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This is the best of the Mark Levin Show. Happy New Year. Let's see what was sent to me here on True Social. From the President because of ISIS vicious killing of brave American patriots in Syria, whose beautiful souls I welcomed home to American soil earlier this week in a very dignified ceremony. I am hereby announcing that the United States is inflicting very serious retaliation, just as I promised, on the murderous terrorists and responsible. We are striking very strongly against ISIS strongholds in Syria. Place soaked in blood, which has many problems, but one that has a bright future if ISIS can be eradicated. Government of Syria led by a man who's working very hard to bring greatness back to Syria and is fully in support. All terrorists who are evil enough to attack Americans are hereby warned. You will be hit harder than you have ever been hit before if you in any way attack or threaten the usa. President Trump. And that's the way you deal with terrorists. That's the way you deal with them. That's the way Israel deals with them. That's the way you have to deal with them. So I would just point that out. You know, when Israel's going after terrorists, Hamas terrorists, they've been stopping terrorists, by the way, the fact that they're brutalizing Palestinians and executing them and it gets almost no attention is revealing of something, but that's how you deal with terrorists. And so it's not breaking a ceasefire when you deal with terrorists and it's certainly not breaking anything else. They need to be eliminated. And I got to say this, for all the talk about Ukraine is losing, Ukraine this, Ukraine that, Ukraine is fighting, they are fighters. I mean, Russia's paying a very, very heavy price. Ukraine, of course, but Russia was supposed to be able to mop them up, right? Emily Crane, New York Post Ukraine drones blow up Russian oil tanker an unprecedented special operation. Dramatic video. It is dramatic, isn't it, Mr. Producer? It is a massive, massive explosion. The out of area operation marks the first time Kiev has struck in neutral waters. Excuse me, cholera. Until now, Ukraine security services only claim responsibility for drone attacks in the Black Sea. Well, what are they supposed to do? They need to go on the offensive. That's exactly what they're doing. The Kondail vessel, which was empty at the time, is said to have suffered critical damage. Ukraine insisted the strike posed no threat to the environment, claiming the vessel wasn't carrying cargo at the time. The tanker had unloaded oil at the Indian port of Sika earlier this month and was en route back when the strike was carried out, according to officials. Yeah, they blew this thing really sky high, this Russian tanker. And I don't know what Putin expects, but these people clearly are going quietly. They clearly have no intention of going quietly. They clearly not going to go quietly and they shouldn't. I'm all for Ukraine. I'm on Team Ukraine. Yes, I am Muslim Bondi beach hero who disarmed terrorists branded a traitor in Arab media for saving Jewish lives. Of course, of course. The heroic Syrian Austrian man who disarmed one of the terrorists firing at a crowd of Hanukkah revelers in Australia's Bondi beach has been slammed as a traitor by many Palestinian commentators for saving Jewish lives. There must never be, there can never be, there will never be a so called Palestinian state. After the west bank based AKA Judea and Samaria based Ramallah news outlet shared a story about the life saving actions taken by Ahmad Al Ahmad 43. Many of the outlets readers trashed the Muslim hero and prayed that he would not recover from his serious injuries according to Palestinian Media Watch. Now see this is the thing. This is why I talk over and over again about the Islamists who murder non conforming, non fundamentalist Muslims. Murder them, slaughter them. Because this is what they think, this is who they are. His heroism served as a feel good story for most of the world and it goes on. But we don't need to read that because you already know what he did and he's going to receive, and this is a good thing. Let's see here. He's going to receive a $1.6 million check donated by 43,000 supporters. Let's see, he's been given a check for actually 2.5 million. Modestly asking if he was actually worthy the support from tens of thousands of strangers, he was given the oversized check in Australian dollars equivalent to about 165 million American dollars. It's very, very impressive, this man. Very, very impressive. And of course, the Islamists hate him. If the Islamists had their way, they'd kill him. That would be, among others, Palestinians. And one of the ISIS inspired terrorists, Rajid Akram, 50, was shot dead by police. And we know about that. Yeah, everybody saw this man. He was, he was absolutely fantastic. And you know, this is why when you look at what took place on that subway in New York, a man stepping in, trying to help people and save people. And he wound up Penny, Penny, who was fantastic hero and the person he subdued wound up dying and then they tried to charge him. It was outrageous. We want men and women who will stand up, especially men, to protect their fellow man, that is their fellow citizen or anybody for that matter. And that's very important too, by the way, speaking of important, I've got two important Life, Liberty and Levin shows this weekend. But I'm very focused on my opening statement on Sunday. I taped the opening statement on Sunday. I taped it Thursday morning. And let me just give you a little insight into this. Early in American history, early in American history, before America was a country of United States, Christians and Jews lived together and worked together. Not that there was an overwhelming number, an overwhelming number of Jews, but there were Jews and they shared a value system. They shared a belief system. And when the Revolutionary War began, there was a man by the name of Solomon. And I want to tell you about this man and his impact on the Revolutionary War. And I want to get into this a little bit more with you because as Christians, you should be very proud. As Jews, you should be very proud. And moreover, as Americans, you should be very proud of how this nation was founded under Judeo Christian belief system and by Jews and Christians. But there's no question about it, this nation essentially was founded by Christians, a Christian nation relying on Judeo Christian principles and also relying on Jews for assistance at key times, who were very patriotic as well. And we should be celebrating these things. We should be teaching these things. So we'll be right back. Folks, I have a question for you. Do you believe America's Best days are still ahead, with the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence coming up in less than a year. My friends at the Heritage foundation are taking stock of the current situation, and they need your input. They've launched a survey on America's future to gauge how America's feel right now about where we are as a nation and where we're headed in the next 250 years. You know, for decades, your American values have been under attack. But now, with President Trump's administration in office, we have an opportunity to turn the tide and usher in a new golden age for America. But the Heritage foundation needs to hear from you. What policies do patriots like you most care about? What do you believe are the defining principles of America? What legacy do you believe we should pass on to the next Generation? Please visit heritage.orglevin today and share your feedback and help shape the future of America. That's heritage.org Levin paid for by the Heritage Foundation. This is Mark Levin wishing you a happy New Year. Now back to the best of me. Solomon, who we've talked about before, helped finance the American Revolution. He been a migrant, as many were back then, from Poland, immediately joined the Revolutionary War. He'd been captured multiple times by the British and served in these prison boats that were horrendous. And that's one of the reasons he died when he was a young man, 44 years old. That said, he not only raised funds, he gave many of his resources to the Revolutionary War. He died penniless because the government never paid him back. And he also provided finances to help some of the greatest founders of the time, Madison and others, and they didn't have the funds to pay him back. He died a pauper, a hero who was known at the time but is not known today. And history ought to be taught. But I just want to make it clear. Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, among many others. But those are four big, big, big men involved in this nation's founding. They were all very, very familiar and versed in what was called the Hebrew Bible. They studied it, they knew it backwards and forwards, and it influenced their views, whether it was the Declaration or the Constitution. Obviously, Jefferson was not there, but he supported it and had a major impact. How do we know? Because they said so. Washington famously wrote a letter and visited to, I guess, the oldest synagogue, if not one of them, in Rhode Island. And one of the things he told them in a letter was that in America and under his stewardship, the children of Abraham would be protected and could live like all other people. Now this was a remarkable statement at a time like this. Remarkable statement. John Adams lavished praise on the Jews, who he called repeatedly the chosen people. Do not look at me. I am just telling you what he said. Jefferson was first among equals in promoting religious liberty, both in the colonies, in Virginia as an example, as well as pressed it hard in Maryland after he retired from the presidency. He was a big believer in religious liberty and Madison too. And this is why we have our First Amendment. You don't establish a state religion, but you do not interfere with the exercise of religion either. And that is what these men believe. Now, at the Constitutional Convention, all the delegates were Christian. Different denominations for sure, all of them were Christian. At the Second Continental Congress, when the Declaration of Independence was voted on and was written and voted on, all the delegates were Christian. All of them. Now, it is said correctly that Jefferson and Franklin were deists, but they were Christians. A deist simply means. It could mean many things, but as a general matter, it means that they were not exactly sure what God's role was in individual affairs and so forth, but that there was in fact a God who did in fact have an enormous impact on humanity. So this nation was founded by Christians. There is simply no debate. And it is a very, very good thing that it was because Christianity, both during the pre revolutionary and revolutionary period and constitutional period and today is a beneficent faith. It is a tolerant faith. It is a humane faith. And that's why minorities in America are able to live freely. Religious minorities. And I've told you this before, God bless the Christians. God bless the Christians. And I say this as a Jew. I also know that our declaration, the expressions in our declaration, the references to God, divine prominence and so forth, come from the combination of the Judeo Christian belief system and values that Christianity was heavily influenced by Judaism and who knew it, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison and most of the others. So when you hear people today like Tucker Carlson and others trying to bifurcate the two, this is a new attack not just on Jews, but on Christians. And if you listen to some of the great pastors of our day now, like John Hagee and many, many other, Pastor Evans and so forth, but there are others, many others, they repudiate what Carlson says as blasphemy. Blasphemy. And they're right. And I want to continue on this for a little bit, given the fact that it's Hanukkah and Christmas is next week. We'll be right back. Coming upon the 250th birthday of the United States. And it has me thinking, what will America look like 250 years from now? 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Happy New Year. You've heard me say for some time now that Americanism is incompatible with Islamism, and many people have cited Charlie Kirk for that. We've been talking about that a long time. Charlie was a big fan of this show. Americanism and Islamism are incompatible. If you read on Power, I actually say it right there, and I don't have it in front of me. I think it's chapter four or five. And this is what I want to get to. Islamism is not compatible with American Judeo Christian foundational principles. And as I explain in the book, and as I make that clear in the book and as I've talked about for years on this program, Judaism and Christianity, while people obviously practice their faith, live by their faith, what does their faith tell them? You see, the issue with Islamism is Islamism. As Sudi Jasser puts it, he calls it political Islamism. Islamism is not purely about faith. Islamism is also about how you are supposed to run a society, literally how you're supposed to run a society. So the Qur' an is filled with rules and laws, not for your own practice, but sharia courts, the rules about marriage, and goes on and on and on. Christianity and Judaism have some of that, but it's not about issues of governance for an entire society. It's about beliefs, beliefs. And the point is that you practice a faith, you practice beliefs, you pass that on to your children and your grandchildren, but you don't turn to your neighbor and say, this is what this says. And so if you live your life like X and if you don't treat your wife like this and you don't have this many children and you don't do this and you don't do that, then you're blasphemous. This is a massive distinction between Christianity, Judaism and Islamism. A massive distinction. So Islamists insist on the imposition of these viewpoints, of these beliefs on Christians, Jews, other Muslims and everybody else. And everybody else. That's why it's incompatible. And explain it in detail and on power. But we've talked about it in detail here over the years as well. Christianity preaches tolerance, Judaism, the same thing. Now, what do I mean by that? I just said in the last segment, I love this stuff. Love it. I just said that this nation was founded by Christians and Judeo. Christian values and beliefs undergird our founding, they undergird our declaration, they undergird our constitution, they undergird our civil society. And yet people from all backgrounds, all races, all creeds, all ethnicities and all religions can live in America and practice their faith and so forth and so on and do. Not so in Qatar, not so in Saudi Arabia, not so in Egypt, not so. And the list is a long one. Now there are Muslim countries that have embraced the Reformation and reform, like Indonesia, which is the largest Muslim country on the face of the earth. And there are over 50. I have heard it said, there are 57 Muslim countries, I don't have time to Google it, but something of that sort. And they come in different varieties, different governments, the vast majority of which, however, are not democratic. Because if you believe in the seventh century sort of barbarian system, if you reject the Enlightenment, the Enlightenment, then you must theoretically, if you are a fundamentalist, impose your views on others. Because only then are you doing God's will. Only then will the Messiah appear. That is not Christianity or Judaism. It is not. This is factual. And so when I say that Islam, I am not talking about all Muslims, obviously, but when I say Islam is incompatible with Americanism, it's a fact. Look at Texas. We have Islamists, imams trying to create their own countries within a, within a state and supports segregation, if you will. Only people who agree should be allowed to live in that community. We are talking about outside of Plano, Texas and in Houston and so forth and so on. They are not the only places. Dear Bornistan is heading in that direction in a very fast and significant way. In a very fast and significant way so when Tucker Carlson Kitarlson at Turning Point USA says I am a Christian and then proceeds to smear Christians and then proceeds to candy coat Islamism, he should be totally and completely rejected. And as much as he says there is no such thing as Judeo Christian values, which of course is lunacy, he is an ignoramus. But that aside, he is striking at the heart of our republic. That is against it. Against it. You see, you cannot just attack Jewish values without attacking Christian values. And vice versa. And vice versa. And that is why he is an anti Semite in my view. And he attacks Jews and he is a Christian basher because he knows that you can't, you cannot bifurcate Judeo and Christian when we are talking about Judeo Christian values and beliefs. Obviously there are different practices, obvious, different beliefs in the Messiah. Okay, but that's not what I'm talking about. That's not what I'm talking about. This is why he, and he's not alone. He's attacking now not just Jews but what he calls Christian Zionists. And there are Christian Zionists. These are Christians who believe in the Holy Land and the Old Testament as well as the New Testament. Christianity, that's your Bible. That's your Bible. Now I'm not proselytizing, I don't pretend to be a rabbi or a pastor, a priest or what have you, but I know what I'm talking about when it comes to the philosophical and the practical. I really do. This is why Islamists can never be assimilated into the American culture. This is why they never want to be assimilated into the American culture. You see some of these people, these leftists who embrace them and promote them because their objective is the same. No, not the imposition of Islam on the entire population, no, the destruction of the west, the destruction of America, the Constitution and the Republican system. In this there is overlay. In this there is camaraderie, there is collusion and they will figure out how to work it all out at the end if they succeed, which they won't. But if they succeed. But that is beside the point. So 7th century barbarianism or barbarism is incompatible with a civil society. This is why I have been leading the charge condemning Qatar. This is why I have been leading the charge telling you it's incompatible. This is why I've been leading the charge to explain the fusion of Marxism and Islamism would be the destruction of America. Now when I was talking about this, nobody was talking about it and people were afraid to talk about it. They were scared to death. This is how Mr. And Mrs. America. This is how I approach what I do. That is to tell you what I know to be true and let the chips fall where they may and not tell you once, but tell you a lot in order to push this into the mainstream, in order to push this into our culture so people understand what we're confronting. This is why in May and June, when I decided to take on Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon and others names I can't even remember, I was told you might not want to do that. These are very powerful people. I said, they're not powerful. They're bullies. They've got very niche audiences. They're bullies and they're destroying our youth. They're brainwashing our youth. They're destroying maga, they're destroying the Republican Party, which is the only party that stands in front of the Democrat Party. They are constantly stabbing the president in the back. They are anti Semites, they are Christian bashers. Somebody's going to stand up to them. And this is what happened and this is why it had to happen. I could be wrong, but I'm very excited, at least from my perspective, that so many people now feel very comfortable in taking these people on. Not enough. Everybody