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00:00Hello America, I'm Mark Levin and this is Life, Liberty and Levin Sunday.
00:19Two great guests, Colonel Richard Kemp, who is commander of Afghan forces for Britain,
00:23and Governor Ron DeSantis.
00:24But before we get to our guests, when will those who attack the President of the United
00:31States give him the credit he deserves?
00:34When will they understand that this man operates outside the box, which is why he's so damn
00:39successful in his private life and in his public life?
00:43Rather than tearing him apart and trashing him, maybe they ought to emulate him because
00:48he gets more done in one hour than most people get done in an entire month.
00:53Now let's take a look at this.
00:56Panama.
00:58He said, give us the Panama Canal back, we build it, our people died, we paid for it and
01:05it's ours, and it was the dumbest thing to give that canal to the Panamanians.
01:10And he was right.
01:12Now why did he say all those things?
01:13Well they happen to be true, but Communist China was controlling both ends of the Panama Canal.
01:18Do they control both ends of the Panama Canal today?
01:21No, we do.
01:24So our fleets can get from the Pacific to the Atlantic, from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
01:28which was the point of the Panama Canal without going all the way down around the horn of South
01:35America.
01:35Now the president looks at the map and he says, we got a big problem, the Communist Chinese
01:42and the Russians, they're building bases in the Arctic, military bases.
01:47How are we going to compete with that?
01:49How are we going to address that?
01:50Plus I want to build this, this Iron Dome, the Golden Dome, and we need the space to do it.
01:56And he looks at Greenland and he says, Greenland is ripe for the taking by our enemies.
02:03They got about 12 people and 4 million goats up there.
02:05And of course, the Danes don't have the capacity to defend anything, including themselves.
02:10What do they have, five frigates?
02:11I don't know.
02:11It doesn't really matter.
02:12And so he says, well, we got to do something about this.
02:15He says, okay, we're going to take Greenland.
02:18Oh, everybody lose their mind.
02:19Yeah, we're going to take Greenland.
02:21We have Democrats running to Greenland saying, we stand with Greenland.
02:24You know, they stand with everybody who stands against us because that's their nature.
02:29That's what they do.
02:29They're knee-jerk.
02:31But the president has a plan in mind.
02:33And the plan has worked out beautifully.
02:36And he goes to Davos and everybody wants to talk to our president.
02:40Everyone wants photos with our president.
02:42Why?
02:43I mean, we're told that he's destroying all this magnificent international structure that we've built.
02:48No, he's rebuilding it and making it American-centric.
02:53That's what he's doing.
02:55And what happens?
02:57There's a negotiation that takes place, at least fundamentally, if the media is correct.
03:03We're going to have some bases now in Greenland that will be sovereign American territory so we can defend ourselves.
03:11And the rest of the world, that always depends on us anyway.
03:14So we're going to have some bases there, some docks there.
03:17And that was genius.
03:22And in addition to that, he secures our border.
03:24Because the president understands securing the border is both an imperative from a domestic point of view and a national security point of view.
03:33People are pouring into this country who want to destroy it.
03:36People are being sent into this country by our enemies and by our adversaries, by the communist Chinese, by countries in Africa, by countries in the Middle East, by countries south of the border.
03:50He says that's going to stop.
03:53And he stops it cold.
03:54Stops it cold.
03:55We debate on and on.
03:56We need legislation.
03:57You know, this guy won't do this.
04:00This guy.
04:01He says, we're going to secure that border and shut it down.
04:04And he does it.
04:05In like 30 or 60 days.
04:08Now he sees we have a problem.
04:10The people who were led into this country under the Biden regime.
04:14They were not only led into this country.
04:15They were literally flown into this country by the Biden regime from the Middle East and elsewhere.
04:21And this has created a huge problem.
04:23We literally have Islamists in our country who are openly preaching the overthrow of the United States of America.
04:32President Trump says, you know, this is going to stop.
04:34We have to deport people who hate our country.
04:37You come here.
04:38You love our country.
04:39You assimilate into our country.
04:40You show allegiance to our country.
