December 10th, 2024

On Tuesday’s Mark Levin Show, those on the left celebrating Luigi Mangione and attacking our healthcare system should be condemned. We have the greatest healthcare system, on the face of the Earth. Yes, it’s imperfect but if you compare it to Canada, France, or Britain – it’s superior. The celebration of a suspected murderer is dangerous and disgusting. Also, Senators Joni Ernst and Lindsey Graham are changing their tune on the nomination of Pete Hegseth. This is because millions of you who have had enough of this made your voices heard. Later, the DOJ in 2017 and 2018 secretly obtained phone and text messages from Congressional staffers and 2 members of Congress. Every media headline says Trump’s DOJ but Trump and Former AG Bill Barr didn’t know any of this was happening. This proves Trump’s point – that many in the FBI have gone rogue. The correct headline should be – rogue prosecutors obtain records without the knowledge of Trump or AG Barr. Afterward, there were guns, ammo, and terrorist flags found inside the home of 2 Students for Justice in Palestine leaders and there’s no news about it. For the media and some in the culture – death to the Jews has been accepted. Finally, Rep Barry Loudermilk calls in to discuss the latest in the Oversight Subcommittee investigation into January 6^th.

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Rough transcription of Hour 1

Segment 1
Hello America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. Mr. Producer, I’m laughing because I see Joni Ernst and Lindsey Graham are sort of changing their tunes. Have you noticed this when it comes to Pete Hegseth? So the media, including Fox are reporting MAGA backlash. It’s the Levin ites backlash, which includes MAGA, of course. Right, Mr. Producer? Nobody was taken on Joni Ernst or Lindsey Graham. I did it on Blaze. I did it behind this microphone. I did it this weekend on Fox. There’s millions and millions of you who’ve had enough of this stuff, and I certainly am among them. That’s what’s happening. The power of this format. And the other platforms. Because of you. We, the people. Is so significant that they have to ignore it. They have to ignore it. And the Trump election, they have to ignore it in certain primary battles. They have to ignore it during the Tea Party. And so they continue to ignore it. But we don’t care if they ignore it or not. I just pointed out because it’s hilarious. It’s hilarious. I’ve been posting about Ernst, I’ve been posting about Lindsey Graham. I’ve called them both out. Both of them are well-received on conservative TV shows by conservative hosts and so but not by me. But until they they get their heads right on this. So the backlash, as they put it, that’s we the people and we talked about this and we talked about we the people speaking out. We the people making it clear that Ernst and Graham and others are trying to sabotage Hakes this nomination and making it clear that we want a roll call vote come hell or high water so we know who votes how. That’s what we did. That’s what we said. So I want to once again. Correctly give credit where credit is due to you. Thank you. People will never understand this program. They’ll never understand our relationship, you and the audience and me, that goes back decades. They’ll never comprehend it or they’ll ignored or they’re jealous of it, or they have some other mental issues that I really cannot address for them. But you get the point. You get the point. MAGA backlash. Yes, that’s us. We did it right here. They were riding off. Haig said they. They started it on Cash Patel. And we hit the brakes right here. Starting on radio, then Blaze and on Fox. That’s what we did. We’ll see what happens in the end. There’s a long way to go. Those hearings and all the rest of it, as you know. This Luigi Mangione. There is an entire cult now being built up celebrating this man. Celebrating him. I can only imagine his parents, his family are absolutely stunned and shocked that he would do this. Apparently, he disappeared a few weeks ago. Apparently his mother told the police they couldn’t find him and so forth. So he he fell off the rocker. 20 did. Could be 100 reasons why. Could be one reason. Could be no reason. I don’t know. I don’t know. So I don’t condemn his family, but I do condemn those who are now celebrating him on the left. And attacking our health care system. For the alleged maladies that he suffered. We have the greatest health care system on the face of the earth. It’s imperfect. I don’t know of anything that is perfect. Any human being. That’s perfect. Any institution that’s perfect. But if you compare it to Canada and France and London, excuse me, in Britain and any other health care system on the face of the earth, it’s superior. By a massive magnitude. It’s getting worse because of more government regulation. More government interference. And so we’re seeing more and more of this socialist health care bleeding into our system and more aggressively under the Obama-Biden and Biden-Harris