2/26/26 - Beware of Fake "Patriots" Trying to Destroy the Country

Summary

Mark Levin Podcast: 2/26/26 - Beware of Fake "Patriots" Trying to Destroy the Country

Host: Mark Levin
Date: February 27, 2026
Episode Theme: Exposing “fake patriots,” defending America’s foundations, and confronting contemporary dangers—foreign and domestic—threatening the nation’s unity and values.

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Episode Overview

In this episode, Mark Levin sounds the alarm about threats to America from “fake patriots” within the political sphere, focusing especially on the resurgence of isolationist, anti-Semitic, and anti-Christian sentiments echoing the 1930s. He draws parallels between current events and the rise of totalitarian movements in history, warns of ideological infiltration and division, and critiques political and judicial actors undermining national security and American values. Key topics include the Iran nuclear threat, immigration policy failures, left-wing and isolationist influences, California’s dangerous political climate, antisemitism, and the importance of historical literacy.

Levin also hosts guest Steve Hilton (candidate for California Governor) for a discussion on the Golden State's woes, and political strategist Mark Penn for reflections on polling, economic perception, and the Clinton presidency.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Return of Totalitarian Playbooks and "Fake Patriots"

• Historical Parallels: Levin begins by comparing current U.S. social dynamics to pre-WWII Germany, warning of how advanced societies can fall to totalitarian movements when “the citizenry ignore warning signs and weak politicians acquiesce.”
  • Quote: “What starts out as a cabal winds up as a movement. It’s the way totalitarianism often works. And then one day, it’s so bad… it’s too late.” (03:18)
• Isolationism and Antisemitism: He connects present-day “fake patriots” to the isolationist “America First” movement of the 1930s, identifying figures like Charles Lindbergh and Father Coughlin as precedents for current demagogues.
  • Quote: “They call themselves nationalists when they’re not calling themselves populists… They are playing right out of the 1930s playbook.” (10:30)
• Contemporary Targets: Levin ties these dangers to growing antisemitism and anti-Christian persecution, both abroad and domestically.
• Critique of Figures on the Right: Levin singles out Tucker Carlson as a modern embodiment of these trends, likening his rhetoric to Nazi propagandists.
  • Quote: “Carlson’s comments are those of a Goebbels, like Hitler wannabe. He would have fit in beautifully... with the Third Reich.” (12:35)

2. Failure of GOP Leadership and Need to Speak Out

• Demands Accountability: Levin criticizes Republican leaders for their silence in the face of rising extremist rhetoric and actions.
  • Quote: “Your silence is deafening. It’s disastrous for the country. It is disastrous for the party.” (16:05)

3. The Iran Nuclear Threat and Diplomatic Cynicism

• Cynicism about Diplomacy: He is staunchly skeptical about ongoing diplomatic efforts with Iran, arguing that the regime is insincere and dangerous.
  • Jerusalem Post headline cited on U.S.-Iran talks: “What is this, happy hour? What the hell is going on here with these, these terrorists?” (27:33)
• Senate Voices: Plays audio from Senator John Kennedy, highlighting the dangerous religious extremism of Iran’s leadership.
  • Kennedy: “If you do not agree with his interpretation of God, then you deserve to die.” (18:07)
• Analogy to North Korea: Levin draws a parallel with failed agreements with North Korea.
  • Quote: “How many chances do they get? We prefer a negotiation. … Imagine a country. Imagine nuclear weapons, ICBMs and ballistic missiles. That you’re dealing with a death cult, not a car.” (23:30)

4. Critique of Left-Wing Judicial and Political Structures

• Immigration & National Security: Levin rails against Democratic judges and politicians who block deportations and undermine national security, arguing they enable dangerous actors within America.
• Attack on Media and Academia: Claims universities, media, and corporations are “selling out,” echoing criticisms of elite complicity.

5. Immigration, Border Security, and the Democratic Party's Weakness

• Polling Evidence: Levin highlights polling data (via Harry Enten, CNN) showing Democrats trailing badly on immigration and border security.
  • Enten: “Republicans are the ones who actually have an edge on immigration... Democrats are in a worse position than they were during Donald Trump’s first term.” (38:50)
  • “Approval on immigration at this point of presidency: Biden was at just 34%. Donald Trump… at 45%.” (40:57)
• Critique of Gavin Newsom & California's Decline: Repeatedly mocks California Governor Newsom’s leadership and the effects of one-party Democratic control.
• Interview: Steve Hilton for Governor
  • Hilton describes California as a “disaster zone” suffering under leftist policy and touts his campaign’s momentum. Levin endorses Hilton.
  • Hilton: "Sixteen years of one-party rule, everything’s a disaster... Time for change.” (45:28)

6. Antisemitism and CAIR

• Highlighting Dangerous Rhetoric: Levin condemns a recorded statement by CAIR Ohio’s executive director alleging grotesque conspiracies against Israel.
  • Quote (Khalid Tehrani): “They are literally skinning the dead bodies of my brothers and sisters in Palestine.” (63:50)
  • Levin: “These are the kinds of statements that were resonating during the birth of the Third Reich.” (64:29)
• Accusation against CAIR: Levin claims CAIR functions as a “Hamas front group” and is undermining U.S. society through organized infiltration.

7. Corruption in the Justice System: The Fani Willis Case

• Grant Scandal: Detailed recounting of allegations that Atlanta DA Fani Willis’ office received millions in sole-source DOJ grants while prosecuting Trump, suggesting quid pro quo corruption.
  • “That is a massive grant... her office ultimately received $2 million... More than $18 million in funding [from DOJ] between 2021 and 2024.” (69:57)

8. National Disunity and Erosion of Civic Norms

• Condemnation of Political Decorum Erosion: Conversation with Mark Penn, reflecting on the demise of State of the Union decorum and the broader polarization of American politics.
  • Penn: “It degrades our politics when people just don’t, you know, just show up, be respectful…” (80:02)

9. Polling, the Economy, and 2024-2026 Landscape

• Penn’s Analysis: Mark Penn discusses why, even with low trust, Democrats have a polling edge, citing economic perceptions and voter discontent.
  • “You have now… Democrats [with the] lowest rating, but they’re still ahead.” (84:07)
• Economic Messaging: Penn urges clearer Republican articulation of economic achievements and strategy.
• Game Promo: Discussion of Penn’s educational political strategy game, 270.com

10. Listener Q&A

• Green Card Policies: Levin answers a caller about the revocation of green cards, clarifying they can be withdrawn for criminal or fraudulent activity, not solely based on nationality. (95:42)
• Election Integrity Concerns: Another caller discusses Democratic organizing at Virginia polling places.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “This is how it happens. What starts out as a cabal winds up as a movement. It’s the way totalitarianism often works. … But it’s too late.” – Mark Levin (03:18)
• “Carlson’s comments are those of a Goebbels, like Hitler wannabe… He would have fit in beautifully with the Third Reich.” – Mark Levin (12:35)
• “Your silence is deafening. It’s disastrous for the country.” – Mark Levin, addressing Republicans (16:05)
• “What is this, happy hour? What the hell is going on here with these, these terrorists?” – Mark Levin on Iran talks (27:33)
• “If you do not agree with his interpretation of God, then you deserve to die.” – Senator John Kennedy on Iran’s Ayatollah (18:07)
• "They are organizing, they are funded, they are motivated. We American citizens, we believe leave well enough alone… It is our generosity… that is being exploited to be destroyed by CARE and other… traitor organizations." – Mark Levin (66:10)
• “I hope they run on affordability. Whoever the Republican nominee is should be able to ram that down [Newsom’s] throat.” – Mark Levin (56:30)
• Steve Hilton: “All I did was stand there and tell the truth very clearly… After 16 years of one-party rule, everything’s a disaster.” (45:28)
• Harry Enten: “Democrats are in a worse position than they were at this point during Donald Trump’s first term.” (38:50)
• Mark Penn: “It degrades our politics when people just don’t, you know, just show up, be respectful, applaud, don’t applaud, but, you know, try to make scenes to get… social media cues…” (80:02)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Timestamp | Segment Description | |-----------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 01:33 | Historical warning: parallels to rise of totalitarianism and Nazi Germany | | 10:30 | Fake “patriots” and the 1930s America First legacy, critique of the Right | | 12:35 | Direct condemnation of Tucker Carlson's rhetoric | | 16:05 | Call for Republican leaders to denounce extremists | | 17:57 | Senator Kennedy’s remarks on Iran’s theocracy | | 21:18 | Critique of “we prefer diplomacy” with Iranian regime | | 27:33 | Analysis of US-Iran nuclear negotiations as “head fake” | | 38:50 | Immigration polling breakdown with Harry Enten (CNN audio) | | 45:21 | Interview: Steve Hilton on California’s crisis and his gubernatorial run | | 63:50 | Audio: CAIR Ohio director’s antisemitic rant | | 69:10 | DOJ grant scandal involving Fulton County DA Fani Willis | | 80:02 | Mark Penn on the decline of political decorum | | 84:07 | Analysis of why Democrats are polling ahead despite low approval | | 95:42 | Listener Q&A: Green card revocation and election integrity |

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Conclusion

Mark Levin’s 2/26/26 episode is a broadside against “fake patriots,” leftist and isolationist influence, and weak-willed political actors enabling extremism abroad and disorder at home. Through historical warnings, contemporary news, guest interviews, and pointed listener interactions, Levin stresses unity, vigilance, and an informed republic. He urges Republicans to confront internal and external threats to America’s Judeo-Christian foundations, calls out antisemitism’s resurgence, and amplifies voices for reform in broken states like California.