04:42That's the way it's supposed to work.
04:43Immigration is supposed to work for the American people, not against the American people.
04:48That's been the way historically immigration is supposed to work.
04:52Foreigners don't have a right to come here and then try and destroy our country.
04:57And of course, he's up against the lower courts that are filled with left-wing Democrat lawyers in black robes.
05:02And he's fighting them.
05:04But it is a fight that has to be fought.
05:07It's fantastic.
05:09All national security related.
05:10You can't divide domestic and foreign policy.
05:15We have people on the far left and we have the isolationists and the neo-fascists and the Marxists and Islamists.
05:23Focus on affordability.
05:26Domestic and international relations are tied together.
05:30Whether it's tariffs, whether it's immigration, whatever it is, you can't put one in a box and one in the other box.
05:39And by the way, the President of the United States on economic issues has done more than any president in my lifetime.
05:46He's done more than Franklin Roosevelt has done.
05:48And those tax cuts haven't even kicked in fully yet.
05:51They're going to kick in and all the rest of it's going to kick in.
05:55And the economy is going to really, it's going to get much stronger than it is already.
05:58Then what are the Democrats going to complain about?
06:01Oh, investigations and impeachment.
06:03That for another day.
06:06And so Davos was a huge success.
06:09As we knew it would be with our president.
06:11But that brings us to Iran, doesn't it?
06:15Iran.
06:16What are the quizzling leaders in Europe doing about Iran?
06:20As far as we know, nothing.
06:23Now, they want a Palestinian state when Israel is fighting a war for its own survival against Islamist terrorists born of the Muslim Brotherhood that were funded and supported by our friends Qatar,
06:38funded and supported by our friends Turkey, and of course, funded and supported by Iran.
06:46But what about now?
06:48Why aren't they speaking up?
06:50Because it's hard.
06:52Because in order to resolve what's going on in Iran is difficult.
06:55It's not easy.
06:56You're not pounding a democracy, an ally.
06:59You're talking about an enemy.
07:02An Islamist Nazi regime.
07:04That's a lot harder to deal with than a friendly democracy that you keep beating up on and beating up on and beating up on, isn't it?
07:13Well, let's talk about Iran now.
07:16Because I believe we need to help those people as quickly as we can.
07:21And it's not so easy.
07:23But it has to be done.
07:25And in helping those people, what did I say?
07:27Foreign policy relates to domestic policy.
07:29We're helping ourselves.
07:31Why?
07:31Well, I just read in the paper a few days ago, that regime in Iran has tested a missile, an intercontinental ballistic missile that goes 10,000 miles.
07:44Remember, we used to say, ah, that's 7,000 miles away.
07:47That's not our problem.
07:4910,000 miles.
07:50Now, why would they be developing technology on missiles that can go 10,000 miles?
07:55Because it hits Washington, D.C.
07:58Hits the entire East Coast.
08:00That's why.
08:01And the problem for us, America, we're not going to always have Donald Trump as commander-in-chief.
08:06We're not going to always have him as our president.
08:08Every president before Donald Trump said, no nukes for Iran, and did absolutely nothing.
08:12In fact, in the case of Obama, he signed a deal that would ensure they'd have nuclear weapons in 10 years.
08:18President Trump signed the retraction of it and handed me the pen, by the way, that has been framed and is hanging on my wall.
08:27That's right.
08:27Joe Biden, he had a great idea.
08:30Let's fund the Iranian regime.
08:32Let's give them billions of dollars in relief, and that way we'll buy their support.
08:38Of course, it's an Islamist Nazi regime.
08:43They take your money and they use it against us.
08:46And of course, that regime is working with Communist China.
08:49Communist China now is delivering ballistic missiles to them as fast as they possibly can.
08:54Of course, they're working with Russia.
08:56They've given Russia drones to attack the wonderful people in Ukraine and kill as many of them as possible.
09:00And yes, I support Ukraine.
09:02Yes, I do.
09:03Yes, I do.
09:04I admit it.
09:04Iran has interests far beyond its borders, and we are enemy number one.
