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It's all quiet in the underground bunker, doors closed, locks bolted. But the Great One isn't just resting on his laurels. He's making sure your weekend is even better by giving you his best. This is the best of Mark Levin.
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What's taking place in these cities and in these blue states, ladies and gentlemen, is nothing short of breakaway government. Whether it's la, whether it's Portland, whether it's Chicago, whether it's Seattle, other big cities, breakaway government. What I mean by that is you have effectively these enclaves of Democrat Party control, mayors and city council, mostly in blue states with Democrat governors, that will not allow the federal government to enforce federal law under our federal Constitution, in this case the immigration laws and deportation. We now have instances where mayors have told the local police to stand down. We have now instances, as we saw last night and before. Federal law enforcement, ICE and others under attack, physically under attack by waves of riotous, violent Democrats. Effectively, I call this the private Democrat Party militia, where they want mostly illegal aliens, actually, but citizens too, to rise up, to take on ICE federal law enforcement to prevent the President from enforcing federal immigration law that was passed over many decades in which he has the constitutional right and obligation to execute federal law. We see this with Newsom in California. We see it with Pritzker in Illinois. We see it in Oregon and Portland, and we've seen it elsewhere. Now, the President does have the ultimate authority under the Insurrection act, the Insurrection act of 1807, 1808. It's a federal law that authorized the President to deploy the military and federalize National Guard troops within the United States to suppress civil unrest, insurrection and rebellion. That's correct. It's under Title 10 of the US Code. You can check it out yourself. It's an exception, a significant exception, the Posse Comitatus act of 1878 that typically prevents federal military forces from acting as domestic law enforcement. Now, the act permits the President to deploy troops domestically under three main conditions when a state requests it. So that's not happening here. When federal law enforcement is impractical due to unlawful actions against U.S. authority. That's the key right there. Or when domestic violence or conspiracies prevent inhabitants from exercising their constitutional rights. So it's under the second condition. Under the second condition. Now, this act has been triggered more than you might know. It was passed in 1807, and it was triggered in 1808 by Thomas Jefferson on violations of the Embargo act around Lake Champlain. It was triggered in February 10, 1831, by Andrew Jackson, a rebellion Suppressed a slave rebellion. Suppressed. January 28, 1834. Riot over labor disputes in Maryland. Again, Jackson called out the military. It was triggered by Abraham Lincoln. April 15, 1861. The secession of Southern states. The American Civil War. He triggered The Insurrection Act. October 17, 1871. Ulysses S. Grant used the Insurrection act to put down white supremacists and insurgency by former Confederates. He used it on May 22, 1873 to put down violence in Louisiana. After a contested election. Grant used it on December 21, 1874 again to put down white supremacists in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Grant used it. You can see how horrendous the post Civil War period was. Used it in 1874 to put down an attempt by white supremacists to overthrow the government in Arkansas. Grant used it again September 15, 1874 to put down a coup in Louisiana. He used it again October 17, 1876, to put down supremacist white supremacist paramilitaries in South Carolina. October 7, 1878. Rutherford B. Hayes used the Insurrection Act. There was a war between rival business gang factions in Lincoln County, New Mexico. Chester Arthur. May 3, 1882. Gang violence in the Arizona Territory. Gang suppression. He used it. Grover Cleveland. November 7, 1885 and February 9, 1886. Riots against Chinese citizens in the Washington territories occurred in 1885 and 1886. He sent in the military to protect them. Woodrow Wilson use The Insurrection Act. April 28, 1914, to strike an uprising in Colorado. Warren Hardin used it Aug. 30, 1921, to stop a strike and uprising in West Virginia. June 21, 1943. Franklin Roosevelt to stop a race ride in Detroit. Sept. 23, 1957. You might recall this one. Dwight Eisenhower called in the National Guard. Black students were being prevented from going to high school in Little Rock. September 30, 1962. John Kennedy used the Insurrection Act. Siege and Riot University, Mississippi due to racial integration. June 11th 8th, 1963. Used it to govern Alabama. Who forbade black students from attending school in Tuscaloosa. September 10, 1963. John Kennedy used the Alabama National Guard again to open up integration to schools to black kids. Lyndon Johnson. He used the Insurrection Act. Alabama policemen were suppressing suppressing Protesters in Selma. July 24, 1967. Again Riots in Detroit to put down the riots in Detroit. April 5, 1968. Johnson used the Insurrection act to put down riots in multiple states after the assassination of Martin Luther King. November 24, 1987. Ronald Reagan used the Insurrection Act. I was there when it Happened the riot in Atlanta over announced deportations of Cuban detainees. I was chief of staff to the Attorney General. I was the top point staffer working with the Attorney General and the White House, among many other agencies. It was a vicious, brutal, violent, bloody riot. And we called out the Marines. Actually September 20, 1989 and May 1, 1992, George H.W. bush, in the first instance, looting in the United States Virgin Islands after Hurricane Hugo, he sent in the military. In the second time, the riots in Los Angeles after the acquittal of policemen regarding Rodney King, he used it for riot suppression. So it is not unusual to use the Insurrection Act. The United States military could be the Marines or any part of the military to put down organized violence in defiance of federal law and public safety. Now we have governors like we had governors in the segregationist south, like we had elements in the Confederate south, among others. The Democrat Party going back to its roots, sanctuary cities, sanctuary states, nullification of federal immigration law, obstructing the deportation of illegal aliens, including vicious criminals. I've been talking about this for month after month after month on Fox, on the Blaze, on radio, posting it on social media. And I want to thank people who have finally figured it out and now are writing columns regurgitating on what I said they should, of course, without attribution. I get it, I get it. Everybody wants to be smarter. It's not the way to roll. But that's the problem. That's the times we live in today. So right now, Portland, Oregon and Chicago, Illinois are breakaway cities under the tutelage of breakaway Democrat govern. There's rioting by illegal aliens and their supporters in these cities. There's antifa in Portland, which is a violent, violent law breaking organization that has attacked that city for half a decade and longer. In Chicago, you have a mayor who is a Marxist who hates law enforcement and crime is through the roof. You have a governor who wants to be president, a billionaire who thinks the way you become president is to stop the enforcement of federal law. We have a supremacy clause under our constitution that does not allow these breakaway cities and states, sanctuary cities and states are trying to nullify federal immigration laws. I've said again and again it's now violent. The governor and these mayors, the governors and these mayors are essentially