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Note: All timestamps (MM:SS) refer to moments in the episode and may be approximate.

Transcript

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Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number, 8773-8138-1187-7381-3811. You know, you're my radio family and we share a lot of information, and I'm so honored that you're out there. And I step back, started to think about what's swirling around us, you and me, you, Mr. And Mrs. America. You know how they say history repeats itself? Well, some history, my God, better never repeat itself. Those of us who are old enough were taught or read on our own what took place a hundred years ago. We shook our heads. We saw the black and white films. Germany was an advanced country, an advanced science, advanced mathematics. Hundreds of years of culture. Not a third world country, not a backward country. So how does. How does a country like that produce an entire Nazi movement. And one of the worst mass murders in the history of mankind? It happens when early on, the citizenry, well, they don't want to believe what's taking place, so they ignore. Happens when you have weak politicians who acquiesce to. Happens when other people don't take it seriously. This is how it happens. What starts out as a cabal winds up as a movement. It's the way totalitarianism often works. And then one day, it's so bad, you aren't concerned about it, you're worried about it. But it's too late. It's too late. We see this happening to Jews and we see this happening to Christians all over the world. Christians are being targeted. In Africa, there just aren't enough Jews. So the Islamists are slaughtering Christians, black Christians, because in Africa, most of the people are black and they're slaughtering them. Now, typically, you hope that advanced Western societies will, at a minimum, speak out. At a minimum. Now, the 1930s saw a movement, an isolationist movement. The Depression hit and the isolationists thought it was was the time to exploit it. How to create foils to create enemies. And it was the Jews. The Jews. The Jews controlled the banks. The Jews controlled foreign policy. The Jews controlled commerce. The Jews. The Jews controlled entertainment, the movies. They controlled everything. This tiny, tiny percentage of the population. Money changers, They're running the country. The Rothschilds, they're running the country. Now, some of you may have thought this is just too preposterous. This must have ended with Hitler and the end of World War II. But it has not. It's back for several reasons. Among other reasons, we've imported the enemy Islamists. We've imported Islamists who know how to play the game. They're so brazen though. They're so out in the open. They're telling us exactly what they want to do. They're in a hurry. So let's get past the Jew part, let's get to the Christian part and let's just destroy the entirety of the United States. That's why people who seek to divide we Americans based on faith and race and so forth, these are diabolical people. We need our unity now more than ever. We need our Judeo Christian belief system now more than ever. We need to hold tight onto it. We have left wing Democrat lawyers who serve as judges who will not allow the administration to deport these people. We have Democrat governors and mayors who bring out their typical militia. The militia, you know, the paid for so called protesters. They use their billionaires to pay for them. They have their source prosecutors not to prosecute them. They have their Democrats in Congress who have shut down a very important element within our government relating to national security and airline security in order to protect their new constituents. Their militia, the Islamists. The Islamists and the Marxists have aligned the same end as I've been writing and speaking, the same end, the destruction of our civilization. A rejection of the Declaration, a rejection of the Enlightenment, certainly rejection of Jews and Christians. See, they know that Jews and Christians are tied at the hip then as elements in the Republican Party, but they're not really in the Republican Party. You have individuals or more of the neo fascist type. They call themselves nationalists when they're not calling themselves populists. I call myself an American. They are playing right out of the 1930s playbook, out of the America First Committee that was formed in the 30s beginning by students at Yale University, or is it Yale College? I guess it became the largest pacifist, so called anti war organization in America, 800,000 members. It had prominent members on its board including Henry Ford who was a devout Jew hater, and Charles Lindbergh, Very articulate, a hero, gave one of the most grotesque anti Semitic speeches of any public official. And Father Coughlin, who sounds very much like this woman who was on the President's Religious Liberty Committee. She's Father Coughlin in a dress. That is when she's dressed. He was one of the most popular radio hosts in America, just as Tucker is a very Popular podcaster, he was platformed today by Megyn Kelly. Now, these are people you wouldn't want to have dinner with. These are people you wouldn't want to be around with. Carlson's comments are those of a Goebbels, like Hitler wannabe. He would have fit in beautifully, and I am not kidding with the Third Reich beautifully. He got down all the. All the hate language. He would have sided, in my view, with Germany against the United States, the way he sides with Iran against the United States and Putin against the United States while he pretends to be Mr. America. But that's not what I wanted to talk to you about. Where are the Republicans? There's a few of them. I'm tired of them whispering to me, telling me how awful Tucker is and patting me on the back for taking him on. That's been going on for almost a year. Where are they? Why aren't they condemning him? Why aren't they condemning him and his Goebbels like propaganda and the sort of Hitlerian movement he hopes to build. This is exactly what happened in the 30s, actually the late 20s. They had a parliament there, and members of the parliament were mostly silent in the face of Hitler. There's a long story that can be told about all of this. You can check it out on my. My video podcast. Is it still downloading? Mr. Producer? We're good. So it just got up there because we had some technical issue. Liberty's Voice. And I walk all through it. But Lindbergh would go around the country giving speeches, and this America First Committee was made up of Communists, fascists, regular Americans who got sucked into it. Then we were attacked by the Japanese December 7, 1941, and they disbanded three days later. Limburg was disgraced. So were the others. Disgraced. Now we were at war. See, the enemy didn't attack Jews and Christians. They attacked the United States of America. They attacked our Navy. The enemy today, Iran. They want to blow us off the face of the Earth. They are obsessed with getting nuclear weapons. Anybody who thinks some kind of a deal, some kind of a negotiation, diplomacy, some kind of a paper agreement will stop them is dead wrong. And if that's the outcome of this, I pray to God it's not, then we will have surrendered to it. In the name of a ceasefire, in the name of a peace agreement, whatever it is, we will have surrendered to the enemy, despite the massive armadas that are there in the Middle East. It's time for people to speak out. I'm calling on the Republicans. He elected Republicans in Congress Republican governors, senators, congressmen, state assemblymen, state senators. Your silence is deafening. It's disastrous for the country. It is disastrous for the party. It's disastrous for our foreign policy. It's time that Carlson be Persona non grata that he not have his way walking through the White House anymore. He's kryptonite. I'll be right back. I want to read this to you from the Jerusalem Post. U. S. Iran nuclear talks were positive, quote, unquote. Next round to be held in Vienna, source tells the Post. What is this, happy hour? What the hell is going on here with these, these terrorists? I mean, really, this drags on and on and on. We look to me more and more foolish. Whatever happens, in the end, the US Left the negotiating table during the third round of talks. Third round between the US And Iran. On Thursday, Iranian media reported Oman's Foreign Minister, Saeed Badr bin Hamad Alb. Whatever yabba dabba doo, described the talks as having made significant progress, quote, unquote, and announced that more discussions will take place next week in Vienna. Ladies and gentlemen, what's to discuss? They cheat and they lie. Why are we doing this? It's a head fake. You tell me. It's the longest head fake in the history of mankind. Now, I'm not saying ultimately the President won't pull the trigger. In fact, I believe he will, and I pray he will. But nonetheless, I want to keep pressing the point because there are isolationists who have a different point of view. I think it's perfectly fine if the enemy gets nuclear weapons, and it's perfectly fine if they keep threatening. They use them against us. I happen to love my country, my fellow citizens, my children and grandchildren, and I don't think it's perfectly fine in the least. I'll be right back.

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Where Americans meet to defend liberty and defeat tyranny.

