July 8th, 2026

Rough transcription of Hour 1

Segment 1
Hello America. Mark Levin here.  Our number 877-381-3811.  877-381-3811. Obviously, a lot has been going on today. The enemy, the Islam or Nazi regime in Iran. Sank three ships yesterday in a period of 24 hours. These are tankers that do nothing but carry. Crude oil. And they fired ballistic missiles at a couple of our bases in Bahrain and I believe, Kuwait. Don’t hold me to that. But that’s my recollection. And the president United States today is made it abundantly clear that. He’s had it. At least for now. But he’s had it. And he’s quite furious with it. And CENTCOM, as I speak, is bombing Iran. Here’s what he had to say in part, Our president cut for go. We are actually and powerfully last night the very. Dangerous people from Iran. They’re sick. Is something wrong with them? We say go and do your funeral stuff. And instead of that, they said shooting rockets and ships yesterday. And so we had a very hard last night, very hard, I would say 20 to 1 and 20 times tougher than told every time you hit. We had. And of course, are dirty players. So they they go after everyone, probably including me. I’ve been number one on their list for years and they’re a bunch of scum. You want to know the truth of this scum? And so we don’t like him. And I don’t like him. And they’re evil people. And it’s the de-nuclearization of Iran. And we’re going to the nuke it. We’re not going to let them because they’re crazy and they can’t have a nuclear weapon. And they go around killing people. They killed thousands and thousands of our soldiers. They’ve killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people. They had the roadside bomb, Salomone. I took care of him first term, and it was a big thing because I think they probably would be a lot stronger had he been around because he was a bad guy. But he was. He was an evil genius, but a bad guy. This is the President Trump, when he speaks. This is what I really admire. Plain English. He’s made it abundantly clear now what’s going on here? Abundantly clear. Then this morning he said this cut five go with the Iran ceasefire possibly over are. Can we expect the resumption of the ongoing. They are behaving very badly as they have for 47 years. And, you know, we hit them hard last night after they launch. They launched a couple of. You don’t have to know about this. You got stuff on your mind. But they launched a couple of drones and one rocket, one missile and a chips as they were in the strait, which they have every right to be. And so we had a very hard last night, very, very probably at them hard again tonight. I give them a little warning. We’re going to hit them hard tonight, but we’ll see how it all works out. I know I’m not happy with them. Hmm. And he’s hitting them now hard. And by the way, some of the the frauds on the Internet, Alec Brazil. Switzer whatever his name is, they’ve forever humiliated themselves. They’ve been wrong from day one. They have deserved the president. They should be fired immediately. I don’t know what war room they think they’re working for, but it seems like they’re working for the Iranian war room. They had a clean house. This guy is a real lowlife and he’s undermined the president, the country, and our military with his propaganda online. I’m sure the enemy has loved it, but he’s been dead wrong. Oh, I don’t know. How many times I pointed out that the emoji would not last, that there were weaknesses in it. But this regime cannot be trusted. And I pointed out many, many times, Why? It was just a matter of time. Just a matter of time. And look, I felt from my perspective that we should not have tapped the brakes, that we should have gone full bore and ended it. People put all kinds of conditions on our military that’s not put on any other military on the face of the earth. You know, we used to complain about Obama putting conditions on our military and Biden putting conditions on our military, but the woke right puts conditions on our military. They’re not actually allowed to use the Marines in the Army. We might as well retire them. We shouldn’t be funding. Shouldn’t be funding the freedom fighters in their various countries. No, no, no, no. We can hit him from 35,000 feet up in the air. Or 500 miles off the shore. Then we shouldn’t do anything. Now, that is ridiculous. That is ridiculous. And I’m not sure how this is going to end. I have some ideas on what can be done, but. I think what the president is doing today is exactly right. He’s hammering them. I think we’ve got to take whatever economic options we have left. I thank God we didn’t give them the $324 billion, Mr. Producer. Not yet. These are all things I did warn about, just as a matter of logic and common sense. President. Cut. Six. Go. Last month, you said Iranian leaders were very rational people. Nice people to deal with. Strong people. Smart people. Today you said they were scum, sick people and being led by sick people. What changed and do you think I got to know so well? I’ve said that about a lot. Now, when you say rational, I think they’re much more rational than level one. Level two, Level one is gun. Level two is gun. This is level three. I think they are more rational, but based on their actions over the last week or two, they’re not they’re not doing a service to the people. And I think more than anything else, since they got to know them and I’m not sure I want to make a deal with them, we can play games, but I’m not sure I want to make it the legit finish the job. Hmm. And sad to say, I knew it would end like this, but it just did. Because the enemy is is an open book. You knew it, too, when we took calls here. Scores and scores and scores of calls. Every single one of me said, No, finish it. They can’t be trusted. And so forth and so on. Well, you’re right. And the president’s right right now. The president’s correct right now. I hope I hope this is maintained throughout. I’m sure there are people advising him who leaked Axios and other radical left wing media operations who keep talking about. Deals and negotiations and that Netanyahu’s too tough an. On and on and on in the warmongers in the war hawks like Levin. I’m not a warmonger and I’m not a war hawk, but I know the enemy when I see it. These are Islamist Nazis. They are every bit. As animalistic and I mean it in the worst sense of the word. As I’ve said, they are. Because they are what they are. They slaughter their own people, which we don’t even talk about anymore. We’ll be right back.