using illegal aliens and their supporters, antifa and other domestic terrorist type organizations to fight federal law enforcement to usurp the federal constitution. We haven't seen it this bad since the lead up to the Civil war. Now they're electing Marxist Islamists who hate our country. Who hate it, who hate our founding, who hate the West. All Democrats. Oh no, they're Democratic socialists. They find support and power in the Democrat Party and the Democrat Party operatives. The language they use, they call it the whistleblowing. They're encouraging violence despite the fact that Donald Trump was almost assassinated twice. Despite the fact that Charlie Kirk was murdered. He was assassinated. Despite the fact that Steve Scalise was critically wounded and almost died a decade or so ago by a Bernie Sanders supporter. Oh yes. Oh yes. This definitely has the stench of the Civil War. We're not there yet, but it has the stench. And that's exactly what's taking place. These are not neo confederates. They are effectively confederates for what that word means. They are breakaways and they're trying to ensure the power of the Democrat Party, the power of their ideology by maintaining in this country people who are not supposed to be here, by using their power, their local law enforcement or the lack of use of local law enforcement to help federal law enforcement to ensure that these people stay. And there's one other thing that is truly notorious. They're sending a signal to the US Supreme Court on birthright citizenship. And this is my great fear that they will intimidate enough of these justices. There is literally zero constitutional basis for birthright citizenship. There's not a single statute that codifies birthright citizenship. But these breakaway cities and states are making it abundantly clear that they are prepared to go full bore violent. And so are there rogue, detestable activists, radical federal judges. Mark Levin Folks, we're living in a time when America's most cherished values are being challenged. Values like faith, family and freedom. And that's why I support amac, the association of Mature American Citizens. AMAC is the choice for Americans who care deeply about preserving the principles that have guided this nation for generations. Whether you're concerned about about your future, your children's future, or just want to stay informed and connected, AMAC is for you. As a member of the association of Mature American Citizens, you'll receive access to fantastic benefits and discounts on travel insurance, prescription services, as well as exclusive member only tools and resources that make a difference in everyday life. And one of my personal favorites, the AMAC magazine. Packed with meaningful content, insightful interviews and updates you won't find anywhere else. 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Making your weekend even better. This is the best of of Mark Levin.
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I want to thank you folks all across the country.
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Our numbers are very strong in our radio ratings.
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They're the strongest where we, where they run us live, of course. But we're up against, you know, Major League Baseball in the playoffs. We're up against all kinds of sporting activities and so forth and so on. And we're right in the teeth of it and we are duking it out and that's thanks to you. Our podcast numbers are very, very strong. Our online numbers, live streaming numbers are very, very strong. We're looking at the YouTube numbers are very, very strong. So I want to thank you all yet again for all these platforms that we're on and it's really a tremendous honor. I was asked by Fox and friends to come on the program to talk about October 7th. And it's a fantastic program with fantastic hosts. They have great chemistry. Ainsley and Brian and Lawrence. They're just great people. And they let me speak and it went on for about 15 minutes. And I want to give you a feel for this. There were protests all around the world in the west, Western capitals, in our country in favor of Hamas. And I was asked about it. Caught one. Go.
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Mark, thank you for being with us. I know it's a tough day for everyone around the world or should be at least, but especially for you because Israel holds a special place in your heart. I'm so sorry for what went on and for all of our Jewish friends. But now we're finding out within our lifetime and National Students for Justice in Palestine. These two groups are organizing rallies, Mark, here in New York City, there's going to be one in Sydney at the Opera House. What's your reaction anti Israel protests, you know.
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Yeah, you know, my reaction is this. In 1964, a great man, thinker wrote a book called the Suicide of the West. You're watching the Suicide of the West.
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That was James burnham, World War II.
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We fought the fascists, Hitler, Tojo, Mussolini, the Cold War. We've been fighting the communists. And now there's a fusion of the communist Marxists and the Islamists and the west is not capable of dealing with it internally. The president talks about the enemy within. He's ridiculed and he's correct. Europe is all but gone. I don't know that Britain could come back. I don't know that France could come back. They have these left wing governments that Appease that are weak. They continue to have their borders open. If you listen to what these people are saying, the radical Islamists, they want to destroy the West. If you listen to their scholars and read their scholars, as I have, this is revolution by immigration. They see the west as weak. They see these parliamentary systems. They see our republican system as poised for defeat. And they have no belief in democracy or republicanism. That's why Israel is the only democracy in the entire Middle East. Hundreds of millions of Arabs and Muslims, and there's one democracy, and it's called Israel. And all of the attacks are on Israel. All the propaganda is against Israel. All the Western media is against Israel. Most of the Western politicians are against Israel. And we're told that Israel has a PR problem because it's Netanyahu. Israel doesn't have a PR problem. Netanyahu is the Churchill who's standing up to this. The west is weak. Our media are weak, our politicians are weak. Some of them have been bought off. Some of them have just appeased. Some of them see votes in. What is this new influx of immigrants and so forth. This is what you see. You would not have seen this 10 years ago, 20 years ago in the United States of America, two years after 1200 innocent young human beings were slaughtered, raped, butchered, videotaped in the greatest attack since the Holocaust on Israel. 911 was the greatest attack on America since World War II and Pearl Harbor. Who did it? The same Islamist hit us on 911 as hit Israel on October 7th. And whose fault is it Israel's fault? I mean, this, this shows you a sickness and a weakness in the west. And it is very important that we get the hostages out. But it's also important that Hamas is destroyed, because they will come back again. It is an ideology that doesn't die. This is out of the seventh century. These are primitives. These are barbarians. It is a bloodlust. The more torture, the more starvation, the more people they kill, the happier they are, the more successful they are. That's the ideology. The west doesn't understand the ideology or they don't. People in the west don't want to deal with it. Our diplomats, for the most part, don't understand the ideology they're looking. I need a deal today, I need a deal next month.
