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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.
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There's a lot going on today. You know, folks, people are saying Donald Trump is really exercising this kind of power in the Republican Party. And the idea that he went after Cassidy in Louisiana because Cassidy actually voted to remove him from office in that second impeachment. Now, of course, the problem was he was already out of office, but that didn't, that didn't bother Cassidy, who I never liked, ever. Not because he represented his people, because he didn't. But in any event, now Massey and others, he's. Ladies and gentlemen, these are called primaries, Republican primaries. That's the purpose. And yes, presidents want people who are going to vote for their agendas, particularly when you have such a tight majority, two or three seats. And Massey was a reliable Democrat vote. That's why he's endorsed by so many Democrats now. And that's why they said, cut it out, because we don't want too many people to know. I didn't know Mark Fuhrman passed away. I didn't know Mark Fuhrman. He was 74. Wow, okay. Nonetheless, presidents have always been involved in primaries as long as there have been political parties with primaries. Franklin Roosevelt was involved in the primaries of his party, going after the so called moderates or middle rotors to try and replace them with liberals and people loyal to him. In fact, FDR used the IRS and the FBI against publishing companies like the Philadelphia Inquirer. Went after Annenberg to try and put him in prison, went after other publications. He took the licensing period for these fairly new television stations that were two years, and he reduced them to six years. And he put his campaign manager in charge of determining who got what licenses. You get the drift. John Kennedy would share IRS filings of conservative groups he didn't like and the Getty family with, with Newsweek and others. LBJ even wiretapped his running. His vice president at that point, wasn't his running mate Hubert Humphrey because he wanted to know where he stood on Vietnam. And of course, John Kennedy tapped Martin Luther King's phone as well as other civil rights leaders, and Johnson tapped their phones at the Democrat convention, at the Atlantic City Convention center, all kinds of stuff. Trump doesn't do any of that, but he does challenge individuals in their primaries and so forth, which is perfectly legitimate. Perfectly legitimate. He wants people who will support his major Agenda items like the SAVE act like the big beautiful bill with the tax cuts and things like that. And if people are going to go off on their own and they're from relatively conservative Republican districts, of course he's going to deal with it. I see Ron Paul, Rand Paul are out there campaigning for Massey and of course they're there that it's them versus the Jewish lobby. It is so sick. These people are spreading such hate. They're all out of the closet. They're all out of the closet now and they are full throated. And I've warned you about these people before. I told you what they were before. These are not red blooded America loving patriots. These are sick bastards. So you're seeing it, you're seeing on the woke right neo fascists. Why do I call them woke right Neo fascists? Because if you know anything about the late teens, the 20s, the 30s, going into the 40s, 50s, 60s, so forth about fascist movements in Europe and communist movements in Europe, they were constantly fighting with each other but they all had an area of agreement. They hated the Jews and they also hated righteous gentiles as we say, Christians who stood up for Christianity and said that these ideologies are not Christian or they would stand up for Jews, they would stand up for themselves. Priests were executed and so forth. The same mentality, just different people, same morons, same thugs. The call by these groups, Islamists and Marxists for these, these attacks in the streets and so forth, they're just, they're miniature crystal knocks. That's what they are, that's what they. Mondami, he's really into these grocery stores. You know you're gonna starve to death in New York if these private grocers leave. I can tell you that right now. You're gonna have to go to other states to get your food like New Jersey and Connecticut and so forth and so on. Because if you rely on the government for your food you're gonna star folks. They can't even run the city, they can't even run the subway. The Long island railroad is shut down, hasn't it Mr. Medusa? They're on strike. It's a disaster. Hokul was negotiating with them but they want to take over more and more and more. Can you imagine the selection you'll have in their grocery store? Iman Dami talks about eggs and bread. Eggs and bread, okay, you go into a grocery store Today, there's like 10 different types of eggs there. What the organic you want the brown you want the extra large, the jumbo the aaa, the this, the that, the right, you go to milk. It's like, oh, almond milk and oatmeal milk and lactose free milk and no fat milk and 1% milk and 2% milk and whole milk and oh yeah, buttermilk and half and half and cream goes on and on and on. You don't see that in government run groceries. To show me one. How about apples? How many types of apples are there, Mr. Producer? Well, I like this. I mean they have so many. Like they invented a new one or found a new one in my area. Damn thing tastes great. Really good, really sweet. But they've got all kinds of, all kinds of pears. I mean