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From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone. Brian Kilmead here. Thanks so much for listening.

As we mentioned yesterday from Washington, D.C. at the White House, day two, day one was about. Immigration, border security. Day two is about the economy. And Scott Besson is making news now.

We don't have any definite tariff deals yet, reconfigurations of our trade relationships, but I think he's assuring people that everything's under control, talking about how close India is, South Korea is. We're still monitoring that press conference. We're going to bring you the highlights of it. This hour, we're going to be joined by Lieutenant Colonel Alan West and Dennis Ross. As you know, no one knows more about the Middle East than him.

So, before we get to him, he's also got a brand new book out. It's called Stagecraft 2.0: What America Needs to Lead in a Multipolar World. Ambassador Dennis Ross, in a matter of moments, now we understand the press conference just ended, and we'll bring you the latest. Today, President of the United States is going to be in Michigan. His first speech since winning the election, his first rally, talking about his 100 days and what he accomplished.

Let's get to the big three. Number three. Trust President Putin. You know, in about two weeks. What is two weeks?

What is the actual date? What is the timeline? Two weeks or less, and if it's a little more at the time, I say, but. You know, they're losing a lot of people. 950,000 casualties, dead or wounded off the battlefield.

Russia shows its colors, though. New demands for peace, which is a flat-out unacceptable offer, we detail. Number two, Senator Alyssa Slotkin said. She said, Democrats should stop using the term oligarchy because it's a phrase that doesn't resonate with all Americans. We had 30,000 people in Folsom, California, which is kind of a rural area.

I think the American people are not quite as numb as Ms. Lotkin thinks they are. Senator Bernie Sanders, Dems Regroup. Their theme, Fight, Impeach, Obstruct. Is this a winning message as divisions in their party are out in the public for the first time in a long time?

Let's look left. Number one. There's only one data point where Trump is above 45%. It comes to his handling of gender identity policy. He's at 51%.

Every other issue, the numbers for Donald Trump are. Awful. Yep, CNN weighing in. Most polls are like that. 100 days, reflections and projections.

Are we to believe the polls? Should Republicans be worried if the numbers are real? And a couple of things. Just so you know, let's say the polls are real. A lot has to do with the media putting its hand on the scale.

92% of every report on mainstream outlets like NBC, CBS, and ABC have been negative towards Trump. 89% was unacceptable last time.

Now, think about this. A walking mummy named Joe Biden was at 59% of the stories about him were positive. Why? They were happy Trump has left. They're unhappy that Trump won.

They reconfigured, they recalibrated. Trump hit the ground running in every way. And most people don't in the press don't like what he's doing. That helps sell the message.

Meanwhile, when you come out with the tariff situation, reconstructuring all of trade at once, it's certainly going to disrupt the economy. And hopefully, Scott Besson was able to relax things with his speech yesterday. Here he was. Here's Scott. On ABC yesterday, talking about what this means 100 days in, how some people are talking about we're going through a depression, we could have hit a recession, and others aren't.

Let's listen, come on. And it doesn't worry you, the poll numbers that you have seen? When I start seeing data to the contrary, then the. We can look at that. But again, these poll numbers.

And also, when I look at some of the things that are being published, there was a story 10 days ago that said this is the worst April for the stock market since the Great Depression. Ten days later, The NASDAQ is now up on the month of April, and I haven't seen a story that says, oh, stock market has the biggest bounce back ever.

So I think that's the only thing that's going to be.

Well, it certainly has gone back and forth. I think a lot of this is media-driven. Absolutely. And let's bring in Ambassador Dennis Ross. That's what they're up against.

But also foreign policy. The president's got 41% approval. Ambassador, how do we, how does America lead in a multipolar world? It's no longer the Cold War. You've been at Republicans and Democrats administrations all the way through.

Like Brian, it's a great question. It's actually the reason I wrote the book. We're in a different world than we were before. First, we have many more competitors. At the end of the Cold War, this wasn't a bipolar world, it was a unipolar world, we dominated it.

Now we face Russia, we face China, we face Iran, we face North Korea. we have less domestic consensus as well. Think about it, when we won the Cold War, we won the Cold War because there was a consensus on what America's role in the world should be. in no small part, related to Iraq and Afghanistan. you had a a loss of faith.

Among many in this country, you've had a populist nationalist reaction as well. And the basic orientation of what the US should be internationally and whether we should have a leading role or not. is now debated. It's not taken as a given.

So we're more constrained on the outside. We face a lack of consensus on the inside. And that means what we have to do internationally is we have to carry out our foreign policy more effectively. I wrote the book because Statecraft is how do you use all the tools at your disposal. They're not just military, obviously.

They're not just diplomatic. They're not just economic. They're informational. How do you frame issues? How do you take the initiative?

How do you make sure that your objectives are the right objectives? How do you marry your objectives and means? A lot of this should seem obvious, but frequently, as I point out in the book, frequently, we adopt objectives for the wrong reasons. We don't understand what we're getting into. What can we do with our allies?

I mean, should our allies be used more or less? We you know, Europe always wants to insert themselves, but then you look at what their GDP is and their defense expenditure, they're really not formidable. That one of the things that's happening, in no small part, because of Ukraine. Ukraine was a wake-up call for them, meaning what Russia did, the invasion. of Russia and Ukraine was a wake-up call for the Europeans.

We've seen the Germans dramatically increase their defense spending, clearly in a way that totally shocked Putin. We've seen a lot of the other Europeans, the British right now, are upping their defense spending significantly.

Some of this is a response to the Russians, some of it is a response to President Trump, in a sense that Okay, he's going to require us to do more, or we may not be able to count on him as much, and therefore we'll have to do more. We have to strike a balance between them not feeling they can rely upon us and at the same time. Yet ensure that when we need their help, they'll be there because we're both reliable, but also we're committed to an alliance system, alliance structure. Give you one example in Ukraine. They have actually outspent us.

The EU as a whole has outspent us in terms of their support for Ukraine.

So that's a reminder that basically allies, when it's done the right way and you cultivate it the right way, They are an addition to us, they're not a subtraction from us. And that's A balance that we have to try to strike the right way.

So, what do you think about the Iran talks? We're three weeks in. It is us, it's not multipolar, it's just us sitting down with the Iranians indirectly. And you have a guy there who spent most of his time in real estate.

So, Ambassador, that's I don't love what Steve Witkoff's done. I hear great things about him, but there's no way he's prepared for this. Look, I'll put it again in the context of the book. focuses very heavily on being very clear on what your objectives are. I have to be honest right now, I don't know what the objective of the administration is in the negotiations.

The President says they can't have a nuclear weapon, but they don't have a nuclear weapon today, but they are a threshold nuclear weapon state. The National Security Advisor says their whole net their whole nuclear infrastructure has to be dismantled. You look at the interview that Steve Witkoff gave with Fox News when he came back after the first round. He was focused on limiting their enrichment and eliminating it. He then had a tweet afterward where he said, we'll eliminate it.

The Iranians said, well, we'll pay attention to what says the table, not what's said publicly. We've had three rounds where the Iranians are saying there's real progress being made.

So that at least suggests to me that the objective at this point Is not necessarily the elimination of enrichment.

Now, the truth is, I could live with that, but I'll tell you what the key from my standpoint is. Here's what the objective needs to be. The objective needs to be that at the end of the day, after this agreement on the nuclear issue, and I'm talking only about the nuclear issue, and I wouldn't necessarily limit it to that. And only on nuclear shoe. They cannot be in a position where they are preserving their nuclear weapons option.

The structure of their nuclear program has to be reduced enough, both in terms of size and quality, that the small size itself, the small capability, indicates an intention never to have a nuclear weapons option. What was my problem with the JCPOA? Not that it reduced the character of the infrastructure. My problem was that after 15 years, there were no limitations on the Iranians whatsoever. What that meant is the Iranians were deferring a nuclear weapons option, they weren't giving it up.

These negotiations, if they're to be successful, need to produce an outcome where the Iranians can still have civil nuclear power, but they will have given up their nuclear weapons option, if that's the objective. And then you pursue the means in the negotiations to achieve that. If you want to really impress the Iranians, they have to understand that if diplomacy fails, Force will be used. I would love to see us exercising right now on our own and with the Israelis in the region. I'd love to see us rehearsing air-to-ground operations with B-2s.

The president has deployed one-third of our B two force to Diego Garcia. that's a very significant potential show of force. Why not reinforce that by having them run exercises where they're rehearsing air to ground exercises? Why not run exercises with the Israelis right now where we're doing joint refueling of their aircraft? That will send the message, we want negotiations to succeed, but you need to understand, if they fail, you'll see what the consequences and you will lose your entire infrastructure.

They've spent half a trillion dollars in thirty-five to forty years building it up. They need to know they can lose it unless they reach an agreement. Right. Ambassador, right now, do you think that they would ever agree to something where they agree not to fuel their proxies? and not to fund their proxies.

I think there's actually It may not be a formal agreement, but we could have some informal understandings with them where they need to understand if they do it. They will be a price with us. One I'll give you an interesting example, and I use it in the book. When we lo after we lost three soldiers at Tower twenty two in Northern Jordan, the Biden administration acted out of character and hit eighty five different targets. within a couple of days.

in Iraq. Immediately, the head of the Revolutionary Guards Qud forces, Ashmail Khani, went to Baghdad and mandated to all of their proxies no attacks against the Americans.

Now for the next six months, there were no attacks. Why? Because they feared they could be next. The point here is that you could make it very clear to them, and it would be quite incredible coming from President Trump, if we see you. doing anything in that regard.

We'll hit you. We'll hold you accountable. You don't have to have a formal understanding in that sense. And yes, maybe you can try performance and my guess is that you're less likely to get it. But I do think you can reach they will understand what the consequence would be, and there should be no doubt about that.

I I do think on the nuclear program, you can succeed. And what I'd love to see is I'd love to see the administration put out a public proposal that permits the Iranians to have in principle, the Iranians have civil nuclear power. And I wouldn't even mind a very limited, almost a research oriented enrichment capability. It was best to have no enrichment capability, but you could live if this was your last concession. with a very limited enrichment capability.

And then you say, if the Iranians are accepting this, this proves that they're not interested in a nuclear weapons program because we've reduced their capabilities to the point where they can't have one. And if they reject it, you have the rest of the world supporting you and you also create a legitimization for the use of force. That, too, will send a message to the Iranians that you're preparing the ground if diplomacy fails. Absolutely. Yesterday the Houthi rebel is still shooting back.

Our aircraft carrier went to evade and we lost a one of our F eighteen, so that cost about fifty million dollars. Not good. But we're hitting them pretty hard. Does your sources say we're making any progress against the Houthis? We are ma we have weakened the Houthis, but not to the point where uh they will stop doing what they're doing.

For that, we probably need to have not our ground forces, but there are local forces in Yemen who are prepared to fight them. And if they understood that we were going to back them the way, for example, we backed the Syrian Democratic Forces. in defeating ISIS. We didn't put forces on the ground, but we backed them in every conceivable way. Intelligence, logistics, air support.

We did put spotters. We did have small numbers of people advisors who would go with them. If they could see, we were prepared to do that with the enemy forces. The Houthis would understand their days would be numbered in those circumstances. That's the one thing that would get them to stop.