should. We have top level Republicans who sit silently or coddle these people that cannot be tolerated. Some of them expect to be president or vice president or senator or congressman. No. If you don't have the guts, the moral clarity to stand up to people who are literally attacking our foundational principles that make this country great, then you're not a leader. And God knows you shouldn't be in that position. And there are people who can be leaders and should be in that position. I hope this makes sense. I'll be right back. Folks, I have a question for you. Do you believe America's best days are still ahead? With the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence coming up in less than a year, my friends at the Heritage foundation are taking stock of the current situation and they need your input. They've launched a survey on America's future to gauge how America's feel right now about where we are as a nation and where we're headed in the next 250 years. You know, for decades, your American values have been under attack. But now, or President Trump's administration in office, we have an opportunity to turn the tide and usher in a new golden age for America. But the Heritage foundation needs to hear from you. What policies do patriots like you most care about? What do you believe are the defining principles of America? What legacy do you believe we should pass on to the next Generation? Please visit heritage.orglevin today and share your feedback and help shape the future of America. That's heritage.org Le paid for by the Heritage Foundation. This is Mark Levin wishing you a happy New Year. Now back to the best of me. I thought it important as a general matter, but also given the season to get into this a little bit and next time I'm going to get into another aspect of this and that aspect is going to be why was the Republican Party founded? How did he come to be? How did the Republican Party come to be? I mean, it's hard to create a new political party. And who are we as Republicans? What is our history? What is our ancestral foundation, if you will? And so this how I've talked about the founding period Judeo Christian belief system and how did that manifest itself in the 1850s and beyond? This is very, very important because we need to understand who we are, how we came to be, why we are as we are. Because otherwise the Svengalis, the frauds, the reprobates are going to tear this country apart because they are making statements that are untrue. They are promoting ideas that are perverse. It is not who we are. And so as an example, to be an anti Semite is to attack the Judeo Christian foundations of the nation. And this is why I have said how many years that if you hate America, you hate Israel and if you hate Israel, you hate America. I am not talking about every policy. That is not the point. And the debate isn't over every policy. The debate over is whether or not the Jews have a right to survive and to exist. Their ancient homeland. The founders would say, why is that even a debate? But again, keep in mind, when you attack Jews, the anti Semitism, you are attacking the Judeo Christian belief system. You are attacking Americanism. That is exactly what you are doing. Now I know the bigots and the Jew haters will say, see that? See that? That, See what? That's our history. That book on your night table, that Bible, that's the history of mankind right there. I didn't make it up. I will continue as we go into the new year and the remaining four years I have on radio, I will continue to do what I've done this year and every other year. You've got to be willing to learn your history, you've got to be willing to promote your history. And most of all you've Got to be willing to defend your history. If you abandon your history, you wind up with sickening arguments about how the Third Reich is misunderstood and how Hitler really was not the bad guy. It was Churchill. Churchill. And that we were fighting on the wrong side. That Hitler was actually a good Christian man and that it is not possible that he slaughtered all those people, including the Jews. It is not possible. These liars, these, these bigots, they're relying on ignorance. And I'm relying on you, Mr. And Mrs. America. Your intelligence, your patriotism, and that you'll pass on what we discuss to your children and grandchildren. Big hour next. We'll be right back. 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This is the best of the Mark Levin Show. Happy New Year. I'm very, very saddened that Lisa Phonic has decided not to run the Republican primary for governor of New York. I haven't spoken to her. I felt she was the best chance for the Republicans to take the governorship and, you know, try to neutralize Mondame and really rebuild at the state level, the Republican Party, because she's a very charismatic, intelligent, not just a force in New York, but nationwide. And this guy in Long island, he decided to run executive director. I guess he is. What is he? An executive. And what's his name? Blakeman. I met him in passing. He's kind of a rhino. He's had people contact me to put him on radio. I'm not putting him on radio. He should not have jumped into this race. And Elise Stefanik in her statement said, look, I'm a mother. I don't mind spending time running against Democrats in a general election, but to spend so much time away from my family to run in a Republican primary just doesn't make sense. And she's right. And I was hoping President Trump would endorse her right out of the box. He said he likes both candidates, but she's clearly the most conservative, the most effective, the most well known, and she has the best shot. And this other guy, I really don't want his people bothering me. There are other hosts that they can talk to. I know Sid likes him and so forth, but other people can. I'm not interested. And we'll leave it at that. All right, now I want to get into the Republican Party. We spent the first hour talking about our founding. Again, very truncated. But that's the nature of the beast here. Very, very truncated. Your country, your history. Why it's so fantastic, why the Judeo Christian values are so fantastic, why they create a civil society where all people can live in tranquility and unity and peace while holding their own beliefs, yet assimilating into the culture. It is an experiment like no other on the face of the earth. There are people here trying to destroy it. Okay, I'm not going to repeat what I said. The first hour. Now this hour, your Republican Party. There's been a lot said about the Republican Party, especially by Democrats, leftists, phony historians and so forth. They've tried to smear the Republican Party, slime the Republican Party because they want power or they are radical leftists or whatever the reason. First of all, let us start at the beginning. In 1854. What happened in 1854? What happened? Congress passed something called the Kansas Nebraska Act. I'm doing this by memory, but I think I know what I am doing here. And so what that meant is the people in the new territories would decide if they wanted slavery or not. They would vote. Congress would no longer determine it. Now, what that meant was the Missouri Compromise, for all intents and purposes, no longer existed. The Missouri Compromise provided geographic limitations on the spread of slavery in the new territories. The concern was that the Kansas Nebraska act of 1854 would allow slavery to expand where previously it could not. And there were riots over this, there was bloodshed over this, and so forth and so on. Now, there was no Republican Party at this point, but there were disparate parties, disparate political elements who were abolitionist, who were anti slavery, different groups. And they could not win separately. And they had different approaches to the issue of eliminating slavery. But they understood that they needed to figure out how to come together these various abolitionists and abolitionist groups, the anti slavery groups, if they were going to beat the pro slavery party, which was the Democrat part. And so what happened? The birth of the Republican Party came out of the Kansas Nebraska act and the birth of the Republican Party. What happened is the opponents of this Kansas Nebraska act, they met in Rippon, Wisconsin. And this is where it's believed generally the Republican Party was born. And it was a meeting held by several Whigs because the Whig party was dying The Free Soilers, certain Democrats. And they met in Ripon, 1854. Now that meeting was called by Major Alvin E. Beauvais. Now he was. And I remember this guy studying this guy, prominent Whig. And a few years earlier he met Horace Greeley, a famous publisher who was an abolitionist. And they had discussed the creation of a new party. And so in 1854 in Ripon, they passed a resolution to form a new party to oppose the Kansas Nebraska Act. And that resolution said that they would call the new party the Republican Party. And that is what happened on March 20, 1854, or thereabouts. The exact date can't be known. The Republican Party was formed. Some have said it was July 6, 1854. It doesn't really matter. Now this new Republican party held its first formal convention in Jackson, Mississippi, held outdoors. I would argue that is probably the formal birthplace of the Republican Party. And so these coalitions came together and in 1855 the Republicans were actually making some progress in the states. States like Massachusetts. Massachusetts, they actually elected the speaker of the House. Excuse me. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Now this wasn't an immediate success, obviously it takes time and it did take time. Now the problem the Republicans had was there were still people committed to the Whig party and so forth and so on. And they weren't prepared to move to the new party. But slowly but surely they did. They won a big victory in Ohio. They gained the support of some of the party bosses, the Whig party bosses. They gained the support of a senator whose name you may have heard of, William Seward. The former Whigs in New York joined the Republican party. They abandoned the Whig party. Their strength was growing. There was a small movement of anti slavery Democrats. They became Republicans. They all united to try and stop the spread of slavery in the territories. They had a convention in 1856. They nominated a guy for president, you may have heard of him, John Fremont. This John Fremont was a very famous explorer. He was opposed to slavery. He won the Republican nomination. They were able to pull together support from some of the holdout Whigs and some of the so called holdout know nothings. And what happened was in 1856, Fremont was running against James Buchanan. He was the Democrat, by the way, the worst president in American history. He and Biden, he was running against him primarily and Fillmore, but I don't need to get into him. And it was really pretty stunning. Here is this new party with their first nominee, John Fremont and what happens. Buchanan gets 1.8 million votes. Fremont gets 1.3 million votes Buchanan gets. Now, I'm looking this up. 174 electoral college votes. Fremont gets 114. That was considered really a massive showing for the Republicans because it's a brand new party. At that point, the south knew they had something to fear. The Democrats, pro slavery southerners, not all of them were pro slavery, by the way. They knew that they had a problem with this Republican party. And so the party grew rapidly between 1856 and 1860. In fact, so rapidly that it won the House of Representatives. Almost all the Whigs and the know nothings came over to the Republican party. And then what was happening is some of these party bosses were moving over to the Republican Party. Some of the party leaders of these other parties were moving over to the Republican Party. Was sort of a juggernaut. A juggernaut. Now, they did embrace the most radical of the abolitionists, but it was an abolitionist party. And so what happens? The country becomes more sectionalized. Comes to a head. Comes to a head in the earliest days of the Civil War. The outbreak of the Civil War follows the election of 1860 of a man by the name of Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln was not expected to become the Republican nominee. He did not come to the convention with the belief that he would become the Republican nominee, but he did come to the convention with some support. In the end, he was the nominee by a plurality of the vote. And the rest is history. You Republicans out there, this is your history. This is your history. And it's more than that. The first civil rights in American Civil Rights act in American history was 1866, pushed through the Congress after the Civil War by the Republicans. The 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments, the post Civil War amendments, Freeing the slaves, giving the slaves equal protection in due process, giving the slaves the right to vote. The former slaves, I should say, an absolute right to citizenship. All pushed by Republicans. Amending the Constitution, another Civil Rights Act. In 1875, you had the Civil Rights act of 1957 under Eisenhower, the Civil Rights act of 1960. Under Eisenhower, the Civil Rights act of 1964. Lyndon Johnson. Yes, but the Republicans were the ones that pushed it across with huge majorities in the House and the Senate. The Civil Rights act of 1965, often called the Voting Rights act, that would pass, but for the Republicans, it would have been stopped by the Democrat. All right, I want to put a bookmark right there. Keep this in mind. I'm telling you all this for a reason. I'll be right back. Foreign. As a consumer, you can carry the success or failure of businesses in the palm of your hand. Their success can depend on your decision to spend money with them or their competitor. Well, my friends at Pure Talk would like to say thank you from the bottom of their hearts for choosing Pure Talk for your wireless needs. Because of you, they've had a record breaking year because of your generosity. Through their Roundup for charity program, they've been able to donate over half a million dollars to America's Warrior Partnership who stands on the front lines of helping to prevent veteran suicide. Your patronage has allowed PureTalk to donate a thousand hand sewed main in America flags to your fellow veterans. And when you choose Pure Talk as your wireless provider, you help PureTalk support American Jobs right here in our country. Like I said, as a consumer, you have the power to make or break companies. And with the money the big wireless guys throw around on advertising, you're inundated with offers everywhere you look. So from everyone in the Pure Talk family, thank you for your trust and God bless you. You're listening to the best of the Mark Levin Show. Happy New Year. America wouldn't be the great land it is without the Republican Party. It would not be. Slavery would have persisted, I do not think forever, but it would have persisted. All these civil rights acts that were passed that the Democrats take credit for never would have happened. Never would have happened. See, the party is built on the foundational principles of the country. This is why sometimes I get very furious with individuals in the party who act more like Democrats and Republicans. They should be proud of our founding principles, which I term and have coined the phrase constitutional conservatism over the decades. It's constitutional conservatism. This is who we are. This is what we believe. The country will be a much different place. Be an awful place, be a dark place, be a lawless place. And so we battle over the airwaves here. We battle, you and me. We take elections seriously. We talk about them. On election night, we're here, you, Mr. And Mrs. America and me, trying to get out the vote to make sure that we save this grand republic. We want the borders secured. We want assimilation. We want our history taught, our actual history. The good, the bad and the ugly. We want people in the country who will embrace the country and love our ideals. But again, I have to turn back to one of the great threats, one of the cancers. And that is Tucker Carlson. And he's not the only one. Fuentes, Bannon, others. They talk about destroying the Republican Party. Destroying the Republican Party, not strengthening it, not trying to ensure that its founding principles are actually practiced. And instituted. But destroying the Republican part as they wish to destroy the Judeo Christian foundational principles that underlay our nation. They wish to destroy the Republican Party. Now they don't say the Republican establishment, they say the Republican Party. You and I, we've had battles with the Republican establishment for decades, important battles. We want conservatives to be our nominees. We want conservatives who promote our principles to run in general elections, to defeat the Democrats. As Reagan said. Not pastel colors, bold colors. And then when you look at how conservatives govern, perfect example. Ron DeSantis and there are others, others. Ted Cruz and there are more, many more. You can see the quality of life. You can see how important it is. Free states still versus dark blue dying states. They want to kill the party of Lincoln, the party of Theodore Roosevelt, the party of Coolidge, the party of Eisenhower, the party of Reagan and the party of Trump. And replace it with what more when I return. As a consumer, you can carry the success or failure of businesses in the palm of your hand. Their success can depend on your decision to spend money with them or their competitor. Well, my friends at Pure Talk would like to say thank you from the bottom of their hearts for choosing PureTalk for your wireless needs. Because of you, they've had a record breaking year because of your generosity. Through their Roundup for charity program, they've been able to donate over half a million dollars to America's Warrior Partnership who stands on the front lines of helping to prevent veteran suicide. Your patronage has allowed Pure Talk to donate a thousand hand sewed main in America flags to your fellow veterans. And when you choose Pure Talk as your wireless provider, you help Pure Talk support American jobs right here in our country. Like I said, as a consumer, you have the power to make or break companies. And with the money the big wireless guys throw around on advertising, you're inundated with offers everywhere you look. So from everyone in the Pure Talk family, thank you for your trust and God bless you. This is Mark Levin wishing you a happy new Year. Now back to the best of me as we gear up for the new year and new radio programs and exciting, exciting content. I look very much forward to being with you and all of our wonderful affiliates, wonderful satellite, Sirius XM satellite, all of the other wonderful platforms out there, very excited and we'll have some exciting news for you as well. But enjoy the time off, enjoy the holidays with family. That's what this is all about. So this Republican Party, we make the Republican Party what we want it to be. Now you might say, no, we don't all these decisions are Washington. The Republican Party, like other parties, is a very complex party. It starts at the bottom. Committee men and committee women, precinct workers, ward leaders. You have town, city, county chairman. They have state conventions and state meetings. I have seen them. I have been to them. Then, of course, as the matter moves to federal elections and policies, the party moves in that direction too. And so you can be a part of it if you wish. You could try and have an impact. We have tremendously patriotic citizens who run for these positions and they run for these positions as constitutional conservatives. And they can win. And many times they do. But why would we want to destroy