Mark Levin Podcast

On Friday’s Mark Levin show, In 1962, “The Image” by Daniel Boorstin introduced the notion of “pseudo-events”—events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order to be reported. This is relevant today because we are surrounded by the pseudo-media, the pseudo-reporters and their fake news. We live in world of progressive who tells us what the news is and decides what to omit. All this week the media have been focused on a pseudo-event – the immigration debate. There are much more horrific things going on in the world than this event. But this pseudo-event serves the purpose of the media and the democrats to advance their agenda. The media have inserted ideological progressivism into their news reporting. They create their own progressive reality and they push it out as news. Then, some of the photos used in the coverage of children at the border were actually from Obama-era detention centers--not recent. But that doesn’t matter, does it? Now the media is trashing all Trump voters for being bad guys and kidnapping kids. In fact, the Time Magazine cover portraying a little girl facing Trump is in fact of a girl that was not separated from her mother. Moreover her father claims that the mother took off with the little girl leaving other children behind to falsely claim asylum in order to gain entry to the us, suspecting that they'd be released after being processed. Later, the Supreme Court Ruled that states can charge sales tax on goods sold on the internet from other states. This is not “fair” and flies in the face of conservatism and capitalism. This disincentivizes doing business across state lines as it may require small business owners to file sales tax in 45 states. And tariffs lead to higher prices which will lead to a recession, because prices are being inflated artificially. George W. Bush tried this protectionist strategy and the US lost 200,000 jobs in 10 months. So let's stop the populist B.S.! Its un-American to effectively subsidize certain industries and not others. This "fairness" is destructive economically and threatens mobility.

On Thursday’s Mark Levin show, When you have the biggest political party in the country that insists on fundamentally transforming America, especially through the tools of immigration, and when you have a Republican Party that is shifty and unprincipled, is it too late? Is it too late to secure the border and to have a lawful immigration system? Rather than the Democrat party responding to the will of the people, the Democrat party has decided to change the people through immigration so they respond to the will of the Democrat party. And many Republicans are on board, because they buy into this notion that it’s humane to destroy your own country. Also, what does this mean for American children when the government advances open-ended immigration instead of assimilation? The Democrats make the case that family separation is akin to camps in Nazi Germany, despite the fact that children are always separated from their parents when their parents are arrested. Later, SCOTUS hands a court victory to the Trump Administration citing that the SEC infringed upon powers assigned to the president in the U.S. Constitution’s appointments clause regarding the appointments of certain federal posts. This echoes the argument made by Law Professor Calabresi and Mark about Special Counsel Mueller's appointment being unconstitutional based on that same precedent. Then, damning testimony from Michael Daniel former cyber-security chief under Obama testified that he was given a stand-down order regarding combating the Russian threat against the 2016 campaign. Finally, Conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer passed away today. He was a brilliant man that put a lot of effort into writing his columns. Mark really respected Krauthammer despite his critique of President Reagan during the 1980 campaign, and he never tried to sabotage Reagan and eventually embraced his presidency and philosophy.

On Wednesday's Mark Levin Show, In order to protect children, President Trump signed an executive order requiring illegal immigrant families to stay together despite unlawfully entering the U.S. The grotesque demagogues in the media and in the Democrat party insisted on this, but there are two problems 1) we have a court order in place saying you can't detain minors for less than 20 days and 2) this isn't enough for the left, they want open borders. The open-borders groups still won’t be satisfied and will demand that the administration effectively return to President Obama’s catch-and-release policy. This is their plot. This is the plan to eviscerate any notion of a border. The media, Hollywood, and the Democrats are all of the same mind set - they hate America. The President’s executive order will be challenged by the left, its ethnic front groups, and leftist ideologues like Jake Tapper and Rachel Maddow crying into her hands. But where were they when Barack Obama was doing the same thing? Trump and Jeff Sessions are dealing with left wing policies that are inhumane and the media never said a thing until now when Trump is in office. And there were no executive orders from Obama either! The media makes no mention of who is responsible for these children being at the border in the first place. Finally, China’s industrial policy seeks to steal the ‘crown jewels’ of American technology and intellectual property. This is why we can’t have free trade with China.