it's just endless. We just don't, I think, appreciate what's really available to us, which is unlike any human beings in human history. That's the truth. Any human beings in human history. The kind of food we have access to. Food. Food grown in our country, grown in other countries. Wines and beers. How many beers are. You've been to the booze aisle at the grocery store? I don't hang out there myself. Light beer, dark beer in the middle. Beer, you know, it's malted beer. I don't even know what the difference is. What? It doesn't matter. It's just everywhere. The wines. Don't get me started with the wines. All different colors, all different tastes. All different parts of America, over different parts of the world. You don't get that anywhere. Can you imagine a government run store? What kind of wine you gonna get there? The patrons whining about what's going on. That's the kind of wine you'll get. How about bread? My favorite. This bread. That bread sliced this way. Seventeen grains. Six grains. Twelve and a half grains. Wheat. Oatmeal bread. Now. Oh yeah. Butter bread. Hawaiian bread. Potato bread. Potato head. That's a whole nother story. Rolls for sliders. For real. Hamburgers. Hot dogs. Long hot dogs. Kaiser roll. Challah. Rye bread. Rye bread with seeds. No seeds. It's like. How about sourdough? Organic sourdough. Sourdough with rosemary. Think about all this. So you know what? I need some butter. Butter. Oh, come over here. I got this butter. That butter. Irish butter. We got all kinds of butter. Land of likes butter. We got butter with oil. We got butter that's fat free. We got butter that's yellow and green and purple and white. It's unbelievable. Am I right, Mr. Producer? Go to the candy aisle. One of my favorite. Oh, never ends. And most of these places have bakeries too. Most of these places have bakeries, too, kind of food. You. And they have fish. You want little shrimp, you want jumbo shrimp. You want the shrimp peeled, you want it raw, you want it cooked. Say what? Oh, yeah. Then you get this fish, that fish, another fish. You got frozen fish, you got fish sticks, you got fish bites, you got whatever you want. How about the deli counter? Ooh, they had like 17 types of bologna. You. You notice that rich pork, beef. Pork and beef. 400 types of cheese. I'm just trying to remind us when this moron goes on about government grocery stores like this. Cut three, go.
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Narrator/Announcer
Government can drive change that improves people's lives. And standing here this morning, I cannot help but think of the words of our 40th president, Ronald Reagan. He famously said the nine most terrifying words in the English language are, I'm from the government and I'm here to help. It's a good quote, but I disagree. I think nine more terrifying words are actually, I worked all day and can't feed my family.
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Donald Trump
Really?
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Mark Levin
And the government stores are going to feed your family. Where does the food come from? The government? No. Where's the packaging come from? The government? No. How about the freezers and the refrigerators? Do they come from the government? No. How about the trucks that bring the food to the store? Do they come from the government? No. Do the drivers work for the government? No. No. So what exactly is a government store? What's a government store? It does absolutely nothing. The city of New York and this Marxist bastard, they do absolutely nothing to create the food, to harvest the food, to package the food, to handle it properly so it doesn't rot. And they bring it to a place where he admits it's going to be privately owned store with the privately owned people helping, but it's a government store. What, because they slash the prices? That's it. So they take it out of one pocket and they put it in the other pocket. That's all. We've seen starvation under communism. They saw it in Russia, they saw it in Ukraine. They see it now in Cuba. Starvation. Can't get oil out of the ground. In Venezuela, we saw what happened with the communists there. It's ridiculous. Enormous amounts of oil can't get it out of the ground. Do you know why? Obama used to say, and all the commies say, you know, we're 3% of the world's popular, whatever it is, 5% of the world's population, but we use 20, 25% of its resources. And we're supposed to say, that's horrible. Look how we're stealing it from the book. That's not it. We're an advanced economic system. We actually can do things with resources that other countries, the vast majority of the world can't do. And we produce most of the resources that those parts of the world can't produce and either give it to them or sell it to them. That is an acknowledgement of the great success of the commerce system, AKA capitalism. Don't you think if government owned grocery stores worked that they would have been in place by now, all over the place? Of course you got a guy who's now 35, who's never worked a day in his life, was raised by millionaire Marxist Islamist parents in Uganda and then in the United States. And he knows how everything's supposed to work. This guy, Ken Griffin, he's worth about $50 billion they say. And I read he's going to pick up and move everything to Florida. And you know what Mondami said? Too bad, I'm going to tax the rich. You want to know why? Because he is the rich. And they're going to get a lot of food and they're not going to get it from government run grocery stores, they're going to get it from supermarkets.
