4/1/26 - Artemis II: A New Era of Space Exploration

Summary

Mark Levin Podcast – April 1, 2026

Episode: "Artemis II: A New Era of Space Exploration"

Date: April 2, 2026
Host: Larry O’Connor (sitting in for Mark Levin) | Cumulus Podcast Network

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Overview

This special broadcast, guest-hosted by Larry O’Connor, focuses on two significant events: the historic Artemis II mission launch—America’s return to the Moon after over 50 years—and anticipation ahead of President Trump’s major address on the military engagement with Iran. O’Connor weaves patriotic commentary, technical insight, and audience interaction, encouraging reflection on exploration, American ingenuity, and current geopolitical challenges. The show maintains a passionate, conversational tone with heavy listener engagement and moments of humor and earnestness.

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Key Discussion Points

1. Historic Artemis II Launch: America Returns to the Moon

• Build-up and Context

  • O’Connor sets the stage for the Artemis II launch, noting, “In just 18 minutes, we could be witnessing man's return to the moon. Let's be clear here: America's return to the moon.” (02:00)
  • The mission will orbit the Earth, slingshot to the moon, and orbit deeper into space than humans have ever traveled.

• Technological Progress and Inspiration

  • Emphasizes how technological advancements such as smartphones and electric vehicles spring from investment in space exploration.
  • Quote: “A lot of the technology that is used in this mission you can now utilize commercially in an electric car... originated in problem-solving through SpaceX.” (09:27)
  • Space program as critical for inspiring the next generation of American innovators and keeping the U.S. competitive.

• America’s Spirit of Exploration

  • Ties U.S. space ambitions to Western civilization’s tradition of exploration: “This is what Americans were meant to do... fulfilling our inherent, God-given need to explore, learn, experience, and to conquer.” (05:13)
  • Argues that a renewed commitment to NASA and space is a direct result of the Trump administration’s vision.

2. Launch Countdown and Real-Time Commentary

• Final Systems Check

  • O’Connor provides live commentary as NASA goes through “go/no-go” confirmation with various mission personnel. (15:59–17:18)
  • Notable moment:
    • “You heard the crew there. CDR was asked. And the crew commander said, yes, we are a go.” (17:18)

• Launch Sequence (20:50–26:14)

  • NASA Mission Control audio describes the countdown and liftoff.
  • Rocket launches, O’Connor reacts live:
    • “Wow.” (21:58)
    • “Integrity and its crew go supersonic. Approaching 90 seconds into the Artemis II mission... traveling more than 2,600 miles per hour.” (23:20)
    • “The thrust that those astronauts must have been feeling, this is a big mama. And there was no doubt it was getting off the ground and it's going to the moon. It's so cool.” (31:44)
  • O’Connor celebrates the uniquely American nature of the achievement, despite gestures at international collaboration.

• Personal Reflections and Audience Calls

  • Callers share emotional stories and reflections linking the mission to personal and national pride.
  • Molly Ann from Texas: “I get romantic about things like this. I get emotional about moments like this. Because you should.” (29:50)
  • Dean from New Jersey likens the mission to the spirit of early explorers, referencing Louis Armstrong: “If you have to ask the question, you'll never understand the answer.” (37:33)

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3. Artemis II Mission Details & Astronauts

• Crew Introductions

  • Commander: Reid Wiseman (space veteran)
  • Pilot: Victor Glover (first Black astronaut on a lunar mission)
  • Mission Specialist: Christina Koch (first woman on a lunar mission)
  • Mission Specialist: Jeremy Hansen (first non-American, Canadian Space Agency)
    • “Those are the four heroes that are sitting on top of that enormous rocket right now. Well, now… they had to deal with about four minutes of hell probably as they were shaken.” (32:19)

• Mission Timeline Overview

  • Day 1: Launch
  • Day 2: Systems checkout
  • Day 3: Trajectory corrections
  • Days 4-5: Transit to the moon
  • Day 6: Lunar flyby (“the highlight of the mission”)
  • Days 7-9: Slingshot around the moon, return
  • Day 10: Re-entry and splashdown off San Diego (~April 11)
    • (34:33–35:15)

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4. Why Space Exploration Matters

• Inspiration for Future Generations

  • O’Connor calls the mission “the kind of challenge and excitement… that could make a huge difference in our future generations and the technology that we're going to be exploring.” (10:01)
  • Critiques the notion that space investment is a waste, instead pointing to its trickle-down effects.

• Geopolitical and Strategic Rationale

  • Notes the importance of “getting there before China.”
  • “Only we can do this. Only we have done this and only we will do this. This is the greatest country on the planet and we are capable of anything we put our minds to.” (18:29)
  • Asserts that international participants are welcome, but it is American ambition and capability driving this new era.

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5. Transition to Politics: Iran, Trump’s Speech & Governing Challenges

• Previewing President Trump’s Address on the Iran War

  • O’Connor prepares listeners for Trump’s 9 p.m. speech, offering options for listening (Townhall, streaming, etc.).
  • Lays out the administration’s objectives per Secretary of State Marco Rubio:
    • Destroying Iran’s missile capabilities
    • Annihilating their navy
    • Preventing a nuclear weapon
    • “That is the goal of this operation, to destroy their conventional missiles and their drone program so they can't hide behind it.” (57:23)

• Audience Engagement on Foreign Policy

  • Takes calls from listeners (e.g., Reza, an Iranian-American), who advocate for regime change, support for Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, and recognition of Israel’s right to exist (64:10–68:21).
  • O’Connor notes the historical parallel with Iraq and conjures lessons from past unfinished wars (e.g., Gulf War, Iraq).

• Media Critique and Communication

  • Rebuts mainstream media claims of shifting administration goals: “I'm so tired of George Stephanopoulos and Jake Tapper lying to you, gaslighting you, telling you that the President is inconsistent…” (62:36)

• Reflection on COVID, Chaos, and Democratic Strategy

  • O’Connor analyzes the Democratic strategy of creating chaos and misery, drawing parallels to 2020’s pandemic-induced election changes.
  • “If you are miserable, if you are unhappy, if things in this country seem chaotic… it benefits them. They benefit from your misery.” (97:34)
  • Warns listeners to recognize patterns of disorder as electoral tactics.

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6. Partisan Politics and Legislative Gridlock

• Filibuster, Senate Tradition, and Republican Leadership
  • O’Connor launches into a vigorous critique of Republican reticence to challenge the filibuster:
    • “First of all, the filibuster is not that old. It's not even as old as half the age of the Senate.” (85:33)
    • Argues Democrats, specifically Chuck Schumer, have violated all the ‘norms’ through repeated shutdowns.
    • “He doesn't want to be your friend. He wants to defeat you. He's playing to win.” (87:33)
  • Calls for bold action and fighting spirit, directly contrasting Trump’s approach with Senate Republicans.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On American Ingenuity:
  “Put a bunch of smart, ambitious Americans into a room, give them a challenge... And they will figure it out. And along the way... they end up inventing a lot of stuff.” (07:58)

• On the Launch Experience:
  “The second those engines fired, this thing was off the ground. The thrust that those astronauts must have been feeling—this is a big mama. And there was no doubt it was getting off the ground and it's going to the moon. It's so cool.” (31:44)

• On National Purpose:
  “We’re back. Dare I say this is the golden age of space exploration that we have begun today, that we’re all participating in. And it’s an incredible thing to witness.” (26:14)

• On Exploration’s Importance:
  Caller Dean: “This is like the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria. Some people say, why are you going over there? They just won't understand.” (37:33)

• On American Pride:
  “Nobody can do what we do, Glenn.” (47:09)

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Timestamps for Major Segments

| Time | Segment | |---------|--------------------------------------------------------------| | 01:02 | Opening on Artemis II, setting the historic context | | 15:59 | Artemis II Go/No-Go systems check | | 20:50 | Launch Countdown and Liftoff | | 26:14 | Artemis II enters orbit, reflection on U.S. achievement | | 32:19 | Astronauts’ introductions and recognition of their “firsts” | | 34:33 | Mission day-by-day breakdown | | 57:23 | Marco Rubio on objectives of Iran operation | | 64:10 | Persian-American caller: hopes for regime change in Iran | | 85:33 | O’Connor’s critique of the filibuster and Senate | | 97:34 | Democrats’ strategy: “They benefit from your misery” | |103:00 | Reflection on COVID-19’s impact on politics and elections |

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Tone, Style & Audience Connection

• The episode is energetic, patriotic, occasionally humorous, and deeply engaged with callers.
• O’Connor displays genuine excitement for the Artemis II mission, using poetic and personal language to highlight its significance.
• Regular references to American history, pioneering spirit, and modern political battles frame the show throughout.
• O’Connor’s rhetoric is direct, sometimes mocking, always clear in support of bold, nationalist leadership.

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Closing Thoughts

The Artemis II launch is celebrated as both a technological and symbolic victory—a renewal of the American spirit of exploration and innovation. O’Connor juxtaposes this moment of national pride with current political and international challenges, urging listeners not just to marvel at American achievements but to demand that same vision, courage, and resolve from their leaders, both in space and on Earth.

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For more information and commentary, visit Townhall’s platforms or listen to the next President’s address at 9pm.

Transcript

[Mark Levin]

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He's here.

[Larry O'Connor]

He's here.

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Now broadcasting them 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.

[Larry O'Connor]

This is no April Fool's joke. It's Larry o' Connor sitting in for the great one, Mark Levin. It's Passover, and I wish Mark and his incredible wife, Julie Stresslevin, a peaceful, joyful and righteous Passover here. As a Christian, as a Catholic, I. I share the joy of Passover as it began, one of the critical covenants that led to the covenant of my Lord Jesus Christ at the Last Supper. Also a very famous Passover evening. And tonight, my friends, this is a hell of a night. History is being made this evening. In just 18 minutes, we could be witnessing man's return to the moon. Let's be clear here. America's return to the moon. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. We're bringing a. We're bringing a Canadian along with us. It's okay. It's, you know, I'm. I'm looking past it. It's like the consolation prize for not winning the hockey game in the Olympics. That's fine. Or a Stanley cup since the early 90s. I love Canada. I love Canadians even. So it's cool that they get a ride along here, but this is America returning to our moon. And launch is go right now. There was a. Some concern about an hour ago over the flight termination system. There was a backup battery. They were having some failures on it. It's all been resolved. And at this moment, we're at, as they say, T minus 17 minutes and 3 seconds for the opening of the launch window. And as of now, there's no reason why we shouldn't be able to hit that launch. That's history right there. And the U.S. america, man will be returning to the moon. This mission, of course, the Artemis 2 mission, will be a orbital mission. They orbit the Earth and then they slingshot to the moon. They orbit the moon deeper than any human being has ever traveled into space, away from our planet that we know of. For all we know, human beings have traveled beyond this. We just don't know about it. Could have been some government plan that they didn't tell us about.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Or, you know, the aliens, I mean,

[Larry O'Connor]

demons or aliens, legal or otherwise, could have come and taken some human being back to their. Their planet. But either way, I, I hope you can sense the excitement of my voice because I am thrilled with it. That's history right there.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

And three hours from now, the President

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of the United States will be addressing the nation from the White House at 9pm Eastern Time, and he will be giving an address specific to our military engagement in the Middle east with Iran right now. And I suspect that that address will be somewhat historic as well. There'll be quite a bit of information delivered in that address. So. And by the way, I suspect that whatever magnificent talk radio station you're listening to right now, I suspect that they will be carrying the President's address live. But if they are not, I'm happy to tell you that I'm the editor of Town hall, the mighty website that's been around for a couple of decades and we'll be streaming it live with my commentary. So as soon as I'm finished broadcasting for Mark Levin tonight on the Mark Levin show, then we'll be going live with with the President's address and commentary at the Town hall platforms. You can catch that on YouTube, Rumble or wherever you watch videos. Oh, did I forget to tell you? My name's Larry o'.

