On Tuesday’s Mark Levin Show, the Russian troops are busy murdering torturing, raping, and molesting Ukrainian citizens. When Russians in Moscow speak out, they’re sent to a modern-day gulag for years. Unless the Ukrainians get the military equipment they need their people will continue to be brutalized. Then, U.S Senators Mitt Romney, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski have announced that they will vote for the most radical person ever nominated to the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson. She rejects natural human rights derived from God, and therefore our founding, and promotes Critical Race Theory. She is an extreme radical that has coddled users of child pornography and other crimes against children. Later, Senator Marsha Blackburn calls in to discuss the danger of confirming Judge Jackson. Blackburn agreed with this program’s warning that Jackson will be a voice on the court for the dissolution of this country, the erosion of the family, and the end of faith. Afterward, Elon Musk might be one of the few individuals that can right the ship at Twitter regarding censorship, free speech, and preventing propaganda. Now President Biden’s SEC is going after Musk to force him to disclose his majority stake in Twitter. Finally, Kelly Tshibaka the candidate for Senate in Alaska calls in to discuss why she’s challenging Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
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Hour 1 Segment 1
I see Obama was visiting the White House today. Of course, the media are very excited. It’s one lousy president visiting another lousy president. Mr. Producer, wouldn’t you say? I would say pretty much. All right. The Russians. The Russians are busy murdering, torturing, raping and molesting in horrifying ways, the citizens of Ukraine. All they need. Ladies and gentlemen. There’s a little bit of space, that’s all, they’re just angry, you see, because. Because, you know, Ukraine was asking to be part of NATO and. And Ukraine was always part of Russia going back 200 years, just ask Putin, he’ll tell you and as I say, over and over again, read what he wrote or purportedly wrote in July of this summer. A handful of us have who are commentators. I see Marc Thiessen has, based on what he was saying today, is good guy. But most of the Putin wing has not, and I notice the Putin wing of the Republican Party, of the Democrat Party in the media were fairly quiet yesterday when evidence of genocide, horrifying atrocities. Which they can’t deny, there’s actually photos and videos, you know, like landing on the moon. Showing what’s taking place, the Ukrainians aren’t doing this to Russian civilians. The Russians are doing it to Ukrainian civilians and by the way. Every Russian in Russia doesn’t support this, and if they dare to speak out, they’re thrown into these gulags for 79 years. Weather also beaten and tortured and raped. So the Putin wing of the Democrat Party, the Putin wing of the Republican Party, the Putin wing of the media are actually siding. With a thug. In Russia. With a Putin OIDs in Russia who are doing these things, the people, and now they’re reorganizing the Russians, the army, they’re. They want to hammer hard in the northeast area. Where they’re going to put most of their troops, most of their tanks fire and most of their missiles they want to surround. The biggest contingent of the Ukrainian military. And try and crush them and destroy them, because now they think that’s the way. To take Ukraine and what is Joe Biden doing in response to this? Folks. Unless the Ukrainians get the heavy armaments that they need. Jets. Tanks, personnel carriers, they can’t ultimately win. And a stalemate. Is a loss because there people are being slaughtered. There people are being brutalized. Not the Russian civilians. The Ukrainian civilians. Now. Many generations see these sort of things take place, the 1930s and 40s. A generation of Americans saw this take place and they responded to it eventually. What are we doing, OK? No troops got it, no one, OK, no American military activity in Ukraine directly. OK, number two. But the idea that we’re going to deny the Ukrainian people the weaponry that they need, not just to go on defense. But to go on offense, to attack the enemy is is. I mean, we’re all safe here in America, but it is something that keeps me up at night. It’s hard to believe that you see these bodies strewn all over this town. And they say what’s going on, on that town on the coast of the Black Sea? Mariupol, a town of 400, 450,000 people where 300,000 people are stuck. What must be going on there, and it’s all with the consent, not consent, with the order of Vladimir Putin who’s been