On Friday’s Mark Levin Show, criticism of President Trump’s decision to strike Iran’s nuclear program is unconscionable and ignores the threat posed by a regime that has killed Americans, targeted U.S. officials, threatened the United States and Israel, and was advancing toward nuclear weapons capability. Senator John Kennedy said intelligence showed Iran was rapidly expanding its missile and drone arsenal and intended to use that capability to shield a renewed nuclear weapons program. Israel or neocons didn’t push the United States into conflict, the President acted independently based on the facts and the nature of the Iranian regime. Efforts to slow or restrain the campaign prolonged the conflict and the isolationists who advised Trump are now unfairly criticizing the war’s duration and election loss. Later, Democrats are laying the groundwork for 2028 with the goal of controlling the presidency, House, and Senate, which would allow them to undermine constitutional protections, bypass established amendment processes, eliminate the filibuster, reshape the Supreme Court, and weaken institutions such as the Electoral College. Democrats, communists, socialists, and Islamists want to use the constitutional mechanisms to ultimately undermine the Constitution itself. Also, political parties have existed since the founding of the Republic because they represent shared principles, beliefs, and values, and the idea that becoming independent or centrist is inherently superior should be rejected. Voters deserve transparency about what candidates stand for, especially when facing ideological opponents, and that the existence of parties gives people a clear choice between competing visions. Afterward, inflation, driven by excessive government spending and debt, is the primary cause of rising costs, while Congress, not the president alone, plays the central role in federal spending. The presidents can help by promoting energy production and controlling inflationary pressures but cannot simply order food prices down once higher costs are embedded throughout the economy. Meanwhile, America faces a deeper cultural problem: a growing belief among some people that they are entitled to benefits without personal responsibility, a mindset attributed to ideological indoctrination. Rugged individualism, hard work, self-reliance, and education, particularly by parents, is the solution.
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Rough transcription of Hour 1
Segment 1
You know, I think it’s always important from time to time, for sure. But more to acknowledge and thank you for being in the audience, for your loyalty. I’m blessed to have you. I’ve been blessed to have you for how many years now, Mr. Producer? 25 years. Almost 25 years, I guess in February, right? Something like that. But in any event, it is an honor to me to have this opportunity to have our affiliates and now even beyond, to be simulcasted in live feeds and, you know, on our apps and everywhere else. It is a great, great honor. And I want you to know I don’t take it lightly. I understand it, which is why I respect you in the audience. I don’t play you. I don’t do what podcasters do and some other hosts do. If I’m outraged, I’m honestly outraged. But I’m always telling you what I honestly believe as I think things through from a pro American, constitutional, conservative, pro capitalism perspective. I’ve m always done it. I think that’s why this program has lasted longer than the vast majority of programs ever have that have been syndicated. And I think that’s why it’s been successful over the decades. It’s a connection, a bond we have together. And some people will never understand it, some people will never have it because they’re out for clicks and eyes and this and that. I’m not out for anything. We’re together here three hours a day, five days a week. That’s a lot. That’s a lot. So there’s no feigned outrage. If I’m outraged, I’m outraged. There’s no fakery to this. It is what, what it is. Now, I want to start out with something this evening that is crucially, important. You probably have heard these debates or seen them online about we shouldn’t have attacked Iran and their nukes and on and on and, on, which I think is such a thoroughly unconscionable and immoral position to have. Here is a regime that has killed thousands of our fellow citizens, as well as civilians and military. Here’s a regime that tried to assassinate our president, a Secretary of State, a national security advisor, among others. And here’s a regime that had promised to try and take us out, as well as our friends and allies, Israel. And the president learns about a breakout of nuclear weapons and he’s supposed to ignore it? Just sit there Now I hear People say rather stupidly, actually. Well, we always hear this every two years. They’re, ah, about to have a breakout. But, ah, yeah. And what happens is, typically the Israeli Mossad either assassinates nuclear scientists or destroys one of their facilities or does a number of things to set them back again. There’s nothing conflicting. When we say 10 years ago, they’re on the precipice and we say now they were on the precipice. There’s nothing conflicting about it. There’s nothing dishonest about it. It’s the truth. But this time on this President’s watch, who has said all along they’re not going to get any nukes. they were getting nukes, according to them, in their discussions with Steve Witkoff. And so this entire argument, to me is bizarre. The position of J.D. vance, to me is bizarre. The position of these woke Reich isolationists, is bizarre. I mean, I just find the whole thing ridiculous. But you’re even going to find it more absurd and the