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I need a deal.
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This, this, this. That's fine. But if Hamas comes out and survives after all of this, then they've won. And that's the way they view it. And unfortunately, I agree with that. Now, let us. Let us look at this. The Fact of the matter Is you have 1,152 Israeli soldiers that have died in this war. That's the equivalent of 40,000American soldiers. There would be less IDF deaths if the IDF and Netanyahu in Israel were, as the Western media say, that is just seeking genocide. That war in Gaza would be over in less than a month if the Israelis used the firepower they had in Gaza. But it doesn't matter. We still have news sites, including Israeli news sites, American news sites who continue to talk about the casualty numbers that are fed to them from Hamas, no matter how many experts from the Wharton School and others say it's not possible. What they're talking about, the death of children and the death of women, it doesn't matter. They keep pushing it because they push an agenda. It doesn't matter that the New York Times used phony photos on the front page of its newspaper. You know, during the Holocaust, we had black and white films, largely thanked to Eisenhower, who said, I want you to get your TV crews in there and I want these so people see what happened. We have film after film after film. People can see it online. You don't have that in Gaza. Instead you have phony pictures. Instead you have propaganda coming from Hamas. Hamas that uses its hospitals, its mosques, that slaughters its own people. I mean, truthfully, we have 250 hostages taken. It's crucial that we get back those who are alive and the bodies of those who have been killed. Because in the Jewish faith, it is important to get the body back. There's a belief in the Jewish faith that the body and earth in many ways are one. That's why it's crucially important. But that said, you now have, and I'm looking at the updated number again, 1,152 Israeli soldiers who. Soldiers, 40% of whom are under the age of 21. That's the equivalent in the United States. It's a nation of 9 million people of 35,000 to 40,000 soldiers. And I would ask my fellow Americans this. If the drug cartels came across our border in Texas and slaughtered 35,000 to 40,000 people in five hours, took pictures of it, took movies of it, the raping, the pillaging, the decapitating of babies. And then on the way out, well, on the way out, they grab another 10,000 as hostages and secrete them somewhere in Mexico, what the hell would we do about that? Would we say two years is too long? Would we care what the international press has to say? Would we care what these Islamist imams in Dearborn, Michigan, have to say, would we care?
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No.
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You have an Israeli army that has.
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Their enemy finally surrounded after being pulled.
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Back by the Biden administration. You've had these spurts and starts on negotiations, mostly as a result of the international community. They've now surrounded the enemy in the city of Gaza. And what are they told to do? When Berlin was surrounded, what did we do? What did we do? During World War II when the Japanese.
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Wouldn'T surrender unconditionally, we didn't continue to.
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Negotiate with them, did we? We had to destroy them. You can't win a war if you don't destroy the enemy. We talk about forever wars. Well, they'd like to end it. Hamas is surrounded and Hamas is now negotiating.
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Negotiating for what?
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Effectively, its survival. The Israelis could finish them off. People say this got to get over. The pictures are too much. The PR is bad. This is why I don't think we could win World War II today with the kind of people in diplomacy around the west and so forth. They'd be showing the pictures of Dresden, they'd be showing the pictures of the Battle of the Bulge, how horrific it was. They'd be talking about all the civilian deaths and so forth and so on. I don't think we could win World War II today with the psychology and the mentality. And here's the thing, we're not losing anybody. We're here in the United States observing what's taking place and we're saying this can't go on much longer. Shouldn't the Israelis decide what needs to be done to survive? They are surrounded. This is a tiny country the size of New Jersey with a population of a small to mid sized state in the United States. They've defeated Hezbollah, they're trying to defeat Hamas, They've defeated Iran primarily. They're still fighting the Houthis. A tiny country surrounded by hundreds of millions of people. By 27 countries that are supported by the Russians and the communist Chinese. They are the David against the Goliath. And yet look how the propaganda has worked. The West, I hate to say it, but it's a wake up call. The west is dying right now in front of your eyes.
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Now, I know it's tight, Rich. Let's try and squeeze in. Cut to that. Will finish my interview. Go ahead.
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You see London, you see Paris, you see what's going on in both those countries. That's our future. You believe in five years, and I hear you, especially when they what we're about to do. Who is about to elect as Mayor in New York City and what we've seen go on over in Michigan, Al Jazeera is telling Arabic, said the meeting and the Red Sea resort is so far very positive. They got the 20 point plan that Trump put out there, they're working through it, they're working on logistics of getting the hostages out. 20 plus are supposed to be alive. Number one, do you think it's a good thing if this plan is followed through on and what you expect to see happen?
