it’s so perverse and even worse, it’s demeaning of the president. The president is calling the shots. There’s no secret. Pressure group, lobby group. Nothing of the sort. He makes his own decisions, and that’s what he’s doing. And Israel is a fantastic ally. Our Air Force flies with their air force. Our generals coordinate with their generals. Our intel coordinates with their intel. The president and Netanyahu are close friends. And this drives the Jew haters and the Israel haters nuts. But they’re helping us. The president has asked for help from NATO’s countries. Nary a one of them has been a finger. He has said over and over again. That Iran presents a grave threat to the United States if it gets a nuclear weapon. He’s acting in the interests of the United States. That doesn’t mean those interests don’t also overlap with Israel and the Arab countries in the region and now Europe. So what? It’s not a conspiracy. Now we have the latest poll numbers from CBS. And these poll numbers are like all the other poll numbers. Among a self-identified MAGA aligned Republicans. A whopping 92% of respondents support the war in Iran, with 76% strongly supporting it. Now, they’re not all Jews, are they, Mr. Producer? 92%. A mag I don’t think is Jewish. Some small percentages. Are they? Subject to the Israel lobby to. 76% strongly support it. That’s massive. What else? 83% of Republicans support Trump’s war against Iran. Just 9% oppose it. 9% oppose it. When GOP voters were asked whether they’d prefer a candidate endorsed by President Trump or by Carlson and Megyn Kelly, a whopping 80% preferred a Trump backed candidate, just 7% siding with the podcasters. As they write in The Jewish Insider, Josh Krakauer. And asked whether voters trust Trump’s position on Iran or Carlson and Kelly’s 83% say with Trump, 6% with the others. Now. I mean, there’s no split in MAGA. There’s no. Jewish control over the president. I mean, just think about that. How ridiculous that is. Why the fact that he’s against anti-Semitism, the fact that he’s friends with Netanyahu, the fact that he supports an ally in Israel. It’s really horrible. These people are disgusting. And Joe Kent is among them. Joe Kent is among them. He’s part of them. I want to dig into a lot of it with him. We’ll see how that goes. Of course. And in fact. Joe can’t. Back in. Let’s let’s see here. We have April 20, 24. Joe Kent. Now, that’s what, two years ago. Now he ran for the house. He was on this program in October 2024. I didn’t know him from a hole in the ground. I am Speaker Mike Johnson. I said, Look, this is close. Give me five conservatives. Who? You want me to to bring on the program and support. So we brought on Joe Kent. And we had him on briefly. Nothing was controversial at the time. I wrote on Twitter in all our accounts that I wouldn’t to come on the radio show. That became weird. Because Mr. Producer couldn’t find his number. That happens at times. And finally he responded to Mr. Producer. And so we will have that discussion. But here’s what he said in 2024 as he was running for Congress again in a district that Donald Trump won twice, he lost twice. Cut three ago since the Iranian revolution in 1979, when radical jihadis essentially took over the government of Iran and they declared war basically on the West, but they also declared war on the vast majority of the Sunni Gulf states. And so what Kushner and what the Trump administration did was they came in and they said, look, you guys actually have a common enemy. Iran is an existential threat to both Israel. It’s an existential threat to the oil producing Arab Gulf countries. And so that was the genesis of the Abraham Accords. Sounds fairly rational there. That was 2024 April, almost to two years to the day when he was running for the house. Here he is also in 2024, again, when he’s running for Congress. Cut five. Go! Our kids aren’t aware of it. We’ve our troops in Iraq and Syria being attacked 150 plus times by Iranian proxies. And when we say Iranian proxies, we got to be clear on what that is. That’s the Iraqi government that we pay, because after the Iraqi military, we spent 2 trillion on surrender to ISIS. We had to go back in there in very short order and stand the military back up again. And guess who filled the breach? The Shia militias controlled by Iran did. And the Iraqi government is controlled by Iran. Hmm. No mention of Israel there either. The Iranian government is attacking. Our forces in Iraq. Let me just play one more. I’ve got plenty, by the way. I got plenty. Joe, I know you’re listening in. And your buddy Carter Carlson, you probably been working all weekend on this. It’s okay. It’s okay. Relax. This is December 20, 23. He’s running against Mary Perez, who he loses against, but he’s running against her, I believe, for a second time. This is 2023. I brought him in in October 2020 for cut sex. Go. Today, we learned that Marie Perez is taking money from pro-Hamas, anti-Israel, Pramila Jayapal. But most importantly, we know that Marie Perez voted against giving Israel the military support it needed following the terrorist attacks of October 7th. That’s right. After Hamas terrorists went into Israel, killed 1500 civilians in the most horrific ways possible and took American citizens hostages. Marie Perez voted not to give