August 13th, 2026

Rough transcription of Hour 1

Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811.  877-381-3811. There’s a lot of nonsense going on with the traitor. Tucker Carlson. No pants. Matt Gaetz.  By the way, I have posted a few things on that guy. You really ought to check them out. Really very, very sick. Some of you watch his TV show. Listen, you might want to stop. I’m not kidding. And we’ve talked about it here before. And I mentioned, you know, Special Forces, maybe the 82nd Airborne Division. Taking out the uranium. The enriched uranium. In order to secure it because I had done some research, then pretty much you either continue to head it and train in case it. Or if you want to go get it, which is actually the safest way to deal with it, particularly when you’re dealing with the Iranian regime. We have forces that are actually trained in doing this, Special Forces, part of the 82nd Airborne and so forth and so on. And so when the issue was coming up, the president was discussing it, Nation was discussing it, We were discussing it. I discussed it myself on March 28, 2026. Now. I am very proud of what I said. There’s nothing not to be proud of. And I was very clear about what I said. At no time did I say that we should be sending in hundreds of thousands of ground troops or ground troops at all. This was very specific with a very sophisticated, difficult and specific mission. The other week people were talking about. Neocons wanting to send in ground troops in Iran. First of all, I don’t know who neo cons are, and I don’t know who they’re talking about. I have not heard any groundswell for ground troops in Iran from anybody. From anybody. Now, maybe there’s some back bencher somewhere or something like that. Maybe there’s some columnists somewhere. But as a general matter, I haven’t heard from anybody. Have you, Mr. Producer? I mean, I was shocked. No, I didn’t see this or hear this myself. It was brought to my attention. And this is a cacophony, a chorus line that we hear all the time. It’s a complete straw man. And so I indicated that online and then no pants skates comes up with this clip. From March 28th. Today, I don’t listen to these guys. Tucker Carlson, was it today, Mr. Producer? Yesterday completely edited what I said to make it sound like I wanted to send in hundreds of thousands of ground troops. But my interest is in you, Mr. and Mrs. America. The millions of people in this audience, all of our affiliates, to underscore what I said. So we went back and we got the 2 minutes. There are no edits whatsoever in any direction. And I want you to hear exactly, exactly what I said. And then and then you’ll see also that traitor. Tucker Carlson. And no pants gates are truly lowlifes who lie to their audiences. Who just lie. They can’t help it or they can help it, but they’re sick nonetheless. Here we go. March 28, 2026. Cut! 19. Go. Now, one other thing. Troops on the ground. He said no troops on the ground. I don’t remember that in any campaign speech either. But why would we need troops on the ground? Well, there’s a lot of reasons. And we wouldn’t need 300,000 of them. It’s this uranium two. We’ve got to get the uranium. If it cannot be destroyed, if it cannot be altered, we got to get it for the reason I just said. You can make dirty bombs in a year time. You can still make sophisticated missiles. So you need to get to the uranium. That’s why I’m reading in the paper we’re talking about the 82nd Airborne. We’re talking about these very special forces and the various military services and so forth. He’s not talking about sending regular army and infantry in by the hundreds of thousands. The men he’s talking about, the units he’s talking about, they are specialized. And you know what else I remember from my days in the Reagan administration, many of them are trained for a moment like this. To try and secure enriched uranium. Many have been trained for moments like this. I guess what I’m trying to say is we are in good hands now, not with Allstate, but with President Trump, because he’s a man with enormous intelligence, enormous common sense. He’s not an ideologue. He doesn’t run around with slogans. He’s prudential. He looks the facts. He looks at the challenge and he’s dealing with it. Now, you might say, but he’s negotiating a peace deal, first of all. If you look at those 15 points that were in the media, you know what that was? That was unconditional surrender. The Iranians apparently said no. The president said, okay. Who’s up next? I think we’re very lucky that he is where he is. You know, Mr. Producer. I wasn’t even pushing hard on the Special Forces or the 82nd Airborne. I just pointed out, this is something the president was concerned about in talking about. And this is the sort of thing we’ve done in the past. And I ask you, Mr. and Mrs. America, I’m