The Best Of Mark Levin - 5/9/26

Summary

Mark Levin Podcast: "The Best Of Mark Levin" – May 9, 2026

Main Theme & Purpose:
This "Best Of" episode features Mark Levin’s signature blend of constitutional analysis, impassioned defense of Israel and America, and sharp critique of progressive voices in the media and politics. The episode spans reactions to current debates about Israel’s legitimacy, the Iran conflict, U.S. history, economic freedom, and the progressive governance of cities like New York.

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1. Political Commentary: The Israel Discourse in Media

• Timestamps: 00:50 – 12:48

Key Points:

• Levin reacts to a social media exchange between Piers Morgan and Megyn Kelly on Israel, criticizing recurrent talking points in media—especially from figures like Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Joe Rogan (00:50).
• Asserts that critics lack historical knowledge, particularly of the Middle East and the Jewish claim to Israel (01:42).
• Draws historical parallels: No one disputes British or U.S. sovereignty over lands won or annexed in their histories, yet Israel uniquely faces constant challenges to legitimacy (02:28–07:24).
• Highlights the legal, biblical, and historical roots of Jewish claims, contrasting with the freshly-minted concept of "Palestinian identity," which he attributes to Soviet and Arab propaganda (05:06).
• Calls out media and campus trends: “These arguments are stupid… how anti-Semitic these arguments are.” (07:25, Levin)
• Defends Zionism as simply the right of Jews to a homeland where they've lived for millennia, repeatedly referencing history and ancient continuity even during times of diaspora (07:47–08:14).
• Criticizes obsessive focus on Israel by some commentators: “Why are these podcasters endlessly discussing this? This is sick. It is a sick obsession.” (10:37, Levin)
• Connects anti-Zionism, anti-Semitism, and Marxist/Islamist ideologies, arguing for broader ideological consistency (12:01).

Notable Quotes:

• “Does anybody ever discuss the legitimacy of Great Britain's sovereignty of its boundaries? No… But when it comes to Israel, everybody's got an opinion.” (03:29, Levin)
• “You could be anti-Zionist and not be anti-Semitic. What is a Zionist? ... It simply means a Jewish homeland.” (07:33, Levin)
• “This stuff is taught in our colleges… Britain doesn't take seriously any challenge to its sovereignty over Scotland or Wales or Northern Ireland.” (08:14, Levin)
• “Why are these podcasters endlessly discussing this? This is sick. It is a sick obsession.” (10:37, Levin)

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2. Historical Context: The First Continental Congress

• Timestamps: 14:14 – 28:59

Key Points:

• Levin, marking his 24th anniversary in radio, shifts to a deep-dive on the lead-up to the American Revolution and the often-overlooked First Continental Congress (14:14).
• Outlines the timeline, key players, and colonial motivations behind the 1774 Congress, emphasizing its pivotal role in unifying the colonies against British oppression (17:00–21:00).
• Details the impact of British “Intolerable Acts,” the formation of the Continental Association (trade boycott), debates regarding colonial rights, and early steps toward independence (22:24–27:00).
• Explains the evolution from the Declaration of Rights and Grievances to the later Declaration of Independence (25:43).

Notable Quotes:

• “Delegates from 12 of Britain's 13 colonies… met to discuss America's future under growing British aggression.” (15:00, Levin)
• “If I don't do it, nobody will. And I also think everywhere I go, you folks tell me this history stuff is very, very interesting.” (25:43, Levin)

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3. Current Events: The Iran Crisis and American Strategy

• Timestamps: 29:03 – 51:15

Key Points:

• Levin calls the Iranian regime “the worst terrorist regime on the face of the earth… for half a century,” backing his claim with a roundup of Iranian involvement with militias, terrorism, and nuclear deception (29:03).
• Argues that only strong military and covert support for Iranian opposition will ultimately topple the regime—citing the Reagan Doctrine as precedent (36:45–47:11).
• Questions the CIA’s willingness or ability to repeat Cold War-era successes (45:21).
• Critiques the idea of seeking an "off ramp" in Iran, dismissing it as appeasement (48:38–49:14).
• Urges total defeat of Iran’s revolutionary regime, expressing faith in Trump's leadership and warning of the dangers of premature withdrawal or compromise (50:09–51:15).

Notable Quotes:

• “What mess? We're winning… We've held back militarily for what, six weeks now, Rich?” (36:45, Levin)
• “To the best of my knowledge, maybe [arming Iranian resistance] is not, but I think it is, or at least semi is, is worrisome to me.” (45:43, Levin)
• “My view is simple. They [the regime] surrender or they die.” (51:15, Levin)

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4. Urban Politics, Antisemitism, and Economic Freedom

• Timestamps: 51:43 – 67:44

Key Points:

• Levin analyzes a press conference after an incident outside a New York synagogue, focusing on statements from NYC Mayor Eric Adams and other officials regarding real estate in “occupied” West Bank areas (52:12–53:48).
• Strongly disputes the labeling of land in Judea and Samaria as illegally occupied, reiterating ancient Jewish connections versus more recent political constructs (53:52).
• Criticizes New York’s progressive politicians (Mandami, AOC, Sanders) for anti-business attitudes and policies that deter billionaires and job creation, focusing on the case of financier Ken Griffin moving investments from NYC to Miami (55:07–62:42).
• Rebuts claims of “unearned” billionaire status: “If you invent something and 310 million people want to purchase it, you become a billionaire…” (66:40, Levin)
• Defends capitalism as spontaneous, voluntary commerce that lifts more people into comfort than any centrally planned or socialist system (58:52–67:44).

Notable Quotes:

• “This guy, Ken Griffin… has created thousands of jobs for families in New York, getting good paychecks, pensions, medical care, paying taxes... But that's not good enough.” (55:12, Levin)
• “Capitalism is nothing more than voluntary commerce. That's it. Nobody invented it. It's spontaneous... The freer the commerce, the freer the people.” (57:28, Rich paraphrased by Levin)
• “Some of our greatest industries… resulted in men becoming multi-billionaires… People become wealthy not because they're stealing from anybody. They create wealth. They create prosperity.” (67:06 & 67:47, Rich/Levin)

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5. Memorable Exchanges & Tone

• The overall tone is urgent, combative, and unapologetically pro-America and pro-Israel, punctuated by biting humor (“Manischewitz, there’s a lot to get to…” – 00:50; “Of course, he’s a moron. What does he know?” – 48:40).
• Frequent use of sarcasm and rhetorical questions to emphasize points and challenge opposing viewpoints.
• Celebrates American resilience, innovation, and moral clarity, whether in foreign policy or economic entrepreneurship.

