May 13th, 2026

Rough transcription of Hour 1

Segment 1
Hello, America. And hello, P.S. runner. Oh, yes, P.S. runner, I’m Mark Levin. Our number, 877-381-3811.  877-381-3811. You know, ladies and gentlemen, I have to admit, I don’t get it completely. I mean, uh, we were doing just fine in the first couple of days. And then the first few weeks with Iran, we had that regime on its back then the brilliant economic boycott, cutting off the Strait of Hormuz. And then I just figured we’d go in for the kill and take out that regime, including arming the Iranian people the way Reagan armed freedom fighters and resisters throughout the world, including in our own hemisphere, in Africa, and of course in Afghanistan. That has not happened. And I was told by a friend today, well, this is good in a sense because we can rearm and build up our, you know, military and so forth and so on. Like, so can the enemy. And so can the enemy. And about, um, half the country apparently is over there in China now, have you noticed, Mr. Producer, half of our country, I am broadcasting from the good old United States of America. And, uh, China’s a huge problem and there’s some stories that are breaking that I want to fill you in on in just a moment. We will definitely get to that. Then we get to the issue of our economy. What are we going to do about our economy, America? Well, what do you want to do about what about our economy? Gasoline prices are up. They will come down when this military operations over, which is another reason to get, get rid of this regime and do it now. But the alternative is the Democrats. And of course they’re a disaster, aren’t they? And they have in fact demonstrated what not to do wherever they are. Look at this. Mamdani is destroying the city of New York. We knew he would. Look at all these blue states. People can’t get the hell out of there fast enough if they’re able to. People are moving with their feet. Blue states are depopulating. Red states are being populated. And I’m not talking about illegal aliens either. Now, I explained the other week, the other day yesterday, that Mamdani is trying to force the Jewish community out of New York City. And when he is done with the Jewish community, he will try and force the Christian community out of New York City. And he is trying to force capitalists, quote unquote, out of New York City. And his goal is to make New York City a Marxist Islamist city. He doesn’t care how poor it is. He doesn’t care how indebted is. That is not how his mind works. That is not how the mind of Islamists work. He is conquering New York City. He is devouring New York City. He is Islamicizing New York City. That is exactly what he is doing. And he’s made pretty good progress in the last three or four months. And he has a lot of support from the imams, a lot of support from the Islamist, the river to the sea crowd, a lot of support. I honestly don’t understand this commissioner of, uh, the police who’s Jewish, comes from a wealthy Jewish family. She’s in charge of the NYPD. I don’t hear her speaking out. I don’t see her doing a hell of a lot. I really don’t. Her name is Tish. Really, really. The whole damn thing is appalling. Appalling. You have people who are in their homes or they are going to synagogue and they are afraid for their lives. That is how it works. I have to say, at the federal level, DHS and ICE need to get, get to work. There is a lot of video of these people. They need to be hunted down and they need to be detained and they need to be deported. Whether Mamdani likes it or not, this is federal law under the federal Constitution, under the Supremacy clause. And he’s acting like a Democrat Confederate from the 1850s and 1860s. And this is very serious what’s going on in New York. And it’s not just New York, other places too. We should do everything we can to defeat that regime in Iran. And I don’t just mean defeat its military and economically punish them, because they personally are not going to be punished in the regime. I mean, take it out. Take it out. Arm the people. It’s okay. I pulled out my book on power, which I actually wrote and completed about a year ago today. And in there, like I’ve talked to you folks for several years now, I point out that Marxism is incompatible with Americanism. And yes, we started the point here that Islam is incompatible with Americanism too, because they are. No, I’m not going to dust off the old records. We can. There’s plenty of them. But my markers have been sent and they were set a long time ago. And they’re incompatible because Marxism is not about live and let live. Marxism is about destroy, and then you get to live. Islam, no different. It’s not about live, let live. It’s you die if you don’t comply. Our entire system, the founding of this nation, was based on a totally opposite belief system and value system. Judeo Christian and Enlightenment. Very rare, Very rare. People like to talk about the Christian Crusades. Well, there was a Christian Crusade. It was brutal. But why was there a Christian Crusade under the Pope at the time? Because for 400 years prior to that, the Muslim world brutalized the Christian world, not to mention the Jewish world, took over the Holy Land, took over much of the Middle east, moved into Europe for 400 years. People do not know this. And so the Pope raised an army, a Christian army, a ah, Crusade. It was brutal too, to push back and to push the Muslims out of territories and countries that they had conquered and brutalized the, the people there. Just as you see what Hamas did on October 7 and just as you see what the Islamo Nazi regime in Tehran has been doing to the people there. And I might add that Islamo Nazi regime is bringing in militia from Afghanistan, the Taliban from Iraq and from other parts of the world. They are bringing in Hezbollah. In other words, the people of Iran, it is their country. They are being brutalized by foreigners now. By foreigners. Now we have got a lot to cover here. We are going to do that. Uh, and I want to get into this with you in more detail. We will be right back.

