On the 1-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, Glenn Beck speaks with Mark Levin about where the world is now: American hostages are still in Gaza, people around the world are protesting Israel, and Kamala Harris is offering money to Lebanon after Israel's attacks on Hezbollah! Mark Levin puts it bluntly: our "pathetic, weak" government was appeasing and subsidizing Iran way before the Oct. 7 attack, and it continues to do so today. "This administration has a ton of blood on its hands," Levin says. "We are subsidizing the modern-day Nazis!" Levin also has some choice words for Kamala Harris after her recent response to a question about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ...
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GLENN: Mr. Mark Levin.
How are you, sir?
MARK: I'm good. I must know you played fort chiefs. Very cool.
Do you have a ring?
GLENN: Yeah. Three of them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, first of all, how are you feeling? How is your leg?
MARK: Dragging behind me. But we're good. I don't recommend tearing your tendon on your quad and your knee. I don't recommend it.
GLENN: Yeah.
MARK: It tore right in half.
GLENN: Did it really?
MARK: Yeah. Anyway, enough of me. How about you?
GLENN: Yeah.
Let's talk about Israel. 365 days ago.
In fact, do we still have the counter up? Yeah. There it is.
We put a counter up, counting the number of days. There have been hostages. We're at 365 today.
366. If you're counting by Israel time.
And still, nothing.
Absolutely nothing.
And today is the anniversary. What are your thoughts?
MARK: You know, my thoughts are, leading up to October 7th, our government, not only appeased Iran, but subsidized Iran. Sent an Iran special, this guy Mali, who you're family with. To negotiate with the Iranians.
They saw this. They saw the most pathetic, weak, American administration ever.
And we were giving them money for our hostages. $6 billion.
We were not enforcing the restrictions. Money was pouring into that country.
They built up their military. They built up their economy, which was teetering.
And I think they figured, you know what, what the hell is Biden going to do, if we unleash Hamas?
They knew it unleashed Hamas and Hezbollah. Hamas attacked on the 7th. Hezbollah started filing missiles on the 8th.
And they were right, in many respects.
This administration has a ton of blood oats hands. Still does.
And the reason why the hostages aren't out, in many respects. First of all, Hamas is a blood lust terrorist operation.
They don't care about these hostages. That's number one.
Number two, they've had any comfort, from this administration, for from day one, where Blinken put out a tweet and then pulled it back, demanding that Israel enter into a cease-fire. They have tied Israeli's arms behind their back. They have cut off arms. They have cut off funds. They have actually allowed more funds to flow into Iran by far, than into Israel. They're still cutting off arms than into Israel. They still are cutting off arms. They publicly, privately, trashed Netanyahu. They leaked against the Israelis. They try to coup against Netanyahu. When they're trying to bring guns. And these other reprobates, that he had in his national security cabinet into the United States, to try to figure out how to topple him.
This is a very evil, diabolical administration. And they want to do to Israel, what they did to Afghanistan. Let's just get out. Let's call a victory. And Israel can't call a victory. Because it won't survive. And its people will be called out.
Even now, they are trying to bribe Israel, and blackmail Israel and not getting Iran's nuclear sites, which need to be eliminated.
GLENN: Yeah. Why would you do that? Why would you do that?
MARK: I'll tell you why. There was a piece written in the tablet. Tablet.com, a year ago. Michael Duran, and another gentleman. And he said, that Obama -- remember, Blinken was his deputy Secretary of State.
Obama, Biden, Blinken. And, yes, Harris.
Their ideology is that Israel cannot be the most powerful military in the Middle East. That we can work with Iran. So Iran can balance off Israel.
They're sympathetic to Iran, believe it or not, anyway.
Because they think, with the Shah of Iran, that we install him.
And that it's American imperialism. And colonialism.
And Khomeini, the first one. His reaction to American colonialism and imperialism. And we just need to work with these people. It is so perverse.
It is so outrageous. And so they want to weaken Israel. Strengthen Iran.
And I'm sitting there thinking, three-fourths of the people of Iran, want to overthrow that government. Iran. It's Iran that overthrew the Lebanese government, through Hezbollah. It's Iran that helped Syria slaughter half a million of its people to stay into power.
It's Iran, that is taking over Iraq, with all the blood that we shed there.
It's Iran that's destroying Yemen. But these are people are out of their minds. And they're trying to assassinate Donald Trump. And, you know, yesterday, Glenn Beck. Yesterday, we gave the okay for South Korea to release the funds to another country. $6 billion to Iran. So Iran sees this. They hear Biden say, Israel, don't do the deathblow against Iran.
