January 13th, 2025

On Monday’s Mark Levin Show, the battle begins Tuesday with the hearings for President-Elect Trump’s cabinet posts. Every one of Trump’s nominees must be confirmed. These hearings will be a test of the Republican Senate majority. If the GOP Senate majority will not confirm Trump’s cabinet nominees, then those who vote no must be primaried and defeated. The GOP owes its majority to Trump and his landslide victory. Sen Chuck Schumer has made clear he wants to use the nomination process to weaken Trump and sabotage his entire agenda. Schumer and his thugs must be put in their place, they must be crushed, and their sickening character assassination tactics must be exposed and defeated. The Senate Democrats will go over the allegations against Pete Hegseth not because they believe them, but because it is what they do — the Senate Democrats are perversely obsessed with sex as a weapon against GOP nominees. The goal is to smear, humiliate, destroy. Later, the Democrats are now starting – rather than change course and apologize for the wildfires in California, they whine about Trump. Gov Gavin Newsom should worry about his state, not Trump. Also, President Biden is taking credit for the achievements of others like Benjamin Netanyahu and the IDF. Biden undermined Israel every step of the way. If there is a hostage deal it’s thanks to Trump and Netanyahu. Afterward, Florida’s legislative leaders Daniel Perez and Ben Albritton are typical do-nothing Republicans. They are opposing Gov Ron DeSantis’s call for a special session to deal with the deportation of illegal aliens and further hurricane relief. All Floridians should get involved on these two huge issues, call your state reps and state senators, call Perez and Albritton, and insist that they act immediately.

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Rough transcription of Hour 1

Segment 1
Hello America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. I hope you had a good weekend. The battle begins and it begins tomorrow. But the nomination of Pete Hague, Seth and other nominees to different Cabinet posts going through the process, 13 of them into and total and others. Rush Limbaugh. Clearly one of my best friends used to talk about the echo chamber. I know what he means today. Several weeks ago, maybe over a month ago. When Pete Hegseth was first nominated and then Cash Patel. I got behind this microphone and I was on my Fox show, on my show, and I said. Every one of President Trump’s nominees must be confirmed. And what else did I say? I said every one of his nominees must be confirmed, even if I don’t like all of them. One in particular with the Labor Department. So be it. It’s not about me. It’s not about any individual senator. These are the people Donald Trump believes he needs to advance the agenda. The agenda to save the country. The agenda to protect our border, the agenda to open up the economy. The agenda. To protect our national security, our Constitution. He won in a massive landslide. I didn’t. We didn’t. He did. And no single senator from Maine, from Alaska, from North Carolina, from Utah. None of these rhino, moderate wimps. Would be in the majority. But for Donald Trump winning a landslide victory. We have a Republican Senate because of Trump, not because of the genius of Mitch McConnell and his political action committee. In spite of it. And if he’d helped out just a little bit in some of these states, we’d have three more Republican senators. That said. Not one of these nominees deserves to be defeated, not one, particularly considering the Democrat Party standard. Who they nominated for president this time, who they nominated for president, the time before their secretary of state, their national security adviser, their secretary of defense, their Department of Justice, the attorney general. They are horrendous individuals. If not evil. Chuck Schumer wants to use the nomination process as the Democrats do. To character assassinate individual members that have been nominated by the president. Starting with Pete Hegseth. We all know, Pete Haig said. He’s our buddy for all of us. Good, decent man. A faithful Christian. A man of great honor, a man who who stepped up to defend this nation with a vast majority of people attacking him in the Senate have not. Starting with Schumer. Starting with Schumer and Adam Schiff. And the rest of the reprobates. What else did I say? Many weeks ago. That on this program we will be monitoring. We will be monitoring the Republicans. To see how they conduct themselves in each one of these hearings. We will be monitoring the Republicans. And if the usual Republicans and others. Decide that they’re smarter than President Trump, that they’re going to replace his judgment with their judgment. Even though they have the power to do it under the phasing consent clause in the Constitution. But if they’re not going to rally around Trump and behind Trump, and we the people who put Donald Trump into the presidency, then they must be defeated. And I will keep a list. Right here at ground Zero. Starting with The Hague set nomination. We will watch them all. We will watch them all. And I will keep a list. And you had power. You demonstrated that in the last election. And we are heard all over this country, every corner of the country. I was at an event. On Saturday. In Florida. Not really an event. At an Orthodox synagogue. Which I