July 31st, 2026

Rough transcription of Hour 1

Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here, our number 877-381-3811.  877-381-3811. Isn’t everybody memorize that by now, Mr. Producer. 877. You’d think 381-3811. And we will definitely take calls at the bottom of our three. But the board fills up very fast. Doesn’t mean you have to call two and a half hours in advance, but it does mean if you call it like 8:30 p.m. Eastern time, you might miss out. Just saying. Just explaining. That’s all I’m doing. Just explaining. President had a cabinet meeting at Camp David. I don’t know that that’s ever happened. It certainly has never involved the press before. And he’s in New Jersey this evening. I will be on HANNITY tonight, 9 p.m. Eastern Time on Fox, if you want to watch that. That’s HANNITY and it’s time. And among other things, the president said this about Iran Cut, forego. What is the status of talks? Who is from the administration is talking to are what they break their word so often? Steve is talking, Jared, we have very good people, JDS involved very strongly about. We have great people talking. Morocco’s involved because they say talks aren’t helping people. We have the best people, but they’ll make a deal. And as an example, we’ll talk about nuclear and we’ll be in there talking about a 7 hours. They say, what is it? What do you need? Seven. You can take 10 minutes. You have 5 minutes to go for 7 hours. And then you go out and I’ll say they discuss number. There’s a lot of they’ll say we never discuss the nuclear industry. Why? What did they say? All they do is make me angry. You know, You just make me angry. Any other nations, you even reach a deal with Iran. Given that you talked about oil, they are losing faith in them because they do lie and they do misrepresent. Well, the other day they fired missiles. We shot. We’re not going down, but we were in the midst of a negotiation. I mean, I’m waiting for Steve to call me as a negotiation going. And I said I got a call from people that they just shot five missiles at one of our bases in Jordan, and we have bases in Jordan. Fortunately, our people operated the equipment. Hmm. So we’ve learned that we can’t trust them. They lie. Right, Mr. Producer? Okay. Let’s hold on to that thought throughout, in my opinion. I’m going to talk about this at some length. I’ve done that here during the course of the week, but I’m going to talk about it at some length on my life. Liberty and Levin program tomorrow night on FOX. Don’t forget 8 p.m. Eastern. Set your DVR or whatever recording device you use. I don’t know whatever the recording devices there are, but apparently there are. And I hope you’ll watch it. Same with Sunday for the full hour, by the way, on Sunday, way of the America’s governor, really the greatest governor. Ron DeSantis. And we cover going to cover everything from Fauci to immigration to Iran. This guy is definitely presidential material. If not next round the round after that or the round after that. And I’m going to miss him as governor of Florida. He has been so fantastic. I’m just telling you the truth. The people of Florida feel this way, too. There’s really nobody like him. He’s like, way ahead of the curve in promoting all kinds of conservative and liberty agenda things. It’s just incredible. All of a sudden, property taxes are on the table. What he wants to do about that. I’ve never seen anything like this man, and I’ve been around a while. But that’s Sunday. Hope you’ll set your DVR 8 p.m. Eastern again on Fox. But Saturday, we’ve a great show as well. And I get into what I think we need to do. In some particulars, and I’ve gone through literally some of the effects of our current war effort already, which have been significant, by the way. It’s just that I do not believe you’re going to overthrow this regime at 40,000 feet in the air. I don’t believe so. Their military is certainly not what it used to be. It’s been significantly diminished. And yet the regime remains because that’s the way they build it. That’s the way they build it and the only way to destroy it. Is to. And I get into specifics, support the people there. And knock out that car island, which is the heart and soul of 85% of all oil and gas that flows through that country. And they’re basically a one natural resource country. This is what they rely on for everything. And 70% of the oil and gas that they do pump is used domestically and all the rest of it. You know, it’s used obviously to ship, but 85% of the rest of it goes through Cargo Island and much of that goes to communist China. And I think that’s one of the reasons we have been hesitant to head it. But don’t be hesitant anymore and don’t worry about rebuilding it. We can rebuild things so they can. If we conquer that regime, we can help the people there. We did it during World War Two, the Marshall Plan, and so were. But you’ll have you have a lot of oil companies and other investors who want to participate in it because there’s there