[Caller]

Connor.

[Larry O'Connor]

I'm sitting in for the great one, Mark Levant.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

I got so excited to wish Mark

[Larry O'Connor]

and Julie a happy Passover. Get right into the Artemis 2 launch and the President's address. I neglected to inform you who the heck I AM. I'm Larry O'. Connor. I'm radio talk show host in Washington D.C. on the mighty talk radio station in that town, WMAL. And yes, I'm the editor of Town hall, where I also do a daily streaming show there every day at noon. It's called Larry. Couldn't come up with a better name. So I hope you can check all of that out. We've got quite a bit to discuss this evening, but it's hard to separate ourselves from the historic space mission that's about to happen. So for this first hour, as we prepare for takeoff, I'd love to hear from you. 877-381-3811. It seems to me that people are of two minds about our space exploration. One mind shares my joy and my excitement and my enthusiasm for this kind of thing. This is what Americans were meant to do. But also human beings, frankly, at least a certain type of human being, a certain type of really Western civilization inspired human being on this planet. Ever since the exploration of those great European explorers in the mid, going into the late 20th century, or excuse me, in the second millennium, we have been exploring our planet and going as far as we possibly can go. And that culminated really in the space the moon launches in the late 60s. And for some reason then the Apollo mission just ended up being, you know, the same thing over and over again. We keep sending people up to the moon to try out new dune buggies, hit a few more golf balls, bring back some more rocks, and they sort of lost the plot. This new Artemis mission gets us back to exactly where we're supposed to be. Because after this exploratory test mission, the next moonshot, we will land there and we will begin building a base. And that base, for all intents and purposes, will be the last stop before another planet, specifically Mars. This is what we're meant to do. And either people are as excited about it first just in terms of the human drama, of fulfilling our inherent God given need to explore and learn and to experience and to conquer, but also recognizing the scientific discoveries that are made along the way. Think about it. Tonight, in about 12 and a half minutes, if everything goes right, this incredible machine will lift itself off from the surface of the Earth and plummet at enormous thrust and speed out of our Earth's atmosphere and enter into orbit. And unlike 55 plus years ago, we will all be able to witness this on a supercomputer device sitting in our front pocket, known as a smartphone. Or you could watch it even in your car, if you have the right kind of car that has this kind of connectivity. Now, you can watch it on your computer, obviously you can watch it on your television. And we will see it from all angles. With cameras inside the capsule, we'll be able to see the astronauts as they're lifting off from space. And that little supercomputer on that smartphone

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

that you keep in your pocket that

[Larry O'Connor]

you'll be able to then push a button on and watch. Or hopefully you'll keep the radio right here so you can listen as well.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

The technology that brought you that smartphone

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would not have been advanced and progressed to the level that it had been, so that we can now do what we're doing were it not for our space program in the 50s, 60s and 70s. There's just no doubt about it when you put a bunch of smart, ambitious Americans into a room, give them a challenge and say, hey, we need to. And yes, I know in the early days of our space program there were a few Germans there too. I'm fine. At the time we needed a few Germans. But anyway, you put them into a room and you say, hey, we have this mission, we have this challenge, we have to solve this problem. And they will figure it out. And along the way, as they figure out that problem, as they solve the that insurmountable challenge, like sending a man to the moon and returning him safely through the course of figuring out how to achieve that, they end up inventing a lot of stuff. They end up solving a whole lot of problems, problems that we don't even know about, problems that we never even thought we could solve. That's what brings us to where we are today, where we're all going to be able to watch this. Imagine where we're going to be 10, 15 years from now as each new problem is solved. You know that a lot of the technology that is used in this mission you can now utilize commercially in an electric car that is full self driving from Tesla. Musk has been able to use a lot of the AI and a lot of the navigational and geocentric designs that he utilizes for his full self driving car that originated in problem solving through

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

SpaceX and getting a rocket to return safely onto a launching pad without having

[Larry O'Connor]

to splash down and be wasted in the ocean. That's why this is so valuable, that's why it's so exciting, and that's why it energizes and excites kids to be able to pursue these things. And maybe I'm just a nerd here because my kids are all into science and technology and engineering, except for the one who used to be into that. And then she decided she wanted to work in theater, which is fine. There's a lot of engineering involved there too, in its own way. Maybe I'm just a nerd with all of this, but it seems to me, as we have debates here in America about H1B visas and having to import smart guys from Pakistan or India or other countries to come and take American jobs, maybe, just maybe, we should make that investment here with our kids. Maybe this is exactly the kind of program and the exact kind of, kind of challenge and excitement that gets generated from it. That could make a huge difference in our future generations and the technology that we're going to be exploring. I know it's not your typical opening to the Mark Levin show. Trust me. I've got plenty to say about the Supreme Court arguments today and Ketanji, Brown, Jackson and what appears to be some very skeptical so called conservatives with regard to birthright citizenship. We'll let you know what they had to say and I'll give you my opinion. Yes, I have plenty to say about the status of the Iran war and what the president might say tonight. Of course I do. And I also want to hear from you as always at 877-381-3811. I'd love to know where you stand on our space program because it seems that since Donald Trump became president, we have a renewed interest in NASA. We have a renewed investment in NASA. We, we have a renewed commitment to going where no man has gone before. And that's a good thing.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

It's a very good thing.

[Larry O'Connor]

In fact, it takes vision, it takes the kind of bold leadership to be able to say, no, no, no, this is what we're supposed to be doing. And ultimately whatever federal investment this makes, it will be returned innumerably with the kind of technology that is discovered and the kind of benefits to our lives and the lives of people all over this planet.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

And by the way, if you're listen, I'll be honest.

[Larry O'Connor]

I'm not personally interested in going to the moon. I'm not personally interested in going to live on Mars. Maybe it's because I've reached a certain age. I'm a father, I've got four kids. God forbid something happens, you know, I want to be there for my kids. But I'd love to hear from you if you would volunteer for this mission because that's the next step. First, we're going to have people going to the moon and they're going to live there.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

They're going to live there for years

[Larry O'Connor]

as part of the moon base and a colony there that will help create the infrastructure so that we can then launch from the moon to Mars. And I'm just wondering if you would volunteer for that if you've got it in you, if you're made of the right stuff or, or if you think all of this is a waste, if you think that it's, you know, not worth it. If, if you're one of those people who says, well, we could be spending that money on things here in America like our schools and our healthcare system and free buses.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Just so you know, that's exactly what

[Larry O'Connor]

people like Zoram Hamdani are saying right now. So you might want to pause and reflect on where you are with that perspective. But I'd love to hear from you at 877-381-3811. I'm looking at the launch window right now and we are sitting held at 10 minutes. We hit T minus 10 minutes and now we're on a hold. I will explain to you why we're on a hold right now and we'll take your calls and I will share with you the excitement of this pending launch in just a moment. My name is Larry o'. Connor. It's the Mark Levin Show.

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Mark Levin,

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LARRY o' Connor, sitting in for the

[Larry O'Connor]

great one, Mark levin, and it's a big night for news.

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Historic.

[Larry O'Connor]

Coming up at 9pm EAS will address the nation about the status of the Iran military operation. We're going to give you a full preview of that and take your calls about it. But moments from now, we return to the moon. We Americans, we humanity return to the moon after five decades. And just moments ago I told you before we took a quick pause there that the, the countdown launch window had stopped. It paused at 10 minutes. There's a reason for that. At that moment, what they do is they go through all their final checks to make sure that there's no concerns, that there's no red lights, there's no sort of issues at all. And as soon as everybody clears up, then they say okay, then let's begin this final 10 minute countdown. They have a two hour window starting in about oh well, starting now, they have a two hour window and they're still held at that 10 minute mark. But this is what it sounded like just a moment ago.

[Caller]

All right, sir, I am go for the poll.

All right.

[Larry O'Connor]

And for all personnel, this is the NTD conducting the Artemis II launch readiness check. Verify ready to resume count and go for launch. OTC.

[Caller]

OTC is go.

[Larry O'Connor]

STC.

[Caller]

STC is go.

[Larry O'Connor]

GTC, CSGO, MCO, CO is go. Safety console?

[Caller]

Safety console is go.

[Larry O'Connor]

LPE.

[Caller]

LPE is go.

[Larry O'Connor]

RTD.

[Donald Trump]

RTD's go.

[Larry O'Connor]

Houston flight. Houston flight is go.

[Caller]

Roc rock is go.

[Larry O'Connor]

And CDR cruise, go. Copy that. Thank you, Reed. And Launch Director, ntd. Our launch team is ready to proceed at this time.

[Caller]

All right, ntd, I copy all.

At this time, I'll perform my poll.

Attention on the net.

[Larry O'Connor]

This is the launch director performing the. And from that point forward, they went and checked every single system. It took them about four or five minutes. And you heard the poll of everybody, all of the entities, all of the various specialists of departments who have been

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working for years to make this moment happen.

[Larry O'Connor]

Each one of them now culminating on this date, the first day of April, 2026, asked at this moment, holding the countdown clock at 10 minutes, are you a go?

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Each one polled, each one asked.

[Larry O'Connor]

You heard the crew there. CDR was asked. And the crew commander said, yes, we are a go. And now they're going through the final checks. And I can tell you that just one minute and ten seconds ago that countdown clock resumed. We are now at T minus 8 minutes and 45 seconds for the launch of this Artemis 2 mission to send the Orion space vehicle to an orbit of the Earth. And then a figure eight slingshot up to the moon and as it passes by, the dark side of the moon. Thank you. Pink Floyd. They better play Pink Floyd. When they do that, they will actually reach further into outer space than any human being ever has. And I hope you noticed during that flight check just now, the final cross check of all of the systems. I noticed it. I heard American voices, I heard American accents. I heard Americans. I know that part of the reason why we have to return to space and advance our technology and make sure that we get a foothold on the moon is because, well, we're challenged by rivals, enemies on this planet, most significantly China. And China has designs on the moon. I know one of the reasons why we need to get there is because we got to get there before they do. But let me tell you something. In all reality, only we can do this. Only we have done this and only we will do this. This is the greatest country on the planet and we are capable of anything we put our minds to. And in just 7 minutes and 20 seconds, we will once again leave the surface of the Earth on a mission to Mars and, excuse me, on a mission to the moon. And you and I, we will listen to it together. Keep it right here. It's Larry o' Connor in for Mark Levin.

[Mark Levin]

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[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Fire up my friends.

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It's Larry O' Connor sitting in for

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the great one Mark Levin.

