6/10/26 - Iran, Hamas, and the Strategy to Destroy Our Interests

Summary

MARK LEVIN PODCAST
Episode: 6/10/26 – Iran, Hamas, and the Strategy to Destroy Our Interests
Date: June 11, 2026
Host: Mark Levin
Podcast Network: Cumulus Podcast Network

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Episode Overview

Mark Levin delivers a fiery, unfiltered discussion on the escalating conflict between the United States, Israel, and Iran, focusing on the recent second round of U.S. airstrikes on Iranian targets in response to Iranian attacks on American and Israeli interests. Levin dissects the confusion surrounding U.S. strategy, perceived double standards in the criticism of Israel, the impotence of international diplomacy with Iran, and the roles of regional powers and internal U.S. politics. Through direct commentary, high-profile guest clips (notably from President Trump), live listener calls, and deep dives into the situation in Gaza, Levin presents his case for a stronger, unwavering stance against Iran and critiques wavering U.S. foreign policy.

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Main Themes & Key Insights

1. Confusion and Double Standards in U.S. Policy Toward Iran and Israel

• Contrasts in Response to Attacks: Levin expresses confusion over why Israel draws sharp criticism for retaliating against Iranian ballistic missile attacks, while U.S. airstrikes on Iran are broadly accepted.

  “Why do we criticize Israel for attacking Iran after they fired 11 ballistic missiles into their country aimed at their population centers, which could kill thousands? And we're on our second night of bombing Iran and I'm all for it." (20:29)

• Questioning Media and Diplomatic Bias:

  “Do they ever ask about Pakistan, Turkey, ... Qatar, ... Saudi Arabia ... if our interests are aligned like they do with Israel? No, they never ask about those countries." (02:14)

2. Iran—No Moderate Faction, Only Radical Threats

• Iran’s Regime: Levin consistently characterizes the Iranian leadership as implacable and radical, skeptical any ‘deal’ can restrain their nuclear or terror ambitions.

  “There are no two factions, okay? They are all radicals. If there were a so-called moderate faction, they would have been wiped out by now.” (10:20)

• Iran’s Strategy:

  “I think what Iran is doing is they're playing a game ... and I think they're going to eventually push this president too far.” (10:20)

3. The Inevitability & Limits of Military Action

• Limited Effectiveness of Airstrikes: Several callers and Levin himself argue that air power alone can’t topple the Iranian regime or its proxies like Hezbollah. Levin counters that arming the Iranian people is a viable alternative.

  Caller Charles: “You are not going to solve this problem from the air. You can try all you want.” (26:09)
  Mark Levin: “... We destroyed the Soviet Union without any troops on the ground. And I think we can destroy Iran by arming the Iranians.” (27:21)

• U.S. War Weariness & Strategic Patience:

  Caller Danny: "I'm war weary, Mark. I hate war... The last few days, I'm starting to wonder if I'm becoming more of a hawk than Donald Trump, because why are we playing these games? First of all, let Israel off the leash..." (21:15)

4. Trump’s Strategy: Negotiation vs. Decisive Victory

• Trump’s Position on Iran:

  Donald Trump: “We want a deal that's meaningful...a deal that works. We don't want to just have a Barack Hussein Obama deal...That deal was a path to a nuclear weapon. This is a path against a nuclear.” (08:08)

• Callers and Levin on Trump:

  Mark Levin: “Now here's the difference. Israel wants to take [Iran] out and Trump wants a deal. That's the bottom line.” (53:47)

  Caller: "He wants that Chamberlain-like peace in our time... but you are not going to get that from these Islamo-Nazis." (26:09)

5. Lebanon and Hezbollah as Iranian Proxies

• Caller Paul’s Insight:

  “Lebanon to Iran is nothing more than a weapon to use against Israel. And by delinking it, Trump would have been taking away from Iran a power that is as significant as their ballistic missiles..." (34:04-34:48)

• Levin’s Background:

  “Iran believes its lifeline goes through Lebanon to Hezbollah… They've been firing missiles into northern Israel… Iran is going to desperately try and keep drag Lebanon into any agreement.” (34:48-37:41)

6. The Turkish Factor: Erdogan's Hypocrisy and Menace

• Turkey's Actions:

  “Erdogan helped fund Hamas leadership… Turkey's a NATO member, although people are wondering why.” (13:29)
  “He goes on this long attack, verbal attack on Netanyahu as Hitler and they're trying to expand their authority. You know, they sound like the woke right podcasters here.” (13:47)

• Trump on Erdogan:

  “Well, as you know, he's a very good friend of mine and we've worked very well together. ... He's a hell of a leader and a strong person... I don’t think that will happen with Turkey, not, not as long as I’m president, because he respects me and I respect him...” (64:14)

7. Human Rights Abuses by Hamas in Gaza

• Summary of the Free Beacon Report:

  “Hamas has built makeshift torture chambers inside Gazan hospitals and schools where its men are interrogating and abusing fellow Palestinians suspected of disloyalty.” (75:54)

• Media & NGO Silence:

  “Nothing in the New York Times, nothing in the network media, nothing on cable, nothing. Zero.” (80:06)

• Levin's Wife’s Commentary:

  “They will not show the photographs of Hamas literally executing people on the street… unless [Hamas is] destroyed, they'll continue to get away with it.” (79:32)

8. Social Security, Medicare, and U.S. Domestic Policy

• Impending Insolvency & Political Inaction:

  “Social Security is on track [to be] insolvent by the end of 2032... beneficiaries could experience a 22% benefit cut if the looming insolvency is not addressed.” (97:24)

• Systemic Fraud & Mission Creep:

  “We have people who haven't paid into [Social Security] who are getting benefits... just so much fraud. And you dare not look under the rocks and under the covers for the fraud.” (97:24)

9. Race, Crime, and U.S. Society

• Recent Murder Case Discussion: Levin condemns efforts to politicize or racialize a murder trial, highlighting what he sees as the absurdity and moral blindness in progressive activism.

  “This was cold blooded murder. He could have gotten 99 years. He got 35. To me that's not even enough.” (89:49)
  “All we ever hear is about racism, racism, racism... It's just ridiculous. It's sickening.” (92:06)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Levin on Consistency and Alliances:

  “If there's ever a deal, it's not going to last beyond the Trump presidency. If a Democrat comes in, they'll rip it up or they'll sabotage it.” (08:55)

• On Iran's Unchanging Threat:

  “47 years of this, they’re simply not going to change. That’s a fact.” (10:20)

• Levin’s Frustration with War-Weariness:

  “If your position is any casualty is too many, then you might as well pull all of our armed forces and get them out of Europe … and you’ll see more war, more slaughter, more than anything else.” (43:50)

• Levin’s Historical Comparison:

  “Was it worth ending slavery? Was it worth... to keep the Union together?... Now we have a country that wants to build nuclear weapons and blow us off the face of the earth. And… people saying, why are we doing this?” (43:29)

• On Arming Iranians and Avoiding U.S. Casualties:

  “Giving the people of Iran arms to overthrow their government using our superior air power. They have no air power. Using our superior naval power. They have no navy left. But we may have a casualty? … just surrender.” (43:50)

• Levin Summing Up the Stakes:

  “The question is whether we have the will to survive, whether we have the will to turn over to our children and grandchildren a safer country. That’s the issue. And either we do or we don’t.” (59:27)

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Key Segments & Timestamps

• Opening News & Framing: [02:14–05:08]

  • Levin introduces confusion on policy, recaps latest U.S. and Israeli strikes.

• Trump’s Oval Office Remarks on Iran: [05:17–06:55]

  • Trump asserts right to strike Iran, criticizes prior deals.

• Q&A with Listeners (Air Power, Arming Iranians, Frustrations): [20:29–29:47]; [51:57–57:28]

  • Veterans, hawkish listeners, and Trump supporters debate tactics, political impacts, limits of air power, and the sentiment of “getting it over with.”

• Deep Dive: Lebanon and Hezbollah’s Role: [34:04–37:41]

  • Iran’s use of Lebanon/Hezbollah as leverage against Israel.

• Discussion of Human Rights Abuses by Hamas in Gaza: [75:54–80:51]

  • Reading from Adam Credo’s article on torture of Gazans by Hamas, media silence.

• Societal Implications, America’s Will to Survive: [59:27–64:05]

  • Extended reflections on history, generational responsibility, and future threats.

• Race, Crime, Deflection in U.S. Discussion: [88:04–92:06]

  • Reaction to coverage and politicization of recent murder case.

• Callers' Solutions for Social Security: [107:37–108:41]

  • Practical and principled suggestions from audience.

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Closing Tone & Takeaways

Levin maintains his signature passionate, polemical tone throughout, blending constitutionalism, neoconservative interventionism, and a deep skepticism toward both appeasement and what he views as leftist hypocrisy. He draws heavily on history, frustrates at modern politics, and calls for courage and consistency in foreign and domestic policy. Throughout, callers and Trump soundbites reinforce the sense of urgency, confusion, and impatience among his audience and allies.

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For Listeners Who Missed the Episode

This episode is essential for understanding conservative arguments about current Middle East dynamics, U.S.-Israel relations, and the shortcomings of diplomatic engagements with hostile regimes. It offers a real-time barometer of right-wing frustration with U.S. foreign policy, domestic political dysfunction, and the struggle for moral clarity in a complex, combative world.