Israel any assistance, leaving our American hostages high and dry, leaving our ally, the Israelis high and dry in their fight against Hamas. Her record matters here, her rhetoric. It doesn’t. But today, we also learn. Exactly why she’s voting. The way that she’s voting, she’s receiving money from Pramila Jayapal to vote against Israel and for Hamas. Pramila Jayapal gets out there and says it all out loud in the news. One repressed quietly takes the check and votes accordingly. We cannot afford to have leadership like this. We need people who understand exactly what threats we face here as a country or repress. Also voted to leave our troops in the Middle East as Iranian proxies continue to shoot at them. We don’t have time for incompetent leadership like this. She is going to get people killed. This is completely and totally unacceptable. I know exactly what dangers that we face. I spent the vast majority of my adult life fighting terrorists overseas. It’s that’s a little over two years ago. He’s taking a completely opposite view and a betrayal to me. Oh, no. Oh, no, not at all. But nonetheless, I want you to be aware because you’re smart and you use your own heads. This is all public. Nothing secret here. Everything I’m going to discuss is public. Everything I’m going to discuss with him is public. It’s all public. Public. And it all comes most of it out of his mouth and from his hand. From his mouth and from his hand. Now, Caroline Lever was asked. By Fox News on Wednesday. About Kent. Cut! Seven. Go. I think that anyone who has been a suspected of leaking or is proven to be a leaker will not be welcome in this administration. I know that for a fact, because I’ve heard the president say it myself. And there are investigations underway into leakers in this administration, and people will be held accountable for that. It’s unacceptable and it cannot be tolerated. And if information leaked, there’s classified information. That probably triggers the Espionage Act. I’m not making any inference here. I have no idea. None. None. We’ll be right back.
Segment 2
Well, Caroline Leavitt wasn’t done when she was asked about Joe Kent. We love Caroline 11 here, don’t we, Mr. Blues? She’s going to be one of the greats. Cut eight, go. President spoke on this a little bit yesterday in the Oval Office. He said he always thought Joe Kennedy was a good guy, obviously has a commendable military record and experience. However, he was not someone who was involved in the presidential daily brief part of the president’s intelligence briefings over the last several months. I have not seen him here at the White House for quite some time. And the president feels it’s deeply disappointing that after the president gave him an opportunity in this administration to serve the American people, that he would resign it with a letter filled with falsehoods, accusing the president of the United States by being controlled by a foreign country. That’s both insulting and laughable all at the same time. The president is the leader of the most powerful country military in the world. Nobody tells him what to do. He makes decisions based on what’s in the best interest of this country. 92% of MAGA supports the president. 84% of all Republicans support the president. What he’s doing, something’s wrong with these people. I’ll be right back.
Segment 3
Now we know this already again. All in the public record. All of it. John Ratcliffe, CIA Director. Former member of the House was asked directly, directly at the Senate hearing under oath the following Important to remember all this cut to ago. The head of the National Counterterrorism Center resign. That’s saying that Iran did not represent an imminent threat to the United States. Is there any anything to indicate that Iran had ceased in its nuclear ambitions for in its desire to continue to build ballistic missiles capable of threatening American troops and allies in the Middle East? Senator, No. In fact, the intelligence reflects the contrary. Stop right there. The intelligence reflects the contrary. The head of the CIA. And just so you know, from my own experience, eight years in the Reagan administration, the head of the CIA. They talk to other. Parts of the government’s intelligence apparatus as well. Other agencies and so forth and so on. Go ahead. Oh, you disagree with Mr. Kent? I do. I would think any fair minded assessment of the situation, even based on open sources, would reflect the danger Iran poses the regime poses to the United States. Isn’t it true they basically have been at war with the West since 1979, during the Iranian revolution and have American blood on their hands? That’s absolutely correct. I think Iran has been a constant threat to the United States for an extended period of time and posed an immediate threat at this time. Immediate threat, imminent threat. You know, these are words are thrown around. But what? Do you have to wait? Until they’re about to fire a missile. I mean, we elected a president to make this decision, not a mid-level. Guy who’s in his position about seven months. That’s not how this works. Most of you had no idea who Joe Ken is in. In about a week or two. You still don’t have any idea who Joe Ken is. The polling shows 90%, 92%. A MAGA supports the president and what he’s doing. That’s