June 10th, 2026

Rough transcription of Hour 1

Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here. As I speak, a second round of attacks on Iran is taking place. Attacks are taking place. A second round is taking place. I don’t know what generated this response. This time I’m all for it. You know, my goal is to defeat this regime. I don’t understand why. 48 hours ago when Israel hammered. Iran for shooting 11 ballistic missiles at its citizenry. I mean that their population centers. The prime minister was admonished in the press and elsewhere for doing that. This is two days in a row for us, and I’m all for it. But but there’s there seems to be a. I don’t know. It’s confusing to me, to be perfectly honest. You. I don’t get it. They hit our helicopter. They almost killed two of our pilots. They fired 11 ballistic missiles in Israel. Ballistic missiles. You know, if you’ve been listening, is the capacity to blow an entire block, a neighborhood. Off the face of the earth. I mean. Just as a moral and rational. Point of view, it seems to me that Israel’s right to respond and we have every right to respond, but it’s not even a matter of a right to respond. This this regime won’t let up. It won’t stop. Maybe because it fired ballistic missiles at a variety of Arab states. And they got into the ear, the administration, and said, hey, what are we going to do about this? Maybe that mattered. I don’t know. But I’d like somebody to explain it. It’s the same thing with. These interviews, reporters asking the vice president and other people, are Israel aligned with us? Do we have the same interests? Well, sometimes we do. Sometimes we don’t. You know, do they ever ask that about Pakistan? Turkey, where Erdogan is a whack job. Do they do they ever ask it about Qatar, which pours $400 billion into our country to try and destabilize it? Do they ever ask it about Saudi Arabia that was behind 911? No, they never ask about those countries. Hey. And we align with them. And yet. It’s my understanding that. That our government says are our best friends with all these countries in there and their dictatorial leaders. Okay, fine. It’s a practical matter. I get it. No criticism kind of. Matt. I’m trying to figure it out, and it’s not so easy. Here’s the president in the Oval Office today that Iran cut one go precisely the opposite this morning, that Iran said that they’re taking too long to get through the other one to measure it correctly. As you said, in an hour, they will have to pay the price. What did you mean by that? Well, we’re going to be attacking them. Attacking them very hard. Resuming bombing. Yeah, well, we are based on a helicopter. I guess we have the right to do that. You know, they shut down a very. Very incredible, actually. An incredible machine and. At first they said they didn’t do it. Then they admitted. Sort of easy because we have the we have the bomb, but actually have the bomb got very lucky. That bomb didn’t explode. That bomb was lodged in the helicopter. It didn’t explode. It was on fire, but it didn’t explode. So those two guys, they knew how to fly, but they got very lucky. And then we had the unmanned boat going very, very fast at speeds that you wouldn’t want to go. That’s why it’s unmanned, I guess, because nobody can go there. But they rescued. So the both of the people are fortunately, the pilots are okay now. No, I’ve been working with Iran for a number of months. And. They should. I signed. I love. It’s a good deal. It doesn’t give them the right to have a nuclear weapon. In fact, it totally prohibits them from ever having a nuclear weapon. And I was just tap, tap, tap. I don’t know what they’re doing. So they then shot out a shot at our helicopter, a very expensive helicopter, by the way. But much more importantly, the two men, fortunately, they’re okay. But an amazing rescue. If you ever get a clip, you won’t believe the rescue. How cool it was. The equipment we have look, we have the strongest military in the world. All right, So here’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to open the phone lines. We’ll take calls in a little while, and I’d like you to explain why. Israel was criticized 48 hours ago for attacking Iran, its missile sites, its launch sites, some of its factory production sites for these ballistic missiles and so forth. And pretty. Pretty