On Tuesday’s Mark Levin Show, Pete Hegseth is a terrific Secretary of Defense; the attacks on him are designed to block President Trump’s foreign policy. The isolationists are not supportive of Trump’s pro-American foreign policy. They are Soros-Koch ideologues, and so are their podcast/influencer mouthpieces. These isolationists have come up with nothing new about foreign policy, recycling George McGovern’s outdated views while acting as modern-day Tokyo Roses. Iran’s ultimate goal is the United States and these isolationists are undermining this administration. Also, Japan’s navy has unveiled a ship-mounted electromagnetic railgun designed to counter China’s hypersonic missiles. Meanwhile, Israel’s Iron Beam, a 100-kilowatt high-energy laser air defense system is set for operational deployment by late 2025. Designed to complement the Iron Dome, it intercepts short-range threats like rockets, drones, and mortars. Later, how can due process be provided to 21 million illegal aliens when immigration courts are already swamped with a 1.5 million case backlog? What degree of due process is realistic, and which branch of government handles it? When Biden and the Democrats embraced open-border policies, they had no clear strategy for due process or deportation—just a push for de facto amnesty. Afterward, Mark reflects on the profound significance of the March for Life in Poland, as well as the haunting memories of the Holocaust. Finally, Josh Hammer calls in to discuss the absurdity of a debate on whether Iran should get nuclear weapons or not. Hammer shares a compelling story from a college conservative leadership conference, highlighting the stark differences in perspectives on freedom and allegiance between American and Iranian students.
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Hegseth lashes out at alleged Pentagon leakers he claims want to ‘sabotage’ Trump’s agenda
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Japanese navy unveils railgun used to down China’s missiles
National Defense
Israel’s Iron Beam Set For Historic Deployment
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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 want to thank you, America. Mr. and Mrs. America, I want to thank you. As our radio ratings start to come in, we are up big in every single market that has come in so far. And that’s thanks to you. It’s also what I tell people who come up to me and say, I’d like to get into radio. What should I do? I tell them, Be yourself and tell the truth. And take stands that you believe in. Don’t take a stand just because other people take them. And that’s the truth, too. Pete Hegseth. This today, I think, is a terrific secretary of defense, as a matter of fact. Talking about these alleged leakers. And these reports on the leaks. And he says it really these people and this attack is designed to try and stop President Trump’s agenda. That is his foreign policy agenda. And I have been warning here about these isolationist who come out of the Soros Koch Quincy Institute and some of their their other entities that they’ve created, Coke in particular I’ve been warning about podcasters have been warning about people with. Subscription service platforms and so forth are out there. They are small minority. They are cabal and they are pushing positions that are utterly anti-American and they’re not in our best interest. I mean, I think if you ask nine out of ten people on the street, if it’s okay for Iran to have a nuclear weapon, they’d say absolutely not. Absolutely not. Because people are smart. The American people are smart. What’s interesting is these folks who. Who want you believe they have a bigger and broader influence than they actually do throughout the country and also with President Trump. These people. We have come up with nothing new. There’s nothing new about their foreign policy. George McGovern used to spew it. In the 1970s, he was considered a leftist. Pacifism. Isolationism, appeasement is not new. In fact, it’s it’s quite old and it’s resulted in the death of many, many people. Millions of people. In the face of a regime that is an Islamist Nazi regime. Idea whose ideology is well understood. Who says Death to America over and over again. To make common good with these people, to interview these people, to embrace these people. To give aid and comfort to them. By the way, you attack those who dare to speak out and warn the American people about what’s taking place. We’ve seen this throughout American history. It’s about as close to treasonous as you can get. They are the modern day Tokyo roses. Except the difference is. There are Americans. Americans with mouthpieces. Not foreigners. I want you to listen to Pete Hector on Fox and Friends this morning. About what’s taking place. Qatar. Cadet go. If you remember when this all started, the first go around, because this is the second go around, right? They pedal old stuff. They kick it back up. I said repeatedly, no one’s texting war plans. You know why I said that? Because I’m in the bowels of the Pentagon every single day. Just 10 minutes ago, I was looking at actual war plans of things that were ongoing or pending things to happen, because that’s on a regular basis on classified systems. That’s my job for the war fighters for the president, United States. I look at war plans every single day. What was shared over signal then and now, however you characterize it, was informal, unclassified coordination for media coordination, other