09:12They've tried to assassinate our president two or three times, and they've threatened to kill our president in the last three weeks five times.
09:22Does that tick anybody off?
09:25Does that tick us off?
09:26It ticks me off.
09:28No regime should be able to threaten our president and still exist.
09:32The idea that if they kill our president, we will wipe them off the map.
09:36Excuse me.
09:38They don't get to kill our president.
09:40That regime needs to be wiped off the map now.
09:43That's right.
09:44I said it.
09:44So let's start right there.
09:47What is it about this regime that withstands these protests, these people rising up?
09:53How is it possible that when you have the vast majority of people in Iran who want to be free, that they can't overcome the power of this Islamist Nazi regime?
10:06Well, I'm going to read something to you.
10:09This opened my eyes.
10:10This is in the Middle East Forum, written by Saeed Golkar.
10:14In part, the Islamic Republic today functions as a theocratic security regime organized around Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family.
10:24Power is structured in concentric circles, with Khamenei and his immediate family at the center.
10:31Authority is highly personalized, and political survival depends less on formal institutions than on proximity to the supreme leader himself and his sons.
10:41It's run like a mob organization, a mafia that controls an entire country.
10:46Khamenei's leadership is defined by rigidity, discipline, and a deep sense of personal mission.
10:51He views himself not simply as a political authority, but as a guardian entrusted with a divine responsibility to preserve the Islamic Republic,
11:00a belief that leaves little room for hesitation or compromise during crises.
11:04And since assuming the position of supreme leader in 1989, he has steadily transformed the system into a theocratic security state
11:14that privileges coercion over popular consent, relying on a highly institutionalized and ideologically committed repressive apparatus.
11:22So here you have a man who has used Islam as a justification for his power and turns it, claiming that the reason he's in power is to protect Islam.
11:37The structural reality, more than public sentiment, sets the boundaries of political change in Iran today
11:42and reflects a leader who prioritizes regime survival.
11:47I would say his survival and that of his sons, immediately surrounding the core, the family,
11:53is the Beit et Rabbari, or Office of the Supreme Leader, the most powerful and least visible institution in the Islamic Republic.
12:01Khamenei's Beit operates in practice as the regime's actual executive authority.
12:07So he has this personal Politburo that's in control of everything.
12:12Everything.
12:12Over the past three decades, it has evolved into a vast and opaque parallel state that sits above the Constitution, the Parliament, and the Presidency,
12:23staffed by thousands of loyal clerics, security officials, and ideological technocrats.
12:29The bait shapes decision-making across military, intelligence, economic, judicial, and cultural domains.
12:35Rather than governing through impersonal rules or institutional checks,
12:39Khamenei governs through trusted individuals embedded across the state.
12:44The bait also serves as the primary channel through which Khamenei's family, particularly his sons,
12:49exercise influence, turning it into both an institutional and familial center of authority.
12:55The bait is not merely an extension of Khamenei's authority.
12:58It is the mechanism that allows his rule to endure, absorb shocks, and operate without constant visibility.
13:04And surrounding the bait, the inner circle, is an extensive clerical network that confers religious legitimacy on that system.
13:13Through seminaries, Friday prayer leaders, provincial representatives, and regime-aligned senior clerics,
13:20Khamenei's authority is presented as divinely sanctioned.
13:24He is portrayed not merely as a political leader, but as the representative of the hidden imam.
13:28And this theological framing converts obedience into a religious duty and recasts repression as a moral necessity rather than a political choice.
13:39Clerical institutions such as the Assembly of Experts and the Guardian Council reinforce this sacred legitimacy
13:45while actively disciplining dissent within the religious establishment itself.
13:51It goes on.
13:52Beyond the clerical layer lies the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the IRGC, and the broader security apparatus,
13:59forming the regime's coercive shield.
14:02Created to defend the Islamic Republic, the IRGC's primary mission since 1979 has been regime protection,
14:11preventing coups, suppressing dissent, and shielding the supreme leader.
