'Smack Down:' Supreme Court rules against partisan judges

From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian Gilmead. Thanks for being here, everybody. It's the Brian Kill Meat Show. We have a lot going on, and of course, we're going to be watching the market, seeing what's happening.

And then, of course, I'll be following everything that's taking place today. It's going to be a busy day, you know, not necessarily the front of the news, but it's definitely in the news. Secretary of State Marco Rubio participating in meeting with the Saudi foreign minister. You know, they're talking about expanding the Abraham Accords and what that would take, and maybe an Iranian attack. Special thanks to the president for pointing out Division II sports.

The North Dakota State University basketball team, they won the national championship. Excuse me, football team. They won the national championship. I'm a Division II soccer player, so I always like when Division IIs get some attention. And the House Judiciary Committee.

We'll have hearings today. The sanctuary jurisdictions, the magnet for migrants, basically looking at how all these sanctuary cities just bring migrants in. And we're seeing so many horrific stories that happen in sanctuary cities. Maybe, maybe their heart's in the right place, but their head isn't. Let's get to the big three.

Number three. This was a smackdown to a rogue left-wing low-level district court judge who have relentlessly tried to stop President Trump from using his core constitutional powers. There you go. That is Caroline Levitt. A judge fair has delivered the multiple wins for President Trump as wild-eyed partisan district judges get slapped back by the Supreme Court.

There's another case front and center. We will discuss it. Number two. We have to thread a needle in order to get this done, but we have to have maximum cooperation and support from every Senate Republican, every House Republican. The stakes are too high.

No doubt about it. That is Majority Leader Senator Thune. Big, beautiful bill leaves the Senate for the House, and there are many bridges that need to be made and cuts that need to happen. We will discuss the stakes and the hindrances. Number one.

This is the largest transaction in the history of our country. And don't let some of these politicians go around saying, you know, 'Cause I'm telling you, these countries are calling us up. Ah and my air. Mm-hmm. And that's the president last night in a tuxedo talking about the trade deals that could be coming, tariffs, tear-down, countdown to deals with dozens of nations, while the focus on China moves front and center.

The question: when do the deals come and when the markets will rise again? Those are the two big questions.

So, what am I talking about? Essentially, within our show on Fox and Friends Today, which I just left coming up here to do radio, the U.S. is now, the, the, um, Chinese have put their tariffs up to 84%.

So we were at 104%. And if I am correct, we might want to double-check this. I believe that we have answered and we have put it up to 200% for the Chinese. This is a stare-down. This is personal.

It's everything that money should not be involved in. You can't get emotional about it. But we are tired of what's happening with the tariffs, with the VAT taxes over in Europe, with the tariffs taking place with the slave labor over in China, and yet trying to keep our economy afloat while $36 to $37 trillion in debt.

So we want to rebalance everything, and we want to do it right away. The question would I go back to is when the deals come. And I'm not asking about theoretical deals. I'm talking about offers that will come through. I mean, we have.

Already, the Japanese leader is coming here. We already had the Prime Minister of Israel come here. We know that next week, Maloney of Italy is coming here. And the calls are fast and furious, and the deals could be coming right down the pike. And when they do come, this will reverse what is a lot of big losses in the market.

And so let's listen to Donald Trump last night when he talks about. What the other countries have been saying to him, cut to. This is bigger than any deal. You guys, some of you work for companies. Your companies are peanuts.

I don't care how big they are compared. This is the largest transaction in the history of Our country. And don't let some of these politicians go around and say, you know, because I'm telling you, these countries are calling us up. Kissing my ass. They are They are dying to make it to you.

Please, please, sir, make it to you. I'll do anything. I'll do anything, sir.

So that was President Trump last night in the Tux at a big event for Republicans trying to rally support for the big, beautiful deal. But we're talking about a number of countries that matter. For example, believe it or not, when people started hearing about Vietnam and smaller countries like Thailand and Indonesia, they thought, well, what's Cambodia? What's the big deal? It is a huge deal with textiles and with manufacturing.

And guess what else? Even the New York Times pointed this out. This could be great news for the Philippines, who are basically in a low-impact war, a low-impact war with China right now. They see a huge opportunity to take a lot of that manufacturing back, and I'd zero out those tariffs.

So let's bring in Julie Banderis here. Julie, high-stakes moment now. A lot of people that you know, especially in the town you live in, very invested in the market. A lot of people looking for rebalancing trade. This is poker, isn't it?

It is poker, but he's got the hand. He's got the hand with all the power, and that's what Trump does. You know, this deal, first of all, let's just talk about the tariffs. I know it's rough and it's awful on investors, it's awful on our 401ks, it's awful on all our investments. But I do believe that he has to play hardball in order to reverse the course of history.

Every president in this White House for decades have basically allowed other countries to rule us. We're supposed to be the most powerful nation in the world, and we're not. And by allowing countries like China and Canada, et cetera, to allow them to charge us tens and tens of percentages of taxes and us not. Fight back is ridiculous. Yeah, in the short term, it's going to cost us, but I think in the long term, he's making a huge difference.

He's going to be putting money back where it belongs, which is in the pockets of U.S. taxpayers, putting money back where it belongs in the form of United States-grown businesses. Bring business back to the United States. Stop giving it. Why are we giving money to other countries?

Why are we giving so much money to other countries when we need it first? And I love the fact that we're also going to be getting tax breaks eventually. I'm hoping that this big, beautiful deal does pass, although there are a lot of hurdles. But why wouldn't you want to cut government spending? A lot of the pushback that we're getting and hearing from Democrats just seems so hypocritical.

I mean, they're all about cutbacks until the Republican makes the decision. And then, of course, they push back and say, no, we don't want cutbacks. Why would we want the government to trim fat? They're trimming the pork because that's what taxpayers deserve.

So, Brooke Rollins is doing a lot of the negotiating, too, and she's the agriculture secretary. Jameson Greer is our trade representative. He was on Capitol Hill just in the middle. Middle of all this, he was coming anyway.

So, just to review, we woke up today and found out that China has retaliated and now we're up to total 104%. Mexico is at 25%. They have not done anything. Canada has retaliated. Everybody else is coming to the table: the EU, Japan, Vietnam, South Korea, and Taiwan.

So, yesterday, Here's what Jameson Greer said about China cut eight. Unfortunately, China for many years seems to be choosing its own path on market access. Again, they have agency in this. They elected to announce retaliation. Other countries did not.

Other countries signaled that they'd like to find a path forward on reciprocity. China has not said that. And we will see where that goes. I think we need to work with our closest friends to make sure that we have trading arrangements that work. And if the Chinese are open, we'll see what.

But they haven't signaled that at all.

So I don't think that's in the very near term with China.

So James E. Greer was pretty calm under fire, what's going on. And essentially, we saw when there's even rumors of deals, the market goes up, Julie.

So I know the president's going to get very tempted to start doing deals. It's going to leave China isolated as the one behemoth that doesn't want to come to the table, which is going to hurt some companies, no doubt about it. Yeah. It's going to in the short term. But I honestly think he needs to look at the long term.

And that's what I think past presidencies, past. Administrations have failed to do. They want to satisfy their voters right up ahead, right? They want to let American voters know that they're not going to cost taxpayers. But if they're going to have to do that and we hurt just a little bit for a little while, just imagine the long-term benefits in all of this.

And China, first of all, has had the upper hand for years, and they're used to taking advantage of the United States. They're used to us being a weaker link. It's about time that a president stands up to China. And as far as China throwing out 100% tariff, how long do you think that's going to last? It's not going to last long, especially when the rest of the world starts to get in line with President Trump, then China will start feeling the pinch.

I also love the fact that the president is going to impose tariffs on other countries that do business with countries like Venezuela, for example, for punishing them for not coming to the table.

So I do believe that this kind of pressure is going to end up winning in the end. I don't think Peter Navarro has been an asset. I find him, you know, he's speaking for the White House when he shouldn't be speaking for the White House. He's in there, but he'll book himself on these shows and go out and say things that are contradictory from the Treasury Secretary.

So I think you got to pull him back. One of the big critics, as usual, he's always been a problem and an egomaniac, in my view, Senator Ram Paul. Listen to him with Larry Kudlow yesterday, Cut 13. There's a fundamental argument we have to have in this country. Is trade good or bad?

The president and his counselors seem to think that in trade someone gets ripped off. The truth of the matter is this, that all trade is mutually beneficial and really the U.S. doesn't trade with China. You trade with Walmart.

So when I go to Walmart, if I pay $10 for a shirt, I want that shirt and they want my 10 bucks and we both go away from the deal. having succeeded, we mutually benefited. That's the only reason trade happens. And then if you add it all up and say, oh, China's ripping us off, it makes no sense. Trade deficits are not real accounting.

So, what I think that he is choosing not to say is, for example, if I have a shirt, I have to charge more for it because I don't have a Uyghur slave sewing it together. Yeah, exactly.

So, and I don't have slave labor people making $2 a month putting it together.

So, if we're going to compete with them, we have to rebalance it.

So, for the longest time, really, since. 90s, we have said, yeah, let them make our stuff. Let them make our soccer balls. Let them make our cleats. Let them do it.

And then we like the cheap labor. Every once in a while, people would say, Hey, Michael Jordan, do you know who's making your stuff? And then there would be a little bit of controversy, and everything would calm down.

Now in 2025, we go, wait, we have no shirt makers. We have no shoemakers. We don't make anything right now.

So, how do we, well, what's the big deal? We all transition. No, we didn't transition. Go to the Midwest. We're in transition.

So, what are we going to do?

Well, let's start altering it a little bit. Put some tariffs on steel. Shouldn't do tariffs.

Well, they were so good that Joe Biden left them. And the aluminum, where they left them. And then, when it comes to rubber and tires, now we're starting to do so more at home. The question is, we're so intermingled now. When you say build American cars here, they go, Okay, but you know I'm gonna have to go overseas to get these parts and that battery.

You know that, right? Of course.

So, 85% of my car is built here, so you're gonna tariff me getting batteries.

So, if you're gonna tariff me getting a battery for my Stilentis or my GM card, I'm gonna have to up the price because my margins are already small when it comes to automaker, you know, auto-yeah, no, and that is how it's going to affect Americans. I mean, everyday Americans are going to, if these were to stay in long-term, pay more because it's impossible to create all of this in the United States. We're always going to be importing, right? But for any politician to say that China's not ripping us off or that some of these countries have been ripping us off, that's beyond.

Well, they're stealing our stuff. If you come in and have a company there, they take your IP, their intellectual property. We know that right now. Why we tolerated that, I don't know.

Well, that's the problem. And then they're spying on our stuff. Yeah, well, that's not. That is flat-out theft.

So now it's got to be. That's one reason what I loved about the president's last tax reform. He took down the corporate tax. And everyone said, well, great, you give corporations a break. Slow down a second.

It's not corporations getting a break. It's keeping corporations here because Ireland has got half the corporate rate as it is. We have the highest corporate rate in all of the world. Had, exactly. I mean, why wouldn't you want to cut the corporate tax?