strongly criticized. And this is okay. Are both okay? Aren’t both the right things to do? That’s my question to you. Let’s go to cut to go. And I gave them a break at the request of Pakistan, a field marshal on the premises of Pakistan. The Muslim leadership there is no friend of ours. They’re no friend of India’s either. They are aligned with Russia, for the most part. And China. And the idea that they’re great mediators with us in Iran, I think has helped delay this significantly, quite frankly. Go ahead. We stopped them from going to war within a year or two and a nuclear war if it wasn’t for me. But they became friendly to me, very friendly. And they stayed close to Iran and they worked. And they still are working on trying them to do what’s right. But we want a deal that’s meaningful. We want a deal that works. We don’t want to just have a Barack Hussein Obama deal. JCPOA the worst deal that was a path to a nuclear is the exact opposite. You know, like on television. Oh, where they should have given that it was it was over was a short term deal. That deal was a path to a nuclear weapon. This is a path against a nuclear. You can’t have a nuclear weapon. It was a path to a nuclear weapon. They were developing during his administration to play a weapon. And I had a look. Central Command just put out a statement. That that forces began launching additional self-defense strikes. So maybe that’s the key to call them self-defense strikes, Rich. Additional self-defense strikes today at 5:15 p.m. Eastern Time against multiple targets in Iran at the commander in chief’s decision and excuse me, direction. The strikes are in response to Iran’s unwarranted and continued aggression. Okay, I’m agreeing with that 100%. I’m agreeing with that 100%. If you have a country that wants to defend itself against Iran’s aggression, our common enemy, Iran. I don’t think you start hammering away at that country in their prime minister. I think we. We applied it. Look, folks, if there’s ever a deal, it’s not going to last beyond the Trump presidency. If a Democrat comes in, they’ll wrap it up all their or they’ll sabotage it. And I don’t even see a Republican who would send in our military to enforce this or that or some other aspect of it. I really don’t. And that’s been my position. It’s consistent, private, public, however you want to say. We’ll be right back.

Segment 2
When the president was asked in the Oval Office today, he said what we are thinking. He does know what Iran’s doing. So they’re negotiating and then these guys are doing what they do. They’re they’re attacking us, they’re attacking their neighbors and so forth and so on. But isn’t that the point, folks? There are no two factions, okay? They are all radicals. If there were a so-called moderate faction, they would have been wiped out by now. I think what Iran is doing is they’re playing a game. That’s what they’re doing. And I think they’re going to eventually push this president too far. Some of us, many of you in the audience who’ve called in to this program have already said that. I just think it’s time to get this over with if we want to, with the midterms, if we want to get the economy booming, it’s actually doing pretty well under the circumstances. Then let’s finish them off. Let’s do it. And we certainly should have been arming the people there. I don’t know if we are, but I don’t think so. We certainly should have been. You have elements in our country that are opposed to it. So what? You always have elements in our country that are opposed to it. You just got to do the right thing and that’s the right thing in this circumstance. Let’s say we get a great deal, whatever that means. And as you know, again, I’ll just repeat, I don’t believe these are enforceable over time. But let’s say we get the quote unquote, great deal. And let’s say they start firing off missiles again and ballistic missiles at Israel’s. Israel are supposed to sit their ballistic missiles at at the UAE. Are they just supposed to sit still for that or let’s say they they have Hezbollah fire, a couple thousand missiles and Israel’s Israel’s hands going to be tied? What is in other words, what is the end game here? How is that supposed to work? I do worry about that. Because it gets a little confusing. You’re dealing with an enemy here, an enemy that is not going to be