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Mark Levin
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Producer/Show Announcer
He's here now. Broadcasting from the underground command post 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 Le Ven.
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Mark Levin
Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number, 8773-8138-1187-7381-3811. Let's listen to what the President said just a little while ago, and then I'll give you my assessment of a cut for Mr. Producer. Go.
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Donald Trump
Well, it seems like that would be the best thing that could happen. For 47 years. They've been talking and talking and talking. In the meantime, we've lost a lot of lives while. Legs blown off, arms blown off, faces blown off has been going on for a long time. So let's see what happens. In the meantime, we have. Meantime we have. Tremendous power has arrived and additional power, as you know, and other carriers going out.
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Mark Levin
Now, my assessment of that. My assessment of that is that, now, look, I have no inside information, period. But given that statement late today, I believe the President has made up his mind, and perhaps the only question is one of military tactics, and he may have already decided that as well. This is not a prediction, just my assessment, taking everything into consideration. Of course it could change, but I don't think it will. I don't think it will. You think I'm right or wrong, Mr. Producer? Yeah, I mean, what I believe doesn't matter. I'm just trying to analyze this along with you. But I do think it's important that we continue to watch this, and it would encourage the media to really start focusing on this because if action is taken, it's quite serious, isn't it? Now, Mr. Producer, remember that thing we were. We were working on before the show? Well, it's unplugged, so I got to find that plug again. We've been having a few technical issues. I'm here in Florida. Hold on one second. I have it right here. Can't find the damn thing. I've got 4 billion wires here, ladies and gentlemen. And there it is. And the wire that pops out. You can hear me in a distance, is the one that enables me to hear. Mr. Producer. It's back in there. There we go. There you are. Yes, I hear you. We call this live, National, Live and national. So we're back. All right, so that's my assessment of the situation. I want to get a little deeper into this with you because that's what we do around here. I want to explain again that all these things, whether it's the Marxist ideology or the, the Islamist ideology, whether it's our belief system, is about power, the proper use of it and the improper use of it, the humane use of it, the inhumane use of it. And so I explained in my book, you don't have to go and buy it. I'm talking about it. One's approach to life and role in society and, and even more involves practices, decisions, values, beliefs that together form one's life philosophy, which results from learned cognitive, reactionary, experiential or even instinctive thought processes. And significantly, faith. Faith. Faith is vital. Vital if not imperative as an influence in the life of an individual and a nation. And even in countries that are said to be secular and that formally or institutionally disclaim and seek to invalidate faith, including by indoctrination and force. And of course, faith is preached and practiced by certain religions or religious leaders known in the past, has been used by despots, despotic regimes, as other autocrats use power. Power to brutalize, power to destroy and power to kill. Now you may ask, how can faith be both pivotal to positive power, as I've called it, yet a potential tool for negative power. Let's begin with the American Declaration of Independence. This is the 250th anniversary and as I promised, I want to use this occasion to reference these belief systems from time to time. Now, that Declaration appeals to the laws of nature and Nature's God. And it states, we hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these is life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The founders were men of science and reason and experience, but they were also men of faith who worshiped God. Even among the Deists, namely Franklin and Jefferson, they knew and professed the importance of faith in society and the establishment of the American Republic. As I explained in Liberty and Tyranny, reason cannot by itself explain why there is reason. Science cannot by itself explain why there is science. A man's discovery and application of science are products of reason. Reason and science can explain the existence of matter, but they cannot explain why there is matter. They can explain the existence of the universe, but cannot explain why there is a universe. They can explain the existence of nature and the laws of physics, but they cannot explain why there is nature in the laws of physics. They can explain the existence of life, but they cannot explain why there is life. They can explain the existence of consciousness, but they cannot explain why there is consciousness. The founders did not believe they owed their origin to men and through men, but to a transcendent providence, that is, to a higher source than man, God. Faith was fundamental to America's founding. Indeed, Christianity was and is our nation's dominant religion. Moreover, without Judaism, there would be no Christianity together. Judeo Christian values and beliefs redounded throughout our society from the earliest days of the colonists and still do today. So when you see people trying to divide Jew from Christian, they're trying to destroy the foundational doctrine of the United States of America. One layperson put it this way. Judaism and Christianity have significantly influenced Western civilization. Their teachings have shaped ethical frameworks, legal systems, and cultural norms. The values derived from both faiths are evident in literature, art, and philosophy throughout history. Concepts like human rights, social justice, and the dignity of life are rooted in their teachings. Both religions advocate for compassion and moral integrity impacting social values. Their contributions extend beyond religious spheres, informing the development of Western thought and culture. Again, when you have the woke right, the Marxist Islamist left, trashing both faiths, trashing the interconnectability of both faiths, they're trashing the very being of this society. As America became a nation of United States, it was never intended to be, nor would it ever become, a fundamentalist religious state or theocracy, as one sees throughout the Muslim world and elsewhere. It was never to be a repressive religious state that smothers alternative religious beliefs, or a state that punished or silenced non believers, atheists or agnostics. On the contrary, early on, religious tests and requirements that existed in some of the colonies would quickly disappear. Among other reasons, Judaism and Christianity do not seek to compel, let alone demand, doctrinal purity. The United States is among the most religiously tolerant nations on earth. In fact, it matters not at all, not at all what one does or does not believe to enjoy the freedoms and security that American society offers and which are explicitly protected by the Constitution. You don't find that virtually anywhere else. You certainly don't find it in Muslim regimes. The first sentence of the first Amendment declares, congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. Now, the reason is the distinction recognized in American society between the relationship of faith in the individual, faith in the community, and faith in the actual operation of government. In short, faith, properly understood, creates a spiritual, moral and psychological foundation which affects how the individual lives his life. In America, it's typically a moderating force in one's life, checking the excesses of the darker side of Humanity, which in turn contributes to the civility of society. Even those who reject faith are not utterly devoid of its implications. For example, one has regular interactions with others whose faith affects or sways the non believer's behavior, even without formally recognizing or accepting the faith itself. Moreover, society is imbued with the influences of faith. It is impossible to escape it. Therefore, even for those who do not consciously or formally embrace a faith, the teaching and practicing of faith create the moral and value based belief system of so many others in society. This is an organic process, not theocratic or otherwise coercive. It is possible to have, for example, a biblical liturgical worldview or a more formal or orthodox faith belief as I turn the pages and perspective and serve in the government without the desire, purpose or conviction to impose that faith on others by governmental coercion. That is negative power. This is well understood in America and there are reasons for it. For example, as previously noted, Christianity is the majority faith in America, but it is not the country's official or formal religion. In fact, it is. Christianity does not preach political control over societies or administrative control over governments. Unlike Islam, which I will elaborate on shortly, Sharia law does. Thus, in America, the individual's pursuit of knowledge and science not only coexist with faith, but springs from the influences of faith and are part of man's internal makeup. Therefore, positive power originates not from mankind's hand or mind, although certainly its practical and earthly application does. But its origin is transcendent and inherent when we speak of universal or eternal truths. The Golden Rule. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. The Ten Commandments, for example, Thou shalt not kill good and evil, and so forth. These are fundamentally moral precepts understood and ingrained in the human conscience. Openly expressed in free and democratic societies. They are known to be true throughout the world, including among those who are oppressed by tyrannical governments and regimes, by the less educated or uneducated, by people of all faiths or no faith. Now, this is not to say that all individuals, cultures or regimes adhere to these eternal truths. Some are evil, power hungry, irrational. Man's existence is strewn with horrific examples of his cruelty from ancient history to modern times. Of course, man's imperfection is both well known and well established. But knowing what is right from wrong, for instance, is distinct from doing what is right rather than wrong. Now, the examination and understanding, or at least the desire to understand what makes positive power and its differentiation from negative power do not end here. In addition to its references to natural law and the Creator, the Declaration of Independence drew from the knowledge of philosophers, among others, and their conception of society and mankind. For example, in a May 8, 1825 letter to Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, the original author of the Declaration, explains, when forced to resort to arms for redress, an appeal to the tribunal of the world was deemed proper for our justification. This was the object of the Declaration of Independence, not to find out new principles or new arguments never before thought of, nor merely to say things which have never been said before, but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, terms so plain and firm as to command their assent and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we took, neither aiming at originality of principle or sentiment, nor yet copied from any particular and previous writing. It was intended to be an expression of the American mind and to give that expression that the proper tone. And he goes on, and I want to go on when we take a break because this is so relevant to what we're confronting with the Islamists in our society, the Islamists outside our society, the Marxists in our society, the Marxists outside our society and why we are right and good and they are wrong and evil, that is the Islamists and the Marxists. I'll be right back. All right, let's keep at this. I know you enjoy it and so do I, but it helps explain things that have been going on and this is the perfect format. Importantly, America, like much of the west, was born from the fusion of faith and the Enlightenment, faith and the Enlightenment as such, while faith is distinct from government, the latter government being the organization of law binding through man made institutions, the fusion of which I speak informed the authors of America's Declaration and Constitution on the prudent in humane order of governmental affairs. All of this is rejected by Marxists and Islamists and I might add the Democrat Party. Now we're going to continue on this because I think it's crucially important to understand what's taking place in our society today. I'll be right back. The Establishment's Worst Nightmare Mark levin, call in now. 877-3813. I think this book I wrote many months ago now on Power is maybe the best book I've ever written. It may be it's also the most concise, probably the most understandable other than liberty and tyranny, but very, very crucial in terms of explaining where we are today, even beyond what I knew at the time. And I go on, by contrast, for example, political Islam. Political Islam is Dr. Zudi Jasser, a prominent Muslim scholar, you know, founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy and a leader of the Muslim reform movement refers to it seeks decentralized control over mind, body, society and government. See, that's completely different than the Judeo Christian belief system. Completely different. And that's what Sharia does. He explains that Islam has yet to go through an enlightenment and reform against theocracy and for individual liberty and universal human rights. The dominant establishment of the Muslim community in the west and abroad supports Islamism and its believers, the Islamists. That's why I always call these terrorists and these radicals Islamists. Like theocrats, Islamists and their sympathizers see faith as monolithic and do not tolerate diversity of interpretation. And recounting his days in college, Jasser explains that Muslim campus groups pronounced a form of Muslim identity that wasn't about faith, but rather about their political agenda and especially their anti Israel motives, their anti Semitism. It was pretty much dominated by the Palestinian movement. Now you can see when woke right types embrace these movements and these and these monarchies in Qatar and Saudi Arabia and elsewhere, that they're not even embracing a reformed ideology. They're embracing the most radical, violent, inhumane ideology. And so therefore it is necessary for the Taran types to trash Judaism and Christianity and to talk about replacement ideology, that is that Christianity replaced Judaism. But it's an impossibility. If you understand the Bible and read the Bible, it's an impossibility. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, they weren't replaced, were they? The Ten Commandments, they weren't replaced, were they? And I could go on and on and on. It's an effort, a very evil and diabolical effort to serve the interests of the Islamists and the Marxists while pretending to be of the right. Jasser argues that people of the Muslim faith deserve much better than this. He notes that the vast majority of Muslims are still a constituency that are not spoken for by anybody. Hopefully we can grow our bandwidth to do that. Now, of course, the problem is you're talking about 2 billion people. And as I've said before, if 10% of those people are Islamists, you're talking about 200 million. If 1% are Islamists, you're talking about 20 million. And if 1, 1000th of a percent are Islamists, you're talking about terrorist organizations that exist in the world today. Alexis de Tocqueville put it this way. He said Muhammad professed to derive from heaven. And he has inserted in the Koran not only a body of religious doctrines, but political maxims, civil and criminal laws and theories of science. The gospel on the contrary, only speaks of the general relationship of men to God and to each other beyond which it inculcates and imposes no point of faith. And I point out, indeed in America today. Jasser notes that Muslim Brotherhood legacy groups like the Council on American Islamic Relations, care, the Islamic Society of North America, ISNA Islamic Circle of North America, icna, Muslim Students Association, MSA and Muslim Public Affairs Council do not accept that devout Muslims exist who reject their ideas. In his book Battle for the Soul of Islam he decries the preaching and writing of Sayyid Qut Qutub Q U T B Qutb, one of the most prominent thought leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood and political Islam and that while the roots of Islamism can be traced hundreds of years ago with the idea of pure Islam, KTUB's 1964 books, particularly one called Milestones, has significant influence even now. Ketb often mentions oh boy, my glasses often mentions Jibaliya which he defines as the state of ignorance of the guidance of God. What is extremely significant about this is that in Qutb's view the entire Western world was riddled with Jahiya. And at the same time he considered most Muslims of his time to be suffering from such ignorance due to what he considered by watering down through the ages of pure Islam. And so you see the slaughter, the slaughter of Muslims by these Islamists because they see them no differently than they see other people who are not Islamists. Ktub saw it at his mission to revive such pure Islamic with its very strict interpretation of Sharia law and to never give an inch in terms of adopting or compromising with Western values which he considered devoted to materialism, violence and racism. Matter of fact, he spent many years in the United States. Jasser notes our foremost objective of Ktub's book, what Koutoub said is our foremost objective is to change the practices of this society, the West America. Our aim is to change the Jihali system at its very roots. This system which is fundamentally at variance with Islam. I'm quoting. And which with the help of force and oppression is keeping us from living the sort of life which is demanded by our Creator. Our first step will be to raise ourselves above the Jihali society and all its causes and concepts. We will not change our own values and concepts either more or less to make a bargain with the Jihali society. That's us, American society, Western society. And you hear these imams and these so called scholars, whether they're in Plano, Texas or Dearborn, Michigan, whether they're in Los Angeles or Patterson, New Jersey, wherever they are, say the same thing. Our goal is not to get along with other people. Our goal is to control them, is to conquer them, is to impose our will on them. I've played you clip after clip on this now he said. Never will we bargain with the Jahili society. We and it are on different roads and if we take even one step in its company, we will lose our goal entirely and lose our way as well. Now this is the thinking of the Islamist regime, the Nazi regime in Tehran. And this is why, among other reasons, they will never change their way. They will never negotiate it away. It does not matter. And they have also come up with theories as to why they can lie, deceive, connive, and why their religion or their religious beliefs at least compel it. Compel it. I write. Consequently, the constant bloody wars among different Muslim sects, including in Syria, Yemen, Lebanon and elsewhere, and the targeting of the west by a long list of Islamist organizations such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Al Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as Islamist states that support terrorism like Iran and yes, Qatar and others provide ample evidence of the bloody Islamist impact both within individual countries and throughout the world, on Muslims and non Muslims alike. Furthermore, Western societies and governments do