The Best Of Mark Levin - 4/4/26

Summary

Mark Levin Podcast – "The Best Of Mark Levin – 4/4/26"

Episode Date: April 4, 2026
Host: Mark Levin (Cumulus Podcast Network)
Featured Voice: Steve Deace
Main Theme:
A special ‘best of’ episode with Mark Levin and guest commentary, focusing on America’s ongoing conflict with Iran, the backlash against the military campaign, lessons from U.S. and Revolutionary War history, the politics of opposition, media narratives, and an impassioned discussion about birthright citizenship in the U.S. constitution.

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Episode Overview

This episode brings sharp analysis from Mark Levin, interleaved with Steve Deace, on the continuing war against Iran—termed "Operation Epic Fury." The hosts confront critics from the left, the "woke right," and the media, defending the campaign's progress and necessity. They draw historical analogies, skewer ideological and partisan opposition, and delve into foundational constitutional issues—especially birthright citizenship. The episode is heavily laced with signature fiery rhetoric, patriotic themes, and a sense of urgency for American principles.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. The Progress and Politics of the War with Iran

Timestamps: 00:20–08:15, 13:25–21:40, 49:00–54:44

• Levin's Core View:
  The war is progressing well; casualties are below past U.S. interventions (e.g., Panama, Grenada). Despite negative press, American and allied military actions are necessary and measured.
  • "The war against the Iranian regime is going very well... casualties are less than when we went into Panama to capture Noriega, rescued college students in Grenada, and virtually every other military action." (Mark Levin, 00:20)
• Spectrum of Opposition:
  Steve Deace breaks down sources of opposition: Democrats, Marxists, Islamists, the "woke right" (isolationists), media negativity, economic anxieties, claims of illegality, and anti-Semitism conflating Israel and American policy.
  • "Fifth, the rising anti-Semitism and Israel hatred serves as a useful tool of the Marxist Islamist left and the woke right for scapegoating, claiming the President was forced in the war by the Jews." (Steve Deace, 01:45)
• Political Nature of Criticism:
  Opposition to military action is characterized as partisan, emotional, and often dishonest, with many critics called "grifters," "ideologues," or "morons."
  • "They’re trying to dispirit you. They’re trying to exploit the situation for their own grift, for their own political reasons..." (Steve Deace, 07:46)
  • "If they move from one hysterical point to another, I.e. hysterics, then they're just buffoons looking for cliques." (Mark Levin, 07:19)
• Historical Lessons:
  The reluctance to preempt threats is contrasted with WWII lessons and postwar reconstruction; definitive victory and thorough defeat of the enemy are presented as both moral and necessary.
  • "At the end of World War II, Germany was destroyed, pummeled to death, in fact... Out of the ruins of Germany was born the Third Reich and Hitler... World War I was the war to end all wars." (Mark Levin/Steve Deace, 14:37–15:37)
• International Unity:
  Unprecedented alignment is noted between Arab nations and Israel supporting U.S. action to permanently topple Iran's regime.
  • "Here you have... the Arab countries and Israel united behind the United States. We’ve never seen anything like this." (Mark Levin, 20:34)
• Public Support:
  New polling shows support for the President and the war effort, including among moderates and some Democrats.
  • "51% of all Americans support the president in this war effort. And it's growing... That's the Harvard Daily Mail poll out today." (Mark Levin, 21:42)

2. Revolutionary War Analogy & American Resolve

Timestamps: 09:29–13:25

• Podcast Segment on Revolutionary History:
  Levin extols his video podcast segment about the origins of the American Revolution, framing it as an inspiring example of perseverance—emphasizing that revolutions (good or bad) start with a minority.
  • "They weren’t looking for an off ramp. They weren’t looking for a peace deal... The majority of the colonists were either opposed to the war or neutral. Got that?" (Mark Levin, 11:46–12:07)
• Historical Parallel:
  Comparing the current war effort to the colonies' minority drive for independence; emphasizing that committed minorities often spur world-changing events.

3. Birthright Citizenship & the 14th Amendment Debate

Timestamps: 34:32–48:28

• Levin’s Legal Argument against Modern Interpretation:
  The phrase "birthright citizenship" is not in the Constitution; its adoption was to secure rights for freed black slaves and their children, not for children of illegal immigrants.
  • "Birthright citizenship is nowhere in the Constitution. It’s not part of any official statute. It wasn’t part of the debate in the 1866 Civil Rights act... The idea of immigration, let alone illegal immigration, was on nobody’s mind, wasn’t even in their imagination." (Mark Levin/Steve Deace, 35:21–35:49)
• Historical Context and Textualism:
  The Constitutional amendments post-Civil War were strictly about addressing the treatment of freed slaves. Modern legal arguments expanding birthright citizenship are seen as activist overreach.
• Consequences:
  Levin warns that extending birthright citizenship to children of illegal immigrants could have dire, irreversible consequences for the nation.

4. Media Critique and the “Axis of Evil”

Timestamps: 23:45–27:04, 49:00–54:44

• Selective Media Coverage:
  Senator John Fetterman is cited blasting the press for helping Iran through selective and misleading reporting, especially around Operation Epic Fury’s success.
  • "Iran now loves and learns from the American media. The media's selective coverage rewards and reinforces Iran's strategy. Media amplifies the 1% chaos Iran creates while ignoring the 99% of Iran's beatdown." (Mark Levin quoting Fetterman, 24:02)
• Global Impact:
  Commentary on the closing of the Strait of Hormuz, the threat of nuclear Iran, and calls for global actors to protect their own interests.

5. Criticism of U.S. Political Figures and Islamism in U.S. Politics

Timestamps: 28:46–34:54, 54:44–58:41

• Democrat Candidates & Islamism:
  Discussion of Democratic Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed (Michigan), describing him as an “Islamist” and scrutinizing a call in which he suggested avoiding discussion of Khomeini’s assassination out of concern for local Arab-American sentiment.
  • "He’s an Islamist. Hello? He's an Islamist... There's a lot of people in Dear Bornistan who are sad today because Khomeini was killed in our own country, America..." (Mark Levin, 30:11, 31:40)
• Broader Trend:
  Allegations that the Democratic Party is fielding and supporting Islamist candidates and figures; analogy to European left-wing mass immigration policies.
• Moral Righteousness:
  Mark emphatically distinguishes between Muslims and Islamists, denouncing the latter’s influence and defending criticism as necessary for national security and American values.