Ambassador Dennis Ross, pick up his book, Statecraft 2.0, What America Needs to Lead in a Multipolar World. Thanks, you, Ambassador. Appreciate it. Thank you, Brian. You got it.

Listen, Lieutenant Colonel Alan West on the stunning numbers at the border, and we'll bring you the latest from what the Russians have proposed to end the war. It's laughable and not in a good way. Lieutenant Colonel Alan West. But next, your call is 1866-408-7669. Diving deep into today's top stories.

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It's Brian Kilmead. The key to it is the economy. And this is where I give Trump middle grades on what's going on with tariffs. If tariffs turn into one win after another in the next 30, 60, 90 days, Donald Trump is going to be on one of the strongest upward trajectories we've ever seen. If he doesn't get any deals done, or if the economy flounders, then the tariffs were a roll of the dice is going to come back to bite him.

That is Ari Fleischer putting it into perspective like he did last night. And I understand that. But I think one deal after another, it looks I was hoping Scott Besson would walk out and say India is done, but I think it takes a little bit more than that. What he said to me yesterday on television was you get the deal done and then you hand it off to the trade group, and they do this all day and night.

Now they got to do seventy, but people are going to be looking really at ten. 100 days in, that's going to look to turn around the economy, and I think it'll be good. But what I just people should just keep a stake in, there are certain people that are just out there. And I don't play, if they want to win an election, I understand why against Donald Trump. He's Republican, you're a Democrat.

If he's successful, you're not going to see the majority. But other people that just won't take a step back as anchors and analysts and understand what he's trying to do and can appreciate, for example, the scope of what he's trying to do, exactly what he said he was going to do. And the fact is that when you do that and do this disruption, it unsettles people. That could be part of the reason he's not over 50%. Victor Davis Hansen, a military historian, cut 15.

He's from the Hoover Institute. You're right about Trump, that he's got more of the Nazi comparisons because. No other Republican has so demolished the Democratic progressive agenda. I mean, the pr he he won the House, the Senate, the Supreme Court's concern. He's got the White House, Electoral College, the popular vote, and all of his issues were 70, 30, 80, 20, and they're in disarray, so they're very angry.

So that's where that's where it's in balance. But he sees the bigger picture. He also loves what's happening at colleges. I mean, his Hoover Institute's at Stanford. and Stanford's as left as it comes.

Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth have been targeted at the University of Pennsylvania for their allowance of trans athletes to compete with women. All this stuff has got them into deep trouble. Uh so This is a lot of people say, well, you know, I want him to go at school. It's not that hard. I want him to get rid of illegal immigrants, but I didn't want all this.

Can't have it both ways. Trump goes all in on all this stuff. He doesn't go halfway on any of it. He's going to fix it. And it just also showed that someone broke it and let the country be flooded with illegals.

It was a decision to be lenient on criminals. It was the decision to let criminals run rampant here. It was the decision to have that CBP one app have people fly over the border and let the numbers seem like they were going down. They will fly from their own countries. It's all stopped.

And if you want to appreciate the 100 days, you want to evaluate the 100 days and not bring that up.

Well, you for every other channel except this one, that's what you're doing. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. We got to ensure that not one ounce of fentanyl comes across the court of the killing Americans. The president has declared the cartels of Mexico with terrorist organizations along with MS-13 TDA.

They've killed more Americans. than every terrorist organization in the world combined. It's an emergency. President Trump's committed to saving every life. One of President Trump's central campaign promises was to secure the border and end this invasion.

In just under 100 days, 99 now to be exact, the president has overwhelmingly delivered on that promise. America's borders are now secure because of President Trump. The results have been nothing short of extraordinary. No one expected it like this, but yet when it comes to immigration, picking up illegals and people here illegally, let alone criminals, they say his numbers are 49.50, 49 favor, 50% disfavor. I don't get it.

I personally wouldn't, I know Trump's not going to slow down at all. 55% approval of what he did at the border. How could it be 55%? I mean, he shut it down. I mean, how could that not be 100?

Lieutenant Colonel Alan West joins us now, Dallas County Republican Party Chair, American Constitutional Rights Union Executive Director. Colonel, your thoughts about 100 days in when it comes to immigration, why do you think it is that only 49% of the country approve of it? M Well, again, it's great to be with you, Brian, and I would wholeheartedly agree with you. I can't understand how you would only have fifty, fifty one percent of people agreeing with the fact that we're restoring our national sovereignty. Let's just look at the numbers.

Last year in the fall, I said that there were approximately six hundred thousand criminal illegal immigrants in the United States of America. And when you put that number in perspective, the active duty and strength of the United States Army is about four hundred thirty, four hundred thirty two thousand. The United States Marine Corps, one hundred and eighty three, one hundred eighty four thousand.

So you have more criminal illegal immigrants in this country than you do of your preeminent land combat forces.

So that has to be dealt with. And we're not even talking about the one point five to two million gotaways. that we have no idea who they are and where they are.

So this whole thing about predatory incursions, which is the language in the Alien Enemies Act, this is important for us to resolve and rectify this. And we cannot have people who have come into the country illegally and committing crimes against American people, very violent crimes against American people. I think that, that number, without a doubt, is in the eighty percent to ninety percentile of people that support what is going on. But for whatever reason, the mainstream media and probably how they're asking the survey poll question are getting people to look in a different way. Yeah, well, I'll tell you what, I think most people would be like, What, there's a criminal here?

I did not know there was an underground nightclub in Colorado Springs, but it is, and we gutted it. You know, you didn't know that the TGA guys were being pulled out of all these major cities. They found one of the guys who had grenades and a machine gun in Los Angeles got picked up yesterday.

So, I mean, this is these guys are just doing a fantastic job. Do you realize they always said that the Border's Impossible turned out without legislation? And maybe a lot of conservatives thought the same thing. But now they've done it in real time.

Well, I think one of the money lines from President Trump's joint address to Congress back in February was when he said it turned you know, people said that we needed new legislation to secure the border. It turns out we just needed a new president, and that's right. We just needed someone that would respect the rule of law and restore constitutional responsibility and authority and our sovereignty and make that a preeminent issue and allow ICE and other federal law enforcement to do exactly what they're doing. Look at what has happened down in the state of Florida, where I know you spend a lot of your time. I believe it's Operation Tidal Way.

They have netted 800 criminal, illegal immigrants. And again, these are people that, number one, they cross the border illegally. That's a crime. That's a felony offense. And then they're also committing crimes against the American people.

So, and you just talked about someone with hand grenades and automatic weapons, or I'm not automatic, but a rifle. You know, we have to be concerned about those folks. Look at the judge in New Mexico. who actually purchased an AR 15 for a member of Trendierra Agua. That's aiding and abetting a terrorist activity and also a terrorist.

So, I want you to hear what Michelle Obama says. As much as you're happy about it, she's not. Cut 22. And knowing that there's so much bias and so much racism and so much ignorance that fuels those kind of d choices, I worry for people of color all over this country. And I don't know that we will have the advocates to protect everybody.

And that makes me That frightens me. it it keeps me up at night. How do you how do you feel comfortable going to work, going to school, when you know that there could be people out here judging you and who could upend your life in a second? That's who I worry for right now. What is she even talking about?

She's worried about illegal. She says illegals can upend your life. What are you doing here illegally? Does she not even recognize what she's saying?

Well, Michelle Obama really needs to have a nice hot couple, shut the hell up and keep her mouth to herself. And understand that once upon a time, folks referred to her husband as the deporter in chief. He deported quite a few of criminal illegal immigrants. And you can go back and see some of the words that he said as a U. S.

Senator and also some of the things he did as a President. when it came to illegal immigration.

So again, they're trying to use this as a cultural Marxist tool of racism. This is not about racism. This is about people who have come into our country legally. And there are people that are white, black, Hispanic, Asian. I don't want 30,000 single military age male Chinese.

Running around in our country. I guess Michelle Obama thinks that's absolutely fine. I don't want criminal terrorists that have been brought here by Venezuela acting as an extension of the Maduro military machine here in the United States of America. I don't want to see murderers, rapists, child predators, sex predators here in the United States of America. Maybe she should explain her comments to Rachel Morin's mother, the young lady from Maryland who was killed by a criminal illegal immigrant, mother of five.

So the left is on the complete wrong side of this issue, and I don't understand why they keep going down this path.

Well, especially her. I thought this was and I'll let you go after this. The senator Adam Schiff was on with Bill Maher and talked about after I guess his house burned down.

So he's out in California. By the way, that's a scandal. They're not rebuilding anything. It's taking forever. Regulations and Al Tadino, which is the working class area, mostly African American, nonstop looting for the people that were able to avoid having the fire wipe them out.

Now they're being wiped out by looters.

So it's all hell is broken loose.

So people are resenting what Democrats represent there. Adam Schift actually said it. Senator Adam Schiff, I'm Bill Maher, Cut 21. We're going to have to address people's legitimate concerns about crime. I was in South San Francisco two years ago after I had an experience in the city that all too many people had when my luggage was stolen out of my car.

They tell you: don't ever leave your luggage in the car. What was most memorable about the experience for me is I went to this target in South San Francisco 10 o'clock at night. And then I get to the cashier. The cashier. Ask me if I want one of those Target bags with a little bullseye on it.

And I said, yes, that target bag is going to be my luggage for the next two days. And she asked me what happened and I told her and she basically said in not so many words, yeah, Democrats are ass f ⁇ ed. And I thought, you know, if the cashier in South San Francisco at 10 o'clock at night, believes that Democrats are ass Because the shampoo is locked up and my stuff got stolen out of the trunk, we've got a major problem. How do you feel about that?

Well, they do have a major problem, but the thing is that all of a sudden Gavin Newsome is out there trying to blame Donald Trump. Instead of taking responsibility and accountability himself, Adam Schiff does not want to take responsibility and accountability. They're not doing anything there to help people rebuild their lives, even though they gave a lot of lip service to it. And they want to still maintain their own power and control there in California.

So no, I don't think that they got the memo. I don't think they get the message. And that's why, coming back to what you talked about, this poll about what's going on with illegal immigration, I think that that poll is way off base. The American people want to see something different. They want people that care about their safety and security.

They don't see the Democrats as being that group of people, those elected officials that do care. Colonel Alan West, always great to talk to you. Thanks so much. My pleasure. Take care, Brian.

Yeah, we come back. I'll be joined by two of my friends from Massapequa, who also joined me on Liberty and Laughs, History Liberty and Laughs, on all my live shows. They came in to watch Fox and Friends, which was live this morning, and I dragged them up here to talk about the battle to keep Massapequa Chiefs together, the name Chiefs, and why it's universal. In Colorado, they buckled. When their governor said change all the names of Native Americans, they just did it.

All the high schools had to change. But of course, the Black Hawks stay in the NHL. Of course, the Chiefs stay in Kansas City. Of course, the Braves stay in Atlanta.

Well, in Massapiqua, Long Island, the President of the United States has weighed in. He says enough of the political correctness, and they have actually taken action. How does it feel to be there? What is it like to be on stage with me? We'll find out when we come back.

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This is the Brian Kill Me Show. All right, welcome back, everybody. They came for Fox and Friends live audience show, and I made them glate to work. Pat O'Rourke, my longtime high school friend, and Rick Thatcher, I've known him even longer. But Pat and Rick know each other for a while, both from Massapequa.

