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Iran’s Foreign Ministry directly rejects Trump’s new claim that “everyone in Iran has approved the deal,” including the Supreme Leader, saying no one has accepted it, and “no agreement has been reached,” per Fars.

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Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811.  877-381-3811. While we have a deal. I think a deal before a deal. Remember, this deal is a memorandum of understanding of of sorts. For 60 days more of negotiation. Not a single person talking about this right now knows what’s in the deal other than certain news reports on certain aspects that leaders are talking about. But none of us have seen it. None of us. I don’t know who else has seen. It’s not been released yet. That tells me it hasn’t been finalized yet because otherwise when I release it, I can’t celebrate something I haven’t read. Number two, that’s number one. To me, it’s always been about enforcement. And the question is, in enforcement in the next year or two or three under the president, because I think he would enforce it. The question is the enforcement. For five, ten, 15 years from now. That’s the issue with me, because we know that this regime is a terrorist regime. We know that has never, never abided by a single agreement has ever signed of any kind. We know that after last June, when we hit their nuclear sites, they immediately began rebuilding their nuclear program, re rebuilding their ballistic missile program. And as I’ve said over and over and over again, even if they sign an agreement and even if the agreement is the greatest of any agreement that’s ever been written, they have no intention of complying with it because they can’t. They exist. They exist to destroy you and me. They exist to destroy the West. They exist to destroy any faith that isn’t theirs. And any Muslim that doesn’t comply with their fundamentalist 77th century primitive ideology. That’s why they kill their own people who dare to raise even questions. And rape them and torture them. That’s why they funded Hezbollah, which has killed our people, as has Iran, our Marines, our embassy personnel. That’s why they have funded and supported Hamas. And the hotels. And we can go on and on. But why should I? You know exactly what I’m talking about. So the question is, what’s in the deal? That would be helpful, don’t you think? Most of it is. And. What’s the enforcement mechanism and is it an enforcement mechanism that will be enforced against this enemy? After the Trump presidency, we now have a Democratic president. It won’t be. In fact, they may rip up the whole deal. It should be a treaty, but it’s not going to be treated as a treaty because the Obama deal wasn’t treated as a treaty. Lindsey Graham, who so many of you get angry about it. He has said it’s a deal that needs to come before Congress. Graham is right. That’s what the Constitution provides. The question is, will it? And remember whatever we do. Or don’t do will be noted by the Democrats, and they’ll do the same thing, especially if it means skirting the Constitution. Okay. So there’s more to be done. Now, this would be in Malibu, a memorandum of understanding that requires, as I understand it, another 60 days of negotiation. We also read some reports indicating that. Many of the countries that were said to have agreed to it didn’t even know that it was agreed to yet. Including the state of Israel, including other states. It was negotiated by Qatar, I believe, as a mediator. Qatar that has spent $400 billion trying to. Undermine our country, undermine our educational system. They create all kinds of disunity in our country. They’ve been very effective at it. Pakistan has been involved. They’re aligned with Saudi Arabia. That was behind 911. They’re aligned with Russia. I don’t know why Turkey has a role in anything. Everyone is a genocidal maniac. Who has an alliance of sorts with Iran, as Qatar does. So all this is going on will be very interested in knowing the substance and seeing it. And even if it’s the greatest deal of all deals of any deal in the history of deals, which would be great. I am telling you right now. That the enemy will not comply with it in the end. And this is what troubles me. Putting everything else aside. I don’t want our kids and grandkids. I don’t want the next generation to have to deal with Iran that has 10,000 ballistic missiles and does in fact have the ability to put nuclear warheads on those ballistic missiles that will be able to reach that country maybe at some point hypersonic missiles? I don’t know. Because this is a regime that will use them. The president has said it, and the president is correct. What I see here. Is this president unique? From all the others before him. Courageous beyond all the others before him has brought us to a point where we can destroy the regime. In fact, the bombing in the last two nights demonstrated it. And, you know, it’s interesting. The first night of bombing, Iran started firing ballistic missiles at some of the Arab countries, but it didn’t fire any additional ballistic missiles at Israel. Why was that? Because they knew Netanyahu wouldn’t stand for it. That’s why. So here we have him over a barrel, so to speak. I know we’re worried about the price of oil and we’re worried about the stock market and all these other things. But what this demonstrated to me with the Israelis first and then us. Two nights in a row. Look how quickly we could bring them to their knees. Look how quickly. Now imagine if we were going to knock them out. Imagine if we were going to knock them out. And imagine if we arm the Iranian people. The president talks about the Kurds and he’s not had very nice things to say about the Kurds. Well on the Iranian people. After half a century of having intelligence and working with other countries that have intelligence there, we know which Iranian people might want to be armed. It could coalesce. We might even know how to break into the army itself and create various factions. And I’m not talking about the IRGC. AGC, That’s different. That’s like the SS. And so people are talking about, isn’t it great we have a deal. We don’t even know what’s in the deal. But from my perspective, president will do what the president thinks is right. He’s brought us to this point. I just feel like we’ve been on the five yard line for nine weeks. And to me, it underscores the fact that rather than the cease fire, we should have continued. We should have finished them off. I’d be very curious to see how how this MRU treats Hamas. If Hamas is brought within the MCU as Iran wants, then you know it’s a complete loser deal. Hamas has killed. Our Marines, our soldiers. Embassy staff. You know, prior to 911, Hamas was the biggest killer of Americans. Period. In terms of terrorism. And Hamas is Iran. Hamas has destroyed Lebanon, the Lebanese people. Want them out. The Israelis want him out because they keep shooting missiles in Israel and killing their people. And of course, the Iranians, the people, the people of Iran, they want them out, too, because they know this is the most important arm. Of the Iranian regime and they want it to survive through the process. So there’s a lot to look for. There’s a lot to talk about. But I stick to my my basic premise. This regime cannot be trusted. In the next five, ten, 15 years, it will break out. Prove me wrong. If I’m wrong, where’s the evidence? Anywhere that I’m wrong. Where is the evidence? Anywhere that they will adhere to an agreement. In the out years? Certainly. Where is it they’re going to defy their own reason for existing. Which is to impose their will, especially on the United States, the big Satan. They know wave election cycles. They know what the Democrats think. They know what isolationists think. What the weasels think. They don’t think we have the will to enforce this, certainly not after Trump. And I have to tell you, I don’t think we do. Certainly the Democrats don’t. They’re busy nominating Nazis and Marxists and Islamists with ties to al Qaeda. I mean, they’re out of their minds. We’ll be right back.

