On Friday’s Mark Levin Show, Putin is now deciding what can and cannot be used on the battlefield. Specifically, regarding the MIG-29’s the Pentagon says Ukraine doesn’t need them because they won’t be beneficial. Isn’t it Ukraine that knows exactly what it needs and decides what’s beneficial for their survival? Interestingly, when Trump was president, he was undermined by the Pentagon, by the FBI, and these same characters are covering for Biden’s interference in the transfer of older U.S fighter jets to Poland so that Poland could donate MIG-29 jets to Ukraine. This program suspected that it was Biden that sabotaged this and today we know that he did. Then, World War III has begun, and the question is whether or not we can contain it and truncate it quickly. Will we use the deterrence of ‘peace through strength’ or continue to display weakness? Putin has created an axis of global states in alignment against the United States and with nuclear weapons pointed at our country. All who claim to be ‘America First’ and want to leave Ukraine alone are doing a grave disservice to the future of our nation’s national security. Later, Israeli Prime Minister Neftali Bennett says that Ukrainian President Zelensky should resign and surrender. Bennett should look at his own cemeteries filled with patriots who stood up to Israel’s enemies. Bennett is an embarrassment! Afterward, Seth Lipsky Editor of the New York Sun newspaper calls in to discuss developments of one of the few constitutionally focused publications in the country. Finally, Pennsylvania Attorney Dave McCormick joins the program with an update on his campaign for the US Senate. McCormick added that if Pennsylvania were a country, it would be the 4th largest producer of natural gas in the world.
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Rough transcript of Hour 1
Hour 1 Segment 1
Thank my buddy Ben Ferguson for sitting in last night. These MiG 29, our Defense Department says, well, Ukraine doesn’t really need them, doesn’t Ukraine know what it needs? Do we really need to hear from Austin and Millie in the spokes idiot over there who gave up 85 billion dollars worth of our equipment to the Taliban? Which is going to wind up in the hands of many of our enemies. Do we really do we really need to take these people seriously and the answer is no. And the amazing thing is what Donald Trump’s president of the United States, he has undermined. By leaders at the Pentagon. By generals at the Pentagon. By M.E. at the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he’s undermined by the director of the CIA, he’s undermined by. By individuals and federal law enforcement, when Biden’s in there, they cover up for him completely, 100 percent. Now, what do I mean by that? I’ve been talking about, you know, Mr. Producer said to me before the show, he said, you know, you’re able to put these things together. I don’t hear these others doing it. I put things together because I worked in the Reagan administration. I understand the bureaucracy. I understand politics. I’m not coming out of sports or coming out of whatever the hell to figure these things out. And so you got to really think through what’s going on. Watch what you’re being fed and then get behind it, that is read behind it. Read between the lines. First, there’s an offer of MiG 29. Then it’s shot down. Then this guy, Blinken, on virtually every Sunday show talking about how he’s working with our allies to figure out a way to facilitate. The transfer of MiG 29. To the Ukrainians. Then all of a sudden. Out of left field. It stops. And the entire government gets behind the administration. All of a sudden, the Defense Department says. It’s not going to be helpful to the Ukrainians. Well, of course, fighter jets will be helpful to the Ukrainians. It gives them an offensive posture. It gives them the ability to strafe and to attack and to defend. There’s no question about it. It’s so ridiculous what we’re hearing. So preposterous. And then we’re told that it not only can’t really help them, but Poland surprised the world with its announcement. And besides, we don’t want to escalate this into World War Three and nuclear weapons. And this as some of my brothers and sisters in the media. This is where they they began to wet themselves and crumble into into a mess. Let’s start from the beginning. March one, twenty twenty two, this is almost like the the spying on Trump that we talked about well before anybody else, but it’s just a matter of putting these things together. So let’s take a look. Ten days ago on Hannity, cut one go. The fact of the matter is they were going to be MiG 29 years old, Russian jets that that the Ukrainian pilots were going to get. And they’re used to flying those jets. They don’t have to be trained because that’s the same kind of jets they had. Poland was going to give them to him, some of the other countries. All of a sudden it stopped. Well, what happened? I worry about our our feckless buffoons at the State Department pulling that back. These people want to fight, but they can’t fight with their bare hands and rifles and pistols. I mean, they can, but that’s not going to