Israeli hostages just days away from returning home

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Shutdown continues. His paychecks are likely to be missed for the first time in years. I have what it's like 10 days in. Number one. I think it's going to be great.

I think the hostages will be coming back Monday or Tuesday. I'll probably be there. I hope to be there. Imagine that, almost there. All the hostages are days away from freedom.

The clock is already ticking as the 24-hour period to back out to a certain line inside Gaza has been reached by the IDF.

So now there's 72 hours for freedom. Are we on the precipice of rebuilding? We're going to look at the peace deal with Mark Thiessen.

So let's go to Mark, former chief speechwriter for Bush, AAEI fellow, and Fox News contributor, and watch one of the many conservative columnists at the Washington Post. Mark Thiessen, welcome back. Did the V with you? Man. I was reading the Wall Street Journal today.

I know you and you could appreciate this. They talked about how the president's upside-down policy has delivered a major victory. And one of the things they said is not dealing in Europe or the Arab foreign ministers, dealing directly leader to leader to leader. And they brought, I did not know this. Secretary of State Rubio was going to head over to Europe to talk about this deal, and he just canceled his trip.

Why? Because they wanted- don't want anybody to get in the way. They wanted Trump to finish this himself. Yeah, it wasn't necessary. I mean, Donald Trump.

And he negotiated this deal. He rallied the world around it. He's got Israel behind it. He's got all the Arab leaders behind it. And he isolated Hamas.

And they gave them no choice but to accept this. If they had not accepted this and released the hostages. Then they would be isolated in the world, and everyone would know that the only reason why the continuing destruction of Gaza was taking place is because of Hamas's intransigence and their unwillingness to hand over the hostages. But the other. This is a brilliant move.

So, Mark, the other thing is interesting is. And I was talking to a Trump official yesterday. The president said, no, I don't need every detail. I don't need to know the international fighting force. I don't need the exact line to pull back.

Fine. But I don't need to know who's actually going to be on the Peace Council. I don't need to know what exact day they're going to put down their arms. Let's get this done. And get the hostages out.

Let's agree to that. And then he tell hands it over to the technocrats to work at the details. And guess what? That's what's working. Going to every detail gives more opportunity for someone to stop it.

No, that's exactly right. And look, Donald Trump also understands. That once the hostages are handed over, Hamas has lost all of their leverage. It's the only leverage they have.

So if he can maneuver Hamas into into handing over the hostages, then everything else is going to be easy. Because if they wa they they wanna go back to fighting, they've got no there's not gonna be anybody in Israel who wants to who is going to be opposing uh going after them until until the last uh until the last uh Hamas leader is dead, if they restart this fight, because they've got no hostages left.

So, this is a, he understood that the key was to get Hamas to give up its last piece of leverage, and then everything will also fall into place.

So, I want to hear, I want everybody to hear. The response from the normal Trump critics. And I don't put Dave Ignatius in that column. I think he's more balanced. He's not.

I thought he's been very fair, but he's the first one to speak. Listen, cut nine. Joe Biden could never do that. And Donald Trump was able to do it. Do you worry that Trump wants to get the Nobel Prize on Friday?

I mean, I really don't mean that as a joke. And if we see those remaining hostages freed and Israel begin its withdrawal, it is a remarkable achievement. I don't want to diminish the importance of this, and obviously, blessed are the peacemakers indeed. It is worth it. Pointing out, this is a ceasefire deal, right?

This is not a A larger peace deal. All credit to President Trump. Let's go back to Tapper. What is he missing? It's a larger peace deal.

What is he thinking? He laid out a twenty point plan. to not, and this is what made it so hard for Hamas to say no. It wasn't just a ceasefire deal. It wasn't just a deal to end the war.

It was a deal. To Create a path for a prosperous future for the Palestinian people. Reconstruction, rebuilding. Peaceful long-term solution to the country. And so Hamas could not stand in the way of that.

That's what was so successful. I, quite frankly, I share the concern. That it's not gonna work in the long term. We're gonna get the hostages out on Monday because the problem you have in Gaza is that the population needs to be de-radicalized. And you had this is the situation, you know, after World War II.

You know, the German people were forced to confront their complicity in the crimes of the Nazis. They were forced to confront the reality of the Holocaust. They were forced to confront. the fact that the Nazi party had led, that they had supported the Nazi party and the Nazi party was banned and there was denazification. There has to be a process of dehamasification of the Gazan people.

If you look at the UNRWA schools and what they were teaching these children about UN-run schools. UN-run schools. Yeah. Yeah, and so there's an entire generation that has been fed this absolute swill of hatred that has been injected into their veins. And that it's going to take a long time to undo that damage.

And you can't have a two-state solution and a peaceful long-term relationship until the population of the Palestinian territories, both Gaza and the West Bank. Is forced to confront its complicity in the crimes. But, Mark, let me tell you why I have hope. I look at Saudi Arabia and I know it's not America. I know it.

But they've gotten basically rid of that Wahhabism in their school system. They're talking about entertainment, giving people quality of life. They're letting women have additional rights, being able to go to the beach and drive. I know that sounds ridiculous on its face, but it would have been unfathomable 10 years ago.

So, what they're trying to do is have economic advantages. You know, we talk about Live and we talk about the World Cup and getting Cristiano Ronaldo. That is a country rich who is trying to increase a country's profile by doing things that are popular, not by adding, you know, more restrictions to go into Mecca.

So that's not the attitude we had in the 90s or that led to 9-11.

So there is hope, isn't there? I think there is hope. I think it's possible. I mean, I think that's why de-radicalization was one of the key tenets of the Twenty Point Plans. You have to have the process of de-radicalization in order for it to succeed.

But again, if it doesn't succeed, it's not going to be because Donald Trump didn't lay out the plan and gray out the path for the Palestinians. The Palestinians ultimately are going to have to choose a path of peaceful coexistence with Israel. And focusing on their advancement as opposed to Israel's destruction. And the problem is just that there's an entire generation of people who have been indoctrinated. And it's going to take time to undo that indoctrination and raise up another generation that doesn't have it.

So everyone's getting hung up on the President not getting the Nobel Peace Prize today, but you need to have applications by January 19th. It matters to the President. It doesn't matter to me, but he has goals his whole life, and that's one of his goals. And I'm fine with that. But people should know that he didn't get snubbed today, correct?

Oh, absolutely. Yeah. This is, I mean, literally, the peace deal was announced like the day before the award was announced. And he definitely deserves it to have a column in the Washington Post saying that he does. I mean, he deserved it just for the Abraham Accords.

If you go forget anything he's done in his second term, the Abraham Accords, the first Arab-Israeli peace deals in a quarter-century. Then he comes into this. Into his second term, and he's ended five, he says seven, five wars, and now this. On top of it, and I guarantee you, once this deal, if this deal goes forward and the war in Gaza ends, you're going to have more Abraham Accords. And then there's also the prospect of success begets success.

You know, he's i if he can coerce Putin through uh through uh you know military uh help to Ukraine and economic pressure to come to the peace table, you could have another one there. Uh so I mean hi his case is keeps getting stronger with every passing month uh in term for the Nobel Peace Prize. And that person you were quoting saying, Well, he wants the Nobel Peace Prize. We could have worse than a president whose goal is to win the Nobel Peace Prize. I think that's a laudable goal, and I think that having a president who wants the Nobel Peace Prize so badly and is willing to do the things necessary to get it is a great thing for the country and for the world.

So in Virginia, it's fascinating because they have this race for governor and this Jay Jones text messages come out where he was exchanging in 2022 text messages with a Republican, and they talked about putting the bullets in the head of the speaker and his family. And this guy's name is Jay Jones. If people haven't been following it, well, in the debate last night, Abigail Spanberger, the Democrat, was not pulling back her endorsement, wanted to just get around the answer. The moderators did a seemingly great job. Winsom Sears is the opponent.

Let's listen. Cut 37. Importantly, at this point, as we move forward, the voters now have this information, information that was withheld for them. You are running presumably for political reasons. But the voters now have the information, and it is up to voters to make an individual choice based on this information.

Ms. Member, I understand what you are saying about the voters, but for you yourself, do you still continue to endorse Jay Jones? 15 seconds, yes or no? We are all running our individual races. I believe my opponent has said that about her lieutenant governor nominee.

Those are all fairs. And it's up to every person to make their own decision. Do you believe this? I mean, do that's what you rehearsed?

Well, here's the thing also. She's not just running for governor, she's a voter. Is she going to vote for Jay Jones? Would have been a great question. Fair question.

Why not ask her that? Are you a voter? You know, you have the information. Are you going to pull the lever for Jay Jones? Are you going to make a man who threatened to kill the children of one of his colleagues in the legislature who wanted who dreamed about them being dead because he was raising little fascists?

Uh, and they deserve to die. Are you going to vote for somebody like that? Do you think he has a temperament? How can she get away with not answering that question? Uh that's disqualifying.

And I think her answer Is going to make a lot of people look and say, and you know, there's a lot of people, if she drew a line between herself and him, then a lot of people might do the same thing on the ballot. But people hear that and they think, oh, she's with him, so I'm going to vote against them both. Second time she's asked this question about transgender boys going into girls' locker rooms. This is the second time.

So, even the moderators getting fed up. This is the other big issue. This is a 90/10 issue. 90% of people do not want their daughters having men around them or boys around them getting dressed. And this is an issue that popped up again in Virginia, and she backs the trans athletes in the girls' locker room.

Listen to this.

Okay, this is the second time. Cut 42. Once again, the question was, should transgender girls who are biological males be allowed to use girls' bathrooms and play on girls' sports teams in K through 12? You have 15 seconds to clarify. In cases across Virginia, I think it's incumbent upon parents And educators and administrators in each local community to make decisions locally.

That's what this is about. Ms. Earl Sears? There should never be a moment. And my goodness, we finally have her saying that.

But you voted for that. Ms. Earl Sears. She did vote for it. And they're going to reverse what Governor Young put in place, forbidding that.

This is a continuing pattern of the Democrats not understanding the lesson of Trump's election.

So Trump won now twice on the issue of illegal immigration and they're storming ICE facilities and visiting MS-13 gangbangers in El Salvador and embracing illegal immigration. A 90-10 issue, illegal immigrants with criminal records. The other 90-10 issue that he won on was this. I mean, literally the most effective campaign in the history, campaign ad in the history of presidential politics was his closing ad: she's for they, them, he's for you.

Well, in the in Virginia, Winsome Sears is for you, she's for they, them. It's that simple. And they just can't learn they can't learn their lesson. And Mark, no time left, but I had it's a six-point race, they say. Is this enough to close the gap?

It could possibly be because this is, you know, this is in a governor's race, this is actually a local issue. This is, is your school district going to allow this to happen to your daughter? It's much closer to the good to the government in a gubernatorial race and the decision making and the life of the citizen than it is in a presidential race.

So, absolutely. Fascinating time. And Mark, real quick about the Washington Post adding conservative columnists, is what's changing over there?

