Mark Levin Podcast

On Friday's Mark Levin Show, if we want to be free we need to have a free press and a free economic system. Who is damaging freedom of the press? The media or the President? The President is not compelled to take questions from a press that is ideologically hostile to him, like CNN and Jim Acosta. CNN has an obligation to reveal itself as an outlet of the Democrat party. CNN has surrendered its news operation yet they still pretend to be one. George Bush and Ronald Reagan, were trashed by the likes of Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, and others of the same ilk. The press has never been freer than today, that’s why we have the conga line of pundits on cable news pretending to be journalists. Then, Robert Mueller indicted 12 Russians today. This should be handled as a counterintelligence matter not a criminal matter, because we can't get our hands of these former Putin operatives. Will Mueller be indicting Barack Obama for interfering in the Israeli election? This Russian indictment is dumb, these 12 conspirators will never see the inside of an American Court.  Afterwards, we're talking trade which is as relevant as the media. Raising the price of toasters and washing machines for Americans will only allow for less of them to be sold in the US. Blue Collar workers will be affected negatively by this. We are subsidizing price gouging and losing 100k jobs to protect 25k jobs. It’s not America first to raise taxes on American citizens!

On Thursday's Mark Levin Show, What do you do when one political party in our country is hungry for power and will do anything for it? Republicans were heckled, disrespected, and ridiculed today for trying to get information from FBI Agent Peter Strzok. Not only did the Democrats obstruct the hearing, but they praised Strzok. This is our Congress holding a public hearing of our government officials that are accountable to us. Gone are the days where Democrats were patriotic and would be appalled by this kind of behavior. There was once a time when the media would be repulsed by the texts that Strzok sent. Despite being condemned by the IG and removed from the Russia investigation by Robert Mueller, Strzok claims he did nothing wrong because his opinions did not bias his work. Then, calling attention to the FBI ethics handbook: employees should avoid even the appearance of bias, a conflict or that they are violating the law. Strzok targeting of the Trump campaign while ignoring the wrongdoings of the Clinton campaign that appears biased. What did Strzok do to stop Russia do from interfering in our election? What did Barack Obama do, or John Brennan? Later, When "We The People" go to court we expect that the judge hearing our case does not have bias or even the appearance of bias so that justice can prevail, the Trump Campaign was not afforded this opportunity. The man who should be testifying today is Obama because Russia attacked our campaign while he was president. What took place at the highest levels of the FBI was an attempt to select the next President of the US and we can't have an effective hearing on this until we the facts from him. Afterwards, Congressman Ron DeSantis calls in to break down today's Peter Strzok hearing and his Q & A.

On Wednesday's Mark Levin Show, NRA TV host Dan Bongino fills in for Mark. For decades Presidents on both sides of the aisle have kissed up to foreign leaders and nothing ever really changed. But today President Trump sat at the table and called out our NATO allies for supporting Russian aggression. Trump definitely plays by his own rules. He cares about results, not the structured rules of diplomacy and the media can’t accept this. He’s always under attack because of his Queens, NY bravado. New Yorkers from Queens don’t get the same respect as kids from Brooklyn and the Bronx, so you have to puff your chest a bit and prove that you're tough to earn respect. This is why his personality is always focused on the superlative tense. Then, liberalism sucks for liberals too. There is no popular mandate for liberal idiocy and their ignorance is what allows liberal ideology to thrive. There is no public mandate for liberalism so all they need to do is convince one judge, or politician in a black robe, and they get their legislation from the court. If Dems believed that Roe v. Wade was actually settled law they wouldn't be scared. If there was a popular mandate for any of their ideas they wouldn't use fear tactics. To think that any Supreme Court justice would reverse that decision is absurd. That's because there is a popular mandate for this unlike abortion which scares the Democrats.