win. That was March 1st. The next day on my radio show right here, March 2nd. Cut to go in something I mentioned on Hannity last night, I don’t understand why the MiG 29 that were promised the Ukrainians and their pilots fly MiG 29. Remember, Ukraine had been conquered by Russia before. I don’t understand why they weren’t delivered, because all of a sudden Poland and two or three other countries had had them. Stopped and I suspect Biden in our State Department. Why? Because I hate Biden. That’s quite beside the point. Because Biden is scared to death. A trigger for something bigger. And. What he is incapable of doing is showing deterrence. And, of course, we learn today. That it was Biden who stepped in and prevented the transfer of the MiGs. And not just the makes from going to our base in Germany to the Ukrainians, but the transfer of the makes from NATO or any NATO country wanting to do it on its own, such as Poland, period. Biden stopped it, just as I surmised. Nine days ago. It’s just like the letter from the National School Board Association that all of a sudden went to the Department of Justice. That it had gone out on a Friday evening, went to the White House. And then the next Monday, the Department of Justice acted on and I said, no, no, no, no, no, no, this was a setup. This was a setup by the National School Boards Association working with the Biden administration and working with the teachers unions. And by God, that’s what we have found out. Their sinister. Our enemies, our adversaries are sinister. This is what they do. And so on Wednesday, two days ago, I said this to you, cut three go. So now we’ve gone even further. We don’t want the Ukrainian pilots, the Ukrainian Air Force, to even have these mics, regardless of how they might get to Ukraine. And I said last week, I smell a rat. I smell a rat that it had to be Biden in his administration. That reversed course originally going from yes, we want to get the make twenty nine cents to no, then later. Yes, and now of course definitively I think no. But the first time it was No. And then Sunday on the Sunday shows, Blinken is talking about how we’re working with our allies to figure out how to work that out. No, they weren’t. They were never going to give them the minkes. Mm hmm. Now, why am I mentioning this, because how many more times are we going to hear about the great Joe Biden looking out for America leading from the front? How many more times are we going to hear this? I want to say another thing to the analysts out there who look at this situation. And I hope you’ll watch my show on Sunday, because yet again. I’m going to dig in very deeply and pound away with two brilliant men. General Kellogg, who worked for President Trump. And Richard Goldberg, who’s one of the foremost experts on matters relating to Iran, and I don’t think you’re going to want to miss this show two guests, that’s it. Not a conga line of guests like everybody else to guests. That’s it. And my monologue at the beginning of the show, 8:00 p.m. Sunday, Life, Liberty and Lytvyn. If you can’t watch it live, please go ahead and DVR it. I think it’s going to be a crucially important show. And one of the things I recognize is that these FOX shows are aired worldwide. Just as this radio show is worldwide. On the Internet and so forth, and my podcast is worldwide. This is worldwide. And that’s why it’s important to lay the framework you remember you heard people say that Putin is amassing his army on the borders, that doesn’t mean he’s going to invade. I’m not going to go back and bore you with the audio from this show. I said, of course he’s going to invade. You don’t bring a 150 to 200,000 infantry with tanks and personnel carriers and all the rest of it. Put them on your border, destroy all the roads around it as they get there, feed them, fuel their vehicles because you’re putting on a show. I said he was going to invade and he invaded. This is not complicated. The man has told us what he wants to do. Why don’t we believe what he wants to do, insane or not? Then this word escalate. You know, when I was a young man and the. And the first Cold War was going on. We use the word deterrence. We use the word deterrence, not escalate. That we needed to have deterrence against the Soviet Union, we needed a deterrence against China, we need to have deterrence all throughout the world to confront our enemies. I never heard the word escalate once. Not once, and this is something I’m going to delve into very, very deeply on Sunday, because you’re hearing it day and night and day and night. So as I said the other day. And I want to thank the backbencher’s for regurgitating it, so this means now whenever Putin waves around a nuclear weapon, he wins. This means the Ukrainians are not allowed to win because according to Joe Biden and his ilk, providing them with the equipment they actually want and need to save their country is escalation. It’s not enough. It’s not enough to celebrate the bravery of these men and women in Ukraine. It’s not enough to pray for them, even though I believe in prayer. God gives us free will. It’s not enough. Whether you’re facing down Hitler or