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First of all, we have a great president who's trying to do something about this. Unlike Biden, who is undermining Israel and basically giving any comfort to Iran and funding Iran, we have a president who is, who's trying to bring this to resolution. There will not be an eternal peace. The Bible talks about the battle of good and evil. It is a forever battle and it will be a forever battle. But that said, if the President can pull this off, it will be absolutely remarkable and absolutely wonderful. Assuming that the Israelis aren't giving too much. I mean, the fact of the matter is, if Hamas survives, that's giving an awful lot. But it's up to the Israelis. And if the Israelis agree to this plan, and they do, who am I to say it's not good for their government, that's their elected government and so forth. All I'm doing is trying to warn our audience and the people. The dark clouds, they're there. They're getting darker and darker. You asked me, Brian, how could it be on this day that people are literally protesting on behalf of the terrorists and against a small democracy and the Jews. And it's in every capital in the west, it's in our own country in New York, and it is a poison, it is a gut cancer and it is spreading. The only one who's fighting this in the west is Donald Trump. He's trying to fight the anti Semitism, he's trying to deal with these colleges and universities. He's trying to look at the funding sources. He's trying to do these things to try and prevent the United States from becoming Britain and France and these other what are becoming failed countries. No country survives in perpetuity. Where's Athens? Where's Rome? In fact, ironically, the only people who have survived so far are the Jews. They defeated the Persians, Babylonians, the Persians. They out survived them, I should say they out survived the Romans, they out survived the Third Reich. They will survive this, too. But this is why these are warrior people. They come out of the cafes, they come out of the law offices, they come out of their taxis because they know this isn't a battle. This is survival. And that's what it is. So I personally want to thank President Trump who understands all this, who keeps reminding people, remember October 7th, even against some of his advisers and some of the diplomats and these Western leaders who talk about a two sided state solution. They're destroying their own countries and yet they're telling Israel what Israel needs to do. Israel's best, best policy is to ignore them. And that's what it's trying to do.
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All right, we have about a minute left, but it's okay. You get the gist of it. Folks, I have a question for you. Do you believe America's best days are still ahead? With the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence coming up in less than a year, My friends at the Heritage foundation are taking stock of the current situation and they need your input. They've launched a survey on America's future to gauge how America's feel right about where we are as a nation and where we're headed in the next 250 years. You know, for decades your American values have been under attack. But now we're President Trump's administration in office. We have an opportunity to turn the tide and usher in a new golden age for America. But the Heritage foundation needs to hear from you. What policies do patriots like you most care about? What do you believe are the defining principles of America? What legacy do you believe we should pass on to the next Generation? Please visit heritage.orglevin today and share your feedback and help shape the future of America. That's heritage.org L E V I N paid for by the Heritage Foundation. Mark Levin.
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You'Re listening to the best of Mark Levin.
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The Insurrection act has been used at least 20 times in American history, starting in 1808 by Thomas Jefferson, as we discussed the other evening, was passed in 1807 because there are insurrections that occur in various parts of the country from time to time. Jefferson used it, Lincoln used it. Ulysses S. Grant used it. More modern times, Eisenhower used it. John Kennedy used it. Lyndon Johnson used it. George H.W. bush used it, Reagan used it. And Donald Trump's going to have to use it, too. Donald Trump's going to have to use it for very simple reason. You have Democrats, as in other times during our history, who refused to follow the law. Whether it's a Supreme Court decision, Brown versus Board of Education, whether it's post Civil War and the Klan. That's right. Whether it's Segregation. Right now we have a Democrat party that, that is usurping the Constitution, the authority of the presidency. You have a Democrat party that refuses to comply with our federal immigration laws and did in fact open our borders unconstitutionally and illegally and refuses now to support the deportation of the people they let in, starting with the criminals. Governors are not in charge of immigration. Cities are not in charge of immigration. And they certainly don't have the power to prevent ice, Immigration and Customs, Immigration and Customs Enforcement to do their job. This is a cancer that if it's allowed to spread, will destroy our constitutional construct. If a governor decided today that they were not going to adhere to our civil rights laws, if a governor decided today, presumably another Democrat, that black people couldn't vote, and if the governor used local and state police powers to prevent it, we would all agree, would we not, that the president should prevent that governor from conducting himself or herself the way that they are, even if it means employing the Insurrection Act. So here we have a situation where we have international foreign criminal gangs. We have individuals who have killed people, who have raped people, drug smugglers that were let into our country lawlessly, unconstitutionally, by the prior regiment. And we have a president who is trying to uphold the Constitution, who is being accused of trying to militarize our cities by demagogic, highly political governors who want to be president. The Insurrection act is to prevent insurrections. That is an insurrection. Governors are not free. Neither are cities, of course, to nullify federal immigration law. In fact, the federal government is not free to nullify federal immigration law the way Biden did. This is precisely what's taking place, as I've. I've told you. Now I'm seeing columnists write about what I've been saying for months. Columnists, low rent writers who provide no attribution because they weren't taught ethics, basic common ethics. This must be 1859, they say, Mr. Producer, maybe it's like 1861. Maybe we're talking about neo confederates and so forth and so on. I've talked about this till I'm blue in the face here. The Blaze and Fox. So these are not new thoughts. They are my thoughts. People always ask me, what can I do to become a better writer, a more popular writer. Use your own head and stop stealing from other people. That would be a good start. You'll notice all my books have extensive endnotes. There's a right way to do things and a wrong way to do things. But I digress. I'm just trying to clean up the forum. Trying to clean up our, our movement a little bit here that that's exactly what's taking place. We'll stay on top of it. And there is so much to get to. James Comey was arraigned today, and of course, the Democrats are out there telling us this is retribution. This isn't retribution. This man did so many unethical things in such horrendous ways. We've never seen an abuse of power like we've seen from James Comey. Folks, I have a question for you. Do you believe America's best days are still ahead with the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence coming up in less than a year? My friends at the Heritage foundation are taking stock of the current situation, and they need your input. They've launched a survey on America's future to gauge how America's feel right now about where we are as a nation and where we're headed in the next 250 years. You know, for decades, your American values have been under attack. But now, with President Trump's administration in office, we have an opportunity to turn the tide and usher in a new golden age for America. But the Heritage foundation needs to hear from you. What policies do patriots like you most care about? What do you believe are the defining principles of America? What legacy do you believe we should pass on to the next Generation? Please visit heritage.orglevin today and share your feedback and help shape the future of America. That's heritage.org Levin paid for by the Heritage Foundation. I was invited on America Reports. It's a wonderful show. And I was on around 2 o'. Clock. And here's what I said to John Robertson and Sandra Smith. Great show. Cut one, go.