things. That’s what I’ve said from the beginning. At the beginning, it was left wing reporters from the Atlantic who got ahold of it and then want to wanted to create a problem for the president. This is what it’s all about, trying to get at President Trump and his agenda. Now, here’s the Defense Department, because, Brian, I want this to be very clear. We take the classification of information, very important. It’s very significant to us that we safeguard it. And so when we had leaks, which we have had here, we did a serious leak investigation. And through that leak investigation, unfortunately, we found some folks that we believe were were not holding to the protocols that we hold dear here at the Defense Department through that investigation. They have been moved on and that investigation continues as a result of that. Everything we do here is above board trying to make sure that we safeguard information in this point. Those folks who are leaking, who have been pushed out of the building, are now attempting to leak and sabotage the president’s agenda. And what we’re doing. And that’s unfortunate. It’s not what I do. It’s not how we operate. And so you’ve got another allegation being pushed. Again, not based on how we’re operating around here. We’re for the war fighters, we’re for the president. And none of this is based in reality. You know, this is very important to understand. I know who these people are. I don’t know about these three specifically, but I know who what this mindset is. I know where it comes from. I know who’s pushing it. Radical libertarians in the case of Coke, an American Marxist in the case of Soros. And they’ve come together to push the same agenda they’ve created institutes together they have created. As Rush would say, mind numbing robots who push this stuff and they actually want you to believe the opposite of what you know to be true, that nuclear weapons in the hand of the Iranians is okay. And any deal with Iran is okay, just don’t take military action to put an end to, you know, how long that military action would take. First of all, Israel will be the point of the spear, not us. But secondly, maybe 12 hours. That’s it. The Israelis knocked out the nuclear site in Syria. In Syria. The U.S. policy was for them not to do that, but they did it anyway. Because they know. The consequences of a mushroom cloud like like I showed you over the weekend, or you can see on the Internet for the state of Israel. I mean, it wouldn’t exist anymore. No prime minister in his right mind could ever could ever tolerate a nuclear weapon in the hands of the enemy. And there are many in the Middle East. No American president can tolerate a nuclear weapon in the hands of people who share the same ideology, the same terrorist mentality as those who hit us on 911. You have to be out of your mind. And yet we actually had people. People who have platforms. We know people who are who are embracing the enemy, who are promoting the enemy. And accusing America and Donald Trump and you and me of being warmongers. And now you have people who are leaking who are alleged to have leaked. And what Pete Hegseth says, some of them are his friends. I don’t know the facts. I’m just reading what I’m reading. Is that the effort now is to. Undermine and stop Trump’s agenda. Trump is not. A blind. Ideologue. He’s quite the contrary. His eyes are wide open. The battle now is over what Wyckoff is doing if it’s going to be good enough. If some deal that they want to negotiate can actually work, given what we know about these terrorists. And how they blow off their obligations. Because the hours late. The hours late. We don’t have ten years to play with anymore. And they’ve reached the point. They’ve reached a point where they can make nuclear weapons. And all this talk about stopping them from making nuclear weapons through various arrangements and deals and so forth, they have violated every single one of them. Which is what you would expect. They’re terrorists. They do not believe. In upholding contract. That’s a Western idea. They believe destroying you and me is what God commands them to do. This is why they slaughter each other. Because you have the purest Muslims against Muslims who want to live and let live in their own countries. And the Muslims who want to live and let live are the ones who they attack and brutalize and rape and throw in the prisons and so forth. These are so-called pure Muslims. These are fundamentalists. These are terrorists. And I could bring on a muslim friend after a muslim friend, whether it’s the bank manager that I know, whether it’s Zuhdi Jasser that I know, whether it’s people I deal with and other things that I do that I know they’ll tell you exactly the same thing. They’re scared to death of these terrorists. Or maybe the over half a million people who are slaughtered in Syria. There are Muslims for the most part. Are the people being murdered now in Yemen by the Houthis there, Muslims? Or the people being slaughtered in Iran. There are Muslims. But their ultimate goal is the United States. Their ultimate goal is the United States. I don’t know why they ignoramuses have the following They have, but it’s not unusual. Lindbergh was an isolationist. Right up to minutes before we were attacked at Pearl Harbor. They said, don’t worry about Hitler. He’s too far away. He’s not aimed at us. And screw Europe just like you hear guys like Mike Lee, Senator Mike Lee. Let’s get at NATO. Is he out of his lane? Let’s get out of Naito. The