July 13th, 2026

Rough transcription of Hour 1

Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811.  877-381-3811. I wasn’t here Friday or this weekend. My stepson. Is engaged. Wonderful fiancée. And we spent the weekend out of town. But I wanted an opportunity to talk about Lindsey Graham with you. Those of you who listen to the program on a regular basis know he was on a few times in the past month or so, over the last 2 to 3 years, really three years or so. Lindsey Graham and I became quite close, actually. He would text me, he would call me. We would talk about, among other things, foreign policy. We had very similar views, not exactly, but similar views when it came to Israel and Ukraine, and I might add, Taiwan. The isolationists and the woke right are very vicious, evil people. They want you to believe that Lindsay is a warmonger. Lindsay was never a warmonger. Lindsay didn’t like these international bullies. Who were actually enemies of ours, attacking our allies. Israel is our ally, Ukraine’s our ally, Taiwan, which communist China wants to invade and overtake, is our ally. Lindsey was a very, very loyal friend and he was very, very loyal to our allies. He was no warmonger. He was a humanitarian. I believe that these people, many of whom were surrounded by enemies. Should be supported by us. Though we have a lot in common with Israel, though. We have a lot in common with Ukraine that we have a lot in common with Taiwan. They’re democracies, for one. And we have almost nothing in common with the Islamists that surround Israel with Putin who tried to destroy Ukraine. And, of course, communist China. Lindsey Graham. From our national security perspective, had much in common with Reagan. Had much in common with Scoop Jackson, much in common with Patrick Moynihan. Joe Lieberman. Jesse Helms. And so many others. The attacks on him have been vicious since his passing. They were vicious before his passing. I know I’ve received some of this myself, but nothing like him. Lindsey Graham is loved by the people in South Carolina. He’s loved by the people in Israel. He’s led by the people in Ukraine and he’s loved by the people in Taiwan, not to mention other parts of the world. A very consequential senator. And I think he provided enormously useful and important advice to President Trump. In the first term and his second term. I believe he was an outstanding counterbalance to some of the naive and green. Isolationists and woke, right. And he was also on his way to having a a fifth victory for the United States Senate. He would always tell me something that the president would tell me, too. He would always say, keep at it. Mark, you have a very, very big voice. I’d say, well, I don’t know about that. He says, Trust me on this. I’m well aware this president has said the same thing to me. I don’t know if I have a big voice or not. I just state what I believe. And it’s very, very sad what happened to him. As somebody who’s had heart disease. Most of his adult life has had bypass surgery. You know, you feel a pain here and there and you wonder you’re out of breath and you wonder. In his case, I don’t know that he knew that he had. You know, heart disease. But I was somewhat unfamiliar with what took his life. But then I looked at it and read about it and studied it. And it happens. It’s relatively rare, but it’s pretty brutal. The tearing of the interior main artery. And you know, the story that he was told he should go get help without obviously knowing what was wrong with him. He wasn’t feeling well. And he said he’d reportedly wait until after his appearance on Meet the Press. But unfortunately, he died before that. I am quite disgusted with people on TV and elsewhere. They use this opportunity. To attack his views. And most of these people are ignoramuses. They always want to talk about American sovereignty, but they don’t understand you have to fight for American sovereignty, that we have evil enemies out there that don’t believe in American sovereignty. And as Reagan would say, fortress America is a disaster. You’ll destroy yourselves. We have alliances for a reason. For a reason. American sovereignty is built on these alliances as well. We can’t go it alone. As powerful as we are, we can’t. We couldn’t In World War One, we couldn’t have World War Two. We just cannot. And they ignoramuses out there who want you to believe it’s America first. I really quite pathetic, truly stupid people. Lindsey Graham