On Wednesday’s Mark Levin Show, there’s a drone infestation in the Northeast and the government says they don’t know what’s going on. How can the FBI, the FAA, the Air Force, and NASA not know who owns these drones? This seems like some kind of cover-up. Rep Chris Smith calls in and explains that these drones are not harmless. They are probably either from China, Iran, or Russia. Why is the Biden administration not authorizing a team to see where these drones are going? Also, Antony Blinken was testifying and said that no one was left behind in Afghanistan. We all know that’s not true. Thanks to Benjamin Netanyahu, not President Biden and Blinken, the mass murderer in Syria ran off to Moscow. Netanyahu has saved more lives than Biden could dream of. Now, Biden is trying to take credit for Netanyahu’s weakening of Iran. Later, Sen Elizabeth Warren said ‘you can only push people so far’ regarding the assassination of the UnitedHealth CEO. This is an unbelievable statement. Warren sounds like the violent Hamas supporters in the streets.
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Segment 1
Hello America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. Hello 877-381-3811. It’s apparently a drone infestation in the northeast. Originally, I thought they were talking about Kamala Harris supporters. You know, I call leftist drones. But there’s a lot of stuff in the sky and some of it’s pretty big and they’re flying around and people point their flashlight, they’re shining their light, their lights off. Are you going to tell me? That the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Are you going to tell me that the FAA. Are you going to tell me that the United States Air Force. Are you going to tell me now? So you’re going to tell me all these entities that we have? Some are law enforcement, some are military, some are just plain scientific. They don’t know what the hell’s going on, but they do know it’s not the enemy. Well, if it’s not a foreign enemy. Then somebody is doing it for fun. So who is it? Or our government’s doing it now. Which is it? The idea that we don’t have any idea on what the hell is going on is preposterous. You know what we call this? It’s very simple. It’s some kind of a cover up. It’s some kind of a cover up. Now. My guess has been the Communist Chinese. I could be wrong. But how complicated is this? Seriously? These are drones. Now you can go buy drones off the shelf at some stores. Some of these are huge military like drones. Well, you can’t buy those off the shelf, can you? Some of these drones are as big as helicopters. They’re telling us, Mr. Producer, you can’t just buy that at Best Buy, can you? But don’t worry, it’s not the Islam or Nazi regime in Tehran. Don’t worry. It’s not the communist Chinese genocidal murders in Beijing. Don’t worry. I’m worried. What the hell is it? I’ll tell you what I’m worried about. Either. We don’t know what it is or there’s a cover up and they’re not telling us. And I think it’s the latter. And we have members of Congress who are rightly angry saying, Hey, we keep asking you in the bureaucracy what the hell’s going on? And you’re stiff arming us. They don’t have the right to stiff arm members of Congress. And we will have our friend Chris Smith. Republican congressman from New Jersey, the longest serving, I might add, on the program. He’s very good at trying to get to the bottom of these sorts of things, having dealt with the bureaucracy for decades. But it’s utterly unacceptable. So Jeff Van Drew, who’s really a good guy. He represents South Jersey. Atlantic City. Vineland. Really a diverse area. Was a Democrat. He likes Trump. He flipped the switch to Republican. He gets re-elected. He’s a good guy. So he says, I’ve got sources and I’ll tell you what my sources tell me. Cut. Then go. And from very high sources. Very qualified sources. Very responsible sources. I’m going to tell you the real deal. Iran launched a mother ship probably about a month ago that contains these drones. That mothership is off the air. I’m going to tell you the deal. It’s off the East Coast of the United States of America. They’ve launched drones and everything that we can see here. And again, these are from high sources. I don’t say this lightly. Now, you know, we know there was a probability it could have been our own government. We know it’s not our own government because they would have let us know. It could have been some really glorified hobbyist or hobbyist that we’re doing something unbelievable. They don’t have the technology. But let’s pretend that’s possible. The third possibility was somebody, an adversarial country doing this. You know that Iran made a deal with China to purchase drones, motherships and technology in order to go forward. The sources I have are good. They can’t reveal who they are because they are speaking to me in confidentiality. These drones should be shot down. Whether it was some crazy hobbyist that we