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End of Summary

Transcript

[Mark Levin]

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[Donald Trump]

Broadcasting from the underground command post deep

[Caller]

in the bowels of a hidden bunker

[Mark Levin]

somewhere under the brick and steel of

[Caller]

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

[Mark Levin]

Hello, America. Mark Levin here as I speak. A second round of attacks on Iran is taking place. Attacks are taking place. A second round is taking place. I don't know what generated this response. This time I'm all for it. You know, my goal is to defeat this regime. I don't understand why 48 hours ago when Israel hammered Iran for shooting 11 ballistic missiles at its citizenry, I mean, at their population centers, the prime minister was admonished in the press and elsewhere for doing that. This is two days in a row for us and I'm all for it, but there seems to be a, I don't know, it's confusing to me, to be perfectly honest with you. I don't get it. They hit our helicopter. They almost killed two of our pilots. They fired 11 ballistic missiles into Israel. Ballistic missile, as you know, if you've been listening, is the capacity to blow an entire block neighborhood off the face of the earth. I mean, just as a moral and rational point of view, it seems to me that Israel every right to respond and we have every right to respond. But it's not even a matter of a right to respond. This regime won't let up. It won't stop. Maybe because it fired ballistic missiles at a variety of Arab states and they got into the ear of the administration and said, hey, what are we going to do about this? Maybe that mattered, I don't know. But I'd like somebody to explain it. It's the same thing with these interviews, reporters asking the vice president and other people, is Israel aligned with us? Do we have the same interests? Well, sometimes we do, sometimes we don't. You know, do they ever ask that about Pakistan, Turkey, where Erdogan is a whack job? Do they? Do they ever ask it about Qatar, which pours $400 billion into our country to try and destabilize it? Do they ever ask it about Saudi Arabia that was behind 9 11? No, they never ask about those countries. Hey, are we aligned with them? And yet it's my understanding that our government says we're best friends with all these countries and their dictatorial leaders. Okay, fine. It's a practical matter. I get it. No criticism, kinda. But I'm trying to figure it out and it's not so easy. Here's the President in the Oval Office today. Bat Iran. Cut one go.

[Caller]

You posted this morning about Iran and you said that they've taken too long to get to a deal. I want to make sure I quoted you correctly. You said that now they will have to pay the price. What did you mean by that specifically?

[Donald Trump]

Well, we're going to be attacking them. Attacking them very hard.

[Caller]

Resuming bombing.

[Donald Trump]

Yeah, well, we are based on the helicopter. I guess we have the right to do that. You know, they shot down a very, very incredible. Actually an incredible machine. And at first they said they didn't do it, then they admitted they did it. Sort of easy, because we have.

[Mark Levin]

We had the bomb.

[Donald Trump]

We actually have the bomb. Got very lucky. That bomb didn't explode. That bomb was lodged in the helicopter. It didn't explode. It was on fire, but it didn't explode. Those two guys, they knew how to fly, but they got very lucky. And then we had the unmanned boat going very, very fast at speeds that you wouldn't want to go. That's why it's unmanned, I guess, because nobody can go in that. But they rescued. So both people are. Fortunately, the pilots are okay. No. Been working with Iran for a number of months. And they should sign their deal. It's a good deal. It doesn't give them the right to have a nuclear weapon. In fact, it totally prohibits them from ever having a nuclear weapon. And it was just tap, tap, tap. I don't know what they're doing. So they then shot at our helicopter. Very expensive helicopter, by the way. Much more importantly, the two men, fortunately, they're okay. But an amazing rescue. If you ever get a clip, you won't believe the rescue, how cool it was. The equipment we have, look, we have the strongest military in the world.

[Mark Levin]

All right? So here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to open the phone lines. We'll take calls in a little while. And I'd like you to explain why Israel was criticized 48 hours ago for attacking Iran, its missile sites, its launch sites, some of its factory production sites for these ballistic missiles and so forth. And pretty, pretty strongly criticized. And this is okay, aren't both, okay, aren't both the right things to do? That's my question to you. Let's go to cut two, go.

[Donald Trump]

And I gave them a break at the request of Pakistan, the field marshal

[Mark Levin]

and the premise Pakistan, the Muslim leadership there is no friend of ours. They're no friend of India's either. They are aligned with Russia for the most part and China. And the idea that they're great mediators with us in Iran I think is helped delay this significantly, quite frankly. Go ahead.

[Donald Trump]

We stopped them from going to war with India. You would have had a nuclear war if it wasn't for me. But they became friendly to me, very friendly. And they stayed close to Iran and they worked and they still are working on trying them to do what's right. But we want a deal that's meaningful. We want a deal that works. We don't want to just have a Barak Hussein Obama deal. Jcpoa, the worst deal that was a path to a nuclear. It's the exact opposite. You know, I like on television they say, oh, they should have kept that deal first of all was over. It was a short term deal. That deal was a path to a nuclear weapon. This is a path against a nuclear, you can't have a nuclear weapon. His was a path to a nuclear weapon they were developing during his administration.

[Mark Levin]

Nuclear Weapon Central Command just put out a statement that forces began launching additional self defense strikes. So maybe that's the key to call them self defense strikes. Rich. Additional self defense strikes today at 5:15pm Eastern Time against multiple targets in Iran at the commander in chief's decision and excuse me, direction, the strikes are in response to Iran's unwarranted and continued aggression. Okay, I'm agreeing with that 100%. I'm agreeing with that 100%. If you have a country that wants to defend itself against Iran's aggression, our common enemy, Iran, I don't think you start hammering away at that country and their prime minister. I think we, we applaud it. Look folks, if there's ever a deal, it's not going to last beyond the Trump presidency. If a Democrat comes in, they'll rip it up or they'll sabotage it. And I don't even see a Republican who would send in our military to enforce this or that or some other aspect of it. I really don't. And that's been my position. It's consistent, private, public, however you want to say. We'll be right back.

[Caller]

Mud Blubbin Foreign

[Mark Levin]

I talk about protecting your liberty, your family and your future. And right now I think one of the smartest moves you can make for your financial future is gold and silver. Gold just had a pullback. You know what that means? It means you have a window, a real opportunity to get in at a lower price before the next move up. And it's coming. The fundamentals haven't changed. Washington keeps spending, inflation keeps eroding your savings and gold keeps doing what it's always done, holding its value when everything else is shaky. That's why I trust monetary gold. For 26 years, monetary gold has been the gold standard for helping Americans own gold and silver in a tax sheltered retirement account. Five stars from the Better Business Bureau. Get help taking control of your retirement. Visit marklovesgold.com or call monetarygold at 877-now-gold for a one on one consultation. That's 877-now-Gold or mark loves gold.com performance may vary. You should always consult your financial tax professional. When the president was asked in the Oval Office today, he said what we are thinking. He doesn't know what Iran's doing. So they're negotiating and then these guys are doing what they do. They're, they're attacking us, they're attacking their neighbors and so forth and so on. But isn't that the point, folks? There are no two factions, okay? They are all radicals. If there were a so called moderate faction, they would have been wiped out by now. I think what Iran is doing is they're playing a game. That's what they're doing. And I think they're going to eventually push this president too far. Some of us, many of you in the audience who've called into this program have already said that. I just think it's time to get this over with. If we want to win the midterms, if we want to get the economy booming, it's actually doing pretty well under the circumstances, then let's finish them off and let's do it. And we certainly should have been arming the people there. I don't know if we are, but I don't think so. We certainly should have been. You have elements in our country that are opposed to it. So what? You always have elements in our country that are opposed to it. You just got to do the right thing and that's the right Thing in this circumstance, let's say we get a great deal, whatever that means. And as you know, again, I'll just repeat, I don't believe these are enforceable over time. But let's say we get the quote, unquote, great deal. And let's say they start firing off missiles again and ballistic missiles at Israel, Israel is supposed to sit there. Ballistic missiles at the uae, are they just supposed to sit still for that? Or let's say they have Hezbollah fire a couple thousand missiles into Israel. Is Israel's hands going to be tied? What is, in other words, what is the end game here? How's that supposed to work? I do worry about that because it gets a little confusing. You're dealing with an enemy here, an enemy that is not going to be circumspect, an enemy that is not going to correct its ways. This is why it exists, ladies and gentlemen, this is why it exists, period. And it's not going to change. And 47 years of this, they're simply not going to change. That's a fact. The vice president was asked by the Daily. What is it? Daily. What's the British paper? Daily? Daily Mail, sorry, that's right. And they were, he was asked, he said, you know, Netanyahu, I mean our. In Israel, are our positions aligned with them and so forth. And he said, not all the time. And we have to do what we have to do. And well, has Netanyahu made mistakes? Yes, he's made mistakes and so forth. And so my question is, why don't the media ever ask the vice president or the president about Qatar or Saudi Arabia or the, the dictator in Turkey or even Xi for that matter, ask those kinds of questions. They don't. Well, why is that? Because they should. It's very weird. Very weird indeed. And the left wing media in Israel is having a field day with these, these comments that the President has made. Just like the podcasters here, the woke right neo fascist podcasters, among others. They have a field day with this stuff. We have an alliance, we have an ally. They have fought with us very bravely. They've been through hell fighting a war with Hamas, given what Hamas has done to its own people. When you have an ally that's strong and that's working with us and fighting with us and putting their lives on the line just like we are in pursuit of the same goal. Sometimes there's disagreements, things of that sort, but I don't think they should be publicly aired. I really don't. Because the enemy sees this and they think that There's a division. They think that there's weakness. And again, it's not unusual like Churchill and fdr, as I explained, I think it was on Sunday's Fox show. By the way, two great Fox shows coming. Oh, yeah. It's a little early, but I'm excited about it. Saturday night it'll be John Fetterman, and he's getting harder and harder to book, believe it or not. But he's. He likes me and I like him a lot. No, of course he doesn't vote like a Republican. He's a Democrat, but he's an old time moderate liberal Democrat. He's not a radical nut job. And that's, that's what you want from the Democrats these days, right? They're not going to be Republicans. But it's preferable that he's not, you know, like Platner, a Nazi turned communist, or this guy out of New Jersey who's Al Qaeda aligned and so forth. I mean, that's crazy. As far as I'm concerned. As far as you're concerned, too. I know. We're also going to have Nathan Sales, who is terrific. May not be familiar with his name, but he's terrific. Sunday, we're going to have Jack Keane as well, and another guest we're working on for you. When I have them, I will announce it to you, but I think you're going to like it very much. Now, there was something here I'm looking for. Just give me a second. We're live and national and let's see here. Here it is. Here it is. Erdogan says Israel's aggression threatens Turkey, entire Mediterranean region. Now, you know who this guy is. We've talked about him. He also said there were initiatives led by Israel to destabilize the Mediterranean region. Now this guy wants to rebuild the Ottoman Empire. So all these guys are head cases. They're real head cases. And he says the attacks on Syria and Lebanon. Keep in mind Israel's attacks on Syria are in defense or were in the past. They're not attacking Syria right now, but they were in defense of Christians and Druze and other minorities in Syria. And their attacks in Lebanon are not on the Lebanese people. It's Hezbollah. Erdogan, truth be told, has been aligned with Iran. Erdogan has been aligned with Qatar. Erdogan helped fund Hamas leadership in Hamas, in addition to Qatar were provided very expensive, luxurious housing and protection in Turkey. In Turkey. Turkey's a NATO member, although people are wondering why. But he goes on this long attack, verbal attack on Netanyahu as Hitler and they're trying to expand their authority. You know, they sound like the woke right podcasters here. And when in fact what's happening is Erdogan, Syria, the new government there's very close to Erdogan and Erdogan supports Hezbollah. And unfortunately we have an envoy or an ambassador to Turkey who is horrific. Thomas Barak, I talk about protecting your liberty, your family and your future. And right now I think one of the smartest moves you can make for your financial future is gold and silver. Gold just had a pullback. You know what that means? It means you have a window, a real opportunity to get in at a low price before the next move up. And it's coming. The fundamentals haven't changed. Washington keeps spending, inflation keeps eroding your savings and gold keeps doing what it's always done, holding its value when everything else is shaky. That's why I trust monetary gold. For 26 years, monetary gold has been the gold standard for helping Americans own gold and silver in a tax sheltered retirement account. Five stars from the Better Business Bureau. Get help taking control of your Retirement. Visit Mark loves Gold.com or call Monetary Gold at 877-now-Gold for a one on one consultation. That's 877-now-Gold or Mark loves Gold.com performance may vary. You should always consult your financial tax professional.