had some remarks on Friday after he met with Zelensky and he was in Ukraine for the 10th time. And what’s interesting is the administration’s position on Ukraine has kind of moved away from the vice president’s position, has moved toward Lindsey Graham’s position. I’m just being blunt. And Ukraine is really fighting an exceptional war. They are the victims. They were attacked. Their cities have been pulverized, but now they have, with their own technology, developed drones that can reach deep into. Russia, the very severe consequences. They’re quite advanced. The Ukrainian people are quite smart and their backs have been against the wall and they’re fighting for their survival and they’re doing a hell of a job. And it’s obvious now, Zelinsky and his people. Have as their purpose to knock out these energy sources, oil fields and production of Russia, to try and not just slow down, but stop its military. And its military hasn’t been advancing at all. And the casualties on both sides are horrible, But more on Russia than even on Ukraine. Lindsey Graham was right about Ukraine, if I may say so have I been? And I will continue to support Ukraine and Taiwan and Israel to my fullest ability, as I have now for several years. And this is just 25 seconds or so. Lindsey, on Friday’s final public remarks, one go. I’ve never been more optimistic than I am today that we have the formula to end this war and help Ukraine be more lethal. Let those supporting Russia to know there’s going to be a price to be paid if you keep doing it, and to try to find a offramp, not to humiliate, but to end this war so that Ukraine will thrive and survive. You know, I was a. You know, I endorsed Lindsay in the primary. I’d spoken him off the air. He had contacted me and I said, look, I want to endorse you. Will it help you or hurt you? He said. Mark in South Carolina, it will only help. And yet President Trump’s endorsement anyway. But. We gave more endorsement to you and I. And he won significant, I think it was 58%. He needed to get over 50% to have a runoff. And he succeeded well beyond the 50%. And in April, we talked about this Iranian deal as well. And. Let’s listen in. I have and listen to this 2 minutes slightly, but let’s listen to it. This is April 8th of this year, April 8th. Now. Three months ago, I had to go. Lindsay, how are you, my friend? Good, my friend. You’re doing well. Let me see. So far, so good, brother. Good. I don’t know. You and I are attacked a hell of a lot lately. I notice that it’s a lot to judge us by our enemies is the way I look at it. Yeah, that’s very, um. We have been attacked. There’s some weird people, but thank God we’re not two of them. No. Thank God for that. But here’s the thing. Here’s the thing. I want to discuss it with you. Seriously, should we support defending our country against an Islamist terrorist enemy that’s trying to get nuclear weapons to use against us? Why is that controversial? Well, let me just say a couple of things. Here’s the way I start meetings when I’m in South Carolina talking about how many of you believe the ayatollah, if he had and would use it. Almost everybody raises their hand and those that don’t. I said you should not be allowed to drive. When he says death to America, death to Israel, he means it that he’s dead and so he can’t do anything about it. We’re deep into the bench. Be on the team over there. You got to buy into this cult of death. It’s radical Islamic philosophy. So when I hear that we’re, you know, we’ve got more reasonable people there with with all due respect, if you’re in the regime, you’re not reasonable. You’re a fanatic, you’re a religious Nazi, okay? If you believe they would use a bomb, are they trying to get one? How do you have £900 of 60% highly enriched uranium if you don’t cheat? Europe and Obama and Biden try to control the Iranian nuclear ambitions, all these sanctions and, you know, oversight regimes, it sales, they got £900, 60% uranium. They could go to 90% in two or three weeks to make eight bombs. But Trump blew up their crap. That’s why I would they don’t they can’t go to 90. The 60% is under a bunch of stuff because Trump blew it up. Nobody else would have done it but Trump. I want to get that 60% £900 in our hands because they can make a dirty bomb out of it. One day they may come back into the Richmond business. So get that just such common sense. I’ve got one more clip to play for you when we return. We’ll be right back.