blessed to have you in the audience in our national town hall meeting. Am I promoting the sending of ground troops into Iran in this? You can be honest, missed, reduce. Or am I? Not even a little. Not even a little. So you need to get to the uranium. That’s why and that’s what I’m reading in the paper. We’re talking about the 82nd Airborne. We meaning the administration, we’re talking about these various special forces and the various military services and so forth. He’s not meaning the president talking about sending regular army and infantry in by the hundreds of thousand. The man he’s talking about, he’s talking about the president is talking about. Which of course I would support if he thought it was necessary to get the enriched uranium out. Not hundreds of thousands, but as I explained here. The targeting with special forces or even part of the 82nd Airborne. It’s not the whole 82nd Airborne. So how do you get from this? Two. Levin is promoting ground troops in Iran. How do you get there? You don’t. This. Is what? No pants. Mac Gates is hanging his underwear on this. Was what traitor Tucker Carlson took yesterday and edited. An edited. Now, if I feel there’s a war in which we need ground troops, I will talk about it. But I tell you exactly what I think about these events. So I wanted to straighten that out, at least with you and the audience here. And if you’re online and you hear one of these. These numbskulls make these comments. You’ve heard the facts. You’ve heard. You’ve heard the the recording of exactly what I said on Life, Liberty and Levin. It’s available for everybody. Everybody. That’s what I said. No, I’m not going to play defense on this. I’m only pointing this out to demonstrate to you. What lowlifes? These two guys, how evil they are that you cannot believe anything they say at any time. They don’t want to debate in terms of discussing the issues, arguing over the issue. They just lie. They lie and they make the most outrageous. anti-Semitic, Jew hating comments. They’re making America hating comments. I mean, whose side of this war are they on? They’re obviously on Iran side. They’re on the side of the Islamists. We already know this from traitor. Tucker Carlson. That’s abundantly clear. And no pants. Matt Gaetz has made it abundantly clear to. 20 times a day. He’s trashing Israel, trashing the prime minister, trashing, trashing. He’s not trashing the enemy. He almost never trashes the enemy. None of them do. None of them do. They trash us. You and me. Our country. Our military. And here they’re really trashing the president, but they don’t want to say that. But that’s what they’re doing. They’re trashing the president. We’ll be right back.

Segment 2
Welcome back, America. While we’re on the subject. The great General Jack Keane, who will be on Life, Liberty and Levin on Sunday. Along with Zuhdi Jasser so we can dig into Islamism and Iran. And Saturday we have a great show to. Peter Schweitzer. And former secretary of State and CIA Director Mike Pompeo. So we have two very powerful shows and of course, my opening statements, but they’re very powerful. I hope you’ll set your record button or press it. Whether you DVR something, people set DVR. What do you know? That’s not what we do. Well, that’s what I do. I don’t know what you do when you’re watching other stuff, but that’s what I do. Me and tens of millions of others. Right, Mr. Producer? General Jack Keane on Fox Business today. With Stuart Varney. Cut. 18. Go. General, do you expect to round to become more aggressive as we approach the midterms? Well, if you look at that pattern of behavior, you know, since we’ve gone to the cease fire back on April the seventh, I remember we went to the cease fire because they wanted to negotiate over the Straits of Hormuz. And they had they had imposed their will on it on March the second after we began operations on February the 28th. And I think when from April the seventh and supposedly trying to get we’re under a cease fire, which was on again, off again, they have can tenuously become more aggressive in terms of frequency of attacks going all the way back for months now. And I think as we get closer to the midterms, it’s likely they will. And the reason for that is, is because they believe in their head now that they have something of an upper hand here as Stewart, because we once had a cease fire over oil and gas prices and and the impact of the midterms. And as we get closer to the midterms, they think the less likelihood that President Trump whatever. React very consequential in terms of military operations. In other words, they think they can get away with it and force concessions out of the United States. That’s kind of their strategy. But they they have miscalculated time and time again dealing with this. Presidents do it. And if that’s the game plan and it