circumspect, an enemy that is not going to correct its ways. This is why it exists. Ladies and gentlemen. This is why it exists, period. And it’s not going to change. And 47 years of this, there’s simply not going to change. That’s a fact. The vice president was asked by the daily, What is it daily? What’s the British paper? Daily? Daily Mail. Sorry. That’s right. And they were he was asked. He said, you know, Netanyahu, I mean, our and Israel, our positions aligned with them and so forth. And he said not all the time. And we have to do what we have to do. And. Well, has Netanyahu made mistakes? He’s yes, he’s made mistakes and so forth. And so my question is, why don’t the media ever ask the vice president or the president? About Qatar. Saudi Arabia. Or the the dictator in Turkey or even G for that matter. Ask those kinds of questions. They don’t. Well, why is that? Because they should. It’s very weird. Very weird indeed. And the left wing media in Israel is having a. Field day with these these comments that the president has made, just like the podcasters here, the woke right, neo fascist podcasters, among others. They have a field day with this stuff. We have an alliance. We have an ally. They have fought with us very bravely. They’ve been through hell fighting a war with Hamas. Given what Hamas has done to its own people. When you have an ally that’s strong and that’s working with us and fighting with us and putting their lives on the line just like we are in pursuit of the same goal. Sometimes there’s disagreements, things of that sort, but I don’t think they should be publicly aired. I really don’t. Because the enemy sees this and they think that there’s a division. They think that there’s weakness. And again, it’s not unusual. Like Churchill and FDR, as I explained, I think it was on Sunday’s Fox show, by the way, two great Fox shows coming all year. It’s a little early, but I’m excited about it. Saturday night. It’ll be John Fetterman. And he’s getting harder and harder to book, believe it or not. But he’s he likes me and I like him a lot. Now, of course, he doesn’t vote like a Republican. He’s a Democrat, but he’s an all time moderate, liberal Democrat. He’s not a radical nutjob. And that’s that’s what you want from the Democrats these days, right? They’re not going to be Republicans. But it’s preferable that it’s not, you know, like Plattner, a Nazi turned communist or this guy out of New Jersey who’s al Qaeda aligned and so forth. I mean, that’s crazy as far as I’m concerned. As far as you’re concerned, too. I know we’re also going to have Nathan Sales, who is terrific, may not be familiar with his name, but he’s terrific. Sunday, we’re going to have Jack Keane as well and another guest we’re working on for you. When I have them, I will announce it to you. But I think you’re going to like it very much. Now, there was something here I’m looking for. Just give me a second. We’re alive and national. And let’s see here. Here it is. Here it is. Erdogan says Israel’s aggression. Threatens Turkey, entire Mediterranean region. Now you know who this guy is. We’ve talked about him. He also said there were initiatives led by Israel to destabilize the Mediterranean region. Now this guy wants to rebuild the Ottoman Empire. So all these guys are had cases. They’re real head cases. And he says the attacks on Syria and Lebanon, keep in mind Israel’s attacks on Syria are in defense or were in the past. They’re not attacking Syria right now, but they were in defense of Christians and Druze and other minorities. In Syria and there. Attacks in Lebanon are not on the Lebanon Lebanese people. It’s Hezbollah. Erdogan. Truth be told, has been aligned with Iran. Erdogan has been aligned with Qatar. Erdogan helped fund Hamas leadership in Hamas. In addition to Qatar, we’re provided. Very expensive, luxurious housing and protection in Turkey. In Turkey, Turkey’s NATO member, although people are wondering why. But he goes on this long attack, verbal attack on Netanyahu was Hitler, and they’re trying to expand their authority, you know. They sound like they want great podcasters here. And when in fact, what’s happening is Erdogan, Syria, the new government there, is very close to Erdogan, and Erdogan supports Hezbollah. And unfortunately, we have an envoy or an ambassador to Turkey who is horrific. Thomas Barrack.