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So Pam Bondi made the case yesterday that the grand jury that handed up the indictment against Comey is a fairly liberal grand jury. But it is one thing to get a grand jury to indict. We all remember the ham sandwich idiom. It's quite another thing to prove to a jury in a court of law that Comey will and knowingly lied to Congress. Is there in your mind the evidence to prove that? Well, here's the problem. John, by the way, thank you. And Sandra, you have a great show. I really enjoy it.
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Thank you.
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The fact of the matter is Comey is a serial liar. The fact of the matter is Comey is a serial leaker. The fact of the matter is he absconded with government documents. He gave one to a law professor, Columbia University University, to leak to the New York Times. The fact is, that he interfered with the election in 2016, the president's transition, and his presidency. So the fact is he's a scoundrel. The fact is he did more to interfere with any election than Russia and China combined. The fact is, I say this as a former Justice Department chief of staff who had wonderful FBI directors. He brought great disrepute to the department and the FBI, and we never want to see the likes of him again. Now we have a Biden judge, so that's one strike against us. Whether or not they are able to prove this specific case, I don't know. That's what the whole trial process is for, and we'll find out. I'm not big on sitting back and saying, well, you know, was it before the fact or after the fact that this man authorized it? The truth is he's where he belongs. And the truth is he's very, very lucky that these other instances of where, in my view, he violated his oath or he at least was unethical and immoral haven't been brought in some form of a codified charge, because it may not exist. But the fact is that he is a scoundrel. He is a saboteur. He's all the things that people say he is based on his record, based on what he did. And they're trying to act like he's some kind of great Martin Luther King or something like that. I'm innocent. I'm standing up. I want my day in court. Okay, you got your day in court. So congratulations. I'm quite familiar with his defense lawyer, Fitzpatrick, who was the US Attorney in Chicago when he was the US Attorney in New York. They're both of a similar stripe in a similar way. They're very, very aggressive prosecutors. You might recall that Comey went after Martha Stewart on false statements. She served five months in prison. A lot of people think he did that because she was really the first billionaire woman. And he wanted to. He wanted to pad his resume and so forth because he always wanted to be FBI director. So there's a lot of stuff that's been going on with him, with some of these other federal prosecutors that have finally been exposed. Now, as for these Democrats wringing their hands about authoritarianism and dictatorship after we now know what happened to eight Republican senators and three House members under Smith, who they haven't even criticized yet, that Merrick Garland ran the most corrupt Department of Justice ever. And that guy's never called to account. You never even hear his name. Deputy Attorney General. These two people were in charge of it. The idea that they're interfering with elections, the idea that they tried to take down Trump. Comey was involved in the Obama plan back in 2016 with the false CIA report and all the rest of it. These people are like the mob. And so when I have to hear them go on about, but will the jury convict? And what are we going to do? And it's the honor of my life to represent this guy. I would say to his lawyer, well, then you need to get. You need to get a little bit more of a life. Because if it's the honor of your life to represent this rubber bank, that's pretty unbelievable. Meanwhile, he's on TV all the time.
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This guy.
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This guy Comey is on TV all the time, commenting on everybody else's justice commenting. And so I think this. I don't know what's going to happen. Even the people who come on and say they know what's going to happen, maybe they're right, maybe they're wrong. I'm just glad it's happening.
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Mm. I'm glad he's there. I'm live now. I'm glad he's where he belongs. Cut to go.
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Lindsey Graham agrees. He teed off on this last night. Mark, listen here.
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If they did this without good reason and without cause, I'm going to sue the crap out of these people. We've got new people in town to clean this mess up. And my goal is not to do this to Democrats, to make sure it's never done to anybody in the future. And those of us that were wronged, if we were wrong, pay a price. Pay a price. This needs to come to end. And the only way it will come to end is for people to pay a price.
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So I'm wondering if anybody will pay a price.
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Mark, here's what I want to know. You know, this guy's a rogue prosecutor. He's special count.
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He did a lot of things outside the box.
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We talked about it here many times over the years. Who knew about this. Yeah, you don't. You don't monitor phone calls by United States Senators without some kind of approval by the attorney general or the deputy attorney general, some kind of knowledge by White House counsel. This is a much, much bigger scandal, and it is a big damn scandal than what we're looking at right now. Again, my experience at the Department of Justice as chief of staff to an attorney general, no prosecutor is going to start monitoring United States Senators without the attorney General knowing about it, without somebody in a higher position knowing about it, without the FBI director knowing about it. So this is another one of those scandals in the Biden regime that I think either goes to the top or close to the top.
