Mark Levin: What exactly do we have to wait for?

0:00 Well, you know, ladies and gentlemen, uh it's one thing if people criticize the war effort, and they've done so consistently. It's another thing if they are political hacks and hypocrites. Now, there's been some discussion I hear about whether or not the threat from Iran is imminent. I don't quite understand this. Uh and the people who say that don't really tell us what they mean by that. What do you have to wait for exactly? 47 years of a record of killing Americans or enriched uranium at 60% and then at 90%. What exactly do we have to wait for? They could still use a dirty bomb even if they don't have actual uh ICBMs that can reach us, but they do have now

0:46 ICBMs that can reach Europe and our military bases and soon enough the United States. So, what do we wait for? When they have 50,000 ballistic missiles that they can shoot almost simultaneously, nobody can defend against that either. But, you know, I want us to rely a little bit on some very infamous Democrats who told us that this was imminent just a few years ago. from Secretary of State Blinken, from Jen Saki, from FBI Director Christopher Ray, from the former head of the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin, and of course Chris Murphy, the notorious Chris Murphy, who I think lives at CNN and MS Now. Let's take a look at this Syrium one after the other go. >> Iran's nuclear program is galloping

1:32 forward. Uh it is enriching uh at a at higher levels uh 20% even 60% uh in small cases. it's using more advanced centrifuges. We're now down based on published reports to a few months if this continues. If they continue to enrich at the uh levels and in the ways they're doing, it will get down eventually to a few weeks. So, that is a a concrete problem. We have an interest in putting that nuclear problem back in the box because an Iran with a nuclear weapon or with the ability to produce file material on very short notice to get one is an Iran that's going to be an even worse actor. Iran has rapidly accelerated its nuclear program and reduced cooperation with international inspectors. Their breakout period is down from about a year, which is what we knew it was during the deal, to just a few weeks or less. As the world's

2:18 largest state sponsor of terrorism, the Iranians, for instance, have directly or by hiring criminals mounted assassination attempts against dissident and highranking current and former US government officials, including right here on American soil. >> The president will not tolerate attacks on American troops, and neither will I. Our teammates were killed by radical militias backed by Iran and operating inside Syria and Iraq. >> Yes, it is true. Iran is closer to a nuclear weapon than ever before. Iran, if they chose to get a nuclear weapon, could probably get one within weeks. >> Pretty fast. Week, two weeks. Sounds

3:05 pretty imminent to me. It doesn't have to be imminent. We just need to know they're doing it. And they're enriching. They've got uranium enriched to the level that it can be used in a nuclear dirty bomb and soon in a nuclear missile. And so you don't sit around and wait for seventh century barbarians with this kind of technology and pretend you have absolute precise notice of when it's going to happen when, as I said, and I want to underscore, they're building these ballistic missiles as fast as they can. And if you just unleash a bunch of ballistic missiles at once, there's no defensive missile system that can stop them all at once. Okay,

3:51 I thought I'd use this as a basis to swing in the history. I'd like to do things a little differently here. 250th 250th what year for what? That we declared our independence. We declared our independence on July 4th. And as we get closer to that date, I actually want to explain what led up to it. And I will use this program to do it. Everything doesn't have to be immediate current events, but it all ties into present- day events, doesn't it? And so I want to talk about that a little bit. We see this opposition and the media is opposition. They oppose this military effort. We also have others in the Democrat party almost to a man and woman who oppose this military campaign. We have what I

4:36 call the woke right neofascists. Many of them are podcasters who oppose this campaign and many of them give aiding comfort to the enemy as far as I'm concerned. Is this the first time that's ever happened? No. In fact, I can't think of a single war where it hasn't happened. And the media will put out their polls. MAGA's 100% for what's going on, 97% for what's going on, but the general population is 56%. And who cares? President's doing what's right. This is a matter of life and death, war and peace. You don't lick your finger and put it in the air and say, "Well, who feels this way today? We're not selling cereal. This is a real deal. Any president is elected. He's the commander-in-chief to make the final decision based on information that's not

