The Best Of Mark Levin - 12/6/25

Summary

Episode Overview

Theme:
This “Best of Mark Levin” episode, aired December 6, 2025, spotlights Mark Levin’s signature analysis and commentary on domestic and foreign policy, the right’s infighting, and perceived threats to American values and security. Levin zeroes in on the controversy surrounding US military action against Venezuela’s narco-state, the internal divisions among conservatives, the dangers of internet influencers, and the foreign influence of countries like Qatar in American political and cultural life.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Justification of Military Action Against Venezuela

• Levin opens by rebuking critics who claim recent US military action against Venezuelan drug operations constitutes unconstitutional behavior or war crimes.
• He draws historical parallels to the US invasion of Panama (1989), arguing decisive action is justified when hostile regimes actively harm Americans:
  • [02:18] “The point is this. That’s a lot of military activity...intended to stop a narco mobster from...pushing drugs into our country.”
• Levin criticizes legal analysts who rigidly frame the issue as merely criminal, not military:
  • [04:32] “The idea that you can't take action against another government...that is purposely killing our citizens...is absurd, absolutely absurd.”

2. Media Coverage & Political Response

• Levin lambasts media and some politicians for echoing each other and undermining US military efforts:
  • [11:45] “There is no difference between the media and the Democrat Party. None. The media exists to advance...the Democrat Party.”
• He points out the “subjectivity and hypocrisy” of critics calling US actions war crimes while often excusing foreign abuses, referencing Senators Mark Kelly and Angus King:
  • Sen. Kelly Quote [11:49]: “If...what has been reported is accurate, I’ve got serious concerns about anybody in that chain of command stepping over a line that they should never step over.”
  • Sen. King Quote [12:35]: “If…the facts are, as have been alleged, that there was a second strike specifically to kill survivors...that’s a stone cold war crime.”

3. Addressing Conservative Infighting & Influencers

• Levin expresses frustration at younger right-wing internet personalities and influencers dismissing the legacy of conservative giants like Ronald Reagan and Milton Friedman:
  • [18:38] “The ego, the narcissism that many in the current young generation have is beyond belief to me.”
  • [22:00] “Take Ronald Reagan. One of the greatest leaders in world history. One of the greatest presidents in American history. By every measure.”
• He suggests that the “America First” movement risks becoming unmoored from historical perspective, leading to dangerous “lowest common denominator” politics:
  • [23:42] “How can you be America first when you don’t even know what America is?...how is that possible?”

4. The Internet as a Source of Toxicity and Division

• Levin discusses the corrupting influence of internet culture and social media, where fringe ideas, bigotry, and ignorance are amplified:
  • [19:42] “This is why you get racist and bigoted and anti-Semitic and anti-American, anti-Christian propaganda that's pushed out.”

5. The Qatar Gambit: Foreign Influence and Propaganda

• Explores the influence of the Qatari regime on US media, influencers, and politicians, highlighting efforts to win over Republicans and conservative media figures with lavish trips and “charm offensives”:
  • [54:40] “A massive push...by the monarchy in Qatar to buy off as many Republicans and conservatives and so-called conservative influencers as possible…”
  • Notes “brainwashing” of young Americans and partnerships with major American media to shape narratives (mentions CNN, Wall Street Journal, and “conservative influencers”).
  • Details on Qatar’s funding of the Muslim Brotherhood, support for Hamas, and manipulation of US social discourse through influencers and celebrities.

6. Critique of “Socialism Light” and Policy Debates

• Levin warns that competing with leftist policies via “socialism light” or watered-down statist measures is a recipe for electoral defeat and economic stagnation:
  • [33:03] “Socialism light can never beat socialism aggressive, and does not accomplish a damn thing.”
• He laments the ignorance about economics among influencers and politicians, calling for a return to the wisdom of classical liberals and supply-side thinkers.

7. Partisan Attacks and Double Standards

• Levin accuses both Democrats and some centrist (“RINO”) Republicans of legalistic quibbling, undermining efforts to protect the US, and holding double standards on law and violence:
  • [50:25] “Venezuela pushing God knows how much deadly drugs into this country, including fentanyl. They don’t blink…Now, all of a sudden…the Democrat party and some of the Rhinos and isolationists, they’re very particular about our law.”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the hypocrisy of critics ([04:32]):

  “The idea that you can't take action against another government in our hemisphere that is purposely killing our citizens...is absurd, absolutely absurd.” – Mark Levin

• On the generational divide in conservatism ([18:38]):

  “The ego, the narcissism that many in the current young generation have is beyond belief to me.”

• On ignoring conservative history ([22:00]):

  “Take Ronald Reagan. One of the greatest leaders in world history...By every measure…We are supposed to forget about him, supposed to dismiss him.”

• On US policy and criticism ([44:33]):

  “If Venezuela succeeded in releasing toxins into our atmosphere...that were deadly, I don’t think there’s anybody who would question that’s an act of war...So Venezuela is the source of much toxic illegal drugs that come into our country...I would argue that’s an act of war, too.”

• On effectiveness and targeted military leadership ([51:17]):

  “Hegseth is doing his job. Better than Austin ever did it...Better than any of them have done it. He’s reforming the Pentagon by pushing out the DEI.”