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Yep, I'm back live. It is a big deal. And on Saturday's Life Liberty and Levin, we're going to have Senator Ron Johnson, one of the best. He was one of the ones they were monitoring because he has been a bear on their saddle for years as he's pursued the corruption of the Biden regime. And I'm sure he's got a lot to say about it, so we'll want to hear from him, among others. This episode is brought to you by cbs. DMV is a brand new workplace comedy turning misery into magic and chaos into comedy. Starring Harriet Dyer And Tim Meadows, DMV is here to serve you. Laughs. Watch October 13th at 8:30 7:30 Central on CBS and streaming on Paramount.
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The great one makes your weekend even better. This is the best of Mark Levin.
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Well, I can't get enough of this clip where Congressman Mike Lawler's really laying in the Hakeem Jeffries and Mike Lawlor is in a very tough race in a very difficult district. I draw your attention to that. Let's take a listen. This is today. Go.
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Because you're so afraid of Zoran Mandami, by the way, when are you endorsing him? By the way, do you endorse him for mayor? First of all, are you gonna endorse him for mayor? Listen, you're a complete and total embarrassment it right now.
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Why is that?
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Because you don't want to answer the question. Is this supposed to be a video for your family?
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You don't want to answer the question.
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Do you support Zara?
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And by the way, did you see.
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A statement yesterday, listen, in embarrassment on October 7th blaming the Jews.
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You support that?
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Should he be the Democratic nominee for mayor? First of all, I don't answer to you. Should he be the Democratic. Should he be the Democratic nominees? Whatever questions I need to answer about. You think his statement yesterday was okay? Personal.
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All right. That's sad. Wow. Perfect, perfect, perfect. Notice, no violence, no cussing.
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No.
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No cursing. Yep. Michael Goodwin's a great columnist over there at the New York Post. He says the New York Times should be ashamed of covering a Biden appointed Jack Smith spying on Republican senators. I thought somebody that, you know, they take a peek at the New York Times from time to time. What is he talking about? That's pretty crazy. Leftist media outlets, he writes never tire of preaching that. The great lesson of Watergate is that the COVID up is worse than the crime. Fair enough. But the lesson would be more credible if those same outlets followed their own advice. The leader of the leftist pack, the New York Slimes, My word proved again on Tuesday, it's engaged in a massive cover up at its own. Well, it's got a whole history of this, the Holocaust and so forth. The evidence is that the paper failed to report what was arguably the biggest news Monday out of Washington that Jack Smith, the head hunting special counsel appointed by Joe Biden's administration to prosecute Donald Trump, also teamed up with the FBI to spy on nearly a dozen Republican senators. The New York Times didn't even report it. Thankfully, under new management, the FBI blew the whistle on itself, with Director Cash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino revealing that Smith and a team of agents investigating the capitol riot of January 6, 2021, were tracking the communications and phone calls of Senators Lindsey Graham, Marsha Blackburn, Ron Johnson, who will be on My Life Liberty and Levin Saturday. You're not going to want to miss that. Josh Hawley, Cynthia Loomis and Tommy Tuberville. Patel and Bongino said some of the agents involved in the improper snooping have been fired and the two are continuing to probe the affair. The misdeeds involve subpoenas to phone companies with only senators from the opposing party targeted. At least part of the effort overlapped with Nancy Pelosi's House partisan so called select committee investigating the events of January 6th. Regardless, the fact that the FBI was targeting elected Republican leaders is a bombshell story by any standard. And I just want to add the second bombshell which needs to be investigated is who knew about it at the higher levels. I can tell you as somebody that worked at the Justice Department at the highest levels that a special counsel or a prosecutor of any kind would not be seeking subpoenas and getting subpoenas of senators phone records without the higher ups approving it. There's just no way, especially in the light of the decades long history the FBI's habit of spying on domestic political dissonance, he writes, going back to the early days of the Cold War and lasting through the Civil Rights movement. The low point came under J. Edgar Hoover, who hated Martin Luther King Jr. Aimed to destroy him by linking him to the Communist Party. Of course he had helped with that by the Kennedys so far. The current controversy is hardly the equal of that sort of affair, but it's a very big deal anytime the FBI surveils elected officials and private citizens for political reasons. I'm not sure I Agree with that. I mean, we're not even talking about one senator here. We're talking about several senators. Yet there wasn't a single word of this. Huge news in the slimes. The facts are inconvenient for the paper's narrative, which is Trump is in a class by himself when it comes to weaponizing the Department of Justice for political purposes. Moreover, to report the facts about Smith, where you acquired the Times, to admit its role in protecting the Biden regime during Smith's tenure. Yes, that's right. So it continued to follow its playbook. Biden good, Trump bad. With his. With its turnkey of a distracting headline, quote, as Trump's Justice Department pursues its enemies, an ally goes on trial. Huh? The story was about a small time donor to Trump's 2020 campaign charged with gathering illegal donations from Chinese citizens, highlighting this inconsequential case that gave the Gray Lady a chance to jump on its hobby horse. That Trump, unlike all his predecessors, routinely uses the Justice Department to go after his enemies. Except that's exactly what Biden did and Obama did. In fact, they used the CIA, too, and the other intelligence services. That's where the time zone cover up comes into play. Right. When you've been riding shotgun for the corrupt deep state for a decade, as the paper has, the last thing you want to report is that your sources, your sources are guilty of the very things you accused Trump of doing. The FBI, then, under James Comey, relentlessly leaked to the Times, especially in the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax. The paper proved itself