So we've got a new editor, Adam O'Neill, who's a Reagan conservative. And a lot of the kind of the far left people like Karen Atia have left. And you've got new conservative columnists coming in. This is going, the Washington Post is becoming a conservative center-right opinion page. And so I was very well treated for 15 years there as a lonely conservative.

conservative voice amongst uh the liberals, but now I've got a lot more company on the right and it's awesome. I just wish they could have the reporters the same way. You know, I love diversity. I don't care. What's the same thing with the Wall Street Journal?

It's the same thing with the Wall Street Journal. The news section is liberal and the opinion section is conservative. Right. As long as we know the difference and what we're reading, I think with eyes wide open going in. Mark Thiessen, always great.

Thanks so much. Thank you. All right, back in a moment. Coming to you on a need-to-know basis because Mandy, you need to know. It's Brian Kilmead.

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That Hamas is not going to disarm. They're never going to fully disarm and you couldn't monitor it or verify it that if they did, that's the lesson we had with Northern Ireland, getting the paramilitaries to give up arms. Ceasefire may break down. You can imagine a situation where the word won't go out or some people in Hamas are going to disagree with the guys who negotiated. Then Israel might see that as an opportunity to use military force against the British.

So what do you do? But the focus on maintaining the ceasefire. That's something you can monitor. You can watch a ceasefire. You know if that's working.

Giving up arms, show they're going to stash away arms. You'll never get 100% of their arms. But you can get 100% compliance with the ceasefire.

So I would focus on that. That is Richard Haas. Great comment, very true. That's the second phase, disarming. Decommissioning, that's what they call it.

But you know what's going to be different? An international force in there.

So if Hamas is going to go, what are they going to do? Take fire? They're going to start stealing stuff. And the Qatari troops, whatever they have, let's say 100 Qatari, 100 Egyptian, 100 UAE, I'm not sure they have any. And Let's say UN peacekeepers, right?

So they're in there. And Hamas is up to their antics again, intimidating people, trying to take control like a mob like the mob does in different neighborhoods. That's the type of thing that the Palestinian people will now have a place to go to go, look, it's happening again. We don't want these guys in charge. And if they're assumed to be in charge, the whole peace deal could throw up go up in flames.

And the thing is, if you thought the Israelis were aggressive when they had hostages, Can you imagine what they're gonna be like? without hostages to worry about their welfare? And that's why I think this is a great deal. For Israel, and I love the fact that. They write in the Wall Street Journal today that the Prime Minister of Israel was forced to take this deal by Trump.

That makes it look even better. You don't want to say what a great deal for us. You know, I guess if you're running against it and you have your own political, you know, own political situation, but the big picture, we're gonna accept the deal. We don't like everything about it. What I don't like is giving up thousands of prisoners.

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But we've also heard, and it's very clear, that this is not about crime. This is not about immigration. This is about a president. who wants to enact authoritarianism in this country. where the rule of law doesn't apply to him.

Into one individual alone. And that's why I'm doing everything in my power to defend the people of this city and to lead a resistance that, quite frankly, It's desperately needed to protect our democracy and our humanity. The mayor of Chicago, speaking about ICE and National Guard, Border Patrol, and. Other officials in their neighborhoods. That's what he's worried about.

He's worried about them fighting crime, especially in the south side and west side of Chicago, that the numbers Are ridiculous. And the president says, I've had enough. We're going to have to get this under control. And he says the enemy is the President. I mean, can you believe this mindset?

I mean, it's part of the reason why he's got about 18% approval rating, but maybe he thinks that this is going to be better for him. Listen to JB Pritzker, Cut forty six, the Governor. Mean there are Uh constitutional limits to what the President can do, and we expect the President to follow the law. Do I also expect that the they will push the law to its absolute limit, maybe even stepping over the line? Yes, and we will push back.

So there you go. That is the stance of the guy who's running for president and the other one who's trying to hold on to his job. Lieutenant Colonel Alan West, Dallas County Republican Party Chair, American Constitutional Rights Union Executive Director, joins us now. And, Colonel, there's Texas National Guard. Because the Chicago, the Illinois National Guard will not be implemented, so they have to use Texas National Guard there.

Where do you stand on this? I stand with the President. I stand with the Constitution. And those two idiots that you just played sound bites of, where were they when Joe Biden was violating the Constitution and allowing millions of people to come across to the border of this country illegally in violation of the Constitution, Article 4, Section 4? And obviously, neither one of them, especially Brandon Johnson, have ever read Article 6, Section 2 of the Constitution, which is known as the Supremacy Clause.

Which says that the federal government is supreme over states, municipalities, when they are acting in pursuance thereof to the rule of law, to the Constitution, which is exactly what Donald Trump is doing: restoring our border integrity and border security, and also removing criminal, illegal immigrants like the rapists, the murderers, the carjackers, all of these folks that they are getting and apprehending there. And if you want to talk about inciting violence, when J.B. Pritzker is out there referring to federal law enforcement agents as Gestapo, Nazis, jack boots, that's the reason why they're getting their vehicles rammed and they're being blocked in and they're being attacked and assaulted. A thousand percent increase in these crimes against federal law enforcement agents who are enforcing federal law.

So, both of these guys are on the wrong side of the Constitution. And if they are going to continue to go down this path, the Democrat Party is going to have a bloodbath.

Next year in the midterm elections?

Well, I just don't know. I mean, you have a lot of people in the streets who are protesting the presence in Portland as well as in Chicago. They're upset with ICE. You see what they're doing and the aggression that they're showing. And now I think the Homeland Security Secretary is going to start buying buildings so ICE can expand and the deployment can continue.

Now, a federal judge on Thursday blocked temporarily the National Guard operations in the area, saying the Trump administration's version of events were simply unreliable and that the deployment of troops anywhere in the state would only add fuel to the fire. April Perry is her name. She sided with the state saying that she had seen no credible evidence that there is a danger of a rebellion in the state of Illinois. But see the The thing that the left doesn't understand is that this was a major issue that contributed to their abysmal loss. In November of 2024.

And what have they done? They quadrupled down.

Now we have sniper attacks and ambushes. We have the full-fledged. use of Antifa and some of these other violent groups, they're siding themselves with criminal illegal immigrants. And when you look at that 2024 presidential electoral map broken down by county, that's what I'm looking at. And it's not so much these pockets like you say in Chicago or Portland, but even still, you have minority communities there.

They don't want. The criminal illegal immigrants to side there against them. And when you look at what the President did in Washington, D.C., when you have black grandmothers that are coming out thanking President Trump because of what he has done, so that they can go out at night and not have to worry about violence and being shot and things of this nature. There's a tide that is turning. And I don't understand why, again, the left with itself.

with the the decimation of our national su sovereignty and also aligning themselves with criminal illegal immigrants. We just had a criminal illegal immigrant behead a hotel manager right here in Dallas, Texas. He chopped off the guy's head and then he carried it out to a dumpster, fully on camera. This guy was supposed to have been deported. This is here in Dallas, in Dallas County, in Texas.

And if we can't get this right even here in Texas, there is something going wrong because people want safety and security.

So what do you make of Governor Stitt of Oklahoma? He criticized Trump for greenlighting the deployment of Texas National Guard because it's governor against governor. He says he didn't like it when the president, Biden, was trying to force everyone to get vaccinated. And he says, isn't it the same thing? He says, I'll go on to read, under the pretext of fighting crime, he goes, they include Chicago, with Trump cast as a destosian hellhole.

He says, I was surprised that Governor Abbott sent troops from Texas to Illinois. Abbott and I sued the Biden administration when the shoe was on the other foot and the Biden administration was trying to force us to vaccinate all our soldiers and force masks across the country. As a Federalist believer, one governor against another, I don't think that's the right way to approach this. I looked at a difference between vaccination and crime. Yeah, huge.

I mean, you're talking about apples and carrots here.

Now, the preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America says that the federal government has one of its strategic tasks is to ensure domestic tranquility. When you have over 600,000 criminal illegal immigrants, that's the numbers the ICE gave to us last year, October, that constitutes a serious national security issue, domestic security issue. When you throw into the fact you have 25 to 30,000 single military-aged male Chinese as part of that number, you've got a real situation on your hands. We've got to get control of our streets, and we have to make sure that this happens in these quote-unquote sanctuary cities and sanctuary states, which again are unconstitutional because they're harboring criminals. Crossing the border into the United States of America is a felony offense.

Next stop, period. And then, on top of that, when you're committing other crimes and you have gang members and things of this nature, when you have criminal illegal immigrants and gang leaders that are putting bounties out. On the heads of ICE agencies and departments across this country, that has to end, that has to stop. Let's move on and talk about this peace deal that could be taking place. Here's the President of the United States, cut one.

Well, they know exactly what we're doing. We're going to... Uh Create something where people could live. You can't live right now in Gaza. Every it, you know, the places are.

It's a horrible situation. Nobody's ever seen anything like it.

So yeah, we're going to create better conditions for people. And we don't know the exact details on how, but we know the Prime Minister last night made it clear who was responsible. He had Woodkoff and Kushner sit in on the Security Cabinet meeting, cut three. I want to personally thank both of you. Steve.

Joey. Uh it's been long hours. You've worked on the club. But not only worked, I I think you You put in You're uh Your brains and your hearts. And We know that it's uh for the benefit of Israel and the United States, for the benefit of uh Decent people everywhere.

and for the benefit of these families who will finally get to be with our loved ones.

So now we're going to see the President head over there Sunday, Monday. What are your thoughts about what's taking place? I don't trust Samas. As a matter of fact, you know, Islamic jihadists base everything on the actions and the traditions of Muhammad, and that's why people need to read the 628 AD Treaty of Hudabaya. That Mohammed signed with the Meccans, and of course, he violated that treaty, which was supposed to last for 10 years.

He violated after two years. and slaughtered everybody in Mecca. This is the thing, uh Hamas is going to get back, what, some 250 to 300 peop terrorists that were being held in prison in Israel. The next phase is what's the most important. It's great that we're going to get these 48 individuals to come back home.

Half of them, I believe, are already deceased. But will Hamas stand down? And even if Hamas stands down, there are seven or eight other Islamic terrorist organizations that operate fully and freely in Gaza.

So this is far from being over. I hope that these hostages are released, dead and also alive. But we've got to make sure that Islamic jihadism is eradicated out of Gaza. You will never have peace as long as you have Islamic terrorists there in Gaza and especially Hamas as the government. When they give up their leverage Of hostages.

They thought that they got hit hard first. If they start violating this and going back to rockets, which they're supposed to put in in Egypt in storage, and if they don't decommission their guns to the best degree, we can follow up on that. You know, you know personally how hard it is to get somebody's gun away and how easy it is to hide, especially when you do it. They do it. When if they all of a sudden start violating these treaties and start intimidating taking over neighborhoods and shooting IDF or excuse me, international forces.

The IDF will go back in and they think that they got hit hard. They'll be destroyed. That's what I pray is the understanding. Uh but but you know I just pray that, that's the understanding. But right now, I know that, yes, we want to make sure that those families are reunited and they have closure, but this is just a very the top of the first inning Of a long baseball game.