• On Qatari influence operations ([54:40]):

  “A massive push...by the monarchy in Qatar to buy off as many Republicans and conservatives and so-called conservative influencers as possible…”

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Venezuela & Panama Historical Parallels: [01:16 – 04:16]
• Legal Analysis & US Military Authority: [04:16 – 07:40]
• Media & Democrat Party Alignment: [11:00 – 12:09]
• Generational Divide & Dismissal of Conservative History: [15:02 – 23:10]
• Internet Influencers & Bigotry: [19:37 – 23:22]
• Reagan’s Legacy & America First: [22:42 – 28:13]
• Economic Policy & Socialism Light: [29:22 – 33:42]
• Media, RINOs & Internal Divisions: [33:42 – 37:27]
• Sen. Mark Kelly; China Connections Allegation: [37:27 – 42:14]
• Legal Debates Over Venezuela Boat Strikes: [42:40 – 46:31]
• Venezuela, Media, and Operations Justification: [48:54 – 53:00]
• Qatar Influence, Media Manipulation: [53:06 – 61:41]

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Summary & Takeaways

Mark Levin’s “Best Of” episode showcases his deep skepticism of mainstream media, fierce advocacy for robust national security actions, and strong defense of conservative intellectual tradition. He positions current US military operations against Venezuela’s narco-regime as justified and necessary, slams legalistic nitpicking, and warns of the dangers posed by both foreign adversaries and a rising generation of unserious, divisive internet personalities. Levin calls for a clear, patriotic, historically grounded conservatism—one wary of both leftist overreach and pop-culture shallowness.

Final Thought ([61:41]):

“Qatar has spent billions brainwashing our young people, turning them against our country, billions. Fomenting violence in our country...The Republican Party, they seek to conquer next, and pretend that they’re promoting Western values when in fact they hate us. They’re connected to the Taliban, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and all the rest of it.” – Mark Levin

Transcript

[Mark Levin]

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, man.

Oh, Manishewitz, do we have a lot to talk about? Immigration as relates to Afghanistan and so forth. Venezuela.

I see some legal analysts are writing extensively on how what the President and Secretary of Defense are doing is illegal and unconstitutional, which is bs.

I want to tell you about the Internet, how toxic it is, how manipulative people on there are, and how it adds to so much.

Of the. Some of the problems we have in this country.

And we'll get into all this stuff.

But first, let's talk about this Venezuela issue. It's funny, Jack Keane, General Keene and I were of the same mindset, but I was digging into this.

On December 20, 1989.

United States military invaded Panama.

No declaration of war.

It was a surprise attack.

We launched Operation Just Cause.

We invaded Panama.

There was no consultation with Congress until after the invasion began because of fear of leaks.

For the purpose of deposing Manuel Noriega. He was, among other things, another drug kingpin. He was running a narco police state.

And he was working closely with the Colombians, and they were shipping those drugs, not exclusively, but mostly into the United States.

The theory was to restore democracy in Panama, which is fairly democratic now, and to drag Noriega. Oh, my goodness.

That's crazy how. My iPhone is talking to me. Let me shut that off. Sorry, folks.

Wow. Comes to technology. I'm like, the last. I know.

But as I was saying, they brought him to the United States to face drug trafficking charges, and the goal was to protect American lives.

Now, the Panamanian Defense Forces, they put up a defense, but they were what they were.

And there were casualties. About 300 Panamanian soldiers and civilians were killed. 23 of our soldiers were killed.

Hundreds were wounded in Panama.

And we backed a government by Guillermo and Dara.

Noriega was eventually convicted, sentenced to prison in the United States. And it goes on and on. But the point is this.

That's a lot of military activity.

Lethal military activity, military activity intended to stop narco mobster from using his government, his country, police, state tactics, working with other countries, including enemies of ours or certainly adversaries of ours, to push drugs into our country, which obviously is a horrible thing and kills a lot of our people.

Now, I see some of these former federal prosecutors are writing very long pieces, trying to tell you that these are Criminal issues, not military issues, not terrorist issues.

You know, they're not mutually exclusive. In this case, you can still bring somebody to justice in a courtroom, if that's your goal. But the idea that you can't take action against another government in our hemisphere that is purposely killing our citizens in the case of Venezuela, working with the Communist Chinese, working with the Iranians, working with other governments and pouring that poison into our country and contributing to the death of hundreds of thousands of American citizens is absurd, Absolutely absurd.

And yet some people are writing this up as if these are war crimes. Now, they're basing that on a report that the President and the Secretary of Defense deny, that there were a few guys on one of these boats who were not killed from the explosion of the boat or hanging on the end of the boat. And we sent in special Forces or somebody to kill them.

And the administration says, no, that's not what happened.

So I don't see these great legal or constitutional impediments to protecting the people of this country.

At all.

And also, Carolyn Levitt pointed out today repeatedly that we have informed Congress that we have briefed the key committees like we're supposed to, that we have made the documentation available to them, that almost 30 members of the Senate and well over 100 members of the House have looked at the materials. Many have been briefed on it. So what is all this talk that we haven't told Congress?

Now they want more answers from the Pentagon. I guess they'll get more answers. But I just want you to know.

That these are actions that are being taken to defend our homeland directly.

Now, I'm sure some of the isolationists will view this as another forever war, whatever they spew. You must be a neocon. They don't even know what a neocon is. You a neocon, you an interventionist. You're a forever war guy. What are you? So, any action, pretty much to protect even the homeland directly.

That shows you how unhinged these people are. For the most part.

Of course, we have a right to prevent.