President’s position more compelling after you hear from Senator John Kennedy from a few months back. It’s just been released, I suppose, because nobody else heard it before. He’s on a podcast. I want you to turn up your volume. Wherever you’re sitting, however you’re listening to this, whether it’s on your computer or your iPhone or your radio or whatever it is, I want you to turn up the volume. I want you to stop whatever you’re doing. Seriously, stop whatever you’re doing. Obviously, if you’re in a car and truck, you can’t do it. But really focus in on what’s going to be said here. Because John Kennedy as a senator had access to Mark Levin: intelligence that was shared with them from our intelligence agencies, from our administration, by the way, other intelligence agencies. So I want you to listen very, very carefully. Okay? This was from July 2026, a few weeks after the President ordered an attack on the Islamic regime’s nuclear sites. Cut one, go
Senator John Kennedy: our intelligence. Here’s what our intelligence showed, and I’ve seen it. It’s classified, but I’ve seen it. But I can give you the, general outline. Our intelligence showed that Iran was building up its missile capacity, both ballistic and cruise, and they were going to compile, so many missiles and drones that they were going to turn to America and Israel and say, we’re restarting our nuclear weapons program and if you try to stop us, we’re going to destroy the rest of the Middle East. And by the way, our missiles can now reach London and Parish, Paris, and and Germany. And you, you saw reports, I’ve seen the intelligence. Okay. And President Trump was faced, well, do I let them continue? He had already bombed their nuclear, some of their nuclear facilities, but he was faced with the decision, do I let them get to the point where they have so many missiles and drones, ballistic and cruise, that they could destroy the Middle east, that they could hit London, that they might even be able to hit the United States, or do I go in to stop them? And he did. This is exactly what the North Koreans did. What they mean by this is they create an umbrella conventional weapon, massive inventory of thousands and thousands of ballistic missiles. These are the ballistic missiles that are as big as a yellow school bus and can do enormous damage and thousands and thousands of them. He said the President of the United States was informed that they were building these, what they call the layering of missiles. So you wouldn’t be able to protect anything. You just couldn’t shoot them out of the sky fast enough. And these are hyper, these are not hypersonic, but supersonic missiles and they can blow cities off the face of the earth. And so what he’s saying there is they could threaten us and blackmail us and not a damn thing they can do, announce that they’re going forward with their nuclear plan and that’s that. And that’s pretty much what North Korea did. And so this is the information the President had, plus Steve Witkoff telling him that they would have 11 nuclear warheads in 10 days. They were bragging about it. Now, do you think a President of the United States should sit on his hands with this information? Do you, do you think somebody who wants to be President of the United states, like a J.D. vance or somebody, or a Democrat for that matter, should be present the United States if they’re going to sit on their hands with something like this? And so when you have all of these sort of thuggish individuals online and out there, whether they’re writing for the Federalist or the American Conservative, which is really the American radical left, or for various think tanks that have been taken over by these same elements and they’re telling you it’s the neocons and the Jews, Israel, Netanyahu dragging us into a war, do you think that’s why the President made a decision to deal with this? Because he was being dragged into a war by Israel? How can Israel drag us into a war? Either we want to do it or we don’t. But it was clear that the President was clear minded and he understood what he had to do. And, of course, the nature of the regime. It’s a barbaric, primitive, throwback regime that doesn’t give a damn about human life. He had just seen them. He just seen them slaughter 50,000 of their own people. So the president had every reason in the world to act, every reason in the world that he had to act. Now, we can bicker, and that’s fine by me over what has transpired over the last eight or nine months, the stop and go and stop and go and the memorandum of understanding negotiated primarily by the vice president, which was a disaster, but that’s what’s prolonged this. This war. It’s not even a war right now. Maybe it will continue to be one soon, but this isn’t a war. These are military operations. And now even very sporadic military events, which, if I had to guess, will pick up fairly significantly, but I don’t know. So people are complaining about that. I can understand why they would question it. And over time, you do lose the support of the public. But this has been a war or a military conflict where the casualties have been far lower than any other war, that there have been no ground troops, no tanks, none of that sort of thing. It’s been a spectacularly fought military operation to the extent there’s been military operations. So those of us, and me, of course, saying that we need to end it, we need to take them out, we need to arm the opposition, that is the resistance. We need to get this done. And if we don’t have generals who can do it, let’s find generals who can, like past presidents have, and so forth and so on. And so what’s happening is the isolationists. The