Mark Levin PodcastJune 20, 20261h 8m

The Best Of Mark Levin - 6/20/26

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It's all quiet in the underground bunker. Doys 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. Last week, I told you about Social Security. It's a big deal. And it is now... expected to go broke even sooner than had been predicted some time ago. I want to circle back to that, but before I do, you know, I noticed something, ladies and gentlemen. I noticed that this memorandum of understanding is not public. It hasn't been public all weekend. We have the vice president who insisted on being called a senior administration official for a while, briefing certain individuals, hosts, news people, but not you. I don't think you want your information washed through other people. And even they haven't had access to the MOU. Now, it was signed electronically on Sunday. It's Monday evening. We're told maybe in 24, 48 hours we'll see it. The enemy has it. Iran. Qatar has it. Pakistan has it. We the people don't have it. And yet it is supposed to be formally signed again. I think it was Friday. So Iran has it. Qatar has it. Pakistan has it. We don't have it. And Israel doesn't have it. Odd how we're treating an ally, isn't it? Very, very odd, and I'm going to tell you why. I'm going to tell you why it's hot. One second here. I will tell you that, hold on one second, Mr. Producer. I want to read what I posted. I don't think I can. Here it is. I'm going to tell you why. Nothing we do in terms of a deal will change the behavior of this enemy. If you don't believe that, you don't know what we're dealing with. If you do believe that, then you know that for them, deals are made to be broken. Put aside all the idiocy and static about who loves whom and who does not. That's the game of online thugs and bots. We're dealing with an ideologically committed terror state that has slaughtered thousands of our fellow Americans, thousands of people in surrounding countries, thousands of Iranians, and as President Trump said, saw nuclear weapons so they could actually use them to kill us. There was a time not long ago when we never negotiated with terrorists or terror regimes. Today we have dealt with intermediaries and now directly with terrorists. And a senior administration official even declared some or many of them now believe their 47 years of murder, rape, torture, terrorism was a mistake. Do you believe that? That they believe it was a mistake? That's pretty shocking, don't you think? The regime is still executing innocent young people at a record pace as I speak. You wouldn't know it during the last several days. They don't even come up anymore. The reporters don't even ask about them. Exactly how has this regime changed?

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How? How has this regime changed? Yes, former leaders are gone, but the regime remains. The ideology remains. The IRGC, their SS remains, all 200,000 of them. And as you can tell, they're not rolling over. We're much more accommodating than we were at the outset. Let's not fool ourselves. Ready? This is why all the pressure and berating of Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu. They simply cannot and must not accommodate the enemy as we wish. In a ways we would never tolerate in our homeland, or in ways the Arabs or Turkey or Pakistan, insist they should. We can't be browbeaten by online thugs or anybody else into silence or sit ignorantly why while all this is swirling around and we wait for the actual language of the memorandum of understanding. We want the information and we want to express our opinions. Again, this isn't about what team you're on or a loyalty test or whatever. It's a big damn deal. And we as a people in a nation, we want to get this right. And as far as I'm concerned, many of us are ardent supporters of the president and the administration, and we want to be helpful and provide our own input based on our experiences and knowledge. Indeed, not everyone in government has all the answers and wisdom, and too damn many of them are leaking and pushing their own policies and agendas, apart from the presidents. I know for a fact that Donald Trump is a great and historic president. I know he's a decent and compassionate man who cares deeply about all this. The same can be said about Benjamin Netanyahu, lost his brother in war and was himself injured in battle. The Israeli ambassador lost his eldest son. The early days of the war against Hamas and Gaza a few years back. Neither of our nations are led by dictators or kings, like those that surround Israel, they all have dictators and kings. And we're dealing with a death cult that has seized control of Iran and is more blood on its hands than we can measure. The Iranian regime has not and will never change its ideology. And therein lies the problem, doesn't it? As nearly half a century of evil behavior is demonstrated in their own religious and political leaders and books and preachings make abundantly clear. They're about a cause, a revolution. They will not rest until it is exported everywhere, including into our country, as Allah is said to command them. This is the reality. We are their enemy. Whether we want to be or not. They're at war with us, whether we are or not. We, you see, must be destroyed. Those who insist a deal can be made and that it's preferable, well, they have to prove it. That's the way our system works. And I'm, for one, very glad about it. So prove it. What's happening now...