Segment 2
It’s difficult to have discuss a memorandum of understanding that’s not public, precise terms of which we do not know. If it’s done, it will be signed in 48 to 72 hours. Let’s see it regardless of terms. Regardless of the terms. This is important. My understanding is that there’s another 60 day period of negotiation. I assume that involves the particulars. My view has not changed because the Iranian regime is what it is. That is, it will violate whatever final agreement is signed, certainly after the end of the Trump administration. And I doubt any future president, certainly not a Democrat, will enforce it, which would require military action. Which would require a military reaction. And I don’t think we’ll ever be in this kind of a position again to do what needs to be done. We have the enemy. Where we want it is right to attack them. And in a few weeks time, they were on their back. We hit the brakes for nine weeks. We went back to military action this week. The regime was badly damaged beyond the original. Damage rather than destroy it. Including arming the Iranian people. We apparently have an M.O.. You. So beyond that. There’s really nothing to comment on until we learn more. You know. Does that make sense to you, Mr. Producer? Yeah. All we have right now are. Broadsides. Here we have the president cut one. Go. Just had a big day. I know you’ll never be satisfied, but that’s okay. It doesn’t bother me at all. We just made a great settlement in the war with Iran, and we’re going to be subject to finalization of documents. We should get done over the next few days. We’ll probably have a signing, maybe in Europe. And it’s a great thing. Stock markets are up a thousand points. And that means, like the DLC, that means 11, the market goes down, which they like it, but it’s been up oil, shrub oil will start coming down to, I think, even lower than it was before. We had I said I was in Iowa, it was $1.85 a gallon in that area. But going to get them and we’re going to get pretty close going to come down. And when oil comes down, everything else comes down. And most importantly, we have a deal that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, which was our purpose. And what we had to go through to get this is a big, very big thing. But we have a signing. So and the documents are in pretty final shape. So we’ll see. We’ll stay very good. It should be done and that should be done pretty quickly. They want to. Every bit as much as everybody else wants. And I think a lot of good relationships get into from that said, you spoke with the leaders of many of the countries that were mentioned in the release. I just want to be, as I’m sure they had great heads of nations Qatar, UAE and Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Kuwait and others. And I’m going to be talking to Turkey. President Erdogan is great. And and it’s really a wonderful thing with a lot of spirit. Pakistan was fantastic. The prime minister and the I call him the general. He’s a general. He’s a great, great general is so great that they he’s actually a field marshal with a step above. And they’re all very happy. The whole Middle East is happy and long beyond the Middle East. Australia will open as soon as we ever sign. Just based on what our president said there, it sounds like they did a deal on he announced it and now he’s calling the heads of state to tell them about It is not Sunday. Mr.. It is. That’s what it sounds like to me. So sort of a, if you will, a lobbying effort in any country that objects. You can imagine if Israel had a problem with it. They probably feel the wrath, but I don’t know. I’m not there. I’m not there. There’s much more on this and we’ll cover it. And there’s other things I want to get to tonight as well. But this is front and center again. We can’t go over the particulars because we don’t have them. But I do know the and you do, too. The Iranian regime does not honor its word. So this is going is this going to be a piece in our time moment? Is there going to be something better? What will we get from the regime? We get compliance. Self-control. It will decide that. Okay? We’re not going to destroy the rest of the world, okay? We’re not worried about the 12th Imam showing up, okay? All I didn’t really tell us to destroy all these these Westerners. I don’t think so.

Segment 3
I may be viewed as a hawk today, but one day while I’m around or not, whether it matters or not, if remembered or not, I will be viewed as a dove because I am certain. As night follows day. That Iran will violate the agreement. As night follows day, I am certain it will violate the agreement. And if you think honestly and seriously and you’re truthful to yourself, you know I’m right. So we all want to celebrate something we don’t have the details about yet. I understand that the stock market’s up, Oil prices are going down, I suppose. I don’t know. I guess. And those are good things. But that’s not the point, is it? That would eventually come anyway, I would hope. History’s a funny thing. The same window rarely opens twice. You understand what I mean by that? That means when there’s a historic decision to make. It can go one way or another. And usually you get one chance. Those of you. We had a caller last night that said, look, I don’t want boots on the ground. We don’t have boots on the ground in that respect. But if in seven or eight years this regime muscles up with the help of the communist Chinese, and they’ll helping with the help of the North Koreans, and they will help them with the help of the Russians, and they will help them with the help with the Pakistanis. And they have helped them. They have seven, eight, nine, 10,000 ballistic missiles. Imagine. They can reach the continental United States. They already can reach every capital in Europe. And we had underestimated that. And they have nuclear warheads. What the hell are our kids going to do? What the hell will our grandkids do? I’m just asking you, what will they do? This is the nightmare I fear the most. This is why I keep talking about this. The price of a gallon of gasoline. The stock markets up, the stock market goes up, the stock market goes down, the selling price goes up. The gasoline price goes down. What in the world is the next generation going to do? When communist China is on the move. That access is on the move. We’ve got these internal enemies. That are weakening us from within. This is our generation that that’s responsible for stopping it. Right. What are we going to do? And then the Iranians. Armed up. What do you know? They lied. And what do you know, the Democrat president or some Republican president, for that matter? Didn’t take the steps necessary to stop them. What do you know? I know enough about history to know that for a relatively long period of time, Winston Churchill, in his own words, was in the wilderness, the political wilderness, the governmental wilderness. He made some mistakes as a minister. But he repeatedly made the point. He saw the Third Reich early on. He saw Hitler early on. He said they’re building up. They’re a threat to the continent. No, no. What the hell’s wrong with you, Winston? His party didn’t take him seriously. You blew it before. We don’t want to hear from you now. You know how articulate Churchill was. He was writing. He was speaking. He wasn’t silent, but he was dismissed. He was dismissed. Neville Chamberlain was a very smooth talker. Considered a great diplomat. When he came back with that peace agreement with Hitler and peace in our time and waved it around, he was celebrated. Celebrate. And Hitler was the only one not celebrating him. Him and a few others and said, No, no. Do you understand what you’ve done? Rather than our country getting on a war footing and building up our military and our defenses. We’re hiding behind this piece of paper. Hiding behind this piece of paper. Now, here’s the thing. Iran is not Germany. It’s not Japan. It’s not Italy. It’s not as strong as any of those countries were. But nuclear missiles, that’s the great equalizer. So we’ve made the effort and correctly so. Militarily to attack them. And we took out their navy. We in the Israelis, we took out their air force. We in the Israelis. Now there’s more to do. Obviously, we hit the brakes. After two or three weeks. We wanted to see if we could negotiate a deal. It was a two week cease fire that went to nine weeks. So it wasn’t really a cease fire because there’s a lot of shooting going on, especially from Hezbollah and Israel. And we can get into that later or another day. Long story short, this has been a hell of a week for the Israelis. And we admonish them. 11 ballistic missiles shot into Israel. And we disparaged the Prime Minister. And Israel for doing it. They shoot down one of our helicopters and they pay a heavy, heavy price. Well, why is that? Well that for another day, too, because there’s something wrong with that. Both should have been supported. Both. Now, we were going to bomb Iran again tonight and tonight. In Iran. It is approximately 1241 in the morning. And literally within a few hours of making that proclamation, we have a deal from memorandum of understanding, which we haven’t seen yet as the public. And I don’t think other countries have seen they’ve been briefed on it. The fact is, we can destroy this regime if we want to. It’s not. Germany. It’s not. Imperial Japan. It’s not Stalin in the Soviet Union. It’s not China and Mao or G. It’s already on its back. Turning its back. The military activity we undertook was not intended to destroy it was intended to bring it back to the table and get them to sign a deal. Whereas I have felt. The continuing military operations should be not to get them back to sign a deal, but to destroy them or an unconditional surrender. But that’s not the way it’s playing out, is it? And what I’m saying is the next generation, our children will not have this opportunity. It won’t happen again. I’m not a warmonger. I’m quite the opposite. I’m worried deeply. About bigger wars with bigger weapons. And a draft. In which our children or grandchildren. Well, I have to go overseas and fight them. When we have them exactly where we want right now. I’m telling you the truth. And this is my great concern. President Trump today cut two. And I think we did get two. Did we, Rich? Cut to go. Mr. President, on Iran, how confident are you that there will be a signing this weekend? Because you have come close to sealing a deal, but at the last minute, they have fallen apart. You know, what’s interesting about this question wouldn’t be my first question would be when are we going to see the details of the deal? Well, if you’re a reporter, aren’t you curious about that? Aren’t you curious about it, folks? Go ahead. Yeah. Maybe this weekend. And has the supreme leader approved this deal? I understand that the answer is yes. And when the time when this deal is signed, is the United States going to immediately lift the blockade? Yes. Is this part of the deal? And it’s just boil price is dropping like a rock and forever. You are fully secure. But hold on now, when you do that, that means, I assume, that the oil that Iran will be free to Saudi oil, too. Right. Unless there’s some restriction. Again, I want to see the details, but I assume that’s case that’ll immediately have hundreds of millions of dollars a day flowing into the regime, you understand? Go ahead. The discussions about the nuclear materials and the nuclear negotiations was actually on that. And nobody’s getting close to it because it’s buried under a mountain of nature, which is B-2 bombers. And it is low down now. Now, I don’t know what that means, but that sounds like we’re not going to go in and get it because it’s buried from the B-2 bombers before. So that’s. Interesting to me. We used to talk about going in and getting the nuclear dust right, which. Well, maybe we’re not. I don’t know. I don’t know the details, but I’m listening to the response. Go ahead. Iran committed to not pursuing a nuclear weapon or will there be more negotiations on that down? They will not have a nuclear weapon. They’ve agreed to that. There will be no. Which is the whole reason, which is a big part of the reason that the agreement and they will not only not have and they will not purchase and develop in any way, any shape, in any way, shape or form a nuclear weapon, they will not have a nuclear weapon. Well, unfortunately, hindsight is called hindsight for a reason. We’ll see about that. I’ll be right back.

