Life, Liberty & Levin 9-21-24 (21th September 2024)
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00:00I'm Mark Levin, and this is Life, Liberty, and Levin Saturday. Welcome to Great Guests.
00:04We have Peter Hegseth and Charles Payne. We'll get to them in a moment, but before we get to them,
00:10the campaign that Kamala Harris and her media are running
00:13is the most diabolical campaign in modern American history.
00:18Flooding the zone with hundreds of millions of dollars in paid ads and propaganda,
00:23very limited availability for obvious reasons. You saw Kamala Harris with Oprah,
00:29some of you. I saw clips. I didn't have the stomach to watch the whole thing.
00:32She could barely get through that. Let's come together with the character
00:38that we are so proud of about who we are, which is we are an optimistic people.
00:43We are an optimistic people. Americans by character are people who have dreams and ambitions
00:53and aspirations. We believe in what is possible. We believe in what can be.
01:00And we believe in fighting for that. That's how that's how we came into being,
01:07because the people before us understood that one of the greatest expressions
01:14for the love of our country, one of the greatest expressions of patriotism
01:19is to fight for the ideals of who we are. You know, she practiced and studied and got
01:24through the debate. Ladies and gentlemen, does she want to be president of the United States?
01:29Well, there are other things you're supposed to do. Now, so far we hear things like
01:34she wants everyone to have an opportunity, an opportunity economy. What does that mean?
01:40She says she believes in democracy. Stalin said he believed in democracy. So what does she mean?
01:46The future. She believes in the future. Well, the future is one second from now. Don't we all
01:52believe in the future? So what does that mean? She wants us to turn the page. Turn the page on what?
01:58I'm going to turn the page. It's on her. But turn the page. New generation of leadership.
02:05What does that mean? We don't pick leaders by age. We pick leaders by substance.
02:10So this entire campaign that is Kamala Harris's campaign is a fraud. It's a phony. It's a fake
02:17with her help in the media. You have vague phrasing, talking about something without
02:23actually directly saying anything in order to hide your real beliefs, thoughts, values,
02:31and potential actions. You don't want to be pinned down. You don't want to be defined.
02:36You don't want to be defined. So you're an empty pantsuit. So people can pour whatever they want
02:41to into you and to vote for you based on what they project upon you. Political manipulation is
02:49what this used to be called. It's done in totalitarian regimes, various autocratic regimes.
02:55That's how it works. She's not going to lay out her agenda, even though many of us know what the
03:00agenda already is. And part of this, this element of propaganda, requires deception. Hiding the
03:07truth. Deception. Causing someone to accept as true or valid what is false and invalid. You could
03:14see through that debate with Donald Trump. She just kept lying about his position on abortion.
03:18Donald Trump hand-selected three members of the United States Supreme Court with the intention
03:24that they would undo the protections of Roe v. Wade. In over 20 states, there are Trump
03:29abortion bans. If Donald Trump were to be reelected, he will sign a national abortion ban.
03:35Understand in his project 2025, there would be a national abortion, a monitor that would be
03:41monitoring your pregnancies, your miscarriages. Lying about Charlottesville. Let's remember
03:46Charlottesville, where there was a mob of people carrying tiki torches, spewing anti-semitic hate.
03:56And what did the president then at the time say? There were fine people on each side.
04:02Let's remember that when it came to the Proud Boys, a militia,
04:08the president said, the former president said, stand back and stand by. So for everyone watching
04:14who remembers what January 6th was, I say we don't have to go back. Lying about the 2025 project.
04:23What you're going to hear tonight is a detailed and dangerous plan called Project 2025 that the
04:30former president intends on implementing if he were elected again. Federalists counted 25 lies.
04:36A gave up after 20. Breitbart came up with 21 lies. She just lied and lied and lied and lied.
04:42And this is intended to create a projection, a non-reality. And that's what she does.
04:49It's deception to cause somebody to believe something that's not true. And they do this
04:55in order to protect their agenda, to protect their campaign, and to promote themselves
05:05at the harm of others. That is at the harm of Donald Trump. She put words in his mouth.
05:11She's still doing it. She's still lying about it.
05:15In purposes to get an advantage, in this case, an electoral advantage, we call this propaganda.
