On Friday’s Mark Levin Show, the plane that crashed was filled with fabulous people. The most logical suggestion by experts is that these helicopter pilots were focused on the other plane and didn’t see the plane they hit. More information is being gathered and investigated and hopefully, there will be more answers available. Later, in breaking news, a plane on medical assignment crashed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There’s very little info right now. The reporting so far is that two pilots, two doctors, one patient, and one family member on the plane have died. Then, President Trump is releasing some FBI agents, and the media is very upset. Everything Trump does is questioned or has racial undertones – the media will never change. The deep state needs to be purged because Trump can’t trust them. Trump is serious about reining in this out-of-control government. Afterward, Democrats have no plan for the border, crime, or taxes. They don’t have any ideas on how to govern to help America.
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Rough transcription of Hour 1
Segment 1
Hello America, Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. While this plane. Was filled with fabulous people. When they went down. You know, pulls your heartstrings. These little kids, 11 and 14 year old sisters, ice skaters, just little kids. Imagine being their parents because they died to. The rebel has been identified was on the plane. Two of the three who were on the helicopter as the family doesn’t want the third revealed. I believe there were two men and a woman. You know, when it was first reported, it was there was a collision. With the airplane colliding into the helicopter. That’s not what happened. The helicopter hit the airplane. He was almost on the ground. We don’t know why. We will find out, I think the most. Logical. Suggestion by these experts is that these helicopter pilots. We’re focused on the other plane and they didn’t get specific direction enough. And they didn’t see the plane that they hit. I think that’s about right. We’ll see. Doesn’t matter what I think, anyway. Um. But there are some things that are getting very troubling to me. And I mean, first of all, there was almost a helicopter plane incident the day before. They’re understaffed. We’re hiring 87,000 IRS agents under Biden. Air traffic controllers are understaffed. Does that make sense to anybody? And then we have this from the New York Post supervisor. Let air traffic controller leave shift early before DC plane collision. So something went on in that tower. Number one, you had an air traffic controller doing basically two jobs, which is normally done by one, you know, overseeing both the helicopter traffic and the plane traffic. And they’re on two different frequencies, as I understand him. Now there’s a supervisor at the Reagan National Airport to reportedly let an air traffic controller leave early from his shift shortly before Wednesday night’s deadly collision over the Potomac. Apparently they do this after 9:30 p.m., though this accident occurred around 10 minutes before 9 p.m.. As a result, a single controller was monitoring both the airplanes and the helicopters flying in the heavily trafficked airspace, a source familiar with the investigation told NBC News. I’m sure there are politicians leaking. You know, the National Transportation Safety Board really is a top notch professional operation. They don’t leak. So they’re briefing some people and they’re leaking. But we gain the information. Here it is. One controller should be in charge of helicopters while another watches over airplanes, according to the FAA. Well, that is a big deal. That is a huge screw up. The FAA said in a preliminary report Thursday that one air traffic controller was doing the job of two people at the time of the devastating crash, noting that staffing in the tower was not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic not normal, meaning there were supposed to be two, I guess, and the supervisor let one go early. I guess I’m just piecing together what’s in the public record. One person typically handles both plane and helicopter duties at the Reagan National Tower after 9 p.m. when an air traffic begins to slow, The New York Times has reported a breakdown in communication with air traffic control could be an element behind the crash, which left 67 people dead, according to radio transmissions from Wednesday night. The lone controller warned the U.S. Army Black Hawk that it was getting too close to the sea. RJ That type of plane, which the experienced helicopter pilot acknowledged, and maybe that’s why he wound up in a higher. The level. Then then he typically would. Experts believe the helicopter pilot may have manoeuvred to avoid the wrong plane. Perjeta, the same model that was taking off farther away, the same model. Since the controller never relayed the precise location of the American Airlines flight until it was too late. National Transportation Safety Board is investigating whether the helicopter was flying too high as well. You have some samples, examples here that one college student who died in a plane crash was returning from his grandfather’s funeral. But there’s so many stories here. Husband and wife texted in minutes before the fatal D.C. collision details the heartbreaking moment he learned about the the doomed flight. The Long Island figure skater mourns D.C. plane crash victims, including baby skater sister. Like a really bad nightmare. And I just can’t imagine. I just can’t imagine. The chopper was flying at an altitude of 350 to 400 feet when