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Welcome. 02:15 And I want to thank Brian Mudd for sitting in Friday. He's always great. It was Rosh Hashanah the first night. 02:23 And I want to thank all of you for being patient with me. 02:30 But it gives me time to thank As I sit there and watch during services with our great Chabad Rabbi Chaim Cohen. Gives me time to think over the weekend. 02:42 Clear out my head and there's a lot I want us to talk about. 02:47 But I want to go a little bit deeper with you because that's typically why we're here, is it not? 02:54 You hear me talk about the Islamists flooding our country and the damage that they are doing and going to do. 03:01 You've heard me talk about the Marxists. I did my show Friday on that, excuse me, Sunday, my opening on that on Fox. 03:13 But I want you to know about your own founding of this nation, the United States of America. 03:21 The Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Independence was the most concise, formal statement of what this new nation would stand for. 03:32 Which is exactly why every left-wing president has attacked it. 03:36 It's been attacked by Woodrow Wilson, as an example. It was attacked by Franklin Roosevelt. 03:42 It was attacked by Barack Obama. 03:45 They take out relevant parts. They read it by editing it. 03:49 They're particularly upset with this sentence. I want you to listen. I consider this probably the most important sentence in the Declaration. There are many important sentences. 04:02 We hold these truths to be self-evident. 04:06 That all men are created equal. 04:09 That they are endowed by their creator. That's the part they hate. With certain unalienable rights. 04:16 That among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Endowed by their creator. 04:24 This was the first time. Ever. 04:28 Ever. 04:30 That a nation was created... 04:33 based on the Judeo-Christian values, and of course importantly, enlightenment principles too. Now the enlightenment was basically the 1700s into the 1800s, but I'm talking about Judeo-Christian principles and the fusion of the enlightenment principles. 04:55 because the framers clearly did not intend to create founders, that is, a theocracy. They rejected that to a man. 05:05 But you don't have to create a theocracy. 05:09 That's not their purpose, which is why they also embraced John Locke, who, by the way, was a devout Christian, and he prayed to God, but he was one of the leading Enlightenment scholars and writers out of Britain, almost cost him his life, which many people, including me, consider very, very important. 05:35 Now, I just want to make a couple of points to you because I think all of this is, again, very, very important. 05:41 And I want to get into it a little bit. I'm not going to spend the whole show on it, obviously. 05:50 In other words, the essential eternal truths that are God's. 06:15 A decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires they should declare the causes which impel them to separate. 06:22 This is profound. 06:25 This was a, not just a political rebellion, but fundamentally a spiritual and moral rebellion against what was taking place. 06:36 Again, universal moral and eternal truths that undergird just governments. 06:44 Just governments. 06:47 Now, you should know, and there have been books written about this too, that as it has been explained, the American Republic was born out of language and beliefs from what they called the Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament. 07:12 Deuteronomy was mentioned more often than any book that was ever cited. 07:21 Spiritual and scriptural passages from Deuteronomy were mentioned more than any other book or source, period. 07:33 In speeches, in writings, in pamphlets, the language from the Hebrew Bible stretching back to the Puritan period, founded the Bay Colony, more than 100 years earlier, was used over and over and over again by your founders, by John Adams, by George Washington, by Thomas Jefferson, by Benjamin Franklin, and by James Madison and others. 08:08 And others. 08:11 Now, also... 08:14 Christian moral concepts were used in their public speeches and references to Jesus, also in private letters and political literature. 08:26 Frequently. 08:29 Now, the founders of your country didn't all agree... 08:38 on how to exercise their Christian faith they came from different denominations which is understandable and at times they got into heated arguments about it but when they came together they understood that this wasn't about one denomination or another this was about a unity of principles a unity of moral principles and governing principles So the Declaration adopts essentially Judeo-Christian values. 09:15 And it adopts the thinking processes and arguments that were in the quote-unquote Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament, as Christians call it, the Torah, as Jews call it. 09:28 And so there was this significant overlap between Judaism and Christianity. 09:36 in the founding of the nation. This is why we talk about Judeo-Christian values. 09:43 But the Declaration also adopts overlapping philosophical principles developed during the Enlightenment, the late 17th, late 18th century, some argue it's into the 19th century, doesn't really matter. 09:57 Now the philosopher who had the most impact on your founders was John Locke. 10:03 during the revolutionary period, Montesquieu during the constitutional period, but I want to focus on the revolutionary period. 10:13 As I just told you, he was a devout Christian who believed in God, who prayed to God, but he also believed in science and reason and experience and all these other things that were so important. 10:29 to distance themselves from the notion of a society built on a king, who at the time was viewed as godly, godly, who had godly powers. 10:44 Locke said, no, that's not the case. 10:47 That's not true. 10:51 His impact was enormous. 10:54 His impact was enormous. 10:59 particularly on our founders, and particularly on Thomas Jefferson, as he was the first rafter of the Declaration. And you can see both the Hebrew slash Christian influence in the Declaration, plus the Enlightenment. 11:16 Plus the Enlightenment. 11:18 Which talked about reason. 11:22 Which talked about right reason. In other words, you can reason stupid things, you can reason... 11:28 and be evil. But right reason is the proper way to reason and to think things through. 11:36 To come up with the correct outcome. 11:42 And so the enlightenment was absolutely crucial. 11:49 And John Locke was absolutely crucial. 11:54 As he wrote about the the human mind, and he wrote about human interaction, and he wrote about treatises on government. 12:03 And when you go back and read him, and if you wish, you don't need to, Emeritopia, those of you who have it, it's chapter, I think it's chapter two, I'm doing this by memory. 12:13 It's part two, I think, actually. 12:17 He embraced his faith. 12:24 But he does not see any conflict between reason and science and faith. 12:31 And neither did the founders of the country. 12:36 Neither did the founders of the country. 12:39 They didn't either. 12:41 So what's the point of all this? 12:44 Listen, this is important. 12:47 The point of all this is... 12:52 When you look at Islamist countries, they do create a fundamentalist theology, and they do not embrace the Enlightenment. 13:05 When you look at countries, when you look at Israel, a Jewish country, or you look at the other countries, many of them in the world, not all of them, who are majority Christian. Our country is majority Christian, but we embrace the Judeo-Christian belief system. Really, every country that's majority Christian embraces the Judeo-Christian belief system, because without the Judeo, there isn't the Christian. It's that simple. 13:34 That said, you will notice tolerance, Diversity, I'm not talking about political or racial diversity, I'm talking about diversity of thinking and beliefs. 13:49 Knowledge, reasoning is all part of the founder's milieu, if you will. 13:58 It's not the case with the Islamists. 14:02 Now, some of you listening might say, hey, look, I don't buy this Jewish-Christian stuff. I'm an atheist. I'm an agnostic. Or I don't know what the hell's going on, and I don't choose to think about it too much. You can do whatever you want. 14:15 That's perfectly fine. We allow that in this country, where they do not allow it in Islamist countries. 14:22 But we allow that in this country, and that's the point. 14:26 Because this nation was founded on Judeo-Christian principles and Islamism, enlightenment principles you don't have to believe anything but thanks to what we'll call the Hebrew Bible and thanks to the Christian majority and thanks to the thinking and writing of the enlightenment these things fuse together you have a country that allows you to be what you want and to think what you want In Islamist countries, or Marxist countries for that matter, that's not the case. 15:08 They reject the entire thinking process in the Declaration of Independence, the references, of course, to the Hebrew Bible or Christianity, of course, and to the Enlightenment, which they reject completely incomprehensibly, as do the Marxists. 