[Caller]

Mark Levin, America's Paul Revere.

[Mark Levin]

Call him now at 877-381-3811. Well, that didn't take long. The board is full. The question on the table for you in the audience, Mr. And Mrs. America, is why do we criticize Israel for attacking Iran after they fired 11 ballistic missiles into their country aimed at their population centers, which could kill thousands? And we're on our second night of bombing Iran and I'm all for it. Please don't misunderstand. If somebody out there misunderstands, they're wanting to misunderstand. So I'll go right down the list. Danny, Houston, Texas, Sirius XM Satellite. How are you? Great, sir.

[Caller]

I'm honored to talk to you. Listen, my, my attitude on this war is changing very quickly and I'll tell you why. I'm an Iraq Afghanistan veteran. I'm war weary, Mark. I hate war. I really do. And I've been listening to your show and I've told you before, I've talked to you before and I told you there's no greater intellect on the radio waves. I respect what you say and I believed all your arguments. I agree with all your arguments. But sometimes it was hard for me to even listen, because I'm just war weary. But the last few days, I'm starting to wonder if I'm becoming more of a hawk than Donald Trump, because why are we playing these games? First of all, let Israel off the leash. Let them do whatever they need to do to defend themselves. But secondly, these moas are playing you. They're playing you. They're going to drag out negotiations forever. And the negotiations, if that's what you want to call it, our negotiations with them should be. Look, we took out the leaders above you. Here's our demands. Do you want to accept them or do you want us to present them to whoever comes up next after you, when you, as the great lush Rush Limbaugh would say, have assumed room temperature? I'm done with these games. I'm done.

[Mark Levin]

I think your attitude is very widespread and I think a lot of people are tired of we're a few days away from a deal, only this would have happened and that would happen. I really do. I think a lot of people are worn out from this and they want this regime destroyed. And, you know, but, you know, who's worn out the most from this, my friend? The Persian people, American, Iranians. They're looking at this. I'm sure they're wearing a neck brace at this point, their heads are being twisted so much one way or the other. But I think it'd be fairly said that we did everything we could to negotiate something if that was the point. But they're firing off at the Arab countries, they're using Hezbollah to fire at Israel. Then they're firing at Israel directly, and then we're admonishing Israel when they fight back. And then I don't get that, because then for the last two nights, including tonight, we're firing at them for hitting a helicopter, which is bad, and we should hit them, but I don't know why we're tapping the gas pedal, you know, I don't know why we're not full on and let's get it over with and let's take these guys out. That's kind of your point, right, Danny?

[Caller]

Exactly. And if it was up to the mollus, we'd be negotiating this come November. That's what they want.

[Mark Levin]

I think it's gonna hurt us if we don't get this resolved. I really do. That doesn't mean we would have won the midterms in the first place. And it doesn't mean we won't win the midterms. I just don't think this is helpful from A political perspective, Victory is very good politically. As an additional point. All right, my friend, thank you for your service very, very much. We appreciate it. Let's go to Esther. Brooklyn, New York, the great wabc. How are you?

[Caller]

Well, I am very grateful that the president is finally letting loose on Iran. I think that should have been done weeks ago because they were playing him like a fiddle. There's no explanation for attacking, publicly attacking Israel, for publicly criticizing them. It reminded me of the Iraq war when George H.W. bush told Israel to stand down while Saddam Hussein was blowing off Scuds and knocking down and destroying apartment complexes in Israel. I'm wondering, you know, I'm wondering. I mean, this could be conjecture on my part. Karl Rove was a few weeks ago, or maybe, yeah, a couple months ago praising Trump. Is there any possibility he's working in the Trump administration?

[Mark Levin]

Nah, no way. I can't imagine that. I can't imagine that. Condoleezza Rice apparently was very hostile toward the Trump administration, but now has come to the White House from time to time. I don't know what she's doing there, but she wrote a very nice op ed in the Wall Street Journal. Look, my attitude is the president brought us to this spot where no other president had the guts to do it. That operation, what do we call it, Mr. Fury, or whatever it's called. Epic Fury. Epic Fury was spectacular. And then all of a sudden we went into a ceasefire, like two or three weeks in. And I said, right here. And other people have said, why did we do that? I don't know.

[Caller]

I think we should get the job done. Get the job done.

[Mark Levin]

Job done. Okay. All right, Esther, thanks for your call. We'll keep moving here. Charles, I'm going right down the line. Beverly Hills, Florida, Sirius XM Satellite. Charles, how are you?

[Caller]

I'm doing great, Mark. In answer to your question, let me say I've been a fervent supporter of Donald Trump. But I'm beginning to think that this is becoming a problem of ego on his part. He wants to be able to sort of 1938ish Chamberlain waiver paper that says we have a peace deal in our time and you are not going to. No matter. You are a student of history, as am I. Go back to the Second World War. We bombed the living hell out of Germany, but it still required ground troops. They had to be de Nazified. Now, you very correctly call these people Islamo Nazis. You are not going to solve this problem from the air. You can try all you want.

[Mark Levin]

We're not going to be able to send troops in because there's no support for that regardless. So arm the Iranian people. There's a lot of them. And they want to take out this regime. That's what I find so problematic.

[Caller]

I think then the goals are really not achievable. Does anybody.

[Mark Levin]

I think they are. I think we destroyed the Soviet Union without any troops on the ground. And I think we can destroy Iran by arming the Iranians. I really do. I definitely do. Still there.

[Caller]

Well, I would hope. I would hope you're right. But I.

[Mark Levin]

Well, we don't try it. I won't know. Neither will you. That's the damn problem.

[Caller]

Well, I suspect that they are trying.

[Mark Levin]

I believe that he said we're not some arms. Well, all right, my brother. I get. I get your frustration. I really do. And I appreciate the call very much. Let's go to Vic Los Angeles, but he's listening on streaming from wjno. There you go. Vic, how are you?

[Caller]

Yes. I love you. And from the very beginning, in a manly way, of course.

[Mark Levin]

Yes. Okay. Thank you.

[Caller]

All right, let's think about this first. You keep criticizing him. He needs that and he wants that.

[Mark Levin]

I am not criticizing him. I'm talking about the issues. You see, I do this differently than the woke. Right? Neo fascists. I'm not attacking the president. I'm asking questions that I know are on the minds of millions of you. They're on my mind. They're on my family's mind, my friend's mind. They're on everybody's mind. Go ahead.

[Caller]

What you're saying is correct. I'm not criticizing you for criticizing him. He wants you recruit to do this. This is a strategy, Mark. Make no mistake. And let's back him up. This is a brilliant man, okay? He wants to bring that Abraham Court thing together. He needs to go show them he will go after Netanyahu. You actually believe that him and Netanyahu aren't friends? We know that this is a work and everybody out there, all these two, and they're probably against. They have a right to feel the way they do. But don't underestimate Trump, okay?

[Mark Levin]

Don't underestimate who is underestimating Trump. We want him. I don't think anybody's underestimating Trump. What we're saying is let's get this over with militarily. And that's not happening. Although tonight is a good night.

[Caller]

I realized that. Give him his time. He knows you got.

[Mark Levin]

No, I'm not going to give him his time. Nine Weeks is a long time. And I'm not going to sit on my hands and come behind this microphone and just say everything is swell, it's going great. Everything's swell, it's going great. That's not believable. People are not going to want to hear it. And I don't blame them because that's not true.

[Caller]

You're right. You're absolutely correct. And that's exactly what he wants you to do.

[Mark Levin]

All right, my friend, thank you. I'm confused by that call, Mr. Producer. It's okay. Sounds like a very nice guy, Vic. Sounds like a good man. Okay, let's see. Let's go to Robert. Santa Clara, California, the great ksfo Robert, how are you?

[Caller]

Great, Mark, thank you. We're gonna have to be eternal vigilance and we're gonna have to make the headway, practical purposes of defanging. And I wish we could get the message out against all the stupid demagogues like my Mr. Raised personal convenience. I'm so intellectual. Tucker Carlson and the freaks like Fuentes and the Erdogans of the world, the Islamic demagogues. The dialectic needs to be convinced. A lot of people in the world. I wish we could get a coalition of the willing. And it seems that there's far few of the European leaders to get people to be vigilant on Iran. We're going to have to deal with this type of mentality because they just do not. They're sneaky, they're not to be trusted. And we have to defang and we're gonna have to put up posts everywhere. And then we're gonna have to find a way to get energy independent outside of being dependent on these buffoons over there in there. I'd love to give them business, but if they're not gonna want to, I'm all with Trump, you know, you gotta defang them. And we're gonna have to get past the mind viruses of stupid that, you know, we can't police the world. We have to police the world.