I can't understand why people are against cutting taxes, period. I just don't get that. It makes absolutely no sense. I mean, they're talking about revenue in the short term, and they want to incentivize people to bill long term. Listen, a few more minutes with Julie when we get back.

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to make this choice. And the choice that they've made We have to just be honest. is to literally throw Republican to the trash bin. We chose a felon because we didn't want to elect a black woman. Eddie Gloud, a Princeton professor who's always on MSNBC, on MSNBC, giving his, what he thinks should be regrets that people have of electing Donald Trump 70-plus days in.

So your thoughts, Julie Bendaris, about what Eddie said.

Okay, first of all, we didn't not elect a black woman. We didn't elect an idiot. That's what we didn't do. I mean, people chose not to elect somebody who is clearly not capable of running the office of the presidency, let alone the office of vice president. She actually was the most lame duck vice president ever.

I mean, she did nothing. She did absolutely nothing. She had one job, illegal immigration, never even traveled to the border. And it took a journalist to actually get that out from her.

So as far as why Vice President Kamala Harris is not our president today, it's because Americans are not stupid. You think they're not as stupid as she is. Julie, do you think America would elect a woman? Yeah, absolutely. If the candidate was strong.

Do you think America's over that? Yeah, I still think just the optics of it. I think that, you know, um I think some people mi it depends. I mean, it it has to be a strong woman. And I mean, I'm not not to say that these there haven't been strong women who have considered the presidency.

We have seen uh a few, but I just don't think it's been the right fit just yet. Who do you think who name a couple of women you think that should run for President, even on both sides, that maybe you would not vote for but could have Presidential timber that you can think about that are out there, that hold themselves in a way and have accomplished things. That's a good question. I'll give you one. Who?

You have to ask me first. Who? Brian, tell us what woman aside from me do you think would make a perfect president, aside from me? Elise Stefanik. She's too young now.

I'd wait, give her a few more years. I could absolutely see her running for president. I mean, I would have no problem. She actually knows leadership, knows how to mix it up, understands blue and understands red. She lives in a blue state and she is in leadership with the Republicans.

That's the type of person that I think America would elect. I don't care if a woman or a man, she's tough. Yeah, no, I agree with you. I can't really. Nikki Haley.

I would think Nikki Haley. I'm a fan of Nikki Haley, even though she's all mad at us now. I don't know why, but I've never seen it. I actually always thought that Nikki Haley was going to be a pick, at least for a VP candidate. I actually thought of a Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley ticket.

That was one of the things. Before Trump made it clear he's getting in. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I actually seriously thought that Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley.

So, yes, I'm with you on the Nikki Haley thing. I don't like the fact that she's kind of turned a little bit, though. That was a bit of a. I don't know. She's got to get over it because it's not helping her.

No, if you turn against Trump, if you haven't noticed at this point, if you're a Republican and you turn against Trump, you're going to damage your political career. And would you do, you know what she did? Come out, speak when you can, and then wait for your turn because in a few years you'll have a chance to go fresh. And nobody likes an angry woman, Brian. I'm just saying.

After that, let me ask you this, Julie. Yeah. Do you think that people are more accepting of an angry guy than an angry woman? I mean, I don't want to sound like a feminist because I'm not a feminist, but I definitely think that when Trump is on a debate stage and he slams his opponent, he's not going to be criticized as much as like a Nikki Haley or somebody like that who goes and cuts a man down. Because?

They're going to think she's a, can I say the word? Because men could say, oh, that's my relationship. You know, that's the relationship I'm in. I don't need that in the White House. Nobody, I don't know.

People can't accept angry women. You know, an aggressive man, fine. Angry woman, she's, I can't say the word, but it starts with a B. Even if her motivation is to make you a better person and make a country a better place, we just don't, we just, men just don't want angry. Speaking for men as a woman, you're speaking for men.

Listen, I think you can be aggressive, but not be rude, right? That's my personality. I'm not rude. I'm not disrespectful. But when I'm in an argument or if I'm disrespecting the woman, you go for the win.

I go for the jugging. And you think that turns men off? Not if you do it gracefully and you do it a little time. Tactically, and you throw in a little bit of humor. You don't go for it.

But no, you can't go for the full-blown knockout because then somebody's going to think you're crazy. Or you emasculate the person and he doesn't become a man in the relationship. You become the man in the relationship. Are we talking about my ex-husband now? Or what are we talking about here?

We just talked. I don't know how we're. I don't think I'm going into any biography. I know all about emasculation. I could talk about that for hours.

Because you don't want, like, if you have a strong man and you beat him down, what good is it? Then wouldn't you have to have a show of a man? That's why we're still friends because I haven't beat you down. Yeah. But it's a choice.

That is a choice.

So you could knock me out. I absolutely knew that. But you choose either. But I sit here and I look at you and I think you're so smart and handsome. Keep going.

Oh, damn. You're in a break. A radio show like no other. It's Brian Killmeade. This is more than just about an inter-sort of squabble inside the White House.

This is important, right? Why is that? Yeah, Peter is really tough to work with. There's no question about that. One of the things that makes him so difficult to work with is that he pretends to speak for the president when he does not.

Peter was notorious back in Trump 1.0 to walk out of a meeting when everybody would sort of assume we've got sort of a consensus about something, and he would go on T V and say the exact opposite. That has a tremendous demoralizing effect on the White House, and it does tend to mislead markets.

So that was Mick Mulvaney. I think he's one of the great guys to work for Trump, and Trump won. He was at OMB. And he was a great congressman, and then he went to chief of staff, and I think he was eagle-less as chief of staff.

So he's talking about Peter Navarro, who I guess the president liked him, read a book, saw a lecture, kept him with him. He appreciates that Peter Navarro went to jail for him. But I have no use for his theory on trade. I really don't. And before we get to Rich Lowry, I want you to hear what else Mick went on to say, Cut 16.

Does Peter Navarro, who went to prison for the president, Does he need to be fired? I would have fired him a long time. I would have fired him when he got caught making up his academic sources for his papers with his Ron Vara imaginary friend. But I mean, that was Donald Trump's call then. It's Donald Trump's call now.

I think folks watching this show are caring more about what is the policy of the White House, what is the policy on tariffs, what does the future hold on this? And Peter Navarro is not a reliable source for information about that. Rich Lowry, National Review, joins us now. Rich, what is your take on this part of the story? And that's Peter Navarro and Elon Musk sparring back and forth and really getting personal.

Elon Musk basically saying he's dumb as a bag of rocks. Yeah. First of all, Brian, let me say I'm very jealous of you because I'm a CAPS fan of your interview just an hour or so ago with the great Alice Ovechkin on Fox and Friends. I was at that game. The Allenders records record-setting game.

It was pretty amazing. Yeah, you know, put it this way, I'm surprised you let me off the hook there. I had a lot of rushing questions there. I did not want to make an enemy of him. He chose us over the tonight show.

And I loved it and will perhaps bring it back. But I dig I'm kind of mad at myself. Me and Ainslie and I did it. It's great. But I had like three Russian questions.

Like, what's the reaction? Are you going to get into Russian politics like some other Russian greats? He was on Team Putin. And that's fine. Like, there's a lot of Americans excelling in another country, and they like Trump, and Trump's not popular.

But I mean, Vladimir Putin's an evil guy. Ovechkin doesn't see that and yet he He's very much in a great ama he's been fantastic for the sport. Yeah, no doubt. I think he just would have dodged it, you know, even if even if he'd asked it. But greatest goalscorer of all time, to break it the same exact same number of games as Gretzky is really.

It's really uncanny. But on Musk Navarro, this is a lot of fun. This kind of thing that used to play out in private.

Now, since we have social media, we see it in real time. I'm Team Musk. I think Musk is right about the tariffs, and Navarro is wrong. And beyond just kind of the personal site sniping and is Tesla just puts cars together, really manufactures cars, whatever, that's the underlying dispute. Does this policy make sense?

And Musk is. The only person close to Trump that's showing some leg in public that he doesn't think is a good idea. Tell me if you think I'm wrong here. View of the economics beer, editor in Esther Review got a better economics background than I do, but to me, It's pretty clear what's going to happen. He is going to begin to announce deal after deal with significant countries, the EU being the second one.

And it's going to look like we're having a trade war with one country, and that country is China. But all the way up, we're going to see the market come back, not rocket, but begin to bounce back more and more as the deals get announced. Every one of the deals makes it better for our country. Every one of them. And then the biggest one is China, and that's going to be painful, but we always knew it.

But very few people in our country do not think China is our number one economic and military foe. That's how this thing is going to play out. Yeah, I think that's likelier Than not. I would have a little modesty just guessing how it's going to play out because I think a lot of balls in the air, but that seems where the logic of this is going to go. I think you could have gotten deals and played hardball with our allies and friends without having done this.

I think if you just show up and say, hey, look, 47% tariff coming, let's talk. They would all talk. Trump has a lot of leverage and deterrent power at the moment. But if you end up with, you know, I wouldn't maybe go as high as we are with China right now, but if you got some quasi-deal with China, but deals with the rest of the world where there are lower tariffs on our stuff, and we're getting them to lock out Chinese goods, that's an issue with Vietnam, an issue with Mexico, and he kind of ring vents China with our allies all on our side, that's a good outcome. And the market will be ecstatic.

The first deal, the market will go up 2,000 points. There's no question. We re-saw it, and then it bounced back when it didn't look like he was going to cut the deal. And I just think that Scott Besson should take the lead on it. And he should not have a bunch of people freelancing.

I love Kevin Hassett, but he should take his orders from one person, Trump, but they should come from Besant. He should be setting the tone. I think he's got that market credibility. I think Kevin Hassett is fantastic. If you want him to lead, go ahead and do it.

But it would just be odd if you have a Treasury Secretary for National Security, National Economics Advisor to take the lead, in my view. But I want to talk about the big, beautiful bill.

So Donald Trump yesterday said I need you guys to come together. But so far, the House is Jody Arrington, who's head of the budget committee, has indicated he thinks the Senate is not serious with the bill that they dropped in their lap. As Lindsey Graham has answered, saying the idea that the Senate only wants to cut $4 billion is very disingenuous. He said that he faces Johnson's going to face another challenge because he has other fiscal conservatives like Chip Roy and others saying they want to cut $4 billion. A billion's out.

Let alone with 36 trillion in debt.

So Lindsey Graham says the budget that they handed him has, as a framework, Billions to cut, but it's not where it's going to end. What do you think about where both sides are at right now? I I prefer the House bill because I think it is more serious about the cuts, which I think are important and good, but politically painful.

So I kind of think the Senate will prevail here. And I think we're just going to see this for months and months and months. It's always going to be on the precipice of defeat.

Some part of the process is going to be on the verge of failure. And Trump's going to have to come in and call people on the phone and get it through.

So we're hearing the brave talk now from the fiscal hawks. And I love all those guys, Chip Roy and others. But, you know, they can say now, oh, we're not going to vote for it.