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is some of the people in the administration who've led this, who've been involved in it, are trying to control the coverage. That's not going to work. It's not going to last. You and me, Mr. and Mrs. America, we the people, this is our country, this is our government. And Congress isn't going to put up with it either for long. So I'm not sure what the game plan is or why it's being done. One of the things I thought, well, maybe it's just not done. Maybe they signed off on something, but they're still going back and forth. Well, if that's the case, then don't sign off on it. Then you have morons like Jack Poseyobiac or whatever the hell his name is, and none of you have ever heard of this guy before, likes to hang around with people who support terror regimes. That's right. A guy named Myron. He wore a shirt who was, you know, mocking the fact that they're cooking six million cookies, meaning Jews. That's who Posbiak is. He runs something called Human Events, which used to be an outstanding conservative publication. I used to know the owners there and the writer's there. This guy's an IQ of a Comquot. And he actually worked for Turning Point USA, which is part of the problem, these miscreants and malcontents, and worse. He works for Turning Point USA. You can go online and see. Keeps talking about the neocons. What he means is the Jews.

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Now, he's an Iranian supporter by the way he speaks and the way he acts. And you ought to look at his background. They all have these sort of fascistic connections or supremacist's connections, very, very evil people. And I should tell you, ladies and gentlemen, we've tried to reach out to a couple of these slugs, these thugs, to bring them on the radio show. They don't respond. They don't respond. They don't want to come on the radio show. They're all tough online. Very tough. They throw around slogans like Marxists. Oh, you must be a neocon. I don't know. Was Trump a neocon? He decided to go to war, correctly so in my view, for the thousand reasons I've given, for a thousand times. They opposed them. They opposed them. And yet, it's the neocomish the got us into all this. They don't understand the enemy is the Islamist regime in Tehran. The enemy is the fascist regime in Moscow. The enemy is the communist regime in Beijing. It's not you and me. It's not Israel. It's not Taiwan. And it's not Ukraine. But they think it is. They think it is, and they think that they're maga. No, they're maggots. There's a big difference. He's certainly not alone. There's many of them. You've got guys online, these thugs who want this to be a debate about whether Donald Trump is a good man or not. He's a great man. That's not the debate. Seems to me we citizens have a responsibility. It's our country. We want to know what's going on. And then we give our opinion. Isn't that a good thing, Mr. Producer? We want to know what's going on. We don't want to leave it to Washington, D.C. elites, Democrats or Republicans. Media or not. We get to participate. That's the whole reason for the 250th anniversary of our country, the Declaration of Independence, the consent of the government. And if the memorandum of understanding is this fantastic document, as some are telling us, I can't wait to read it. I really can't. But time will tell. We shall see. For instance, there's a $300 billion pot of money that is, I guess, funded by Gulf states. That'll be available if... the Iranian regime meets certain demands. Let me ask you something, Mr. and Mrs. America, just based on that. If you're the Iranian regime and you're not going to give up your goal, you're just not going to say it, which is destroy us, Israel, and Europe and murder Muslims who don't agree with you, like people in your own country, how are you going to play that? How are you going to play that? Isn't the way for them to play it, is to meet those requirements, then have access to the money, and do whatever the hell they want to do, Mr. Medusa? How do we stop them? How do we stop them? See, this is how you create forever wars. You know, as Patton said, when our armies were in Europe,

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And first FDR and then Truman said, we've got to return home as fast as we can. Patton said, but our army's here. We're going to have to deal with these bastards. Let's deal with them now. Now, whether you agree with that or not, under those circumstances, the fact is, we've got a big percentage of our military sitting there waiting in the Middle East. They and the Israeli military have crushed the Iranian military. So you might ask yourself, what are we waiting for? I don't know. I know that Turkey didn't want us to continue. I know Saudi Arabia and Qatar didn't want us to continue. I know that Pakistan didn't want us to continue because they're very close to Iran. Well, how do those interests align with ours? Mark Levin. Folks, Mark Levin here with a new episode of On the Frontlines, my original podcast series and partnership with the great international fellowship of Christians and Jews. This week's episode, Nations Under God, comes at a remarkable moment. America's 250th anniversary and a decades-long friendship with the state of Israel that remains as vital as ever. Joining me is Yalel Eckstein, the great president and CEO of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. as we explore how this alliance was built. From Truman's recognition of Israel to the leaders and moments that shaped the partnership rooted not just in strategy, but in shared faith and values. We'll look at how that bond has endured through the decades, why it still matters at a time of global uncertainty, and what's at stake if the next generation forgets the history and principles behind it. On the Frontlines isn't about looking back. It's about understanding what must be carried forward. Find the latest episode of On the Frontlines on the Mark Levin show podcast feed wherever you get your podcast. Subscribe now and join us on the front lines of freedom, faith, and fellowship.