Segment 3
Well that didn’t take long the board is full. The question on the table for you and the audience Mr. and Mrs. America is. Why do we criticize Israel for attacking Iran after they fired 11 ballistic missiles into their country aimed at their population centers, which could kill thousands? And we’re on our second night of bombing Iran, and I’m all for it. Please don’t misunderstand. If somebody out there misunderstands, they’re wanting to misunderstand. So I’ll go right down the list. Danny. Houston, Texas. Sirius XM satellite. How are you? Great. Sir, I’m honored to talk to you. You Mark, my attitude on this war is changing very quickly, and I’ll tell you why. I’m an Iraq Afghanistan veteran. I’m war weary, Mark. I hate war. I really do. And I’ve been listening to your show and I’ve told you before, I’ve talked to you before. And I told you there’s no greater intellect on the radio waves. I respect what you say. And I believed all your arguments. I agree with all your arguments. But sometimes it is hard for me to even listen because I’m just war weary. But the last few days, I’m starting to wonder if I’m becoming more of a hawk than Donald Trump. Because why are we playing these games? First of all, let Israel off the leash. Let them do whatever they need to do to defend themselves. But secondly, these mullahs are playing you. They’re playing you. They’re going to drag out negotiations forever. And the negotiations, if that’s what you want to call it, our negotiations with them should be. Look, we took out the leaders above you. Here’s our demands. Do you want to accept them or do you want us to present them to whoever comes up next after you, when you, as the great Rush Limbaugh would say, have assumed room temperature? I’m done with these games. I’m done. I think your attitude is very widespread and I think a lot of people are tired of we’re a few days away from a deal, only this would happen and that would happen. I really do. I think a lot of people are worn out from this and they want this regime destroyed. And, you know, but you know who’s worn out the most from this? My friend, the Persian people and American Iranians. You’re looking at this. I’m sure they’re they’re wearing a neck brace at this point. Their heads are being twisted so much one way or the other. But I think can be fairly said that we did everything we could to negotiate something if that was the point. But they’re firing off at the Arab countries. They’re using Hezbollah to fire at Israel and they’re firing at Israel directly. And then we’re admonishing Israel when they fight back. And then I don’t get that because then for the last two nights, including tonight, we’re firing at them for hitting a helicopter, which is bad, and we should hit them. But I don’t know why we’re we’re tapping the gas pedal. You know, I don’t know why we’re not full on and let’s get it over with and let’s take these guys out. That’s kind of your point, right, Danny? Exactly. And, you know, if it was up to the mullahs, we’d be negotiating this come November. That’s what they want. I think it’s going to hurt us if we don’t get this resolved. I really do. That doesn’t mean we would have won the midterms in the first place. And it doesn’t mean we won’t win the midterms. I just don’t think this is helpful from a political perspective. Victory is very good politically as an additional point. All right, my friend, thank you for your service very, very much. We appreciate it. Let’s go to Esther in Brooklyn, New York, the great ABC. How are you? Oh, well, I am very grateful that the president is finally letting loose on Iran. I think that should have been done weeks ago because they were playing him like a fiddle. There’s no explanation for attacking publicly attacking Israel, for publicly criticizing them. It reminded me of the Iraq war when George H.W. Bush told Israel to stand down while Saddam Hussein was blowing off Scuds and knocking down and destroying apartment complexes in Israel. I’m wondering you know, I’m wondering I mean, this could be conjecture on my part. Karl Rove was a few weeks ago or maybe, yeah, a couple of months ago praising Trump. Is there any possibility he’s working in the Trump administration? No. No way. I can’t imagine that. I can’t imagine that Condoleezza Rice apparently is was very hostile toward the Trump administration, but now has come to the White House from time to time. I don’t know what she’s doing there, but she wrote a very nice op ed in The Wall Street Journal. Look, my attitude is the president brought us to this spot where no other president had the guts to do it. That operation, what are we called, Mr. Fury or whatever it’s called Epic Fury. Epic Fury was spectacular. And then all of a sudden we went into a cease fire like two or three weeks in. And I said right here. And other people have said, Why did we do that? I don’t know. I think we should get the job done. Get the job done. Job done. Okay. All right, Astrid, thanks for your call. We’ll keep moving here, Charles. I’m going right down the line. Beverly Hills, Florida. Sirius XM satellite. Charles, how are you? I’m doing great. Mark, in answer to your question. Let me say I’ve been a fervent supporter of Donald Trump, but I’m beginning to think that this is becoming a problem of ego on his part. He wants to be able to sort of 1938 ish Chamberlain wave a paper that says we have a peace deal in our time and you are not going to know you are a student of history. As am I. Go back to the Second World War. We bombed the living hell out of