April 7th, 2026

Rough transcription of Hour 1

Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811.  877-381-3811. Wow. Lots going on now. Lots going on. So let’s start at the top. The latest news, of course, is the president’s given an 8 p.m. Eastern time deadline for Iran. To surrender. Or reach some kind of an accommodation that the president thinks is legitimate. Excuse me. And there’s some information less than 2 hours away from that deadline. The Times of Israel and other locations. Pakistan’s prime minister. Well, of course, when I come on the air, I start sneezing. All right. Sneezing there. The truth. Pakistan’s prime minister asks us, President Trump, to postpone his deadline for Iran by two weeks and implement a truce for that same period, also urging Tehran to allow maritime traffic. Through the Strait of Hormuz during the time. He said, to allow diplomacy to run its course. I earnestly request President Trump to extend the deadline for two weeks, writes Shahbaz Sharif, whose government is serving as a mediator between Iran and the U.S.. Man Pakistan in all sincerity. Request the Iranian brothers to open the Strait of Hormuz for a corresponding period of two weeks as goodwill gesture, he writes on XE. We also urge all warring parties to observe a ceasefire everywhere for two weeks to allow diplomacy to achieve conclusive termination of the war in the interest of long time peace and stability in the region. Now, this is interesting. But I want to go on with the rest before I comment on it. The Pakistani premier says the efforts to end the conflict are progressing steadily, strongly and powerfully in an expletive laden post. Earlier this week, the president warned the U.S. would attack power plants and bridges in Iran starting Tuesday evening if the Islamic Republic failed to reopen the key waterway. And that deadline is in less than 2 hours. Now. We’re going to have on the program a man I’ve been watching online. He’s a professor. But more than that, he’s an expert on international law, and that would include so-called war crimes. His name is Dr. Brian Cox. He’s professor at Cornell Law. Retired Army judge advocate. And you’re hearing all these congressmen, especially Democrats, you’re also hearing the woke, right, neo fascist. Out there and talking about war crimes. War crimes. If you hit a bridge, war crimes, if you hit an oil depot, war crimes, war crimes. Most of the time we don’t hear that kind of talk doing. In my lifetime, we’ve been in many military battles, even wars. And I don’t remember all the stuff about war crimes. Anyway, he’s going to explain it to us. So we have an actual understanding next hour, which I think is very important. Now, what about what the Pakistani prime minister said? Number one, I don’t believe, Mr. Producer, that he would make that public unless it has a shot. You see what I mean? I believe it’s somewhat orchestrated. Number two, there’s language in here that did draw my attention. We also urge all warring parties to observe a ceasefire everywhere for two weeks. Hezbollah is raining missiles down on northern Israel every day and every night. Some of it’s being reported here. Some of it’s not. So everywhere suggests to me that Iran wants Hezbollah. To retain or maintain its position where the Israelis are trying to fight their way through Lebanon and create a buffer. So. So they’re not free to just fire missiles down on northern Israel. So that to me would be interesting. We’ll see how that goes. But I have to be honest with you, I’ve never seen a situation where we’re absolutely beating the hell out of it at one enemy. And then. You know, there’s some kind of a negotiated agreement short of unconditional surrender. I’m not saying there won’t be an agreement for unconditional surrender. I’m just saying that’s very different. So we shall see. Now let’s move on to more. We have an effort by the media to push certain individuals as Maga MAGA influencers. That’s the name they used to define them as starting to get very troubled by the president and by the war effort and all this. And despite the fact the polls show 92% of one shot, 100% of MAGA, that is. The president’s base in 84% or maybe was 86%. But the Republican Party supports the president and what he’s doing. So how can how can it be that these are MAGA influencers when they influence nobody? The answer is they’re not. When you look at these people, these people have never been really involved in the conservative movement in any significant way. They’ve never been involved in Make America Great Again. Maybe they showed up at some events, mostly as hangers on, mostly to be seen, mostly as grifters. People didn’t vote for Donald Trump because of Megyn Kelly. People didn’t vote for Donald Trump because of Steve Bannon. People didn’t vote for Donald Trump because of Tucker Carlson. People embrace and love Donald Trump over whatever. It wasn’t Oh, wow, Steve Bannon endorses him. Then I guess I’ll vote for Donald Trump. See, my point, Mr. Bit is it doesn’t make any sense. I’m just telling you the truth. I’m just laying it out. People voted for President Trump because they wanted Trump. It wasn’t because somebody in the media. Or somebody they’re familiar with told them to do it. That is very disrespectful of you out there in Mr. and Mrs. America that you needed. Some would be podcasters or you needed a podcaster or you needed a former host of this show or that show. That you needed them to convince you to vote for Trump. When I get behind this microphone and I endorse a candidate, I’m giving my opinion. But what I do on election night, because I’m in a unique, unique position, is I urge people to go out and vote because they have their radios on in the car. I just keep