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6. Select Timestamps for Deep Dives

• 00:50: Segment opens with Israel/media bias
• 07:33: On Zionism and anti-Semitism
• 14:14: U.S. Founding history—First Continental Congress deep dive
• 29:03: Iran: threat assessment, regime critique, and U.S./Israeli strategy
• 36:45: On the necessity (and previous success) of arming resistance groups
• 51:43: Rise in antisemitic incidents and New York’s political culture
• 55:07: NYC economic exodus and the Ken Griffin story
• 66:40: Capitalism, innovation, and the myth of the “unearned” billionaire

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Summary Takeaways

• Defends Israel’s right to exist and equates selective criticism of Israel to double standards not applied to Western nations who acquired territory through war or politics.
• Warns that current obsessions with Israel or anti-American narratives are manipulated for political and ideological purposes by leftists, Islamists, Marxists, and media personalities.
• Argues that the only way to achieve lasting change in Iran is through military, economic pressure and direct support for resistance—without concern for foreign or domestic critics who call for appeasement.
• Champions American constitutional history, entrepreneurship, and economic mobility, positioning capitalism as the foundation of both freedom and widespread prosperity.
• Issues a broader cultural critique of progressive governance, especially in urban centers, for driving away wealth creators and fostering an environment hostile to business and traditional values.

For listeners seeking clarity on Middle East discourse, American history, and the ideological battles shaping today’s politics, this episode captures the best of Mark Levin’s confrontational, history-infused approach.

Transcript

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[Mark Levin]

I don't know, Manischewitz. There's a lot to get to, all kinds of disparate things going on. And yet some things don't seem to change much depending on what that thing is. I wasn't even gonna mention this, but I just saw some post somebody sent to me with Piers Morgan and Megyn Kelly. And of course, the subject is Israel. It never ends. Apparently, there's nothing else to discuss. Comes to Tucker Kitarlson, it's Israel comes to Candace Owens, it's Jews, and Israel comes to that idiot Joe Rogan, Jews and Israel, and on and on and on.

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

And yet these people have absolutely no

[Mark Levin]

brain power to discuss this stuff at all. They don't know any history, let alone ancient history.

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

None whatsoever.

[Mark Levin]

I'll give you a perfect example. This guy Piers Morgan says, and I paraphrase, I don't have it in front of me, but I have answered it on social media. You know this thing about Israel, they

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

say they have a biblical right to any land that they occupy or want to occupy.

[Mark Levin]

Something along those lines.

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Is that the one? Is that the way it works?

[Mark Levin]

Is that actually what's going on? So let me, let me wrestle with this. It's not hard with one arm tied behind my back.

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

Let's look at Great Britain.

[Mark Levin]

Does anybody ever discuss the legitimacy of Great Britain's sovereignty of its boundaries? No. I mean, some do. Some of those that want to

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

break

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away from England, some of the Scots, some in Wales, certainly Northern Ireland.

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

Wales was annexed by England in the 1600s. Scotland was annexed by England in the early 1700s. Northern Ireland was annexed by England in the 1920s. Great Britain. Does anybody ever challenge this? I mean, when you are talking about Britain, Great Britain, do you ever say, hey, that is not a legitimate country with legitimate boundaries?

[Mark Levin]

Nobody ever says that.

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

Well, why not? You know, in our country, from 1845

[Mark Levin]

to 1849, we had a Great president by the name of James Polk who

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

believed in Manifest Destiny and he's attacked

[Mark Levin]

as a white racist and the rest from the left.

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

But here's the truth. California, Oregon, Washington State. He annexed Texas, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado and two or three other states,

[Mark Levin]

I can't remember off the top of

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

my head in a four year period.

[Mark Levin]

What do you think of that?

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

Do we occupy those states? Remember I wrote a book called American Marxism and we had people, professors I guess, teaching students that yes, we occupy that, that much of it belongs to Mexico, but we do not take that seriously, do we? These are not issues that are brought

[Mark Levin]

up at the United nations, are they?

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

We would laugh it off, would we not? And yet to hear Piers Morgan and Megyn Kelly, the Jewish people occupy those parts, those parts of Israel where they live today. And according to Piers Morgan, if they decide to occupy other lands, and we're

[Mark Levin]

supposed to acknowledge it and recognize it

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

because they claim it's biblical. Now a couple of things about this. Israel is not taking and occupying anything. It gave the Sinai to the Egyptians despite the fact that they were attacked and it was a buffer. They gave Gaza, which was Israeli, to the Palestinians. And through the decades, foolishly, in my view, they made offer after offer after offer, particularly under left wing prime ministers to chop up their country and give it to the Palestinians. Bill Clinton even talks about how ridiculous Arafat was and who's Arafat? Born in Egypt. Where'd this word Palestinian come from? It came from the KGB and the Russians. The whole thing is a farce. The so called Palestinians who are Arab Bedouins, the vast majority of them lived in what's called Jordan. There is no west bank, it's Judea and Samaria, no west bank of Jordan. And I could go on and on and on, but Piers Morgan and, and Megyn Kelly apparently thinks this is superfluous, that these damn Jews in the Middle east, they keep going to the Bible. Well, what did the British go to? The Jewish people were in what is called Israel, the Holy Land, before there

[Mark Levin]

was a Great Britain,

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

thousands of years

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before there was a Great Britain,

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thousands and thousands of years before there was a United States. But nobody challenges the fact from 1845 to 1849 that we defeated the Mexicans when we were annexing territory and so

[Mark Levin]

forth and so on.

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

We sure as hell aren't going to give it to anybody. We go to war to defend our boundaries, our sovereignty. We argue for our sovereignty. Right now the British do the same thing. They fought for years in Northern Ireland. Years. And you have these separatist movements even now in Wales and Scotland and so forth. If the Jews don't have a claim to the Holy Land, certainly Britain doesn't

[Mark Levin]

have a claim to anything.