Other governments from pouring drugs into our country as they conspire one with the other.

That's outrageous. To suggest otherwise, that you have to bring it into a courtroom.

That's just nuts. It's not true.

Here we are. Caroline Levitt at the White House briefing today. Let's go to cut 11, Mr. Producer. Go.

[News Clip / Official Statement]

President Trump and Secretary Hegseth have made it clear that presidentially designated narco terrorist groups are subject to lethal targeting in accordance with the laws of war with respect to the Strikes in question. On September 2, Secretary Hegseth authorized Admiral Bradley to conduct these kinetic strikes. Admiral Bradley worked well within his authority and the law directing the engagement to ensure the boat was destroyed and the threat to the United States of America was eliminated.

[Mark Levin]

Very simple. Just stop sending drugs to the United States and there won't be a problem. But they won't stop. Because the truth is Venezuela has acted as a hub for many of these terrorist states, Marxist states, whatever states.

And he's become a multi billionaire as a result of this pushing drugs into our country and killing our people.

Now let's pretend the guy didn't run a government, but was just some billionaire sitting in Venezuela and doing it. You think we'd put up with that? The fact is he's taken over this government. He's not the duly elected person in charge of this government two elections in a row. And he's using the power of a government and the geography close to the United States to pour this crap into our country.

Now for those who say this is a criminal matter and needs to be dealt with criminally, well, we'd have to send a significant land force in there to get the man, wouldn't we? Are they allowed to shoot their way in or what do they have to do? How are they supposed to get in there and how are they supposed to get out of there?

So the President trying to put maximum pressure on to force this guy out. For some of you isolationists out there, you might call that regime change, right? Mr. Medusa? The President wants regime change in Venezuela. That's what he wants. And he's right.

And he's correct.

Did he say regime change? Ooh, must be a neocon Jew.

Sick.

Carolyn Levin on this Washington Post story says Hagseth ordered everyone from the drug boat killed. She said that's not true. Cut 14. Go.

[News Clip / Official Statement]

The initial order from Secretary Hagseth, everyone be killed. And did that come from President Trump? I saw that quoted in a Washington Post story. Reject that the Secretary of War ever said that. However, the President has made it quite clear that if narco terrorists again are trafficking illegal drugs towards the United States, he has the authority to kill them. And that's what this administration is doing.

[Mark Levin]

So now the, the usual.

The usual anti Americans are calling this a war crime. A war crime. And many of these people spewing the phrase war crime.

Have been defenders of Putin, have been defenders of Hamas.

They're very, they're very subjective about their moral claims. This guy, Senator Mark Kelly, who was encouraging the military to basically overthrow this Administration. Here he is. Cut 15. Go.

[News Clip / Official Statement]

Based on what you, what CNN is reporting, what the Washington Post is reporting, do you believe if there was a second strike to eliminate any survivors that that caused.

[Mark Levin]

I've told you before, there is no difference between the media and the Democrat Party. There's just none. The media exists to advance the propaganda, the talking points, the policies, the power of the Democrat Party. The. They exist for no other reason in this country. Go ahead.

It seems to. If that, if that is true, if.

[Senator / Political Commentator]

What has been reported is accurate, I've got serious concerns about anybody in that chain of command stepping over a line that they should never step over. We are not Russia. We're not Iraq. We hold ourselves.

[Mark Levin]

They don't understand our military history.

We're not Russia. We're not Iraq. We don't have to be Russian. Iraq. We want nothing to do with them.

It's amazing to me, amazing to me how they would have our war fighters fight wars with their hands tied behind their backs. This is why you have such disasters under the Democrats and under some Republicans. Here's this guy, Angus King, named after a cow. Cut 16. Go.

[Senator / Political Commentator]

It's all about the facts, Kate. The law is clear. If the facts are, as have been alleged, that there was a second strike specifically to kill the survivors in the war in the water. That's a stone cold war crime. It's also murder. So the real question is, it's amazing.

[Mark Levin]

They will bend over backwards to give quote, unquote, due process to mass murders to murderers who are imported into our country. They will bend over backwards.

But when it comes to Pete Hegseth, that's murder, man. These are war crimes. If he gave these orders, he's finished. That's it. That's it. Based on a New York Post story.

That'S been denied. Go ahead.

[Senator / Political Commentator]

Which orders? When were they given? And that's what we're going to get. Get to the bottom of in the Congress. As you point out the bipartisan interest in this, Roger Wicker, the chair of the Armed Services Committee, has said we're going to, we're going to dig into this.

[Mark Levin]

So it's amazing to me how close some of these rhinos are with the isolationists. It's amazing to me. Running around neocon, neocon. And yet they're the cons.

So here we have the rhinos. They're raising questions like the isolationists raise questions. And what are we trying to do here? Protect the United States directly and the people of the United States from one of the most horrendous Drug warlords in the world, who uses his military to kill his people, to torture his people, to rape his people, to enslave his people, as well as hired gangsters and militia.

In order to keep control over that society.

And continue to make his tens of billions of dollars killing our people. It's just funny in a sick way. Mark Levin.

Making your weekend even better. This is the best of Mark Levin.

Been doing a lot of reading and things, thinking and note taking today, ladies and gentlemen.

What is going on in the Republican Party, the conservative movement, maga, the Internet, radio, tv.

Well, let's, let's put down a few fundamental markers, okay?

The past is crucially important.