enemy would be thrilled with us getting out of Naito. And what if the Europeans are attacked? It’s not our problem. I mean, we’re not talking about ancient history here in America. We’re talking about things that happened 80, 90, 100 years ago that resulted in over 400,000 Americans dying in battle. It wasn’t a naito. Before World War Two was there. There weren’t American bases in Europe before World War Two was there? We’re not an imperialist, colonialist country. We’re Americans. And when people attack our country, they’re attacking your brothers and sisters, your fathers and mothers, your ancestors whose who fought for this country. And Pete. Hey, Seth is right. These isolationists. I don’t care if they hang around the White House. I don’t care if they hang around TV studios. I don’t care if they have their own microphones with their video cameras. I don’t give a crap what they have. They’re undermining this administration. That’s what they’re doing. And so we will see if there’s a deal. If the deal. It’s the kind of deal that we as the American people think is a good deal or not. That’s what we do. Now, here’s the other thing. The left wing media like like Dan Abrams and that crap site he created, Mediate or The Washington Post and the New York Times or all the rest of them. To them, this is a big game. Does somebody at Fox, Question X, Y, Z to somebody conservative Radio, Question X, Y, Z. I’m doing exactly what I’ve done for a quarter of a century behind this microphone. I’m doing exactly what I did. As a senior member of the Reagan administration. It’s not a question. I’m taking on a president who I love in the case of Donald Trump or Ronald Reagan. It’s not a question of taking them on at all. A decision hasn’t been made. The battle right now is the battle of ideas. The kooks who have already defined and the rest of us. That’s the battle. So we’re supposed to be quiet and silent at a time like this? I’m not leaking. You’re not leaking. We’re not threatening the administration. We’re not undermining the president of the United States or the secretary of defense, the secretary of state or anybody else. They are in the liberal media. They want Trump to fail. They want the economy to collapse. They want Fox to go away. They want conservative radio to evaporate. That’s what they want. I’m just laying it out here, folks, based on my own knowledge and experience. I have tons of faith in Donald Trump because he’s not one of these Lilliputians. I have nothing but the deepest contempt. For sites like Media site The Drudge Report. For newspapers like the Slimes, they covered up the Holocaust. And so, by the way, did the Washington compost have nothing but contempt? For the main networks, for CNN and MSNBC that embrace Hamas and Hamas. There’s data. That trash our country that trashed the state of Israel. They do the same thing over at media. I’m nothing but the worst contempt for these people. Because they contribute nothing to the public debate. They provide no knowledge to the American people. They are, in my view, inciting violence with the kinds of things they say and the people they highlight over and over again. And by the way, as you’re about to find out, we’re back to Hitler and the Democrats in the media. I’ll be right back.
Segment 2
Rules for radicals. As you know, we introduced this to you over 20 years ago, Saul Alinsky. Rules for radicals. It is a number of rules here. And. The 13th rule. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it. In other words, character assassination. This is what they do to Pete Hegseth. You’ll notice the Democrats always have one or two targets in a cabinet and they just keep up the drumbeat. Repetition is another Marxist fascistic form of a propaganda. So their target, of course, is Pete Hegseth. Pete is a fantastic secretary of defense. Absolutely fantastic. He’s energetic, he’s motivated. He’s very, very knowledgeable. From the ground level up, make the enemy live up. Two their rules, Meaning the rules are the radicals. It’s all right here. They’re working right out of Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky. I’ll be right back.
Segment 3
You got that right. Oh yeah. Oh, yes. Pete Hegseth, one more time Interviewed by Brian KILMEADE. Cut! Nine, Go. You take this job. You come in with war experience. In your great background. Do you think there’s a lot of people don’t like you there and there’s some type of steep, deep state forces that want to make sure you don’t stay there from day one, just like they’ve come after President Trump? I mean, I’ve gotten a fraction of what President Trump got in that first term. What he’s endured is superhuman. It’s not hard for me to do this job. I know exactly why I’m here to bring war fighting and the war fighting ethos back to the Pentagon, to rip out the insidious ideologies and not compromise and not back down, to bring in new press voices into the Pentagon, which we’ve done to reestablish standards and accountability, to not tolerate leakers to 100% operational control of our border, to get rid of trans lunacy in the military. We haven’t backed down. So here’s the thing. A lot of people come to Washington and they just play the game and it’s you punch their ticket and get along to go along and, you know, start doing Meet the Press and and go into the Council on Foreign Relations and spending time with all the new cocktail sipping crowd. That’s not why I’m here. I’m here because President Trump asked me to bring war fighting back to