June 18th, 2026

Rough transcription of Hour 1

Segment 1
Hello America.  Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811.  877-381-3811. Me on my own pizza pie. Me or my pizza. But you know what? Let’s open the phones. 877-381-3811. I wasn’t even going to do this. I’ve now spooked Mr. Producer and Mr. Call Screener. You know what’s interesting, ladies and gentlemen, to me? You look at these NAITO countries. And not one of them helped us in this war. Now, one. You look at. What England, with its quisling leader, so-called leader Starmer, has done to their military, has done to their country. He won’t lift a finger to support us. You look at France Macron. The president spent a lot of time with him. I’m not sure why, but he won’t lift a finger to help us either. Troubling, isn’t it? We’re taking a third of our jets out of there, apparently. Then you look at this little country of Israel, nine, nine and a half million people. The third largest air force in the world. Some of the best fighters in the world, some of the best intelligence in the world. We didn’t go to war with Iran on our own. The president decided to go to war. He wanted to take out those nukes correctly. Absolutely. 100%. And we allied with Israel. The Saudis weren’t involved. Qatar wasn’t involved. Egypt wasn’t involved. Turkey, a narrow country. They weren’t involved. Who was involved? So together, the United States and Israel were a12 punch, incredibly powerful. Within 24 hours, Khamenei was taken out. The top tier was taken out. That took a lot of intelligence, mostly the Mossad and human intelligence in Iran that had been working with Israel from day one. Our Air Force, our Navy. The munitions we have are second to none. And Israel is a mighty, mighty powerful force for a tiny country, for any country. Israel has a larger air force than France and a larger air force than England, for God’s sakes, and a larger air force than Germany. And it’s now selling advanced technology, military technology to Germany and India and Greece and other countries. It has improved our F-35. It improved our Bradley. Because of so many battles that they’ve had to fight. So why would we pick a fight with Israel? What is going on. They are out of control. Is the prime Minister an issue? Well, they weren’t out of control and he wasn’t an issue last June when they cleared the field for 12 days in Iran. And they weren’t out of control and the Prime Minister wasn’t a problem when we decided to go to war on February 28th. As I recall, our great secretary of war and our great head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Haig said. Then came they had daily press conferences talking about the great achievements of our military, side by side. In fact, talking about like they’ve they’ve never done this before. We’ve never seen anything like this before. Now, three months later. Netanyahu is a crazy if. He can’t be restrained. Because Hezbollah is firing missiles. And flying drones into their country. On a daily basis under what’s called a cease fire. And they’re literally having to move their population depopulating northern Israel. Now, that’s like depopulating northern New Jersey. It’s a tiny country. And then they started firing these. These missiles and sending these drones into central Israel all at the direction of Iran, all at the direction of Iran. Now this Hezbollah has murdered. Hundreds and hundreds of our service personnel. Including Marines, over 200 Marines in a marine barracks in Beirut. I believe J.D. Vance was a marine, wasn’t he, Mr. Peterson? They blew up two of our embassies. Killed over 100 of our personnel. Khobar Towers. In Saudi Arabia, more military personnel slaughtered. That’s just three instances. Hezbollah. Was never part of Lebanon. Hezbollah was sent into Lebanon by Iran in the late seventies, during the revolution in the early eighties. They assassinated the president, the duly elected president of Lebanon. Lebanon really was a beautiful, beautiful country right there on the Mediterranean. People had to flee. It was a majority Christian country. Now it’s about 35%, 40% Christian. They are abused. They are killed. They don’t want Hezbollah there. The government’s not strong enough to push them out because the government has been infiltrated by Hezbollah. The army’s too weak. It can’t it can’t outgun Hezbollah. And Hezbollah has remained as the most powerful. Military force that Iran has given what Israel and the United States did to Iran. So Israel is left by itself to fight Iran’s Hezbollah wing. The problem is Iran won’t make an agreement unless we agree and the Arab countries agree that Israel leaves Lebanon. And stops firing in self-defense. Now we get some mealy mouthed gibberish from our side. Which says, Yeah, you can do it. Just don’t do too much. Don’t do it on Fridays, you know, don’t. It’s it’s just absurd in the middle of a war. Israel is not the first one yet again to fire at Hezbollah. Hezbollah fires in Israel, but they want to preemptively do to Hezbollah what we and they did preemptively to Iran. They want to put an end to this. The Lebanese government, the president there, has made statement after statement saying Iran has no right to drag us into this agreement, that Iran has no say in our sovereign nation and they want Hezbollah disarmed and removed. So who is going to disarm and remove Hezbollah? In the early 1980s, there was an agreement signed that Hezbollah would be disarmed and removed. They ripped it up in two years. And there they are decades later. But we so desperately want a deal, and