You and I, we didn't live during the time of Socrates and Aristotle and Cicero. We didn't even live during the time of John Locke and Montesquieu. We didn't even live during the time of Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, the founders of our country, the men who met in Philadelphia and framed our Constitution and went in the state capitals and ratified it. We weren't around during the Civil War when this country really was.

Really was on the edge of destroying itself. And yet Abraham Lincoln led us through it.

And very few of us were there during World War II. The Greatest Generation that lived through and fought through a depression and the greatest.

And most horrible war.

But we have men and women who have lived through difficulties and so forth and so on.

When we dismiss our history.

We will fail like every other nation, every other society, every other people.

The reason our history is important is because it teaches us many things.

Because it demonstrates what patriotism and allegiance to our country is all about, which is what we must demand from immigrants, assimilation into our society. But how can we demand from immigrants that they assimilate into our society when we have American citizens who trash our society, who trash our history, who trash what's come before. And I'm not even simply talking about the Marxists in the Democrat Party. I'm talking about the neo fascists on the so called right.

They believe that they have all wisdom, which is a Marxist point of view. Actually, certainly not a conservative one.

And so when you mention the greats from the past, Ronald Reagan, recent past, Bill Buckley.

Milton Friedman, THEY LAUGH. Those days are over. We're starting brand new today. We, we maga, we conservatives, we Republicans, whatever we are, everything starts today. That's what they say, Everything starts today with what failed pollsters, people on the Internet, people who are 19 years old. Seriously, then we might as well shut down everything, burn down the libraries, eliminate all the data Banks, because today's the day.

Why do you think the Marxists and the fascists destroy everything that came before?

Why do you think they do these things?

They want a clean slate. There's a lot we can learn from people who've come before us, who've done great things and who've made mistakes. A lot.

The ego, the narcissism that many in the current young generation have is beyond belief to me.

You see it all over the podcast world, all over the so called influencers, all over the Internet. They don't represent the vast majority of the American people. The vast majority of the American people don't even know who they are, believe it or not. They don't. They don't. And they don't care.

About Rogan or Megyn Kelly or Tucker Carlson and even lesser known Fuentes.

If they knew about Fuentes, they would be cleaning him off the bottom of their shoes like dog crap.

They wouldn't care.

But they call themselves influencers.

And the reason is they have an impact on people who are what on the Internet? And then media entrails that promote these people who are on the, on the Internet. So this is why you get.

Viewpoints that are absolutely unimaginable.

Sick, evil.

This is why you get racist and bigoted and anti Semitic and anti American, anti Christian propaganda that's pushed out.

And makes its way into at least a portion of the population.

The ignorance about World War II and the Third Reich.

And the great Winston Churchill and the great American Yank is just unbelievable. We are supposed to debate it. It is nothing to debate. You do not debate stupidity. You do not debate evil. We were the good guys, they were the bad guys.

You do not debate if these Islamist nations that have been pushing terrorism, including terrorism that has killed thousands and thousands of Americans here in our homeland and overseas.

Whether you should get a payday from those people, whether you should go over and be vetted by those people and live in the best hotels for a week and be given the best food for a week. And then all of a sudden, hey, they are not so bad after.

These are simpletons.

They'Re an inch deep.

And yet there they are. They show up.

In various youth movements throughout colleges and universities.

To tell young people what to think. The irony that you'll get these people are in their 40s and 50s, some in their 60s, who go in front of these people and, and tell them, these young people tell them what to think.

When one of the things they tell them what to think is not to think about what came before.

Take Ronald Reagan.

One of the greatest leaders in world history.

One of the greatest presidents in American history. By every measure.

Domestic policy, economic success, foreign policy.

Building up, the United States military. The country was at a very, very low level. We are supposed to forget about him, supposed to dismiss him. He doesn't matter.

Some of you older people, you may remember, and we younger people, we do not remember them at all. To hell with them.

The only thing that matters is today and our future. Wow.

It is amazing, is it not?

Then these people say they are America first.

But they are not America first.

How can you be America first when you don't even know what America is? When you don't even understand our history, our principles, our founding? How can you be America first if you're peddling Sharia law or if you're peddling and mouthpieces and propagandists for Islamist terrorist states? How's that America first? How can you be America first when you sound like a 1930s German anti Semite or 1950s racist bigot? How is that possible?

Donald Trump has Ronald Reagan's portrait hanging over his left shoulder. He's got all these presidents in his office.

And he'll talk to you about it. And he showed me and he discusses him and there's Reagan over his left shoulder.

And they're going to treat Donald Trump the same way when he leaves office. You know how I know? Because the texts have come out, the things that they've said about Trump before. They despise him.

The Carlson's, the Fuentes is, the Kelly's, the rest of them, don't get me wrong, they hang on to him, they want to be seen with him, but they despise him.

What's this Constitutional conservatism? Oh, that's so old guard. That's so old school.

And they trash conservative talk radio.

And they trash Fox News.

And they trash anything they are not, anything they disagree with.

They act like it doesn't exist.

This is how you get mobs, this is how you get fascists and Marxists.

We are supposed to debate the Third Reich and Hitler and, and who was right and who was wrong. That's a debate. Don't debase yourself and debate that. That's insanity. That's an illness.