Segment 4
I honestly felt we’re dealing with Iran, so we’re dealing with pure evil. This is breaking now from something called the Hormuz letter. Iran’s foreign ministry directly rejects Trump’s new claim that, quote, Everyone in Iran has approved the deal, unquote, including the supreme leader, saying no one has accepted it and, quote, no agreement has been reached, unquote, per Fars. One of their news outlets. Any agreement requires the US to, quote, accept every demand unquote from Iran, including that it won’t surrender enriched uranium or make nuclear concessions that the Strait of Hormuz remains permanently under Iranian management and the transfer of $24 billion in frozen funds. Iran adds, quote, If I were to yield under pressure, it would have done so a year ago, unquote, rather than after a sustained U.S. bombing. Now, I don’t know if this is accurate or not. But I’m reading directly from it. The spokesperson also denied Trump’s claim that the Strait of Hormuz would reopen on a deal signing. Saying it, quote, remains closed, unquote, under Iranian authority and quote, Safe passage is not possible, unquote. Now, I don’t know what this means. That’s why you’re going to get whiplash if you don’t. You know, we don’t have the terms. We don’t know exactly what’s going on. I’d like to know more. I don’t know more. I think this is going to be ever changing. Ever changing. At least for now. How do I know? Because it. It’s just wreckage. Something crazy. All right, let’s go to President Trump. Cut three. Go on. That. You have said before that Iran and the United States were close to a deal. It has not happened yet. Why are you so convinced that this time is different? Because they’ve taken a pounding. They’ve taken a pounding like very few people could take. And they want to make the deal a lot more than I do. And we could have had it done the other way, I guess, but it would have taken longer. They they got hit very hard recently, as you know. And I don’t like to have to do things that way, but I felt it was necessary. It’s a great deal for the United States and for the Middle East and I think ultimately great for Iran, because they’ll be able to build up in their country and their country. I really believe it’s a regime change because I find these people to be much more rational than the people that are no longer with us. We knocked out the first team of leadership. The second team of leadership is a different group, is a different level, and I think it’s frankly a smarter level and it’s a level that has reason. And they’ve all approved the deal and everybody’s is approving the deal now. We’ll get it finished up and hopefully that will be done. We will not have Iran having a nuclear weapon, which is very important to these people. We have the problem is the administration doesn’t have any control over it. When the next administration comes in. We’ll be right back.

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On Wednesday’s Mark Levin Show, there are ongoing attacks on Iran in response to the downed U.S. helicopter and Iran’s delay in a deal but why was their criticism for Israel’s strikes on Iran 48 hours ago, in response to 11 ballistic missiles fired at its country. Both Israel and the U.S. have every right to respond to a regime that refuses to stop their attacks. There are no moderate factions in Iran—all are radicals who won’t change after 47 years—and it’s time to decisively finish them off, including by arming opposition elements, to secure midterm wins and sustain the economy. Also, Iran is desperate to include Lebanon in any deal it makes with us because to do so would effectively nullify that agreement and make it impossible for Israel to take action against Hezbollah in Lebanon.  This is precisely why both the Lebanese government and the Israeli government have publicly stated they do not want Iran to succeed in including Lebanon in any deal with our country. To include Lebanon in a deal with Iran would be an absolute disaster. Here are two questions no reporter has yet asked: are the policies of the brutal dictators running Turkey, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia aligned with our interests? If not, why are they never publicly questioned let alone criticized? Later, Hamas has established makeshift torture chambers inside Gaza hospitals and schools to interrogate and abuse Palestinians suspected of disloyalty as it reestablishes a strict police state. When is phase two taking place in the peace deal? Afterward, Karmelo Anthony was found guilty of murdering Austin Metcalf in cold blood and sentenced to 35 years, with at least half to be served. He entered the other team’s tent, ignored repeated polite requests to leave, became rambunctious and angry, then stabbed the victim so severely that the knife wound was about two inches wide. Despite the open-and-shut case with all witnesses, including defense ones, confirming Anthony as the aggressor, certain individuals, particularly Rep Jasmine Crockett are attempting to portray it as a racial issue and claim he was railroaded.

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Rough transcription of Hour 1

Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here. As I speak, a second round of attacks on Iran is taking place. Attacks are taking place. A second round is taking place. I don’t know what generated this response. This time I’m all for it. You know, my goal is to defeat this regime. I don’t understand why. 48 hours ago when Israel hammered. Iran for shooting 11 ballistic missiles at its citizenry. I mean that their population centers. The prime minister was admonished in the press and elsewhere for doing that. This is two days in a row for us, and I’m all for it. But but there’s there seems to be a. I don’t know. It’s confusing to me, to be perfectly honest. You. I don’t get it. They hit our helicopter. They almost killed two of our pilots. They fired 11 ballistic missiles in Israel. Ballistic missiles. You know, if you’ve been listening, is the capacity to blow an entire block, a neighborhood. Off the face of the earth. I mean. Just as a moral and rational. Point of view, it seems to me that Israel’s right to respond and we have every right to respond, but it’s not even a matter of a right to respond. This this regime won’t let up. It won’t stop. Maybe because it fired ballistic missiles at a variety of Arab states. And they got into the ear, the administration, and said, hey, what are we going to do about this? Maybe that mattered. I don’t know. But I’d like somebody to explain it. It’s the same thing with. These interviews, reporters asking the vice president and other people, are Israel aligned with us? Do we have the same interests? Well, sometimes we do. Sometimes we don’t. You know, do they ever ask that about Pakistan? Turkey, where Erdogan is a whack job. Do they do they ever ask it about Qatar, which pours $400 billion into our country to try and destabilize it? Do they ever ask it about Saudi Arabia that was behind 911? No, they never ask about those countries. Hey. And we align with them. And yet. It’s my understanding that. That our government says are our best friends with all these countries in there and their dictatorial leaders. Okay, fine. It’s a practical matter. I get it. No criticism kind of. Matt. I’m trying to figure it out, and it’s not so easy. Here’s the president in the Oval Office today that Iran cut one go precisely the opposite this morning, that Iran said that they’re taking too long to get through the other one to measure it correctly. As you said, in an hour, they will have to pay the price. What did you mean by that? Well, we’re going to be attacking them. Attacking them very hard. Resuming bombing. Yeah, well, we are based on a helicopter. I guess we have the right to do that. You know, they shut down a very. Very incredible, actually. An incredible machine and. At first they said they didn’t do it. Then they admitted. Sort of easy because we have the we have the bomb, but actually have the bomb got very lucky. That bomb didn’t explode. That bomb was lodged in the helicopter. It didn’t explode. It was on fire, but it didn’t explode. So those two guys, they knew how to fly, but they got very lucky. And then we had the unmanned boat going very, very fast at speeds that you wouldn’t want to go. That’s why it’s unmanned, I guess, because nobody can go there. But they rescued. So the both of the people are fortunately, the pilots are okay now. No, I’ve been working with Iran for a number of months. And. They should. I signed. I love. It’s a good deal. It doesn’t give them the right to have a nuclear weapon. In fact, it totally prohibits them from ever having a nuclear weapon. And I was just tap, tap, tap. I don’t know what they’re doing. So they then shot out a shot at our helicopter, a very expensive helicopter, by the way. But much more importantly, the two men, fortunately, they’re okay. But an amazing rescue. If you ever get a clip, you won’t believe the rescue. How cool it was. The equipment we have look, we have the strongest military in the world. All right, So here’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to open the phone lines. We’ll take calls in a little while, and I’d like you to explain why. Israel was criticized 48 hours ago for attacking Iran, its missile sites, its launch sites, some of its factory production sites for these ballistic missiles and so forth. And pretty. Pretty strongly criticized. And this is okay. Are both okay? Aren’t both the right things to do? That’s my question to you. Let’s go to cut to go. And I gave them a break at the request of Pakistan, a field marshal on the premises of Pakistan. The Muslim leadership there is no friend of ours. They’re no friend of India’s either. They are aligned with Russia, for the most part. And China. And the idea that they’re great mediators with us in Iran, I think has helped delay this significantly, quite frankly. Go ahead. We stopped them from going to war within a year or two and a nuclear war if it wasn’t for me. But they became friendly to me, very friendly. And they stayed close to Iran and they worked. And they still are working on trying them to do what’s right. But we want a deal that’s meaningful. We want a deal that works. We don’t want to just have a Barack Hussein Obama deal. JCPOA the worst deal that was a path to a nuclear is the exact opposite. You know, like on television. Oh, where they should have given that it was it was over was a short term deal. That deal was a path to a nuclear weapon. This is a path against a nuclear. You can’t have a nuclear weapon. It was a path to a nuclear weapon. They were developing during his administration to play a weapon. And I had a look. Central Command just put out a statement. That that forces began launching additional self-defense strikes. So maybe that’s the key to call them self-defense strikes, Rich. Additional self-defense strikes today at 5:15 p.m. Eastern Time against multiple targets in Iran at the commander in chief’s decision and excuse me, direction. The strikes are in response to Iran’s unwarranted and continued aggression. Okay, I’m agreeing with that 100%. I’m agreeing with that 100%. If you have a country that wants to defend itself against Iran’s aggression, our common enemy, Iran. I don’t think you start hammering away at that country in their prime minister. I think we. We applied it. Look, folks, if there’s ever a deal, it’s not going to last beyond the Trump presidency. If a Democrat comes in, they’ll wrap it up all their or they’ll sabotage it. And I don’t even see a Republican who would send in our military to enforce this or that or some other aspect of it. I really don’t. And that’s been my position. It’s consistent, private, public, however you want to say. We’ll be right back.