isolationists, who within the administration were responsible largely for advising the president and urging the president to keep tapping the brakes, are now complaining about the length of the war and the impact it had on the midterm elections. It’s almost like they sound like saboteurs who want us to lose, who want the president to fail. And I’m starting to think that’s what many of them are. That’s what many of them are. So I’m going to play this one more time for tonight anyway. We’ll play it again maybe in the future, but for now, tonight, so you can hear it very, very clearly what the man is saying. Cut one go. Our intelligence. Here’s what our intelligence showed, and I’ve seen it. It’s classified, but I’ve seen it. But I can give you what the, general outline. Our intelligence showed that Iran was building up its missile capacity, both ballistic and cruise. And they were going to compile, so many missiles and drones that they were going to turn to America and Israel and say, we’re restarting our nuclear weapons program, and if you try to stop us, we’re going to destroy the m. Rest of the Middle East. And by the way, our missiles can now reach London and Parish, Paris and, and Germany. And you saw reports. I’ve seen the intelligence.Okay. And President Trump was faced. Well, do I let them continue? He had already bombed their nuclear, some of their nuclear facilities, but he was faced with the decision, do I let them get to the point where they have so many missiles and drones, ballistic and cruise, that they could destroy the Middle east, that they could hit London, that they might even be able to hit the United States? Or do I go in to stop them? And he did. And for this, he deserves our full support. Our full support. Now it’s time to bring them to their knees and destroy them and arm the Iranian people so they can swarm in and take over that regime. And there are good plans that are available to do it. It’s called the Reagan Doctrine. So these people online or on television who are trashing us, who support what the president did, who support what the president’s trying to do, are a disgrace. They are diabolical. I’ll be right back.
Segment 2
So all the, corrupt Democrats, and of course some of them are sexual predators. We don’t know that yet. You know, we didn’t know about Spalwell until, until that was revealed. And I understand that that’s the case with some Republicans like Matt Gaetz. I got it. But still, they’re running around talking about how they’re going to investigate and how they’re going to get and how they’re going to do this and how they’re going to do that. They’re not talking about affordability, America. Now, ladies and gentlemen, we have a lot of suckers out there who sat at home who were very angry. And so they decided to sit in the corner and punish themselves rather than vote. And so we have massive debt, spending, Marxist Islamists who are going to blow the budget through the ceiling if they can devalue the value of our currency and cause massive inflation. Did you see the employment numbers today? They were, like, five times what was expected. This economy is beginning its boom. There’s simply no question about it. And the Democrats are going to do everything they can to kill it in the crib, because that’s the way they work. More when we return.
Segment 3
All right, so, Iran was going to blackmail us. They were going to reveal that they have thousands of ballistic missiles and other missiles and that there wouldn’t be a damn thing we could do about it. And they were going to proceed with their nuclear program. And what’s interesting is this has been out now all day and not a single one of the woke. Right. Isolationists who really undermined us during this election, quite significantly. I don’t know the full extent of it, but it wasn’t helpful, that’s for sure. Not one of them has apologized. They’re not, they’re not made of such fiber. Not one of them has apologized and not, one of them will apologize. William Jacobson is a great professor. He points out Iran was pursuing the North Korea path to a nuke. Impenetrable missile arsenal, first untouchable nuke, not far behind. This was the U.S. s intelligence community’s assessment on which Trump relied. If you hate gas prices now, think what they would have been if Iran was permissioned to finish this plan. That’s the point, isn’t it? And by the way, if we were to walk out of that part of the world right now, as the isolationists would have us do, they would control the straight of horror moves and the price of gasoline would double and triple within a month. So these people don’t make any sense, do they? No. And so it’s very, very important. And, and they want you to believe that it was the number one issue in the minds of voters. No, it wasn’t. The economy was the number one issue. And they just keep at it. They just keep doing it. And so we have to dismiss them as the lunatics that they are. That’s pretty much what we’re going to have to do. Because God forbid, if they or the Democrats get in trouble of our national security, just see how they are. What an incredible disaster, right? Yeah, big time. Obviously, you know, by. Well, Susie Wiles is no longer the chief of staff. Stephen Miller is. Susie Wiles was a good chief of staff. And, given the election results and we don’t know all the details of what took place or what could have taken place or anything of the kind, the President decided it was time to make a move, he said, and I guess, you know, he’s a businessman and when things go sour, you got to make moves. And she’s the chief of staff and she’s a very long Serving Chief of staff as things go, because they typically don’t go that well on