rarely go to. But I went. And there were individuals there who had come from Australia. Individuals who have come from Britain, other parts of the world. He came up to me. Who listen to this radio program. Who watched the Fox show. We reach every corner of this country, every corner of the globe. We reach Maine. We reach Utah. We reach Alaska. We reached these states. Were these Republican senators think they know better than everybody else. Better than you and me. Of course, they have a right to vote no, and we have a right to end their political careers. And by God, it’s about time we do it. It’s about time we do it. There’s a Republican Senate majority thanks to Donald Trump and you. The people. And you, the people. These smear campaigns by the Democrats and their media. The New York Times and Washington Post. The networks made LSD the Constipated News network. They’re not new. They’re par for the course. From Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas forward. They’re par for the course. And it’s a strategy. It is a strategy. Excuse me. And Schumer has let loose the dogs. Schumer is an evil evil. Piece of You know what? Is a power hungry mentor. Munchkin. That’s what he is. He will even walk over people of his own faith if it means getting power and holding power from AOC and the anti-Semite left. It’s fine by him. He’ll trash Netanyahu just to protect himself from the Islamists within his own party. Have you ever seen a bigger sleazeball in your life? Why he’s now leading the effort behind the scenes. To destroy hags said to destroy petrol, to destroy a whole bunch them. Now they get support from the Washington Post. This is pretty funny, actually. Here’s an article at RedState. The Washington Post is dying like democracy does in darkness. That’s the old commercial line that they used over there at the Post. Washington Post has officially lost 90% of its readership. In other words, but for Bezos, who would be bankrupt, be broke, be dead. It’s not a surprise that over the course of the years, its audience has more or less completely abandoned it, leaving it a shadow of its former self. A Goliath in the news industry, according to Semaphore. Washington Post has bled out its traffic that bled was bleed was heavy from 2021. It lost 90% of its daily users. Over the last four years, Web traffic has cratered, according to internal data shared with Semaphore in recent weeks. The Post regular daily traffic last year sunk to less than a quarter of what it was at its peak in January 2021 that month. The Post briefly reached a high of around 22.5 million daily active users following the attack. But by the middle of 2020, for ready, it’s daily users hovered around 2.5 to 3 million daily users. I’m much more our listeners and many more listeners than that every night right here. And so what does this paper do? Like it has some influence. Like it has some influence. It puts out a graphic today. I guess the last 10% of its readership is just too stupid to comprehend the written word. So they put out a graphic and they’re telling you who to support and who oppose. Of course, they like Marco Rubio. Rubio will be the guy. They all point to the Democrats and say, See, if you give us people like Rubio, we’ll vote for them. Treasury Secretary Scott percent. They’re endorsing him. Who is he? Who the hell knows? Defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth. Thumbs down. Doesn’t have the temperament. You know, he was a Fox host. Attorney General Pam Bondi. They support. That’s a good one. Doug Burgum Thumbs up Agriculture. Brooke Rollins Thumbs up. Commerce. Howard Lutnick Thumbs up. Labor. Lori Chavez Dreamer. I don’t like this woman in the least. She was handpicked by union bosses, but nonetheless, I said all of them. Lori Chavez. Reamer Thumbs up. Robert f kennedy jr. Thumbs down. Housing and Urban Development. Scott Turner. Thumbs up. See, a lot of these are sort of backbencher departments. Thumbs up. Sean Duffy Transportation. Now explain this to me. Wouldn’t you assume that they’d be opposed to Duffy? Isn’t it obvious what they’re doing? They’re trying to show you all the ones they support in order to try and take out the ones they don’t support. Really? They support Duffy. Chris Wright Energy. Thumbs up Education. Linda McMahon Thumbs up. Now they hate McMahon, but again, it’s a strategy they’re employing. Doug Collins, VA. Thumbs up. Homeland Security. Kristi Noem, thumbs up. Cabinet level officials. Lee Zeldin, EPA, thumbs up. John Ratcliffe, CIA thumbs up. U.S. Trade Rep J. Mrs. Greer Whatever the hell that is, thumbs up. Ambassador to the U.N.. Stefanik Thumbs up. SBA. Kelly Loeffler, thumbs up. Now, here’s a good one. Russ Vought I don’t know. Russ Vought, but I know he’s good. I don’t think I’ve ever met the guy, but I know he’s good. Thumbs down. Why? Well, you know, we’ll throw him a couple of tag and here and there. But let’s go after the the key ones like OMB. Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard thumbs down. So they say No one. Gabbard. No one. Voight. Me get it right. Be accurate. No one had access. And they will oppose Cash Patel. And so my attitude’s a little different than there is America. The ones they oppose, we have to support stronger than ever. Even if I disagree with one or two, it doesn’t matter. That’s not the point. As I said, weeks and weeks and weeks ago. Now, the echo chambers picked it up. By the way, this echo chamber is very, very interesting to me. My own friends participate in this scam. On Friday. Was it Friday? Yeah, it was Friday. On Dana Perino show. Bill Hemmer show. I think John Roberts was sitting in. I was asked to call in and give my opinion on what Judge Mershon had just done. I’d been to the eye doctor for my, you know, needle in the eye. I didn’t think I could make it, but I made it. And they had the excellent legal analysts giving their opinions. I had a different opinion. I’m not caught up in the appellate process of New York. I think that’s a disaster. The whole idea is a disaster. And so I gave my opinion. And we we have it. I want to post it, but I don’t. He gave my opinion again. On Fox on Sunday game opinion behind this microphone that Friday gave our opinion on the Blaze. So it’s out there. And among them things I said, Mr. Producer in America was this thing this that that this Judge Mershon did no penalties of any kind on Trump. That that was a that was a calculated, evil maneuver by him. Because he if it penalized Trump in any way. Certainly prison or an ankle bracelet or that you’ve heard me discuss this, then obviously the Supreme Court would have stepped in. But he didn’t do that. Instead, it’s the scarlet letter, as I said, in the way I defined it. So now I have people going on and on. Our buddy Alan Dershowitz says it like two days later. Right, Mr. Producer? And they keep quoting Alan Dershowitz, which is fine by me. I love Alan Dershowitz. And then we have hosts who bring Alan on, say he said it on my show first. What is with these people? It’s the echo chamber. Rush was right. I’ll be right back.

Segment 2
The Senate Democrats will go over the allegations against Hague says not because they believe them, but because it’s what they do. Senate Democrats are perversely obsessed with sex as a weapon against GOP nominees. They don’t care who makes the allegations. They don’t care if they’re knowingly false. They don’t care if they’re unfair. The goal is to smear, humiliate, destroy. And they know there are a handful of GOP senators who have no fidelity of any kind to their party or even more the incoming president, even though he won by a landslide and gave them their majority. And I guarantee you they’ve already been collaborating and colluding with the media. Their counterpart, Democrats in the media, to inform them about what they’re going to do, how they’re going to do it. And even the questions, because this is the nature of the beast. I’ll be right back.

Segment 3
Yes, the Democrat Party hates America as you’re about to witness again. So let me underscore. The Senate Democrats will go over the allegations against Haig’s death not because they believe them, but because it is what they do. The Senate Democrats are perversely obsessed with sex as a weapon against GOP nominees. They don’t care who makes the allegations. They don’t care if they’re knowingly false. They don’t care if they’re unfair. The goal is to smear, humiliate, destroy. And they know there are a handful of GOP senators who have no fidelity of any kind or their party, or even more to the incoming president, even though he won by a landslide and gave them their majority. And they have undoubtedly in already been coordinating and collaborating with the media surrogates who will be ready to pounce. It is a strategy that has been employed for about half a century. The party that has destroyed women’s sports, women’s rights, and even the word women will pose as the defender of women. They will raise their voices, pound the table, act incensed. An outraged. As they snicker and high five each other when no one is looking. The Democrat Party is a hideous party. It is incapable of reform or modernization. It is stuck in its birth as a party of hate, deceit and driven by power. Mr. Producer, and we will see this because Schumer, as I said, has unleashed the dogs. This is how they hope. And this is how they expect to weaken Donald Trump. How do we know this? They already leaked it, so we know it. And so the way I see this America is this is a litmus test for the Republicans in the Senate. And whether they abide by election results and whether they respect you, that is where the people. In a landslide election had handed them a majority. I don’t know who this new senator is from Utah, but apparently he’s a mitt Romney type. He’s a puke. We know Susan Collins all too well, Murkowski. She’s already basically said she marches to her own drummer right off the cliff and she could give a damn. Those are just three. We’ve got this guy in North Carolina. We’ve got a couple others. You think they’re bigger than the electorate? Bigger than the newly minted president. You don’t see this on the Democrats side. You don’t see this on the Democrat side. This is the way it works. But we can do something about it. America. We can do something about this, and we will. And so I am warning in the greatest expression of small d Democratic thought. Because the vote is the vote. It’s not blackmail. It’s it is what it is. If any of these Republican senators take steps to weaken Trump right out of the box that you and I will do everything we can to defeat them. And I have a long memory. I don’t care if they’re recently elected or not noticed. Most of them aren’t recently elected. But the guy in Utah was. I don’t know what’s happening to Utah in the Republican Party