Democrats praise Trump's historic Middle East tour

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See full terms at mintmobile.com. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone.

So glad you're there. What a week we've had. It's so glad we had a chance to cover the president's trip and everything around it, plus what's happening here locally and domestically. And just from the sports perspective, I know you're not all located in New York, but to see the Mets and Yankees play each other, they're both in first place. And then the Knicks try to finish off the Celtics tonight.

It'll be one of the great upsets in NBA history, if you ask me, because they're the defending champs. One of the big stories.

Well, Dennis Ross is standing by. If anyone knows more about the Middle East, I haven't met them yet. Congressman Ryan Zinke after that, and Julie Banderas at the bottom of the hour.

So let's get to the big three. Number three. Start your tape right now because I'm about to tell you the truth. This version of Biden intellectually, analytically. is the best Biden ever.

He should not be able to work again. Joe Scarborough. That's true. He said that in the last year of his presidency, worse than we thought. Biden's brain essentially not functioning for four years in the details of a competential White House without a president.

The party that told you the laptop wasn't real, that Russia got Trump elected into office, told you that Joe Biden was fine, now wants to know why they have no credibility. You answer that. Number two. The problem is it's asking conservatives like myself to raise the debt ceiling $5 trillion. That's historic.

No one's ever raised the debt ceiling that much. It's really a slap in the face. Big bill in big trouble. Republicans have trouble mixing tax reductions with deficit reduction while adhering to Trump's campaign promises. I'll explain.

Number I'm not in the habit of praising Donald Trump, but I got to tell you, the last week or so in the Middle East, I think the president has in this last week or so played the Middle East pretty darn well. I got to give him some kudos there. I've never heard a positive word come out of Congressman Jim Himes' mouth as a Democrat from Connecticut about Donald Trump until then. Most productive overseas trip by any president in my lifetime. That's how I characterize the president's business trip to three Gulf nations, bringing home $2.7 trillion in overseas investments while moving forward on diplomatic fronts with Iran, Syria, and Ukraine.

We hopefully in a positive direction. I want to get the perspective of Dennis Ross, who is the William Davidson Distinguished Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Studies and author of the book Stagecraft 2.0, What America Needs to Lead a Multipolar World. Ambassador, welcome back. Always good to be with you, Brian. Your thoughts about what we just watched for the last four days?

Well, I think we saw Donald Trump Uh being Donald Trump in terms of how he views his priorities in foreign policy. His first trip in 2017 was to Saudi Arabia, his first foreign trip now, excluding the trip to the Vatican for the Pope's funeral. Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE. His priority in foreign policy is very much connected to how he defines America's economy and what he wants to do. when it comes to it.

So this was very much focused on building deeper economic partnerships with these states, producing Investments for American companies in these in the UAE and Saudi Arabia in particular. but also Saudi and Emirati investments In the US and Qatar doing the biggest buy ever of Boeing aircraft.

So This was not a geopolitical trip. This was not a security architecture trip. This was a trip geared towards focusing very heavily. on how he's going to try to serve American economic interests as he defines them. And The numbers that he is bringing home I think there'll ultimately be a gap between what's been announced and what's delivered, but it'll still be significant.

To be fair, also, a lot of what was done, the Saudi and the UAE in particular. A lot of it was done by people working for Biden in the last year preparing the round, especially on AI. where they were focusing on What should be the technology transfer rules so that what we're providing them in terms of chips and semiconductors? which is a cutting edge technology shaping everything for the future, doesn't somehow uh um the gain access or the Chinese gain access to it. But the truth is, he's the one who's finalizing these deals, and now we'll see how well ultimately they begin to materialize.

I'll tell you, Silicon Valley couldn't have been more unhappy with the Biden administration. I've talked to David Sachs. I've talked to Joe Lonsdale, and they are Democrats their whole life. And they felt totally shut down, and that the administration didn't understand it, and they were looking to limit their growth. And for him to go over there to talk about building energy infrastructure while walking off with defense contracts, which I worry about them being able to fulfill, I think is pretty impressive.