Stalin or Mao or ZHAY or UN or Putin, it’s not enough. After six million Jews that died. In the ovens. A mass graves. Who were gassed to death. Who experimented on? Ask them, oh, I guess you can’t they’re not here anymore. As the millions of Ukrainians who are slaughtered by Stalin in 1932. Ask them, oh, I guess you can’t they’re not here anymore either. Ask the 50 million Chinese who are slaughtered by Mao, 50 million, ask them. I guess she can’t. They’re dead. Or the 25 million slaughtered by Stalin. Ask them. Ask about this word escalation. And if we are concerned about nukes, why am I not hearing more talk about what the Biden administration is doing with Iran? Why am I not hearing more talk about how we need to take out the regime in Iran in order to protect us so they don’t get nukes? They are. Such a group of radical. Fundamentalist zealots. That they will use nuclear weapons. Joe Biden is destroying our country and he’s destroying one country after another. I’m sick and tired of the Putin wing of the Republican Party. I am sick and tired of the Putin wing of the media, and I’m sick and tired of the analysts and the others who who rub their hands all over the media, radio and TV and in the press and in the written rub the hell, this is horrible. Oh, this is. Let us pray. Let us hope they get the best and get them whatever weapons they need except the military. Any means, for some reason, you know, Putin, Putin is now deciding what can and cannot be used on the battlefield. Have you ever seen anything like this in your life? Putin is deciding what can be used on the battlefield. Seriously? I am telling you now. If this keeps up. And if the media in this country keep this up and if the so-called conservatives in this country keep it up, we will be facing a world war that this will bleed well beyond Ukraine and it’ll bleed into the NATO countries. And you heard it, Biden said not one inch. Not one inch. I am telling you now, if this doesn’t stop in Ukraine, it will move beyond Ukraine and we will be facing World War three. I’ll be right back.
Hour 1 Segment 2
Now we have a new argument from the Putin wing or not even the Putin, the passive wing of the Republican Party, or should I even say the the the public spokesman for this position? I care about American interests first. I care about American interests first, so now they wrap themselves as in the clothing of American Forresters. When, in fact, they’re appeasers. How are you, an American firster? When you essentially prevent Ukraine from getting the weaponry necessary or argue against it to defend itself and its people. Because you don’t understand Putin and you don’t understand war. Putin’s not satisfied with Ukraine anymore. Are you satisfied with Georgia, satisfied with Crimea anymore, that he was satisfied with Chechnya or Belarus at this point, which is effectively an appendage now of Russia? None of them have read what Putin wrote last summer. None of them listen to what he says. He wants to be. In charge of an empire, he wants to be Catherine the Great. He wants to be a tsar. He’s not interested in just Ukraine. So if you’re an American firster, you stand with me, you don’t stand with these these Lilliputians, you don’t stand with these with these fools who have no comprehension of what’s actually taking place.
Hour 1 Segment 3
You know, ladies and gentlemen, there was a ship of refugees back in 1939. 937 Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany where they knew they would be extinguished. But they would be extinguished. And was turned away from Havana, Cuba, May 27, 1939. They made appeals to the United States and Canada for entry, they were denied. Other than 28 who got off in Cuba, somehow the rest were forced to sail back to Europe. And on May 13, the USS Saint Louis sailed from Hamburg, Germany, to Havana, Cuba, most of the passengers, many of them children, were German Jews escaping the Third Reich. As part of the final solution. They applied for U.S. visas and plan to stay in Cuba until they could enter the United States legally even before they set sail. They were greeted with hostility. On May eight, there was a massive anti-Semitic demonstration in Havana, the St. Louis arrived in Havana on May 27. The Cuban government refused to admit 900 of them. So for seven days, the ship’s captain attempt to negotiate with the Cuban officials, but they said no. When the ship sailed closer to Florida. Wasn’t permitted to dock in Florida, some of the passengers attempted to cable Franklin Roosevelt directly. He never responded. A State Department telegram stated that the asylum seekers must await their turns on the waiting lists and qualify for and obtain immigration visas before they can be admitted as a last resort. St. Louis continued north to Canada. They rejected a two. Faced with no other options, the ship returned to Europe. There were other ships, too, there were other occasions to. I’ve done a lot of research on this, I’ve done a lot of research on The New York Times and the media at the time and how they lied to the American people by admission and commission. Often by censorship. And often at the request of