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

And we don't either. And I'm just making the point how stupid these arguments are,

[Mark Levin]

how anti Semitic these arguments are. Because the next point is you could be anti Zionist and not be anti Semitic. What is a Zionist?

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

Anybody know?

[Mark Levin]

It's easy to look up these days. It simply means a Jewish homeland, that

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

the Jews get to live where they lived historically, not a thousand years ago, 4,000 years ago. They were pushed out at some point, at multiple points.

[Mark Levin]

Some always survived and stayed back.

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

Whether it was the Babylonians, whether it was the Persians, whether it was the Romans, whether it was the Ottoman Empire, whether it was the British, whether it's the Palestinians. There's no denying the history. That's why they're forced to point to the Bible. That's why they're forced to point to the Torah. Because their sovereignty is being challenged. Their very existence or their country's challenge. We don't get involved in that. Nobody's going to challenge them. Why? Because we're bing and strong. We're the number one superpower in the world. We tell people to screw off. Don't bother us with your stupid arguments now. This stuff is taught in our colleges. Don't get me wrong. I wrote the book American Marxism. I hope you read it. Britain doesn't take seriously any challenge to its sovereignty over Scotland or Wales or Northern Ireland. They don't take any. They don't take that seriously. It's never brought up at the United Nations. It's not brought up by surrounding countries. Mexico doesn't challenge our claim to Texas or California or Nevada or anything else. So that's why it has to be brought up. Because it's a tiny country surrounded by 52 majority Muslim countries, most of which are Arab. Now, if I told you Egypt was a Christian country, you probably wouldn't believe me, but it was. If I told you Syria was a Christian country, you wouldn't believe me, but it was. If I told you Lebanon was a Christian country, you wouldn't believe me, but it was. And Christianity existed long before Islam, long before Islam and Judaism existed long before Christianity. Well, why are there almost no Christians in the Middle east except Coptic Christians who are brutalized in Egypt? Brutalized. Some pockets of Christianity in the Arab world where they are brutalized. And 700,000 Christians. No, actually I am wrong.

[Mark Levin]

It is 2 million Christians,

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

whatever the number is.

[Mark Levin]

I think it is 700,000 Christians and 2 million Arabs, some of whom are Christian, by the way, living in Israel. But here is a bigger question for you, America. Why are these podcasters endlessly discussing this? This is sick. It is a sick obsession, a sick obsess.

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

When I prepare for this show, there's

[Mark Levin]

a zillion issues I'm looking at, mostly

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about America, but I have to come here all the time and deal with this. Well, Mark, you bring it up. Of course I bring it up. Because if I don't bring it up on radio, there's only a handful of others who will. Who else is going to do it? From sea to shining sea, I defend here Judaism, I defend here Christianity. I defend here all faiths. Actually, what I reject are Islamists and Marxists and other ists who seek to destroy humanity. I press for our country day in and day out. Have you noticed? Have you noticed that these very same podcasters, and whoever they are, bloggers and so forth, columnists,

[Mark Levin]

they're endlessly trashing America. When is the last time they talked up our country, our military?

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When is the last time they've done that?

[Mark Levin]

On our 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

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Do they ever talk about the Declaration of Independence? Do they ever talk about the Revolutionary War? Do they know anything about the Revolutionary War? Do they know about any of the great patriots who founded this country? Do they communicate that to their vast Islamic audiences overseas? No. They keep attacking our country, giving aid and comfort to the Marxists and the Islamists, undermining our president. And then they say they are real maga, not maga. They are pathetic.

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

[Mark Levin]

Mr. Producer told me earlier today this is our 24th anniversary. I started on conservative talk radio on Sundays on WABC in New York. It was owned by ABC Radio Networks. The program director was Phil Boyce was a great, great group. And I did that for some while. And they asked me to take on the 6pm slot and the 6 to 8 slot, then the 6 to 9 slot, then syndication followed. But 24 years, great honor. Great honor on a great station. Maybe a little bit more of that later. We'll see. I wanted to get into a little bit of history. We got plenty to talk about here, and I want to get into it with Iran and some other things. But before I do, You've heard of the Second Continental Congress, right? It met in Philadelphia. That's where the Declaration of Independence was drawn up and voted on. That's one of the things we're going to be celebrating, of course, if not the main thing this year on July 4th, 250 years ago. It's incredible when you really think about it. But there was a First Continental Congress, and I thought you might want to know about that since it's never discussed. And there's a lot of great sites if you want to go to them and look at them. Mount Vernon has a great website. History has thought.comhistory.com There's a lot of them. But the First Continental Congress, as Mount Vernon points out, convened in Carpenter's hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, between September 5th and October 26th, 1774. Now, remember, I've said many times, really, the Revolutionary War began before, before July 4, 1776, in many respects. Delegates from 12 of Britain's 13 colonies, Georgia did not show up. Met to discuss America's future under growing British aggression. The list of delegates included many prominent colonial leaders. Sam Adams of Massachusetts, two future presidents, George Washington and John Adams. Delegates discussed boycotting British goods to establish the rights of Americans and planned for a second Continental Congress. The First Continental Congress was prompted by the Coercive Acts. The Coercive Acts, known in America as the Intolerable Acts, which Parliament passed in early 1774 to reassert its dominance over the American colonies following the Boston Tea Party. Now, the Intolerable Acts of 1774among other changes, closed off Boston port, rescinded the Massachusetts charter, bringing the colony under more direct British control. Across North America, colonists rose in solidarity with the people of Massachusetts and desired changes to tax policies they found oppressive. In Virginia, George Washington had participated in the authorship of the Fairfax Resolves, a set of resolutions aimed at discussing colonists rights, particularly to not have to pay unfair taxes. And remember the British significantly raised taxes because they had been fighting a war with France, also Spain to a lesser extent over the territories in America. It cost them a great great deal, Britain and France. In writing about the Resolves, Washington recalled the treatment of those in Boston, remarking that if the people of Boston buy, they're immediately under the lash. By being immediately under the lash considering the logistics of non importation for the people of Virginia. In other words, they couldn't import anything. Washington's support of using the non importation as leverage against the British can be traced back as far as 1769 in letters between him and George Mason, when the colonies first started publicly supporting non importation of British goods. Brian Fairfax, a longtime friend of Washington's wrote to him urging him to not support the Continental association, instead petition Parliament. Washington dismissed this suggestion, writing we have already petitioned his Majesty in as humble and dutiful a manner as subjects can do. But nothing came of it. By late spring 1774, nine of the colonies called for a Continental Congress. Meeting in assemblies to discuss political issues was a colonial tradition, as each colony had held committees of correspondences in response to British taxes and to meet about local issues. Virginia's committee of correspondence is largely credited with originating the invitation for all the colonies to meet. Now footnote there the Convention of States that we talk about, the second wave amending the Constitution, the reason that is set up the way it's set up for those of you who are involved in that movement, millions and millions of you, including those who listen to this program, that convention of states is along these lines, a meeting of delegates sent from the states to discuss ways in which to amend the Constitution, which still requires ratification now by 38 states, 3/4 of the state legislatures. So it's not something that can be rammed through by any means. Let's go on. So the colonies elected delegates to the First Continental Congress in 1774 in various ways. Some were elected through their respective colonial legislatures or committee of correspondence. As for Washington, he was elected with the other Virginia delegates at the first Virginia Convention, which was called in support of Massachusetts following the passage of the Intolerable Acts. Georgia was the only colony that didn't send any delegates to their first continental congress. Facing a war with neighboring native american nations, the colonies didn't want to jeopardize British support and assistance. So when Congress convened the First Continental Congress September 5, 1774, Peyton Randolph of Virginia was named President of the First Continental Congress. One of the congress's first decision was to endorse the Suffolk resolves Passed in suffolk county, massachusetts. They ordered citizens to not obey the intolerable acts to refuse imported British goods to raise a militia. Congress's early endorsement of Suffolk resolves was a clear indication of the mood and spirit in philadelphia. Furthermore, the delegates promptly began drafting and discussing the continental association. This would become their most important policy outcome because the association called for an end to British imports starting in December 1774 and an end to exporting goods to Britain in September 1775. This policy would be enforced by local and colony wide committees of inspection.