And hopefully, that we can continue to see this through all the way to the end. Because I believe, Brian, what you just said is what we will have to eventually do, which is to go back in there and eradicate them. The Middle East is a gun culture. And so, to tell someone that they're just supposed to give up their AK-47 or their PKM, that's going to be a very difficult thing. And then, furthermore, how do you verify that that has happened?

We saw the Iranians wouldn't even allow. anybody to go in and verify their their nuclear program.

So you think you're going to be able to go in and go house to house and verify that they don't have weapons. We will see. Yeah, I just want to see if Qatar and Egypt and UAE, whatever they have, 100 troops, 100 troops, 100 troops, if they're going to be the mediating force. I don't know if the Palestinians go after them.

So, excuse me, Hamas goes after them.

So, it's going to, we're not going to do it. You know, we're not going to be there.

So, if you want to target us, that's an easy target for you. But that's not what we're doing.

So, my hope is the leverage will be on with the Muslim world, the Islamic world, the Arab world to get them in line. Because to tell you the truth, I think there's a lot of countries eager to have normal relations with Israel. I couldn't say that 10 years ago. No, you're right. The Abraham Accords did show that.

And I hopefully that Qatar, who after Iran, is the number two state sponsor of Islamic terrorism in the world, that they're going to be honest brokers. That's the key thing. The UAE, I fully trust them. I mean, I saw what some of their special operators did on the ground in Afghanistan when I was there, and we'll see about Egypt because we know that, that was the birthplace of the Muslim Brotherhood in nineteen twenty eight. All right, Colonel Alan West, Historic Times.

Thanks so much. God bless you. Take care, Brian. All right, listen, we have a lot to talk about. The lockout, too, we haven't even touched.

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Of surrogates that can go do that. You need to send me to rule America. And they were looking like Huh? And I'm like, listen, I was in East Texas. I live there.

I know the struggles. I'm like, just try me. Like, trust me on this.

So, Jasmine Crockett, the strategy behind how she's being used. She is a firebrand, no doubt about it. She gets a lot of publicity, no doubt about it. But I just wonder about the use of her Personally, as a high profile surrogate representing mainstream Democrats. And Jasmine Crockett was reflecting on a podcast about why Kamoa Harris really kind of got snubbed by rural America.

She felt as though there was no interest there. She said her instincts would have been gone to urban America. Let me ask you: about her policies, where everything is race, every Republican idea is wrong, which, by the way, a lot of rural America, most rural America is red.

So you can go there all you want. But who are you gonna when you get there, what are you going to say? You could show up. You think by showing up that's a legitimate alternative? I don't know.

I never thought that way. I do want to talk about a little bit more about the debate that I was going over with Mark Thiessen earlier in this hour.

So I mentioned before Winsom Sears was loaded for Bear yesterday. I mean, she was not going to sit on the sidelines. She know it was all or nothing. Here is here going at it on Abigail Spamberger when it comes to these bathroom issues, Cup forty three. Ms.

Earl Sears, you say that you do not support biological males identifying as females playing in girls' sports and have pledged to sign legislation restricting bathrooms by birth sex. Does this position discriminate against transgender girls? You have 60 seconds. I'm not for discriminating against anyone. What I'm saying is just very plain common sense.

And I'm going to answer the question my opponent refused to answer, which is simply this. I will not rescind the governor's executive order. We know that girls want to have privacy. It's really that simple. And my opponent will not answer the question because she voted for, she voted for men nude in girls' locker rooms, in bathrooms, and in girls' sports.

And Abigail Spanberger was a woman staring straight ahead, hoping not to drop the ball and just get across the finish line, because these issues are derailing her. The question is, is it enough to close the gap? I mean, the lieutenant governor is strong. It's fine. But she's not Glenn Young.

Glenn Youngkin is a fantastic politician. The president thinks he's. Thinks he looks like a president. And he was able to come from behind with this great track record and spend a ton of money of his own money. And he was able to pull off the upset against Terry McCoff, who was already won the governorship.

So it was a harder race. But you're looking at Abigail Spanberger and you're looking at. Mikey Sherrill And these are Katie Porter winning over in Los Angeles in California. These are terrible Democratic candidates. They're not good.

So is everyone going to just vote for the Democrat? Even though there's mostly Democrats in California, mostly Democrats in New Jersey, mostly Democrats in Virginia, are people going to say, well, So what? She's a Democrat. If you think things were going that bad, I mean, basically, in Virginia, you have a House and the Senate that is. Uh Democrat.

So it somewhat neutralized and countered the Republican governor. Are you unhappy with the way Yunkin ran? And what he did. Because the polls show that he's very, very popular.

So, I find it unbelievable that Katie Porter, once all these videos start emerging of her, I find it unbelievable that Katie Porter is the best that California can do.

Now, you have at this point, because it's a year out, you have people criticizing her. You know, you have on the left, like Bechera, who's number two in this race. You see other Villa Garosa, the former mayor of Los Angeles, and they'll say, wow, isn't that great?

Well, only because it's so early. But can you imagine if she got the nomination, these tapes would be rolling out? and no one would be saying anything. And I'm pretty sure Republicans are pretty, look at Marjorie Taylor Green, are pretty good at turning on their own when they feel as though their own are wrong. From High Atom, Fox News Headquarters in New York.

York City. always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmee. Everyone, so glad you're there. Brian Kilmeat Show coming your way.

Ambassador Michael Orin, former Israeli ambassador to the U.S., very much involved in these Middle East negotiations. He's going to be providing live updates for you. He'll be in our studio. Sean Davis is here, CEO and co-founder of the Federalist, former Economic Policy Advisor for Governor Rick Perry. He's going to be helping us out with what's going on with ICE and everything else, as well as what's going on here with the shutdown.

And of course, we got to just remind you here at 48th and 6th, we're going to be on Long Island, about 30 miles away, for the Patriot Awards coming up November 6th, 8 o'clock, Tillis Center, L-I-U. Go to Foxnation.com/slash Patriot Awards. I will see you for that red, white, and blue night.

So let's get to the big three. Number three. Should transgender girls who are biological males be allowed to use girls' bathrooms and play on girls' sports teams. There should never be a moment. In Lacuna's, we finally have her saying that.

Here you go. Brawl for it all in Virginia as the gubernatorial debate boils over and a Democratic candidate's gutless stand stands out. We'll bring you the highlights. Number two. The Democrat leader said, Every day gets better.

For us. Democrats might feel that way. But I don't know of anybody else that does. Senator John Thune, majority leader, shutdown continues. His paychecks are likely to be missed for the first time in years.

I have the latest. Number one. I think it's going to be great. I think the hostages will be coming back Monday or Tuesday. I'll probably be there.

I hope to be there. There you go, almost there. All the hostages are days away from freedom. And could Gaza be on the precipice of rebuilding? We're going to look at the peace deal phase by phase and has the whole world in awe and has people chanting Trump's name in Gaza and in Tel Aviv.

Sean Davis joins us now. Sean, your reaction to what we know so far.

Well, I think it's spectacular news. We kind of started getting the sense, I would say, earlier this week that something big was happening. But I mean, it's great news. I hope it follows through. I hope it'd be wonderful to have peace there for the long term.

But I think we've probably both been alive and around long enough to not expect it forever. But for the short and medium term, I think it's really, really a great sign. And the hostages coming out is going to be a great event. That's going to be not only a great event that not many people saw coming all at once, but. That's going to be the leverage that Hamas lost, right?

Yeah, it's hard to look at people and humans as leverage, but that's clearly what they were being used for. It's a shame to me to see that this seems like a deal that could have been done a year ago, but it apparently took a strong administration and a strong president who wanted it to get done to make sure both sides understood there was going to be peace here.

So God bless President Trump for actually going in and getting in the middle of it and making sure they're going to get these hostages home. I just want to hear Jennifer Griffin sat down with the Israeli foreign minister, Gideon Saar, cut five. Is this the end to the war in Gaza?

Well, it's the implementation of the first phase. Uh we don't in we don't have any intention to renew the war But but part of the commitment is, for example, the disarmment of Hamas, that they will lay down their arms and so on. But we will first have a ceasefire. immediately after the decision will be approved by the government, there will be a ceasefire. And then the commitment within seventy two hours of Hamas to release all the hostages.

I believe that That can uh That should bring the the end to this war.

So, I mean, that's how they feel. We see the celebration, and we'll see how things unfold in the next few days. Yes, and always the devil is in the details. But I think even you saw Trump say he's not looking for a temporary ceasefire. He's looking to an end to the war.

And I have no doubt that he's going to push for that and make sure that both sides understand the time for war here is over. I want you to hear what's going on. While the president goes over there to cut a deal, which is far more difficult, we cannot get the government open because Democrats want to change health care instead of just having continuing resolution to fund the government. Under Biden, this is the Biden budget we're living under right now, not even Trump's big beautiful bill or the changes that were made or the tax code made permanent.

So right now we're in a shutdown mode. Here's Chuck Schumer. Cut twenty-six. Democrats have three words for this. No.

Yeah. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up. our health care system.

So he's cursing because he hears that's what guys like. And number two, blow up our healthcare system. We're going down to pre-pandemic. Criteria when it comes to Medicaid and when it comes to eligibility, when it comes to eligibility on that, as well as subsidies that were given during the pandemic for people that were stuck at home and maybe lost their jobs.

So they all of a sudden are making this healthcare debate. Has it been effective? I don't think so. Also, am I crazy or did he say three words and then only said two in no way? I don't think it's working for them.

I think what they're trying to do is just deny Trump any sort of victory or to just make life hard for him. Recall that I believe under the last Biden budget, they voted for the same clean CR 13 times, but now Trump's president. Suddenly, they don't want to do it. They're going to pretend it's about health care for illegals. You know, I was talking to friends, you know, not in politics, not in media yesterday.

None of them has even noticed the shutdown. I think it's all theatrics in Washington, but I think everyone preferred it would be over sooner rather than later. But I will say that if you're flying. You're feeling it because already some massive delays. Air traffic controllers are calling out sick.

And they were already overworked and underpaid.

So that's the one thing. Matt Towery weighed in last night. He's a pollster and political analyst because he knows what this is like. This is not our first shutdown. The reason why the market's not panicking and people aren't panicking is because, sadly, we keep going through this.

Cut 32. There's a crisis in health care, but the biggest crisis is among the rural areas, the places that voted for Donald Trump.

So I say to Schumer, how about this? How about we address that rural crisis right now? And then after everybody gets the government going again, we'll turn and deal with his area in New York and Los Angeles and all the other places he cares about. I think there's a way to get this thing done. and take the healthcare issue and hang it right around their neck.

What do you think?

Well, I think the real issue here, if we're going to talk about healthcare, is Obamacare. I remember what my premiums looked like before Obamacare came in, and I think I'm paying, I don't know, five to 10 times more in premiums each month. That's the actual problem here. It's not that we need more subsidies or we need to tweak this or that. We need to remove the thing that utterly destroyed the U.S.

healthcare system and made healthcare. Utterly unaffordable. This business where we're going to pay $20,000 or $30,000 a year in premiums just for the privilege of getting a 50% copay when we actually co-insurance, when we actually have to call in that insurance, is insane. But the problem here is Obamacare. True.