[Mark Levin]

We have to police this because if they get a nuclear weapon, they're going to kill us. That simple. People who say no, they don't know what they're talking about. All right, brother, thank you for your call. We'll take some more calls on this because I'm very curious what you think about this and this being we are hitting Iran tonight, I don't know the extent of it. We hit Iran last night. The President says we have a right to do it because they hit our helicopter. Seems to me we have a right to do it, period. But that said, three nights ago, the Israelis hit Iran because they fired 11 ballistic missiles at them. And they were admonished in the strongest terms and publicly and repeatedly in the press. I'm asking you why? Why, when they're defending their homeland, which is right in the neighborhood, from ballistic missiles and the potential death of tens of thousands of their citizens, why would we do that? And yet here, because a helicopter's hit. That's what was said. We're hitting them two nights in a row. Should we be united like we were at the beginning of this war? Epic fury, fighting side by side, our fighters right next to each other, everything coordinated beautifully to take out this regime? That's my position. All right. We'll be right back. With Donald Trump back in office, one of his biggest adversaries, top Democrat Dick Durbin of Chicago, is leading the charge to derail President Trump's agenda at every turn. And now Durbin has a new scheme, a government takeover of your credit card. Right now, Americans have thousands of credit card options, all with equal strong security. But Senator Durbin's plan could result in less security. That means more risk for your credit, your identity and your financial future. Durbin's bill isn't about helping consumers. It's a giveaway to corporate megastores, which could shift costs onto you while putting your rewards and fraud protections in jeopardy. We've seen Durbin's fail policies before. His last big banking regulation backfired, leading to higher costs and fewer benefits for American families. Tell Republican senators, stop Durbin's government takeover of your credit card before it's too late. Learn [e-mail] that's guardyourcard.com paid for by the Electronic Payments Coalition. We'll continue this somewhat into the next hour. Just because there's so many. The board keeps filling up immediately. Let's go to Paul, Toronto, Canada. Our friend there, Sirius XM satellite. Go.

[Caller]

Hi there, Mark. I'd like to for a moment, if you don't mind talking on the same subject. Shift the focus to Lebanon, where Trump insisted a couple of weeks ago on linking the ceasefire in Iran to a ceasefire in Lebanon. And I don't understand the point of that because Lebanon to Iran is nothing more than a weapon to use against Israel. And by delinking it, Trump would have been taking away from Iran a power that is as significant as their ballistic missiles and probably not quite as significant as their nuclear power. But he would have been taking away from them the ability to strike an

[Mark Levin]

enemy Let me say this. You are 100% correct. I even posted on this today. Iran is desperate to get Lebanon into this agreement. The Lebanese president said they want nothing to do with Iran or any agreement because they're doing that to try and leverage Hezbollah against Israel. And they said that they have nothing to do with Lebanon and its terrorist activities. The people of Lebanon are sick and tired of Hezbollah, which took that country over in the mid-1980s. The government of Lebanon is not strong enough and their military is not strong enough to stop them. We know that because there was an agreement in 1983, after Menachem begin leading the IDF had to go into Lebanon to try and stop Hezbollah from attacking Israel from there again. So Iran believes its lifeline goes through Lebanon to Hezbollah. And so they've been firing missiles into northern Israel. I'm just giving the nation some background relentlessly, daily, that northern Israel has been effectively depopulated. It's a tiny country the size of New Jersey. I want you to think about 20, 25% of northern New Jersey having to be depopulated, having to move to the central part. Now they're hitting central Israel, and Israel's going in. They said, we're not putting up with this. And they went in, and the head of the snake, that is the nerve center, their headquarters is right outside Beirut. And they were told, don't hit Beirut. And Israel said, we're going to hit whatever we have to hit. And so they hit it. And then Iran fired 11 ballistic missiles into Israel, stating specifically, as long as Israel attacks Hezbollah, there can be no peace deal. There can be no deal at all. And we will defend Hezbollah. And so then we step in, because Israel then responds to Iran like we're responding to Iran tonight and we did last night, and we're admonishing Netanyahu, including publicly. And so they hit one of our helicopters two days ago. And so all hell breaks loose. And I'm glad we're pounding the hell out of them. And so this is why I've presented the question. And you make a very, very important point, Paul, which is Iran is going to desperately try and keep, excuse me, drag Lebanon into any agreement. And the concern there is that means Israel will not have the capacity to defend itself. Iran will determine what Hezbollah will do and whether Israel's security is safe. Of course it won't be, because if Israel responds, Israel will be accused of violating our deal. This is your concern. Correct.

[Caller]

But it takes away the power from the people of Lebanon to define their own future.

[Mark Levin]

Well, of course, of course. It does. It would be insane to allow the Iranians to get away with that. I'm glad you pointed that out. Very important. We'll be right back. This segment of the podcast is exclusively sponsored by Pure Talk. Pure Talk offers great coverage and can save your family money on your wireless bill every single month. Go to PureTalk.com to find the plan that's right for you. Thank you again for listening, and thank you so much for this sponsorship. Pure Talk. He's here.

[Donald Trump]

He's here now, broadcasting him from the

[Mark Levin]

underground command post deep in the bowels

[Donald Trump]

of a hidden bunker somewhere under the

[Mark Levin]

brick and steel of a nondescript building.

[Caller]

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

[Mark Levin]

Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number, 8773-8138-1187-7381-3810. There is more to do this evening, but this is crucial. Our military is now attacking Iran, which is a good thing. It attacked it last night, which was a good thing. I just wish we were attacking it in a way that would destroy it, including arming the Iranian people. I don't know if we are. I doubt we're going that far. But I'm glad we're doing what we're doing. This is an evil regime that wants to kill us, okay? It's that simple. And they've killed many Americans directly and indirectly. They've slaughtered their own people by the tens of thousands. People who support us, strongly support us, that are basically in bondage in that country. It's a terrible, terrible thing. I just want us to finish what we started. And it started out, incredibly, was spectacular. And I think Israel has every right to defend itself, and it's not going to give it up to anybody, especially when 11 ballistic missiles are shot into its country. I've said before, if 11 ballistic missiles were shot into our country from Mexico by drug cartels, we wouldn't give a damn what anybody says, and we wouldn't sit around and take a. And take a poll. And I will note tonight that the prime Minister of Israel is not criticizing us. Is he, Mr. Producer? He's not saying, okay, the fun is over. You've shot that backlash? None. None of that stuff. Joseph. Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey, the great wabc. Go right ahead, please.

[Caller]

Hey, how you doing, Mark? How are you? Okay, listen, I'm a big, big fan, and I'm very pro Trump, and I'm very pro Israel. I'm a practicing Roman Catholic. To me, Israel is just Jewish. Faith is my first chapter, and it extends to My religion. So I'm very pro Israel. I love Netanyahu, I really do, but I just. I just get mad at my country sometimes when we. I want to finish the job, too, but I always think, like, right now, if we were going to go in there again, we're going to lose 350, 400 kids.

[Mark Levin]

No, no, we're not sending any troops in there.

[Caller]

Planes may be shot down. I don't know. But nobody even knows the 13 kids that were killed a couple months ago.

[Mark Levin]

Let me. Let me ask you something. If we do a deal, do you think it's going to be enforceable in 10 years?

[Caller]

No.

[Mark Levin]

Okay. Who do you think is gonna have to fix that?

[Caller]

It's gonna be us. 1. But I want the whole country gonna

[Mark Levin]

be our kids and grandkids. That's. That's one as well. What if they have 10,000 ballistic missiles and they actually get nuclear warheads with the help of China and Pakistan in the uk it's only going to get worse. That's the point. They're on their back right now.

[Caller]

Right? So why don't we. Mark. Why don't we just do what we did? If this. I think this is righteous, but why don't this. Like I said, this country, they worry more about the New York Knicks up in New York City right now. Nobody knows about those 13 kids that were killed. And if we go in there now,

[Mark Levin]

they weren't all killed. Some of them died in accidents, but they're dead, and that's what matters. That's correct, yes.

[Caller]

I just. I just.

[Mark Levin]

I don't understand your phrase. If we go in there now. Go in there with what?

[Caller]

If we go in 100% like this bomb the hell out of. Was four months, and we're gonna lose

[Mark Levin]

probably more for four months. It was two more weeks. And arm the Iranian people. Look, here's the deal. If we've now reached the point where we're not going to send in troops, but we're not going to use the Navy and the Air Force because somebody might get hurt or killed, then we might as well not have a military. We might as well cut it by 80%, put the military on the border, and that's that. What do you think the Communist Chinese are doing when they exist? When they look at this, what do you think our enemies that have real power are doing when they look at this? I don't think it's helping us. I really don't. And if the position is we can't do anything because we can't have anybody Harmed or killed, which is a horrible thing. And we're doing this to try and prevent tens of thousands of us, if not hundreds of thousands of us being harmed or killed. Well, then what's the point of having a military. We might as well just pull it all back. Fortress America, which Reagan warned against. That's the alternative. See what I'm saying?

[Caller]

Yeah, I just. Can I say one more thing?

[Mark Levin]

Of course.

[Caller]

Sometimes you say, I don't want you to get mad at me now, but about we have to help out the Persian people, which I don't, I don't mind, but I think they're going to have to find their own George Washington because we lost a lot of good kids. 28 years old.