there, but Romney and now this clown has a problem. It’s a conservative state. Obviously the process is the problem, but since it affects many of us who are not in Utah, where you’re going to have to resolve that. Murkowski changed the election laws in Alaska so she can’t lose, but she’ll lose next time. She’ll lose next time. I’d rather have Hague’s said than her and say, Sam Collins. Collins likes the run as the. Thoughtful, independent New England. No, she’s not. She’s a self-serving, power hungry reprobate. That’s what she is. I’m sorry. Is this offending anybody? Like I give a. You know what? My people always say to me, going to a Republican convention, you don’t know what? To be spat upon. Why the hell would I go there? I’m here with you. We, the people. My audience, our family. That’s what we’re doing. You have Republicans who are giving aid and comfort to. To a Democrat party that hates America, that is more radical and etc.. Ben, what are we supposed to do? Oh, that’s okay. Advise and consent. We are well aware of what the Constitution provides. That’s not what’s being debated. And these are the same Republicans who rubber stamp Democrats in left and right like Lindsey Graham. Lindsey Graham. Why? Again, the president has a right, except when it comes to Hague sets. He starts raising questions. It is we here behind this microphone. Who took on Joni Ernst. And Lindsey Graham. Nobody else. Nobody else in conservative talk radio. So we cleared the field, said it’s okay, boys and girls, you can do this. Choke. And the audience, which is massive, which is activist. You. Remember we talked about I make the calls, make your voices heard, and you did. And so the MAGA says, MAGA. That’s us. Me and you. The Tea Party that ties the two of you and me. The Reaganites, the Tea Party activists, and yes, the Trump Revolution. Many of us came to the Trump revolution after the 2016 primary. But we came. We’re here. We’re strong. We’re united. That’s where we are and that’s who we are. This isn’t about a senator’s right to vote how they want to. Of course they have a right to vote, how they want to. We have a right to vote. How we want to. And a right to do what we want to do. All right. I’m going to move on. This thing that’s going on in California is sick to me. It makes me sick to my stomach to watch the people suffering. Now they’re up to at least 24 dead. You know, there’s many more than that. God knows the amount of the damage here and how long it’s going to take to do anything to fix this. And the Democrats are starting. They’re starting to get their legs back. Rather than apologize rather than change course. Rather than contribute to humanity. Now they’re whining a gang, a crime. He’s politicizing it. Oh, it’s racist. Taco challenged the de Castro. Mark says a lunatic mayor of L.A.. That goes square yourselves. We’re not going to be intimidated. Nature started it and mankind exacerbated it. And mankind by mankind. For all of you, with your pronouns. By mankind, well, we mean in this case. The left, the Democrats, they never want to take credit for what they’ve done. They never want. I’ll put it this way. They never want responsibility for their ideology. They never want responsibility for their incompetence. They never want responsibility for how they abuse their power. So they throw around these shibboleths. They throw around these these ambiguities. Climate change. Climate change. Shut up. Climate change. Had nothing to do with the lack of water. Had nothing to do. But not having these limited slow burns. Nothing to do with what you’re doing to California. Climate change. As they howl at the moon. And they pray at the stars. Now I understand Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders hates America. He’s a Marxist. That’s what he is. He hates private property rights. He hates our standard of living. When you’re happy, he’s angry. I got it. He’s a Stalinist. He went to a Stalinist kibbutz in Israel. Not just your typical left wing kibbutz. As most of them know. He went to a Stalinist kibbutz, just like Thomas Friedman at the New York Times. I’m on to you boys. This is who they are. Climate change check Substantial, don’t you now know? The Democrat Party is existential. Don’t you know climate change didn’t create slavery. Climate change didn’t create segregation. Climate change didn’t create Jim Crow. Climate change didn’t create eugenics. Climate change didn’t create. What’s taking place in California? Imagine that. A wildfire. Gee, they’ve never had that in California before. Imagine that a wildfire that’s out of control because the meat heads who run that damn state ran it into the ground. They’d. I had to spend money on other staff. Get it. Newsom. The hell did Newsom do the last four years? He’s running around like he’s the president and waiting. Look at this guy. He’s a complete menace. He’s a buffoon. He really is a buffoon. Donald Trump should come here and visit. Do you worried about Donald Trump for moron, Run your damn state. There’s dead people. There’s people have absolutely nothing. There’s people who are missing. Run your damn state. Worry about the water. No way about Donald Trump. Yo, Jack. They circle the wagons, these Democrats, don’t they? They don’t have the Murkowski’s and the Collins is there. Do they? Shooting them in the back. And yet they deserve it politically. Of course they deserve it. They got one guy