On Tuesday’s Mark Levin Show, Donald Trump has a common-sense economic plan because he understands how to run a business, and he has a plan very much like Ronald Reagan. Democrats will never cut spending unless it is for the border or for the military, otherwise, they endlessly fund programs to redistribute wealth. More jobs will be moved overseas, and more illegal aliens will come into America to take jobs – this is the Kamala Harris plan for America. She is a political chameleon and will do or say whatever it takes to drag our country to the extreme Marxist left. Also, it looks like the Biden/Harris administration is colluding with Iran, because how is it that an American administration has provided tens of billions to an Iranian regime that is building nuclear weapons and funding terrorism in the Middle East, and trying to destroy Israel? Iranians have attacked American ships and military personnel, and we have done nothing to respond, which makes this more like treason than anything. Later, Mark speaks with FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr about a George Soros-backed movement with excessive foreign ownership to effectively buy the FCC and the idea that an unelected Democrat commission can control our airwaves. Mark is also joined by Kari Lake to discuss her campaign to be the next Senator from Arizona, running against a complete leftwing lunatic and facing endless Democrat propaganda ads. Finally, Mark talks with Lee Zeldin about Venezuelan gangs taking over parts of New York and nation-wide and the silence from Democrats about reversing course.
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Kamala Harris and her open-border legislation
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Harris won’t say if she still backs decriminalizing prostitution
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Jane Fonda Campaigns for Kamala Harris on Goal of Slashing Fossil Fuels by Half
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‘It Sure Looks Like This Administration Is Colluding With Iran’: Lawmaker Calls for Probe Into State Department Following Robert Malley Revelations
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Rough transcription of Hour 1
Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here, our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. Very, very loaded program, impactful program. Lots of important hot issues that are going to affect your lives. And so let’s get started. Thank you for being out there. By the way, I listened very carefully to President Trump’s speech today. First of all, it was fantastic, his substance on the economy and on the border. He has a charisma. He’s got a jocularity that is really just terrific. And, of course. He’s spot on. You know, he’s making a list of his economic policies, many of which we already know, because he’s been talking about it for some time, unlike Harris. And I want to be honest with you, America reminds me of Ronald Reagan’s tax cuts. We had the greatest economic growth since the Industrial Revolution under Reagan and since Reagan, the greatest economic growth. Under Donald Trump. What Trump is proposing is not radical, despite what the media say today. And I want you to understand that the media used to call the Reagan economic program Reaganomics. Remember all that? Some of you do. Some of you don’t. And we had an explosion of economic growth. The economy literally grew over an eight year period. The economy, the American economy, over 30%, over 30%. We’d never seen so much prosperity. And but for the pandemic. The same with Trump. And we were coming out of the pandemic, we saw an explosion of growth, low inflation, 1.4%. Imagine that. And then the Democrats step in with trillions of dollars in spending. So let’s let’s discuss this rationally with a little bit of historical context. Number one, the Democrats will never cut spending. The only spending they cut is when it comes to the United States military and Veterans Affairs. Also when it comes to the border. Otherwise they will not cut spending. Massive redistribution of wealth, massive phony radical left wing programs that enrich their oligarchs and enrich their left wing organizations. And so you have this Green New Deal, the so-called Inflation Reduction Act. Trillions of dollars, hundreds of billions. We don’t even know where they went. Over $40 billion to hook up the Internet all over the country, including people who don’t have it. So far, they’ve fucked up nobody. 