And so they feel they can do things that they never would get away with under a Trump or for that matter under a Reagan. Or for that matter under a Clinton.
It's just unbelievable.
GLENN: Yeah. You know, the idea that we caused all this, in '79.
Okay. Let's just give you that. In the same way, that I'll give you or you should give me, that the United States, under Woodrow Wilson, created the conditions, in Germany, that brought us to World War II.
It was the Paris peace treaty, that was just a nightmare.
Okay. We didn't then cozy up, to the Nazis, and say, well, you know what, we kind of caused this. So let's just -- let's just prop him up.
That would have been insanity. And it is exactly the same insanity.
MARK: You know, it's very interesting. Neville Chamberlain, peace in our time of appeasement. Neville Chamberlain never subsidized the Nazis.
We are subsidizing the modern day Nazis. $100 billion is floating into their country.
Because we won't enforce these sanctions. Because we give them money for hostages. We're trying to buy our way. Subsidize our way in.
Joe Biden is an absolute buffoon. But Harris is an ideologue.
Harris is under Obama's wing. And Harris despises the state of Israel. And is constantly trashing their elected leader, Netanyahu.
GLENN: Yeah. Listen to this.
This is from CBS. Face the nation. Cut 18.
Here's Kamala yesterday.
VOICE: Do we have a real close ally in Prime Minister Netanyahu?
KAMALA: I think, with all due respect, the better question is, do we have an important alliance between the American people and the Israeli people?
And the answer to that question is question yes.
GLENN: Well, wait a minute.
Hang on just a second.
Because I think we had an important alliance, you know, in the Cold War, between the American people, and the Russian people. What she's saying is, the government of Israel, we don't have an alliance with.
Isn't she?
MARK: Think about this. This is a representative government. That is a (inaudible) government. Netanyahu today, is the most popular figure in the state of Israel. Because what he's done to Hezbollah, what he's about to do to Iran.
You can't say to a democracy, we have a relationship with the people, but not be people that choose their leaders. As I said, they tried to take him out several times. Through a coup. Through his cabinet. Is a disgusting statement. She doesn't talk about Xi that way. She doesn't talk about Putin that way.
She doesn't talk about the Islamic Nazi who runs Tehran that way. She talks about Netanyahu that way.
Why? Because the fact is, and I'll say it, she's evil. And he's an anti-Semite.
Her father was a Marxist. Her pastor is a Marxist. Anti-Israel.
You know, I've said it many times, Glenn.
If you hate America, you hate Israel. If you hate Israel, you hate America. Why?
Because we share this Judeo-Christian belief system, because the Holy Land is the Holy Land for the Jews and the Christians. And what Israel is trying to do is defend itself. It was attacked by Hamas. It attacks Hamas. If it was attacked by Hezbollah, it attacks Hezbollah.
If it's attacked by Iran, it attacks Iran.
And people say, they're really under attack, on seven sides.
We're attacking on eight sides.
We're withholding weapons from them. They're running out of bombs to take on Iran. The reason why they're withholding 2,000-pound bombs isn't using those in Gaza. Because we don't want them to take out those nuclear sites.
And they need 2,000-pound bombs to do that. Just think about this.
I told the Iranians today.
That Biden and Israel, is to not hit the nuclear sites and not to hit the oil sites.
Well, those are the sites that they need to hit. In order to -- the people there, they're just waiting to rise up again.
GLENN: I know they are.
MARK: And Obama did nothing when they rose up the first time. Biden did nothing when they rose up the second time. And now they're strengthening this genocidal regime, that brutalizes its own people.
And when you're 157 million to Lebanon. Lebanon is controlled by Hezbollah. The Lebanese people hate Hezbollah. The Syrian people hate Hezbollah. Because they went in there to help Hasad retain his power there.
So think about this, Iran is taking over Iraq. Iran has destroyed Yemen. Iran and Russia controls Syria, Iran controls Lebanon.
And all our pressure is on the state of Israel.
Thirty percent of our Navy is sitting around in the Mediterranean there. Rather than tell Israel, we have your back, do what you need to do. I don't know why they're sitting there, to be perfectly honest at this point.
GLENN: I know.
All right. Mark, hang on for just one minute. I want to talk to you about what this means in the future. And also Trump and the election.
GLENN: So, Mark, I happen to believe that anything could happen between here and the election. And anything could happen after the election. I think we are a country that seems to be itching for World War III.