6. Trump’s Speech on Iran

Timestamps: 48:55–53:13

• Trump's Key Points:
  Trump (archival audio) asserts that Iran's military is decimated and that the U.S. holds all strategic cards. He frames the campaign as a necessary investment in America's and the world’s future.
  • "We have not hit their oil... because it would not give them even a small chance of survival or rebuilding. But we could hit it and it would be gone and there's not a thing they could do about it... We have all the cards, they have none." (Donald Trump, 49:04–50:14)
  • "Tonight, every American can look forward to a day when we are finally free from the wickedness of Iranian aggression..." (Donald Trump, 50:54)
• Past Policy Critique:
  Trump lambasts the Obama-era Iran nuclear deal, insisting its termination was crucial for Middle East and Israeli security.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Victory & Resolve:
  "The cost of a nuclear Iran with thousands of ballistic missiles is incalculable." (Mark Levin, 02:35)
• On Clever Media Consumption:
  "Most of them are nimrods and morons... driven by stupidity just because they're dumb people." (Mark Levin, 06:52)
• On American Unity Potential:
  "I'm talking about some of these countries able to work together that haven’t been able to work together before... here that will change the face of the globe." (Mark Levin, 20:37–21:01)
• On Principle:
  "If we can do something about it, we ought to do something about it. That's like people sitting on a subway or on a park bench and somebody has their throat slit and they say, hey, there's nothing I can do about it anyway." (Mark Levin, 18:32–18:47)
• On U.S. Legal History:
  "The whole constitutional conservative movement was born right here behind this microphone." (Mark Levin, 42:02)

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Important Segment Timestamps

• Intro/War Assessment: 00:20–05:34
• Opposition Analysis: 05:34–08:15
• Historical Parallels/American Revolution: 09:29–13:25
• WWII & Enemy Defeat Lessons: 13:25–21:40
• Public Polls/Support: 21:40–23:41
• Media Critique/Sen. Fetterman: 23:45–27:04
• Homeland Security Funding & Islamism in Politics: 28:46–34:54
• Birthright Citizenship Discussion: 34:32–48:28
• Trump Speech Highlights: 48:55–53:13
• Islamism in U.S. Politics Redux: 54:44–58:41

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Episode Summary

This episode of "The Best of Mark Levin" delivers passionate conservative analysis on the Iran war and broader American political currents. Levin, joined by Steve Deace, champions the need for steadfast military action, warns of media and ideological manipulation, and issues sharp criticisms of domestic opposition—whether from Democratic politicians, the "woke right," or Islamist-leaning figures. The show is laced with patriotic references and appeals to American history as both a warning and inspiration. Notably, there's a deep dive into the origins and intentions of birthright citizenship within constitutional law, arguing against its application to children of illegal immigrants. The episode closes with excerpts of a forceful Trump speech, underscoring the stakes and perceived triumphs of current U.S. foreign policy.

Listeners are left with a clear message: America must stay the course militarily, stay true constitutionally, and remain vigilant against both foreign and domestic threats—ideological or otherwise.

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

yes, the war against the Iranian regime is going very well, despite the fact that that the war against our regime is going very well. It's only a few weeks old, after all, casualties are less than when we went into Panama to capture Noriega, rescued college students in Grenada and virtually every other military action.

[Steve Deace]

The voices of despair, some real, some contrived, are seemingly everywhere.

[Mark Levin]

But are they really?

[Steve Deace]

Are they really first, the President's base has never been more solid. You that includes MAGA and the GOP generally. Second, the Democrats, including the Marxists and Islamists are strongly opposed for a variety of reasons, including tds, political exploitation and a growing population of hate American constituencies both homegrown and imported. They're a very loud crowd and overrepresented in the public square. Third, the woke Reich isolationists oppose all military action and certainly any preemptive actions, even against a regime with a half century record of killing American soldiers and citizens. And even when that regime is provably and unequivocally developing nuclear material and missiles to reach our shores. And short of that, they can still explode a dirty bomb their ideological kindred spirits with the extremist left. Fourth, the public has been relentlessly fed negative stories and fear mongering by a nearly unanimous media and organized ops campaigns on social media. Fifth, the rising anti Semitism and Israel hatred serves as a useful tool of the Marxist Islamist left and the woke right for scapegoating, claiming the President was forced in the war by the Jews. Sixth, the public cares about affordability and the military campaign is said to be a distraction, although if the operation came to an immediate halt that issue would not disappear. Indeed, it predates the military campaign. Seventh, the latest propaganda point is to blame the military operation for potentially costing the GOP the midterm elections should that election cycle be lost to the Democrats. The polls show the midterm elections to be a challenge before the military campaign. Eighth, it's easier to explain and understand military action taken after a catastrophic attack which focuses the attention and demands a strong response. A prevented military campaign based on explanations of threats and subject to even disingenuous debate muddies the water for some, if not many. Talk of the threats from Islamists prior to 911 and the need to go to war with Al Qaeda wouldn't have galvanized the nation, now, would it? And no doubt there's other reasons. There's constant pressure for the President to abandon the military campaign. Gas prices, which are temporarily up. Claims of violating campaign promises against forever wars. This is hardly a forever war. The cost of the military campaign, of course, the cost of a nuclear Iran with thousands of ballistic missiles is incalculable. The charge that the war is illegal, it's not that there was no imminent threat. Now the exactitude with which one precisely determine what's imminent or not is ridiculous. Preemption is a better measure.

[Mark Levin]

And so forth and so on.