Segment 2
President Trump at the NATO’s conference in Turkey today. Cut seven. Go. You know, the life of a president is very dangerous. It’s 5.2%. You know what a race car driver is 1/10 of 1%, a bull rider. That looks pretty dangerous to me. It’s 1/10 of 1%. No, it’s 5.2% is. You don’t make it clear. You should tell me You’re an excellent reporter. You should have told me that years ago. Maybe I wouldn’t have run. It’s a very dangerous profession. No, I’m number one on the kill list for Iran. They’re lovely people. I’m number one, so I don’t know. I can’t tell you that. But I don’t really care because I’m doing my job and I’m doing it. I hope better that anybody’s ever done it because we have a country that’s hard and really, really successful. But I mention it only because it’s on the list. I mean, that came out there was another list came out yesterday and I’m number one on I like being number one on Tik Tok better, but I’m number one on the list for for killing. I just hate to hear this. And we know this is true. And I just wish we would do everything humanly possible to crush these bastards. I really do. Everything humanly possible. Imagine living like this as President Trump has to live all the security and so forth. And then he’s number one on the kill list. He is number one on the killers. It’s sickening. I’ve seen the security around him. I’ve seen the security around Netanyahu when I’ve been over there. It’s unbelievable. And yet. It’s hard to stop somebody who is hell bent on doing something horrific if they’re willing to put their life on the line. Terrible. Terrible. Correct. Girl, please. They want to make a deal, but they don’t know how to make a deal. And then they go around shooting ships at night. I don’t like that. You know, they’re dealing with very fine people. They’re dealing with Steve, which they’re dealing with Jared Kushner and J.D. Vance, and they’re dealing with Marco and Scott. And they were great people. But I don’t know, I think they’re a little loco. They’re a little crazy. But they told us they like to go to the funeral. If you look at the stuff, they’re terrorists. They don’t keep their word. They’re out to destroy us. The entire West. Jews, Christians, anybody else. Muslims that don’t yield to their demands. They’re terrorists. This is their belief system. Go ahead. The memory of the person who was killed. A lot of people. I mean, he killed a lot of people over the years. And there for a long time, they’ll figure what we did should have been done 47 years ago. It could have been done any time with. And for this guy, they were the bully of the Middle East. So they are much different country now in one day all of their anti. Craft. Things are good going. That doesn’t mean they’re not going to get a plane at some point. But all of this gone. You know, the president’s really he talks really from the heart. He doesn’t hold back. He’s explaining exactly what’s going through his head on this stuff. And he gets it. He understands exactly what’s going on. Now, he was asked about Netanyahu today. What cut is that? Most of it is. Okay. A lot of people are focusing on the tail end of it. I understand why. And we’ll get into this in a moment. But let’s let’s take a listen. Here he is in Turkey today. Cut to go, though. Prime Minister Netanyahu should be reelected. There’s an election coming this year. Would you like to see me tell you this? He’s been a great wartime president. I work at the prime minister here. So we work with each other very closely. And we went through a very big thing. We did a big thing together. And in my opinion, he’s been a great wartime prime minister. I don’t know anything about his politics. I’m not sure I would think he should be popular because he did a very good job. We had a we had an have a very good relationship. But he was a great wartime prime minister. President, you know, the prime minister’s. You don’t want it. They wouldn’t be in Israel right now. I know that. It wouldn’t be it would have been blown to pieces by Iran. And if you had a different if you had a weak prime minister, he wouldn’t have had If you had a different president, I guarantee there wouldn’t be and it wouldn’t Israel wouldn’t exist today if you didn’t have me as president. So a lot of people are focusing on the last part of what the president said. And they’re not focusing on that front. 