not seem to comprehend or wish to deceive themselves into ignoring, rationalizing or excusing the dire peril Islamism represents. Despite multiple acts of terrorism committed against them and threats of more and worse to come. In some cases, Western governments hope to avoid the consequences of Islamist ideology through appeasement, negotiation or financial arrangements. And I write as of this writing back in July. I actually finished the book in May. Iran, an Islamist dictatorship that has spread terrorism and murder throughout the Middle east and beyond, repeatedly demands the annihilation of the United States and the Jewish state of Israel and has fired hundreds of missiles at them into Israel, has attempted to assassinate the President of the United States, has killed and maimed American soldiers and citizens, has made alliance with the communist Chinese government, is hell bent on completing the development of nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missile delivery systems. Despite multiple agreements with the west and I might add, despite US taking those systems out and assurances that it is no intent on building nuclear weapons, the Islamist regime is about to have what is called a nuclear breakout. Iran has lied, cheated, deceived multiple American administrations, international organizations, European countries, etc. On its path to a nuclear breakout. Yet the United States and the west still hope to reach another deal to prevent Iran from crossing the finish line. Now the president bombed them because there was no Deal. But there must be no deal now. None. None. Because their mindset is not about deals. There's no clear example of the clash between negative and positive power between a terrorist Islamist dictatorship and Western democracies where the mindsets, principles and goals could not be more different. In fact, in addition to what has already been said, deception, or in Arabic, taqiyah, that's what we've been talking about, is believed to be a legitimate if not necessary strategy against non Muslims. And writing in the Middle East Quarterly, this is so totally relevant to what's going on right now. You've got envoys and others that think it's just a matter of a negotiation and diploma. No, it's not. No, it's not. It's dangerous. Writing in the Middle East Quarterly, Raymond Ibrahim explains that according to Sharia, the body of legal rulings that defines how a Muslim should behave in all circumstances, deception is not only permitted in certain situations, but may be deemed obligatory in others. In his book At Taqiyah ful Islam, that is the dissimulation in Islam, Professor Sami Makaram, a former Islamic studies professor at American University in Beirut, writes, taqiyyah is of fundamental importance in Islam. Practically every Islamic sect agrees to it and practices it. We can go so far as to say that the practice of Taqiyyah is mainstream in Islam and that those few sects not practicing it diverge from the mainstream. Taqiya is very prevalent in Islamic politics, especially in the modern era. In Islam, writes Ibrahim, war against the infantel is a perpetual affair. That's why when people are tired of war, they're not tired of war. These terrorists are not tired of war. It's a perpetual affair until, in the words of the Quran, all chaos ceases and all religion belongs to God. And in his entry on Jihad from the Encyclopedia of Islam, Emil Tion states, the duty of the jihad exists as long as the universal domination of Islam has not been attained. Among other things, this explains why Iran enters negotiations urged by the West. I wrote and signs non proliferation agreements it has no intention of complying with as the west eludes itself and Iran lies and deceives its way to a nuclear breakout. And it will continue to do so. It will continue to do so. Like Marxists, Islamists obviously reject liberty. However, Marxism rejects faith altogether and in fact insists on the eradication of not only faith, but like Islamists, all historical and social ties that contradict or compete with its ideology and delay or interfere with the inevitable revolution. For Marxists, faith is said to be a fiction that shrouds the truth, dupes the people, and is incapable, excuse me, incompatible with a new social and economic order. Faith is an illusion. Incompatible with reason, they say, denies man direct control of his own fate, provides a mystical escape from a soulless society and sustained society, status quo class structure. Is this interesting to people, Mr. Producer? You think it is? People tell me this when I see them. We're going to take a little break. I'll be right back. Forget, ladies and gentlemen, it's a three day weekend. I'm sure you haven't forgotten that President's Day is Monday and therefore Tuesday we will be launching Liberty's Voice, my new podcast program. I'm not leaving radio. No way. Not leaving my Fox program either. It is a new undertaking. It is a video podcast and it'll be. Here's what I decide. Three days a week, 45 minutes each program. So it's not overwhelming for you folks. It's not a drag every day because I do my radio program that's very, very important, central to what we do. So Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays normally, but this coming week, because of President's Day on Monday, we're going to launch it Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. And look, I can't tell you what the program is going to be every single day, but I will tell you that the program is going to include on most days, certainly many days, references to our history, our philosophy, economics, things that will help people learn, help educate people, help them love our country. This program is intended for patriots and future patriots. This will not be a program that is used to create evil and hate on a daily basis in order to attract overseas viewers and governments. We're not going to do that. It's time to bring some class and Americanism to podcasting. We have a handful of our friends that do that, but now I'm gonna do it, too. 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Producer/Show Announcer
He's here now. Broadcasting from the underground command post 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
Hello, America, Mark Levin here won this lovely Friday. Our numbers, 877-381-3811. We will take some calls the bottom of the last hour. 877-381-3811. Again, a reminder, what President Trump said at the outside of the White House this evening when he was leaving about Iran. Cut one go. His second aircraft carrier that you decided to send. Talk about why you made that choice.
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Donald Trump
Well, in case we don't make a deal, we, if we don't have a deal, we'll need it. If we have a deal, we could it'll be leaving, it'll be leaving very soon. We have one out there that just arrived if we need it. We will. We have it ready. A big, a very big force.
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Mark Levin
Now, he said Fort Bragg, North Carolina, today. He said this as well.
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Donald Trump
CUT to go with your help, America is winning again. America is respected again. And perhaps most importantly, we are feared by the enemies all over the globe. They fear us. And you know, I don't like to say fear, but sometimes you have to have fear because that's the only thing that really will get the situation taken care of. We have a situation right now where we sent a very big carrier group to Iran. I'd love to see if we could make a deal. They've been difficult to make a deal. I thought we would have had a deal last time. They wish they did. And that's what we did. Midnight HAMMER but with the restored strength and the tremendous power that we've now built up over the last number of years, even though we were there was an interlude with Biden, who is the worst president in the history of our country. But the interlude, fortunately, was ended quickly and we started the process again and built upon what we had already done the first four years. But we're also bringing peace all over the world.
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Mark Levin
CUT three go.
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Donald Trump
We had a great first term. We had the best economy in history, but this is blowing it away. But we had a great economy in the first term. We did everything but we really created a tremendous military. Now, some of it was given away actually a lot, but small compared to what we did to Afghanistan. You remember that where they left all the military equipment behind. We didn't, we wouldn't have left anything. We were going to get out with dignity and strength, respect. We looked like we were running. We don't run from anybody. That was a Biden embarrassment. What a, what a terrible president. But we came back and we already have rebuilt our military to stronger than it was even then. And we don't leave equipment behind. We don't leave jets behind. I said, why do you leave those jets behind, sir? I thought it was too to leave it behind, you know, $150 million plane, all they had to do is put a little jet fuel in there and fly it to wherever they want to fly it. These people were the worst. We can't let it happen again. Our military, if the Democrats get in, will be severely missserved. But we rebuilt it in my first term and now we're making it stronger and bigger and better than ever before. The recruiting is through the roof.
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Mark Levin
Cut four, go.
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Donald Trump
Do you want the name change in Iran? Well, it seems like that would be the best thing that could happen. For 47 years they've been talking and talking and talking. In the meantime, we've lost a lot of lives while they talk and legs blown off, arms blown off, faces blown off. Has been going on for a long time. So let's see what happens. In the meantime we have, meantime we have tremendous power has arrived and additional power, as you know, and other carriers going out.