So it doesn't matter what you say. And then Trump's getting on the phone with them and they'll vote for it. And that's the pattern. That's what's happened in the past. And that's what I believe is going to happen in the future until the fact pattern changes.

So here's what the Senate says. It says, while specific cuts aren't detailed yet, the resolution includes instructions for committees to adjust spending with potential reductions in areas like Medicaid being debated and an amendment to block 800. $180 billion in cuts to healthcare programs failed. Discretionary spending reductions are also implied. You know what Trump also said, which is going to drive you crazy?

He says he's not against increasing taxes on the upper class, the rich. Yeah, it just it's hard to see. I I could see that passing possibly, you know, if you get half the Republican caucus or whatever, a third of the Republican caucus to vote with the all the Democrats to do that. But on a reconciliation bill, all the Democrats are going to vote against it. And you're going to be in a situation where you can only lose a couple.

And on that, I do think it's like thirty guys who'd be against it, even if Trump's. In favor of it, and it'd be hard to do. And the leadership, Scalise and others, just said, No, we're not going to do that.

So I have a hard time seeing that happen. But it does show we're in a different kind of Republican politics that that's even being floated, and the President of the United States could possibly be in favor of it.

So here's what Senator John Kennedy said last night: cut 20. Reconciliation. is not quantum physics. It's about lower prices. To lower prices, John.

you've got to do three things. You've got to reduce government spending.

So you have less stimulus. You've got to deregulate the economy so the price of goods and services go down. and you have to design your tax code. That looks like somebody designed it on purpose to stimulate growth.

Now, reconciliation allows us in the Senate. to do all three of those things. We have 51 votes. And that's really all it is. And let's see if they can agree with that and get it out.

I can't familiar myself with the process.

So the House framed it out, blueprint. The Senate now framed it out blueprint, and now it goes back to the House. Then what?

Sorry. I I think then then the committees begin getting into the details. And I'm fuzzy on the process too. And then you get get all these separate bills and they're all kind of put together into one big thing. But I have to say, Brian, I'm not following it in in Great detail, 'cause it's one of these things, like the government shutdown fight.

I think it's going to be like, you know, always on the verge of failure, as I said, and will pass by Christmas or something like that.

So overall, Maria Bartaroma, I respect her in business as well as understanding great contacts with the Trump team, said this. And I would, if I was President Trump, I hope he listens. CUD 21. It takes about three years for a company to fire up their supply chain in America, move it, the supply chain from Mexico, from Vietnam, from China, whatever, into the United States. Two to three years.

The midterm elections are next year.

So if the Republicans lose next year and then the White House is lost, then the Republicans are no longer directing policy.

So timing is of the essence. This is a huge gargantuan task. I agree. These are things that America needs. We actually need somebody with a spine of steel, a tough man, to actually get companies to recognize these are not just economic issues.

These are national security issues. And she went on to say: when it comes to doing these trade deals, how it all relates. Uh she said she said this about what what Wall Street is doing right now. And she basically says, Mr. President, start to cut the deals.

Give Wall Street an idea of what needs to be done. And if she's saying that, She's not so she knows Trump's big picture. If she's saying that, she's saying that the Wall Street people are telling her, if you plus, if you want this bill, you gotta start giving people some relief. on the trade and on the tariffs. Yeah, so I think she puts her finger on the political problem here, Brian, and it's hard for me to see how you get around it.

So you have the disruption now.

Some economists I talk to say, even if the tariffs were totally revoked tomorrow, you'd still get a recession just based on the business uncertainty that we've had to this point. I don't know whether that's true or not, but you certainly can have the disruption, the price increases now. And then the upside, it's not immediate. It is also the future, whether it's two years, three years, ten years. You know, you don't build an automatic, a hundred million square foot automotive plant quickly.

So that the upside, if it works, is you know, and J.D. Vance's administration.

So just the politics of that seem inherently very, very difficult for me to make. And this is a huge. You know, it's a cliche to say, but this is absolutely true. This is a huge gamble on the part of the president.

So, lastly, on Democrats, and there's two or three books out now that talk about Joe Biden being essentially asleep at the Switch or near death at the Switch for four years. Who was working the Auto Pen? Should there be an investigation into it? Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna said this last night, Cut 26. I would say start with Garland.

Garland knowingly ignored a congressional subpoena. Remember, we had every opportunity to vote him in inherent contempt and actually really go around the Department of Justice because, as you know, Garland would not hold himself accountable. Honestly, right now, I would advise Pam Bonnie, she needs to get those tapes out and hold those people accountable. We should do the same. And it's talking about Robert Hurr.

And the tapes that really alarmed him to the point where he said, I can't prosecute him because he's a forgetful old guy. Yeah, and remember he was a villain, her, and a liar, you know, and was making it up and just playing politics.

Now everyone acknowledges that we all knew, right? This is one of the worst cover-ups of all time. Yeah, so sure, congressional investigation would be called for. I do think it's good, you know, that journalists are unearthing this stuff, and they'll probably have more success than a congressional committee. But we could all see it in our own eyes, and they just lied and lied and lying.

And they would have kept lying if it weren't for that debate. If there hadn't been a debate, they would have, to the November election, they would have said he's fit as a fiddle and ready to serve another four years. It was disgraceful. It really was. And there's just so many things that they've done wrong.

And overall, This is because Democrats put their hand on the scale. They don't have honest and free primaries. They wanted Hillary Clinton. They made sure Bernie Sanders was not allowed to win. Then Bernie Sanders jumped out again.

They panicked and picked Biden. Then he said, If you pick me, I'll take a minority and a woman. It boxed him into Kamala Harris, and they were left with two terrible candidates. And they were wondering, how did we get here? Look in the mirror.

It's because you didn't give the Democrats a chance to vote for who they wanted. Yeah, absolutely. If there had been an open primary with someone besides Dean Phillips and Bobby Kennedy, who are, you know, Frozen out and shamed, and all the rest of it have been able to run against Biden. And there have been debates. They would have known.

They would have, you know, and the Democrats voters, they knew it. All the polls said they didn't want them to run again. It was the elites that were behind Biden initially.

So you're right. In 1916, and this time around, the Democratic establishment put their fist on the scale in a stupid way for bad candidates that lost and deserved to lose. Yeah. I mean, remember George H.W. Bush had to fight against Bob Dole, Pat Buchanan.

You David Bush was able to fight against Reagan, Reagan against Bush. It makes them sharper. You know, John McCain loses to Mitt Romney. It was a legitimate contest.

So, and at the end of that, you know who everyone is, you know what their strengths are, their vulnerabilities, right? And that's the way it's supposed to work. This is just a massive cover-up. Rich Lowry, write all about it in the National Review. Thanks so much, Rich.

Hey, thanks, Brian. All right, 1866-408-7669. I'm going to come back and get your thoughts on this. We're in the middle of a standoff with China, and we're still looking for doing deals with the rest of the world. Don't move.

Increasing your intelligence quotient. What the hell did you say? It's Brian Kilmead. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead.

This was a smackdown to a rogue, left-wing, low-level district court judge who have relentlessly tried to stop President Trump from using his core constitutional powers as head of the executive branch and as commander-in-chief. The highest court in the land made it clear that the President of the United States has the power to protect our homeland and forcibly remove foreign terrorists who pose a grave threat to families and communities.

So, that is the Supreme Court weighing in on Judge Bosberg's decision not to be able to, we want to be able to ship the illegal alien criminals to places like El Salvador or back. We put 261 on a plane and send them back, and this Judge Bosberg, a district judge, decides: hey, you know what? I don't think so. And decides to hold it up and think about it, but the plane already landed.

Now they want to investigate why the plane ignored his orders as if they could stop on a dime in midair and turn around with the worst of the worst. Good luck with that. Do they have enough jet full of fuel? Have you thought about that?

Well, the Supreme Court says that's overstepping your bounds. The Supreme Court also backed Donald Trump for now on getting rid of and firing the probation employees for the federal government. Why? They hired 16,000. They looked at the workload and said, we don't need 16,000.

So he reversed it. A court stopped it.

Some outside organization sued to stop it, not even them. And the Supreme Court ruled with Donald Trump. Also, another ruling, as I mentioned before, the Alien Enemies Act. You're MS-13, your TDA. You are an enemy to our country, even though not a formal war is happening.

So the president, according to the Supreme Court 5-4 decision, can enact the Alien Enemies Act, which is great news for us and bad news for these criminal gangs coming from other countries to wreak havoc. Havoc in our borders. Also, rounding out the trifecta, the 4th District Court ruled that Trump's Doge watchdog crew can access government data to sniff out fraud and waste. They said it was going to be about personal and getting people's identities.

Now, the 4th District says no. If you are working for the government, you'll be able to do that if your objective is to get rid of fraud and abuse.

So, the Supreme Court's helping President Trump. Special thanks to Mitch McConnell. Ryan, kill me, Joe. On to BrianKillmee.com. See what if I'm going to be in the city near you.

From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the latest moments of the show. I come to you from 48th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, heard around the world.

And of course, all eyes on Wall Street these days to see where the market's going. I don't think the president's nervous about it. They're waiting to see if there's going to be positive developments today. It's been going down just a little bit less each time. Last day, about 300 points after a pretty strong day, then it fell apart towards the end.

We'll bring in the latest as we see more and more trading partners come in and say, I don't want to put a retaliatory tariff on you, America. I want to work with you outside Canada. I know. Canada and China.

So this hour, we're going to be joined by Steve Case, co founder of AOL and CEO of The Revolution, and Mike Pompeo is standing by, along with Carl Rowe, former Deputy Chief of Staff, but Senior Advisor to President George W. Bush.

So let's bring in Carl right now. Carl, your thoughts about what the President's move should be now? To this point. For me, I'd like to see him start to announce some deals. What about you?

Absolutely. In fact, I think he sort of suggested that on Monday. He said, Many, many countries are coming to negotiate deals And then as Treasury Secretary echoed him on Tuesday saying some very large countries, quote, could, quote, come to the table with solid proposals.

So if they want to calm the markets, then by all means, they need to get into these discussions to mutually cut tariffs and also remove non terroric barriers to the importation of American goods and services. I want you to hear Jamison Greer yesterday. I never remember so much focus on a U. S. Trade representative, but he happened to be on Capitol Hill amidst all this turmoil.

Cut nine. The same economist Who are crying out now were the ones who said we were going to crash the economy in Trump won. We put tariffs on China. And real median household income went up for Americans by $7,000. Senator, we're not going to be in a situation where we keep allowing Wall Street to run the economy.

So your your thought. I thought he handled himself really well yesterday. I thought so too. But let's be honest. The reason that real incomes rose were three factors.

One is the Trump tax cuts. which allowed people to put more money in their pockets and were pro-growth. That is to say, they did things like encourage economic growth. It encouraged companies to expand, to innovate, to hire more people, to build new plants. Second of all, Trump had a very successful effort to remove the regulatory burden placed on the American economy by his predecessor, Barack Obama.