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Making your weekend even better. This is the best of Mark Levin. Vice President advanced texted me earlier. Yeah, we've texted from time to time. And asked to come on the program. I'm happy to have him. We've given him basically every day this week except Friday and any time during the program. So we'll see if that works out. I don't know why people think we're going to mud wrestle. We're not going to mud wrestle. It's going to be very... polite, very civil, and we've got questions, and I've been watching them on TV. He's got a lot of answers, too, so we'll raise some of the questions. It's no big deal. Here's Morgan. We tried to get him on radio the other day. Mr. producer sent an email to their producer, and we know the email address is correct. They never responded, so we're not going to be responding to him. These people, they just need clicks and eyes, and it is a constant state of hysteria and imbecility. And that's not what I'm about here. There's another guy, Bosovoje. I don't even know this guy, Jack Posobiak, with his neo-fascistic in my view, background and Vladimir Putin-supporting background. For some reason, he's a T.P. USA. He's another one. Then there's this guy, Crispy. Congressman in New Jersey said that this guy is a well-known, long-time self-promoting hack. So I'm just tired of helping to promote old men on podcasts, nut jobs, on podcasts, and not jobs in some dark corner of a state like New Jersey. Doesn't that make sense, Mr. Medusa? I've got friends telling me, don't engage with these people. No, I'll engage from time to time, of course. But this is all they do. Now, we're going to start with this threat of the UFC Freedom 250 White House, because this is a big deal to me. It's a very big deal. Now, it's getting attention, particularly in the conservative media, but it's being downplayed by the rest of the media. Here it is, New York Post. And yes, then we'll move into Iran and some other issues. Heavily armed TikTokers. plotted to attack UFC Freedom 250 White House event after railing against Trump, billionaires, and Israel, Fed say. Now, this sounds to me like a lot of woke right types, doesn't it, Mr. Reducer? Trump, billionaires, and Israel, and remember, the woke right and the Marxist Islamist left have a significant overlap. And it goes on, fanatical TikTokers armed with assault rifles plotted to attack the UFC Freedom 250 at the White House South Lawn Sunday night. This is really quite shocking. After revving each other up over Jeffrey Epstein, you see, you see all these conspiracy nuts with all this stuff all the time? And you have members of Congress, Thomas Massie, Luna. They're not the only ones, of course. Roe Conant and so forth. You create these conspiracies, these whack job things. And there's a lot of people who believe them. Or that Israel got us into the war. Does it look today like Israel controls Donald Trump or that I control Donald Trump? It's all lunacy. It's sick. So they were revving each other up. New York Post says in their article as they looked at the complaint filed.

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over Jeffrey Epstein, billionaires, Israel, and a hatred of Donald Trump, according to court papers and sources who spoke with the Post. Now, this hatred of Donald Trump is also part of the woke, Reich mentality. There's a desperate effort, particularly online, by a couple of individuals, to try and take traditional constitutional conservatives. and then say, see, you agree with the woke right. You don't agree with this MOU. I haven't even seen the MOU. Nobody has seen the MOU. To the extent the vice president talks about it or somebody in the administration talks about it or it's leaked to certain of the favorite reporters and so forth. We talk about it. What are we supposed to do? Not talk about it, but what I haven't done is used any of the Iranian material because I don't use Iranian news sources. In multiple, listen to this, the multiple phase plot called for explosive drones to strike the south lawn during the event, forcing attendees to flee outside the White House where a sniper team could pick them off officials and prosecutors said. So this is a well-thought-up mass slaughter that they had in mind. Now, the FBI filed the zealots plans by infiltrating signal chat groups where they were planning, quote, a coordinated attack, unquote, to kill President Trump and other government officials, according to federal criminal complaints and affidavits unsealed today. At least five suspects were arrested last week and up to 10 others are wanted in connection with the plot, law enforcement said, look at the size of this group. that was conspiring to commit an act of mass murder, including the President of the United States. The suspects face up to life in prison for the murder charges and up to five years for conspiring to commit an act of violence at the White House. The quote, ultra-religious, unquote, guerrillas espoused, quote, anti-government, unquote, or anti-Israel views and had initially started plotting in a TikTok group called Vanguard of the Old in March 2026, just a few months ago, before moving conversations to a private signal group called Hunters. Hunters is a name that's been given to individuals. in our country who are hunting down Jews, just so you know. The quintet was charged in at least four states, California, Ohio, Missouri, and Nebraska. We conspiring to murder members of the government and others after the parent of one alerted local police. President Trump, Vice President JD Vance, tech billionaire Elon Musk, and Israeli Prime Minister were all named as potential targets. In addition to members of Congress and a West Virginia state lawmaker, according to court documents. As many and as deadly as we can get, said suspected ringleader Abraham Hermosio Alvarez in one of the messages. Another, Tyson Proper, was arrested on June 10 after his mother notified the Danville, Ohio Police Department and Knox County Sheriff's Office of concerns about her son's recent firearms purchases.