15:29 And this is why I wrote, I noticed I wrote it years ago, and Charlie was an adherent of my books. We would talk about the books, about the incompatibility of Marxism with Americanism and Islamism with Americanism. 15:49 Other incompatibility. 15:52 Because they do not embrace Marxism. 15:56 natural law, natural rights, eternal rights, they do not embrace any of it. 16:05 And the brilliant former chief rabbi of Britain, Orthodox, Sachs, he made the point that Judaism and Christianity do not contend that people who share different faiths cannot pray to God Because they can. 16:29 Islam says they cannot. 16:32 Islam, the Islamists say either you are a Muslim. 16:39 Only then can you pray to God. Otherwise, you're a non-believer and you can't. 16:45 And there is no God for you. We'll be right back. 17:04 The men who met the St. Continental Congress in Philadelphia and came up with the Declaration of Independence, every single one of them was Christian. 17:15 Two were deists, but they were still Christians. They weren't atheists, they weren't agnostics. 17:23 Every single man that met again in the same building... 17:27 Independence Hall in Philadelphia, many years later, after the Revolutionary War, to debate and adopt a constitution, every single one, was Christian. 17:43 Christian. 17:47 It's because of the Hebrew Bible. It's because of the Christian majority. It's because of the fusion of these two Abrahamic faiths and the fusion of the Enlightenment, the belief system against kings, against dictators and empires and so forth that we have the most fantastic country on the face of the earth. Never before was such a nation established. 18:22 Mark Levin, radio's principled patriot. Call in now at 877-381-3811. 18:33 When you consider just what I said ever so briefly, barely touching the surface, you need to ask yourselves, Well, how can Islamists, I'm not talking about garden variety Muslims and Christians, I'm talking about Islamists of the type that I've played for you, these imams and these other radicals, the Hassan Pukers, the care people, and on and on down the list, how can they assimilate into our country? 19:10 The Islamists, they can't. 19:14 By definition, you can't be an Islamist Again, I'm not talking about Muslims who've gone through a Reformation mindset. And so I'm not talking about that like the rest of us. I'm talking about Islamists. 19:32 And I get criticized for making the distinction, but I don't much care. I think for myself. I'm not worried about who criticizes and who doesn't. 19:40 But the point is, they'll never assimilate. Number one. 19:48 the notion of assimilation would mean that they have to surrender, number two, their ideology. 19:57 But they're not going to surrender their ideology. They insist on conquering us. 20:04 Now, we don't insist that they honor one faith or another, or that they have any faith. 20:14 We don't care what their faith is, except... 20:18 When their faith is a political ideology, in my view, more than a faith. 20:23 And that's what Islamists are all about. 20:28 And so they come into this country with the intention of destroying it. 20:34 I think it's very important to remember what our country is and why it was founded in the belief system. 20:42 And how it came to be and where it came to be. 20:48 The truth is that Jews and Christians must stand together, even if nobody else stands with us. 21:02 Even if nobody else stands with us. How can we not? 21:09 Christianity emerged from Judaism. 21:13 Its tenets are based on on the words of the prophets from the Old Testament, as Bill Bennett has pointed out. 21:23 God, our God, produced Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, three of the most important Jews, obviously, in the Bible. 21:36 The Ten Commandments were given to Moses. 21:42 Very, very important. 21:46 The principles that the founders embraced, the principles embraced by Jews and Christians alike, but they were principles that were developed first through Judaism, carried forward by Christians and Christianity, which to me is so crucial and so important. 22:14 The reason why America is so beneficent, so tolerant, is because of the majority population, which is Christian. 22:25 We Jews make up 2%. 22:30 And back at the founding, there were anywhere from 2 to 2.2 million colonists, 1,000 Jews, give or take. 22:42 even though several had very prominent roles in the founding. 22:53 But my point is, you'll hear people say, well, it was a replacement theory. That's not the way your founders thought about this. 23:02 Madison spoke about it. Adams at great length wrote about it and spoke about it. Jefferson wrote. 23:08 significantly, Washington, Addison, George Mason, Patrick Henry, Sam Adams, John Adams, as I mentioned. 23:23 They viewed the world the way I do and you do, the Judeo-Christian belief system. Now, they didn't call it that, necessarily. 23:36 But they were constantly talking about the Hebrews and the Hebrew Bibles and the Hebrew Scripture. Matter of fact, Madison went to what is today Princeton University. It was a Christian college, a small college. When he went there, about 300 people. 23:54 And he stayed an extra year. 23:57 He also graduated early, but he stayed an extra year. 24:03 And much of that year was spent studying what? 24:07 the Hebrew Bible. 24:11 They all studied the Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament, the Torah, if you will. 24:16 And they all quoted it. 24:18 They all spoke of it. 24:23 And so it is this connection when the Christians are meeting all Christians at the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia. 24:38 and at the Constitutional Convention many years later in Philadelphia. 24:43 This belief system. 24:47 So important. 24:49 And yet, they didn't create a theology. 24:53 Excuse me, a theocracy. They didn't create a theocracy, did they? 24:59 In fact, when they got down to writing the Constitution, and then later the Bill of Rights, that First Amendment makes it clear... 25:08 You're not going to discriminate against any faith, but you don't need to worship any faith or be governed by any faith either. This was radical. 25:20 This was radical. 25:22 The Christians could have easily said something different, couldn't they? 25:27 They could have easily said, no, no, this is the faith. You honor the faith. 25:34 They didn't say that. 25:37 The Islamists say it. 25:40 The Christians did not say that. 25:44 They did not say that. 25:50 Obviously, the Jews and the Christians and everybody else involved in the founding believed in God. 25:59 And that includes Franklin and Jefferson, who were deists, but different types of deists too, but they believed in Jesus, both of those men. 26:08 They did, and they prayed to Jesus. 26:11 and to God. 26:14 But they didn't belong to any particular sect. They raised questions, not about Christianity and God, but about prayer, and if God actually gets involved in every decision that everybody made, that sort of thing, and I don't need to get into that either. 26:32 And I don't. And I can assure you that if the men meeting in either of those times at that place in Philadelphia had been Islamists, America would be a totally different country, wouldn't it? 26:50 Wouldn't it? The answer is yes, of course. 26:54 Or Marxists, yes, of course. It would be totally different. First of all, they wouldn't have such a meeting. 26:59 There wouldn't have been a Second Continental Congress. There wouldn't have been a Constitutional Convention. There wouldn't have been a Constitution of any kind. 27:08 The Declaration of Independence was a declaration stating the belief system of the colonists. 27:20 That's what it was. 27:23 The belief system of the colonists. 27:29 Now, to the woke right neo-fascists who are out there who say it was really a replacement theory and the Christians replaced the Jews, that's not what your founders said. 27:45 They were very respectful toward the Jews and the Jews were very respectful toward the Christians. 27:53 They got along beautifully. Beautifully. Beautifully. 27:58 They're in the same fight. 28:03 The same battle with the King of England, the most powerful military force on the face of the earth. 28:10 Same battle. 28:14 It's important to remember that when the anti-Semites chime in and start attacking. 28:22 Pastor John Hagee, I told you, one of my best friends, One of my best friends. 28:33 He will tell you exactly what I told you. He will tell you exactly what Bill Bennett wrote. He will tell you exactly what most of your pastors and priests and so forth have told you. 28:42 The interconnection between the two. So when you get a Tucker Carlson or somebody like that who are insisting that one has nothing to do to the other and one replaced the other, these are bigots. 28:57 Ignoramists. 29:00 We're pushing an agenda. 29:03 We're pushing an agenda. 29:10 And I can tell you most of the Jews I know are very thankful that this is a majority Christian country. 29:16 Very thankful. 29:20 Because look what's been created. 29:25 Look what's been created. 29:28 And so I tell you as a Jew I want to defend this country with our fellow Christians and all others who believe in the principles set forth in the Declaration. 