On Tuesdays Mark Levin Show, there have been 113 Supreme Court justices in the entire history of the US and as much as we respect the President, we can't sit on our hands and refrain from asking tough questions about Judge Brett Kavanaugh. The gold standard of a justice is never a risky pick because you know well in advance what you're getting, Kavanaugh wasn’t that standard. Risky appointments have historically taken several years to prove badly. When we make concessions on Supreme Court nominations the nation suffers. We hope that Kavanaugh will be as impeccable as Justices Scalia, Thomas, or Gorsuch. There's no question he's of good moral character, but he's not up for the priesthood - he's up for the Supreme Court. Then, Chief Justice Roberts' decision fined citizens $1500 in additional taxes for failing to buy Obamacare health insurance. The government saying you shall have health insurance is an example of the coercive power of the government. Congress never called Obamacare a tax, the Court did, and Kavanaugh agreed. Kavanaugh rewrote the statute and argued that the anti-injunction act was his justification because the tax penalty had not been applied to anyone yet. Also, Kavanaugh's view of impeachment is absurd; "dastardly" behavior doesn't meet the standard for impeachment. Kavanaugh is good on issues of the administrative state. This is good because most cases that come before the Supreme Court don’t have broad-based impact on each of us, they're isolated to the parties of those particular cases. Kavanaugh is not Ginsberg or Sotomayor but we don't know him so it’s risky. If he turns into the next Scalia, that’s great, but we're not here to sabotage him, this is an important process and we just want to ask questions of him.

On Monday's Mark Levin Show, The key for a Supreme Court nominee is to pick a constitutionalist - not a leftist, or a rightist and hope that a constitutionalist will do the right thing whatever the issue is. The Supreme Court decides cases on all types of law so it’s important that we get a Constitutionalist on the Court. Now, if President Trump nominates a left-leaning judge it’s not a game-changer. This is not the most conservative court in a generation. This court is not even close to being a constitutionalist court; this is the court that upheld Obamacare and nationalized gay marriage. Also, the Left has become increasingly extremist. Chuck Schumer used the term far right to describe conservative organizations that helped the Trump administration put together its shortlist of nominees. Schumer is paid for by the radical socialist left of the Democrat party. We must make it abundantly clear that the statist progressives on the left now consider anyone who supports the Constitution to be on the far right. Then, as written in "Men in Black" the Supreme Court, and federal courts, gained power through the Judiciary Act of 1801 which was repealed by Congress whom then introduced the Judiciary Act of 1802 including the practice known as 'judicial review. Judicial review is an implied power, not an explicit power of the Court and thus we sit at the edge of our seats each summer waiting for a majority of justices to define what is law and what's not -- this is not well and this is not good. Otherwise, we will continue to rely on a single judge to decide on the legality of issues in our republic.

On Friday's Mark Levin Show, Brian Mudd from WJNO fills in. Are we stuck on stupid, regarding the border and updated immigration info? In 2006 we had the proliferation of the border wall and 600 miles were constructed, then came Barack Obama and the wall went awry but the media never mentions that. The most pervasive media bias is omission and if you don’t know you can’t appreciate how screwed up politicians are. Then, the real story of Anthony Kennedy and myth of swing justices. Anthony Kennedy's record is actually more conservative than Sen. Marco Rubio's. Kennedy has voted with Chief Justice Roberts , Justice Alito and former Justice Scalia more than 80% of the time. Afterwards, Facebook's Declaration of Independence error and apology & the new threat of big tech. Finally, American defectors renouncing their citizenship is on the decline, in part, because of the Trump tax cuts.

On Thursday's Mark Levin Show, WMAL Radio Host Larry O'Connor fills in. Has President Trump taken on Andrew Breitbart's “war” on the left and the mainstream media? This “war” was in response to the left's tactics and the media's bias for attacking the conservative movement. Today Trump is engaged in this same war. He fights and he won’t let go and he won’t stop tweeting because he’s fighting for us and pushing back against the media in defense of all of us. Later, there’s a concerted effort to make Brett Kavanaugh the Supreme Court nominee. Why is this? Brett Kavanaugh doesn’t fit Trump’s pattern of picks for his White House. He likes to make bold moves and Kavanaugh isn’t that. Anthony Kennedy might be retiring to protect his legacy as the deciding vote on the Court's gay marriage decision and Kennedy may have said I will drop out if you nominate Brett Kavanaugh.