And these people are blatant about it, they're brazen about it. You had some guy, I honestly forget his name. I really have a Muslim gentleman who's American, but I think he has Pakistani and Iranian background and he goes to Qatar. And one of the things he's bragging about to the leadership of Qatar is I help platform and fund Tucker Carlson. Now he has since sold his business to Tucker Carlson, I think.

And you get another Wall street guy apparently on the inner circle so he thinks he's all muscular and everything else. Alex something or other. You are smearing him. Don't drag this guy into your debate with Tucker. I am smearing him by linking to what the man said and how does the sale of it stop? He is the one who said it.

Do not drag him in. Drag him into what? He is proud of it. He went to Qatar and told them.

Then his partner, Katarlsson's partner, he's over in Qatar too. And so are a number of so called conservative influencers and so forth. Wow, this place is much different than I ever thought it was.

Yeah, because you don't see the million indentured servants and slaves that serve the 300,000 in the population there.

You don't see anything.

That's okay.

Reagan.

He defeated the Soviet Union.

He pushed communism out of our hemisphere, he pushed communism out of several countries in Africa. Reagan.

The economy grew faster and bigger under Reagan than at any time in American history since the second Industrial revolution a hundred years before.

Reagan. Reagan received the biggest, biggest percentage of popular vote of any Republican in history. He received the most electoral college votes of any Republican in history. And he did it twice. Reagan. And they tell you to ignore Reagan. Do the Democrats ignore Franklin Roosevelt? No. No, they can't stop talking about him. Well, why should we ignore Reagan? Because it's a new day, Mark.

There could be policy changes. We have a tremendous, historic, iconic president right now. I've said it over and over again.

But that doesn't, that doesn't mean that Reagan was not a great, great president because he was.

So. According to these America firsters, Reagan was not. The world begins today. Ignore everything that came before all of it.

Forget about history. Except when they want to twist history and they use history.

To literally embrace genocidal maniacs like Putin, like the Qatar royal family, like Iran's so called leadership.

Then we got to know history. You know.

It'S an amazing thing.

Now why is this important? Because we're going to get our asses kicked in this midterm election if these people succeed and we fail. You, Mr. And Mrs. America and me, we've got to succeed.

If we are defined by the lowest of low lives, if we are defined by bigots and racists, Christian haters and Jew haters, if we are defined by people who promote Sharia law over Judeo Christian values on the basis on what this nation was founded, we are going to get our asses kicked. I'm telling you that right now. Mark Levin.

You're listening to the best of Mark Levin.

Socialism light is not the answer to affordability.

In fact, addressing affordability is not the answer either.

Embracing capitalist solutions to ever growing big government at the local, state and federal level. How you create prosperity and growth. Prosperity and growth go together. They create.

Affordability.

But even more than that, they create supply.

It's very annoying and frustrating for me to listen to people who mimic Mondami and they look at the victories on on those Democrat states and that Democrat city now a pink city.

And regurgitate it. Or they listen to these backbencher pollsters and they regurgitate it. Or Washington D.C. operators who make millions of dollars advising politicians on how to lose affordability. Affordability.

You create supply and create prosperity. The word is prosperity.

And you find ways to do that. That should be the focus.

Prosperity.

Supply creates not only affordability.

But inventiveness, productivity.

Cutting edge technology.

That's the answer. In other words, conservatism.

Capitalism.

Socialism, light. How do we make sure there's more housing for young people? We've got to take over the market. We've got to build more houses for young people. Excuse me, what?

That is not going to create affordability.

It is not even going to create housing.

These, these cost overrun government projects, I mean this, the federal government, even under the best management is a disaster. It's a disaster. Obamacare, that's the federal government disaster. Massive waste, fraud and abuse. Ask the Somali community in Minnesota. Well, don't just point to it. Disaster.

Hundreds of billions of dollars according to the gao.

The GAO itself, the Government Accountability Office every single year. Politicians are incapable of insuring.

Proper cost mechanisms. Bureaucrats are even worse.

They are even worse.

You want to create prosperity through growth. That is what the big beautiful bill is intended to do by the way. And when it fully kicks in at some point next year, it will to some extent, at a minimum.

But socialism light can never beat socialism aggressive.

And does not accomplish a damn thing.

It does not accomplish anything. You know we used to call this.

This being pushed now by the neo fascists and their ilk. We used to call people like this rhinos. Remember that?

Because they sound like liberals.

And so the so called influencers.

They now sound not just like liberals, they sound worse.

In many cases they sound like the Marxists.

But whatever they sound like doesn't even matter. We will not get to where we want to go. We will not win elections. We will not create prosperity. If we go down that road, it will not happen.

This is why, rather than discuss the substance of whatever it is that they are proposing, because they have no coherent, coherent philosophy other than to pick a little bit of this and a little bit of that and to attack and attack and attack.

Because they do not look at the past. They do not learn from the past. They do not look at the great minds. They rewrite history. They lie about economics. And so they are stuck and they lash out.

They should pay a little bit more attention to Milton Friedman.

And to Mises and Hayek and to Adam Smith.

And to Bastiat.

They should pay a little bit more attention to Locke and Montesquieu and Burke.

And to the Founders.

They should pay a little bit more attention to the massive economic.

And electoral successes.

Of President Reagan.

And his great accomplishments. And they should even listen to President Trump a little bit more carefully.

About his ideas and proposals. But they don't.

It is interesting. You know.

These people of whom I have been speaking.

They trash Trump regularly in their texts, when they become available.

In their emails, in their posts.