Franklin Roosevelt and his administration. They had a war to win, no question about it, but there were also rail tracks and other things they could have been taken out, but they didn’t take them out. People have written about this extensively today. Talking about what should have been done, what could have been done? Among those who’ve experienced first hand. The occupation of the Nazis and then subsequently the occupation. Of the Soviet communists or the Polish people? The people, Warsaw Ghetto. And it is they who want to give their MiG 29 to the Ukrainians. And it is they who are closest. Among the closest. I’ve also being attacked by Putin. But they have suffered. Under prior genocidal regimes, and they know that you have to beat these things and stop these things in the cradle. Joe Biden. Told them no. Because you will start World War three. Let me tell you a little secret. Let me read the fine this let me step back. Let’s reset this, shall we, Mr. Producer? World War Three, ladies and gentlemen, has begun. The question is. What will be its reach? And it can be contained. Let me repeat that. World War Three has begun, the question is, can it be pushed back or contained? Which is a serious question. And shouldn’t it be pushed back and contained in the Ukraine? When the leader of a nation that has thousands of nuclear warheads on missiles aimed at the United States threatens to shoot them. It seems to me World War Three has been begun. When his ally, the communist regime in Beijing. Has built a military for the purpose of defeating the United States. That’s why it’s built that military and has aligned itself with the regime in Moscow for the purpose of building and access to defeat the United States. That’s World War three. When you add a third regime in Iranian regime. Is moving heaven and earth. To build ICBMs with nuclear warheads and keeps threatening the United States with them. That’s World War three, that’s the axis of evil. That’s the access. The question is whether this can be contained and based on what we’re doing now, my fear is it cannot. So I would say those who wrap themselves in American first or first Americans, you are doing a grave disservice to your fellow Americans. You’re doing a grave disservice to your fellow Americans by misapplying that label. A historically failed approach. To maniacal, genocidal killers. One day, I fear your children and your grandchildren are going to look back on Ukraine and say, why didn’t we give them the MiGs? Why didn’t we give them whatever they needed? To deal with this here and now and there to help save the Ukrainians and save much of the rest of the world. We’re letting Putin off his back. That 40 mile long convoy of tanks and armored personnel carriers was there for the taking. It’s now moved. Now, does anybody here actually believe sanctions against Vladimir Putin is going to stop Vladimir Putin? Has it stopped Vladimir Putin? We have a senator, as I and Brother Hannity have mentioned, who talks about taking out Vladimir Putin because if you don’t take out Vladimir Putin. Then you don’t take out the head of the war machine. Is a man threatening us with nukes? Here’s a man who is a war criminal now committing atrocities all over that country in Ukraine as he has elsewhere. And we’re told don’t even discuss taking him out. Don’t even discuss a third party taking him out. Why? Because you might escalate, he doesn’t need us to act to escalate. Ladies and gentlemen, he’s doing perfectly well on his own. I heard David Petraeus on my favorite cable network. He sounded ridiculous, in my humble opinion. But somebody was there. Dared to criticize Biden, you said, you know, it’s very difficult. This is very complex matter. Somebody has to make a decision and that falls in his lap. So, you know, give him a little space. Now, General, he got space in Afghanistan. He’s got in space in Iran. He’s got in space on the border. He’s a disaster. And why the friendly words and the caution when it comes to Biden? And the unhinged, obsessed. Without undermining another commander in chief, Donald Trump, who actually kept the peace. I actually kept the peace. The Department of Defense has decided that the Ukrainians don’t need MiG 29 after they were told, you see, ladies and gentlemen, by Biden, no MiG 29. Here’s Tom Cotton at a hearing yesterday. Cut five go general barrier. Could you explain as an intelligence officer how Vladimir Putin might be OK with us transferring missiles that turned their tanks into burning piles of rubbish or shoot their jets out of the sky? Yet transferring tactical aircraft is going to be unacceptable. Why is the latter escalatory and the former not escalatory? Senator Cotton, thank you. I will take a stab at that in open session here. I think when you when you look at anti-tank weapons and air defense, CERV shoulder fired kinds of weapons, there is a range of escalation. And I think in our view, that escalation ladder doesn’t get higher with those weapons versus something like combat aircraft. Let me just stop there. But the Ukrainians say they need them. And, you know, this response is bull crap because they go to strafe the hell