[Steve Deace]

So the geopolitical, economic and national security consequences of an early or premature cessation and off ramp, as they say, could be devastating. Few presidents would seek a ceasefire, precipitous end under present day circumstances, it would be stunningly unwise. The Iranian regime would have enough power as a police state to continue on and rebuild both domestically and internationally, and with the help of countries like China, Russia and North Korea, be the biggest gift to the axis of evil imaginable and a disaster for our national security. Opposition to nearly all military campaigns is a given, as history demonstrates. But let me suggest that in the current situation, much of it is politically partisan, ideological, emotional, contrived and unwarranted. In each case, it is important to discern who is in opposition, both individuals and groups and their motivations. Of course they will claim good intentions and love of country. No doubt some are, but for too many, that obviously is not the case. It is more sinister than that. In the end, victory has endless benefits, including political. And here victory is the elimination of the current threat against us and our allies in the region and the people of Iran. The opponents in our country want everything done yesterday, even though they wanted nothing militarily done at all in the first place. They had no and have no strategy, as their previous approaches, appeasement, massive payoffs and the lifting of sanctions did nothing but further empower the regime. Now, that's not intended to be a

[Mark Levin]

comprehensive review, just a summary of where I think we are right now. And so I think the President should stay the course. There's no reason not to. There's no reason not to, because to do otherwise could be cataclysmic to us. It could and definitely hand the democrats a victory and so forth. It would be cataclysmic to the people of Iran, to the people in the

[Steve Deace]

region and to us,

[Mark Levin]

because it would

[Steve Deace]

demonstrate to them that despite everything we

[Mark Levin]

threw at them, they survived.

[Steve Deace]

And they will go through the streets. They'll go through the towns, the homes, and they'll slaughter even more people. Who's going to stop them?

[Mark Levin]

Nobody.

[Steve Deace]

And they will build even more ballistic missiles. Who is going to stop them?

[Mark Levin]

Nobody.

[Steve Deace]

And they will push ahead for nukes. Who is going to stop them? Well, if we do not stop them now, Nobody.

[Mark Levin]

Nobody.

[Steve Deace]

I would be very careful about what senators are posting. You are not clear. I am not clear on certain motivations. I would be very careful about what podcasters are posting. Most of them are nimrods and morons, but they're driven by an ideology. Many of them. And many of them are driven by

[Mark Levin]

stupidity just because they're dumb people.

[Steve Deace]

I'd be very careful what the media push because they push largely propaganda. And what I mean by discernment, if it's somebody you trust or if they're making sense or if they lay out the case, that's fine. But if they move from one hysterical point to another, I.e. hysterics, then they're just buffoons looking for cliques.

[Mark Levin]

They're grifters, they're ideologues, they're activists, and they're not going to get you anywhere. So that's my view of it. I think we're doing very well, despite what you're hearing and you keep hearing,

[Steve Deace]

well, what are we going to do? What's an off ramp and what's victory look like?

[Mark Levin]

And first of all, it was illegal

[Steve Deace]

and why are we doing this? They're trying to create despair in the nation.

[Mark Levin]

Disunity.

[Steve Deace]

They're trying to dispirit you. They're trying to exploit the situation for their own grift, for their own political reasons, what have you.

[Mark Levin]

But that's what's going on.

[Steve Deace]

And they're doing it at a time of war, and they're doing it at a time where we're overwhelmingly winning the war.

[Mark Levin]

Mark the vin.

[Steve Deace]

As Operation Epic Fury intensifies, the world braces for what's to come next. And people of faith pray for freedom

[Mark Levin]

and for God's people in the Holy Land to be protected. And in the Holy Land, red alert

[Steve Deace]

sirens fill the air, sirens that give you only 15 seconds to reach the nearest bomb shelter. The situation is serious.

[Mark Levin]

The threat is real.

[Steve Deace]

And in times like this, freedom and faith aren't just abstract ideas. They are what we depend upon. And the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews is on the ground preparing large scale distributions of life saving food, first aid, emergency essentials for security personnel, while helping ensure hospitals and emergency rooms and

[Mark Levin]

shelters are stocked with critical medical supplies.

[Steve Deace]

This aid is focused on Israel's most vulnerable, the sick, the elderly, children, families in great need. But the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews need your most generous gift today to make this work possible. So please rush your gift, which is tax deductible by, by calling right away. 888-585-IFCJ. That's 888-585-IFCj or online at levin for the fellowship.org that's L E V I N for the fellowship.org.

[Mark Levin]

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

Well, you've spoken, folks, and I'll tell you what. Today's video podcast is breaking records on Liberty Voice. And I think I know why. 80% of it is about American history in the lead up to the Revolutionary War. Actually, the lead up to 1776, the Revolutionary War, I would argue, started much before that. And I explained that on today's video podcast. And it's clear in this audience, because you're smart, you don't want to hear all that gibberish and all the F bombs and of course, I don't do that. Anyway, you want red blooded, patriotic American history. And today on the Liberty Voice video podcast, that's what you got. And you're going to learn a tremendous amount in the lead up to July 4, 1776. And you're going to see that the Revolutionary War actually started before that date. And we'll get into it. We do into I try to make it as interesting as possible, too. So those of you who haven't checked it out yet, today's a good day. All you have to do is go to rumble or YouTube. It's absolutely free. I think it's intriguing. We had a lot of fun today with it. I was very excited about it. I felt great when we were done. It really did. And I think that's what these platforms should be about. You can't be about it every single day. I get it. Sometimes you got to deal with what you got to deal with. But I always try to return to that. All right, now let's see here. Actually, actually, let's play this 50 second clip. Cut to Mr. Producer, cut to go. The Revolutionary War actually began in 1775. The Declaration of Independence was signed as, you know, July 4, 1776. So that's where people pick the date. That's fine. That's a very crucial date. It's maybe the most crucial in our history to September 1783. So that war went on for seven and a half years. They weren't Looking for an off ramp. They weren't looking for a peace deal.

[Steve Deace]

They weren't looking for get in and get out.

[Mark Levin]

And think about it. You had 13 disparate colonies, separate colonies, fighting the most powerful military force on the face of the Earth. And yet 40 to 45% of the colonists who supported it and the rest who either opposed it actively, about 20% were kind of neutral. So the majority of the colonists were either opposed to the war or neutral. Got that?

[Steve Deace]

Very important.

[Mark Levin]

I've said many revolutions, good and bad. They start with a minority. They're not part of a majority. Actually heard somebody on Fox say that the other day. So they must be a great listener to this program, Mr. Producer, because I've gone through this many, many times and

[Steve Deace]

by the way, I applaud that.