Marjorie Taylor Greene. Look at her. She's a mess. She doesn't know what she stands for. She's a walking billboard. She's a.

A walking bumper sticker. I stand for the people. I've always stood for the people. Oh, shut up, you idiot. You don't even know what you stand for.

Both of your feet are firmly planted in the air.

Or the others. Look at Bannon. Bannon's taken 10 sides of the same issue. Course of 12 years. Excuse me. Course of 12 months.

Same with his buddy Kitarlson. Look at this slob. Alex Jones.

The bigger dummy doesn't exist. And I can go down the list.

There is a reason why the Democrat Party media keep pushing these people out there, pushing. They love them. They love them.

Because they know by promoting them, they try to brand tens of millions of people, many of whom don't even know who they are. But you, Mr. And Mrs. America, they try to taint you with these people that you don't even know. And most of you, if you know them, you despise them.

Or you're thinking about them from five years ago, whereas today they've absolutely lost their marbles.

It's the truth. This guy, Mark Kelly, this Democrat senator from Arizona, and I want to give a hat tip to Roger Stone. I hadn't seen this before, but now I've dug a little bit more deeply.

That's Right. Roger Stone.

I don't know Roger Stone, but I like Roger Stone. I don't know him.

Maybe we've talked now and then is all I can remember, but that's it.

But he pointed this out. Mark Kelly telling our troops to defy the President. He can't even say what order he's talking about. He's the most outspoken of the bunch. Doubles down, triples down on it. That Donald Trump really keeps going after the Afghani illegal immigrants in the country because he doesn't want brown people here. That's the kind of mind this Mark Kelly has, which is none whatsoever. What happened? How did he become an astronaut? That's what I want to know. I'm quite serious. I watched the guy. Listen to the guy. Sounds like an idiot. Idiot.

But Fox News reported about a year ago former astronaut Senator Mark Kelly started spy balloon company funded by communist China. Oh do tell, do tell. U.S.

Former Navy captain, former astronaut, represents Arizona in the U.S. senate since 2020. Before becoming a senator was not only an astronaut, he also co founded a company that specializes in spy balloons which was funded in part by a venture capitalist in China. That would be communist China with close ties to the Chinese Communist Party. Everything that happens in China has close ties to the Chinese Communist Party. Kelly is reportedly in the short list of running mate contenders. This is Last year for VP Co founded in Tucson, Arizona Worldview in 2012 with a vision to provide space tourism using stratospheric balloons. And while Kelly's company started out with a focus on space tourism via balloons, now how stupid is that you're going to use a balloon for space tourism, Mr. Producer? A balloon.

The vision evolved with the maturing of the company's technology. As we matured our technology, we recognized an opportunity for immediate use cases for our technology through remote sensing services to defense science.

Website here.

Scientific and commercial customers. Today our primary business remains providing remote sensing service to the U.S. department of Defense and our allies by way of intel surveillance and renaissance capabilities as well as servicing scientific organizations like NASA, NOA others to better understand Earth from the unique atmospheric layer of stratosphere. What is that more bullcrap or what.

Axios report Axios is like the Al Jazeera of America. Have you noticed that.

They run stories endlessly.

Endlessly that undermine our country, undermine the state of Israel. Same anonymous sources over and over again. The guy writes it as an Israeli Iraq Ravin competes complete slime ball pig.

Axos reported that shortly after Worldview was started, it received venture capital from Tencent. Tencent is One of China's largest Corporations, founded in 1998 by Pony Ma Yabadabadoo. And last year he was listed as a Forbes as the fourth richest man in China.

Collected a trove of data, the Wall Street Journal reported, did that company over the years from its mobile app WeChat and goes on and on and on. So it's a communist operation and this idiot former astronaut.

Former Navy captain with the video, you know, you six members of Congress did this video who served either in intelligence or the military. You have to want to do it. It's not like I don't really want to do it. No, you're excited about it. You're really motivated to do it. To tell the troops to defy the president if you have any order you don't agree with man defy the pre. In which order? I don't know, Whatever.

Whatever.

Seems to me he's the guy that has to answer questions and not by the phony media. Wouldn't it be nice if he had answered questions under oath, penalty of perjury. But you know, Congress doesn't work that way. It doesn't do that to its own members. Seems to me is a lot to answer for, a hell of a lot more than Pete Hagg. SETH Mark Levin.

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You know, ladies and gentlemen, I've been looking at mostly headlines in most of the American media lecturing us that the attacks on these Venezuelan drug boats that are aimed to spread death and mayhem in the United States and to kill mostly our young people and others, that it's clearly illegal. And then they cherry pick the experts who say it's illegal. Then I went back and I started to go through these articles and you know what's interesting? They don't really tell us why it's illegal.

Exactly what law has been violated. And then they tell us all kinds of arguments, well, we're not really at war and so forth and so on. So they go into the, into the ether to make their case.

But I want to make the point again.

If.

Venezuela succeeded, succeeded in releasing toxins into our atmosphere over our country that were deadly, I don't think there's anybody who would question that's an act of war. If Venezuela poisoned our water supply system.

I don't think anybody would argue that's not an act of war.

So Venezuela is the source of much toxic illegal drugs that come into our country, is working in collusion with communist China, Russia and Iran and succeeds in getting those deadly drugs into our country and killing our people, then I would argue that's an act of war, too.