could very well be they’re going to miscalculate here because he absolutely was come down hard on them as a result of it. All right. There is no no smarter military tactician than retired four star Army General Jack Keane. As far as I’m concerned. All right. Let’s dig into a few other things here. What do you think? I think we do. We’ve got there would be a second. You know, the Democrats keep throwing around this stuff about white supremacy. I’ll be honest. See right here about authoritarianism and everything like that. This is just so outrageous. It’s so outrageous. It just never ends. For example, Kamala Harris is on Stacey Abrams podcast today. I mean, these are two truly pathetic people. Truly pathetic people. Two losers. Losers Who knew? Stacey Abrams had a podcast. Well, listen to this crap. Cut a lemon. Go. Part of the pain of this moment, Stacey is. Oh, she’s in such pain. She just paid over $1,000,000 for a home in Malibu. Right, Mr. Producer? Such pain. What does she do for this money? I don’t even know. She probably give speeches. Now what a lot of these donors to these organizations do, they pay these people and Republicans to a quarter of $1,000,000 a speech. Can you believe that? While it’s true. Let’s go to the top cut of someone. Please go. Part of the pain of this moment, Stacey, is and you get a hold your nose. I mean, my voice isn’t the most harmonious in the world. This I know. And I’m proud of it regardless. But it’s not that, you know, part of the pain of this Stacie is. Oh, she’s in terrible pain. Poor woman. She lost a presidential election through a phony nomination process. She didn’t have to run in a single state in a primary. You know, part of the pain of all this, Stacey, is it’s the white supremacists here, you know, But for misogynists, white supremacists, White supremacists. How about non-white Islamists? Is that a pain to anybody? Mm hmm. I wonder how many of those Islamists vote for women. How many? Go ahead. Leaders who are pushing this kind of this this narrative about who is a legitimate American citizen among American. Excuse me, who is pushing a narrative about who is a legitimate American citizen? What is she talking about? Birthright citizenship. Birthright citizenship. Let’s stop playing games if these various manufactured laws and so forth and so on resulted in the birth of future Republicans. Are you kidding me? They’d be opposing it every step of the way. Every step of the way. So these people want abortion on demand and they got it in Massachusetts the other day. It’s disgusting. Right up right up to the minute before birth, right up to the minute before birth. That’s infanticide. Okay. That’s what that is behind. But when it comes to the birthright citizenship of the children, of foreigners, without the fact that right to their right, it pains me.

Segment 3
Let us play this again, because I think I stepped all over it mocking Kamala. Kamala, you know, these Democrats coming out of California, most parts of the country, but especially California, are real lightweights, aren’t they? Oh, yeah, because Gavin Newsom, hey, I’m all down. I mean, up for the counterrevolution. You know, I’m not really establishment anymore. Guy’s been D.A., He’s been mayor. He’s governor and not establishment. No, no. I’m up for the revolution and down for it. You know, I’m up and down and all around. Anyway, let’s take it from the top. Kamala and Stacey. But mostly Kamala. Cut one. Go. Part of the pain of this moment, Stacey, is. Yes, these so-called leaders who are pushing this kind of this this narrative about who is a legitimate American citizen. How dare you push that narrative about who’s a citizen and who’s not? We’re all citizens of the world and the world. Well, we’re all citizens of America. I told you, low IQ. Go ahead. Among American citizens, this blood and soil narrative that we have blood and soil narrative. What the hell is she talking about? He’s got quite a vacuous brain and vacuous. Cranium, I should say. You know, blood and soil. Blood and soil, you know, and running blood inside. You know, I had. Yeah. Oh, I had the highest levels of our government to suggest that, you know, once again, to hearken back to two times when it was explicit that there was a hierarchy among Americans. She so desperate to create. To create the racism of the sixties, the racism that would be 1960s or 1860s. She’s so, so desperate to create this argument. All my my Lord, that she makes no sense. She’s an idiot. She’s an idiot. In the hierarchy among Americans? No hierarchy. You’re either citizen or you’re not. And there was a legitimate fight over what birthright citizenship means. But what does that have to do with what you’re even saying, you moron? And, you know, it pains me. Pains us. Trust me. Go ahead. Your and whom was inferior? All citizens. And that’s what’s