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and communicating with certain individuals online, according to an affidavit file in the Southern District of Ohio. Those persons claim to be ex-military Christian base, the mother later said in a phone interview with the FBI Task Force officer. Now, their grievances included government corruption, the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files. How many talk radio buffoons? How many podcast buffoons, how many members of Congress buffoons, have been pushing this Epstein stuff? And they keep telling us they're going to release names. They don't release names. They've got millions and millions of pages of documents. I don't even know what it is they're looking for, quite frankly. But the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, I mean, who brings this up? Tucker Carlson, Rogan, who else? A lot of them. Nick Fuentes? These conspiracies, ladies and gentlemen, they have consequences. And I guarantee you that will not curb what's going on with these people behind these microphones. It'll slow them down and then it'll pick right up again.

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Proper's mother had overheard him speaking on the phone and mentioning that he was undergoing physical training for recon and hit-and-run missions, which she understood to mean conducting shootings. Her son had been leaning heavily into his Christian beliefs, but she expressed that those in the chat groups have been using religion to manipulate and influence her son. Christian beliefs? Well, Christian beliefs don't preach slaughtering people, that's for sure. In one of the private chat groups, the suspects debating a debated targeting Senator Marsha Blackburn, Senator Jim Justice, Senator Shelley Moore, as well as West Virginia GOP representatives Carol Miller, Riley Moore, and state delegate Tristan Levitt. I got a possible target. There's a quote. Marsha Blackburn is senator from Tennessee. Properer said on May 13 in the chat. responding that she was a target because the Republican had taken money from the pro-Israel lobby and supports them. So this is the whole A-PAC thing that you're hearing relentlessly. From the Jew haters, from the Trump haters, from the Christian haters, A-PAC. Now, all these woke-Rike types have used A-PAC. You can go online and you can see it. And you can see it. It is incredibly chilling that this suspect named me as a potential talking along with other lawmakers' blackburn posted on X. I will not let maniacs like this one deter me from celebrating or serving this great nation, and I am grateful to law enforcement for keeping us safe. I'll say, what a fantastic job to the FBI Secret Service, local police forces, and sheriff's offices. You guys are fantastic. Now, Leavitt, one of the targeted lawmakers, told the New York Post, I'm not intimidated and I will not be silenced and standing up for the people of West Virginia or our allies, including Israel. Isn't it funny, Mr. Producer, Israel is so prominent in all this now? Israel, APEC, Jews. I keep warning people, you're playing with fire, and it's going to blow up. It's a very dangerous thing.

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And when they were going to kill people at the UFC event, they were killing everybody there. They wanted to kill the president, the vice president. It didn't matter their faith. And I keep trying to explain people, this is a bigger poison. This is a bigger cancer. And yet it's still there. I dare to go on Twitter or X. I dare to go on there. I dare to go on there and look at any single thing I have posted and then look at the comments. Look at some of the people who comment. Look what they say. Shockingly, they work for an institute that I went to at one point and got an award from. Look at that. Look at one of these guys from TPUSA, for God's sakes. Look at it. And Steve Bannon with the Tel Aviv Levin. I don't mind that, but I know what he's doing. He's telling all the nut jobs. There's the Jew. Get the Jew. I know what he's doing. He knows what he's doing. It goes on. Each image was lifted from the website trackapac.com. And you know what's behind that? A Marxist. An overseas Marxist has set up this site, track APEC.com, which is used online by some of these people who pretend to be Trump supporters, conservatives, America First, MAGA. This is what we're up against, you and me, which opposes the lobbying work of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and records how much money politicians received from pro-Israel contributions. And others have posted how minimal they are compared to some of these other groups, which is massive. The president was bragging today about trillions of dollars coming to our country from Qatar. Look, the president views that as a wonderful thing. I view it as a very dangerous thing. But we're allowed to have a difference of opinion. I don't stab him in the chest in the back, and he doesn't me. There's a difference. There's a difference. I have people in the audience here. Some of you who disagree with me, and you're wonderful. And that's okay. When executing a search warrant on the home where proper lived with his parents, FBI agents, and local law enforcement find a large quantity of boxes of spent ammunition, spent cards with casings, and other tactical clothing. Family members also drew the authority's attention to comments proper had made online, expressing sympathy for Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. Got that Nick Fuentes? As well as other anti-Semitic statements. Proper recently spent 3,000 of his high school graduation money on camping gear, food, ballistic plates, a new shotgun, a rifle, lots of ammo, extra magazines, and plate carriers, his father told authorities. Proper confessed to investigators on June 11 interview that he had been planning the coordinated attack with others to jumpstart a revolution in the U.S. because they believed the country was headed into the wrong direction and needed to be torn down. so that it could be rebuilt. Mark Levin.