98% of what the president said. I think we’d have an Israel today no matter what. But I get his point. I get his point because of the. You look at his first term and then you look at the beginning of this term. I was working with the Israelis, the provision of equipment and so forth and so on. He’s been a very great ally of Israel. There’s a lot of issues that are going on now. With alliances with other countries and so forth and so on. Which summer disputing? I’m disputing some of them as well, but I don’t dispute his heart. I don’t dispute his meaning. I don’t dispute. His love of our country in that country that I don’t dispute in the least. But we can have disagreements and we do have disagreements. Not a lot, by the way. And I do so as civilly as possible. There’s some people who don’t think I attack him hard enough. I’m not about attacking him. Some people, most of them are employed by some Republican official or the White House or something. I take them to heart. I don’t attack him. I talk about policies, disagreements, and most of the time when I support my views, my principles, my values have never changed. Whether it comes to Hamas and the Palestinians. Whether it comes to some of these Arab countries, whether comes to Islamism, whether it comes to the Iranian regime. My views have never changed. My principles haven’t changed one iota. What comes out of my mouth today. Came out of my mouth 25 years ago. It shouldn’t surprise anybody. But what the president of the United States said here. Are very, very complimentary things about Netanyahu. And when other things are said, they are headlined. They are marketed. They talked about ad infinitum. But here he sang great wartime president. Look, I don’t know what his politics are, but he should be very popular and so forth and so on. And it’s funny how that part is being ignored. I’ll be right back.

Segment 3
You know, I’m glad you’re with me, my loyal audience, and blessed to have you. And, you know, after all this time, after all these decades. That. I tell you what I think not because I shoot from the hip, but because I use experience reasoning. My own brain on independent thought processes. I see experience and knowledge. And I draw my conclusions. That’s why you’re here. I think that’s why this is the second biggest audience in radio. This is why we are who we are together. You and me, Mr. Mrs. America. The only people who sabotage this deal were not its critics. Was the enemy. Thank God $324 billion was not yet transferred to this enemy, something I strongly objected to. Imagine now the situation. It’s not hard to imagine. They’re acting exactly as terrorists act. They’re not here to a rule of law. They don’t care about a contract or a memorandum of understanding. They are not rational. In that sense. They haven’t looked at the past 47 years and concluded they wish they had done something differently. As has been said, no way. No way. They’re not going to change their stripes. And if they survive, they will continue to pursue a nuclear weapon long after we’re gone. Ballistic missiles. As I’ve said to Blue in the face, our children and grandchildren have to deal with this. And this is a horror. We have our military there. I would politely suggest that we go ahead and we arm the the people who want to be liberated. We’re well behind on that process. To identify the best. Let’s help train them. Let’s give them. Weapons that give them technical support. Satellite imaging. Let’s give them whatever we have to give them. Take a right out of the Reagan doctrine playbook. I don’t care if Erdogan likes it or not. Screw him. They are with him. He doesn’t get to call the shots. As far as I’m concerned, anyway. We have a great Life, Liberty, and Levin on Saturday. Representative Mike Lawler, who’s fantastic in dealing with the Marxist Islamist activity taking place in and around New York City. We have Roger Zakheim at the Reagan Institute. He’s fantastic. We’re going to discuss Turkey and the F-35. One Sunday show. We’re going to get a little bit into what we’re talking about now as well as other things. Doug Schoen, the Democrat pollster who’s about had it with his party and what’s taking place over there. Among others. In my opening statement on Saturday. Will be to address succinctly and specifically this issue of communism and Islamism and Mamdani in particular. Madame in particular. Let’s go on with the president at the NATO’s conference. He’s with Zelensky. Now, you’ll notice Zelensky is getting a lot more respect from leaders in our country because he’s been a great leader for Ukraine and Ukraine has done severe damage to Russia. Severe. And more Russians are dying now in military operations than Ukrainians. Putin. People say they don’t understand Putin. Well, if you understand Stalin, you understand Putin lives don’t matter except his own. So he will continue to throw young Russians into the into the bonfire. Unfortunately, they’ll take our young Ukrainians to. But