is a profit incentive. I hate to tell Bernie Sanders that, but there’s a profit incentive. Because there’s a lot of oil there. So the things we can do that we’re not doing and I believe we should do. I think the president is reaching the point of no return on these these attacks, and they think something’s going to happen this week. But, you know, every every day, every program, we’re talking about it this way. So let’s just see what happens. But I’m going to strongly encourage a very aggressive offensive posture. Obviously, no ground troops, but yes, the Iranian people. To really finally big push, take out the oil industry. Take it out. Back the people arm them. There are resistance movements. There are liberation movements here. There certainly are. Identify them, support them, help expand them and get on with it. We used to know how to do this sort of thing, and we got to do it. And I also see the Woke Reich isolationists all over the Internet. And basically they’re saying cut a deal and get out of there. And they have no plan if Iran has a nuclear weapon. And they’re just sort of mind numbing nitwits. And many of them are saying don’t help Ukraine. They’re still at that. So. So basically, they support Russia effectively and they support Iran effectively. Iran getting a nuclear weapon. If you’re not going to do something about it, then you’re useful idiot for Iran, just like you’re useful idiot for Putin. Now we we we are proposing F-35s and our most sophisticated engines for Turkey. Which in many ways is aligned with Russia. Which is. Has an alliance with Russia on many fronts which bought their S-400 sophisticated ground to air missiles in violation of. Now, by the way, our rules here in our congress as well as NAITO. And we want to sell them 70 F-35s. That would change the entire balance of power in the Middle East. But even putting that aside at the same time. We had said yes to Zelensky in Ukraine. In selling them licenses. To build Patriot missile defense systems, they would build them themselves. President today said, I don’t think I’m going to do that. That’s very advanced technology. Now, wait a minute. The F-35s are very advanced technology. You would sell them the turkey that has a relationship with Russia and that won’t be kept confidential or secret. Meanwhile, Ukraine would be building the Patriot missiles themselves and a license and that we have to be concerned about. I see it the other way around. We ought to be helping Ukraine with the licensing and F-35 for anyone. Who also who also constantly threatens not just Israel, but Greece, who still controls one third of the island of Cyprus, even though it’s not his. And seeks to make his own Ottoman Empire in the Middle East. The Ottoman Empire was there before the British in World War One. Basically, the Ottoman Empire was very powerful, but they lost in World War One. And the British basically went in. I’m doing a thumbnail for you and divided up the area and created a lot of these Arab countries that didn’t exist. In a lot of these fiefdoms that didn’t exist, a lot of these monarchies that didn’t exist at the time. And I don’t know why we would be helping Erdogan at all. What does he need the F-35s for anyway? More when I return. We’ll be right back.

Segment 2
What is this? What is that? Just the news. Trump intensifies Attacks on Iran Opening Door for a potential Iranian Revolution. Writes John Solomon. Trump said they’re going to get a beating. The door would open thanks to Trump’s fury over the pair of recent attacks on U.S. air bases and outposts in the region. The avenues of freedom for the Iranian people may come from a variety of directions. This is more speculation than anything else, I believe. And he writes, There’s Amanda. What’s her name? Amanda. Head at Just the News following Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps missile attacks on U.S. bases in Kuwait and Jordan. President is now signaling readiness for full scale military action that could shatter the cycle of tit for tat exchanges and accelerate an end to the conflict. Opening the door for a full on revolution for the Persian nation. We’re going to beat the blanking blank out of them will be hitting them hard. They’re going to get a beating. Trump said that on Wednesday, the Iranian regime collapsed under external pressure and internal strain. The power vacuum could empower ordinary Iranians who have long protested theocratic rule to seize control of their country’s future. Now, this is something I’ve been talking about and pushing. I don’t think it’s just going to collapse. It needs a big push, a military push, an economic push, any push by the people. It is my contention, ladies and gentlemen, that the Iranian regime fears more than the United States, more than Israel. More than economic sanctions their own people. That they fear their own people. Rising up and taking them on. Armed. And supported by us. Then anything else? Curated raised free from the revolution. Generally, guards