14:14Over time, it involved a Praetorian Guard extending beyond military functions into a multi-branched security organization
14:21with intelligence, expeditionary units, and the Basaj militia, each deeply embedded in society.
14:29The IRGC structure aims to contain unrest through decentralization, provincial commands,
14:36combining the IRGC, Basij, and local security forces.
14:40And it goes on.
14:41So what do we do now?
14:42Our great president is muscling up like never before.
14:48The USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group expected to arrive in the Arabian Sea or Persian Gulf in the next few days.
14:55Its air wing includes F-35C Lightning II and F-A-18EF Super Hornet squadrons,
15:02EA-18G Growler Electronic Warfare aircraft, this is all public,
15:07E-2D Advanced Hawkeye AEW and CMV-22B Osprey tiltrotors, escort ships.
15:15The strike group includes three Arleigh Burke-class destroyers and guided missile cruiser USS Mobile Bay.
15:21At least one Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarine.
15:25Potentially an Ohio-class guided missile submarine are expected in the area.
15:29Strategic bombers, two B-2 Spirit stealth bombers were purported departing the U.S. mainland for the region.
15:36Multiple air defense systems and so forth.
15:39So it's a massive presence.
15:41Also C-17 Globemaster III cargo jets, KC-135 Strato tankers, and KC-46A Pegasus aerial refuelers.
15:50Additional M-1A-2 Abrams tanks, M-2 Bradley fighting vehicles, and so forth and so on to protect our base there.
15:57So given all the information I've just given to you, and of course the president has much more.
16:04The head of the snake needs to be destroyed.
16:08With all our muscle power and so forth.
16:10The pyramid, not the edges of the pyramid, not even the center of the pyramid, the top of the pyramid.
16:21Khomeini, his family, and that inner circle needs to be taken out by our armed forces.
16:31It's not an easy task.
16:32In addition, they still have ballistic missiles, maybe a thousand, to hit us, to hit the Israelis, and so forth and so on.
16:41Which is why Israel needed time to have defensive missile systems in place.
16:46Why we needed time to have our defensive missiles in place.
16:49To have our offensive activity ready and our defensive activity ready.
16:55And I believe the president of the United States, he'll have a number of decisions to make.
17:00He will make the right decision.
17:03This regime needs to be taken out.
17:05Those people live in basically what is a concentration camp.
17:09Tens of millions of them who want to be free.
17:12Who want to work with the United States of America and the rest of the free world.
17:16Who are being slaughtered in the most horrific ways.
17:19In the most horrific ways.
17:21Particularly the women.
17:23Particularly teenagers.
17:25Just goes on and on.
17:26And this regime will not go away unless we make it go away.
17:29With their 10,000 mile ICBM and nuclear warheads in the future.
17:37It's weaker now than it's ever been.
17:39This is a very difficult task.
17:41But a task it is.
17:42And I am certain the president of the United States will do what he said.
17:46And I'm certain he's the only one who can do what he said.
17:51This is righteous.
17:53Complicated.
17:54Daunting.
17:55Necessary.
17:56Compelled.
17:57And righteous.
17:58I'll be right back.
17:59Welcome back America.
18:07We're here with our friend Colonel Richard Kemp.
18:09Former commander of British forces in Afghanistan.
18:12Former chairman of the Cobra Intelligence Group.
18:15Richard Kemp.
18:17You have a lot of battlefield experience and so forth.
18:20Iran's a tough nut to crack.
18:21But it can be cracked, can't it?
18:24I believe it can.
18:26With the amount of power that the Americans are building up in the region now.
18:31I think they have the capability of doing very, very severe damage to this regime.
18:36Not on top of which.
18:37They've got very, very massive intelligence resources.
18:40Of course, fed into by Israel as well, which probably has the best intelligence coverage of any country over Iran.
18:48And we saw in the 12-day war last year where Israel was attacked and carried out serious counteroffensive against Iran and joined in by the Americans.
18:58We saw how much damage Israel was able to do in just a short space of time.
19:03First of all, of course, to do severe damage to the missile capability, to defend against missiles, and with American assistance to do huge damage to the Iranian nuclear program.