the Ukrainian people are good and smart people and their backs were against the wall. And just like the Israelis, they turn to technological skills cutting edge. Drones. Drone defense system and drone. Attack systems and they’re now able to reach deep into Russia. And they are. And guess what? They’re attacking Russia’s infrastructure, their oil infrastructure. Because that’s the way you stop an army. And we decided not to hit Iran’s oil infrastructure. And I think from my perspective, anyway, that’s a mistake. It’s my opinion you want to defeat an enemy or you don’t. Victories, victory victories. And when you declare victory victories, when the enemy loses. Excuse me. Here’s the president cut eight. Did we do cut aid already, Rich? I know, but did we do cut it? Who knows? Let’s do Cat nine then. You’re right. You know, one of the things I think we’re going to be talking about today, just a little birdie told me this about the fact that we’ll give them the right to make patriots. We’ll show them how to do it. It’s not that we’re going to give the Ukrainians the right to build Patriot missiles. It’s very complicated, but they’re up to the task. And my understanding is reading further on this earlier today is that we’re trumping the businessmen. We’ll get 25%. Of the value of every missile or whatever it is that that that’s created based on our technology. Cut nine again, Go ahead. But it’s we’ll figure out the complexity quickly. And we’re talking about that. And will the company that makes them, which is building now for plants, you know, all of our companies will be able to do this in 2 to 3 months. Every if you order a packet, you now you have to wait a long time for. Same thing with. We have a lot of certain equipment but with they call it the elite equipment and you don’t need a lead equipment necessarily for a war but so what are the things we’re going to be talking about as you’ll we’re going to give a license to you to make Patriot. It’s pretty cool right this way. You can’t complain that we’re not giving them enough to make them yourself. We haven’t informed the company of that yet, but that’ll never work out. All right. Yeah. Ukraine has turned out to be quite the ally. I would argue. Rahm Emanuel spoke in Tel Aviv today. I am not going to play one one syllable of it. Rahm Emanuel is looking for a lane to be the nominee, the Democrat nominee for president, and he’s a failed mayor of Chicago. He was Bill Clinton’s head man during impeachment in the Lewinsky matters. He’s really a reprobate. He’s really disgusting self-promoter. And. He basically went over there. I’ll just sum it up quickly and said, you’re hated in America. You got to get rid of Netanyahu. We need to re image the entire Middle East. All these guys with all that, we’re going to reemerge in the entire Middle East. And so, I mean, the Arabs and the Muslims laugh at these guys. Laugh at them. They go in there with their business backgrounds or whatever. And it’s just it’s it’s embarrassing. Absolutely embarrassing. Says that the Israeli government is complicit in the horrors in the West Bank. He says we need a 23 state solution. 23 states lead. So is this guy serious now? Is he an idiot? Yes. But what he’s really doing is he’s Jewish. And so he’s trying to show the Jew hating Marxist, Islamist, Democrat Party. I’d say base, but it’s beyond the base. That look, I can I can trash Israel, I can trash Netanyahu, I can trash the Jews, but I can also try to play to those who are supportive. And say. But really it’s a. Plan to for Israel to regenerate, to start over again. In other words. He’s a whore. Rahm Emanuel Zohore. We can’t give Israel unconditional support, he says. We don’t give Israel unconditional support. They give us unconditional support. And so it’s always the same thing you heard the president said. You hear what he said about Netanyahu. Hear what he said. He’s a great wartime leader who should be very, very popular. There may not even be an Israel, but for the fact that he was prime minister, if you had a weaker prime minister or a weak prime ministers, that may have been the case. And of course, he said without him, there wouldn’t have been an Israeli got his all of his comments. But the gist of it was with. And about Netanyahu because he was asked about Netanyahu, the interaction. He didn’t. He didn’t denounce him. He didn’t say anything negative about him. In fact, quite the contrary. Quite the contrary. But then Yahoo’s hated for many reasons. Most of them. Self-serving. He stands in the way. The billionaires who want to do business with the Islamists. They don’t like it. A weak prime minister in Israel would make it much easier. He