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And that's how it works. And it's okay. And it's okay. You know, a few decades ago when I was working in the Reagan administration, as chief of staff to Attorney General Meese, the Immigration and Naturalization Service was in the Department of Justice. They changed the name and they shipped it off the Department of Homeland Security years after we left when they created that department. While I was there, and I was chief of staff for a period, I argued strenuously against a deal with congressional Democrats where the president would agree to grant citizenship to 2.3 million illegal aliens in exchange for promised funds to better secure the border. We controlled the Senate but not the House. And Tip O'Neill ran the House. And he kept blocking every effort to secure the border further. President Reagan made the deal. He did as promised. But the Democrats reneged. They never intended to comply. Nonetheless, I will always adore President Reagan. He was truly a great president. He did so many wonderful things for our country and around the world. He destroyed the Soviet Union. He massively increased the private sector in our prosperity in this country, slashed taxes to unbelievable levels, and so many other wonderful things. I campaigned for him twice, but I couldn't get over this issue with granting citizenship to illegal aliens.

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I have my disagreements with this memorandum of understanding. I don't understand parts of it. I don't mean that I can't comprehend them. I just don't understand them. In fact, as you know, if you've listened to this program, I've said over and over again, any deal with this enemy will be violated. Perhaps not during President Trump's term, but thereafter for sure. I don't believe they'll ever honor any agreement anyway. And I've made my points generally known, and I'm going to be very specific about them this evening with you, because in some ways this is a complicated agreement, in some ways it's fairly simplistic. But I adore President Trump, and I always will adore President Trump. He's a great president, and he too is doing great things for our country and around the world. The worst... The worst kind of person you can be to yourself is to not be true to your principles. And the worst kind of person you could be to a friend, if you're advising a friend, if you're working for a president, is just to be a yes man or just to be a no man for that matter. Just be a man or a woman. That works. So I will tell you, I'll begin now, we'll continue after the break. What I think about this from a more micro perspective, now that we have more information. So before commenting directly on the MOU, context is critical. When President Trump decided to go to war with the Iranian regime, it was a courageous decision by every measure. He's known and made clear for decades that Iran poses a grave threat to our country and criticized the failure of... presidents to deal with it. Indeed, I first met President Trump before he was president in September 2015 at a huge rally of the Tea Party patriots from the steps of the Capitol building. Several of us spoke that day. Jenny Beth Martin led the group, as she does now. Wonderful lady. And there were thousands and thousands of you, conservatives. Tea Party Patriots on the steps of the Capitol building. And we urged Congress to defeat Obama's nuclear deal in no uncertain terms. The most eloquent and inspiring speech was delivered by Donald Trump. He made the moral and national security case for defeating the Iranian regime and against the Obama seller. He knew intuitively and by watching what the Iranian regime was doing and had done. that it must be denied nuclear weapons no matter the cost. Despite the knowingly false allegations of very evil propagandists, the president has never wavered from his position, and he was not convinced or pulled dragging and kicking by Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, or the Jews to fight this war.

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President Trump ordered this military operation to prevent Iran from getting and using nuclear weapons. In the early days of the war, it was a spectacular success. For some reason, his ceasefire was quickly ordered, and it lasted for over two months, despite the scores of violations by Iran and Hezbollah. Great damage has been done to Iran's military. And as I said, the president deserves enormous credit for having the courage to do what no other president did before him. My fear, again, is that no other president after him will have the same courage to act should the terms of any agreement be violated. The president then ordered a two-day return to military operations when the Iranian regime took out one of our helicopters. Yeah, it was quickly ended on a promise by the regime that it would sign on to an MOU. And from day one, I've underscored that no deal will be honored by these terrorists. Its political, theocratic ideology fuels a revolution that compels the catastrophic destruction of the West. We've been through that at great length. And presumably the President knew this, as he repeatedly warned, If Iran got a nuclear weapon, it would use it against us. Pretty serious, don't you think, folks? And Iran's pattern of conduct over the last 47 years makes clear that it uses negotiations as a tactic to further its aims. But we abandoned the military destruction of Iran, and we did not use all of our capabilities to destroy the regime. In fact, some were even saying that's not our goal. We certainly didn't arm the Iranian people, but we looked for a off-ramp, as they call it, very odd phrase, an off-ramp, in part due to polling and gas prices. To be clear, there was never a plan to use ground forces or be involved in a forever war. These are straw men that are thrown out there by some. Indeed, in my view, if the MOU is not drastically altered during this 60-day negotiation period, a forever war, a continuation of Iran's war on the West, is not in doubt. So what does this MOU involve? And I was working from the closest draft of the MOU publicly available at the time, and it's very close as it turns out. which was fundamentally accurate. Mark Levin. The great one makes your weekend even better. This is the best of Mark Levin. Meo my, pizza pie. Meo-Mio Pizza Buy. You know what? Let's open the phones. 877-381-3-8-1. I wasn't even going to do this. I've now spooked Mr. Producer and Mr. Call-Sgren. You know what's interesting, ladies and gentlemen, to me, you look at these NATO countries, and not one of them helped us in this war. Not one. You look what England with its Quisling leader, so-called leader, Keir Starmer,

