On Tuesday’s Mark Levin Show, real journalists, not the fake news pontificators, are being killed and injured in Ukraine as they are taking fire from Putin’s forces. This program salutes the correspondents risking their lives for a free press. Even members of the Russian state-run media are speaking out against the war and Putin’s war crimes. Putin is actively arresting dissenters and has jailed more than 10,000 anti-war protesters. Then, the national discussion this program engages in is critical. A free people cannot ignore Putin’s aggression to go unchecked. It cannot be ignored when Putin attempts to declare what weapons can be used on the Ukrainian battlefield. History, experience, and reality cannot be ignored when the new axis of evil in Russia, Iran, and China take action which can eventually annihilate freedom, representative government, and unalienable rights. Later, Elon Musk says more domestic oil production is necessary because parts and minerals are difficult to find. Meanwhile anti-Russian hackers like Anonymous and Cyber Partisans who are hitting back at Putin with hacks of their own. Our government adjusts the rate of inflation to make it appear lower and the media spreads their propaganda. Inflation destroys an economic system and left unchecked will subsequently destroy a nation. Afterward, Congresswoman Lauren Boebert calls in with an update from Capitol Hill and reiterated how important the vision of our founders is in these tumultuous times.
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Rough transcript of Hour 1
Hour 1 Segment 1
The other day, I said that the real journalists, the real journalists. I said behind this microphone are these men and women, these war correspondents. You go into these danger zones and do what they do. They are remarkable. There are old time journalists. Not the people who sit on the Sunday shows, the people who sit at their desks in air conditioned comfort. And endlessly pontificate. Those are not journalists, those are frauds and phonies. But these men and women who you see in these war zones. They’re the real thing. And they put their lives on the line, as has become unfortunately quite obvious, quite obvious, as Fox has lost two of its finest and we still don’t know the situation with Benjamin Hall, the reporter, the British reporter, I believe he has dual citizenship, the United States and and Britain. The best we know is that a Ukrainian prosecutor indicated that his extremist, he’s had been severely damaged. I assume by that she means his legs, perhaps his arms. But they shot at this van, tried to take it out, and obviously killed several journalists. And Bill Hemmer at FOX announced this this morning. As follows CuDeco And we’ve got some very difficult news to share with you now. Fox News cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski has died in Ukraine. He was working with our Benjamin Hall when incoming fire hit their vehicle outside of key. The picture you see right here was taken just a short time ago with Steve Harrigan and others in the capital city. Pierre Zakrzewski was an absolute legend at this network and his losses devastating. He has been with us for years covering wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and Syria. Our CEO, Suzanne Scott, noted a few moments ago that Pierre jumped in to help out with all sorts of roles in the field photographer, an engineer and editor and producer. And he did it all under immense pressure and with tremendous skill. The president of Fox, Jay Wallace, says that everyone always felt an extra sense of reassurance when they arrived on the scene and they saw that Pierre was there. He was a professional, he was a journalist, and he was a friend. We here at the Fox News Channel want to offer our deepest condolences to his wife, Michelle, and his entire family. Pierre Zakrzewski was only fifty five years old and we miss him already. And they were killed by Putin and Putin’s war machine. Which is what I might have added, but I didn’t know the gentleman, I didn’t know any of these people. But here’s the thing. Uh. The fact of the matter is that when you’re an on air broadcaster. Whether you’re one of these real. Correspondents in these war zones, or whether you’re a host in an air conditioned room or what have you, you rely on a staff. Some have large staffs, some have small staffs, have a very small staff, but very, very important people to get you on television or to get on radio. Or to get you on digital television. And these people work very hard behind the scenes, and most of them are unknown to you. Their names are unknown. Their faces are unseen. But without them, it doesn’t happen. Like Mr. Producer here, Mr. Call Screener. Or when it comes to Levin TV, we have a crew there, Bahaman de Pateros and Josh and Chris and so many others, Claire. And same