Segment 2
There’s Lindsey Graham on the program about four weeks, give or take a go. Cut three go … primary in South Carolina. That ends in about an hour. And I wanted to bring our friend Lindsey Graham on the program since he’s running in that primary. Senator, how are you? I’m doing good. Yeah, about an hour left. Go get in line. They won’t close the polls. The line is finished. But if you are Mark Levin guy and Lindsey Graham guy and you have voted in South Carolina to do it. But Mark, thank you for all the encouragement and, you know, the good friendship we’ve had, and I look forward to many more years, God willing. Yeah, you’re very important. The president knows this. Many of us know it. You also come under attack by the same woke, right isolationist time and time and time again. That’s all well and good. But if we follow what they say, we’ll be in deep trouble. So tell us what it looks like there in South Carolina. The polls close in less than an hour. People, if you’re in your trucks or your cars and you’re in line, get to the polling place and stay in line, as the senator said. How’s it looking? It’s looking good. President Trump endorsed me and that means a lot. You know, it’s done. I’ll beat my opponent. So I just got to get over 50% to avoid a run off. And I want to do that. I want to end this thing tonight so I can help President Trump with his agenda. You know, in this war in Iran the right way, protect our friends in Israel and try to make peace between Saudi and Israel eventually. But I got to get my election behind me. But yeah, it was good. I got five people running. They all got family and friends. That adds up after a while. But the guy I’m running against, the big guy, $7 million. 6 million. So we need more. Thomas Massie’s and Marjorie Taylor GREENE just endorsed him a couple of days ago. And here’s what Manu would say. We don’t need Thomas Massie. We don’t need a loud mouth critic like Marjorie Taylor. GREENE Trump has enough critics. You know what he needs reliable allies and friends in the Senate. And I have been that, you know, Kavanaugh gets to help get that guy through. I’ll be chairman of the Judiciary Committee if I win my election. And I’ll help Trump put conservative judges that you will love on the court for the last two years. And when it comes standing with Israel, man, you’re bonded. Well, Israel is a blessing to America, not a burden. And my opponent does not believe that. So big differences in this race and how we get over the top. He’s listening to him. It’s going to a terrible, terrible, terrible loss to our country. Just a terrible loss to our country. And. I guess in the last three years or so, he and I became quite close. And I, I just think, you know, when I heard about it, for those who like him, they’re friends with him. And so it’s a real kick in the gut. It has been for the president to I know the president is still mourning him. I don’t I mean, talk to the president about it. But I can tell and Lindsey Graham loved Donald Trump and I think Donald Trump loved Lindsey Graham. And they like being around each other. Not just golf, but dinner. And I was at the dinners with the two of them, as was my wife. We’ll be right back.

Segment 3
I will be on HANNITY tonight to help you Check us out. HANNITY Tonight, I wanted to say my comments on TV, The HANNITY show. I was invited on Fox and Friends Sunday and Fox and friends this morning away and I need time to think these things through. And by that, I don’t mean to be careful about what you say. I mean, you know, it’s very emotional. And so you just need to think about it a little bit. You don’t need to be the first out of the box. Prayers in the United States yesterday about the loss of Lindsey Graham. And they were very, very close cut for go. Well, it’s devastating. I thought it was bad. He called me last night. We just got back from Ukraine and he had a great down there about the trip. He was pushing very, very hard. You probably know he wanted to the Save America at this point in about that. He was full of them and vigor. He was tired. He said, I’m tired because it’s a long trip. But other than that, he was fine. And he called me, I guess, just moments before because he called me in like 630 or something. And the medical people got there a little bit later right after that. What a what a terrible life that is. He’s a great politician. He was a natural. There are very few of a the natural politician got along with everybody when he did. He was very tough, you know, tough cookie, too. But he got a get along with everybody. Hmm. He was very likeable. Very funny, of course. And then here’s the president on Meet the Press on the phone yesterday. Cut six. Mr. Producer, go. Mr. President, it is just extraordinary. You just spoke with him last night. His office says he passed away from a brief and sudden illness. Are you learning any more details about how and why he may have passed? Did he tell you anything in that phone call? Mr. President, I’m not feeling well. No, he said he’s a little tired. It was a long trip, you know, many hours. And he had just gotten back. And the I mean, it must have hit right after that, because I understand the police or whoever it is came there at about 730, 8:00 in the evening, something like that. So somebody notify them. But no, he felt okay. I mean, I actually on the on the call he told me that he said, you know, I feel good, but I’m tired. It was