Segment 2
I’m going to read for you what I just received. A breaking story in the Washington Post. Whether it’s accurate or not, we will draw our own conclusions shortly. A confidential assessment just came out circulating as President Trump begins his highly anticipated trip to Beijing shows shifts in several key areas of competition across military, economic, diplomatic and other fields, said two U.S. officials who’ve read the report. Okay, we have leakers now. The assessment, the official said, was produced this week by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Kaine and has raised alarm within the Pentagon about the geopolitical costs of Washington’s standoff with Tehran as the President enters high stakes talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing. Produced by the Joint Chief’s Intelligence Directorate. I didn’t know they had their own Intelligence Directorate. The report uses what’s known as a dime framework to assess China’s response to the Iran conflict via ah, four instruments of state power, diplomatic, informational, military and economic. Officials talked about the finding, which has not previously been reported, on the condition of anonymity to discuss US Intelligence matters. If they find out these officials, they’re going to prison. But these officials have to be at a very significant level, very high level at the Pentagon. The White House State Department somewhere Since the US and Israel initiated the war on February 28, China has sold weapons to Persian Gulf allies of the US as they struggle to defend their military bases and oil infrastructure from Iranian missile and drone attacks, the report says. Beijing has also assisted countries around the world struggling to meet their energy needs after the US Israeli attacks prompted Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz a Carter for the transport of one fifth of the world’s oil and gas. The war has also drained the US and massive stocks of munitions that would be critical and a potential standoff for China of the fate of Taiwan, the report notes. I’m telling you what’s been leaked here is incredibly diabolical, whether it’s true or false. But we talked about this yesterday. That one point alone is absolutely, absolutely detestable to have that leaked to anybody. Let’s go on. The Iran conflict, which has resulted in the damage or destruction of US military hardware and facilities throughout the Middle east, has allowed Beijing to observe how the US fights wars and learn how to plan its own future operations. The report notes that Beijing has incorporated popular criticism of the war into public messaging, labeling a conflict illegal. They label it illegal. Just like the Democrats, China has long sought to undermine the image of the US as a responsible steward of the rules based international order, and it views the Iran conflict as emblematic of Washington’s cavalier approach to military hostilities. Doesn’t that sound exactly like the Democrats like Sanders and Murphy and the rest of them? When asked about the finding, the Pentagon’s chief spokesman, Sean Parnell, said assertions claiming the global balance of power shifted towards any nation other than the United States of America are fundamentally false. White House spokesman Olivia Wales said the US decimated the Iranian regime’s military capabilities in 38 short days and is now strangling what’s left of their economy. One of the most successful naval blockades in history. The US military is the greatest fighting force on the globe, with unmatched power on display for the entire world to see, xi said. Experts said the finding proves new insight on China’s reaction to war, such as its provision of weapons to US allies. While reinforcing the growing consensus the conflict is tilting the balance of power in Beijing’s favor. Unbalanced, um, the war in Iran is massively improving China’s geopolitical position, said Joseph Stokes, a senior fellow at the center for the New. You know what? This is bs. I’m not even going to read anymore. This is a propaganda piece as if they’re writing for the communist Chinese to Be perfectly honest with you. So the Chinese get to see how we handle a war. If I’m, um, them, I’d worry about it a lot. Wouldn’t you, Mr. M producer? A whole lot. A whole lot. And so I want to get back to what I was starting to say. Our national security interests. I don’t like the fact that we have so much of our military sitting there in the Middle east and it’s been sitting there now for months. And they’re ready to go and they need to go. They need to put an end to this regime. No, they shouldn’t have nuclear weapons. But if the regime survives, one day they will. Mark my words. I’m sorry to say I really wish it wasn’t true, but it is. I’ve been studying and studying now for a long time for my book on power before and now, especially now in a very concentrated and focused way on the mindset of the Islamists. And let me recommend to you any book that Bernard Lewis ever