Here is the UAA Foreign Affairs Minister, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zaid, Qatari. It works because Your nation. has been so open for business. And we've learned from you. We've been investing in the United States for decades.

But now we are taking it one step further, not only in terms of size, but in terms of trust. And we are grateful for President Trump for that. But the security is a real element. They have to make sure that those chips don't end up in Chinese hands. They also, in terms of technology, the same thing.

So there's a trust, but there's got to be security aspects to it. But when you look at the Gulf states and the Abraham Accords, you know what's next. It's going to be the non-Gulf, Iran, the Shia nation, Persian, who want to have a nuclear weapon and nobody else wants them to. Where do you think what do your sources say this deal is going to look like, or do you think there's no deal at all coming down between the U.S. and Iran?

I do think there's a deal because they need it, and clearly President Trump wants it.

So between the need and the want, you're likely to find a midpoint.

Now the question is, what's an acceptable midpoint? I've said it to you before, Brian. The only acceptable outcome is an outcome. Where the Iranians Give up. the option of having a nuclear weapon.

President talks about they won't have a nuclear weapon. They don't have one today.

So, the question is: what is it that you have to change so that? They don't have a nuclear weapon option. There are three things, three different ways to do it. One, which is they don't have an enrichment capability. Uh two is that you change the structure of their nuclear infrastructure.

You dramatically reduce it from what it is. and you reduce it to the point where They could have a limited number of centrifuges for research purposes only. But the size would be so small that by definition they would be signaling a change in intent. Three, you could allow them to enrich but not Anything that they enrich has to be immediately shipped out of the country. and what they get in return are the fuel rods.

When you're doing enrichment, you can do one of two things with it. You can turn it into fuel to power a nuclear reactor to generate electricity. or you turn it into the core of a bomb. If they are allowed to enrich and keep what they're enriching in Iran, they can definitely turn it into the core of a bomb. If they have to ship out everything they enrich, they to get the fuel rods then they don't have what it takes to create the core of a bomb.

So there's three different ways to produce what I'm saying. Is it possible to produce that with uranium? Yes. provided they understand that the alternative is going to be We will destroy the nuclear infrastructure they have developed over the last 40 years at the cost of more than half a trillion dollars. they have to know it would be entirely destroyed.

If they know that's the alternative, then I suspect that you can produce an agreement along the lines of one of those three pathways I just outlined.

So it looks like the talks, a senior Trump official said a more positive assessment of their three-hour talks. The Iranians are not as positive. But the other thing that you know better than anyone, Dennis, is they have to stop financing these proxy groups, fomenting terror in the region, corrupting Iraq. We know what they're doing with Hamas and Hezbollah in and around Israel if they're able to stand them back up. The Houthi rebels are definitely a force that Israel is dealing with right now, even though at least for this moment they're not trying to shut down any of the waterways.

So we have to find a way to do that. And I just don't know if this regime would ever not finance them. And also, they can't use ballistic missiles because that's how they would deliver their nuclear weapons. I mean, UAE cannot enrich uranium in their country, but they have nuclear power. You're right.

No, look, that's why I mean, they're what you're describing is a package, a package that ensures that you give up a nuclear weapon option. A package that makes it clear that there can no longer be support for. their proxies. At least there can't be any kind of military support for them. And lastly, They can't be developing.

Long range ballistic missiles that could be that are a delivery vehicle for nuclear weapons.

So Can you produce all that in agreement? My guess is no, even with what I was saying, but there are some. I could envision, for example, an agreement of the sort I was describing earlier in which the administration also conveys in a letter to the Iranians what will happen if we see them providing any support militarily to any of the proxy groups. If we see them providing monies that they're getting from sanctions relief to the proxy groups. And if we see them developing a ballistic missile with a capability of a certain range.