Rick used to live in Massapiqua. He decided to try something dramatically different and move several towns over, but never ventures far from Massapica. Why do I bring that up? Because Massapiqua, New York is in the eye of the storm these days, right, guys? It is.

The Chiefs. What is the big deal about naming a Native American, like us saluting a Native American icon? And they just figured this out, it's just become a hot after 1956. We've all gone through the battle on history, tearing down statues, talking about it every few years. But it's not surprising to see the picture that emerged yesterday of you in the Oval.

With the Massapico Chief shirt, with Donald Trump. We knew that this, he had tweeted about it last week, but no surprise that you had your hand involved in this. Right, yeah. All I do is expose him to it, and next thing you know, he's like, this is outrageous. And now they have the educational secretary suing the state of New York for discrimination after a complaint was sent to them from a Native American group, this NAGA group, that is saying that it's discrimination to eliminate Indians from American history.

It's always, it's always, because it all goes back to the woke stuff where someone is insulted, who?

Well, we're not going to tell you who. And we have, and we're going to get rid of the name because someone's insulted. Right. Then when you ask them, who is this group? And we have groups on our side saying we're proud that they carry our heritage.

We're proud that they represent the Massapico as the Chiefs.

So, you know, it's become a bigger deal now. Everyone's writing about from the New York Times.

So here is Frank Blackcloud. He's with that Native American group that's come out and said, I support Massapequa, and I'm in North Dakota, and I'm a Sioux Indian. Let's listen. It actually uplifts us that we are being recognized in that manner. You know, our heritage is rich.

within the fabric of America. You know, if you go anywhere in this country, you're going to see road signs, names, cities, schools. You're going to see Native American imagery everywhere.

So what the left is trying to do is they are trying to eradicate us from this land that we call home. And I believe we are the only culture here in America that if they erase us, we don't have a home to go back to. This is our home. And he is a high-ranking officer at the Native American Guardians Association. She said, I like that it's still around.

And, you know, I have found out that. If you go to the Indian groups that used to occupy our area, they're a family of the Iroquois, and they used to use turkey feathers in their headdress. Though that picture is not of turkey feathers, so let's change it. What about you? If you wanted to be actually Mass Pegwa Indians, all right, do it.

Even the other part, these Indian nations have said 90% of them are proud to have us keep the names.

So now we're bowing to the 10% of them who won't even put their hand up and say we're against it. Right. It's the same stuff with the state of New York. It's ridiculous. Here's the president.

Uh look, I think when the The Indian population is a great part of this country, a great heritage. And uh we were talking about Massa Piqua, Long Island. The Chiefs, they call themselves the Chiefs, or the Kansas City Chiefs, they're not changing their name, but great team, great people, great owners, great coach and quarterback, not the quarterback, like his girlfriend too, and his wife. His wife is uh His wife is great. She's been a big fan.

His quarterback's mother is incredible. I like that team, they're called the Chiefs. And frankly, uh I see nothing wrong with the tickle. That's so heavy.

So, yeah, so it is.

So, the thing is, Pat and Rick also are on stage with me. For people who have seen, how many events have we done? Over 20, I think 27 now. No, it's over 25. All across the country, right?

Amazing. I mean, yeah, we've been everywhere.

So, now we're going to be in Dayton in June. We're going to be in August. We're going to be in Dallas, and then we're going to be in Richmond, Virginia. History, Liberty, and Laughs. September.

What we try to do is be able to in September in Richmond. And all we try to do is bring history to life in a fun way. Yeah, yeah. There's a lot of costume changes. A lot of good acting.

Yeah. A lot of good acting. Now you're lying. No, but we have fun with it.

Well, we're getting there. Yeah, we adjust to the towns we're in. We always try to make it topical and relatable for the towns we're in, cities we're in, meet a lot of great people. And that will come up in year 250 in America's history. There's a war on history.

There's a huge pushback on it because of this administration. But date in Ohio, June 21st. Then August 23rd in Dallas at the Windspear Opera House. And then Richmond, Virginia would be the Dominion Energy Center. These venues are big.

They're getting bigger and bigger. But Jacksonville was amazing. And so was St. Louis was awesome. Sell out charts.

But what do you find people come up to after and sing, Rick? Can't believe did you guys really know each other for that long? Like ask questions obviously about you know, they'll ask us questions on the side about you naturally, and we'll try to answer them to the best of our ability. But they are always amazed They didn't expect what they experienced the show You've done an amazing job with number one, taking these great history books that you've written. And You know, with a little help from us, bring it to life.

A lot of help. No, we've been collaborating a lot. And we take a scene, we take a slice of it, we bring it to life.

So, how many characters do you play, Rick? Oh, gosh, off the top of my head, six. Six six characters.

So I start with uh Ben Talmadge. Right? Benjamin Talmudge. Ben Talmadge. Then I go to William Eaton.

Then Andrew Jackson. Uh and I show my range with uh Santa Ana. Is that right? Santana. Freder.

You're Frederick Douglass. I'm Abraham Lincoln. How could I forget that? And then I'm Booker T. Washington.

Right. Pat, no one. No one. And next book. You pulled money out of your own pocket for the costumes.

Pat, who do you play? I go Teddy Roosevelt. Let me see. Nathan Hale. You'll start with a short view of Nathan Hale.

Nathan Hale, and then. Uh who's Jefferson? Thomas Je Jefferson? No, but who's the second guy in Nathan Hill? Abraham Woodhall.

Abraham Woodhall. The famous spice. See, that's how good I am at acting.

Well, there's a lot of range. Jefferson? Um Yeah, it's easier when the costumes are laid out in order. You know, I'm a pirate's coming next. Yes, yes, yes, sir.

So we do. We try to say this story, but at the end, I just think the American people have to know about history again. And it even goes up to the higher levels. You go to Harvard, you go to these Yale, they're not teaching American history in a positive way. They're teaching it in a negative way.

Like we screwed everything up by coming to North America. What are they talking about? I mean, oh, we've got to change the name of this and that. I think Yale was named after a slave owner. I think that might be a little bit of a problem.

But, you know, we're over it. That's an era. But if you're going to purify yourself, change your name. Those are people that are like everyone used to say it, and I was like, I don't know if that's true. It's true.

They hate the country. I mean, people are fighting to get in here and all they're saying is this place stinks and we shouldn't remember our history. And why is everyone lining up to get in here? Yeah. If it's that bad.

All right, I'll put it this way: now we're mad at Canada. Are you ready to have a robbery with Canada? I don't think about them much.

Well, it hots like the attic. It's already already existed, and in other sports, it's already existed. But I think he's having fun with it. Canada's America's Attic. Along with the you go up there, and you're like, I forgot it was there.

But oh, wow, there's some stuff up here. I did not know it was America's Attic. That's fantastic. You don't even remember it's there. BrianKillme.com.

See us live on stage. Go see it. And it'll be great.

Now, you guys get back to work. Yeah. Got it. Thanks for having us. Uh From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City.

Always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Thanks so much for being here, everybody. It's the Brian Kilmey Joe back in New York City, 48th and 6th, where there's congestion, pricing, a need for Penn State to be rebuilt, and the subways to be safe. How do I know that?

Just talked to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, and he told me that's why I'm coming back to New York. We'll probably do a feature with him for One Nation over the weekend. Just because he's so focused here, because it's so out of control, and they're lying about these old criminal stats. Crime is not getting better here. Tourism might be down because all the strife internationally, but we'll see.

It remains a tourist mecca. Broadway is all the way back. Brian Steele is going to be joining us in a moment. Bottom of the hour, a. Samuel Cass with Stuart Varney, talk a little bit about the economy.

We know that Scott Benson has already spoken. He is today is Economics Day and day one hundred of the Trump administration, which brings me to the big three. Number three. Do you trust President Putin? You know, in about two weeks.

What is two weeks? What is the actual date? What is the timeline? Two weeks or less, and if it's a little more at the time, I say, but you know, they're losing a lot of people. All right, there you go.

Russia shows its colors. And I'm going to go over the new demands for peace, which is flat-out unacceptable. We detail. Number two. Senator Alyssa Slotkin said.

She said, Democrats should stop using the term oligarchy because it's a phrase that doesn't resonate with all Americans. We had 30,000 people in Folsom, California, which is kind of a rural area. I think the American people are not quite as dumb as Ms. Slotkin thinks they are. Dems regroup, the theme: fight, impeach, and obstruct.

Is this a winning message as divisions in their party air out their problems in public? We look left. Number There's only one data point where Trump is above 45%. It comes to his handling of gender identity policy. He's at 51%.

Every other issue, the numbers for Donald Trump are. Awful. CNN's flamboyant pollster, 100-day reflections and projections. Are we to believe the polls? Should Republicans be worried if the numbers are, the low numbers are indeed real?

I actually think they're reconfiguring a lot of things, and I don't think this administration is built to be evaluated 100 days, not at this speed, not with doing this many things. Congressman Chris Stile joins us now, Chairman of the Committee. Brian Style, I should say, Chairman of the Committee on House Administration, also a member of the Financial Services Committee. Congressman, a lot of pressure on you guys now because you're back in session to look at the big, beautiful bill. Have you already been briefed on where we're going?

Do you have a sense of what kind of timeline we're on?

Well, the House committees start meeting today to mark up the reconciliation bill, and this is our chance to really deliver on President Trump's America First agenda. The committees are going to continue work through this week and next week, and then we're going to be looking for the Senate to make their move. Our opportunity here, though, is to make sure that we get this done. The end result is what really matters. The American people elected President Trump to drive forward an agenda to get this country back on track, to address the spending, secure the border.

We have a huge opportunity here, and the work begins today in the House of Representatives. Tell me if you think this is responsible, CUD 17. Never before in my life have I called for mass protests. for mobilization. for disruption.

but I am now. These Republicans cannot know a moment of peace. They have to understand that we will fight their cruelty with every megaphone and microphone that we have. We must castigate them on the soapbox and then punish them at the ballot box. That is Governor J.B.

Pritzker, who wants to run for president. I mean, do you think that any of the word that you just heard was responsible? They would tell World War II bomber pilots that you catch the most flack when you're right over the target. And so, when you see language like that from the Democratic governor of Illinois or other liberal Democrats across the country, you know what we're doing is actually moving this country in the right direction, and they're scared of it.

So, when I hear that type of rhetoric, there's no place for it. But when I hear that type of rhetoric, it actually just reminds me that we're getting on with the work of the American people. The Democrats don't want us to secure the border. And as we take actions to secure the border for the American people, they're going to cry. When we are cutting spending and addressing the reckless spending from four years of the Biden administration, you're going to hear the Democrats try to push back.

But at the end of the day, this is the work that needs to be done to return our country to the great state that it can be in and will be in under President Trump.

So, right now, one of the things that people usually grade President Trump high on is the economy. But when he did Liberation Day and said across the board tariffs and we'll do individual deals, and none have been cut yet, people are getting worried. Here's Treasury Secretary Scott Besant an hour ago. Mr. Secretary, so contacts I have in the business community say that they're basically frozen for long-term investment because of the uncertainty around tariffs.