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Producer/Assistant
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Mark Levin
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Making your weekend even better. This is the best of Mark Levin.
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When we suddenly hit the brakes and called off the planned military operation against the Iranian regime. We did that yesterday. It was clear to me that something was going on. We gave the regime two to three days to come to some arrangement that presumably includes no nukes. What does it mean when we say no nukes? Are there scientists going to forget what they developed? How long can we keep that in a box? What happens to the enriched uranium? We're told first, they have enough to make 10 bombs in 11 days, and second, that it takes a matter of weeks to further ENRICH Uranium from 60% to 90% nuclear grade. What about the plutonium, which no one is talking about, and the ballistic missiles that were destroying targets throughout the Middle East? And the range of those missiles which can now hit Europe? We didn't even know how far those missiles could reach. Will all of this change too? The Iranian regime? They kicked out inspectors, hid their activities, and violated every single agreement it ever signed. Will it have changed because of our military actions? Honestly, does this act or sound like a regime that is defeated or cares about death? For some reason, the west cannot get its collective head around the fact that the Iranian regime's mindset is not one of mutual existence. It is a religious, extremist, fundamentalist culture that insists on conquering or destroying all those who do not bend to its ideology. They have told us this, they have written this, they preach this. It is in their books, pamphlets, sermons, etc. It is a revolution without borders. Not merely one nation among others have not learned this by now. Many Americans have been killed during the last 47 years as a result of the regime's ambitions. My greatest concern has always been, as you know, enforcement, which has not been discussed very much after all this time. If there's a deal, whatever the deal is, perhaps the greatest deal in the history of deals. Again, the regime cheats, lies and hides what it's doing. Our intelligent satellite simply cannot catch all of it. And if we find violations, then what? We'll hit them again? Mark, is that what we did before Trump? Does anyone believe that's what we'll do after Trump? Is that what a Gavin Newsom or Kamala Harris or the rest of the Democrats would do if, God forbid, one of them became president? And heck, even Republican presidents didn't act. So for crying out loud, look at all the noise. The appeasers, the pacifists, the isolationists and so forth. These are loud movements in our politics and government. And look at the reaction to the temporary increase in a gallon of gasoline. Would we have the will even a few years from now? I don't think so. And what of Hezbollah, still a potent terrorist force? And what of Hamas? The Iranian regime will promise not to support them. Well, my response is, is the Brooklyn Bridge still for sale? And how do we stop the regime if it funds them anyway, what will we do? The Iranian people, what of them? They should rise up. They say, well, they did. Without arms, they paid a horrendous price and still are. And I can only imagine what more would be done to them. Of course, the Europeans will be useless as they are now. Even with detente with China and something like it with Russia, they still will provide support to the Iranian regime. So will North Korea. We have no control over their sabotage of any deal. None. This must all be considered. And the Democrats, always desperate for a political opportunity, will ask rhetorically, why did we go to war? This is Obama 2.0. We wasted billions for nothing. Trump is a taco. And on and on. I can hear it now. The truth won't matter. The spin will be constant. Of course, if the Democrats had their way, the Iranian regime would already have nuclear weapons. But none of that will matter. This could be very damaging for the midterm elections, despite all the demands for off ramps. Yet the problem is the regime itself, is it not? How do we contain it? If it survives, how do we contain it? And to be absolutely clear, I have no inside information. In fact, as far as I know, at the end of another two to three days of negotiations, maybe military action against the regime will resume. But it's very important to think about these issues and much more. And we have opened the phone lines. We'll take a short break in a moment. If you're not interested, I'll know right away. We'll take serious calls with people who have serious points to raise because I think this is very, very critical and I think it'll be, if not the marquee issue, one of the marquee issues of the Trump second term presidency. It's a big deal, as you well know. Outside the ballroom construction site this morning, the president was asked and answered this cut 3. Go. How close are for you striking?
