Transcript of Mark Levin: Our intel agencies are 'soft'

Hello, America. I'm Mark Levin, and this is Life, Liberty, and Levin Saturday. Man, it's good to be back. It's good to have you back, too. We have two great guests for you tonight, Governor Ron DeSantis and Gordon Chang. But before we go to our guests, isn't it strange when you have an entity that's at war with us, but we don't accept the fact that they're at war with us? I'm talking about Islamists, Islamic terrorists all over the world. They've infiltrated our country. Every aspect of in our country, in our culture, in our government, in academia, in our media, they're here. Right now, as I speak, the war against America by the Islamists terrorists. They've infiltrated our country. And yet we have this horrendous Islamic terrorist attack in New Orleans by Samson Din Jafar. The first thing out of the mouth of the official senior FBI official is, they're not sure it's terrorism. They're not sure it's You see, ladies and gentlemen, we can't win a war, and many, many more of our American citizens are going to die if we don't acknowledge that we're in a war with Islamic terrorism. And yet, apparently, the Federal Bureau of Investigation The soon to be gone director, thank God, he talks about red flags, he talks about terrorism, he spoke a lot about white supremacy, he talked a lot about homegrown terrorism.

This term homegrown terrorism is very interesting Excuse me, homegrown. What does that mean? These people are born in America? Is that what that means? It's not purely homegrown, is it, America? The Islamists are here. Their money is here, their propaganda is here, The front groups are here. So American citizens are being influenced, inundated, propagandized by these Islamist, terrorist entities, some of which are states, some of which are organizations. So what is our government doing about it? What is the Biden regime doing about it? What's the Department of Justice, Homeland Security, the FBI, the Intel organizations doing about it? Clearly not enough. We have terrorists linked and supporting organizations in our country. What are we doing about them? We know who they are. We have terrorist promoting faculty throughout our colleges and universities. What are we doing about? Nothing. We have terrorist indoctrination, Imams and mosques in our communities who promoting terrorism? Not all, obviously. It doesn't take all, does it? What are we doing about it? Nothing. We have terrorist linked and supporting student organizations like Students for Justice in Palestine with direct links to terrorist entities. It's got 350 organizations on our campuses in this country.

With billions of dollars flowing into our country from enemy states, including terrorist states and terrorist organizations, what are we doing about it? We have open borders. We have really no vetting of millions of people coming from terrorist states.

We have tens of thousands of people coming into this country, single adult males of military age. What are we doing about it? We're giving them welfare benefits, don't you know? Maybe even visa cards coming from Venezuela, coming from all kinds of countries. Oh, but don't worry, we're told by liberals.

Oh, don't worry, we're deporting more than ever before.

That's pretty funny. We've got tens of millions of illegal aliens in this country, but don't worry, we're deporting more than ever before. Isn't that a strange comment? It's ridiculous comment. We're actually flying people in here. We're actually pretending illegal aliens are legal. We're doing everything we can to bring people into this country, terrorists, criminal, Venezuelan gangs. It doesn't even matter. And yet they tell us they're deporting more than ever before.

We have social media platforms that are being exploited by terrorists and terrorist organizations.

What are we doing about it?

We have executive branch officials, unable or unwilling to do anything effective about it.

Well, we've done something about that. We did it in November, just in the nick of time.

Well, we're told there's a lot of reasons we can't do anything about it, like the First Amendment. All these people preaching terrorism and attacks and hate and violence.

All these people in the streets chasing Jews like we have a crystal knock every night.

Synagogs under attack. Jewish organizations under attack. What can we do about it?

The First Amendment.

People who know nothing about the First Amendment. Keep telling us we can't do anything about it because the First Amendment. While there is unprotected speech, there are such categories in this country, defamation, fighting words, true threats, obsenity, child pornography, hate speech, fraud.

Now, there are certain restrictions, of course, but maybe we should give it a try. Don't you think every now and then to go after these individuals?

The latest Supreme Court decision, as pointed out by Drexel Laws, Virginia versus Black in 2003. That involved the a burning cross, still one that inspires fear and anger among Black and Jewish Americans, and is an unfortunate fact that it's not been left in the past with other ugly relics. In 1998, three men, Barry Black, Richard Elliott, and Jonathan O'Mara, were arrested and convicted separately of cross burning, violating a Virginia state statue prohibiting cross burning on the property of another or in public places with the intent to intimidate. They appealed their cases to the Virginia Supreme Court, arguing that the statue was unconstitutional because it treated the act of cross burning itself as the only action required to prove intent to intimidate.

The court agreed with them.