On Tuesday’s Mark Levin show, President Trump’s National Security Adviser John Bolton calls in to discuss the administration’s decision to leave the U.N. Human Rights Council. The UNHRC has been manipulated and used by human rights abusers against the United States and Israel. This decision effectively reverses the posture of the Obama administration, which re-entered the UNHRC following a U.S. departure under the Bush administration. Today we struck a small blow for America by getting out of this council and this is not the last that we'll hear of the President defending US sovereignty. Then, Paul Manafort is being held in solitary confinement for his own safety, after Judge Burman-Jackson revoked his bail following witness tampering allegations by Special Counsel Mueller. This escalation in his treatment is no doubt another attempt to pressure Manafort into cooperating with Mueller, who was originally arrested when agents with guns drawn ripped him from his home on process crimes. Meanwhile, the border issue is not a human rights issue, this is a United States issue. The left had a chance to fix this and did nothing. The media had a chance to report on this in the past and did nothing. Walter Mondale, Latino groups, and labor unions used to go to the border to protect America against cheaper illegal labor and now they’ve flipped. They claim to be wrapped in compassion yet call a baby a choice! Later, Conservative Review Editor Daniel Horowitz weighs in immigration. Chuck Schumer is a pathetic fraud who started this whole policy that separated families to begin with. There's something called sovereignty and we control who comes into our country, so if Trump wanted to completely shut this down he could. Finally, Derek Hunter calls is to discuss his new book Outrage, inc.:How the Liberal Mob ruined Science, Journalism and Hollywood.

On Monday's Mark Levin Show, The Democrats and the media want a one-party country. They don’t care about the children on the border. If they cared about the children they would’ve addressed this when Barack Obama was separating children from parents. Have you ever heard of a major political party that does not believe in securing the nation’s borders because it wants to continue to empower the party? The solution for this issue is, secure the southern border, put them on a bus and send them back home. But the media is stoking the fire, making the most outrageous statements. The media claims that they are advancing freedom of the press to promote an ideology and when the president attacks them by name, they claim he's attacking free speech. We don't need lectures from the lawless open-borders crowd on what kind of democracy we've become. Later, Dan Stein President of the Federation for American Immigration Reform calls the show to break down the facts behind the media's distortion of what's really going on at the border. Then, Rep Devin Nunes, Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee calls in to discuss today's senate hearings on the Inspector General’s report into Hillary's Clinton's email scandal. He says there’s no question that there is classified info in Comey memo and hat more evidence must exist at the DOJ. Nunes speculated that there was an abuse of power by the FBI and potentially a conspiracy and that a special counsel or a US Attorney from another District should investigate this now. Adding that it’s frustrating that Robert Mueller didn't start his collusion probe with the felony leak of a conversation between incoming National Security Advisor Gen. and the Russian Ambassador. Very few people knew about this call, so this would've caused the FBI to investigate themselves.

On Friday’s Mark Levin Show, It’s precious to see the Praetorian guard media trash President Trump every day when it’s the media that should be trashed. The Inspector General report exposed media outlets giving gifts to FBI agents in exchange for leaks, proving they are corrupt and do nothing to defend the freedom of the press. Meanwhile, James Comey was justifyably fired for his insubordinate, corrupt behavior, and should have been fired before Trump was elected. Also, there’s no discussion on TV that places the responsibility on the illegal alien parents, who are separated from their children while they are processed and detained. If they weren’t separated, the children would be detained in an adult facility with their parents. Illegal alien children aren’t put in dog cages; they’re housed, fed, and clothed on the taxpayer’s dime. This policy is suddenly inhumane despite existing for decades, including under the Obama administration. Later, President Trump ordered tariffs on $50 billion of particular Chinese imports because they’ve been stealing our technology and devaluing their currency. China is a major national security exception and Trump is absolutely right to place these tariffs. Trump isn’t getting into a trade war with China like the media is saying, but engaging the country that’s been in a trade war with the United States for a decade. Finally, Mark speaks with Selena Zito about her new book, The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics

On Thursday’s Mark Levin Show, The Inspector general report on the Hillary email investigation is out, and President Trump looks great as a result. James Comey was corrupt in the sense of objectivity and duty, and he’s been exposed by the IG report. Comey usurped the authority of Attorney General Susan Rice by deciding to not indict Hillary. The IG report shows Comey used his personal email for FBI business, so no wonder he was so soft on Hillary. Obama is ultimately responsible for all of it; he failed to stop both election interference by Russia and his own Federal government, and it didn’t bother him in the least. If Hillary Clinton won the 2016 election, we wouldn’t have learned about any of this and that is frightening. Also, the acting Attorney General of New York sued President Trump, his children, and his foundation for illegal conduct by the Trump Foundation that directly aided the Trump Campaign. The Justice system has become the plaything of the left, a political operation that abuses the rule of law, which is the definition of tyranny. Later, when an illegal alien is caught at the border with a child, the child is temporarily separated from the parent while their lawlessness is addressed. This was an Obama-era policy that continued under Trump, so why is it an issue now? The left would rather allow every illegal alien with a child into the country rather than protect our borders.