29:43 And the purpose of the Constitution was what? 29:47 Was to uphold and ensure that those principles, principles that undergird the civil society, that undergird the culture, will be protected and promoted. 30:04 And it is these strengths, these beliefs, that when you let people by the millions into this country, you have a completely different agenda, and you seek to use our processes to destroy us. 30:27 the consent of the government, limited government, separation of powers, free speech, freedom of religion, freedom of association, who seek to use these Judeo-Christian enlightenment principles that they've been taught to reject, but they've been taught to use and exploit against us. 30:55 Well, then we're not going to survive. 30:59 If we continue down this road. 31:06 And we have the weakest ruling class. 31:11 But for the president. 31:13 The weakest ruling class. 31:15 Maybe in American history. 31:18 That talks a lot. 31:20 Some of them wring their hands a lot. 31:23 But they don't do a damn thing. 31:25 Not a damn thing. 31:28 In fact, you've got local zoning boards and local governments and states, red states even, that continue to give support in one form or another to those who would destroy us in these segregated fortresses that they are building all over the country. 31:53 And it's not as if we don't have noticed all throughout Europe that It's not as if millions of people have noticed as I play these clips one after another after another after another. 32:06 And it's Congress wants to regulate AI and data centers and we're chasing the Epstein files and all the rest. 32:16 You know that old line about Rome burns while Nero fiddles? 32:27 America burns while our so-called ruling class fiddles. 32:35 Distracts us with shiny objects. I'll be right back. 32:40 Mr. Producer, did the Eagles win last night? 32:58 Last evening, just asking. 33:02 But the Giants, you're not a Giants guy. You're New York. 33:08 The Steelers won. 33:10 But I have to tell you, the Giants look pretty good. 33:13 They look pretty good. And Washington looked all over the map. Philly looked a little bit all over the map. We'll see how it goes. Because neither of them really fielded teams during the preseason. 33:26 But it's good to have football back. It's not good to have it up against Life, Liberty, and Levin, I can tell you that. That's why I tell you, set your DVRs, your recording devices, or what have you. 33:39 Because these Life, Liberty, and Levin shows are going to be leading right up to the midterms and beyond the midterms. So we're going to be up against football all season. So I hope you'll at least record the program. I hope you'll watch it live, actually. 33:55 Oh, yeah. That's a fast hour. 33:58 We've got two more. 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Again, we're barely touching the service, but enough, I think. 35:08 to intrigue some interest, or to be intriguing, I should say, and to create some interest. 35:17 Now, several, not all, but several of the individuals that were at the Constitutional Convention had been very important at the Second Continental Congress where the Declaration was debated, written, debated, and adopted, but Some who weren't there were also very crucial in our Revolutionary War and our founding, who did go to the Constitutional Convention as well. 35:51 The Judeo-Christian Enlightenment fusion and belief system carried forward to the Constitutional Convention. 36:01 It was the same thinking, the same belief system. 36:08 And I would argue to you that the men who were at the Second Continental Congress and the men who were at the Constitutional Convention were the most selfless men to ever, to ever be in charge of a nation. 36:34 Because they never empowered themselves. 36:40 and they held tightly onto this belief system, to this belief system, to one that is concisely but crucially laid out in the Declaration of Independence. 36:57 It was the same mindset. 36:59 And so when they debated for over five months in a very hot and humid Philadelphia, this new constitution that they were developing, They applied the same principles. 37:18 Remember, part of the revolution was about, if not the core part of the revolution, the consent of the governed. 37:29 The consent of the governed. That these men were not the subjects of a king. 37:40 They were the children of God. 37:46 So they brought that same belief system, those same principles to the Constitutional Convention. 37:55 And, same with the Enlightenment. But this time, the man they cited the most was not Locke, but Montesquieu. 38:09 A man of the Enlightenment as well. 38:14 Montesquieu wrote a very significant book, and he was not the first to talk about separation of powers, but he was the most detailed, and he is referenced in the Federalist Papers more than once. He talks about the executive, the judicial, and the legislative branches. 38:44 But he elaborates further on this issue of separation of powers, as we've talked about before in my book on power, power-checking power. 38:53 If the men at the Constitutional Convention were driven by their own egos and so forth, they could have easily set up a sort of an oligopoly or a dictatorship, but they didn't. 39:14 an oligarchy, I should say, or a dictatorship, but they didn't. 39:19 They bent over backwards to do the opposite. 39:24 Three branches of government, delineated authority, federalism later, but it was understood at the time, and whatever powers were not mentioned in the Constitution would belong to the states and the people thereof. 39:41 I've always contended the Ninth Amendment was basically a reference to the Declaration. 39:50 And so the debates at the Continental Convention were within a realm, within a, not in a box, but the debating over not what the principles are or should be, but how they should be applied. 40:10 See what I'm saying, Mr. Producer? 40:15 And they always were mindful of a king because they spent years fighting the king and many of them lost everything. 40:24 But they were also mindful of what they called factions or the mob. 40:30 A mobocracy. 40:35 That many spoke about, including Aristotle. Aristotle. 40:38 They didn't want an Athenian-type government, which was more democracy than republic. 40:46 They didn't want a Roman Empire. 40:49 The Roman Republic lasted about 400 years and then turned into an empire for another 500, 600 years and collapsed, as you know. A thousand years, though. 41:00 They created something brand new, something that had never been done before. 41:06 They created this office of the president. 41:10 They created a bicameral Congress. 41:16 They created this independent judiciary. 41:22 They created a voting system to ensure that all people from every corner of the country, no matter whether the state was small or large, the population in the state was small or large, whether it was more urban than rural and Southern and Northern and New England, everybody would have a say. The Electoral College. 41:45 They didn't want a pure democracy because they knew that that meant that basically the cities would control and they'd never get such a constitution approved, but they never tried. They didn't believe in that. 42:00 They wanted a United States. 42:02 They wanted a United people. 42:05 whether you were a farmer or a merchant. 42:11 So they come up with this magnificent Constitution. 42:17 And again, they apply the notion of their Judeo-Christian values and belief systems, as well as the Enlightenment. 42:27 As well as the Enlightenment. 42:30 And there is an overlay, if you will, among them, a significant overlay. 42:41 And that carried through the Constitution, the Convention. 42:48 So when you have people attacking the Constitution, when you have people saying that they want to eliminate the Electoral College, that means they want to eliminate two-thirds of the states from having anything to say in our government and the people who live there. 43:06 When they say they want to eliminate the Senate, that means they want to get rid of the bicameral Congress. They only want a House of Representatives, again, with the goal of being the cities controlling the rest of the country. They're Democrat. They're hard left. 43:25 And with the ushering in of illegal aliens who have children, and now we have birthright citizenship constitutionalized, you can see the plans. 43:37 It's diabolical, but it is what it is. 43:41 You can see the desire to pack the Supreme Court. If you pack the court, you've destroyed its independence. You've turned it into a Democrat Party Politburo. 43:49 And so if you litigate cases and you bring it to the court, you lose. 43:55 Unless you're talking the Democrat Party line. 44:00 So these are all rejections of the Judeo-Christian Enlightenment belief systems. 44:11 And that's why it's more Marxist than anything else. 44:18 And it has been adopted in many respects, in significant degree, by the Democrat Party itself. 44:27 Before we ever heard of this Democratic Socialists of America, this outright communist outfit, This is why I've talked about the Democrat Party Hates America. There's one book, An American Marxism, which also reveals them as embracing the early Marxists. I've done that in, I think, three books now, in different ways, in different contexts. 44:57 So these attacks on the Constitution are an attack on your Judeo-Christian belief system. They're an attack on the Enlightenment. 