We're just looking now at some of the things that are on our table with these trade deals. Yesterday, the Secretary of Treasury, Besant, came out and said it's time for Europe to put tariffs. And subsidies, whatever they do, on Chinese products, because they're the ones sustaining the war in Ukraine. And he called on Europe and all the NATO allies to do the same thing. Do you think we should follow suit, knowing too, that yesterday it was official that there China is already starting to hold back rare earth on us?

Absolutely, we should. This idea that we should be getting all of these manufactured materials that we need to exist as a country from one of our chief geopolitical rivals is insane. China has been subsidizing and then dumping its goods into the U.S. below cost to destroy our manufacturing base. That needs to end, and it needs to end for us, and it needs to end for Europe as well, because China is not able to be the gigantic global hegemon that it's becoming without the economic money coming from Europe and the U.S.

So, yeah, we need to cut that spigot off real quick.

So, that's interesting because I thought this was a sensitive time in our trade negotiations because all of a sudden, for China to come out and say, Yeah, we're going to limit rare earth delivery, stuff that we're more than willing to pay for, while they stop buying our farm products like soybeans, which they were our number one customer, and we provide better soybeans, the people in the agricultural world tell me, at a better price. What games are they playing in the final lap of this, we thought the final round of these trade talks? They're doing the same games that they always play. And quite honestly, assuming we even get a trade deal, I don't expect them to keep their word. This is what the CCP does all the time.

Their goal is not to help the U.S. Their goal is to help China. And I think the sooner we understand that and the sooner we understand that our dependence upon them makes us weaker, the quicker we can get and become a stronger economy, which will make us better able to deal with the Chinese problem. Right. Very interesting.

But we're not ready on pharmaceuticals. We're not ready on rare earth yet. And we're not ready. We can't find a different customer for those farm products because now they got to get subsidized the farmers. And I'm sure the president will do that.

But that's not what farmers want. They don't want checks. They want to be able to grow and sell their products, which I heard, again, I've way too much about farming for a guy that's never farmed. They had an incredible season. Yeah, well and another major problem, farming now is it is so capital intensive.

The amount of land you need to have to be able to spread out those costs is significant. It's killing family farmers. And it's Coming is a large part because of how expensive it is to get manufactured goods. Again, I mean, do you know what the cost of a combine is? It is outrageous.

Like, so no family farmer out there with a couple hundred acres is going to be able to afford to farm. And it's terrible for the country. We're losing that farming heritage. And then it's in large part because of how expensive it has become to make things and how dependent we are on enemies like China to make them for us. Yeah, we'll see what happens there.

How do you feel about helping out Argentina at this time? The Secretary of Treasury made a strong case saying they're trying to pull away from China. They're trying to, as we try to grab back this Central and South America, and it's in our interest to Fortify. They also have rare earth over there to help them out with the peso. I'm not sophisticated enough to talk about monetary policies between nations, but our Secretary of Treasury yesterday said this is not a bailout.

How do you see it? Yeah, that's a hard one. When you're looking at geopolitical competition, you have to understand that either people are going to kind of be in your court or someone else's. And over the last 20 to 30 years, I think we've seen a lot of people being driven into China's arms.

So, to the extent that we can bring people back to us, especially in our own hemisphere, there's zero reason for China to be gaining this foothold in Latin America, especially by the way, given what China's doing to the seas out there and the way it's absolutely destroying the fishery stock. Yeah, I don't have a problem with us helping out our friends in this hemisphere. Sean Davis, thanks so much, CEO and founder of the Federalists. Thanks for zooming with us. We always great to have you on.

Thank you, sir. Appreciate it. You got it. When we come back, Ambassador Michael Oren joins us, former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. He is very much involved in this whole deal that could put the Middle East on the first path to peace in my lifetime.

Don't move. It's Brian Killmade. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. Oh, yeah, there's no doubt about disarming rockets and missiles, the factories that assemble them, the factories that do the manufacturing, particularly of the small-range rockets, the tunnel complexes themselves.

All of this has to be done before anybody talks about. Restoring Gaza. And if Hamas doesn't disarm, there's no restoring Gaza until that fact takes place. And that is what is on the table in phase two. And it remains to be seen.

Is Hamas lying to us when they say yes, we'll disarm? Likely. The opportunity for them to surrender and get their own personal freedom is on the line here. We'll see if they're going to take Israel up and the United States on that.

So that's a huge question, Mark.

So there you go. General Jack Keene on with me earlier today talking about what has to happen in phase two of this operation, but extremely pleased that there's a phase one.

So we understood too, Steve Witkoff put out on social media that the clock is beginning to tick on the 72 hours. What am I talking about?

Well, it was 24 hours to return to back up to a yellow line inside Gaza for the IDF, and they did that. And we watched this morning as thousands are pouring back into what I think is Gaza City. I don't know Gaza too well, but it looks like they're pouring into a major city back.

So they believe it's going to be peace. And then the clock starts ticking as soon as the IDF was in place on 72 hours to return the 48 hostages. 20 plus, we hope, are still alive. Michael Oren joins us now, very much involved in all this, former ambassador, Israeli ambassador to the United States. Ambassador, welcome.

Good to be with you, Brian. Hi. Good morning. Yeah, so when did you realize this was indeed possible? Do you remember a day or when you thought, okay, this could happen?

If you would have asked me two weeks ago whether it was possible, I would have been very doubtful. This, you know, before I was ambassador, I was a professor of history, of military and diplomatic history. That document, those 20 points. was one of the most impressive, elegant pieces of diplomacy that I've seen from any country. Maybe even in decades.

But it consisted of things that other countries and you guys wanted, correct? I mean, it wasn't coming out of thin air. This was almost like a best of, wouldn't you think? I think everyone's talking, most of the American media is talking about all the pressure that was put on Netanyahu, put on Netanyahu.

Well, I saw you straighten out MSNBC. You saw that. It was pretty much pushing on an open door. What did Israel want out of this war? It wanted to end the Hamas.

It wanted to get the hostages back. It wanted Gaza demilitarized. Who's not getting the memo there? It's right there in the 20 points, every single one of them. Yeah, Israel had to make some painful sacrifices, particularly the release of 250 murderers from our prisons.

1,900 overall, right? But the people had actually killed Israelis. And think about the families. Think about the family. If you had lost a loved one to one of these murderers, and this guy's going to go free, he's going to get a hero's welcome at home.

It's very painful. My own family lost a close family member to a suicide bombing. Fortunately, that terrorist was killed later. But I can imagine if he got out tomorrow, what we'd have to tell our kids and grandkids. Very difficult.

And then, other than that, it's very abstract. It says that someday maybe the Palestinian Authority will be involved in the post-war government of Gaza and has to reform. Who knows what that means? These guys, you know. Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, is in the 21st year of his four-year term.

Um and that maybe Israel would have to discuss a pathway to a Palestinian state. whatever that means. A pathway, you know, could be a thing with gravel. But the actual concrete Terms of these 20 points, there was only one time in this whole thing. It was 72 hours.

And that played in Israel's favor. Ambassador, there's a story in the Wall Street Journal today and said how Trump's upside-down diplomacy delivered a major victory. He did do things very differently, right? He didn't look at the history. He didn't say, What happened in the 70s?

What happened in the year? Why did Oslo fall apart? What did Yazar Arafat say? How did that election go? And what were the numbers?

And he didn't look at pie charts. He went the other way. He used relationships he had with the Gulf states and the Arab world and the relationship he's already, and the loyalty he's already shown to the prime minister. I mean, my goodness, we couldn't work closer together. There was nowhere between them.

So Hamas thought, as long as we hold out, look at the division between the U.S. and Israel even. Wasn't gonna be the case.

So the president was able to do this deal, it seems, and you correct me at any point, I don't take it personal, without getting every detail done. And these Arab nations didn't want to be the ones to say, I'm out.

So Egypt, Turkey, and Qatar. uh help put this across the finish line without every detail done. I use a historic sort of metaphor. It's like being on Normandy Beach. You're under fire.

You got to get off the beach. Get off the beach first. Deal with the the German defenses on the beach and then you deal with the hedge crow gam campaign later.

Okay.

So you want to get off the beach. And he did. And yeah, there's a a great battle after that. The great battle, as your previous interviewers have talked about, is okay, how do we get Hamas to demilitarize now? How do we get them to give up their guns?

And that's that that's it's a steep it's a very steep challenge. But listen, he's got off the beach. And was getting off the beach just he stopped the war. He got the hostages back. We hope, we think that's going to happen.

And he got everybody on board. I mean, the truly, truly miraculous part of the 20 points was getting countries that don't agree with one another, not just Israel. This is Turkey and Qatar, along with the Saudis and the Emiratis. They don't like each other. Getting them all on board with the Indonesians and the Pakistanis.

I mean, really, think about just how complex this was. But here it's not just the personal relations, Brian. There's another point which I think everyone seems to miss here. Right. And that's the use of power.

Yes, and showing the willingness to use it, right? Yes. Ambassador, stay right there. A few more minutes. I know at the top of the hour, you got to get to Harris.

So you're doing all the rounds today, and we appreciate it. Brian, Kill Me with Ambassador Michael Warren. Don't move. Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show.

That Hamas is not going to disarm. They're never going to fully disarm, and you couldn't monitor it or verify it that if they did, that's the lesson we had with Northern Ireland, getting the paramilitaries to give up arms. Ceasefire may break down. You can imagine a situation where the word won't go out, or some people in Hamas are going to disagree with the guys who negotiated. Then Israel might see that as an opportunity to use military force against the British.

So, what do you do then? Put the focus on maintaining the ceasefire. That's something you can monitor. You can watch the ceasefire. You know if that's working.

Giving up arms, so they're going to stash away arms. You'll never get 100% of their arms, but you can get 100% compliance with the ceasefire.

So, I would focus on that. Sure. That's one way. That's Richard Haas, Council of Foreign Relations. Ambassador Michael Oren is here, and very much to do with the peace deal that we have right now.

With the the President's going to be going over to Egypt and then over to Israel, the significance of him going, is there going to be paperwork for him to sign? Is even symbolically? Are we going to have that moment that was Jimmy Carter with the With that, we had in Camp David. I put my money on it. Certainly, it's a great, it's a photo op opportunity.

By the way, it's a photo opportunity that he actually deserved and earned.

So yes, there'd be a signing ceremony. I don't know what the actual paper is going to say because it's not Hamas is going to sign the other side. Right. But it could be some type of symbolic. And then the way I understand it, it's over to Israel.

to possibly greet the hostages? I I think that would be an extraordinary moment. And then to address the Knesset. The President is overwhelmingly popular in the State of Israel. It's uniting right and left, up and down, religious and secular, and I think even Arab and Jew.

He's overwhelmingly popular among the Haasis families. They were the ones who nominated him for the Nobel Prize.

So they love him, and I think that he deserves it. I don't want to say cynically it's a victory lap, but okay, he deserves it. And he's going to address the Knesset, which has never happened, right? It has happened in the past. It's a bit of a roll of the dice, I must say.