the Republican Party and replace it with what? Another one of these fringe parties or another minority party that can't win anything except ensure that the Democrat Party, which is Marxist, Islamist, radical America hating, that that party controls all levers of power. Because if that party gets in again and it's able to do so, it's going to destroy the Supreme Court, turning it into an ideological politburo of their liking. They're going to destroy the electoral college. So basically, 11 of the most populated states, mostly Democrat states, will control electoral College. Can you imagine what the border will look like? More influx of illegal aliens, bigger influx. And if the court doesn't do the right thing on birthright citizenship, country's over. You can see the hordes coming in from all other parts of the world that have no intention of being assimilated into our country. Islamists, other cultures. America can't survive that. If we lose our Judeo Christian belief and value system, it's over. It's over. If the Republican Party is destroyed, it's over. There's nothing to stand in the way of the Democrat Party. So again, when we have these grifters who self identify as influencers and some of them have podcasts, whether otherwise online, various aspects of social media who push this stuff about Judaism, about Christianity, about how bad America is, about how good other countries are, how wise Sharia law is, Islamism is who will platform and promote bigots and racists, Christian bashers and anti Semites. These people are poison. They are a cancer on a body politic. They are in the Democrat Party, in an element within the Republican Party. But I hesitate to say that since they hate the Republican Party and don't really believe in the Republican Party. So let me ask you this question, Mr. And Mrs. Where are not more Republican leaders speaking out against these miscreants and malcontents? Why is that? I asked you this the first hour about these people attacking Our founding, attacking the very foundations of our country. Why are there not more Republican leaders condemning them, condemning them often and condemning them by name? Why did it have to start with me? Then other talk show hosts, podcasters, influencers. Now I know why it had to start with me. But it should really be more spontaneous and it should really be massive. The response to this, because it is an attack on our society, it is an attack on our history just as much as it is from the left. Just as much as it is from the left. These people are racists, they are bigots, they are Christian bashers, they are Jew haters. Our party was formed to eliminate slavery, the enslavement of black people. That was the basis for the formation and the foundation of the Republican Party. That was it. And so when we have these people, when we have these people trashing people because the color of their skin, you and I don't do that. We don't believe in that. We reject it. Trashing people. A civil war was fought over with over 700,000, 700,000 casualties. And these losers who've done nothing for this country, absolutely nothing, just dismiss it. And dismiss the men and women who fought Hitler, just dismiss them. And dismiss the founding. And point to Qatar with 330,000 so called citizens as an example. It should be easy to condemn them. It should not take a lot of thought. It should be intuitive. It should be reflexive to condemn them. Are all of our leaders condemning them? No. Some of them are coddling them. Some of our leaders call these people their friends. Some of our so called leaders are silent. They just do not want to get involved. Silent. They don't want to get involved coddling friends. In which case we need new leaders. What I try to do online, look, I'm not an Internet animal. They're all over there. Look at this ratio. He doesn't have a ratio. I don't even know what a ratio is. That's not where most of my audience comes from. That's not where I live. We're going to deal with this in some way and I'm going to talk about that when we come back. As a consumer, you can carry the success or failure of businesses in the palm of your hand. Their success can depend on your decision to spend money with them or their competitor. Well, my friends at Pure Talk would like to say thank you from the bottom of their hearts for choosing Pure Talk for your wireless needs. Because of you, they've had a record breaking year because of your generosity through their Roundup for charity program. They've been able to donate over half a million dollars to America's Warrior Partnership who stands on the front lines of helping to prevent veteran suicide. Your patronage has allowed Pure Talk to donate a thousand hand sewed Maine in America flags to your fellow veterans. And when you choose Pure Talk as your wireless provider, you help Pure Talk support American jobs right here in our country. Like I said, as a consumer, you have the power to make or break companies. And with the money the big wireless guys throw around on advertising, you're inundated with offers everywhere you look. So from everyone in the Pure Talk family, thank you for your trust and God bless you. You're listening to the best of the Mark Levin Show. Happy New Year. You know folks, there's always, always going to be a percentage of the population that's easily bamboozled. And that is what these grifters are hoping for. And also our youth, our youth are being brainwashed by the teachers unions and then if they go to college, they are being brainwashed by the Marxist Islamist faculty. They watch a lot of tv, they're being brainwashed by the media. So it's a bad scene. It's a bad scene. Now the grifters of whom I speak, the Katarlsons and his ilk, they have, they have a system in place or an approach in place. And they'll tell, especially the young men who are in their audience that you don't have a chance to make it. You'll never be successful. Not because of you, but because of the system. We've talked about this for a long time now, and I talked about it last month at some length. But I want to underscore the point. They will stereotype these young men as incapable of doing anything. They can't buy a house, they're too expensive, they cannot get a job for a thousand reasons. They want these young people, especially young men, angry. They want them to reject our country, our society. And so they appeal to them this way. And they want to do what else? They want to create hate and jealousy. We saw this in the 1930s, by the way, with the fascists. These people to me are neo fascists. Not exactly the same, but bad enough. In America, rather than promoting hard work, opportunity, as I've said before, when we've had young people call this program and say, woe is me, woe is me. There's not enough attention paid on me. I say, folks, there's more attention paid on men, young men, women, young women than ever before by the government. That's the problem. Your so called salvation is found outside the government, in your own soul and mind and heart, your own motivation, your own character. And so now I hear people using the same phrases, don't you, Mr. Vidu? Get off your ass and do something. And that's what you need to do. Do something. Something leads to something else. It always does. And when you look at great people, most of them, they don't hit grand slams right out of the park. I've talked about my dear friend, so much of a friend, like a brother, Rush Limbaugh. He was fired seven times and became the greatest broadcaster in history. And he is not the only one. You have book writers who were rejected over and over and over again. And finally they were able to publish a book considered some of the greatest authors ever. You have candidates who have run multiple times, not to the point of being buffoonish, but multiple times. Reagan sought the presidency, the Republican nomination three times. Donald Trump, he sought various nominations over the course of his career. You have the greatest of businessmen, many of whom failed, many of whom went broke before they came back again. When you look at what a fantastic society this is with a fantastic economic system, you can see people who are down and out, how they found themselves, how they created opportunities for themselves. They didn't accept this woe is me mentality. Every day they got up and did something, something towards something that interests them. And if they didn't find something that interests them, they still did something because they might find something that interests them. That needs to be the mentality, not the woe is me mentality. And yet that's what these grifters promote. They want animosity. They want people at each other's throats. I've also talked about, but I want to underscore. And there's a great piece. It's sub. Sub. What is it called? Sub Stack. I keep calling it Subtrack, but that wouldn't work. Sub Stack by my friend John Highbush about the mentality of these podcasters. Not all, of course, but these in particular. And he's exactly right. It's something I've been talking about, too. They make money. The more upset people are, the more downtrodden they think they are, the more impoverished they think they are. The more they listen to these people, the more they're filled with hate, bigotry, racism, Jew hatred, Christian hatred, and then self hatred and American hatred. The more these podcasts are, there's profit. Literally profit. Again, not all, but you know which ones I'm talking about. I'll be right back with Donald Trump. Back in office, one of his biggest adversaries, top Democrat Dick Durbin of Chicago, is leading the charge to derail President Trump's agenda at every turn. 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Producer/Announcer
He's here now. Broadcasting from the underground command puzzle, deep in the bowels of a hidden bunker somewhere under the brick and steel of a nondescript building, we've once again made contact with our leader, Mark Levin.