regimes. And the answer to the centralization of health care decisions and the centralization of insurance is decentralization and competition. But that’s so old school, You understand? But I mean. I went through hell three, three and a half months ago. I’ll be perfectly honest with you. In my injury and. I certainly haven’t gone through what other people have gone through, people who have cancer, and they’re suffering as I speak. They lose limbs. They’re suffering as I speak. Their brain injuries, horrendous back injuries. I had a 100% tear on my tendon. Am I required? And I was basically bedbound for two months. I mean, I’d try and get out and so forth. Learning how to walk again. I’m not saying this to whine and complain. I’m saying pain is a terrible thing. The funny thing about me in my cases. None of these painkillers even work. People get hooked on oxy. I took some oxy, did nothing, so I threw it away. Zero. And that’s the nature of the beast. And it can do funny things to your head. But it doesn’t lead you to kill people. To blame the CEO of a major, if not the largest health insurance company on the face of the earth. I look at all the people they helped save, I look at all the people they. With a quality of life has improved. When I go to pick up my medicines once a month or so at the pharmacy. They’re such nice people and they almost apologize for the price. Here I am picking up these medicines. Some of them. A truly life saving for your heart. In some cases I cite. People with diabetes. They’re coming up with new drugs and so forth and so on. I just think we’ve gotten used to in many instances of this stuff, just being there. We have one family member. Wonderful. Is there a drug for this or can a doctor do that or can’t this or can’t that or sometimes there’s not an answer. There’s just not. But a lot of times there are answers. There are answers. We need more doctors. But did you know that the federal government controls the number of doctors there are in our system? You know, they control the number of medical students there. There are? Why? That’s one way to bring down expenses and allow competition in the best to rise to the top. Why is that? The government controls. Almost half of all medical activity and expenses in this country. And so they control pricing. Qualifications. And we go on and on and on. The role is huge. The role is huge. And. As prices go up. Most of those in the medical profession, with a few exceptions, earn less and less. These are the the working doctors, the working nurses who think they’re all millionaires. They’re not. And they break their ass. And they not only go to college, they go to medical school. Then they have to have fellowships and internships and residencies. It never ends. It never ends. And so the vast majority of these people are highly committed to the health care. Of you and me. I just don’t think we necessarily appreciate it enough. And sometimes there are things that cannot be done. That’s why I don’t throw in with all Big Pharma and the big this and the big that. All this Marxist claptrap. The big problem is the big government. These medicines, they come on board. Most of them take 20 years. Most medical development, or I should say drug development fails. They’ve spent 50, 60, $70 billion looking for some way to control. Or to stop Alzheimer’s. They’ve essentially come up with nothing. All that money is spent. It has to come from somewhere. It’s not going to come from a mom and pop laboratory any more than the electrical system we have in our country could have. The transportation system. The car. The train. Steel. It takes a concentration of private wealth. Because the investments, the capital investments are so high. But see, by the time you explain something like this, people are rolling their eyes around the profits, the rip offs and so forth and so on. So it makes it very, very difficult. I can admit, is not profitable. They lose hundreds of billions of dollars a year. It’s not profitable. Hundreds of billions of dollars a year. And they waste hundreds of billions of dollars a year that can be actually put to good use use. This kid or guy. It doesn’t really matter why he did what he did. What he did was horrendous. He murdered in cold blood an innocent man. But this. This culture that has built up around this. That underlies the Internet, that underlies the left. Attacking. Are private entities. The answer is always more government. This is a dangerous thing. It’s a very dangerous thing. He will be removed from Pennsylvania. He will wind up in New York no matter how many. Days. His lawyer tries to delay that. He has been charged with murder in New York. The Pennsylvania prosecutor says, okay, and when you’re done, you bring him back here. We have gun charges. That’s a smart play. Just to make sure everything lands. In executing that CEO and a wife. He had two kids. The idea that there’s a whole culture out there that celebrates this. This is this is very sick. This is very bad. This is very dangerous. I’ll be right back.