On Wednesday’s Mark Levin show, There is no North Korean deal. The democrats and the media are going on the attack before a deal has even been struck, all we have is a framework. It’s too early to tell what will come of Trump’s meeting with Kim Jong Un. We don’t know if it was the right thing or the wrong thing because we don’t have a ‘thing’ yet. Also, the left are hypocrites because they are criticizing Trump when they cheered on Barack Obama’s unconstitutional nuclear deal with Iran. The democrats and the media are complete frauds, hypocrites, and liars, don’t listen to them on North Korea! Joint military exercises in South Korea were a concession we wish Trump wouldn't have made. The President's cheery language towards Kim was odd considering North Korea's history of genocide and lies. The president deserves all the credit in the world for how he's handled North Korea, but we shouldn't kiss Kim’s butt. Later, Bernie Sanders says that his radical, extremist ideas are now mainstream American ideas. Unfortunately, Sanders is right and it’s the media like Wolf Blitzer at CNN who helped give voice to these ideas. Finally, Pete Hutchinson, President of Landmark Legal Foundation calls in to discuss the Supreme Court’s decision upholding Ohio’s law for keeping voting lists accurate.

On Tuesday's Mark Levin Show, Bill Cunningham fills in for Mark. President Trump was in his element at the historical North Korean summit. The hate-Trump Media hates this great success and won’t give him credit no matter what he does. This hatred is similar to that endured by President Ronald Reagan back in the 1980's. North Korea giving up nukes is a huge deal and Trump deserves credit for achieving this much so far. Also, Kim Jung Un was launching missiles and we were facing a war so how bad could it get? North Korea has no resources and still farms by hand but they have nukes and were threatening the US and the world. So what did we actually give away? Sanctions are in place, troops are still there. Pausing military exercises aren't much of a concession for denuclearization. Later, Barack Obama failed in his handling of American hostage Otto Warmbier in North Korea. Warmbier's family was told to not give interviews about his treatment while held captive by the North Koreans and he eventually died from his injuries - the Obama Administration did nothing to help here either. And if Hillary Clinton would have won the election would we have low unemployment, a market at 26,000, or conservative Justices? Hell no!

On Monday’s Mark Levin show, Tariffs are taxes imposed by our government on the American people. We're not taxing foreign countries - we're taxing Americans for buying foreign goods. These tariffs are crony capitalism because it benefits certain businesses. The vast majority of businesses don’t benefit from this subsidy taxation (tariffs). It’s the government that benefits from these tariffs, not the people. We still have plenty of steel and aluminum in the US and if we we're ever under attack, we'd do what we did in WWII and have our American assembly lines produce weapons. We don't need to buy steel from Canada for a strong national defense. Then, should we have an international minimum wage? Should we compel other countries to pay their workers more wages because they earn less than ours do? The bottom line is that products and services are imported to the US because we want and need them and American products and services are exported because we don't want or need them and other countries do. Finally, it makes no sense to include Russia in the G7 (or newly proposed G8). We can’t copy what the socialist countries do because we'll become poorer. As for the Summit, Trump has driven this whole thing in North Korea. Barack Obama wanted no part of it because it was too hard and he was busy selling us out to Iran and Cuba.

On Friday's Mark Levin Show, Brian Mudd of WJNO fills in for Mark. Where is the spike in suicides coming from? Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain get media attention when they commit suicide but the CDC is reporting a 30% increase in suicides since 1999. What happened around that time? With respect to our schools, the Department Of Education began in 1980 and the U.S at that time was second only to Australia in education, today we're 17th. The eradication of God and values in the classroom was around that same time. In 1999 Columbine shooting took us by surprise, and now we have a generation of people that have grown up with social media. Could it be morality or the lack thereof? Why aren't we looking at addressing the root of this evil? Consistent decline in outcomes in education since 1980. Later, Trump is at the G7 today. He blasted other countries for imposing high tariffs on the US for decades. Finally, after the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas school shooting; bump stocks are gone, their manufacturer is bankrupt, and the State of Florida has introduced new mental health safeguards. And interestingly, gun owners are more law abiding than non-gun owners. Guns don't kill people, gun-bans kill people.