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

These committees would check ships that arrived

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in ports, Forced colonists to sign documents pledging loyalty to the continental association, and suppress mob violence. So you can see a lot had already taken before July 4, 1776. Now the committees of inspection even enforced frugality, Going so far as to end lavish funeral services and parties. Many colonial leaders hoped these efforts would bond the colonies together economically. So they were taking on the British, their main trade partner, Both purchasing and selling, and was going to have a significant impact on the colonies and on their economy. Here we are taking on the Iranian regime and the price of a gallon of gasoline goes up a buck or so and you'd think it's the end of the world, quite frankly. Now Virginia secured the continental association's delay ending exports in Britain. And before the continental congress, Virginia passed its own association that delayed ending exports to avoid hurting farmers With a sudden change in policy. You need to understand these colonies had overlapping interests, but they were very different in terms of what they produced. They were very agrarian, of course. They had some cities we would call, I guess, but they were very agrarian. The cotton producing southern states felt like initially that what was going on in new England was their problem because they sold a significant amount, if not most, of their cotton to the british. Now, many delegates felt that using the continental association as leverage would be impracticable without explicit demands and a plan of redress. But congress struggled to come up with a list of rights, grievances and demands. Furthermore, to only repeal laws that were unfavorable to the delegates without a list of rights Would be a temporary fix to the larger issue of continued British abuse. To address These issues. Congress formed a grand committee.

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

All debate was stalled for weeks while

[Mark Levin]

a statement of American rights was debated at length. I doubt most of you even were taught this or know this. This First Continental Congress producing this state almost two years, a little less than two years before July 4, 1776. Now producing this statement required answering constitutional questions that had been asked for over a century. The hardest constitutional question surrounded Britain's right to regulate trade. Joseph Galloway, a Conservative delegate from Pennsylvania, insisted on releasing a statement clarifying Britain's right to regulate trade in the American colonies. But other delegates were opposed to giving Britain explicit rights to colonial trade. And during the debate, Galloway introduced a plan of union between the American colonies and Britain. The plan of union called for the creation of a colonial parliament that would work hand in hand with the British Parliament. The British Parliament would appoint a President General and the colonial assemblies would appoint delegates for a three year term. They got very specific. But Galloway's plan was defeated in a

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

6 to 5 vote.

[Mark Levin]

Congress put aside the debate over Britain's right to regulate trade and focused on the Continental Association. I know I'm getting very much into the weeds here, but if I don't do it, nobody will. And I also think everywhere I go, you folks tell me this history stuff is very, very interesting. So it's the 250th year. Congress later returned to the discussion, or in this case the 252nd year. Congress later returned to the discussion of Congress's right to regulate trade and settled on the original suggested text by the Grand Committee and included into Section 4 in the body's Declaration of Rights and Grievances. So they had a Declaration of Rights and Grievances and two years later they have a Declaration of Independence. Section four states, the foundation of English liberty and of all free government is the right in the people to participate in their legislative council. They wanted representation. This allowed for Congress to move forward in their discussion and assert their right to participation in their government, but did not explicitly place limits on Parliament's regulation of colonial trade. So the first Continental Congress most faithful decision was to call for a second Continental Congress to meet the following spring. Congress intended to give Britain time to respond to the Continental association and discuss any developments at a second Continental Congress. Washington went shopping for muskets and military apparel before leaving Philadelphia for Mount Vernon. Also, he placed an order for a book on military discipline. Though war had not been declared and many delegates were still hoping for redress, there was no doubt that the American colonies and British were on the brink of conflict. Many Delegates learned of the battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775 en route to Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress. And now you know about the First Continental Congress. You don't need to know every little detail but you know it was a prelude to the second Continental Congress. But that first Continental Congress, they were already concerned that they would be going to war. They already put a boycott on British goods and both ways they wouldn't buy them or sell them. It's going to have an economic impact on the colonists. They knew they were in for a big problem and it was a big time war. Mark the vid.