[Mark Levin]

That's a good thing, not a bad thing. Now, I'm trying to follow and I'm listening very carefully to the President's comments, to the Secretary of Defense's comments, to the Secretary of State's comments, not hearing a lot of comments from the vice President. Maybe that's intended for a reason. The reason I don't know. And I'm not sure where we are with this war. I mean, other than beating the hell out of the enemy day in and day out, which is important. I'm not sure if they're looking for this off ramp. It's a phrase I cannot stand. And one reporter says that, then they all start repeating it. But if we're looking for a deal, I don't mean a tremendous deal. A deal, or if we're not. Now, our friend Eli Lake over at

[Steve Deace]

the Free Press, he's a great reporter

[Mark Levin]

and that is a great news site. You don't always have to agree with them, but you really get interesting information there and discussions and opinions. He points out, in his view, that the President is using psychological warfare with the enemy. And I have to agree with that. I think that's right. In other words, he's sending not massive ground troops, but he's making it clear we're sending the 82nd Airborne, the Delta

[Steve Deace]

Force, the Special Forces.

[Mark Levin]

He's talking about how uranium is dug deeply into the ground. If you've listened to me on this program or my Fox show, you know that I was the first to even bring this up, that that could be why we need to send the Special Forces in, and they're trained to deal with this sort of thing. I mean, you really don't want to leave the uranium there.

[Steve Deace]

Now, you don't actually have to take

[Mark Levin]

it out, you can, you can in effect poison it, that is, destroy it with a mixture of various types of chemicals and things. I'm no expert, but I did read that much. But whether you destroy it or remove it, we have some people saying we ought to just get out of there and leave it. Now how crazy is that?

[Steve Deace]

Especially now when they've been effectively militarily defeated. Now the problem is it's not enough. Mark, what do you mean? At the end of World War II,

[Mark Levin]

Germany, among others, was destroyed, pummeled to death, in fact. Their industrial center was destroyed and whatever was still functioning was removed by other countries in Europe and they were forced

[Steve Deace]

to sign a peace deal and their economy was a disaster. And it was said that World War

[Mark Levin]

I was the war to end all wars.

[Steve Deace]

Out of the ruins of Germany was

[Mark Levin]

born the Third Reich and Hitler. Less than 20 years later,

[Steve Deace]

the Third

[Mark Levin]

Reich and Hitler were born.

[Steve Deace]

Out of the ruins of Germany

[Mark Levin]

and

[Steve Deace]

What followed were 60 million people killed.

[Mark Levin]

And of course, the Holocaust.

[Steve Deace]

World War II, World War II, Greta. World War I. After World War II, we had learned our lesson. We destroyed the access powers, literally leveled them, literally. As you know about the atomic bombs in Japan. Well, we did effectively the same thing to Germany, but with conventional bombs, just relentless bombing of the cities. Those of us, those of us who

[Mark Levin]

understand history understand that we don't do that anymore.

[Steve Deace]

And yet we're being attacked even now for committing war crimes.

[Mark Levin]

We haven't committed any war crimes. The left is sick and they'll always be sick.

[Steve Deace]

The casualties were unbelievable. And of course, we are on the side of the people of Iran, the

[Mark Levin]

Persian people, not the regime. So we would not do that anyway.

[Steve Deace]

But that said, we have not sent in hundreds of thousands of ground troops.

[Mark Levin]

We did that in Iraq, we did it in Afghanistan.

[Steve Deace]

We certainly haven't done it here. But there is the issue of the uranium, but you're not allowed to bring it up because you'll be attacked as of this, and I don't care.

[Mark Levin]

Those people don't matter to me. The nitwits, the half wits, the no wits,

[Steve Deace]

the woke right neo fascists, they don't matter. Neither do the Marxist Islamists when it comes to matters of war and peace.

[Mark Levin]

They're on the side of the enemy

[Steve Deace]

and they claim they're on the side of we the people. No, they're not. So my admonition is a premature end

[Mark Levin]

to this military operation will eventually lead to an even stronger Iranian regime.

[Steve Deace]

You know what they're doing today? They're slaughtering more people.

[Mark Levin]

And as fast as they can, anybody who blinks the wrong way, anybody who

[Steve Deace]

has raised a voice, anybody, they see this right now as their opportunity to

[Mark Levin]

kill as many people as they can. And that's what they're doing right now.

[Steve Deace]

Right now. Now you won't hear anybody else bring it up because apparently people don't give a damn. I do give a damn. I do a lot. I don't understand people who don't give

[Mark Levin]

a damn and say it's none of our business.

[Steve Deace]

If we can do something about it,

[Mark Levin]

we ought to do something about it.

[Steve Deace]

That's like people sitting on a subway or on a park bench and somebody has their throat slit and they say, hey, there's nothing I can do about it anyway.

[Mark Levin]

Hey,

[Steve Deace]

that's why there's Good Samaritans and there's other people sit on their ass and do nothing. And we shake our heads. Well, here we're talking about tens of thousands of people. We own the skies, we own the waters. And we say no big deal. You know what else it tells me? That regime is not dead. They don't have an air force, they don't have a navy. They've lost their first and second tier of so called leaders, but they're not dead. They're not done with. But the opposition in our country, whether it be the neo fascists or the

[Mark Levin]

Islamists and the Marxists or democrats in

[Steve Deace]

the media, they try to box you in.

[Mark Levin]

No troops. We don't even care if it's just special force. Nope, nope. No democracy project. I didn't say a democracy project. We have to eliminate the regime hook, line and sink. Not. Can't do that. Can't. No.

[Steve Deace]

You got to leave the uranium underground. You leave it there. We can't do it. I can't do anything with uranium. No, no uranium. So in other words, they tie your hands in a thousand different ways so you can't win. That's their idea. You can't win. And by the way, for all the bigots, racists and Jew haters who are podcasters, and not just them, there's multiple reports that the Arab countries are urging the President to stay the course, to eliminate this regime. So here you have, like never before, like never before, the Arab countries and Israel united behind the United States.

[Mark Levin]

We've never seen anything like this.

[Steve Deace]

And even more Jews, Christians and Muslims, not Islamists, I am talking about Muslims all united in the same cause to destroy Iran's regime permanently. This is what I mean and others mean when we talk about this incredible peace opportunity.

[Mark Levin]

Here that will change the face of the globe.

[Steve Deace]

Change it. I'm not talking about democracy breaking out. I'm talking about some of these countries able to work together that haven't been able to work together before. Even Arab countries hate Arab countries, depending

[Mark Levin]

on which countries and which monarchies we're talking about.