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Mark Levin
This is the best of the Mark Levin Show. Happy New Year. President wants to change the name of the Kennedy center to the Trump Kennedy Center. The board voted to do that. I. I object to this. I think it should be called the Trump Reagan center. Don't you, Mr. Producer? No offense. No offense. No offense. This thing with the Somali community in Minnesota is beyond belief. Now U.S. attorney has announced new indictments. Half of more of the $18 billion paid out by Medicaid in Minnesota may be fraudulent, says the US Attorney. You know how hard it must be to steal over $9 billion. I mean, this is sick. About half or more of the roughly 18 billion in claims paid out by Medicaid to Minnesota run programs may have been fraudulent, and at least 14 programs were likely exploited, a federal prosecutor said today. In October, state officials announced that a third party will audit 14 Medicaid services deemed to be high risk for fraud in the state, according to Thompson. And that is the U.S. attorney, I take it? Yeah. First assistant U.S. attorney. Those 14 programs have cost the state $18 billion since 2018. $18 billion. First assistant U.S. attorney Joe Thompson said it's unclear just how much that money is fraudulent, but said so far, too much on order of half or more. But we'll see. Half or more of the 18 billion. Thompson said the scale of fraud in Minnesota outpaces that of other states and put services at risk for people who really need them. I'm not seeing a lot of outrage by the Democrats. All this money is stolen and that means not only are taxpayers ripped off, but people for whom the money was intended. Don't see it like autistic kids, like people who are hungry. While prosecutors typically see fraud manifest as providers over billing, Thompson said during a news conference in Minneapolis that companies have been created to provide zero services while pocketing federal funds for international travel, luxury vehicles and lavish lifestyles. The magnitude cannot be overstated, said the first assistant U.S. attorney. What we see in Minnesota is not a handful of bad actors committing crimes. It's staggering industrial scale fraud. Don't you dare criticize the Somali community. Don't you dare. The investigators new findings may bolster President Trump and his claims that Minnesota is a hub of fraudulent money laundering activity. Under Governor Tim Walz, the Democrats vice presidential nominee last year, Trump has capitalized on the fraud. This is them writing CBS to target Somali diaspora in Minnesota, calling them garbage and saying he doesn't want immigrants from the East African country in the U.S. folks, the president puts it that way. But the truth is that used to be our policy. That is the vetting of people who wanted to come into the country. They have to be from communities, from provinces, from countries where the people are susceptible to assimilation, the people are self sufficient, the people won't go on welfare, and on and on and on. There used to be a long list of requirements, but of course those have been for the most part, prior to Trump eliminated more than 90% of the people charged in the major fraud cases announced before today were of Somali descent, According to the U.S. attorney's office in Minnesota. Yeah, I'd say there's a problem in that community. Five new defendants have been charged in connection with a Minnesota housing services fraud. Thompson said two of them pocketed three quarters of a million dollars. Instead of helping Medicaid recipients find stable housing, prosecutors alleged they used the proceeds to travel to international destinations including London, Istanbul and Dubai. Ah, Dubai. I wonder if they bought homes near Katarlson. One defendant submitted 1.4 million in fraudulent claims using some of the funds to purchase cryptocurrency. Federal officials say he fled the country after receiving a subpoena. I'm sure he's innocent. Mm. The five charge include two Philadelphia residents figures who've been accused of fraud tourism as they registered as Minnesota providers, Thompson said, adding that for them the scheme was easy money. For everybody was easy money. You can't just spend over $9 billion, he said. Minnesota has become a magnet for fraud, so much so that we have developed a fraud tourism industry, people coming to our state purely to exploit and defraud its programs. It's deeply unsettling reality that all Minnesotans should understand. Now, what we should understand is you have a governor who is a disgusting nobody, a loser of the highest magnitude. You have a community there of 80,000 illegal aliens in some legal Somalians who are robbing the nation blind and for reasons we've explained in the past, not beyond my experience, but others. That's the nature apparently of the culture. And that's why Somalia does not have a functioning society, a functioning government. The two men, Anthony Waddle Jefferson and Lester Brown, recused of siphoning millions from federally funded programs administered by Minnesota officials that were meant to help the disabled and those suffering from addiction. All these people should go to prison for life. For life. They allegedly fleeced the housing program in Minnesota despite living on the other side of the country and having no networking or connections to Minnesota or its communities. So you have travel fraud, you have fraud taking place in Minnesota from people living in other states who don't even set foot in Minnesota. And of course you have fraud in Minnesota. Now the eight others charged in September for their alleged roles in the scheme to defraud Minnesota Housing Stability Services program, prosecutors also named a new defendant as to who's to blame. The prosecutor said the state has not done a good job of mining these programs. Oh, you'd think now they haven't done a good job at all. I'm still waiting to hear from the Democrats. Still waiting to hear from Ilion Omar. Still waiting to hear, but we won't. No, no, no. These are constituents. These are voters, Mr. Producer. Why would we hear from them? I think that's a fair question. I'll be right back.
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Mark Levin
This is Mark Levin wishing you a happy new Year. Now back to the best of me. You know, there's a lot of talk about how the Republicans are going to be blown out in the midterms and they might be. It's kind of early to know one way or the other. It's possible. We've talked about that. We've talked about a number of reasons. I think this economy is going to take off next year, first or second quarter, the way it did under Reagan. But we'll see. Trump has done many things. He's put them in place and it takes time for them to take place. Like the tax cuts really haven't kicked in until, you know, next year. But the Democrats have their own problem. Why? Because they're nuts, that's why. Absolutely. Totally screwed up. Harry Entin on CNN today. He's their data expert analyst on Democrats polling in the minds of the American people. Cut one, Mr. Producer. Go.
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CNN Analyst
Yeah. I mean, Democrats in the minds of the American public are lower than the Dead Sea. What are we talking about here? Well, let's take a look. The net approval rating for Democrats in Congress. You said it, Kate Baldwin, the the lowest ever. Look at this. Overall, they are 55 points underwater. Their approval rating is south of 20%. It's even worse when you look at independents. Look at this negative 61 points. That means that their approval rating is 61 points lower than their disapproval rating. Quinnipiac has been polling this question for the better part of the 21st century. They have never found Democrats, at least those in Congress, Congress in worse shape than they are right now.
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Mark Levin
That's independents and overall. But what about Democrats on Democrats?
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CNN Analyst
Yeah, what about Democrats on Democrats? So part of the reason overall is so low is independents are driving it low. But that's not the only reason it's so low. What about Democrats on Democrats? Democrats net approval rating of congressional Democrats. I want you to keep in mind they had never rated Democrats negatively until this year. And right now, what are we talking about? We're talking about a net approval rating from Democrats. This is Democrats and Democrats. Their approval rating is actually lower, lower than the disapproval rating. And that is quite the drop from October. I think during the shutdown there was a bit of a boost for Democrats.
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Mark Levin
Right.