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Mark Levin
Yeah. That is what causes me to conclude that he's made up his mind. Now, that doesn't mean it can't change with events, but I don't think it's going to. Again, I have no inside information, but that to me sounds like that's where he is at least 80, 90%. Michael Waltz, good man. U.S. ambassador to the U.N. he was at the Munich Security Conference today and he had this to say. Cut five, go. I have to push back on the premise the world on the brink, which I think was the name of this, of this panel. We are returning the world from the brink where it was 18 months ago between Ukraine, Gaza, Iran racing for a new Houthis, shutting down the Suez Canal, the refugee crisis in South America, and on and on. So I just, if you focus on the facts and the results and if we have to reform multilateralism that hasn't been reformed, frankly in 80 years, then I think that should be welcomed by the world. Well, problem is three fourths of the world is evil. Let's just be honest. These governments, these Islamists, these Marxists, these fascists, whatever the hell they are, they're not, you know, many of them came to power at the point of a gun. And so I don't expect them to be with us. And that's okay. As long as they stayed over face, that's okay. But I certainly don't expect him to be with us. I guess what I find even more problematic is the Democrat Party. They're not with us. Who the hell side are they on within the United States? They're always undermining our culture. They're undermining our society generally. They're undermining our traditions and customs, changing words and definitions and the sexes of children and rewriting our history to trash us, relentlessly trying to change the demography and the citizenship replacement theory. It's clearly not a theory, it's a reality. That's why they do it. They rewrite our laws without passing change laws. They wave our constitution around while undermining it in every direction. They have these damnable judges, basically these radical lawyers who are ideologues and activists who they put on the bench. Some Republicans even vote for them. You know, it's not our place. Yes, it is your place to stop it. That's why I wrote this book. Power. The Democrats have no compunction about grabbing power. Whether it's changing the voting system, whether it's opening the border, whether it's attacking ICE and preventing deportations, whether it is destroying the Supreme Court, turning it into a politburo, an ideological politburo, whether it's destroying the electoral college, replacing it with the popular vote, meaning small states have effectively no say in anything. I'm telling you, this is their mind. This is who they are. And it is a huge problem where you and I, we are facing a party in the Democrat Party and I wish the rank and file who are blue collar workers in some cases, who are moderate in some cases, would get the hell out of that party because that party does not represent them. They lie to them, they deceive them like they do the American people generally. They want you to believe they're for the little guy, not for the little guy. What the hell have they ever done for the little guy other than drive up inflation and the price of fuel and food and all the rest of it. If they were for the little guy that is the American citizen, why do they spend so much time on the illegal aliens and subsidizing them and making sure they're not removed? And those illegal aliens are using our services, they're raising our taxes. I mean, and yet that's who the Democrat Party spends most of its time. And I'm going to prove it to you. We're going to come right back and I'm going to prove it to you. Because we have this shutdown of TSA and FEMA and aspects of the Department of Homeland Security. We have this shutdown and the Democrats did it. They're blaming the Republicans because they're liars. I'll be right back.
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Mark Levin
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Democratic Politician (e.g., Jeanne Shaheen)
Well, it's not the Democrats, it's the Republicans unwillingness to negotiate with us. That's the problem.
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Mark Levin
Now stop. Notice they always say that whether it's securing the border with the first shutdown, they won't negotiate with us. I read to you the other night there are 10 demands. And if half of their demands were met, ICE would effectively cease to exist. Oh, they'd still be there. But they couldn't. They couldn't detain and deport. And so CNN covers this. It's just a game for them. Well, they says this and they say, but if the media were actually reporting what it is that the Democrats are demanding beyond one or two points, the American people would turn on them on a dime. The American people would turn on them because the American people want illegal immigrants deported, including Illegal immigrants whose only offense is coming here illegally. The American people want them deported. Go ahead.
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Democratic Politician (e.g., Jeanne Shaheen)
It's in their interest to address the excesses that ICE has been showing all Americans. All you have to do is turn on the television at night.
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Mark Levin
And she's exactly the kind of hack that the Democratic Socialists of America have focused on. These other Marxist organizations that we've talked about at length. I'm going to talk about them again tomorrow night on fox. That go and meet with these foreign leaders in communist regimes. They use their slogans, they use their agendas. When they come back to America, they're heavily funded by billionaires, Soros, this guy in Shanghai and others. Some of them are funded by foreign governments. And so here's Gene Shaheen of New Hampshire. We all have seen what they do. We've all seen what's going on out there. No, we all haven't seen what's going on behind the scenes, which is leading to this, leading to this violent confrontation with ice, leading to this destructive sanctuary city movement which has as its purpose to undermine our country, our constitutional order and our citizenship. Go ahead.
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Democratic Politician (e.g., Jeanne Shaheen)
The horrific pictures of masks, people arresting.
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Mark Levin
You know, I remember it wasn't that long ago, Mr. Producer, when the Democrats like masks. In fact, they insisted that we all wear masks. And we used to joke about how we all look like a bunch of bank robbers. Now they love masks. They wanted us all to wear masks. They in fact forced us to wear masks against our own civil liberties for really no reason. We now know there was no reason. There was no medical or biological reason to wear masks. Fauci himself had to confess to that fact. Outrageous. The six foot rule. Who came up with that? Some homeless guy. That was another rule that had no impact whatsoever. They eventually, eventually admitted that. But here, the reason, the reason these people and ICE have to cover their faces is so they, their spouses, their friends, their family are not threatened by the very entities and individuals who are being supported by China, Cuba and Venezuela under Maduro and other entities like Qatar and Iran. In other words, it's sad, in fact, that they have to wear masks because they're being threatened and so are their families. And their home addresses are being put on the Internet. That's why they're wearing masks. Everybody knows that but the Democrat Party, they twist it, they lie about it. They're propagandists. Why? Because all those illegal aliens, whether they've committed murder, rape, other forms of mayhem, or having contributed to the society as immigrants are supposed to, they're future Democrat voters, if not current Democrat voters. That's the bill. That's the deal. That's the deal. Go ahead.
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Democratic Politician (e.g., Jeanne Shaheen)
American citizens. And putting them in detention centers that have been described as concentration camps.
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Mark Levin
But described by whom? As concentration. You know, these detention centers, ladies and gentlemen, they didn't just sprout up under Trump. They were there under Biden Harris, they were there under Obama. They were there under the Democrats. They were there when the Democrats controlled Congress. Now all of a sudden, they're concentration camps. Now the real concentration camp, which is the country of Iran, they don't even talk about it. They don't give a damn about it. And all the people being slaughtered but us, they accuse us of running concentration camps. This is what I mean. They tear down our country. They tear down you, Mr. And Mrs. America. We're not running concentration camps in this country. They sound like lunatics, you know, like the Tucker Carlson types, in my humble opinion. Go ahead.
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Democratic Politician (e.g., Jeanne Shaheen)
So I don't think that's in Republicans interest long term to do that. They need to come to the table. They need to work with us to get this done.
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Mark Levin
To get what done? To get what done? The Democrats create this situation. They create the chaos, they create the havoc. And now we're supposed to sit down with them to figure out what to do about it. How about complying with the law there? I already figured it out. Enforce the law, which is what the president, DHS and ICE and the Border Patrol are trying to do. Sanctuary cities and states. That's just a fancy name given to rogue cities and states run by Democrats, to be more blunt, breakaway cities and states run by Democrats. They're breakaway cities and states. And if they don't agree with a Republican administration is doing in Washington, they declare some kind of slogan, oh, it's a sanctuary city where you know, we're not going to help you. That's a breakaway city, a breakaway state that is required to comply with the federal constitution under the supremacy clause. And these Democrats are required to support federal law, immigration law, but you see how they defy it. And then they're righteous about it. Now we're going to shut down the government, you see, at least parts of it, to make it very irritating to you, Mr. And Mrs. Air Traveler, among others. Let's go to cut nine, please go.
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Democratic Politician (e.g., Jeanne Shaheen)
I think there is a real understanding among the American public that ICE has taken horrific actions. When American citizens.
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Mark Levin
ICE has taken horrific actions. What horrific actions has ICE taken? Two people were killed doing something, frankly, they shouldn't have been doing. And this is all under investigation. And if There's a violation. There's a violation that will be dealt with. That's not a horrific action. ICE is taking horrific actions. Four years ago, it was local cops who were taking horrific actions. During the Vietnam War, was our military taking horrific actions? This is the Democrat Party, the party of the Klan, the party of slavery, the party of segregation, the party of eugenics, the party of Jim Crow. Now the party of Marxism and Islamism and illegal aliens, but never the party of Americanism. Have you noticed? That's why I'm telling you. Patriotic Democrats who work hard and pay your taxes. And you think this party stands for you. You're wrong. It stands against you more when we return. You know what PureTalk's favorite holiday is? President's Day. Because they believe wireless service should only cost you a couple of presidents. Just a Jackson and a Lincoln to be exact. For $25 a month, PureTalk gives you unlimited talk text, plenty of data. Now compare that to big wireless. They'd rather celebrate Benjamin Franklin Day so they can charge your family hundreds every month. And he wasn't even a president. That's not right. You deserve better. PureTalk is an American wireless company that supports our veterans and invests in a US Only customer service team. When you call, you're talking to someone right here at home. Pure Talk uses the same towers as the big carriers, so enjoy superior 5G coverage without the inflated price. Just $25 a month for talk text, plenty of data, no contract, no cancellation fee. Don't wait any longer, folks. Go to PureTalk.com Levin PureTalk.com L E V I N. You'll get 50% off your first month again. That's PureTalk.com L E V I N to make the switch to PureTalk, the Mark Levin show, live and national at 877-381-3811. Steve Cohen is a sleazeball. He also happens to be a congressman. Not all congressmen are sleazeballs, but too many are. And he's a sleazeball among sleazeballs. And he's at a hearing. And I want you to listen to this. This should make you furious. Furious. Cut 12. Go.