can’t imagine or whether it is Iran, and I think it very possibly could be they should be shot down. We are not getting the full deal and the military is on alert with us. Yeah, we are not getting the truth. I don’t think it’s a hobbyist. With swarming drones, Mr. is. 1220 at a time at some hobbyists, the military to hire that guy. But I don’t think so. Time will tell. But this administration is opaque. This administration is constantly keeping the American people, we the people in the dark here. And then we have Sabrina Singh. She is one of the lawyers for the regime. She’s their deputy Pentagon press secretary. And she dismisses Jeff Van Drew cut 17 go. Representative Jeff Van Drew, who is a Republican from New Jersey, was just on the air saying that Iran launched a mother ship probably about a month ago that contains these drones and that that mothership is off the coast of the East Coast of the United States. Is there any truth to that? There is not any truth to that. There is no Iranian ship off the coast of the United States and there’s no so-called mothership launching. So are there any weather balloons flying around that are actually communist Chinese spy balloons? What about that, Mr. Producer? I don’t trust them. I don’t trust them. Well, if it’s not an Iranian mother ship and it’s not a ship at all and it’s not a foreign threat, how do they know all these things? How do they know all these things? Crazy. Go ahead. So United States and there is no so-called mothership launching drones to the United States. Well, who is? I don’t know. Well, how do you know that? I don’t know. It is time for the Trump administration to take over here and get to the bottom of this stuff. Then we have Robert Wheeler, junior senior FBI official, at a hearing yesterday. Could 18 go? Is the public at risk? Is public safety at risk? Are we concerned that there are nefarious intentions that could cause either national security or a public safety incident that would put Americans at risk? There is nothing that is known that would lead me to say that. But we just don’t know. And that’s the concerning part. Now, that is one of the most irrational sentences I’ve ever heard, Mr. Producer. There’s nothing that is known that would lead me to say that, but we just don’t know. And that’s the concerning part. So you don’t have any foggy idea. That’s what you should say? I don’t the foggiest idea. Wow. This is amazing. These are drones. They’re not like supersonic hypersonic devices. So I’m sitting here thinking to myself, If it’s true that we can’t figure this out, and I don’t believe it is, but if it is true. How the hell are we ever going to defend our subs against far more sophisticated weaponry than drones, for God’s sakes? How. I don’t know. But this is preposterous. And I want the people in New Jersey to know the rest of the country. We stand with you. And there’s droning and scandal. And it’s really a scandal because it’s one of two things. It’s either our government or it’s a foreign government, and I think it’s the latter. And the weasels in the White House don’t want to do anything about it any more than they wanted to do anything about that weather balloon. Remember, people said, shoot the damn thing down. It’s the communist Chinese. They’re spying on our nuclear sites. They’re spying on our. Our missile systems. That’s why we can’t be sure. You know, it’s like. It’s like the Hindenburg flying up there. It’s so massive. We can’t be sure what it is. But we know what it is. And so how much longer does this go on? It’s crazy. You know, in the good old days, the American citizen would shoot these damn things out of the sky, Mr. Producer. But today you would get, you know, a 15, 20 year sentence. If you dare to try and do anything like that, I’ll be right back.
Segment 2
If this Pete Hegseth nomination is turned around and it looks like it’s happening, still a ways to go with the hearings itself or it’s thanks to you. It’s thanks to you once again, the audience and talk radio has early ignored the audience in this program. In every direction. Even our friends at Breitbart just did this. We had a call to action. You folks stepped up. We name names. We told you about Joni Ernst and her campaign. We told you we heard from a bit on Capitol Hill at Mar a Lago. Lindsey Graham, a frequent guest on many of our friends shows. We criticized him. We called him out. You folks responded to that in a very beautiful and patriotic way, as you always do. You always do. And you’re just under appreciated. Not by me. That’s for sure. I appreciate you all. You’re fantastic, but you’re under appreciated even by conservative outlets. It’s really quite shocking. And. Same thing on Fox on Saturday, we had a call for action, the entire monologue Sunday, also relating to Cash Patel and of course, a strong defense of President Trump. He called me on Monday and thanked me. And he also mentioned the Saturday defense of Hegseth. So we’re