05:20Propaganda has been used for God knows how long, but it became almost scientific about 100 years
05:25ago in a book called Propaganda by a man by the name of Bernays. And Bernays was widely read by
05:32early Democrat progressives in the 1900s. He was widely read by dictators and genocidal maniacs.
05:38In fact, he was widely read by Adolf Hitler. Not that this is Hitler. You get the point.
05:44Propaganda. Repetition. Changing the language. The key to propaganda involves the media.
05:53Pseudo-events. Pseudo-events. That is, non-news stories that are created as news stories,
06:01treated as news stories, and have a two, three, four day shelf life as a news story,
06:06while real news stories are ignored. While real facts, while real issues that affect the common
06:11person, they're dismissed. You can see this now. Pseudo-events. Pseudo-news. So what does this
06:19mean? What this means is that the campaign is spending money and the campaign is using Kamala
06:26Harris to push falsities, nonsense, shiny objects for you to chase. The things that affect your
06:35lives they don't want to talk about. Food. Security. Crime. The border. Gasoline prices.
06:42What your children are taught in school. Those are non-issues. Now, to you, they're everyday
06:47issues. But to the manipulators, to these masterminds, these are non-issues. They decide
06:53what the issues are. So we call these hoaxes. Remember Trump talking about the Russian hoax?
07:00We call these illusions. These are hoaxes. These are illusions aimed at avoiding the real problems
07:07because they have ideas, they have belief systems, but they know you will reject them.
07:11I'll give you a perfect example. See that? That's the front page of the Drudge Report,
07:16the web page of the Drudge Report. That's been hanging up there last week for a few days.
07:20It's caught everybody's attention. It's become a big issue. And so there you have Donald Trump
07:25where they hope, the illusion they hope, they're projecting Donald Trump
07:30with a Hitler salute, wearing his red hat, Trump, blame the Jews if I lose.
07:36And this is based in part on this group, Mediaite, that took a piece of the clip of the president's
07:43speech to a large group of Jewish supporters in Washington, D.C. where I had family members
07:48attending. I could not attend, but I had family members attending. It was a fantastic speech.
07:54It was a temperate speech. It was a factual speech. It was an exciting speech. And the people
08:00left there, the vast majority of whom were Jews, very excited and very happy to have met the
08:05president and hear what he said. But this is what they turned it into. Adolf Hitler,
08:11blame the Jews if I lose. What Trump was saying was, I'm trying to do the very best I can to
08:19appeal to the Jewish community for its votes. He was saying also that here's my record as applies
08:26to the Jewish community. Just as Kamala Harris goes in front of the Islamist community, talks
08:33about her record, or goes in front of other communities and talks about her record, Donald
08:38Trump has a record he is proud of and he should be proud of when it comes to the state of Israel
08:44and Jews, as well as a record in so many other areas that he's proud of and he should be proud
08:49of. And he's talking about the substance. He's talking about his record. And he says in so many
08:55words, I saw a poll that I got 29% of the Jewish vote in 2020, 26% in 2016, that I have about 40%
09:04of the support of the Jewish community. I better get 60% of the vote or I may not be able to win
09:10in these, you know, in some of these blue states and, you know, I could blame you folks for that.
09:14It was tongue-in-cheek. It was tongue-in-cheek. Everybody there knew it.
09:25And so they do this, like they did with Charlottesville, like they do with everything
09:31else that comes out of Donald Trump's mouth. And I want to remind you that again, I guess it was a
09:36week from tomorrow, Donald Trump faced another assassination attempt. That's two, because of stuff
09:42like this, because when you dehumanize Donald Trump, you create a hero mentality among sick people
09:51that maybe they ought to do something about it. Less than a week,
09:56less than a week after they stopped the second assassination attempt, this is the Drudge Report
10:02based on Mediaite, and now we have Jewish organizations, check that, liberal Democrat
10:10Jewish organizations condemning what Donald Trump said, condemning Donald Trump, saying he sounds like
10:20Hitler, like it's the Third Reich all over again. That's the problem we have in this country today.
10:28These are not real issues. These are phony issues, even more than phony issues.