a loyal errand boy for whatever lies Comey and his band of dirty cops wanted to spread to hobble the new president. More to the point, the paper's editors know their claim that Trump alone politicizes law enforcement is false because of the recipient of these leaks. They know that because they knew Biden did it first. They reported it, albeit in a very roundabout way. The Times disclosed Biden took office wanting his Justice Department to prosecute Trump. Its reporters had the goods, but trying to avoid making a Democrat it endorsed. Let's see, endorsed look bad. They backed into the story in an article on April 2, 2022 that focused on Merrick Garland. Why isn't Merrick Garland being forced to testify or being questioned? What happened to him? Is he like you see? Another one that's not, not mentally fit? I'm. Yeah, I'm curious. I'm not, I'm not mocking. I don't know. And he goes on to recount what was done to Trump by the New York Times. But it is interesting, isn't it, how the New York Times isn't reporting on it or didn't. I mean, how do you even get away with that and claim to be a real newspaper, the paper of record? How do you even get away with that? You know, Jim Trustee and I were talking last evening about how this propaganda from the Democrats and what you see happening with ICE and the assassination of Kirk and the assassination attempts against the President and the assassination of the young couple that worked for the Israeli embassy and on and on and on and how the Democrats just keep going on and on, the left keeps going on and on that this could happen again. And he said, and I agree that it will happen again. And so here we have From WUSA Channel 9 in Washington D.C. a large cache of homemade destructive devices. Court documents give insight into arrest of a man with Molotov cocktails outside the Washington D.C. cathedral court documents are giving new insight into the arrest of a man accused of having a tent of explosives on the steps of a high profile D.C. cathedral last weekend. Metropolitan Police Department said Louis Geary, 41, had set up a tent on the steps of the cathedral at St. Matthew's the Apostle on Rhode Island Avenue Northwest and refused to leave Sunday morning. Court documents obtained by WSA9 showed the police officers were helping clear the block of special religious event at the cathedral. One officer noticed Geary on the top of the steps shortly before 5:15am the officer reportedly told Geary that he needed to move the tent he had erected on the stairs off the church grounds. That's when Geary allegedly refused and told the officer, you might want to stay back and call the Federales. I have explosive bombs. Sergeant came to help and told Geary she was the bomb squad. Court documents describe Geary as sounding agitated as he spoke through the tent and the sergeant told Geary that there was going to be an event and they needed him to move. He allegedly admitted that he was aware of the event before threatening to throw an explosive bomb out of the tent. You want me to throw one out? Geary quoted saying in the court documents. I'll test one out in the street. I have a hundred plus of them. If you just step back, I'll throw one in the street. No one will get hurt. There'll be a hole in the street. If you just step back. I'll take out that tree. No one will get hurt. There will just be a hole there. A tree where a tree used to be. You see it's the nut jobs. Some of them aren't nut Jobs. Some of them are very, they're just craving. But nut jobs are triggered by this propaganda and so forth. While trying to de escalate the situation, the sergeant agreed to look at something Geary had written. Upon opening the tent, sergeant saw a butane light in Geary's hand and several pages of torn out notebook paper with writing on it. The paperwork was reportedly titled Written Negotiations for the Avoidance of Destruction of Property via Detention of Explosives allegedly revealed Geary's significant animosity towards the Catholic Church, members of the Jewish faith, members of the Supreme Court and ice. See, it's perfect. Catholic Church, Jews, the Supreme Court justices and ice, all of which are on the hit list of the Democrat Party. Yeah, pretty sick. Mark. The Vin Foreign.
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We'Re giving you nothing but the best, the best of Mark Levin.
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You know, it's okay to smile today, folks. It really is a good day to smile. The Trump peace plan has two phases. Phase one is supposed to be implemented now and through Monday. Tuesday, in which the Israelis end their siege on the city of Gaza, which they have surrounded and are poised to destroy Hamas once and for all and move to an intermediary line where they still are in Gaza, covering 52% of the territory and simultaneously in exchange for all the hostages, 48 of them, 20 who are supposed to be alive. Now, before I go on, let's stop right there. What kind of subhuman cockroaches take hostages like this, treat them like this, use them as bargaining chips? It's cockroaches who are Islamists, throwbacks to the seventh century, who hold belief systems in which the more people you kill, the more horrible the death, preferably debauchery and torture and rape as you're murdering them, preferably in front of their loved ones, burn them alive, decapitate them and all the rest, the most horrible things you can think of. They believe that that's how they serve God and that's how they'll go to heaven. If you don't have an understanding of who these people are and what drives them, and unfortunately most of the people in the west do not, then you think that, well, what is the big deal? You can make a deal with these people. It doesn't work that way. Nonetheless, on phase one in the Trump peace plan, it's the release of the hostages. The Israelis pull back and there is to be a release of nearly 2,000 terrorists and criminals in Israeli prisons, including 250 of whom are the worst kind of terrorists and some subset of that who are mass murderers, of course. We would never do this, but that is what the Israelis have agreed to do. Phase two is very interesting and I'm very curious to see how this is supposed to work. Phase two, the question I have is what happens to Hamas? Hamas is supposed to be disarmed, I guess dispersed. Of course, that doesn't prevent them from meeting up later and arming up later. Something that I think is being missed, but nonetheless disarmed and removed from Gaza. Now, according to reports and who knows how accurate they are, this is an area of resistance for the terrorists. We shall see how this works out. Phase two will be more interesting. Now keep something else in mind, at least as the agreement was written, even though there have been apparently some changes, if phase two isn't executed, all bets are off. Now this is the genius actually of the Trump plan. The hostages get out under phase one. Now phase two has all these particulars, these details, many of which we don't know yet, that they're, I guess they're trying to work out involving the governance there, involving Hamas, the disarming of Hamas, the demilitarization of Gaza, all these things. And so phase two will be much more complicated, won't it? And this is what we will keep our eye