[Larry O'Connor]

And we are about two and a half hours away from a historic address from President Donald Trump on the military conflict against Iran in the Middle East.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

But we are now at T minus 1 minute, 8 seconds from man America

[Larry O'Connor]

returning to the moon, this time for an orbit of the rock. And then next time we'll actually put boots on the ground. Let's share this moment together as we are now under one minute from launch. This is the NASA feed of the Artemis 2 mission from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

[NASA Mission Control]

Honor any holds that could come from the ground now. Shortly after liftoff, Houston will take control of the rocket and my colleague Gary Jordan will take over. Commentary Gls, go for als. Great. Call out. The rocket is on its own. Four brave explorers ready to ride the most powerful rocket NASA has ever launched. Sound suppression. Water is flowing. And here we go. 10, 9, 8, 7.

[Caller]

RS.

[NASA Mission Control]

25 engines lit. 4, 3, 2, 1. Booster ignition and lift off.

[Larry O'Connor]

Wow.

[NASA Mission Control]

The crew of Artemis 2 now balance for the moon. Humanity's next great voyage begins.

[Caller]

Good roll pitch.

[Larry O'Connor]

Roger, roll pitch.

[NASA Mission Control]

Houston now controlling the flight of integrity on the Artemis 2 mission around the moon.

[Larry O'Connor]

Integrity AMT high

[NASA Mission Control]

on time. Passing 30 seconds into the flights. Passes the alternate Beagle target milestone. Mission control, Houston. See good performance engines. Space launch system core stage integrity three miles in altitude traveling more than 1200 miles per hour. Mission elapsed time passing 1 minute. Approaching max Q on Ponce de Leon.

[Larry O'Connor]

Stan, we have you loud and clear on Ponce de Leon. Have you the same

[NASA Mission Control]

communication signal transform confirmed as Integrity and its crew go supersonic. Approaching 90 seconds into the Artemis II. Mission integrity is 14 miles in altitude. Eight miles downrange. Traveling more than 2,600 miles per hour.

[Larry O'Connor]

You can hear the awesome sound of that thrust from those rockets lifting this giant biggest rocket we've ever launched off the planet.

[NASA Mission Control]

1 minute 50 seconds of mission elapsed time. Standing by for main engine throttle down to 85% ahead of solid rocket booster separation expected at the 2 minute 9 second mark.

[Larry O'Connor]

And we're almost at that point. I can tell you what it looks like. It basically looks like a giant fireball streaking up from the Earth's surface up into the sky. It's making an arcing motion separation. Here comes the separation. And there it is. The two solid rockets so, so familiar now from multiple space shuttle launches that we've seen as those two guidance converged.

[Caller]

Performance nominal. Upper stage RCS ready.

[Larry O'Connor]

Those two side by side solid boosters have now separated and they are coming back down to the Earth. And you can still see integrity SM priming complete. That orange fireball from the liquid rocket

[NASA Mission Control]

continuing 2 minutes 45 seconds of mission elapsed time into the Artemis 2 mission.

[Larry O'Connor]

Sending the Orion capsule up into atmosphere. There was just a big flash three

[NASA Mission Control]

minutes into the flight. Integrity, 49 miles in altitude. 78 miles downrange. Now passing 5,000 miles per hour.

[Larry O'Connor]

There is a camera from the rocket itself or from the spaceship, I should say. Looking back down to the Earth. You can see the curvature of the earth and it basically looks like it's already in space. And now they've just jettisoned. Great view. I'll say.

[Mark Levin (Intro/Outro Voice)]

Copy jettison team.

[Caller]

Eco 8/02.

[Larry O'Connor]

They just jettisoned off the last remaining portions of the rocket boosters that was utilized to get it up into orbit. Outstanding. Stan, we have you seen.

[NASA Mission Control]

3 minutes 50 seconds into the flight of Artemis 2. Wiseman Glover, Cook and Hansen cross the boundary to space with good com checks. GPS signals acquired after last jettison. Now working on internal checks to verify accuracy. Flight Dynamics officer analyzed the time of main engine Cutoff confirmed at 8 minutes, 2 seconds. Time of mo.

[Larry O'Connor]

And there you have it. We are back. We're back in space. The Orion spacecraft, as part of the Artemis 2 mission, is now beginning to enter orbit of this planet. And it will be a slow orbit. They take a leisurely. I think it's a 24 hour trip around Earth as they do the initial tests. And then it will fire its boosters on its spaceship once it's targeted and focused specifically on the moon. And by April 7, it will have made it to the far side of the moon just six days from now. What a. What an achievement. What an incredible achievement. And I'll repeat what I said before. Only we could do this. I'm sorry. I know that this is supposed to be a month and you talk to anybody from NASA. I've been interviewing on my morning show in Washington, D.C. i've been interviewing interviews, interviewing people from NASA and astronauts about this mission. And they all have the talking points and they all say, oh, this is an international effort. This is, you know, we're all in this together. This is about humanity. Now, this got launched from Florida, okay? The mission control that took over right after it cleared the launching pad was in Houston, all right? The solid rocket boosters were built by Northrop Grumman. The central liquid fueled stage was built by Boeing. It takes America to do this. It takes freedom to be able to do this. This is why we fight. This is why we fight for our freedoms. It's why we fight for this country and everything that this country stands for. It's why the rest of the world envies us and not in a. Listen. Some of them envy us in a hostile and despicable way. They envy us so much that they want to destroy us. But most of the world, they envy us. They admire us and they want to be a part of us. They want to be on our side because of moments like this, because of vision like this, because of missions like this. And there was a time when NASA was going to die. There was a time when no one thought this was relevant. Not too long ago, you heard people saying that this kind of display was American arrogance. Who are we to do this sort of thing? Well, we're back. We're back. Dare I say this is the golden age of space exploration that we have begun today, that we're all participating in. And it's an incredible thing to witness, and I'm thrilled that we were able to witness it together. And I know how vitally important radio is to people in so many people's lives. And I know how many of you are commuting home or you're driving trucks for a living, or you don't have great vision, or for whatever reason, you're unable to see this right now. And that's why we were together on this. That's why we shared this moment in history. And I'll always remember it. I hope you will, too. Molly Ann Colleyville, Texas Molly Ann I get romantic about things like this. I get emotional about moments like this. Because you should.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

This is, this is what it's all about.

[Larry O'Connor]

To be a human being, to be a God's creature on this planet.

[Caller]

Well, of course. And, you know, I was born in Houston and I came from oil and gas, and of course, I moved away, traveled for a while, and then came, literally moved back to Colleyville, Tarrant county, and was helping family. And I just, I love stuff like this because I think the Springs, it unites our country together and it. And it takes us out of the bad things that we're dealing with, and it makes. It makes the USA so unbelievably amazing. And if I get. If I get, like, teary, it's me, too. These, These are the things that we need. We need this kind of amazing history for, for the books and not this garbage we're dealing with. We. We need people like Elon. We need technology. We need new, innovative, creative people that love the usa. And I, I feel your passion, and I don't want to keep you too long, but I, I just think that the more we can teach our children and the more that, that we can be an inspiration on radio and get across these kind of cool. I was so excited to, to have this moment with you, and I was so enraptured in what you were saying.

[Larry O'Connor]

And did you hear that sound? Did you hear the sound of those rockets?

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

And let me tell you, you know, we've all, We've all seen rockets blast off now.

[Larry O'Connor]

It's sort of like, oh, yeah, I've seen a rocket blast off. First of all, biggest rocket ever, biggest thrust ever is incredible.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

But also, you know how when a

[Larry O'Connor]

rocket, when they do, you know, ignition and there's that moment at the end of the countdown and you see the rockets fire and then. And. Or you see the engines fire and the rocket, it's. There's sort of a pregnant pause where

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

it's right, it sort of looks like, oh, my gosh, is it going to lift? Is it going to lift? Not on this one, baby.

[Larry O'Connor]

Let me tell you something. The second those engines fired, this thing was off the ground. The thrust that those astronauts must have been feeling, this is a big mama. And there was no doubt it was getting off the ground and it's going to the moon. It's so cool.

[Caller]

Well, I appreciate you sharing this moment in history and time. And I get to tell my daughter, who's in Colorado, about it. And I'm excited because she was born in Houston, too, even though she's in Colorado. And you know, we got a lot of cool, amazing people in Florida and Texas, I will tell you that.

[Larry O'Connor]

Oh, yes. Oh, yeah. No, I said it takes America, but it also takes places like Texas, too, let's face it. Thank you so much. I appreciate the call, Molly Ann. And listen, it's always a special moment when I get to sit in behind this microphone of Mark Levins. But today's extra special. Let me walk you through what's going to happen here. First of all, the four astronauts here deserve to some credit. Commander Reid Weissman, space veteran. He has commanded trips to the shuttle before, done a lot of spacewalks. The pilot is Victor Glover. He will have the honor of being the first black astronaut on a lunar mission, which is surprising if you think about it, but since we stopped going to the moon in 73, I guess that's the way it is. He is, by the way, a Navy aviator. Go. Navy mission specialist is Christina Koch. She is, of course, the first woman on a lunar mission. And mission specialist is Jeremy Hansen. He is the first non American on a lunar mission. He is from the Canadian Space Agency. Those are the four heroes that are sitting on top of that enormous rocket right now. Well, now it's not so enormous. Now they had to deal with about four minutes of hell probably as they were shaken. And they're going to need some Advil because their brains got rocked on that. But now they're feeling weightlessness and now they're getting to work. I interviewed a astronaut this morning who's done a lot of missions before, and I said, so once they start the once they get off the Earth's surface and they're up in orbit and they get that feeling of weightlessness and they're not feeling the thrust anymore, then what are they going to do as they orbit the Earth? And he said, oh, well, they got to do a bunch of system checks, make sure everything's working and do you

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

know what system he said first? The very first system he said they

[Larry O'Connor]

have to check the toilet.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

I guess that makes sense because if you're gonna go on a 10 day

[Larry O'Connor]

mission to the moon and back and

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

your toilet ain't working, it's gonna be

[Larry O'Connor]

a bad, bad mission. You got real problems there.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

And may I say, probably after what they just went through, they might need to go because that was something else.

[Larry O'Connor]

We'll walk you through the mission. Today's launch day. Tomorrow is systems checkout in preparation for departure. Day three is what they're calling the outbound trajectory corrections. These are going to be little corrections and burns that they're going to do to make sure that they're on the right path. Fine tuned toward the moon. Flight days four and five is just transit to the moon. Day six is going to be the lunar flyby, the closest approach. That's the highlight of the mission where they're going to get the best pictures of that big old rock floating around up there. Days 7 and 9 is when they whip around the moon and do that slingshot back to the earth. And then flight day 10 is reentry landing. Splashdown, by the way.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Splashdown.

[Larry O'Connor]

Not off the coast of Florida as we're so often used to? No, this will be off the coast of San Diego, California. That will be approximately April 11th. Unbelievable moments. More of your calls at 877-381-3811. And then we'll get into the President's speech on Iran. It's Larry O'Connor in for the Great One.

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Larry o' Connor in for Mark Levin. We just heard it together. Artemis 2 is up and away orbiting the planet Earth right now. And if you're not into space, you're not excited about Americans exploring and getting its foothold back on the moon and beginning the process of creating a moon base. I don't know what to do. Tell you, Dean in Ballworth, New Jersey.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

What, what do we, what do we

[Larry O'Connor]

tell people who aren't excited about this? Dean?

[Caller]

You know what we tell people, Larry? It's like the great jazz musician, he. Who was it?

It was

Tachmo. Anyway, they asked him what jazz is

[Larry O'Connor]

and they said Louis Armstrong.