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Caller/Listener
We need people working in the front lines of local law enforcement to protect our citizens from the worst of the worst. The worst of the worst are not the immigrants. The worst of the worst, records show, are native born Americans.
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Mark Levin
Stop right there. Does this not put the icing on the cake of what I've been saying today and well beyond today? But they hate us. They do want to Replace us. And why? Is it because illegal aliens, many of them don't speak English. So they don't even know what civil liberties are about. They don't know what the country is about. They don't know about the Declaration and the Constitution and all these other things. They're easily manipulated. Shepherded propaganda works better with people who are not literate in our language. But when they hear what these politicians are saying, they're talking about giving them things and they're attacking the very people who make this country work. I want you to listen to this man again. He's a Democrat representative from Tennessee, Stephen Cohen. And he's not the only one to think and talk this way. Cut 12 go.
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Caller/Listener
Need people working in the front lines and local law enforcement to protect our citizens from the worst of the worst. The worst of the worst are not the immigrants. The worst of the worst, records show, are native born Americans.
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Mark Levin
There you go, Native born Americans. Now what they don't mention is that illegal aliens do not run to the cops and talk about crimes committed against them, do they? No, they don't. So they don't report much of the crimes that are committed against them. But here's the difference, ladies and gentlemen. An American citizen is an American citizen. The good, the bad and the ugly. And we know all of them, don't we? And we have laws to deal with the bad. But why would we import people into the country who we don't know, who would commit crimes? In other words, if they weren't here, they wouldn't be committing crimes. American citizens are here. If they weren't here, these illegal aliens, they wouldn't be committing crimes here. Now here's also why his comment is specious. They imported people into the United States not caring whether they were criminals or not. They flew them into the United States on your dime. Half a million, at least, perhaps a million on our airlines into the United States. It wasn't enough that people were coming to the United States illegally invited by the Democrat party and the Biden regime. We actually flew them into the United States because apparently there weren't enough. The way they view it is these are Democrats, these are future Democrats. This is the way you manipulate the census system, it's the way you manipulate the electoral college. Obviously it's replacement. Obviously. Which is why they, you know, when they start attacking something as not true and so forth and so on, it's because it is true. And their propaganda machines are all, you know, they're all working full time. Stunning. Now this AOC is part of this Democratic Socialists of America, Fox News Digital has done a fabulous job helping expose them. So has one particular organization. The name escapes me. And during the break I'll dig it up. The contagion organization. Mr. Producer, if you could do a quick Google, I can give the proper name out there. And they've done a fantastic job dealing with public data as it exists and linking AOC's group and groups like it back to the communist Chinese, back to the communist Cuban regime and back to at the time Maduro's communist regime. And so when she's talking about a wealth tax and we need a politics that represents the people, the average person, what does that mean? What is an average person? Let me ask you folks something. I don't care what your background is. I don't care if you're a janitor, if you work at McDonald's, I don't care if you're in $50,000 a year, $30,000 a year, $100,005 million. What does it mean to be an average person? Isn't that a put down? Of course it's a put down. The average American, what they mean is government statistics. You're average, but you're not average. You're a human being. You have free will. And just because you don't earn a ton of money doesn't mean you don't make incredible contributions to your family, to your workplace, to your neighborhood, in your community and to the country. It's not rageous statement. People who are in the military, they don't earn a hell of a lot of money at all and they have their lives on the line. They're trying to protect our country. Are they average Americans? No, they're not average anything. So I don't like this propaganda and we really have to start unraveling it. You know, it's very interesting. When I wrote the book the Democrat Party and American Marxism, or when I wrote the book American Marxism, people were afraid to use the word Marxism. They kept calling them progressives and socialists. Even some of my colleagues on tv. They're progressives and they're socialists. No, they're Marxists, AKA Communists. Socialism is an economic ideology. Progressivism is a false nomenclature that the early American Marxists used to try and conceal their attachment to Marx's writings, including Woodrow Wilson. Hell, I've written about that too. And we've talked about. Anything I've written about, we've talked about. So here's AOC at the Munich Security conference today. Why? Why is she at the Munich Security Conference today? To trash our country. Cut 13. Go.
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Democratic Politician (e.g., Jeanne Shaheen)
So when you run for president.
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Mark Levin
Are you going to listen to these damnable European phony journalists and seminar hosts? When you run for president, she and her ilk. I will do everything humanly possible on all my platforms to stop these people. You know, this is no joke. They're not funny, they're not intelligent. They're not for the average guy any more than Mandamis for the average guy. Go ahead.
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Democratic Politician (e.g., Jeanne Shaheen)
Tax or billionaire's tax? I don't think that I. I don't think that anyone. And that we don't have to wait for any one president to impose a wealth tax. I think that it needs to be done expeditiously.
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Mark Levin
Expeditious. It needs to be done. But don't call her a Marxist. No way. And she has the economic knowledge of a slug. A wealth tax. It looks like they're going to try that in California. So what happened? All the wealthy people are leaving and now the biggest dummy ever to be governor. Well, one of them anyway. Newscombe, he's saying vote against that. We need these people to stay. Well, they need their taxes and they need their jobs and they need their creativity. But let's do a wealth tax. A wealth tax. Is a wealth tax constitutional under our federal Constitution, America? No. There's a provision in our Constitution that talks about taxes and then the 16th amendment was adopted about an income tax. There's no provision in the Constitution for a wealth tax. But let's do it expeditiously. What's the name of the group? Network Contagion Research Institute. It's a tough name, but it's a fantastic group. Network Contagion Research Institute. I get the point of the contagion. They're right about that. Anyway, back to this. So I'm not a Marxist. I'm just for the average person. Let's go after the rich. Why do you have to go after anybody? It's just not fair for average people. Well, what do you mean, average people? Now look at New York City in Mandami. Average people. Is that what he's concerned about? No, he's a racist. He's an anti Semite. It doesn't matter how much a Jew makes or a white person makes in the city. No, even a black person makes in the city. Or even a Latino person makes in the city. It doesn't matter. He doesn't represent the average quote unquote person. He represents illegal aliens and Islamists and Marxists. Those aren't average American citizens. In fact, they don't represent American Citizens at all. A wealth tax. See, she didn't call it a billionaires tax, did she? She called it a wealth tax. It's not just billionaires, you know. We got to hit the people. Maybe they're worth a hundred million. It doesn't even matter how they earned it. What if somebody earned $100 million by inventing something that is so helpful in saving lives or contributing to the welfare of children? They don't care. I'll ask you, does the government have enough money? Wastes a quarter of a trillion dollars a year. The federal government and God knows the state. You see what's happened in Minnesota and parts of Maine and New Jersey and of course California. Is it a money problem? And look who gets rich. All the lefties and their organization. This is a complete sham. Marxism is a complete sham. It's utterly defective, unethical, immoral. We need to have a wildtac expeditiously. Remember that constitution you said you liked? And all the due process you wanted to give? Illegal aliens, you moron. You clown. Sandy from Westchester, remember? Well, I remember. I'll be right back. You know what Pure Talk's favorite holiday is? Presidents Day. Because they believe wireless service should only cost you a couple of presidents. Just a Jackson and a Lincoln to be exact. For $25 a month, pure Talk gives you unlimited talk text, plenty of data. Now compare that to big wireless. They'd rather celebrate Benjamin Franklin Day so they can charge your family hundreds every month. And he wasn't even a president. That's not right. You deserve better. PureTalk is an American wireless company that supports our veterans and invests in a US only customer service team. When you call, you're talking to someone right here at home. Pure Talk uses the same towers as the big carriers. So enjoy superior 5G coverage without the inflated price. Just $25 a month for talk text, plenty of data, no contract, no cancellation fee. Don't wait any longer folks. Go to PureTalk.com Levin PureTalk.com Levin you'll get 50% off your first month again. That's PureTalk.com Levin to make the switch to Pure Talk. Now we now know another report comes out covering 2025. The Qatar is the largest foreign source of gifts and contracts to US universities. Not just payments. In 2025. In 2025 alone, over 1.1 billion. A country of 330,000. A monarchy with inbreds that pass their government on their country on from one child to the next. Much like North Korea and some of these other repulsive, inhumane Regimes. Well, what are they doing with their $1.1 billion? What are they trying to buy? Don't tell me. Access. They have access. No. You know where their money's focused now? K through 12. Your little kids. That's right. Islam and Sharia. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. And the teachers unions. Their bosses are such skunks, such hate America. Left wing kooks. They're all for it, you know. 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/Show Announcer
He's here now. Broadcasting them from the underground command post deep in the bowels of a hidden bunker somewhere under the brick and steel of a non descript building. We've once again made contact with our leader, Mark Len.