stands into the way of the Saudi monarchs, the Qatari monarchs and all their ilk. The one Israel to. Surrender another chunk of their country to the so-called Palestinians. He says, no, we’re not going to do that. That’s been tried. It’s fair. We’re not doing it. There’s not enough of our country left and it’s not going to happen. So they get mad about it. They don’t like it. He objected to F-35s going to Turkey. So a lot of people don’t like that. He objects to Hezbollah running Lebanon and insists that they need to be able to protect themselves. In Israel, a lot of people don’t like that. And I can go down the list. And go down the list. President today in naito. He was hammering away at communists and communism. Again, I want to salute him for this. I know of no other president other than Reagan. Who hammered away at the Communists the way Donald Trump is. In Ronald Reagan. Did more to destroy worldwide communism than any president in American history. The collapse of the Soviet Union on George H.W.. Bush’s watch was as a result of Reagan before him. And 300 million. People liberated behind the Iron Curtain and now East Germany excuse me, Eastern Europe is among our closest allies. That’s where they are. So here he is, the president. Cut one. Go. What’s your message to people both living under communist and socialist regimes, but also people living under democracies like in Europe and America, who might not have realize how close communism has come to home? Yeah, that’s a great question, actually. But I want to get the word out because what’s forming is second communism in the country and communism’s easy to sell. I would be the greatest communist in history. I’d be right up there with Lenin. I’d be. I’d be as good as anybody. You’ve got free range for the rest of your life. What they don’t say is that you’ll be living in squalor in 12 months. You’ve got a free house. Would anybody like to have a free house? Will take it away from somebody. We’ll give it to you. You’ll have murders all over the place. Communism’s a disaster. It’s been proven to be for thousands of years under different names, but the same thing. It’s very important. And you know, it’s funny. One of the reasons I do work so well with Hispanic people. I set a record with Republicans. I get great numbers for the election to help me get elected in a landslide. The Hispanics, because a lot of them came from countries that were essentially communists, you know, whether you call them radical socialists or communists, there’s not that much. But there is a little difference. When they say Social Democrats, we’re Social Democrats. That sounds so nice. It’s not nice. It’s a very dangerous term. So I do talk about it and I talk about it wanting to actually talk about it everywhere. I talk about it here. And you’re right, it has become international, but it’s never worked. And is not going to work. What is working is the United States or we think of it, we have more jobs than we’ve ever had. People are making more money than they’ve ever made. I’m talking about workers. They’re talking about workers. They’re making higher salaries than they’ve ever made before. It’s just the best system and it’s got its flaws. But everything’s going to have a little flaw. But it’s it’s been amazing. We’ll be right back.

Segment 4
See, people will never understand my relationship with Donald Trump. I’m not in touch with him all the time, and he’s not in touch with me all the time. We do exchange texts from time to time, directly and indirectly. But if I have a particular point of view, I raise it respectfully. And I’m not in the sabotage business. I’m not in the backstabbing business. I’m open. I say what I believe and I always have. And you would expect that of me, would you not? And I was hopeful that I’m right because I’m not always right, but I’m hopeful that I always am, at least when I speak at that particular moment. And I’m hopeful that it helps to inform people to have a different perspective. Based on my own research and experience and understanding over the decades. That’s. The relationship he and I have and he decides we shouldn’t. But that’s up to him. I know it’s going to be rough waters after November if we lose the house. And it’ll be up to you and me to push back and fight back and help them. And I have every intention of doing that. And prior to the election. Come mid-late September, we’re really going to gear up heavy duty. Heavy, heavy duty, because if the Democrats win, just keep in mind, nothing is more evil than the party of the Islamists and the Marxist. Nothing. Nothing. That’s just one hour. Two big hours to go, America. Stick with us. I’ll be right back.