and clergy citizens would be able to organize demand ticket on the only reject new tyranny. Now, this is a bit of a stretch. She’s certainly right about that. But it’s hard to believe that this will come from a week’s worth of attacks since we’ve had weeks worth of attacks. I’m also getting the sense, as you and I go through this together in these various stories together, we’re really going to hit them this time and so forth. That maybe we haven’t been heading. The targets we need to hit Now, by that, I’m not making a criticism by that. I’m meaning. I mean, there are targets and there are targets, right. And so maybe the targets shouldn’t be simply military targets. There need to be more IRGC targets. There need to be more targets of oil production facilities. And more targets of dual use infrastructure. That’s the only way you can win a war, not through pinpricks and not through tit for tat. That’s not going to do it. She writes, Success would require broad coalitions, economic stability and institutions protecting minorities and women, which is possible, but far from certain amid risks of chaos. Well, first, before all that comes. The success would come from. For fighting the regime to overthrow the regime. Right. A number of already in place actions could intensify to draw the conflict to a close. U.S. forces could launch targeted operations against senior IRGC commanders and so forth that we should have been doing a long time ago if we’re not already. Maybe we’ll pick that up and do more of that. I would argue keep on the naval blockade. She argues that to the air defenses and missile infrastructure, we need to hit their air offenses. That is, to prevent them from firing missiles and drones, period. We’re not going to be able to get all them because we don’t know where all of them are. It’s just that simple. But we can get many of them. But again. The broader campaign should include fully arming the Iranian people with the goal of overthrowing the regime, working with the Israelis, the Mossad in particular, to help identify who needs to be taken out, who’s already on their payroll, who’s a double agent and that sort of stuff. So we can actually get in there and we should stop sidelining the Israelis. If we’re really serious about taking out this regime and there are potential issues of how much ammunition we have for this, that or the other, stop sidelining the Israelis. I don’t understand it. When we started this war, we fought with the Israelis side by side. They were one of the greatest allies we’ve ever had, and it was a seamless, seamless military operation. The secretary of defense bragged about it. Secretary of war, I suppose. The head of the Joint Chiefs, he bragged about it. Now we’re doing joint operations with Saudi Arabia against the Houthis in Yemen. I don’t understand how all of a sudden the sidelining of Israel when it’s one of the most powerful militaries on earth, certainly in the Middle East, and they’ve demonstrated their capacity and their abilities. And of course, perhaps we are sharing intel still and we should be. But we ought to ratchet everything up. If we want to get out of this, we have to have a victory and defeat the enemy. I’ll be right back.

Segment 3
All right, ladies and gentlemen, CBS News reporting that the cabinet met. Obviously, the United States and Israel are reportedly preparing what could be one of the most extensive bombing campaigns yet against Iranian energy infrastructure, including power plants and oil refineries with potential strikes as soon as this weekend. Again, according to CBS News, the plans were reportedly discussed during President Trump’s cabinet meeting at Camp David on Friday. That is a few hours ago. Where some White House political aides expressed concerns over the potential political and economic consequences. Jeez, I can imagine who they were. Mr. Producer officials also discuss completing any operation before financial markets open Monday to limit global economic disruption. Though no final timeline has been set, Israel has reportedly been notified and is coordinating with Washington. But President Trump has not given his final. Okay. Excuse me, cholera. As you know, this has been a live in position now, which I just stated at the top of the hour. That we need to hit the oil refiners who need to hit. Their dual use infrastructure. We need to hit Kharg Island. That’s the key. And on top of that, it doesn’t mention it here. But nonetheless, if they were doing it, they wouldn’t mention it anyway. You can keep running it a little bit. Support. Support for the Iranian people. Now, this says the president hasn’t given his okay yet. I suspect that’s a head fake one way or the other. And they’re also talking about getting it done by Monday. That would be a little tough. And they’re also talking about presidential aide to think it may not be a good idea. Look, let me put it to you this way, ladies and gentlemen. This can’t keep going on. This tit for tat. Hit the gas