[Caller]

Louis Armstrong, Thanks. If you have to ask that question,

[Larry O'Connor]

you'll never understand the answer.

[Caller]

So that's what happens to this, too. I mean, this is like the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria. There's some people say, why are you going over there? They just won't understand why we'd still be in Africa. But this is in our nature as human beings.

[Larry O'Connor]

There's something in us.

[Caller]

The Bering Straits, yes, it's in us. I mean, there's not everybody, but some of us just have to go find out what's out there. Well, listen, these astronauts are part of it.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Not everybody, but most Americans.

[Larry O'Connor]

In fact, if you think about it, every American, except for Elizabeth Warren and her Native American roots, but all the other Americans here we are the descendants of explorers of some kind. If you came over on the Mayflowers, whatnot, you came here because you were on a daring mission, right? But if you're a child of immigrants like I am, well, that was a daring mission, too. And you didn't know what was on the horizon. Sure, people had been there before, but you were leaving everything you knew for an adventure and something better and quite an exciting thing. And that's what's in us. And every American carries that with us wherever we go. It's what we do. And this is just the next step in it. It's pretty amazing.

[Caller]

Absolutely.

[Larry O'Connor]

Listen, thank you, Dean, for the call. Coming up in the next hour, we're going to talk about the President's speech tonight at 9 o'. Clock. I want to hear from you. What do you want to hear from the President tonight in his speech? 877381, 3811. I'll tell you what I think we're going to hear, by the way, if you're wondering, Artemis, Olympian goddess, she was the goddess of the hunt, goddess of the wilderness, goddess of the moon, and also twin brother, excuse me, twin sister to Apollo. Yeah, it all makes sense, doesn't it?

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[Caller]

He's here.

[Mark Levin (Intro/Outro Voice)]

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 nondescript building. We've once again made contact with our leader, Mark Levin.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

I'm Larry o', Connor, in for the Great One.

[Larry O'Connor]

Mark levin, it is Passover. Mark, of course, is observing Passover with his beautiful wife, Julie Strauss Levin, and as well as their children, their family, whoever's around right now. So I wish them a good, happy Passover as we launch into Holy Week here. I do love it when Passover and my Christian holidays all meld together, as tomorrow will be Holy Thursday, which was Passover feast for Christ and his apostles. Then we've got Good Friday. And then, of course, the incredible miracle that is Easter Sunday. So this is a great week, great work, great week on the planet Earth. And it's a great week to share the excitement that we just had with the launch of the Artemis 2 mission to the moon. And a lot of you still want to call in and talk about that. Great. I love your enthusiasm. We will take your calls.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

But I do also want to hear

[Larry O'Connor]

from you at 877-381-3811 on the president's speech. President's gonna give a speech, 9pm you'll probably hear it right here on this great news talk radio station that you listen to every night with Mark Levint at immediately following this program. If for some reason the station is not playing it, swing on over to Town hall, where I'm the editor, where I'm gonna be doing a live stream on our YouTube, our Facebook, our rumble page. And so you'll be able to watch the speech with me, I'll give instant analysis. I'll take your messages there on a live chat. It's gonna be a long night here. If you have questions or if you have your commentary, I have a hunch of what we're gonna hear from the president tonight, but this is Donald Trump, my friends. You can't count on anything.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Don't bet on it.

[Larry O'Connor]

You never know what he's going to say. You never know what surprise he might have in store for us. They're pretty good at that sort of thing. But I'd like to Hear from you 877-381-3811. What do you want to hear from the president tonight?

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Do you want him to say, that's it, mission accomplished, I'm done? You know, they'll sort it out themselves.

[Larry O'Connor]

Now let's get out of here? A lot of people want that. Do you want him to say, we're not leaving until this job is done? We're not leaving until nothing once again can threaten us and our allies and our neighbors and the world's economy.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

We're not leaving until we know for

[Larry O'Connor]

certain that there is no remaining nuclear program and there isn't even a chance for them to be able to revive it? Is that what you want?

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Do you want him to stay until

[Larry O'Connor]

there is a new government in place that is going to disavow everything that's happened for the last 47 years and become a civilized partner on the world stage? Is that what you want? Or do you want the president to, you know, go the route that many people are suggesting, which is it's over, it's done. Stop the hemorrhaging, gas prices, the economy

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

turn tail.

[Larry O'Connor]

Yes. You can tell by the way I'm framing this. What you what I hope he says I want to have a semblance of victory here that goes well beyond what we've already done. But I do want to hear from you. What do you want him to say? 877-381-3811. We'll take your calls in a moment. I do want to clear up some of these calls here of people who want to talk about that extraordinary moment of history that we just witnessed together. How about Amy in New Jersey? Amy, thank you so much for calling the Mark Levin Show. I'm Larry o'. Connor.

[Caller]

Hi. To talk to you. I was, I'm listening to you and I was struck. I, I could tell the depth of your kind of American pride that you were having and, and tying that into this amazing advancement, this moment. And it just struck me because you sound like a God fearing person, but he, I felt like he was a little bit left out. Like there's nothing so special about America or us. It's the God we serve. He's, you know, like we're taking credit for him. And I feel like when you do that, it becomes Very easily. Us, them, we're no better than the other side of the person we're warring with. If we forget where our strength really comes from.

[Larry O'Connor]

Well, listen, I appreciate the admonition, and if you're just getting to know me, I think it's sort of interwoven into almost everything that I say about my country and about, about what America is capable of that, you know, God has shed his grace on this nation and we wouldn't be in existence were it not for his will. And, you know, I try my best not to include it into every bold statement that I make, but it's there. And I appreciate, I certainly did, by celebrating this great human achievement and this great achievement of our amazing free country, it is in no way to diminish the, the power and the will and the sovereignty of, of God, our Father. Thank you for reminding me. Glenn in Muskegon, Michigan. Glenn, you got the Wolverine swing in the whole thing. Glenn. I do.

[Caller]

I hope so. Hi there.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Hi there.

[Caller]

Yes.

I hope so.

[Larry O'Connor]

Me too.

[Caller]

A quick comment. Yes. If it wasn't for God, we wouldn't. We wouldn't have the technology, we wouldn't have the brains, we wouldn't have the power to get it done. But the reason I called was to relate to you my story of July19. I was in West Berlin at the time. A country divided and we landed on the moon and people in West Berlin were dancing in the street. Now, this is just 24 years after World War II had ended, and I was 18 years old, and people were running up to me. They, of course, can. They can tell you're an American, right. They were running up to me saying, america first on the moon, number one in the world. So, yeah, I got goosebumps with this whole thing and listening to the launch today. And I want to thank you for letting me express my.

[Larry O'Connor]

Glenn, what a great story from the Cold War. It's so great and, you know, it's so easy to lose sight of that and forget it. You forget about how important America was during the Cold War, what we stood

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

for when things started to go sour

[Larry O'Connor]

in the 70s and we started to lose our stature, and then what Reagan brought back. And you can connect the dots all the way up to how we're leading today. Not just leading in this and this moon launch and technology, but let's take it back to Europe. I mean, Europe is a stronger continent right now because Donald Trump and the

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Trump administration has challenged them to get

[Larry O'Connor]

stronger and protect themselves and participate in NATO and to free up some of the Constraints that they were putting on the economy with trade and tariffs. I mean, that's. It's. It never ends. I'm sick of people saying that America is an embarrassment and that the rest of the country, the rest of the world, you know, looks down on us.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

What's to look down on?

[Larry O'Connor]

Nobody can do what we do, Glenn.

[Caller]

That's right. We're number one in the world. And my friend said to me today, I was walking with him, and he's from Germany, and he said to me, you know, why haven't you guys gone to the metric system? And I said, because worthy, we're still on inches and feet, and you know that. And. But we're the only ones that have ever been to the moon, and we're going back.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

You should look at him and say,

[Larry O'Connor]

dude, you don't want us on the metric system. Imagine what we could accomplish if we did that. Let us hold on to this handicap. All right, Glenn, thank you for that. Go the extra kilometer for them. That is great. All right. How about Sandy in beautiful Savannah, Georgia? Boy, what a great town Savannah is. Hey, Sandy. Thanks for calling. I'm Larry o' Connor for Mark Levin.

[Caller]

Hi.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Hi.

[Caller]

I know I sound.

I sound real Southern. I am just telling. I am just telling you that this is so exciting that we are going back into space.

[Larry O'Connor]

Yes.

[Caller]

I was born in 1965.

I am not. I am not a boomer. For all the boomer haters out there, I am just slightly short of a boomer. I. I was 4 years old when I was living in Virginia. Alexander, Virginia, Right up there near Washington, D.C. my mother walked outside. I was four. My sister was two. She's.

[Larry O'Connor]

Y' all come in.

[Caller]

Y' all come in. They're landing on the moon, and it was unbelievable.

Now, you've got to understand that we came from Georgia, where my parents grew up, with no electricity, no lights, no telephone, nothing.

It was amazing. And what it makes me.

I get chill bumps thinking about it.

[Larry O'Connor]

Yeah, I am, too, just hearing you say it.

[Caller]

The thing is that when.

When we left England, we came over here. You couldn't go back over there.

Can you imagine where this might take us?

[Larry O'Connor]

I know.

[Caller]

We must stay on top.

[Larry O'Connor]

Yep. You got to have that vision. You're so right. You got to have that vision, and you got to recognize what we're capable of. I thank you for that. Thank you for sharing that with us. You know, I. I appreciate the call. I was not old enough to witness the first moonshot and the first moon landing. I'm actually just barely Old enough to have witnessed the last one. I do remember the splashdown of the last Apollo mission as a very little kid, but my brothers made me watch it. And then, of course, I vividly remember our first launch of the space shuttle, which was exciting and great. I was just hoping the space shuttle would end up, you know, doing more than what it ended up doing. Not to diminish that achievement, it was great, and it laid the groundwork for where we are today. But there's something wonderful. There's something very American. And by the way, I'm already getting messages on the X platform and on my Facebook of people who are sure that we never landed on the moon. The whole thing was faked. This one is faked, too, by the way. Everything you're seeing right now is just. It's cgi, it's made in Hollywood, and it's just a. It's a distraction from the Epstein files, I'm told. So there it is. You know what? I'm glad you're listening. If that's your opinion, I'm good. Keep listening. Hopefully we'll be able to help you along, because Lord knows I know there's a whole lot of other podcasts that you could be listening to that end up being much more damaging to your brain. So we'll get you there. We'll get you. All right, listen. The President of the United States will address a nation, a nation, in many respects, that is a little uneasy right now based on the military. I'm not. I have full confidence in our military and their mission and what they've been able to accomplish. But there are some out there, especially those who watch the mainstream corporate media or listen to certain podcasts or read certain websites from the corporate legacy media. They keep flipping down the same holes, they keep spiraling, and they keep repeating the same talking points in the same lines.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Why are we there? What's our objective? What's our exit strategy? Find an off ramp for an off ramp.

[Larry O'Connor]

This is a president who looks for victory and looks for an end game that involves victory. That's what the President is doing right now. That's what his team is doing right now. And they're on the path to that victory. In fact, in many respects, depending on how you define victory, they've already achieved it. The President will address the nation tonight, and he will give you an update on what we've accomplished, what still needs to be done, and what that victory is going to look like. And I want to hear from you at 887-738-13811. When you turn on the television tonight at 9pm or listen to the radio right here at 9pm and you hear the President address you personally as an American, as a taxpayer, as a citizen,

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

a concerned citizen, what do you want

[Larry O'Connor]

to hear from him? Do you want to hear mission accomplished, we're all done, off ramp taken, or do you want him to say, we've done a lot of great stuff but

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

now we're going to stick there until

[Larry O'Connor]

the job is done? And oh, by the way, this is what it looks like when the job is done.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Or do you want something in between?