On Wednesday’s Mark Levin show, we bring you the best of Mark Levin! On this July 4th, we take a look at the article V Convention of States to prevent instrumentalities of the federal government like the Supreme Court from reshaping the Constitution. The federal government is a creation of the states and hence the states should have control, not a countercultural ideology that opposes the founders' intent in our Constitution. Then, we step back and look at the state of our government today and how it has become completely unmoored from the people through its massive size, taxes and issues with the separation of powers. What’s happened here is that a poison has been let loose into the body politic a poison known as collectivism or statism. Hegelism and Marxism have evolved today into progressivism and it completely and utterly rejects Americanism as our Founders intended. Kamala Harris, Chuck Schumer and others might not recognize that their thinking is Hegelian, but Bernie Sanders knows. Our Founding Fathers reject everything with the philosophy that is progressivism, this movement seeks to alter the history of the Founding. Today’s progressives look to radicals like Karl Marx and Georg Hegel for their ideological guidance. This is one of the reasons Bernie Sanders will not debate Mark on any of his media platforms because Mark knows what he knows. He knows what Mark knows. If they sat down for a discussion Mark would thoroughly and completely expose him. Later, the Supreme Court has done some horrific things that have led to horrific outcomes, and yet the Left wants you to believe the Court is better than the other branches of government. Sen Susan Collins says she would not support certain potential Supreme Court nominees because they have demonstrated a disrespect for the vital principle of stare decisis. She is an absolute radical on the issue. If Collins believes in stare decisis and legal precedent, does she believe in the precedent in the Dred Scott case or Plessy v Ferguson? They were abominations. We’ve had judicial precedent in slavery and segregation in the past that lasted longer than Roe v Wade. Activist Supreme Courts in the past have justified slavery, segregation, and racism, and rather than learn the painful lessons of the past we have several current Justices who are committed to the same kind of judicial activism.

On Tuesday's Mark Levin Show, each of these concepts of liberty, and in defense of our rights being given by God, are rejected by the progressive left in America today. You cannot believe in God-given rights, good and evil, right and wrong like the Golden Rule or universal truths in the 10 commandments and believe in progressivism. Our Founders put their lives on the line to do what no other nation of the face of this earth has ever done; create a nation based on the concept that we are children of God and therefore we have rights as a result. The modern leadership of the Democratic party rejects the purpose of our Independence, because the intellectual philosophy that undergirds the progressive movement rejects these notions. Later, as we see the attacks on President Trump's potential Supreme Court nominees it underscores how the left thinks and why they oppose these nominations. The country is facing a big decision to appoint a new Supreme Court Justice. The president can nominate anyone of age to the post, but it’s critical that he appoint someone that won't create legislation by a swing of their gavel. Amy Barrett has a 15 year record on Originalism similar to Thomas and Gorsuch. Brett Kavanaugh's writings on the same topic are more recent and its surprising that a sophisticated campaign to promote his nomination are going on despite his lack of a record on textualism and originalism.

On Monday’s Mark Levin Show, the Supreme Court has done some horrific things that have led to horrific outcomes, and yet the Left wants you to believe the Court is better than the other branches of government. Sen Susan Collins says she would not support certain potential Supreme Court nominees because they have demonstrated a disrespect for the vital principle of stare decisis. She is an absolute radical on the issue. If Collins believes in stare decisis and legal precedent, does she believe in the precedent in the Dred Scott case or Plessy v Ferguson? They were abominations. We’ve had judicial precedent in slavery and segregation in the past that lasted longer than Roe v Wade. Activist Supreme Courts in the past have justified slavery, segregation, and racism, and rather than learn the painful lessons of the past we have several current Justices who are committed to the same kind of judicial activism. Also, it turns out Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn’t quite the girl from the Bronx that she says she is. If you’re a Marxist you need to be dishonest about your background and pretend you’re like the commoners. Later, Mark speaks with Harris Faulkner about her new book, 9 Rules of Engagement: A Military Brat’s Guide to Life and Success.

On Friday's Mark Levin Show, as the 4th of the July drawers closer we take a look at the article V Convention of States to prevent the instrumentalities of the federal government like the Supreme Court from reshaping the Constitution. The federal government is a creation of the states and hence the states should have control, not a countercultural ideology that opposes the founders' intent in our Constitution. Then, we step back and look at the state of our government today and how it has become completely unmoored from the people through its massive size, taxes and issues with the separation of powers. What’s happened here is that a poison has been let loose into the body politic a poison known as collectivism or statism. Hegelism and Marxism have evolved today into progressivism and it completely and utterly rejects Americanism as our Founders intended. Kamala Harris, Chuck Schumer and others might not recognize that their thinking is Hegelian, but Bernie Sanders knows. Our Founding Fathers reject everything with the philosophy that is progressivism, this movement seeks to alter the history of the Founding. Today’s progressives look to radicals like Karl Marx and Georg Hegel for their ideological guidance. This is one of the reasons Bernie Sanders will not debate Mark on any of his media platforms because Mark knows what he knows. He knows what Mark knows. If they sat down for a discussion Mark would thoroughly and completely expose him.