Do you agree with me, or not?
MARK: I don't know if we're itching for World War III. But I know other countries are. And we're not prepared for it. They've been slashing the United States military. They've been prioritizing wokism instead of preparedness.
I talked to a number of people inside. Real people, real generals, and they said, look, we don't have what we need for a two-front war. If China invades Taiwan, there's very little we can do about it. Our own inventoried weapons have been depleted significantly. Our troop levels, other than the Marines are way underneath what they're supposed to be. So if we're itching for World War III, we sure as hell are not prepared for it.
GLENN: Yeah.
MARK: I think what we have here is a leadership that is diabolical. If not evil. We have leadership that is geological. We have leadership that is incompetent and lazy.
And if you look, not just at our defense posture. But all around us.
We have a government now, that is destroying the institutions, that have been built up for hundreds of years. Our military.
Our -- our domestic police forces. Our economic system.
Our border.
We have revolution by immigration.
We have all kinds of things that are taking place, and I would argue, to empower the Democrat Party. Where the Democrat Party becomes a monopolistic party.
Every aspect of our Constitution is under attack. Separation of powers. The independence of the Supreme Court.
The electoral college. The filibuster. Which isn't in the Constitution. But protects from us factions like this current one.
They don't believe in our country. They don't believe in our Constitution. They don't believe in our people.
Which is why they're trying to -- the New York Times said, quote, unquote, tried to reshape the electorate. They don't believe in the electoral system. They don't mind us going through an electoral system as long as they win.
And so they don't believe in our military either.
So what they're doing is they're creating provocations. I would argue.
Where, Xi looks at this. Putin looks at this.
And they look at it. All the other genocidal monsters look at it and say, you know what, we pretty much can do whatever the hell we want to do.
Even in Ukraine. You and I may have a difference of opinion on this.
GLENN: That's all right.
MARK: What we're doing to Ukraine is horrendous. Is horrendous. I'll tell you why.
We don't really want Ukraine to win. So people are dying by the tens of thousands. You're getting just enough arms to put up a defense. But not enough arms to actually protect our country.
GLENN: But isn't that the way we fight wars now?
MARK: It is. And that's the way they want Israel to fight their war. And Netanyahu is saying, no damn way.
We have to take these guys out. And so you're 100 percent right. These forever wars are intentional. Are intentional.
And this thing with Ukraine and Russia, if Trump doesn't get elected, it will either be a forever war. Or Russia will wind up winning anyway. Because now they create an axis between Russia and China.
Which for half a century, we have prevented.
GLENN: I know. I know.
MARK: North Korea and Iran. It's very serious. You're right. I don't know if they're itching for World War III, but certainly the conditions exist. And it's a five alarm right now.
GLENN: Yeah. So tell me a couple of things. Because I only have a couple of minutes left with you.
The thought of the hurricane relief. What's happening on that.
What do you know, is happening on the ground
And how is this going to affect the election?
What are your just on the election?
MARK: Fiscal, thank you for what you and your group is doing. You're a great patriot, Glenn. You really are.
I'm very concerned. Because we're talking about half a million people, who have been affected in a horrendous way by this hurricane.
It just turns out. Particularly North Carolina. Yeah, it looks like 80, 90 percent Republican vote. So this is a big problem.
Turns to FEMA. I read a report that, you know, Trump and Pence before hurricanes, used to have these pre-hurricane meetings, which is what every administration has done. Kamala Harris didn't attend a single one, and now we have this massive hurricane.
It will cut right through the heart of Florida, which is also pretty much a Republican state. I see no urgency. Do you see an urgency here?
GLENN: No. No.
MARK: Nothing.
GLENN: If this were -- look what happened with George Bush and Katrina, how they just slaughtered him on that.
Here's a second hurricane. We now know that Helene is as much damage as Katrina.
Nobody is even reporting it. Really, in the mainstream media. About what's really going on in the ground.
And how things need to change.
And now you have a second one, coming in on shore, on Wednesday.
And they don't seem to be prepared.
MARK: No, and Harris announces 157 million to Lebanon.
GLENN: Yeah, I know.
MARK: What?
GLENN: I know.
MARK: And people aren't noticing, yesterday. We gave the okay for South Korea to release the $6 billion which will flow to Iran. What the hell is going on here?
It's stunning.
GLENN: It's amazing. Thank you so much, Mark. For everything that you do every day.
I appreciate it. It's an honor to work on the same network with you.
God bless you.
MARK: God bless you, brother.