happening right now. No, that’s not what’s happening. This is why you lost and you lost in every single swing state. Even the swing states were the swing zone. You lost. You lost. Me here and here and here. You know, when he didn’t do anything, I understand it. Now, here’s a joke. Now it’s early. And of course, we know pollsters are usually wrong, but nonetheless, she’s leading Newsom in the polls. Did you see that Mr. is. No. What kind of a imbecile does news come have to be a big one because he. He can’t get water and a fire hydrant. Does anybody know why we have fire hydrants? Ah, so we can have water flow, you know, in case we need it for, among other things, fires. Exactly. So when there’s a fire and you have water flowing into the fire hydrant, isn’t that like basic stuff? Taxes are the highest in the world in California. Local and state taxes. Sales taxes, income taxes, user fees. It’s up the wazoo. But affordability. Affordability. But. You would think with all the money these people pay in taxes, that when there’s a fire, the damn hydrants, fire hydrants would work. Right. Wrong, and now they can rebuild. What kind of a state is this? This California? I don’t know. But I’m really tired of the hierarchy as citizens, you know. But I’m really tired of the hierarchy of citizenship here. I am like the old days. Like what? All. What are you talking about? She’s such a moron. Now, speaking of morons, we have Kathy Hall, the governor of New York. It’s another one who fell into the job. Because Cuomo couldn’t keep his hands in his pocket. Ah. So he had to resign. I’m sorry. Those are the facts. Those are the facts. Boy, what a what a lineup. Run for mayor there you had. Cuomo and Isely. What the hell has happened to him? Amanda. Amy. What a disaster nonetheless, huh? And of course, she’s running against a good guy, Blakeman. Right, Mr. Producer. Bruce Blakeman, who we like. He’ll be back. Next week he’ll be on the program and. It’d be great if he won. Then he could deal with Monday, too. But here’s how. I had a press conference yesterday. She’s so proud. There is absolutely no formal coordination between ICE and local law enforcement. So if you have a foreign who came into the country illegally and murdered somebody or raped somebody or molested a five year old, don’t worry. Hochul in no way is going to work with the feds to deport that person. And you, at the end of the week, as you pleased about this, you should be right. How insane do you have to be today to vote for a Democrat? I think you really ought to be off your rocker. I know we have questions about Republicans are not doing this. They’re not doing that. They have a tiny majority, but they’re not them. That’s the point. This is the reality. They’re not them. If if it was a mannequin running against Hulk who’s pretty close to Mannequin, but man or woman, Ken or whatever they call them, you know what? Fine by me. I’d still vote for the mannequin to repeat what I’ve said over the decades. I’d vote for a kumquat. Over one of them. It’s just true. It’s absolutely true. So here’s character Kathy Hochul. K-12 go. That’s why the reasons I’m proud that we signed one of the most comprehensive laws to rein in ICE in the entire country. Okay, lady, can I tell you. May I call you lady? Now I’m a woman. I can’t call you a woman. You can’t define a woman. I want to get to that in a minute. The WNBA. We don’t define women now. It’s what’s between your ears, not what’s between your legs. Okay, then call everybody. What? Anyway, so. She doesn’t rain in ice. What she’s done is unconstitutional. By claiming her state is a sanctuary state. Now, she’s not required to make agreements with the feds. But you can’t claim that your state is immune from federal law. You may recall America, we fought a civil war over that nullification. But I seem to recall the Democrats were on the wrong side of that one, too. Yes. Like this, Nimrod. That’s right. I said it, Nimrod. I don’t even know what the hell a nimrod is. But she’s a nimrod. Go ahead. It prohibits law enforcement agencies from having formal agreements with ICE. Yay! Yay! Congratulations. Illegal aliens who shouldn’t even be in this wonderful country. Who are molesting, raping. Oh, yeah. Her just having a grand old time in our country. Lawless land so far. Because those people, they can’t get them either. And then they wonder why ice goes into these communities and they’re there knocking on doors of innocent Americans. And that’s because you see, ladies and gentlemen. If local law enforcement would assist ICE. They don’t need to knock on an American citizens door. They would know where these people are because they were. Either just released from jail or they get them while they’re being released from jail. So the the Democrat cities and the Democrat states create the very environment, the scenario that