it smashed into the plane, when it should have been flying at a maximum allowed altitude of 200 feet. That’s a big problem. The airport’s air traffic control facilities had been understaffed for years, with only 19 fully certified control on deck as of September 2023, according to the FAA. So they should have had 30. As per the goals set for the FAA controllers, union shortages led controllers to work ten hour days and six days a week. So they’re exhausted. The Biden era plan. The FAA said it is committed to maximum hiring for the next few years to recover from substantial under hiring due to COVID pandemic and lapse in the funding in 2019. But it didn’t happen. And they were mightily focused on. These are actually beyond DEA. To be perfectly honest with you. Absolute mess. It’s just the. You know, it’s hard to stomach these things. You see these things, you think about your own family, you think about what these people are going through. You think about how many times you’ve been on an airplane. Many of us have been in that airport over and over and over again. And it’s tough, you know, for people to. To get their head around. To get their head around it. And. Well, we’ll see how this how this breaks down. We’ll keep an eye on this. We’re not going to forget it. So we’ll keep an eye on this, not a hubbub. Apparently the president is going to be releasing some FBI agents and. Media is very upset about it. You know, I’ve noticed the media reporting is really grotesque. Everything Trump does is questioned. Everything Trump does is going to harm the economy. Everything Trump does is has racial overtones, everything that they haven’t changed. They just haven’t changed and they’re not going to change. They just are what they are. Over at right scoop. President Trump to fire tons. I don’t know if there are tons of FBI agents by the end of the day. He’s set to fire FBI agents who worked on the investigations of J. Sixers and those that targeted him with criminal investigation. This according to CNN, the air rights group. The Trump administration is set to expand a purge of career law enforcement officers. See, they used this Soviet style, communist style language purge. With dozens of FBI agents who worked on January six, U.S. attack, Capitol attack and Trump related investigations, as well as some supervisors being evaluated for possible removal as soon as the end of Friday, according to people briefed on the matter. The changes highlight how the new administration has moved quickly to deliver on President Trump’s vow to strike back at the Justice Department and FBI that he claims have been weaponized against him. It’s not a claim, it’s a reality. And if people were, in fact carrying out these weaponized attacks on him and others, why shouldn’t they be removed? Trump has falsely accused agents of abuse in their court ordered search of his Mar a Lago home and of their treatment of capital rioters. No, he hasn’t falsely accused them of anything. He hasn’t falsely accused them of anything. That warrant was outrageous. What was done in his home was outrageous. The thing was outrageous from top to bottom. It was almost Gestapo like, in my opinion. Whether or not some master was involved in it that is a lightweight judge is is irrelevant to me. And then over a right scoop, they write Seriously. CNN Trump has falsely accused anyone of abuse. This administration did abuse him and the Deep state needs to be purged. That’s exactly what he’s doing because he can’t trust them. I’m with him. I’m with Brian. Over. Right, Scoop? Interim leaders at the Justice Department have spent the past week drawing up lists of people who work at the Bureau. Vern disfavor with Trump for a variety of reasons. Agents and analysts have been warned by FBI leadership. They may be asked to resign or face termination. Yes. You live by the sword. You die by the sword. Right? Mr.. But is. Agents who work the investigation of Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents and those who investigated the roughly 600 rioters. They weren’t all rioters. CNN is sick. A bit concerned that they could face retribution for doing work they were assigned to do. Well, some of them didn’t do work. They were assigned to do some of them. We’re excited about doing this kind of work. We’re excited about the pursuit of the the former president. And as Brian at right Scoop points out, if Trump can’t trust those working for him because of reckless lawfare against him and the J. Sixers. I don’t blame him one bit for giving him the axe by by deep staters in my view as this. Why is it that if you were involved in this, you’re just presumed not to have done anything wrong? Well, Marc, why is it presumed you have done something wrong? See, here’s the thing. This is the typical kind of report you get from the media. What have they told us? Nothing. These are just people assigned to cases or are these people who are actively leading. Making decisions. That sort of thing, because the decisions they made were outrageous. Absolutely outrageous. There aren’t many heroes in this. There aren’t many heroes in this. Yeah. And so. I don’t have a problem with this in the least. But that department put this nation through what that department tried to do to our electoral process. People need to be held to account. They can always sue if they’re fired. And let let the chips fall where they may. Nothing stops them from suing. On the other hand, Donald Trump is serious about trying to get his hands around this government, not because he wants to control it personally, because it’s out of control. I’ll be right back.