We in the day, if you remember, President Obama visited Israel back in 2013 and and there was a question whether he would speak to the Knesset and it was nixed. It's nixed because we have a different political culture where people scream in the Knesset. And I don't know who would scream at Donald Trump. It could be we have radical leftists in the Knesset. We have communists in the Knesset, believe it, there's a Communist Party.

They may get up and scream at him because he's not sufficiently pro-Hamas. And there are rules of order. You can only scream for so much and they'll take you out. But that wouldn't make for good optics to have Israeli parliamentarians, whatever party they belong to, sort of berating publicly the president. That would be interesting because the invitation's already been put out, I think.

They're going to do it. I think they're going to sit down and talk to the communists and say, guys, be quiet. True or false, the Prime Minister was feeling pressure from the right not to do any deal. And let's just go for complete and victory. Extreme right.

You have to say, there's a moderate right too in his government. And okay, the so the extreme right was pressuring maybe not happy the Prime Minister signed this? They were not happy. They're saying that they oppose the deal, but they won't leave the government. But the government itself voted overwhelmingly in favor of the deal.

This is the nature of our government. It's a coalition government. Imagine if every member of the President's cabinet was actually the head of another party that was seeking to unseat the President. That's our system. How do you view the head in Doha?

Was it worth the risk? Where the risk? I know the ramifications were positive, it seems, but just from your perspective. The risk is that Hamas will use. You say 200 American forces that are being placed there to monitor the implementation of the withdrawal and the ceasefire, some type of international force.

They use them as a human shield.

Now this happened in Lebanon. And basically Hamas wants what Hezbollah has. It wants to say, we have no sovereign responsibility over this place. We're not going to clean up all the rubble. We're not going to rebuild Gaza.

But we want to keep our guns. We want to be a jihadist. That's what Hezbollah had. And Hezbollah for years and years used the UN. Unifil.

as a shield. And international peacekeeping forces infamously Only work when there's no peace to keep. The men actually keep the peace, they run away or they're used as human shields. That's what happened with UniFil.

So that's the big danger here. But that's a UN sponsored th uh thing, right? Would Egypt and would would an all-star team of Arab nations in Indonesia would they be different from UNIFIL?

Well, I'm going to be very cynical here. In the past, we've had European forces in Gaza. The minute the shooting started, they ran away. There was Dutch, there was French. They ran away.

Same thing happened in Beirut. Italians and French, they ran away. The airborne's tougher. And you're going to have countries like if you had troops from UAE and Saudi Arabia. They don't like Hamas.

Hamas is a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood threatens the Saudi and they're going to be much tougher. Uh in dealing with who's who?

Well, believe me, they do. And it's tough for the West to know what's happening. And if I were a Hamas, I'd say, God, bring me a Frenchman, bring me an Italian, bring me an Englishman, but don't bring me a Saudi, don't bring me an Emirati. All right.

So do you think in 72 hours was it going to go as smooth as the first 24 hours, which you guys pulled out? Not you guys, but the idea pulled out right to their left. Yeah, we accorded very quickly. There's a fear there that Hamas will come back and say, listen, you know, they said there's 20, but there's really 17 and we can't find the other three. And always, you know, keep that for a rainy day and that keep us, you know, psychological terror.

These are terrorists who deal not just with physical terror, but also emotional and psychological terror. They'll say this can't find certain bodies, and that will be. Always a source of great Of concerns sorrow and psychological distress for Israeli society. And holding their feet to this fire will be very, very crucial. I want you to hear, you know the politics in America, and you know how few and far between compliments to Trump are for people that don't like him.

Here's a little of the media reaction to what they've seen so far. Dave Ignatius, Martha Radditz, Jake Tapper, John Meacham, cut nine. Joe Biden could never do that. And Donald Trump was able to do it. Do you worry that Trump wants to get the Nobel Prize on Friday?

I mean, I really don't mean that as a joke. If we see those remaining hostages freed and Israel begin its withdrawal, it is a remarkable achievement. I don't want to diminish the importance of this, and obviously, blessed are the peacemakers indeed. It is worth Pointing out, this is a ceasefire deal, right? This is not a A larger peace deal.

All credit to President Trump. So do you your thoughts? Number one, it is a larger piece deal. It is it's the beginning of a larger SPCL and it can be, it can be and um But that's going to require very intense diplomacy. hands-on approach.

And um And we see how far it can be taken. There's great opportunities here. Just when the when the Prime Minister decided to take that shot in Doha and try to take out the terrorists' brass, I think he only hit one of the guys he wanted. These other guys got away and the security official died. Was that shot worth it?

Do you think that to go into Qatar where they were negotiating In retrospect, in in Was it worth it?

Well, history's going to have to judge this differently. from the perspective of uh you know several weeks after I'd say what that operation did was to shake everybody up. And realize that this conflict could not be contained in Gaza, that was going to spill out. And that got a lot of countries on board that hadn't been on board previously. And yeah, the the conventional wisdom in the American press was that the president was furious with Netanyahu and he was that was it, he was going to put his foot down.

But I think that the story is a little bit more complicated than that, Brian. I think that um the The Qataris realized that they couldn't continue to play this game. and that they were going to have to come on board with the President and get Hamas. How much to cooperate. All the emphasis, particularly under the Biden administration, was putting pressure on Israel.

Let's cut off arms sales. Let's delay arms sales. Tell them we can't go into Rafah. We were talking earlier about Kamala Harris's memoir where she said, I was disappointed that Biden wouldn't put more pressure on Israel. Did anybody remotely think, hey, maybe someone should put more pressure on Hamas?

Maybe? Never came up. And all of a sudden, along comes this guy, this guy Donald Trump, and says, wait a minute, let's put pressure on Hamas. And who can we do that? What are the levers here?

The levers are Qatar. Levers are certainly Turkey as well. And he pushed those levers. And you saw how quickly that worked.

So how do you view Cutter? Qatar is a mixed bag. It is a mixed bag. It plays both sides. Let's face it, this is a country that puts in tens and tens of billions of dollars into the United States, into universities, American universities, into lobbyists in Washington to influence American policy.

They have Al Jazeera, which was a a media branch basically of Hamas. On the other hand. They talk to us. On the other hand, our Mossad deals with Qatar and they have been negotiators, they've been mediators, at times good mediators, at times less good mediators in the hostage issue. They are a mixed bat.

That's the way they. They they like playing both sides. And they're friendly with Iran. And they're friendly with Iran. They try to be friendly with Saudi Arabia.

There were a couple of years, but they didn't talk to each other. Um that's that's how a very small, very, very rich country uh survives in the Middle East. That's their survival mechanism.

So, they do have leverage over Hamas.

So, if Hamas wants to make this into an insurgency and start taking shots, they would have some. They would have some stake in that. But let's look what happened.

Now again, the conventional wisdom that Israel did this operation against the Hamas leadership in Doha didn't quite succeed. But look what happened afterward. What happened was all of a sudden, all of a sudden, Qatar was playing ball with Donald Trump to pressure Hamas.

Now, think about how did that happen?

Well, they got shaken. I mean, there's a theory that Trump did know. That the hit was going to be done in place. And that phone call wasn't really necessarily an apology in the Oval Office. It was, hey, one of your security officials died.

That was never the intent. That was the. That's what he apologized for. Look at the text of the apology. Yeah.

I was involved in the apology that Dennis Now gave to Erdogan in 2013, helped draft that apology. That was over at the Mavi Mamara affair, if you remember, it was a flotilla that our Navy SEALs intercepted. And that apology is very, very carefully crafted. You can't. Apologize for our Navy trying to intercept an illegal flotilla that's trying to break a legal blockade, but you can apologize for things that went wrong.

We apologize for operational mistakes. Here he apologized for killing inadvertently. A Qatari security official. Tell me if that's right.

So the Hamas interpreted that as well. Trump does have. say Prime Minister will listen to Trump. Definitely.

So and then Hamas goes, of course they don't like America, but they'll say, okay, maybe this could be backed up. And one of the statements from Hamas, if I could paraphrase, was it's up to Donald Trump to make sure that Netanyahu lives up to his side of the bargain.

So they needed to see that. It's all a piece. Again, I maybe said earlier that Trump was able to do this because he projected power. He projected power in the Middle East that previous American Presidents had not really done since George Bush. And you even saw George Bush, even with Iraq, with all the problems of Iraq, he was able to convene an international peace conference in Annapolis in 2007 with forty-eight countries in it.

Because if you use power, people respect you. That's just, you know, it's a rule of the game. And we also know that the Middle East was fearing Saddam Hussein. He was a problem. It wasn't just an American problem.

He was a Middle Eastern problem. The other thing is, in the big picture, do you think that if barring anything unforeseen, which the Middle East is always unforeseen, do you think these Gulf states want economic relationships and relationships with Israel? Unquestionably.

So that was on track. You believed that that was going to continue. Saudi Arabia was probably going to be next. It's what precipitated the war. Remember, we know from Hamas' documents that one of the major reasons they launched October 7th, 2023, because they were afraid of Israel-Saudi peace.

So is Iran. Dari's desperately afraid. And remember, peace between Israel and Saudi Arabia is not just with Saudi Arabia, it's with the entire Sunni world. It's peace with Indonesia. It's peace with Pakistan.

The biggest Muslim populations in the world are not in the Middle East. They're outside the Middle East. And they're Sunni states. And uh so it was a game changer, a total game changer. And they sought to block it.

It was very, very smart.

So right now, that's still on the cards. And I think that you throw in the Saudi Israel piece, you saw it in Israel-Lebanese peace, Israel-Syria peace. What I said to you before is the Six Day War was a transformative event. This war could be even more transformative. And over a heavy cost.

But it was I think that overall, General Keene said when I was talking to Yahoo, I left that meeting, feel like I was talking to what Churchill. What he did was exactly what Churchill did, steadfast in his objective and did whatever he could to achieve it using other countries and alliances. Ambassador Oren, you always great. And thanks for being with us inside the dollar, inside the room, like you were. Always a pleasure.

All right, I know you've got to get the Harris up on television now. Ambassador Michael Oren, back in the morning, with your calls. Giving you everything you need to know. You're with Brian Kilmead. Breaking news, unique opinions.

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These that are killing me. Hang on one second, everybody. No, we should put the computer above on the phone. Yes, yes, we should have. Yes.

Okay, everybody, I'm not that dark. That's too dark. Yeah. Just a minute.

So that is Katie Porter. More tapes are emerging of her, and she is the front runner to be the next governor of California. She seems like a nightmare. We've heard about this.

Now we see it. And while she's in the primary process, she's going to get inviscerated. Also, she's caught on camera complaining that Joe Biden doesn't let me get to the White House, and I raised all this money for him. Good luck with that, guys. Mike in New York.

Mike, what's on your mind? Hey, Brian, love you, you know. Let me ask you two questions. I'm a retired boss from NYPD. Journalists ask questions, cops interrogate people.