So it went to the Supreme Court of the United States. That court held in a 7 to 2 decision, author by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, that a state may ban cross burning carried out with the intent to intimidate. But the provision of the Virginia Statute, treating the act of cross burning as prima facia evidence of intent to intimidate was unconstitutional. A cross burning may be carried out for a reason other than intent to intimidate, according to the courts such as a political rally. Even if the act of cross burning arouses a sense of anger or hatred among the vast majority of citizens, that anger or hatred is not enough to prohibit the burning. Only cross burning is done with the intent to intimidate and prohibit it under the First Amendment because burning a cross is a particularly virulent form of intimidation. Well, let's see. How about chasing Jews down the street or preventing them from going to college when they've paid tuition? We have all kinds of overt, affirmative acts to go with the so-called free speech that have been taking place in this country. Seems like a great Supreme Court decision to me. Immigration Reform Law Institute, in October 24, 2024, they also point out that we have a pursuant to Section 3398 of the Anti-Terrorism Act.

It is a crime for anyone in the United States to provide material support to a designated terrorist organization. Additional federal laws make it illegal to endorse or espouse terrorist activity or to persuade others to do the same. Foreign nationals engaged in such activity in the United States are subject to removal and may be barred from future entry into the country. Gee, how many of those people have been barred or been deported by the Biden regime?

I think I count zero. Maybe there's a few. After all, they're deporting more people than ever before, as we have tens of millions of people in this country who shouldn't be here.

A large number of foreign students who overtly endorsed terrorist activity during the protest blatantly violated the terms of their student visas, rendering them subject to deportation. Yet senior officials at a number of educational institutions have openly admitted that in order to protect them from deportation, foreign student protections would not be suspended or expelled even when they advocated violence against Jewish students and faculty members, or carried ISIS flags, or Hamas flags, or Hezbollah flags. What's worse is the federal government's complete failure to take any action to hold either universities or law-breaking foreign students accountable. They're on student visas, you kick their ass out of the country. In fact, government responses to the protests have been so similar to those offered by universities and colleges that it appears that the two are collaborating. That is the Biden regime in these colleges to protect foreign students at the expense of the American public. When the White House was asked about prosecuting and deporting foreign students who advocated on behalf of terror groups, Biden administration officials were dismissive, characterizing the chaos on hundreds of university campuses as young people engaging in the exercise of their First Amendment rights.

Let's bring it to you back to the first point that I already raised. Mark, what does this have anything to do with what took place in New Orleans? Everything. It's puzzle pieces. We're under attack. This is a war.

Homegrown, imported, all of it. Did the Biden White House work with colleges to keep terror sympathizing forest students from deportation? The answer is yes.

They did.

Here we are in a state of war. What do we have in the White House? We have a sympathizer with the enemy. What about here in our country? This disrupt terror funding, disrupt these terror-supporting organizations.

Look at this one.

This just happened a few weeks ago. House Ways of Means Committee, in this statement, House Democrats block Bill cracking down on support for terrorism by tax-exempt organizations in our country and providing relief from tax penalties for American hostages. Legislation that ended tax-exempt status for US nonprofits, materially supporting terrorist organizations, was defeated by the Democrats. Despite strong bipartisan support early on, House Democrats blocked passage of the Stop Terrorism Financing Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act. The legislation, which included similar policies, already approved by unanimous consent in the Senate would halt tax subsidies going to US nonprofits, groups like CARE or Students for Justice in Palestine, with all these ties to Hamas and so forth. Nonprofits that materially support terrorist organizations provide fair tax treatment for Americans held hostage and so forth. During the debate, House Democrats specifically cited the election of President Trump as the reason for now opposing legislation they previously supported, with one member saying, With Trump's election, the conditions have changed.

Yeah, now the terrorists have something to worry about. Apparently, that upsets the Democrats.

For months, the House Ways and Means Committee has been investigating the troubling pattern of nonprofits operating in the United States, homegrown, you might say, with suspected ties to terrorism while still maintaining their tax-exempt status. That means we, the American taxpayers, subsidize in these organizations. Multiple committee hearings exposed the activities of these groups, such as the Alliance for Global Justice, a US nonprofit with tax-exempt status, which was found to be funding a group recently designated by the US government as a Sham Charity and Funderer of Terrorism. Despite this fact, the IRS has yet to revoke Alliance for Global Justice's tax-exempt status. I think we'll need a new commissioner in There you are in there, Mr. President-elect.

Why would the mosque to which this mass murder in New Orleans went to refuse to cooperate with the FBI? I mean, already the FBI said, We don't I don't really think it's a terrorism. We just don't know yet. Now they've concluded what everybody already knew. The Jewish News Service, Refer FBI to care, news, New Orleans attackers local mosque tells members.