45:05 They're an attack on the greatest constitutional republic mankind has ever, ever established. 45:13 And so the Marxists are attacking it within the Democrat Party, and then you can see the alliance with the Islamists because they reject it all as well. 45:22 And so you have this. I hate when they say the red-green alliance because 90% of the American people don't know what they're talking about. You do, but most don't. You've got to use the language. 45:32 let's not talk about colors like we're walking into a paint store. 45:36 Sherwin-Williams, hey, the red, green, no. 45:40 It's the Marxists and the Islamists. And I've also talked about the woke, right, neo-fascists who do exist, but thanks to you and me, we've kind of put them in the corner, at least for now. 45:58 So the entire constitutional construct of has as its foundation the Declaration, which has as its foundation the Judeo-Christian Enlightenment belief systems and principles. 46:18 So the attack on the Constitution is an attack on the founding, it's an attack on the Declaration, it's an attack on the Judeo-Christian belief and principle system, as well as the Enlightenment. That's what it is. 46:34 i'll be right back 46:44 I'm doing a quick customer satisfaction survey. Two questions. One, is your current wireless provider giving you five-star service? Two, are you paying more than $34.99 a month for unlimited data? Now, if you think you're paying too much for subpar service, you should really switch to my company, Pure Talk. In a recent industry survey... 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Sound familiar? 48:14 of which all individuals are entitled and which provide the moral condition for the civil society. 48:23 He says, the state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges everyone and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind who will consult it, that being all equal and independent, all equal and independent, No one ought to harm another in his life, health, or liberty. Does that sound like it's almost directly with the Declaration, Mr. Producer? 48:58 For men being all the workmanship of one omnipotent and infinitely wise maker, God, all the servants of one sovereign master sent into the world by his order and about his business. They are his property, whose workmanship they are made to last during his, no one another's pleasure. 49:20 The being furnished with like faculties, sharing all in one community of nature, there cannot be supposed any such subordination among us, in other words, all people are equal because you're God's creatures and creations, that may authorize us to destroy one another. 49:38 as if we were made for one another's uses, as the inferior ranks of creatures are for ours. 49:44 Everyone, as he is bound to preserve himself, and not to quit his station willfully, so by the like reason, when his own preservation comes not in competition, or to be as much as he can to preserve the rest of mankind, and not unless it be to do justice on an offender, and so forth. 50:06 So Locke observed that men generally get along with each other in the state of nature for their own sake and the sake of the community, although it's certainly not perfect. 50:15 It's certainly not. 50:18 He also argues for consensual government. 50:22 He says, consensual government with just laws and partially enforced, this is what's meant by equality. 50:32 In which the liberty and rights of the individual are respected, thereby rejecting the utopian centralized model where the philosopher king, prince, sovereign, or temporary despot rules over the masses and shapes the individual against his will. Here's what he wrote. 50:49 The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth. 50:54 and not like kings, of course, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law of nature of his rule, the law of nature. 51:08 Nature's law, remember what Jefferson wrote in the draft? 51:12 The liberty of man in society is to be under no legislative power, but that established by consent in the commonwealth, the consent of the governed. 51:22 nor under the domination of any will, restraint of any law, but what that legislature shall enact according to the trust put in it. 51:32 Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and that made by the legislative power erected in it. A liberty to follow my own will in all things, where the rule prescribes not, not to be subject to the inconstant uncertain, unknown, arbitrary will of another man, as freedom of nature is to be under no restraint but the law of nature. 52:02 The law of nature. The law of nature is the law of God. 52:08 That's what he's saying. 52:12 And it goes on. 52:14 These are remarkable things by remarkable men. 52:19 He explained that He even talks about effectively what's capitalism and so forth. 52:28 He even talks about representative government. He says even representative government could take on a tyrannical character. 52:39 It is a mistake to think that fault is proper only to monarchies. 52:44 Other forms of government are liable to it as well. 52:48 for whatever the power that is put in any hands for the government of the people and the preservation of their properties is applied to other ends and made use of to impoverish, harass or subdue them to the arbitrary and irregular commands of those that have it. 53:04 Should government turn tyrannical, he said, discarding its original purpose, it ceases to be legitimate. 53:11 Again, effectively that is in the Declaration of of independence too, the right to discard your government, not for easier, simple purposes and reasons, but for others. 53:26 And so again, that's quite important. 53:31 We'll be right back. 53:35 I'm doing a quick customer satisfaction survey. Two questions. One, is your current wireless provider giving you five-star service? 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I just thought some of this might interest you as we go through the... Well, because I think we need to know it, quite frankly, because we're up against a terrible enemy. 55:00 It's an enemy within our borders. It's an enemy that's taking over our culture and taking over our politics that threatens us. You don't have to be in the majority to succeed at a revolution. 55:12 In fact, none of the big revolutions I can think of were majority revolutions. They were about a third to 40% of the population. 55:19 Our revolution was about 40% of the population. 55:23 And about 30% was against it, and the other 30% didn't know what it wanted to do. 55:31 And the Russian Revolution was about 25% of the population. The Chinese Revolution was probably 20% of the population. The revolution in Cuba was basically 60 guerrillas in Castro. That's it. You look at all these revolutions, it's not 60%, 80% of the people. And by the way, that's what it is in Iran. 55:58 80% of the people would love nothing more than to overthrow that government. 56:02 I just wish we would help them. I really do. And bring this to an end. 56:06 And bring it to an end the right way. At least that's my view. 56:11 The president has really jumped in, and I'm proud of him, on this issue of AI and data centers. Now, he's taken the lead. He took the lead earlier. 56:20 He understands this is the next, the fourth industrial revolution, and it could just create an unbelievable number of top-paying jobs, whether you're blue-collar, white-collar, or no-collar. 56:32 So many opportunities here for local governments and state governments. 56:38 and cures, the types of which we'd never even imagined before, businesses that will be created that we can't even imagine today. 56:48 It's a big deal, and yet we have people, people who are telling you that it's a threat, that it'll destroy us, and so forth and so on. We've heard this before. This is a pathology of the left, but some of the woke right types and pseudo-conservatives are joining in as well. 57:04 Excuse me. 57:06 And I would just tell you, please don't fall for this. We've all fallen for so much of this nonsense in the past. The six-foot rule and the mask rule and LR on apples and DDT in the 1960s and all the rest. Don't fall for this. Climate change, global warming, global cooling. 57:25 And it's a whole pathology that tries to create fear, tries to get people to think emotionally, not logically, not rationally. 57:37 And I'm just telling you it's a disaster. Here's the president of the United States in Ireland yesterday on the subject. Cut one, go. 57:43 President Trump, we've seen a lot of concerning reports about AI. Should the AI industry slow down or be more regulated? 57:50 Well, I say this. Look, we're leading China in AI. We're the most sophisticated country in the world. And frankly, I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI wins. 58:00 and we can quit guardrails, we can do this and that, but I think you have a lot of negative forces that are bringing it up that shouldn't be bringing it up, and they're bringing up things that won't happen. But whoever wins with AI wins. It's an expression that I came up with. 58:16 And he's right. 