And then we would have to spell out, here's what the consequences would be. And those have to be very clear, not just in terms of economic penalties, but military penalties. And the thing that bothers me is they'll get their missile defense back and be able to rebuild a lot of what was blown up by the Israelis after they attacked the Israelis. Real quick, on Israel, excuse me, on Syria, do you agree with the President's decision to temporarily relieve sanctions on that government and for the President to have that meeting? Two quick points.

First on that one, yes, I do agree. I mean, you should test this every step of the way, but if there's a possibility for a very different Syria with Iran now out of it. We should do what we can to see if that can be developed. The other, I agree completely with you. There is a window here.

If the Iranians are given time and money, that's a problem with the framework of Yemen. If they're given time and money, they will rebuild that air defense. And then you lose the opportunity to take out, or at least you raise the cost. of acting against the military and they feel they will feel they will not feel as vulnerable as they do right now. That vulnerability is what's creating their need.

Exactly. When they feared that we were going to go into Iran after Iraq is when they were the most compliant. But we let that window close. Dennis Ross, thanks so much. An exciting time in the Middle East.

It is interesting. Yeah. Thanks, Brian. Potentially great. Congressman Ryan Zinke is next.

And then Julie Benderis. She'll listen to the Brian Kilmeat show. Diving deep into today's top stories, it's Brian Kilmead. Grandpa's here! Hank's always helping out.

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It's Brian Killmead. Everyone has known that the salt issue is one of the big ones that we have to resolve. It's one of the key pieces of this equation to sort of meet the equilibrium point that everybody can be satisfied with. Not everybody's going to be delighted with every provision in a bill this lower.

So that is the Speaker of the House trying to make sense of the turbulence they're having with a lot of the Republicans in blue states that want to be able to write off their state taxes. Joining us now is Congressman Jason Smith, Chairman of Ways and Means. Chairman, you got your hands full. It's an exciting time. You want to get this done by Memorial Day.

What concerns you most? You know, Brian Don. The whole process has been trying to thread a needle with a very razor-thin majority in the House and the Senate. And you look at their several. issues going into this this process that we were going to have to have to balance and one was a state and local tax deduction there's members of the republican conference that has been advocating complete elimination that means you can't even deduct one dollar and then there's others that have been advocating for an unlimited deduction So we have to thread that needle the same way with all the Green credits.

We have members that want to rip them all out by the roots immediately, and there's others that want to use a scalpel approach.

So we've been doing that balance. The bill that we passed out of the House Ways and Means Committee this week after 18 hours of deliberation, I feel like is a fair balance. When it comes to the state and local tax that you're referring to, we increased it by 300%. And whenever we compared a $30,000 state and local tax deduction to the Republican members from SALT states like New York, California, and New Jersey, we found that more than 90% of all their constituents would be whole. would be covered under under the provisions within the Ways and Means Committee.

But we know that this process We got to continue to help balance the different ends of the conference, but failure is not an option. We will deliver this tax package, which will lead to Such extremely pro-growth tax policies will turn our economy around. Hugh Senator Rand Paul, not happy, cut 24. The problem is, it's asking conservatives like myself to raise the debt ceiling $5 trillion. That's historic.

No one's ever raised the debt ceiling that much. It will be a record for Congress to raise the debt $5 trillion.

So that's roughly where he's going. Is he right?

So I don't know where he's getting the number 5 trillion because the bill that was passed out of the Ways and Means Committee is $4 trillion. And that is to raise the debt ceiling. It's exactly what was in the budget resolution with the instructions for the House to do. But debt selling has always been a problem. Both parties hate the debt selling, but you do not want to default on your payments.

And so, what we've looked at just within our tax bill, we've cut more than $1.5 trillion of of spending. That is 300% more than what's ever been cut by any Congress. Would I like to cut more? course because we have a spending problem in this country it's not a revenue problem it is Strictly a spending problem. Unfortunately, our counterparts like to raise taxes, and they would love for the expiration of Trump's successful tax cuts that would lead to a 22 percent tax increase on every single American.