7 to $8 billion for electric vehicle charging stations of which they built eight. They’re never going to stop spending. And I’ll tell you why. Unfortunately, it’s now built into the system since Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, that is, the Senate Democrats are never going to go along with cutting spending except in those areas I already mentioned. And so you need 60 votes. You need 60 votes to pass a budget. If they choose to filibuster you. You get budgets that come out of the House of Representatives where they’re cutting spending and then Schumer blocks them. And so there’s not a lot we can do about it. And so when I hear these economists, many of our friends on Fox, on other networks and so forth, and say, well, the Republicans and the Democrats, none of them want to cut spending, that’s simply a lie. We have House Republicans who are constantly trying to cut spending, some more than others. And it is killed in the United States Senate by the Democrats. And by the way, it only takes 40 some odd Democrats to kill it. And they have a simple majority right now that kills it. So they’re not going to cut spending. And this, by the way, is going to one day crash our economy. But that’s not the point I want to address. Trump is talking about slashing the capital gains tax. Ronald Reagan did that. Trump is talking about slashing taxes across the board, including the top level, middle and lower. Ronald Reagan did that, too. Trump is talking about companies in America who invest in heavy equipment because it’s very expensive that they’ll be able to amortize it within one year. Reagan did the same thing. These are very, very important policies that will build up our industries, that will build up manufacturing, that will strengthen our industrial base, that will strengthen our economy and create tremendous, well-paying American jobs right here. That is what Trump is doing. This pinprick stuff that Kamala Harris talks about? Well, if this company does this, if this company does it, it never works and they don’t do it anyway. She’s talking about a massive increase in the capital gains tax. You know what’s going to happen if there’s a massive increase in the capital gains tax? Companies are going overseas. They’re either going to move their headquarters overseas, but they’re certainly going to move their manufacturing overseas. So think about that. Kamala Harris economy. More jobs are moved overseas and more illegal aliens come into the country, take jobs that exist. This is crazy. This is crazy. So when you have open borders, when you’re not deporting anybody, when you’re flying into the country, 1 million illegal aliens, and by flying them into the country, certifying them as legal aliens on a pathway to citizenship, that’s what they’re doing. It is so diabolical. Undermining American workers, undermining American wages. You’re destroying the ability to assimilate cultures and other populations of diverse backgrounds all over the world into our own culture. That’s what’s going on in Springfield, Ohio, Despite all the lies and from the left and all the propaganda, that’s what’s going on in every city in America. That’s what’s going on in Chicago. And by the way, in our three, we’re going to have our man, Lee Zeldin, on the program to talk about what’s happening with Venezuelan gangs in New York. And it’s not just New York. It’s Chicago, too. Chicago has a massive gang problem. Domestic gangs now facing off against Venezuelan gangs, for God sakes. We didn’t have this problem four years ago. We didn’t have it in Chicago. We didn’t have it in New York. We didn’t have it in Philadelphia, L.A. And we have it now. And now she’s going to take a trip to the border. And we’re all supposed to get excited because she might burp up a couple of rehearsed phrases. Come on, America. Either we save our country or it’s not going to be saved. Now, what about tariffs? Trump is not a tariff king. He doesn’t want tariffs on everything. Ronald Reagan was more free market than not. And he used to boast about this. I remember I worked in his campaigns when I served in this administration for eight years. But Reagan put tariffs on goods, electronics coming from Japan. They were destroying our television industry. And they they pretty much wound up doing that, our electronics industry and so forth. There have been negotiations and negotiations, but they wouldn’t budge. So he placed the most onerous tariffs imaginable on many of these Japanese electronic products to try and save our electronics industry. Trump is saying the same thing that the Communist Chinese are destroying our farmlands. We now literally have a negative, negative balance of trade when it comes to farm products. We’ve never had a negative balance of trade when it’s come to farm products. And so what Trump is saying is we got to save our agricultural communities, which Biden doing nothing. Zero. This is subsidizing illegal aliens. Trump is a common sense guy. He’s more conservative than most Republicans who’ve served in the Oval Office. He’s telling he’s telling the the industries that are building auto plants south of the border. You don’t get to build auto plants in Mexico and then ship them 20 miles into Texas, in Arizona, in New Mexico and so forth. Ripping us off like this, destroying American workforce, American industry. By