the Pentagon every single day. That is our focus. And if people don’t like it, they can come after me. No worries. I’m standing right here. The war fighters are behind us. Enemies know they’re on notice. Our allies know we’re behind them. And that in this dangerous world for the American people is what it’s all about. I’ve been on two bases of the last. All right, that’s enough. I got it. Excellent. Right on. It’s important that the guests finish speaking without interrupting them. That’s my view, unless you actually run out of time. And that’s the clock. That’s the nature of the beast. But the speech, Greg, I haven’t talked to him since. Don’t get me wrong. I haven’t talked to him since, but he’s really great. Now, here’s Bob Woodward on Massawa. Steve. Why do we care about what Bob Woodward says? We don’t. MSNBC hasn’t changed since after the election. I thought they were going to change. I thought they were going to spin them off. I thought all these things were going to happen. CNN hasn’t changed. It’s the same old, same old ladies and gentlemen. I’m the one that told you. That the Democrat Party is not going to change and the media are not going to change. They are lying in wait. They’re waiting for mistakes or errors or what they perceived to be either or to create them. To create controversy, to create scandal. That’s why they go after Hegseth and some of the other. That’s what they’re about. This is their playbook. And they play it every single time when Republicans are in office. The same media, they cover it up for Joe Biden. What I think. Is the scandal of of all scandals ever. What a media did to the American people and what the Democrat Party did to the American people. They haven’t earned anything. In fact, the only thing they have earned is a complete disrespect and disregard. But they’re in our faces. They’re in our eyes. And so they bring this guy Woodward back. And Woodward has nothing to add. And what we’re at is interview by Jen Psaki, champ as Psaki, who literally worked for Joe Biden and knew that Joe Biden was incapable of being president of the United States. It she has her own show on MSNBC. Her own show. Cat 11 Go. Kind of questions I always think about is why does it keep him around? I mean, there’s things like, well, he has to get another secretary of defense confirmed. That’s not always that easy. But he does have a big majority in the Senate. He now, though, has made some big public mistakes there. Trump has a pattern sometimes of wanting to control people. Is that part of it? Or why do you think he said right there is incoherent that he made any sense. It makes no sense. He wants to keep people around. Why does he do that? I mean, these things like, well, he has to get another secretary of defense confirmed. That’s not always that easy. But he does have a big majority in the Senate. Of course he doesn’t. He now, though, he’s made some some big public mistakes there. Trump has a pattern of sometimes of wanting to control people. Is that part of it? Well, this doesn’t make any sense. But Hakes hasn’t done anything that should require him to resign. Period. Period. And he’s doing excellent things at the Department of Defense. Excellent things. Did you hear any of this when it came to Robert Malley, who many people still don’t even know? Robert Malley was our envoy. Negotiating with Iran. His father was a big commie and a big Islamist. He was a childhood friend of our secretary of State at the time, Blinken. He reported directly to Blinken and to Biden. He had spies, little spies working for him, one of whom wound up in a top position at the Department of Defense. Another one wound up in the White House. And Malley himself. Was effectively a special pleader for the Islamo Nazi regime in Iran, as are many of the Soros Coke. Isolationist crap. But this guy had power. Not just a podcast or a. Subscription based platform. And they’re passing information to the foreign minister of Iran. They’re getting approval from the foreign minister of Iran on whether they should have tension meetings or what kind of speeches they should give. It’s all out there. I’ve talked about it. This is a massive scandal. You have a spy ring. A spy ring. In the Biden regime. A close, dear childhood friend of the Secretary of State. And it got so bad they had to remove him. The belief is that you reveal classified information in some way that he wasn’t supposed to reveal. We still don’t have the answers. Still, after all this time, the FBI opened a full scale investigation. We still don’t have the answers. And yet they attack Pete Hegseth here. Pete Haig said the signal phone call, the first one. First of all, Pete’s exit had nothing to do with that. And by the way, neither did Walt’s was a staff guy. And I even feel bad for the staff guy because the way it worked was the iPhone held on to this clown at The Atlantic’s number. Not that they called him at some point. He had called one of them. So it was a technical issue. But it was an accident. It was an error. You actually have people working in the Biden regime. A spy nest providing information to the Iranians. Getting information to the Iranians when we’re here at a dire crossroads on nuclear weapons. You didn’t hear crap from Mark Warner or you didn’t hear crap from Tim Kaine. You didn’t hear crap from the media. Nothing. You didn’t hear anything. PSAKI She was working at the administration at that time. Running cover for the spy ring, I assume. And there’s Bob Woodward never said a damn