[Larry O'Connor]

I promise you one thing. People in the White House listen to this show, every minute of it. So they'll hear you too. So be heard. 877-381-3811. Your call's next. What do you want to hear from the President tonight? My name is Larry o'.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Connor.

[Larry O'Connor]

It's the Mark Levin Show.

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[Larry O'Connor]

Larry o' Connor sitting in for the great one, Mark Levin. I'm still getting messages on social media. That's that the moon launch is all made up. It's a distraction from Iran and Epstein files. And get this. You know what the chief evidence of this conspiracy is? This dastardly conspiracy that there's a Jew in charge of NASA. Well, I mean, you don't have to say anything else to convince me, Jared Isaacman, because only a Jew would launch the rocket on Passover. You see, you got to put the pieces together. My Friends. And then it all makes perfect sense. I mean, if you don't have a brain or if the one brain you do have is rotted. Yeah, well, I'm glad that. I'm glad that you're in. In ignorant bliss with me on things like this. What do you want to hear from the President tonight? Let me give you a preview of what I think you might hear from the president tonight. In fact, it was the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, who put out a statement today that sort of projects a little bit of what the administration's message is, has been, by the way, from the beginning. But take a listen to Marco Rubio and then we'll discuss the president.

[Marco Rubio]

Many Americans are asking, why did the United States have to attack Iran now? Well, let me explain. Iran wants to have nuclear weapons. Of that there is zero doubt if what they truly wanted, which is what they claim, is nuclear energy. Well, they could have nuclear energy like all the other countries in the world have it. And that is you import the fuel and you build reactors above ground. That's not what Iran has done. They build their reactors and their facilities deep in mountains, away from the public glare. And they want to enrich that material. The same equipment that they could use to enrich material for energy, they could use to quickly enrich it to weapons grade. So it is clear that they've been offered every opportunity to have a nuclear program that allows them to have energy, not weapons. And every single time, they have turned it down. But why the attack now? Well, what was Iran trying to do? Iran was trying to build a conventional shield, in essence, have so many missiles, have so many drones that no one could attack them. And they were well on their way. We were on the verge of an Iran that had so many missiles and so many drones that no one could do anything about their nuclear weapons program in the future. That was an intolerable risk. Under no circumstances can a country run by radical Shia clerics with an apocalyptic vision of the future ever possess nuclear weapons. And under no circumstances can they be allowed to hide and protect that program and their ambitions behind a shield of missiles and drones that no one can do anything about. This was our last best chance to eliminate that conventional threat, that conventional shield that they were trying to build. And the President made the right decision to wipe it out. Now, that is the goal of this operation, to destroy their conventional missiles and their drone program so they can't hide behind it and finally have to deal with the world seriously about never, ever having nuclear weapons.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Well done.

[Larry O'Connor]

And just so you Know, of course, that video address had the imprimatur of the White House on it because the Secretary of State works for the President. He delivered those remarks at the will of the President and at the pleasure of the President because he does a good job serving this President. And if you turn on cable news tonight or broadcast news, if you'd listen

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

to George Stephanopoulos, whose job is not

[Larry O'Connor]

to illuminate and deliver news, but it's to sow doubt and fear and division and chaos in this country, they'll say,

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

oh, they're changing their message. What was their mission? To get the nuclear facilities and the nuclear program. Yes, but was their mission to get the missiles and the rockets and the Navy?

[Larry O'Connor]

Yes, yes, yes. What was it?

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

To get the drones and their jets? Yes, yes, it's. Yes, all of it.

[Larry O'Connor]

That's what the mission has been and it's right on schedule. What do you want to hear from the President tonight? Give us a call.

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[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Oh, the President's never been clear on his objectives. Why do they keep moving the goalpost? What are the goals? Why doesn't he tell the American people?

[Larry O'Connor]

Hearing this for a month now on day one when the. I'm Larry o' Connor sitting in for Mark Livin. The President's gonna speak to the nation tonight about Operation Epic Fury on the morning that it launched February 28, March 1, 4:00am, 5:00am I think is when it started. Eastern time. He gave remarks from Mar? A Lago. It was very clear at the time.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Two days later. Two days later, March 2nd, from the White House.

[Donald Trump]

For almost 47 years, this regime has been attacking the United States and killing Americans. Every time you see someone with missing arms and legs or a face that's been absolutely shattered violently, it was almost certainly caused by an Iran roadside bomb. They were put there by General Soleimani, who was the father of the roadside bomb. Very proudly, he thought, But I terminated him in my first term. This was our last, best chance to strike what we're doing right now and eliminate the intolerable threats posed by this sick and sinister regime. And they are indeed sick and sinister. Our objectives are clear. First, we're destroying Iran's missile capabilities. And you see that happening.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

All right, so now you just heard

[Larry O'Connor]

Marco Rubio say, you know, we're really going after their missile capabilities so they can't threaten their neighbors, our allies, our friends, our partners and the rest of the planet. We see now, based on the intermediate range missile that they launched at Diego Garcia, that they've got the capability. I mean, it wasn't on target, but they've got the capability just indiscriminately shooting a missile like that at Europe if they wanted to.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Right, so you just heard Rubio say, yeah, the main objective here was to

[Larry O'Connor]

get rid of the missile capabilities.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

And then you just heard March 2, March 2, this is Donald Trump.

[Donald Trump]

They are indeed sick and sinister. Our Objectives are clear. First, we're destroying Iran's missile capability.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

So that was March 2nd, you just heard from Marco Rubio this morning, April 1st. So it exactly the same messaging. Oh, they keep shifting their message, they keep changing their objectives. They're all over the map. No, no, not at all. He continues with the objectives. Again, this is March 2nd.

[Donald Trump]

You see that happening on an hourly basis and their capacity to produce brand new ones and pretty good ones they make. Second, we're annihilating their navy. We've knocked out already 10 ships. They're at the bottom of the sea. Third, we're ensuring that the world's number one sponsor of terror can never obtain a nuclear weapon. Never going to.

[Larry O'Connor]

That was. And that's exactly what you just heard echoed. I'm so tired of George Stephanopoulos and Jake Tapper lying to you, gaslighting you, telling you that the President is inconsistent, that they're changing their story, they're changing their message. Nobody knows why we're There, nobody knows what we're doing. Why don't they have a clear message? What's wrong with their communic communication strategy?

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

What do you want? It takes two to communicate. If you refuse to listen, if you refuse to do your job, which is to convey information to the American people, that's on you. And we can go on and on. This is what the political leadership, the

[Larry O'Connor]

civilian leadership and the military leadership has been saying over and over and over again and given almost daily updates to the American people of how this mission is going. And so now here we are, one month later. The President will be addressing the nation 9:00pm this evening, less than an hour and a half from now. You'll hear it on this station. If for some reason this station doesn't play it, you can watch me. I'll be streaming it live at town hall, at our various YouTube rumble Facebook pages, in a townhall dot com. What do you want to hear from him? What do you want the President to say? Are you done? Are you pulling the ripcord? Are you out of here? You want the first off ramp? You want him to finish the job? What does finishing the job look like? Do you want him to tell you what finishing the job looks like? 877-381-3811. How about Reza in Gettysburg? Reza, you're first up here.

[Caller]

Thanks for taking my call. I will tell you, I am an Iranian American. I'll tell you how the success would look like. And President Trump, in fact, he has done a wonderful job. He's a brave president. No other president in the history of the United States has taken these steps that he has done. So how do we say that we have succeeded? First of all, Iranian government has to give back all those enriched uraniums back to the United States. If not, they are going to use it later because they lie and they cheat and they are very deceptive. They are going to use it against us. No doubt. They are going to use it against Israelis. Second, they have to recognize the Israel's right to exist. If they don't, this is premature. Third president, in fact, Iranian people, they took the history two months ago, they were slaughtered. As we all know, more than 40,000 people died. President Trump talks to him. He said the help is on the way and he has to honor it. He has to deliver that death to the Iranian people. And at the same time, Iranian people, they chanted Reza Pahlavi's princess of Pahlavi's name as their leader again. We want him back. When Iran was monarchy, we didn't have any dis problems with the United States? We were best friends with the United States. We were good friends and best friends with Israelis. We were doing development, healthy and happy country, prosperous country. And these things must happen. Otherwise if we leave prematurely, it's going to be very bad. We are going to leave a wounded beast on the scene. They will deceive us and they will come back and they will hit us very bad. That's all.

[Larry O'Connor]

Reza, thank you for that. And can I ask you, I've gotten to know so many Persian Americans over the course of the last really couple of months. I started to get to know them as I was speaking out against the, the violence against the protesters in Iran that we saw late January. How long has have you and your family been here in the United States?

[Caller]

Oh, we have been here after the disaster. In fact, after 19. In fact, I came here before the 1979. I came here to 1978. I got my PhD.

[Larry O'Connor]

So you saw the revolution from here. You saw it all. I love that you call it the disaster. So you've been on top of this. So let me ask you this because, because you might have a better handle on this than anyone else, certainly anyone who's working in Congress right now or in a network news station. If the president says tonight we've identified an individual who has been part of the government apparatus and we believe he's reasonable and we can work with him,

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

do you trust that or do you

[Larry O'Connor]

think that anyone who's been associated with this government needs to go, yes, anybody

[Caller]

associated this government should go listen, deceiving and being poisonous against Israel and America killing people, terrorism is in their DNA. You cannot change a poisonous, in fact snake. And until just you kill it.

[Larry O'Connor]

So you're in support of the crown prince returning?

[Caller]

Yes. They are trying to buy time because they know that Trump is a real man. He's a brave man. He's the fighter. Bibi is fighter. They are waiting for two things. They are waiting President Trump's term to be over. And God forbid, if we get a Democrat, Obama type or whatever, this guy from California, it's going to be even worse. And trust me. And the only success is they give back to uranium. They recognize Israel's fight to exist and that they in fact president correctly he said the health is on the way. He honors his own words. I think I believe he does. He does. He does what? He says this and Prince Reza comes back to the power that's.

[Larry O'Connor]

You want the crown prince.

[Caller]

Millions of Iranians want.

[Larry O'Connor]

I saw his speech down in Dallas, at cpac. And it was quite stirring. I hope that he can. I, it could be a great transitional figure and a rallying figure and a figurehead. I think he's been out of that country for so long. It would be an amazing thing to see. Certainly. Riza. Let's see if that happens. I'm not sure. I don't know. Thank you, sir.

[Caller]

If the new guy comes to Galiba, whoever, whoever is part of the regime, they are lying. They want to buy time.

[Larry O'Connor]

I understand. I listen. That's. Most of the Persian Americans think exactly like you. They, they, I appreciate the call. Reason. God bless you. And the Persian people, a lot of them say that. A lot of them say what the president says, oh, we identified this guy. He was the, you know, Secretary of Transportation or he was, you know, the majority whip in the House or what. I don't know if they've got the same positions there and he seems reasonable. We're going to be able to work with him. Similar to what they did in Venezuela. Persian Americans are like, nope, nope, nope. If they have the stain of that Iranian regime on them, no matter how low level, no matter what they did, they can't be trusted.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

But that would take a lot, frankly.