[Mark Levin]

Keep talking about losing kids. I'm talking about arming them. How does that lose kids? Our kids. How many kids did we lose? Defeating the Soviet Union by arming, by arming freedom fighters all over the world. Thanks for your call. I can't fix the argument because I'm not getting through. Not because I'm right and he's wrong, just because it's a matter of fact. We're not sending ground troops. If your position is any casualty is too many, then you might as well pull all of our armed forces and get them out of Europe. We've got the Special forces in Africa trying to save Christians. Pull them out, too. Pull everybody out. And I'm sure Communist China will be thrilled by it. Fascistic Russia will be thrilled by it. And you'll see more war, more slaughter, more than anything else. And then what are we going to do? Just pretend it won't affect us? Now, come on, that's not rational. That's not rational at all. What are we going to do for the people in Iran? I don't know. What did France do for the United States before it was the United States? We're going to be celebrating it. What did they do to help us win the revolutionary war? I'm not even saying we should do what France did for us, which is they actually fought, or we wouldn't be here as a country. We wouldn't be here. I mean, giving the people of Iran arms to overthrow their government using our superior air power. They have no air power. Using our superior naval power. They have no navy left. But we may have a casualty. Well, then, if that's the case, then forget it. Just surrender. Just surrender. You know, I think about this, Mr. Producer, and I want. I want you all to hear, hear this. We fought a Civil War in four and a half years. There were seven. Over 700,000 casualties. Every casualty was an American casualty, either in the north or the South. It's the bloodiest war we've ever fought. There were the Copperheads in the North. The Copperheads were Republicans, some Democrats, who insisted it wasn't worth it. The casualties are too high. Let the Confederacy split off or let them have the slavery. We'll keep our country together. It's not worth these casualties. It's just too enormous. 700,000. It's actually closer to 720,000 casualties in a nation of 24 million people. Lincoln said no. He was attacked by some newspapers, including in New York, including in the North. He was called a monkey, by the way. A warmonger. The most horrendous things, One battle. The worst of them, Gettysburg. But they were all horrific. One battle, 50,000 casualties. One battle, three days. The battle of Vicksburg, where Grant surrounded Vicksburg in Mississippi and starved the city. People were eating their horses, they were eating their dogs. Because they needed to bring the war to an end, American to American. Was it worth it? Was it worth ending slavery? Was it worth. In order to keep the Union together, I think some people in this country today would say no. And in fact, you have radical libertarians and woke rightists who say Lincoln was a barbarian. We should never have done that. We should have let the south go and let it be its own country, slavery or no slavery. We have those arguments today. Now we have a country that wants to build nuclear weapons and blow us off the face of the earth. And I personally am getting sick and tired of people saying, why are we doing this? Why are we doing this? What do you mean, why are we doing this? You think we just picked Iran out of a hat? They told us what they want to do. They've killed Americans for half a century. They've tried to assassinate our president and other officials. They tried to assassinate Ivanka Trump. We're the United States of America. We're going to sit on our asses for this. What have we become? What have we become? Now this war was begun. It's been a spectacular war. The casualties have been minuscule. But for every family and every casualty, it's everything. I understand that. But Hezbollah killed 241 Marines in their barracks. That's Iran. Hezbollah killed over a hundred of our people in two embassies in Africa. I can go down the list. We lost more people by not taking on Iran than we are by taking on Iran. What have we become here? For me to take a position like this, I'm a warmonger. I'm Israel first. Don't put our kids on the line. Our kids are not on the line. We have no draft. We have no ground forces. I don't, I don't know how else, how much cleaner can you fight a war? Good God. I'll be right back. Paying 70, 80, $90 a month to Big Wireless for unlimited data is insanity. Especially when Pure Talk, my wireless company, is going to give you unlimited high Speed data for just 34, 99amonth. Unlimited high speed data at Pure Talk used to start at 55 bucks a month. But because Pure Talk is constantly pushing to give you more for less, you can now get unlimited high speed data for just 34, 99amonth. So if you've looked at Pure Talk before and you didn't make the move, please check them out again. And if you're wondering, is Pure Talk's network really as good as the overpriced big guys, try it out for 30 days. With no contract, no cancellation fees, you have nothing to lose. 30 days. Check it out. Their US customer service team is standing by to help you switch in as little as 10 minutes. Go to PureTalk.com Levin that's PureTalk.com L E V I N to claim unlimited high speed data. Just 34, 99. Again, that's PureTalk.com Levin L E V I N switch to my wireless company, America's Wireless Company, PureTalk. Again, that's PureTalk dot com slash Levin. All right, let's go to Steve. Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, the great wabc. Steve, how are you?

[Caller]

Hey, Mark. I'm fine. Thanks for taking the call. Yeah, you know, I want to thank you. I want to thank you for continuing to beat this drum. I know President Trump listens, he values your opinion and he gets a chance to hear the base here and on the base. I've supported this guy. We've got to end this conflict and essentially is what it's been, is a conflict. They're not fighting us back. It hasn't been a war. So let's just end it. I think he's not seriously at odds with the, with the Israeli Prime Minister, but there's just a difference in how to prosecute it. I agree with you and with the Israeli Prime Minister. Let's get it done quicker, sooner. We should have done it, should be done with it already. Right at the beginning of the war too. I think the conflict, I think some in the administration had Trump's ear that said, well, after we take out the first and Second tier, there's more moderate leadership. There's no moderate leadership there now. The IRGC is controlling it. They've controlled this from day one. They control those mullahs. The IRGC must, not only the mullahs, but the IRGC has got to go and we got to arm the people. You are correct. So I'm hoping, wishing and praying, Mark, that the president is real, is slowly coming to this realization. You got to.

[Mark Levin]

He's a brilliant man.

[Caller]

He's got to realize from afar, finishing the job the way you and I want, taking out the Iranian guard, arming the people is good, not only from a foreign policy standpoint, economically and therefore politically, it helps us as well. He knows Israel. I don't know how you, I think you agree with me. Israel is our best ally right now. They are our strongest ally. He's not going to let them down. As for the naysayers who.

[Mark Levin]

Now here's the difference. Israel wants to take him out and Trump wants a deal. That's the bottom line.

[Caller]

I know, I know.

[Mark Levin]

Israel wants to take him out once and for all because they're right near him and they're getting pounded when. With ballistic missiles or they did before, and they want to finish them off and we don't. We want to deal. That's the difference.

[Caller]

Yeah, Yeah, I, I completely agree. As for Hezbollah, and I know, I, you take out Iran, I think you'll agree, you take out Iran, Hezbollah is not a problem. And Israel knows this.

[Mark Levin]

No, they don't know that. Hezbollah is a huge problem. Huge problem. Of course, you take out Iran, they don't have funding. And so. But they still have a zillion missiles over there and they still control Lebanon. And the concern here, as the gentleman mentioned it earlier, and he's right, is that some deal would include Lebanon. And when you include Lebanon, which says it doesn't want to be included in a deal because they know and the Israelis know that that means Hezbollah is going to be more difficult to fight because just like what happened 72 hours ago, Hezbollah is firing rockets into Israel. Israel is moving into Lebanon to take, to take out Hezbollah. Iran says no, fires 11 ballistic missiles into Israel, and then we tell Israel to cut it out. Well, yeah, if you're the elected leader of a democracy, you can't do that. Nobody would do that. All right, my friend, thank you for your call. One or two more calls and we're going to move on here, folks. Let's see here. Let's go to Clint, New Harmony, Utah, the great KD Xu. Go Right ahead, please.

[Caller]

Hey, Mark, I can do nothing but just say respectfully, amen to your, to everything you've said. I follow you daily. And you're right on. They, they are, they are not going to make a deal. They never will make a deal. They have never going to make a deal. And if they do, it's not enforceable. And, and I'm really perplexed. I guess in addition to the, to the bomb material, the uranium, I know that's a big deal and Trump's trying to make a deal and I think, I think he's hopefully coming around. I'm not sure, but I'm really surprised that our military is not, is not eliminating the threat on the coast that threatens the Strait of Hormuz. Why can we not control that?

[Mark Levin]

That I don't know either. That I don't either. You make a great point. I don't know why we don't take those by force. This is what people mean by force. Open a Strait of Hormuz. What do they mean by that? Take out all the military armaments and installations they have along that coast. Just take them out and then they can't do anything.

[Caller]

Drones. Empty drones. And find out where they are. Let them shoot at the drones and then we know where they are. Take them out. Turn that entire coastline into glass if we have to. Let's get serious and win this damn war.

[Mark Levin]

Yeah, I agree with you. Thank you. This isn't exactly the toughest war we've ever been in, is it, Mr. Medusa? I don't think so. I really don't. I really don't. Jennifer, you got one minute. Long Island, New York, one minute. Go right ahead.

[Caller]

Okay. Hi. Thanks. A long time listener and Trump supporter, Christian. I support Israel and very strongly. I heard on Katz and Cosby today. I don't know who the guest was. He said that Trump is holding back from attacking because they needed time to rearm, that we didn't have enough missiles, that we ran out of arms.

[Mark Levin]

Well, there's two answers to that. I've been in touch with the same people. That was an argument maybe a month ago. It's not an argument that works today. The assembly lines have been working overtime. We are reinforced. That's number one. Number two, we needed 10 or 14 more days, according to Centcom, to finish this job. We would have had plenty of armaments to do that. I've also heard other excuses that the Arab countries don't want their oil fields hit. You know, there's a thousand excuses. We'll be right back. Paying 70, 80, $90 a month to Big Wireless for unlimited data is insanity. Especially when Pure Talk, my wireless company, is going to give you unlimited high speed data for just 34.99amonth. Unlimited high speed data at Pure Talk used to start at 55 bucks a month. But because PureTalk is constantly pushing to give you more for less, you can now get unlimited high speed data for just 34, 99amonth. So if you've looked at Pure Talk before and you didn't make the move, please check them out again. And if you're wondering is Pure Talk's network really as good as the overpriced big guys, try it out for 30 days. With no contract, no cancellation fees, you have nothing to lose. 30 days. Check it out. Their US customer service team is standing by to help you switch in as little as 10 minutes. Go to PureTalk.com Levin that's PureTalk.com L E V I N to claim unlimited high speed data. Just 34, 99. Again, that's PureTalk.com Levin L E V I N switch to my wireless company, America's wireless company, PureTalk. Again, that's PureTalk. Mark Levin, America's passionately cerebral voice.

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Talk with that voice now. 877-381-3811.