58:18 The Cummins Chinese aren't going to slow down. In fact, they were asked about this too, and they said they're not going to slow down at all, that the Cummins are... 58:29 are nonsensical, and yet they are helping to push this PR effort. Yeah, but I'm sick and tired of the conservatives who act like the Constitution authorizes action. There's no action in the Constitution on this. 58:44 Or they try the class warfare BS. I just heard one of my friends who's a conservative, you know, these titans of these data centers and AI of Silicon Valley versus the people, and they want to be subsidized. What are you talking about? First of all, they want to be subsidized. Don't subsidize them. 59:03 But you're talking about many, many businesses that are involved in this particular industry, not five or ten. 59:12 Here's Planter's Alex Karp. 59:15 on CNBC yesterday. Cut to go. 59:18 If we didn't have the adversaries we'd have, I would be very in favor of pausing this technology completely. But we do. 59:27 And that's why pausing is just, you can't pause it because it's a structural advantage both for LLMs and algorithms. So leaving, you know, getting algorithms and LLMs to work in a classified context is going to take very specialized, I could explain how it works. But getting, the fact is, this is going to be a bonanza for the U.S. economy. 59:48 How concerned are you about China right now? 59:51 Everyone's very concerned. I think we were in a conversation this morning where I referenced, you know, when we started first talking about China and America, and I was saying that this was not going to end well. That was a controversial statement. Now it's consensus. 60:04 America is fairly unified in its idea that, you know, that China and people running China are not... 60:14 acting in a way we can accept and i think the consensus if i had to guess in china is uh we're never going to get this back on the rails with america so we should up the aggression that's all true 60:31 But then again, the Chinese have the Democrats on their side, as they always do. Like the Iranians have the Democrats on their side. Here's Hakeem Jeffries on ABC's This Week. The same boring hosts with the same boring guests, don't you think? 60:46 Cut four, go. 60:47 Well, we certainly need to begin to act urgently to address the challenges that exist. And unfortunately, Republicans have abandoned their response. 60:54 Okay, what challenges exist exactly? 60:57 You got some guy that worked at a... 61:00 AI data center for about 14 minutes. He's a young guy. He's out there. He claims to be a whistleblower. He's going on and on. His talking points are identical to communist China's. That's fine. 61:10 No implication there. Just noticing it. 61:13 And there's an entire campaign with the left to do this. And let me explain to you what's actually going on. You ready? 61:20 The Democrats, in particular, are talking about slowing this down and regulating the AI industry. and these data centers. 61:33 They want government regulations and government oversight. Does anybody know why? 61:40 Because they want the government to effectively control this industry, which means they will effectively control this industry. Do you understand? 61:51 The bureaucracy effectively reports to the Democrats as controlled by the Democrats. They typically, when they get into government, they don't try and unravel aspects of it and give it back to the people in the private sector. They continue to centralize power. 62:06 The Democrats see AI and data centers as the most massive power grab ever by them to control outcomes. 62:19 Remember what I tell you all the time. For them it's party before country. 62:25 So they don't care if the communist Chinese beat us. They don't care about these things. They care about their own little bubble. That they have all the power that they can assemble. And they will use the instrumentalities of government. They will use what I call negative power to accumulate that power. 62:46 And so for them... 62:48 open the door just a crack, government regulation, government authority, government control over just a little piece, and it spreads like a metastasizing cancer. That's the way it works with the Democrats. 63:02 And that's what they seek to do. 63:05 And you got morons, literally stupid conservatives and Republicans, who are going to hand it to them and to the communist Chinese. 63:15 They don't even know what they're talking about. We spent the last two weeks talking about water. 63:20 They lied about it. We talked about energy. They lied about it. They said no government. Well, you can't even build one of these without local and state authority. So they lied about that. They lied about the job creation, which is across the board, and they just keep lying about it. And they're trying to cling on to this fear-mongering and this scare-mongering just like the left, just like the Democrats. And now they're even talking like Marxists about Silicon Valley versus the people. 63:53 What are you, an idiot? 63:55 Morons? 63:58 We need this technology. We want to improve the quality of our lives. We want to help defeat some of these horrendous diseases that many of our family members have died from in horrible, horrible ways. 64:12 This is how the human mind works, not just machines and computers. 64:18 You can't compartmentalize that. You can't destroy that. And why? And since when? 64:24 And since when do we trust politicians and bureaucrats to make the right decision? 64:32 Tell me, which politician do you trust to make these decisions? Who even knows what the hell he's talking about? What bureaucrats? You don't even know their names. 64:42 They bankrupted Social Security. They bankrupted Medicare. They run up the debt to over $40 trillion. The border was wide open. We have Islamists running from here and there and everywhere. Don't tell me that these bastards ought to be in charge of A1 data centers. Because if that's your view, then forget it. The communist Chinese will be running circles around us, and the Democrats will own the damn country. 65:10 I'll be right back. 65:40 PureTalk was the only wireless company to receive five stars in every category, coverage, support, value, and data. And now, until the end of this week, PureTalk is offering unlimited data for just $15 a month for your first three months. And after that, get unlimited data for as low as $34.99 a month with no contract. Go to puretalk.com slash Levin to make the switch to my favorite wireless company, PureTalk. Pure Talk. There's a better wireless choice out there, folks. It's called Pure Talk. 66:10 And at just $15 a month for your first three months, now is a great time to choose Pure Talk. Again, that's puretalk.com slash Levin, L-E-V-I-N. All right. 66:26 Mondami. 66:29 He also wants control of AI. Obama's out there pushing it. 66:34 Mandami's out there pushing it. Schumer's out there pushing it. Hakeem Jeffries is out there pushing it. And we have the nitwits in the Republican Party who are pushing it falling right into the trap of the far left, whether they be the communist Chinese or the communist Democrats. It doesn't matter. 66:52 This is an industrial revolution. Government cannot manage a industrial revolution. 67:00 It can regulate here and there and so forth, but it can't take charge of it or it won't happen. 67:08 It won't happen here. 67:10 And the president has taken the lead. 67:13 He's a courageous, smart man who is telling us correctly that we need to stay in front of this. 67:22 And the gap is closing, America, between us and the Chinese. It's already closing. 67:30 Now, do we want to get more drugs from the communists if they choose to sell them to us? Do we want them to have all the cutting edge military technology that we don't know how to confront? 67:43 What about the machines? What about the jobs they create? And on and on and on. 67:50 They're running like wild men with this. 67:54 And we're having to jump through hoops. 67:58 It's ridiculous. Here's Mondami, cut five, go. 68:01 Like many Americans across the country, the news coming out of this technology in recent days and weeks has been incredibly alarming. 68:10 Now let's stop here. Understand he and Sanders, who's leading this too, and Hakeem Jeffries, and Republicans and pseudo-conserve, they don't know anything about this technology. They don't know a damn thing. Zero. 68:25 Well, Mark, you don't know much. I don't have to know much. 68:28 I'm not trying to prevent it. 68:31 This is man's thinking. This is man's mind at work. 68:35 You can't stop it. 68:39 Go ahead. 68:41 Speaking about reports that, as you said, include suggestions that this could lead to the end of humanity. 68:48 You understand? 68:50 He's reading reports that some guy says could wind up the end of humanity. Nuclear weapons could be the end of humanity, too. 68:59 We know all this. 69:02 So it's hard to understand what is it that they're talking about. 69:06 This is fear-mongering. This is the pathology that goes on and on and on. The 1960s, it was DDT, even though DDT, and I wrote about it in Liberty and Tyranny, was demonstrated to be okay to use to save crops and so forth. 69:25 Yeah, some of you don't even believe me now. 69:28 Remember Alar with apples? That was another phony. Remember Ebola? That was another phony. 69:33 Remember global cooling? Phony. Global warming? Phony. Climate change? Phony. 