this issue of Iran and so forth and so on over at the Hill. Just kind of a left wing rag. But nonetheless, there it is, the Hill, Capitol Hill. Vance takes GOP hits as DeSantis and Cruz emerge as early GOP winners for 2028. Now, it’s obviously way too early to know, but. But that is part of what’s sizing up early. The fight for the 2028 Republican primary is beginning to take shape on the heels of the GOP’s devastating midterm losses, with J.D. vance facing criticism for blaming the losses on the Iran war and other big name Republicans appearing to stake out their own position. He also attacked Israel. You know, it’s such a cheap shot. It’s so tawdry. I mean, I know this guy didn’t grow up around any Jews. I know all the rest, but still, there’s no, there’s no excuse for this. There really isn’t. Our enemies are the Islamists and the communists. The Islamo Nazi regime in Tehran, Qatar, which is spending a fortune to destroy our schools and brainwash our children. Communist China. And so Israel, Israel, Israel. These guys are sick. Certainly when it comes to Israel, they are. The losses have created, they write, a huge opening for GOP White House hopefuls, including Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Texas Senator Ted Cruz to go against Vance. It’s a fact seemingly recognized by Vance, who was quick to blame the Iran war for the historic drubbings and Republicans at large. So what he’s doing there is blaming the President and not even honestly, because he’s the one advising the President to tap the brakes and not to go all in and wipe out the regime. The MoU was his. It’s a fact seemingly recognized by Vance. They write the election results were bad news for every leader across the party, given the scale, the losses. But they were particularly tough for Vance’s 2028 prospects. Says Kevin Madden, the veteran Republican strategist. See here, Vance is now in the position of serving as a loyal vice president to a lame duck president whose approval ratings are in the 30s. He says his influence on the future of the party could be in question. No, that’s not it. Some of these DC guys are morons. Now, the problem for Vance is he’s in and out on the same subject. He was loyal to the president, now he’s disloyal to the president on this. And on top of that, lots, of leaking coming out of the White House. If it’s not him, it’s his circle. It’s people who agree with him and lots of undermining the war effort and of course, the prolonged nature of this thing because again, the off, again, on again, talks, talks, talks, talks, talks, which have been very unhelpful and I think hurt us. I don’t think the effort against the regime has hurt us at all. I think it’s the lengthening of the process, I think that has, quite frankly. But it’s not the number one issue. Questions are now being raised by Republicans over whether a candidate not directly tied to the administration would be stronger. Let, me put it better not tied to, the manner in which the war has played out. Tuesday made clear that the stink on Vice President Vance and Secretary Rubio. This isn’t me speaking. I don’t even like the language. Maybe too much to overcome, as the election was a referendum on the job they’re doing, said one top GOP operative. I cannot stand it when they do not give names. Blaming the losses on Iran, Vance put some daylight between himself and his boss. I’ve never seen anything like that, by the way, where a sitting vice president does that. The job of the vice president is to support the president. There is no other. Other job other than to sort of attend funerals. Mr. Reducer. Sit there in the Senate like a potted plant. DeSantis, over the last 48 hours or so, has certainly sounded like someone with the White House in mind. They write. The Florida governor who unsuccessfully challenged Trump for the nomination in 2024, was among the first this week to offer his own point of view on what went wrong for the GOP candidates, pointing to the war in Iran and high gas prices. Now, he has supported the war against Iran, so I suspect what he meant by that is the prolonged nature of it. He’s going to have to crystallize that thinking. In an interview with Sirius XM host Stephen A. Smith, he accused some of his party of gaslighting voters by not acknowledging their economic anxiety. Now, we won Florida, but it was tight. It was very, very tight. So it’s no time to get cocky, that’s for sure. I’m not talking about DeSantis. I’m just speaking generally. It’s no time to get cocky. Republicans did lose three House races in districts that were redrawn to give GOP candidates an edge in Florida, and they’re behind in a fourth. The gubernatorial and Senate races were also closer than expected. But DeSantis can certainly make an argument about his state being A GOP bastion. He certainly can, because it is. And you might say, well, that’s because they have 1.8 million more Republicans. Well, we have 1, 8.8 million m more Republicans in Florida because of DeSantis. On his podcast, Cruz compared the losses to the drubbing Republicans took after Watergate, a comparison that would seem to at least raise the issue of corruption. That’s not what he was doing. He also criticized the Trump tariffs and the Iran war for raising costs. All right, look, I’m not a politician. Even some of our best friends who are politicians are politicians. I am not. I think the tariffs were put in place to rebuild our industrial and manufacturing sectors. I doubt they had some massive impact on the price of goods. President slashed regulations, he slashed taxes. so, I just think that we were sort of in a flattened economy after a high inflation economy under Biden, and that Trump took