Segment 2
When the president was asked in the Oval Office today, he said what we are thinking. He does know what Iran’s doing. So they’re negotiating and then these guys are doing what they do. They’re they’re attacking us, they’re attacking their neighbors and so forth and so on. But isn’t that the point, folks? There are no two factions, okay? They are all radicals. If there were a so-called moderate faction, they would have been wiped out by now. I think what Iran is doing is they’re playing a game. That’s what they’re doing. And I think they’re going to eventually push this president too far. Some of us, many of you in the audience who’ve called in to this program have already said that. I just think it’s time to get this over with if we want to, with the midterms, if we want to get the economy booming, it’s actually doing pretty well under the circumstances. Then let’s finish them off. Let’s do it. And we certainly should have been arming the people there. I don’t know if we are, but I don’t think so. We certainly should have been. You have elements in our country that are opposed to it. So what? You always have elements in our country that are opposed to it. You just got to do the right thing and that’s the right thing in this circumstance. Let’s say we get a great deal, whatever that means. And as you know, again, I’ll just repeat, I don’t believe these are enforceable over time. But let’s say we get the quote unquote, great deal. And let’s say they start firing off missiles again and ballistic missiles at Israel’s. Israel are supposed to sit their ballistic missiles at at the UAE. Are they just supposed to sit still for that or let’s say they they have Hezbollah fire, a couple thousand missiles and Israel’s Israel’s hands going to be tied? What is in other words, what is the end game here? How is that supposed to work? I do worry about that. Because it gets a little confusing. You’re dealing with an enemy here, an enemy that is not going to be circumspect, an enemy that is not going to correct its ways. This is why it exists. Ladies and gentlemen. This is why it exists, period. And it’s not going to change. And 47 years of this, there’s simply not going to change. That’s a fact. The vice president was asked by the daily, What is it daily? What’s the British paper? Daily? Daily Mail. Sorry. That’s right. And they were he was asked. He said, you know, Netanyahu, I mean, our and Israel, our positions aligned with them and so forth. And he said not all the time. And we have to do what we have to do. And. Well, has Netanyahu made mistakes? He’s yes, he’s made mistakes and so forth. And so my question is, why don’t the media ever ask the vice president or the president? About Qatar. Saudi Arabia. Or the the dictator in Turkey or even G for that matter. Ask those kinds of questions. They don’t. Well, why is that? Because they should. It’s very weird. Very weird indeed. And the left wing media in Israel is having a. Field day with these these comments that the president has made, just like the podcasters here, the woke right, neo fascist podcasters, among others. They have a field day with this stuff. We have an alliance. We have an ally. They have fought with us very bravely. They’ve been through hell fighting a war with Hamas. Given what Hamas has done to its own people. When you have an ally that’s strong and that’s working with us and fighting with us and putting their lives on the line just like we are in pursuit of the same goal. Sometimes there’s disagreements, things of that sort, but I don’t think they should be publicly aired. I really don’t. Because the enemy sees this and they think that there’s a division. They think that there’s weakness. And again, it’s not unusual. Like Churchill and FDR, as I explained, I think it was on Sunday’s Fox show, by the way, two great Fox shows coming all year. It’s a little early, but I’m excited about it. Saturday night. It’ll be John Fetterman. And he’s getting harder and harder to book, believe it or not. But he’s he likes me and I like him a lot. Now, of course, he doesn’t vote like a Republican. He’s a Democrat, but he’s an all time moderate, liberal Democrat. He’s not a radical nutjob. And that’s that’s what you want from the Democrats these days, right? They’re not going to be Republicans. But it’s preferable that it’s not, you know, like Plattner, a Nazi turned communist or this guy out of New Jersey who’s al Qaeda aligned and so forth. I mean, that’s crazy as far as I’m concerned. As far as you’re concerned, too. I know we’re also going to have Nathan Sales, who is terrific, may not be familiar with his name, but he’s terrific. Sunday, we’re going to have Jack Keane as well and another guest we’re working on for you. When I have them, I will announce it to you. But I think you’re going to like it very much. Now, there was something here I’m looking for. Just give me a second. We’re alive and national. And let’s see here. Here it is. Here it is. Erdogan says Israel’s aggression. Threatens Turkey, entire Mediterranean region. Now you know who this guy is. We’ve talked about him. He also said there were initiatives led by Israel to destabilize the Mediterranean region. Now this guy wants to rebuild the Ottoman Empire. So all these guys are had cases. They’re real head cases. And he says the attacks on Syria and Lebanon, keep in mind Israel’s attacks on Syria are in defense or were in the past. They’re not attacking Syria right now, but they were in defense of Christians and Druze and other minorities. In Syria and there. Attacks in Lebanon are not on the Lebanon Lebanese people. It’s Hezbollah. Erdogan. Truth be told, has been aligned with Iran. Erdogan has been aligned with Qatar. Erdogan helped fund Hamas leadership in Hamas. In addition to Qatar, we’re provided. Very expensive, luxurious housing and protection in Turkey. In Turkey, Turkey’s NATO member, although people are wondering why. But he goes on this long attack, verbal attack on Netanyahu was Hitler, and they’re trying to expand their authority, you know. They sound like they want great podcasters here. And when in fact, what’s happening is Erdogan, Syria, the new government there, is very close to Erdogan, and Erdogan supports Hezbollah. And unfortunately, we have an envoy or an ambassador to Turkey who is horrific. Thomas Barrack.