On Thursday’ Mark Levin show, NRA TV host Dan Bongino fills in for Mark. When you are invited to the White House, you go to the White House. It doesn’t matter who the President is at the time, it’s about the Office of the Presidency and you should show respect. It’s an honor to be invited to the and attempting to embarrass President Trump by having the Eagles’ mascot and a few players show up is a total disgrace. We can respect the country, and the Office of the Presidency, while strongly disagreeing on the President’s policy initiatives. Also, Robert Mueller is demanding the personal cell phones of witnesses and Sean Hannity sarcastically said if they did what Hillary Clinton did and smashed their blackberries, it wouldn’t work out well for them. And he’s smeared by media matters and they media ran with it. Hannity was pointing out the different standard used by the Obama administration when investigating Hillary. Later, Trey Gowdy said that the Russia investigation wasn’t about Trump and his campaign, but James Comey said differently back in 2017. Gowdy also said that the FBI has done exactly what we wanted them to do in the Russia investigation. How could he say this with a straight face? We’re supposed to ignore the police state tactics?

On Wednesday's Mark Levin Show, President Trump had even more reason to fire former FBI Director James Comey than the public originally realized. There was a leak to ABC News about a draft Inspector General’s report that found Comey repeatedly defied authority during his tenure at the helm of the bureau. This underscores the fact that Comey was a very bad employee and there were many reasons to fire him. Later, the Federal government has become unmoored from the constitution and is corrupt. We're looking at an all-powerful central government and that can lead to a an all-powerful presidency if gone unchecked. Tyranny knows no logic! That's why we need to be thankful that Trump scrapped the Iran deal. President Obama was so desperate to prop up the Iranian regime that they circumvented their own deal to give Iran cash since their currency was devalued. Finally, Social Security and Medicare are headed for broke and Bernie Sander's socialist delusions won't rescue America from this. Both the left and the right have created this complete and utter disaster for our grandchildren. They raise trillions in taxes and yet still need to dip into trust funds. Our government spending is out of control. It is they who will the destroy the wealth they create, the greatest economic system on the face of the earth and our beloved republic.

On Tuesday's Mark Levin Show, The Philadelphia Eagles disrespect the country by attempting to sabotage the White House's celebratory visit with massive no-shows to insult President Trump. Trump in turn canceled their visit. The Eagles handling of the team’s White House visit a complete setup by their management. The National Anthem is symbolic of loving our country and failing to observe it is an attack on "We The People". This is not about social injustice, it’s about people who love this country and have put their life on the line for it. The problem with these players is that they’ve gone Hollywood and are protected by a union so now they sound like elitists. If they want to keep protesting during the National Anthem then they can take their union, their football and shove it where the sun don’t shine! Then, some in media catch up to Professor Calabresi's analysis on our program that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's appointment is unconstitutional, not all special counsels, just Mueller's because of his broad scope and position as a principal officer under Article II of the Constitution. Many have missed this point or ignored it. Special prosecutor is determined by the mandate of the appointment, in Trump's case the mandate mentions no violations of law or individuals, and lacks oversight so its not fact-determinative. Trump is not above the law, it's Mr. Mueller that is above the law.

On Monday’s Mark Levin show, Rudy Giuliani said that President Trump has no intention of pardoning himself but he does have the power to do so. The left has determined that Trump Constitutionally can’t pardon himself – the same leftists that despise the Constitution. But they have no constitutional background and can’t point to a single thing at the Constitutional Convention or any of the ratification conventions to support this. Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution says the power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment, is vested in the president. That includes federal criminal acts or possible federal criminal acts. The Constitution does not say the president cannot pardon himself, and the subject never came up in the framer’s notes. To claim that the president cannot pardon himself is rewriting Article II, Section 2. Also, the mainstream media isn’t talking about the Supreme Court ruling protecting religious liberty, but rather how a gay couple got denied from having a same-sex wedding cake baked. The couple knew the baker was an evangelical Christian and targeted him to force their agenda. Later, voting for the 2018 National Radio Hall of Fame inductees is live! Be sure to visit www.radiovote.com or text “500” to 96000 to vote for Mark!