I understand it. But I’m focusing on one specific point. That’s the language and item number one. Basically says. Actually says. That there are that the there will be a cessation of military operations. And that war is permanently ended, permanently ended even before we have a final deal. And. Within that construct. We include Lebanon. Now, you know Iran’s going to have Hezbollah, as it did during the ceasefire, as it did today, by the way, fire multiple missiles into Israel. And, you know, Israel’s not going to put up with that for long. Israel is not England. Israel is not France. And so it will be Israel that is going to be blamed. That’s the setup if the deal, quote unquote, doesn’t go through. Now we know that. The NRA knows that. So what’s going on here? Well, the enemy sees this and you know what they say, man, are those Americans desperate? So Hezbollah, you keep fine missiles in there. And if Israel responds, of course, we’ll break down the whole thing. So the vice president made statements today. You can go online and catch it yourself. That I thought were. Way over the top he’s accusing Cabinet members of. They were attacking Donald Trump. We went back and looked. Others have gone back. And look, we can’t find any such thing. I can’t find it. If it’s there, somebody, I’ll find where we can find it. If you’re going to say it as vice president, then you need to have the receipts. And if not, you need to apologize. And it’s not the first place or the last place where he’s done this. And then he says, you know, you get two thirds your arms from us. First of all, how does he has that number off the top of his head? And so the alliance in which Israel provides an enormous amount of intelligence, and they said today, hey, look, we have provide you with an extreme number of intelligence. We saved a lot of American lives. We wanted to do that. And we have a. An expert, John Spencer, who’s written at length and I’ve posted it, how the Israelis take our equipment and improve it because they’re actually battle hardened and much of our stuff is not. They think they’ve improved the F-35, they’ve improved most of our our land vehicles. They’ve improved other jets. They’ve improved our missiles and they just give us the technology. They’re at the cutting edge of lasers. They’re giving us the technology. Much of the technology we’re going to use for the Golden Globe, even though they don’t get credit from the administration, is from Israel. And the Germans are buying that technology, as are other countries. This isn’t to brag about Israel’s pat them on the back. This is to say what was said about them and our relationship. Was very inappropriate. Moreover, what wasn’t said also was that the vast majority of money that they’ve been getting of the $3.8 billion, think about that, $3.8 billion. The $3.8 billion never leaves our country. 3.3 billion of it stays right here and goes right into our industries, paying for American jobs and pensions and. And health care. Right here. It’s just a budget. A budget change. That is, they move one number from the book to this book. I’m not denying it happens. I’m just explaining it’s not. Oh, here’s $3.8 billion from the Treasury. Do whatever you want with it. That’s not what it is. It is very troubling to me. But that that’s. That’s the way they’re treated in a memorandum of understanding after they fought side by side with us. You don’t treat an ally that way or you’re not going to have a lot of allies. That’s the problem with Nada. We have allies and in name only, on paper only. And we may well need them again because Iran’s not going away. $300 billion. I looked it over. I’ve heard how this was explained, but the way it’s being explained isn’t the way it’s in the memorandum of understanding. The bottom line for you folks is this They’re going to get around 300 billion. Could be more. Not directly from us. First, it’ll be given to Muhammad. Then we’ll give it to Spencer. Spencer will give it to Nancy. Nancy will give it to Fred. And then Fred will give it to. The Iranian regime. Okay, big deal. We’re going to lift sanctions immediately. We have $24 billion of their money. They’re going to get the $24 billion. The Straits of Hormuz was opened immediately, and it’s reduced the price of gasoline, which is what we’ve wanted here. But it’s not just that. There’s only a 60 day period. A 60 day period, two months. In which what happens in which there’s free, unadulterated passage. After that, the Iranians can charge and hence the Iranians will manage it. That has never been accepted before. When they tried that under Reagan, he blew half their Navy away in 24 or 48 hours. And it’s a bad precedent because communist China has claimed the South China Sea as its it’s built all these phony islands. No, that’s international navigable waters. The Straits of Hormuz. That’s international navigable waters. But not after this. Not after this. On the nuclear part and the enriched uranium part is all the way down. Number eight out of number 14. Number eight. And it doesn’t say anything about how this will be handled. Nothing. Nothing definitive. But don’t worry, Marc, It’ll be 60 days worth. Well, don’t give up leverage. Don’t give up leverage before that issue. Nuclear weapons and nuclear dust, that is. Uranium. Is it resolved? It has to be resolved. Ballistic missiles aren’t covered. Don’t Fonterra organizations that’s not covered. So I raise all these things because I want them to improve what’s been done in the next 60 days in this deal That is inevitable. I’ll be right back.