19:14In addition to that, not often talked about, but Israel damaged enormously the Iranian regime, taking out some of the key commanders in the IRGC, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and other elements of the Iranian regime.
19:31Plus, of course, some of the leading nuclear scientists.
19:34And that can all be done.
19:35It could be done by Israel very, very effectively.
19:38If Israel can do that amount of damage, I have no doubt, whatever, that the United States can do a great deal more damage with this massive force that's being built up.
19:47And I think the key target, the key task, really, of the Americans is to hit the top of the regime, to eliminate the ayatollahs, to eliminate the senior military commanders, and to bring that horrible, murderous edifice down on top of them.
20:06And without having, I don't think, to develop the offensive too widely.
20:12And of course, as you mentioned before, there is every probability that the Iranians will attempt to retaliate if this occurs, and they will be retaliating against US assets in the region, as well as, of course, Israel.
20:26I'm here in Jerusalem now, and this will be one of their prime targets.
20:29But the Israelis, combined with the Americans, and I'm happy to say also, the British have got aircraft deployed here for air defence purposes in the region.
20:40I think they will be able to blunt any lashings out that the Iranians decide to do.
20:46So you can never be certain, you can never be sure of what will happen in any war.
20:53But I think, I'm as confident as I can be, that the US will do enormous damage to the regime while protecting against Iranian counterattacks.
21:02On top of all that, of course, we've got to worry about the Iranians' allies around the region.
21:09The Lebanese Hezbollah have been very badly written down.
21:13If they hadn't been by Israel, if they hadn't been, then of course we have to worry about their missile attacks against Israel.
21:19Equally, Hamas have been extremely badly written down and have limited capability to do anything in support of the regime now.
21:27Then we have the Houthis, who will undoubtedly attempt to strike towards Israel in the event of a conflict here.
21:35But I think their effect will be limited.
21:38So I think the US can do a lot of damage without sustaining too much damage ourselves.
21:43I think that's well said.
21:45And Colonel Richard Kemp, here's the other thing.
21:48They're weaker now than they've ever been.
21:50So if something's going to be done to help those people and to protect the West and our country, it should be now, in my humble opinion.
21:59It's not going to get easier.
22:01They're going to build more ballistic missiles.
22:03Perhaps they'll build nuclear weapons, especially when President Trump leaves office.
22:08We've seen how feckless most leaders in the West, and including in my country, have been with them building their nuclear weapons and so forth.
22:18So, to me, we have the right commander-in-chief in the United States.
22:21We've got the right prime minister of Israel.
22:24They're as weak as they can be in Iran right now.
22:26The people have risen up.
22:28But as I just explained, they have these circles of authority and so forth.
22:32So it's not going to be enough just to hit the bottom of the pyramid, as you just pointed out.
22:37You're going to have to go for the regime, and the regime is really in one man and his family.
22:42Is that correct?
22:43Yeah, you're right.
22:44And I think there's every probability that if a U.S. offensive is successful against the top of the regime, then the whole edifice will collapse around it.
22:54I don't think there's going to be that many.
22:56I mean, obviously, there will be an element of trying to fight against it from lower levels.
23:01But I think it will crumble when they see the power that's being delivered against them.
23:05And I agree with you.
23:06I think the time is now.
23:07As soon as the U.S. believe that they've got all the resources they need in this region ready to strike, then they should get on with it and do it.
23:16Because the last thing we need is delays, prevarication.
23:20We're going to see that from the ISLers.
23:22We're already seeing them attempting to offer some kind of negotiation.
23:26That should all be treated with contempt because they don't mean it.
23:29They just want to try and save this off as long as they possibly can.
23:33We shouldn't accept any deals from them, any bargains, nothing, because these are not made in good faith.
23:39They will not result in anything other than the continuation of this barbarous regime.
23:44And we've seen how much they're doing to the innocent people in Iran who are trying to reestablish their freedom and shrug off this monstrous regime above them.