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Mark Levin
Hello, America. I be here, you be there. Where you at? Our number is 8773-8138-1187-7381-3811. So I came to Florida. That is my residence. After all. Weather was beautiful today. Absolutely. Now it's chilly tonight. But that's kind of what you want, isn't it? Well, it's what I want. Anyway, I'm not going to get into this in any detailed way, Mr. Producer and Mr. Mrs. America, but I bought this place, the land. My wife and I built the house. How long's it been now? Let's see, it's been 13 years ago. Something like that. Something like that. I bought the land in 2007. Well, that's more than 13 years ago, Rich. Yeah, I think so. Ah, but anyway. So about a mile away down the road. I'm not going to get into names. Somebody who you would know a few months ago bought a house. Did I tell you about that? Mr. Producer, a radio host. Now, last time at your. Florida is a big damn state, isn't it? It's got a lot of coastline on its west coast, on its east coast, I would say about, you know, about a mile from my house. Now, I haven't heard from this person, you know, hey, neighbor, look who he's here. No, I haven't heard that. Haven't heard anything. Actually. Now I keep to myself, I must confess. People put notes in my mailbox and I usually ignore them. But that said, isn't that weird? Rich, one mile away, I would say 20 houses away, something like that. These are relatively large lots, but still, whoa. It's kind of unusual. I don't quite get it. But it's okay. Maybe he or she fell in love with it. And I get that too, by the way. It's a beautiful area and so forth. But wow, that was. Who knew? So actually I think we exchanged an email early on, now that I'm thinking. But that was it. That was it. It's okay, it's okay. I'm not into all that stuff anyway. But I just thought it was very unusual. Hey, did you hear the annual inflation rate fell to 2.4% in January? Below expectations, as they say. Did you hear the private sector employment rate went up? In fact, the employment rate went up, period. That is unemployment went down a couple days ago. Have you heard that? No. You haven't heard a lot about it, have you? No. Affordability. And so Mr. Affordability, aka Mr. Marxist, aka Mr. Islamist, aka Mandami, he wants to raise taxes. Affordability. But don't worry, folks, it won't affect you. But of course it will affect you. Unless you're an employer who creates jobs and not an employee who needs a job. Of course it's going to affect you. It's going to make Florida richer and New York poor guy's an idiot. These Marxists, economic, social, truly are low iq. They're truly stupid and most of them have never created anything. I even understand that when Sandy was. Was a bartender, her drinks weren't all that good. Did you not hear that, Mr. Producer? That's right. That's right. Her drinks were not all that good. That's what I heard. But what do I know about Sandy from Westchester now AOC from the Bronx. She wants to be president. Boy, if we lowered our standards in this country or what? Lowered our standards. She's such a dimwit. Why Would we want her to be president? I mean, I understand why the ideologues. You don't have to have much of a brain to be an ideologue. Who wants, you know, somebody like her to be president now when you run for president. That got stuck in my throat. Well, in which country would she be running for president? Is that a fair question? I think it is. Which country? Court Approves Virginia Redistricting Proposal as judges across the US hold sway on the midterms from Breitbart. And what they mean, and they're correct, is these judges apparently don't believe in one man, one vote, one woman, one vote, one transitioning person, one vote. Apparently they don't believe in that anymore. That's a political question. What's a political question when one party takes over a state and destroys it and makes sure that the vast majority of Republicans, that their vote doesn't count. It's unbelievable to me. Court Approves Virginia Redistricting Proposal As Judges across the US Hold Sway on the midterms. Very well put, Lowell Caufield. As the congressional midterm elections approach this year, it has become apparent that just who will have the advantage in redistricting battles on the state level may very well be in the hands of the men and women in black robes, and I might add, some of the men and women in white robes. You get my drift? In a crucial decision today, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled that a referendum scheduled in April on congressional redistricting can go forward. Reportedly seen as a big win for commonwealth. Democrats. Yeah, I'd say so. I'd say so. Ten Democrats and one Republican in a state that voted 47% for Trump and just had a Republican governor, one Republican. Democrats are fast tracking a proposed new district map that would give the commonwealth as many as four more left leaning US House districts in time for this year's midterm. So you see, you can't win when they're bringing in illegal aliens to increase the number of congressional seats for effectively Democrats. Then they redistrict these states when they take them over so that Republicans can't win, only they can win. And then they point the. Look at Texas, look at Texas, look what they did in California, New Mexico, Massachusetts, Illinois. I mean, go down the list, Maryland. And they look at Texas, look at Texas. Texas is a response to them, Missouri is a response to them, and so forth. Virginia is the latest battleground. Now Florida's in the dock. They're on deck, I should say. And I know DeSantis will do the right thing. Now, on top of all this, the census was done incorrectly last time. Incorrectly? Yeah. They undercounted Florida, they undercounted Texas, they overcounted New York, and they overcounted California. That's just some of the mistakes they made. And they confessed. But it was too. We made a mistake. There's like six, seven more Democrats than there should be. We promise it'll never happen. Excuse me. And by the way, same with the electoral college votes. When the president says, I got 312 or whatever it was, he actually would have gotten more. It was a bigger landslide. And there ought to be more Republicans in the House of Representatives. But they made a mistake. But the Democrats want to make sure that never happens again. This Abigail Spanberger is a disgusting fraud. Lied her way into office, pretended to be a moderate, now she wants to be a presidential candidate by destroying Virginia. That. That's the cred you need. You know, that's what's got to be on your resume. How many Republican states have you been involved in destroying? Well, only one. I'm a governor. Wow. What did you do? Well, I took a state that was kind of evenly matched, and I gave him one Republican. And she was laughing when she signed this bill. She was laughing, laughing. I'll be right back.
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Producer/Show Announcer
Mud Levin.