During the course of the eight years of Obama, $870 billion worth of government regulations were placed on the economy. Those are the numbers figured out by the people who applied the rules. When you have a new rule or regulation at the federal level, you have to go through a cost-benefit analysis. You have to negotiate that with the OMB. And that number is published in the Federal Registry when you publish that regulation.

And President Trump went in and undid a lot of those. In fact, the entire regulatory burden over a four-year period under President Trump increased a net of just over $80 billion, a blimp. an economy that's you know $20 trillion a year. And the reason was because he did a lot of what President Obama had done. He's got a bigger target this time around.

In just four years, President Biden put $1.9 trillion of new costs onto our economy, including with one regulation alone, as much as Barack Obama did in eight years with all of his regulations.

So that was another reason last time around that things went well. Trump has an even bigger target this time around. And finally, yeah, he placed a tariff on on China, but he also had trade deals with our two biggest two of our biggest trading partners. Mexico and Canada, which helped normalize trade between those two countries.

So he's got the ability to pass the tax cut to renew that. He's got a bigger target on regulatory relief.

Now he's got to match it with what he did last time around with Mexico and Canada and do it with a bunch more countries. I just got to tell you this. The European Union has just approved its own retaliation for U.S. steel and aluminum, adding to fears of a global recession. Trump's latest tariffs hit nearly all U.S.

trading partners. It looks like the only retaliatory actions were Canada and China. But now I guess we can include the European Union in that.

Well, let's see what the details are on it. I mean, it may be symbolic or it may be problematic. My sense is it's likely to be more symbolic than problematic because they the Europeans understand if they add to the clamor for a trade war, they're going to be hurt and hurt badly. I understand. And plus they already came in and said, what about zeroing out the tariffs on both countries?

And the President's informal response was, yeah, but what about beef? And what about your VAT tax? And what about labeling us getting us access to the market with American cars? Yeah, look, two out of those three are good. They need to remove the nontariff barriers to the importation of American cars.

They need to do something to allow ag products in. That tax, though, is look, that ought not to be part of the equation. That's their national sales tax. How would we like it if a trading partner said, well, you know, you need to get rid of your income tax, or you need to replace your patchwork of state and local sales taxes with one national sales tax? That is a sales tax that has nothing to do with trade.

It may make those economies less productive, it may make them less competitive, but it does not affect us directly as sales taxes in the United States don't affect our trading partners directly. Real quick, Mick Mulvaney weighed in on CNBC yesterday about the battle between Navarro and Musk. And here's what he said: Cut 16. Does Peter Navarro, who went to prison for the president, Does he need to be fired? I would have fired him a long time.

I would have fired him when he got caught making up his academic sources for his papers with his Ron Varra imaginary friend. But I mean, that was Donald Trump's call then. It's Donald Trump's call now. I think folks watching this show are caring more about what is the policy of the White House, what is the policy on tariffs, what does the future hold on this? And Peter Navarro is not a reliable source for information about that.

You have good hooks into the administration. Is he a problem? Yeah, he has. Look, think about it. He went on the shows on Sunday and he was asked the question about is this are we setting up negotiations and deal making?

He said, This is not a negotiation. We're not negotiating. And on Monday, the President says we've got a lot of countries coming our way with wonderful deals to make. And the Secretary of the Treasury Secretary said the same thing. Navarro is the guy who came up with this incredibly bizarre scheme in which we put tariffs on countries with whom we have a surplus.

Now, if countries that have a surplus with us, the President and the Administration are saying are ripping us off. We have with like the with Great Britain, with the Netherlands, with if you include services, a larger number of countries. And Marivaro is one of the guys who came up with the idea of let's tax them with a tariff, even though we're already running a surplus. What is that kind of thing? And he came up with this Kakami scheme that ends up putting the highest increases in tariffs on essentially poor countries because those poor countries are not in a position to um To, you know, look, Cambodia doesn't have a lot of money with which to buy things from America, but now we're going to put a 49% increase or 44% increase in tariffs on them because, well, because they don't buy as much as we want them to buy.

They're a poor country. Until they get richer, they're not going to be buying a lot of American goods. Cole Rove, yesterday Ken Paxon made it official on Laura Ingram show. He's going to run against Senator John Cornyn for the Republican nomination for six more years, representing Texas. Your thoughts about this?

Well, I'm a personal friend of John Cornyn's, and I think Ken Paxton could be the first Republican with a dubious honor if he were to be the Republican nominee, and that is to be the first Republican since 1994 to lose a statewide race. Here is a guy who is admitted, who signed a legal document affirming that all of the charges by the whistleblowers against him were true, which is he had an affair with a staffer for one of his wife's colleagues. His wife is a state senator. He then had that girl, that woman, hired by a corrupt real estate guy who's going to jail. He did favors using the powers of his office to benefit that corrupt real estate investor, namely, for example, trying to close down courthouse staff auctions during COVID, at which they were going to take foreclosed properties of the corrupt real estate guy and auction them off.

And the corrupt real estate guy repaid him by paying for 200 by supervising. $200,000 worth of improvements to his house and establishing a fake Uber account in Ken Paxton with a phony name for Ken Paxton so he could get an Uber to take him to his girlfriend's house for God knows what without being known. And it turns out the contractor who did the $200,000 worth of work never got paid.

So this is the kind of guy that some people think ought to be the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate. The Democrats will have a field day with him. We will have television ads with his fake name for his Uber account. They'll tout up how many times he took the fake Uber rides in order to have sex with his girlfriend, the $200,000.

The contractor will be on television talking about, I did the work, I reported to the corrupt real estate guy for Ken Paxton, and I never got paid. I mean, this is a disaster. And what this guy thinks he's doing by offering himself up is a sign of the ego of this guy. Besides that, do you know who you're going to vote for? I'm voting for John Corner's baby.

I voted for Republican Whip. I'm very successful with the Whiff during Trump's first term and helped guide the Trump packages, tax cuts, and other agenda items to passage in the United States Senate. I'll tell you, he's one of the finest people I've met in Congress. He really is. He's a great person.

I want to ask you about the big, beautiful bill. How close are we? I mean, you can cut through it, and you can see through it more than anyone that I know. The Senate, the House has accepted what the Senate giving them, but they're very reluctant. What's going on?

Well, look, the House doesn't like the Senate bill. It may cause it to be defeated on the first time up, but I think it will eventually pass in some form, but the real action then will come in the details of actually framing up the budget and the budget bills and the appropriations bills, because there is a deep divide between the Senate budget reconciliation measure and the House budget bill. And they are not going to square it here in the next couple of days, but they are going to have to get into the detail and work it out over the next couple of months. There are big disagreements between the House and Senate, and it is going to be hard to bridge them, but they have got to. I hear you.

And Saturday, shockingly, President Trump says, yeah, we are going to have talks/slash/indirect talks, direct. They are going to be both in the same building, separate rooms. with Iran. Do you think Iran knows that they have very few options for the first time in forty plus years? You know, it's hard to see inside the Ayatollah.

And his people. But realistically, their options are less. And they know that Trump, the guy who authorized the mission to kill Solimani for having killed American service members. They know they're dealing with a tough customer. My only concern is, is that they have established in the last four years a very close relationship with Russia, in which they provide drone technology to the Russians to attack Ukraine, and in return, they get assistance from Russia.

So This is a new part of that whole problem. But yeah, if they're being realistic, the Iranians have got to know they've got fewer cards to play, particularly after what Israel has done in the region to basically destroy a great deal of the muscle of their proxies, whether it's the Hezbollah or Hamas or the Houthis. The Iranian allies are being degraded. And by the way, Trump is going to let Netanyahu do it, and I know it. And I'm sure that's what they discussed more than any trade conversation at the White House.

Lastly, Chinese soldiers turning up on the Ukrainian battlefield. Are you kidding me, Karl Rove? This is very troublesome. We're in a situation we've not been in since nineteen thirty eight, in which there's an active cooperating access of enemies to America. And I was talking with a very gifted and long serving member of our military who told me first the North Koreans and potentially at that point the Chinese, but just potentially now it may be reality.

He said the reason you want to do that is if you command people in battle, you want them to be bloodied. You want them to have gone through the actual experience of combat. It's one thing to do it on war games and simulated combat. It's another thing entirely to have your people under fire in actual combat. The people are, you know, walk away with a different attitude and with a greater understanding of what they face.

And this is a deliberate attempt by the Chinese to make certain that elements of their military leadership have actual combat experience. Which they haven't had since, I think, 79 when they got their butt kicked by Vietnam.

Well, it's disturbing, and I think we have to say something publicly. I know you've got to pick your moments. I get it. And the president's got so many balls in the air, but this is that's. Should be intolerable.

And there's there two got captured yesterday, evidently. Or we found out about it. Karl Rove, a fascinating time.

So grateful for your insight, sir. Thank you for having me on, and it's a have a good trip to Virginia. Absolutely. I'm going to be in Virginia, and I'll be in Texas, Dallas, Texas. On the twenty third of August, please clear your schedule, Carl.

Actually, I'm going to be out of the state. Otherwise, I would be at the airport to greet you and to convey you to your hotel in a with a cowboy escort. But it's just not going to happen. No, I just, I'm sorry, but I'm going to be on vacation. Mrs.

Rove has dictated that we will be on vacation at that time. I'm canceling the event. There's no doubt about it. Carl Rove, thank you so much. Back in a moment.

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Terms apply. Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Spare me your feigned indignation. They talk of defending the Constitution.

When President Trump is running rough shop. Over provision after provision. They talk of of judicial overreach. as they attack judges across the country. They're upset.

Hey, Congressman Joe Nagoos, I think that's how you say his name, a Democrat from Colorado, upset that it looks like these district judges who want to set foreign policy, and they're not going to like it if these guys and these women step up and stop a Democratic president, believe me, to stop foreign policy, to stop the firing of probationary workers, to stop the expulsion of illegal alien criminals. They didn't like it.

So at the Supreme Court, it's all reversing. And they don't like that. Last week, it looked like it was the rise of the district court, the court judges, and now it's judge fair is boomeranging on them. Here's Congresswoman Jayapal, cut 25. My colleagues on the other side of the aisle want you to believe that somehow these nationwide injunctions being issued by courts across the country against Donald Trump's illegal and unconstitutional actions are unfair.

Well, here's a message. If you don't like the injunctions, don't do illegal, unconstitutional stuff. That simple. Nationwide injunctions play an essential role in protecting our democracy and holding the political branches accountable.

Okay, number one, it is not their view that they're doing anything unconstitutional. It is the judge's view who's Democratic appointees who's handpicked in judge shopping against Donald Trump, who it's imbued in them to disagree with and to stop because you can't, because you're in the minority, because no one likes the squad and nobody likes you outside of Washington.

So. If you have a view, of that judge stopping President Trump. Then you should view the Supreme Court, who greenlights President Trump, as also somebody that's constitutional.

So, who's right? The judge? or the Supreme Court justices who have risen to the top of their profession. I don't know. So if you're gonna say the judge, the Supreme Court is partisan, Isn't the judge partisan appointed by Barack Obama appointed by Joe Biden?