playing a game, by playing a system, you don’t get to do that. And so he says now. What has Biden and Harris done about it? Nothing. Zero. This electric vehicle stuff on top of the open borders, on top of taxes that will send American business and jobs overseas. On top of illegal aliens taking American jobs that exist in this country. And driving down wages. This isn’t a market system. This is a government run amok. A government industrial policy that Biden and Harris are running, that the Democrats are running that are destroying our industrial. Our industrial center. Our manufacturing. Blue collar jobs and white collar jobs now and in the future. And with their spending, with inflation, it’s going to continue to go through the roof. There are respites, of course, with interest rates and inflation, because monetary policy set by the Fed, they jump in, okay, we’re going to cut to half a point. Okay. So there’s some decrease in interest rates. That’s not going to last. It can’t last. You can’t have $36 trillion. On record debt of record debt when you include entitlement programs of $300 trillion in an economy that creates approximately 17 and a half to $18 trillion in wealth every year, it’s unsustainable. But you don’t kill the golden goose that lays the golden eggs either. You’ve got to grow. You’ve got to create prosperity. The American people need to live. They need to survive. And despite all this spending, I know this is a lot to digest, but 3 hours is all I have. They’re slashing the military budget. You know, Kamala Harris has not voted as a senator once for the military budget. You know, she never voted for an increase in the salaries of any military personnel. Are you aware of this? I don’t know why the Trump campaign or the RNC or somebody is not talking about it, so I’ll talk about it. I am telling you that Kamala Harris never voted for a salary increase for a single man or woman in uniform, in any uniform in our military services. Not once voted against it every single time, but she voted for more money for the bureaucracy. She voted for more money for illegal immigrants. She voted for more money. You name it. She wrote it. Money, money, money, Money comes to the military. Now, ladies and gentlemen, these are not our values. This is not our belief system. They are literally destroying our finances. Gutting our economy, opening our borders to change the the entire nature of the country. This is what they’re doing now. One other thing. I know it’s a lot. It’s okay. We got a lot to do today. She’s going to go to the border. They say. Oh, how exciting. Who gives a crap? She finally comes out of the closet. Oh, there’s Kamala. I just. I’ve been saying now for months she’s playing rope a dope. When she’ll say something, that doesn’t mean anything. It’ll either be a flat out lie, a puffery. Listen, they keep talking about this phony bipartisan bill. I want you to listen to me carefully. I reposted this. It’s very important. Very, very important. Kamala Harris says she would sign the so-called bipartisan immigration bill. It’s good to know. It’s good to know. Here are six reasons, just six that I came up with out of 300 and some pages in this bill. The bill, number one, was never bipartisan. It was negotiated in secret and upon its release was immediately rejected by the overwhelming majority of Republicans saying. It is. Once they read it. Not a single House Republican supported it. So how is this bipartisan? Number two, the bill would make catch and release. You catch somebody in the United States, they managed to get here and you release them into the United States. The law of the land, part of our federal immigration code making stay in Mexico, which Trump wants to put back in place in possible. Because you would have to undo the statute. And what did I just say? The Senate Democrats would never allow that. And they don’t need a majority to stop it. So catch and release would be federalized as a part of federal law. Stay in Mexico would become a possible. That’s number two. Number three, the bill would require work permits for illegal aliens. Work permits for illegal aliens. They’re supposed to be deported. No, no, no. They would get work permits as a matter of federal law. Number four. The bill would require the provision of taxpayer funded lawyers for illegal aliens. 20 million illegal aliens. Every one of them. Whatever. Right. To a taxpayer funded lawyer to gum up the works and make enforcing the border and deportation impossible. That’s in the so called bipartisan bill. Up to 5000 illegal aliens a day would be permitted. That’s almost 2 million illegal aliens a year, not even including the gateways. And the bill would require payment of billions of dollars to sanctuary cities and pro-illegal alien non-governmental organizations. What do you think, folks? She said she would sign that bill on day one. That’s the phony bipartisan bill. I’ll be right back.