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Donald Trump
I was an hour away. We were all set to go. You're talking about yesterday? Yes, we were going to be striking. Very. It would have been happening right now. Yeah, it was all done. The boats, the ships are all loaded. They're loaded to the brim. And we're all set to start. They said that they feel they've had for the first time in almost 47 years. You know, Iran's been the bully of The Middle east for 47 years. I mean, literally, the bully of the Middle East. They're nasty, very nasty, very dangerous. They wanted a nuclear weapon. Had I not terminated Barack Hussein Obama's Iran nuclear deal. Had I not terminated it. See, that's the wind. That can't happen with the real structure.
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Mark Levin
One more clip. President still outside the ballroom. Construction site. Cut four, go.
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Donald Trump
How much time did the Gulf nation thought that you were going to these strikes before they actually caught. They called me over the last two days to say they made a lot of progress because we have them negotiating with us and primarily Saudi Arabia, Qatar, uae, Kuwait, a little bit Bahrain and some of the others. And we have them negotiating with. We're all working together. It's like a team. And Israel, of course, and Israel has been a great partner. And so we are negotiating together. I got a call from numerous of these people. They know the people in Iran. Don't forget, when you talk about regime change, I think it's the ultimate regime change, because the first level and the second level are no longer with us. They're someplace, but they're no longer with us. So we have real regime change.
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Mark the vin.
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Mark Levin
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You're listening to the Best of Mark Levin.
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I'll tell you what, this guy Platner in Maine, he is a real sick sob, and I don't see a lot of Democrats coming out against him. I mean, sick in every respect. Our friends at the Washington Free Beacon, they've gathered additional information about him. Graham Platner smeared the late American sniper Chris Kyle Remember him in his great book and his wife in a 2024 podcast interview suggesting that Kyle shot innocent civilians in Iraq to inflate his numbers. I don't think we have that audio, do we, Rich? Let's go ahead and play that.
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Producer/Assistant
I didn't know who these guys were. I left that deployment and continued on with my life. Did a few more deployments both in the Marine Corps and the Army. It wasn't until somebody told me to read Chris Kyle's book. His stories about how many people he was shooting certainly tracked with the behavior we. I witnessed and people I knew witnessed down at the gov center, which is. It's relatively easy to get high numbers like that if you're, if you're a little less discriminating your fire than say, a more professional unit would be. So I, that's when I kind of learned about Task Unit Bruiser, about Chris Kyle. And then it wasn't until many years later that if someone recommended like Jocko's podcast or book to me and I put that together and was like, you've got to be kidding me. I almost felt like there was a weird practical joke being played on me by the war that all these years later I'm like having to like, people
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Mark Levin
are telling me like, oh, that's enough. You know this guy, when you listen to him, when you listen to Joe Kent, something's not right. Now, I'm not comparing them point for point, but something's not right with Joe Kent. Something's not right with this guy. This guy's a real sleazeball. Basically, he's saying that the late hero, Chris Kyle, he's suggesting that he shot innocent civilians to inflate his kill numbers. And as the Washington Free Beacon points out, he also bristled at the fact that Kyle and members of his platoon were described as heroes, calling it a weird practical joke. So he's trashing a real hero who's not alive anymore, Chris Kyle. You may recall him in his book again and his wife. And he does it, of course, after he's passed away. It's just grotesque. Now you don't hear Democrats withdrawing from supporting him because it's power at any price. Again, to understand the Democrat Party, you just have to understand that. But there's more. More. In addition to his ss, effectively SS tattoo on his chest that he had throughout his adulthood and still has, now he's a proud communist. Platner's deleted Reddit sparks outrage again as he appears to mock wounded soldier deserved to live, didn't deserve to live Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner's deleted Reddit account has continued to cause headaches for his campaign, and a recently resurfaced post appearing to mock a US Soldier almost killed in combat is stirring up more controversy. So you hear what he said about the sniper