[Larry O'Connor]

It would take the Iranian people to have to stand up and overthrow the government that they've got. They need to now participate in this. They need to clean the house. They need to create. We can't do it. We've tried.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

We're not good at it. Okay. Our mastery of that skill ended when

[Larry O'Connor]

we rebuilt the constitution and government of Japan. We needed Douglas MacArthur to do it. He did a good job. Japan's doing pretty fine since then.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

We're not so good at that.

[Larry O'Connor]

Not so good.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Especially in the Middle East.

[Larry O'Connor]

A bit of a culture clash there, I think, needless to say. Steve in Louisville, Texas. Steve, thanks for calling in. I'm Larry o'. Connor. It's the Mark Levin Show.

[Caller]

Hey, Larry. I was at Fort Knox, Kentucky in March of 1991. Bradley fifing all were commenting. One common theme. We did not finish the job by taking out Saddam Hussein. And 12 years later, we're back at Iraq. Operation Iraqi Freeding freedom, losing more of America's treasure and precious military personnel. Trump needs to finish off what remains of the old regime in Iran. Encourage, get the Iranians to rise up. Hopefully we end up with a pro Western government because China, after this settles down, you can bet a silver dollar China's going to go in and make sure that they've got control over the Strait of Hormuz and their fuel supplies for the next 10 or 20 years. And now we really will have to go back and have a horrible, bloody fight over 20% of the world's crude oil. So finish the job, Mr. Trump, keep the Chinese out, get a pro Western government in there and let's have 47 years worth of peace in the Middle

[Larry O'Connor]

east, peace, prosperity and friendship. And I want a vacation in Iran.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

I want them to try to sell me a rug. But yeah, let me just say quickly,

[Larry O'Connor]

though, and I completely hear you and anyone who is involved in the first Gulf War and knew the Colin Powell mandate, you break it, you bought it. And President George Herbert Walker Bush said, yeah, we'll get the job done. We'll clean out Kuwait, we'll put Saddam on the run and then we'll get out of there. And you're right, it was a disaster and they should have finished it up. Let me tell you something. One place where the comparison doesn't work is unlike the Gulf War, where Saddam Hussein lived to tell another tale for another 12 years, they have gone a little further here. They haven't just, you know, liberated Kuwait and then had that, the Trail of Tears there, whatever they called it, in the road of desolation and death and destruction on the way up to Baghdad, leaving Kuwait, they chopped off the head of the snake and the other 40 heads of the snake with that initial strike. There is no leadership. There is no ayatollah. And the son of the ayatollah, I'm told, is missing a leg in a coma, impotent and gay or all of the above. So they are one step ahead of the first Gulf War in that they didn't leave the leader standing. And that does create an opportunity. Many say, oh, could be whoever replaces them could be worse. Yeah, I think it's a safe bet. I think I'm willing to take that bet. But we'll see what the next step is. I mean, if you're thinking about regime change, and what I think you will hear from the president tonight is, you know, everyone's talking about regime change. Will there be regime change? Destroying their Navy, destroying their air force, destroying most of their missile capability and killing off the bulk of their leadership. That is regime change. What do you call it if it's not regime change? More of your calls here in a moment. What do you want to hear from the president in about an hour? 877-381-3811. I'm Larry O'. Connor. It's the Mark Levin Show.

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[Larry O'Connor]

Larry O' Connor sitting in for Mark Levin. We're giving a quick preview of the President's speech which should be delivered from the White House in about one hour. What do you want to hear from the President? 877-381-3811. How about Benjamin in Sydney, Australia down under. What is it like? Are we a morning show there in Sydney right now?

[Caller]

Yeah, yeah, that's right.

Yes.

Morning. I'm just going to get do some gardening. So speaking of the gardening, a lot of the world's fertilizers for farmer heavy duty agriculture goes through those straits. So I think Trump, I would like to hear Trump say he's going to let the Iranians charge a toll or whatever. They redirect the ships, you know, pass the little island in their waters. They've already done it for a few ships. They charge like one or two million dollars a ship and just flush those ships through there. That's what I would like to, you know, have Trump do.

[Larry O'Connor]

And you want this Iranian government to be able to sort of have control of the Strait of Hormuz and be charging ships to go through like a toll gate.

[Caller]

If you and your family would be happy to go over there with the permission of the Iranians and do it for them. I don't care who does it. They could send, you know, the voices

that did the Simpsons over there.

I don't care who does it. I just think they should let anyone there in Iran Charge their million dollar toll, you know, while they kind of thrash out a ceasefire agreement, Flesh out a ceasefire.

[Larry O'Connor]

But then who ends up running Iran at the end of the day? I mean, at some point, I mean, Australia has suffered from the menace of this country as well, has it not?

[Caller]

We're talking about people that are all married to their cousins for like 10 generations in a row. We don't have anything in common with them. I'm not going to try to relate to them. I just say run your, you know,

[Larry O'Connor]

I'm not asking you to relate to them. And I don't think that's entirely accurate about the Persian people. But are you saying that they're. There's no country in the Middle east that we can have a normalized relationship with and do business with and act peacefully with? Because I think there are no.

[Caller]

America's at war with Iran. Right. So while they're at war, short term, I'm saying I'd like Trump, let the

[Larry O'Connor]

Iranians charge so you can get your fertilizer.

[Caller]

We all need to. The farmers need to.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Yeah, I'm telling you, I'm pretty sure

[Larry O'Connor]

that if you, if you, if your

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

country or whatever nation wants to get

[Larry O'Connor]

their fertilizer, there are ships going through and they're paying Iran.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Trump's not stopping it.

[Larry O'Connor]

So if you want your fertilizer that bad.

[Caller]

Yeah, we all need it.

[Larry O'Connor]

You should talk to your government then, see if Australia will get down on any. Don't look, don't look for us to facilitate that process for you, I suppose. I'm sure we're make for a great morning show over there, though. I do a morning show here in Washington, D.C. so I understand why he woke up with us there tomorrow, by the way. I don't think you'll hear the President saying that tonight, just so you know. But we will hear from the president in an hour and it will be fascinating as it always is with President Donald Trump. We'll get an update on our accomplishments there. And then I'm sure that he's going to paint a picture for the path forward in terms of what that looks like. Weeks, months, doubt it will be in the term of years. All right, coming up, we have a breakthrough with the Department of Homeland Security and Democrats refusing to fund it. Speaker Mike Johnson put out a statement. I'm going to tell you what it said, I'll tell you what it means, and I'll tell you why Democrats are so intent on making your life chaotic and miserable. There's a method to this. And as soon as I explain it to you. You can't unsee. It.

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[Larry O'Connor]

He's here.

[Mark Levin (Intro/Outro Voice)]

Now broadcasting them from the underground command post deep in the bowels of a hidden bunker, some where under the brick and steel of a nondescript building, we've once again made contact with our leader, Mark Len.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

I'm Larry o' Connor sitting in for the great one, Mark levine, It's Passover

[Larry O'Connor]

and Mark is celebrating and respectfully honoring this incredible holy day with his wife Julie Strauss Levin and his family.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

He'll be back tomorrow.

[Larry O'Connor]

Passover, one day. But I'm proud to be stepping in for Mark tonight. A historic night. We began the evening with the incredible Artemis 2 launch from Cape Canaveral. And as soon as we go off the air in a little less than an hour, we will have the President of the United States addressing the nation from the Oval Office. We spoke about at this last hour with regard to what you wanted to hear from the President, what I expect to hear from the President. We'll continue with your calls in a moment.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

But I want to

[Larry O'Connor]

want to sort of lay out where we are right now with regard to the Democrats refusal to fund the Department of Homeland Security. We have had a breakthrough of sorts. The speaker of the House and Leader Thune have put out a statement. I'll read it to you in a moment. But basically it says they're going forward with a two track approach. They're going to finish funding the Department of Homeland Security and Border Patrol through the end of the president second term in a reconciliation package. And in the meantime, they will fund the rest of the Department of Homeland Security without ice in this first iteration. So I think they'll fast track that reconciliation bill. I'll give you the details in a moment, but I want to explain something real fast because I think this is getting lost on a lot of people. You realize Democrats, Chuck Schumer and the Senate Democrats have shut down the federal government three times in the last 12 months

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

now. Every time, the president or the vice

[Larry O'Connor]

president or members of the Senate who are a little more based or people like me who talk on talk radio or podcast whenever we say, gee, maybe it's time to get rid of this filibuster thing, because we're not going to get anything done. And the American people elected Republicans to have the majority in the Senate and the majority in the House and in the White House to get stuff done. And every time we say that and

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

say, you know, that filibuster thing, it

[Larry O'Connor]

ain't working anymore, I'm told that we can't get rid of the filibuster for various reasons. First, laughably, they said, oh, that means when Democrats are in power, then they'll be able to do anything and our filibusters won't work anymore.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

And I mean, I kind of follow the news. I bet you do, too.

[Larry O'Connor]

You're no history buff, but it wasn't that long ago. It was like four years ago when

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

they attempted to do that. And the only people who stood in the way of the Democrats nuking the filibuster, packing the supreme court and giving D.C. and Puerto Rico statehood were two Democrat senators, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, who aren't there anymore. So when I'm told that, oh, gosh, if we do that, then Democrats will run roughshod and they'll be able to do whatever they want. First of all, number one, it's a loser mentality to be afraid of getting

[Larry O'Connor]

anything done because you're worried that the other side will then get something done when they win. How about this? Instead of a loser mentality about, oh,

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

no, what will we do when we lose? How about you focus on winning? How about you focus on not letting them get in that position? How about you show the American voters that when you have the power to pass laws, you help them and improve our nation so the Democrats won't win and take power?

[Larry O'Connor]

That's what a Winner's mentality sounds like

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

a number one, but number two,

[Donald Trump]

It's

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

what they're going to do anyway. They've already told you why. Why is it we never listen to

[Larry O'Connor]

the Democrats when they tell us who they are and what they're going to do?

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

They've already shown you that that's what they're going to do. So what do you have? Oh, but then what if they do this? What do you mean, what if they're going to do it? That's number one.

[Larry O'Connor]

The other argument I always hear is,

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

oh, well, that would be a violation of the norms of the great tradition of the United States Senate, the storied

[Larry O'Connor]

tradition of the saucer, the cooling saucer

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

of the most deliberative body on the planet, the United States Senate, where we all sit and look at our naval.

[Larry O'Connor]

And we debate and discuss and we don't want to get anything done because that would just be too radical and actually go against everything the United States Senate stands for. And that's why our founders set up this body, that we only have turnover of 1 3rd every 2 years instead of everybody, like the House of Representatives.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

And if you upset the traditions and

[Larry O'Connor]

the norms and the protocols.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Did I mention the norms and the history of the U.S. senate? Well, that would just violate everything that

[Larry O'Connor]

the U.S. senate stands for. I mean, we have a parliamentarian who has more power than the majority leader, and that's a good thing.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

And we couldn't possibly upend the filibuster because that would radically alter our history

[Larry O'Connor]

and the historic power of the Senate. Senate. All right, so first of all, the filibuster is not that old. It's not even as old as half the age of the Senate. Okay. And its current iteration is, what, 40 years old when they changed it from Two thirds to 60 votes? Okay, so already you've had some modifications to the filibuster.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

But settle that aside for a second. When these Republicans like John Thune, the leader, I'm told he's the leader. He wants to lead, right? Does he want to lead?