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Now here's the thing, folks. I don't know what a deal is going to look like, but I start with this premise. Number one, the Iranian regime is a terrorist regime. It's the worst terrorist regime on the face of the earth. It's been the worst terrorist regime on the face of the earth for half a century. It has funded other terrorist organizations and they reached into the United States, they're reaching into Europe. They've lied under the Obama deal, they've lied to Europe, they've lied to the United Nations. They lied to us. We were part of the deal. This is their fundamentalist ideology. They have written about it. Their scholars still talk about it, as do their imams. And also part of their strategy is to negotiate to buy time and if they must sign a deal, so that. So that is the basics right there. That's the foundation. That's number one. Number two, what about us? Until Donald Trump came along in his second term, no president of either party contemplated military action against that regime. None. We have a president and a prime minister in Israel who are truly unique in that they have taken on this enemy and militarily have all but defeated the enemy. And by that I mean there are some elements of it that still exist because we have allowed them to exist. We put the brakes on the military operation. One thing we have not succeeded at doing, despite decapitating the regime at three different levels is destroying the regime. That requires training and arming opposition, the Iranian people, to take on the police state internal to that country,

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

which also

[Mark Levin]

has been reinforced by terrorists and militia from Syria, from Iraq, from Yemen. And they've gotten support, of course, from Turkey. I don't know what's going to happen. You read Axios and this guy, Barack Ravid, who is a radical leftist, he used to write for Haaretz, which is a disturbingly anti Israel Israeli newspaper, radical left. And one or more people in the administration felt that they should continue to leak to this person, anonymously, of course. But there are people who have contacted the White House, contacted the administration, and they're confirming to me that a deal is in the works. Now, this could stop, of course, depending on how the Iranians act. And they tend to kill things, you know, before they get too far. Maybe they will, maybe they won't. I have no idea. None of us have any idea, actually. But I do know this. Despite what the Democrats say, despite what the media say, despite what the suicidal isolationists say, if this regime is not taken down, they will be back. They will be back. Also, from a political perspective, you've heard people say, get out of this mess as fast as you can. And usually with a British accent or something, and definitely a lisp.

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

Oh, we need to get out of this. This is a disaster. We need to get out of this.

[Mark Levin]

It's going to cost us the election. We have an uphill battle in this election. We had it before this military operation. It's the nature of the beast, unfortunately, historically. So people can assign it to whatever they want. But I will tell you this. If you believe that the Democrats, that the media, that the suicidal isolationists are going to declare whatever deal we've made a victory, or even a victory of sorts, you're badly mistaken. They will accuse this president. Hear me out. I know what I'm talking about. I know who the enemy is. They will accuse the president of wimping out. They call it taco. They will say we didn't get anything more than we could have otherwise gotten through diplomacy and negotiations. Now, don't get me wrong, they're going to lie, but this is what they're going to do. They could claim we did not get anything really out of this, that we were not in danger anyway. And depending on the particulars, the Iranian people will still be enslaved. Hezbollah will survive, potentially, which means the regime in Iran will survive. Hezbollah will survive. And Hamas has survived. Not because of Netanyahu in Israel that has wanted to wipe them all out. And they are the ones that have feet on the ground, boots on the ground, losing IDF soldiers and so forth, and civilians. We are working with Pakistan, a radical Muslim government that's aligned in many respects with the worst actors that India has had problems dealing with. And Communist China. Communist China. Iran is a puppet of Communist China. I would just point out. Communist China has been providing them with the know how

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

on nuclear technology.

[Mark Levin]

Communist China has been providing them with the fuel and parts for their ballistic missile systems. So we shall see what takes place here. I'm hoping this is all fake news, but people are contacting me who have contacted relevant people and they told me, no, it's not fake. But we don't have all the specifics and we don't know how the Iranians are going to react. So there is that, right? So I am laying it all out for you transparently. Transparently. I only know what I read. I only know what I'm told. It's all I know. Get an off ramp as quickly as you can.

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

Get out of this mess as quickly as you can.

[Mark Levin]

What mess? We're winning. We've held back militarily for what, six weeks now, Rich? Something like that. I don't know why we didn't just finish them off. I don't know why we haven't armed the people there, help train them. Is the CIA not up to it anymore? Is it incapable of doing the things that it did in the 1980s? Perhaps that's a problem. Perhaps the bureaucracy over there is in control and is risk averse. Perhaps that's it. I don't know. But this was a key element of the Reagan Doctrine that brought down the Soviet Union, that prevented the spread of communism in our hemisphere, prevented the spread of communism in Africa. It was wildly successful. Military, economic, internal support. I cannot tell if we've given those people arms or not. The Kurds, we're told, stole them. Oh, come on. Maybe they stole some, maybe they didn't, I don't know. But all I know is the Kurds have been loyal to this country in every battle we've been in with ISIS. If it wasn't for the Kurds, they locked up ISIS. They had ISIS. They had 5,000 of them in prisons there. Turkey has way too much to say when it comes to foreign policy. Way too much. Erdogan is an Islamist. He's an Islamist. National socialism, that's what his party is. National socialism. Sound familiar? Does to me. President of the United States today. Let's see, cut three, Mr. Producer. Go.

[Donald Trump (Archive or Impersonation)]

I want to start off by saying we were in our great vice presidents right here and we're in a. I call it a skirmish because that's what it is. It's a skirmish. And we're doing unbelievably well as we did in Venezuela. Venezuela, where it was rapid over in one day. And we're doing pretty much equally as well, I would say larger. But we're doing very well in Iran. It's going very smoothly and we'll see what happens. They want to make a deal. They want to negotiate. And I think that military mothers would want to hear that. Do you agree? I think it's appropriate somebody who says that's not appropriate. I think military mothers want to hear about this stuff. And we have the greatest. And we have the greatest. We have the greatest military that we've ever had. We have the greatest military in the world by far. There's nobody even close.

[Mark Levin]

Cut four, go.

[Donald Trump (Archive or Impersonation)]

In the case of Iran, we're not going to let Iran have a nuclear weapon. We're not going to let that happen, and we won't let that happen. And so we're, we're dealing with people that want to make a deal very much. And we'll see whether or not they can make a deal that's satisfactory to us. We have it very much under control. The blockade is unbelievable. The Navy has been incredible. The job they did, it's like a. It's like a wall of steel. Nobody goes through in particular. The Iranians are not getting anything through one way or the other. So they're out of business. And we'll see whether or not they are agreeing. And if they don't agree, they'll end up agreeing shortly thereafter. So that's the way it is. And I thought you might want to have a little rundown. Now. The fake news is all happy because they can hear what we had to say.