10:34They attempt to dehumanize one of the candidates, Donald Trump, only one, Donald Trump, and Kamala
10:41Harris, the media, and the Democrat Party are counting on all this. They're counting on it,
10:47so she can squeeze her way into the Oval Office. And then one day, the people who fall for this,
10:53these lies, and unfortunately people have fallen for stuff like this for hundreds of years,
10:59thousands of years, they'll wake up and say, oh my God, what did we do?
11:04We elect somebody president of the United States who's wholly unqualified,
11:08who didn't reveal herself, who turns out to be a Marxist Islamist,
11:12who failed as vice president. Oh my God, what did we do? And you can thank the Drudge Report,
11:19Mediaite, Elements of the Media, these left-wing groups, left-wing ethnic groups,
11:25but most of all, you can thank the Democrat Party and their ideologues,
11:30because these are the campaigns they now run, filled with lies, and deception, and illusions.
11:38We're here with our friend Pete Hegseth. Kamala Harris, you see what's going on in the world.
11:46Afghanistan, we know what took place there, it was horrendous. Even Iraq now is really
11:51part of the Iranian hegemony. You see what's going on with the Houthis, we can't even use
11:57the Red Sea anymore. They've cut it off and we haven't pushed back. Hezbollah has effectively
12:03conquered Lebanon and is shooting missiles into Israel. Hamas will not surrender and will not
12:09surrender the hostages. Communist China is threatening Japan, Australia, the Philippines,
12:18South Korea, Vietnam, and of course Taiwan. Russia is constantly threatening us with nuclear attack.
12:28Meanwhile, we are debasing our military. The Communist Chinese now have more ships than we do,
12:34and they're not stopping, and we are. Is this the right time to have Kamala Harris as commander
12:40in chief? Well, you laid it out as best I've heard it. Of course not. First of all, she's a Marxist
12:50at home, and then she's a globalist and apologist overseas. Most empires lose their influence around
12:57the world because they lose their compass at home. That certainly happened under Obama. It's fast
13:02forwarded under Biden and under Marxist Kamala Harris, comrade Kamala. It would accelerate. We
13:08know exactly who she is. She is a radical, cratering our sense of self, our southern border,
13:14our national identity, our love of country, and certainly our military, as you've talked about,
13:21as I wrote about in the War on Warriors. When all of that happens, the world takes notice.
13:27Obama went on that apology tour where America was no longer leading boldly. Biden has just been
13:33basically AWOL and not believing in American leadership. Then through the small actions he
13:38has taken, he's signaled complete retreat. Kamala Harris will be deferential to institutions like
13:45the UN, like UNRWA, all these organizations captured by leftists that don't serve American
13:51interests. Our influence abroad will continue to diminish. Our allies, like Taiwan, like Israel,
14:01like a shrinking number of countries, are going to turn to having to do things themselves because
14:07they can't count on America. That's when our enemies pile on. When the global order,
14:13and I use that without not capitalized because I don't want a global order controlled by elites,
14:19but after World War II, the U.S. took control of that, that's all going to shift with China,
14:27with Russia, with the Islamists teaming up against us. Kamala Harris has no plan to defend
14:33America's interests, so the world will be on fire, Mark. What you just laid out will sound like
14:39tiddlywinks compared to the possibility of World War III under a feckless weak leader like Kamala
14:46Harris. Now, let's really hone in on one country. Let's take a look at Israel.
14:52She has said that if she's elected president, she'll put some kind of committee or something
14:56together to analyze our relationship with Israel. She has said horrendous things about the prime
15:02minister of Israel, about Israel. She uses Hamas talking points when it comes to civilian casualties.
15:09She and Biden are withholding military systems, weapons systems from Israel in the middle of a war.
15:16They have funded Iran. They have armed Iran. They have funded UNRWA, which is a terrorist
15:20part of the U.N. They've done everything possibly wrong. Isn't it true if she's elected that the
15:27Jewish people in this country need to understand that Israel is going to be without a strong
15:33American partner, that Israel, in many respects, is going to be on its own,
15:38facing down these enemies as well as China, Russia, and North Korea?
15:42That's exactly right. Think about how out of touch you have to be to be peddling a two-state
15:46solution at this point. I can't remember who said it exactly, but the only two-state solution
15:52that Kamala Harris cares about at this point is Michigan and Minnesota. And I'm stealing that line
15:56from somebody else who I can't recall. Ultimately, it's all cynical ploy to make it look like she
16:01supports the state of Israel. And it's right to exist. But we know exactly where her compass is.