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Call the Mark Levin show now at 877-381-3811. Senator John Kennedy on the floor of the Senate today addressing the Ayatollah. Cut one, go.

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Now, everybody has the right to believe what they want. I'll tell you what the Ayatollah believes.

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He.

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He's Muslim.

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But his strain of Islam says that if you do not agree with his

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interpretation of God, then you deserve to die.

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You do. And he acts on that belief.

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Now, let me say again.

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The Ayatollah is entitled to believe what he wants.

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I was raised a Presbyterian. My parents founded two Presbyterian churches. When Becky and I got married.

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Becky. Becky was a Methodist.

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I was a Presbyterian. We compromised. I became A Methodist.

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I'm entitled to believe what I want.

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But the Ayatollah not only thinks that

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I'm going to hell because I don't

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agree with his religion, he wants to kill me.

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He wants to kill Americans and Israelis and anybody who does not believe in his jihad and drink our blood out of a boot.

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And he's acted on that.

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I don't need to tell you.

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Mr. President.

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Mm. Mark Wayne Mullen, Senator from Oklahoma on CNN yesterday. Cut to go. If we obliterated it, we being the

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United States last summer, then why are you worried about it right now?

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See, this is the game. This is the game. This is why Kaitlan Collins is so disgusting. And yet she fits beautifully into the CNN environment. Now the answer to that is simple. The Senator gives the answer. Why does anybody think we need to do this now? Because they're rebuilding. Right Rich? So why such a stupid question other than to try and take a cheap shot at the President? I'm also sick of this too. Sick of these pre pubescent, low iq, unaccomplished, self assigned journalists. I'm sick of it. Go ahead.

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Building it. And you can see them rebuilding it. But it was obliterated. But it doesn't mean you can't rebuild. I mean, people have car accidents and obliterate their bones and their legs and yet they can still put, you know, they can still put metal back in them and walk again.

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But I think it was obliterated in June.

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How is it February? And we're now, as Steve Witkoff put it, a week away from Iran having this. I don't know. I can't speak for Steve. I haven't got those reports. And you know, I've been read in on some of these programs and so I don't know what Steve is looking at. I don't say he's wrong or right. I just haven't.

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What is the point of this question? Questioning what is the point of it? Does she honestly believe that this regime is going to stop when it's not? Does she know what she's talking about? Does she even understand what she's talking about? Who we're dealing with? Go ahead.

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The President said that they had 10 to 15 days. The president doesn't bluff to stop pushing forward with rebuilding their nuclear sites. And by the way, if it takes us removing the Ayatollah from keeping the nuclear program from moving forward, then that's not off the table. But we would prefer diplomacy.

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The reason why the President prefer diplomacy. So maybe you do. And some of the Other Republicans do. Why would I prefer diplomacy? How does diplomacy work with a regime like this? I really need to. To screw down on this. I really need to bear down on this. I'm not understanding this because it's incoherent. We prefer diplomacy. I prefer, you know, M&Ms. So what? We prefer diplomacy. We're not children. We're not naive. This is a regime that prefers war. This is a regime that prefers terrorism. This is a regime that's killed over a thousand Americans. Does that matter? This is a regime that has maimed tens of thousands of Americans. Does that matter? It matters to me. And exactly how will we make sure they're not building nuclear weapons? And what happens if they are? We're going to send two more armadas over there after we pull them back. No. Will a future president do it? No. Did we do that with North Korea? No. Did we sign agreements with North Korea? More than we can count. We tried everything. We gave them money. We removed our nukes from South Korea, and guess what? There are no nukes in South Korea. There are 50 in North Korea. So what is this? We prefer diplomacy? We prefer a deal. If you're dealing with somebody and they don't even want to cut your throat. Let's put it this way. If you're dealing with somebody and you're negotiating for a car, a sale of a car, and that individual has lied to you repeatedly. They've told you the car is fine. Turns out on one occasion the transmission is not fine. All right, Give them another chance. Then it turns out the engine is not fine. Then you give them another chance. Turns out the air conditioning is not fine. Then you give them. How many chances do they get? We prefer a negotiation. Now take that example and throw it away. Imagine a country. Imagine nuclear weapons, ICBMs and ballistic missiles. That you're dealing with a death cult, not a car. Does any of this make sense to anybody other than the neo fascists, the Marxists and the Islamists? Regular Americans? Does any. Does any of this make sense to you? No. It doesn't. It doesn't make any sense. We have progress in our negotiations, reads the newspaper report. What does that even mean? That they're going to agree to something that they're not going to uphold? I mean, are you and I supposed to pretend that these aren't psychopaths obsessed with obliterating us and our children and our grandchildren, when that's. When they tell us, what does that mean, we're making progress? It means they're making progress. Because if There's a deal, any deal, regardless of what the deal says. I'm sorry, it's surrender. We have a sponsor out there. I'm not going to mention them. First of all, we have fantastic sponsors. One that thinks I'm talking too much about this stuff. Mr. President, None of the ones that you currently hear. I'm thinking to myself, Then leave. This is life and death stuff. There are comedy channels. They're music channels. There's how do channels. Radio is a big, big, big field. It's a big field. But when the hammer does come down, either our hammer on them or their hammer on us, people are going to say, why didn't we do anything about it? Why didn't anybody say anything about it? I pray to God that doesn't happen. But it will be. It will be a refrain that will be used. Well, at least they won't be able to say that about you. Mr. And Mrs. America and me, we are well informed. We are up to date and that's the way it's supposed to be in a free republic. There's all kinds of candy ass going on out there. On radio, on tv, on podcasts, on God knows what else. It's all available. Ten days from now, you won't even know what they're talking about. It's okay, Teach his own, teach his own. But the pots and pans need to be banged, the sirens need to go off. This is not a joke. It's very, very serious. And honestly, I am appalled and frustrated and stunned that when we're talking about a terrorist regime, a terrorist regime that has taken over a country that is hell bent and using technology from the Chinese and others on having ballistic missiles that can reach our country. With nuclear warheads and biological warheads and chemical warheads, that this is too much to handle. Shame, shame, shame. This is exactly what we're supposed to be doing, exactly what we're supposed to be doing with free speech and these amazing platforms, I don't take any of it for granted. I think it's very serious and very important. I'll be right back. All of a sudden the Democrats think you have to declare war when you make war. There's no such thing. It's a lie. We have constitutional illiterates. They're radical libertarians who, who fancy themselves constitutional experts. You're not a constitutional expert if you take your ideology and use it as the basis for interpreting the Constitution. That's not the way it's supposed to work. The way it's supposed to work. And even Montesquieu wrote about this is you look at the text of it and you interpret it and apply it. And if the text doesn't help, you go to the next level, which is you look at the, the legislative history, the history around it. And that's what the court needs to do when it comes to this phony birthright citizenship. They need to look at the Constitution and they won't find it. They need to look at the word jurisdiction in the context of when it was written. And what they will find is that it had absolutely nothing to do with foreigners having children in our country. That is illegal aliens. 0 the constitution is a force. It's our mooring. Unless, of course, unless, of course, the people who take an oath and swear on a Bible to uphold the Constitution violate their oath. That's a whole different story. Now, Claire McCaskill is a loser. She's a Democrat who was in the Senate. She lost her seat in Missouri. I'd say she's just another pretty face on TV. But that's not true either, Mr. Producer. And so listen to this. Here we are on the precipice of war that is responding to war. We've been at the victim, the subject, the target of war for 47 years by that regime. And hopefully finally we're going to do something about it and put an end to it. Here's Claire McCaskill on the Morning Schmo Show. Cut three go.

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It is shocking to me that Donald Trump is this close to declaring what could be the biggest war in the Middle east in our lifetimes. And that's saying something, considering what we went through both in Iraq and Afghanistan without really making the case to the American public.

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If you look back at the he's made the case over and over again. He said they cannot have a nuclear weapon. They cannot keep slaughtering their people. He's made the case. But you know what, Claire McCaskill, here's what's interesting. We the people are pretty sharp. This has been going on for 47 years. The case has been made. The case has been made by the enemy. We know who the enemy is. It's not like we need somebody to tell us, this may be complicated for you, but no, they'll do anything they can to throw obstacles in front of this president. They want him to fail, even if it means us losing a military battle. I'm not kidding. That's their mindset. Go ahead.

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Invasion of Iraq. There was a lot of work by the Bush White House, which history has shown some of it was incorrect. But nonetheless they felt an obligation to at least have the country be on board with what they were doing and why they were doing it. What I'm most worried about, after sitting in briefing, after briefing, both in the United States.