Segment 2
So let me tell you what nobody else is going to tell you in this business. Not one. The I see. The ambassador to the U.S. from Israel posted the following on Twitter yesterday. Hamas fired into Israel at 1015, one ad at 1057 to explosive UAV at 1235, nine rockets at 1237, two rockets at 1251, one ballistic missile at 1256. Two rockets at 1304, six rockets at 1653. Two rockets had 1731 three rockets. 1736 one rocket at 1824. Two rockets and 1839 five rockets at 1855 rockets and 1854 two rockets at 1912. Five rockets in 1921. Four rockets 1937 three rockets, 1946 six rockets, 1256 six rockets. That’s just yesterday. Didn’t sound like two drones in the middle of the desert to me. I’ll be right back.

Segment 3
All right. Senator Ted Cruz on Capitol Hill. Somebody named Nicholas Blow say sticks her mike in his face. Cut one go. Sure. If you could share your reaction to the Iran deal And Democrats saying they think the frozen assets could lead to more terror in the region. Senator Cruz, does he love giving billions of dollars to secret lunatics who want to murder us is not a good idea. I think the president, unfortunately, is receiving bad advice on this deal. What about the tolls for the restraints? Another one that Democrats are criticizing him for, setting up Iran to be in charge in the Strait of Hormuz in perpetuity and tend to charge tolls is not in America’s interests. In my view. The ayatollah should not receive a single penny, a penny from from the free transit of the seas. Do any of you disagree with that? I’m just curious, Colin, if you agree. Disagree. Why is that controversial? That used to be the the norm. Well, they hear he’s running for president. Well, so what if he is? A lot of people want to run for president. What does that have to do with anything? Well, that’s why he’s saying it. No, he’s not. Ted Cruz is one of the most principled people I’ve ever meet. But that position he’s taken has been our position of our government, including in the first term. Of the president. I mean, this is just common sense, right? Now, I think one of the reasons we agreed to some kind of a $300 billion fund of some kind that we wouldn’t fund, that somebody else would find and they get if they stand on their head and count to seven or whatever. I think the Iranians demanded reparations early on. We read about them. We talked about that they wanted reparations. And I think what they did is they conceded a point of giving them access to money. And any way you cut it, they were going to use that to rearm. They’re going to use that to reinforce. And that’s been done with them before. You’re not going to buy these people off. Okay. You’re not going to buy them off when they believe Allah wants us slaughtered. And anybody else who doesn’t comply. And we see elements of this in our own country, don’t we? With the radical Islamists, these imams, what they saying? What? You know, imagine a whole country run by this. Imagine that. Mm hmm. Now. And the big fan, my wife. We’re both big fans of Pete Hague’s that the secretary of war. She’s known him a long time. I’ve known him a little while. Fairly long time, but not a long, long time. But anyway, he’s a good guy. Is a great patriot. And he’s at the Naito Defense Ministerial meeting in Belgium today. Now he’s going to have to say things to these European governments that he never would have to say to the Israeli government. In other words, the Israeli government doesn’t need to be told to step up. You need to spend more on your defense. Why are you always leaving it to us? You’re not contributing your fair share. You’ve never heard them say that about Israel. Have you? You know that Netanyahu. We can’t control him. He wants to shoot down buildings. And so I just read to you from yesterday that I’m sure there’s a list somewhere today. All the missiles and the kind of missiles that were fired into Israel yesterday. They weren’t two drones in the middle of a desert. And it was constant. It’s constant. That’s what terrorism is all about. It is a constant terror constant. Terrible. Again. Thursday. What’s a Wednesday? 1015 in the morning. One IED. 1057. Two explosive waves. 1235. Nine rockets. 1237. Two rockets. 1251 A ballistic missile. 1256 two rockets. 1304 six rockets its constant. 1653 two rockets, 1731 three rockets. 1738 one rocket. 1824 two rockets. 1839. We’re talking about 639 in the evening. Five rockets. 