now. This video never gets old. The Reddit account P Hustle, which Platner has acknowledged he owned, posted in June 2019. So he's a full grown adult when he's doing all this in reference to a viral video from the Helmut Karn of Pfc. Ted Daniels taken during a clash with Taliban fighters in 2012 that ended in Daniels being shot four times. Yearned a Purple Heart for his injuries. Dumb FMF didn't deserve to live, says Platner. At least his stupidity and fat a wheezing are available for all future infantrymen to witness and hold in contempt. Poor marksmanship on the Taliban's part is the only reason this mouth breather made it home. He managed to make every possible blank decision possible when it comes to small unit combat. Now why is he doing this? Okay, that's not that long ago. Six, seven years ago. The other one was one and a half years ago. The post was deleted, but could be found at main monitors database of Platinum's deleted Reddit history. Daniel said in later interviews that he purposely moved into the open to draw fire away from other men in his union. While he expressed embarrassment and said tactically it was not a sound thing to do. Ultimately I put my blank on the line for other guys shouldn't have to defend himself. Platner, U.S. marine Corps veteran who served four combat duties in Iraq and Afghanistan, is garnering criticism over the delete of posts from a variety of sources. Of course we don't make jokes about brothers and sisters dying. That's something we don't do. That's not normal, said Adam Schwarz, A former Navy SEAL, a Marine veteran running for U.S. senate, is a Republican in Minnesota. He said that about Platner mocking a fellow soldier on social media in open forum. Schwarz acknowledged that Marines can sometimes have a dark sense of humor and give each other a hard time about tactics when speaking privately, but said that Platner's post was something different. We don't post about our brothers getting wounded in action, and he also took issue of Platner's account related to law enforcement, including all police are bastards. He said he's attacked all cops. He attacks his fellow Marines military personnel. There's other stuff that's very grotesque that he's written about that he's done. I mean, really grotesque. Schwarz said he believes Platner has mental issues. I think it's very dangerous to say, hey, this is how veterans think and talk, because that's just not true. Schwartz said, I served 21 years, nine deployments. I don't know one combat veteran who makes comments like cops are bastards. I think he should get some help. I feel bad for him. He deserves help from his time downrange, from his PTSD and his mental health issues. But he certainly shouldn't be running for the United States Senate. No, he shouldn't be. Now, Platinum is a first time candidate, of course. He's backed by Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. You should read the comments in context. It's very clear. I'm joking. He said, no, it's not clear at all because you weren't joking, you jerk. Other post Platinum has been questioned about, including in a recent interview with the New York Times in 2013, which he later deleted, that people concerned about rape should not get so effed up they wind up having sex with someone they don't mean to. Mm, this guy sounds like little Adolf. Fuentes partners also face scrutiny from our recent Reddit posts, including one from five years ago. He described himself as a communist and a socialist. Platner's posts have contained alleged homophobic slurs and praise for military tactics used by Hamas. The guy should not be anywhere near the Capitol building, let alone the Senate. And if he's armed, they ought to be figuring out how to deal with that, too. This guy's a nut. And yet they want him in the Senate. They got to have the power. They need the seat. They got to get rid of Susan Collins. You know what I'm going to do right now, Mr. Producer? This is going to shock everybody. Might even shock Susan Collins. This guy was a Nazi, now he's a communist. Trashing our troops, trashing our cops. If I lived in Maine, I would vote for Susan Collins. How do you like that, Rich? Would you, too? Yeah. And so I'm going to endorse Susan Collins against Platner. That doesn't mean she stands for everything I stand for. Obviously not. And I've been here behind this microphone almost a quarter century, and I've never endorsed her, so. Oh, there he goes. A rhino. No, let me tell you something. This guy has to be stopped. Stopped. There's a point at which you got to use common sense. Can you imagine this guy in the Senate? Can you imagine his votes? A guy that was a Nazi, now he's a Communist. Trashing our troops. I mean, men under fire, mocking them, talking about stuffs he did in public bathrooms, trashing the cops. No wonder Bernie Sanders loves him. No wonder Elizabeth Warren loves him. So I'll throw a curveball to them. Nobody expected me to do what I just did, but I did it. And I will defend it. And I will defend it.
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Mark Levin
The great one makes your weekend even better. This is the best of Mark Levin.