Absolutely. And it's a sad statement, by the way, overall. Mike Pompeo's next. He's now a professor at Columbia, former Secretary of State, CIA director. I cannot wait to get his take on what's happening with the crackdown of these colleges, as well as the challenge of Chinese fighters on the battlefield in Ukraine, and so much more.

Talks with Iran, a lot on the plate. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. I think May 8th or 9th is the 80th anniversary. of the end of World War II.

If you told somebody back then, In 2025, there'd be a nation state. Calling for the extinction of the Jews, they want a nuclear weapon, and people wonder what we should do.

So, 80 years later, here's where we find ourselves. They have enough. Highly enriched uranium to make six bombs. And Katie said something all of us agree with. They will use it.

If you're watching TV out there, Iran is very close to assembling six nuclear bombs. They will kill Israel. They'll come after us. They'll try to purify Islam. But right now, there's a window of opportunity to take out Iran once and for all.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, he's also CIA director, Congressman. He is now in studio. It's now soon to be professor at Columbia. Or have you started already? I've started already.

Yes, I'm drawing full combat payout there. It's fantastic.

So you have your own chalkboard and everything? Are you teaching diplomacy? Oh, it's dry race. I'm way behind the times.

So great to see you, Mr. Secretary. It's great to be with you, too. First off, can you respond to the senator who's a friend of yours? Yeah.

No, there's no doubt this is a moment. Iran is on the cusp of having not only a nuclear weapon, but a program, right?

So multiple capabilities across a broad range of delivery systems. I hope President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu spent time talking about this yesterday. They had to have. Come on. He hasn't come over for trade.

No, I think that's right. It's also the case that you still have to eliminate Hamas. That's right. This is a full-on challenge. The President's done good work going after the Houthis.

I hope they stay at it. This is a full-spectrum effort to, once and for all, deny Iran the capacity to inflict harm on America. They got to do Omas what they did with Hezbollah and Joe Biden saying don't hold land and you better back out and worry about aid and you better you're not getting your two thousand pound bombs. Those limitations were actually extending the pain in Gaza. Don't you agree?

Uh there's no doubt about it. That restraint that they placed on the Israeli defense forces risked those hostages' lives for one thing and certainly made Hamas more willing to continue the fight and stay after this. It created enormous risk, and I'm glad that President Trump reversed that and now full-throatedly supporting Israel's efforts to provide a security, not only for Israel, but for the people living in Gaza and the people living in the region more broadly. General Petraeus said, He goes, I don't know what the Israelis are doing. They're not holding land, and now they got 50%.

They said that they control 50% of Gaza right now. You know what Gaza looks like, you know what the IDF is capable of. What would be the next step for you? Would you be working fervently for a vision for what Gaza would look like once Hamas is neutralized? Yeah, I think that's the goal.

And when I say neutralized, gone. No weapons, no Hamas. Not sort of what Hezbollah had, right? Where they were part of the government and had weapons, their own army. This has to be a complete demilitarized institution.

And there needs to be one organization that has weapons in Gaza, and that's the government that controls it. And then we just don't know what that looks like. No, we don't. It's a difficult problem.

So I don't have a super good answer for this, but I know this much. It can't be the Palestinian Authority unless it's completely revised to a way that's no longer teaching terrorism and paying to slay Israelis. And it can't be Hamas. It cannot be anybody connected to the Iranian regime. 17 straight days of bombing the Houthi rebels and they're going after leaders.

Some people say we're not making enough gains there, but the Yemeni government is moving on the Houthi rebels to believe reports. Does that show there might be a coordination between the U.S. efforts? And the Ameni government? It wouldn't surprise me.

I don't know. I don't have any insight into that. Would that be something you would do? Yes. Yes, absolutely.

There are folks on the ground there that want outside of the Iranian yoke and just want to live a better life in Yemen. We need to identify them.

Some of them are in government.

Some of them used to be and got booted out. We need to go find them, touch them, and have them be on our side so that we can get not just in Gaza, but in Syria, where the Assad regime fell, and in Yemen, all these places, governments there that don't have as their primary mission set the destruction of the United States. We have so much to cover, but we also found an unbelievable amount of chemical weapons we didn't find. The new government did that Assad had assembled. This is just Brian Kilmey's theory.

How much do you want to bet some of that has a return address to Iraq? I mean, don't you think bath to bath, bathist to bathist, they did some deliveries before the invasion? It could well be. It will be fascinating to see as they unpack what was really there to see where these came from. That history is deep.

I'll bet there is. There certainly ought to be on our part. It would be important to know how those got there. Remember, President Obama let them continue to build out their weapons program. He invited the Russians in to do the inspections.

Shock, shock. They didn't find them. Yeah, that worked out really well. And then President Trump, when they used chemical weapons in what would have been 2017, struck back and slowed the program down. There are three main militias, I think, in Iraq, and they're Iranian-backed.

And they have indicated through Reuters that they're looking to put down their weapons, judging by the type of muscle that we showed in the region. Your thoughts on that. Is it called Khatab Khatib Hezbollah is the primary Iranian-backed militia there, but there are offshoots of that as well. They say that when they put down their weapons, I'll believe it when I see it. They'll do it only if they don't have any more money coming from Iran.

They have no intention of releasing the could happen. They have no intention of releasing the Iraqi government from their control, so it will take continued effort, continued push to drive Iraq back to a better place. How do you get these talks in Oman that take place Saturday, indirect, direct? It doesn't look like they're direct. It's going to be Witkoff and his counterpart.

I'm not sure why Witkoff's doing it, not Rubio, but Witkoff and his counterpart in Oman. Your thoughts. The Iranians have never lost a negotiation, never won a war. I just, I think the talks are fine. We talked with Chairman Kim.

I'm happy to have conversations with our adversaries, but we should be very leery. The Iranians will cheat, lie, steal. There's no doubt that they're entering these negotiations with the goal of riding out the next three and a half years. Mike Pompeo, you got that military background, years at West Point. I have not been on the ground in Tehran, but it seems like the Israelis have.

What they've been able to do, what they've been able to do with their intelligence, and knowing that, like the 1980s, they will never allow their enemies to get a nuclear weapon. They took them out in Syria, they took it out in Iraq, now they've gotten rid of the missile defense, there's a window of opportunity. How long do the talks go on knowing that they're enriching uranium at the rate they're doing it? It can't go very long. Weeks.

Maybe months. But weeks would be better. You heard Prime Minister Netanyahu talk about the negotiations yesterday. He said a deal would be fine, but it's got to be the total, complete devastation, destruction of the Iranian nuclear weapons program. That has to be the objective, singularly.

And it can't be fake. It can't be we're going to do inspections with the IAEA. We saw that that just led to continued Iranian cheating. I hope President Trump is as determined as he was in the first four years to put real pressure on the Iranians to conform. I think it's going to be Israel that does it.

Do 2,000-pound bombs are they the bunker busters needed to penetrate an Iranian program? You need big stuff. You need big stuff, and you need it for a sustained period of time. These are difficult targets, but make no mistake about it. What the Israelis did in taking down the Iranian air defense systems and what they did to convince the Iranian people that Iran can't defend itself, those are the twin pillars of success in changing the nature of the regime in Iran.

And if you do that, you can actually get rid of that program for 15, 20 years. The Secretary, I was stunned to see two captured Chinese fighters yesterday on video in Ukraine.

Now the North Koreans, it was stunning for me to see them six months ago, and we heard that they've gotten better in real time. They had no idea how to handle drone warfare, let alone fight, because they haven't fit in a fought in sixty years. And now we have the Chinese being found on the battlefield We used to think they were so they wanted to be so coy. Dual-use weapons were once they were trying to deny they were playing help.

Now they're putting soldiers in. Yeah. What does that tell you? Yeah, it's very clear. That's pretty brazen to put their own people in.

It tells me two things. One is your point about learning is right. I think they want to be on the ground to see what's the latest developments in combat warfare, tactical and operational level.

So it wouldn't surprise me if there are even bigger forces there on the ground from the Chinese. And second, it does tell you, whether it's Iran or Venezuela or China, these folks are working together against the United States of America, and we need to build out our friends, our partners across the world to confront this combined challenge from all these bad actors. It's mind-numbing to think they're there. And meanwhile, we're in a trade war with them, too.

So a minute left. We have a situation where we're trying to deal with Vladimir Putin, and he has shown that he cannot be trusted. He doesn't understand that he's got his best opportunity to have an off-ramp now with President Trump. He's embarrassing President Trump if this continues. How long do you think Trump will tolerate this?

There's no doubt. Vladimir Putin is going to try and run the string out on this as well. Play this for everything he can, get as much land. I don't know how much longer President Trump is. Evil is not stupid, right?

He is not stupid. He is evil. He is a bad actor, but he is cunning. And while he screwed up in the invasion, they thought they could roll this thing through. He got that piece strategically wrong.

He's still determined to win and prevail. And so he's going to try and drag this out and cut a deal that benefits him and not the United States of America. I don't think President Trump's going to let that happen. How's he doing? I mean, he's not doing well.

I mean, he's losing thousands a week. Is that okay? Yeah, no, you know, these guys who run these things have a way of surviving an awfully long time, Brian. We think they're going to fall because their people get hacked off. Almost used a bad word.

The people get hacked off. That seldom happens. It's going to take even more difficulty. But we have the capacity to put them in a place where we don't have to worry about them invading Europe again. And we should not do that.

He deterred them for four years, and then President Biden came in and it all fell away.

Well, you were part of that. And the thing is, we have to continue to supply Ukrainians. Don't you believe that? And that'll also affect the talks. It's deeply in America's interest to continue to do that, to make sure that the Europeans do it as well.

We should absolutely continue to help the Ukrainians defend, and that will give us the leverage at the negotiating table to deter Vladimir Province. Have you been accepted at Columbia? Do they feel like when you walk around the campus or people protesting you? What are they doing? Everybody's been pretty nice so far.

How about the students?

So far, so good. It's been good. Lots of different voices, lots of different opinions, people who disagree with me on lots of things, but the conversation has been civil, and that's what. That's what I'd hope for, and I'm excited about that. What made you take the job?

You know, I want them to hear a set of different voices, a different viewpoint than they've had on that campus in an awfully long time.

So I got the opportunity to do it, and I'm going to go try my piece. Does it seem like an institution that's missing $400 million? Do they really want to use that? I mean, they've been denied that by the administration for not fighting anti-Semitism. I don't know.

I haven't really seen that in my life. That's exactly they're paying you, though. Yes, that's exactly right. Dang it. Hope the check clears, Brian.

Mr. Secretary, thanks so much for your quality time. Thank you. You helped our audience significantly. We come back, Steve Case, co-founder of AOL and CEO of Revolution.