16:07And it's with sympathy, with the pro-Hamas, Palestinian authority view of the world,
16:13where Israel is the perpetual bad guy. Here's the devil, and not in the details,
16:20in the bold font. They're going to let Iran get a nuclear bomb. So, Mark, this whole battle,
16:27Lebanon, Gaza, Egypt, Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, all of that is the strike that recently happened
16:36inside Syria against a massive weapons depot by the IDF. It's going to feel like a junior
16:40varsity game compared to when Iran can say, we have a nuclear bomb that can wipe Israel off the
16:47map, which has been our stated goal and our proxy stated goal. What's Kamala Harris going to do then
16:52once she allows that? See, all that does is push American influence out and force Israel to make
16:59impossible choices that it will have to make on its own mark. So, no, she will not be a friend
17:04of Israel. Israel will be forced to increasingly act on its own to include, prevent an Iranian
17:10bomb, which I hope they do for their own interests and the interest of the free world. That's all on
17:15the table. And I don't understand why Jewish voters would look the other way because they've
17:19always voted Democrat. They're about to make their existential threat get even worse.
17:25More when we return. I want to talk to you briefly about tariffs.
17:30Now, let's pick communist China in particular. That should be an easy one.
17:34President Trump put tariffs on communist China, I think 100% on some goods, maybe more particularly
17:40farm goods. And he makes the point, he said, look, I'm sick and tired of these people ripping us off.
17:45I'm sick and tired of them forcing our companies to locate in China and I'm going to do something
17:49about it. And Kamala Harris speaks out of both sides of her mouth, which is actually pretty good
17:55because normally she speaks out of a hundred sides of her mouth. And she says that that is a tax,
18:02a sales tax, but it's a sales tax they left in place. And so my question to you is, despite her
18:09hypocrisy and her lies, what would she do with communist China? Have free trade with communist
18:15China? Should we trade our computer parts with communist China? Should we trade our technology
18:20with communist China? You see, this is the problem. This is why people should never vote
18:24for somebody like this. She's rope-a-dope. She's hide-and-seek. She wants to be president of the
18:29United States and have enough guts to stand up to we, the people. Give a damn about your debates.
18:34So she obviously must support selling everything and anything to communist China because that's
18:40the alternative. Absolutely. And with a running mate in Tim Walz, who's obsessed with China,
18:45has been there 30 times, is opened up Minnesota's economy, farmland, things like that. So what do
18:51we know about what do we know about Kamala Harris's stance on our single greatest geopolitical foe
18:57in the communist Chinese who are hell-bent on regional and global domination? We know nothing.
19:02We have no idea. And you're right. Biden kept the sanctions on. But what would she do? Whose
19:08pocket is she in? We don't know because she hasn't answered questions. Could she answer the questions?
19:14Does she actually have a strategy? Does she think the communist Chinese are a rival or an adversary
19:19or an enemy? We know none of these things. So if you're looking at as a middle class worker or you
19:25are worried about our defense industrial base, will she keep sanctions that protect jobs or will
19:32she fall over herself to try to get climate concessions from China, which doesn't care at all?
19:37They're building a cold-fired power plant every couple of weeks. And we're talking to them about,
19:44you know, turning down the global thermostat while they laugh at us and get other concessions about
19:49things they actually care about. We know nothing, Mark. All I know, and you laid it out, is that
19:53China wants global domination and America's in the way. And anything they do that serves their
19:59interests, they will pursue. And if they don't see a strong American leader in front of them,
20:03they will steamroll us. And that is not Kamala Harris. And that's not a future world I want to
20:08live in. I have no idea. So that's my answer. I don't know where she stands. Nobody does.
20:12Kamala Harris has not shown whether DA, attorney general, senator, vice president,
20:18her love of country. She always runs trashing her country. She views the American people as racist.
20:25She views the American people as white supremacist. Even those who aren't white, who may agree with
20:32the majority of the population, she believes the American people are absolutely stupid. That's why
20:37she's running the kind of campaign she's running. And she's power hungry, as most ideologues are.