Germany, but it still required ground troops. They had a big Nazi slide. Now you very correctly call these people Islamo Nazis. You are not going to solve this problem from the air. You can try all you want, and we’re not going to be able to send troops in because there’s no support for that regardless. So arm the Iranian people. There’s a lot of them. And they want to take out this regime. That’s what I find so problematic. But I think then the goals are really not achievable. Those they are. I think we destroyed the Soviet Union without any troops on the ground. And I think we can destroy Iran by arming the Iranians. I really do. I definitely do. Still there? Well, I would hope. I would hope you’re right, but I. Well, we don’t try and I won’t know. And neither will you. That’s the damn problem. Well, I suspect that they are trying not to learn the need to sever not some arms. Well, all right. My brother, I get I get your frustration. I really do. And I appreciate the call very much. Let’s go to Vic. Los Angeles, but he’s listening on streaming from WGN. Oh, there you go. Vic, how are you? Yes, I love you. And from the very beginning. In a manly way, of course. Yes. Yes. Thank you. All right, let’s think about this first. You keep criticizing him. He needs that and he wants that. I am not criticizing him. I’m talking about the issues. You see. I do this differently than the woke, right? Neo fascist are not attacking the president. I’m asking questions that I know are on the minds of millions of you. They’re on my mind. They’re on my family’s mind. My friends, mine. They’re on everybody’s mind. Go ahead. So what you’re saying is correct. I’m not criticizing you for criticizing him. He wants you recruit to do this. This is a strategy, Mark. Make no mistake. And let’s back them up. This is a brilliant man. Okay? He wants to bring that every important thing together. He needs to go show them. He will go after nothing else. You actually believe that Netanyahu own friends? We know that this is it work. And everybody out there, all these guys, they have a right to feel the way they do. But don’t underestimate Trump. Okay? Don’t underestimate who is underestimating Trump. What we want him. I don’t think anybody is underestimating Trump. What we’re saying is let’s get this over with militarily. And that’s not happening, although tonight is a good night. I realize, not give him his time. He knows you’re not going to give him his time. Nine weeks is a long time. And I’m not going to sit on my hands and come behind this microphone and just say, everything is swell. It’s gone great. Everything’s swell. It’s gone great. That’s not believable. People are not going to want to hear it. And I don’t blame them because that’s not true. You’re right. You’re absolutely correct. And that’s exactly what we want you to do. All right, my friend. Thank you. I’m confused by that call. Missed, but it’s okay. Sounds like a very nice guy. Vic sounds like a good man. Okay, let’s see. Let’s go to Robert. Declare a California the great castle for Robert. How are you? Great, Mark. Thank you. We’re going to have to be eternal vigilance and we’re going to have to make the headway of practical purposes of defining. And I wish we could get the message out against all the stupid demagogues like my Mr. Braised personal convenience. I’m so intellectual. The Tucker Carlson and the freaks like Fuentes and are the ones that we’re all the Islamic demagogues. The dialectic needs to be convinced. A lot of people in the world that wish we could get a coalition of the willing. And yet it seems that there’s a far, far few of the European leaders to get people to be vigilant on Iran. We’re going to have to deal with this type of mentality because they just do not they’re sneaky, They’re not to be trusted. And we have to defang and we’re going to have to put up posters everywhere. And they’re going to have to find a way to get energy independent outside of being dependent on these buffoons over there in there. I would love to give them business, but if they’re not going to want to, I’m all with Trump, you know, defang him and we’re going to have to get past the mind viruses of stupid that, you know, we can’t police the world. We have to police the world. We have to plan to police this, because if they get a nuclear weapon, they’re going to kill us. It’s that simple that people who say, no, they don’t know what they’re talking about. Thanks. All right, brother. Thank you for your call. We’ll take some more calls on this because I’m very curious what you think about this and this being. We are hitting Iran tonight. I don’t know the extent of it. We hit Iran last night. The president says we have a right to do it because they hit our helicopter. It seems to me we have a right to do it, period. But that said. Three nights ago, the Israelis hit Iran because they fired 11 ballistic missiles at them and they were admonished in the strongest terms and publicly and repeatedly in the press. I’m asking you why. Why, when they’re defending their homeland, which is right in the neighborhood from ballistic missiles and the potential death of tens of thousands of their citizens, why would we do that? And yet here, because the helicopters hit. That’s what was said. We’re heading home two nights in a row. Shouldn’t we be united like we were at the beginning of this war? Epic fury, fighting side by side. Our fighters right next to each other. Everything coordinated beautifully to take out this regime. That’s my position. All right. We’ll be right back.