Don't move. It's Brian Killmead. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. Indeed, new businesses play a significant role in net new job creation, according to data from the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Yet entrepreneurs, especially those outside of Silicon Valley and Boston and New York, still face significant challenges in accessing the capital they need to start and scale. In 2017, when Revolution launched our Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, led at the time by J.D. Vance, who is now our Vice President, roughly 75% of venture capital flowed to just three states. California, Massachusetts and New York. with forty seven states left to share the remaining twenty-five percent.

That was Steve Case, co-founder of AOL and CEO of Revolution. He was speaking in front of Congress a couple of weeks ago, testifying in front of the House Financial Committee about the access to capital securities reform and economic growth across the country. But he was there at the beginning of the dot-com boom. It went bust, and now we're in the middle of it. And now we're looking at an AI boom.

Will it go bust and how to navigate it? Let's bring in Steve Case now, who's also on Zoom so you could watch him here at home. Steve, great to see you. You're not aging. That means there's no stress in your life while changing America and the world.

What can we learn from the dot-com boom to keep us from a bust in AI?

Well, I think in retrospect, dot-com boom was 25 years ago, almost exactly when AOL merged with Time Warner, and a lot of things were happening in the space. And some people decided then that maybe the internet thing was just a passing fad. Obviously, it turned out to be much more fundamental. I think we'll see the same with AI, but certainly there'll be some market corrections, some valuations will be a little bit off. And what's also different is back then, 25 years ago, most of the big companies, ATT, General Electric, didn't really believe in the internet, didn't really invest heavily in the internet.

Now it's the biggest company, the big tech companies that are really all in.

So it doesn't create quite the same opportunity for the startups as we saw in the early days of the internet, but there's still a lot of capital, a lot of venture capital flowing to a lot of those AI startups.

So I think there are some things that are similar, some things that are different. Steve, does it blow you away when you look back and think back where we're in or where we are at now in with the Internet to know that you went to these major corporations with the smartest business people in the world and they didn't see the vision or what was ahead? Hello everyone. Started, it was actually AOL. We started 40 years ago in 1985.

Back then, only 3% of people were online. Those 3% were online an average of one hour a week. And it took us a while to convince even the personal computer manufacturers to build a modem, a communications modem, into their PCs because they thought it was more of a peripheral device most people wouldn't use. Most people didn't believe email or e-commerce would ever take off.

So it was a lesson. And it frankly took us a decade before we finally broke through, which is another difference with AI. It took AOL nine years to get 1 million customers. It took ChatGPT three months to get 100 million customers.

So you can just see the pace of innovation has really accelerated in part because the internet now is so broadly deployed. When you launch an app like ChatGPT, it can get global adoption almost overnight. That was not the case in the early days of the internet. It was much more slow. You had to build the infrastructure, educate people about the reasons to get online.

So it was much more of a slot, kind of a 10-year in the making over. Night success. Do you think there's a humility now as we go into the AI world to where you're not quite sure, but you're open to what might be next that maybe didn't exist in the linear world back then? Absolutely. What exciting thing about AI is we're starting to see it really impact fundamental aspects of our lives and big industries.

So we backed a company in Chicago called Tempest, for example, using AI to more precisely diagnose when you get cancer or other diseases what treatment you should get. We backed a company in Syracuse, New York called Hidden Level using AI to detect drones in the sky. What's safe and allow, what are things that police and others should be more concerned about. We backed a company in Seattle, Washington called Carbon Robotics using AI and lasers and robotics to more precisely weed farms. And so this is not just about AI platforms that people think about in terms of the apps.

It's how it impacts farming, how it impacts healthcare, how it impacts safety and defense. That's what we're starting to see. But it is important. I testified in Congress a couple of weeks ago. It does not just be the entrepreneurs in places like Silicon Valley or New York City.

How do we back entrepreneurs all across the country, create jobs all across the country, which is what Rise of the Rust has been about now for the last decade?

So Tristan Harris from Social Dilemma was on with us, and he said, I wouldn't be so worried about being first. He goes, you know, we were first with the internet, and look at how much damage we did in terms of controlling people online and access to the internet and social media platforms. Are you concerned about being first?

Well, AI for me, because I've been around a while, is sort of interesting. It first came about 70 years ago. Artificial intelligence AI first got worked on and even named 70 years ago.

So it's actually been building very slowly. It just really took off in terms of consumer adoption in the past couple of years. And I think because of the pace of that adoption, this again is a little bit different than the early days of the internet because the internet develops so slowly. Policymakers, whether it be here in Washington, D.C. or in Europe or other places, had a kind of hands-off, sort of light touch approach.

You don't really understand what's happening here. Let's kind of take a, you know, let's see how it develops.

Now there's more pressure to think about what the regulations are because of some of the lessons learned with social media and other kinds of things. And because big tech is getting bigger, that also creates some concerns around antitrust.

So I think you're seeing not just in our country, but other countries, more engagement on this, but it's going to be tricky. How do you strike a balance between not over-regulating, which will stifle innovation? But at the same time, not kind of having your head in the sand doing nothing. And so, figuring out what that right mix is, what sort of the Goldilocks solution is, not too big, not too small, just right, is really tricky. And hopefully, we'll figure that out in the next year or two in our country.

25 seconds. Who should be on that board to talk about regulations? I really worry about Congress doing it because they're not like you. They don't live this every day.

Well, Congress obviously has lots of different issues to deal with, and some of these things are pretty complicated.

So, having dedicated people that really understand the industry, understand the technology, understand the societal implications is important. There was some bipartisan work in the Senate that I was part of over the last couple of years to kind of educate folks in the Senate. I think that's helpful. But obviously, the pace of innovation continues to. Thanks so much, Steve Case.

From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead. Thanks so much for listening, everybody. It's the Brian Kilmey Chow on this beautiful day. We have an exciting hour coming your way, and we have, of course, a lot of breaking news.

We're riding the market, seeing what's breaking, seeing what's not breaking, seeing what deals are going to be cut. And I woke up today to find out that President Trump warned China: hey, by the way, if you come back and retaliatory tariffs on me, it was at 34%. Uh we'll hit him hit you hard. He told them to back off, they didn't.

So he got them at 104% tariff rate.

Now China went up to us. They're up at 84%.

So this is getting ugly. My sense is it stays ugly with China. And my sense is also it gets less ugly with the rest of the world. It's going to be a big day. I like stuff like this.

President of the United States is going to be greeting the Division II football champions, North Dakota State, at the White House. That's awesome. Division II, you do it for the love of the game, a lot of talent there. And Secretary of State Rubio participated in an impactful meeting with Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Faran El-Saud. You know, they're talking about the Abraham Accords, too.

And a lot going on in Capitol Hill. There's a lot of committee meetings and talking about the big, beautiful bill, which leads us to the big three. Number three. This was a smackdown to a rogue left-wing low-level district court judge who have relentlessly tried to stop President Trump from using his core constitutional powers. That is the press secretary.

She is talking about Judge Fair. It has delivered multiple wins for Donald Trump as wild-eyed partisan district judges get slapped back by the Supreme Court. We will discuss. Number two. We have to thread a needle in order to get this done, but we have to have maximum cooperation and support from every Senate Republican, every House Republican.

The stakes are too high. Hey, listen, I agree. Big, beautiful bill leaves the Senate for the House, and there are many bridges that need to be made, cuts that need to happen. We discuss it. Number one.

our country. And don't let some of these politicians go around saying you know, because I'm telling you, these countries are calling us up. kissing my head. They are dying to make it here. Please, please, sir, make it to you.

That is President of the United States last night at a big event, a Republican event. Tariffs stare down, countdown to deals. They have deals set to be done with dozens of nations while focus on China moves front and center of the question. When do the deals start coming, and when will the markets rise again? I'm not his economic advisor, but I will tell you this.

I've already seen how the markets reacted when there was hope of deals being done. And when there's hope, it rockets up. And soon we'll be back at 40,000 again. And then soon we'll be talking about what other deals are coming down and how the restructuring is going to reconfigure and fortify the foundation of our trade policy for generations, unless we try to screw it up with free trade deals that only go one direction.

So I'm encouraged. I also saw this story about the Philippines. Question is: who's going to make our stuff if China doesn't? Go to answer: Japan. Philippines Thailand, Cambodia, but Philippines especially.

They want to grow. They see China as a huge threat, and they should. And I think they got the work ethic and manufacturing ability and the support of our people in business investment to do it.

Meanwhile, There's another big story that I was able to cover on Fox and Friends that I think matters to you a lot. Nathan Hochman. Was Harkman, he is a Los Angeles County District Attorney, and he now has a case that really is of interest. And it just shows the negligence and the problem with sanctuary cities: the negligence of cops not asking a would-be criminal where they're from, do they have a green card? Do they have even a visa?

The answer would have been no. for a youth soccer coach who at least since twenty twenty two has been under investigation for felony assault of a child, sexual offense, twenty twenty four, sexual assault with intent to commit a lewd act, and then finally murder. Here's my interview with Nathan Hockman about the arrest of a soccer coach charged with murder. Listen. A horrifying crime out of Los Angeles.

The body of a 13-year-old boy found more than 70 miles from his home. His soccer coach, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, charged with murder. As we learned, this same suspect also accused of assaulting two other teen boys. LA County DA Nathan Hockman says the death penalty is on the table and joins us now. Nathan, horrible situation, but we look at the past crimes.

This guy's been a problem that we know of since 2022. How is he allowed to continue to coach? How is he not charged earlier?

So, when we got the first allegation in 2022, we actually, the DA's office gets that in about August of 2023. We do what we do in all cases. We analyze the evidence, and we have to not only move swiftly, but we have to win these cases beyond a reasonable doubt in court to a jury, a unanimous jury of 12.

So we want to make sure we get it right.

So we send it back for a further investigation to build out the case. And some of these cases go quickly, and some don't. This one did not.

So the allegation for 2022 took actually until the murder allegation came forward most recently before we were able to develop the final bit of evidence to charge him with the 2022 arrest and sexual assault of a minor. The 2024 allegation came out in a different part of Los Angeles County with a different investigative agency. They built that case over the next number of months, and that case was charged actually right before, and tragically, right before the current murder of the 13-year-old. By the time they got the arrest warrant, however, the murder had actually occurred as alleged in the complaint. And then we were picked up on April 2nd for the March 28th murder and the 2024 sexual assault.

Now, think about this, Nathan. I know you have. Has anyone thought about, while I'm investigating him, does he have a visa? Does he have a green card? What is he doing here?

How did he get here? Do those questions ever come up?

So, when LAPD and the LA Sheriff's Department actually investigate someone, they don't ask the question: are they here in this country? Legally documented or otherwise. They do the investigation of whether or not a crime was committed in LA County and they proceed from there.

So they didn't. This is not a situation where it was a joint federal state task force and you had ICE or the Department of Homeland Security on that task force. This was just a straight investigation by robbery, homicide on one hand from LAPD and the Sheriff's Department of potential sexual violence. And when they investigated it again, some of these cases went Went slowly as they pieced the evidence together. In the march twenty-eighth case, the gentleman was arrested on april second.