Segment 2
Headline NBC News. Trump’s DOJ secretly obtained phone and text message logs of 43 Congressional staffers and two members of Congress. The Justice Department’s investigations and the leaks of classified information were far broader than previously known, according to the department’s internal watchdog seeking to investigate leaks of classified information, The Trump Justice Department in 2017 and 2018 secretly obtained phone and text message logs of 43 congressional staffers to members of Congress and a far broader probe than previously known. The report by Inspector General Michael Horowitz found that the DOJ didn’t act with political motives, but failed to take sufficient account of constitutional separation of powers by seizing communications records of Stanford’s own lawmakers, making them subjects of a criminal investigation only because they had lawful access to state secrets through their jobs. Keep listening. Prosecutors obtained the records using subpoenas and other legal processes to third party providers, including Apple, and attached gag orders to prevent the companies from notifying the customers. The fact that the seizures had previously been reported. But the IG revealed new details about the broad scope of the effort. Separately, the IG report released Tuesday found the Justice Department violated its own policies in the way it secretly obtained phone and text records from reporters in the same leak investigations, which related to the FBI’s probe of suspected Trump campaign coordination with Russia. The seizures of the records for reporters from the New York Times, The Post, CNN had previously been reported and the Biden Justice Department stiffened the guidelines on the issue, which previously had been updated in 2014 and 2015, after earlier revelations of secret seizures of news media records under Obama. They don’t mention his name. Although then-Attorney General Bill Barr personally approved the news media subpoenas in 2020, a committee that’s been set up to review any such moves was not consulted, a policy required. The report said Barr did not cooperate with the IG inquiry. We were troubled that these failures occurred only a few years after this overhaul, the inspector general said. And it goes on. Now as I read this. With all the titles. Mr. Producer, Trump’s DOJ secretly obtained phone and tax records trumps this. Trump that, Trump this. Nothing in any of the reports is Trump knew anything. Nothing in the report says Trump ordered anything. I read somewhere where Bill Barr said he didn’t know the full extent of this. Doesn’t this prove Trump’s point even there he is as president? The FBI, certainly at the senior levels and these federal prosecutors at the Department of Justice. Many of them have gone rogue. This has been Trump’s point. Just remember, the FBI came after him when he was president of the United States. So these titles, Trump’s DOJ, Trump’s DOJ, Trump’s DOJ, he’s the one that talks about these departments and these agencies and that they need to be reformed. I’ll be right back with more.

Segment 3
Now, let me read you this story, which is written a little differently from Politico. Virtually every media headline says Trump’s Department of Justice secretly obtained records of lawmakers and journalists. NBC, CNN. NASA. LSD Politico. Watchdog faults DOJ in Trump’s first term for secretly obtaining records of lawmakers and journalists during leak investigation. Trump’s DOJ obtained phone and email records of two House Democrats and dozens of congressional staffers. Both parties, by the way, including Kash Patel, including Kash Patel. Now, listen. Justice Department during Trump’s first term failed to comply with its own procedures when it sought journalists phone and email records and leak investigations, according to the inspector general in a report released today. Department never conducted any high level review as it swept up the records of 43 congressional staffers to Democratic House members. DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz said he also found, quote, no evidence that federal prosecutors got express approval from then Attorney General Bill Barr. So Barr didn’t know about it or told federal courts that the subpoenas were for records of lawmakers in the raids. Despite the potential for the probe C of rogue prosecutors, it doesn’t get to the level of the attorney general. It certainly was never brought to Donald trump. But see how they play it, Donald Trump says. The DOJ, the FBI, my words, not his. They need to be fumigated. They’re out of control. They’ve gone rogue. And now here’s evidence that they’re out of control and they’ve gone rogue. And now it’s Donald Trump’s Department of Justice and FBI, which they all know are career. There’s civil service. They’re union. In other words, untouchable. Obtaining the records of lawmakers and their staff during a criminal investigation risk chilling Congress’s ability to conduct oversight of the executive branch, wrote Horowitz. Well, of course he’s right, Bill Barr told POLITICO in 2021. He did not know the Department of Justice sought any lawmakers records in the leak probes, which involved disclosures about the FBI’s investigation in a 2016 Trump campaign aide Carter Page. And ties between that campaign and Russia. A bar declined to be interviewed by Horowitz’s team. But the report says