fine. I knew I. Well, he would he would let you know if he wasn’t feeling well. He had days where he didn’t realize that. Well, that he let you know about it. But there is a fantastic person. He was a man who you’re going to watch. He’s going to be a very big thing with him. He’s going to be appreciated more now than he was when he was living. And often happens, doesn’t it? Often happens. And then there was Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He and Lindsay were very good friends, too. They spent a lot of time together. Cut. Seven. Go! He was such an American patriot. He was unabashedly for America. And he was unabashedly against the enemies of America. And he spoke what he thought. You know, I had a way with him. He had this charming Southern drawl. And you knew something was coming when he would say, well, I’ve got I’m just a poor Southern boy. And then, you know, he’s coming in with the most penetrating insight that few people can deny and that everybody recognizes is the truth. You had a way with him. He was a wonderful, wonderful friend, a great American patriot and a great champion of the Israel American alliance. And I’ll miss him personally a lot. A lot. I really, really thought the world of him and I think the world has lost a great human being. America has lost a great senator and we have lost a great friend. And I can assure you the people of Ukraine feel that way. And Taiwan and other. Other countries where we have alliances and these evil enemies are attacking them. Cut eight Mr. Produce or go. Mr. Prime Minister, what does his loss mean not only for you but the people of Israel? What do you think the impact is globally in Israel, its grief and Iran in celebration? Because Lindsay never confuse good and evil. He knew exactly where the Iranian regime is. He thought it was a great danger, not really to Israel and to America’s allies in the Middle East, but to America itself. And he just never wavered. You know, he was so clear. He had clarity and courage. He had the convictions that he believed were the basis of America. That’s I always use it like the Superman comics. Remember freedom, justice and the American way. He represented these traditional values in the crusade. He never flinched. He was just it was absolutely uncaring about the winds of fashion. You know, he believed something. He spoke about it. He spoke about it directly and with candor. And if he wanted to tell me something unpleasant, he would do so, you know, in his Southern drawl. And sometimes I would say that I knew something bad was coming when he said, well, you know, you want to take it from a good old Southern boy. And for me, who doesn’t know much about the world, and then he’d bring it in, you know, it was so it was so smart and so full of conviction and dedication that it’s these qualities. And I think the president spoke about it. It was at once a great politician. But I think beyond that, I think it was just an incredible period for America. Hmm. Yeah. Let me tell you, in addition to the Israelis, the Ukrainians and the Taiwanese, the Persian people loved. Well loved Uncle Lindsey. They gotta. They loved him. And he’s gone now. And. Too damn bad. I’m not going to play for you. Hasan Piker It was a very vile, subhuman being. And these other individuals who attacked him. Somebody worked for Steve Bannon said one down or something like that. Other people, just despicable human beings, truly despicable human beings. And history will treat him very well. He was on the right side of good against evil. Very, very important. And. And very, very likable. Very, very likable. And so he will be missed. Now I want you to compare him to this guy, Ro Con man Cannon. He goes over it is really goes to Judea and Samaria, wrongly called the West Bank, Judea and Samaria. Is where Judaism was born. The Oslo Accords broken into three sections A, B, and C. C is the Jewish sector A is the Palestinian sector. C is sort of a no man’s land. And what’s been happening is the Palestinian Authority, which we’re told of the moderates, the good Palestinians, there’s nothing good about that authority whatsoever. They’re terrorists as well. And they continue to build on sector C, which is supposed to be Israeli land, and they build on it in a way that cuts off the Israelis from other parts of Israel. Now, I refused to call them settlers. You’re not a settler in your homeland. You’re not a settler in your indigenous lands. So, Roxana. Decides he’s going to take a trip there and he has as his so-called tour guide. A couple of Palestinians who are extraordinarily hostile. To the Jews in Judea and Samaria. Including a photographer. And he makes a big scene, you see, because number one. Uh, he says, Well, I checked with the ambassador’s office. And the ambassador’s office said the only contact we could find here was looking for visas. So he didn’t coordinate at all. He didn’t coordinate with the IDF. He didn’t coordinate with the local police. Because you’re not free to go into these. The zone. The zone in particular, but. In areas where the the government, the military, the police have cordoned it off. I mean, it would be the same thing is if some foreigner from France or Britain came into the United States who decided that they were going to go into one of our areas that has been cordoned off by the police or the military. Ro con-man Khanna decided he would do that and then he claimed that. Armed, quote