And who knows? Are these the only of the three cases? Or is this the only time in which these cases have come forward? You just got this job. What did they what is going to change under your jurisdiction now?

I mean, this you get charged in twenty twenty two, and another part of Los Angeles is investigating in twenty twenty four. I assume they talk to each other at some point in order to assemble the Uh the validity of the case. And the speed is just seems to me to be unacceptable. Is it a manpower issue?

Well, it's all the above. I think that the, you know, again, the LAPD that investigated the first case, you know, did not have a coordination on the second case. When we brought in the coordination, all three cases came together very quickly. Under my administration, sexual violence cases are a high, high priority. And we're making sure that any type allegations like this come in, there is maximum cooperation for the beginning.

So we don't hopefully have a tragedy. This is where we could take a person like Mr. Garcia Arquino out of the picture before he kills someone. Nathan, does your gut tell you there's more than just three? We have sent an announcement out through the media to the public that basically, if there's any other victims out there, even though it's very hard for a victim of sexual violence by an adult to come forward, we're asking them to come forward.

Contact your law enforcement and please, please come forward. We certainly have suspicions there are additional victims, but we're working very hard to confirm that.

Soccer communities are tight, teams are tight, kids switch. I'm sure there's a lot of talk in the soccer community. Nathan Hockman, thanks so much. Appreciate it. My pleasure.

Thank you very much.

So, I mean, that is so disturbing. It is so disturbing with these sanctuary cities and what happens. You say to yourself, sanctuary cities, well, for illegal immigrants living in these communities, they have to be able to be able to report crimes without knowing that they're going to be deported just for coming forward.

Well, that might have been an idea in your head. Nobody anticipated 8 million under Joe Biden, 27 million over the last 15 years, coming into our country illegally, going right to the sanctuary cities where they can live without fear of being deported. And now you have this soccer coach who, at least since 2022, in three separate incidents, now, the last one resulting in murder and capture, this soccer coach coming in illegally.

Now, when they get questioned in 2022, this coach, what do you say? Hey, by the way, can I see your visa? Can I see your green? No, I can't see that. But you know what the airstack.

And for some reason, nobody is mixing and matching in the Los Angeles County.

Well, let me see it. This guy's been accused of sexual assault of a minor. Anybody else looking at that? The answer would be, I imagine, if you have a password and can log in, yes, two years ago, same accusation. Why is he allowed to still coach?

Why is he around kids? And you know, I have to say, I'm guilty too. I just assume my kids' coaches were here legally. But in Los Angeles. where everyone is welcome to come one, come all through San Diego.

That is more of a pertinent question than on Long Island, New York.

So of course, soccer, international game, you come in, the guy probably knows the game, takes an interest in your kid. Hey, I could teach this kid some skills, I could bring him into different pickup games and get better. And a lot of times I'd tell you how you do get better, and it's great. You asked David Beckham and all the other players, when a coach takes an interest in you, that's how you get better.

Next thing you know, this coach did something obviously, clearly unsavory, resulting in the murder of this kid. And I just hope it's not because these people are poor that these cops aren't paying attention to him. My hope is that.

Well, I'm not in Los Angeles anymore. I was for a short period of time.

So when we come back. We'll be talking Virginia politics and more. And don't forget, tonight I'll be at Politics and Pints right in Richmond, Virginia. WRBA is sponsoring it. It's going to be a great, great event.

So make sure you join. Don't move. Brian Kilmer Chair. From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Killmead. Welcome back, everybody.

Joining us now is John Reed. You know him as a familiar talk show host and a dominant personality in the Virginia area, now running for a lieutenant governor and working his way hard through the Republican ticket. John, welcome back. Hey, thanks, Brian. I'm really excited about it.

We just got word that I did make the ballot after, you know, crisscrossing the state to get all these signatures.

So, this kind of antiquated. Signature and petition plan, but we did it, and now it's on to campaigning. I'm really excited about it. I mean, very few people need an introduction to you who are in the Virginia area. You've been a stalwart on the WRVA for the last eight years.

How hard was the decision to decide to actually jump in and run?

Well, it's gotten harder every time I check my bank account and there's not a paycheck every two weeks. That's kind of hurting me. And I do miss the show because the show is important and I love talking to people. But this state is really in a precarious position. Glenn Youngkin and Winston Sears and Jason Mear saved us.

from four years of crazy, horrible leftist Democrat policies when Junckin got elected four years ago. And we have to continue that. We're going to have a woman as governor, and we have Winsome Sears, who's a really remarkable individual, is the Republican nominee. Abigail Spanberger, who's a former CIA officer and was my congresswoman for a little while, who pretends to be the girl next door when, in fact, she's. She's right in there with the most radical Democrat politicians out there.

And I want to be the bulldog who's out on the campaign exposing some of these horrible ideas that the Democrats have been pushing in the state legislature and making sure that everybody understands the economy of Virginia. And the lifestyle that everyone's grown accustomed to in Virginia, which is pretty good. Is on the ballot. This isn't just about personalities and faces and skin color or sexual orientation. This is about what kind of state we want to live in.

And there's a reason that a lot of your friends in Long Island and New Jersey and Connecticut have migrated south to Virginia. And I want to make sure that we keep Virginia a great place to live and work and raise a family. Where'd you learn from Winston Sears and what she was able to do for the last four years, three years?

Well, she's really been somebody who's stood up and been strong. And against the consultant class, I've got to tell you, I mean, you've watched this in New York and in Washington. There are all these consultants and they focus test everything. And one thing I've liked about Winsom is she's. She refuses to go along with that.

It does mean she goes off script occasionally, but I love it. When we had a shooting at a high school graduation here in Richmond, you know, that woman got in her own car and drove over to where the shooting happened, pushed her way through the crowd, and instead of allowing the mayor of Richmond to pontificate, She held him accountable. And the Democrat prosecutor who refuses to put young, violent criminals in jail accountable and called them out in front of everybody. And of course, she was beaten up for it, but I was cheering because that's what we've got to do, is stop focus testing everything and start calling out what the average person recognizes as the problem in society. We've got to be tough on criminals.

We've got to keep the taxes low. This is basic, and the Democrats are screwing it all up. And fortunately, they haven't held their cards back. They're playing it for keeps. And I think that's going to make it a lot easier for us to make the sale as we head towards November.

And what about Glenn Young? He shocked the world with his victory, and people are still talking about him having the presidential timber. Does success leave clues for you? Yes. Glenn is someone to watch.

The governor has been very successful. He is a dynamic leader, but he's very evenhanded. And one of the things that I've been talking about in my campaign is I want to be like Glenn Younken, the reasonable and responsible Republican on the campaign trail. I want to listen. If you've got a problem, I'm not going to tell you to go to hell.

That's not my attitude. I want to hear what your problem is, and I want to offer Republican solutions to those problems. But I also have to be candid with people and say, hey, some of these things you've got to own yourself. And Glenn Youngkin has been really good at that. John Reid, our guest.

So, John, you cut your teeth really with Reagan in those early days.

So, you've always had a hankering to be in office since then? For the longest time, Brian, I thought I would never run. I came out of the closet as a gay Republican, I guess, right after I finished working for Reagan, nineteen ninety three, nineteen ninety four. That was pretty miserable. Everybody hated me.

The conservatives weren't happy about it. The Democrats you know, thought I was a trap. Yeah. Democrat principles, which I wasn't bought into anyway, and I kind of gave up on myself. As a potential candidate.

But I I I'm looking around the country at some of the people who've been running, and I think, why am I stepping aside for people that I don't think are reasonable. I don't think are responsible, especially if they're Democrats. And I looked in Virginia in twenty twenty and twenty one and said Governor Northam and the other Democrat leaders made really bad decisions. They didn't back up the cops. They didn't have the fortitude to say, hey, we're not going to allow violence in the streets.

I was doing that every morning on the radio. Stop the violence. Stop the violence. We can't allow this to happen. And finally, I'd had enough of it.

We had this water crisis in January where they had to put a porta toilet in front of the governor's mansion. And that porta toilets In front of Thomas Jefferson's Capitol building. And that was when I just said to heck with this, I have to run. We need responsible, smart, grounded men and women to run. And I think I'm one of them.

And that's the case I'm going to make going forward. All right.

So, best lug, if people want to support you, John Reid, where do they go? Hey, it's John Reed4Virginia.com. All spelled out R-E-I-D is the last name, John Reed4Virginia.com. And my Facebook, I'm showing everywhere I'm going, all across the state of Virginia. And of course, I look forward to seeing you soon.

Right. And when I first met, it was in Politics in Pinto, we're doing that, of course, tonight. John Reed, thanks so much. Thank you very much, Brian. A talk show that's real.

This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Hi, everybody. Welcome back.

Now, an inspirational story you can only get on Fox Nation that is available today. And it is produced by Pat Diamond, Emmy Award-winning director of Rebound, A Year of Triumph and Tragedy at Yeshiva University Basketball. He picked up on this story after October 7th, and the focus is on Yeshiva University Basketball. A great individual story, but obviously, when you think of yeshiva, you think about Jews in America and the challenge that the Jewish faith fields around the globe, especially felt on October 7th and how they persevered through that year and had the success they did. The name of the show is A Year of Triumph and Tragedy at yeshiva.

And joining us now to help us out is Pat Diamond as well as Coach Elliot Steimitz. Welcome to both of you.

So first off, coach, what was your challenge with your season? Where were you at on October 7th? And how did that refocus your men to play ball?

So first of all, Brian, thanks for having me on. I was actually in Jerusalem on october seventh with my family after the attacks. It took us a few extra days to get home with flight cancellations. Uh coming back, the challenge was How we pick these guys up. We have six Israeli players on the team, obviously concerned about their families.

The rest of our team is all of the Jewish faith, all have family and friends in Israel. And it was just a very hard time to focus on basketball. And what we came up with was trying to find a way for the season and the message to be something bigger than just on the court. Right. So, Pat Diamond, after this happens, that attack happens, you thought, well, that's interesting.

This school has had a lot of success, a 50-game winning streak from 2019 to 2021. This is the 23-24 year. When did you realize this is something that you wanted to document? Yeah, I mean, Coach and I had been introduced a couple years earlier. His son is a phenomenal baseball player and was drafted as the Elliott, I think, the first Orthodox Jewish baseball player.

So we had been introduced a couple of years earlier, kept in touch, and then obviously the attacks happened. And so, you know, we reached out to Elliott in the school. And I think with. Kind of the trust that we built, kind of approached them and said, hey, listen, this is a real, this is kind of a, sad but a monumental moment and we think it would be a real a story to tell. And coach, how did you get your guys focused?

And how did being in Israel at the time of the attacks change you? For me, it was the idea of kind of sitting there, and you always want to protect your kids. And I was sitting there with my daughter, and we're listening to rockets explode overhead. We're hearing the news of what's going on only about an hour and a half south of where we were. And it was just that fear of one day not being able to protect them.

So I think that kind of is something that's always going to be on my mind the rest of my life. In terms of our guys, this was the opportunity for us to really have. Had that message off the court, and that was what focused us. It was not the basketball. We lacked focus on the court throughout most of the year, actually.