with our Fox show. Would they, Pateros, Shantaram, so many others, so these are the behind the scenes people. Make it possible to do what we do or we can get it done. We get all the glory or sometimes all the glory, you never know. The glory plus our necks are on the line, so it just depends, but they don’t. So I just wanted to point that out and there was a very brave and there is. Russian state TV editor, I know I won’t pronounce your name properly, but I’ll give it a shot. Maria Ovsyannikova. She prerecorded a message before she interrupted a live broadcast with a stop the sign, the war sign. And she was in court today after having done that because she faces 10 years in prison and a minimum. And she. He’s a hero. She is brave. That’s going to cut seven and you’ll hear a translator go ahead. It’s happening now in Ukraine is a crime and the Russia is the aggressor. The country and the responsibility for this aggression lies in the conscience of only one person. This man is Vladimir Putin. My father is Ukrainian. My mother is Russian. And they have never been enemies. And this necklace on my neck is a symbol of the fact that Russia must immediately stop this fratricidal war. So our fraternal nations will still be able to reconcile, go to their rallies and do not be afraid. They cannot arrest us all. They have arrested, it’s estimated, already ten thousand protesters. Each of whom is subject to up to eight years or more in prison. We’re disagreeing with the government, 10,000 or so protesters, and he has his secret police going all through the major cities hunting down activists. Hunting down leaders of various groups that are considered subversive. I don’t know if they’ve taken their checking accounts and savings accounts like they did in Canada, taking them their dogs from them. I don’t know what they’re doing. But there is no bill of Rights and there is no due process that much I do know. To be a protester in the United States really takes no guts whatsoever. To be a protester in Russia, you put your life on the line. In that of your family. And this brave young woman is also correct, many of the people. Our Russian and Ukrainian, because over the centuries. There has been such a clear line of demarcation between these two countries. My own background is mostly Russian with Ukrainian. I don’t know that much about it, because beyond the early 1980s or late, eighteen hundreds, I don’t know what the hell took place. I just don’t. But I don’t really care. I try and argue what’s right from my point of view. From my perspective. We’re having a lot of impact on this program, you will remember I said the other day that my goal here is to push back. It’s the push back against the Putin wing of the Republican Party, the Putin wing of the Democrat Party, the Putin surrogates in the media. And I think it’s been having an effect and we’ve been doing this for weeks now. If not months. The media try and make this a battle between me and one or two of my Fox colleagues that has nothing to do with it, they can’t help themselves. That’s just nonsense. I’m talking to you 14 and a half million of you, if I wanted to talk to one of my colleagues that pick up the phone. Everybody has a right to their own opinion. This is a crucially important discussion and debate in this country that we’re having right now. That’s what we are engaged in, nothing more, nothing less. With serious, serious consequences for the future. And I’m noticing more and more. That people are understanding that you cannot allow Putin to determine the nature of the battlefield. You cannot allow Putin to decide what armaments. Will be used by the people he seeks to destroy and kill. You cannot allow the fear of escalation to destroy the respect of deterrence. You cannot ignore the the fact that there is an axis of evil that doesn’t fact exist right now, as it did prior to World War Two. Tehran, Beijing and Moscow, there’s simply no question about it. You cannot ignore the fact that we have a. A wide strain of isolationism in this country. A wide strain of isolationism in this country or with the same arguments, very same arguments, not similar same arguments. That were made in the 1930s, even in the early 40s before hitting Pearl Harbor, are being made today. It’s not just Democrats, it’s Republicans to. It’s not just Marxist, it’s libertarians to. It’s not just. Nationalists, populists who call themselves. For me, it’s simple, this isn’t an ideological matter. I don’t care where you stand in the political spectrum. This is a matter of how you analyze the security of this nation. And how you maximize it. You do not ignore history, you did not ignore our experience. You do not ignore reality. You do not ignore the four psychopaths that we confront, and that’s what they are, whether in North Korea, China, Russia or Tehran. You don’t