20:43So if you hate your own people, which is why the border is open, they want to reshape the
20:49population, as the New York Times said. If you hate your own people, you hate your own history.
20:54If you hate your own country, well, why wouldn't she sell out to the enemy?
20:59Ask Barack Obama. Ask Joe Biden. Ask cynical politicians who have sold hope and change.
21:05She talks about joy, when ultimately the base of her political aspirations has been on grievance,
21:13on the sins of America. How in the world do we muster a collective defense or a collective
21:18response in the future, should something terrible happen, when we've taught the generations of
21:24Americans that America is an evil country, and then politicians have peddled that view,
21:29or cynically wrapped patriotism in things like, don't ban books about transing kids,
21:34or we want universal access to abortion. That's their view of freedom. Of course,
21:41they would give it away on the world stage, because they don't believe America is exceptional.
21:46They don't believe when America leads, the world gets better, because they've taught
21:50generations of kids, and they now believe in their own DNA, that when America acts,
21:54the world gets worse, or we should apologize for the things that we pursue.
21:59So our military has no idea what they're signing up for here with a commander-in-chief,
22:03Kamala Harris. It's no vision. It's likely reckless wars. And then when you send those
22:10boys to go fight, do you allow them to win under Kamala Harris? Of course not. And are they the
22:14good guys or the bad guys? And how likely are they to cater to what the UN says about them,
22:19or an international criminal court? The more you think about it, the worse it gets, Mark.
22:24And when they talk patriotism, it's a cynical spin about when we're in charge, we like our
22:31government. But when we're not, then America is a bad place. That's what they believe.
22:36She has no respect for the military. She has no interest in the military. She has no respect for
22:40police officers. She has no respect for police officers. Why? Because she's a revolutionary.
22:46That's why. And people need to understand. You've got sort of a Hollywood-esque type effort to
22:51recreate her. Then her grifters who are all around her know full well that if she exposes herself,
22:58the American people will reject her by 20 points. And so here we are. They pull her off the shelf
23:03after they dump Biden. She slides into the nomination. She hopes to slide into the presidency.
23:09But I want people to remember one thing. Staggering.
23:13If you love your country, if you love your family, if you love your way of life,
23:17you need to understand that Kamala Harris doesn't share your view.
23:22This isn't a general statement. This is a statement that I can defend on specifics.
23:27Everything she proposes is a methodology or an ideology that undercuts and usurps our traditions,
23:35our systems, our constitutional separation of powers.
23:40Pete, I want to thank you very much, my brother. God bless you and take care of yourself.
23:44Thank you, Mark.
23:45Our friend Charles Payne, who's really a genius when it comes to the economy,
23:49maybe other things, too, as far as I know. Fabulous show, Making Money with Charles Payne.
23:55Charles Payne, God forbid if Kamala Harris is elected president,
23:59what will happen to our economy? What will happen to the middle class?
24:03Mark, I think it would be an extension of what we've experienced for the last almost four years.
24:07And it's a bifurcated economy, one of which big government means big profits for large
24:12corporations and pain and agony for everyone else. You know, it's I let me give you an example.
24:19A debt household, disposable household income after you pay off all your bills was the lowest
24:26ever. The Biden and Harris administration, they inherited that. That's up 20 percent since then.
24:32Real weekly wages. So when I say real, that means taking into account inflation.
24:37When Biden came into office under Trump, it was three hundred ninety three dollars.
24:40Now it's three hundred sixty eight dollars. We're going in the wrong direction.
24:44They flooded the economy with a whole lot of money as they took a whole lot
24:48of control. And that's how they do it. You use a combination of rhetoric.
24:51We're going to do this. We're going to do that. Hey, by the way,
24:53we're also going to help you out. We're going to give you a trillion dollars. Well, essentially,
24:57they know that that money is going to pass through the hands of folks really quickly
25:00and ultimately just go to the bottom line of the one percent and corporations.
25:04I see more of the same, except worse, because a Harris victory will be taken as a mandate
25:12to go full steam ahead with the Green New Deal will be seen as a mandate to go full steam ahead
25:19with picking winners and losers in the economy will be seen as a mandate. And this is the
25:23scariest part of all of this, to extinguish the animal spirits of America. You know,
25:30I'm giving four speeches between now and November, and that is the central theme.