How long do you think President Trump has to make a deal before there's damage to the economy? Look, I think that what we're seeing is that business leaders have gone into a pause, and I think we're going to give them great certainty on this tax bill. And I think over the next couple of weeks, as I said, we have 18 important trading relationships. We'll put China to the side, 17 are in motion. And then, as I said yesterday, I think there's a very good chance we're going to get this tax bill done.

And the tax bill is going to be very powerful for domestic U.S. investments.

So he didn't say anything about a deal done.

Now, I hear the closest is India, the second closest is Japan of impact. And then you have South Korea. How much better would you feel if that was if these deals start coming in?

Well, I think it would be really positive if we positioned President Trump to strike deals with our allies. I think what you heard there was us striking deals with our allies and then collectively addressing the abuses that we have seen over the years of China. China is the most egregious abuser of the trade agreements that were put in place, trade agreements that probably never should have been put in place in the first place.

So striking these deals with our allies, in specific in the broader Pacific region, as you noted, India, South Korea, Japan and others, to make sure that we can work with our allies to address the egregious behavior of China is our best opportunity. The second piece there is making sure that we extend President Trump's tax reforms that were made before the pandemic, in the first Trump administration. Putting those in place for the future allows further development and investment in the United States. We have a huge opportunity in front of us to lock in these trade deals, lock in the tax reforms, and really unleash the American economy. When you guys sit down, I understand this is only amongst Republicans, no hope of getting a Democrat.

You have the. The SALT caucus, mostly people in the state I'm in, that want to be able to write off their state taxes for people at zero tax like Texas. And South Carolina and Florida, they say, you got to be kidding me. And then they say, well, we have to if you want us to keep our seats and we keep the majority. And then you have other people that want to want to see Medicaid cut, and others have don't want to see the inflation reduction, some of the clean energy projects done, because it helps some people in their community, these make-work projects.

So, how do you deal with that? I understand both sides. People have their own agenda. And it doesn't work for Trump if he loses four or five seats and loses the majority.

So. How do you work through these things? Yeah, we have a narrow majority, but time and again, Republicans in the House of Representatives proved that we're able to get the job done.

So you are exactly right. These are the internal conversations that are ongoing in real time in the House of Representatives. But at the end of the day, I think we all know that we're unified behind President Trump's agenda to move this country forward. And so there's going to have to be a lot of tough conversations. Eventually, a play call will be made, and everybody needs to come together as one unified team to deliver on this.

What we can't have when we have such a narrowly divided House and such a narrow majority is allowing simply one, two, or three individuals to put a wrench in the entire train moving this thing forward. And so these decisions are going to have to be made. I have my opinions. Every one of my colleagues has theirs as to the best way to do it. But I think all of us agree that putting in place the tax reform package will be better than not doing anything.

How would you characterize Trump's first 100 days from what you thought, from what he's done, and from what has happened? Bold actions and great success. And I would always highlight what's been done at the U.S.-Mexico border. I think the best line from his State of the Union speech is that we didn't need a new law, we needed a new president. And I think that echoes through other areas of this administration.

But nothing is stronger than his actions at the U.S.-Mexico border, starting on day one, ending abuse of the parole system, stopping catch and release, reinstating stay in Mexico, and restarting border wall construction. That has had a real and substantive impact in protecting our communities. Bold action, real results. I think that Scott Besson told me yesterday on camera that there's something else, and I spoke to the Interior Secretary we're going to hear from later on this show. You guys are deregulating like crazy, and you're starting to drill on federal lands, and you're going back to natural gas, and now back in the Gulf of America.

Here's what Elsie said: CUP 32. We've got a three-legged stool here. It's trade, it's tax, it's deregulation. President Trump has come out of the blocks roaring. And I think this is something new for the American people.

He's given one, two press conferences a day, an incredible level of transparency. Contrast that with the previous administration, where the president were not quite sure who was running policy, likely not President Biden. And we are moving forward for the American people. And it's very, very exciting. We're going to continue to make the U.S.

the best destination for capital in the world. And I think that it could be, and I use this analogy, it's like you're framing out a house. And while you're framing out the house, it's not glory. Nobody wants to see it. The guy's got to show up every day and work on it.

And all of a sudden, someone shows up and wants to give you a judge, wants to give you a grade on it.

Well, I'm not done yet.

So well no, I'm judging you today. No, well, I haven't put the door in. I haven't put the sheetrock on. I haven't put any furniture in the house. That's why I think the 100-day mark doesn't work.

For what you guys are trying to do, especially the President.

Well, it's only a snapshot in time at what's been accomplished. But I think what Secretary Bassett is laying out is that the executive actions through a series of different appointments from President Trump are actually really making great progress, which all of the American public will be seeing in the weeks and months ahead. One area where I spend time is on digital assets, crypto. This is an area where the Biden administration tried to absolutely kill innovation and development in the United States. We have President Trump come to office, and we're in a position to enter the golden age of digital assets here in the United States of America.

And that is where appointments at the CFTC or the Securities and Exchange Commission are so absolutely essential.

Some of these appointments may be below the radar to everyday folks, but have a huge and real impact in their lives as we push innovation development and cut regulations. We're talking to Congressman Brian Stile. Congressman, how has David Sachs worked out as a crypto czar? David Sachs as the cryptozar has been terrific. I was with him again this weekend.

We've been in meetings regularly as we move forward two really important pieces of legislation. We've moved already through a stablecoin legislation through the committee process. Senator Haggerty and I both have bills on this between the House and the Senate, and we're working to move that forward. We'll also be introducing in the House in the very near future a bill on market structure. This really allows us to unleash the digital assets ecosystem here in the United States.

CryptoZAR, David Sachs, his assistant, Bo Hines, those of us like French Hill in the House and myself here, we have a huge opportunity to deliver on the President's agenda. And at the end of the day, it's about providing reasonable consumer protections, but getting that innovation and development occurring here in the United States rather than abroad, which was what the Biden administration's end result was of their actions.

So I just want to bring you to, before I let you go, the Russia-Ukraine situation. Their foreign minister, Lavrov, insisted Monday that Russia will accept nothing less than total victory over Ukraine. And that he said that to Witkoff. He said to a Brazilian newspaper, what terms would Russia agree to? Negotiations.

He says he rattled off a list that include an international recognition of Crimea, Sevastopol, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zlaporitsa regions in part of Russia and make them part of Russia. And since then, no, not just the world, but also Kyiv itself recognized 20% of Ukraine as foreign Russian territory. And he wants Kyiv shown a willingness to and wants Kyiv to, of course, stop fighting. And it goes on. I mean, this is even more than he demanded before the war started.

And he's not winning. This is a dead heat. They've lost 950,000 people. Your reaction.

Well, this is a war that everyone wants to see stopped. Russia began the war with its unjust invasion of Ukraine, and it's not surprising that the Russian government is making unreasonable demands in the negotiation. At the end of the day, we want the war to stop, but making sure that we don't allow Russia to actually obtain all of those objectives that you just listed is going to be important. At the end of the day, I think President Trump's in a position to assist getting this war to a conclusion, and that's to the benefit of all of Europe. We're also finding that the Russian military is reconstituting big time at a faster rate than most analysts thought.

That, according to our General Christopher Cavoli, the commander of U.S. forces in Europe, he told that to a Senate subcommittee. They're starting to build bases in and around Finland, obviously, and they are becoming a military economy, which means, in reality, if they stop the war, All these people are going to have no jobs.

So they're going to they're make work jobs for a war. And we're going to wonder if if they're going to have anything to do.

So do you worry that the countries rely now on being a military economic power? Yeah, I remain concerned about Russia. And Russia's continually worked to destabilize the broader region. It could be their incursion in Georgia, obviously their incursion in 2014 into Crimea and the further war with their unjust invasion of the rest of Ukraine. You could look at what they've done previously in Syria before the change of regime in Syria.

And so Russia continues to work to destabilize the broader region. But as we step back and look big picture, one of the things that we're finally seeing is our European allies stepping up slowly, but stepping up to the plate to spend more on defense. And making sure that we hold our European allies accountable is going to be really important. The United States has been spending north of 3% of GDP on our defense for years. That's down from a high of closer to 6% under the Reagan years.

But our European allies have been woefully inadequate in their investment in their national defense. We've seen an increase in that investment. That's a positive sign. But I think it's really important that we are holding our European allies accountable to Make sure that they're investing in their national defense when you see a hostile Russia taking the actions that you just laid out. I hear you.

You have a lot on your plate. Hopefully, you guys will get stuff done, and maybe you're going to have to come in during the summer to finish this thing off. Congressman Brian Style, thanks so much. Thank you. You got it.

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Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. I think that we are very close on India. And in India, just a little inside baseball, India, in a funny way, is easier to negotiate with than many other countries because they have very high tariffs and lots of tariffs.

So it's much easier to confront the direct tariffs when as we go through these unfair trade deals that have been put in over decades, that the non-tariff trade barriers can be much more insidious and also harder to detect. Because of the VAT tax and other things that might be built in. But we'll see. They don't want to do a bad deal. And I think all the deals are going to be improving, no question.

But the question is, what's it going to take to get the details out? And it does not have to pass through Congress, unlike what we were told. But that was Scott Besson two hours ago. I don't think he moved the markets much, although the markets are up slightly right now and still over 40,000. But what they want to do is see these deals come in.

I talked to Kevin O'Leary from Shark Tank. He was on the couch today, and he said that. You know, he's a big supporter of the tariffs, especially on China. He said, look. If you could get Japan.

India and the EU, there's 70% of the economic gains that you need. 70%. The rest is China.

So China's digging in. They're getting aggressive militarily, acting really bizarrely at a time in which they need allies. They're acting aggressively in the South China Sea. They took an island from the Philippines over the weekend. Is that really like a you want to show you uh show you're a better option than America?

It's almost as if there's two different countries there. Can't give you the inner workings of their government, but it's not smooth. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. It was reported this morning that Amazon will soon.

display a little number next to the price of each product that shows. How much the Trump tariffs are adding to the cost of each product?

So, isn't that a perfect crystal clear demonstration that it's the American consumer and not China who is going to have to pay for these policies. I will take this since I just got off the phone with the President about Amazon's announcement. This is a hostile and political act by Amazon. Why didn't Amazon do this when the Biden administration hiked inflation to the highest level in 40 years? And I would also add that it's not a surprise because, as Reuters recently wrote, Amazon has partnered with a Chinese propaganda arm.

So this is another reason why Americans should buy American.

So that is Amazon doing that is pretty incredible. Also, it's been pretty clear they have not done a good job cracking down on pirated. Patents.

So you come up with a great idea, it's doing well. China notices, they come up with a product, they barely change it, keep the color scheme in many cases, change one part of the name, and they roll it out. If it's an American company, they get sued immediately. If it's a Chinese company, you bring it to the American court system and you bring it to the FDA or whatever, and they'll say we really have no jurisdiction over them. And how long is this happening?

How many products do you expect the American people to invent and just walk away from as they dilute it? Amazon has not been helpful. And now that's a situation where I'm surprised President Trump wouldn't just call up Jeff Bezos and said, you know, you've been over to Mar-a-Lago like 10 times. You keep calling me all the time. You're asking a bunch of favors all the time.

You came to my inaugural, got your great seat.

Now, this is how you reward me. First time there's a bit of strife when it comes to trade. You lift tariff prices on, but go ahead. Also, maybe you'll know where that product is coming from for the first time. Maybe China didn't really want you to know where that product was coming from.

