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On Friday’s Mark Levin Show, the Supreme Court majority issued a very messy and problematic decision on tariffs. The fact is the majority agreed on an outcome but not so much on the reasoning for the outcome. It struck tariffs under a single statute, yet created chaos or, actually, left it to the president to decide if and/or how to treat the revenue those tariffs already created for the federal Treasury. The question is not who has the power to tax per se, but a more complicated question about where the separation of powers is. The majority, apparently, chose to duck the question and stick with the indirect tax characterization and focus on a single statute, which is outrageous. Also, Tucker Carlson is an indecent grifter with inexplicable ties to Qatar and an attraction to the Third Reich. He is gravely damaging the Republican Party, the midterm elections, and the Trump administration. Later, Jon Levine of the Washington Free Beacon calls in to explain that NYC Mayor Mamdani is fulfilling his campaign promises by staffing his administration with individuals from radical Islamist and far-left progressive circles, united by a shared hatred of the West and Jews. Mamdani is also pressuring Governor Hochul to impose a wealth tax by threatening massive property tax increases on roughly 3 million homeowners—effectively holding the entire city hostage in a “look what you made me do” tactic.X The Supreme Court majority today issued a very messy and problematic decision. Washington Free Beacon Mamdani Hires Three Founders of Muslim Group that Blamed Oct. 7 on ‘Israeli Apartheid Regime’Breitbart Steven Spielberg Fleeing California Ahead of Proposed Wealth TaxNewsbusters Goldman Sachs CEO Bucks Anti-Trump Media with Upbeat 2026 Economic OutlookPhoto by Heather DiehlThe podcast for this show can be streamed or downloaded from the Audio Rewind page.Rough transcription of Hour 1Segment 1 Hello America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. By the way, Mandami in New York is loading up his administration with one Jew hater, an Islamist after another. We’re going to talk about that next hour with our friend Jon Levine, who’s an outstanding reporter. But first. I did an interview today that will air on Sunday. With our friend Dennis Prager. Dennis Prager had a horrific accident. And we talk about that in his brand new book, which is absolutely fabulous. Again, earlier Sunday on Life, Liberty and Levin, it’s the first TV show he’s doing that is airing. And he asked if I would do it. And so I interviewed him for two segments because he’s not really able to do more than that. And then I decided in the middle of the interview, I’m going to bring him back the next Sunday to for two segments. What do you think about that? Rich He’s paralyzed from the shoulders down. And God must have been looking over him because he’s not supposed to be alive. He was on a ventilator for a long period of time. Even now, doctors are amazed because he’s breathing. He’s got 80% of his breathing capacity back, but he shouldn’t. Why? Because they said he’s paralyzed from the shoulders down. There’s a lot going on in your chest from the shoulders down. But I’ll talk about that a little bit more later. It just really has affected me. That interview. That a man like this who was struggling for his life, who still struggling every single day. If you’re paralyzed from the shoulders down, you can’t really do anything without significant help. And in any event, it was really moving and touching. And his book is absolute genius. And he still wants to be involved in promoting the country and defending the country. Victor Davis Hanson I’m not going to get into specifics. You know, I speak every few days. He’s a very dear friend of mine. He’s been through hell to. And we almost lost them. To be perfectly honest with you and you still fighting, these are great patriots, great people, great men. Whose legacies will continue far into the future. And his families are and will be proud of them. For their legacies. And that’s important with people today on radio, TV, podcasters. I can’t imagine their children would be very proud of them. Drop the F-bombs. This Tucker Carlson interview with Ambassador Huckabee. Ambassador Huckabee is such a class act. Such a decent man. Remember, he was a pastor, a Baptist pastor, kind, gentle in so many ways, thoughtful, up against a very evil, indecent, disgraceful grifter. And I believe there’s a reason for this other than mental illness and emotional obsessions. I truly do. His ties to Qatar are unexplainable, but for support he must be receiving from. Look. That’s my view. Support in one form or another. But in part of the interview he’s talking about listen to this, America, that the people of Israel, a majority of whom are Jews, should all be taking DNA tests to determine whether, in fact, their ancestry lived in that part of the world. What do you think about that, Rick? That’s pretty