1855 rockets. 1854 two rockets. 1912. Five rockets. 1921. Four rockets. So the people are in a constant state of. You know, sheltering. And so they move. They have to leave their homes and their businesses. 1937. Three rockets. 1946. Six rockets. 2056. Six rockets and so forth. Then the next day begins. 1 a.m.. Five terrorists approached for a defense line. They killed them. 657 in the morning, one explosive UAV. 728 one Explosive UAV. 816 two explosive UAV waves. 823 Another explosive UAV. 851 IED explosion. It goes on and on and on. So I ask you if you live in New Jersey. And if something like this was going on, they were shooting these rockets from New York into New Jersey. And your governor said, you know what, we have to depopulate northern Jersey. 25% of our landmass. You need to you need to get out of there, you know. Newark, New Jersey. All the counties up there, Ridgewood, New Jersey, all the little towns, the big towns. We need to evacuate you to central central New Jersey. Then the rockets start to fly in the central New Jersey. That’s not to drones in the middle of a desert. And that’s what they’re facing. Let me let me pick another place, as I have been for Mexico. Right over the border in Mexico. All these rockets. A ballistic missile. Morning, noon and night. Let’s say they’re shot in the South Texas. You have to depopulate the entirety of South Texas to Central Texas. You’d have to populate Houston. Houston, Texas. And they’re finding tunnels more sophisticated than Hamas because they had more money. They’re finding massive inventories of more missiles. And they have said you can play defense, but not too rough. And they’re saying, wait a minute, we need to go after these people. And the head of the snake is in and around Beirut. Well, you can’t go near Beirut. And you do what you’re told. Do what you’re told. Now, this is after we fought shoulder to shoulder against the enemy. And then they’re told, you know, if we hadn’t done this, you would have been blown off the face of the earth. No, they wouldn’t have been blown off the face of the earth. Just look what they did last June. It was their forces for 12 days. Who cleared the path. I think there’s a lot of people whispers. They’re very hostile to our country. They’re like the woke, right? Isolationist pacifists, appeasers. We’re very giddy right now. They’re happy. They’re happy. They want to see Hezbollah defeat Israel. They want to see Iran defeat us. And I want to remind you something, underscore this. It’s very, very important. You’re very, very important. For 47 years. With very few exceptions. We did not hit back militarily against this enemy. Reagan did it once, some of the others did it now and then, but nothing significant like Trump did. The launch of this military operation against Iran was noble, spectacular, historic and completely successful. Then we then we hit the brakes. I believe somebody thought we’d done enough. Now let’s let’s negotiate. It was too soon because the military had another two weeks of targets they wanted to hit. How do we know? Because they said so. Two more weeks. But we couldn’t. We couldn’t be patient enough, in my view, to do it. So that’s where we are. And it is my hope that this 60 day period will be extended beyond that. And then as I proposed after the election, if that’s the aim here. Then we can act in a much more aggressive way. I don’t know that that’s the case. People surmise. I. I hope it is, but that would give us the opportunity. If we lose the midterm elections, it won’t be over this war. I just looked at the latest poll, over 80% of the public. You know what the number one issue is? The economy. Is that a surprise to anybody? It’s the economy. Now it’s a big deal, the economy. It was always going to be the economy was the economy before this war. It’s the economy now, and it’ll be the economy on Election Day. And what the Republicans be capable of making an argument. Even with gas prices going down and interest rates steady and so forth and so on, that’s my concern. Do they even know how to debate affordability? Health care for all. And here’s another problem. There’s another problem we’re going to talk about this Saturday on Life, Liberty and living with our friend Joe Concha. A significant percentage over a majority. Of the Democrats believe in socialism over capitalism. Did you know that, Mr. Producer? So