Segment 2
These lawsuits are more evidence of more lawfare. This is an effort to thwart the election results. To thwart the policies of Trump, and they’re free to bring these lawsuits. But let’s not let’s not be confused about what’s taking place here. This second judge who’s rolled like the first judge, putting a freeze on what President Trump’s trying to do, and he’s not trying to do it with the entire budget. He’s trying to look he’s trying to freeze grants and spending for 60 days that have been going to these left wing NGOs that have promoted illegal immigration and these other front groups, these these radical agenda thing is it’s very, very specific about what he’s trying to do. It has nothing to do with all the rest that Schumer and the Democrats complain about. And the budget is so massive, the government’s so big that debt is beyond imagine. And. This is a tiny little piece. He wants to freeze it. This judge was appointed by Obama. Is a left wing Democrat. The other judge they got to was appointed by Reagan as part of a deal with Democrats from the state. A Democrat liberal old time judge. So they just happen to keep getting these Democrat left wing judges. And this is their plan. This is the law fair. Part two. How to thwart the American people. First was how to destroy our electoral process, how to destroy the candidate. They might dare to challenge their agenda. Now it’s let’s destroy the candidate who won the presidency, who won a landslide election. Let’s destroy his policy agenda. Let’s block it every way we can. And so they formed shop. Somehow they just managed to get these radical Democrat judges. It’s an amazing. And again, we have an article. On this judge without specifying who he is. Mr. Producer, isn’t that fascinating? It’s the way it works with our media, such as it is. Be nice if we had a free media. It really would. But we clearly don’t. We clearly do not. And you’re not going to hear a lot about this. Our friends at Breitbart and elsewhere. Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries calls to fight Trump’s agenda, quote, in the streets. Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Speaker in waiting, he thinks is facing blowback after and not by the media, not by his party. After calling for supporters to fight President Donald Trump’s agenda not only legislatively, but quote, in the streets. Quote. Right now, we’re going to keep focused on the need to look out for everyday New Yorkers and everyday Americans who are under assault. Are you under assault by Donald Trump? Ladies and gentlemen, what has he done to assault you? Under assault. See the language he uses? He uses the language of the Democrat Party militia that we saw in 2020 that we’ve seen elsewhere. Obama’s buddies from the 1960s and 70. Because that’s really who Hakeem Jeffries is. He’s really a radical. He’s managed to kind of keep it covered. Now, you go back and look at his past. What do they want to do? Want to cut taxes for billionaire donors and wealthy corporations, of course. Which is B.S.? I don’t know. No taxes on a tip seems to be for the average person to me. That’s not acceptable. We’re going to fight it legislatively. We’re going to fight it in the courts. We’re going to fight it in the streets. I’m not done with this. I’ll be right back.
Segment 3
Okay. Here’s how came the words right out of his mouth. Cut three. Go. We’re going to keep focused on the need to look out for everyday New Yorkers and everyday Americans who are under assault by an extreme MAGA Republican agenda that is trying to cut taxes for billionaire donors and wealthy corporations. And then so let’s stop there. How is he cutting taxes for billionaire donors? First of all, the tax plan isn’t even presented. There’s stop playing with it. But what happens is you see there’s across the board taxes, and that would include billionaires and include people who don’t earn that much money because they don’t play the Marxist class warfare stuff. So they’re going to call it tax cuts for billionaires. If the Trump tax cuts of the past. Laps the average person. Many of you will see your taxes go up 45%. So they would blame Trump for that, too, right? The truth is, the Democrats have no rational, workable plan when it comes to cutting the budget. They don’t want to cut it when it comes to addressing the debt. They talk about raising taxes, which of course kills what they creation of taxes because you lose prosperity and growth and jobs. The irrational. They have no plan. They have no plan for securing the border because they open the border. They have no plan for fighting criminality because they they open the door to criminality. So you can go on and on and on. They’re the arsonist. That’s who they are. Go ahead. Focus. And working class Americans across the country with the bill. That’s not acceptable. We are going to fight it. Legislatively. We are going to fight it in the courts. We’re going to fight it in the streets. He makes that with emphasis, with real drama, Mr. Producer. We’re going to fight it in the streets. Now while he be confronted by any of the so-called news media, Will he be on any other programs on Sunday where they’ll confront him? How about Yvette Clarke, Democrat of New York? Cut for a go. The leader has given us directives on how we will stand together to make sure that we push back, push back hard, and for the ideas and the plans that this administration has set forth, clearly they put forth a price. All right, that’s enough. That’s enough air and that’s enough hair. That does sound like to me that