sick. And of course, Huckabee said, well, what about people who have converted to Judaism? And what about. It’s the question. That’s the problem. Jews should take DNA tests. To determine if that’s their homeland. I do now understand why he’s attracted to the Third Reich. I do now understand why he’s attracted to guests who promote Hitler. I get it now. I really do. That’s his mindset. In addition to being a mouthpiece for Qatar, an operator for Qatar PSYOP operation. The guy. The guy’s mind really is, in my view, set in the Third Reich. And it gets worse by the day. Worse by the day. One should remember Hitler murdered 2 million Christians. I’m not even talking about during the course of war, he exterminated 2 million Christians as he was exterminating 6 million Jews. The Aryan race. He didn’t say Christians. He’s talked about the Aryan race. And we can go on. Of course, the Islamists, these terror groups that are funded by Qatar, many of them are killing Christians in Africa. Christians throughout the Middle East. And how dare he talk about how they’re more Christians in Qatar and in Arab countries and in Israel? Everybody knows that’s a flat out lie, but he repeats it. He repeats it. You keep repeating the big lie, Goebbels said, and people will begin to believe it. I suspect he’s studied this very, very thoroughly, given the nature of his guests and the nature of his statements. The fact is that he’s doing grave damage to the Republican Party. I think he’s doing grave damage to our mid-term elections. He’s doing grave damage to the Trump administration. Whether they realize it or not, he is grave damage. And no amount of his attempting to attempt intimidate the ambassador to intimidate my stepson is going to work. He’s a scumbag. That’s what he is. I don’t understand why anybody, quote unquote, debates this guy, say, going into a mental institution. In debating somebody who’s banging off the padded walls. And I feel bad for them. This punk was born into wealth. What do private schools and public schools? Remember when he used to wear that bow tie? He’s taken 50 sides of every issue. He’s worked in virtually every media platform and he’s failed. But now he’s succeeding because he’s he’s got the he’s got the formula figured out. That there are enough people in this country and overseas for sure. Will watch and listen to him, even pay him. As long as he wears effectively that brown shirt and those black boots effectively. Just that disgrace. The Supreme Court decision. Let’s move on. It’s also a disgrace. On the tariff issue, it doesn’t matter if you’re for tariffs against tariffs, you don’t know about tariffs, you don’t care about tariffs to irrelevant. I’m talking about the rule of law. I texted. I texted the president. I don’t think he’d mind my telling you this yesterday or the day before. And I said, the court’s taking a long time for one of two reasons. Either they can’t settle on a single. Rationale. And you’ve got a whole bunch of concurring opinions, or they do have a strong majority, but they can’t figure out what the majority opinion should be. And guess what, Mr. Producer? I was right on both counts. So let’s begin there. Why is that the case? Because the court shouldn’t have been involved in this at all other than to take up the case, reverse the lower court and get out of the case. Because this is not a clear cut constitutional issue. It’s not a clear cut separation of powers issue. It’s not just a quote unquote, indirect tax under Article one. It’s also a clearly a foreign policy matter, and it affects foreign policy under Article two, Article one, Congress, Article two, the president. There is no bifurcating the two. Tariffs on international commerce have been going on since the beginning of this republic, just so you know. But only Congress can lay taxes. But only the president can run foreign policy. And so what the court should have done is avoided this because what it wound up doing is issuing a bunch of. Really? Contradictory and confusing opinions. Where they tried to come up with one position, which was basically, I’m sorry, the tariffs under this specific law in 1977 involving emergencies doesn’t apply. Which is ridiculous to me. Because it does, in fact, authorize the president. Authorize the president to regulate commerce. Chief Justice said, Well, that may be true, but there’s too many words between regulate and commerce and something to that effect. And he found that disturbing. But now what do we have? It’s a messy decision. It’s a problematic decision. It’s now an unresolved issue. They basically ruled that under this statute and this statute. Alan. President can’t do what he did. Okay, so what about the other statutes? And the rationale they gave is incoherent, absolutely incoherent, because they got involved in politics and policy, even though they they exclaim that we have not gotten into policy because they have. The two dissenting opinions of which Alito agreed with Clarence Thomas was brilliant,