[Mark Levin]

There you go. The emphasis on we'll see if they want to make a deal, they want to make a deal. What do you think about that, Rich? You don't know. You afraid to say? Yeah. You're afraid to say, well, I'll say it. Why do I care if Iran wants to make a deal? That's part of their playbook. They make deals all the time. They made deals with Obama, they made deals with Biden, they made deals with Europe, they made deals with the U.N. they make deals, Mark.

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There is breaking news right now from centcom. US Forces intercepted unprovoked Iranian attacks and responded with self defense strikes as US Navy guided missile destroyers transited the Strait of Hormuz to the Gulf of Oman on May 7th. That's today. Iranian forces launched multiple missiles, drones and small boats as USS Truxton, USS Rafael Peralta and USS Mason transited the international sea passage. No U.S. assets were struck. U.S. central Command CENTCOM eliminated inbound threats and targeted Iranian military facilities responsible for attacking US forces, including missile and drone launch sites, command and control locations and intel surveillance and reconnaissance nodes. CENTCOM does not seek escalation but remains positioned and ready to protect American forces. There's also some reports that tonight the UAE has sent its air force to attack Iranian sites and you can see online some of that activity taking place now. What bothers me about the CENTCOM release is these are defensive actions and we don't seek to escalate. To me, when you put out a statement like that, just to me, you're sending the wrong message. You're sending the wrong message to the enemy. You're sending the wrong message to the Arab allies, You're sending the wrong message to our allies, the Israelis, that we will only strike if struck, we will only attack if attacked. We are not going to get this over with and we are not going to have a clear victory unless we finish them off. And I have talked about this now since this war began and even before. Militarily, economically and in the interior of Iran. Arm the resistance. Determine what group or groups to help and to arm. Target the irgc. Target the internal security forces. The regular army in Iran is not the Iranian Guard. The regular army in Iran is a real army, but it's not part of the personalized ideological military wing of the Islamo Nazi regime. It is a regular army, not as well trained, not as well equipped and as it turns out, not getting paid very well lately either. And so the goal is, the goal

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

is to encourage, not through talk, not

[Mark Levin]

through messages, the army to basically drop gun and run or to turn on the internal security forces and others.

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

But none of this is going to

[Mark Levin]

happen, in my opinion, if we do not get arms to the resistance in Iran.

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

And I can think of no other

[Mark Levin]

circumstance and environment where this would work any better.

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

We did this in Afghanistan, we did it in Nicaragua, we did it in

[Mark Levin]

Angola, we did it in Honduras. We have done it in many places during the Reagan administration when the CIA director was the great Bill Casey.

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

I'm starting to wonder if our CIA is up to this.

[Mark Levin]

Maybe they're risk averse. Maybe the bureaucrats have taken over. I don't know.

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

But to leave the third leg of an effective campaign to destroy that regime essentially dormant.

[Mark Levin]

To the best of my knowledge, maybe it's not, but I think it is, or at least semi is, is worrisome to me. By the way, I'm not criticizing anything. I'm just explaining my thoughts. That's what I do.

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

And what do I mean?

[Mark Levin]

That the environment there, the circumstances there,

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

are better than Most?

[Mark Levin]

You have 92 million people there. 80% of them want nothing to do with this regime. They've died by the tens of thousands. 50,000 died in January, in two days.

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

They have sped up executions.

[Mark Levin]

They're executing more people than ever before, mostly young people.

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

They're tightening their grip on the society.

[Mark Levin]

They've cut off all communications, and now

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

they're able to track if there's even

[Mark Levin]

efforts in various homes and other facilities

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

to make communications, because they know that in order to survive, they must continue to kill, torture, imprison,

[Mark Levin]

or they won't survive. And so they are not just looking over their shoulders. They have turned around and they are attacking their people. Liberating those people is crucially important for

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

them, obviously, and for us.

[Mark Levin]

And for us. We should make maximum use of every one of our options here. And once they're supported and armed, our military and the Israeli military should back them up. When they hit a building, when they hit a unit, when they hit what they need to hit, they are backed up by our air power. Again, we have done this before. Do we have the will to do it now? I don't know what the CIA is telling the President. I'm concerned that he's being told that it's farcical or that the people won't rise up. And, of course, that would be a horrible misjudgment. Historically horrible. And for those who say we need an exit strategy or an exit ramp, first of all, I'm sick of these phrases. I get created and then regurgitated as if they mean something. There is no exit ramp.

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

Should we surrender?

[Mark Levin]

That's the advice of Piers Morgan. Get out of there. Of course he's a moron. What does he know? He's not the only one. He's not the only one. Many the same crowd, the same radical

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

isolationists who've been trying to sabotage this

[Mark Levin]

war effort with their propaganda. And they know it's heard by the enemy, and they know they're dispiriting some sector of the American public, but they keep it up.

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

They pretend we're losing Losing. What are they nuts?

[Mark Levin]

But most of them hate Trump. They didn't hate him before, they hate him now. Or they kept it quiet. But now they're out of the closet. They're fully exposed and it's very ugly. Very ugly. What the President has done here is historic. It's taken a lot of courage and we're only in this position to finish them off because he brought us to this point with our military and economically.

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

And despite

[Mark Levin]

what the half wits and

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

the nitwits, despite what the radical isolationists woke Reich neo fascists have to say, despite what the Democrats and the Marxists

[Mark Levin]

and the Islamists have to say as

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

they are regurgitate the enemy's propaganda as they all interview each other.

[Mark Levin]

This has been a spectacular military and economic success up till now. What will determine whether it continues to be so is how this ends. It can be a glorious victory or a historic mistake. I have a lot of faith in our President. I have a lot of faith that he knows this. I also have a lot of faith in the enemy

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

that they're so ideologically.

[Mark Levin]

Ideologically

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

stuck

[Mark Levin]

that there.