thing about it. None of the Democrats, the media have said anything about Robert Malley and what took place, a spy ring in the Biden administration for the Iranians. And now we’re supposed to demand that Pete Hegseth resign. Ain’t going to happen. We are Americans. We’re not stupid. Not going to happen. Go ahead on this Bob Woodward clip. Trump doesn’t worry about incompetence. He worries about loyalty. Oh, shut up, you dumb ass. You don’t know a damn thing. You’re talking about nothing. You’re right. These books, these gossip books, that’s all you do. You take in millions of mail. None of your books are worth it. None of them are profound. You learn absolutely nothing. It’s all gossip. That’s it. That’s it. And this is how even even Watergate. Wow. What investigative reporters know they weren’t yet the number two at the FBI. The deputy FBI director who was feeding them everything just kept feeding them information. They were stenographers. It’s not like they actually had to investigate it. You see this fat slob. BERNSTEIN From time to time on TV, he sounds like a dumb ass. Is that guy even capable? I’m conducting an investigation of any kind. Ask your sons. Listen to this fool. Is he? No, I don’t think so. And there is one. One interview done by. A younger reporter that worked for The Washington Post, and he talked about Woodward at some length, I put it in, and freedom of the press. You really ought to read it. Really exposes Woodward and exposes The Washington Post. And Ben Bradlee. You can’t trust these people and what you’re hearing. Pesci And would what are you kidding me? Tim Kaine A complete fraud. Mark Warner doesn’t care about our national security. He didn’t care about Maliki. Chris Van Hollen embracing in March 13. Wife Beater. He’s fought for this guy like he’s never fought for a single citizen in his own state. Trying to create an issue. You’ve got the media that uses Hamas casualty numbers. Even Hamas last month, even they had a pull back and say, well, you know, we’ve been giving you bad information. Did you hear one agency, one media? Platform any apologize now. In fact, Lesley Stahl at CBS kept using them. Even then. How about even after Hamas stop using him? Go look at the Drudge Report today. You don’t have to. I’m just saying it. Go look at this thing, this media that Dan Abrams created. Look at that. Slap that crap, the hate, the vile that these morons are peddling, peddling. I’d call it yellow journalism, but it’s not journalism which gets yellow like dog piss. That’s all it is. I just say that that’s not one of the seven words, is it, Mr. Producer? No, I don’t either. I’ll be right back.
Segment 4
Got something very exciting to announce after the top of the hour. Not about me, but something very exciting to announce. It’s exciting to me. I think it’ll be exciting to you. But what do I know? There’s Jamie Raskin again. I don’t think this guy actually has much of a job. He’s on podcast. He’s on cable. TV’s everywhere. Hey, the guy’s a marxist. His father was a Stalinist. And it’s amazing how the so-called media out there promotes these guys. They promote him just as they promote Bernie Sanders, who’s a Stalinist. He’s an absolute Stalinist, and they promote him. They they pick out the most extreme freaks they can. I mean, they made AOC Aoki’s a nobody. Even today, she’s a nobody. Now they promote her, so they she shows up at the polls. I mean. If he asked about Bugs Bunny, he’d show up, number one. And the Democrat pollster because people are most familiar with Bugs Bunny. Probably do a better job than most. But they they go to the bottom of the barrel, whether it’s the ideological barrel or the common sense barrel or they pig people or just foul mouth and I mean constantly foul mouth. By the way, Mr. Producer, I don’t mean to be mean or rude or anything else. Did you watch that Nancy Mace video? That’s everywhere? Yes. Well, she got into it with some guy at a grocery store who said, why didn’t she show up at some town hall meeting? Now. He’s obviously a huge libertarian, but. Did you think he was that offensive? That’s. I didn’t think he was that offensive. I’ve heard people say a hell of a lot worse to me. But then she kind of jumped him. I don’t think he jumped her. I must be missing something. I’m not trying to criticize Nancy Mace, but everybody is saying, look at this. Wasn’t she great? Great. What? My take on her is she’s a loose cannon. But that’s just me. That’s just me. What do I know? That’s just me. Like when she went after Kevin McCarthy because he wouldn’t bring up an abortion bill excuse me. An abortion bill. He said he would and he didn’t. So I’m voting to remove him. Yea. Yea. Yea. Yea. But I looked at it and I don’t normally look at these things, but conservative sites were carrying it in praise of Nancy. She really gave this guy up. So they’re basically exchanging the F-word about every 14 seconds, even less than that, about every 5 seconds. Am I right, Mr. Producer? If you know RFU and if you are not. Yeah. I said after that. Yeah. That you. Hey Patty. Yeah. If you know if you. Okay, great. But honestly, I know he’s a lib and libs are pains in the ass. Let’s be honest. They just are. But I don’t really think the guy said anything to instigate anything. I mean, you folks can watch it yourself if you if you even care. I just thought I’d bring it up here because one person comes up and you see that Nancy makes use of a solid. I wasted about 90 seconds of my life. Yeah, I saw it. I’ll be right back.