how do you even make an argument to these people? They want the government they want government redistribution, They want high taxes that they know they’ll avoid, but others will pay. That’s what we’re up against. It always amazes me that these so-called socialists live in a capitalist system. In which they earn a good living, or they can earn a good living. They work. They live a great life while preaching socialism. They don’t live in a socialist system. They live in a capitalist system. Preaching socialism is amazing. Many of them are multi-billionaires. We’ve already talked about Bernie Sanders. He not only has three homes and is worth millions, he flies private. So does AOC private jets. And when Bernie Sanders was asked about it, what did he say? You don’t want to wait in line. But why line? Well, you know what socialism is all about? Waiting in lines, bread lines, empty shelves, waiting in lines. Waiting in lines. Why? Because socialism isn’t. An economic ideology built on prosperity and wealth creation. It’s built on redistribution and jealousy. I’ll be right back.

Segment 4
And by the way, callers will get to at the top of the next hour. So don’t hang up. You’ve been waiting a long time all hour. I know. I promise you. Well, looky here, ladies and gentlemen, The New York Post World News. Iran promises to help Hezbollah. Once assets are unfrozen, sanctions are lifted. What do you think of that? JD, What are you going to do about this? What are you going to do about it, brother? Iran’s initial peace deal with the US sets the stage for Tehran to bolster Hezbollah’s financial and political grip in Lebanon. Once cash begins to flow from unfrozen funds and oil deals, which is immediately, according to a new report. Under the menu, Iran stands to gain hundreds of billions from postwar investment, sanctions, relief and unfrozen funds. Now you see the prime minister of Israel supposed to sit there and just shut up. He’s an ingrate. For having fought with us. Side by side against this enemy. Now, this would be a thousand times worse than what existed there before we went to war with Iran. And Iran is promising to use the reconstruction funds to prop up its battered terror proxy in Lebanon. Sources familiar with the dealing told Reuters. How many more of those people in Israel have to die? Because Western powerful countries told them to back off. Though their lives don’t mean anything. In fact, Tehran reportedly promised the inflow of cash to Hezbollah as soon as possible, paving the way for the group to rebuild its military wing and political arm in war torn Lebanon to regional diplomats and to senior Lebanese sources said. Hezbollah’s communications office confirmed Iran’s public support for the terror group, which it has propped up for decades, including a transfer of $1 billion last year, according to the U.S. Treasury Department. Why doesn’t that Netanyahu shut up? The media office insisted Iran would continue to support Hezbollah regardless of the details of the retrieval of its funds. I told you before, I will be proven right, but unfortunately the consequences will be grave. They’re not going to honor any deal. They’re going to do whatever they want to do once they get their money. And all the pressure is on little Israel to comply so they don’t screw up the deal. I just read to you a whole list of missiles that were fired yesterday. Can you imagine having to decide whether you’re going to take off our government versus defend your people is at that heart of a decision and yet, you know you’re going to be attacked. As an ingrate, you know you’re going to be attacked. Outrageous. Really? Absolutely outrageous. All right. That’s the clock. Say, Mr. Producer. And not enough time. So what we’re going to do as soon as we come back is start talking to you folks who’ve been waiting a very long time all over the country. It’s really a great honor to. When you folks call me, you want to talk about it and not from all over the country. I’ll give you an example. Oregon, Florida, Montana, Newark, California, Illinois. That’s why conservative talk radio is so fantastic. Because we really feel the pulse, a view of the people. We hear from you. And of course, I feel we’re a big, big radio family. And they don’t understand that online. They don’t understand that in TV. And that’s fine by me. All 14, some million of you. We’ll be right back.