Segment 2
The Federal Communications Commission. Does that mean anything to you? Well, it really should. 1930s was set up to distribute broadcast licenses. And we have many significant radio stations, historic stations with 50,000. What reaches some with 100,000 watch reaches. And of course, as the country grew and more stations were needed, more stations were added. And so these licenses, you know, we talk about people who own stations and so forth, but they have to get these licenses and they have to get approval from the FCC for these licenses. These stations have to be run in the public good. From time to time, I’ve actually thought about as a litigator myself, a long standing filing complaints against certain stations. You never know. I may, But something’s happening today. Last week and this week at the Federal Communications Commission with a majority Democrat commissioners, that’s going to affect conservative talk radio. And in some sense, this program. And so I’ve asked Brendan Carr, one of the Republican commissioners, has five commissioners, three Democrats, two Republicans, to explain what’s going to happen to your airwaves.
Segment 3
Brendan Carr is one of five FCC commissioners, one of two Republicans. And something’s going on at the FCC last week, this week that is enormously problematic for conservative talk radio, as far as I’m concerned. And it affects a number of stations that currently run my program. Mr. Carr, welcome to the program. I’m raising the issue of what used to be called Entercom, which is now Audacity. They own over 200 stations. Can you tell us what’s taking place now? Yeah, back in March of this year, a George Soros backed group filed with the FCC to take over those former stations with 200 local radio stations spread across 40 different markets. And earlier this year, it was reported that the FCC was going to approve this transaction without even doing a vote of the commission. And actually, Senator Ted Cruz wrote a letter and called the current Democrat leadership out for that. And it’s been reported now that that decision has been brought up for a commission level vote. And as you noted, there’s three Democrats on the commission. Two Republicans in The New York Post has a story, Lydia Moynihan, reporting that the commission voted 3 to 2 last Wednesday to approve the transaction. For my part, what I can tell you without revealing non-public information yet is that I may very hard know on this for a pretty simple reason. We have a process that we have to deal with these types of transactions and he hasn’t followed it. Instead, we have fast tracked this to, in my view, enable this Soros backed group to get a hold of these stations and get control of them much more quickly than they would have if the FCC followed the normal process. Now, this is supposed to be an independent agency. It’s been around since the thirties. It’s involved in and very, very important aspect of American life and lifestyle. The issuing of licenses for broadcasting. People don’t realize that while there are radio station owners, the FCC has significant regulatory authority, licensing authority that stations need to be owned in the public interest. So it has a review process that’s been in place for a very long time. And in this case, you have George Soros and his management company. That is, as I understand it, correct me if I’m wrong, that now is going to own 40% or a majority, the majority of this company audacity. And furthermore, under the existing FCC rules, foreign company ownership of U.S. radio stations is not supposed to exceed 25%. So he’s got foreign money involved and there’s supposed to be also a national review excuse me, national security process, a review process. Am I right about most of this? Yeah, you’re exactly right. So what makes this deal different than a traditional purchase is that the financing that the Soros group has put together has excessive foreign money involved. So if you have more than 25% foreign ownership, you get to take it off the normal review process and you go through a national security review where national security agencies, not the FCC, national security agencies, look at where that foreign money is coming from and they run a 6 to 8 month to one year process to make sure there’s no problem. So this isn’t like the sources themselves. This isn’t even the Soros is money. It’s a they put a conglomerate together to buy this, where they have admitted to the FCC that there’s excessive foreign ownership. What they’re saying is, look, give us control of these stations now. We promised to wall off the. Foreign ownership money for the time being. Then we’ll come back to the FCC down the road to run the six month to one year process. The Commission itself has never voted to approve a transaction. Well, we’ve got the cart before the horse, but we haven’t actually gone through that foreign ownership route now. Is there going to be something nefarious there? I doubt it, but I don’t know. I don’t know because we’re not running the normal process here. We’re skipping it. Well, what’s nefarious is you’re not running the normal process. That’s number