pretend appeasement or passivity or pacifism or isolationism is going to. Is going to ensure. That your son, that your daughter, that your grandchildren don’t go to war, fact history has demonstrated us the opposite. We have people in Ukraine who want to fight. Who want to defend themselves and their families in their homeland. We have people in Ukraine. We’ve experienced freedom and representative government and private property rights, unalienable rights of the sort we talk about in the declaration. They’re being slaughtered, they’re being crushed. They’re putting up a great fight. And yet we’re told effectively that they’re not allowed to win. They’re not even allowed to hold the Russians in a stalemate. And so they deny the weapons that they say they need, I don’t care what Melley says they need, that man is a fool. I don’t care what Blinken says they need. That man’s a fool. And so they get our 9000 American citizens out of Afghanistan. I don’t want to hear from those people. And I don’t want to hear from Joe Biden. If he had his way, Osama bin Laden would still be alive. The about for. While he’s giving nukes to the Iranians. With the Russians as the lead negotiating party on our behalf. I don’t even. People who are literally or close to being insane when it comes to their policies. They said they needed MiGs. They should have gotten their MiGs. That wouldn’t have cost a single American their life. Those wouldn’t be our pilots. We’re not sending in our infantry. We’re not sending in our mechanics. They said, we’ll do the rest, just give us some MiGs, give us 15, 20 MiGs, that’s what we need to do, our 50. Biden personally says no. He will be remembered. Is the man who said no. They said, please give us harpoon missiles. They said it in December, December. Before the invasion. They knew that the Russians would use the Black Sea, come up through Crimea. Pounded their sea coast cities and attack from the south as well as the other side’s. Biden said no. He will be remembered for that. More when I return
Hour 1 Segment 2
Poland, Czech and Slovenian leaders arrived in Ukraine and show support, the leaders will meet with Ukrainian President Zelinski, Prime Minister Smalling in Kiev. An EU aid package is also expected to be present. Presented brave men. The leaders of these countries traveled by train to Ukraine to pledge their support. These are the prime ministers of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovenia. They arrived Tuesday to express EU solidarity as Russia continues its assault in Ukraine’s capital city. Polish Prime Minister Morowski shared a photo from Kiev on social media after arriving, saying it is here in war torn Kiev that history is being made. It is here that freedom fights against the world of tyranny. It is here that the future of us all hangs in the balance. The leaders will be meeting Zolensky and so forth. And they’re right. We didn’t choose the time, we didn’t choose the place, but this is the time, and that is the place. We do not want to bleed this into NATO country. We do not want it to bleed beyond those border.
Hour 1 Segment 3
Will China assist Russia or not? Epic times. Chinese state media signals Beijing won’t cooperate with the United States over Ukraine following intense talks with Washington. Seven hours with Jake Sullivan, the putative national security adviser to the putative president. Seven hours. What the hell could they possibly talk about for seven hours? Not much. Not much useful. Now, that said. The Chinese have just said that they. We’re not planning on assisting that these are American lives. So who are you going to believe? Well, these would be the same communist Chinese who unleashed the China virus on the world. Through their lab. It leaked, we are told, we weren’t even told that it came from monkeys or bats, we were told flat out lies, of course, and then blame the United States. So why would we believe China about anything? This would be the same communist China that violated its agreement with Great Britain in order to destroy Hong Kong. So why would you believe the communist Chinese about anything? Of course, the communist Chinese are going to assist Russia now. They may try and do it in a way that isn’t so overt. Why? I don’t expect you to remember this. Why would you? But I remember what I say most of the time, several years ago, I pointed out that we had the ability to do grave damage to China if it attacked us, not just militarily. But we could blow out their financial and banking system. People talk about how we have, they say, about a trillion dollars in debt with China. There’s many things you can do. To damage a country like China, we are reliant on China for many things, aren’t we, Mr. Producer? But that means they’re relying on us for a lot of money, aren’t they? I’m asked. Mark, what would you do? I think