23:54We've seen how they've been gunning them down, massacring them, not just protesters, but innocent bystanders as well have been gunned down by this regime.
24:04And, of course, it's not just that.
24:05That's a very, very important element.
24:08We're talking about something close to genocide here.
24:11People bandy the word genocide about.
24:13But the Iranian regime is inflicting a form of genocide on their own people.
24:18That's very important.
24:19It's stopped.
24:20That's the duty.
24:20And I think we're in a way we're in a kind of 1930s moment here.
24:25If the West back in the 30s, if Europe had had the capability of stopping Hitler in his tracks before he began his offensives all around Europe,
24:34then that might have saved millions of lives in the void of the Second World War.
24:50Welcome back, America.
24:51Colonel Kemp, there are consequences if the United States and our allies don't do something, aren't there?
24:58This regime will survive.
25:00It will be more emboldened than ever before.
25:03And it's going to keep building weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles.
25:08And the Chinese are going to continue to provide them with the material that they need and the Russians, too.
25:14So, in other words, doing nothing.
25:16And I don't think we'll do nothing, by the way.
25:18The president has said we're going to do something significant.
25:20But if we did nothing for the isolationists and so forth out there, what would the consequences be?
25:25Well, the Iranian regime will keep doing what it's been doing up to now, which is developing a nuclear weapons program,
25:33developing ballistic missiles that can hit targets all around the Middle East and also as far away once they've got what they need as Europe and, of course, the United States of America.
25:45So, we're allowing this powder keg, as it were, to build up if we don't take action.
25:50And it's not just action directly from the regime itself.
25:54We're also talking about the regime's efforts to develop and to extend its proxy network all around the region and around the world.
26:03Don't forget there are IRGC and Hezbollah agents in the United States, in Europe, in various other countries around the world,
26:12which mean to carry out attacks against our country, all sponsored by Tehran.
26:17And we shouldn't forget that the 7th of October, that one of the most horrific events that occurred in the Middle East in history,
26:26the 7th of October was sponsored by Iran.
26:28And they will do all they possibly can to repeat that.
26:32So, what we'll see is a massive threat developing and building up.
26:38Even though they're relatively weak now, they will recover their strength.
26:41They'll find a way of doing it.
26:42They'll get support from the Chinese.
26:45They'll get support from the Russians.
26:46They will continue giving support to the Russians.
26:49They've been supplying, let's not forget, drones to attack the civilian population in Ukraine to Russia.
26:56So, they are, in fact, an evil empire.
27:00I know that word's been used many times before, but it certainly applies correctly in the case of Iran.
27:05And therefore, I think there's no choice, in my view, than to attack and attack very quickly, not wasting any time.
27:12I appreciate it takes time to build up the resources, to get things in place, military things in place, to make sure you can do what you need to do.
27:21But once that's the case, then there should be no delay.
27:26There should be no pause.
27:27There should be no listening to any reason, as it were, by those people.
27:31And many people, whether it's isolationists in the U.S., whether it's the weak, lame leadership in Europe, or whether it's other people around the region, they must do what they can.
27:42The U.S. must do what it can as soon as it can.
27:45And I think, you know, the whole, the peace in this region depends to a large extent on that.
27:51If the U.S. shatters this regime now, it's going to be a real game changer, not just for the region, but for the whole world and all of the different elements that Iran supports and is supporting.
28:03And if the right thing's not done, and it will be done, because I trust our president, history would judge us and judge us very, very poorly.
28:12And I think the president knows that, too.
28:13I'm just thankful that he's the commander-in-chief at a time like this.
28:18Richard Kemp, I want to thank you for all you've done for the West in order to maintain freedom and all you're doing now.
28:25God bless you, my friend.
28:26Thanks to you as well, Mark.
28:29Welcome back, America.
28:42We're here with, I call him America's governor, Ron DeSantis.
28:46Governor DeSantis, I look at these blue cities and blue states.
28:51First of all, they claim to be sanctuary, which they can't do under the Constitution.
28:55They couldn't do it during the Confederacy, the Democrats, and they're doing it again.