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Well, when the good guys win one, I want to tell you about it because if I don't, who will? Major victory for peace. You're familiar with America First Legal, and it was founded by Stephen Miller and the lead man there now is Gene Hamilton. He's become a good friend of the family. The general counsel there happens to be my wife Julie, Julie Strauss Levin. But why am I telling you about this? Because this just happened. America first legal and the U.S. department of State settled Jackson et al V. Trump et al. A case where AFL represented US Congressman Ronny Jackson of Texas and co plaintiff Stewart and Robbie, now deceased, his wife Force. It's the Taylor Force act, named after their son, the parents of murdered American soldier Taylor Force and Sari Singer, a survivor of one of the largest terrorist bus bombings in the history of Israel. Taylor Force was an American veteran, an American citizen. AFL filed this lawsuit against the Biden administration on behalf of the plaintiffs in 2022 after the Biden administration brazenly ignored the law. The Taylor Force Act TFA. The law cuts off certain U.S. funds that benefits the Palestinian Authority until the PA ends its pay to slave program. You see, the PA through the program awards money to terrorists and their families for committing acts of terror against Americans and Israelis in Israel. These awards funded through the PA's Martyr Fund. You believe that their martyr fund increase in proportion to the severity of the terrorist act, with monthly stipends going to the terrorist or their family. And a lot of this is your money. In passing, the TFA Congress specifically included in its findings that the PA's act of paying salaries to terrorists, as well as to the families of the deceased terrorists, quote, is an incentive to commit acts of terror. Didn't seem to bother the Biden regime though. President Trump signed the Taylor Force act in the law in 2018. You know, Trump has done so many fantastic things. Really, I couldn't even make a list of them right here off the top of my head. It's just enormous what he has done. And I'll tell you again, when his presidency is over, we're really going to miss this man. We are really going to miss this man. We're going to be saying, you remember when Trump this and you remember when Trump that. It's just true. President Trump signed the Teller Force act in a law in 2018 and immediately cut off funds under the TFA. The Biden administration resumed payments to the PA, more than $1 billion of your taxpayer funds to the Palestinian Authority, prompting America First Legal to file its lawsuit. Now, the settlement agreement, which just took place, ensures that the State Department will comply with the Teller Force act and binds the government for the next 10 years. It clarifies the factors the Secretary of State may consider to determine whether specific and direct benefits the Palestinian Authority if something directly benefits them. This settlement is a major step toward enforcing the Taylor Force act and preventing your tax funds from financing terrorism. Aligning with President Trump's commitment to promoting peace at home and abroad, AFL is grateful to Secretary of State Rubio's leadership, they say, in executing President Trump's priorities and ensuring the State Department upholds federal law. Can you imagine AFL had to sue the Biden administration to stop a billion dollars in your money from going to the Palestinian Authority? This Abbas, you know, the moderate one, a terrorist, when they are subsidizing the family of terrorists who have died while committing their heinous acts or paying pensions on behalf of or to the terrorist family if he lives or she lives. And the worst, the terror act, the more people kill, the more ham mayhem created, the bigger the pension they get. And so this laws passed. Named after Taylor Force. Taylor Force was a young man in his 20s. He served in our military. He's on a trip to Israel, Jerusalem to be specific. Family were people of faith, Christians. And the terrorist act occurred. And he killed him. He died. Stuart. Stuart Force has been a force for truth. A tremendous man of integrity. His wife Robbie suffered terribly as a result of the death of her son. And she died not long ago. Absolutely heartbroken, absolutely heartbroken from what happened to her son. Nor did she get to see the victory here in the AFL lawsuit against the Biden administration. It continued through the Trump administration. But obviously the Trump administration was receptive to addressing and enforcing the law, which is exactly what happened. Exactly what happened. Terrible. So we salute AFL and Jean and the gang. And my wife too, if I may point of personal privilege. She works very, very hard. And they all work very, very hard over there, unsung in what they do. And I might add over at Landmark Legal foundation, my alma mater, same thing. They work very, very hard. Also unsung. You don't know the names of the lawyers that work over there, but they're damn good. Same with the lawyers over at afl. These conservative legal groups are fantastic, ladies and gentlemen. Nobody gets rich working for them. Most people don't get famous working for them. But that said, they're in the trenches and they're fighting, and that's a good thing. So afl, we salute you on your Teller Force victory. The settlement came through. It's a big deal. Took a lot of work and a lot of time and a lot of resources. And these cases take years and they cost a lot of money. And that's just the truth. All right, let's see here. President Trump at the Coast Guard Academy graduation today. Let's hear a little bit of this. 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Donald Trump
The class of 2026 is graduating at an incredible, exciting time for our nation and the Coast Guard in particular. As you enter the office corps of the greatest military in the history of the world. Our national strengths is back. Our morale is back. We are a confident country again. We have confidence is back. And above all, America is back, bigger and better and stronger than ever before. We have a strong, great, respected country again. We went off course. We went very sadly. We went very sadly off course. For years, Washington, D.C. was run by foolish politicians who thought they could defy the laws of world history, violating every common sense principle, you know, for preserving national power and national security. And they surrendered our industrial capacity to other countries, crippled our energy production, threw open our borders. We had borders with two just now.