one. Number two, these are American radio stations. And now you’re going to have a significant amount of foreign money involved in the ownership of American radio stations. And I’m sure the entire purpose is to make sure that foreign influence, among other things, is not affecting local broadcasting, is not affecting, you know, free speech in this country. Now, why? Are the commissioners or several of the Democrat commissioners. Why are they bending over backwards to do this for the Soros management Fund before the election? Well, what is their explanation? When I was preparing to come on the show, I looked on X, formerly Twitter. I saw that just today that Alexander Soros had just posted that he was meeting today with Governor Walsh in his New York City home. And what’s interesting to me is, you know, a lot of these 200 stations, some of them are just, you know, music or news, but there’s a number of conservative outlets that are on there, as you indicated, including your show. I mean, at least four stations that I’ve seen so far carry your show. So people are out. By the way, one of them has already canceled my show. We just got a notice two weeks ago. Yes. So Gainesville, Florida, Wichita, Kansas, Philadelphia, the big one. Yep. That’s part of the transaction in Spartanburg, by the way, Commissioner is one of the original stations, WQ, part of William Paley broadcasting from Philadelphia. I know all about the history of it. So that’s part of this audacity transaction. Yep, you’re exactly right. And what’s so interesting is the other side of this coin. So when a bunch of conservative buyers wanted to buy some Florida radio stations a year or so ago, the left was up in arms. Democrats, you know, cried out that the FCC had to block the sale to conservative buyers, in the Democrat’s words, because they were worried they would influence election outcomes. There are Democrat members of Congress that wrote to cable companies and said, effectively, you need to drop Fox News owned and Newsmax because of the editorial decisions that are being made in Baltimore. Prosecutor, a Democrat, called for the FCC to go after a local TV station that was exposing the prosecutors corruption. And so we very clearly see no hesitation to weaponize government process when it comes to those situations. And yet somehow on this issue, it gets fast tracked. Yeah, to me, this is a free speech issue and this is an attack on conservative talk radio. The left, the Democrats have sought to compete against conservative talk radio, particularly the big hosts when there was Rush Limbaugh, Sean HANNITY, my show. BONGINO Others were really the targets here. And so what they’re trying to do notice it’s before the election is to try and get this done. So if they lose the election, they still have these 220 stations. And if they win the election, they’ve created a precedent. Is there anything Congress can do or any litigator can do? I mean, obviously, in my view, they’re operating ultra vires. They’re operating without any precedent, without any regulatory authority. Yeah, I mean, look, Congress could step in, but it’s difficult because, you know, you need to house the Senate and effectively the president’s got to have a lot of leverage to do that. There is going to be a second body, this apple. So even under their approach, they have to come back to the FCC within presumably the next 30 or 60 days and run this 3 to 6 month long national security review. So there will be a second bite of the apple here over the next coming months. But it is a challenging situation. You’re right. I mean, we are sort of in the midst of this global surge really in censorship. And you see the the Biden-Harris White House admitting or effectively admitting that they’ve been pressuring social media companies to censor political speech, in my view, in violation of the First Amendment. I mean, we should have a law on the books that says if you’re in government, if you’re right, left or center, and you’re calling up social media and telling to suppress posts, the company should be compelled to publicly and quickly disclose it. Because this jawboning and the silencing of political speech, we’re seeing it accelerate under Biden-Harris. I think it’s a real problem. There’s lot of talks about threats to democracy, but free speech is the check on authoritarianism. It’s democracies check on authoritarianism. So we have to return to that. I mean, the idea that unelected three Democrat commissioners, what will be a 3 to 2 vote on this independent agency, which is really supposed to be as objective as possible. But look, I’m not a Pollyanna. I didn’t fall off the tuna boat yesterday. I get it. But this is blatant. This is brazen. This is in your face. This is the elections coming up. We’re going to do this whether you like it or not. And it is amazing to you, Commissioner, that so much of the mass media just blow it off and completely ignore it. I mean, there are some pockets here and there, but I just told you right now we just got notice. I’m from Philadelphia. I won’t be on that station now. I’m not worried about it either podcast or alternatives there