69:38 On and on. Remember the masks? Remember the six feet distance? Phony. 69:43 Phony. 69:46 Come on now. How many more times are we going to be skunked like this? We'll be right back. 69:55 He's here. He's here. He's here. 69:59 Now broadcasting from the underground command post, deep in the bowels of a hidden bunker, somewhere under the brick and steel of a nondescript building, we've once again made contact with our leader, Mark Levin. 70:17 Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number, 877-381-3811, 877-381-3811. I know this is heresy in Washington. 70:30 Why do Republicans go on these inane Sunday shows? 70:34 I'm talking about the network shows. 70:39 Why do they do this? 70:42 Our friend Mike Lawler was on with George Stephanopoulos. Stephanopoulos is a Democrat hatchet man. No matter how many years, he's dressed up as something else. 70:54 And so, of course, he tries to embarrass him. Mike Johnson is on Meet the Depressed where this... 70:59 Kristen Welker, who's awful, tries to embarrass him. 71:03 Then he's on CNN. CNN, it's unbelievable that Republicans even go on this network on their Sunday shows. 71:13 There's no point to it. They don't even have an audience. Who are you trying to appeal to? Now, in this election, this midterm election, you've got to get your base out. 71:22 You got to get Republicans out, conservatives out, MAGA out. You're not going to get them out on CNN. We're not watching CNN. 71:30 We're not watching Meet the Depressed. We're not watching ABC this week. We're not watching any of these programs, are we? 71:36 And they have really small audiences for network TV. Network TV is free. Cable costs money, obviously. Network is free. And maybe they have a couple million viewers, million, million and a half, two million. 71:49 And they're not us. 71:51 Nobody here is watching George Stephanopoulos. Do you watch George Stephanopoulos, Rich? 71:58 Do you watch Kirsten Welker? 72:01 She's despicable. I can't remember the other one. She's another one. 72:06 Brennan, Margaret Brennan or something like that. Nobody watches this stuff. 72:12 Yeah, Republicans go on there. The speaker was on CNN. He was on, what else? Meet the Depressed, I think. 72:19 To what end? 72:21 I'm not attacking him. I'm just saying, why waste your time? 72:25 And then these clips where they do the gotcha stuff, they wind up all over liberal Democrat Party media. 72:32 I just don't know why they do it. 72:35 They're not going to turn out a single Republican vote, independent or moderate Democrat vote. Not one. 72:42 By appearing on these programs. So Mark's view is don't. 72:47 We have a hell of a time getting these people on my show because... 72:51 I don't know why, to be perfectly honest with you. We just do. 72:56 But at least don't go on these shows because you're not going to get anywhere. And I'm going to give you a perfect example right now. 73:03 Perfect example right now. Let's take the speaker. He's a very nice man. 73:08 Let's see here. He's on with Jake Tapper. Now, there's this Democrat, excuse me, Republican nominee, Brandona Herrera. 73:19 I have no stomach for this buffoon. None. 73:22 But here's the Speaker of the House. He's on. We got zillions of major issues going on. And listen to what he does. Tapper. Cut nine. Go. 73:29 So I want to ask you, you talked about some of the more extreme DSA type candidates that Democrats have. Republicans have some candidates like that. on their own for instance Brandon Herrera he's a house candidate in Texas you've endorsed him you've fundraised him for him he's a before he started becoming a congressional correspondent I mean congressional candidate he's a YouTuber and he has said some offensive sexually explicit crude things about women and children here's a little bit of what he said just three years ago and I want to warn viewers that this language is pretty gross hold on did we bleep any of this Rich we bleeped a lot of it go ahead 74:07 Just because you let somebody c*** pie you doesn't mean I have to give a s*** about your political opinions. The fact that you kept your c*** trophy doesn't make you any less wrong about the dumb s*** that you say. 74:19 That's him disparaging moms. He's also in a video testing a Nazi era submachine gun. He called it the, quote, original ghetto blaster. You see him goose stepping to a Nazi marching song in a podcast two years ago. He joked we should abolish old people. I have to say, I know you're not a voter in that district. You didn't nominate this guy, but I was surprised to see you endorse him and fundraise him, fundraise for him. What does his candidate say about the Republican Party? 74:42 So he has spent like three or four minutes on this. 74:47 So why go on this show? I don't understand why Republicans do. 74:52 And no, I wouldn't have endorsed this guy for a dog catcher. 74:58 But go ahead. 74:59 Stream candidates. 75:02 Look, detestable language, you know how I feel about all of that, Jake. But I also know Brandon Herrera has been out running a very effective campaign and explained to people that he has apologized for all that. He was a podcaster and a provocateur and tried to get attention. That's not the way I speak or think, and that's not the way most do. But that was his persona online, right? Now he's running as a very serious candidate for Congress and a very thoughtful guy. 75:27 Okay. Okay. 75:30 Horrendous what this guy said. 75:33 But he's not hanging out with people who celebrate 9-11 either, I just want to say. 75:40 He's not doing that either. But I see no defense. 75:46 Let's do Abdul El Saeed. 75:50 On Face the Nation. Why is he on Face the Nation? 75:55 Why is he on Face the Nation? Why? 75:59 The guy is a Jew hater. 76:03 The guy said horrendous things, not just about sex and women, but I mean horrendous things that, you know, involve the lives of millions and millions of people. 76:19 And he's hung out with a man who thinks Mao Zedong was the greatest human being to walk the planet or some such thing. Cut ten, go. 76:28 Well, there are Jewish voters in your state who are concerned about your relationship with Piker. You have condemned anti-Semitism, but not called out his rhetoric directly. Why not? 76:40 With all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer in California. I've done four events. 76:46 Oh, a Twitch streamer in California, meaning Piker. That's one of his buddies. Now it's a Twitch streamer in California. Go ahead. 76:55 What didn't come up? Twitch streamers in California. You know what did come up? Grocery prices. The fact that people can't see a doctor. The worry that they have about the quality. 77:02 Thanks for nothing. That's enough. 77:07 So that's that's his basic talking points. Now, here he is. Cut 11. Go. 77:12 I just want to talk about the other ways that they're coming for democracy. It's not just your ability to raise your voice. It's the ability of the democracy to represent you in the first place. Like the idea of the Electoral College, let's be clear, it benefits here in Michigan. We get a lot of attention because of Electoral College, but it's anti-democratic. Yeah. 77:29 What's anti-democratic, the Electoral College? 77:33 It's not anti-democratic, quote unquote. 77:36 It's anti-strictly popular vote. 77:41 And the reason it's anti-strictly popular vote is because we're a republic. 77:46 We don't exist for a popular vote. We exist for a republic, a republican government, small r. If we just had that kind of a situation, I told you before what would happen. 78:04 The democrats would win in these states. 78:07 States that are as much. Look, Wyoming would have no say. Montana would have no say. Idaho would have no say. North and South Dakota would have no say. New Mexico would have no say. 78:20 Nevada would have no say. You go through all these states. Delaware would have no say. And more than that. 78:29 You have states with decent populations but not big enough. Kansas would have no say. Colorado would have no say. Go on and on and on. Who would have a say? 78:40 The biggest states. 78:43 And the cities in the biggest states. 78:45 So a president would basically campaign in 12 to 14 states and mostly in the cities. 78:50 So the people who produce our food would have no say. The people who produce our energy would have no say. You understand what I'm saying, folks? 79:00 And so you would not have a United States of America, would you? 79:03 You would have these deep, blue, dark cities and metropolitan areas controlling the entire country. Is that democratic? 79:15 No, it's not democratic. 79:18 And that's not the way the system is set up. 79:21 And the reason we tolerate diversity and all the rest of it is because our system embraces all these different elements. 79:29 But I'm sick of one other thing that I've talked about before, and other people are wisely picking up on it. 79:35 This guy's first generation. 79:37 His parents came here from Egypt. 79:40 He comes to our country. They come to our country, and now they're telling us what we should do, that we should completely abolish our constitutional construct. He does it. Piker says it. The fat slob, what's his name? I can't remember the other guy from Turkey. He says it. 79:56 All these people who are relatively new to this country telling us we've got to get rid of this constitutional construct and this one and this one and this one. They have absolutely no appreciation for anything that we've created. 