When Cuomo Will he ever apologize for calling the men and women a vice thugs? And number two And number two, if he's elected mayor, Will he let ice into New York City? That's all I have, Brian. I love you.

Well, thank you very much. I don't know. Number one, ICE can do what they want. It's just, are they going to cooperate with the NYPD? Or is the NYPD going to be forbidden to cooperation?

I know one thing: Mondami won't. Mondami will have these protesters. He'll be Pritzker onto the 10th power for sure. And he's already made it clear he's not going to do that.

Now, Eric Adams, who was in legal trouble, seemed to have cut a deal with a silent deal with Trump to cooperate when it comes to illegals in prisons and things to that nature. And he did. But there'll be no leverage that Cuomo, that Trump will have over Cuomo, although he'll be easier to work with. Maybe they'll have an understanding now. Believe me, I think he's closed now within 13 points.

He's got a long way to go. Sandra in New Jersey. Hey, Sandra.

Okay.

Hi, Brian. Good good afternoon. No. Good morning. Good morning.

I wanted to say yes. I'm disappointed that Donald Trump didn't get the Nobel Prize, but He even said there's always next year.

So next year he'll be the fifth president to get it. I also want to say. Sandra, let me just interject. You had to get the application in by January 19th. The president wasn't president then.

So I think the woman who won it, the exiled true leader of Venezuela is definitely deserving. But I think it's just going to have to wait. I think it's going to wait a year. And if they don't give it to him, the Nobel Peace Prize will become looked at as a trophy nobody wants. I mean, it'll it'll be retro it'll be radioactive.

That's right.

So it's just bad timing.

Next year he'll get it. And if he doesn't, like you say, it doesn't mean much. All right.

Thanks, Andrew. Appreciate the call. I actually know the president has goals, just like anything else. I want peace here. I want the economy.

I want Greenland. I want the Panama Canal back. I get it. But with the Nobel Priest Prize, too. But what's most important is, isn't that a great thing to strive for?

He's not saying that. You know, I want to bid on this property and get it. He's saying, I want to do the things necessary to be eligible to get it. And if I'm eligible, I should get it.

Now, look at Teddy Roosevelt. He put an end to the Japan-Russia, or he brokered a peace with Japan and Russia. A lot of people thought the way that ended had the Japanese so embittered that that led the foundation for World War II, by the way, just so you know. They felt as though I got a bad deal on that. And then Jimmy Carter for, you know, obviously Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin and the recognition of Israel as a state by Egypt.

It cost Anwar Sadat his life. But Jimmy Carter, I think, definitely deserved it. I have no idea why Barack Obama got it. No idea. And to this day, I mean, Akibil Kusain, eight months in, he gets woken up to be told he won it, and that's for being willing to talk peace in the Middle East and I guess run against the Iraq war.

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And now we're listening to First Lady of the United States. We didn't know what address she was going to have, what she was going to say. But she is talking about Ukraine and what has happened since she gave that letter to Vladimir Putin to her husband to give to Vladimir Putin about returning the children. And he says they've had direct contacts.

So we're going to follow this story and bring you some of the highlights as she completes that speech. This hour, we're going to be joined by Shannon Breen, anchor of Fox News Sunday, and then Tommy Lehron will be with us, and Jake Steinfeld, you know, from the National Foundation for Governor's Fitness, embodied by Jake.

So. I'm following a lot of big stories. And before we get to Shannon, let's get to the big three. Number three. Should transgender girls who are biological males be allowed to use girls' bathrooms and play on girls' sports teams.

There should never be moments. In my goodness, we finally have her saying that. There you go, a brawl for it all in Virginia, and the gubernatorial debate boils over, and a Democratic candidate's gutless stance stands out. We'll bring in the highlights. Number two.

In an interview posted this morning. The Democrat leader said, Every day gets better. for us. Democrats might feel that way. But I don't know of anybody else that does.

That is Senator John Thune. The shutdown continues. We're now in day 10. This is the first time in years people will actually miss paychecks. Number one.

I think it's going to be great. I think the hostages will be coming back Monday or Tuesday. I'll probably be there. I hope to be there. That is President of the United States.

They're almost there. All the hostages are days away from freedom. And could Gaza be on the precipice of rebuilding? We're going to look at the peace deal. And that the whole world is in awe of and cheering on.

I mean, there was cheering enchanting Trump in Gaza. I've seen the video, and then you see what happens in Tel Aviv, non-stop celebration since this deal is done. It looks like the president's making plans to go over to the Middle East, go over to Egypt, then over to Israel, and be there when the 20-plus come out alive, and sadly the bodies emerge. And people hope that everything's going to be executed.

So far, so good, Shannon Breen, because the first stage and the easiest one of the IDF backing up to a predetermined line has already taken place. Yeah, and I think that people are just tentatively holding their breath. They're saying their prayers. They are hoping that everything that's gotten to this point will hold. I do think the next couple of days are critical.

And as we get through the weekend and President Trump wanting to be there for something that he worked so hard to broker and his team, gosh, Monday, Tuesday, I can't wait. If we get to see these families reunited, what a beautiful thing that's going to be. And not many people thought it was possible because one of the reason was, sadly, they used these human lives. Not only did they torture them and kill some of them, but they used them as leverage in order to avoid their annihilation. The minute they give up these these the bodies and the and the and the hostages If they decide not to lay down their guns, if they decide to become a terror force in there, if they refuse to relinquish power, then there'll be no holes barred.

I think the Prime Minister made it clear this morning that he'll go back in. Hmm. I think Shannon went to an area. Oh, Brian, I'm here. I'm sorry.

Can you hear me okay? Yeah, now we can.

Okay.

Um yeah, I think that there's always been a worry that once Hamas had no hostages left, And essentially, no leverage left, are they going to stick to the deal? I mean, they've been so decimated as an organization.

So, what do they have that can really? Continue to propel them forward. I mean, the whole idea with everybody that seems to be a party to this agreement is that Hamas will not exist anymore as a political persuasion, as a party, as a player in any way in the Middle East.

So, do we have faith that they actually, this group that we've easily designated as a terrorist group, is actually just going to walk away? I'm not sure they have a choice otherwise, just based on the absolute decimation of their leadership and everything else. But I think that there's still plenty of skeptics who think this group is not going away for good.

So, you wouldn't know this, Janet, and it sounds like you're in transit, but the first lady just had a 50, about a 10-minute address, at which time she said that since the time she got that letter to Vladimir Putin through her husband in Alaska, Vladimir Putin and the first lady have been talking directly, and she's helped, they have helped together read, I know he could do a lot more, eight children that brought back to their families. And she dated those remarks, updated everybody, and she says, We're going to continue to work to do that. That is surprising. I had no idea that was happening. Did you?

I did not. And what a beautiful, powerful thing. Because it's one of the stories that sometimes gets lost in the broader discussion of what's happened in Ukraine and Russia, is that there are thousands, we think tens of thousands of children who are taken from their families and simply Stolen away to be raised with a completely different new background or aka heritage or viewpoint on Ukraine and on Russia. I can't imagine the immense sorrow of not knowing whether your child is dead or alive, what propaganda they may be subjected to on a day-to-day basis, how they're being treated. I mean, it's a start, but what a beautiful thing that the first lady is using whatever power and leverage that she has.

to actually get something really meaningful done. Yeah, and it's caught, you know, so we are at a time in which the president says, I'm extremely disappointed. I want Ukraine to get all their land back, and has not communicated with Vladimir Putin that we know of. And he's amped up the attacks on the energy sector leading into the winter of Ukraine. And by the way, taking heavy hits from Ukraine are beginning to hit deeper inside Russia, and they're beginning to have gas lines.

So we think, and then, of course, they're buzzing NATO members. He's actually talking to the first lady. I mean, isn't that amazing? I can't think of another parallel where a First Lady has been talking to a foreign leader or foreign leadership group about such an enormous foreign policy issue. Yeah, so we're talking to Shannon Bream.

Shannon, how are you covering this weekend? I'm sure you're going to be leading with what's happening in Gaza. Yes, we are. We're going to do a deep dive in that. Our Trey Yanks and Steve Harrigan and our team that's over there, we're going to give you minute by minute what's happening on the ground.

We've also got Speaker Johnson with us exclusively on Sunday to talk about, you know, where are the off-ramps? You mentioned in your intro that people are going to start missing paychecks. That includes the military, and people will say, oh, okay, well, they get paid back. They do. But a lot of military families, like a lot of American families, live paycheck to paycheck.

And not having the funds you need to pay the bill that's due or put food on the table is a very real issue. And that starts happening next week. Absent something coming together this weekend.

So we'll talk to the speaker about what the plan is. Yeah, so you talked to the speaker about that. And we know, too, that. The Prime Minister Netanyahu already addressed his people this morning and updating people that, hey, updating this is a deal that we want and this is a deal that we fought for, but we are also aware who we're dealing with. It's still Hamas.

Here's Jared Kushner from sitting in with Netanyahu's cabinet yesterday, cut for. Obviously, bringing the hostages home is been a priority for President Trump. uh for a very very long time and and uh we've all worked very tirelessly to do that. But I really want to say that this all would not have been possible without the bravery of the IDF and the soldiers, what they've accomplished not just in Gaza. but also what they've done in the theater over the last couple of years to eliminate Hezbollah in the North and really degrade them.

So That's true. When we look back, we're going to talk about who got it across the finish line: President Trump. But only because Netanyahu was able to defy odds, push back on all his critics and take a lot of incoming, literally in terms of the profile of the country, while taking out Hezbollah, taking out the nuclear program of Iran, at least temporarily, and disassembling Hamas's leadership, including the incredible assassination that took place in Iran. of Hamas's leadership.

So that's all the only thing that made that possible is what Israel is able to do after that horrific day two years ago, October 7th. Yeah, and they've paid very heavy prices on many fronts. We know they've lost a lot of their own young men and women in the IDF. You know, when you travel in Israel and you walk around and see the young people are the heart of preservation of that country, they know what they're facing is an existential threat. They all serve in the military.

They're all well-armed and proficient and ready to jump into action at any time. I've got a doctor here, stateside, whose son was in medical school and felt such a burden. He decided to drop out of medical school and go serve his duty in the IDF. He's back in medical school now. But, you know, there's just a different level of commitment and heart and passion to preserving their autonomy and their very existence as a Jewish state.

It runs through their heritage, through their blood, through their bones. And there have been enormous sacrifices of all these reservists and people who have willingly been called up into the IDF to be on the front lines, and many of them giving their lives in this fight that was sparked by Hamas on October 7th. Yeah, no doubt about it. Shannon also would look at the debates yesterday in Virginia that have national implications. Because people say the off-year elections will tell us what's going to happen in the midterms.

But listen to some of the give and take. Abigail Spanberger has no answer for why she's still and if she's still supporting Jay Jones. She will not go directly at it, and she will not answer: does she okay with boys dressing in girls' locker rooms and vice versa? Here's some of the exchange for the at-stake the gubernatorial race, and it is and we have as our opponent, the Lieutenant General Winsom Sears. Listen to Cut 35.