28:58I'm trying to pretend that they're not part of the republic, and yet they are.
29:03I hear these mayors and these governors egging on people in ways that stokes the flames, that helps them become violent, and so forth and so on.
29:14And also, we have these paid actors and these front organizations that, you know, they show up, they're rent-a-mobs, and they show up, too, and so forth.
29:21I don't see a lot of that in your state.
29:24So, what do you do?
29:25You work with ICE.
29:26You work with immigration.
29:28You coordinate.
29:29You let them know when the bad guys are getting out of jail, whereas the Democrats are working with the enemies of society, right?
29:36Well, absolutely.
29:37We do all those things, Mark.
29:38We're safer as a result of it.
29:40And this immigration issue is very important.
29:43Public safety is very important.
29:44But I would argue it's even larger than that.
29:46This is a constitutional issue.
29:48We had an administration under Joe Biden that, basically, the president violated his oath to take care that the laws are faithfully executed with respect to immigration.
29:59He opened the border.
30:00Interior enforcement collapsed.
30:02President Trump ran, in large part, on securing the border and making sure immigration laws were enforced to be able to protect the public.
30:11So, what we're doing by cooperating is we're helping not only to make sure illegal aliens are removed or taxpayers are protected, but that the people's will in that election of 2024 is being carried out.
30:25What they're doing in the blue states is they lost the election and they want to nullify the faithful application of immigration law.
30:34And it goes much beyond just protesting or not liking it.
30:38They are actively encouraging people to take matters into their own hands, and they are putting the people who are serving in federal law enforcement at risk as a result.
30:48There's no way that if the shoe were on the other foot, red states would be able to get away with what these blue states are doing right now.
30:56And it's clear what these blue states are doing, isn't it?
30:59It's political power, one-party rule.
31:02The more illegal immigrants that come into the country under the current process, and it's very unfortunate, it's very unconstitutional, in my view, the more congressional seats they're going to get, the more electoral college votes they're going to get.
31:15So, this really is about one-party rule, a power play.
31:18And isn't that why the Democrats all say the same thing, like a conga line?
31:23They dance the same tune, they sing the same tune, and it's always,
31:27ICE is bad, defund ICE, Trump is a dictator, and all we want to do is protect the citizens when they're undermining the citizenry?
31:35Well, exactly right.
31:36I mean, Mark, we've had, you know, we just had a family that was killed by an illegal alien truck driver.
31:44You see these things happening all over the country, and the Democrats, they want to facilitate more of that.
31:51They don't want there to be the faithful application of the law.
31:54You know, if they really don't like having immigration laws, they can run on an open-border platform.
32:02But guess what?
32:02They will lose if they do that.
32:04So, instead, you have these laws on the books, you have the president that's enforcing the laws, and their view is that they should just be immune to it.
32:12That's why you have California as a sanctuary state.
32:15That's why you have all those sanctuary cities.
32:17We banned sanctuary cities my first year as governor, Mark.
32:22We're the only state in the country that requires local and state law enforcement to participate and help ICE with immigration enforcement.
32:32And it has worked very well in Florida.
32:34We have over 20, almost 20,000 apprehensions of illegal aliens because of our state and local participation.
32:40That's in addition to things that DHS is doing on its own.
32:46As a result, taxpayers are saving money because you don't have as many services, and you don't have as many crimes that are being committed, and the rule of law is being upheld.
32:55When we come back, Governor, I would argue the president has been obviously aggressive in trying to enforce our laws, but he's also been restrained in many ways.
33:04The Insurrection Act has been used about 30 times by presidents of both parties.
33:12About 50% of the presidents have used the Insurrection Act, and they've used the Insurrection Act for a lot less than this.
33:18And yet they're attacking the president of the United States for sending in armies of ICE officers in order to enforce the law.
33:26He's sending in those officers to protect the other officers who are under attack.
33:30I want to pursue this with you when we return.
33:34Welcome back, America.
33:41You know, Governor DeSantis, the president, has secured the border.
33:45Now he has to deal with what Biden did.