80:10 Get rid of capitalism. 80:12 And then again, through the lens of Marxism, we need Medicare for all. 80:18 We need all these things. You know, if you're a good Marxist, otherwise we're not a good country. And this too, cut 12, go. 80:27 I've thought a lot about the challenges. I have read my history. 80:31 When it comes to black communities in Michigan, when it comes to black communities in America, there are unpaid debts that have long since come due that we are unwilling to acknowledge, let alone pay down. 80:44 So he's pushing reparations. 80:47 Now, the guy's an Islamist. 80:49 Islamists are slaughtering Christians in Africa, black people. 80:55 They're killing other Muslims in Yemen as they did in Syria and still are. This is ridiculous. 81:06 Family new to this country talking about reparations, but as I've said before, there is a resolution to this. 81:12 The Democrat Party can pay reparations. It was the Democrat Party that was the party of the Confederacy. The Republican Party birthed in the 1850s, to abolish slavery. 81:26 And Abraham Lincoln was a Republican. Ulysses S. Grant was a Republican. 81:31 So if that's the view, I don't see why Republicans should pay one penny. 81:35 Let the Democrats pay. 81:38 I'll be right back. 81:55 We'll be taking calls if you're interested on a variety of subjects here. Here's George Bush at the Bush Center last Wednesday. 82:07 Condoleezza Rice is talking to him. Cut 14, go. 82:12 I want you to talk about a couple of those events. You talked about going to the Islamic Center and trying to make sure that our Muslim American citizens knew that we didn't blame them for what had happened. 82:26 I also made it clear that Islam was a religion of peace, not a religion of war, and that these people subverted their religion. 82:33 This is really pathetic. 82:42 I mean, seriously, I don't believe he studied this subject. I really don't. There are Muslims who are very good Americans who have fought in wars or have served in our military. Zutty Jasser is one. I know several. 83:05 But it's because they look at their faith differently. 83:10 Whereas Islamists look at it literally, literally. 83:16 And if you literally follow Sharia law, you get what we get on 9-11. 83:23 It's just so troubling to me. 83:27 Is there another religion that goes around committing acts of terrorism all over the world? I can't think of one. 83:34 That has slaughtered American citizens? 83:37 Military and civilian? I can't think of another. 83:44 So don't delude yourself for crying out loud. 83:50 Abby Phillip is a host on CNN Saturday. Most of you don't know who she is. I don't blame you. 83:57 Listen to this one. Cut 15, go. 84:00 It's interesting to me that conservatives are quick to associate maybe the worst aspects of terrorists with Muslims. 84:11 Well, who are we supposed to associate it with? 84:17 Hindus? 84:19 Baptists? 84:22 Mormons? 84:25 Catholics? 84:28 Evangelicals? 84:30 Who? Go ahead. 84:32 Christian nationalists like that, that pastor who, you know, Pete Hegseth invited to the Pentagon who thinks that women shouldn't have the right to vote, that they should. 84:42 But let's say he does think that. 84:45 Which is ridiculous, but let's say he does. I don't know anything about this issue. 84:50 You compare that. 84:53 Somebody's opinion, right or wrong. 84:57 With acts of terrorism. 85:00 What kind of stupidity is Abby Phillips spewing here? A lot. 85:05 Look how Bush has to speak. Look how Phillips has to be. Look how they have to talk. 85:10 The evidence is all around. 85:13 What about the massive rapes that have taken place and probably still are in Great Britain? 85:18 What about the slaughter going on right now of black Christians in Nigeria, in the Congo, in the Sudan? Nobody even talks about this on CNN. Why? Why? 85:29 What about the slaughter of other Muslims in Yemen? 150,000 killed in a 99% Muslim country. 85:39 What does President Bush say about that? 85:44 Go ahead. 85:46 to their husbands, they should stay at home and have babies. There's no outcry about that. 85:51 There is outcry, and so what? In other words, people have stupid comments all the time, including on CNN. You're filled with stupid comments. That's not the same as terrorism, lady. It's just not. Now wake the hell up, confront the truth, and speak the truth. 86:12 So ridiculous. 86:15 So ridiculous. 86:17 The numbers are out there. Who's committing the most acts of terrorism? It's not even close. 86:23 It's not quote-unquote Christian nationalist, whatever the hell that is. 86:29 But that's at the front of mind for Abby Phillip at CNN. 86:34 Front of mind. 86:37 Justice Kavanaugh, who I'm liking more and more, and I want to say something publicly to Judge Royce Lamberth. 86:44 You were right, Royce, and I was wrong. You were right. 86:50 You were right. 86:52 You know, I've been mad at Royce Lambert from time to time on this program, but I've got to say, I have very fond memories of him and working with him, quite frankly. 87:02 I really do. 87:06 Cut 16. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, go. 87:09 The reason they attacked us is because they hate our Constitution, which I carry with me all the time. They hate our values. They hate our freedom of religion. They hate our freedom of speech. 87:23 And we have preserved that in the 25 years since. We've preserved a lot as a country and thrived as a country, notwithstanding what happened. 87:34 Yeah, there you go. Was that hard for maybe President Bush to say? 87:40 That is right on. 87:43 Right on. 87:44 It's not an attack. It's nothing vicious. It's an observation that's accurate. 87:51 It's an accurate observation. 87:55 When we come back, President Trump... See, ladies and gentlemen, I've been telling you that lasers are the future weapon. Haven't I, Mr. Producer? 88:05 for years and that the country that's ahead of everybody else in the development of lasers is the country of Israel and they are sharing that technology what do they give us what do they give us a lot and they're sharing that technology with us thankfully not with the Chinese or the Russians hey how about that Saudi Arabia they can't fight if their lives depend on it no matter whether they have our cutting edge military equipment or not 88:36 Mark Levin, tough as hell. 88:39 That's why I like Mark Levin. And I'm not sure a lot of people like him. He's tough as hell. But I like him. I love him. Call in now. 88:47 877-381-3811. How about this? 88:51 I said weeks ago, those who oppose AI and data centers, we have many of their names yet at this point, should announce right now that they will not use any of the cutting-edge technology technologies or medical advances developed what do you think of that Mr. Producer yeah what do you think the response to that would be no way let's see how intellectually honest they are or if they're just I mean they they talk up the they talk up the fears but not the possibilities you know what I mean Yeah, I think we should. 89:34 But not the... They talk up the fears, but not the human possibilities. I mean, the possibilities of great advancements. 89:47 It's just... And so if they're going to fight this hard, I just think I should expose them somewhat. No, they won't like it. What are you talking about? 89:59 We all know what I'm talking about. 90:02 Some of these pseudo-conservators in particular know what I'm talking about. 90:07 I wanted you to hear from this 9-11 widow, Terry Strada, at the 9-11 memorial ceremony in New York this past Friday. 90:17 Here's some of what she said. Cut 13, go. 90:20 And my husband, Tom Strada, you are missed more with each year that passes. But how can it be 25 years and still we have no justice for the role that Saudi Arabia played in your murder? 90:40 Yes, we finally made it into a court and have proved that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia fomented a rancid culture of anti-American terrorism around the globe and then sent its agents to support the radical Islamist hijackers so they could attack you and all of our loved ones. 90:59 But for 25 years, administration after administration, including leaders in front of us here today, chose to protect the Saudis instead of standing with the 9-11 families. 91:17 They withheld evidence. They vetoed JASTA. They broke promises, both public and private. It has been one betrayal after another. President Trump can still change that. Tell the Saudis to stop lying. Tell them that if they want to be friends with the USA, they cannot continue to deny all of this, all of the pain, all of the destruction that we have all been suffering through. Vice President Vance, thank you for being here today. 91:46 Please carry that message back. Stand with the families. 91:51 Stand with the survivors. Stand with Americans. As my husband Tom would have said, that is always the right thing to do. 91:59 God bless all of us. God bless America. 