The comments that Jay Jones made are absolutely abhorrent. I denounce them when I learned of them, and I will denounce them every opportunity I get. As a mother, as a public servant, as a candidate for governor, I denounce them. And it is important that candidates always denounce violence on no matter which side of the aisle, violence, violent rhetoric. We should always be focused and forceful in our denouncement.

I am going to tell you that. Hand in pressure. My opponent, unfortunately, only denounces violence when her side is the target. She would not say she's rescinding her endorsement. It was painful.

And by the way, the moderators did a great job pushing it. And when it comes to is she going to take reverse Governor Junkin's order to keep your birth gender as the gender you use as a locker room, she had no answer for that either. Is this something that people care about in the region? We do. In fact, I'm in the car right now to go interview the Lieutenant Governor Winston Sears.

And we have invited former Congresswoman Abigail Spamberger numerous times. That invitation remains open. We'd love to have her voice on this too. But as you said, there's so few of these off-year elections. And so people do look at them as whether they are a bellwether for a broader look at ahead to the midterms in 26 or more broadly how Ds and Rs are doing across the country in all these special elections.

So it's not a special election, but Virginia does theirs off-year, so it always gives it an interesting look. President Trump has not won Virginia.

So it's a very purple, very blue state at this point. We've got a ton of federal workers up in the DC area, which obviously skews the voting, more towards that blue side of things. And a lot of federal workers have lost their jobs this year in Virginia. That's part of their debate, too. But on the trans issue, it's interesting, there's new polling out in this race, and it shows that by a 13-point margin, Virginians say they trust Spamberger to handle the transgender issue.

Better than they think the lieutenant governor will.

Well, she's out there showing up at school board meetings, trying to have this conversation. She says it's common sense. It was really tough, I felt like, to get a straight answer from former Congresswoman Spamberger on that particular issue last night. Wow. Very interesting.

So, the lieutenant governor with an 80-20 issue, maybe not in Virginia.

So, that would be fascinating to see how that goes because we'll put that issue back on the ballot. I think Republicans would embrace that anytime. Shannon, thanks so much. I appreciate it. Look forward to your show on Sunday.

What's happening on Saturday? Oh, on Saturday, we're going to have Bill Bratton on, America's Premier, on Sunday at 10 o'clock. We're going to have Bill Bratton on, who is the Premier Police Commissioner of the country. How does he feel about what's going on in Chicago, Portland, Memphis, as well as D.C.? And we're also going to have you Hewitt on.

And we'll tell you what else. We have other surprises because they're going to be live.

Okay.

I wait I wait Anxiously anticipating all of that. And I should mention, too, we've got Justice Amy Coney Barrett on the show on Sunday, too.

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Previgen made for your brain. They say the shutdown could cost the economy approximately $15 billion a week. To put that in perspective, that's $15 billion more than Kill Mead's book sales. You know, Brian, I know physical fitness and looking good is not really your thing, but do you think that it's okay to fake fitness to reach voters? Is that a weird thing?

First off, I had to get paid for those two appearances during your monologue, which I knew nothing about. First off, I dare you mess with my upper body. I am clean-shaven. I'm defined. I have great biceps.

My deltoids are to kill for. Not even to bring up my triceps, but I digress. I think, just think there's one guy that could win the governor's race, and he's Schwarzenegger-like, and he could be making an announcement soon. Body by Jake Steinfeld. He's going to jump in there.

He's going to go ahead and win the governor's race. Really? Or Steve Hill. Why are you applauding that? He just made that up.

No, no. No, he's a friend of mine. He's gonna run. You just watch. You don't have friends.

You don't know body. Body by Jake is like an A-lister. Right. And I would never hang out with me. By the way, speaking of kids, Brian, you'll love this because you have no friends and you're alone all the time.

So that was uh the the reason why I mind uh Guttfeldt show is still a study in its own right. But that is just telling you about my next guest. There was a long promo for my guest coming up in 15 minutes, Jake Seinfeld, because he's really considering running for governor. And we're going to find out what exactly he's going to do. I'll tell you one person he's not going to have to worry about, and that is Katie Porter.

This woman, detapes her emerging of the front runner for the governor's race, and she is a nightmare, as bad as rumored to be. And people have known this about her, but they just. didn't make it a big deal because, you know, she tried to be Senator Katie Porter, but you lost to Adam Schiff. Here's a little of Katie Porter in action. This is the one everybody's talking about.

Cut fifty-eight. I feel like this is unnecessarily argumentative. What is your question? Do you think you need any of those forty Percent of California voters to win, and you're saying, no, you don't. No, I'm saying I'm going to try to win every vote I can.

And what I'm saying to you is that Well, to those voters.

Okay, so so you I don't want to keep doing this. I'm going to call it. Thank you. You're not going to do the interview with us. Nope, not like this.

I'm not. Not with seven follow-ups to every single question you ask. Every other candidate has ASPS. I don't care. I want to have a pleasant, positive conversation with you ask me about every issue on this list.

And if every question, you're going to make up a follow-up question, then we're never going to get there. And we're just going to circle around. How unbelievable is that? I mean, I could watch that 24 hours a day because a follow-up question is what everybody gets, whether you're the smallest, going for the smallest town council seat, or the biggest seat. If you imagine Donald Trump, compare that to what Trump deals with every day.

He'll meet with the press sometimes four times a day. Do you think that he screens those questions? Do you think he has to have pictures of the reporters, what they look like, and the topics in which they go over? You might not like the answers to his questions. And sometimes they'll say, ah, enough for you.

I understand that. Move on. Because he's watched them broadcast some of the questions or gotcha questions. But they'll do that. Uh once every hundred times.

But this is somebody now every Democrat is jumping down her throat because they want her out of the race. Why? Because he's in front. They want the job that Villa Garosa, I think, is in. Steve Hilton is in.

Of course, he's a big critic of hers. Steve is, even though everybody runs in the same primary, there's no Republican or Democrat. Steve is a solid third in there. And then you have Uh Javier Bercera, a failed HHS secretary who is invisible during the pandemic, by the way. Uh just absolutely awful.

So when we come back, Tommy Laron joins us in Jake Steinfeld. Busy half hour, Brian Kilmichio. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. Once again, the question was, should transgender girls who are biological males be allowed to use girls' bathrooms and play on girls' sports teams in K through 12?

You have 15 seconds to clarify. In cases across Virginia, I think it's incumbent upon parents. And educators and administrators in each local community to make decisions locally. That's what this is about. Ms.

Earl Sears. Oh, my goodness, we finally have her saying that. But you voted for that. Ms. Earl Sears.

You finally approved her. Ms. Earl Sears, you were intruding on time here. We're trying to.

So, your thoughts, Tommy Lair, and thanks so much for joining us as you get set to host your show over the weekend. The Big Weekend Show. your thoughts about what you hear about this debate last night in Virginia.

Well, I'll tell you, I think this week it's the crumbling of Democrat women. That seems to be the narrative, whether it's Katie Porter or Spanberger. No, I wasn't. Mikey Sheryl, too. Yeah, I agreed.

And I think last night was very telling. It's not hard to pull your endorsement from somebody who's wishing death upon an opponent and his family. That's not a hard thing to do. The question is, why wouldn't you? What is the calculation there where you're thinking, no, I'm not going to pull my endorsement.

I'm going to denounce it. But the same thing with Katie Porter. I think the narrative also is that Democrats, man, woman, they, them, whatever, they hate it when they get any little tiny bit of pushback. She was so combative on that debate stage, not just against her opponent, but against the moderator. She was almost upset that she was even asked the question and then asked a follow-up.

And her answer on that on Jay Jones was ridiculous. Her answer on men in women's sports, again, she almost did the Kamala word salad. It's not that hard to say that men shouldn't be in women's sports, but she wouldn't go that far. They never do. They will never go the distance.

On that. How can you trust anyone to run your economy or anything else if they can't accept the most simple fact of men and women? Do you think that Democrats feel like you do, though? Do you think that Democrats are for trans athletes in women's locker rooms? No.

The percentage that are a part of that LGBTQ rainbow mafia that I call them is such a slim, small margin, even within the far, far left, even in places like California. I've heard many people that are very outwardly pro-gay, all this stuff, and very, very leftist. They will draw the line. But the activists have captured the messaging of the Democrat Party.

So that's why they won't go all the way, because they don't want to offend the activists, because the activists are loud, the activists are aggressive, so they won't go all the way. And meanwhile, they're leaving, what is it, 70 to 80% of Americans in the dust. Not a great political calculation. And so in Virginia, you're talking about Jay Jones, who came out, whose 2022 texts came out that shows that he basically wanted to pull in the head of not only the Republican speaker. But also with the family.

And he went on for a long way. And he says he's despicable. I feel bad about it. I apologize. But I see Governor Shapiro said he should drop out.

I see Governor Bashir says he should drop out Democrats. But I don't see anybody in Virginia saying you should, any Democrat in Virginia saying you should. The only thing I can think of, because it really is poison for the rest of the ticket. They would be smart to cut bait. The only thing I can think of is that some of these folks might have some texts of their own that they're worried about.

That's the only way. And again, that's just me. I don't, that's just me totally speculating, but I can't figure out any kind of logic behind sticking with this guy unless you're worried about skeletons in your own closet. That's the only thing I can think of as to why they will not run from him.

So here it is. Listen to this: Cut 38 on the endorsement of Jay Jones. Cut 38. Thank you, Ms. Spamberger.

We just want to clarify: you know, what you're saying is that, as of now, you still endorse Jay Jones as Attorney General. I'm saying as of now, It's up to every voter to make their own individual decision. I am running for governor. I am accountable for the words that I say, for the acts that I take, for the policies that I have put out. Yeah.

It's not even a good end. It's not even a good dodge. No. Well, if you can make an endorsement, you can pull an endorsement, right? The whole point of an endorsement is saying, I'm putting my weight and my name behind this person.

Well, then the texts come out and you say, all right, well, this is new information. I now withdraw my endorsement. It's really simple. It's not too hard. Why can't you go all the way, especially in this climate that we're in right now?

It's not as if we're back. five, six years ago, we're not only Two assassination attempts on President Trump. Charlie Kirk a month ago was murdered in front of our very eyes. And this environment that you're in right now, when we're constantly being lectured by Democrats about our words, our word policing, the rhetoric, tone it down, cool it down, but yet you can't pull your endorsement from somebody with such an egregious, egregious infraction such as that. It's very odd to me.

And I think it might sink her, actually.

So I think that in New Jersey, what do you think who has the better chance of winning, Chitterelli in New Jersey or Winsom Sears in Virginia? I think New Jersey is a safer bet for Republicans. I mean, you have yesterday, Chitterelli is going to sue Mikey Sherrill for saying that he killed millions of people because his company had something to do with fentanyl.

So he's saying, I'm suing them, suing her for inflammatory and irresponsible allegations. Yeah. I think it's a high, any defamation when you're a public figure. I think it's a low chance of success. But again, it doesn't even matter because she put it out there.

So it's almost like putting the retraction at the bottom of the. Article there. You know, it's gonna stick. I don't know. I don't think it's gonna be enough for her to claim that.