Segment 3
Well that didn’t take long the board is full. The question on the table for you and the audience Mr. and Mrs. America is. Why do we criticize Israel for attacking Iran after they fired 11 ballistic missiles into their country aimed at their population centers, which could kill thousands? And we’re on our second night of bombing Iran, and I’m all for it. Please don’t misunderstand. If somebody out there misunderstands, they’re wanting to misunderstand. So I’ll go right down the list. Danny. Houston, Texas. Sirius XM satellite. How are you? Great. Sir, I’m honored to talk to you. You Mark, my attitude on this war is changing very quickly, and I’ll tell you why. I’m an Iraq Afghanistan veteran. I’m war weary, Mark. I hate war. I really do. And I’ve been listening to your show and I’ve told you before, I’ve talked to you before. And I told you there’s no greater intellect on the radio waves. I respect what you say. And I believed all your arguments. I agree with all your arguments. But sometimes it is hard for me to even listen because I’m just war weary. But the last few days, I’m starting to wonder if I’m becoming more of a hawk than Donald Trump. Because why are we playing these games? First of all, let Israel off the leash. Let them do whatever they need to do to defend themselves. But secondly, these mullahs are playing you. They’re playing you. They’re going to drag out negotiations forever. And the negotiations, if that’s what you want to call it, our negotiations with them should be. Look, we took out the leaders above you. Here’s our demands. Do you want to accept them or do you want us to present them to whoever comes up next after you, when you, as the great Rush Limbaugh would say, have assumed room temperature? I’m done with these games. I’m done. I think your attitude is very widespread and I think a lot of people are tired of we’re a few days away from a deal, only this would happen and that would happen. I really do. I think a lot of people are worn out from this and they want this regime destroyed. And, you know, but you know who’s worn out the most from this? My friend, the Persian people and American Iranians. You’re looking at this. I’m sure they’re they’re wearing a neck brace at this point. Their heads are being twisted so much one way or the other. But I think can be fairly said that we did everything we could to negotiate something if that was the point. But they’re firing off at the Arab countries. They’re using Hezbollah to fire at Israel and they’re firing at Israel directly. And then we’re admonishing Israel when they fight back. And then I don’t get that because then for the last two nights, including tonight, we’re firing at them for hitting a helicopter, which is bad, and we should hit them. But I don’t know why we’re we’re tapping the gas pedal. You know, I don’t know why we’re not full on and let’s get it over with and let’s take these guys out. That’s kind of your point, right, Danny? Exactly. And, you know, if it was up to the mullahs, we’d be negotiating this come November. That’s what they want. I think it’s going to hurt us if we don’t get this resolved. I really do. That doesn’t mean we would have won the midterms in the first place. And it doesn’t mean we won’t win the midterms. I just don’t think this is helpful from a political perspective. Victory is very good politically as an additional point. All right, my friend, thank you for your service very, very much. We appreciate it. Let’s go to Esther in Brooklyn, New York, the great ABC. How are you? Oh, well, I am very grateful that the president is finally letting loose on Iran. I think that should have been done weeks ago because they were playing him like a fiddle. There’s no explanation for attacking publicly attacking Israel, for publicly criticizing them. It reminded me of the Iraq war when George H.W. Bush told Israel to stand down while Saddam Hussein was blowing off Scuds and knocking down and destroying apartment complexes in Israel. I’m wondering you know, I’m wondering I mean, this could be conjecture on my part. Karl Rove was a few weeks ago or maybe, yeah, a couple of months ago praising Trump. Is there any possibility he’s working in the Trump administration? No. No way. I can’t imagine that. I can’t imagine that Condoleezza Rice apparently is was very hostile toward the Trump administration, but now has come to the White House from time to time. I don’t know what she’s doing there, but she wrote a very nice op ed in The Wall Street Journal. Look, my attitude is the president brought us to this spot where no other president had the guts to do it. That operation, what are we called, Mr. Fury or whatever it’s called Epic Fury. Epic Fury was spectacular. And then all of a sudden we went into a cease fire like two or three weeks in. And I said right here. And other people have said, Why did we do that? I don’t know. I think we should get the job done. Get the job done. Job done. Okay. All right, Astrid, thanks for your call. We’ll keep moving here, Charles. I’m going right down the line. Beverly Hills, Florida. Sirius XM satellite. Charles, how are you? I’m doing great. Mark, in answer to your question. Let me say I’ve been a fervent supporter of Donald Trump, but I’m beginning to think that this is becoming a problem of ego on his part. He wants to be able to sort of 1938 ish Chamberlain wave a paper that says we have a peace deal in our time and you are not going to know you are a student of history. As am I. Go back to the Second World War. We bombed the living hell out of Germany, but it still required ground troops. They had a big Nazi slide. Now you very correctly call these people Islamo Nazis. You are not going to solve this problem from the air. You can try all you want, and we’re not going to be able to send troops in because there’s no support for that regardless. So arm the Iranian people. There’s a lot of them. And they want to take out this regime. That’s what I find so problematic. But I think then the goals are really not achievable. Those they are. I think we destroyed the Soviet Union without any troops on the ground. And I think we can destroy Iran by arming the Iranians. I really do. I definitely do. Still there? Well, I would hope. I would hope you’re right, but I. Well, we don’t try and I won’t know. And neither will you. That’s the damn problem. Well, I suspect that they are trying not to learn the need to sever not some arms. Well, all right. My brother, I get I get your frustration. I really do. And I appreciate the call very much. Let’s go to Vic. Los Angeles, but he’s listening on streaming from WGN. Oh, there you go. Vic, how are you? Yes, I love you. And from the very beginning. In a manly way, of course. Yes. Yes. Thank you. All right, let’s think about this first. You keep criticizing him. He needs that and he wants that. I am not criticizing him. I’m talking about the issues. You see. I do this differently than the woke, right? Neo fascist are not attacking the president. I’m asking questions that I know are on the minds of millions of you. They’re on my mind. They’re on my family’s mind. My friends, mine. They’re on everybody’s mind. Go ahead. So what you’re saying is correct. I’m not criticizing you for criticizing him. He wants you recruit to do this. This is a strategy, Mark. Make no mistake. And let’s back them up. This is a brilliant man. Okay? He wants to bring that every important thing together. He needs to go show them. He will go after nothing else. You actually believe that Netanyahu own friends? We know that this is it work. And everybody out there, all these guys, they have a right to feel the way they do. But don’t underestimate Trump. Okay? Don’t underestimate who is underestimating Trump. What we want him. I don’t think anybody is underestimating Trump. What we’re saying is let’s get this over with militarily. And that’s not happening, although tonight is a good night. I realize, not give him his time. He knows you’re not going to give him his time. Nine weeks is a long time. And I’m not going to sit on my hands and come behind this microphone and just say, everything is swell. It’s gone great. Everything’s swell. It’s gone great. That’s not believable. People are not going to want to hear it. And I don’t blame them because that’s not true. You’re right. You’re absolutely correct. And that’s exactly what we want you to do. All right, my friend. Thank you. I’m confused by that call. Missed, but it’s okay. Sounds like a very nice guy. Vic sounds like a good man. Okay, let’s see. Let’s go to Robert. Declare a California the great castle for Robert. How are you? Great, Mark. Thank you. We’re going to have to be eternal vigilance and we’re going to have to make the headway of practical purposes of defining. And I wish we could get the message out against all the stupid demagogues like my Mr. Braised personal convenience. I’m so intellectual. The Tucker Carlson and the freaks like Fuentes and are the ones that we’re all the Islamic demagogues. The dialectic needs to be convinced. A lot of people in the world that wish we could get a coalition of the willing. And yet it seems that there’s a far, far few of the European leaders to get people to be vigilant on Iran. We’re going to have to deal with this type of mentality because they just do not they’re sneaky, They’re not to be trusted. And we have to defang and we’re going to have to put up posters everywhere. And they’re going to have to find a way to get energy independent outside of being dependent on these buffoons over there in there. I would love to give them business, but if they’re not going to want to, I’m all with Trump, you know, defang him and we’re going to have to get past the mind viruses of stupid that, you know, we can’t police the world. We have to police the world. We have to plan to police this, because if they get a nuclear weapon, they’re going to kill us. It’s that simple that people who say, no, they don’t know what they’re talking about. Thanks. All right, brother. Thank you for your call. We’ll take some more calls on this because I’m very curious what you think about this and this being. We are hitting Iran tonight. I don’t know the extent of it. We hit Iran last night. The president says we have a right to do it because they hit our helicopter. It seems to me we have a right to do it, period. But that said. Three nights ago, the Israelis hit Iran because they fired 11 ballistic missiles at them and they were admonished in the strongest terms and publicly and repeatedly in the press. I’m asking you why. Why, when they’re defending their homeland, which is right in the neighborhood from ballistic missiles and the potential death of tens of thousands of their citizens, why would we do that? And yet here, because the helicopters hit. That’s what was said. We’re heading home two nights in a row. Shouldn’t we be united like we were at the beginning of this war? Epic fury, fighting side by side. Our fighters right next to each other. Everything coordinated beautifully to take out this regime. That’s my position. All right. We’ll be right back.