So that's a little from the press conference today that affected the markets, but at least kept them steady. It didn't put them into trouble. Here's more from Scott Bessett on what it means for China, cut 45. But I think that over time we will see that the Chinese tariffs are unsustainable for China. I've seen some very large numbers over the past few days that show if these numbers stay on, Chinese could lose 10 million jobs very quickly.

And even if there is a drop in the tariffs, that they could lose 5 million jobs.

So remember that we are the deficit country. They sell almost five times more goods to us than we sell to them.

So the onus will be on them to the take off these tariffs. They're unsustainable for them. Right, and we'll see, because I'm not sure they're not feeling the pressure tremendously already. But what do you do? If you're a Chinese person and you're in China and you notice prices are going up, you notice your products are not moving, you notice the ships aren't going anywhere, what are you going to do?

Not vote for somebody? When you live in a dictatorship, things work. The only thing that could happen is a violent overthrow, and that's not going to happen over a trade war. But China's behavior was pointed out by Gordon Chang yesterday. He says: At a time when China needs friends because it's not selling goods to the U.S., it's going to have its way to antagonize not just the Philippines, not just Taiwan, but also South Korea and Australia.

That, according to a senior fellow, with the Gatestone Institute as well as what Gordon Chang was talking about on mornings with Maria. Recent reports with Reuters claimed that China's Ministry of Commerce task force is collecting lists Of items that could be exempted from tariffs from electronic goods to essentials to asking companies to submit their own requests. They're looking to go around us, we're looking to go around them. When it comes to chips, they need us. When it comes to magnets and various metals, we need them.

They're already holding them back, and we're already holding back chips.

So here is. Herein lies the rub. We're definitely at a point with China where I don't think we're close to solving it. I also believe that's another reason why we can get some of these other trade deals done. That would put pressure on China.

Man, America's moving on. America has not been isolated. Those countries don't feel the threat of China. I don't think India cares about China. In fact, I know Apple has made moves to move their manufacturing over to China massively, really, since Liberation Day in April, but it's been happening years before.

They do have the engineers in their country with that huge population to make our Apple products. I'm not sure that we do. I mean, we could, but we haven't.

So right now, the President of the United States, he in fact yesterday he said that Zelensky's got it tough right now, but they had a good conversation. Vladimir Putin might be stringing him along. And you had Steve Woodkoff come out and say, I think we had progress, but the President said, I don't think we've had progress. And then we had Marco Rubio say this is going to be a big week. But now we see that Russia is just getting more aggressive.

They're demanding Ukraine be demilitarized yesterday, recognizing twenty percent of the nation no longer belongs to them.

Now let me just tell you something. When this war comes to an end, I'm not naive enough to think that, that twenty percent or nineteen percent of the land that they stole is going to be suddenly in Ukrainian hands. But Ukraine does not have to acknowledge it was it was it's no longer theirs. What you do is, it's recognized as our land, and it's recognized by Russia being occupied. That's pretty much what we did in the Baltics.

They took over the countries. We kept recognizing the countries.

So in a conversation with Rubio on Monday, Lavrov spoke to him and said the next steps in the peace talks will be talking about demilitarizing and denazifying of Ukraine as well as lifting Western sanctions and on freezing Russian assets. What they can do and haven't done is they have not sanctioned the Russian Central Bank, and I think we're at that point now. They want to get back on the SWIFT system. They want to do a minerals deal with us. They know we're great at refining and finding, and they would do a deal with us, too.

And we could do all that, and maybe too quick for Trump's critics. But we could do it. You stopped the war, you stopped the the military. Uh incursions. And threatening the Baltic Sea and popping up.

Uh you know, popping up in areas like the UK. popping up in the UK shores over the weekend, just creating some havoc.

So yesterday, Russia declared a three day ceasefire in Ukraine to cite World War two Victory Day, and that would be until May eighth.

Meanwhile, President Vaelenski said, Are you kidding? You could have ceased fire months ago. What are we celebrating your V uh your Victory Day over Nazi Germany? Why does that make any sense? Just go for a month, thirty day ceasefire, but they say no.

Meanwhile, he told the Atlantic to Donald Trump that Putin will be fine with peace negotiations. Mr. President, I hate to tell you, but you're being way too kind to him. I'm telling you, he does not deserve this type of loyalty. He really doesn't.

So we're going to take a timeout, and when we come back, we'll do a Samuel Cast with Varney and Company. But I just got to tell you also, in the Persian Gulf yesterday, a bit of a problem, a little headache for Pete Hagseth. The USSS Harry Truman had to roll to its right to avoid a Houthi attack. and a fifty six million dollar fighter jet just rolled into the ocean. That sucks.

U.S. sanctions will be sanctioning ships, delivering oil to the Houthis. They're hitting them every day. They are now not going to report what they're doing, what they're targeting, and what they're executing. They say it's going to be kept secret, but the damage is real.

What you do is you've got to weaken them enough to allow the Yemeni government to take it back, wipe out the Houthis, and move on, because every day they're allowed to continue is a day in which they look strong, and that's a day in which they are looking to hold off the American fighting force, and they look stronger than they ever have. I don't think we need to give them that personally. And I think that's really important to point out that as Pete Hakeseth is under pressure. The President of the United States is not hedged. He told The Atlantic.

He thinks Pig Pete will straighten things out. I think Pete is all about staffing right now, which would be key. Before we go, I want to outline what's going on for the Democratic side. You do have this liberal side led by David Hogg, who's trying to recruit these left-wing candidates in these districts that either have retiring or they're looking to primary people who they think are, I guess, too moderate, who they don't think are going to be effective.

So they are going after them. Then you have Alyssa Slotkin trying to pretend she's a moderate, criticizing Bernie Sanders for saying, going on an oligarchy to where he says no one knows what an oligarch is.

So this is A little bit where the Democrats are heading right now. And then you have Governor Pritzker, who clearly wants to run for president, saying the most horrific things, only to be outstripped in a more mellow way by Hakeem Jeffries, who came out and basically quoted Elixis S. Grant. He says, We're at the point in America where we are either patriots. or traitors.

And then you have JB Pritzker say this, cut seventeen. Never before in my life have I called for mass protests. for mobilization. for disruption. but I am now.

These Republicans cannot know a moment of peace. They have to understand that we will fight their cruelty with every megaphone and microphone that we have. We must castigate them on the soap box and then punish them at the ballot box. Does anybody think? Does anybody think that Governor Pritzker has ever accomplished anything aggressive in his life?

Does anybody think he's been an effective governor? Does he ever hear do an interview and hear uh interview with Governor Pritzker and go in, that guy's bright. I wish he'd be running my state, my city, my dealership, anything. But he is p he's pu putting himself in. The run for president.

Because he's got a ton of money and he's got nothing else to do. But go ahead, fight it out. But just do it without the aggressive language, because there's a lot of crazies out there who are gonna take that the wrong way, in my view.

Now, the Brian Kilmead Show joins Fox Business's Varney and Company with Stuart Varney, live on your radio and on Fox Business. Here's Brian Kilmead. Hey, welcome back, everybody. We're going to be doing a simple cast on FBN: the magic of doing it on the fastest-growing new cable network out there and business, beats CNBC every single day, and Stuart Varney among the best, and to talk about really the economy. As much as immigration is the number one success story for this administration, You have the economy, is the number one concern for the country.

And so far, the numbers have been around 40%. Trump's use of 53%, 54% approval rating.

So we'll have Stuart Varney come over for sure. All right, 10:51 Eastern, that means it's time for Brian Kilmead. Brian, it's Trump's 100th day in office. The Democrats have had 100 days to push back. They made this widely mocked choose your fighter video.

They held up signs at Trump State of the Union. AOC and Bernie launched the Fighting Oligarchy Tour. Senator Corey Booker spoke on the Senate floor for 25 hours. And they had that silly little protest on the Capitol steps. Brian, does that amount to an effective resistance, do you think?

Not at all. And I think that Ezra Klein wrote a book, and he's a left-leaning columnist who said. Democrats, recalibrate. You look like you're pro-crime. Recalibrate.

You look like you're pro-illegal immigrant. Recalibrate. People think you're anti-cop.

So people think you just want to spend. They watch what you've done in these cities. You've ruined them with the welfare payments, with the high taxes, and the homeless situation. We're looking at your report card. It doesn't work.

And here's how to reconfigure. Instead, they decide to yell and curse. Literally, it's almost childish. That sit-in is so anti-American. If you want to change things in America, tradition and history shows you, you take action.

The moment of sitting on steps on a Sunday and lazily talking about how bad Donald Trump is has to be one of the most anemic responses to anything I've ever seen. It's Corey Booker's 25 hours, not one thing of substance came out of it. We didn't ask him to do it. Didn't fill a bust or anything. It is meaningless.

You have a charismatic candidate who says, you know, I like what Trump did on the border. Is really good. I watched Adam Smith with Shannon over the weekend, the Democratic congressman, and he said, We opened the border. We did a terrible job on the border. We let too many people in, and we paid the price for that.

And after that debate, he led the charge to get rid of Joe Biden. Number one, you should have said that four years ago. He opened it right away. And number two is you shouldn't have to wait to the debate.

So it's up to Donald Trump. If Donald Trump can start bringing in deals on these tariffs that were announced three weeks ago, I think things is going to turn rapidly for the economy. But right now, his number one is immigration, his number two is border security. And then we'll see if it becomes the economy shortly because I know Interior is drilling for oil. They're going for natural gas.

The Gulf of America is thriving again. International natural gas deals are being done with Japan and with Europe. And regulation is dropping. They're priming the pump for really a surge, but everything's holding. up on what kind of tariff deals we cut.

That's the next hundred days, isn't it? And when we've seen the the policy established in the first hundred days, now it's got to be implemented successfully for ordinary Americans and for the economy. That's the next hundred days. The jury is actually still out, obviously, on the next hundred days, isn't it? It is.

This script was not built to be judged in 100 days. This is a forced report card that nobody was put out there by FDR was the first to do this. I mean, it's okay. Trump's doing things with it. We're all just doing it.

We're doing it. You and I are talking about it. But if you look at the things that he's doing now, it's not built to be judged in April. It's built to be judged maybe in September, but along the way, it's supposed to rise. And the American people are going to get additional opportunity to be successful.

Regulations will give them optimum opportunity. But ultimately, I think they're framing out a house. And then all of a sudden, the potential customers show up and they say, it looks undone. And Trump says, no kidding. It's a framing.

I'm framing it out, but you wanted to see it. But he's in the middle of rebuilding it. Let me change the subject to something you know much more about than I do. Eagles quarterback, Super Bowl MVP Jalen Hurts, did not attend the White House celebration yesterday. Listen to what he said just a few days ago when asked whether he would attend.

Roland. Are you planning on visiting the White House next week?

So I don't know. Thank you so much. And why was Hertz absent? He said he has scheduling conflict. Clearly, it's personal.

The whole Eagles team showed up, though. It was a great ceremony. The two years ago, when they were a few years ago, when they won, the last time Trump was in office, they didn't really do anything. This was great. If you saw what was out there, very impressive.