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

There's such a dire death cult

[Mark Levin]

that they don't know how to say no, let me reverse that. They don't know how to say yes. Yes. My. My view is simple. They surrender or they die.

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[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

Monda me at a press conference yesterday

[Mark Levin]

when two people trying to go to a synagogue were harassed, really threatened. It was frightening watching this surrounded right in front of a synagogue. And this is the second or third time it's happened at this synagogue. And these were Islamists. They were dressed like Islamists. They had broken English. And here's Mandami. Cut four.

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

Go.

[New York City Official (Likely Eric Adams)]

There's no tolerance for anti Semitism. And I've also been clear to New Yorkers my honest opinions about the fact that when we have a real estate expo that is promoting the sale of land, which includes the sale of. Of land in occupied west bank in settlements that are a violation of international law.

[Mark Levin]

I agree with that. Why are the Palestinians in the Judea and Samaria areas? Why are they occupying land that has never belonged to them before? That name was even concocted in 1965 by Arafat working with the Russians. Arafat and Egyptian. So I agree with him on that. That aspect of it. Why is there occupation? But it's not by the Israelis unless 4,000 years ago was occupation. Piers Morgan doesn't quite know that either. He's a moron no, the Palestinians, you see, Judea and Samaria.

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

So what is the mayor doing?

[Mark Levin]

We'll let him finish and then I'll sum up. Go ahead.

[New York City Official (Likely Eric Adams)]

I firmly disagree with.

[Mark Levin]

He disagrees with land sales, real estate sales in Judea and Samaria by the Jews who live in Judea and Samaria. And the fact that they were going to have an event at this synagogue was intolerable to him. This real estate expo promoting the sale

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

of land in violation of international law.

[Mark Levin]

Something he firmly disagrees with.

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

And so while he's not anti Semitic, mind you, and while his wife is a bleeding anti Semite, Jew hater, Israel hater, America hater, Christian hater, not the mayor, that's not what attracted him to her. No, no, no, no. Less her brilliance.

[Mark Levin]

I. And this isn't the first time they

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

had a commission on anti Semitism. And he killed it.

[Mark Levin]

And he killed it.

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

And other steps that he's taken that

[Mark Levin]

demonstrate what he really is. He's a thug, an absolute thug. Doing exactly what I said last hour and last and yet and last night. What he's doing, of course he's talking out of both sides of his mouth,

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

but he is what he is now. He's attacking the wealthy, as he always does. I said he's a Marxist, Islamist. That's what he is. That's what they are of his ilk. Here's what he says about

[Mark Levin]

Ken Griffin. Now, what did Ken Griffin do to New York?

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

Created thousands and thousands of jobs. The man's worth about $50 billion. That doesn't mean it's in his mattress,

[Mark Levin]

his investments and so forth.

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

He's created thousands of jobs for families

[Mark Levin]

in New York, getting good paychecks, pensions,

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

medical care, paying taxes to the city and the state as he pays taxes for his investments in the city. But that's not good enough. Because a guy who's 35 years old, who's done literally nothing with his life, but he ran for a seat in the state legislature, who was born into wealth, not the kind of Ken Griffin wealth, but other wealth, whose father is a bomb throwing, terror supporting professor in Columbia, whose mother was a documentarian, quote, unquote, subsidized by the Qatari monarchy. And of course, cair, a front group for Hamas, a terrorist organization. They're all in for Mandami. And of course, Barack Obama.

[Mark Levin]

You know, I think he's really extraordinary. He's an extraordinary politician. Obama was always the radical. He was always the commie. Yes, he was. He always hid it, but that's what who he is and who he was, rather. And that's it. How can you call this guy an extraordinary leader? He's already bankrupting the city. And all of you people there know it.

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

And all of you people there know he's going to massively increase your property

[Mark Levin]

taxes if he can get away with it.

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

And all you people know he's chasing out these billionaires. Let me tell you a little secret. The billionaires make up 1/10 of 1% of the population, even if that much, and they pay 50% of the taxes. Wow. Chase them out. They're leaving the city. Some are staying in New York, but they're not in New York City.

[Mark Levin]

Some are going to New Jersey, but most are leaving. They've made a decision. All right, I'm out of here. Let's go to Florida, Texas, Tennessee. They want us.

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

They treat us right.

[Mark Levin]

We'll create jobs there. We'll create a bigger tax base there.

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

So when you have these Marxist Islamist ideologues, they don't know how commerce works. What is capitalism? You see, everything for them is defined by Karl Marx. Karl Marx was a moron. Karl Marx had a deeply flawed, defective idea of human nature, a defective idea of how capitalism that the word he invented actually works. As I told you last night, as I've discussed on my video podcast on several occasions now, capitalism is nothing more than voluntary commerce. That's it. Nobody invented it. It's spontaneous. People create things. They sell things. People take that money and they buy things. That's been going on since human humanity began. It's called commerce. And the freer the commerce, the freer the people, and the freer the commerce, the more prosperity you create for the more people. You don't have somebody sitting there telling everybody who's going to do what, how much they're going to make if they're making too much and so forth and so on. Any nimrod can say something like that. And that's exactly what this guy is. That's why you get an aoc. The that's why you get a Mandami. That's why you get a Bernie Sanders. Between the three of them. Between the three of them, they've never held a job that creates wealth. Never.

[Mark Levin]

Never. They destroy jobs. AOC kept Amazon out of her district, out of New York City. They were going to create 5,000 jobs, Mr. Producer. And so they didn't go. They went somewhere else. This guy, Ken Griffin, I want you

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

to listen to what he says. Cut eight.

[Mark Levin]

Cut eight. Go.

[Interviewer]

So where does that leave us at 350 Park.

[Ken Griffin Representative or Spokesperson]

That leaves us with the fact that we went to Miami and revised our building plan to make it a bigger office building.

[Interviewer]

You're bailing.

[Ken Griffin Representative or Spokesperson]

So what do we do at 350 is still a point of discussion internally. But what is no longer a point of discussion is that Miami is now. You know, when we moved from Chicago, there was a debate between New York and Miami. It's unquestionably true that we made the right. I'll leave it at that. It's unquestionably true that we made the right choice. And now. And now what? The mayor of New York has made

[Mark Levin]

clear to him, the choice was Miami. But then he was going to build this massive facility in New York in the middle of New York. Apparently, he's not going to do it anymore. Whatever he's going to do is going to be mightily downsized or not at all. Go ahead.