out there. We’re doing our thing. Lesser known. Pretend we’re not lesser known. We tend to. Well. Whatever they want doesn’t matter to us. We’re involved in action. We’re involved in the mission. This is what we do. This is what we’ve always done. And we won’t stop. Afghanistan at the hearing in the House of Representatives today. Brian Mast Brian Mast is a great hero. He’s a great hero as a combat veteran, but he’s a great representative. I’m so proud to have him as my congressman in Florida. Just terrific. And here he is at a hearing on Afghanistan today. And this is important. This is important. Cut five. Go. We are still giving the Taliban tens of billions of dollars. There’s an American citizen out there literally woke up this morning losing 30% of their paycheck, and a good percentage of that is going to the Taliban or other programs abroad. And this is something that we all need to think about and we will be thinking about deeply for the next two years. There’s a joke that’s made often out there about kids going to college to learn basket weaving and what a joke that would be. But the United States right now is literally sending tens of millions of dollars to the Taliban. 14.9 million, to be exact, to teach Afghans how to do carpet weaving. Let’s think about that. We are giving. $280 million to the United Nations to do cash transfers for food in Afghanistan. Yet. We’re not sending an ear of corn from Iowa, a sack of potatoes from Idaho, or a cucumber or an orange from Florida. And that discounts the fact that there’s no American tonnage going through our ports to send those things out of here either. It’s just cash transfers. Another line item, these are directly from SIGAR reports $75 million to teach Afghan women to be farmers. I don’t believe that we spend $30 million in the United States of America to teach women to be farmers. My colleague Mr. Wilson, brought up that they can’t even dance in the streets or speak to one other or go to school. I’m not sure that we can trust that that $75 million is being used to teach them agriculture. And as you pointed out, we don’t have any diplomats on the ground to confirm the validity of these programs. Here’s one that I was entirely curious about, and maybe you could explain it to me. Three and a half billion dollars transferred to the Afghan fund that has tended to protect the macro financial stability on behalf of the Afghan people. What the hell does that mean? Can you tell me? I don’t know. That’s a bunch of gibberish to me. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm hmm. You see, trader trainer Anthony Blinken was testifying today. We said, what about all these people we’ve left behind in Afghanistan? You won’t believe this. It’s like the border secure that. We heard that for three years. Listen to this. Cut sex go first. Did we leave people behind? No. We got them out, including after the deadline of our evacuation. By the time we got to August 31st, we had a liar. He’s such a disgusting liar. This guy is. It’s worse than his fungal. He just is. We got all our people out. We all know that’s not true. We all know that’s not true. As a matter of fact, we know that’s not true. And there he is. Go ahead. Several hundred Americans who were left who identified themselves to us as wanting to leave but could not get to or into the airport. I committed to make sure we got them out. And between the evacuees at the end of the evacuation and the end of the year, we got the 500 remaining Americans out who either then or after August 31st identified themselves as wanting to leave. We made good on that commitment, telling the embassy to remain open. Yes, we all wanted the embassy to remain open. It was fully our expectation that the Afghan government and that’s enough. I can’t even stand this guy affectation his voice. But Mike Lawlor lights into this guy. Cut, Sam and go. Have you read this report in full? I have read the executive summary of the report. I haven’t read the entire report yet. I’ve read the executive summary. I hope that you will take this copy with you on your flight to the Middle East and read it, because this is your legacy. This is your legacy, starting with the disastrous withdrawal in Afghanistan that resulted in the death of 13 U.S. service members creating 13 goals. I’m going to stop here. I only have a minute left. This this deserves more than a minute. And I didn’t realize that. So we’re going to wait until after the break to play this clip. Sorry, folks. They’re talking about the withdrawal from Afghanistan. You know, they’ve been waiting forever to get this Blinken in front of this committee because he’s so busy. And he’s already putting out feelers out there about recognizing the new government in Syria. You know, the terrorists. This guy is sick. This guy was never qualified to be secretary of state. John McCain was 100% correct. When we come back, we’ll start that from the beginning. I’ll be right back.