encouraging people to vote, vote, vote. Not that they wouldn’t vote for the candidate in the first place, but we want to encourage you to vote and not forget in some cases. But the media play into this. Now, why do they play into it? Because the media is left wing. It’s pro-Democrat. It’s anti-Trump. And they want to use the miscreants and malcontents and the reprobates. We’re not out there stabbing the president of the back, besmirching the president. Stirring the pot. Rejecting Americanism, embracing Sharia against the constitution. Really some wacko nuts out there. They want the world to believe that this is real. Maga maga influencers. When they represent what the president is 92% a maga supporting him. How are they influences? They’re not influencing anybody. And so NBC News among the worst, of course. MAGA influence has pushed back on Trump on Iran. It’s time to say no. Time to say no, they say. Marjorie Taylor GREENE, a.k.a. Marjorie. Trader Gangrene. She’s not even a congresswoman anymore. She’s bouncing around on the social circuit. She’s bouncing around on the left wing media or identical kooks she’s hanging out with. She’s not influence anybody about anything. Well, they they mentioned her and they used to hate her when she wasn’t conservative. But now they love her, of course. They have other. Fellow by the name of Michael Cernovich. They call him a right wing influencer who has promoted Pizzagate and various other conspiracy theories, wrote to his 1.4 million followers on Sunday. It’s silly to claim Trump as MAGA. How many of you know who he is? Almost none of you. It’s got 1.4 million, I think. How many followers do I have? Mr. Ritter’s total. What is it? But how many? 5 million. And what do we know? Can you look that up? We’ll check it out. How many do I have on true social? 1.5 million. How many do we have on rumble? Like 700,000. And millions and millions on talk radio. They don’t go on the Internet or sign up for social media, that sort of thing. It’s funny, I’m not quoted in the NBC piece, and they don’t say that out of jealousy. I could care less. I say, look who they do. Quote, They’re trying to create an impression. If you go on the Internet now, there’s enormous number of people backing the president, backing this war effort, supporting him. Many of whom have a great deal of influence, but they don’t count them as influencers because it doesn’t fit the narrative. Trump would not have won the primary in 2016 and he run on Mitt Romney’s platform, nor would he have won the 2024 election by running on new wars, says Cernovich. He didn’t run on Mitt Romney’s platform. He’s nothing like Mitt Romney in every respect. And he didn’t run for or against wars. He ran peace through strength. And when a president takes office, he has to look at what’s taking place and make determinations based on what he sees and what he digests and how he evaluates it. That’s what a president does. So we have these people. Who else? I can’t read them all. Carrie Prejean Bolar, a former model who served as a member of the Trump appointed Federal Religious Liberty Commission. She was fired. She was fired because she was spewing the Palestinian line. The Hamas line. She was spewing. The. The picture line and she was removed. She’s an influencer. Who does she influence? Absolutely nobody. She’s a head case. Then there’s Tucker Carlson. Who does he influence these days? Then they go to a liberal Republican, John Curtis, in Utah. How does he imagine influencing? He’s not. Then of course, they go to Bannon. But this is how they cobble together the narrative. This is how they cobbled together the argument. Nowhere do they mention that 92% in a recent poll are MAGA supports Trump and what he’s doing? Nowhere. Nowhere. In one poll, CNN mentioned their poll was 100%. But they bring out these individuals. Who mostly don’t even know one in particular who has absolutely a head case. Carlson. Could try and make this case. To try and make this case. Now, the president’s had about enough for Tucker Carlson, a.k.a. trader Tucker, a.k.a. Qatar Carlson. And he made a statement to a reporter from the New York Post when she asked him about it this morning. Her name is Caitlyn, dumbass. And she wrote, President Trump denied Tucker Carlson’s bombastic reporting that he was considering nuclear war on Iran. Blasting the controversial commentator in a phone call with The Post, quote, Tucker is a low IQ person that has absolutely no idea what’s going on, said the president. He calls me all the time. I don’t respond to his calls. I don’t deal with him. I like dealing with smart people, not fools. On Monday. CARLSON Monday night posted on Twitter X He claimed that President Trump’s expletive laden. Easter morning true social post that the U.S. would soon bomb Iran’s power plants and bridges was the first step toward nuclear war. Every war for him is a nuclear war. But denying Iran of nuclear weapons apparently is not worth it. Christians need to understand where Trump is taking us, Carlson wrote. Well, where is he taking us? This is the guy that trashes Christians, trashes Jews, trashes America. Trashes the constitution, embraces Sharia, embraces Qatar. This is a man who’s whose programs are aired by state run media in Qatar, in Iran, in Russia, in Saudi Arabia. Unbelievable. And it goes on. And it goes on. Now, Carlson is not just stabbing the president in the back. He’s stabbing him in the chest. It’s only a matter of time when you read his texts in that litigation. He’s never had respect for Trump. These are all hangers on. These are all grifters. That’s what they are. Nothing more, nothing less. And I pointed out, because it’s all in the media today. And it’s very, very important. I’ll be right back.