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has done to their military, has done to their country. He won't lift the finger to support us. You look at Emmanuel Macron, the president spent a lot of time with him. I'm not sure why, but he won't lift the finger to help us either. Troubling, isn't it? We're taking a third of our jets out of there, apparently. Then you look at this little country of Israel, nine, nine and a half million people. The third largest air force in the world. Some of the best fighters in the world. Some of the best intelligence in the world. We didn't go to war with Iran on our own. The president decided to go to war. He wanted to take out those nukes correctly. Absolutely 100%. And we allied with Israel. The Saudis weren't involved. Qatar wasn't involved, Egypt wasn't involved, Turkey and NATO country, they weren't involved, who was involved? So together, the United States and Israel were a one-two punch, incredibly powerful. Within 24 hours, Khomeini was taken out. The top tier was taken out. That took a lot of intelligence, mostly the Mossad and human intelligence in Iran that had been working with Israel from day one. Our Air Force, our Navy, the munitions we have are second to none. And Israel is a mighty, mighty powerful force for a tiny country for any country. Israel has a larger air force than France and a larger air force than England, for God's sakes, and a larger air force than Germany. And it's now selling advanced technology, military technology, Germany, and India, and Greece, and other countries. It has improved our F-35. It improved our Bradley because there's so many battles that they've had to fight.

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So why would we pick a fight with Israel? What is going on? They out of control? Is the prime minister an issue? While they weren't out of control and he wasn't an issue last June when they cleared the field for 12 days in Iran and they weren't out of control and the prime minister wasn't a problem when we decided to go to war on February 28th. As I recall, our great Secretary of War and our great head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Higgs, Seth, and Kane, they had daily press conferences talking about the great achievements of our military, side by side. In fact, talking about like they've never done this before. We've never seen anything like this before. Now, three months later, Benjamin Netanyahu is a crazy F. He can't be restrained. Because Hezbollah is firing missiles and flying drones into their country on a daily basis under what's called a ceasefire. And they're literally having to move their population, depopulate northern Israel. Now that's like depopulating northern New Jersey. It's a tiny country. And then they started firing these missiles and sending these drones into central Israel, all at the direction of Iran. All at the direction of Iran. This Hezbollah has murdered hundreds and hundreds of our service personnel, including Marines, over 200 Marines, and a Marine barrack in Beirut. I believe JD Vance was a Marine, wasn't he, Mr. Producer? They blew up two of our embassies. Killed over 100 of our personnel. Kobar Towers. In Saudi Arabia, more military personnel slaughtered. That's just three instances. Hezbollah was never part of Lebanon. Hezbollah was sent into Lebanon by Iran in the late 70s during the revolution in the early 80s. They assassinated the president, the duly elected president of Lebanon. Lebanon really was a beautiful, beautiful country right there on the Mediterranean. People had to flee. It was a majority Christian country. Now it's about 35%, 40% Christian. They are abused. They are killed. They don't want Hezbollah there. The government's not strong enough to push them out because the government's been infiltrated by Hezbollah. The army's too weak. It can't outgun Hezbollah. And Hezbollah has remained as the most powerful military force that Iran has, given what Israel and the United States did to Iran. So Israel is left by itself to fight Iran's Hezbollah wing. The problem is Iran won't make an agreement. unless we agree and the Arab countries agree that Israel leaves Lebanon and stops firing in self-defense. Now we get some mealy-mout gibberish from our side, which says, yeah, you can do it, just don't do too much, don't do it on Fridays, you know, it's just absurd in the middle of a war.