out of that convoy, that 40 mile convoy, and they could have moved across that country to the south where they needed help to the east, where they need help. And now the west is under attack. Now, that just doesn’t make sense from even a pedestrian perspective. Go ahead, cut six. I mean, your own written assessment, Mishin says that Russia, quote, doesn’t want. A direct conflict with the United States, end quote, that was from January 21st. That assessment said Russia doesn’t want to conflict the United States. You think they’re more likely to want a conflict now after Vladimir Putin has seen the performance of his army? Not against not just against the Ukrainian army, but with bombs, with Molotov cocktails and grandmas with AK 47. You think they’re more likely to want a piece of us now than they were two months ago? I don’t think it’s an issue of whether or not they’re more likely to want to conflict, it’s whether or not they perceive us as being in that conflict with them. I think we’re in a very challenging position right where we are obviously providing enormous amounts of support to the Ukrainians, as we should and need to do, but at the same time trying not to escalate the conflict into a full on NATO or U.S. war with Russia. And that’s a challenging space to to manage. And the analysts, I think, are just trying to provide their best assessment of what is likely to be perceived as that kind of escalation in the circumstance. I mean, I’ve got to say, it seems to me that Vladimir Putin simply deterred the U.S. government from providing these aircraft by saying they would view this as escalatory. And if that’s going to be our position, I mean, we might as well call the commanding general at Fort Lewis outside of Seattle and tell him to take the flag down and surrender our position because I’m not going to stop in Ukraine and stop in Europe. He’s going to go all the way the West Coast. And every time he raises a threat, we immediately back off. And his point is exactly correct. Senator Clinton’s been exactly correct. This word escalate an escalatory and you don’t hear the word deterrence, our deterrence, you don’t hear it ever. Ladies and gentlemen, this is appeasement. I don’t care who is voicing it, I don’t care if it’s their best intentions. Wrapping it in an American firster is not going to make it any better if you love your country. And you love your military and you love your children and grandchildren, you don’t want this thing to get out of control. And us helping the Ukrainians defeat or at least stalemate, the Russians make sure it doesn’t get out of control because Putin saw what happened in Afghanistan. Putin saw what happened with this pipeline. Putin saw what’s happening with Iran now because Putin’s doing a negotiation on our behalf. Putin sees in Biden absolute weakness. What happened, ladies and gentlemen? When Putin’s military invaded Ukraine, what did our military do? What did it do? It stopped the year long planned nuclear exercise because we didn’t want to escalate or send any wrong messages. We sent the wrong message. He said Joe Biden is not going to do anything effective to stop me. Now, we may be proud of the fact that we’re providing weapons and now and then seeing video. Of Russian jets being shot down in Syria, but they are scorched earth now, ladies and gentlemen, the Russians, they are destroying that country one state at a time. They’re destroying those people who are just like us. They used to be in their homes. They used to go to work in their cars. They used to sit out of cafes that used to be on buses. They are dying. They are being shot in the streets. They’re being raped. They are refugees. They were free people. And it’s not enough for us to wring our hands. I’ll be right back.
Hour 1 Segment 4
And you know what’s amazing to me is when you have Biden or Psaki or any of these folks idiots out there. Saying we don’t want to start World War three by providing MiG 29 to the Ukrainians, why would you even say that? By completely cutting off any ability to give the MiG 29 for anybody to give them make tonight, why would you make a statement like that? Giving Putin room like that. Or if he brings up nuclear weapons, why do you respond by saying we don’t want nuclear war? Of course we don’t want nuclear war, but why are you showing them how weak you are? And now they’re saying he might use biological weapons, he might use chemical weapons. Well, you’re giving him room to use biological and chemical weapons, why do you keep saying that? What are you going to do if he uses them? We’re going to cut off another bank. I mean, ladies and gentlemen. Even the propaganda that’s coming out of this White House is counterproductive. It is awful, it’s weak. Really disgusting. We’ve got very, very important hours left, inflation, the gas prices, gee, do you know Putin did this? He did it way back in the summer. He did it way back when the Democrats went on a spending spree by trillions of dollars. We said they would create inflation. They created inflation. You don’t have to be Nostradamus to understand this. A third grade education and economics will do. I’ll be right back.