wrote, ever wrote. A brilliant, brilliant man who understood, who lived among Muslims in the Middle east for a great deal of his life. But he became a professor. He was a professor at Princeton and he was really the number one expert on the Muslim mind and the Muslim doctrines and so forth and so on. You’d do well to read anything he writes. You can go on Amazon and you can see he’s passed away. Passed away a few years back. He was in his 90s. I’m blessed to have a book signed by him. No, I didn’t know him, never met him. But many other great people have. Many other people have, uh, this idea that it’s just a matter of getting along with them and signing a deal with them and so forth and so on. Look, people can call me whatever they want. These names don’t affect me. These slogans don’t affect me. I’m worried about my country, our country, our families, our future. And the isolationists are diabolical. They’re saboteurs. They’re very dangerous. They claim to be populous and America first. The reason the enemy likes them, the reason the enemy uses their words on state run TV is because they support the enemy. The Marxists and the Islamists in our country hate our country. You see it in the streets. You hear what they say. These are very, very, very difficult times. And I think we’re a, uh, we’re bright light trying to show people the way and trying to guide you about what’s going on. So we’re going to do more. I’ll be right Back.

Segment 3
One day we will know, piling the years ahead, who it was that was really opposed to arming the Iranian people. Whether it was his, Thomas Barak, the envoy to Turkey, whether it was the CIA, Erdogan, all of them. One day we will know, because I think this is one of the things that had to be done and must be done and apparently will not be done. Um, now there’s this piece in the New York Times from today. Chinese firms plot secret arms sales to Iran. Chinese companies have been discussing arms sales with Iran, plotting to send the weapons through other countries to mask the origins of the military aid. According to U.S. officials. The U.S. has gathered intel that Chinese companies and Iranian officials have discussed the arms transfers. It’s not clear how many, if any, arms have been shipped or what degree Chinese officials have approved the sales. The new disclosure is likely to intensify pressure on President Trump to raise the issues while he’s in Beijing this week. Ladies and gentlemen, China is our enemy. Okay, we can all shake hands and, uh, smile and have, uh, uh, photo sessions and serious talks about trade and serious talks about defense matters and so forth and so on. But please understand, the Communists have a mindset and the Islamists have a mindset. The communist mindset is to spread their ideology all over the world. That’s been their mindset from the beginning. That’s the reason the Communist Manifesto was written. It wasn’t written as a book. It was written as a pamphlet, even though a rather thick pamphlet, but a very thin book. They talk about the international communist movement, okay? Mamdani was born in Uganda, not in the United States, and yet he was a communist and an Islamist. Islamism isn’t born in America. Communism isn’t born in America. These are foreign ideologies. These are foreign ideologies, but they’re now here, and they’re conquering our cultures because we’re beneficent people. We’re busy, we’re working hard. We’re raising our families. We’re taking care of the things that you need, you’re supposed to take care of. But there are evil entities out there doing evil things, and our system gives them a lot of room. Our system gives them a lot of room. Americanism is incompatible with Marxism and with Islamism. They know it and I know it, and you know it, it’s not about sharing beliefs, sharing ideas. It’s not about any of that stuff. It’s about destroying our society. I was thinking the other day, Bernie Sanders propaganda, if you listen to it carefully, the reason he keeps attacking billionaires, billionaires, billionaires and billionaires is because that’s the communist construct, right? He doesn’t want you to know that there’s a massive middle class. He doesn’t want you to know that the vast majority of Americans actually, actually survive pretty well, even with challenges that we all have here and there, with expenses and so forth and so on. He doesn’t want you to know that we have a better off in this country than any other country on the face of the earth. He wants you jealous, he wants you angry. So he does. What? Class warfare. It’s constant. The billionaires, the billionaires, the billionaires, the billionaires don’t even matter except when you try to destroy them and you destroy their businesses and all the jobs they create or uh, the mouths that they feed. But I don’t even need to get into that. It’s the propaganda. They’re always going to talk about inequality of that nature. You notice they never talk about what? Freedom. They never talk about free will. They