Saquon golfed with Trump, then he flew back with Trump, the running back. And then afterwards, he was pressed. And they said, you know, why did you do that? And people around him goes, You kidding me? I respect the office, and I cannot wait to finish a round of golf with him.

I also golf with Obama. These people got to show some courage. I don't care who you voted for. You're right. You know, you're seeing it over and over again, but I see that a lot less this term.

You know, one guy not showing up is not the story. Half the team was missing last time. You're right. You're right. Brian, thanks for joining us, man.

See you again soon. Go get him. Go ahead. Yeah, Sigmund Barkley said what I just said, but then he said, stay out of my mentions right after. As you know, he's outstanding running back with the Philadelphia Eagles, who was once a New York Giant.

The president had a lot of fun with him, I think, over the last two days, said a lot of nice things about him. Um and also Uh and uh he also brought up the fact that Uh They likes it, all these guys are coming. That he likes when these teams come and visit. He enjoys it. It's not an automatic thing.

And I think yesterday he got a helmet and a shirt. I think he called up some people, gave them some gifts, and it was pretty cool.

So that's one minute. Just a quick reminder: History, Liberty, and Laughs. I'm going to come up in Dayton, Ohio on the 21st. I hope to see everyone there. Then on the 23rd, I'll be in Dallas, Texas.

Huge venue there. It's going to be unscripted, but I think it's going to be very patriotic, inspirational, motivational. And then you have in September the same thing. Fox Nation has streamed stuff for the past, so you can check it out on Fox Nation. But we might be live that night too.

And in September, you might find yourself on camera. In September, I'll be in Richmond, Virginia. Hey, can't wait. I love when I especially see the radio listeners because it's hard to get to all the cities to see everybody.

So when I go to your city, it's great when you guys come out.

So, BrianKillme.com. Keep it here, everyone. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show. Brian. In Kill Mead.

Hi, everyone. Thanks so much for being here. It's the Brian Kilmeet Show. We have a big hour coming your way. Joe Koch has got a brand new book out, called The Greatest Comeback Ever inside Donald Trump's Big Beautiful Campaign.

Also, he's a Fox News contributor and a columnist as well. On tap is the Secretary of the Interior, Doug Bergum. We're going to get to his interview shortly. But just to point out, we are looking at how the Democrats are trying to regroup the theme, the fight to impeach, to obstruct Trump. I think that's how they want to unify.

I think the whole thing about going after Trump and living off that, I think that should be a non-starter for them, but it isn't. And I think there's way too much emphasis on polling numbers after the first hundred days. Trump's still put everything in the water. He's not worried about any element of it. I think a surprise, although Judge Janine told me it wasn't a surprise, by the amount of court judgments every time, how often they've been in court to stop policy.

But They eventually went a lot of them, and the Supreme Court's been very good to them. And you notice no one's bringing up that Kilmar story over in El Salvador because it's a loser.

So Doug Bergam sat down and he's got two titles: working on manergy, but also working on interior. It's the third biggest agency in the entire country. It's got large swats of land, and they want to drill, and they want to mine. And he's responsible for organizing it and offering it. And it's going to bring money into this country.

Here's my interview. with Governor Doug Bergham. Yesterday at the White House. We knew him as a governor. Has he changed that much in 100 days?

Nice interior secretary. With it, also, you also have your job description includes part of energy, right, Governor Bergham? Yes. Secretary Bergum? Yeah, well, I love Governor, of course.

But yeah, we have a dual role, Secretary of Interior, but also chair of the National Energy Dominance Council of the President Trump, created by executive order.

So tell me about your 100 days.

Well, first of all, it's been fantastic. The historic President Trump is moving at a speed and a pace that no president has ever moved before. And I think for the public, they need to understand, because they hear about EOs, executive orders, each of those executive orders that he signed, hundreds of them, in the second paragraph, it has got specific directions, often for a cabinet secretary. The Secretary of Interior shall, not may, shall do XYZ and then has a date. And sometimes that date is 15 days or 30 days out.

So the speed at which he's providing clear direction for his leadership team, so he's empowering all of us with clear direction, and then he holds everybody accountable. And this is leadership in action, and this is the reason why this administration is getting so much done. You have such a unique background in that you know the tech world, you know, the West Coast, you know, the ranching world, I've seen it in North Dakota, and then you know what it's like to run a business, then you've known what it's like to run a state.

So now they told you to basically use your energy and knowledge. Of this country and of land and make it work. I think one of the things that stands out with me is that you're working well with Chris Wright on energy. What have you done to expand drilling? Also, coal is now playing a role.

Well, part of the mandate is not just drill, baby, drill, which President Trump was really a shorthand for. We've got to have U.S. energy production. U.S. energy production is not just an industry, it's the foundation of all other industries.

And if we've got high prices for energy and not enough of it, then the cost of everything-the food you eat, the car you drive, the clothes on your back-all go up.

So, President Trump wanting to make America affordable again, said we've got to drive energy. But the second piece is the wars that we've been involved in overseas, from a proxy standpoint, whether it's Iran funding 24 terror groups or the conflict with Russia and Ukraine, those are being funded by Russian oil sales and Iranian oil sales. And often they're selling those on the black market, if you will, the dark fleet to China.

So, you know, we've turned our Biden administration, and turned Russia and Iran into a discount gas station for China.

So, it's the worst of all worlds. With the policies of the Biden administration, Administration being anti-U.S. energy. We're helping our adversaries, hurting America and hurting Americans. And Europe needs natural gas because they couldn't buy it from Europe.

Japan needs natural gas because it couldn't buy it, excuse me, from Russia. And that we were just not answering. We stopped exporting it, and Biden didn't even know. That's another scandal. What kind of thing is that?

Exactly. I mean, selling energy to our friends and allies is a core principle of President Trump. And when we do that, it's great for us. They're not asking for it for free. No.

They'll just say we'd want a customer you can depend on, and we have it.

Now, I know what you're doing. When are we going to feel the impact of what you're doing?

Well, I think if the people in the industry are already feeling it, the permitting reform that we've announced, some of these permits that would take a year to get, we're saying that our goal is to get them done in two weeks.

Some of them take two years. An environmental study, an ESA study, takes two years. We're saying we are target getting those permits out in 30 days. Your view of drilling on federal land?

Well, federal land is not, people, when they say the word like that, they think they're going to somehow drill in the national in a national park. No, all of our best, beautiful places are protected, but I don't think people understand the scope. Just in interior, if interior was a standalone company, it would have the largest balance sheet in the world: 500 million acres of public lands, 700 million acres of subsurface, and 2.5 billion of offshore.

So we can be developing resources on public lands, whether it's grazing for agriculture, whether it's timber production, to put us back in the game where we're not importing most of our lumber into our country. Baseload and metallurgical coal, we need metallurgical coal for producing steel. A lot of that comes from federal lands. And then oil and gas, of course, but also critical minerals.

So we have this massive balance sheet of resources. And starting with Obama and then with the Biden administration, they basically said we're not going to cut a tree, we're not going to. Mine in this country. We're not going to drill for oil and gas.

So it's not just mine, baby, mine. It's also map, baby, map, figure out where the resources are. And then, and then it's drill, baby, drill, map, baby, map, and mine, baby, mine because we've got to get back in the mining business because we're right now, China has a chokehold on America because they're controlling all the critical on the critical minerals. Yeah, in terms of magnets, I didn't know that magnets were so vital. You would know that because that's your background, but they have them.

Yes. And they're threatening South Korea. If they sell them to us, they're going to cut them off.

So fascinating time. When we talk about rare earth in America, I keep hearing about Nevada, now Utah, and we also hear about Minnesota. What do you do if you have a Democratic governor who says, I don't like the damage strip mining does to my state? What power do you have?

Well, we have we have uh President Trump declared this a national energy emergency appropriately because we don't have enough electricity to power our electrical grid, and we need electricity to win the AI arms race against China. He part of that national energy emergency is that we have to be able to have secure supply chains. And so, with that, we've got additional emergency powers that allow us to expedite doing that. And we can still meet every environmental rule. We're not creating shortcuts.

President Trump has said over and over again, and we will continue to have the cleanest air, the cleanest water, the best soil health in the world here in America. We've got the strictest rules. We can do both of these things. We can produce, we can mine here, we can produce minerals here, we can cut timber here, we can do all of that thing and still take care of the environment. I hope so.

Certain people just don't want to hear that, as you know. And I guess it must be frustrating. But talking to Secretary of Interior, Doug Bergman, about what's going on. the dynamics of the cabinet. even the advisers.

We hear about Elon Musk getting in a shouting mouth to Sean Duffy and Rubio and Musk locking horns and then Musk and Secretary and it's been widely reported, not denied, of Treasury Bessett going at it with Elon. You've been in a lot of boardrooms. You're always around important people, rich, successful people. Describe the dynamics.

Well, I would say the thing that's been fantastic about President Trump's cabinet is that. This is a group that's all pulling in the same direction. Everybody's here because they believe in the America First agenda. And whether it doesn't matter what topic, energy, trade, border, everybody's on the same page. And what I've seen and what I've experienced is with these other cabinet agencies that everybody's willing to pick up the phone, call each other, talk on a first name basis.

It's not like schedule a meeting two weeks later. It's like, you know, I mean, I had one this morning. You know, call, I call Lee Zelda. He picks up the phone, five minutes, we've solved the problem.

So the level of collaboration, breaking down the barriers between the silos, has been absolutely fantastic. But sometimes I think successful people will differ on ways to do things. Is that necessarily bad? It's not bad at all. And of course, when you know, we talk about, you know, where I've spent decades in the tech industry, in the tech industry, you know, you can imagine, you know, think of like Steve Jobs and the arguments.

He's a soap opera. No, I mean, it's like books and movies have been made about this stuff, but part of it, when you've got people that are brilliant, And innovative and want to get stuff done, moving with urgency, you're going to have some passion behind it. But there's nothing that's wrong with conflict. If people agree on the objective and disagree on how to get there, then those discussions, I mean, think of Lincoln. I mean, Lincoln's whole cabinet was called team of rivals.

It was viewed as a strength, not as a weakness. While at war with the other half of the country.

So You were asked by the military to turn over a portion of land at the border. Of course you did it. What was that about?

Well, I wouldn't say asked. I mean, we were, they told us, we were like, hey, have you heard about this thing with the Roosevelt Reservation? This goes back to Theodore Roosevelt in 1907 signed a piece of legislation. He had the foresight and the wisdom to understand in his original order on the southwestern border, he said, wow, this is unprotected. We've got to defend across, these were states that were just coming into the country still.

Arizona, New Mexico were territories becoming states. He said, let's reserve 60 feet. Of this border from New Mexico, Arizona, California, the West Coast, and they called it the Roosevelt Reservation, that that strip could be turned over by the Secretary of Interior through a secretarial order to the Department of Defense. Because then, if someone steps on there, they're stepping on a military installation.

Now they can be detained by the military.

Now they can.

So it was your knowledge of Roosevelt's 1907 law?

Well, it's a team, let's call it a team effort. But yes, this is Roosevelt coming back. And then we got a President of Trump today who's got both the common sense and the courage to say we're going to secure our border. But when Roosevelt wrote about it initially, he said smuggling. He said, in case there's a time when we stop smuggling into our country, well, that was a.