Wow, it's deeply A troubling and wrong for this local Houston mosque to refer all questions to carry a Jew-hating group which praised other Islamic terrorist attacks, writes Morton Klein of ZOA, Zionist Organization of America. Majid Bilal, the local Houston Mosque near the of this mass murder has been receiving a good deal of unwanted press attention since the four-year-old drove a pickup truck into a crowd of people. In a statement posted on Facebook, a temporary post that expires, the mosque management wrote that everyone is aware of the New Orleans tragic event. I want to emphasize, they posted, the importance of everyone to stay very vigilant and aware of your surroundings. The safety of our community is the most important thing. If anyone is contacted by the media, it's very important that you do not respond. If approached by the FBI and response is necessary, please refer to CARE and ISGH. It is crucial that we stay united at this time as we condemn these terrible acts. Please stay safe.

Well, why don't they respond to the FBI? Go to CARE. Oh, there's books written about CARE. There's FBI Justice Department documents written about CARE, how it was founded in the 1990s by Hamas, how it's a Hamas front group, how it was part of the Holy Land Foundation, a legal funding operation, and how on October seventh, its lead Well, I'll call him executive director. Came out and openly supported and defend the October seventh attack on Israel. This organization is operating in our own country. Enormous amount of funds, like Students for Justice and Palestine, linked to terrorist affiliate, enormous amounts of funds. What do we do about it? Nothing. There's no war. It's all Islamophobia. Again, we're not talking about all Muslims. Why would we? We're talking about Jihadis, terrorists. Now, what about these colleges and universities and their faculties who promote terrorism? Marxism, terrorism, anti-Americans, but terrorism in Islamist groups. They came out of the woods, didn't they? After October seventh, in fact, they're still out of the woods. The Urban Institute points out that we spent a lot of money, you and I, funding these colleges and universities. Why don't we defund them? They wanted to defund the police.

I have a better idea. Why don't we defund the organizations that promote terrorism and hire people, faculty that promote terrorism and brainwash our children and cause, therefore, death and mayhem? This institute writes, In 2021, state and local government spend $311 billion on higher education or 8.5% of state and local direct general spending.

As a share state and local spending, higher education was the fourth largest expenditure.

State government, some of them which were controlled by Republicans, why don't you do something about it?

In fact, we have here from dollars and degrees, 18% of four-year public institutions of their revenue, 18% comes from the federal government, 20% from the state government, so over a third comes from government. Why don't we put the shoulder on these so-called academically free institutions and tell them to stop promoting terrorism? There are things we can do about. Then, of course, we have the Biden regime itself and the open borders. But don't worry, they're deporting more than ever before as they're importing more than ever before.

Coo-coo.

The House Judicial Committee pointed out last August under the Biden-Harris regime, of more than 250 illegal aliens on the terrorist watchlist that were encountered by border patrol at the Southwest border. During fiscal years 2021 and 2023, DHS has released into American communities at least 99 with at least 34 others in DHS custody, that is, people who are on the terrorist watchlist, but not yet removed from the United States.

Good job. Wouldn't you say?

Between fiscal years 2021 and 2023, Border Patrol at the Southwest border encountered aliens on the Terrace Watchlist from 36 different countries, including places with an active terrorist presence. Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Kyrsostan, Mauritania, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan, and Yemen. But don't worry, we're deporting more than ever before So far, during fiscal year 2024, Border Patrol has encountered tens of thousands of illegal aliens nationwide by countries that could present national security risks, including 2,134 Afghan nationals, 33,000 2,347 Chinese nationals, 541 Iranian nationals, 520 Syrian nationals, and 3,104 Usbek nationals.

Wow. This FBI needs to be broomed. And It's tough already. Imagine if it had applied the resources that had applied against Donald Trump over these years, investigating him, harassing him, hunting him, giving support to a rogue prosecutor and so forth. Imagine if those resources had been applied to fighting terrorism. Imagine if the funds and resources that have been used against pro-life protesters or parents raising concerns at their school boards, or January sixth, nonviolent protesters, which was the number one It's a priority the Biden administration, along with white supremacy. Imagine if resources had been applied to that. The DEI focus of the FBI, the FBI, the intelligence agencies, the Department of Justice, the DHS, are soft. Counterterrorism? More like counter-Americanism. We need tough, hard-nailed, experienced men and women who know who the enemy is and who will do something about it. Like when I used to serve at the Department of Justice under Reagan and Attorney General Meis, and Casper Weinberg at Department of Defense, and Bill Casey at the CIA. We didn't even of a Department of Homeland Security. What a ironic joke. Our government needs to focus on protecting us from an enemy, and it needs to understand that there is a war going on, a war against us, Islamic terrorism.

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