all these steps with tax cuts and regulatory cuts and massive drilling and all the rest, and the economy is going to boom and is beginning to boom. Now, to recognize that and say that doesn’t mean you lack compassion. It means you have a brain in your head and you see the statistics of what’s taking place. That’s what it means. Other, Republicans say Tuesday’s results forced Vance to stake his claim early or face the consequences of a more crowded field. I predict, and I could be wrong, that it is going to be a crowded field. I don’t know what DeSantis plans or Cruz’s plans are, but I suspect one or both might be interested in jumping in. Why wouldn’t they? You’ve got others who I do not support in any respect, Chris Christie and Nikki Haley and others in the wings too. So I think it’ll be somewhat crowded. I think they’re going to see an opportunity and I think Vance is going to be confronted not just here, but he’s going to be confronted on his ideology, which is to me rather strange. It’s sort of a Papuanan ideology, if you will. His same view towards Jews and Israel, which is very repugnant. He’s going to have to address Tucker Carlson, who he’s refused to, to criticize or even step away from in any respect. So that, that anchor is around his neck and that is a, a matter of his own doing. And there will be other things too, that he has said and said in the past as well. So. And it’ll be interesting to see if the President endorses anybody. So I think the President has been very magnanimous towards Vance Considering the statement he put out on Wednesday, which was pretty bad. Even Newt Gingrich posted. And he thought it was terrible, too, because, it was disloyal. You know, some of you may like Vance, some of you may love Vance. The fact of the matter is, when we voted for Trump, we voted for Trump. We didn’t vote for any running mate. At least I didn’t. But the idea that this, I can’t even call it a war, that what we’re doing with Iran caused a blue wave, is preposterous. The polls show it’s preposterous. The exit polling shows it’s preposterous. So why say that? Because you’re an isolationist and you’re an ideologue, and that’s your perspective. And you want. You want that narrative to win the day. And why would you talk about we have to change our relationship with Israel. What does that have to do with anything that doesn’t even show up as a blip on the radar screen when it comes to Republicans? So why would you say that? Or why do you think he would say that? He’s Tucker’s buddy. I’ll be right back.
Segment 4
I have never seen a situation with two years left in a presidency where the vice president does something like this. I’m just being honest with you. Furthermore, I’ve never seen a situation where people who claim to support Trump side with the vice president and attack the Trump supporters. Isn’t that what you’re seeing online all day, Mr. Producer? It’s the most absurd thing I’ve ever seen. So they’re literally attacking the most ardent supporters of the president, like me and Mark Thiessen and Dana Lash and several others. And I don’t really care. I’ve got the thickest of thick skin. But that’s not my point. My point is, why would you attack those of us who are defending and supporting the president with respect to dealing with Iran? Why are you lying about the polls and that this was the main reason that we lost? Which, of course, it’s not. And why would you attack the way you’re attacking on behalf of J.D. vance? with two years left in the presidency? Can you think of another example? Somebody mentioned Henry Wallace, and that might be an example. Under fdr. He was a socialist and he didn’t think FDR was going far enough and fast enough with the New Deal. Listen to the irony of that. Now. Now the Democrat Party’s filled with these communists and socialist bastards and America hating Islamists. It’s stunning. Absolutely Stunning and disgusting. Quite frankly, disgusting. And so my view, in fact, I’m going to be on Saturday and Sunday, Life, Liberty and Levin, 8pm Eastern time. I hope you’ll join both shows. And on the Saturday show, we have, we have, let’s see, Mark Penn, among others. And you’re gonna like it. I know you’re gonna like it. Joel Pollock, what happened to my mind. Joe Pollack, who is great, is the opinion editor, the California Post, which is unlike the New York Compost. And, we get into all this, I think you’re gonna love it. And then Sunday we have Senator Ted Cruz for an exclusive interview all weekend. And ready for this, Martha McCallum, who is a fantastic person and a great journalist. And I know you’re gonna love it. So that’s two fantastic shows, Mark. I’m gonna be watching football. I’m gonna be out. I’m gonna watch the stars. and. Okay, great. Set your DVR or set whatever recording device you use. I don’t know the name of all of them. And just make sure you watch us. It’s Fox, 8:00pm Eastern Time tomorrow night, 8:00pm Eastern Time Sunday night. I’m sure you’re going to enjoy it. The midterms. What we have to do now is figure out what we’re going to do in the future. We. We gotta, sort of break out of this stupor, if you will, and start to develop strategies, approaches to defeat them. To defeat them. And that’s going to require rallying, that’s going to require uniting, that’s going to require people who can do that. That’s going to require you and me doing this. And we will do it. And we’re going to promote solid American principles, capitalist market economics, limited government. And we’re going to explain how you counter communists and socialists and Islamists during the course of the rest of the year. Because if we don’t do it, nobody else is going to do it. I’ll be right back.