romanticized. By certain elements within our society romanticized. He’s a mass murderer. Just think of the number of people who’ve died at his hands, whether in the Middle East. Ukraine, Chechnya, wherever. Then he’s got this Varno group, it sounds Nazi like. Well, they send these men in to pretend they’re part of the society and then. They start assassinating people, slitting their throats, you know, doing doing his dirty work. One Ukrainian refugee and a Shevchenko, 63, said troops pulled women out of houses and raped them. Mykola Kovalenko, 71, said Russian forces shot people trying to flee in the street, some of them tried to escape by bicycle. They were shot. The soldiers have been called animals. They’ve been called animals, you know, there are rules of war. Rules in war, you don’t target the citizenry this way. Now, despite all of Biden’s tough talk, except today was busy with Obama, of course, but aside from all the so-called tough talk, he’s not doing nearly enough. Now, they won’t even use the word genocide, and I told you yesterday. They won’t use the word genocide. Because if you use the word genocide, you have to actually do something, if not legally, morally, to try and stop genocide, don’t you? I think so. Something more than this. Olga Bundarra, 58, this is Daily Mail. They drag women out when they were drunk, sometimes old women to. One of my neighbors saw several women had been hung after being raped. I don’t know if the Russians had done it or they killed themselves after what they had to go through. I want you to think about what’s going on here. It’s terrible, I saw women and children dead in the street, even babies. And this is a a fighter out of the country of Georgia, 21 year old David Zephania. I came because I wondered he will do to Georgia what he’s done here. It will do to Georgia what he’s done here. So he’s done it in Georgia, he’s done it in crime, he’s done it everywhere. This is what you’re witnessing. This is what you’re witnessing and God knows what’s happening, Metropol, God knows what’s happening in these other towns. You have to assume this times hundreds, if not a thousand. It is genocide. This is what we call genocide. I don’t care what the lawyers say in the politicians say. The inhumanity is unbelievable. And those who were saying that they were offended with comparisons to. Genocides in the past. Don’t be offended. Because this this is turning out to be a major, major genocide. On a huge scale and the Ukrainians know what genocide is. 1932, they suffered at the hands of the Russians. Who starved? Millions of them to death in one year, 18 month period. Really? Ninety years ago. Ninety years ago, these people were were treated this way. It’s unbelievable. I’m disgusted by those. In the Republican Party, the Democrat Party, the media. Who played down what the Russians were doing, who played down when they were amassing troops, who played down Putin for years and years? Who’ve made ridiculous arguments about the meeting space, I don’t care if they’ve been in the military or not. Leaving space, ridiculous arguments that they just wanted to stop them from joining NATO. Well, they said they won’t join NATO. Has that stopped anything? And again, these people are ignoramuses just read what Putin said. Test read what he said. And the consequences here, what China may or may not do. Iran may or may not do our grave for our own country. They are grave for our own country because we’re being destroyed from within No one. Our finances and markets because of the spending of the Marxists. Our own sovereignty and security is being destroyed on the southern border intentionally, intentionally. A nation cannot be an industrialized nation without the fuel it needs. They’ve turned the spigots off. They act like a bunch of 19th century buffoons where they’re looking at the sun and looking at the wind and. They think that’ll carry the day, that won’t carry a damn thing. Their attack on the civil society with their endless racism and bigotry. A corrupt media, a. A cancerous, poisonous media. It serves as a voice for the most radical extreme anti-American elements in this country. We’re being destroyed from within. But that doesn’t mean we don’t have evil enemies without and we certainly do. China is not building up its nuclear arsenal, which today the United States said is at a breathtaking pace. Because at Taiwan. In Russia. Is not allied with China. And way ahead of us on hypersonic missiles, Max Gates is right. Because of Ukraine. Where are their enemy? Same with Iran, where their enemy and so we deal with this enemy from within. But we must deal properly, prudently, but we must deal with the enemy from without. I’ll be right back.