He wasn't thinking about fentanyl, and he may not have been thinking about the mass invasion and the mass casualties we've had from all the drug overdose in our country. But he was thinking about goods moving illegally and whether that's human trafficking or drug trafficking, tremendous foresight. But now, the combination of Roosevelt and Trump connecting each other, us executing on this. And I'm down there talking to the people on the border. When I was governor, we had North Dakota National Guard troops down there.

And when I was down there visiting our troops, Under Biden, the Board of Patrol was like defunding the police. They weren't hiring open positions. People were demoralized. They were taking early retirement. I talked to those folks down there today, and they're telling, now they're saying they've gone from, I would never have my kid go into this business.

I literally had a story two weeks ago where one of them said, when my son turns 18, he's signing up for the Board of Patrol. He'll be the third generation in our family. We've never been more supported in my entire life. And they're bringing back the ones that got fired because of the vaccine. Yeah, no, the morale is high, the border is secure, but now the sophistication at that border and part of us having that Roosevelt reservation and working with the DOD, because just in the one area that I was at on the Texas-New Mexico border area, there had been over 3,000 drone incursions run by the cartel.

The cartels are super well financed, and they've got the ability to fly over the United States, scout where our people are, and then still try to manipulate. And whether they're flying drugs in or they're using that to find where there's weaknesses, where they can smuggle humans in, the battle is still going on, even though the numbers are down tremendously. We've still got a border to say.

So you're a go-oriented guy very organized.

So at the end of a year, do you have a list of things that you want to accomplish? Or is there so much to accomplish you've got to take it at a smaller increment?

Well, a year seems like a century away from now. It's only been 100 days. It's been 100 days. And you haven't been there all. No, we have not, but we are, with the confirmation, been here just a little less than 90 days.

But we've been at it, and our team is working hard. And again, whether it's on protecting our beautiful national parks, making sure that we're going to be open, getting ready for the USA 250, because Interior also controls and is responsible for everything here on the National Mall. And so, whether it's our historic sites around the country that celebrate America's very beginning, or whether it's our amazing national parks and U.S. fish and wildlife refuges, again, I was just down at one of those amazing locations. We renamed it for Jocelyn Nungare.

You know, again, the tragedy of a 12-year-old girl losing her life at the hands of illegal people that were here in this country illegally. That is a thing. But President Trump, in his joint address to Chambers of Commerce, said, We're going to never forget Jocelyn Nungare and the reason why we have to. Protect our borders and protect every child should be safe in this country. And to be there with her mother, her grandmother, and her great-grandmother were all there at the renaming, along with dozens of other family members.

But Jocelyn, as a child, loved and wanted to protect animals. And what a better fitting President Trump, who cares about every American, saying, hey, we should, a sanctuary is a place that should be named after her because every American should feel safe in their home. You liking the job? I'm loving the job. I absolutely love the job.

And as coming from a Western resources governor where you had parks and rec, had game and fish, had mineral resources, had a border, had all the things that we're dealing with right now at all maps. And people said, you've done everything. I said, no, we didn't have any offshore drilling in North Dakota. There you go. But that's a big thing.

We did. We're able to reverse 625 million acres of offshore. The Biden administration said, we're never going to develop it. That was like stealing trillions of dollars from our children and our children's children. It was like using the stroke of a Pen to destroy the U.S.'s balance.

They should give you windmills, though.

So you should be happy. Yeah, but we got it back. But President Trump unbanned the ban. We're back in action, and we're back. We're going to be, this country is going to be an energy powerhouse, and that's great for America and great for the public.

And by the way, public should understand: when we issue a permit for timber, for grazing, for critical minerals, for coal, for oil and gas, those companies pay the Treasury. And then when they develop those minerals, they pay us a royalty. We are a revenue generator that can help reduce the budget and help balance the budget, reduce the deficit, balance the budget. We are a powerhouse.

So when we're doing this thing, smarter, safer, cleaner, healthier than anywhere else in the world here, when we're developing those energy resources here, we're also helping every American financially, not just on the bill for the electricity they pay at home or the heat for their home. We're also helping pay down the cost because of the debt. And the interest rate's the biggest expense.

So we're helping everybody when we smartly use these resources. Good, because the big, beautiful bill is going to need some pay for us.

So we'll see how that goes. Mr. Secretary, Doug Broom, thanks so much. Brian, always great to be with you. Good to get you in motion.

I'll see you in the Statue of Liberty soon, I hope.

Okay, looking forward to that. Newsmakers and newsbreakers here at first on the Brian Kill Meat Show. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. 26 days ago was Liberation Day with tariffs, and that has stirred a lot of people's anxiety and worry about the economy, sent the stock market plunging, and caused a tremendous controversy, and I think it accounts for the fact that his poll numbers have declined to some extent.

That is Britt Hume offering some insight last night on why Donald Trump's numbers are lower than he thought they'd be after 100 days. But who really cares? I mean, that's really how I feel. I mean, who really cares? It's 100 days in.

CNN has something to talk about. MSNBC has got something to rant about. And then we have would-be politicians who want to run for president, think they can make some gains. Really practical people are not looking at it that way, I don't think. I think people are seeing what he's doing.

He's laying the groundworks in a lot of different areas. And I think he yesterday, he one of his executive orders is providing. Legal advice and representation for police officers if they get themselves in trouble on the job. Stuff like that? You just address something where thousands of cop families or relatives or retired cops say, man, this guy's doing exactly what we said, what I asked him to do.

And it's not just a few of the executive orders he's following through on. Today, he's going to be speaking in Michigan. I'm anxious to see the message. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Kilmead.

White House. Has put up about a hundred posters of what they say are unauthorized immigrants who have been arrested for violent crimes. You can see them there. They put them up on the driveway of the White House. But what's particularly noteworthy about this location.

Is it right directly behind the positions where TV correspondents do their hits from the White House lawn?

So, therefore, no matter what network you're on, That includes MSNBC. If you're doing a hit from the White House right now, those pictures will be behind you. I would encourage those individuals that have that as a back shot to blur those people out. I would encourage, I recognize live shots are tough, but I would encourage folks to actually make sure that those shots are blurred to the best of your abilities. We know that.

So that is MSNBC upset at the White House.

So they have the mugshots of illegal immigrants who have murdered, raped, kidnapped children, did horrific things. I saw them all, and believe me, they could not, there's not enough lawn for the amount of people that have been arrested and sent out. But they sent them most out. Instead of them saying, wow, look at what they've accomplished, they say, make sure you blur out their faces. That's the criminal first attitude that propels MSNBC.

Joe Concha joins us now. He's a commentator for Fox, Washington Examiner, Column Nest, and author of a brand new book called The Greatest Comeback Ever inside Donald Trump's Big Beautiful Campaign. Joe, welcome. Hi. Congratulations on the success of the book, Off to a Roaring Star.

Yeah, yeah. Your thoughts about MSNBC's conclusion. I mean, I thought they just wouldn't acknowledge it. They happen to be worried about the criminals' identity and their future, getting a job later. This is like a, you know, we talk 80-20 issues.

This is a 99-1 issue. 99% say, yeah, we want those who entered the country illegally, who committed crimes, including raping. Murder out of the country. And then the other 1% says, well, they're probably drunk. And they're like, no, no, no.

And that's MSNBC, right? That's the media. And that's some Democrats. Even Jake Tapper did the same thing yesterday on CNN: blurred out the faces because we have to protect them. Yeah, Tappers.

Why are we leaving? That's the whole thing. With this Maryland man, for example, right? He's MS-13. He beat his wife.

He was involved allegedly in human trafficking. And people, Democrats are flying to El Salvador to demand that he comes back, but they won't fly to, say, Gaza, for example, to get an American hostage there back.

So that's where the priorities are at this point.

Well, what's interesting is we haven't heard much from him this week. No Kilmore. Interesting. They didn't have time for him. All of a sudden they realize he did some polling and say even Corey Booker doesn't want to sit outside the jail, which is unbelievable.

The Margaritas thing didn't go too well at all. What do you think of Sunday? Do you think that was effective Sunday with their sitting on the Capitol steps? I think that was one of the stupidest things ever. It's cheesy, right?

They can't. This is the party that keeps saying, Brian, that they are here to save democracy from Donald Trump and from Elon Musk and from Republicans in general. This is the same party that literally shivved a sitting president off a cliff and then installed the vice president in Kamal Harris without receiving one vote.

So when they talk about saving democracy, well, you kind of did the Soviet thing by installing a candidate without any say from the public and obviously law fair and everything else that they do.

So they keep going down this road, but it's obviously not effective because gas station sushi is now more popular than Democrats. 21% approval. I mean, that is impossible almost. Here is Rachel Maddow, who is the highest rated of MSNBC, CUD 28. I think that he is definitely more ambitious in terms of the kind of radical change he wants for the country.

I do think we're in the middle of an attempted authoritarian overthrow of American democracy. I mean, I think everybody who predicted that was right. But I don't think he's any better at it.

So, the good news is he's not good at overthrowing democracy. That's the problem.

So, 92% of the coverage on the president so far has been negative. I thought it would be different as compared to Joe Biden, who barely did anything, even when he came out of the pandemic. He had one day where he signed executive orders and disappeared. 59% of the coverage was positive. That's incredible to me.

Yeah, and 92% negative for Trump, which is just remarkable. And Alex Thompson says we have to do better of pointing out the failures and decline of the president. That's not sufficient. When Alex Thompson of Axios said that at the Washington Correspondence Dinner, why would that be sufficient? I mean, number one, just to get elected, what he was doing.

And then when he gets elected, how he disappeared, the forcing of the pandemic, the closing of the schools, everything that went into that, he got a total pass on that. You don't get the vaccine, you're out of the military with recruiting suffering. That's right. Thank God Pete Hagseth is actually reinstating those folks. But here you have Alex Thompson.

I watched that speech twice, and he used the word deception. In other words, that they. Were deceived reporters that they spoke to sources at the White House and they were told that Biden was fine. I don't need to speak to somebody at the White House. I have eyes, ears, sanity, and sobriety.

And when I see Joe Biden shaking hands with the air or not knowing how to get off a stage, or he's like that kid from the Sixth Sense where he could have conversations with dead people, literally said he talked to leaders that had died years ago, couldn't remember the names of his own cabinet members. I could go on, but this doesn't even go back to the debate June 27th, Atlanta, but it goes all the way back to the 2020 campaign. Play the record player at night, huh? I mean, it was apparent then, and still they got him over the finish line, and they were willing to give him another four years again. The media was, Democrats were, if he didn't have that debate the way he did in Atlanta that night.

So, Joe, what prompted you to write the book? I saw in February that Joe Biden obviously. Had no ability, I thought, to win. In other words, without COVID, he doesn't beat Trump in 2020, right? That gave him cover.

That gave him an issue. You would think about writing the book when it was Biden Trump. Yeah, exactly. And Trump just seemed to have every issue on his side. And the way he just vanquished Ron DeSantis, who I think could be quite a good president, and other opponents, I'm like, I said, you know what?

This is going to be history right here. This comeback.

So I went to my publisher and they surprisingly said, sure, Joe. But if he doesn't win, of course, there probably won't be a book. Yeah. So then I went to the debate in Atlanta. I went to the Wildwood rally, 100,000 people.