[Mark Levin]

You know, people say we should never have started this in the first place. Okay, then what would have happened? The Iranians just sit there, do nothing. What would have happened? They would have built their nuclear weapon. That's what would have happened. And 10,000 ballistic missiles. Then what do we do? Okay, people say, yeah, a deal is preferable. Well, it's not going to be enforceable after the President leaves. You see, sadly this is all going to be proven true in the years coming. I wish it wouldn't be because that's really going to be left to your kids and your grandkids. You know, it's up to our generation to leave our country safer and better than we received it, which is hard to do. We have prior generations who fought wars so that you and I, we could be free so their children and grandchildren wouldn't have to fight wars. I am deeply concerned that if we're not able to finish this the right way, that we are going to be the first generation that turns us over to our kids and grandkids. And imagine this. Imagine that country has nuclear warheads and 10,000 ballistic missiles. And they have ballistic missiles that can not only reach the capitals in Europe, but by then with technology from the communist Chinese and others, they can reach our Shores. What are we going to do then? Then we have no options. None. We have no options. The rest of those countries in the Middle east, the Arab countries, they're not going to sit around, they're not going to sit on their hands. They're going to acquire nuclear weapons as well. That's how serious this is. That's how serious this is. Reagan was right. If you think there can be a fortress America and that's going to work, it's not going to work. It's never going to work. It never would work. Because evil regimes, whether they're fascistic or Marxist or Islamist, these are revolutions that seek to expand their, their power. Hitler was a fascist. He sought to take over the world. The communists seek to take over the world. The Islamists seek to take over the world. I don't know why this is so complicated. The truth is it's not. It's not complicated at all. The question is whether we have the will to survive, whether we have the will to survive as a free people, whether we have the will to turn over to our children and grandchildren a safer country. That's the issue. And either we do or we don't. Prior generations did. Many lost their lives to create this country. Many lost their lives in intervening wars. Many lost their lives during the civil war. Many lost their lives World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, other wars in Iraq and so forth and so on. This is a war for us. People want to talk about it. It's a war for Israel. No, it's a war for us, to protect us. We're going to move into some other areas here. Ladies and gentlemen, Turkey has threatened Israel today. You see, this is what happens. You know, power does not tolerate a vacuum. And so the nine week ceasefire, it's nine weeks as of today, what was supposed to be two days. And now we have military action going on. It's called defensive action. I don't know why. It's military action, not defensive action. We're trying to deal with this regime. And so what happens is other countries are looking around, they see if there's a void, they see if they can make their move. Erdogan is a very evil killer. He tortures and imprisons his political opponents, he kills others. He's an Islamist, he's also a National Socialist. He's projecting. He keeps calling Israel a Nazi regime. And Netanyahu, Hitler, of course. So he's made threats against Israel today. And Netanyahu responded in his usual forceful way. President was asked about this today. Cut three Go.

[Caller]

First of all, Turkish President Erdogan keeps threatening Israel.

[Mark Levin]

Do you think there's a chance of a conflict between Israel and Turkey?

[Caller]

And will you sell after 35?

[Donald Trump]

Well, as you know, he's a very good friend of mine and we've worked very well together. I like him a lot. I'm not supposed to say that, because the press will say, oh, he likes Erdogan. No, he's a hell of a leader and a strong person, Very strong person. I haven't heard that at all. If I did, I'd call him, and I think I'd make sure that things were fine. I don't think that will happen with Turkey, not, not as long as I'm president, because he respects me and I respect him. But beyond that, we have a good friendship. So, you know,

[Mark Levin]

I wonder if he would. No. I posted something earlier today. Reporters never ask about an Erdogan, about the crown prince in Saudi Arabia, about the monarchy in Qatar. Do United States interests align with these countries? We're getting more and more. The vice President said the other day, I think it was the Daily Mail, but I could be wrong. You know, we don't always align. And therefore, you know, we have our disagreements and we have to go our way and they have to go their way. But, you know, they've been a good partner, Israel and so forth. That's, that's perfectly fine. But my question is, how come the same question isn't asked by reporters about these other countries, Mr. Medusa? I mean, do we align with Saudi Arabia? Do we align with qatar that's poured $400 billion into our country to keep, to promote dissension and Islam. Turkey, another one. Turkey, which gave safe haven to Hamas leaders and helped fund the terrorism in Hamas and is aligned with the leadership now in Syria. Turkey, which is slaughtered God knows how many Kurds. I mean, do we allow. Does his agenda align with ours? Those questions are never asked. For some reason, very, very strange, in my view. Very strange. All right. President was asked about Adam Hamoway. That's the guy with Al Qaeda ties with ties to the blind sheik in very significant ways. Another Democrat. They go to the Democrat Party, they get their nominations. Just like this guy Planter in Maine, a real pig. He got his nomination last night. God forbid, if he's a United States Senator. God forbid, yes. I would take Susan Collins over him a thousand times, thousand times. President was asked about this guy, Adam Homaway. Cut six. Go.

[Caller]

There is a New Jersey Democratic congressional nominee over the 12th district. Homily. He Has a connection to the blind shape.

[Mark Levin]

And I was wondering,

[Donald Trump]

okay, I think it's terrible. I've seen it. I mean, he was more, you know. Now he's trying to sort of say, yeah, I sort of knew him. He didn't know him. We were very good friends. And you look at the. You go back and look at what happened during that period of time. He was a witness at the trial. For him, it was a positive witness. For him, he said the most glowing things. A guy knocked down the World Trade center. Admitted that he knocked down the World Trade Center. I think it's another one if you look. I actually think the one in Maine is worse because he's just an outright pig. He's like a pig. I watched him a couple of times. He's like a pig. That's what he reminds me of. You know, I come up with good names for people. I don't want to stick him with that one, although I think pigs would be very upset about it.

[Mark Levin]

Quite true. He goes further. Cut seven. Go.

[Caller]

You mentioned the Senate race in Maine. Are you all in and supporting Susan Collins?

[Donald Trump]

Does she have your full support and endorsement in her? She does, because she's a sane woman. She's not my best friend at all. These guys are. And I get along well, but I have some. But she's the sane person, and she's a person that never missed a vote in many years. I mean, she's, like, had 10,000 votes. 10,000 votes. She never missed a vote, unfortunately, because sometimes she voted against me. You know, look, she's a sane woman, and she's a respected person. Maybe a little different ideology than me, but this guy is a thug. He's a fake thug. He's a phony. I made a lot of money picking out phonies. He's a real phony. He's a bad person.

[Mark Levin]

So this Graham Platner's on the Morning Schmo show today. It goes like this. Cut eight, go.

[Caller]

You say there's nothing out there that could be concerning. And this may seem a little bit rich.

[Mark Levin]

I just want to make this clear.

[Caller]

There's.

[Mark Levin]

There's nothing out there that's actually concerning. People will make everything seem very concerning,

[Caller]

because that's what people do in politics. But, you know, I think the.

[Mark Levin]

The thing about all of this is

[Caller]

what I find to be kind of most curious is this. This is what everyone wants to make the campaign about. So we do not talk about the

[Mark Levin]

struggles of working manners. Oh, give me a break. Give me a break. The struggles of working People. Nobody's talking about that. Are they rich? Nobody. Nobody ever talks about it. Nobody. The guy was a Nazi. He's a communist, he's a pervert, did stuff in public bathrooms. He's accused of abusing a woman or two. He's a complete sleazeball. Texting on a. He's on a site where pedophiles hang out. He's there for years. I mean, this is not normal. Whatever the excuses is irrelevant. He wants to be a United States Senator. He wants to vote on issues relevant to you and me, and so he just dismisses it. Or if he says anything, he says, yeah, it was a dark period, you know, I went through this. I. I'm not a saint, okay? That's the answer. I'm not a saint. None of us are saints. But how about just being normal? Well, I couldn't be normal. Was the military's fault. It was, you know, that I went through this psychological. No, you're a grown adult. I went through a dark period. You're still in a dark period. You're a liar. And the only reason they're backing you is because you're a shore vote to destroy this country. And they'll take anybody and everybody. It's the same people who've let in all these Islamists who want to overthrow the country. The same people who are teaching our kids Marxism who want to destroy the country. That's the Democrat Party. You better get used to it. That's the party. It's now the party of Nazis and communists and Islamists. I'll be right back.

[Caller]

Foreign.

[Mark Levin]

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[Donald Trump]

He's here. He's here now, broadcasting them from the

[Caller]

underground command post deep in the bowels

[Mark Levin]

of a hidden bunker somewhere under the brick and steel of a nondescript building.

[Caller]

We've once again made contact with our leader Mark Len.

[Mark Levin]

Welcome back, third Hour, Power Hour. Glad to have you. Washington Free Beacon Exclusive Hamas turns Gaza hospital and schools into torture chambers as it reestablishes a police state. It's not disarmed, in fact it's rearming. And so there was a deal that's not cutting it right now and hopefully something will be done about it, adam Credo writes. Hamas has built makeshift torture chambers inside Gazan hospitals and schools where its men are interrogating and abusing fellow Palestinians suspected of disloyalty. The reign of terror comes as Hamas moves aggressively to reassert its power over the Gaza Strip, according to video testimonials and official government documents reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. More than eight months after a fragile ceasefire with Israel left Hamas badly wounded, the terror group has largely turned inward, establishing a strict police state and moving internal security operations its dreaded Interior Ministry back into the same civilian outposts that commandeered to wage war on Israel. Eyewitness accounts from three Gazans reveal that Hamas has again laid claim to Al Shifa Hospital, the Gaza Strip's largest medical complex, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Derballa, Nasser Hospital in another location and then a fourth hospital in Gaza City. Four hospitals. The terror group has done the same with schools across Gaza, turning classrooms into prisons and detention centers where civilians are often subjected to brutal beatings and more creative forms of torture. Quote, they have prisons inside the schools rooms that function like prisons, recounted one Gazan activist says he was abducted by Hamas and beaten for several days. The same goes for hospitals. They have rooms underground in the basement that they use a prison as if they were military and security sites. At the Nasra hospital, said a second Gazan woman inside the Han Al Dagma dialysis center, people are beaten and shot in the legs. If they send someone to the renal department at Nasser, it basically means it's over. Jathua Schanzer, a veterinarian, regional analyst and executive director of the foundation for the Defense of Democracy's think tank, said it's no surprise Hamas is against staking claim to Gaza's most important civilian centers. Hamas has always exploited the civilian infrastructure that it is wielded to deter Israel from attacking its military structures, he said. So the co opting of institutions is a long standing practice of this terrorist organization dating back to its very founding. Like others quoted in this report, the Gaza witness to Hamas's torture operations have asked to remain anonymous in order to protect themselves from Hamas retaliation. The video Testimonials were secretly filmed inside Gaza for Jerzul News, an independent Arab run media outlet that frequently documents life under Hamas control and provided to the Free Beacon along with Hamas run Interior Ministry documents that show civilians being summoned to hospitals for interrogation. Now the lovely Mrs. Levin has come in. What do you think of this with Hamas and what they're doing? And they're not disarmed, and now they're just. They're just wielding power. They're torturing other Palestinians and you don't hear a word from the river to the sea crowd or anybody else. No, but none of this is a surprise, is it? This has exactly been their M.O. since way before October 7, 2023. And they've gotten away with it. And they will continue to get away with it unless they are destroyed. Yeah, well, the interesting thing is nothing in the New York Times, nothing in the network media, nothing on cable, nothing. Zero. So all of a sudden it's forgotten. Is it because the Jews aren't involved? It's because Israel's not involved. So who cares if Muslims are slaughtering Muslims, Arabs are slaughtering Arabs. Even Palestinian Arabs slaughtering Palestinian Arabs. Who cares about the torture and all the rest of it? That's exactly right. They will not show the photographs of