every now and then who speaks out. FETTERMAN And because he speaks out now and then everybody, Oh, it’s great. There’s. FETTERMAN Don’t get me wrong. I like the fact that he does what he does. He’s sort of an old time moderate. I got it. We’ll see it. Yeah. He’s young yet, but we’ll see. Meaning a Senate term. So far, so good. But he votes down the line with Schumer. Hello. But I’m not opposed to them. Kind of like the guy. It’s like this Ritchie Torres guy who’s in a district, a very left wing Democrat district, with about seven Jews in it. He’s right on the border with AOC. So strong Israel supporter. He believes in securing the border from on immigration. He wanted Amazon to come in. You know, we got to listen to people like that saying, Whoa, whoa, wait a minute. Who’s this? Ritchie Torres. What? Who’s this? Fetterman. It’s what I said about Elon Musk. We’re going to get Elon Musk. No, you’re not. You’re not going to get anybody. And then we have this guy, Zuckerberg. But I don’t trust Zuckerberg. But here’s the point. He’s at least making motions, right? Emotions. And so far, that’s all they are. But he’s now hated by Google, a little commie rat bastards who work for Google. They get their salaries, overpaid salaries. They work from home in their basements, in their underwear, eating tasty cakes. Smoking pot. You know, like average Americans. So anyway, so there you are. So why would we trash Elon Musk? Got H1-B visas. I see my friend, the governor of Florida, if I read correctly, Mr. Bridges, he opposes them, too. H1-B visas have been around a very, very, very long time. It’s not open ended. There’s a cap on those, too. It’s not like everybody with an advanced degree and success in aeronautics gets to come to the United States. It doesn’t work that way. But count me in favor. Not without a cap, but in favor. If we can get people from other countries who are the very smartest that they have and I’ve explained this before, why wouldn’t we? We wouldn’t have. We wouldn’t have. The advances in space that we have now, but for the fact. That we used. Some of the smartest German scientists that we get our hands on after World War Two. Wernher von Braun. Read about him. The Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama. It’s a beautiful place. These are smart people rather than against it. Guess what, you idiot. What are you talking about? We were able to leap over the Soviets and Sputnik thanks to guys like this. It’s okay. It’s okay. He didn’t put anybody out of work. They created tens of thousands. And if you go down the supply chain and the information chain in the technology chain, hundreds of thousands of American jobs in this country vanish. Von Braun and his fellow Germans at Redstone Arsenal. In addition to helping us technologically and militarily, I’m against the Duane Reade gang. I Shut up. Does it mean everybody gets to come in? Does it mean we want everybody in you? Still, the vetting processes are supposed to you still have limitations on it. But what is this? I’m against a dump. And what does that mean? We all admit that our colleges and universities have gone to hell. Now what they excel at is teaching terrorism and Marxism. We all met this, don’t we? We have a lot of smart people in this country in spite of the colleges and universities. And they should have an opportunity getting jobs, too. Well, how do we do that? We create them? How do we create them? It’s called capitalism. It’s called economic growth. It’s called rewarding success. Gee, I remember when we used to do that and our government used to support it. Well, that’s how you create enough jobs for our homegrown brainiacs and have some of the brainiacs around the world contribute to our society. But the hell’s wrong with that, Mr. Producer? Nothing. There are people who believe they’re spouting conservatism when they don’t even understand what the hell it is. Our populism. What they don’t even understand what the hell that is. I’ll be right back.

Segment 4
You notice, Donald Trump isn’t an isolationist either, as I discussed last week. He wants Greenland. He wants the Panama Canal back. He wants Canada. I want nothing to do with Canada. But that’s just one man’s opinion. Greenland’s even thinking about it now. It’s a brilliant move, you know. It truly is. Does it mean he’s a warmonger or an interventionist or a hawk or a neo con, You know, a Jew? Does it mean he’s any of those things now? By the way, who is this whole sax that the guy’s name was an economist who pretends to be a historian? If you heard of this guy, Mr. Producer. Making the rounds. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It’s Netanyahu’s fault that we invaded Iraq. Now Latina who wasn’t even prime minister. Did you know that at the time? He’s a real hater, this punk. I understand Tucker’s promoting him. I’m happy to debate Tucker or any of the others anytime they wish on their history. Why not? Why wouldn’t I? But this guy Sacks. They elevate this guy. He got to be able to do better than that. Come on. If you hate Israel. You can do better than Shaq’s, can’t you? Apparently not. How dare the Jews want to survive and live? How dare they have their own country? Which they had 4000 years ago. How dare they don’t roll over and play dead and allow their women to be raped and their babies to be decapitated? What the hell is wrong with these people? What is wrong with them? I’ll be right back.