never talk about going out and working for a living. They never talk about individual initiative, individual success, ever. So when you listen to Sanders and you listen to all these Democrats, they all sound now like Marxists. And now when you call somebody a communist, it doesn’t even offend them anymore. That’s that language we were talking about that I talked about a length on Liberty’s voice and somewhat here. Repetition, repetition, repetition. And after a while it gets baked into the brain. It’s okay, it’s not weird. The communist Chinese are our enemy. They’re plotting to take over Taiwan, our ally. Are we going to let them do it? The New York Times reported last month a US intelligence agencies. This is the New York Times, uh, had obtained information showing China may have transferred shoulder fired missiles known as MANPADs to Iran. Such weapons are capable of shooting down low flying aircraft. Intelligence also showed that China was considering other shipments of the weaponry. So while we’re meeting with China, they’re arming the enemy? They’re arming the enemy. The Iranian mission to the UN did not immediately respond to their inquiries. Well, of course not. I mean, they’re never going to. And even if they did, who cares? They’re going to lie. Remember all that talk about 50 some transports that went to Iran before we attacked them? What do you think they were bringing. What do you think they were bringing? Hummus? No, I don’t think so. Mr. Producer. In March, the Iran had received military cooperation from China and Russia, but provided no details. And it goes on, and it goes on. So to me, the longer this takes, the more problematic it becomes from a national security perspective, not simply domestic political perspective, a national security perspective. Um, let’s see here. There was one other thing related to this that I wanted to bring to your attention. Let’s see if I can find here. Here it is in the New York Post. Iran using Caspian Sea highways and a railroad to China to bypass US Strait of Hormuz blockade. This came out a few hours ago. Iran has turned to alternative trade to bypass the US blockade along the Strait of Hormuz, making use of northern seaports, trucking through land borders and see if our military was active right now, this wouldn’t be possible. And let me suggest to you, I think it’s going to be active. I think it’s going to have to be active because right now nothing is coming of any negotiations. Nothing. So you can’t have a period of, uh, quiet like this forever. You’re in the middle of a war. With the American blockade against Iran’s ships effectively closing the strait to the regime, the Islamic Republic has been forced to get creative to keep its exports going to mitigate the economic pressures as it seeks to outlast the U.S. iran has the benefit of having more than 3,700 miles of land borders with seven nations as well as a nearly 435 mile long coastline along the Caspian Sea, allowing trade to keep flowing. But experts say that none of those routes is an adequate substitute for the port sealed off by the blockade. Measures like trucking and goods from neighboring countries can compensate for blockade related disruptions, though the compensation may not be one for one, says Rosemary Kalanick, director of the Middle east program of the Washington based think tank Defense Priorities. Possibilities for the Iranians to MacGyver their way around Trump’s blockade are endless because the country has thousands of miles of land border to work with. The country, 636,000 square miles is about the size of the American Southwest altogether, including all of California. With the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman, ah, blocked by US warships, Iran has looked primarily to its land borders to pick up the slack. Iran can supposedly transfer up to 40% of its regular maritime trade to land routes. The head of Tehran shipping associate Container Committee told regime backed media about two weeks. Yeah, but if we bomb their rail tracks, they’re not going to be able to do that, are they, Mr. Medusa? And if we bomb their roads, they’re not going to be able to do that. This is what’s meant by dual use. By dual use about two weeks after the US imposed its blockade on April 13, Pakistan established six land routes for goods to be transported through Iranian border, drawing rice, meat and baby formula to flow. Why are we using Pakistan as a mediator when they’re aligned with Iran? Why? Iran’s ambassador to Pakistan also met with the country’s minister for railways last week to discuss how to increase freight volumes between the two nations. Iran also has access to one of the biggest trading partners, Turkey. Turkey there’s another pretend friend, really enemy and a minimum adversary also helping Iran in my view. Freight firms in Istanbul noted an increase of traffic since the blockade went into effect, reports Bloomberg. Samad Hassanzadeh Yabadabadu, president of Tehran’s Chamber of Commerce, said