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Mark Levin
All right. Nancy Guthrie. I very worried that she may not be with us anymore. I mean, it's been two weeks about. She has a bad heart. She doesn't have her medicine, or at least we don't think she has medicine. I haven't spent a lot of time on this simply because the other media can't stop talking about it. And we're reaching the point where, you know, every single thing is treated as a breaking story, and it's not. And we all know what her house looks like. We know what her roof looks like, we know what the back of the house looks like, we know what the neighborhood looks like. I'm just concerned about her well being. And here we have Fox News DNA splatter suggests Nancy Guthrie was bleeding from either the hands or the face. Now, what's the problem with that story, Mr. Producer? Because the next one follows up and says they don't think it's her DNA, that maybe the guy or guys cut their hands or something. Okay, so this is what I mean. They, they give in one hand and they take with the other. I don't mean Fox per se. I mean the whole news media, I mean, need a neck brace to keep track of this thing. My head, my, my head's turning so Fast. Then we have the New York Post. They retraced Nancy Guthrie's route home on the night she vanished. Here's what happened. They write the Post retraced Nancy Guthrie's final route home before she vanished. A path that began under the glow of. That's what these damn commercials, you know, these advertising things. Under the glow of commercial lights and at least one surveillance camera before plunging into long, unlit stretches of desert and road. Okay, that doesn't tell us you followed anybody. That just tells us what we already know. Guthrie was a passenger on the roughly 11 minute, 4.3 mile drive back to her Catalina foothills house around 7:45pm on January 31st. Her son in law, Tommaso Kalyana, he drove her, drove her home after nearly four hours spent with him and his wife Annie at their home, leaving the couple's three bedroom, two bathroom abode on West Tamaro street. Are we learning anything here, Rich? I'm not even going to read any more of this. No offense, but I'm not trying to kill time, if you get my drift. Now here's another one. I'm just telling you all these stories here. Nancy Guthrie investigators eye fresh doorbell cam footage of man with goatee lurking near the neighbor's home. Okay. We hope this updated description will help concentrate the public tips. They must be getting a lot of lunatics, too. A lot of lunatics. Let's see. Is there anything else here? Oh, yes. Let me read this one to you if I can get it going. Savannah Guthrie, missing mom Live updates. Third demand for bitcoin in exchange for identity of Nancy Guthrie's. If you're. If you're really following this closely, you should be very close to losing your mind right now. They're bringing in people you never heard of before. The retired former assistant associate deputy sheriff for, you know, wherever he gives his opinion. Then we have a former FBI supervisor gives her opinion. Then we have some guy from Arkansas gives an opinion. Another guy from Maine is giving an opinion. It's like, let's find a new face. Somebody else to give an opinion. Boy, CNN's all over this too, by the way. I'm looking further. Investigators have recovered DNA evidence from somebody not known to be in close contact with Nancy. Pima county sheriff's department. You know, for that Pima county sheriff to send this stuff off to a private lab in Florida from Tucson rather than give it to the FBI. Quantico, which is the cutting edge for the whole world, quite frankly, is outrageous. Is absolutely outrageous. I will say that that should never have been done. We need to work with our partners. Yes, they do. But that should never have been done. But it was done. That's kind of crazy. The unidentified DNA. This is kind of reporting. Listen to this. The unidentified DNA which was found somewhere on the missing 84 year old woman's Tucson, Arizona property was sent to a laboratory for analysis. DNA other than Nancy's and those in close contact to her has been collected from the property. Now look, I don't know if that's a lead or not. It's not hard to leave DNA somewhere, Mr. Producer. DNA can be the oil on your fingers. It can be. It could be the spit out of your mouth where you're not spitting, but you know, spittle or what have you on a glass. It could be anything. It could be maybe you nicked your finger. Says I don't know what that means either. I don't. Now, I don't expect law enforcement to be telling us all this stuff because they got a job to do. And the job is not to to assuage our Purian interests or that of the media. Their job is to find out who the hell did this and to try and get her home alive. So I don't blame them in the least. But there's story after story here and it's just filling up. I'm looking at this and I'm thinking, what? What are you telling us? Seriously? California man who sent fake ransom notes to Guthrie family appears in court. Does it get any lower than that? Rich family suffering they're trying to find their mother. You got these law enforcement working morning, noon and night trying to find out who's done this, find the mother and some jerk sends in a ransom note. And they're going to throw the book at this jerk, I hope. A California man. Oh well. Charged with sending a demand for ransom. And how stupid are these people? Like they're not going to get caught. What'd he do, put on latex gloves and write a letter? I don't know what he did. A California man charged with sending a demand for ransom made an initial appearance in federal court in Tucson. Derek Kalilia, 42, of Hawthorne, California. I like that name, Hawthorne though. That was the name of my parents camp. It's a nice town out, sort of outside. I don't know if it's considered within corporate LA or outside. Who cares anyway. Is charged with transmitting a demand for ransom in interstate commerce and without disclosing his identity, utilizing a telecommunications device with intent to abuse. That sounds dirty. Threatened or harassed A person the U.S. attorney's office said, well, they ought to throw the book at this guy. He is alleged to have sent two text messages demanding Guthrie's family members on February 4th and made a nine second call to a family member. This guy's a real head case. A real head case. Then we have Sheriff Chris Nanos sets erroneous glove reporting straight. We have erroneous glove reporting. Was it in the House? Was it not in the House? Were there two of them? That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm talking about. Everybody's glomming on to one piece of evidence or something. I, I, I'll be right back.
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Mark Levin
Don't forget tomorrow night, if we're not preempted, 8pm Eastern Life, Liberty and Levin. It's a really good show. It's been a while since you've seen one. Sunday, same thing, 8pm Eastern. Now, Saturday, great guests including Newt Gingrich and Congressman Jason Smith. We're going to really peel the onion here with respect to these left wing groups and what they're doing. And with Newt Gingrich, we're going to have a good talk about Iran. And he is very, very solid. You should hear what he has to say. And then Sunday, our friend Josh Hammer, one of the truly bright lights of young conservatism. And then we've got General Jack Keane and me. So it's really worth it. There's no football. You can always set your dvr and I suspect they may actually run it. So we'll see what happens. Something historic has happened. Speaking of what happens, in the financial markets, gold is trading at about 5,000 a carat and silver at about 110 a carat, give or take. And it didn't happen overnight. It's been building over the years, massive monetary expansion, massive rising debt that we've talked about global uncertainly, central banks buying as much gold as they can. Actually, all this is dramatically affecting the value of the dollar. You know, gold and silver have outpaced inflation over the last 20 years. And over the last 20 years, the value of the dollar has dropped about 30%. Not so with gold and silver. So if you have invested in gold and you've made pretty good money, you might want to consider selling it and buying some silver. If you haven't invested in either, you might want to consider taking a good look at silver, too. Why? Because silver costs a lot less, which means you can afford more of it. Plus it fluctuates faster. And you might say, well, that means it can go down faster. Yes, but what you're looking at is the trajectory over time. And the trajectory over the last 20 years has been very solid. And so this is how you gotta look at it. You can talk to a financial advisor, you can talk to your accountant, you can talk to whomever you want. But I'm just telling you how you. I have to think this stuff through. My partner, monetary gold is the best of the best. And they've been helping Americans just like you for over 25 years. Walk them through this process to understand what this process means and have a very frank discussion and a very friendly discussion. No pressure, by the way. No pressure. Just information and options. And when markets move fast, you got to have clarity on it or you're going to sit on the sideline and you're going to get hurt. So you can reevaluate your diversification or start diversification. And right now, this is very big. I don't know how else to underscore this other than to underscore it. What they're doing now at monetary gold is they're offering you $5,000 in free silver for a qualified account. Now, clearly they can't do that forever, so I want to strongly encourage you to run at this, to move on this $5,000 in free silver for qualified accounts. Just ask your intake specialist for details. Now to learn more about monetary gold, it's $5,000 free silver offer. Just call them 8, 7, 7, now gold. There's nothing to be afraid of. 8, 7, 7, now Gold. That's 8, 7, 7, now GOLD. Don't miss this free silver offer. Don't miss this opportunity because it's not going to last forever. It simply cannot. Again, that's 8, 7, 7 now. Goal performance may vary. Always consult your financial and tax professional. Let's go to Russ in Portsmouth, Ohio, XM Satellite. Russ, how are you?