5:22 available to all the rest of us or even to Joe Kent. Now, let's take a look at a very important war, the Revolutionary War. Now, what's interesting about the Revolutionary War is about 40 to 45% of the colonists supported it. Say what? 40 to 45%. 20% about 20% of the colonists were loyalists or they called themselves tries. They supported the enemy the British because that was the heritage that was their lineage but it was also the heritage and lineage of those who declared independence. So there were about 2 and a half million people in America back then. It wasn't called the United States of course. So that's about

6:08 half a million people who supported the loyalists. Now, some of them threw in with the loyalists. Some of them just kept quiet. And so that means about 35 to 40% of the colonists were undecided or neutral. So 20% were for the British, the crown. About 40 45% were all gungho for the revolution. And 35 to 40% weren't sure. Okay, so that's the population breakdown. But those who were loyalists, they didn't all sit down quietly. During the American Revolution, up to 25,000 loyalists actually served served in the provincial and loyalist

6:55 military uh militia corps to support the British crown. Not all at once. At its peak, it was about 10,000. So they had the British provincial line which enrolled Americans on a regular army status contained about 19,000 men organized into 50 units and 312 companies. An additional 10,000 loyalists served in regional militias or associations they called them which were often part-time, locally raised and rarely wore uniforms. And some estimates suggest that as many as 50,000 loyalists served as soldiers or militia at one point or another during the Revolutionary War on behalf of the British. And at its peak, as I said, there were 9700 men, almost 10,000 men at any given time. That's a lot.

7:41 It's a lot, don't you think? Now, I want to read a letter to you in part, not the whole letter, from August 31st, 1813 from John Adams to Thomas McCain. Now, John Adams wrote a lot. He corresponded a lot during his retirement with Jefferson and so forth. And I find it fascinating to read all these letters and there's a lot of of them. Uh, and again, I'm kind of a nerd. I read this stuff. I love this stuff. Uh, Adams, Jefferson, Washington, I collect some of these things as well. And I just want to uh give you some of the information that I've gleaned from these letters. So this is a letter from uh Adams to McCain

8:30 uh on August 31, 1813. And you're sitting there about now and you're saying, "Well, who is Thomas McCain?" Well, he's mostly forgotten in the discussion about the founders, but he was critical. He was a big deal. He had a great impact on the declaration period, on the Constitution, on the Supreme Court of the United States. He served in the Continental Congress from one state, Delaware, while serving as chief justice of another state, Pennsylvania, for more than 5 years. He was raised initially in Pennsylvania. He moved to Delaware. He became a big deal in both states. So there he could serve uh in the Continental Congress from Delaware and on the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. He was also as he represented Delaware in the first

9:16 Continental Congresses, he fought alongside George Washington. He briefly served as president of the Continental Congress in 1781 as British forces surrendered at Yorktown. And while he served in Congress as a representative from Delaware, he was also the chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. and some of the rulings they had in Pennsylvania with him as chief justice influenced the man who would become chief justice of the United States, John Marshall. This whole notion of judicial re review and so forth. He was the last delegate to sign the Declaration of Independence in July. Uh it was 177, the last delegate to sign, not because he was reluctant, because he was busy. And near the end he said, "Hey, hey, hey, I got to sign that, too." And he

10:03 did. and he was not at the constitutional convention later, but he had a lot of impact. He had a lot of input through other delegates and he was crucial in getting Pennsylvania to ratify the Constitution at their convention. As a matter of fact, the Constitution was almost not ratified. was very close in New York, very close in Virginia, and very close in Pennsylvania, which is why we got the Federalist Papers written by Hamilton and John J and Madison. They wrote those to try and convince the delegates at these various state conventions to ratify. It was quite a battle that took place and he was very important was McCain in Pennsylvania. Now, let's go to the letter. Adams is in a very bad mood.