investigators found no indication the issuance of subpoenas for lawmakers or other aides was raised to Bill Barr’s level. He didn’t know about it. Indeed, the report concludes that at the time there was no policy in place to require added review of subpoenas and similar demands for information about lawmakers and their staff. The inspector general launched the review in June 2021 after Joe Biden took office, and press reports revealed that investigators probing leaks of classified information obtained court orders to access phone records of two prominent Democrats. You know, they were Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell. Horowitz said the department’s decision to include Schiff and Swalwell in the investigation was based on a claim from a Democratic staffer who suspected them having a role in a league convention. So a Democrat staffer leaks from the Democrat members Swalwell and Schiff. There’s an investigation that takes place, a criminal investigation. And it doesn’t reach the level Bill Bar wouldn’t approve. It didn’t even know about it. But it’s the Donald Trump’s Department of Justice. You understand Horowitz’s report, which does not identify the lawmakers by name, did not turn up indications that the two outspoken Trump critics were targeted because of their political affiliation. Quote, We did not find any evidence of retaliatory or political motivation by the career prosecutors who issued the compulsory process. How? He looked for political motivations, he found none. The prosecutors were career prosecutors. The tip came from a Democrat staffer who suggested that Swalwell and Schiff might be leaking. But don’t you understand? It’s Donald Trump’s Department of Justice? And Donald Trump for the third time, I underscore, has said that these are corrupt, rogue entities that need to be cleaned out. Hence, he nominated Kash Patel, one of the 43 congressional staffers who phone our email logs were pursued by these investigators. Now, is this the way you write a story? Is this what you make headlines? Now, I read you the NBC News story. You didn’t get 90% of this. You didn’t get 90% of this. The Justice Department during the Trump administration, also faced scrutiny for efforts to access the email account of then House Intelligence Committee aide Cash Patel. Wow. Last time I checked, he worked for Devin Nunes. Is it conservative, a Republican and a Trump supporter. So his records were accessed. Did Donald Trump order that, too? Now, did Bill Barr order that, too? No. No. The review found that 21 of them that staffers were affiliated with Democrats, 20 with Republicans, two were non partisan of all the staffers. The Justice Department did not seek or obtained the content of their communications, but only details such as which phone numbers or email accounts they were in contact with. So they didn’t get the substantive. Recordings are information on the calls themselves. Around the same time, the existence of subpoenas aimed at lawmakers was reported, it emerged. Prosecutors also sought phone or email records for journalists at the camp post at the same time that the constipated newsman work as part of the leak investigations. Well, that’s old school for them. As I said, they did it under Obama. Bar Did it prove the subpoenas aimed at reporters? But the department never convened an internal panel that a policy in place that The Times said should examine all such requests. Okay. Did Barr break the law? No. It’s not a matter of a panel, matter of the law. Biden called the tactic aimed at reporters simply wrong and vowed it would not continue under his administration. But it did continue. It started, as a matter of fact, under Obama Biden. The most anti-press administration since Woodrow Wilson, and yet the media still slobbered all over them. The incoming Trump administration is expected to roll back the protections Garland adopted. So it’s Trump’s fault. Garland, who abused his office like no attorney general in my lifetime, that’s for sure, has these wonderful protections in place, you know, and it looks like Trump’s going to roll them back, they say. So this story is not, as the headline suggests. Watchdog Faults DOJ in Trump’s First term. No, The headline should be rogue prosecutors. Rogue prosecutors obtain records of lawmakers and journalists without the knowledge of the attorney general or the president of the United States. In the case of the journalists, in the case of the attorney general, who apparently approved some aspect of it, which was legal. But in case the lawmakers and the staffers, nothing, nothing, he had no role. And of course, Donald Trump had no role in any of it. Why that’s Donald Trump’s Department of Justice. Unfortunately, it’s not. That’s why they don’t want Pam Bondi there. That’s why they don’t want capital there. Look at the look at the. The idiocy, the insanity of this kind of reporting. On the one hand, Trump, Patel, Bondy, they all say these entities need to be reformed. They’re out of control. They target political opponents. Donald Trump was the main victim. And then the media come to the defense of the sitting FBI director. I mean, the sitting FBI director, they came to the defense of the past, FBI Director Mueller. They come to the defense of their career. Department of Justice Prosecutors. But they’re the ones who did all this. Not Trump. Not Cash Patel, not