[Caller]

Hamas literally executing people on the street.

[Mark Levin]

They never showed the photographs of them taking the food that came in, the quote, humanitarian aid, none of it. Now you know why she's so brilliant and beautiful. There's the wifey. Thank you, sweetie. Oh, it's quite true. It goes on the story. Like others quoted in this report. People are anonymous. The testimonials and documentation provide some of the firmest evidence to date that Hamas is not only torturing Palestinians, but also continuing to breach international law by using civilian buildings as military outposts. Where are all the NGOs? Where are all the government reports from. From all over the world?

[Donald Trump]

Where?

[Mark Levin]

Where's Europe? Where is Macron? Where's Stromer and all the rest? Where are they? They're nowhere. Where's that clown in Canada? No protests in the street? Nothing. Zero. Zero. Israel targeted several of the aforementioned hospitals during the war in Gaza and provided extensive evidence that Hamas used these medical facilities for its operations, with Hamas operatives often working alongside humanitarian aid workers at the same time, anti Israel elements of the international community and the media paid little attention as Hamas rebuilds its authoritarian state. We're paying little attention. We're not paying any attention that I can see. Well, it became clear as early as October Hamas was reestablishing bases inside schools and hospitals. The eyewitness accounts reveal the grim reality of what is taking place inside these protected spaces, said one Gazan activist. They raided the place I had fled to and took me to Shifa Hospital. At the hospital, they treated us as if we were a military base or a prison. They didn't treat us a space protected by international law. They treated us in an inhumane manner. We were assaulted verbally and physically. He said he was one of several civilians imprisoned in the hospital where Hamas militants treated us as if we were spies and collaborators. If you don't like what's going on, they treat you as a spy or that you're working for a foreign agenda, that you're against the resistance. A third said his adult son was abducted by the notorious Hamas aligned Al Qassam Brigades said the terror faction hid the young man in several hospitals over a period of two months. Cholera I tracked him down at the Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital after he was severely beaten and had his money and phone stolen, the father said in an interview. He spent five days in the hospital underground, in the basement. They used the harshest methods against him, including beating him with clubs. Other torture methods included gagging, hitting his teeth, hitting his nose, hitting his hands and legs, quote, unquote. The man said his son still suffers from joint pain, bone pain. Now what else they're doing is they're breaking bones, breaking legs, breaking arms, breaking ribs. The Gazan woman who resides near the hospital said she's witnessed army militants moving in and out of the facility. She said Hamas does not hide its activities there, keep them secret from the general population. They make it known to the youth and sent out official summons to come to the hospital for interrogation. Official documents from the Hamas run Interior Ministry provided to the Juzor outlet and to the Free Beacon confirm this account. Both summons letters were sent by Hamas's internal security and police forces and directed these people to show up at these facilities. It goes on. It's horrendous, the kind of torture and the other things that are going on there and nobody gives a damn. Here's Israel that didn't torture anybody, didn't starve anybody, didn't summarily shoot anybody, although they were attacked by the woke, right? The Islamists, podcasters and so forth and so on. And none of them say a word about this. None of them say a word about this. There's a lot more I want to cover tonight and get it all in in the remaining 45 minutes, so we'll be right back.

[Caller]

Mud Levin.

[Mark Levin]

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[Caller]

lawyer

[Mark Levin]

and she's trying to really light this up. They're trying to turn it into a George Floyd situation. Let's listen to this. Cut 17. Go.

[Caller]

He ended up hitting Austin one time and it was about where he hit him one time, two inches. This wasn't someone who said, hey, let me stab you five, six, seven times. And so when you're looking at the punishment range, there's a reason in Texas that it goes from 5 to 99 or life. Because you are looking at how intentional, like how bad was this? 35 years for a kid who had decided to go under a tent that was not his team's tent as it

[Mark Levin]

was 35 years for an 18 year old who stabbed to death another 18 year old. Well, you have to, you have to stab the person multiple times for him not to die or for death not to matter, I guess. Is this not sick? A life snuffed out. A human life, somebody's life. They'll never be here again. The parents will never see their son again. The brother will never see his son. He saw his, his brother murdered. Everybody saw it. Every race. They actually had a video of this from across the way. Mr. Producer. And they were able to perfect the video and see exactly what took place. Carmelo Anthony was the aggressor in every respect. Go ahead.

[Caller]

Simply didn't want to be put out in the rain by some random kid that he didn't know who was larger than him. Listen, a lot of people don't know what it is to live as a black person in this country.

[Mark Levin]

I don't want to hear about this because the truth is in terms of murder, particularly in our cities, it's black on black crime. I don't want to hear about what it's like to live as anybody or in anything is an excuse for somebody to murder somebody else. Okay? This was cold blooded murder. He could have gotten 99 years. He got 35. To me that's not even enough. Cut 18. Go.

[Caller]

If a 300 pound man is beating me like on top of me and beating me down, I, I'm not limited to, to fist. You know, I would argue that even the only time we go into things like people's hands being considered deadly weapons

[Mark Levin]

is to what is she talking about? We don't have to argue on the alternative. We don't have to talk about a 300 pound man. We have to talk about an 18 year old who took out a knife and stabbed another 18 year old right in the chest, right at the heart and murdered him right in front of everybody else. He wasn't supposed to be in that tent. He was politely asked to leave. He wouldn't leave. And he murdered. Killed somebody. Another person his age. So what the hell is she even talking about? Then there's. There's another radical. Summer Lee, I believe she's from Pittsburgh. Another head case. Nut job. Senator McCormick has told us about her. She's a nut. What did she have to say? Now, keep in mind, this young guy was murdered. 18 years old. And his last words were, I've been stabbed. Imagine being his father and mother and the brother who saw it and everybody else who saw it. There wasn't a single witness who testified in the end in favor of the killer. They had defense witnesses. They brought. They brought some up, but they turned out to say, yes, he was the aggressor. Go ahead.

[Caller]

They're trying to disenfranchise you. Because if you believe that you're never going to get reparations from the system, then you. You tap out.

[Mark Levin]

And you don't just tap out of the conversation. You tap out of the system. That's enough. That's enough. Tap out. The greatest country on the face of the earth. The great thing is people can come. People can go as they wish. We have people coming into the country, not her in particular, but people coming into the country. First generation who hate us. They don't have to come here, but they do come here. And all we ever hear is about racism, racism, racism. She's a member of Congress. She's one of 535Americans, is a member of Congress who gets to vote on laws that affect each and every one of us. It's just ridiculous. It's sickening. And she's going on and on about racism in America. Well, I guess there is some racism. It could be reverse racism, could be regular racism, could be God knows what. But that's certainly not the rule. Not anymore. It's the exception. I'm sorry. That's the truth. That's the truth. But this, this whole thing, you murder somebody, the shoe were on the other foot, you better believe we'd be hearing a lot of noise. Oh, yeah, we would. Just being honest. My eyes are wide open, my ears are wide open, my brain functions. I see what I see and I hear what I hear. There was a hearing today in an oversight committee by Barry Loudermilk. And he's a good guy, Loudermilk. He's been on the program before. And it's a hearing with the CEO of ActBlue. Because ActBlue is being accused of using foreign money and foreign government money to help Democrat campaigns. Got that? They help Democrat candidates. Listen to this. Jim Jordan's asking your cut 24. Go.

[Caller]

Your board chairman said ActBlue accepted up to 38 million contributions in 2024 that had the signs of foreign origin. How much fraud is too much fraud?

[Mark Levin]

On the advice of counsel Council, I respectfully declined to answer the question pursuant to my fifth amendment rights under the Constitution. How many Foreign Contributions Did ActBlue accept? On the advice of counsel, I respectfully declined to answer the question pursuant to my fifth amendment rights under the Constitution. And she did this when she was asked her name.

[Caller]

Right?

[Mark Levin]

Mr. Medusa. On the advice of counsel, I respectfully declined to answer the question pursuant to my fifth amendment rights under the Constitution. When she was asked her name. Of course she has the right to do that. Of course you're innocent. You bang the table and you say what you gotta say. What would you do if your online store converted 36% more shoppers?