On Thursdays Mark Levin Show, Five people were murdered and one is in custody at a deadly shooting today in Annapolis Maryland at a local newspaper office, the Capital Gazette. Former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton blamed President Trump for the heightened political climate. There was no word from Bratton or Nicole Wallace from MSNBC when a Bernie Sanders supporter shot Rep Steve Scalise. Their hypocrisy is disgusting. Later, here’s why the left wants to pull the fire alarm: Because they cannot stop Trump’s Supreme Court nominee unless Republicans like Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski help them. Senate Democrats will not support a constitutionalist nominee. They claim to stand for you, when in fact they try to confer as much power and authority as they possibly can on the Court. This is how they intend to make their gains, ultimately, in this country and they’ve been very successful. Democrats don’t believe in the Constitution, except to the extent they can advance their agenda. Finally, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray testified in front of Congress today, responding to the actions of politically biased FBI Agent Peter Strzok and his alleged attempts to tank the Trump campaign and presidency and the DOJ's delay in presenting subpoenaed documents.

On Wednesday’s Mark Levin show, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has announced that he is retiring and the pseudo media is freaking out because they fear they court will move further to the right. We must not allow the left to define the terms of this debate. The media asks would you rather have a right winger or a progressivive on the court? But this is a battle between constitutionalsists and progressives or statists. Democratic politicians will demand that the prospective justice agree with their political agenda, rather than side with the text of the Constitution itself. Constitutionalists seek to have a Supreme Court that shows fidelity to the Constitution and if these justices do not show fidelity to the Constitution, then why should we show fidelity to their opinions? Afterwards, statists use the instrumentalities of our republic against us, they want to use SCOTUS to change our country and advance their utopian ideals to destroy our society. They will not surrender until the last person has lost all of their liberties and they rewrite our constitution because they are a mix of anarchists and iron-fist proponents of government. This balkanization divides us and pumps energy into their agenda when they rip down our Constitutional republic. Religion is a problem for the progressive statists because they want to replace religion with government. We are defending our institutions from fundamental transformation. Later, the election in NY where Rep Joe Crowley lost to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wasn’t a political earthquake like the media is claiming. Ocasio-Cortez won because she got out her Hispanic base. Crowley lost because of demographics.

On Tuesday's Mark Levin Show, The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold President Trump’s “travel ban” executive order was constitutional. Trump had every right to list the countries in the immigration pause for national security purposes. And the Muslim countries with the largest Muslim populations weren’t even on the list. It left out 92 percent of the world’s Muslims, which rejects the Left’s arguments about racism. Trump was right about the power of the presidency and about the constitution despite the attacks he endured for months. It’s unlikely that the media will apologize to him for such treatment. Then, Supreme court decision on pro-life crisis pregnancy centers free speech case. The left claims to defend free speech yet opposes today's decision. California mandates that these religiously affiliated crisis pregnancy centers prominently post information on how abortions could be obtained or face a fine. Pro-life groups opposed the law and won a victory today when the Supreme Court found that this violates the centers' rights to free speech. People of faith would have no rights if the left used their interpretation of the Constitution on each of these cases. To the left individual liberty is defiance. Later, protectionism redistributes income from the to the consumer to the government. These tariffs will eventually lead us to a recession. Ronald Reagan imposed tariffs sparingly but was no protectionist. Herbert Hoover turned a recession into a depression in part because of protectionism.

On Monday’s Mark Levin Show, Mark will be inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame and it’s all thanks to you. This program wouldn’t have the ratings it has without Levinites listing on AM, FM, satellite, the Mark Levin app, and podcast. This vote isn’t about Mark but about us, our principles, our values, and our beliefs. Also, President Obama and Jeh Johnson had detention centers and separated children from their illegal alien parents, yet nobody compared them to Hitler like what is being done to President Trump. Johnson has said that we can’t have catch and release, except that is exactly what Democrats want – utter and complete lawlessness. The media never attacked the Obama administration or demanded to see their detention centers, which proves this entire debate is a fraud. Later, driving up the cost of things like steel and aluminum hurts manufacturers, which hurts consumers and everyone else downstream. The price of production goes up, which causes the price of the product to go up, meaning you pay more. This is exactly why tariffs are a bad idea. Finally, San Francisco was once a beautiful city until left wing kooks got a hold of it, and now it’s filled with homeless camps. This is just another example of what happens when progressives have full control.