they want to work together in a bipartisan way. Does it? Now. It ought to work in a bipartisan way. This is guerrilla warfare. Then we have Raphael Warnock, another left wing nutjob. Another left wing nutjob. Cut five. Go. On January six, it was clear that in a violent way, January six, they can’t get over January six. Because they exploited. Now. Now, Warnock knows about 2020 the entire summer Disney. But the Democrat Party militia in the streets burning, pillaging, killing, stealing, destroying. Never crosses his lips. He knows about all the radicals. Basically the Marxist terrorists and these so-called student movements and so forth in the 1960s and 70. No, no, no, no. January 6th. Don’t you understand? January six. Go ahead. They were calling off the republic, coming out in public. You don’t even support the republic. These guys on the left talk about the Constitution. They hate the Constitution. Talk about the republic. They hate the republic. That’s the bottom line. These aren’t small differences we have with the left. The left wants to destroy our society. That’s it. They attack the society. They want to destroy the society. And they they’ve been succeeding for a long time. Go ahead. Fear of power. Including a kind of brutality visited upon police officers. Oh, he’s worried about police officers. That’s a first. He’s worried about police officers. Tell me, did he speak up against the entire police precinct that was burned to the ground in Minneapolis? Not a word. Police officers? I would ask police officers across the state of Georgia. Is Warnock a champion for you? Is he? Of course not. Sir. Champion for the criminals. The perpetrator. Nah, not for him. Then we have somebody called Jeannie Griswald, who’s the Colorado secretary of state on the morning show Show. What does she have to say? Just listen. It’s the same old book. They’re not going to change. Are they fighting with each other? Yes, but they’re fighting over how far to go. How to employ their tactics. They’re still talking about Hitler and the Third Reich. They’re still talking about January six. They don’t have a single idea. None. On how to govern in a way that is. Effectively helpful to the average person. They don’t have any idea what they do because they want more taxes, they want more regulations. They want the border open, which kills American jobs. Go ahead. Well, I think there is a lot of concern. I have a lot of concern about Trump’s continued danger to American democracy. Look, day one, first official act, one of the first official acts, he decided to pardon the January six insurrectionists. Here you go. So you see, he’s a threat to democracy still. I don’t know who this backbencher is, but she’s there. They’re all over the place. He’s still a threat to democracy. The people want to destroy the Supreme Court, the people who attacked the Constitution relentlessly and the people who wrote it. The people who seek to amend the Constitution constantly without amending the Constitution. The people keep going to the Supreme Court and losing because of the. The crazy ideas that they have. Suddenly they’re the defenders of the Constitution and the Republic. No, they’re not. They hate them. They hate them. Democrat Party. They’re not contributing anything. To try and help people in this country. They’re not contributing a thing. Nothing. Obstruction, spear tactics. Character assassination. Going on the offense, lying about what Trump has done. You know, it’s interesting. I went back and I look, I didn’t have time to pull them all up, but. About a year ago. This time they were very concerned the Democrats and Biden might lose. And so Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and so-called moderate 15. But there were others. Many others. Kept talking about government by executive order. Remember that Mr. Producer even brought it up once or twice here. Government by executive order. Iran Foreign. And the guy who first really exploited this was Joe Biden himself in the first week of his presidency. We issued, what was it, 100, 120, 150 executive orders all over the place. Now Donald Trump, when he first won in 2016, he didn’t do that. But obviously he’s a counterpuncher and he’s there and he’s thinking, no question about it. If Biden can do it, I can do it. In a bind. We’ll do it. I will do it. And now the Democrats are upset about what they’ve unleashed. What they’ve unleashed. This is what they’ve unleashed. So they try to sabotage his appointees. They try and block his agenda. They’re talking about taking to the streets. Then they get mad at him when he’s doing executive orders. What’s Trump supposed to do? Yes. Resign and say, you know what, I won, but I’m out. Crazy. Crazy. Go ahead. People who stormed the Capitol to try to steal the presidency from the American people, nobody stole it and nobody tried to steal it. This is the funny thing. I know the truth hurts. I really do. I know it hurts. And I take the slings and arrows all the time. I do. And I don’t care. They were never going to overturn the election. It was impossible. It was impossible. Unless the Congress there had voted. One way as opposed to the other. There was no way these weren’t. This was this wasn’t a legion of armed people. They didn’t burn down the Capitol building. They didn’t seize hundreds, if not thousands of guns. Molotov cocktails. In other words, it wasn’t the 2020 Democrat Party militia riding throughout our streets now. They didn’t do any of that. I am no special pleader for those who attack cops. I’ve said it here over and over, over and over