Sunday that he was seeking to have Turkey remove its limit on how many Iranian trucks go through the border per day, from 200 to 500. So there’s Turkey and there’s Pakistan now the Caspian Sea While Iran suffered a blow to its military vessels at its port in the Caspian Sea during the height of the war in March, the waters are in use as an alternative trade route connecting Tehran with Russia. Moscow’s been accused of shipping drone components to Iran via the Caspian Sea, helping Tehran maintain its UAV arsenal after losing 60% of it during the war. Along with military aid, Russia has been providing goods through the inland mass of sea, which is the largest lake in the world. Mahmoud Reza Martavi Abbodaba, the head of the association of Iran’s Food Industries, said Tehran is actively rerouting goods through the Caspian, with four ports working around the clock to make up for the impacts of the blockade, state broadcasters mentioned. And prior to the war, Iran sold an average of 1.38 million barrels a day of oil to China, according to the Kipler analysis firm. Iranian oil fields face the risk of permanent damage if exports remain frozen, so the regime has begun ramping up trade with China via rail, with Tehran eyeing expansions to keep it better connected with Beijing. Before the war broke out, only one cargo train would travel between China and Tehran every week. Trains are now going out once every three or four days so that we need to put an end to each train carries about 50 standard 40 foot containers. With traffic along the railway completely blocked in May, with goods traveling between the countries by rail increasing through Turkey, spokesman for Iran Oils Exporters Union said exporting oil by rail will be viable. Viable. I’ll be right back.

Segment 4
I would say, uh, today’s Liberty Voice, our video podcast is. It’s my 36th, which isn’t very many. I started in February. We do two or three a week. And, uh, it’s by far the most important program I’ve done on the podcast front. And so I would encourage you to check it out. Liberty’s Voice on Rumble and YouTube. It’s obviously free and I want to make a suggestion. All podcasters should reveal from whom they are getting money. If they’re getting money from anybody. Not getting money from anybody, foreign or domestic, billionaire or not. Just so you understand. I believe some of these people are. I believe some of these people are. And they should reveal it. And maybe there needs to be a law passed or something of that sort. Oh, Mark, that’ll interfere with free speech. No, it won’t. People have a right to know what they’re listening to. Has no effect on free speech. In fact, it increases the amount of conversation that can take place. Speaking of Liberty’s voice. Just 30 seconds. This gives you a taste of it. Cut one, go. Well, a commission got together two and a half years ago, right during and after the October 7th attack in Israel. And they’ve been pulling together for two and a half years. The lurid, horrific, just disgusting details of what was done to those people at that Nova Festival and at these kibbutzim. Just unbelievable. Every sick possible thing you can think of and more was done to these people. Mhm. Cut two go. Did you see what happened in New York City at a synagogue? Did you see what happened with hundreds of Islamists here in this country carrying Hezbollah flags, were threatening and violently attacking people at a synagogue or going to synagogue? And they’re going into their communities now. Did you see that? 4 to 500 NYPD. God bless these people trying to separate them. Only three arrests as it turns out. Where’s the District Attorney? Where’s the mayor? Mhm. We’re going to talk more about this also in the coming hour. Uh, what’s taking place in our country and our cities in New York City. Again, not just New York, but there it is. It is the, uh, sort of ground zero for this now with Mamdani as the mayor and uh, the Democrat Party, which basically controls that city, which is doing next to nothing to protect citizens there. And I’d like to know where DHS is. And yes, ice, which I support strongly, I understand there’ll be confrontations and so forth, but this can’t continue like this. And I’m going to assume the Department of Justice, not just the Civil Rights Division, but all the way at the top, that this is going to become a priority. This being seeing the faces of the people in these videos, getting them identified as best as they can. They had a lot of practice on January 6th, didn’t they, Mr. Producer? And then what? And then if they’re here on a temporary basis, remove them immediately. If they’ve been naturalized recently, challenge the naturalization and denaturalize them. It’s time to put an end to this. This is happening city by city, state by state. It’s, uh, a coordinated effort and we’re going to need a coordinated federal effort to deal with it. DHS DOJ and other agencies if necessary. Whatever works. But it’s now or never. I’ll be right back.