unquote, settlers threatened him. They didn’t care that he was a congressman from the United States. Then he goes on about how the police detained him and how the ADF came and they mistreated him, too. Well, now there’s a video out that shows that’s all a lie. There’s a video that shows it’s all a lie. The police said it’s all a lie. The ADF has said it’s all a lie. They didn’t say it that way. I’m saying it that way. And so what we have here is a man and ro con man, Connor, whose family has made millions and millions and tens of millions of dollars since he’s been in public office. With a man who who was all in for this guy, Graham Plattner, the rape, the alleged rapist. I mean, Eileen were both because he’s desperate, desperate to separate himself from other candidates for the presidency. They video this stuff on the. In Judea and Samaria. He was hoping that they would help launch him because he knows that the base in the Democrat Party is is rabid Jew haters and rabid Israel haters. But it looks like it may well have backed backfire. And so this guy, this guy’s all over TV now talking about how the police and the IDF aligned with the extremist settlers and look what’s happened to him and so forth and so on. And the IDF is lying. But again, now the videotape is out. And his own guy released the videotape. Now, this follows Rahm Emanuel, Jewish, at least in name only. And he went over there and he gave this condescending, outrageous speech in Tel Aviv, basically telling the Israeli government, everybody hates you, you’re a pariah on the world scene. You’ve got to create this Palestinian state. You’ve got to get a new government. You’ve got to stand down. You’ve got to do this. You got to do that. Because he’s trying to show the way forward. You see, the way forward is to basically make yourself even more vulnerable to more terrorist attacks from Hamas and the Palestinian Authority in Iran and all the rest of. Well, that’s not going to happen. And he did this now. Again, like Roe, Conway and Connor, to try and carve out his own. Support. Among the Jew haters and some of the Jew supporters, the left wing Democrats with money and. And as self-hating Jews in many respects. But he also did it in time, too, because they all want to defeat Netanyahu. What they want is a very, very weak prime minister in Israel. To kind of pave the way for a Democrat administration that can roll these guys. And most of them are easily rolled by the United States, but not dent in Yahoo! And so that’s what’s going on. More when I return. I’ll be right back.

Segment 4
The memorandum of understanding is basically dead tonight. Look, folks, we spent a lot of time talking about the memo. You the first the leaks that came out and then the actual memo. You and I made it abundantly clear that this document was not going to fly. And one of the reasons I explained it was because of the enemy. The enemy is not going to adhere to it. And it was my view that we needed to make sure that we didn’t and hand them $324 billion or one red cent before this thing played out because it was going to play out exactly as it is playing out. And I’m very proud of you folks for sticking with me. Very proud of you folks. For most of you agreeing with me, because it’s just a matter of common sense. We’ve heard some people say that they’ve changed, that they feel the last 47 years was a mistake. That was never the case. We’ve heard that there are moderates and more reasonable people. That was never the case. It was never going to be the case. They play these things out. They are deceitful. They are the enemy. They are terrorists. And this is their ideology and this is their belief system. And you and I are not fooled by this. As much as we want to believe that there can be a negotiated deal. I made it abundantly clear there couldn’t be. Ultimately, not one that’s going to work. This is not an ideology, seventh century ideology that can be contained. It has to be destroyed. And at some point, some way, maybe when I’m long gone, people are going to understand that you need to arm the Iranian people, the Persians. You need to help train them. You need to give them some kind of air cover. Satellite information on where to hit, who to hit, how to hit. Because that’s the only way you can pull this regime up by the roots. You’re not going to be able to do it by airstrikes or by missiles being fired off of subs or or ships and so forth and so on. I mean, I’m glad we’re doing what we’re doing. Don’t don’t get me wrong. Please don’t misunderstand. But that said. If you want to destroy the regime, the greatest asset we have are the Iranian people themselves, tens of millions of them, that don’t want that government. And I believe strongly in arming them and giving them a shot. We’ve done it before. America can do it with the right CIA director, the right CIA. We can do it with the Mossad and others. We know how to do this. Excuse me. Cholera, but that’s the way it has to be. Also meant to update you. Darlene Graham Norden. I hope I pronounce the last name properly. That is Lindsey Graham’s sister, who he raised when his parents died when he was 20, 21 years old. She was 13. Then he adopted her. Quite a remarkable young man, wasn’t he? And she is now appointed to serve out the rest of his term in the Senate, while others position themselves to run for that seat. Politics goes on. Life goes on, whether we like it or not. I’ll be right back.