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Caller/Listener
Good. I'm a fan. Long time and I. You got, I got you saved on DVR on both sides.
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Mark Levin
Thank you, brother. You good, man.
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Caller/Listener
Hey, I want to let you know, Mark, that Democratic party has existed for thousands of years. In fact, they had a meeting with Jesus one time. And here's what Jesus said to them.
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Mark Levin
Yeah.
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Caller/Listener
He said, you are of your father, the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth because there's no truth in him. When he lies. He speaks out of his own character. For he is a liar, the father of lies. Like the father, like son, like father, like children. They're murderers and they're liars. They've been around a long time. They have evil on 8, 44.
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Mark Levin
I guess we call it evil. No, Russ.
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Caller/Listener
Yes, they are of their father, the devil.
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Mark Levin
All right, brother, thank you for that. I appreciate it. Russ sounds like a good man there. By the way, let's go to Lynn, Henderson, Nevada, XM satellite. Lynn, how are you?
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Democratic Politician (e.g., Jeanne Shaheen)
Hi, Mark. Good, how are you doing?
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Mark Levin
Good, thank you.
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Democratic Politician (e.g., Jeanne Shaheen)
Well, I wanted to point out something, and this is actually something I heard when I was listening to one of the Congressional committee hearings and one of the witnesses pointed out something. This is something I It's foolish to think that someone who is in this country illegally has committed no other crime than simply crossing the border. Because you cannot function in this country without id. You need ID to work, drive a car, go to the hospital, anything. So I guarantee you those people are committing fraud. Fraud, Forged papers.
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Mark Levin
All right, let's slow down because you're making a great point. We do know that there's massive fraud in the illegal immigrant community, in particular communities. And I think you make a very good point in this respect. People are playing the system, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid. People are playing the welfare system, the food stamp system, and it's a massive scheme. And when the president and these prosecutors and others are trying to get to the bottom of it, you can see the resistance by the Democrats because again, this is their constituency. All right, Lynn, great call. I appreciate it very much. Shall we continue? I think I shall. John San Diego, California on the Mark Levin app. How are you?
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Caller/Listener
Hey, Mark, everybody's talking about regulations now or affordability. And no one in Congress knows anything about getting affordability, how to achieve it. Trump is, is showing everybody with the regulations. We have $3 trillion a year in federal regulations. We have $2 trillion a year in state regulations. Now the average dunderhead is going to say, oh well, that's $5 trillion. No, it's not, it's 10 trillion. Because those regulations are imposed on businesses who have to pay it and then they have to raise their prices and have the customer pay it again. Then you got $2 trillion in welfare and $2 trillion in outright fraud. That's $14 trillion in a 3 trillion dollar economy. Money being paid to people who do absolutely zero value society. And now these regulations trumps every time you cancel it regulation, the price of something drops. He's already cut the price of building a car $5,000.
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Mark Levin
Amazing.
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Caller/Listener
And then. Yeah, and, and then, you know, everybody's crazy about the gas prices coming now and that's great too. But he's not done.
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Mark Levin
Okay.
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Caller/Listener
Almost every state, even California has enough sense to know that you don't tax food because it's an essential. Well, stop tax. And gas too, because it's an essential. You don't buy. You have to set it on your, you know.
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Mark Levin
California taxes a gallon of gasoline 62 cents a gallon. Did you know that?
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Caller/Listener
Well, yeah, it's. Oh, it's more than that because they have it.
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Mark Levin
No, that's what it is. That's their sales tax on the gallon of gasoline.
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Caller/Listener
Right. Okay, so the federal tax on gasoline, 18 cents. But there's also something called the, the federal oil productivity royalty, which is 17% of every oil of gallon or every gallon or barrel of oil that's produced. It's 17%, which right now is $10 a barrel. That's 24 cents a gallon. You eliminate those two regulations, 42 cents a gallon comes off the price again.
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Mark Levin
And all it does, doesn't it frustrate you? The Republicans can't talk like this, talk about affordability. We should own this issue of affordability. Own it.
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Caller/Listener
Well, of course they should. They, they don't think is, they don't understand, you know, it's like the national debt. They think, oh well, national debts because of government spending, because they control government spending and it gives them the power to deal with. It's got nothing to do with it. Okay. Interest on the debt. Okay. Everybody's complaining about mortgage rates. Well, mortgage rates are tied to 10 year treasury bonds. The average treasury bond right now it's 4%. But they're taxed as regular income federally and at 37%. And there's, you know, you know, don't, you know, usually people say, well, some people don't pay 37. Yeah, everybody who buys treasury bonds is in the 37% bracket. So that 4% is really two and a half. Congress can bypass the Fed and just say, okay, we're not taxing these bonds anymore and we're going to reset all the bond interest so that the gross.
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Mark Levin
Well, they're not going to do that because they want more revenue, more and more money. But I get your point. Your point is there are ways to lower it. They're just not going to do it. What do you do, by the way?
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Caller/Listener
I build houses. This doesn't change the revenue. It's a, it's a complete wash with the, with the federal government because it's it's an accounting. They're, they're, they're paying you interest at a high rate and then taking 40% of it back. It's, you're not getting the 4%.
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Mark Levin
Right. So. All right, I got to move on. Very, very good information. Very, very good call. We'll be right back.
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Caller/Listener
Hi great one, nice to talk with you. I have a question about people coming into our country illegally and why if falls under civil law. Because civil law is like if a tree falls on your property and your neighbor and criminal law punishes illegal acts.
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Mark Levin
Criminal law resolves well because Congress has made it a civil law. Like they passed the legislation, they've passed very intricate, detailed legislation over the years on immigration and they've, they've made that a misdemeanor. And, and the laws have been plowed under by the Democrats. We have a generation of truly lawless, extremist radical Democrats who hate America and they're self righteous as they howl at the moon, that is media organizations and the things that they say about people who want to uphold the law and enforce the law is absolutely grotesque. Absolutely grotesque. So I haven't heard him myself. My buddy Stephen A. Smith is giving another what hint that he might run for President. I don't believe he will, but if he does, he does. He says he wants to get on the debate stage. Well then I might as well run too. I want to get on that debate stage too, Mr. Producer. Why debate with a neo Nazi? You know, woke right guys, he won't debate me. I don't debate filthy and it's not hard to debate filth. But I'm not going to elevate filth. I'm just not going to do it. But what I'm saying is a serious debate, a real debate with people who want to be president of the United States, that's a debate I'd love to have. I've been debating all my life. That's what we do. And I think I win all the time, too. Just saying. Just saying. We go to America every Friday in honor of you. Here we go. Ra. Folks, don't forget Life, Liberty and levin. We hope. 8:00pm Eastern time Saturday. 8:00pm Eastern time Sunday. Please set your DVRs so you don't miss it. You're going to love these shows. It's been a while since I've been on, as a matter of fact, so I think you're going to really like the shows. The week is officially over and the weekend begins right now. We salute our armed forces, police officers, firefighters, emergency personnel, our truckers. That's right, the men and women in Ukraine, the men and women in Israel, the men and women in Iran. We need to come help you. And of course, you, the American people, the best of the best. Good night, Spritey and Griffey and Pepsi and Zelda and Smokey. Good night, Gigi and Indy and Patton and, and Rory and Marty and Barney. Good night, dad. Good night, Mom. It's my mom's birthday tonight. Thinking about you for a lot. All day and every day, Mom. Good night, Leo. Good night, Joe. Good night, Bernie and Teddy and Lou. Goodnight, all these great patriots. And I'll see you tomorrow night on fox. Ladies and gentlemen, Sunday, too, have a wonderful weekend and God bless you.