[Steve Deace]

So there's an enormous opportunity here,

[Mark Levin]

Enormous opportunity. We've done fantastically well.

[Steve Deace]

The latest poll that's out says 51%

[Mark Levin]

of all Americans support the president in this war effort. And it's growing. It's growing. 51% and of course over 90% MAGA, 86%. I think it was Republican Party, but that means moderates and some Democrats see the benefit of this 51%. It was underwater before. Now we don't fight wars based on polls. But since people keep bringing up polls, it's funny, they're not going to bring up that one.

[Steve Deace]

That's the Harvard Daily Mail poll out today.

[Mark Levin]

And they might as well smother it

[Steve Deace]

with a pillow because all the big

[Mark Levin]

mouths out there pretending it doesn't exist.

[Steve Deace]

It's also another poll out there.

[Mark Levin]

I'm going to mention it, but I'm not going to waste a lot of time on it.

[Steve Deace]

That shows Tucker Carlson and friends are

[Mark Levin]

mostly despised by the American people. They have 24% positive view, the American people of him, 24%. And the rest of the American people either have no respect for the guy

[Steve Deace]

or don't know who he is. This goes for the whole cabal.

[Mark Levin]

40% of Republicans have a positive view. 60% either don't or don't know who he is or don't care. I've told you before, these people are not really influencers. They're not influencing anybody except the most bizarre among them. And as far as their following goes, so much of it is bots, foreigners and so forth and so on. Mark Foreign.

You're listening to the best of Mark Levin.

Senator John Fetterman bashes the media says press is helping Iran with selected coverage of Operation Epic Fury.

[Steve Deace]

I can already announce that this Saturday

[Mark Levin]

we're going to have General John King and Senator John Fetterman, he for the first time. So we very much look forward to that on Saturday. And we have a great show planned for you. Saturday and Sunday, of course. Let's see if we got our final guest set up here. I think we do. Give me A second, America. Mr. Producer, can you hum a song? Do you know how to hum? Anyway, we have, oh, Sunday will be Steve Hilton, who will be fantastic, really sharp and Gene Hamilton, the president of afl. Gene Hamilton is the president of America First Legal. Full disclosure. My wife is the general counsel there. They're very brilliant over there. They're very brilliant at Landmark Legal, too. All of our buddies over there, we have wonderful legal groups. They're in the fight. Here's Fetterman Today. Senator Fetterman accused US Media of engaging in selective coverage that has downplayed the successes of Operation Epic Fury and instead benefited Iran during the first 30 days of the war. He said, I read the entire political spectrum on Epic Fury. Iran now loves and learns from the American media. The media's selective coverage rewards and reinforces Iran's strategy. Media amplifies the 1% chaos Iran creates while ignoring the 99% of Iran's beatdown. I'll tell you, this guy is good. I'm glad he's recovered from his illness. You know, much of that coverage has been focused on the Strait of Hormuz, a critical checkpoint through which around one fifth of the world's seaborne oil passes, in which Tehran closed down after the US And Israel started military strikes against the regime regime on February 28.

[Steve Deace]

The truth is it has closed down

[Mark Levin]

the Straits from time to time anyway. If it had a nuclear missile or nuclear weapon, it would be able to do it all the time and there wouldn't be a damn thing we could do about it. Just like North Korea now. There's almost nothing we can do about North Korea now that they have nukes and they all have figured this out.

[Steve Deace]

And Prince Yabba Daba, the guy that runs Saudi Arabia, he said, yeah, and if Iran had a nuke, we're going to get a nuke, too. So the president is a man of peace. This is a peace mission. Hello. It's a peace mission.

[Mark Levin]

Yes. Fetterman noted that coverage depicts the global economy spiraling by citing the cost of a gallon gasoline domestically in the US but that omits the perspective that it was much higher just a few years ago.

[Steve Deace]

Yes, it was much higher under Biden. Hello, hello, goodbye. The price for gas peaked under Biden

[Mark Levin]

at $5 a gallon the same month several years ago. It's around $4 a gallon, depending if you use regular or plus or premium or whatever you use. But it is a constant drumbeat now, which it wasn't, of course, under Biden, because, you see, climate change is so important to deal with, whereas Iran, that's just a fake war. Cory Booker puts it a blunder. No, the election of Cory Booker was a blunder. He's a blunder. He's a blunderbuss too, by the way. Never shuts the hell up.

[Steve Deace]

Remember that phony, that phony filibuster he did? It wasn't even a filibuster. But he's standing there, he's going on and on and on.

[Mark Levin]

He's a hero.

[Steve Deace]

Why? Because he doesn't shut up? He's a gas bag. That doesn't make him a hero.

[Mark Levin]

No, none of these guys are heroes. They're all Lilliputians. All right, let's move along, shall we?

[Steve Deace]

You know, the Senate still hasn't funded

[Mark Levin]

the full Department of Homeland Security. That's right. They're on vacation. They're taking a vacation from their vacation. And I blame the Democrats, you know. Well, of course you would, Mark. No, of course I do. Because they're wrong. 98% of the time. When the Republicans are wrong, I'm the first to criticize them. I was the first to talk about the establishment versus the Tea Party, the establishment versus convention of states, the establishment versus Constitutional conservatives.

[Steve Deace]

Oh, yeah.

[Mark Levin]

Oh, yeah, the first.

[Steve Deace]

But, you know, before I get to

[Mark Levin]

that, I missed something very important. So let me reverse course briefly.

[Steve Deace]

Have you ever heard America of Abdul Al Said? Abdullah Said? Abdul El Said.

[Mark Levin]

Now Michigan, they know who he is. Rest of the country, no.

[Steve Deace]

He's running for the Democratic nomination to

[Mark Levin]

the United States Senate. In Michigan. In Michigan.

[Steve Deace]

Now, an Islamist was elected lieutenant governor in Virginia, but nobody noticed but me. So we have an Islamist backing up Spam Burger,

[Mark Levin]

who is a diabolical, evil liar, a psychopath, just lied to the electorate. Nothing worse than to violate your public trust. I don't mean a little. I mean a lot and repeatedly.

[Steve Deace]

So here we have Abdul Al Said, who wants to be the nominee for the Democrat Party to the Senate. He wants to be a senator where he can vote on all things America. Huh? Wouldn't that be fantastic? He's an Islamist. Hello? He's an Islamist.