[Larry O'Connor]

I think he wants to lead.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

He should lead. He should try leading. When John Thune clutches his pearls and

[Larry O'Connor]

harrumps at you saying, wow, we have a storied tradition here in the Senate, and I don't want to be the one to do away with the filibuster because that would upset our norms.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Can I just say, Leader Thune, if

[Larry O'Connor]

I may, just for a quick second, a word, please.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Does it not upset the norms of

[Larry O'Connor]

the United States Senate to have the

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Minority party shut down the government three times in 12 months. Does that not violate the storied contemplative cooling saucer of the United States Senate? Does that not make John Adams spin in his grave? I'm sorry, is Chuck Schumer respecting the world's greatest deliberative body by refusing to debate or allow a vote on basic pieces of legislation like funding our Department of Homeland Security or ensuring that only citizens are registered to vote? Who's violating the norms here? Leader Thune, you sound like a fool when you talk about how you're trying to have some sort of familial or fraternal or some level of comedy with your good friend Mr. Schumer from New

[Larry O'Connor]

York across the aisle.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

He doesn't want to be your friend. He wants to defeat you. He's playing to win. He doesn't care about Senate norms. He doesn't care about traditions. He doesn't care about some cooling saucers. If he did, he wouldn't have shut down the government three times in 12 months. Has any minority party ever shut down the government three times in 12 months in our history?

[Larry O'Connor]

The answer is no.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

And we're worried about violating norms. When they tell you who they are and they show you who they are, pay attention and believe them. We are engaged in a military operation against the world's leading state sponsor of terror, a country that has been killing Americans and terrorizing us and our neighbors for 47 years. We are vulnerable to terror attacks here at home, more than we have since 9, 11. And Democrats don't want to fund the Department of Homeland Security. And you're worried about violating the norms

[Larry O'Connor]

and the grand history of the Senate.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

It's already been violated by Chuck Schumer and the Democrats. And now you want to go to voters this November, hat in hand, asking for votes, and what message do you have? What are you going to tell them? What record are you going to show them? Vote for us. Look what we did. Okay, Tell me what you did. What did you do? You didn't get anything done because Chuck Schumer stopped you from doing anything. Gee, do you think maybe Chuck knows what he's doing? Do you think maybe Chuck knows that? If you go back to the American people this November and said, we did A and B and C and D and E, and look at all these things we got done and look at how we've improved your lives. Don't you think that gives you a compelling message? Don't you think maybe Chuck Schumer's trying to keep you from doing that the best thing you can offer them is what you did in reconciliation last year. So instead, what's your other message to voters? Well, you got to keep us in the majority. Otherwise, you're going to give it to the Democrats, and a voter's going to respond and say, well, yeah, what did you do with it? It You've had the majority, what you do?

[Larry O'Connor]

Oh, well. Well, we couldn't really do anything because Chuck Schumer stopped us.

[Mark Levin]

Really?

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

That guy in the minority stopped you? Well, because of this filibuster rule.

[Larry O'Connor]

Oh, I see. And.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

And you can't get rid of the filibuster rule? Oh, no, we could, but, you know, it's been around a hundred years, so,

[Larry O'Connor]

I mean, people at the Harvard Kennedy School of Politics would be angry at me if I did it.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

So that. So then what's your argument to voters this November? Okay, okay, I know we haven't gotten anything done, so here's what I need. I need seven more Republicans so we

[Larry O'Connor]

can beat the filibuster. Then we'll be good.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Then we'll be good.

[Larry O'Connor]

Until then, we really can't get anything done.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

There's a winning message. There's a really winning message. 80% of the American people, 90% of Republicans, think there should be a law requiring photo ID when you go to the ballot box so you can prove that you are who you say you are. 80% of Americans, 90% of Republicans, think that since the Constitution says that only citizens should register to vote, that when you go to register to vote, you should prove you're a citizen. And you can't get that done. You refuse to fight for that. So you're going to ask for our vote this November, and we're going to say, dude, you had something that 80% of Americans wanted and you couldn't deliver. And I'm not saying that people are

[Larry O'Connor]

going to vote for the other guy.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

It's just you're not really motivating us to vote for you. You know why? People like Donald Trump, he fights.

[Larry O'Connor]

I know, I know. I'm not breaking any new ground here.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Oh, but he fights.

[Larry O'Connor]

But he fights. People mock that now.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

No, no, no, no. You shoot a bullet at his head and whiz past it by a millimeter, hitting his skull and rip off part of his ear, and he has to drop to the podium. He'll stand up and he's ready to fight. You tell him that birthright citizenship has been around for 100 years. There's nothing we can do about it. No, he fights. Oh, we'll never be able to build a wall that that will look bad. The Pope will yell at us. He fights and he builds the wall. You know, there's really no way to shut down the southern border because of the terrain. We might have to have an electric wall. We're just not.

[Larry O'Connor]

But again, we just have to accept

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

the fact that it's never going to

[Larry O'Connor]

get shut down completely.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

He did it in like 2 months. Cuz he tried and he. And he fought and he continues to fight. They throw him in jail. He fights. They try to take him off the ballot. He fights. They raid his home at 4 in the morning and go through his wife's underwear drawer. He fights. They take a mugshot of him and put it out for everybody to see, to mock him. They try to bankrupt him. They stack a jury against him, they invent a law to prosecute him. And he fights and he fights and he fights and they leave him for dead. Wow. With all of these felony convictions and twice impeached and, and the mug shots and there's no way he'll ever win again. We'll even remove him from the ballot if we have to. He fought and he won. And now John Thune's gonna walk into the Oval Office and say, I'm sorry

[Larry O'Connor]

Mr. President, but I can't get the votes. Really?

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

What did you do to try? Cuz he's been trying, he's been fighting and he wins. Cuz if you don't fight, you don't win.

[Larry O'Connor]

And I understand Leader Thune is a nice guy.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

I do, I understand that.

[Larry O'Connor]

He's a gentleman. Gentlemen.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Maybe he's not cut out for this job, you know, maybe it's not for a nice guy and a gentleman. You know what? You know who else is a nice guy and a gentleman? Mike Johnson. He keeps delivering the votes. He doesn't go into the Oval Office and say, well, Mr. President, you know,

[Larry O'Connor]

this Tom Massey guy is really a thorn in my side and so is Marjorie Taylor Greene and these other guys. And it was really hard. And so I just couldn't get it.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

No, somehow he gets it done.

[Larry O'Connor]

What's your excuse, John Thune?

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

I just don't get it. But lest you believe that I'm just

[Larry O'Connor]

going to stand here and argue about a couple of Republicans in the Senate. No, no, no, don't worry.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

I've saved the best for last.

[Larry O'Connor]

Ultimately, this is the Democrats fault. Ultimately, this is Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffrey's fault.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Ultimately, this is their plan. What's the master plan? What are they accomplishing? I'll tell you, I'll explain it all. And once I tell you, you will not be able to unsee it. You'll see it clearly every single time

[Larry O'Connor]

they open their mouths or do anything. That's coming up in a moment. I'm Larry o'. Connor. It's the Mark Levin Show.

[Mark Levin (Intro/Outro Voice)]

Mark Levin,

[Mark Levin]

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[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Hey, I'm Larry o'.

[Larry O'Connor]

Connor. It's the Mark Levin Show. My apologies to people who work in Leader Thune's office or Leader Thune himself. I'm sure that this is much more nuanced and more complicated for just a little American citizen. But here's the problem. We're the ones who vote. So if it's so complicated and nuanced and 4D check that you have to deal with there in the Senate, maybe you need to rethink the way you're going about your business and get something done here that we voters can actually see and tangibly understand. That said, I mentioned that this is really obviously all Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries and the Democrats fault.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

And if you're wondering, well, what do

[Larry O'Connor]

they achieve by this? Just by stopping things, are they stopping progress? Yeah, that's part of it. That's part of it. But there's actually a method to this madness, and it is madness. This. Once you understand this one basic fact, then everything falls into place. The shutdown of the government three times in the last 12 months, specifically the Department of Homeland Security, TSA, the military not getting paid, the disruptions to our economy, to our Government spending, the constant criticism of our military while they're engaged in Operation Epic Fury or other strikes, opposition to the Venezuela strike, on and on and on and on, on. What does it all mean? What do they gain from it? Here's the one fact you need to know for Democrats. And then everything crystallizes.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

If you are miserable, if you are unhappy, if things in this country seem chaotic, if our economy is stagnated, if there are any issues with our, with

[Larry O'Connor]

our stock market or with gas prices or with employment,

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

if your life is miserable, if you are unhappy, if you are put out, and if you feel like it's chaos and nothing can solve

[Larry O'Connor]

what's going on right now in this

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

country, it benefits them. They benefit from your misery.

[Mark Levin (Intro/Outro Voice)]

Right versus left is right versus wrong. Call Market, 877-381-3811.

[Larry O'Connor]

I'm no historian, but I can remember five years ago. Can you? Six years ago. It's Larry O' Connor sitting in for Mark Levin here on the Mark Levin Show. The president is going to be addressing the nation in less than 30 minutes. You'll hear it right here. If your radio station does not play it, just swing on over to the Town hall live stream. I'll be be anchoring that for Town hall on all of our platforms. And then I'll give you commentary and analysis. Can you remember six years ago? Do you remember? Let's go. Six years and two months ago to be exact. That would be January of 2020 presidential election year. Historic unemployment, really historic unemployment in the black and Latino communities. Economy chugging. President Trump's first three years in office had been an absolute revelation. Everything that he had attempted to do with the economy was working on all cylinders. The tax cuts of 2019 were in play and happening. Excuse me. 2017 were in play and happening. Prosperity, peace, road forward for ending our involvement in Afghanistan was put in place. Things were looking good. Democrats were panicking. God, Trump might win re election. He was actually getting better poll numbers. This is after attempted impeachment, of course. Or we were on the road to an attempted impeachment, if I remember right, over the bogus Ukrainian phone call. But instead, we had spent a year, a bogus year of 2019, on investigations over Russian collusion. We had the Mueller investigation. We had James Comey, Christopher Wray, Hillary Clinton, the Russian dossier, Fusion gps. You remember all of that, don't you? It wasn't that long ago. And then something happened, happen. Things were looking great. President was writing and he was raising money like nuts. He was going to have a War chest like you wouldn't believe. Democrats looked like they were going to nominate, you know, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders. What, Kristen Gillibrand, Pete Buttigieg. Right. Kamala Harris. By this point in January, I think she had already dropped out along with Beto o'. Rourke. Then something happened. Do you remember. You remember the pandemic? COVID 19. COVID 19 happened, and the president, sadly, did not have a team assembled to manage it and see through it. I'll be honest with you, I don't fault Donald Trump in the first three years of his first term for neglecting to prioritize the center for Disease Control and the scientists and virologists who had worked there for decades. I don't think he really expected that to be a major issue for his presidency. I think he figured that people who were professional experts in pandemics and viruses and communicable diseases, etcetera, would actually do their duty to help save American lives and protect this country from a horrible virus. I don't think he thought it would be political, so I don't think he prioritized getting his people in there, clearly. Who's this Fauci guy? He's been there forever, going back to Reagan, really. I guess he knows what he's doing. All right. What harm can he do? So what happened? What happened starting in February through Election Day? Well, it was quite a turn of events there. Trump was talked into. Under pressure. He was talked into shutting down the economy and calling for a nationwide shutdown of schools and businesses for 15 days.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

15 days to stop the spread.