I don't think that's gonna change people's minds at this point. They might feel it as egregious what she said and wrong and possibly a lie, but They're more concerned, I think, about their families and their pocketbook. Absolutely.

So, we're dealing with Tommy Laren's getting set for her show. You're going to be on for six hours over the weekend. You're fully aware of that, right? Six hours over the weekend, one hour after this.

Well, you do want to outnumber the outnumbered. All right, I'll get you out quick, but I just want to do want to talk about ICE, Chicago and Portland. We have National Guard going in, we have ICE actually already there, but Border Patrol there. They cannot get protection from the local police. We know that for sure.

So, that's why he wants National Guard there. The courts are giving the President a problem with this. I was kind of surprised to see the governor of Oklahoma say that he is not for what President Trump's doing with the Texas National Guard, putting them into Illinois. He says, I was surprised that Governor Abbott sent troops to Texas from Illinois. Abbott and I sued the Biden administration when the shoe was on the other foot, and the Biden administration was trying to force us to vaccinate all our soldiers and force masks across the country.

As a Federalist believer of one governor against another, I don't think that's the right way to approach this. Does the governor of Oklahoma have a point. I understand the point. I'm not sure if I Agree with it, but he does make a good point. It's a solid point to make, and I understand it.

And again, with the National Guard and what they've done in Texas as far as securing the border, I thought was fantastic during the Open Border Biden administration doing everything that they could. I understand his point. It's a point well made. But at some point, Is President Trump just going to leave these federal agents out to dry, to die? I mean, at what point does he step in and say, I got to protect these people's lives?

It's not as if it's just an annoyance. This is actually dangerous.

So, at what point does our president, our chief executive, our commander-in-chief, say, I got to step in to protect human life? Yeah, I think there's a huge difference between vaccination and crime, death, crime, and destruction, and being a victim of crime. And then you have the ICAR agents being targeted, but the courts are stopping and starting it. What it is, is bringing great interest to the plight in these cities. Does anybody really proud of what Portland looks like today?

Has anyone been proud of what Chicago looks like today? But you have a mayor and governor who think Trump's the enemy. I understood it in 2017, but I thought they'd be a little bit more sophisticated in 2025. If these people did not have presidential ambitions, I don't think you'd be seeing this. But especially in the case of Illinois, we know Governor Newsome in California, two people that obviously have aspirations to be president.

So I think that their number one thing that they have to communicate to their far-left party is: watch how anti-Trump I can be. Watch how I can fight for crime and against law and order. It's ridiculous. I don't think it's going to work. Look at the approval rating, of course, in Chicago.

Look at Mayor Brandon Johnson. I mean, he's almost at 0%. Give it a few more weeks. But it's the grandstanding. They love the cameras more than they love common sense, and they hate Trump more than anything.

So at the end of the day, the Democrat Party, if they stick to this, we're just going to keep fighting tooth and nail for illegals. It's going to be November 2024 all over again. How long do you think this lockout's going to last? The shutdown's going to continue. You know, you and I were talking about this before, but I think.

Republicans need to stand strong. They didn't do this. I think Democrats We'll see. I think Chuck Schumer really shot himself in the foot with that comment about every day gets better for us. That was not a good comment to make.

And I think Republicans are seizing on that and making the point that, hey, if you thought this was our shutdown, this guy's just celebrating it. Kind of like when Gene Fonda said that COVID was a great gift to Democrats. Good job. Yeah, wow, good memory. I did not, yeah, I did not.

Never forget that. All right, so we're going to see you this weekend. What hours? 5 to 8 p.m., Saturday and Sunday. Tommy Larry, then we're going to watch you in 15 minutes.

You're going to keep the same outfit? You're not going to be able to do it. It's too late to change it now. I think it's great. I fully endorse it.

Jake Steinfeld, next. Giving you everything you need to know. You're with Brian Kilmead. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Kilmead.

I think, just think there's one guy that could win the governor's race. And he's Schwarzenegger-like, and he could be making an announcement soon. Bodied by Jake Steinfeld, he's going to jump in there, he's going to go ahead and win the governorship. Really? Or Steve Hilton.

Why are you applauding that? He just made that up. No, he's a friend of mine. He's going to run. You just watch.

We don't have friends. All right, so why did I make it up? Jake Steinfeld is here. We'll find out who's telling the truth: Greg Gutfeld or Brian Killmey. Jake, who's telling the truth?

Well, Greg, you know, Greg's a good man. It's great to see. But so, is that the truth?

So I made it up? Listen, you and I are pals. We go back. How long do you and I go back? Seriously, 1999.

Yeah. When you started your lacrosse last year, Major League Lacrosse. You did some software. One of the many things you've done. Yes, indeed.

And remember the early days of Fox and Friends? I used to love coming on with you and Steve. I would do the weather. Yeah. And we were on for an hour.

You guys had me on for an hour. It was the greatest time. The greatest time. Gutfell, I gotta say. Bri's my friend.

And? He's my friend. And you're thinking about it. No, I am. I mean, listen, and I've said this now a thousand times.

If on January the 7th it would have rained As opposed to rain fire. I guarantee you We would not be talking about this, be talking about a book I'm doing. I have some things going on. You know, the movie show is making a movie about my story, which is super exciting. Kennedy Marshall of producing, you know, who produced all Spielberg's films.

I mean, a lot of very exciting things. My kids have grown up, and my wife Tracy and I are living in a high-rise apartment, unfortunately, these days. No pity party for me, but we're in the middle of this rebuild. And you know, Brian. When did the fire hit?

The fire hit? January the 7th. And you remember, I came on January the 9th. And as a matter of fact, this sweater I wore. just to remind me, I had to go to Banana Republic.

Because I said I'd do the show uh to talk about, you know, what had what had just transpired. You had no clothes. I had no clothes. I mean, truly, you know when you tell say to your wife, your wife says to you, Honey, I have nothing to wear tonight? We truly had nothing to wear.

With the exception of a pair of dungarees that I had and a t-shirt. And I did have a gym. Gym shorts, but I had nothing else to wear.

So I wore this, and interestingly enough. Nine months almost now, a little more than nine months. Rebuild is slow. I remember when the president came to the Palisades, had my Pacific Palisades flag behind. You know, I was the honorary mayor of Pacific Palisades, created the flag of Pacific Palisades.

It was never been a flag. I put a little contest together, raised some money for charities, because I always thought that at some point we might want to invade Malibu. You know, you could definitely take Malibu. Yeah, we could take Malor. We call it Palibu.

But everything has changed, and all kidding aside now, you know, the world has gone back to normal, as it normally does. Catastrophes happen everywhere. And when you go into the Palisades, it's kind of like Pompeii, man. I mean, it's frozen in time. There's some things that are happening, but man, it's slow.

It is really slow. And in order to get back, we're now at the city. With our plans, I'm hoping I told you I could post it. By the way, yeah, you're saying you're one family. We're one family.

But there's many families in the Palisades and Al Tadena. As I said, I'm thankful. I've been blessed. It's not about the money to return. But the government has totally let you down.

And when you found out the price, we just found out there was an arsonist. It didn't just happen by lightning. Right. And we find out the arsonist, we get great detail. And you find out that makes you madder, right?

Because here's the thing. There's no water. There was no permission. You heard about the fact that this fire was set on the 1st of January and that folks in the highlands were talking about there's smoldering things going on here on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th, and nobody did anything about it.

Now, I can get when you have a mayor and a governor who say, hey, we're working on things and it's great, but they're going back to their house at night. They're going back to sit in their living room and we're without. And the thing is, when something like this happens, as catastrophic as it was and is, when you lose everything and you think about it, you know, we're all so defined by material things, Brian. And when it's all gone, once again, I say this at a pity party for me. But all the most important things.

The memorabilia. All my kids' stuff. I have four kids that grew up in that house. Jake, I understand.

So having said all that, you're saying that the fact that almost nothing's done, that it takes forever to go over plans, and you're seeing all this lack of interest from local politicians. We don't know what happened to the money that people got from the telethon. Millions of dollars. Nobody's seen any of that.

So this has made you want to run more? The interesting thing is this. There seems to be for me And I'm not a very religious guy, man, is a higher calling. And something's going on when I went and saw the rubble of my house. And it took me a good 48 hours, 72 hours.

I got back on my feet, I got back in the gym, which is the most important thing for my body and my mind. And I got my rhythm. And my base, and my routine back, which is super important for your mental health. and there was this sense of lightness that came over me, man. And this sense of like we're a rebirth.

That you know what? I gotta make change. And not for you or me, but our kids. Because we need to leave this place better. You know, there was a dream that was California, man.

I came from New York, right? I came from New York. I had this dream at 17 years old to go to California to pursue bodybuilding, right? I went to California, pursued my dream, achieved it, never professional bodybuilding, achieved my dream more than I could ever have dreamed possible, right? And Today, unfortunately, That dream, like my house, has burned, and the California dream is no longer there.

Look at this. Hollywood's not even there. And here's the thing. I'm not even doing movies on it. And for me, There is so much and so many simple things that could get done, but it's imperative that we have to work together, both Republicans and Democrats.

You know me. I'm a down the middle of the road guy.

So you don't know if you run as a Democrat or Republican? No, no, I got to run as a Republican. I am a registered Republican, but there's a way of doing it. We're of bringing people together. And that to me is the most important thing.

Because in order to win, in order to win, everybody has to win. We really do. Because listen, there's a listening deficit in the country and a listening deficit in California. Here's what I've been doing. Just, I was standing on my property one day, and I was looking out at nothing.

I picked a camera up on my phone, and I said, Hey, you know, I don't know if you know, but I lost my house to the LA fires. I'm beginning to rebuild and it got me thinking about rebuilding California. And I just talked about how much I love the state from the tip to the tail, everywhere in between. And I started thinking: what do you think? And I've been going around.

Everywhere in California now, just I walk into a Chinese restaurant, I'm at the gas station, I'm at the car wash, I walk up to a couple of people. Hey, you know, I'm Jake, how you doing? What's your name? Bri, you live in California, yeah. If, you know, if there was one thing that you could fix in this great state, what would it be?

Boy, to listen to people talk about simple things like mass transit, safety, these gas prices are so high. You look at these things. And it self-inflicted your gas prices. Absolutely right.

So look. At the end of the day, You need leadership. And as an entrepreneur, you know what you know. And the stuff you don't know, you get the right people around you, or else you become a legend in your own shower. And I'm not ready for that.

Right, also, you're a successful author, multi-businesses. No one gave you anything. You pioneered the personal fitness business. You've made friends with some of those powerful people because you treat them like they're anybody else. Absolutely.

And here's the thing: you gotta treat everybody, and that's what I'm all about. Because here, I might be about the rainbow and lollipop guy, but you know what, man? You can succeed working with both sides. And if I go ahead and do it, that's what we're going to do because you're going to see change. Because my whole motto is stick to the fight when you're hardest hit.

It's when things seem worse that you must not do it. And it shows that I'm writing Gutfeld's wrong. That's the most important thing. Greg, listen, brother. You lost.