What we didn't lack was focus on what was going on around us. And I think our ability to compete and just kind of raise a platform for ourselves to talk about what was going on in Israel and what was going on across the country in terms of anti-Semitism really fueled us.

So Pat, what will people see in terms of how this team handled it? Yeah, I mean, obviously, you'll see the aftermath of the attacks, and obviously, Coach and some of the players were back home in Israel, so we kind of pick them up after the attacks, and the season starts in the winter.

So, you'll see kind of the beginning of that season, how the players are really and coach, and the whole school and community is handling the aftermath of the attacks.

So, the beginning of that season, and then Coach makes the decision to bring the team to Israel in January. Kind of during the school break.

So we traveled with the team to Israel for eight days, which was. Eye-opening, incredible. Just a really, you know, I'm not Jewish and I've never been to Israel, but it was just a really amazing, strong, poignant moment for myself, for the team, for everyone there.

So, so viewers will get to see some of the players returning home to see family for the first time, giving back to the communities. They played an exhibition game with a local professional Israeli team, went to the hospital to visit some kind of some survivors from some from some of the fighting. And then we rally back to the States for the rest of the season. And we follow like as Coach said, we follow the team as they're trying to juggle Basketball with also a war happening where not knowing how their families and everyone is doing in their country.

So, viewers will get to see kind of the ebb and flow of the season where trying to focus on basketball when that's not really the main focus. Here is Zevi Samed. He's the top scoring guard on your team. I think wearing the yeshiva jersey now means a lot more to me and the team to understand that we're not just a Jewish team, but now we're playing for the Jewish people. More than ever, the Jewish people need light.

More than ever, Jewish people need some things to look towards and to be excited about. When we went to Israel, we built a connection with these people, and our only mentality is we need a win for them, not for ourselves. And and coach, does that echo the way the others fell too? It does, yes. And Zevi is special and he has a really good way of putting things into words.

But for us, the people in Israel are going through a dark time, and we're here in America. We're not in the IDF, we're not on the front lines. We have to find whatever ways we can to support those people who are and their families. And for us, You know, our only tool is the platform we build playing basketball.

So, for us, it was an opportunity to compete for something that was a higher calling than just the results of a basketball game.

So, you're the only Jewish university in America, but you're in a city that has Columbia NYU, City College, City College, as well as New School. They have one thing in common: they're all protesting against Israel and against Jews in New York City. Did you chronicle that path? Does that play a role? Yeah, you know, I think that was kind of Going on in the background, and we knew everything that was going on during that season, but we really kept the focus to how our team and how our how coach in the school and everyone was handling it through their perspective.

You know, we weren't trying to fo you know, force a narrative outside of what they were dealing with on a day-to-day basis.

So we really kept it How to focus on their season winning, keeping a winning culture at yeshiva while dealing with kind of war at home. Win the conference, they make the NCAA tournament. Coach, how special was that? That's always special, a little more special with this group, having gone through what we did last year and obviously the You know, the pedestal they've kind of been put on through no, you know, not through trying.

So it was really special this year.

So here's a listen to some of the players and team members and coach talking about the year. We have six Israelis on the team, three of them served. From what I understand, all three of them called their units to try to go back and fight. Tom I think called his unit multiple times to go back. And I get it.

I mean, I get it. Like, you know, it's, you know, these are not guys trying to be a tough guy at all. These are guys who want to protect their home and they want to protect their families. And that's kind of. that's what they grew up with.

My mom served in the military, my dad served, I served, and my sister is currently serving. There is like a history. At the end of the day, Israel is my home.

So if they needed me, I will go. Coach, that's pretty dedicated. You have a player. It's almost like being in a military academy, how people describe West Point and Annapolis and the Air Force Academy, right? 100% uh you know It's exactly what he said.

This is their home. Their families are there. They're watching them struggle. And their first instinct is not to try to get away. Their first instinct is to go back.

I think we saw that right after October 7th. You had full airplanes of volunteers going back to Israel to be able to take part and to fight and to protect the country. And Israel doesn't really start wars, but they do a good job defending themselves. And we have a bunch of kids who fit right into that mold. What's something else some people are going to be taking from seeing the dynamic with this group and the games that they won?

Yeah, I think, listen, you're supposed to. Do they experience any anti-Semitism on the road? Actually, they get more support. Yeah, actually, you know, and Coach can speak more to that. I.

being kind of a an outsider was Maybe Expecting some anti-Semitism at away games, obviously at home, you know, that's their community. It's the whole crowd is obviously mostly Jewish, but. You know, Coach said they actually really, I think, a few random moments here and there, but surprisingly, nothing crazy anti-Semitic on the road, which we didn't really know how it was going to all go down. But I think viewers are going to just see. How basketball and sport can unite and educate A culture and a type of people that you might not know and might have some preconceived notions about.

So I think the viewer is really going to. See raw emotion from, you know, these are college kids and they're dealing with families in wartime, but how to. Focus and make basketball a bright light in a dark time, both domestically and abroad. Pat Diamonds here, Coach Elliott Simons is here, the Yeshiva University basketball coach. They're talking about a brand new series that drops today called the Incredible called Rebound, a Year of Triumph and Tragedy at Yeshiva University Basketball, where they did you have any thoughts, Coach, about, hey, you know what, these guys might not want to play?

No, none of us did. I got back. I missed the first three practices just traveling back after October 7th, and I remember walking into the gym and we called everybody into a huddle at mid-court. And I said, I get it. Nobody wants to be here.

I don't want to be here either. I think once we started to talk about ways we could affect people and ways we could inspire off the court, guys realized that there was going to be a greater message here and a great opportunity to do something. All right.

Pat Dime, we look forward to your final product. And, Coach, congratulations on persevering. Have another great season this year. Coach Elliott Stimus, thanks so much. And check out Fox Nations called Rebound, a year of triumph and tragedy at Yeshiva, available right now.

Thanks, guys. Thank you. Back in a moment. Don't go anywhere. and Kilmead will be right back.

The more you listen, the more you'll know it's Brian Killmead. They don't ask themselves those questions. Perhaps because they already know the answers. The problem is, so does America, which is why they're losing viewers faster than an episode of Guttfeld when it starts with, I'm your guest host, Brian Kilmead. Unreal.

Always love having you on, Brian. I'd store more, but I have nowhere to go. Yes! All right, so that was last night at Gutfeld. That's me, Brian Killmead.

That was Gutfeld. And the crowd was raucous, and they were pretty much on my side. If you listen back, they didn't like it. I don't really care. I think it's pretty funny.

But we have a few cuts from that. It's always fun doing that show. But by the way, it's white hot. At 10 o'clock, it is crushing everyone, even at 11 o'clock. But meanwhile, I had a big interview today with Ainsley Earhart, my co-host on Fox and Friends, with Alex Ovechkin.

This guy turned down the tonight show, all types of appearances, and he said he would do Fox and Friends. We thought it was great.

So, who is he? The all-time leader when it comes to hockey. You might not be the biggest fan, but at 39 years old, to be able to score like he scored, to get 895 goals and beat Gretzky's record, is certainly noteworthy. Gretzky was there to experience it. It happened in Long Island, right near where we tape.

And he talked to us a short time ago on this Wednesday.

So here's the interview with Ainsley Earhart. That's the woman's voice. And Alexei Alex Ovechkin. Let's listen. For the first time in 31 years, a name other than Wayne Gretzky sits atop the all-time NHL scoring list because of this.

Through center. Send in Wilson on the flank. Cross ice Ovechkin fires. It's gone. The chasing days are done.

Alex Ovechkin is the greatest goal scorer in the history of the NHL. It was a record hockey fans thought would never be broken, but Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin did it, and he joins us now. Good morning to you, Alex. Congratulations. Good morning.

Thank you very much.

You're welcome.

So when you I mean, growing up, you've been playing since what, what did you say, Brian, eighteen? And you did you ever think this day was going to come? And what was it like to hear both teams congratulating you and roaring? Uh be a silo. never thought it's it can be happening and Um this is such a great moment for myself, for organization, capitalist organization, for hockey, for my teammates, for obviously for my family, friends and whole offense all over the world.

Alex, in 2020, Wayne Gretzky was asked about the chances of you breaking his record. And he said, if he does break my record, I will be there. In 2020, did you think that you were on Target to be the all-time scoring leader? No, um Even uh Even before this year, In 39 years old, I'll have to score 42 goals. And uh in this league and uh this uh In this hockey game, what happened right now, it's hard to do.

Um like I'm always said, like without my teammates, without my family, without all the support where I have, it would never like we would never reach that milestone.

So thank you for everybody, teammates obviously first, family, and obviously for the support with Wayne have to my side, it's tremendous. He was cheering for me, he was a fan on this game, and he was uh happy uh as i am We're seeing video of him and his wife. Here's what he said. My congratulations to not only Alex His mom and dad, his family, his wife and kids. When I broke the record, my two kids were about the age of his boys.

So it's kind of reminiscing for me. They say records are made to be broken, but I'm not sure who's going to get more goals than that.

So, what was the private moment like with him? What did he say to you? He said, congrats, happy you did it. And how it's like he was supporting the support all the way, and yeah. What a moment uh Uh what a moment for Hulkie for no no.

For us, it's still can't believe it. I still can't believe it. Alex, what would your son say to you? What were their reactions? They was happy.

They were happy, and all they want they wanted come from the locker room.

So yeah, it's How like you know they um They smo uh they're little right now, but uh that uh video what we uh what we're gonna have uh they they will remember for all life.

Well, Alex, we have some video of you with pediatric cancer patients. I know going forward, what are you planning on doing when you score goals? Yeah, you know, with all the attention what we have right now, we decided to join the e-foundation and try Raise as much as we can for kids who need help. You know, it's we have a chance and we have to do it the best way.

So I want everybody to go visit v.org slash gr8 chase to learn more and to donate because your career has been exemplary. What you've done at this age is astounding and maybe ends with the Stanley Cup. Alex, thanks so much for joining us. Congratulations. You're an inspiration.

Thank you very much, guys. Thank you for having me. Thanks for having me. Yeah, and thanks for coming on our show.

Well, that was Ovechkin. Great to talk to him. I hope to do it again. It looks like, though, too, I didn't want to bring up any Russian questions, but he is, it looks like, going to return to Russia when he's done. His kids speak Russians and English, and they were certainly there to see it.

He seems Americanized, but he's very much into Russian politics, too, and certainly a legend.

So, meanwhile, just a quick announcement. I want you to go to BrianKilme.com. I'm going to be on stage, History, Liberty, and Laughs with Fox Nation. I'll be June 21st in Dayton, Ohio, WHO listeners.

Now, we just announced in Dallas, Texas, you'll be able to buy tickets soon, not quite yet, at the Windspear Opera House. This is going to be the biggest venue. 2,200 tickets in Dallas, Texas. Hope everyone can be there for us. And then, of course, in Richmond, Virginia, September 27th.

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