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She's not even in the Senate. She was thrown out. I could be wrong. I think Josh Hawley beat her. Somebody beat her. She was thrown out. Now, I'm not going to condemn George W. Bush here, but I will say that he had his way of handling it, and President Trump has his way of handling it. And I suspect if President Trump decides to go forward, decides to be a Churchill, that'll handle it very, very, very well. I'll be right back. This segment of the podcast is exclusively sponsored by Pure Talk. PureTalk offers great coverage and can save your family money on your wireless bill every single month. Go to PureTalk.com to find the plan that's right for you. Thank you again for listening, and thank you so much for this sponsorship. Your talk. He's here. He's here now.

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of a nondescript building, we've once again made contact with our leader, Mark Leven.

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Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number, 877-381-3811, 8773-813-811. The good news is Liberty's Voice, my video podcast, is up. It's running, it's brand new. You can get it over at YouTube on Liberty's voice, you can get it at Rumble on the Mark Levine Show. But in any event, you just go to Rumble and you follow me and there it is. It's all free, obviously. And you go to YouTube and you subscribe and watch it, it's all free and you can just view it as long as you wish and so forth. I try to make sure there's some kind of a history lesson. It's the 250th anniversary. I think you're the perfect audience for this. I think the substance of my video podcast and this radio program and my Fox show, they're all integrate quite beautifully, in my view. So if you like the Fox show and my radio show, I know you're gonna like Liberty's Voice. If you like Liberty's Voice, you're gonna like the rest and so forth and so on. I don't do the same thing on each program. They're all quite distinct. But the principles that underlay them and the, the mindset that underlays them, that's obviously the same. And I try and make it as interesting and educational and intriguing and entertaining as possible. And if you don't watch it, I won't do it. We put a lot of work into this. I would say this to you just so people ask me, how do you do this? How do you do that? On the days that I am now doing this video podcast, which should be Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, but the last two weeks have been Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. I want to get back to Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. We've done six now. I tend to go to bed late, maybe two in the morning. I'm working on stuff. I'm reading stuff or something's keeping me awake that's concerning me sometimes three in the morning. And then I wake up at six in the morning to do my research for Liberty's Voice, my video podcast. Because I really just want don't, I don't want to blow your time. I want it to be worthwhile. And my wife gets worried. Everybody gets worried. This is what I do. And on those days when I'm also preparing for my Fox program, Life, Liberty and Levin, same routine, Same routine. So when do I prepare for radio? Morning, noon and night. I'll send Mr. Producer articles or links to historical sites and so forth and so on throughout the course of the day and night. When he is sleeping, he wakes up to it. Same with posting. I write every single thing I post. I retweet every single thing that's retweeted. I'm giving you this information because people are always asking me, but I don't personally put these things up. Mr. Producer does. I send them to him. He takes a look at it just because I'm looking for any errors or anything, and he puts it up. That's how we work. Mr. Producer and I have been working together for almost 25 years. I'd say something like that just about right. Harry Entin fascinates me. This guy, he's the data analyst for cnn and he may come up with numbers that we don't like, but I believe the man has integrity. I believe he tries to be objective. And so when it hits Democrats, it hits Democrats. When it hits Republicans, it hits Republicans. And he's also entertaining as hell. Who the heck can turn a dry subject like data points and polling into something that's actually quite interesting? Well, he does it. He pulls it off. So here he was. Harry Entin on CNN today, Democrats are pulling worse on immigration than they did during Trump's first term. So all this attack on ice, all this talk and, you know, there he was during the State of the Union address. The President set a trap and they fell for it. Stand up. If you believe that the job of the government is to protect American citizens or illegal aliens, every single Democrat stayed in their chair. Every single Republican stood up. How do you think the vast majority of Americans would have reacted? They would have stood up regardless of party, regardless of race, regardless of sex, regardless of anything else. So here he is. Cut six, go.

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This, I think is so important to note. After all the events in Los Angeles, after all the events in Minneapolis, after all all the events of the last year on immigration, can Democrats actually take advantage on this issue? And a look at the polling suggests actually no. They're in a worse position, in a worse position than they were at this point during Donald Trump's first term. Take a look here. Trust which party more in immigration? In 2018, Democrats had an edge of about 6 points. You come over to this side of the screen now. Look at that. Republicans are the ones who have actually have an edge on immigration. So this whole idea that Democrats are going to be able to take advantage of the immigration group of the immigration issue actually doesn't bear itself out in the polling. Despite everything that's been going on. In fact, Democrats are in worse position than they were during Donald Trump's first term.

[A]

Yeah, maybe they don't like what Donald Trump, the president is doing, but they don't think Democrats will do a better job.

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Correct. They think Democrats will do a worse job on immigration than Republicans.

[A]

Who is that host with the IQ of a cucumber? What is his name? John Berman. He is. He's sort of a comedian, but he doesn't mean to be. All right, more Harry Entin today. Who do you trust on the border? Cut seven, go. What about border security in general?

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Okay, border security in general. So this is immigration at large. What about border security? Look at this. Look at these numbers.

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Hello.

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Party trusted more in border security. Again, at this point, Trump's terms. Look at this. In 2018, Republicans had a 13 point advantage. If anything, the advantage is a little bit larger now. Republicans up by 15 points.

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So when you put it all together,

[B]

you put immigration with border security and the idea that Democrats will be able

[A]

to take the ball and run away on it.

[B]

The polling data suggests. No, no, no. This is actually an issue that Republicans should be more comfortable running on than Democrats. Democrats swing on immigration may actually be to the Republicans advantage.

[A]

What about when you compare President Trump with former President Biden?

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Yeah, okay. So you know we speak about President Trump's approval rating, right, on immigration not being as high as it once was. But I'll tell you who the heck it's a lot higher than at this point in his term, and that's the predecessor, Joe Biden.

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Look at this.

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Approval on immigration at this point of presidency, Biden was at just 34%. Donald Trump looks a whole heck of a lot better when you compare him to the alternative at 45%. And this, I think, is the big takeaway from this segment, which is you can't just look at something in isolation. You have to compare it to the alternative. And in this particular case, when you take a look at immigration and you compare Republicans to the alternative Democrats, this is an issue that Republicans should really like. And President Trump should like the comparison to Joe Biden.

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Boy, he's more excited than I am, and I'm very excited about this. So this should be a wind at the back of the administration. Don't be intimidated by the Democrats and their media. Don't be intimidated by the Democrats and their militia. Don't be intimidated by the Democratic Socialists of America and their sugar daddies in Communist China and Communist Cuba and in Venezuela. I do that because Bernie Sanders does it, obviously, you know, so they're losing on this. And just keep in mind, the TSA isn't getting paid. FEMA is pretty much shut down. Other elements of dhs, same thing. Because the Democrats want to destroy ICE and ice. Immigration and Customs Enforcement exists to protect us from illegal aliens, from drug, you know, drug pushers and drug cartels. And the Democrats don't like that. Say they've been trying to use this issue to propagandize this issue, to twist it out of form because they think it'll help them. Gavin Newsom has been making an ass out of himself. He's always been an ass. And Gavin Newsom is all but destroyed the state of California economically in terms of immigration. In every other respect, I find them to be absolutely clownish and moronic and a complete loser who's done great destruction. Can't get water to the fire hydrants. That Palisades area is still unbuilt. In fact, they're going to turn it over for, you know, public housing projects. You don't see people pouring into California. You see them pouring out of California. So I wanted to bring Steve Hilton on the program today. Steve Hilton for governor dot com. He's actually doing a hell of a job. We'll take a look at that. But I want him to react to some of the things Newsom said about Rubio, about Vance. His book says he can't read because he's dyslexic. Well, apparently you can read enough to Write a book, Mr. Producer. I find this guy to be a phony in every respect. We'll be right back. Mark Le Ben, 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. Pure Talk 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. PureTalk uses the same towers as the big carriers, so enjoy superior 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. We're here with our friend Steve Hilton. Steve Hilton for governor. Dot. And let's give him a hand. Let's help him out. He's. He's been a great candidate, as a matter of fact. Steve, how are you?

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I'm very well, Mark. I'm leading in the polls. How about that?

[A]

Tell us about this. Tell us.