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Israel's not the first one yet again to fire at Hezbollah. Hezbollah fires at Israel, but they want to preemptively do to Hezbollah what we and they did preemptively to Iran. They want to put an end to this. The Lebanese government, the president there, has made statement after statement saying Iran has no right to drag us into this agreement, that Iran has no say in our sovereign nation. And they want Hezbollah disarmed and removed. So who's going to disarm and remove Hezbollah? In the early 1980s, there was an agreement sign that Hezbollah would be disarmed and removed. They ripped it up in two years. And there they are. Decades later. But we so desperately want a deal, and I understand it. But I'm focusing on one specific point. That the language, and item number one basically says, actually says, that there will be a cessation of military operations and that war is permanently ended. Permanently ended, even before we have a final deal. And within that construct, we include Lebanon.

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Now, you know Iran's going to have Hezbollah, as it did during the ceasefire, as it did today, by the way, fire multiple missiles into Israel. And you know Israel's not going to put up with that for long. Israel is not England. Israel is not France. And so it will be Israel that is going to be blamed. That's the setup. If the deal, quote, unquote, doesn't go through. Now, we know that. The enemy knows that. So what's going on here? Well, the enemy sees this, and you know what they see? Man, are those Americans desperate? So Hezbollah, you keep firing missiles in there, and if Israel responds, of course, we'll break down the whole thing. So the vice president made statements today. You can go online and catch it yourself that I thought were way over the top. He's accusing cabinet members of attacking Donald Trump. We went back and looked. Others have gone back and looked. We can't find any such thing. I can't find it. If it's there, somebody will find it, but we can't find it. If you're going to say it as vice president, then you need to have the receipts. And if not, you need to apologize. And it's not the first place or the last place where he's done this.

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And then he says, you know, you get two-thirds your arms from us. First of all, how does he, has that number off the top of his head? And so the alliance, which Israel provides an enormous amount of intelligence, and they said today, hey, look, we have provided you with an extreme number of intelligence. We saved a lot of American lives. We wanted to do that. And we have a... An expert, John Spencer, who's written at length, and I've posted it, how the Israelis take our equipment and improve it. Because they're actually battle-hardened, and much of our stuff is not. They've improved the F-35. They've improved most of our land vehicles. They've improved other jets. They've improved our missiles. And they just give us the technology. They're at the cutting edge of lasers. They're giving us the technology. Much of the technology we're going to use for the Golden Globe, even though they don't get credit from the administration, is from Israel. And the Germans are buying that technology as are other countries. This isn't to brag about Israel, to pat them on the back. This is to say what was said about them and our relationship was very inappropriate. Moreover, what wasn't said also, was that the vast majority of money that they've been getting of the $3.8 billion. Think about that, $3.8 billion. Of the $3.8 billion never leaves our country. 3.3 billion of it stays right here and goes right into our industries, paying for American jobs and pensions and health care. Right here. It's just a budget, a budget change. That is, they move one number from the book to this book. I'm not denying it. It happens. I'm just explaining it's not, oh, here's $3.8 billion from the Treasury, do whatever you want with it. That's not what it is. It's just very troubling to me. That's the way they're treated in a memorandum of understanding after they fought side by side with us. You don't treat an ally that way. or you're not going to have a lot of allies. That's the problem with NATO. We have allies in name only, on paper only. And we may well need them again because Iran's not going away. $300 billion. I looked it over. I've heard how this was explained, but the way it's being explained isn't the way it's in the memorandum of understanding. The bottom line for you folks is this. They're going to get around $300 billion. Could be more. not directly from us. First, it'll be given to Muhammad, who we'll give it to Spencer. Spencer will give it the Nancy, Nancy will give it the Fred, and then Fred will give it to the Iranian regime. Okay, big deal. We're going to lift sanctions immediately. We have $24 billion of their money. They're going to get the $24 billion. The Strait of Hormoz was opened immediately, and it's reduced the price of gasoline, which is what we've wanted here. But it's not just that. There's only a 60-day period, a 60-day period, two months, in which what happens? In which there's free, unadulterated passage. After that, the Iranians can charge, and hence the Iranians will manage it. That has never been accepted before. When they try that under Reagan, he blew half their Navy away in 24-48 hours.