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CNN Analyst
There was a rallying around the flag effect going on. But Democrats did not like how that shutdown turned out. They have returned against Democrats in Congress. And you mentioned Dan Goldman in that Intro. One of the reasons that gave Dan Goldman is in trouble right now in a potential primary against Brad Ladner is because at this point, the Democratic base is so upset with Democrats. So even if Democrats take back Congress, don't be surprised if Dan Goldman ain't there because of numbers like this.
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Mark Levin
Hmm. Now, Goldman's a lunatic, of course, but the guy is running against a lunatic times 10. So they're going to become even more extremist, even more radical. Meanwhile, what's going on with inflation? What's going on with inflation? Harvard Professor Ken Rogoff on the Constipated News Network today. Cut four, go. I mean, I was surprised. It was a better number than anyone was expecting. Look, inflation's been very high. It stayed high. It has not been coming down. But, you know, people were expecting it to be above 3%. It was well below 3%. I mean, I think the President will take this as good news. The investors will think that interest rates will get cut more. So, you know, it was, it was a positive news. There's no other way to spin it? No. Thank you, Professor. So inflation is down even more, and there's no other way to spin it. America, the economy is going to get there. You'll see. And then you know what else you're going to see? You're going to see these gutless, quizzling members of Congress, some of whom are obviously Republicans, all of a sudden, be cheerleading Trump again. You'll see the neo fascists. They're not sure what to do. Maybe they'll start cheering Trump again. Marjorie Trader Greene, she will be a footnote to a footnote and a footnote. Not the history, but in some comic book. This economy is going to pick up. It may go a little bit south, a little bit more south, but then it's going to come north. That's what economic growth does. And Trump has put in place so many measures to promote economic growth in so many parts of the economy, whether it's natural resources like oil and gas and lumber and mining and so forth, food, where he's put in place, again, so many growth policies, even fisheries, commercial fisheries. He's done the same thing. He's pulled the Biden regulations off that, that business, that industry. He's trying to force other countries that are purposely blockading economically, our farmers through tariffs, to accept goods from our farmers, products from our farmers. And he's doing everything a president can possibly do to turn on the economic spigot. And all of this kicks in next year in a more significant way. You're seeing little dribs and drabs of it. Actually more than that. I mean gasoline prices are down. That's a big deal. It takes time for these things to resonate through a massive economy. And that's what we have, a massive diverse economy. I've seen this throughout my life. But again, he's going with the Reagan tax cuts. His regulatory cuts are more massive than any president than I can remember. He's ditched this whole climate change BS and he's done a lot of things that are all pro growth oriented. And so he's going to get pro growth. He's going to get it. Let's hope it's in time for the midterms. For sure. Time will tell. Then we have John Berman to Representative Gregory Meeks on CNN today. If the economy is so bad for Trump, why don't voters Trust you more? Cut five, go. 46% say Republicans are better at handling the economy than Democrats. So if the policies are as bad as you say they are, why is it that voters still say they prefer Republicans on this?
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I think that if you look at.
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Mark Levin
Those same numbers, you see that Donald Trump is at an all time low in regards to the economy.
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Producer/Announcer
I think that the last poll that I saw day ago because he's down to 36%.
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CNN Analyst
It's bad economy.
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Mark Levin
If that's true, why don't they trust you more? If it's so bad for him, why don't they trust you more for the economy, you being Democrats?
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Producer/Announcer
Well, I think that they see who's fighting for health care to try to.
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Mark Levin
Make sure slow down. Notice he can't answer it because there's for him to answer he would have to condemn their policies. They're not fighting for health care. They're fighting for Obamacare which is a financial disaster, which is a medical disaster, which is unsustainable. Now imagine this. You have a government run health care program that's unsustainable and provides poor service, massive subsidies and yet your premiums are still going through the roof. Every Democrat in Congress then voted for it. Every Republican in Congress then voted against it. And the Democrat answer is don't reform it, don't change it. Subsidize it and then subsidize it some more. Subsidize a failing government run. This is why you have what's going on in Minnesota, massive fraud with the Somalis and you got massive fraud with the Democrats, period. This is why you have these horrendous, you know, mismanagement of funds and loss of funds. You're listening to the best of the Mark Levin Show. Happy New Year. The Multicultural Terrorist Threat Inside Europe the Exported War Nobody Wants to Name by Pierre Rahab Gatestone Institute International Policy Council is one of the best of all the institutes. It just is. It's fantastic. Really, really good work. Investigative and researchers, investigative and research writing. It's just terrific. And so let's go through some of this. It's important. And by the way, Brown University, if they have a press event, we will go there live, looking at a possible link between Brown University and the murder of the MIT nuclear expert. And they're 50 miles apart, so something's going on here that's bigger than was once assumed. I have my own thoughts, but I'm not going to voice them because they're not based on facts. So we'll see. Anyway, back to this Peaceful protesters certainly exist, he writes, but in many instances the same marchers who cry from the river to the sea also provide cover, logistics and recruitment spaces for operatives who work closely with Hamas or other terrorist organizations. This is a big deal, you know why America? Because it's happening here in our country. A report from the University of Indiana shows how a Transnational Network of NGOs, Non governmental organizations and campus groups spread anti Semitic and pro Hamas narratives coordinated across borders and amplified by social media. I want you to remember that 911 was a direct attack on the heart of the United States, on the biggest buildings in our biggest city, on the Pentagon. And that other plane was headed for Congress. They think so this is a big deal. Let's see, let's go on. The message is simple. Israel's colonial Jews are settlers and violence against them is resistance. And of course that means we the people in the United States. Europe rallies have repeatedly featured Hamas flags, Praise for the October 7th attackers, and calls to repeat the massacre, all under the label of human rights. Law enforcement sees the problems more clearly than politicians. The same European Union reports that speak delicately of violent extremism in public also describe behind closed doors how online propaganda, diaspora networks and Middle Eastern conflicts interact to create hybrid terrorist ecosystems in Europe. Even so, at the political level, Europe still refuses to name the ideology that is the ideological enemy. An Islamist project that openly seeks the eradication of Israel spills over to advocate eliminating the United States and the west, quote, the one Jewish state is the first to suffer, notes Jerusalem Post reporter Liott Collins. But the nearly 50 million Muslim majority countries and the nominally Christian world are all in the line of fire. European governments rush to recognize a Palestinian state even as Hamas thanks them for rewarding its resistance. This same cognitive dissonance runs through the European Union, institutions that condemn terrorism in the abstract while lavishly funding non governmental organizations that glorify its perpetrators. Europe's retreat into denying intangible threats, staring them in the face, unfortunately, has extremely tangible results. Studies of Hamas funding stress that social and religious front organizations are integral to the movement's terrorist attacks. They launder money, recruit sympathizers, and create safe spaces where support for terrorism can flourish under humanitarian cover. This is all Qatar. Not by itself, but this is all Qatar does. And so when you have sycophants like Katarlson and people like him, and he's not alone, you got Wall street guys, other businesses, you have athletes and sporting events, You've got entertainers from Hollywood, you have cnn, you've got others, the media. When Germany bans Samadun or a small local front group, non governmental organizations and academics denounce the act as repression of civil society. And here we hear people denounce it as attacking free speech. You know, when Belgium moves against a man Praising the October 7th massacre, activist networks cry that solidarity is being criminalized. In this narrative, it's always the state, never the terrorist infrastructure that is on trial. The war has been exported from Gaza to Europe, has three money, indoctrination and operational cells. All three are