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Mark Levin
Stop. Think about what he's saying. The Democrats for sabotaging our country purposefully, in my view, how they were sabotaging our country. And they're telling us they're going to do it again, except they're going to shred our constitution on the way to sabotaging our country. It's a big deal. Go ahead.
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Donald Trump
People came in totally unchecked and unvetted. You know how many people over four years in the last term? 25 million people. They came in as murderers. They were coming in from other countries. They came in from prisons that were drug dealers. They came in from mental institutions and insane asylums. They allowed them to just flow into our country. We're getting them out. We've got a lot of them out.
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Mark Levin
Catch four. Go.
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Donald Trump
America was not founded by weak and timid men or women who cowered in the face of evil or sat by as danger loomed. As President Theodore Roosevelt said, freedom is not a gift that lasts long in the hands of cowards and weak people. Today, our country faces the Threats that are very strong. But we have a much stronger country today than we had two years ago. Today, the threats that look really bad two years ago, three years ago, we had a country that was rudderless, just like that ship that had its rudder shot off. We have a country now with very strong, powerful rudders. But every one of you has your soul, the strength and courage to face whatever comes before you. You're going to do unbelievably well, I just have no idea. I'm looking at. I look at audiences all the time, but I'm looking at this audience. It's just an incredible group of people. A beautiful, beautiful, brilliant group of people.
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Mark Levin
Also, before he arrived there, he was at Joint Base Andrews this morning in front of a helicopter. Cut six, go. What have you said to Prime Minister Netanyahu about Iran and how long to
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Donald Trump
hold off on strike? That's fine. He'll do whatever I want him to do. He's a very, very good man. He'll do whatever I want him to do. And he's a great guy. To me, he's a great guy. Don't forget he was a wartime prime minister. And he's not treated right in Israel. In my opin, I'm right now at 99% in Israel. I could run for prime minister. So maybe after I do this, I'll go to Israel, run for prime minister. At a poll this morning, I'm 99%, so that's good. But no, he's a wartime prime minister and I just don't think they treat him well.
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Mark Levin
Mr. President.
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Donald Trump
I think they have a president over there that treats him very poorly.
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Mark Levin
You're on the same page with him on Iran. Yeah, very good, Mark Levin.
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You know, I've done my best today to gather as much information I can about what we are doing and the Iranians are doing, but I'm getting a mixed bag. And sometimes I'm thinking we want to deal more desperately than the enemy, which is never a good situation, and that the enemy thinks we want to deal more than they want to deal. You know, I remember when we never used to negotiate with terrorists. Here we negotiate with terrorists repeatedly, constantly. I understand the reason for it, trust me, I do. But they are terrorists. And why would terrorists keep their word? They're called terrorists for a reason, right? They're not civil. They believe Allah has told them to do what they do. Allah has told them to kill, destroy, torture, rape, brutalize, in order to conquer, devour, Convert other people, murder them if you must. It's okay. In the most horrific ways possible. They claim Allah directs them to do it. So when they're at negotiation table, these terrorists, they don't have a Western mindset, okay? They exist to do what they're doing. Does anybody understand that? Because I think the west, our leaders in the west, whether it's Europe or here or they're having trouble getting their heads around this. That is, this regime exists not to run a country. Not to run a country, but to expand the revolution to the entire globe, to all humanity, which is what they've. They've done in Europe. They've done it in parts of the United States. You see it in New York City. You see it in Dearborn and Patterson, New Jersey. You see what's going on. You see what's going on. So when they're, quote, unquote, negotiating, they have no intention of living up to any aspect of any deal with the devil. We're the devil with the people who they seek to destroy. They're not interested in it. On top of that, when you have this. This mixture of a religious fundamentalism with a political ideology, they view these as opportunities. And so they're dragging it out, they're making it slow. And I just hope that the people who are negotiating for us, Witkoff and others, understand