on. Now the fact of the matter is there is not another person who could have even brought the situation there to this point. There's simply not another. Trump is historic and he is iconic. And as you will learn if you watch Saturday's Life Liberty and Levin from the Israeli ambassador to the United States, Ambassador Leiter, my interview of him is really quite remarkable. We also have Ron Johnson all about these FBI monitoring Republican senators and House members. But you're going to hear the ambassador who was there at the table through it all and still is that the pressure was not placed on Israel, despite the reports in Axios by the self hating Israeli Ravid and other reports and other equally unreliable media outlets, so called, the pressure was on Hamas and he will reveal for the first time, so I will reveal it to you, that your president, my president, our president, told Qatar, told Turkey, told Egypt, but particularly Qatar and Turkey, you have the Hamas leadership in your countries. Now you either force them, pressure them to accept this agreement or you remove them. You never heard that before, did you Mr. President, excuse me, Mr. Producer, you didn't hear that before. Now that is, that's the Donald Trump we know, man. It really is. Either you tell them to get this done and you force them or remove them, release them. That was the pressure. That is not what Axios and Ravine reported. That's not what the other outlets reported. And yet that's what happened. Eyewitness account by the ambassador to the United States from Israel. And that's what we would expect from our president, because that's the kind of man he is. Folks, I have a question for you. Do you believe America's best days are still ahead? With the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence coming up in less than a year, My friends at the Heritage foundation are taking stock of the current situation and they need your input. They've launched a survey on America's future to gauge how Americans feel right now about where we are as a nation and where we're headed in the next 250 years. You know, for decades, your American values have been under attack. But now with President Trump's administration in office, we have an opportunity to turn the tide and usher in a new golden age for America. But the Heritage foundation needs to hear from you. What policies do patriots like you most care about? What do you believe are the defining principles of America? What legacy do you believe we should pass on to the next Generation? Please visit heritage.orglevin today and share your feedback and help shape the future of America. That's heritage.org paid for by the Heritage Foundation. I'm going to spend some time a little bit tonight. We've got a lot to cover, a lot on Saturday night on Life, Liberty and Levin getting into the details. How do we get to this point? And when we mean this point, what do we mean? And just to give it a, a summary, we got to this point for two reasons. Benjamin Netanyahu, the greatest prime minister in the history of Israel, the longest serving prime minister in the history of Israel, decided he was going to defeat Hamas. And that included the need to defeat Hezbollah in Iran. Why? Because you might recall, Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran actually were planning a simultaneous attack from the south, the north and the east against the country of Israel. Hamas jumped the gun, but Hezbollah was poised with 180,000 long and mid missiles. Remember all that. And of course, Iran was poised with 3,000 ballistic missiles. We would later learn Israel had to do urban fighting, door to door, street to street, like our Marines had to do in Iraq. And yet they were forced to feed the citizenry of the enemy. And their own faith prevented them from obliterating Gaza over a period of weeks, the way we, and I believe rightly so, obliterated city after city in Europe and the Far east during World War II. Little good did it do for Israel Given the Western media and Western academia, given the enemy within as they were accused of something they exactly chose not to do. Starving the Gazans when they were feeding them, Hamas was starving them. And genocide when they were giving notice to the citizenry there to get out of the way. Israel won, no points for what it did, but it lost many more IDF soldiers as a result. They defeated Hezbollah for all intents and purposes. Destroyed their entire leadership. Their entire leadership. Destroyed their generals. Basically they're lieutenants in the militia with the beepers and the iPhones. They blew out much of Hamas leadership, they blew out much of Iran's leadership. In fact, they defeated Iran in 12 days and we came in and blew out their nuclear sites. Crucially important. So Israel fighting an urban war in Gaza, blowing out Hezbollah for all intents and purposes in Lebanon, thereby covering its southern and northern flanks, and defeating Iran in 12 days, blowing out their ground to air missiles, their Soviet defense systems, Russian defense systems, taking out much of their leadership and then surrounding Hamas, surrounding Hamas so there'd be no peace talks, but for the fact that the Israeli military was able to do what the Israeli military did. And when you think about it, it's amazing. A nation of 9 million surrounded by hundreds of millions. Nation the size of New Jersey surrounded by massive Arab countries and look what they were able to accomplish. That's number one. Number two, the election of Donald Trump. Crucial. Joe Biden had been funding Iran. Joe Biden helped Iran fund its nuclear program by lifting sanctions directly and indirectly and by direct payments to Iran, hoping to buy them off. We also had individuals within our own government who were back channeling to Iran, individuals who still have not been held to account. You had Blinken, you had Sullivan, you had Harris, and of course Biden. It was a disaster. Donald Trump's elected president, the best friend the state of Israel has ever had. In the Oval Office, he reverses every single Biden policy, including the continuation of the sale of ammunition and weapons to Israel. His statements backed up by muscle, that he wanted those hostages out of there, that Iran was not going to get a nuclear weapon. Presidents had said that before. Trump meant it. Particularly when President Trump ordered the strikes on the nuclear sites. That sent a message throughout the Arab world, the Muslim world, the entire world, that sent a message. Donald Trump was opposed by the Democrats, he was opposed by our media, he was opposed by the un, he was opposed by Europe, he was opposed by the Neanderthal Jew hating isolationists, the self appointed fake MAGA podcasters, and he did it anyway. And then that speech at the United nations, where he collectively, we looked at the world collectively, every leader of the world. He denounced the institution as failing to even pursue peace. He denounced the institution as anti Semitic. He denounced many of its member states of undermining basic human principles and civil liberties, destroying their own countries with open borders in a tour de force like we've never seen before. And in the Arab world, he gave them an opportunity, diplomatic and economic, to work closer with our country to benefit them and us.