[B]

It's good. It's good. The latest Emerson poll had me ahead of all the candidates, all the Democrats and the other Republicans. Another one out today. It's, you know, it's feeling like there's a real energy. People are sick of the far left nonsense. It's a disaster. In California, there was the first TV debate. This was a couple of weeks ago, broadcast statewide. It was me against six Democrats. They did a poll of the viewing audience statewide, not Republicans. It was just completely open and most of them got in the single digits. The nearest one to me got 17%. I got 66% of the statewide audience thought I won that debate. And, you know, of course, I'm kind of bragging about it, Mark, but the truth is, all I did was stand there and tell the truth very clearly and strongly and simply, which is after 16 years of one party rule, everything's a Disaster. We have the highest poverty rate, highest unemployment rate, highest cost of living in America. Newsom's the most useless governor in America and it's obviously time for change.

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And now he's out there with a book, which is odd because he says he can't read. I'm just saying it's kind of weird. And, and the thing is, he's attacking Rubio and Vance. What would you say about that?

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So he is a joke. He's running around trying to attack people who he may run against in the future, like Rubio, like Vance, like the, like the President now making these partisan political attacks while his state is sometimes literally, definitely figuratively on fire. And he's just running around preening for Vogue magazine, these ridiculous articles, the media lauding him as the future of the Democratic Party. His record is a complete disaster. How dare he attack anyone in this administration that's achieving these great results across the board? I mean, you look at the rest of the country, look at the state of the Union. Booming gas prices down, investment up, jobs being created, factories being built everywhere except California. Gas prices are going up, businesses are moving out, poverty is increasing, unemployment the highest in the country, et cetera. I can't believe he's even being taken seriously as someone who could lead our country.

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Yeah, me either. The media really don't like to dig into his record. He says that the population in California has been increasing the last three years. Has it been increasing with American citizens? I'm just curious, do you know exactly.

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American citizens, net outflow in the hundreds of thousands. The reason that the population's been going up, we guessed it, illegal immigration. That's why the population's been going up. Of course, now that's stopped at the border, at least in the California Southern border, thanks to the president. And that's where so much of the money is going. It's one of my key promises in the campaign is to stop the free health care for illegal immigrants now up to about $20 billion a year. Newsom brags about that. Meanwhile, healthcare costs are going up. Wait, times are going up because so many people using hospitals and clinics, and it's just a disaster. Everywhere you look, it's a disaster.

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Now, the election, the primary, when is that?

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It's June 2nd, of course. We have this insane early voting, a month long vote period. The ballots go out beginning of May. And then on top of that, we have this ridiculous top two system in California where the top two vote getters go through regardless of party. You could end up with two Democrats. You often do in California right now, I'm leading the pack. So it's looking good. But, you know. Right. The big unions are about to pick their candidate. And when we look at the Democrat field, this is why I'm optimistic that we can win this year, Mark. Because if you look at the Democrats running, it's hard to imagine, but they're even worse than us. I mean, as the President might say, they're not sending their best. You've got Eric Swalwell, Katie Porter, the billionaire climate fanatic, Tom Steyer. These people are a joke. So I'm feeling optimistic, but we've got to get into the top two. And the thing that the Democrats often do with all the money, that corrupt money from the government unions, they try and pick the candidate they want to run against. And so the fear is that they may try and pick a weaker Republican. And there's another Republican running. He's a sheriff from Riverside county, and he's got so much baggage. I pointed this out in the first debate. He took a knee for Black Lives matter during the BLM riots in 2020. He's for amnesty. He's all over the place on immigration. Now, the Democrats like him because they know that they can beat him. And so it's very important we get focused on that. And my argument right now to the party is you've got to get behind the strongest Republican, and that's me.

[A]

Is there some question about that? Is the party splintered or what's going on with them?

[B]

Well, the California Republican Party doesn't endorse officially until. And they may not at all. That's a vote of delegates. That's a whole bureaucratic process that happens in April. So we are all fighting it out on the campaign trail. I'm leading at the moment. I'm leading in the polls. I'm leading in fundraising, as I mentioned in the TV debate. But, you know, there's a danger that we split the Republican vote, and that means that you could end up with two Democrats in the final. That would be a total disaster. But the other thing to be optimistic about is in a midterm election, obviously, it's all about turnout, getting your voters out. And as I always point out when people say a Republican can't win in California, if you look at the estimate of the number of votes that I will need to win in November this year, President Trump got more votes than that in 2024 in California without even campaigning him. My target number of votes, 5.9 million. The president got 6.1 million. So if we get every single Trump voter out. I'll win. And so that's not an easy thing to do in a midterm election, but it's not impossible. And we've got a very big secret weapon this year, which is voter ID is going to be on the ballot in California. And of course, Republicans will really go out and vote for that. So this really could be our year to end the insanity here in California.

[A]

That is fantastic. So that is on the ballot. Voter id?

[B]

Yeah, Citizens initiative. We've got the signatures. It's going to be on the ballot in November in California.

[A]

Well, look, have I endorsed you yet, by the way?

[B]

I think you did, Mark, but I'd love to hear it again.

[A]

Okay. I endorse you for governor. I don't want it to hurt you either, but I think you'd be a fantastic governor. And boy, what a breath of fresh air that would be for the whole country if that were the case. Just keep it up, man. You're making a difference. We appreciate it and we'll have you back for sure.

[B]

Thank you, Mark. Really appreciate it. See you soon.

[A]

All right, thank you. Go to Steve HiltonForGovernor.com help him out. He's a good man. Steve HiltonForGovernor.com and he's so filled with energy and optimism. I always like to hear that. We'll be right back. You know what PureTalk'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 L E V I N to make the switch to Pure

[B]

Talk, the Mark Levin show, live and national at 877-381-3811.

[A]

We were talking to the great Steve Hilton Oh, God, that would be. Be unbelievable and wonderful if he could be governor of California and begin to turn that state around. He's got more energy than the. Than the energy bunny. Here's Newsom on Ms. Now. Yesterday he's hawking a book that he can't read. I guess he gets the audio version. Cut 13, go. Seems like part of the strategy was shining a light on capitulation by. By companies, by the media, at times by universities, by law firms. Who is this Pasaki? Pasaki was a propagandist under Obama. Was a propagandist for Biden. Helped cover up the fact that he had dementia, which is no joke. It certainly isn't good for the country. And there she is. She's treated like a legitimate journalist and host and she's giving him information that he should use, you see, because he's too much of a moron adult. Go ahead. And sold me pads. Well, they sold out. There you go. On my Patriot site, which is a real thing. This guy is a clown. He's desperate. Desperate to find a way to weasel himself in through not so cute behavior, knee pads and things like that. He doesn't even come up with it in the first place. He's too stupid. But the record is the record. He took the greatest state in the country, the most vibrant state in the country, and he destroyed it. That's what he did. He destroyed it financially. He destroyed it in terms of immigration, crime, affordability. Man, oh man, I hope they run on affordability. Whoever the Republican nominee is should be able to ram that down his throat. Let me tell you something else. We are going to be very, very active in the Republican primaries. Very. We cannot screw this up. Go ahead.

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As you suggest, our universities, like our

[A]

law firms, like a lot of our corporate media has been selling out. A lot of corporate. Everybody's selling out to Donald Trump. Don't you see, ladies and gentlemen? They're selling out. Selling out? Are you even talking about. You moron. Go ahead.

[B]

Corporations quite literally selling out golden shares.

[A]

How are corporations quite literally selling out? What are they selling quite literally? That's selling out, idiot. Go ahead. Free enterprise has shifted now into crony capitalism and state capitalism. Gee, we've never heard that before. Crony capitalism. This guy's crony socialism. We don't need lectures from this loser. Go ahead, Grace. I mean, no character.

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We can lose this republic.

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We can lose our country. You know, this makes me sick to my stomach. We can lose our republic, lose our country if we elect Republicans or we elect Donald Trump. Are we losing our Republican to the Republicans, ladies and gentlemen. Who is it that use the IRS against their political opponents, the Tea Party as well as Donald Trump? Who is it that used federal law enforcement and the justice system against Donald Trump, President Donald Trump citizen Donald Trump President. Who is it that used the justice system to get phone records of Republican members of the Senate and the House? Who is it? Who is it that got information that they shouldn't have on Susie Wiles when she was a private citizen, now she's chief of staff and Kash Patel. I mean the list is a very, very long one. If you read my book on freedom of the press, you don't have to. I'm just telling you I have chapter and verse about how Democrat presidents use the irs, the Treasury Department use the FBI, use the CIA against their political opponents, even other Democrats. How they used wiretaps, espionage, political and how of course they worked hand in glove with the media. It is a corrupt alien type party, this Democrat Party. It truly is. Go ahead.

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All of them are complicit. And the ones that are silent, with

[A]

all due respect, are as well.