Segment 4
We’ll continue this somewhat into the next hour just because there’s so many and the board keeps filling up immediately. Let’s go to Paul, Toronto, Canada, our friend there, Sirius XM satellite. Go. Hi there, Mark. I’d like to for a moment, if you don’t mind talking on the same subject. Shift the focus to Lebanon, where Trump insisted a couple of weeks ago on linking the ceasefire in Iran to a ceasefire in Lebanon. And I don’t understand the point of that because Lebanon, to Iran, is nothing more than a weapon to use against Israel. And by delinking it, Trump would have been taking away from Iran a a power that is as significant as their ballistic missiles and probably not quite as severe as their nuclear power. But he would have taken away from them the ability to strike an enemy. Let me say this you are 100% correct. I even posted on this today. Iran is desperate to get Lebanon into this agreement. The Lebanese president said they want nothing to do with Iran or any agreement because they’re doing that to try and leverage Hezbollah against Israel. And they said that they have nothing to do with Lebanon and it’s terrorist activities. The people of Lebanon are sick and tired of Hezbollah, which took that country over in the mid 1980s. The government of Lebanon is not strong enough and their military is not strong enough to stop them. We know that because there was an agreement in 1983, if two Menachem Begin leading the IDF, had to go into Lebanon to try and stop Hezbollah from attacking Israel from there again. So Iran believes its lifeline goes through Lebanon to Hezbollah. And so they’ve been firing missiles into northern Israel and just giving the the nations some background relentlessly daily that their northern Israel has been effectively depopulated. It’s a tiny country the size of New Jersey. I want you to think about 20, 25% of northern New Jersey having to be depopulated, having to move to the central part. Now they’re hitting central Israel. And Israel’s going in. Said, We’re not putting up with this. And they went in and the head of the snake, that is the nerve center, their headquarters is right outside Beirut. And they were told don’t hit Beirut. And Israel said, we’re going to hit whatever we have to hit. And so they hit it. And then Iran fired 11 ballistic missiles into Israel, stating specifically, as long as Israel attacks Hezbollah, there can be no peace. The other could be no deal at all. And we will defend Hezbollah. And so then we step in because Israel then responds to Iran like we’re responding to Iran tonight. And we did last night and we’re admonishing Netanyahu, including publicly. And so they hit one of our helicopters two days ago. And so all hell breaks loose and I’m glad we’re pounding the hell out of them. And so this is why I’ve presented the question, and you make a very, very important point, Paul, which is Iran is going to desperately try and keep, excuse me, drag Lebanon into any agreement. And the concern there is that means Israel will not have the capacity to defend itself. Iran will determine what Hezbollah will do and whether Israel’s security is safe. Of course, it won’t be because of Israel responds. Israel will be accused of violating our deal. This is your concern, Correct? But it takes away the power from the people of Lebanon to define their own future. Well, of course. Of course it does. It would be insane to allow the Iranians to get away with that. I’m glad you pointed that out. It’s very important. We’ll be right back.

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Segment 1
Hello America. Mark Levin here.  Our number 877-381-3811.  877-381-3811. There’s a 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 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, is done. I’ll beat my opponent. So I just got to get over 50% to avoid a runoff. And I want to do that. I want to win 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. It 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, where he needs reliable allies and friends in the Senate. And I have been that, you know, Kavanaugh got to help get that guy through. I’ll be chairman of 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, pal. Israel is a blessing to America, not a burden. And my opponent does not believe that. So big differences in this race and he’ll be get over the top. And we should be clear, let me underscore this to the audience, especially the people in South Carolina. The president endorsed you. He reject Marjorie Taylor GREENE He’s reject Thomas Massie. And these are the people these really are just kind of lunatics who these are the people who are trying to defeat you. And they claim that they’re MAGA and they claim they’re America first and they claim they’re conservatives. How so? How so? Well, anybody that well just goes to his free country and say that you want it but don’t withstand scrutiny. Here’s what I would say. You can say anything you want, but you know, Thomas Massie is anything but MAGA. He has been the most reliable vote against Trump out in the entire Republican Party. And for somebody to say they want to go to the Senate from South Carolina, we need more. Thomas Massie’s celebrated endorsement. Marjorie Taylor GREENE, who has been a pain in the ass to Trump and got a lot to say. Not much of it makes sense. These people believe that if you leave radical Islam alone, they’ll leave you alone. They have no idea what they’re talking about. You know, we didn’t have an embassy or anything in Afghanistan. And before 911 did that stop that the Taliban from giving safe haven and al Qaeda from attacking us? No. So they live in a dream world where we’re just leaving people alone. You’ll be safe. Well, let me tell you this. If you leave Israel alone, God will leave you alone. So if you want to keep radical Islam from coming here, you need to fight them over there with partners like our friends in Israel. Vitamin their backyard, not ours. Fight them with partners like Israel and others. Not by yourself. So that’s the world they live in. And Donald Trump, myself and you, we live in a real world where you got to protect America. And what’s interesting about these opponents of yours, backed by a messy and Marjorie Trotsky going green just my name for the what’s interesting about them is they agree more with the hard left. The hard left embraces them. The hard left podcasters promote them, the hard nut media promote them. They want these people in and they constant state of attack against people like you and the president. Exactly. I mean, it’s a game they play. If you want to get known as a Republican, you’re a, you know, fond over of saying in other networks, say something bad about Trump, say something bad about me. That’s the oldest game in town. But these people are just aren’t saying things bad and disagree with the president. But Massie literally destroyed the Republican majority by the way he votes. He’s a complete isolationist, has absolutely no sense of what the world is like and what radical Islam is up to. If he were around in the thirties, they would be cheering Chamberlain. He would be believing Hitler is just misunderstood. Well, you don’t believe. Radical Islamists misunderstood their religious Nazis. You know, the real Nazis wanted a master race for the world. Well, these religious Nazis, mullahs and ayatollahs, they want to master religion and we’re not going to let them head. And Trump has been great, just finished a job in Iran. So there’s a lot at stake here. And domestically, they’re you know, they’re just completely out of touch with the average conservative person in this. This is not conservatism is what we’re both saying. They’re not conservatives. And I know what a conservative is. I worked for Reagan’s campaigns in 76 and 80 and his administration eight years. And same with President Trump. We’ve been working very hard with him and so forth and so on. That’s not to say people don’t have disagreements. That’s different than trying to sabotage the president, undermine the president, stab him in the back. That’s what Massie has done. That’s what GREENE has done. That’s what they all have done. They’ve literally turned on him and are trying to undermine his agenda, whereas you’ve stuck with him and you’re trying to advance. Now, let me ask you this. So so at 7:00 Eastern time, the polls closed in South Carolina. Yeah. If you’re in your car, you’d think a knight, he’s got a shoe. And no, you got to get to the polls. At least in South Carolina, they actually have primaries, unlike California, Maine, where they have those jungle primaries. You’re Republican, you vote Democrat, you vote. And and people are telling you who they prefer, who’s more who’s the most effective? A lot of these people who pretend they’re outsiders, they’re not outsiders. I mean, this guy is backed by Massie, who’s been in Congress many years, backed by by Green, who got out of Congress like two months or two days after her pension kicked in. Yeah, Joe Kent, who got fired? Another one. Yeah. So birds of a feather. So the bottom line is listen to Mark. If he’s still got time to vote. Vote. I appreciate it. I got to get over 50 and, you know, with me, you know what you’re going to get? You don’t get a reliable guy when it comes to national security, a defender of Israel. You’re going to get a guy that can help President Trump when he needs me the most. And I’m excited about the last, you know, the next two years, 27, 28, I’ll be chairman Judiciary Committee. Do you like conservative judges? I’m your best bet. It’s not just talk. I actually did it. And there’s a big effort by the president and the secretary of war to significantly expand the defense budget, which is long overdue. And I can tell you, your opponent, your main opponent, he will be one of these votes like Massie, like like Green, and he will undermine the president, United States on votes like that, don’t you think? 100%. It just these are these are isolationists. You know, I him and Bernie Sanders, you know, sort of fit in the same mold politically, but they are attacking me and Trump for taking a run on you know as well as I do. If we hadn’t acted, they would had enough 90% enriched uranium to make eight or ten bombs. They’re weeks away. So if you don’t get that, that means you don’t understand the world. But yeah, that’s all I can say is Trump did the right thing. I’m going to stand with Trump on the stand with our friends in Israel. Israel’s a blessing to America and not a burden. And we’re going to you know, we’re going to keep the Reagan Trump movement going. Reagan Trump is a hell of a movement, and we’re going to keep it going. All right, Senator, I know you got 45 minutes left and you have some things to do. Good luck to you today and this evening in South Carolina, South Carolinians are good, solid, loyal patriots. They’ll do the right thing in a minute. Amen. God bless you. God bless you. Well, there you go. We’ll be right back.