It's not just a criminal matter. It is a government of a country that has declared that it is trying to kill and maim American citizens.

Now, I understand.

Some people are uncomfortable.

Uncomfortable? We're calling a spade a spade. I am not. I understand there's some people who have spent their lives with their faces in the US Code, and that's all they know.

That's not rational, is it?

So, of course, what Venezuela is doing is trying to kill American citizens.

The country controlled by the government, a dictator, a Marxist dictator, an illegitimate Marxist dictator in collusion with other enemies and adversaries of the United States. And so when I hear Rand Paul, a radical libertarian.

Make suggestions about, quote, unquote, due process.

In a war like this, you don't get due process. It's not a court of law.

You have a commander in chief.

It's a completely different process that you're dealing with.

It amazes me. I would argue that 70 or 80 years ago, maybe even 50 years ago, if a president was doing as Donald Trump is doing, the United States would be united behind him. Democrats, Republicans, Independents, and everybody else. Instead, we have Democrats taking to the airwaves, accusing the Secretary of Defense, that is a war of war crimes.

For ordering the killing of survivors of the first attack on one of these drug speedboats. Number one, we know that he didn't order a second attack. He wasn't there. The admiral did. Number two.

That'S not a war crime.

Now, they will read to you language that says that if people are injured and so forth and so on, and they're no longer a threat.

That you no longer target them.

Well, that's all well and good, but as the Secretary of War said, Hage said during the fog of war, you can't exactly pinpoint that the way people in their Senate offices, in their House offices, and media in their offices discern what you cannot discern in the middle of the action.

But all of that aside, don't you find it odd that the instinct of these people is to attack us and not the enemy? Maduro is a genocidal maniac. Maduro is a narco kingpin. Maduro has undermined and usurped two elections in which he lost to the voters. Maduro has hitmen. He's got armed civilian militia. He's got, obviously, the regular military. He has accumulated 30 to 40 billion dollars raping his country, starving his people. He has exported prisoners and mental patients from his Prisons and his institutions into the United States. He has exported an international drug gang into the United States. He has exported, in collusion with Russia, China, and Iran. God knows the tonnage of drugs into our country. Killing and maiming your family members, and the reaction of our media and the reaction of the Democrats to a man and a woman and a transitioner, and the reaction of some of these Rhino Republicans, these neo isolationist Republicans as well, is to attack the commander in chief.

And the Secretary of War.

Really quite amazing, don't you think? Legal fight erupts over second strike on suspected drug boat. US Drug boat strikes don't cross a line. Let's see this one. Ooh. US Drug boats don't cross a line. They're legally. Hold on. Damn computer. Indefensible. No lines here. It's just indefensible.

Acts, criminal acts.

Wow. How much did Hegseth know about the controversial boat strike, the second one in particular? And it goes on and on.

Mm.

Well, I'm all for it. It's in our hemisphere. The Monroe Doctrine. They're trying to kill our people. There's no question what's going on here. Pushing these deadly drugs into our country, killing our young people, killing other people. It amazes me. It amazes me what we see here. The Democrat Party open borders where women by the hundreds of thousands are sold into sex slavery and pornography. They don't blink. Unaccompanied children, hundreds of thousands missing, also sold into sex slavery and in labor slavery. They don't blink.

Venezuela pushing God knows how much deadly drugs into this country, including fentanyl. They don't blink.

They don't blink. Now, all of a sudden, the Democrat party and some of the Rhinos and isolationists, they're very particular about our law.

They don't normally give a damn about the law, but they're very particular about it now, and they want it applied against Trump and Higseth.

They hate Hegseth. The more they hate you, the more effective you are. That's how you know they don't target lame brains. They don't target lazy individuals. They don't target ineffective individuals. They target the best of the best.

I haven't talked to Hegseth in months. In fact, I haven't talked to any cabinet secretary in months.

Hegseth is doing his job.

Better than Austin ever did it.

Better than EPSI ever did it, or whatever the hell that guy's name is. Better than any of them have done it. He's reforming the Pentagon by pushing out the dei. We have more People trying to get into the military now as volunteers than any time in modern history.

President is muscling up the United States military. He uses it for targeted operations. He muscles them up.

And in this case we are talking about in our hemisphere where they are attacking our children and grandchildren. We have these former federal prosecutors who really are irrelevant, talking about.

What should happen in a criminal justice process. You know, I remember after 9, 11, the big criticism, rightly so, was that we treat terrorism and terrorists as a criminal justice matter, not as a counterterrorism matter, not as a military matter.

And so we have a president who treats this as a military matter, as a national security matter. And they're trying to drag him back into a criminal justice mentality and drag all of us back into a courtroom mentality.

This can come to an end immediately if Venezuela would stop trying to kill and poison our population. It's that simple. Mark the Vin.

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I'll tell you the problem we're facing as a country, big problem.

And you know, I've talked about the country of Qatar more than most. I think it is a major enemy of the United States. I don't care who supports them and who doesn't support them. I'm just telling you from my own analysis that you gathering of substantive, factual information.

It is a very, very clever, dangerous country led by vile, vicious, evil dictators in the form of a monarchy. It is a country that was created out of whole cloth. Turns out as a matter of accident that this tiny Little Speck with 330,000 population and about 2 million inhabitants, many of whom are indentured servants, they give them visas from the third world. They come in and they take their visas away. Many of them have been enslaved in many respects and there have been many reports put out on this. Apparently it is of no consequence. It is a vile, vile enterprise that runs that country.