10:49 He's in a bad mood. He's looking around. and he's saying we don't get any credit for founding this country. We don't even teach our history anymore, who was who and who did what and so forth. And he's very concerned about it as we are today. Right? So he says in part, can you account for the apathy, the antipathy of this nation to their own history? Is there not a repugnance to the thought of looking back while thousands of frivolous novels are read with eagerness and got by heart? The history of our own native country is not only neglected but despised and abhored. He says, "You may conjecture my suspicions from what follows. Were I a man of fortune, I would offer a gold medal to the man who should produce the most instances of the friendship of

11:36 Great Britain towards this country from 1600 to 1813." He's being sarcastic. He says, "You won't find any." And here we are basically fighting them again indirectly. And we don't even remember our own history. We don't even look at our own history. The public doesn't. He goes on later and he says, "In times like those in which you and I have lived, we are not masters. We can scarcely be said to be fathers of our own families." Again, he's in a foul mood. He says, "I have three children born in Quincy, one in Boston. I have one grandson born in London, another on Long Island, another in Berlin, several in Quincy, several in New York, several in Boston, one born and died in St. Petersburg." Is this a desirable history of a family? I tro not. I think not. Then your history of

12:24 Otis and Rugles are familiar to me. Now, who are Otis and Rugles? Otis is James Otis who lived from 1725 to 1783. He was a prominent lawyer and political activist from Massachusetts. So, he knew him. Adams being from Massachusetts. His legal arguments and speeches, this was a big deal guy. Otis are credited with helping to inspire revolutionary thought across the colonies. Yet, who's ever heard of Otis? Now, you have, and I want to do more of that in the course of this year. Otis famously declared that taxation without representation is tyranny. You may have heard of that. People who live in DC have, they have it on their license tags. Uh, his intellectual contributions laid the groundwork for the ideological underpinnings of the revolution. and he

13:09 influenced John Adams and Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty. That's how important he was. Okay. Well, who's this guy? Ruggles. Ah, a whole different story. Also from Massachusetts. He had been a respected lawyer. He served as speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, chief justice of the court of common please in Massachusetts. And the war breaks out and he joins the British. Brigadier General during the French and Indian Wars who became a prominent loyalist leader during the American Revolution as a staunch loyalist. He opposed the revolution and then commanded loyalist forces under the British. Eventually after the war he had to flee to Nova Scotia as did tens of thousands of loyalists who were involved in the war. Nova Scotia, England, France. They weren't welcome. So he

13:56 says, "Your history of Otis and Rugles are familiar to me. I knew them both. Rugles was my cousin. Otis, my friend, and one of my patrons. I could not have drawn the character of either with more precision than you have done. Both high-minded men, exalted souls, acting in senses they could not comprehend, and acting parts whose effects and consequences will last longer than their names will be remembered. And nobody remembers their names anymore. In fact, we just don't teach American history anymore. You say that at the time of the Congress in 1765, the great mass of the people were zealous in the cause of America. The great mass of the people is an expression that deserves analysis. New York and Pennsylvania were so nearly divided, if their propensity was not

14:42 against it, that if New England on one side and Virginia on the other side had not kept them in all, they would have joined the British. Marshall in his life of Washington tells us that the southern states were nearly equally divided. and they were. Look into the journals of Congress, he writes, and you will see how sedicious, how near rebellion were several counties of New York, and how much trouble we had to compose them. The last contest in the town of Boston in 1775 between Wig and Tory was decided by five against two. upon the whole if we allow twothirds of the people to have been with us in the revolution is not the allowance ample are not 2/3 of the nation now with the administration divided we have ever been and ever must

15:28 be twothirds always had and will have more difficulty to struggle with the one-third than with all our foreign enemies he's saying there even though we're twothirds isn't that big enough apparently not our biggest struggles are not with foreigners Our biggest struggles with the one-/3. That's the point. Our biggest struggles are with the one-third. In our case, if the polls are right, our biggest struggles is with a larger percentage than that. We're trying to undermine the war effort. We're trying to undermine the commander-in-chief. We're trying to dispirit and disunite the nation. We have to fight on. But it's not the

16:14 president alone. It's not the military alone. They're doing a spectacular job. It's the millions of us, we patriots who are loyal to this country. Not the hypocrites, not people who politicize this, as I led the program off with, not the neofascists and the Marxists and the Islamists. It's we red-blooded Americans. We need to get behind our military because this is a noble cause. Eliminating a regime that has killed and maimed thousands of Americans. A regime that seeks a nuclear weapon that it will use. It doesn't believe in mutually assured destruction. It believes in the obliteration of a

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