it’s time to tell you what I would do. Now, I don’t come to you with a teleprompter or long page of notes or anything like that, if you watch my show on Life, Liberty and Levine or if you watch my show on Living TV, you will see I don’t have. A monitor would work with a teleprompter. I wouldn’t know how to use a damn thing. It be obvious I’m reading off of a screen, I use my brain. I use my brain, there’s no teleprompter with me, whether I do TV or radio. There’s no long list of notes. I may scratch out a few notes here and there to remind me a subject matters and so forth. But my brain functions just fine. What would I do? Let me think about this. First thing I do is call an emergency session of Congress, and he gave a speech. Not to give a speech, to create drama, not to give a speech, to show the world that I’m great and try and get my poll numbers up, I give a speech and I do explain that I want an emergency session of Congress to significantly increase defense spending immediately. Immediately. That we now face numerous threats from numerous countries. And that we need to beef up our Air Force, which apparently is running out of F-16. And get these modern jet fighters as many as we can, and also the stealth bombers, we need more of them. Well, Mark, it’ll take years to do it doesn’t matter. I put us on an. Intense and aggressive building cycle, we’ve done it before, and we can do it again. Not because I’m paid off by the defense contractors, not because I’m a neocon, not because I’m a war monger, not because I want to send my kids to war because of the opposite. Because of the opposite. I’d finish that wall on the southern border as quickly as possible. People who are unemployed. Who are capable of working wouldn’t be getting free checks, they would finish the wall for us down on the southern border. They can contribute to the country in a positive way, and if they don’t want to contribute, they don’t get checks. No freebies. Except for those, obviously, who can’t. What else would I do? I would send. Significant military equipment to the nation of Taiwan. We’ve learned a lot from what’s going on in Ukraine to. Harpoon missiles. Because the Chinese are going to need a significant amount of naval ships. And offloading personnel carriers to get across the water. As well as a significant amount of air defenses. And they need more jets. What about Ukraine? What would I do? I would immediately. I immediately. Encourage the Poles to go ahead and give them. The MiG 29 said to the Ukrainians. And not just the polls, other countries that have these these old Russian jets. And some other jets as soon as possible. And I would pull in. My new generals having gotten rid of Milley and his ilk. And I would ask them what the Ukrainians need. What do they need? That we haven’t given them I’m not talking about helmets and clothing, what does the military need in Ukraine? And I get it to them. I would rally our country. That men and women. In our own country. Of exercise, their unalienable rights of exercise, their Second Amendment rights, if they have weapons and ammunition that they want to donate to the Ukrainian people, the citizenry to defend themselves. Out of a national effort to collect that those weapons and those hammers and the ammunition. And get it to the people in Ukraine as fast as possible for potential street to street fighting. It would look at Reagan’s playbook and how he brought the Russians and forced them out of Afghanistan. And I would look carefully at that playbook. I would call Putin. And I would tell them, I don’t want to hear another damn thing out of your mouth about nukes. Not another damn thing out of your mouth about nukes. I would tell Putin. If you assassinate the president of Ukraine, we will make sure you’re taken out. You play by the rule of law, the the rules of war, and there are rules of war. And there are Geneva Conventions. That prevent certain practices, you either play by the rules. Or you die by the same method you’re applying to other people. I would tell China. You provide any assistance to Russia. We will destroy your financial and economic system. Your banks, your monetary system. I would rally our nation. To embrace our capitalist system. To build new factories. To produce the products we need, the medicines we need. That we have outsourced to communist China over the course of the last decade. Build our country internally. Open up the oil and natural gas spigots, open up the coal mines. Reinforce the electricity grid. That’s rail infrastructure spending, ladies and gentlemen, real human infrastructure spending, not redistribution of wealth. On various Marxist schemes. Open up our capitalist system, it’s the best economic system on the face of the earth. Rather than attacking our defense contractors, they will be told exactly what we need and how much