Segment 2
You ever hear this guy, Ro Khanna, I guess, is how you pronounce it. He’s all over the media spewing his B.S.. This is the guy in the Epstein matter that went to the floor of the House along with his buddy Tommy Massey, both supported by George Soros, no doubt are revealing names of individuals who did absolutely nothing but have been providing support and help to the government’s case and over ruined their lives. He’s utterly irresponsible individual. This is a guy who pretends he doesn’t know who I am. I’m a relic of the past. Isn’t it funny, Mr. Producer? All these middle aged people going through their middle aged crises. Nobody knows who I am, but they won’t leave me alone. So when I. I speak out, I’m in charge of the war with Iran. I’m in charge of this. Levin Is that Levin’s got too much power. Levin. But nobody listens to live in his audience. I don’t even look at these people. Straight folks. They’re just nuts. They’re crazy. They can’t even get their B.S. straight. This guy is all over the media. He’s got nothing else to do. Pushing impeachment of the president of the United States, pushing the 25th Amendment against the president. United States. Throwing around the term war crimes. War crimes are going on. He’s a complete head case and then he pretends he was amateurism and now he favors a wealth tax. And on and on and on. He’s a complete fraud and phony. That’s what he is. And he reached out to me in 2023, wanted to engage.

Segment 3
Long piece here in the New York Times. We know that we have to take this with a grain of salt, but it’s out there. It’s out there and it’s a long piece about the lead up to the decision by the president. To. Unleash the military operation against Iran. And the reporters are Jonathan Swan. Who’s a decent reporter, Maggie Haberman, who in my view is not, but nonetheless, in the midst of this long article, says nobody in Mr. Trump’s inner circle was more worried about the prospect of war with Iran or did more to try to stop it than the vice president. Mr. Vance had built his political career opposing precisely that. I’m reading from the article. The kind of military adventurism that was now under serious consideration tonight, adventurism. I would say to the slimes, let’s see here. He had described a war with Iran as, quote, a huge distraction of resources, unquote, and quote, massively expensive, unquote, for who’s leaking all this stuff. I mean, they’re actually quoting from meetings and he’s not the only one they’re quoting. Now say what you will. A vice president or a secretary, defense or a secretary of state or a CIA director. They need to be able to give advice to the president in absolute confidence. There’s a constant leaking problem. Oh, trouble. Okay. Breaking news. All right. From from True South. This is brand new and it is 6:35 p.m., just shy of the 8 p.m. witching hour based on conversations with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. That would be the Pakistan and Field Marshal Azeem Munir of Pakistan. And wherein they requested that I hold off the destruction, the destructive force being sent tonight to Iran and subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran, agreeing to the complete, immediate capitalizes and safe opening of the Strait of Hormuz. I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks. This will be a double sided cease fire. The reason for doing so is that we have already met and exceeded all military objectives and are very far along with a definitive agreement concerning long term peace with Iran and peace in the Middle East. We received a ten point proposal from Iran. I believe it is a workable basis on which to negotiate. Amongst all the various points of contention have been agreed to between the United States and Iran. But a two week period will allow the agreement to be finalized and consummated. On behalf of the United States of America’s president and also representing the countries of the Middle East. It is an honor to have this lodge, this rather long term problem close to resolution. Thank you for your attention to this matter. That’s all I know. That’s all we have right now. That’s all I know. I don’t know what the ten points are. I don’t have any of that. I don’t think it’s public yet. Is it, Mr. Producer? No. The ten point plan. Yeah. Not yet. So we don’t have that yet. This was literally just released. By the president in the White House. And so we’ll see where that goes. Now, the people negotiating on our side are the two envoys, Wyckoff and Kushner, and apparently the vice president. So we’ll see how that goes. But let me go on with this article. Vice president thought a regime change war with Iran would be a disaster. His preference was for no strikes at all. But knowing that Mr. Trump was likely to intervene in some fashion, he tried to steer toward more limited action. Later, when it seemed certain the president was set on a large scale campaign. Mr. Vance argued that he should do so with overwhelming force in the hope of achieving