[Mark Levin]

I said to my wife 10 years ago, none of this was going. Where'd this all come from? The Democrats, just like the left. The left parties in Europe, they were tired of losing elections, so they figured they'd change the population. They didn't care what they brought in into their country.

[Steve Deace]

Here's Abdul El Said, Michigan Democrat Senate candidate. He's on a phone call. He's on a phone call. And what he tells the person or people on the phone call,

[Donald Trump]

don't talk

[Mark Levin]

about Khomeini killing Khomeini because many of our friends in dear Bornistan are sad about it. So everything I've said about Dear Bornistan even more everything the founder of memory

[Steve Deace]

memri.org wrote about in the Wall Street Journal a year or two ago. And I remember reading it and people were outraged. Hey cared. Hey, what do you mean? Dear Bornistan is the center of Islamism. Hey, hey, you can't say that.

[Mark Levin]

And now everybody says it because they know it. That's why I call it Dear Bornistan. I think he called it Dearborn Stan too. What stands the reason? Let's take a listen, shall we? Cut 11. Go.

[Abdul El Said]

I also want to remind you guys that there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad today.

[Steve Deace]

So like, they're sad today because Khomeini was killed. You understand?

[Mark Levin]

There's a lot of people in Dear Bornistan who are sad today because Khomeini was killed in our own country, America, where Ford Motor Company was headquartered. I don't know if they still are, but they were forever go ahead.

[Bill Hemmer]

At all.

[Abdul El Said]

Like, I, I don't think it's worth even touching that like they're going to try. This is what we practice. But like, isn't Khomeini a bad guy? Isn't it great that he's dead on? My first amendment was 86 years old. He was going to be dead sometime soon anyway. Second, that doesn't justify the fact that he was a bad man. Does not justify our breaking of international law and unilateral action outside of. Outside of war.

[Mark Levin]

Slow down. What violation of international law is this moron talking about? I love the way these leftists throw this around. Well, you violated international law. You're not allowed to hit their oil fields. Of course you are. That didn't violate international law. It's a war where you're trying to defeat the enemy and make sure they don't have oil to use in their various, you know, their jets or their planes or their whatever. You're trying to defeat the enemy. Forget about their jets and planes.

[Steve Deace]

Yes, we wear mittens and of course

[Mark Levin]

they can go brass knuckle on us, right?

[Steve Deace]

Is that about right? Do I have that about right?

[Mark Levin]

So here's this moron. Violation of international law. You know, they took out Khomeini, meanwhile Khomeini slaughtering tens of thousands. Does this guy say a word about. No, it may upset everybody in Dearborn is stand. Now let's think about this. There's a lot of people. He said, let me quote. I also want to remind you guys that there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad today. Sad that Khomeini was taken out.

[Steve Deace]

Khomeini just slaughtered tens of thousands of

[Mark Levin]

people on his say so, many of whom are Muslims.

[Steve Deace]

But there's many people in the United States of America in Dearborn, Michigan who are very sad about the. Not the slaughter, the butchering of the people in Iran. No, that Khomeini was taken out. A lot of people are, don't bring it up. It could hurt me with my votes. You know, this is what we deal with. Talib and Omar. Bernie Sanders is another one. A complete low life. Complete low life.

[Mark Levin]

Mark Levin,

The great one makes your weekend even better. This is the best of Mark Levin.

Obviously, we were celebrating Passover last night. Some celebrate two nights. I will celebrate half a night after the program.

[Steve Deace]

But that said, I wanted to talk

[Mark Levin]

about this birthright citizenship oral argument. I would say 90% of it was superfluous. 90% of it was a result. Looking for an argument. The result being to uphold it.

[Steve Deace]

To uphold what?

[Mark Levin]

It's not in the Constitution. It's not in a statute.

[Steve Deace]

But this is the problem when you have a lot of lawyers who are just spinning,

[Mark Levin]

using semantics and so forth.

[Steve Deace]

This is actually a very simple case, but they don't want to rule the right way.

[Mark Levin]

I'm convinced.

[Steve Deace]

The word or the phrase birthright citizenship

[Mark Levin]

is nowhere in the Constitution. It's not part of any official statute. It wasn't part of the debate in

[Steve Deace]

the 1866 Civil Rights act, which was the predecessor to the 14th Amendment, which was passed in 1868. The idea of immigration, let alone illegal

[Mark Levin]

immigration, was on nobody's mind, wasn't even in their imagination.

[Steve Deace]

The 13th, 14th and 15th amendments are

[Mark Levin]

called the post Civil War amendments.

[Steve Deace]

And the purpose of those amendments are to ensure and were to ensure that the newly freed black slaves were treated like citizens for all purposes, equal protection, due process, that their children were treated as citizens because after all, many of them were here longer than their owners

[Mark Levin]

or their previous owners.

[Steve Deace]

Now why did they make this constitutional

[Mark Levin]

amendment 14th or this part of the 14th amendment?

[Steve Deace]

Why did they do that? Because two years earlier in 1866, they had passed a Civil Rights act of 1866 that basically did the same thing, a civil rights act that nationwide would recognize free black slaves now as citizens and their children or future children as citizens and every child thereafter. Now why did they do that? Because there was resistance in some of the old Confederate states to treating even black freed black slaves and their children and their soon to be babies and children as citizens. So they passed a federal statute. Well, then why did they amend the Constitution? Because the president at the time was Andrew Johnson, a Democrat from Tennessee. Andrew Johnson vetoed the Civil Rights act that was passed by the Republicans. They overrode his veto. So it became the law. But they quickly realized they needed to enshrine it in the Constitution to ensure that every corner of the United States would recognize it. And they even strong armed some of the southern states. They weren't all that interested in any of those amendments, that they were either to adopt the amendments or what was the Union army. But now the federal army would remain in their states. And so three fourths of the states adopted the 13th, then the 14th and the 15th amendments. Now the 14th amendment, the 14th amendment. I despise most of these legal commentators, including this clown on cnn. I despise them because they're deceitful. So they write this amendment. We have, to the extent they debated it, we have the debates on this amendment. I've gone through them with you at least five times over the last 20 some years. I've done it on Fox three or four times. And I have posted yesterday, I posted two of my videos from my discussion about this on Fox. Jurisdiction thereof. I know what it means. All the justices know what it means. Obviously the Solicitor General who did a great job, he knows what it means. The ACLU knows what it means. But they don't want it to mean what it means. That is certain. Justices and certainly the aclu. Now let's step back and think, just as common sense, you don't have to be lawyers, let alone Supreme Court litigators. Let's just step back. The Civil War ends 1865. You've got Reconstruction going on. Their hands are full. You still have elements within the south in the Confederacy and some in the north who are resisting the end of the Civil War. And so they are focused on Reconstruction. They are focused on how the newly freed slaves and then their children are going to be treated. And they want to impose this on the entire country through the amendment process. Do you think for a minute that they were thinking of immigration, let alone illegal immigration, let alone the children of illegal immigrants? Not for one second did they think about that. Which is exactly why not a single justice on the other side nor the ACLU advocate could present any such language. And so we have to make arguments if you're on that side, to try and expand the definition or to try and latch onto something. So there's arguments about policy, there's arguments about, well, what we're going to denaturalize people. There's arguments over administration, there's argument over intent, there's argument over all over the map. That's not the job of a justice. That can all be figured out by the executive branch and the legislative branches. That's not the question. The question is what does the Constitution compel? It's not an administrative question. It's not a policy question. It's not even an English common law question. With all due respect to the Solicitor General, it is a black and white issue. It's not complicated. But they're worried.