Segment 3
All right, let’s lock this down, baby, and then we’ll move on. But it is important. Afghanistan needs to be remembered and what took place there and who did what. Here’s Representative Lawler. With the traitor Anthony Blinken behind the microphone in front of him. Go. Have you read this report in full? I have read the executive summary of the report. I haven’t read the entire report yet. I read the executive summary. I hope that you will take this copy with you on your flight to the Middle East and read it, because this is your legacy. This is your legacy, starting with the disastrous withdrawal in Afghanistan that resulted in the death of 13 U.S. service members. Creating 13 Gold Star families. Family is our vice president hasn’t even been bothered to meet with. Then the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The terrorist attack on Israel, the illicit oil trade between China and Iran to the tune of $200 billion under your watch. That is what is funding Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and other terror networks in the region. China threatening Taiwan. This is your legacy. And this stems from this disastrous withdrawal. So I hope you read the report in full and reflect upon that. You talk about the Doha agreement. It’s conditions based. This administration had no problem reversing policy decisions that it disagreed with President Trump on. In fact, Joe Biden. Revoked 94 executive orders. To open up our southern border and create an absolute calamity. 70,000 Americans die every year from fentanyl overdose. As this administration has allowed fentanyl to pour into our country drug trafficking, gangs, human trafficking, women and children being sold into prostitution. Not a care in the world. No. This is the legacy. So don’t sit here and tell us, having not read the report, that you disagree with it or it’s not true. Saying to my colleague from Florida, Oh, it’s not true. We left people in Israel after October 7th. It most certainly is. I had constituents calling in a full fledged panic and we called the State Department and we’re told there is nothing we can do. Don’t tell us that that didn’t happen. Hmm. This administration. Had no problem trying to renegotiate the Iran nuclear deal. No problem lifting sanctions on Iran, allowing for the illicit oil trade. So when you say that the previous administration negotiated the Doha agreement and therefore we were bound by it. That is complete and utter bullshit. Now you know it. You? Absolutely. If deep and well being. Of American citizens. And to make sure what happened did not in Afghanistan. Yeah. Mr. Secretary, on August 26, 2021, who was the president of the United States? Joe Biden. On August 26, 2021, Who was the secretary of state? I was. Okay. Take responsibility. Don’t shirk in your responsibilities. Don’t try to shift blame. The reality is you guys allowed the conditions on the ground to deteriorate. You did not hold the Taliban to account. And as a result, 13 U.S. service members are dead. And the world is a tinderbox. Let’s let’s stop this. I think it’s very important that you hear this. Because here’s finally Blinken in front of a committee. Being told what a disaster he is and what he and Biden have done to our country and the people in this country and other countries, it’s very, very important. I mean, I could fire through in 32nd soundbites this issue that. No, this is important. Go ahead. Precarious place since the lead up to World War Two. That is your legacy. Period. Full stop. And if Israel listened to this administration and didn’t go into Gaza and didn’t go into the south. Sinwar would still be alive. And if Israel listened to this administration, Nasrallah would still be alive. And Assad would still be in power in Syria. And Iran would be stronger than ever. That is your legacy. This Congress has passed the Ship Act and the Abraham Accords Special envoy. You didn’t fill the special envoy and you didn’t enforce the ship Act. You’ve had over a year to do both. That is your legacy. You leave the world worse off today than it was when you inherited. Gentleman’s time has expired. Well, I enjoy reading. Sure enough, Rich. That’s enough. Thank you. I’m saying, ladies and gentlemen, that that was really a a tour de force. That was a tour de force. And confronting the secretary of state. And laying out his disastrous foreign policy. You don’t get to see that very often. You don’t get to hear that very often. And yet this did take place today. And I’m betting. It wasn’t on TV. I haven’t been watching TV, wasn’t on much radio, but it was very, very important. And I’m proud of him for doing that because it needed to be laid out because they’re now they’re taking credit for Assad being gone. They’re taking credit for Iran being weak. They’re taking credit for Hezbollah nearly defeated, Hamas nearly defeated. It’s sickening watching these people. When it was Netanyahu who did it. And Netanyahu, they tried to destroy an 18 Democrats three weeks ago in the Senate, tried to vote to cut all arms off from Israel. I want you to think about something, America. Thanks to Netanyahu. The mass murder who killed 600,000 of his own people in Syria is gone. He ran off to Moscow. Not thanks to buy, not thanks to Blinken. So who’s the humanitarian here? Netanyahu. Who’s the person that that saved more lives and Biden could have possibly even dreamed it was Netanyahu. It was his foreign policy. It was his military policy. It was his government. And thank God it was his steel backbone resisting these buffoons, these fools, these Keystone cops. That made it possible. Netanyahu. And by the way, to show you how screwed up Israel’s judicial system is. As I speak, this man is in a courtroom defending himself against preposterous allegations about cigars, champagne and the media. In the middle of a war on eight fronts. Their statesmen leader. Not only is the deal with the ICC, not only has to deal with the U.N., not only has to deal with the Biden regime in our. Crazy ass Department of State. Got to deal with his own judiciary. And they’re out of control. Attorney General. Over cigars and champagne and the media. Now, by the way. The two main state witnesses involving cigars and champagne and the media. And now turned on the government. They’ve turned on the prosecutors. Even the judge thought, well, you might want to drop one of these cases and they refuse to do it. So they’re loaded with Alvin Bragg types over there, their radical left wing kooks. In our judicial system, in their prosecutorial system over there. It is bizarre how much power. Are these buffoons actually have? What it is. Netanyahu, in effect, who has saved the people of Syria. It’s Netanyahu. Netanyahu will liberate the people in Lebanon. Who will liberate the people in Gaza. It’s Netanyahu. Who? One day. Hopefully working with President Trump will liberate the people of Iran. What comes after. No one can know. No one can predict. Nobody can control. But that’s the truth. And this is Netanyahu that they’ve had a smear campaign against for years. This is Netanyahu. The vice president would even go to the joint session of Congress. They introduce him for his historic speech. This is the Netanyahu who? Bernie Sanders, a Marxist Stalinist S.O.B.. In about half of the Democrat Party. Demanded be removed. Even Schumer. Busy trying to undo himself, who is a complete fraud and a phony and a fool. Give that horrendous speech that will be remembered. Because it was horrendous demanding that Netanyahu step down. It is this regime in our country and their party. That tried to overthrow an elected prime minister of an ally democratic state. And they want to take credit. You see. They want to take credit for what’s happening. That Iran is weak, Iran’s weak because Israel’s strong. And as we explained here, thanks to the story broken by the Free Beacon, $10 billion went into the pockets of the Islamo Nazi regime in Tehran three weeks after Trump’s election, while at the same time they’re boycotting weapons from Israel even as I speak. Even as I speak, sick. And getting sicker. I’ll be right back.