[Larry O'Connor]

But of course, whoever recommended that to him never intended it to only go for 15 days. That was Anthony Fauci, by the way. Oh, by the way, if I could pause here for a moment. Go ahead and research it. You'll see there was an article, I believe, in Vanity Fair or New York magazine detailing it at the time.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Do you know.

[Larry O'Connor]

Do you know who was one of the most influential voices in President Trump's ear in February and early March of 2020, imploring him to take the COVID 19 virus from China very seriously, imploring him and warning him that if he did not lead, take charge of this and take it seriously to stop the spread of this virus, that it would destroy his presidency? Do you know who that was that

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

flew down to Mar a Lago to meet with him face to face and

[Larry O'Connor]

explain that this virus from China was going to be a worldwide disaster, and

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

if he did not lead and take

[Larry O'Connor]

it seriously, it would ruin his presidency. You know who that was. Do you remember?

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Look it up. Fact check me.

[Larry O'Connor]

I'm begging you to. It was Tucker Carlson, Fox News primetime host at the time. Tucker Carlson, if you remember his programming at the time, he was really covering the virus. COVID 19. Look at what's going on in Italy. Look at what we're seeing on the streets of Shanghai. This is a nightmare. It's coming to our shores. People are going to die. And President Trump listens to people that he respects. He, he took the advice, he led with a strong hand, he was decisive, he was firm. Shut down the economy 15 days, which in some places of this country lasted over a year. Schools shut down, stores shut down, businesses shut down, Chaos. Do you remember how miserable you were? Do you remember how horrible it was? Do you remember the suffering that you went through? Do you remember the fear and the panic? Do you remember how your children were affected, how their education was affected?

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Do you remember all of it? Do you remember not being able to

[Larry O'Connor]

visit sick people in the hospital as they were dying?

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Do you remember not being able to

[Larry O'Connor]

go to your parents funeral?

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Do you remember?

[Larry O'Connor]

Do you remember the mixed messages? No, please don't wear a mask. Oh, you have to wear a mask. Do you remember? I remember vividly. Chaos, misery, despair. Lives torn apart and destroyed.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Do you remember six feet of separation?

[Larry O'Connor]

We have to have six feet of social distancing. Now, you know, of course, now because you listen to this radio program, so you're plugged into the news. You're not one of those overpaid teleprompter readers that pretend like they're delivering news to you at a studio in New York or Washington D.C. on a cable news network. Those people don't actually know the news or remember anything in the news. You know the news. You remember the news. You know what happened. You know that Anthony Fauci, after the

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

fact, said that he has no idea

[Larry O'Connor]

where the six feet of social distancing number came from.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Yeah, I don't know where that came from. I don't know. Who knows? I don't look at me. Even though he was the man who

[Larry O'Connor]

was in charge of our public health policy at a national level on things like, you know, six feet of social distance.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

But do you remember the six feet of social distancing? It's critically important that you do because, you know, what was so important about

[Larry O'Connor]

six feet of social distancing? Sure, it meant you had to stand six feet behind people in line at the grocery store if you were allowed to go to the grocery store. Or it meant you had to stand that far behind somebody in TSA line, if you were lucky enough to get onto an airplane at the time. Of course, I never quite understood why we had six feet of social distancing in line at tsa, but we could sit right next to somebody on an airplane. Did you ever think about that?

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Yeah.

[Larry O'Connor]

But here's the really critically important thing about six feet of social distancing. When you went to vote, did you go to vote? Do you remember that if you went to a polling place, you had to keep six feet of social distancing?

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Yeah.

[Larry O'Connor]

And you remember how there were people who were terrified to go and stand for a long period of time because they were afraid they were going to die because of the virus, or they were afraid they were going to catch the virus and bring it home and kill their mother or kill their grandmother or kill their children. Do you remember all of the fear and all the panic? Do you remember how we were told in certain states, in certain mostly blue states, by the way, in certain states, in certain counties, in certain cities, that they couldn't accommodate people voting in person because of the social distancing? It was extraordinary.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

It was a worldwide pandemic. We had to do something. This is while you were still suffering with all the misery of your children

[Larry O'Connor]

not going to school and your business

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

being closed and you're on unemployment. But don't worry, we're going to give you a check. Just sit there on the sofa, stream something on Amazon prime, cash your government

[Larry O'Connor]

check and you'll be able to go back to work when the government tells you you can go back to work. So you're feeling all that misery, you're feeling all that fear, you're feeling that tragedy. You're feeling concerned that you're going to get sick or you're going to kill somebody, God forbid, because of all the misinformation about the virus. You're sad because you didn't get to see your mother on her death deathbed because you weren't allowed to go to the hospital.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Even worse because you weren't allowed to

[Larry O'Connor]

go to the hospital and be at your mother's bedside.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

You weren't there to talk to the

[Larry O'Connor]

doctors and find out what the final options were for your mother. So there's always going to be something in the back of your head that

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

said, if I had been there, maybe

[Larry O'Connor]

mom wouldn't be dead right now. I could have participated in the discussions with the doctors about choices and alternatives, therapies.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

But no, instead, I wasn't allowed to be there. And she died alone. You remember how horrible it was? Do you? And then add to that the election

[Larry O'Connor]

and you have to go stand in line, and you don't stand in line because of social distancing, and they couldn't accommodate you and it was gonna get clogged.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

And so what did they do? Well, it's extraordinary circumstances. It's an emergency, so we're gonna have to come up with something that normally we'd wanna go through a legislative process and have everybody vote on it and have the courts approve, but. No, no, no, no. Desperate times call for desperate measures. We're going to institute emergency protocols for this election. So guess what, everyone, because of that social distancing, that Anthony Fauci has no idea where it came from.

[Larry O'Connor]

We're going to have mail in ballots.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Everybody gets to mail in their ballot or drop it off at a Dropbox, or people are going to come and

[Larry O'Connor]

get it for you and they'll deliver it for you.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

And it's going to take us a long time to count them all

[Larry O'Connor]

until we come up with a winner.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

And the counting is pretty much going

[Larry O'Connor]

to be done behind closed doors.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Oh, the room where a lot of

[Larry O'Connor]

this counting is going on in this one county, it has windows so that

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

people can see the counting process, but we're going to put paper up to

[Larry O'Connor]

block those windows so nobody can see what's going on when the ballots are being counted.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

Because these are extraordinary times. It's a pandemic, it's an emergency. It's chaos. You're miserable, you're sad, you're upset. The economy's in the toilet. But at the beginning of the year in January, everything was great.

[Larry O'Connor]

Do you remember? I remember.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

And then Joe Biden, based on the

[Larry O'Connor]

conditions of that extraordinary election, based on the rules that were in play for that election, based on the method that

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

that election, that extraordinary once in a lifetime. We've never done it like that before in our country, kind of election.

[Larry O'Connor]

Joe Biden was declared the winner. Extraordinary.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

With more votes than anyone's ever gotten

[Larry O'Connor]

before or since in this country. Extraordinary. I remind you, I give you this history lesson because the Democrats learned a lesson that year.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

You amplify chaos, you make people miserable, you make their lives miserable, you make them upset, you anger them. They will either not vote or they

[Larry O'Connor]

will be so angry that they will vote against whoever is in power because they've had enough.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

I have no doubt that there are

[Larry O'Connor]

Trump supporters in 2020 who went to the polls and just said, oh, God,

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

I like what he did.

[Larry O'Connor]

And I get it, but I'm just

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

so fatigued and I'm just so exhausted and I just don't like the chaos anymore and I'm just gonna vote normal. So fine, fine. Stop making my life miserable. Biden will just vote for Biden.

[Larry O'Connor]

Biden. And that's their plan. That's why there's chaos right now. That's why there's misery right now. That's why they want you waiting for hours at the airport to get through tsa.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

That's why they're angry at Trump for

[Larry O'Connor]

figuring out how to pay the TSA agents.

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

That's their plan.

[Larry O'Connor]

Because the more miserable you are, the

[Larry O'Connor (Co-host or Sidekick)]

more chaotic this country is.

[Larry O'Connor]

They think it benefits them and they might be right. So keep your eyes open. I'm Larry o'. Connor. This is the Mark Levin Show.

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[Larry O'Connor]

It's been a pleasure to share this historic evening with you over the last three hours. We kick things off with that phenomenal, stunning, inspirational launch to the moon by the great Americans. And we're bringing a Canadian along for the ride. That was great. And we did preview this speech that the President's about to give. He's going to address the nation in about six or seven minutes. FOX News got some background on the address, but it's pretty much what I told you he was going to say. An operational update on the progress of Operation Epic Fury, highlight the U.S. military successes and reiterate rate that he's aiming for a two to three week timetable for the end of the war. Earlier this evening, the President had an event at the East Room and he gave a little preview of his own. Take a listen.

[Donald Trump]

Tonight I'm making a little speech at 9 o' clock and basically I'm going to, I'm going to tell everybody how great I am, what a great job I've done, what a phenomenal job, what a phenomenal job I've done. But soon Seriously, if you, if you didn't have me, if you had some different type of a president, you wouldn't have Israel. I know you're big Israel fans, frankly.

[Larry O'Connor]

You know, honestly, we. We're really going to miss this guy. Also, he addressed J.D. vance, the vice president who was on the crowd. J.D. vance, as you know, has been brought in recently for some of the discussions with whoever is representing Iran at this point. You know, not the gay legless in a coma ayatollah who's impotent. And he asked JD hey, how are those talks going?

[Donald Trump]

He's working on the. The deal, right? How's that moving? Is it okay?

[Caller]

The big deal?

[Donald Trump]

You see it happening. So if it doesn't happen, I'm blaming JD Vince, if. If it does happen, I'm taking full credit. No, I think it'll be to get asked. That happen?

[Larry O'Connor]

Never in our lifetimes have we ever, nor will we ever again have a president like this. All right, so the president getting ready there in the Oval. I think it's from the Oval Office. He doesn't generally like the Oval Office setting. We shall see. I. I'm told that it's from the Oval Office, but who knows? He could decide he wants to do it from the Roosevelt Room or the East Room. He likes walking down that red carpet with the colonnade to address the nation from the East Room. Regardless, I'm hoping that the news talk radio station that you're listening to right now, if they're smart enough to have Mark Levin on, on at this time every evening, then they're smart enough to run this live feed from the White House. But if for some reason they're not, I'm going live in about a minute and a half at Town hall, where I'm the editor. Go check it out. You'll see us at our town hall YouTube page. Just search for my name, Larry O', Connor, or on Rumble or on Facebook or wherever you like to watch your streaming videos. We will be presenting the C SPAN feed of the President's speech along with my running commentary and then analysis afterwards. It's been a pleasure spending the evening with you. I have a great respect for you because you listen to Mark Levin. He is the best in the business. You ask anyone in the business we know the cream rises to the cup to the top. And Mark Levin is the creme de la creme. I hope that he and his family are having a great Passover. I hope you have an incredible Holy Week. From Holy Thursday to a solemn Good Friday and then a joyous Easter Sunday. Alleluia, my friends. He has risen.