pedal, tap the brakes, hit the gas pedal, Tap the brakes now. The enemy doesn’t want a serious negotiation. Even if they did, what are they saying isn’t worth toilet paper? That’s a fact. Now I understand. I see them online and elsewhere. We have the walk, right? Isolationists who are telling us we are going to lose the midterms, which we may very well. We went through this yesterday, but it won’t be because of Iran. Most people are not affected by Iran, to be perfectly honest with you. It’ll be because the Democrats have succeeded in convincing the American people they were in a depression when we’re not. And that requires basic. Communication skills. Talking points and a repeated message to the American people. But again, we discussed that yesterday. If we lose the midterms, it won’t be over this. This isn’t even in the top three issues to the American people, because the American people aren’t involved in this for the most part. Our volunteers are in a very small percentage of the population. Now, that said. You and I are very interested in this because we love our country. We want victory. We want to destroy this enemy again. The woke right isolationists are really inconsequential. I notice that their ratings are way down. Did you see that report, Mr. Producer? These podcasters. Whether it be Qatar, Olsson or Kelly. Or bloated ban in the the confessed fraudster whether it be nick for went this the laid off and all the rest of them their numbers are down. We continue to show our muscle here on. When I talk program. And on our TV program. Anyway, that’s the latest news and we can phase it out, sir. That’s the latest news. And I’m very hopeful that we’ll go ahead and destroy this regime. I really am. I really am. The earth will be much safer place. Your children and grandchildren will never have to worry about this regime again. In the center of the enemy that supports Hamas and Hezbollah and the Houthis. Will be gone. And of course. Those surrogates may not be gone, but they won’t be around forever. Once, once Iran, the regime is gone. And can you imagine the Iranian people being free? Can you imagine the end of the executions, the hangings of young people? When you celebrate that, I would celebrate their. Wouldn’t that be fantastic? Yes, it would be fantastic. And then we really have a peace we have a relationship with the Iranian people who are really Westerners more than anything else. Half a century, this nightmare. The fact that this regime has killed thousands of Americans and maimed thousands of Americans. That’s important, too. You know, there are families out there who are still suffering from what this regime has done. Slaughtered. Marines, Airmen. Infantrymen. Embassy personnel. Tortured in the most horrendous way. Some of our CIA assets. William Buckley. William Buckley. I never revealed how he was murdered, because when I was in the Reagan administration, it was classified. Tim Sheehy, a great senator from Montana. He revealed it. I don’t think it’s classified anymore. William Buckley was a CIA. Employee. It wasn’t spying on Hezbollah. He was working basically with the UN. Basically on a peace mission and he was captured by Hezbollah. And they held him for a long time. And he was horribly tortured. And starved. And you could see the pictures of him. With his eyes sunken. Huge black circles around his eye sockets. From torture. You could see he looked like a Holocaust survivor. If stardom is so badly you’re black and blue marks all over his body look like cigarette burns to. In the end, they killed him. On video, Mr. Producer. They skinned him alive. They skinned him alive. Hezbollah. We’re dealing with. Pure evil. This is why the Israelis fight as hard as they do. This is why when we talk about we got peace with, you know, Hamas and Gaza and they’re going to disarm, how many of you actually believe Hamas is going to disarm, do you, Mr. producing? I mean, seriously. How many We actually believe Hezbollah’s going to disarm. Raise your hand. Seriously, folks, how many of you actually believe? That this Islamo Nazi regime in Tehran will abide by any deal should it sign any deal. None of you believe that. None of you believe that these guys are going to disarm either. In it. The pressure is again on Netanyahu to do exactly that. He can’t do these things. And then the leaks came out, the attacks came out and so forth and so on. I just want to mention that. In any event, this is the update on what we think is taking place. What may take place over the weekend. And let’s continue. Can you imagine being the Democrat attorney general of Michigan? But you’re afraid of tending your own Democrat Party convention because you’re Jewish. Can you imagine that, ladies and gentlemen? What if he couldn’t? Attorney You were nervous because you were black. Does that bother anybody or you were gay? Would that bother anybody? She Jewish? Michigan’s attorney general said she won’t attend next month Democratic primary convention over fears of