[B]

We have to meet this moment. And we're up against something that is

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so insidious, so extraordinary. This is how he hopes to get elected with these bromines, with these shibboleths, bumper stickers, fear mongering, that's all they've got. They have nothing else. What are their policies? They're destructive of your life, of your family, of your job. Seriously, what are they going to run on? They voted against all the tax cuts for working people, overtime and tips, and seniors on Social Security and family members who are trying to take care of other family members. They voted against everyone. They voted for massive increases in health care under the failed Obamacare. And you look at his record, ladies and gentlemen, this guy has an eight year record or will be eight years as governor. It is a disaster. He has a record as the mayor of San Francisco. It is a disaster. He's a one man wrecking ball. So he's out there that everybody's selling out but him. Of course he's not selling. Everybody else is selling out. If you don't agree with him, you're selling out. If you support Donald Trump, you're selling out. The Republic's in danger. We got to meet the moment we're going to lose our country. Look at his state. Look what the hell he's done to the hard working people in California. Their homes burned down, there's no water in the fire hydrants. The same Thing over and over again. They don't properly tend to their forests and their wooded areas. Water shortages. Seems to me if you can't get water in your fire hydrant, that in and of itself disqualifies you from running for President of the United States. But not for the Democrats. That's a resume enhancer. Spends more time traveling. When did he write this book? When could he have written this? I want to know when he wrote it. Mr. Producer, will you invite the governor on this program? There's no way he'll come on this program. We have a hard and fast rule here. I will debate the best debaters in the country. However, I don't debate Nazis, Jew haters, Christian haters, traitors. And that defines Tucker Catarrh. There's nothing to debate. My goal with them is to defeat them, is to crush them, not platform them. All right, I'll be right back. You know what PureTalk'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, PureTalk gives you unlimited talk text, plenty of data. Now compare that to big wireless. They'd rather celebrate Benjamin Frank 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 enjoys 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. So we have the executive director of cares, Ohio division. I think we have the audio on this, don't we, Rich? Or am I wrong? I want you to listen to this piece of crap, ladies and gentlemen. That's exactly what he is. He is a piece of crap. Khalid Tehrani. Who would have guessed? It's nauseating. He's the Ohio executive director of care. I want you to listen to what he says. And this has gone on all over the country. This group, cares, is public enemy number one. We have a lot of public enemies number one, actually, but it's certainly one of them. If not at the top of the List hat tip. Stop antisemitism. Go.

[B]

Israeli Channel 10 reported in March of 2014 that Israel has the largest human skin bank in the world. Where do you think they got all this skin from? They have more human skin than China and India. They are literally skinning the dead bodies of my brothers and sisters in Palestine. That's where they are getting the human skin from. And if I call them Nazis, your lie is going to punish me.

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I. I don't even know what to say anymore. I don't know what to say. I am telling you now these are the kinds of statements that were resonating during the birth of the Third Reich. The building up of this hate for another people just based on their, the religion. And so much of this comes out of the Middle East. So much of this comes out of the mouths of these Islamists who have taken stakeholds in our own country from which to attack our own people to use our laws against us and to promote them, to use our civil liberties against us, but to, but to protect them. If we fall and we can, it's going to be because of things like this. CAIRS Ohio Executive Director CAIRS CEO AND Founder cair a Hamas front group as you know, founded at the Marriott Hotel next to the Philadelphia International Airport where our FBI had wiretaps. The enemy within linked to the enemy without. We have hundreds and hundreds, soon to be thousands of mosques being built in our country. I'm talking about a year strategically located population centers that are created, not spontaneously created and they're created to be segregated and they're created to be, to be run by Sharia law and they are created to be the operation centers for foreign governments like Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iran. This is no joke. Ask the people who live in these communities. They will tell you they're taking advantage of our federalist system where local governments make decisions about zoning. They're overwhelming the zoning boards and committees in these meetings. They're overwhelming the school board meetings. They are organized, they are funded, they are motivated. We American citizens, we believe leave well enough alone that people do as they wish. If they don't bother us, it's our generosity, our beneficence, our rule of law, our principles, our Judeo Christian system that is being exploited to be destroyed by CARE and other other traitor organizations. 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. And now Senator Durbin has a new scheme, a government takeover of your credit card. Right now, Americans have thousands of credit card options, all with equal strong security. But Durbin's plan could result in less security. That means more risk for your credit, your identity and your financial future. Durbin's bill isn't about helping consumers. It's a giveaway to corporate megastores, which could shift costs onto you while putting your rewards and fraud protections in jeopardy. We've seen Durbin's failed policies before his last big banking regulation backfired, leading to higher costs and fewer benefits for American families. Tell Republican senators, stop Durbin's government takeover of your credit card before it's too late. Learn [e-mail] that's guard your card.com paid for by the Electronic Payments Coalition. He's here. He's here now.

[B]

Broadcasting him from the underground command post

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deep in the bowels of a hidden bunker somewhere under the brick and steel

[B]

of a nondescript building, we've once again made contact with our leader, Mark Levin.

[A]

Hello America. We're in the power hour. Hour three. Our number take calls, we believe at the bottom of the hour. 8773-8181-1877-3813, 8111. Please take advantage of our Liberty's Voice video podcast. It's available immediately, right now on YouTube and on Rumble Liberty's voice. Please take advantage of it. Seriously. We've done six now and we'll continue to do this as long as you watch. You stop watching, I'll leave you alone. But I think you're going to like it. If you want to be informed, if you want to learn about your history, some philosophy, if you want to learn, learn things that are not normally provided. I will do that. Happy to do it. I'm not going to be around forever doing these things. It's just the nature of the beast, you know. So while I am, I'm, I hope you can enjoy them and take advantage of them. This is from Just the News. As Georgia prosecutor pursued Trump, Biden Department of Justice invited her to get lucrative grant memo show these people are such sleazeballs and then they point the finger at everybody else. Fulton County DA Fanny Willis her records turned over to Just the News after an open records lawsuit show her office received millions of dollars from the Biden Justice Department as she built her case against then former president Donald Trump. That's how you get the payoff. See, that's how they grease the skids. The Biden Department of Justice invited quote unquote Fulton County DA Fanny Willis to apply for a lucrative sole grant. Sole source grant, no competition in 2022, at the same time she was pursuing an election interference investigation against Donald Trump, the eventual GOP nominee. Of course, I want to document your recognition of our progress and services provided with dynamic partners as we complete sole source steps for our new grant award, a grant in which you are invited to apply, willis wrote to the Justice Department senior policy advisor Scott Pestridge in the Office of Justice Programs in December of 2022. Just crazy. All right, let's see here. The district attorney was highlighting the Justice Department's OJC Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative grant ready for this, from which her office ultimately received $2 million. 2 million. That is a massive grant. That award, which was opened in April 2022 as a competitive grant, appears to have been provided to Fulton County. Is the sole source. A sole source grant. According to the da, the Justice Department defines a sole source procurement as non competitive, meaning no other entity competed against Fulton for the reward. This award, which Willa said her office would use for community programs dedicated to ensure at risk youth do not fall into crime or help they reintegrate into society. And if they do, that was just a fraction of the more than 18 million in funding the Department of Justice gave the Fulton County Prosecutor's office between 2021 and 2024. Man, that is a lot for a DA's office. And she got it. Let's see here. The letter was contained in a trove of thousands of pages of documents turned over after just the news, alongside the nonprofit Public Interest Law from America First Legal. That's where my wife was general counsel. That is a great legal group. There's several of them, like Landmark Legal, too, sued Willis for the records. Under Georgia's open records law, Willis, a longtime Trump nemesis, sought to hide many of the records. This is becoming a problem. You know, they went after the president, President Trump over documents. But there's Kash Patel. They find documents revealing that he and Susie Wiles, the now chief of staff to the president, that their phone records were subpoenaed. For what? Nothing. In reaction to the lawsuit, Willis's office this week dropped all privileged claims and released all the documents without any redactions. More information than it ultimately did to congressional Republicans on the House Judiciary committee. Fulton County DA's office didn't respond to requests for comment by just the news. Now, beyond the grant details, the documents show that Willis's office coordinated extensively with the Biden, Justice Department and White House as well as Democrats on the House January 6th investigative committee. This should have been at the top of the article, I think, as she built a failed criminal case against President Trump and his allies. The award of the non competitive grant for Willis came while her office was preparing that case and while federal prosecutors were investigating Donald Trump. Now Willis, who became Fulton County DA in January 2021, vowed from the earliest days of return to pursuing investigation into the president. Let's see here, anything relevant. By August 2023, Willis indicted Trump and allies on state racketeering, conspiracy and other charges. Let's see now, though, the apparent reclassification of the that doesn't tell us anything. The relationship between Fannie and Wade, the House Judiciary Committee. She was ultimately removed from the case, as you know, by the Georgia Court of Appeals because of her relationship with dummy case was eventually dismissed and that's that. So the point of the rather long article, to get to the gist of it, the point is that her office received a huge grant from the Department of Justice at the very time that she was going after the president and others. And furthermore, what should have been a competitive grant was doled out as a sole source grant, meaning no competition whatsoever. What do you think of that, Mr. Producer? Very sketchy. You got a lot of sketch going on in that administration, may I say. I think I did a lot of sketch. But that Fannie Willis and her buddy Wade and all the rest of it was always kind of, kind of sleazy, don't you think? Well, a lot of things going on in San Francisco. Now keep in mind, San Francisco is a radical left wing democrat city. Used to be beautiful, now it's turned into crap. No offense. No offense. Tax the Jew. Chants break out at event held by Jewish mayor of San Francisco. Is there any other minority in the country that it's treated this way and can get away with it, that people can get away with doing this? At a political event in San Francisco, individuals present chanting tax the rich, switch their chance to tax the Jews. San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie stated, this was an event I put on with District 5 Supervisor Billa Mahmoud, labor leaders and dozens of workers to announce a plan that creates more jobs for those workers and housing for San Franciscans. Suggesting that Jews are wealthy is a tired trope targeting our community. An event focused on creating economic opportunity for San Franciscans is decidedly anti Semitic, said the Democratic mayor. Well, he's on to something there. How many of you heard of Anna Kasparian? Have any of you heard of Anna Kasparian? She's a Jew hater. She, in my view, is a out and out bigot. She's part of this group, the Young Turks. They should be called the young punks. There's a fat slob guy who has Turkish ancestry. What's his name? Sank something or something. Sank Uygur. He's a bleeding hemorrhoid on the body politic. He's a plant, in my humble opinion. He's a mouthpiece for the enemy. And this moron and a Kasparian, you know, she's his lap dog, if you will. I'll be right back. Mud Levin. Mark Penn is a good guy. He's a moderate Democrat. More than that, though. CEO of a Stagwell, Inc. And creator of a new political game270.com I'm going to want to hear about that, Mr. Penn. That should be interesting. But before we do, you know, I would think certain institutions should be treated with respect. Certain traditions that we have, like the State of the Union and they're getting worse and worse. And this one was in terms of the treatment of that institution and all the protesting and we're not showing up and the hollering and all. I just thought, at least from that perspective, it's the worst thing I've ever seen. Now, from my perspective, of course, I thought his speech was great, but whether you like a president or not or a speech or not, is it really that hard to sit on your ass and watch?