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[Mark Levin]

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[Mark Levin]

Mark within the thunder on the right. Call in now. 877-3813. All right. Michigan drenched in super PAC spending for Abdul El Said. That's the. The Islamist running for the Senate. The Democrat primary there. There's a ton of money pouring in for this guy. According to left wing Axios, of all places. A ton of money. A new super PAC is planning to spend millions of dollars in the contentious Michigan Senate primary. And this guy's backed by Bernie Sanders. You understand? Bernie Sanders backs platinum. He backed the guy in New Jersey. He's backing this guy. This is Bernie Sanders heyday. He's a Stalinist and he embraces the Islamists. Bernie Sanders is a dangerous, dangerous person. Horrendous, as a matter of fact. Horrendous. But he's just treated as an old man, you know? Just treated as an old man. So he's just telling about this massive pack. You know, it's funny. We're billionaires and billionaires. How come the Democrats always seem to raise more money than the Republicans. And I'm not even talking about little donations. How is that possible all the time? Now, one of the things I wrote

[Caller]

about,

[Mark Levin]

one of the things I wrote about in Plunder and Deceit are entitlement programs that we've paid into, like Social Security. And I've been warning literally for 20 years that the way Social Security was robbed. That's right. Social Security has no money in it. It's an IOU from the federal government. The way it was robbed, we're going to have a problem soon. Well, guess what? That soon is here. It's 2032. 2032. A report found that Social Security is on track, being solved by the end of 2032. And beneficiaries could experience a 22% benefit cut if the looming insolvency is not addressed over and over and over again. We have talked about this over the years. And Medicare, same thing. Social Security provides guaranteed retirement income, as you know, to over 70 million Americans. The center on Budget and Policy Priority states that Social Security keeps more Americans out of poverty than any other program in America. But even more than that, you paid into this, right? But we have people who haven't paid into it who are getting benefits. We have people who are ripping it off, who've come here from other countries who are getting benefits. There's just so much fraud. And you dare not look under the rocks and under the covers for the fraud. You better not, because the Democrats will attack you. It's like Medicaid. This 2025 report found that the projected Old Age and Survivors Insurance Insurance Fund, which pays benefits to retirees and survivors of deceased workers, will be depleted by 2033. In August, it moved the insolvency date to 2032, citing the big Beautiful Bill's effect on taxation of benefits. The Big Beautiful bill provides a temporary supplemental federal income tax deduction of $6,000 for individuals age 65 or older, or 12,000 for married couples filing jointly if both are 65 and older. The system is relying on current workers to pay current Social Security beneficiaries. So that puts a lot of weight on declining demographics. Let me cut to the chase. Let me cut to the chase. In the 1970s, they tapped into the Social Security trust funds. Funds, plural, and pulled that money out for operating expenses. That money is gone. And so instead, there's an IOU in there. There's an IOU from Social Security Administration to the federal Treasury Department because the Treasury Department basically is loaning money to the Social Security Administration, printing it to pay Social Security. So there's IOUs. Where Social Security Administration owes this money effectively to the Treasury. Now the Democrats say, who cares? What's the difference? It's all the same thing. Well, the problem is it's not adding up. And come 2032. It doesn't have any money left or enough money. If it were a private business, we go broke. And so they're saying there has to be a 22% cut in benefits that you paid for or there's going to have to be a massive tax increase. The same applies to Medicare. When you hear the Democrats talk about Medicare for all, that will destroy Medicare in five or six years because Medicare can't cover 12 year olds, 20 year olds, 30, 40 year olds. There's not enough going in and there can never be enough going in. It'll drain what's there. So this is why when the Marxist socialists say these things, Medicare for all. You people on Medicare are soon to be on Medicare. You better fight that. Because now people who, let's say people who are 63 years old and they just came into the country from somewhere else, some other continent and they hit 65, they're getting Medicare. Well obviously that can't work well, can it? People can't just keep taking out who haven't put in and yet. That's the Democrat plan. How can you have Medicare for all? How are you going to pay for that? Well, I'll just increase taxes on billionaires. That's not going to do it. It's so absurd. But this is what they say. They lie. The boomer generation as they call us, they're retiring now. I'm retired. I won't be taking out Social Security until I absolutely must, as far out as I can, number one, I don't need it. And see, that's what's going to happen. They're going to turn this program, that is not a welfare program into a welfare program which means a massive tax increase and to cover tens of millions or more people. So it's not going to be Social Security anymore. Just like Medicare is not going to be Medicare anymore. It's going to be a socialist government run health care system that never has enough money, never has enough doctors and nurses, never has enough facilities and cannot spend money on R and D and other capital expenses for cutting edge technologies. This economic socialism, really the umbrella is Marxism is unworkable. Unworkable. And those steps are being taken to strengthen these programs, quite the contrary. More and more effort to expand them, which means the people who've put in money the people who have invested enormously. When you get a paycheck, you're putting a lot of money into Social Security and Medicare. Take a look at it and imagine when you retire or when you hit 65. It's not there. It's not there for a lot of reasons, because they took the money out, because of fraud, because of illegal immigrants, people who just come in, or even legal immigrants who come in at a very late age and qualify for it. Qualify for it. I'm not trying to scare you. I'm just trying to warn you. These are the things that go on. So when people, damnable fools, Democrats in Maine are voting for a guy like Platner, or they're voting for these leftists who keep making these promises that are impossible, impossible, and they're destroying the greatest health care system in the world. I'd say Social Security is the greatest government pension system in the world and so forth. And so they're going to destroy them just like they've destroyed our educational system. I mean, look at Obamacare. Obamacare has driven the price for health insurance through the roof. It's driven the price for drugs through the roof. It's driven the price generally for medical care through the roof. And the Democrats answer is to expand it, to keep subsidizing it. They're never circumspect. They never look back because they don't want to give you any your liberty. They don't want to give you any of your money back. They don't want private sector competition. They want to control it, so they control you. Obamacare has destroyed the market in health care, so the pricing is through the roof. Obama did that. Not a single Republican voted for that. The Democrats voted for that. I'll be right back. With Donald Trump back in office, one of his biggest adversaries, top Democrat Dick Durbin of Chicago, is leading the charge to derail President Trump's agenda at every turn. And now Durbin has a new scheme, a government takeover of your credit card. Right now, Americans have thousands of credit card options, all with equal strong security. But Senator Durbin's plan could result in less security. That means more risk for your credit, your identity and your financial future. Durbin's bill isn't about helping consumers. It's a giveaway to corporate megastores, which could shift costs onto you while putting your rewards and fraud protections in jeopardy. We've seen Durbin's fail policies before. His last big banking regulation backfired, leading to higher costs and fewer benefits for American families. Tell Republican senators Stop Durbin's government takeover of your credit card before it's too late. Learn [e-mail] that's guardyourcard.com paid for by the Electronic Payments Coalition. When our forces are hitting the enemy, we should be cheering, we should be elated. When our allies, in this case Israel, hitting the enemy, we should be cheering. And we should be elated too. I don't think that's too complicated. I really don't. Alright, let me get my screen back here. I'm working on it folks. Look, I'm not a technological wizard, but on the other hand, some of this stuff is just stupid the way it just shuts down Rich, you know, here we are. Where the way these ads keep coming in is no matter how much I try to block them. Okay, there it is. Okay. Oh, look at that. Mr. Producers created with Mr. Call screener. Brand new screen. It's really easy for me. Let us go to Fred. Kansas City, Kansas. The great kcmo. Go.

[Caller]

I have an easy solution for Social Security.

[Mark Levin]

Yes, sir.

[Caller]

The left wants to keep it the way it is, where the government can borrow from it whenever the heck they want for whatever they want. The right ones to do something like you get to invest it in stocks, et cetera. There's clearly risk in both of those. My simple solution is a Social Security savings account where like a bank regular savings account, it's going to get interest, it cannot be touched by the government for anything. And then it still simply has the same rules there already are for when you can access it, how much you can get from it.

[Mark Levin]

I like that idea. But let me ask you something. You would limit the investment to a savings account? Savings account interest isn't very high.

[Caller]

Right. But it's not nothing. And it can't be stolen for use for this or that. And like regular investings, you can lose that.

[Mark Levin]

I would do it a little differently. I do like the idea where people can increase their investments. In other words, diversify somewhat. But I think fundamentally that's a great idea, Fred, Very good. Thank you for your call. Sure as hell would be better than what's going on right now. Let's go to Paul Dutchess County, New York on the Mark Levin app. Paul, go right ahead please.

[Caller]

Hey Mark, how are you?

[Mark Levin]

I'm good, how are you?

[Caller]

I'm good. You seem to be over your bout with cholera. I'm glad to hear that.

[Mark Levin]

Yeah. Okay.

[Caller]

Yeah. So I won't take too much of your time, but I just like to say that, yes, I'm like Many I say we finished the job because you can't make a deal with Iran. There's nothing they're going to do that say that you can hold them to

[Mark Levin]

what's concerning me now, even with the military action we're trying to get them to sign a deal. The military action is aimed at them signing a deal, not defeating them. So I again, look, in the end we'll see how this works out. I don't really need a magic when you call whatever I don't need, I don't need a crystal ball. Yeah, I mean I know it's gonna happen to so do you.

[Caller]

Yeah, well, not gonna honor like this. I think, I think Trump is hesitant. Well, I won't say hesitant, but he's waiting because he'd rather make a deal than blow up all the bridges and power plants. Because I think he in his heart of hearts understands how that's going to affect the Iranian people and I think he would.

[Mark Levin]

I don't even understand why we would blow up all the bridges and power plants. Why don't we blow up everything that's tied to the IRGC and why don't we arm the people? Why do we have to blow up the bridges unless they're exclusively or mostly used for the military? I don't know what that gets.

[Caller]

I don't, I'm not a military planner, so I couldn't, I couldn't.

[Mark Levin]

This is a matter of logic.

[Caller]

Yeah, but I.

[Mark Levin]

Every police station, every depot and everything else and I even proposed why don't we contaminate the uranium. Take a look at what I posted on social media if you ever check those things out. The accident that happened in 1966 over Spain and what happened to some of the nuclear uranium and take a look at what happened. And so what I'm saying is, okay, let's do that intentionally to these sites that have the enriched uranium way down deep and they won't be able to touch it for over 100 years. Take a look at that. Thanks for your call, Paul. Great call. We salute our armed forces, police officers, firefighters, emergency personnel, ice, our truckers, the men and women in Israel, the men and women in Ukraine, the men and women in Iran, and you, the American people. God bless you. See you tomorrow.