Hour 1 Segment 2
You know, being a talk show host and being somebody who wants to these deep dive and get into issues in a significant way, not just bounce around, I assume it’s like being a maestro of an orchestra. Seriously, I’ve got so much I want to cover with you this evening at our national town hall meeting here, ladies and gentlemen. And it’s not possible to cover it all. So I have to pick and choose. The guests, if we have guests and we have some good ones tonight and the subject matter. I can’t just bounce to another subject right now. I want you to hear. General Mark Milley at a White House Armed Services Committee hearing today. You know, I’m not a fan of this man. Let’s take a listen. First, you’ll hear from Bill Keating. Cut three go. What is the time frame you foresee, given that kind of understanding of what Russia thinks and acts? Could it be something as long as a decade or even longer that we’re involved in this type of conflict? That’s hard to tell. It’s a bit early. Still, even though we’re miles away, keep in mind, this is the man who said Kiev would fall in three days. Kid would fall in three days is the man who felt that the Afghan military could hold off for months. I mean, it’s just amazing. Anyway, go ahead. War, there is much of the ground war left in Ukraine. But I do think this is a very protracted conflict. And I think it’s at least measured in years. I don’t know, about a decade, but at least years for sure. This is a very extended conflict that Russia has initiated. And I think that NATO, the United States, Ukraine and all of the allies and partners that are supporting Ukraine are going to be involved in this for quite some time. But the Ukrainian people, ladies and gentlemen, 15 percent of the country has left already. The country can’t function, its economic system can’t function, it’s it’s cut off on the Black Sea on the south, it’s cut off on the east, it’s got limited places. It can go on the north and in the west. That’s it. People are being slaughtered, cities are being devastated, going on for years, seriously. And if that’s smilies mentality. We got a big problem here, folks, if this goes on for years. Ukrainians can win if they have half the armaments and if the Russians, they can win and they can end it and keep this thing within the borders where it won’t spread to.
Hour 1 Segment 3
You know, there’s something very strange going on, I must confess, something very strange going on. It causes me no limit of frustration. I am as critical as anybody of the leadership at the Pentagon, what they did in Afghanistan, I think the budget they proposed. Is way too small. They cannot keep up with inflation. We need to pay our men and women in the military properly. People put their life on the line with the overwhelming majority, we, the American people. Do not it’s an all volunteer military. These folks deserve our support. They deserve the best equipment possible. When they go to war, the best technology is in our 100 percent support. When there’s an enemy like Putin. He is the one. That must be condemned. Yes, I believe Joe Biden should be condemned. I think he should be condemned for what he’s done with Iran, for what he’s done to our military, for what he’s done with. His appeasement of Putin and G, which have helped bring us to this point because he’s provoked them. That’s not the right word because he’s given them an opportunity. Opportunity they see this week, we discuss this hearing before he was elected that he’s their candidate. He’s their candidate. We knew it. You all know it. But the person who is specifically responsible for the genocide and the atrocities that are taking place. Is Putin. The person who is responsible for allowing. Putin to do so much of this without providing the Ukrainians with what they need. Israeli, the west, it’s not the person, but clearly Biden won’t allow them to have the fighters that they request, he won’t allow them. And I was thinking about this today, what country has been taking the lead here, a small country with a small economy, with a small military called Poland? Poland’s been taking the lead. With a different American president, I think we’d have a different outcome here. I don’t think Putin would have invaded Trumper president. And a Trumper president, I think he would have been pouring billions of dollars into hardware, heavy hardware, artillery, whatever they needed into Ukraine. In fact, I don’t think there’s any question about that. So, of course, Biden could be blamed for this in that respect, failing to do what he’s able to do but refuses to do but the person responsible for the execution of these people. For their torture, their rape, they’re the inhumanity. Is Putin. He’s the enemy. Now, the people of which I speak. They don’t think we should do more. They think we should do less, and if they had had their way five, six weeks ago, we would have done nothing. This Tulsi Gabbard, Gabby, what is her name? Tulsi Gabbard, why is she a hero of conservatives? She’s