And the cool thing was that. That was the first big rally. Did he officially have the nomination yet? Yeah, he pretty much clinched it a couple of weeks before that. And then the Trump campaign I reached out to, I said, hey, I'm writing this book.

I'd love to, you know, have some backstage access. And they said, sure, we'll provide transportation.

So I have an Acura that has 217,000 miles on it that makes some really funny sounds when it goes over 60 miles an hour.

So I thought they were going to be an Uber down to Wildwood from North Jersey. They're like, okay, you're going to meet the Trump plane at LaGuardia Airport. I'm like, all right, I'm on the plane. I'm thinking, what are they going to serve as food? Because I hadn't really eaten that day.

Wendy's, of course, tater tots. I found that interesting. Got to meet the president. Then I was in the motorcade, which was very interesting. And as we're going down the highway, the pie was basically shut off except for the motorcade.

And there's one lane over there. There's not even president yet, but they're still. Yeah, yeah. The security was pretty high, you would think. And then these two old ladies in this old car just pull up right alongside of us.

Like, how'd they get in here? And they were looking over, like, where are we? What's going on? And then when we got to Wildwood, I noticed that the boardwalk was still open, the rides were still open above Trump, or, you know, literally above him. Planes were flying over the rally.

I'm like, this doesn't feel very secure to me. And I put it in my notes, not knowing what was going to happen on July 13th. But you think about that stretch. Debate, Biden, obviously his brain turns to applesauce. Then July 13th, Trump is nearly assassinated, turns his head just to the right at the right time, or else that happens.

Two days later, he's at the RNC with an ear bandage on. He chooses J.D. Vance to be his running mate. Six days after that, Biden drops out. Two days after that, basically, Common is your nominee, all within 24 days.

I mean, We're never going to see anything like that again. And you're like, wow, man, what a great choice to write this book. See, that's the main thing I thought of with Butler. I said, this can't just be a bad day. I am sure if they go back and if you had Secret Service people do a forensics on his past events, and they were able to look at some video which is everywhere and say, look at how vulnerable he had been.

I'm sure they had shots at him. Oh, yeah. I had one whole chapter in the book: 10 questions that still remain about that assassination. Primarily, two. How does a 20-year-old kid outflank the Secret Service and local law enforcement, hide a high-powered rifle behind an air conditioner at the very one building that has line of sight to the president?

How does he get up there without anybody noticing him, or why didn't they secure that building? And most importantly, 45 minutes go by. They know there's a threat, and somebody said, Yeah, you know what, Mr. President, good luck. They sent him on that stage.

How? Why? And no one got fired. Same thing with Brian Ruth, the second assassination. How does a guy sit there for more than 12 hours in a sniper's nest outside the sixth hole and no one walked the perimeter?

Not one person? I was down there on Tuesday. I walked it and I I'm like, how did how did somebody not just spot this person? It wasn't terribly hidden that where he was.

So a lot of questions. Have they made some changes since? Outside of the Secret Service Director resigning in shame because she had that horrible hearing on Capitol Hill, no one got fired. By the way, she tanked it. Yeah, there's something to that.

She didn't try. She didn't try to make herself look good. She didn't try to keep her job as if saying, Yeah, go ahead. Don't want to stay here anyway. Pretty much.

I mean, it was so odd. Yeah. And Jill Biden, the first lady, had an event like indoors in Pittsburgh that day and had more resources than Trump did in an open field. Obviously, he's a slightly bigger target than the first lady would be. When did you interview him?

What point? Right, Wildwood? After. No, I talked to him there, but I interviewed him after the election. After the election.

Yeah. And I wanted to talk about the assassination. Do you think that he thought he was going to win? Do you think he thought he was all along? His internal people, La Civita, who's one of the campaign managers, and his pollsters were all saying, You got this.

Don't worry. That's why he had such a confidence to him. That's why he went to McDonald's, for example. The ultimate troll, by the way, because. Remember, Kavala Harris wrote two memoirs about herself.

Ran for vice president, ran for president, never mentioned working at McDonald's once. And then suddenly, there it is. And we don't know anybody that worked with her. No one ever pressed that story. Yeah.

You know how they would have been all over Trump had he said he worked a place that he didn't. Of course. And they never followed up on that story. And they never followed up with her, period. And then you're feeling about the 60-minute story.

For 60 minutes, edited Kamala Harris. The producer ends up quitting. Trump is suing for affecting the election. Um Intellect integrity issues. Yeah.

Your thoughts about that. I have a whole chapter on 60 Minutes and what happened there, and it's called 60 Minutes Sucks. Like, that's the name of the chapter. Because every time they interviewed Trump, three minutes after that interview was done, they released the entire video. They released a transcript.

They wouldn't do it here.

So it was so obvious. That's all they had to do. And they kept saying, nope, we don't have to do this. And Trump was right to sue them. And between them and ABC News, which is run by a girl named Dana Walden, who's best friends with Kamala Harris.

And we saw what happened during that debate. Trump's constantly getting follow-up. He's constantly getting. Fact-checked. And ABC News at one point, this is the stat of all stats, Media Research Center, found that the first 100 stories they did on Kamala's campaign when she was president, all 100 were positive.

I mean, Peon Yang even looks at that and says, guys, you're laying out a little thick, don't you think?

So he overcame all this. That's what makes it a great comeback. The lawfare, the assassination attempts, a hostile media, all of that. And he still won every swing state, the popular vote, to help Republicans take back the Senate. And now he's dealing with 92% of the network media, the mainstream media, being negative.

And we'll see where it goes.

So the Democrats are trying to mount some type of comeback now. And Kamala Harris is set to slam President Trump tomorrow on the 100-day mark. And she's going to weigh a California gubernatorial run, but she doesn't want to sacrifice her presidential run. Another go at it would be insane.

So she's going to go after Trump specifically and basically say what she said the other day: I told you so. I mean, who. Who cares? I mean, among Democrats, at some point, other people have to say this. Yeah.

Absolutely, because she's toxic. She's almost as toxic as Joe Biden. And remember, she went through $1.5 billion with a B in 100 days and still was in debt after this campaign.

So that's kind of a preview of where she would have been economically. But we talk about Kamala in the book a lot also and goofy Tim Walls. A, why do you choose him over Josh Shapiro? Right. I think we kind of know why, right?

Don't want to upset the anti-Semitic wing of the party or those voters in Dearborn, Michigan. But then also the fact that she would go on places like Who's Your Daddy, but not Joe Rogan from a media perspective blows off the Al Smith dinner. You know how important Kaplan voters are, right? By the way, Cardinal Doe is still angry at that. Yes, I know.

Yeah. Yeah. It's like, this is a layup for you. This is Manhattan, right? And you still want to pull it off.

So she made mistake after mistake. And the fact that she went six weeks after she got the nomination and didn't do one interview, even with The View, even with Rachel Maddow, and they hit her almost the entire time. And when she did do interviews with CNN, MSNBC, no one's watching. They're listening to Joe Rogan, however, and Theo Vaughan and watching Fox.

Meanwhile, the greatest comeback ever is now out. It came out this week inside Donald Trump's Big Beautiful campaign. Joe Concha wrote it. I Joe, I think it would be a great movie. Think about the casting.

Yeah, absolutely. Interesting. Fox Nation special. And whoever played Joe Concha in the movie. I mean, that's the biggest story.

Young Jim Carrey. I would say Sean Hennedy. Hannity could play me. Yeah, think about it. Yeah, Seth McFarland, I get a lot.

That's probably good. Yeah, I'll take that. All right.

Sorry, Sean, you're out. Congratulations, y'all. I'll have you on back and we'll continue to talk about this. Yeah, let's do it. Thanks, Brian.

Back in a moment. Woo-hoo. Illuminating, intriguing, inculcating. I know some of these words. It's Brian Kilmead.

Information you want, truth you demand. This is the Brian Kill Me Show, sponsored by Previgen. Previgen made for your brain. Then you know what happened. It was an incredible game, a little surprising, but right from the beginning in the first quarter of the big game.

Which I was there, I watched in person. I was there along with Taylor Swift. How did that work out? How did that one work out? The Eagles scored a touchdown on their signature play, the Tush Push.

You know what that is? Or is some I hope they keep that play coach. I don't know. Right? You know they're They're talking about uh getting rid of that play, I understand.

They should keep it. What do you think, Saquon? I like with you have guys like this pushing you around a little bit. I like it. It's sort of exciting and different.

I I would like to see something done. I'd like to go back to the regular kickoff, however. We don't like that kickoff where nobody's moving. The ball's in the air, nobody's moving. That was so funny.

He's against the kickoff, which was pioneered by the original XFL. I know exactly who helped start that kickoff. And now the NFL says this works so good. It gets people, it stops the injuries, a lot of them that happen because people are running as fast as you can at 290 pounds, running down the hill, and they're just knocking people out.

So they thought they could lessen injuries. But the president likes things the way it was. He wants the Redskins, the Redskins again, even though the Redskins are moving back to RFK, so that does please him. They're going to keep it RFK, according to the owner last night, was on with the great Brett Baer on special report.

So the commander's getting a new stadium. It's coming back to the Washington area. It was in the middle of nowhere last time, and they have a terrible history since they decided to go there. But the other big story is what's happened with Bill Belichick. I don't know if we still have that soundbite from yesterday, but he sits down because his winning formula book is out, you know, the winning formula, whatever it's called.

He shows up in a ripped Navy shirt.

Now, I thought he might have a story because his dad. Coached at Navy as an assistant football coach. And I thought I might be saying this as a tribute to my dad, who was my mentor as a coach. And I remember he came to my Super Bowls. But yeah, no, no story.

But in the backdrop, literally as if she's directing the interview, is his 24-year-old girlfriend.

Now, if this is one of the toughest guys, like the most focused people you'll ever meet, he would sit there and you'd have no idea this guy was stoic, but now he's dating this 24-year-old who is just ordering him around like a drill sergeant. Listen to this exchange, and then I'm going to follow up with something you didn't know. The other change for Belichick is 24-year-old Jordan Hudson, his creative muse, as he writes in his book. Jordan was a constant presence during our interview. You have Jordan right over there.

Everybody in the world seems to be following this relationship. They've got an opinion about your private life. It's got nothing to do with them, but they're invested in it. How do you deal with that? Never been too worried about what everybody else thinks.

Just try to do what I feel like is best for me and what's right. How did you guys meet? Not talking about this. No? No.

Mm.

So I thought that was a big deal. And then I found out the whole thing stopped down because she objected to a series of questions that Belichick wasn't being asked. He didn't do anything. He just sat there. I mean, this is a guy that wouldn't take crap from anybody.

He could be a six-foot, seven-inch, 400-pound lineman. He'd be in your face. But you have a 24-year-old with a great body who's ordering him around and embarrassing him to the point where the story now is out, he's the head coach of North Carolina football, that she's basically his manager, walks around to decide what interviews he's going to do, where he's got to be, who's going to hang out with him. I've never seen anything like that. This is destroying his whole legacy.

He went out, I think he taunted the Atlanta Falcons. Remember years ago, Tom Brady led in Bill Balichick, I guess, the greatest comeback in NFL history. He shows some contrition. I was at that game. He couldn't have been more kind to the Falcons years later because he's got a young girlfriend.

He controls him. Guys, get some pride back. What the hell?

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