that we’re going to use. And we. Cumulus. Westwood One is is a very, very big media corporation. And we have some very interesting initiatives that we’re going to deal with in a number of these metropolitan areas. But that’s not my point. My point is the idea that a George Soros, a big Democrat, the sugar daddy for the Democrat Party, can muscle his way in effectively by the FCC, decide who’s going to own what of these 220 stations and who’s going to be aired. That’s pretty sickening, don’t you think? I think we need to return power back to Congress. You mentioned, you know, obviously the FCC where I work, But there’s, you know, hundreds if not thousands of this alphabet soup of agencies that are out there, the administrative state. And Democrats have been in charge of the administrative state for 12 of the last six years. So much of your daily life in the life of small businesses is now governed by these unelected agencies. And we do have a shot here right now. There are some new Supreme Court precedents get written getting rid of Chevron, effectively, that they’re getting rid of deference to these agencies and saying, look, the Constitution is pretty straightforward. Congress is the one that’s was to pass these laws. And right now, the people decided to have a divided Congress. So Congress isn’t getting a lot done and that’s the way the people want it. And yet these agencies, like the one I work at, are churning out thousands and thousands of regulations that disrupt your daily life without people knowing who we are or voting for us. I think we’ve got to get the power back to Congress. You know, in many ways, Commissioner, I think this is about building a robust. You know, a number of AM radio stations because AM radio is fighting for its survival right now. I think this is just their way of pushing and silencing voices. And I think technology helps us, too, because podcasting is exploding. You don’t need a FCC license to be a podcaster. So I think what’s happening here, whether it’s Soros or other owners, something of that sort, in the end, they’re going to destroy their own industry and they’re going to push more and more and more and more people into sort of these independent podcasts and other platforms, don’t you think? I mean, the FCC for almost 12 years a commissioner for seven, I can tell you, you know, people with billions and billions of dollars are not investing in local radio stations to try to turn a profit. I wish it were otherwise, but the industry is not kicking off profit. So anybody that’s spending that much money in this type of sector either sees something economically that I haven’t seen or their purpose here is not, you know, simply to use these as an investment to make money. There is a different motive at play here. Mm hmm. So they’re fast tracking a process that’s never been fast tracked since there’s been a process. They’re doing it for Soros. He will acquire 220 radio stations. I read 165 million Americans. He will do it through the Soros Management Fund, which includes a significant amount of investment from foreign monies. And they will have control over these stations and these formats. Is that about right? Yeah, but my my guess is that it will be a final deal and held the reins of those stations in the coming weeks. Well, it’s going to be up to the audience to abandon stations like this. As far as I’m concerned, that’s the only way. Mr. Commissioner, I want to thank you very much for what you’ve done and what you’re trying to do. And we’d like to bring you back as this moves into the final stage. Brendan Carr, if that’s okay with you. Yep. Always glad to do it. Great to join you. All right. God bless. And my best to you. There you go, America. What’s left of America. I’ll be right back.
Segment 4
You know, it’s amazing, America. There’s a piece and a left wing so-called news site called Axios by Alex Thompson. If you want to hear this, this headline, Harris won’t say if she’ll still back decriminalizing prostitution. Decriminalizing prostitution. Did anybody know she favored decriminalizing prostitution? There’s more to this story. Now, I don’t know if other hosts have mentioned this. I know it hasn’t been mentioned on Fox since I’ve been watching them all day, but I don’t think it’s been mentioned anywhere except on this left wing Web site. Axios. And I want to discuss this with you because they circled back and asked her if she still holds her position and they wouldn’t get an answer. They couldn’t get an answer from Harris. But doesn’t this point out just how extreme she is, just what a complete radical kook she is? Yes, the left of Bernie Sanders. We never hear that any more. Bernie Sanders is a Stalinist. He worked at a Stalinist kibbutz in Israel when he was a young little Marxist. To the left of Bernie Sanders. She treated her staff like crap. She had a 92% turnover as vice president. We never hear these things about Kamala and her character and her belief system. All we ever hear is how well her surrogates are out there telling us what she believes and what we’re supposed to think she believes. Oh, and watch the polls. We’ll be right back.