his objective quickly. In front of his colleagues, Mr. Vance warned Mr. Trump that a war against Iran could cause regional chaos and untold numbers of casualties. It could also break apart Mr. Trump’s political coalition and would be seen as a betrayal by many voters who bought into the promise of no new wars. Mr. Vance raised other concerns, too. As vice president, he was aware of the scope of America’s munitions problem. A war against a regime with enormous will for survival could leave the United States in far worse position to fight conflicts for some years. He told associates that no amount of military insight could truly gauge what Iran would do in retaliation when survival of the regime was at stake. It could go into unpredictable directions, he thought. There seemed to be little chance of building a peaceful Iran in the aftermath. And it goes on. Tucker Carlson, the commentator who had emerged as another prominent skeptic of intervention on the right. How can you call him of the right now? If by right they mean conservative that’s been abandoned. That was abandoned a long time ago. He’d come to the Oval Office several times over the previous year to warn Mr. Trump that a war with Iran would destroy his presidency a couple of weeks before the war began. Mr. Trump, who had known Carlson for years, tried to reassure him over the phone. I know you’re worried about it, but it’s going to be okay, the president said. Carlsen asked how he knew. Because it always is. Mr. Trump replied, Well, then we know that was a two way conversation, right? Mr.. It is here. So we know one of the leakers is Tucker Carlson. In the final days of February. And it goes on. It’s a very long piece, but I thought that aspect of it may interest you. It also turns out that the general who is the most gung ho of the generals was not raising Cain. It was Admiral Cooper. I am a cooper apparently has. In each aspect of this inform the president that our military could in fact achieve what it is achieving. So it seems like Admiral Cooper. It’s more of a Raising Cain than raising Cain. If I read between the lines here properly. But the most. Important voice was also the most committed voice to taking on Iran, the president of the United States. More so than the CIA director, more so than the secretary of state. There’s not much here about the secretary of defense in this article. Again, if the article is accurate, who the hell knows? I sure don’t. I mean, who knows? But the president is the apparently the most conservative of the group, Mr. Producer. He’s also the most security conscious, apparently. Again, there’s nothing in here that I can see Nothing much anyway, about Haig, sir. Only a little about Rubio. And. This is part of a book that they’re writing, by the way. So they must be getting a crapload of leaks. And what happens is this almost everybody’s leaking. I don’t know who’s not. I don’t know who is, but almost all of them are leaking because they want to appear. Very well in the book. They want to appear. To be, quote unquote, a good guy or a. Position themselves. And so they they leak. I’ve seen this. It was in the Reagan administration, other administrations, because they all have interests beyond government. Right. Vice president wants to be president, Secretary of state may want to be something else. I don’t know. But the point is, if the book’s going to be written by journalists with The New York Times, and that’s going to be viewed by the rest of the media as definitive, even though it certainly won’t be. The fact of the matter is the individuals try to position themselves Again, I don’t know who’s leaked and who hasn’t leaked, but most of the individuals try to position themselves and put themselves in a good light. Maybe somebody else and not such a good light, especially if they’re seeking higher office one day. That’s how you get articles like this with all these leaks and so forth. Now, while we’re on this topic, I will be on HANNITY tonight, 9 p.m. Eastern Time. To discuss this, I assume, but may be birthright citizenship. I don’t know. But he asked me to come on and I will be there. Of course. But then there’s this story in The New York Post. Yasmin Ansari, Democrat of Arizona, the first Iranian American Democrat elected to Congress, raged against Donald Trump for his jaw dropping threats to Iran, including to end the country, quote, in one night, unquote, and called Impeaching Hague sets a necessary step to prevent a catastrophe So online. You had the woke right? Neo fascist isolator. EARNEST just trashing the president for his statement that he put out that he’s going to destroy the civilization of Iran or something like that. You had little Ada for 20 this. Tucker Traitor Cocktails and gone Nuts. Piers Morgan was very upset. They were all very, very upset. When all the rest of us knew. Millions of millions of of us know. This is how the president operates to try and bring maximum pressure against an enemy like Iran. And so I put out a thing out there and I’m online