Segment 4
We’ll continue this somewhat into the next hour just because there’s so many and the board keeps filling up immediately. Let’s go to Paul, Toronto, Canada, our friend there, Sirius XM satellite. Go. Hi there, Mark. I’d like to for a moment, if you don’t mind talking on the same subject. Shift the focus to Lebanon, where Trump insisted a couple of weeks ago on linking the ceasefire in Iran to a ceasefire in Lebanon. And I don’t understand the point of that because Lebanon, to Iran, is nothing more than a weapon to use against Israel. And by delinking it, Trump would have been taking away from Iran a a power that is as significant as their ballistic missiles and probably not quite as severe as their nuclear power. But he would have taken away from them the ability to strike an enemy. Let me say this you are 100% correct. I even posted on this today. Iran is desperate to get Lebanon into this agreement. The Lebanese president said they want nothing to do with Iran or any agreement because they’re doing that to try and leverage Hezbollah against Israel. And they said that they have nothing to do with Lebanon and it’s terrorist activities. The people of Lebanon are sick and tired of Hezbollah, which took that country over in the mid 1980s. The government of Lebanon is not strong enough and their military is not strong enough to stop them. We know that because there was an agreement in 1983, if two Menachem Begin leading the IDF, had to go into Lebanon to try and stop Hezbollah from attacking Israel from there again. So Iran believes its lifeline goes through Lebanon to Hezbollah. And so they’ve been firing missiles into northern Israel and just giving the the nations some background relentlessly daily that their northern Israel has been effectively depopulated. It’s a tiny country the size of New Jersey. I want you to think about 20, 25% of northern New Jersey having to be depopulated, having to move to the central part. Now they’re hitting central Israel. And Israel’s going in. Said, We’re not putting up with this. And they went in and the head of the snake, that is the nerve center, their headquarters is right outside Beirut. And they were told don’t hit Beirut. And Israel said, we’re going to hit whatever we have to hit. And so they hit it. And then Iran fired 11 ballistic missiles into Israel, stating specifically, as long as Israel attacks Hezbollah, there can be no peace. The other could be no deal at all. And we will defend Hezbollah. And so then we step in because Israel then responds to Iran like we’re responding to Iran tonight. And we did last night and we’re admonishing Netanyahu, including publicly. And so they hit one of our helicopters two days ago. And so all hell breaks loose and I’m glad we’re pounding the hell out of them. And so this is why I’ve presented the question, and you make a very, very important point, Paul, which is Iran is going to desperately try and keep, excuse me, drag Lebanon into any agreement. And the concern there is that means Israel will not have the capacity to defend itself. Iran will determine what Hezbollah will do and whether Israel’s security is safe. Of course, it won’t be because of Israel responds. Israel will be accused of violating our deal. This is your concern, Correct? But it takes away the power from the people of Lebanon to define their own future. Well, of course. Of course it does. It would be insane to allow the Iranians to get away with that. I’m glad you pointed that out. It’s very important. We’ll be right back.