33:47Millions and millions of illegal immigrants in the country, including people from China, from parts of Africa, the Middle East, south of the border.
33:56You see we have the river-to-the-sea crowd that's out there, the Islamists.
34:01You see we have countries that were planting people into this country, and now he's trying to unravel all this, vet them, figure out what's going on.
34:11And then the courts are fighting him, and the Democrats are fighting them.
34:14Let me ask you this.
34:16If the Democrats win the midterm elections, God forbid, what's going to happen to this country?
34:21What's going to happen to immigration?
34:23Oh, well, they will do whatever they can, including probably try to fabricate another impeachment to be able to throw sand in the gears to prevent the president from being able to discharge the duties to which he was elected.
34:37These resistance courts have been a big problem, too, Mark, as you suggest.
34:42You know, it's one thing to have a little bit different interpretation of laws.
34:45Sometimes judges disagree.
34:47But I think what you've seen across the country, kind of unique to President Trump being in office, is these liberal judges are very aggressive to try to shut down even traditional uses of Article II power and then to try to issue these nationwide injunctions.
35:04And when the court is pushed back on that, Supreme Court, they try to certify class actions.
35:09So it's basically a resistance form of jurisprudence trying to prevent President Trump from doing what he was elected to do.
35:17It isn't like immigration wasn't a very big issue in that election.
35:21He promised to secure the border, and he promised that he would effectuate the largest deportation effort in American history.
35:28That was very clear to anyone who paid even 30 seconds of attention to that campaign.
35:34The resistant judges and the Democrats basically don't want to honor the people's will.
35:39Are you concerned about these pockets that are actually expanding in several states of true Islamists whose imams are talking about overthrowing the country?
35:54You had one in Philadelphia.
35:55They were talking about decapitating people.
35:57You have another one.
35:59I've played these clips on my radio show, for example, that's saying that we will not, we will not assimilate.
36:06Our goal is to conquer the United States.
36:09What do you think the founding fathers would say about an immigration system that brings these people in,
36:14and an immigration system or a Democrat party that doesn't allow us to remove them?
36:19Well, it's suicidal.
36:21You know, to bring people in from foreign countries, they've got to be compatible with the society they're coming in, our society, and they've got to want to be an American.
36:31And I think what you see in some of those pockets are people that want to bring Islamism to America to be able to impose that on their societies.
36:40But the good news in Florida is I've designated both the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council of American Islamic Relations as foreign terrorist organizations.
36:50And the Florida legislature right now is considering legislation I think they'll pass to ensure that we do not have any room for Sharia to be imposed,
37:01as well as providing more authority for me with those terror designations.
37:06Because the reality is, all those people you're talking about, many of them are getting funding from some of those groups.
37:14And we're going to use all the tools at our disposal to stop it in Florida.
37:18Well, this is why everybody wants to move to Florida.
37:20But Florida can't be its own country.
37:22You know, the problem is the entire country needs to be addressed.
37:27The president's trying to address it.
37:29The Democrats are trying to cripple him at every step.
37:32And so are their judges.
37:33But he fights on and great governors like you fight on.
37:36There's a lot of hope here.
37:38God bless you, my friend.
37:39And stay warm in Florida while the rest of us freeze.
37:42Take care of yourself.
37:44We will be, Mark.
37:46All right.
38:00Welcome back, America.
38:02A lot of tough issues out there.
38:03But you know what?
38:04When you think about the president and when you think about Governor DeSantis and these issues they face, particularly issues of life and death, the enemy outside the country and the enemy within the country, politics really comes down to one simple thing, doesn't it?
38:20Electing people who love the country.
38:23We, Mr. and Mrs. America, we love our country.
38:26And then they'll do the right thing.
38:29The problem is, I watch these Democrats and they are haters.
38:33I feel they hate the country.
38:35They're attacking every aspect of it.
38:37So we're blessed to have President Trump where he is.
38:40And when it comes to Iran, he'll do the right thing.
38:43I'll see you next time on Life, Liberty, and Levin.
38:46We'll see you next time on Life, Liberty, and Levin.
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