we need and put them to work. And put them to work. That’s what I would do. America today, in too many respects as a result of our government and our media and the American Marxist movements is depressed. It’s like a middle aged country with a pot belly depressed, staring at our loafers. Because that’s what the left has done to us. We are a young nation, we’re a muscular nation, we’re red blooded Americans, regardless of our color. We have reasons to unite. We have issues to unite around. Rally the American people. Rally the American people no more, do you hear? From the Putin wing of the Republican Party or the Putin ites in the media, the Putin wing of the Democrat Party, why does Ukraine matter to us? You don’t hear that anymore, you ladies and gentlemen. No, you don’t hear anymore more. Putin isn’t necessarily going to invade Ukraine. You don’t hear that anymore either, do you, America? No, you don’t. No, you don’t you don’t hear any more of that while Putin just need space, he needs a space and we’re infringing on a space, you don’t hear that anymore. Because it was all bull crap to begin with. They were all lies to begin with, all propaganda to begin with. Now is the time to embrace the strengths of our country, our economic strength, our military strength, our ingenuity and creativity. Now is the time to tap into our diversity in order to build unity. Now is the time to strengthen. Our businesses, whether they be fossil fuel businesses. Whether they be developing technologies, whether they be developing weapons. So we’re always two, three, four or five steps ahead of the enemy. Now is the time. To ignore the isolationists, the pacifists and the others who brought us to this point, they have brought us to this point. What do they think Joe Biden is? He surrendered in Afghanistan. He’s empowering the Iranians to have nuclear missiles. He refuses to give Taiwan the weapons that they need. He refused to give Ukraine the weapons they need if he’s not an isolationist and a pacifist, despite being, quote unquote, an internationalist. Now, what the hell is he? The reason Putin did an attack during Trump’s presidency is because Trump. Was not a pacifist, he was not a pushover. It’s not a rollover. He didn’t want to get into war, but on the other hand, he didn’t take any crap. He understood. What he had to do. Despite the Lilliputians in the meeting, the Democrat Party and. The Liz Cheney’s king zingers, Wittman’s, Chris Christie’s and all the rest, trying to destroy him, shoot him in the back. He led the way he showed how it’s done. He showed how NATO needed to build up. While he was accused of trying to destroy it, he was strengthening it. He showed how to deal with the Iranians much the way Reagan dealt with the Soviet Union economically choke them off. Which is what he did and it was working. He showed how to deal with Putin. Sanction them and heavily and stare them down. How to deal with the North Koreans? People were shocked, he met with the guy, but the guy met with them, the inbred, because he feared them. You may have a red button, but I have a bigger button and ours works. That’s what he said. China is China is at Mar a Lago, and while they’re eating chocolate cake, dessert after dinner. Informs me that the United States is attacking Syria. For gassing their own people, a red line that Obama refused to enforce. And in that attack, several Russians. We’re working at that air base tonight. No discussion about escalation, only deterrence. That’s the United States that I know. I’ll be right back.
Hour 1 Segment 4
Anybody out there know why we haven’t given the Patriot missile system to the Ukrainians or the Israelis have been given the, I don’t know, Ukrainians, anybody out there? No one. I can tell you why. Because the Russians don’t have that technology yet. They’re working on it. They have some of it. And so these missile defense systems are very cutting edge, the Iron Dome was not a system just given to the Israelis by the United States. The Israelis developed that along with the United States in Israel. The Patriot missile system has cost us hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars. It started under Ronald Reagan. Called the Strategic Defense Initiative, it was marked by the same Democrats who mock everything. That’s why there’s some concern that you can’t just put these systems in the Ukraine. That’s why they’re in NATO, outside Ukraine, but there’s many, many things we can do in Ukraine that we are simply not doing in Ukraine. In terms of military armaments and equipment. And it just frustrates the hell out of me. Actually lose sleep over this, the you sleep with this mysterious. It is, isn’t it, I actually lose sleep over this, knowing that this horrendous activities going on and they were not doing what we can do to help these people. I’ll be right back.