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Well, I mean, look, I agree with you on this. I worked on many states of the union with the president and was there in the hall. Clinton, you know. Yes, with President Clinton. And, and people would applaud. And if we said something that everybody in the country should agree to, everybody would applaud. And we said something we expected only Democrats to agree. Only Democrats. But, but nevertheless, there was a decorum. There was a respect for the institution, for the presidency. And, and I just find that it degrades our politics when people just don't, you know, just show up, be respectful, applaud, don't applaud, but, you know, try to make scenes to get like, you know, social media cues and then using curse words. I mean, you know, the whole irony is that the Democrats have been acc Trump of taking political rhetoric down. And here you have Trump giving this amazingly powerful speech involving American heroes and the Democrats are reduced to using curse words. I mean, it's, it's funny in a lot of ways.

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It's funny and it hurt them because apparently that speech rated pretty well in terms of television ratings. And I Thought it was probably the greatest City of the Union speech I ever saw. That includes the Reagan speeches. What did you think?

[C]

It certainly was up there. I mean, obviously I worked on, you know, the era of big government is over. I'm definitely gonna, gonna count it up as a top. Well, he really took the art form of weaving the stories in. He had positive, patriotic rhetoric. He was, I think, wisely chose to be respectful for the, of the Supreme Court justices there. He disagreed with them, but he was respectful in doing that. But I think the combination of rhetoric and storytelling was excellent. I mean, he really encapsulated what he wants to do, who he wants to help, and delivered a combination of policy and emotion. And that is, as you know, not easy by any stretch of the imagination to deliver the way he did.

[A]

You know, Mark Penn, I'm watching what's going on in New York. That's your hometown. And it's a disaster, an absolute disaster. I'm watching what that mayor has to say. I'm watching the national Democrats shutting down TSA and FEMA and these other things over, over deportation and ICE and so forth. Do you think this is a wise strategy? I mean, there are people who believe I'm one of them who's very worried about it from my perspective, that the Democrats will take the House, but they're really a mess.

[C]

Well, I would say, like, it's kind of very odd. The Democrats seem to be winning by losing, meaning they seem to be ahead on some of the polls. And I have a new poll I'm anxiously awaiting for coming out tomorrow, a havocat Harvard Caps Harris poll, which I'm really interested in seeing the results, but they've been ahead, even though the Democrats are ranked lower than the Republicans because, you know, there's a lot of unease among the electorate, a lot of feeling that the economy isn't going well. And right now the president doesn't have majority support. The Republicans slightly below majority, the Democrats below majority. So that means the deciding voters are unhappy with everybody, and that's always bad for the ins. So we'll see exactly, you know, what happens and how this plays out and whether the president is successful at turning around what people perceive the economy and how it's going. We were with President Clinton in 96, starting with our State of the Union six months later. We had a tremendous change in opinion about the economy. And that really is the critical thing in terms of how they were vote. So. And I've never seen a thing which you have now, which is the Democrats are lowest rating, but they're still ahead.

[A]

What. What accounts for that? That is weird.

[C]

As I said, it's. It's when voters are there. The voters, you know, in the first term of Trump, before the pandemic, everybody in America agreed the economy was going well. Those were happy times. It would have been really quite difficult, I think, you know, for. For him to lose anything. He hasn't quite brought that feeling back. Because even though the Biden administration was responsible for the inflation, when I ask people, is the economy growing or shrinking? They think it's shrinking. I ask people, is, is inflation getting bigger or smaller? They say, bigger. Even though I know that the answer is that there's record, near record economic growth, even though I know the answer that inflation has come down considerably and some items are cheaper. That hasn't registered yet.

[A]

It also looks like, though, that things are in place for much bigger growth, even with the tax cuts that he's put in place and the regulatory restrictions and so forth. That would certainly help him, too, if there's a additional explosion of growth. No?

[C]

Yeah. Look, the speech was constructed to put all of that stuff up front for the simple reason that he knows what I just told you, right? Yes, he knows that. Right. He put the foreign policy at the back. He put all the economic stuff and the improvement in the economy up front. And look, what I think he should continue to do a better job at is explaining I have a strategy to improve the economy. That strategy is to reduce taxes, cut regulation, rein in, you know, government. Government expenditures, get better trade deals, you know, economically, and reverse climate policies to bring down energy prices. Right. When I work with President Clinton, we always had a five point plan. You always kind of knew what those elements were. Now I know what the elements are. I just explained them. But I think that he could do a better job explaining. I've got a five point plan. We're working on that plan, and that's what's going to be successful. And at the same time, there's tremendous innovation and investment in the innovation of AI. Hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars are being invested in this economy, and that has to drive increased growth.

[A]

I want to ask you a question, and I'd like to hold you over because I don't think we're gonna have time to get the full answer yet. I've never asked you this. What was it like working for Bill Clinton? Was he smart? Was he attentive? Was he stubborn? Was he willing to. To take information you would give him and apply it? I'm just curious about that. That's my sense of it. But stick with us. Mark Penny, pollster extraordinaire, CEO of the Stagwell Inc. And creator of a new political game. I want to ask him about270.com we'll be right back.

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Mark Le Penn, the thunder on the right. Call in now.

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877-381-3811. And we are here with Mark Penn. So what was it like working for President Clinton?

[C]

Well, I think President Clinton wasn't human. He was superhuman. I mean, you know, I've worked with smart people and so forth, but he really, if we were playing cards, he could play all four hands. He had an incredible intellectual ability to juggle all of the various things in the most difficult job, you know, in the world. So, and I found, you know, he was he friendly?

[A]

Was he nice?