Segment 2
It’s a variety of things going on here in America, number one. And some of these Republican primaries, you have these Tucker Carlson types who are running. I will fight each and every one of those as they undermine the president MAGA America first constitutional conservatives as they promote Islam and Sharia law against Judaism. Christianity. And you know the rest of it. And so that’s how I’m making those determinations. And then when you look at Maine, you got a you got a Democrat who’s running, who was a neo-Nazi, now is a communist. He’s a vile pervert who’s done things in public I don’t even want to discuss. He’s manhandled women. And I can go on and on and on about that. Guys. Trashed hero heroes who served in the military, one of whom was shot four times. We don’t need that. We don’t need a Bernie Sanders, you know, sycophant who’s got all these other issues that they go along with it. And hence, I endorse Susan Collins. That’s the binary process. When you go into the voting booth, you have to make a decision. And my decision is better. Moderate Republicans. Even RINO Republicans. To the enemy. To the enemy. That’s how bad it’s gotten out there with the Democrat Party and some of these buffoons who are on the woke Reich. RJC h. Now an Apache helicopter was shot down by an Iranian drone. Of course, Iran says while the Apache helicopter shouldn’t have been there wouldn’t have happened. Right. That’s international airspace. That’s international navigable waters. And these Apache helicopters are no joke. They are massive. They are powerful. But these drones become a problem. And the president of United States. He announced that we’re going to respond militarily. He announced we’re going to respond militarily. Let me see if I can find his exact statement here, folks. Give me a second. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Here it is. Let’s see. I don’t have it. Okay. Well, in any event, he posted it. And they’re calling it defensive and pinpoint it. Now they can call it a cucumber if they want to. It’s not defensive and it’s not so pinpointed. Now, ladies and gentlemen, when 11 ballistic missiles were shot. Into the state of Israel that could have killed thousands of people. What did the president what did the prime minister do? Their prime minister responded militarily. Militarily. Right. And he was asked not to. Then he was told, okay, go for it, but don’t do too much. And then the woke. Right. And others castigated him. Right. He was castigated. Now, certainly we haven’t reached the point where if the enemy tries to kill hundreds, if not thousands, of Israelis, the response needs to be limited. But if they attack one of our helicopters, well, we’ll do whatever we choose to do. Right. The fact is that we should beat the hell out of them militarily and Israel should be able to do exactly the same thing. Because my question to you folks is how much longer is this going to go on? How much longer are we going to have DeLay? We have a deal in two or three days. It’s going well and then some kind of a a a military attack by the enemy. Whether it’s Hezbollah or Iran. I think the American people are getting tired of this. I think people are going to need neck braces. Their heads have to turn so often on this. I don’t think it helps our country. I don’t think it helps Israel. I don’t think it helps us during the mid-term elections. I don’t think it’s helpful. Now, this isn’t a vicious attack on the president or anybody else. These are my opinions. People can take him or leave him. I understand. With the dummies, with the anti-Semites. I understand where they stand. I understand where the woke right stands. The Tucker Carlson’s and the Piers Morgan’s. And to Steve Bannon’s in the making Kelly’s. And all the rest of them have their heads up their asses. I got it. I know they have their own agendas. They don’t matter. They don’t matter. Here’s President Trump on the tarmac last night. About Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel heading back when they were attacked by Iran. Cat three Go. What do you make of Prime Minister Netanyahu when you spoke to him? We had a very good conversation and he was hit and he hit back. And I can’t blame him for that. But he was hit. He hit back and now they’ve called it quits. So they’re going to just leave each other alone for another week or so. But it’s they hit us now. They hit us. Ladies and gentlemen. Look what we’re dealing with here with the Iranian regime. Look what we’re dealing with here. It is a hostile force to us, to the Israelis, to the Gulf Arab countries. It’s not going to stop. Maybe it’ll stop for a week, two weeks, a month. But ultimately, it’s not going to stop. Anybody who knows anything about them knows this. Go ahead. And you could say about 3000 years if you really want. But certainly it’s been going on for 47 years. But no, he hit back. He was going back and forth. And now they both agreed through major stop. And we’re in the final throes of what will be a very, very good deal that will not allow. By the way, you notice one of two things with our ally, Israel. They either say nothing because they don’t want to interfere or they support us. Isn’t that right, Mr. Peterson? They’re not telling us how to do it, when to do it, where to do it, how long the door to make a defensive, to make it targeted, to be present. They’re not getting into that. They know that we’ll do whatever we need to do, whatever we choose to do. Right. I’m just saying that really needs to be the the plan for them to stop the fence is self defense. Now, I know my haters out there really want to see Israel blown off the face of the earth. It’s not going to happen. Not now. Not ever. I’ll be right back.