[Ken Griffin Representative or Spokesperson]

My New York partners, my New York partners is that we need to double down on our bet in Miami because we want to be in a state that embraces business, that embraces education, that embraces personal freedom and liberty, and that embraces people having an opportunity to live the American dream.

[Mark Levin]

Well, if you don't believe in America and Mondame doesn't, then you don't believe in the American dream, do you? More. Cut nine. Go.

[Interviewer]

Speaking of warm greetings, I was going to do this. Wanted to do this interview outside your apartment, but I thought it would be creepy and weird. So how did you feel about the mayor's little video?

[Ken Griffin Representative or Spokesperson]

It was creepy and weird.

[Mark Levin]

Agreed.

[Ken Griffin Representative or Spokesperson]

I mean, like, knock, knock, knock on the window, like, huh? Mayor of New York City on the screen?

[Interviewer]

Yeah.

[Ken Griffin Representative or Spokesperson]

Yeah. On the screen, like.

[Interviewer]

Yeah. How many times have you watched that video?

[Ken Griffin Representative or Spokesperson]

Three. Three.

[Interviewer]

What do you got to do about it?

[Ken Griffin Representative or Spokesperson]

I couldn't help myself.

[Interviewer]

You had to what?

[Ken Griffin Representative or Spokesperson]

I had to go back and look at it again. I mean, like, you literally look at the first time and you're like, you got to be kidding me. Okay. And then the second time, you're like, you know what? This is actually. This has gone from creepy to actually, not really creepy. This has gone frightening because, you know, the CEO of United Healthcare was killed just a few blocks from my house. And anything that creates, like, an agitation in the extremist on either side of the aisle is a frightening dynamic.

[Mark Levin]

That's true. Very true. Nonetheless, Manda made a press conference yesterday. He will not be moved because he's a Marxist Islamist ideologue. Cut seven. Go.

[Interviewer]

Ken Griffin yesterday was speaking about calling your video again. He Called it creepy and weird. Said that again that you targeting him has just been very unfair. And he said that he's going to be doubling down his investments in Florida rather than New York City. And so I just wanted to get your take. What sort of conversations have you had with him since that video? Have you spoken with him? And what sort of concerns are you having when it comes to potential job losses? Are you looking at ways to, I guess, build up?

[New York City Official (Likely Eric Adams)]

So I'll, I'll first just start by saying that I want all New Yorkers to succeed. That includes business owners and entrepreneurs who create good paying jobs, who make this city the economic engine not just of our state, but frankly of our country. And that also includes Ken Griffin, who is a major employer in our city. That does not negate the fact, however, that our tax system is fundamentally broken. It rewards extreme wealth while working people are pushed to the brink.

[Mark Levin]

Now, with all due respect, and I don't live in New York, but that's not true. When I look at the data, 50% of the taxes paid are paid by the wealthiest. And yet many of you who aren't the wealthiest in New York, you're still paying 30 through the nose, right? So something is wrong. Not with the tax system. Something is wrong with guys like him. It's the politicians who create the tax system. And these Democrats are killing your city. Killing it. They hate business, they hate entrepreneurship. I don't care if you're running a pizzeria, which is not easy, or you have a little plumbing outfit or electrical outfit or something like that. It's hard to run anything anymore in New York City. The regulations, the red tape, unbelievable. The health department, unbelievable. Everybody tells me the property taxes through

[Shopify Advertiser]

the roof,

[Mark Levin]

the business taxes through the roof, the sales taxes, everything else.

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

So people aren't going to buy there,

[Mark Levin]

they'll buy somewhere else. And less and less people are going to go there because he's undermining law enforcement and security too. He's chasing out the successful people. And they're not all billionaires. They're a lot of working people. He's chasing them out. He's pushing them out. He's pushing out groups he doesn't like, like Jews. He's pushing them out. This is all planned. It's all planned. He doesn't care about the vitality of New York. I want you to think about this. What is his voter base? His voter base isn't businessmen, small or large. His voter base isn't blue collar workers. His voter base. Not the cops and the firefighters, not the Emergency personnel.

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

The voter base.

[Mark Levin]

It's not the plumbers, it's not the electricians. It's not the roofers and the other construction workers. What's his voter base? Welfare recipients.

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

Wealthy ideologues, leftists,

[Mark Levin]

many of whom inherited their wealth. They're bringing in as many illegal aliens as they can, as many Islamists as they can. This is his base. It's not you. It's not you. Terrible. Then there's aoc, another genius. Cut six. Go.

[Minky Couture Advertiser]

There's a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned, right? You can't earn a billion dollars.

[Interviewer]

That's right.

[Minky Couture Advertiser]

You just can't earn that.

[Mark Levin]

Listen, this. This Ileana Glazer is another moron. I don't know who she's with. Does it really matter? And had to Breitbart picking this up. Now let's think about what this doofus said. She knows nothing about commerce. Zero. She knows about pouring drinks. And you know what? I have some friends, restaurant I go to. Bartender. Smart as hell. She's dumb as can be. Dumb as can be. There's a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned. That is unearned.

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

You can't earn a billion dollars.

[Mark Levin]

You just can't earn that.

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

What does that even mean? If you invent something and 310 million

[Mark Levin]

people in this country want to purchase

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

it, you become a billionaire. If you create a service and people get used to it and they want to use it and the price is right, you become a billionaire for 300

[Mark Levin]

and some million people.

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

Some of our greatest industries that created the great middle class resulted in men becoming multi billionaires. Look at Apple and our computers. Look at Microsoft. Look at how the automobile industry began. How did we get electricity? Housing developments, affordable housing. I could go on and on.

[Mark Levin]

Food companies.

[Rich (Co-host or Guest Analyst)]

People become wealthy not because they're stealing from anybody. They create wealth. They create prosperity. Everybody can't be a billionaire. Everybody can't be a multimillionaire. But people can be comfortable. And we have more people who are comfortable in this society than in any other place on the face of the earth. Not because of Marxism, not because of socialism, not because of Islamism, but in spite of all of them.