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And it's a bad precedent because communist China has claimed the South China Sea and it's built all these phony islands. No, that's international navigable waters. The Straits of Hormouth, that's international navigable waters. But not after this. Not after this. Oh, in the nuclear part, and the rich uranium part is all the way down number eight out of number 14. Number eight. And it doesn't say anything about how this will be handled. Nothing. Nothing definitive. But don't worry, Mark. It'll be 60 days worth. Well, don't give up leverage. Don't give up leverage before that issue. Nuclear weapons and nuclear dust, that is, uranium, isn't resolved. It has to be resolved. Ballistic missiles aren't covered. Don't fund terror organizations? That's not covered. So I raise all these things because I want them to improve what's been done in the next 60 days in this deal that is inevitable. So let me tell you what nobody else is going to tell you in this business, not one. I see the ambassador to the U.S. from Israel posted the following on Twitter. Yesterday, Hamas. fired into Israel at 1015, one IED, at 1057, two explosive UAVs. At 1235, nine rockets. At 1237, two rockets. At 1237, two rockets. At 1251, one ballistic missile. At 1256, two rockets. At 1304, six rockets. At 1653, two rockets. At 1731, three rockets. 1736, one rocket. At 1824, two rockets. At 1839, five rockets. At 1850, five rockets. At 1854, two rockets. At 1912, five rockets. At 1921, four rockets. 1937, three rockets. 1946, six rockets. 1256, six rockets. That's just yesterday. Doesn't sound like two drones in the middle of a desert to me. Mark the Vin.

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Proud to be an American. Okay. What about this idea? Are you proud to be an American? Extremely or very proud to be an American. Again, look at this divide, a growing divide on this question. Back in January of 2001, 90% of Republicans, 85% of Democrats. This was after a very contentious 2000 election, keep in mind, right, with George W. Bush coming into the White House. You come over to this side of the screen in 2026. Look at this. Again, the Democratic percentage. Absolutely plummets to just 29% of Democrats say they're extremely are very proud to be an American. That Republican percentage, the exact same. 90 and 90, the Democratic percentage, what is that? That's basically a third of the level that it was just 25 years. Okay, so 29% of Democrats say they're extremely are very proud to be an American. 29%. 90% of Republicans. As we've been talking about, the Democrat Party is the party that reprobates. It's the party of the malcontents, the miscreants. It's the party of the Islamists. It's the party of the Marxists. And you've got some people who are there who are very patriotic and so forth. I just don't think they realize what they're surrounded with, at least most of them don't. Or they feel an attachment to the party because their parents were Democrats. But other than that. There is absolutely no reason to be a Democrat today. 29% of Democrats are not patriotic. That's what that says. 29%. So they're leaders and they're congressmen. They elect Islamists. They elect Marxists. They elect people who want to destroy our constitutional construct. You know, early on when we were dealing with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and then later with Zohran Mamdani, you would have people on TV Republicans who was talking about... You know, the base of the Democrat Party, the base, I said, it's not the base. It's the Democrat Party. The Democrat Party is this party. It's not just the base. And there you have it. It's not just the base. It's the Democrat Party. You know, it's upsetting, and I'm not going to play it. I don't think. Obama opens his new library. You couldn't tell it's a library. I don't even know what the hell it looks like. To me, it's incredibly ugly. And I don't mean to say that because he's a Democrat and it's Obama. I just think it's ugly. And this is going to be the headquarters for this Marxist movement now. Valerie Jarrett at the opening of the library. She's talked about a moment to recognize the original inhabitants of the land upon which we gathered today. Now, this is in Chicago. And we honor the Council of the Three Fires, the Okaboboobi, the Ottawa, the whatever, whatever, and another one in here. We acknowledge them. Stolen land. Obama says the founders fell short. slavery, white men, property. He has no conception of what was taking place, what took place. It's really one of the only governing systems that created a method to correct itself. And while slavery was taking place all over the world, including in Africa, and that's no excuse.

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And while the British kept shipping black slaves into this country, they set up a mechanism to deal with it. And then a civil war was fought because it wasn't completely dealt with. 700,000 casualties. There's not another country in the world that fought a civil war over slavery, not one. And there's still slavery taking place in Africa where black Muslims, terrorists, aren't slaving and raping black Christians. You barely hear about that. I'm guessing they didn't bring that up at the Obama presidential library. Taking place in the Middle East in horrendous ways. Taking place in Southeast Asia and communist China in horrendous ways. And North Korea in horrendous ways. We can pick out the countries. We know what's going on. But we don't talk about any of that. Any of it. Obama says its values or American values, not Democrat values. I don't think they're American or Democrat. I'm just being honest. I think they're radical left. Radical left. Eric Holder, he speaks and he trashes the Supreme Court trying to drive their negatives up so they can get support. To destroy it, they probably already have support. If only 29% of Democrats are patriotic, you know, this is what kills me. This is the greatest country man has ever imagined, put into practice. There's not a better one on the face of the earth, no matter what. And to listen to the way these people talk about it, they know full well that people from all over the world, every color, every background, every creed, every religion. are seeking to come into this country. There's not another country. You might say Europe. No, Europe, the government's filled with a bunch of suckers. They're easy targets. People want welfare and so forth. No, you don't come to America. You're not supposed to anyway. That's not what draws people here. It's different. It's different. Yes. Except to these people. Except to these people.