92:02 God bless her. 92:05 Speaking for all of us. 92:08 There's no easy way to do this. I'm going to move to what President Trump said on Air Force One last night about lasers, because I've been pushing this whole thing about lasers for a long time now. 92:19 And I've been trying to keep up to speed on the developments around the world, the Israelis, the Japanese, the Communist Chinese, our government as well. But it's clear the Israelis are ahead of everybody. Cut 17. Go. 92:31 The U.S. ambassador's residence. He's got some new emerging technology coming out. These lasers and the Gatling guns. Can you tell us any more about the lasers or that kind of kit? 92:41 It's going to be a big thing because it's a lot less expensive than sending out patriots. And the lasers are a big thing. So far it doesn't have the distance, but it'll soon have the distance. 92:51 My uncle at MIT was a big laser guy, believe it or not, a long time ago. He said lasers are going to be the future, and I guess it's turning out to be. Once you have the equipment, the laser beam itself is very inexpensive. Almost nothing. And yeah, we're getting close. The lasers are very, very good for, you know, already for... certain types of missiles, certain slower missiles. I think the laser is going to be the future because rather than spending a lot of money, as good as they are, virtually 100% accurate, the laser is a lot less accurate. 93:28 I know the president doesn't like to do this, but the Israelis are to get a salute on this. 93:34 This Gatling gun laser is their invention, and they're still developing it, but they are now using it in the battlefield. 93:42 on these slower missiles he's talking about and in a rudimentary way let me explain this quickly laser obviously is a light beam and the problem is over distance the light beam dissipates so different countries have been trying to figure out how best to deal with this and the Israelis came up with a the solution that they're perfecting And this is public. I wouldn't know anything that's secret anyway. 94:13 But I read about this, and we talked about it several months ago, I believe, anyway, Mr. Producer. But what it does is it shoots thousands of lasers in a synchronized fashion, not all at once. 94:31 So it's like... 94:34 And the goal is, rather than have one big laser that dissipates, you have a thousand lights that just keep pumping out, pumping out, pumping out this very focused, targeted beam from different holes or, if you will, different spots on the laser. 94:55 And that seems to be working. 94:59 It's given them more distance than before. So they're trying to perfect that, something to that effect. You can look it up yourselves. 95:07 And this is why Europe is relying more and more on the Israelis for technology to defend themselves. 95:16 Number one, they've underspent for 50 years. 95:21 And number two, the Israelis, when it comes to technology, are battle-hardened. All these technologies they are developing have been used on the battlefield, meaning on jets and tanks and all the rest of it, which is odd. That's why I asked Ambassador Leiter, who was on my program over the weekend on Fox. 95:41 You've got these countries that say they're going to boycott you. 95:46 And yet, they're relying on you for these technologies. And he smiled and he laughed and said something very diplomatic. 95:55 I'm not really into the diplomacy stuff. So I just made it clear that that can't go on. 96:03 That they should cut all ties with Britain. Intelligence ties, all ties. 96:08 Because it's not as if they need anything from Britain. They really don't. 96:12 Same with France. 96:15 If that's what countries want to do, that's what they'll do. Israel's opening new and bigger, you know, relationships, commerce, technology, whatever, with India, which is a massive country, with Argentina, with Colombia, with Hungary, which it's had good relations with, and several other countries. And 11 countries now are moving, in addition to the United States, and moving their embassies to Jerusalem. So let's talk about Israel being isolated. 96:47 Israel's less isolated now than it's really ever been. 96:51 In terms of the NATO countries and most of Europe, they're weak. 96:56 And they're also now relying, the left-wing parties that run many of these governments, on the Islamist vote in order to stay in power. 97:06 And so these are lost causes for the most part. 97:10 They're lost causes for the most part. I'll be right back. 97:26 Let's go to. Oops. 97:29 Let's go to David Lake Anna, Virginia on Sirius XM satellite. David, how are you? 97:38 I am doing absolutely outstandingly well. 97:41 I can't do better than that. 97:45 No, you can't. But maybe tonight, Mark, you can help me unravel a problem that I've been eating myself by for a long time. 97:55 I have been raised or was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, and I got all of the history that that area could offer. I am a Vietnam veteran, and I was born to believe, and I still believe to this day, that this country was formed are based on the sanctity of the family, God, the word of law, and eventually the Constitution of the United States. 98:25 Every single person, every single person that goes into the military, whether it be an officer, whether it be an assistant man, takes an oath to support the Constitution of the United States and defend it against all enemies, foreign and domestic. 98:41 Now, when I was in law school, I was beat to death every single day. 98:45 You've got to get to your question quickly. 98:48 Okay, quickly. Or we're going to lose you. The Constitution is the supreme law of the land. Do you believe that? 98:54 Mm-hmm. 98:56 Yes. 98:57 It cannot be superseded by any other law. That's correct. If that is the case, and we know that the communists and others. 99:08 You've got to get to your question. 99:10 Yeah. 99:11 Okay, I am. Okay, I am. Here we are. If, in fact, the Constitution are promoting ideas against the Constitution, why can't they outlaw these individuals, okay, and the parties that they belong to? 99:25 What do you mean, outlaw the individuals? What does that mean? Why can't they prevent? 99:31 From serving in high office? 99:34 Yes. They should, because they used to. 99:38 You know, when I went into the Reagan administration, they asked us, the FBI in their interview, if you serve in a sensitive position, are you or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party? And if you were, you can't. 99:50 Now, if you're a communist and you get elected to Congress, you also take an oath of office to uphold the Constitution. And these people don't want to uphold the Constitution. I did a whole monologue on this on Saturday night on Fox. The Supreme Court has ruled basically, well, you can't stop them. 100:07 even if the House votes, that they shouldn't seat them. The court ruled that you have to seat them, and if you can get two-thirds vote to expel them, well, good for you. But we know that will never happen. David, thank you for your service. I've got to move because we took a while there. I want to get to everybody. Let's go to Scott, Charleston, South Carolina, the great WTMA. Go right ahead, please. 100:29 Yes, sir. I'm of two minds on Israel sharing this advanced technology with the United States. 100:37 On one hand, I'm grateful because I love my country and I made a career serving it. On the other hand, you brought this up in the past. 100:47 I can't help but think about us developing the Manhattan Project, harnessing atomic energy, and somebody in Washington thought it would be a good idea to share it with Britain. 101:01 Presumably, we didn't know that Their government was riddled with communists, communist sympathizers, and outright Soviet agents. And my concern, Mark, is we had four years of the auto pen president. There could be top secret documents we never know about where he shared technology with our enemies or others. 101:27 And if I was Israeli, I'd keep it close to the vest for now. You can always distribute the technology later, but there's too many leaks in the deep state, too many holes in Washington. That's my apprehension. 101:43 There's something to that, isn't there? And then you have people in the government who hate Israel and leak against Israel all the time, and they could do that, too. And then you have people in the government who are very sympathetic to Hamas. 101:55 and Saudi Arabia and so forth. I do get it. Those are good points, but I've got to believe that the Israelis are thinking about that. 102:05 But, again, I'm not privy to it all. I just know that, according to reports I read, that the Israelis are sharing this and a lot more. There are upgrades to the F-35, which is our newest, most powerful jet. They've upgraded it significantly in battle, and they've turned that over. I guess it's Lockheed Martin, one of those companies. They've given it to them, and they do this a lot. And I only point this out because people say, what do we get from this? We get a lot. 102:31 Scott, thank you, my brother. Gerald and others, I'm sorry I didn't get to you. Call tomorrow. We salute our armed forces, police officers, firefighters, emergency personnel, our truckers, the men and women in Israel, the men and women in Ukraine, the men and women in Persia, and you, the American people. 102:47 God bless you. Not too bad for having two root canals today, huh? 102:52 One on each side of the mouth. Can you believe that? See you tomorrow. Love you guys.