anti-Semitism. Democratic Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said she wanted to end the Michigan Democrat Party nominating convention in August over concerns for her safety. During a Thursday roundtable event hosted by the Anti-Defamation League. Michigan Advance reported. This comes after federal investigators said they believe Hezbollah inspired the March attack on Temple Israel in Michigan, West Bloomfield Township. That’s also office and the. Michigan Democrat Party did not immediately respond to the Daily CALLER News. For the answer. I feel like my presence isn’t going to be welcome. I don’t want to get chased around. I don’t want to get harassed. I don’t want to get yelled and screamed at. I don’t want to get booed off the stage, irrespective of what I’m saying, she recently said. And I believe that if I go, that’s what’s going to happen, because it’s been happening to me already. Nats also criticized Democratic Party leaders for not addressing concerns that she previously raised about party members harassing her in the past, according to the Michigan advance. Approximately 60% of Americans at least somewhat agreed that anti-Semitism is a serious problem, according to a July 2025 ADL Center for Antisemitism Research Survey. Meanwhile, approximately 25% Democratic respondents expressed concerned about anti-Semitism within their party. This cannot continue. And the fact of the matter is we have to be able to be a society where we can have intelligent discourse and debate about ideas without people being threatened and certainly without people carrying out those threats, Nessel reportedly said. Speaking as a member of the Democrat Party in Michigan. You know, there’s something on my mind. Something that Mr. Producer saw a couple of days ago. I sent you that video, right, Rich? I don’t think it’s in my best interest to discuss that to you. Or am I wrong? Plus, my wife would get mad at me if I do. But let me say this to you. It is very, very dangerous out there. Very dangerous. I’ll be right back.

Segment 4
Boy George, he actually did a very nice song. I posted it. He put in he’s he’s pro-Israel, says I’ve grown up with Jewish guys and around them and Jewish women my whole life. And so I said, I don’t get into politics. I’m just pro-Israel. So he did this song and now he’s he’s received threats. We just told you about the attorney general, Michigan British pop icon Boy George Wright’s. Breitbart has left a West End production of the musical Jesus Christ Superstar after he faced a personal onslaught of abuse for releasing a pro-Israel song We Will Dance Again that stood against the Islamic terrorists of Gaza. How do you like that? He released the song this week. He came with a. With a hash tag Shalom, boy George, who is set to star. As King Herod in the acclaimed musical from August 3 to 15. Said he was inspired to write this song after visiting the Nova exhibition, which commemorates the victims, the victims of the Islamic terrorist attack. At the music festival. It is being displayed in London now called London Stand. Why not put the word genocide in a song? Why are people suddenly uncomfortable with that word? The unabashed supporter of the Jewish state, said in a post on Instagram threads. George has never been afraid to stand by his personal convictions, and I’ve always respected him for that, said his manager, Kemsley Kemsley. Now, in this instance, I felt it was right to step aside, allowing the production to remain the focus, he added. Jesus Christ Superstar was opening Friday on a run until September five. Culture Club is set to go on a UK tour in December, and The Jerusalem Post previously noted The phrase We Will Dance Again is a motto that symbolizes renewal and recovery following the October seven, 2023 attack by Hamas. That left 1200 truly slaughtered. Tortured, raped, brutalized, butchered. It’s hard to get out of your mind, isn’t it? Yeah, I think it is about 364 of them concert goers at the Supernova Music Festival where the dancing was interrupted by rockets and then mass murder. It’s not the first time the Culture Club lead has voiced his support for Israel. In 2017, the pop legend fronted a concern and in Tel Aviv, critics said was tantamount to performing in South Africa during apartheid. There is no apartheid in Israel. All you have to do is go to Israel and you can see there’s no apartheid. There’s apartheid in every single Muslim country, in every single Arab country, every single Marxist country. But not in Israel and not in the United States. The singer responded by declaring the two work comparable that Israel was in his heart. You know, I’m particularly proud of you in the audience who are not Jewish. And particularly proud of you righteous Gentiles. You stand up for what’s right, You stand up for what’s good. You stand up. You Judeo-Christian belief system. You stand up for the state of Israel and stand up for the United States of America. God love each and every one of you. I’ll be right back.