to Morgan. And I said, okay, how much do you want to bet he doesn’t destroy the Iranian civilization? Because it’s absurd. We know what he was doing. He is using psychological warfare. And he does this sort of thing fairly frequently. So the idea that people miss it is really ridiculous. And so the Democrats are saying what he said would be a war crime, so we need to impeach him. What he said shows that he’s mentally unhinged. So we need to see the 25th Amendment trigger it. And they don’t even understand how that works. But. This was going on all day and all last night. All day and all last night. She says. Now, this is an Iranian-American Democrat, and by the way, she does not speak for most Iranian-Americans, I assure you. I am introducing articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth. Pete Hegseth for repeatedly violating his oath of office and his duty to the Constitution. Only Congress has the power to declare war, not a rogue president or his lackeys. Hague sets reckless Endangerment. Okay, so. Factually, Haig’s health hasn’t. Made any decisions. The president makes the decisions. That’s number one. And the secretary war carries them out. That’s number two. And number three, this whole idea of declaration of war has been explained by me repeatedly, and I’m not going to explain it again. But she doesn’t know what the hell she’s talking about. What’s happening here, America, is they’re trying to use impeachment and the 25th Amendment, not because the president has committed a high crime or misdemeanor, not because Seth has committed a high crime or misdemeanor. They want to use the 25th Amendment. They. Again, they don’t even know how that works. Not because the president is senile and can’t function. He’s not. Biden. But because they disagree with him on this military operation in Iran, that’s not what impeachment is for. It. That’s not. That’s not what the 25th Amendment is for. The 25th Amendment is for whether a president can actually. Complete his responsibilities and undertake his responsibilities, which this president can. They just disagree with him. An impeachment is for a high crime, a misdemeanor, which has a very specific meaning and understanding. This is not that. She says only Congress has the power to declare war, not a rogue president or his lackeys. Now, here we are in the middle of a war. This is how the Democrats conduct themselves, giving aid and comfort to the enemy. This is how traitor Tucker conducts himself. This is how all the other little Lilliputians conduct themselves in the middle of a war. Yes, in the middle of a war. Her singling out Haig set comes weeks after Trump revealed last month that his secretary of war was the first to call for war against Iran. Haig says team brushed off the impeachment push, with Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson telling The Post it’s just another Democrat trying to make headlines, which is true. Hey, death has done a fantastic job. He’s in charge of the nuts and bolts. He’s in charge of overseeing much of this. Nuts and bolts. And of course, they want to impeach him. I’ll be right back.

Segment 4
We have a great video podcast up there today that we just did. I want to encourage you to check it out on Rumble. Or YouTube. And we have it on all our social side, too, if you want to check it out as well. It’s all free, all available, all very easy to access and use if you’re not used to it. It’s very easy. Liberty’s voice over at Rumble in Liberty’s voice over at YouTube. We want to thank Rumble in particular is doing a fantastic job on YouTube to. We have no billionaires funding this. You don’t have a big marketing budget. We don’t have all that stuff going on. No foreign governments behind and nothing like that. It’s me, myself and I. With a crew of two who are fantastic. David and Josh had a big helping hand from Rich here. And that’s what we do. So I know you’re going to like it. Check it out. Some of you who don’t normally listen to podcasts or video or don’t watch video podcast, you want to check it out. Our celebrities voice over at Rumble and YouTube, and I’m trying to bring as many radio folks into that world and as many people in that world to radio because there’s a minimal overlap. Minimal. We did our own checking at 7%. That’s it. Did you know that most of it is 7% of the people who listen to this program on talk radio? 7% go on the Internet and vice versa. So that’s why we run our radio program on the Internet. Delayed. And that’s why I’m doing this, to have multiple platforms, one to build on top of the other. That is to encourage more radio listeners and encourage more viewers and so forth and so on. It’s the only way these different platforms are going to grow. It’s the only way. So in other words, I’m saying for me, I don’t need to compete against myself. I don’t want to compete against these different platforms. I want to use the platforms together, one to build the other, which nobody does. But we will do it. We will do it. I’ll be right back.