It truly is.

Now what I'm trying to find here, Mr. Producer, is let me find it as I go through here. There was a piece that I read this morning about this massive push with tremendous amount of money, luxury hotels, five course meals.

Sporting events, a massive push right now by the monarchy in Qatar to buy off as many republicans and conservatives and so called conservative influencers as possible, to buy off as much media as possible right now, to buy off as much entertainers as possible right now.

That's the effort.

For instance, a publication called the Jewish Insider doesn't like me very much, by the way. Center, center, left.

Qatar has these ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. Qatar is the, basically the banker to the Muslim Brotherhood. Muslim Brotherhood has spawned Hamas, Islamic Jihad and others. The Muslim Brotherhood murdered.

Certain important Arab leaders. Sadat being one of them.

Was behind Al Qaeda.

It's like the mothership of terrorism the mother brought. The Muslim Brotherhood now has a foothold in the United States of America.

And so the administration has said that they want to designate the Muslim Brotherhood in certain countries as a terrorist organization.

I was somewhat critical and said, no, let's just designate the Muslim Brotherhood in every country as terrorist organizations, including in Qatar.

But Qatar is not doubling down on this charm offensive.

They have focused in on certain Republican members, certain conservative social media influencers.

They have also partnered with CNN and I believe the Wall Street Journal. I want to get into this with you because this is just the latest effort by Qatar, as pointed out by this, by this website, and they're accurate.

A group of House Republicans, and this was reported first by Laura Loomer, by the way.

Who'S under constant attack, but she's been doing a great job.

A group of House Republicans visited Qatar during the House's Thanksgiving recess. Of all places to go, including Representatives Laurel Lee, Republican of Florida, Marlon Stutzman, Republican of Indiana, who's been on this show in the years past, Abe Hamada, Republican of Arizona, Ryan Zinke, Republican of Montana, and Lance Gooden, Republican of Texas. The trip occurred just before the House Foreign Affairs Committee is scheduled to vote on legislation that classifies the entire Muslim Brotherhood organization globally, not just country by country globally, as a terrorist organization.

A group of so called conservative social media influencers also visited Qatar over Thanksgiving, posting glowing dispatches lauding the country and its role in hosting a US Military base. Rob Smith, one of the invited guests, posted credulously about Qatar on his Instagram feed after the trip, quote, I wasn't aware of a great deal of things that Qatar about Qatar, I should say only misperceptions and half truths that I'd read about online. When the opportunity was presented to me with full authority and autonomy to ask the tough questions of the officials I'd been meeting with, I decided to risk any potential criticism and to travel and experience it for myself. And they wind and dine this guy as they have others.

And now his eyes have been opened. How he's been fooled all these years.

The Great Qatar.

Numerous celebrities have also this week gone to Qatar. Comedian Kevin Hart, celebrity chief Gordon Ramsay, tennis star Novak Djokovic gathered in Doha over the weekend for the 2025 Formula One Qatar Grand Prix. So they have these massive events, golfing events, these kinds of events, tennis events.

To sort of westernize their propaganda.

And this week the country is hosting the Doha Forum, a conference co sponsored by cnn. By cnn.

Those attending the conference include several officials from the administration, Ambassadors, politicians, philanthropists alongside Israel bashing officials such as former Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, sanctioned UN special individual Francesca Albanese and former Iran envoy Robert Malley. Now you know about Malley. Malley worked very closely with the Iranians, went behind America's back, on and on and on. You can google it yourself.

And also a gentleman. I forget his name. I should write it down.

I should memorize it, keep it in memory. Who was the first to finance Tucker Guitarlson's network? He bragged about it in Qatar.

In Qatar.

Yes. One of my first investments was in the Tucker Carlson Network.

Others on the guest list.

U.S. ambassador to Turkey Tom Barak. U.S. ambassador to NATO, Trump advisor Alec Bruzeswitz. Oh, that's the guy who goes online and attacks me in the inner circle.

That's the guy. Alex Bruzwitz, if that's how you pronounce it, doesn't mean anything to me. The Quincy Institutes treat at Parsi. Quincy Institute is a massive isolationist operation funded by both George Soros and Charles Koch.

Now I don't have the entire list. CNN anchor Christian I'm in poor, other officials and so forth and so on.

Now think about that. Now this comes at a time when Qatar's complicated public reputation in the United States is becoming a flashpoint, particularly inside the conservative movement. That's thanks to me.

The facts that I presented on this program, the facts that I presented on digital TV and the facts that I presented repeatedly on fox.

Qatar has spent billions brainwashing our young people, turning them against our country, billions.

Fomenting violence in our country.

Qatar has helped promote organizations like care, which is connected to Hamas, which we know from.

From what the FBI did with the Holy Land foundation case and the bugs that they put in a hotel room in the Marriott Hotel outside the Philadelphia Airport.

Look at this, ladies and gentlemen. People from both parties, terrorist supporting individuals, so called conservatives, so called podcasters and influencers, people from business, from the administration, from the Democrat Party.

That's what Qatar is doing. They've defeated the Democrat Party. They've devoured the Democrat Party. The Democrat Party is now the AOC Mandani Sanders, Talib Omar party.

The Republican Party. They seek to conquer next and pretend that they're promoting Western values when in fact they hate us.

They're connected to the Taliban, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and all the rest of it.