[Mark Levin]

They're nervous. My take, and I hope I'm wrong, is that the majority just doesn't want to do this.

[Steve Deace]

Because even up to this point, people like me were called crazy.

[Mark Levin]

Even challenge this.

[Steve Deace]

Are you crazy? What are crackpots? What are the extremists?

[Mark Levin]

No, I'm a constitutionalist. That's what I've been all my life. The whole constitutional conservative movement was born right here behind this microphone.

[Steve Deace]

Behind this microphone, I was also part of the administration, the Reagan administration, the great Attorney General Meese, and the whole push for originalism that we pushed into the justice system as it was ignored. I know damn well what I'm talking about. And so you probably were listening the back and forth, getting a little confused and so forth. I cut right to the chase. If something is wrong, it's wrong. We had slavery in this country for some time. It was wrong. Then you had the Dred Scott decision, then you had the Civil War. Then you had the 13, 14, 15th Amendments. Dred Scott decision was an abomination. It basically upheld slavery. To put it in a few words, this Civil War had to be fought to undo that decision, among other things. And then the legislature, our Congress, wanted to enshrine, first in the law, then in the Constitution, the outcome of the Civil War, that blacks were now free. They were to be treated as equals. They were to have due process that they were full citizens of the United States. And that goes for their children, and that goes for their future children, period. This whole thing about jurisdiction thereof meant anybody, particularly in this case blacks, former

[Mark Levin]

slaves, their children, their future children who

[Steve Deace]

are in the United States under the authority of the United States, meaning the political authority of the United States that this amendment applied to, that they were citizens automatically, no debate. Constitutionalized after the Civil War. The Civil War was fought to keep the country united and to end slavery, not to open the borders to immigrants. Again, that was not even in their thinking.

[Mark Levin]

So for slaves, many of whom have been here for generations, and their children, this was for you. This was for them.

[Steve Deace]

It was not for modern day Chinese citizens who come into the United States and give birth and then their child is an American citizen. Then they go back to China, which China is doing now. They counted 500 companies that are doing this, 100,000 a year. That's suicide. That was never intended. That's absurd. We're only one of a couple of nations worldwide that does this. And you got to twist the 14th Amendment into something that it's not in order to justify it seriously. And if they now constitutionalize birthright citizenship,

[Mark Levin]

well, I don't see how we'll recover from it. I really don't.

[Steve Deace]

Now, some of these justices are worried. They don't want the bullhorns. They don't want the drum beating. They don't want the marching in front of their homes. They're worried that they will be viewed as Dred Scott justices. They worry about their legacy, their history. They worry about what the law professors will say, what jerks. Like this guy on cnn. What the hell is his name?

[Mark Levin]

This cocky, know nothing. Hold on, I'll get his name. Give me one second. Count the five.

[Steve Deace]

It doesn't even matter.

[Mark Levin]

What. Oh, Ellie Honig, legal analyst.

[Steve Deace]

He was a prosecutor. Oh, well, he must know everything. He knows nothing. And so you've got lawyers being lawyers, judges being judges. And if they're not originalists or textualists, then you have a mess.

[Mark Levin]

You basically have activists, lawyers in black robes. We have a decision in the late

[Steve Deace]

1800s involving Chinese individuals. You have very racist laws that were passed at that time. And you had a child born in the United States of a naturalized citizen, this Chinese couple, and one who was not. And without getting into the weeds, the court ruled that that baby is an American citizen.

[Mark Levin]

We're not talking about illegal aliens.

[Steve Deace]

We are not even talking about illegal aliens. But even that decision, in my view, wasn't.

[Mark Levin]

Wasn't ruled accurately.

[Steve Deace]

But putting that aside, illegal aliens come into the country, give birth. That means that even though they're being raised in China, are being raised in Qatar, or being raised wherever they're being raised, they can vote in the United

[Mark Levin]

States

[Steve Deace]

and they can serve in our

[Mark Levin]

military if we draft them. So if you're Communist China, you want them to serve in our military, don't you, Mr. Producer? You have all the rights and benefits of a United States citizen. This is suicide. Mark.

[Steve Deace]

The Vin

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[Mark Levin]

We're giving you nothing but the best, the best of Mark Levin.

President Trump last night gave a brilliant speech on Iran and so forth. Cut three, Mr. Producer go.

[Donald Trump]

Yet if during this period of time, no deal is made, we have our eyes on key targets. If there is no deal, we are going to hit each and every one of their electric generating plants very hard and probably simultaneously. We have not hit their oil, even though that's the easiest target of all, because it would not give them even a small chance of survival or rebuilding. But we could hit it and it would be gone and there's not a thing they could do about it. They have no anti aircraft equipment. Their radar is 100% annihilated. We are unstoppable as a military force. The nuclear sites that we obliterated with the B2 bombers have been hit so hard that it would take months to get near the nuclear dust. And we have it under intense satellite surveillance and control. If we see them make a move, even a move, for it will hit them with missiles very hard again. We have all the cards, they have none. It's very important that we keep this conflict in perspective.