[C]

Yes, he was very friendly. He was nice. But, but, you know, he was always under the presidency was, was really pressured, you know, you know, from the, from the time I came on, which was after the 94 congressional elections and, and in came, you know, the Republicans and we made all of the deals relative to welfare reform and balanced budget. And then, then when things seem at ease, it got impeached. So he was always under a lot of pressure, you know, and, and you could see that like in the, finally, when impeachment was over was the only time that I think he could, he could really kind of smile, you know, with a little less pressure. But, but he, he was incredible to work for. It was incredible experience. He was very, very serious about trying to make the country better for people. That that was his goal.

[A]

Do you keep in touch from time to time or I haven't seen them

[C]

lately, you know, the Clintons. And I, I'm a little bit more, let's just say I stayed in my political spectrum is the way I'd say it. They're, they're, they're over in theirs. I had 13 years with both of them. And by the way, I think the Republicans made a tremendous mistake today.

[A]

You know what happened? How going after her.

[C]

Well, going after Hillary. Well, you know, I don't know.

[A]

I, I think it's irrelevant, honestly, when they poll, maybe you do these, these Epstein case, even though Washington's excited and congressmen are excited of both parties and podcasters are trying to make a living off it. I, I think most people are fed up with it.

[C]

Yeah. Look, I, I, to see how much interest but, but, you know, okay, President Clinton, he's going to have to explain some pictures there, but she didn't have anything to do with it. And to the extent that they might have gotten some sympathy, you know, from women over Epstein, call hauling her in

[A]

when she had nothing to do with Epstein was it's gonna matter. I really don't. But I'm not involved in it because, look, I, if something pops up that's important that I need to report, I report it. But this thing is, it's got a life of its own at this point. And I think there's too much going on in this country that needs our focused attention, to be honest. Tell us about this game two seventy Calm.

[C]

Yeah, you know, you know, what I found was that there are games for everything. Games for the mafia, games for, you know, combat games for everything. There aren't political games. So I made a political game. It's 270270.com it's, it's. You play. Then you download 270 US election. You get $250,000 a day on your. And you run your campaign and you try to get state groups and you can play President Trump, you can play Hillary Clinton, you can be whomever you want. Every character has a different quality. It's a serious game. It takes like 45 minutes. You can play the computer, you can play other people. But, you know, I find, I found a lot of kids of politicians were playing the game because they, you know, they, they. There's just almost no serious political game. So it's 270. I got the, you know, you know, with a significance of 270.

[A]

Yeah, you need 270 to win.

[C]

And it's a lot of fun. Serious.

[A]

Sounds interesting.

[C]

You know, a lot of your will like it. And they learn something about the electoral college and how it works and the college versus the popular vote, and they can try their hand at political strategy.

[A]

All right, my friend, it's Mark Penn. Give it a shot, folks. 270.com Be very interesting gift, I think. 270.com Good luck to you, my friend. You take care of yourself.

[C]

Thank you, Mark. Thank you very much.

[A]

All right, you got it. All right. One of the few moderates left, he, Julian Epstein. You got Fetterman. I mean, you can count them on one hand. You know, certain stories grab my attention. In this one grabs my attention. Why Martin Short's daughter Catherine changed her name before her death. He and his wife adopted three children. Three children from different backgrounds when they were young. Martin Short's wife died of cancer, I think 2010, 2012, something like that. 2012. This daughter, his oldest daughter that he adopted, she Wanted to have a private life. She didn't want to be in the public view. She became a psychiatric social worker, helping all these other people who had mental issues and so forth. Eventually, later in her life, she opened up her own private practice. I can see her weight would fluctuate by the pictures. Fairly thin to fairly heavy. And she had her own mental issues, perhaps bipolar. And the neighbor who they spoke to said she just seemed very pleasant. She committed suicide. Committed suicide a few days back. She was struggling with her own mental issues. She had a service dog named Joni who she said was assisting her with her own mental illness for the past five years. And the neighbor said she didn't show any indication that she was struggling. Most people said no indication, but she committed suicide. I feel so sorry for people who feel so hopeless that they take their own life and so sorry for the parents and other family members because I am sure this is incredibly difficult to deal with. Mental illness is a real thing. It's a big thing. Mental illness like this, dementia, Alzheimer's, these are terrible, terrible diseases. And they still really haven't figured out how to deal with them. And so this just kind of hit me. Her last public appearance was a little over two years ago when she celebrated her 40th birthday at a restaurant. And there's an article here that Martin Short is inconsolable. And of course, they start spreading rumors and other stuff that I'm simply not going to get involved in anyway. So we wish them, it seems so strange to say we wish them all the best. We really do. It's just a terrible, terrible thing. All right, let's go ahead. And I'm pulling up some callers. I'm calling up the call board here. Give me a second. There it is. Pat. Mount Pleasant, Utah, on the Mark Levin app. How are you?

[B]

Good. Thank you for taking my call. And thank you for all that you do. I trust what you say. I have been a listener for years, off and on. This is my question and comment. The Wall Street Journal, I heard from a friend, is saying that the government is pulling those who have green cards and sending them back to their own country. Want to know if that's true. And can you explain a little bit more about green cards? I know nothing. And does this mean that they are illegal? And I agree that illegals need to be sent back. And then I hear that it's very difficult for those coming into our country to become legal. And is that.

[A]

All right, Let me, let me, let me chip away at it. I'm not an Expert on immigration. But I know what a green card is. It's a permanent resident card. So it's issued to non citizens, and they have a legal right to live and work permanently in the United States. But the government does have the power, depending on the circumstances, to withdraw that card. So if somebody commits a crime or somebody is a terrorist or somebody's trying to overthrow the United States, that status can be challenged. But the goal is to provide people with a permanent resident in the United States. So that's what a green card is. Are they pulling green cards? I don't know. I haven't seen stories that they're running around pulling green cards. But it's possible that they're picking up people who have conducted themselves in certain ways that are. That are problematic to this society. And, you know, that's the number one thing about immigration. People don't understand that is the purpose of immigration is to improve society and to improve a lot of the citizens who are here. Our representatives are supposed to represent us. So what was your other question? I'm sorry. Hello? Yeah.

[B]

If this have to do with all nationalities, they can get a green card?

[A]

Well, I think it's based on the individual. It's based on the individual. But for instance, if you get a green card and you commit a criminal act, you commit fraud and so forth, the card can be revoked.

[B]

That's understandable.

[A]

Doesn't matter who you are or where you're from. All right. I appreciate you listening. I really appreciate it very, very much. And thank you for calling one too painful. I don't think there are other reasons you can lose your green card if you abandon your permanent residence. You're given a green card, but in the interim, you basically live overseas in another country. Criminal convictions, fraudulent activities, violation of immigration laws and things of that sort. And there's apparently a long list of people who fit that. We'll be right back. Mud Le Ben. Just a reminder, folks, as we come to the close of the program, perfect time to check in on Liberty's voice. It's a really great show this evening. You can go to Rumble and view it right there. You can go to YouTube and view it right there. If you go on any of my social sites, we have a direct link to it. I hope you'll check it out. Please share it with your friends and family. Make them aware of it. We want to grow our video podcast into something that can help make a difference in the midterm elections and throughout. We need to push back against the enemies within and these very negative forces. And unfortunately, so much of podcasting has turned into a horrible cesspool. And so we're going to be a bright light and a safe harbor and push your agenda, your principles, Americanism. That's the goal. As long as you watch, we'll do it. We can keep track of how many people watch, not who watches. But if we don't get a fairly significant number of people who care about it, then. Then it's a project and we will move on. So far, we're having a lot of fun. All right, Moses. Fairfax, Virginia. The great WMAL go.

[B]

Yeah, Okay.

[C]

I have.

[A]

I'm an aspiring reporter, and what I

[B]

noticed is so that why we lost the election in Virginia and how we are going to lose it again in the upcoming election. And so here's my analysis. I saw the poll workers and which are inside and outside. Okay. I took pictures of some of those people, which was not really allowed, but

[A]

just for my own information and also

[B]

to prove what I'm looking at. And those same people, I see them at the DNC

[C]

events. And those same people are the one

[B]

who run nonprofit organizations who get funding from the state, from the cities. Okay. So they have an infrastructure, which is.

[A]

So you're saying they're working the polls. There's judges and so. And observers. They're at the dnc. They're hardcore Democrats. Yeah, that's a problem. No question about it. Thanks for passing that on, too. We appreciate it. We salute our armed forces, police officers, firefighters, emergency personnel, our truckers, the men and women in Ukraine. We haven't forgotten you, the men and women in Iran, definitely the men and women in Israel, and you, the American people. God bless each and every one of you.