your typical. Isolationist. America, last Democrat. That’s not to say that she fits in with AOC and all, clearly not. But she’s not your typical military person. She’s not your typical vet. You have to cherry pick people like this to have them speak. She was the lead speaker at CPAC. I don’t get that either. I’m not attacking CS PAC, I’m just it’s just a decision I’m not quite in agreement with. When people. Regurgitate the foreign policy notions of people like. George McGovern in my day in the 70s. Or even. Bernie Sanders today, that’s not conservatism. Constitutionalism, insanity. What Putin is doing to the people in Ukraine. What he’s doing to the people in Ukraine is genocide. Because that’s how he’s decided he has to win. I watch television, I watch some of the greatest evangelical leaders in our country running ads, speaking to the American people. Trying to raise funds. They help these people. And I have one name so far, Mr. Producer, are there others will talk about that during the break, but we will give you those some of these names that are not exclusive. But there are some. Some of whom were aware of some of whom have contacted us or me. When you look at this, when you look at the Chabad rabbis. These fantastic rabbis. Well organized, mostly quietly, but not exclusively, quietly. And. Are doing everything they can to help as many people as they can in Ukraine. These are not extremists, these are people of great faith. Great faith. There’s a lot more we can do in the United States, there’s a hell of a lot more we can do here. We’re afraid of having our fingerprints on it, but we can’t send in a May 29 World War Three, we have our media literally regurgitating what Putin says, what Lavrov says, what all these clowns say, literally. Mouthpieces for them. Well, what if Russia does this? What if Russia does that? Nobody’s attacking Russia. Nobody is making claim to Russian lands. Nobody’s saying Russia better not being in alliance with China or anybody else. They’re saying, keep your damn hands off the Ukrainians. You bastard. Oh, it’s not in our national security interests. You know, Mark. Apparently to these people, unless you literally attack the continental United States, it’s not the national security interests of America. So why have a military? Yes, I have a police force that’s heavily armed. Anyway, I’m deeply troubled by this. This does not represent my perspective of life. My understanding of history. So many of you in this audience are serving in the military or have served in the military with great honor, you know exactly what I’m talking about. So many of you in this audience are family members that people who have served or are serving. You know exactly what I’m talking about. If anything ever happens with our troops in some horrific way, have a whole legal system set up to deal with it. An entire legal system. We’re not the Russian government. Putin is to be despised. Despised. Not romanticized. Zolensky is to be praised and celebrated. Not hated. Not smeared. Mr. Producer, yesterday, I didn’t get to a piece that I put aside about Winston Churchill and Zwolinski, you want to see if you can find it on the. And send it to me, please. I’ll be right back.
Hour 1 Segment 4
Deirdre Roberts is one of the great and most brilliant historians of our time, particularly, I would argue, as opposed to Winston Churchill. Mean he’s gone into the archives. He’s looked at as much as any human being can. And that same with our buddy Larry Arnd, Dr. Larry on the president of Hillsdale College. Roberts writes, Churchill, Zwolinski and the American write in The Wall Street Journal, The British leader would have appreciated the Ukrainian president’s resistance of Russian aggression. And national conservatives should offer their full throated support, what would Winston Churchill make of Europe in 2022? He says it was a powerful advocate for the nation state and the concept of national sovereignty. And he appreciated that states sometimes need to band together and was a keen supporter of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization that’s NATO, founded in April 1949. He was also the father of the concept of the United States of Europe and speeches in Zurich in 1946, The Hague in 1948 and Strasbourg, France in 1949. He promoted the idea that the nation states of Western Europe banned together in a free trade zone, which he hoped would make war impossible between states whose enmity had led to the loss of many of his friends lives not once but twice earlier in the century. Let Europe arise, he said at Zurich. NATO existed eight years before the European Economic Community was founded in 1957. But the Common Market was to be the economic pillar of Western European unity. The U.S. fully supported it little recognizing that the ultimate ambition of many of the founders of the EEC was to become a superpower that they hope will one day come to rival American herself. Churchill, however, never wished for the United Kingdom to be a member