they complain about. And they’re proud of it. You know, they want these votes. I just wish people could walk in the streets with a scarlet letter on their forehead, maybe on their ass. But either way, and saying, I’m a left wing Democrat who voted for. Joko. Amon. Dami. And I don’t believe in law enforcement. You know what I mean is to me to let them be the targets. Leave the rest of us the hell alone. We do believe in law enforcement. We do believe in deporting illegal aliens. All of them. All of them. So leave us alone. But there they are, the ones with the scarlet letter on their foreheads or their ash. They’re the ones you can go get. Leave us alone. We don’t need to hear any more from her than we have. Mamdani, Same press conference. He’s very proud. Very proud, because all of his good friends who are illegal alien Marxists, an Islamist, they would be rounded up and removed. Cat 13 Go. New Yorkers. You know what? I just noticed how he speaks. Mr. Ritter, AC. You know, New Yorkers and we Ugandans. I mean, New Yorkers. Yes. Know New Yorkers. He speaks for the Northeast. Turns out we have a poll now he’s hated in New York. Did you see that poll which. He’s hated. 69%. Wouldn’t that don’t support his path to Lake Coulee? Go ahead. New Yorkers New Yorkers are horrified by the actions of ICE. Really? These are actions that are ripping apart the very fabric of communities across the city. No, not really. I don’t think they are. I really don’t. No, they’re not. If a number of you can’t call them illegal aliens, everybody’s a New Yorker. That’s what they do. New Yorker. What do you call somebody from Detroit, a Detroiter? I mean, seriously. What do you. And I might make fun. I don’t know what it is. We go to Philadelphia and we go to Pittsburgh and we get. Go ahead. There are neighborhoods today where you feel the absence of those who do not feel as if they can leave their homes any longer. And tell me which one of those neighborhoods is it? And have you been to one of those neighborhoods? Go ahead. New Yorkers want a leader like the governor that we have who can look at that cruelty and name it for what it is. I know this is Governor Huckabee. No, What’s the cruelty? What did you call it? This is a guy who undermines the cops, right? All of them. They they have their you know, hey, no cops defund them, no presence, defund that defund ICE. If I know that. And, you know, these are the people who were horrified by the actions of ICE. No, I’m not. I love ice. I want you folks. And I know I love you. Get rid of the illegal aliens. It’s okay. You may not be popular among these Democrat mayors and governors. But who cares? Who cares? I’ll be right back.

Segment 4
We have a couple of important guests tonight. Hour two, we have one. An hour three. So I’m trying to get through many things that I want to address. What do we have here? We have a bunch of lunatics. These people are still lunatics. We have this guy, Senator Jon Asser. I mean, Assaf, he’s a radical left wing senator from Georgia. He’s Jewish, at least in name. Name only. And the Atlantic version of the Jewish Insider. The editor there has outed this guy. Out of them. For what? He said, look, this senator who’s Jewish comes back here to Atlanta and Georgia generally. And he talks about how he supports Israel, supports Israel, supports Israel, the Jewish groups and the Jews. Then he goes back to Washington and every single vote is a vote against the state of Israel. Can you imagine being so duplicitous? So duplicitous that you’re a left wing Jew. You go back to Georgia, you tell the Jews. You vote for Israel, you come back to Washington and you vote against Israel every time. Can you imagine? If a black representative did that, Can you imagine? If any other ethnicity did that or any other religion did that? No. So this guy, in addition to being a left wing hack. Who wants to go after Donald Trump if they take the Senate and the House? Who is truly a radical. On top of that, he’s a liar and a fraud. He’s a liar and a fraud. This guy, Assaf. And. Here he is yesterday. Do we have time, rich or not? Well, we don’t. I’ll play this for you when we come back. Then there’s a guy. I thought it had been relatively decent. His name is Ashwin Ghosh. Jake. He says after the midterms, impeachment of Haig’s death will be a priority. Folks, these people are they’re loaded for bear. They intend to go after Trump. They intend to go after his family. They intend to go after the envoys. They intend to go after Rubio and try and dirty him up. They intend to go after Hegseth. Can you remember another time in American history when a party sought to or maybe will impeach the secretary of Defense? In the middle of a war. You see how un-American that is, how unpatriotic it is, and impeach him for what a bunch of concocted nonsense. All right. We’ll be right back.