8/14/25 - The Power Play: Understanding Putin Before the Meeting

Mark Levin Podcast

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News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 111 minutes

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On Thursday’s Mark Levin Show, in Friday’s meeting with Vladimir Putin, President Trump will attempt to forge an agreement between Putin and Zelensky. We’re told we need to discus s the meeting but how much do you know about Putin? He’s been in power for 25 years, longer than any Kremlin leader since Stalin. There’s no effective opposition because Putin has killed them all. Montesquieu says “any man who has power is led to abuse it; he continues until he finds limits.” This is Putin. Also, Trump’s action to curb D.C’s rampant crime is constitutional. In just a few days, his actions have resulted in hundreds of arrests and widespread resident approval, including from some Democrats. Democrats call Trump a dictator while they support criminals, Hamas, and illegal immigrants, manipulate crime stats, and defy court rulings. Later, PM Benjamin Netanyahu calls in and addresses the global propaganda against Israel in the Gaza conflict, including false claims of starvation and inflated casualty figures from Hamas. Israel's delivery of nearly 2 million tons of aid, which is equivalent to one ton per Gazan, is stolen by Hamas. Netanyahu stresses the unprecedented measures to minimize civilian casualties, such as warnings via texts and calls. Netanyahu also explains that forces gang up against Israel and the U.S., chanting "death to Israel, death to America" as they seek to destroy free societies and impose a dark tyranny reminiscent of the early Middle Ages. Afterward, WABC’s Sid Rosenberg calls in to discuss the NYC Mayors race. Rosenberg endorses Curtis Sliwa as his top choice but predicts socialist Zohran Mamdani will likely win because no candidate will drop out anytime soon. Finally, On Power explains that the Democratic Party poses a significant domestic threat to America by seeking to breach constitutional safeguards in pursuit of a utopian society, influenced by Marxist, socialist, and Islamist elements, though not representative of all members. The progressive movement aim to fundamentally transform the nation's character through centralized power, diminishing individual freedoms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The radical left's agendas are challenging American values,
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0:21.6	He's here.
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0:25.3	Now, broadcasting them from the underground command post.
0:29.2	Deep in the bowels of a hidden bunker, somewhere under the brick and steel of a
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1:13.6	The The So America, Mark Levin here, our number 877-381- 3811, 877381, 3811.
2:04.7	You know, it's very interesting, isn't it, how the modern day media work, whether it's radio, cable, whatever it is?
2:13.9	There's going to be a meeting, obviously, tomorrow, 3.30 p.m. Eastern time in Alaska, near Anchorage, between Putin and President Trump.
2:29.2	And so there's a lot of speculation about what will happen.
2:32.8	The president has made abundantly clear what his intentions are.
2:39.3	And so there are people out there who think I should spend all day talking to you, I guess, for the next three hours, Mr. Producer, about my assumptions about what's going to take place now this is typical kind of
2:53.2	news thinking these days I have nothing new to tell you I don't know what's going to happen
3:01.0	in that meeting nobody knows what's going to happen in that meeting we know the
3:05.9	president has had his wits end with Putin.
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