again, and I’m never going to be. Period. Donald Trump explained now several times the reason he had a blanket pardon, including for those people, was they already served enough time several years, he said. And that’s that, particularly when you compare it. To the violent individuals, Antifa, Black Lives Matter, the 2020 and so forth and so on. So that’s his conclusion. But let’s not pretend that January six was going to overthrow our government. You know, it’s overthrowing the government, the Democrat Party, by design. You don’t have to have a quote unquote, violent revolution to overthrow a government. In fact, some of the more sinister and evil communist theoreticians over time, they said, don’t do that. The American people won’t go for it. Take it slow and easy over the decades. From the top down, not the bottom up. I’ve talked about Gramm Ski, the Italian communist who had a very, very big impact on the American communists, a.k.a. the American progressive movement. That’s right. Top down, take over the bureaucracy. Take over the courts. Woodrow Wilson often contradicted himself about which branch of government they should take over and focus on first. But in the end, he decided it was the judiciary. Why? Because it’s not answerable to the public. Why do you think the Democrats are going in court to try and stop Trump? Why do you think they use the bureaucracy to try to stop Trump? Why do you think Trump is trying to get some control over the bureaucracy? Not for ideological reasons. Trying to get some control over the bureaucracy. So the bureaucracy will do the job it’s supposed to do rather than try and sabotage him. He’s been through it. He saw what they did to him. And now, of course, the Democrats are using their lifetime appointed radical Democrat trial judges. To thwart Trump. That’s what they’re doing now. They’re complaining about executive orders. I’m one of the people who’s not big on government by executive orders. Now, what Trump is doing, hopefully the next time a Democrat wins, God forbid they’ll understand there are consequences. There’s consequences for what you’re doing. You use the FBI against Trump, You used the FBI against a lot of people who you didn’t agree with. We’ve never seen anything like it. And J. Edgar Hoover is long dead. You’ve all but destroyed the FBI. Certainly at the senior and middle levels. And Trump says, okay, well, I’m going to deal with this. I’m going to deal with it. And of course, they the other side, they have their media friends out there squawking about it. Oh, look at this. He’s going after FBI people who went after him. By the way. Like there’s something wrong with that. It’s incredible. I’ll be right back.
Segment 4
This is from CBS News Philadelphia. Emergency crews are responding to an explosion in northeast Philadelphia after a small plane crashed in the area of Roosevelt Boulevard and Cottman Avenue. Roosevelt Boulevard and Cottman Avenue. I know exactly where that is. I think growing up in Cheltenham, which is right on the border with northeastern Philadelphia, the northeast, as we call it. In fact, my grandmother for decades lived on Strauss Street right off Roosevelt Boulevard, as did many of her siblings. It is a very heavily populated area. Two people were aboard the plane, according to police, there are other injuries reported on the ground. Multiple homes are on fire in the area of Cottman Avenue, Roosevelt Boulevard, following the crash. Fire officials said. Crazy. Crazy. It’s unclear at this time what led to the crash course. It’s unclear at this time. And there is a big mall there, at least there was when I was a kid. Maybe they knocked it down and built something else, I don’t know. But they say that the aircraft reportedly hit the mall. So that’s all we know. It is a massive explosion. You see them on TV. Mr.. It is a massive. And that is it right in the middle of a neighborhood that I know and a very they have row homes, a lot of row homes in this part of Philadelphia, a lot of Philadelphia, period, where really is the. We’re the beginning of the road. Home really, really existed. And and there’s many of them. And I know exactly where this is. And that is unbelievable. Apparently hit them all there. One has nothing to do with the other. It is the Potomac, and I’m not saying it does, but they were to put that fire out, that neighborhoods are going to catch on fire. The question about that Philadelphia Police Department and fire department are great department, great departments. And much like New York and the other cities, they’ve been under attack by the radical left wing kooks who run these cities. But the men and women of the police and fire Department of Philadelphia, like NYPD and the FDNY. Whether it’s Los Angeles or Chicago or wherever it is. And these are fantastic people. Again, the first responders are there again, are the first ones on the ground. Trying to contain. What could be a. Fairly significant situation, but I think they’ll be able to contain it. That’s just me. I’m just. Just observing. But I think they should be able to. I’ve never heard of a something went wrong with that plane, obviously. And they Cottman Avenue and Roosevelt Boulevard. Everybody in and around Philadelphia know exactly what I’m talking about. Those are main thoroughfares. Those are big, big roads. When I grew up in Cheltenham, I used to take my bike and ride from Cottman Avenue. I couldn’t get all the way to Roosevelt Boulevard. But going to the Northeast was a wonderful, wonderful child with wonderful, wonderful parents. I’ll be right back.