of this European project and its three great speeches on Europe. He made clear that he considered Britain and its Commonwealth to be politically outside the structure of the United States of Europe rather than integral to it, as he put it, in Zurich, Great Britain, the British Commonwealth of Nations, mighty America and I trust Soviet Union, for then indeed all would be well, must be the friends and sponsors of the New York must champion its right to live and shine. Churchill never envisioned Britain weakening its own ties with its Commonwealth, along with the rest of the English speaking peoples, especially the special relationship, a phrase Churchill invented with the United States. He didn’t mind Britain even joining the talking shops such as the Council of Europe, but the surrender of any British sovereignty never crossed his mind. That’s why when Churchill became prime minister again in October 1951, he did involve Britain in the discussions that led to the Treaty of Rome, which was signed less than two years after he left office. He actively opposed any British involvement in the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Army concept. He described the latter, which Europhiles always bring up during crises such as the president wanting Ukraine as a sludgy amalgam. And he recognized that he could only undermine NATO. The European Parliament similarly attracted desire in March of 1948, has told his friend, Lady Vialet, Bonham Carter the European federal solution couldn’t work because a parliament of Europe is quite impractical. After visiting Churchill in the hospital in 1962, General Bernard Montgomery told the press that he had found him sitting up in bed, smoking cigars, drinking brandy and protesting against British proposed entry into the Common Market, unquote. The EEC, which Britain did join in 1973, began as a free trade agreement, but it morphed into what its founders had wanted all along the kind of interfering top down, one size fits all bureaucracy that Churchill despised. Anyway, he goes on. Hungary’s status as a functioning democracy is proven by the fact that Victor Orban’s government faces a general election on Sunday, which he won overwhelmingly. By the way, where’s Mrs. Von Der Yaling became president of Europe without ever facing the continent’s voters in Brussels. Subsidiary breeds contempt. Subsidiarity breeds contempt, which is one of the reasons at seventeen point four million Britons were right to vote for Brexit in 2016. Vladimir Putin supported Brexit, but I suspect that he’s regretting it now, it has given Britain a new sense of independence whereby it supported Ukraine much earlier and more generously than the large countries of the EU, such as France and Germany. No reflection on Churchill today would be complete without noting the Churchillian leadership of President Vladimir Zwolinski. Mr Zwolinski saw the Afghan president flee when the Taliban advanced on advanced on Kabul last year and decided he wouldn’t be that kind of leader. He summoned his inner Churchill and decided to stay in his capital and fight it out. And if he dies in Kiev, Mr Zwolinski will become a martyr to Ukrainians for centuries, be even more of a threat to Putin and death than he is in life. Like Churchill, Solinsky endures nightly attacks on his capital city for weeks on end, speaks to his people without ever sugaring. The pill appeals for the tools to finish the job. And in direct paraphrase of Churchill’s June four, 1940, speech after Dunkirk, as promised to fight in the fires, in the streets and not to surrender. Churchill never had to face enemy group troops and London suburbs or assassination squads. Mr. Putin has described Mr. Zolensky as a neo-Nazi and a drug addict, the neo-Nazi gibes stretches credulity for many reasons, not the least. Mr. Zilinskas Jewishness with regard to addiction. I wish Mr. Putin had revealed what drug Mr. Zolensky is taking so that I could get some, Churchill said in January 1940. Finland superb, nay sublime in the jaws of peril. Finland shows what free men can do. The service rendered by Finland to mankind is magnificent. Today would apply those same words to Ukraine. There are people in the conservative movement who oppose an attack, Mr. Zolensky. I understand their arguments intellectually. Some are ideological. Others have to do a World War Two. Still others go back to Catherine the Great or to events as recent as the Trump presidency. I beseeched him to recognize that as of February 24, everything has changed, not only because Mr. Putin’s invasion, but because of the brutal way it has been carried out. For all our sophisticated appreciation of realpolitik, we mustn’t blind ourselves to the fact that an evil man has done a terrible, evil thing. And there are times when conservatives need to stand up and say things that hardly anyone wants to hear that run counter to the overwhelming opinion of the world church and hell himself that over appeasement during the wilderness years. And we do it here.