Segment 3
All right. Welcome back, folks. Here’s the tweet by the president earlier. I’ve just been informed by our great military. The last night the Iranians shut down one of our highly sophisticated Apache helicopters while patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz. There are two pilots and while both of are safe and uninjured, nevertheless, the United States must of necessity respond to this attack. Well, of course we should, and strongly so. And imagine if it were 11 ballistic missiles, for God’s sakes, aimed at our country, aimed at our population centers. That’s why Benjamin Netanyahu had to respond. But he wanted to respond more forcefully. He wanted to really put them down once and for all. But he’s pulled back. He’s pulled back. And so now they take out one of our helicopters the next night. That’s a problem. And they’re not done. Trust me on that. They’re not done. Here’s the CENTCOM tweet. U.S. Central Command forces began launching self-defense strikes against Iran at 5 p.m. Eastern tonight. The commander in chief’s direction in response to yesterday’s downing of a US Army Apache helicopter. The mission is a proportionate response to unjustified Iranian aggression. I think the key is for the IDF, call it proportional and defensive, you know, Mr. Producer. I think that’s important. But this. Underscores the point more than anything that I can say where it hit an Apache helicopter. Two of our pilots. Almost killed. Saved. And we’re not going to put up with it. The president, United States said, by necessity, I have to respond. 11 ballistic missiles fired into Israel. If the Israelis fighting Hezbollah because they have fired thousands of missiles and tens of thousands of drones into that country, forcing Israel to depopulate the northern part of the country. And we have talks to Axios and talks to this newspaper and that newspaper and another newspaper that is is upsetting our negotiations for another deal. While, so be it. Maybe this is upsetting negotiations for another DOJ response to the attack on our helicopter. The fact of the matter is, you got to respond and hard to call it defensive and proportional. Call it a watermelon. I don’t really care. We’re dealing with the same enemy. The same enemy. So there needs to be some coherent understanding of what all of us are up against. All of us. Yeah. I think it should be pretty clear by now, don’t you, Rich? Yeah, you would think, by the way. Just a little piece of information to help out. The vice president and I do this in a very positive way. Please don’t misinterpret. There was a historian, NBC News, that from a leak out of the Pentagon, but not a. But not out of the senior Pentagon officials. Not not from a Pete Hegseth who’s a fantastic. Fantastic. SEC more. Secretary of war. That Israel’s spying on the United States is so egregious. That they’ve been placed in a special category. Where they really have to be examined and monitored and this, that and the other in the White House almost immediately put out a statement and said every part of that is false. Every part of it is absolutely false, said the White House. Now the woke right. The propagandists. The crazy podcasters keep pushing it. They want to believe it. They keep pushing it. And the vice president was asked about it yesterday and he didn’t seem to know that the White House had put out a statement. So I just want to say publicly for everybody to hear. So there’s no question. Check the White House statement, sir. You will see. That that question. Was was addressed by the White House. Well before you were asked about it. So no, Israel’s not doing that. Why do I have to keep directing these lies? Because that’s all they’ve got. Genocide in Gaza, starvation in Gaza. The liberty. Oh, that one’s all over again. Even though that’s been explained 4 billion times. You know, ladies and gentlemen, we shot down accidentally British. Aircraft. British aircraft was an intentional unfortunately and I mean, unfortunately, friendly fire happens. And that’s exactly what happened. And I’m not going to go through the whole story. It’s been investigated a thousand times and yet. Thomas Massie goes to the House floor and wets himself over it and keeps pushing it. I get some new issue that’s never been resolved was resolved decades ago. Decades ago. But it doesn’t matter. They hate America, these people. They hate Israel. They’re providing aid and comfort to the Islamist Nazi regime in Iran. They provide aid and comfort. To the assassin mass murdering dictator in Moscow. Putin. That’s what they do. And in fact, that is what they are doing. All right. Ed Markey. S guy has a real creed, an absolute creed. And he’s. He’s a Democrat senator. He was congressman forever a Democrat senator from Massachusetts that has no Republican congressman, as you well know. He’s on MMS now. Yesterday. Me now yesterday. And he is thrilled that Obama and his deal with Iran. Well that in short, Iran will get nuclear weapons. He is thrilled with them. Cut, forego. John Kerry and Barack Obama ensured that the International Atomic Energy Agency would be able to go anywhere they needed to go in order to determine. Excuse me, that is a lie. I’ve studied this backwards and forwards and I’ve explained it to you folks to. They had to give notice to the Iranians. They couldn’t show up any time, anywhere. That’s a phrase of art anytime, anywhere. The Iranians said no. They had almost three and a half weeks notice each time. That the IAEA, the U.N. arm. I was involved a monitoring all this to move centrifuges and other things. If they even allowed the IAEA in, that’s in their report. And yet here you have Ed Markey lying through his teeth. Lying. About what was taking place. Go ahead. Unions were violating the nuclear agreement and there was no evidence that they were doing so. And in fact, what? Ladies and gentlemen, this guy is such a lying piece of crap. Such a complete demigod. There is no evidence the Iranians were violating the nuclear agreement. The European Union said there was the IAEA. That’s the U.N. said there was. They were before we decided to get out very wisely. Again, go on the Internet. Look at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. Look at Tony Blair’s group. They have a website. Just look yourselves. This man gets on television and just lies this guy, Ed Markey. Go ahead. Banks were at least a year away from getting a nuclear weapon because. Shut up, you idiot. This guy is bad, but this is what passes for. For information these days. This is what passes for infamy. It’s disgusting. This guy is disgusting. All these Democrats are disgusting, as a matter of fact. This is what they do. It’s a complete lie. But look how they talk. Look how they talk in defense of the Iranian regime. How come you didn’t get behind the microphone and talk about the 50,000 innocent souls that were slaughtered a few months back and the ones that are being executed, hanged and otherwise murdered. As the Democrat Party and the Democrat senators had press conferences on that. Have they? If they have, I hadn’t seen them. Certainly not often. Has anybody else? No, I don’t think so. It’s amazing. What we’re dealing with here. How truly awful these people are. And they are truly awful. I’ll be right back.

Segment 4
Jon Karl, another leftist, this time with ABC News. He was on the phone with President Trump. He says here he says the president said, and I quote, I think it’s very important to respond. They shot down a helicopter and we are responding as we speak. This is a response to what they did, they did with our helicopter last night. And I believe the response should be very strong, very powerful. And that’s what this one is. This one is okay, folks. My hallucinating, Mr. Producer. Is there a double standard here? Surely not. If Netanyahu put out a statement like this, he’d be attacked viciously. Viciously. By the goons on the Internet and other people and so forth. Unbelievable. Let’s see here. There’s more of this. There’s more of this. So you. It’s awful. They shot down our helicopter and we oughta we had a slam the hell out of them. And apparently we are. And that’s what a great leader does. But then you can’t pull back an ally. Or if an ally says, I got to do what I got to do, then. Then publicly disagree with them after 11. Can you imagine if 11 ballistic missiles were shot into New Jersey? Just New Jersey shot in a New Jersey. Let’s say, from Bermuda. That’s off the East Coast. And we say, okay, now we’re going to really deal with, you know, we’re in the middle of something here. Don’t screw it up. Shooting back and forth. Here’s the thing. We have people like Glenn Greenwald, who has a very sick little midget. He is a boy from Brazil. Who does all the bidding for all our enemies, whether it’s Iran or Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Communist China, Russia, in my view. Like the rest of them do. Like the rest of them. So when I give my opinion, like here that I give to you millions of millions of you, I’m being said to be viciously attacking. Am I viciously attacking Mr.. I never viciously attack our president. I have way too much respect for him. And he’s my friend. These are not easy decisions. But I give my opinion. He calls me. I get my opinion. I give my opinion on TV. They don’t want me to give my opinion. Period. It’s the same exact opinion. No matter what the form. No matter what the occasion. Same exact opinion. I think behind the scenes going on. Nothing secretive going on. But most of you share the same opinion. It’s just common sense. It’s just common sense. That’s because we have no allegiance to Qatar. We have no allegiance to Putin. We have no allegiance to JI. We have no allegiance to the crown prince of Never, never land. We have no allegiance to Iran. We have no allegiance to Turkey. All these people do. Try. They visit. Literally. Visit Russia. Visit Qatar. And whatever the hell else they do. There are so many of them. Their words are used by the enemy, Iran. They’re used by Saudi Arabia. Look, let’s put it this way. Let’s take a look. Let’s take a little drive through the Middle East. Saudi Arabia involved in 911. Qatar involved the 911 by protecting the man who would become the leader of 911. When the FBI was on his tail. So that’s Saudi Arabia, Qatar. Should we go on Iran? 1979 violent revolution. They take our embassy personnel hostage. Reagan’s elected. They’re scared to death of Reagan and they release them. That’s Iran. Lebanon. Hezbollah controls Lebanon. Hezbollah killed hundreds of our Marines, hundreds of our embassy staff and two embassies in Africa. Assad killed Americans in Saudi Arabia. So we have Lebanon. Let’s go on. We have Gaza. The whole now of Hamas, which has killed Americans. Saudi Arabia. Qatar. Iran. Gaza. Lebanon. And yet we listen to the people who lead these countries. And the man who leads Israel has been warning about Iran his entire career. Has helped build up his nation’s economy, has helped build up his nation’s armed forces. Which fought alongside us just a few months ago in a spectacular fashion. Honestly, like no ally we have. While the Europeans were sitting out, they wouldn’t do anything about the Strait. They didn’t want to do anything about the nuclear weapons. Israel was all in. Now Israel’s the problem according to the woke right accorded the Islamists, according to the Marxist the Democrat Party. And unfortunately, some others, too. And fortunately, some others too. Well, an Apache helicopter was hit, crashed. The two pilots are safe. And tonight, we are bombing sites slamming sites in Iran. And I do not hear the prime minister of Israel. On or off the record. Trashing us in the press. Whether we call it a defensive. Pinpointed or focused attack or not. It is what it is. My view is both countries. Should be free to do what they need to do. To put an end to this. Preferably together as we did at the outset of this war. But as the war was stopped. And we have now almost aa2 week cease fire that’s almost 9 to 10 weeks old. And the firing continues from Hezbollah and Israel, from Iran into Israel, and now Iran against our forces, which has been going on, on and off now for a month or two. I just ask you, the American people. Is this what you want? That’s what I’m asking. We’ll be right back.