[Mark Levin]

Cut four, go.

[Donald Trump]

American involvement in World War I lasted one year, seven months and five days. World War II lasted for three years, eight months and 25 days. The Korean War lasted for three years, one month and two days. The Vietnam War lasted for 19 years, five months and 29 days. Iraq went on for eight years, eight months and 28 days. We are in this military operation, so powerful, so brilliant, against one of the most powerful countries for 32 days. And the country has been eviscerated and essentially is really no longer a threat. They were the bully of the Middle east, but they're the bully no longer. This is a true investment in your children and your grandchildren's future. The whole world is watching. And they can't leave the power, strength and brilliance. They just can't believe what they're seeing. They leave it to your imagination, but they can't believe what they're seeing. The brilliance of the United States military. Tonight, every American can look forward to a day when we are finally free from the wickedness of Iranian aggression and the specter of nuclear black belt. Because of the actions we have taken, we are on the cusp of ending Iran's sinister threat to America and the world. And I'll tell you, the world is watching. And when we do, when it's all over the United States will be safer, stronger, more prosperous and greater than it has ever been before.

[Steve Deace]

Mm.

[Mark Levin]

Cut five, go.

[Donald Trump]

And then, very importantly, I terminated Barack Hussein Obama's Iran nuclear deal. A disaster. Obama, Obama gave them $1.7 billion in cash. Green, green cash. Took it out of banks from Virginia, D.C. and Maryland. All the cash they had. He flew it by airplanes in an attempt to buy their respect and loyalty. But it didn't work. They laughed at our president and went on with their mission to have a nuclear bomb. His Iran deal would have led to a colossal offensive arsenal of massive nuclear weapons for Iran. And they would have had them years ago and they would have used them. Would have been a different world. There would have been no Middle east and no Israel right now, in my opinion, the opinion of a lot of great experts, had I not terminated that terrible deal, I was so honored to do it. I was so proud to do it. It was so bad. Right from the beginning, essentially, I did what no other president was to willing, willing to do. They made mistakes and I am correcting them.

[Mark Levin]

I want to do one more clip just to get the full gist of this. Cut six, go.

[Donald Trump]

The countries of the world that do receive oil through the hormone strait must take care of that passage. They must cherish it. They must grab it and cherish it. They can do it easily. We will be helpful. But they should take the lead in protecting the oil that they so desperately depend on. So to those countries that can't get fuel, many of which refuse to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, we had to do it ourselves. I have a suggestion. Number one, buy oil from the United States of America. We have plenty. We have so much. And number two, build up some delayed courage. Should have done it before. Should have done it with us as we asked. Go to the strait and just take it, protect it, use it for yourselves. Iran has been essentially decimated. The hard part is done. So it should be easy. And in any event, when this conflict is over, the strait will open up naturally. It'll just open up naturally. They're going to want to be able to sell oil because that's all they have to try and rebuild. It will resume the flowing and the gas prices will rapidly come back down. Stock prices will rapidly go back up. They haven't come down very much, frankly. They came down a little bit, but they've had some very good days over the last couple of days.

[Mark Levin]

Thought it was an excellent speech. But then, of course, comes under attack. Comes under attack.

[Steve Deace]

Abdul El said that's right. I said it. Abdul Al Said is a candidate in the Democrat primary for the Senate in Michigan. He's an Islamist. I played his phone conversation that was public yesterday or the day before yesterday for you, in which he was advising his staff. Let's not talk about Khomeini because a number of people in Dearborn, Michigan, AKA De Bornistan,

[Mark Levin]

are very upset that Khomeini was taken out. Now think about that. Think about that.

[Steve Deace]

I mean, a lot of the people

[Mark Levin]

Khomeini has slaughtered are Muslims. And so now you have Muslims who I call Islamists, jihadis, Islamists who support Khomeini, even though a lot of the people he slaughtered, a lot of those young people are Muslims. And he's shooting ballistic missiles at Arab states, at Muslims.

[Steve Deace]

Just wanted to point that out. But here's Abdul El Said. He's an Islamist, a jihadi who wants to get the Democrat nomination to become a United States Senator, something CAIR has been pushing for very, very strongly.

[Mark Levin]

Cut nine Go Bill Hemmer.

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Why did the comment come off that

[Steve Deace]

way with your staff?

[Donald Trump]

Sir?

[Bill Hemmer]

Look, I'll tell you this. We're in the midst of a war. We don't need to be fighting. It's illegal, it's immoral. It's using our tax dollars to raise our gas prices from a MAGA backed movement that told us that they would never get us into another foreign entanglement. And here we are. And I just want to remind you that most people in the city of Dearborn and Dearborn Heights are not Arab American. They are white and they're worried just like I am. They're saddened by the fact that their tax prices go up and they are watching.

[Mark Levin]

So in other words, the conversation and his comments about Khamenei, as I mentioned at once, he's completely deflecting.

[Bill Hemmer]

Go ahead, go up with it all to fight a war that we shouldn't really be a part of.

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Yeah, I appreciate the fact that you're against the war. I understand that. But there are more people in Michigan that are going to side your fate politically who don't live in Dearborn, Michigan. Would you accept that? And would you also accept the idea that some Arab Americans in Dearborn may see the downfall of this regime as a good thing?

[Mark Levin]

Right.

[Bill Hemmer]

You know, Bill, I'll tell you this. There are many people who see the downfall of the regime as a good thing. But the question of whether or not it was pursued legally, that's a different question.

[Steve Deace]

Whether or not that's enough and it's

[Mark Levin]

not the question that was asked him. And of course, he's full of crap. It's pursued legally in every respect. But he's an Islamist. You understand? He's an Islamist. And the fact that Khomeini and his regime are slaughtering people left and right, including Muslims, doesn't bother him. He won't even address it. He won't condemn it. And because he said in that phone call that I played for you, that that became public, that it might upset a lot of the people in Dearborn, Michigan. And so he continues to deflect.

[Steve Deace]

He is a Talib. He is an Omar. He's a Bernie Sanders. He's a Marxist Islamist. He's a Mandami. That's what he is. And he wants to get in the Senate where he votes on all matters related to you and me.

[Mark Levin]

These are national matters that these people vote on. Right?

[Steve Deace]

That's who he is. That's what he is.