25:35Mark, I don't think people understand what made us the greatest nation in the world.
25:40It's not necessarily exclusive to America. There's pockets of this all over the Europe,
25:44for instance, at least they were. But in our country, it was the entire country.
25:49When Tocqueville came to our country, he came here to study our prison system. He ended up
25:53spending like three years marveling at the idea that everywhere he went, wherever people were
25:57born in the lowest classes somehow thought they could end up in the top classes. In fact,
26:01he bristled at it. He was offended by this. How dare anyone think that that's possible?
26:06I think the war on business, the so-called war on business is really a war about Americans and
26:11the notion of pulling yourself up by the bootstraps. Our economy is going to suffer.
26:15We're going to have a massive recession at some point really, really soon early next year.
26:19But more importantly, the wealthiest folks in this country are going to have a voice
26:23and everyone else won't. You know, as I listen to you speak, something comes to mind to me.
26:28And it's a brilliant point that you make. But let me see if you agree with Bernie Sanders,
26:34Barack Obama, Joe Biden, what they're creating. But Harris, in particular,
26:39is an economic oligarchy, where you have these wealthy people like you have in Russia or China,
26:45you have them all over these fascistic and Marxist regimes, these dictatorships.
26:50So they always talk about how they're going to do things for the people,
26:53but they're always centralizing power, centralizing decision making, empowering one
26:58party, the Democrat Party, so all the oligarchs can work through that party to control the country
27:02and control the economy. In many respects, this is what we mean by the establishment
27:07and the ruling class. So she wants to create, in my view, just let me know if you agree or if you
27:13have additional thoughts on this, an economic oligarchy where the people are basically enslaved
27:18to a system where they can't do better. I agree one million percent. And I've been
27:23sounding the alarm in this because it is it is so frightening. And again, it goes against the ethos
27:27and how we got here in the first place. And it's an elitist party. Just think about what's happened
27:33in the last three and a half years. We have taxi cab drivers who are paying off the college degrees
27:41of Ph.D.s. They gave families making four, three hundred, four hundred thousand dollars earned
27:47income tax credit, a program that was designed for the working poor. Ironically, they led a
27:52welfare program that was put into place under Trump, an emergency welfare food stamp program.
27:57They let that die. They let that go out. You know, Mark, it's it's it's and it's not even about
28:02economics, really. It's about ideology. Now, they always wrap it in a veneer of economics,
28:07but it's about a common ideology that there's a handful of people who know better than everyone
28:12else and how we should live. And by the way, how we should live would also ultimately mean
28:16no meat. Right. Not owning anything, particularly a car. And by the way, they were getting some
28:22traction on that whole thing right before Covid, you know, the so-called sharing economy.
28:26How about just two cars in every block and everyone uses it? When Bob's not using it,
28:30Paul, you can use it, that kind of thing. No one owning anything because they understand that
28:34ownership ownership is something they don't want anyone to have. By the way, this ruse about twenty
28:41five thousand dollars for a first time home buyers that will open the door for what we call Yimby.
28:47Now, most people are familiar with NIMBY, not in my backyard. Yimby is, yes, in my backyard.
28:54And with the federal government controlling the housing market and the purse rings,
28:58these amazing communities that have been built up safe, wonderful schools, all of a sudden you're
29:03going to have something built there that you don't want there. You're going to have some
29:06sort of unit built there, units built there under the guise of, hey, this is what the government
29:11wants. It's not going to help. It's it's it's going to destroy the fabric of our nation.
29:15I think you're 100 percent right. And if you think the nation is is terrible,
29:19if you think the Constitution was written by a bunch of white slave owners and there's no use
29:23in it, if you think the founding was illegitimate, you're back to 1619 project. These are all her
29:30views. Why would you give a damn about our institutions? Why would you give a damn about
29:34our economic system? It's a blank slate as far as she's concerned. Anything she does
29:39and chooses to do is perfectly fine by her. We'll be right back.
30:43I will get another gene.
30:59I will get another way.
31:29I will get another way.
31:46I will get another way.
31:59I will get another way.
32:09I will get another way.
32:23I will get another way.
32:33I will get another way.
32:35I will get another way.
32:47Okay.
33:17Okay.
33:47Okay.