embedded in structures that call themselves Palestinian solidarity or human rights organizations. As long as European governments accept this masquerade, the continent will remain both a financial base and potential battlefield for Hamas and its Qatari, Turkish, and Iranian sponsors. What would a serious policy look like? No more American or European funding, period, for organizations that celebrate terrorist martyrs and teach children to hate Jews, hate Christians, or any other racial religious group. When demonstrators chant globalized the intifada, they're not calling for peace. They're calling for the expansion of a global jihadist war, terrorism. Finally, Europeans must abandon the illusion that the Palestinian cause, quote, unquote, is a harmless protest disconnected from terrorism. Hamas itself, backed by Qatar, Turkey, and Iran, has explained over and over that Europe is part of their battlefield. The only question is whether European leaders will listen to their own police and intelligence services as Israel's Mossad, or whether they will continue pretending that a war raging against them has no name and does not exist. When Israel's Mossad intelligence agency publicly revealed in November 2025 that it had helped European countries expose a Hamas terrorist infrastructure, quote, in the heart of Europe, including weapons caches and plans to hit Jewish and Israeli targets, it simply confirmed that intelligence professionals have warned since October 7, 2023, the war in the Gaza Strip is not local. It has been exported operationally to European soil and I would add, to American soil. As early as December 2023, German, Dutch and Danish authorities had already arrested Hamas operatives accused of preparing attacks on Jewish institutions in several European countries. Prosecutors describe long standing members of Hamas directed to stockpile weapons in Berlin. Since then, intel and security reports have spoken of a, quote, realistic possibility, unquote, that the Hamas Israel war will embolden networks across Western Europe to move from propaganda to mass casualty attacks. Folks, this is going to happen. It's going to happen here, it's going to happen in the United States. We have laxed immigration for way too long. We have the Democrat Party that gives cover to these operations. We have this Marxist Islamist alliance that really is at the heart now of the Democrat Party. And we also have our outliers, podcasters, influencers, who are in the back pocket of Qatar, if not financially, otherwise trashing our own history, trashing the west, trashing the good guys in World War II. That would be us attacking Christians, attacking Jews in this country. Like Katalson and Hisok, Europol's 2025 terrorism situation and Trend report openly acknowledged the Gaza conflict has reshaped the threat picture in the European Union. The Forward warns that wars beyond Europe's border, explicitly including Gaza fuel radicalization, propaganda and operational planning within European states. And parallel news outlets report that since 2023, European authorities have quietly disrupted several plots linked to Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran. Behind these plots lies an entrenched Hamas infrastructure in Europe that long predates 2023. A detailed study from George Washington University describes how Hamas built extensive fundraising and logistical networks in Western countries using charities, NGOs, often European funded and business fronts whose names and legal entities are constantly changed to stay ahead of authorities. And these same countries, the study's authors warned, are the natural incubator for future terrorist operations in the West. In 2024, the foundation for the Defense of Democracy summarized new research by lnet that identified 30 Hamas linked groups and figures active in the UK, Germany, Italy, Belgium and Netherlands. These groups include civil society associations, aid organizations and lobbying platforms that propagate Hamas narratives while maintaining close personal ties with known extremists. They operate with relative freedom despite Hamas being officially designated as a terrorist organization by both the EU and individual European countries. You know, ladies and gentlemen, one thing I'm proud of. What we do here is we are are focused like a laser. World War three is already underway. Now it's not because of Israel it's not because of Ukraine, it's not because of Trump. With Venezuela, World War three, the Islamist war against the west, first battle with Israel, battles breaking open in Europe, battles will break open in the United States. I mark my words. I know what I'm talking about. They are here. They are plotting. You're in the right place at the right time in American history, and you have been. Germany, to its credit, has gone further to confront this problem than most. Berlin has not only banned Hamas on the international network Samadan, but has also started outlawing local solidarity groups whose activities glorify terrorism, promote anti Semitic agitation. You know, I say over and over again, if you hate Israel, you hate America. If you hate America, you hate Israel. It's for one basic shared values and belief systems. Israel is a Jewish state. America is essentially a Christian country. Judeo Christian belief systems. Even in Germany, however, every ban on one structure appears followed by the birth of another. So this is highly organized and sophisticated. Hamas also invests heavily in indoctrination, particularly among students. Report from the University of Nevada shows how Transnational networking of NGOs and campus groups spread anti Semitic pro Hamas narratives coordinated across borders, amplified by social media. Excuse me. The message is simple. Israel's colonial Jews are settlers and violence against them is resistance. They say the same thing about the United States. Same thing. And you can see it on college campuses in Europe, you see it on college campuses in the United States of America, you see Qatar. Why would Qatar be pouring tens of billions of dollars into our educational system? For this reason, that's why. And I'm waiting for Congress, the Republican Congress, to cut off all foreign money coming into our colleges and universities. But we can't even get a committee of Republicans to vote that the Muslim Brotherhood, the mother, the mothership of the terrorists, should be designated as a terrorist organization for all purposes and in every part of the planet. Ted Cruz and Republicans in the Senate now are trying to fix that and lead the charge. But we'll see how far that goes with their colleagues. Meanwhile, Europe's Jewish communities live under siege. Synagogues require fortress style protection. Jewish schools resemble military bases. Israeli tourists are worn by their own government to avoid displaying any visible sign of Jewish or Israeli identity. The dramatic rise in anti Semitic incidents across Europe and America since October 7th can be directly linked to pro Hamas agitation, even when officials pretend the hatred has nothing to do with imported Middle Eastern conflicts. The war that has been exported from Gaza to Europe has three pillars. Money, indoctrination and operational cells. All three are embedded in structures that call themselves Palestinian solidarity. And that's where we are. Pierre Rayhove, law degree from Paris. French reporter, documentary filmmaker, author of six novels. He has produced and directed 17 documentaries, many photographed at high risk in Middle Eastern war zones, focusing on terrorism, media bias and the persecution of Christians. His latest documentary, pogroms, highlights the context of ancient Jew hatred within Muslim civilization as the main force behind the October 7th massacre. I hope the world is listening. I hope people are listening. You, Mr. And Mrs. America. I know what I'm doing. I know why I'm using these sources and conveying this information to you. It is here. It is a threat. It's going to hit us and it's going to be horrific. We'll be right back.
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This is Mark Levin wishing you a happy new Year. Now back to the best of me. Here's the update from ABC News. Law enforcement officials have identified a possible suspect in connection with the mass shooting at Brown University and have issued a warrant for the individual's arrest. Now that is not a search warrant. That's a warrant for their arrest. And he got it from a judge. So they're pretty sure. This comes after multiple sources briefed on the investigation told ABC News that the Brown shooting and the murder of an MIT professor in Brookline, Massachusetts, may be linked. Now look, I don't know how they're linked. I don't know how they may be linked, but the MIT professor who was murdered was Jewish and one of the top nuclear experts not just in the country, but the world. The room at Brown in which this suspect murdered those two wonderful students and shoot and shot nine others. First of all, one of those students, a young lady, was the vice president of the College Republicans. But the professor on campus is well known. She's Jewish and she's taught a class in Israel as well and she teaches Middle Eastern policy. Now, I don't know if that's how they're linked or not. I don't know if they're linked or not. But this is the information that ABC News and virtually every other news organization is putting out now that they think they're linked. They were 50 miles apart. We shall see. It's just a matter of time. They're going to get. They're going to get their man. We salute our armed forces, police officers, firefighters, emergency personnel, our truckers, the men and women in Ukraine, the men and women in Israel, and you, the American people, red blooded Yanks. God bless each and every one of you and thanks for listening. We'll see you tomorrow be safe.