this. But even if they do understand it, then I don't think we'd be going through all these steps, do you? Mr. Medusa, this is not an enemy that you can have a detente with. It's not an enemy. Well, let me put it this way. The President has said over and over again, they're nuts, they're lunatics, they're sick. Well, that's all correct now. Do you think they slaughtered 50,000 of their own people in January? They're executing them left and right as I speak. Nobody even talks about it anymore because they. They want to make some deal. Their foreign minister said a week or two ago, he said, we're not going to give you at the negotiating table what you can't get on the battlefield. So I'm deeply concerned about this because the one thing nobody's talking about, and you won't find it in any newspaper, you won't find it in any. On any website. You won't find it anywhere. Enforcement, Enforcement. How do we enforce whatever we agreed to? How do we find out if they're violent? Well, we'll have satellites everywhere. We'll have the. But you can't find everything. It's a huge country. If you look on the map, they already. They already were able to do a number of things that we didn't know about, like the distance of their ballistic missiles. How's the satellite going to figure that out? How are we going to stop the Communist Chinese, our new buddies? They're not our buddies. They're our enemy. How are we going to stop them from helping Iran if we find them helping Iran, what are we going to do? Nothing. Not a damn thing. What are we going to do if we find Russia helping Iran? Nothing. North Korea? Nothing. And that includes when President Trump leaves office. Who's going to do anything? Look at how we. We go on and on and on about a gallon of gasoline, and I'm going to get into that in a moment. Of course, it's much higher. But again, I want to get into this with you. I'm not unsympathetic about it. It's significant. But context is everything. Context is everything. I went to the ATM machine today. They used to charge three bucks for its use. Now it's four bucks. What are you going to do? Right, Rich? What are you going to do? I don't hear a hue and cry over that. I didn't hear a hue and cry when the price of gasoline went up under Biden, nothing. Inflation under about nothing. But that's a side point. I only want to get into that. I want to get into our sacrifice, the great sacrifice we're making in order to ensure this country or that regime, better said, doesn't get a nuclear weapon. But it's more than that. You know what else we're not discussing in addition to enforcement? Ballistic missiles. Ballistic missiles. They're the size of a yellow school bus, a big school bus, and they do massive damage. And the Iranian regime had close to 10,000 of them. Now, they may, according to what I've read, have a thousand or eleven hundred of them. They've come to be able to make them rather easily in the big scheme of things, putting it in context with the help of Communist China, with the fuel that they need, a specialized fuel. I don't even hear that being discussed. Not a word. What about Hezbollah? Hezbollah survives when they're on their back. And what about the politics of all this? We want to win the midterm elections. If there's a deal made, do you think the Democrats are going to sit back and applaud? Well, we get a great deal here. I'll tell you right now what they're going to say. It's Obama 2.0. That there was no need to go to war. Look what we got. We didn't get anything. More promises can't be enforced. These are potentially accurate statements. I don't know. The regime lives. Hezbollah lives continue. It can continue to be supported by the Mothership. Iran, you know, Hamas has not been disarmed yet. Remember all that talk? Remember I told you that's not going to happen. Remember all the talk? Phase two of the deal has never really been implemented in any effective way. I think the American people are not going to tolerate a bad deal. All the talk, all the polls, all the nonsense aside, the American people are going to wonder what we did. I think the American people, you would better understand if we did this, we followed through. We destroyed the regime, however it needs to be destroyed. Then we left. The price of gasoline goes down. It was very clear to me the other day when I took calls for really an hour and a half. The board was full every second. And I don't usually do that, throw a question out to the audience. It's been several years, but I thought this was important. Very important enough anyway. And every single one of you said, finish the job, let's get it over with. They say people are tiring. What are people are tiring about is if they don't do this, we're going to do that, and then it's okay, two more weeks. So they don't do this, we're going to do that, okay, two more weeks. I think that's what's annoying you. If I heard you correctly, if I heard you correctly, what's being bounced around out there, at least I'm hearing, is a letter of intent of what the parties intend to do and 30 days to negotiate again, you understand we're dealing with a terrorist regime that has never, never honored a single damn thing it's ever signed, right?