not Israel. That’s not Jews. That’s 92% of MAGA. But these people can’t get over it. Because apparently the president didn’t listen to their lobbying or their positions, I guess. If left unimpeded, can Iran build missiles that could reach the continental United States? Mr. Ratcliffe was asked last week all public information cut one go if left on unimpeded. Yes, Senator. They would have the ability to range missiles to the continental US. It’s one of the reasons why degrading Iran’s missile production capabilities that is taking place right now in Operation Epic Fury is so important to our national security. Yeah, and we now know that’s clear because they tried to hit one of our bases 2500 miles away and their missile could reach it were just bad shots, but they would perfect that in short order with the help of the communist Chinese. If we hadn’t done what we did. See, here’s the thing about people like Kent and his ilk, this whole cabal, they can say, woulda, coulda, shoulda. This would have happened. That wouldn’t have happened. But what if they’re wrong? You know, they can they can be self-righteous and claim that the right. Because the president has taken action now. To deal with this. What we’re learning is these guys were really well dug in. They had a massive military infrastructure. More than I ever expected. Not that I have access to intelligence, but it’s really quite remarkable. Quite remarkable. I’ll play one more and I think will be interesting to you folks. Let’s see if I can find it. Let’s see, Mr. Producer. There we are. Again, I want to give credit to Tucker Carlson for this. He’s been able to expose a lot of information. He thinks it’s helpful. I think it’s revealing. So congratulations on this one. Tucker is interviewing Nick fluent this. October 20, 25. Just a few months ago. And hear what he has to say about Joe Kent. Now, remember, Joe Kent, you heard him talk about how great Israel is, how we worked with Israel, how we need to fund Israel, we need to get arms to Israel. He fought over there. He saw how important it was. And there’s more and I’ll talk about it later in the program and with him, hopefully. Let’s take a look at this. This is Nick Fontes on The Tucker Carlson Show, October 2025. Cut Tango like Take your hand, for instance. Joe, I supported Joe Count and I talked to Joe and I got introduced to him by Matt Brainard at Brainerd, went to my conference in 2021. He bought a table, his campaign manager. So first of all, let’s just get it straight. So went this back, Kent And this is let’s see. This is an interview in 2025. So if we want this back, can’t. When Kent was talking up Israel then interesting. Mr.. So he apparently kept these little. Pieces of information, maybe one from the other. I don’t have any idea. Go ahead. All right. You worked on the campaign. Yeah. And so I met Matt Brainard. He like me a lot. He love my conference. And February 21, which she bought a table at for his organization. Look at America. And in 2021, we. And by we, I mean my nonprofit and myself and my team. We wanted to support America first candidates in the midterms, like you said, authentic opponents of you. Yeah. So I found Joe can. Yes. And so I met a that America first, as it turns out today, is 92% for what Trump is doing. For what Trump has done in the war effort. Go ahead. Sort of seem like Ryan or Dusky I know was very supportive of Joe Cannon and other people that are more private. I don’t want to name, but they put me on not just a Joe Kent, but Patrick Whitt in Georgia, Gibbs in Michigan, a lot of different people. And Joe Kent was one of them. And I had a phone call with Joe camped, and I told them I had my assistant on the phone, too, who is Jewish, by the way. Oh, wow. Just because I want you to know I’m cool like that and I don’t judge Mary. So I’m on the phone with Joe, and I said, Look, we support you and we want to do everything we can to help you. We want to have my followers knock on doors for you. We want to boost your social media. Anything that you need to understand this, the great groupers this guy supports Hitler, supports Stalin and all the rest of it. We want to do anything we can to get you elected. Jonah. He told me that. Did he? Mr.. Go ahead, then. We don’t even want to be associated, I said, because we know that that might hurt you. I said, the only thing that we ask in return is you can’t disavow me If the media asks and you can say whatever you need to say, but you can’t disavow that where he’s not going to disavow. He hasn’t done it yet. Yeah. You. You got Tucker. Candace Owens. This carry. What’s her name? Oh, yeah. Making Kelly. All of whom now are trying to undermine the Trump presidency. Stabbing Trump in the back. Trump’s had enough of them. He put out his own social media posts, certainly without my knowledge, and made it abundantly clear where he stands. And so now these people are trashing MAGA, trashing America first or reinterpreting it to. Accommodate their own ideologies, such as they are. And yet maga the Republican Party and conservatives. Want Trump and they support what he’s doing with Iran. You want to know why America? We’ve all experienced it. We don’t need some Svengali coming up and telling us what we see didn’t didn’t happen or what we hear didn’t happen. We Americans. Saw