Pam Bondi, who want to go in there. Look at this. Fix it. Stop it. So I would ask the media, What the hell are you proposing here? What the hell are you reporting here? First of all, stop twisting the headlines. Stop twisting the headlines. You got to throw Trump’s name in there was secretly, secretly obtaining records. We told you. We told you democracy’s a threat. We told you he’s a dictator. We don’t know. It’s nothing to do with any of it. He. I told you there’s a problem at the FBI. He told you? There’s a problem with federal investigators. He told you in the media. How sick. Truly nuts. Now, there’s a lot to go over today. I’m going to get to as much as I can because I think it’s all quite important. Alvin Bragg. Bragg lays out alternatives to dismissing Trump’s Trump’s hush money conviction. This is in the Hill. It’s in all these papers because today he has a panoply, a he cornucopia, a smorgasbord, a buffet of suggestions other than dropping the case. That is the sense. All kinds of things can be done. Once again, I will make a public statement to a group of lawyers who are actually quite good. President Trump’s lawyers we’ve had. Todd on this program, among others. We’ll see what Marshawn does. But are you going to take my advice at some point or not? Which is. Get the hell out of the New York gulag. Get it to the U.S. Supreme Court. I think they would serve your client a lot better. We’ll see how Michonne rules, but you’re going to keep running back and forth to court because Alvin Bragg has a new idea. Alvin Bragg is a Stalinist. That was a Stalinist show trial. The man you keep asking for relief from. The acting state judge is a Stalinist judge. They both did this. You keep appealing to the same person, hoping for the best. Maybe you’ll get it. Finally. But in my view, it’s already taken too long. We’ll be right back.

Segment 4
I don’t care what Bragg proposes at all. Bragg is a, is a rogue, grotesque individual in this case needs to get out of that jurisdiction. Now. And if they won’t do it voluntarily, there is way to do it. I’m not even charging the president or his campaign or the anybody giving free advice. I know this stuff like the back of my hand. I live it, I breathe it. I eat it. But I don’t know. Strange to me. Get the damn case out of their machine. Won’t the submitter? We’re going to peel near the New Yorker pocket. That’s enough. That’s enough. I’m going to prove to you. That for the media. That’s where a growing. Percentage of the culture. Death to the Jews. His Ho hum. It’s been. Except it. Let me ask you a question. If there were if there was a home outside of Washington, D.C., let’s say in Fairfax, Virginia. And there are two leaders. Of a white supremacist movement akin to neo-Nazis. And. They were talking about free speech and the right to protest, and they were building a following. And there was an investigation and they went into their home and they found that in the home to these leaders, there were guns, ammunition, terrorist flags, grenades, all kinds of things. Wouldn’t that get a headline on cable TV or network news, Mr. Producer? Well, I’m reading here on the Free Beacon, something that I haven’t seen anywhere else. Certainly not on cable TV, any of it. Certainly not in network TV, any of it. Death to the Jews inside the home of two. Students for Justice in Palestine. Leaders have warned about this group at George Mason University right outside of Washington, D.C. Police find guns, ammunition and terrorist flags. And I suspect there’s scores of houses like this one. Police searched the home of two Students for Justice of Palestine leaders, a pair of sisters at George Mason University. Their allies painted a sympathetic picture. The students were targeted, according to the Hamas front group Council on American Islamic Relations, Care for engaging in anti genocide events on campus, quote unquote. The Intercept reported that police found antique firearms registered to the students brother and brought gun related charges as a result of his family’s pro-Palestine activism. Excluded from those descriptions was the crime the sisters are suspected of committing. A group of student radicals defaced George Mason Student Center in August spray painting messages that warned of a, quote, student intifada, unquote. In its coverage of the incident, The Washington Post wrote that, quote, Activists spray painted words on Wilkens Plaza outside the university’s Johnson Center. Unquote. Those activists caused thousands of dollars in damage, a felony in the state of Virginia. And police suspect the students. Four Justice of Palestine leaders, sisters Jenna and Norah, led the group of vandals weeks after the incidents. In November, a county judge granted a warrant which is under seal until February, according to a Fairfax County court representative. Allowing police to seize electronics and a family home. And when officers entered the home, they found firearms, modern weapons, not antiques, as well as scores of ammunition, farm passports, all of which sat in plain view, according to court documents obtained by the Free Beacon. And sources familiar with the investigation. They found Proterra materials, including Hamas and Hezbollah flag signs that read Death to America. Death the Jews, according to court documents. Have you heard this anywhere? I’m not done. It’s nowhere. I’ll be right back.