Segment 4
You know, the immigration figures, I should say the illegal immigration figures. They’re worse than you think. Over PJ Media. Rick Moran You aren’t going to believe the number of migrants who’ve entered the U.S. since 2021. We’ve known for years the number of migrants entering the U.S. during Joe Biden’s term was massive. Believe it or not, New York Times reporters work with government officials and outside experts to quote unquote, analyze the magnitude of the recent immigration surge in the United States. Notice they do it when it’s too late. They do it after the election and after it’s all occurred rather than before the election, well before the election. So the American people could have the information and try and get their representatives to actually do something about it. They were the results are nothing short of mind blowing. Quote The immigration surge since 2021 has been the largest in U.S. history, surpassing even the levels of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Total net migration. The number of people coming to the country, minus the number of leaving, will likely exceed 8 million people over the past four years. I would argue 20 million. But what do I know? Government statistics suggest the number includes both legal and illegal immigration begins the analysis and all those got away. According to data from the Census Bureau and the Congressional Budget Office, net migration has never been anywhere close to 2 million for an extended period of time, and we’re at 8 million, according to this report. Annual net migration. The number of people coming to the country, minus the number leaving, averaged 2.4 million from 2021 to 2023. According to the CBO, total net migration during the Biden administration is likely to exceed 8 million people. That’s a faster pace of arrival of arrivals than during any period on record, including the peak years of Ellis Island traffic, when millions and millions of Europeans came to the United States. Even after taking into account today’s larger population. The recent surge is the most rapid since at least 1850. There’s our buddy Brian KILMEADE on Fox. Mister Producer. He’s got to be on Fox at least four times a day. No, I’m just saying it. Goldman Sachs report based on government data shows that 60% ready, 60% of the 8 million people entered the U.S. Senator Biden were illegal. This is. Such a diabolical thing, what he and the Democrats have done to our country for their own power. It’s so diabolical. The increase in combined legal and illegal immigrants has caused the share of foreign born U.S. residents to hit a record 15.2% of the population in America. Foreign born residents in 2023, up from 13.6% in 2020. The previous high for foreign born U.S. residents was 14.8% in 1890. We’re a nation that says if you want to flee and you’re fleeing oppression, you should come, Biden said during his 2020 presidential campaign. And once in office, he said he wanted a safe, orderly and humane immigration system. That’s certainly not what we have. 325,000 missing unaccompanied children, women sold into sex slavery and pornography and raped. On the way, he loosened the rules on asylum, allowing ordinary border jumpers to claim they were oppressed and getting a five year line to await judgment by an immigration judge. And, of course, they never show up. Immigrants from several countries receive Temporary protected status, which allows immigrants to live and work in the U.S.. Waiver after waiver of immigration law was granted, allowing hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S.. Biden took most of these actions to alleviate the crush at the southern border. These actions include not vetting sponsors who showed up to take unaccompanied children to Lord knows where. For some, the new Lord knows what. These actions weren’t taken out of compassion. They were done to minimize the visuals at the border of thousands of immigrants trying to enter the United States. This is sick. I don’t want to hear about Democrats. What about dividing families? This needs to be shoved down their damn throats. I’ll be right back.