what Iran did to us and our country and our fellow countrymen, both in and out of uniform for 47 years had nothing to do with Israel. When they kidnapped our people. When they attacked our embassies, when they attacked Khobar Tower. When they tried to assassinate our president. If Israel didn’t even exist, these things would still go on. That’s the truth. I’ve got more. A lot more. Again, it’s all public. It’s all public. And as for Tucker Carlson. He hates America. He thinks America shouldn’t be a superpower. America’s Here’s a guy. Who interviews all of our enemies. Our enemies. Trashing now Trump and MAGA trashing Israel Netanyahu relentlessly. Have you ever heard him trash g in China? The monarchy in Qatar and the monarchy in Saudi Arabia. Or even the regime in Iran if he has. It’s a very rare occasion, isn’t it? But now he’s trashing the president and Israel. Relentlessly. And you see you. And I believe America should remain and always be the most powerful superpower on the face of the earth. Right. Isn’t that Americanism? Is it that patriotism? But Tucker does not. Here’s what he said. Just the other day. Cut a go. We can no longer be the sole author of terms of commerce of anything. We have to share power with China, of course, because of their scale. I guess it was the Economist. We have to share power. We can no longer be the sole author of terms of commerce and so forth. Now, first of all, we’re never the sole author of anything. We’re not an imperial country. We’re not. A conquering country. In market economics requires us to work with other countries when it comes to commerce. But isn’t it interesting, Mr. Isolationist, this now, Mr. Globalist, isn’t it, Mr. Producer? He’s Mr. Globalists with the greatest enemy. We have an enemy that’s building up a massive military. Not aimed at just Taiwan, but aimed at the United States of America so they can blackmail us and threaten us and cut us off economically. The president is smart. He understands this. And by the way, the Jews aren’t involved in Israel’s kind of object. Just for the antisemites out there. Just to clarify that there’s no lobbyist involved. President sees it. So now we have Qatar. CARLSON Talking about globalism, at least when it comes to the biggest communist nation on the face of the earth, biggest in terms of population. And his answer is basically appeasement. Look, we’re going to share power. Not that we should become more powerful economically. Geographically, militarily, which is what a patriotic, normal American would say. No, we got to just share power. And he’ll be able to sort of slime his way in and out of that. Well, of course, we have to share power, of course, but. That’s not his point. We can’t be the number one superpower of the world. He said it somewhere else, too. I think in his newsletters, somebody told me Gaga has a newsletter. Pew. We’ll be right back.
Segment 4
There was a study recently done that found something like I’m doing lot that okay, checked my email or we found it. Let’s see how close I was to what I was going to say. All right. And I think this is consistent. With the guitar lessons and the Kellys and the. And the Owens and the rest of them. According to a 2025 report, this is from unheard of, 90% of the accounts boosting fantasies. Early rich tweeters were fully anonymous, with roughly half of as rich tweeters coming from Pakistan, Nigeria, Malaysia and Indonesia. Now, how many times have I said that when you are so out of sync with America first and Mag and the president. 6%. 7%. Compared to his 92%. And that’s the case with. Qatar, Olsson and Kelly. So where is your audience coming from? Well, this report says. Says it’s coming from overseas In the case of who? This. That’s a pretty big deal. According to a 2025 report, 90% of the accounts boosting fantasies, early retweets were fully anonymous, with roughly half of his retweet as coming from Pakistan, Nigeria, Malaysia and Indonesia. Now you can look on X, right, Mr. Producer? And you can you can find out where a lot of these commenters are coming from. Yes. Yes. Then you find out what country we found. Like 50%. A lot. We can’t even keep track of it or overseas when it comes to me. And you can tell by the names they call and the pictures and all the rest. And then the usual. Fake maga woke, right? Neo fascists. Oh, you are out ratio. You hear that? Mr. Ritter’s out ratio. Outré. You know, most of us don’t live day and night on the Internet that these other people do. These other people do. So it’s two different worlds, to be perfectly honest. We are two different worlds and. I’ve been posting there, but I certainly don’t live there. That’s not what I want to do. So you’ve heard a lot this hour because. It’s all public information. I think you should have this information where the president stands, where Caroline Leavitt stands. Simply not enough time in one hour to do it. Where John Ratcliffe stands. And then contrarily, where Kent used to stand, where Fortis stood in his support. For Kent as well. And of course, Tucker Carlson, who gets stupider and more moronic and more extreme by the hour. I sure wouldn’t want to live in his hell, which is between his ears. I really wouldn’t. We got a great hour coming, hour two and then the power hour. Hour three. We’ll be right back.