Chairman, the big thing is Medicaid. We know Barack Obama destroyed it by inflating the amount of people eligible for it and put the federal government on the hook to pay it. But that is your mess that you inherited. How can you reform without giving out the perception that you don't like poor people? There's definitely Medicaid reforms that can create a lot of savings, especially whenever you require work requirements for able-bodied, healthy adults.

By doing that, the savings is exponential. There's other items that you can find savings just within the ways and means committee. $1 trillion worth of savings.

So we've been able to find it, whether it's in the Education and Workforce Committee, whether it's in the Ag Committee, or whether it's in the Energy and Commerce or Ways and Means Committee. We're pulling those all together, and the savings are going to be real. Do you believe we're going to get a vote out of the Energy Committee today? The budget committee is meeting today, and I absolutely believe before I became chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, I was the Republican leader of the House Budget Committee. I'm confident that they will not stall this process.

They'll continue to move. Of course, there's going to be bumps along the way. I'm scheduled to be before the Rules Committee on Monday so that we can ultimately have the bill on the floor this week before Memorial Day. And that's still a possibility? Do you think the President's got to get involved?

You know, the president is the most engaging executive that I have ever worked with. President Trump has no problem calling me whenever he has a tax question or a tax idea or trade. And so I'm sure he will be engaged because the one big beautiful bill, once we get this accomplished, this will be the biggest legislative feat that myself or any of my colleagues will have ever been involved in. Tag, no taxes on tips, no taxes on car loans that could help that business. You bring in some trade deals, and the numbers have been strong when it comes to the CPI and jobs.

So a lot could, this could be an exciting summer, but you guys got a lot of work to do yet. Thanks so much for letting our audience know what's happening, Chairman. Appreciate it. Best of luck until you hit your Memorial Day deadline. Thanks, Brian.

Take care. All right. Worked really hard. Extremely bright guy. Julie Benderis is next.

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If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. Chuck Schumer has squandered any goodwill he had. I mean, in terms of when I go around the country, people just are very upset. Wow, let me pause that.

That was very matter-of-fact of you just now. I mean, Schumer's. Got that. I I I have sensed that myself. But you're the one traveling a lot more than I am right now.

So Schumer's brand is Schumer's trust levels have really collapsed with Democrats? It's shocking to me, right? They'll they'll criticize Musk first. Trump's second. And then Schumer more than even J.D.

Vance. I was like, can't we turn their fire up Vance? Rubio. Rokahana gone with Chuck Todd, who miraculously is blaming other people in the media for not reporting on Joe Biden's diminished condition and his lack of ability to do an interview, even the Super Bowl interview, even though he's hosting Meet the Press most of the time.

So Rokahana says when he goes out and talks to people, Chuck Schumer's the third to get hit.

Well, okay, but if you didn't like Chuck Schumer, Five years ago, if you liked him five years ago, what's the difference now? I mean, he gave in on one issue because he had no choice: shut down the government. You have no power, no. Be blamed for it or continuing to fund the government, and they go, That's it.

So, to me, it's totally transference. It's like having a bad day at work and coming home and kicking the dog and yelling at your wife. They had nothing to do with it, they had no choice. He had no choice. I I don't get it.

I mean, that's just how deranged Democrats are. Just ask yourself: why was your party not having real primaries since Obama and Hillary Clinton? Why did you have a vice president that couldn't do anything that was a DEI pick? Why did you elect a president that couldn't walk or talk or think? And why did you pretend as if Russia got Trump elected?

Why did you act like the laptop wasn't real and that Hunter wasn't corrupt? And the president along with them, the candidate at the time?

Now we find out when he was in office.

Now, I love this debate. Trump, Biden was selfish to run again. Run again. Do you understand you missed the story? Forget about run again.

He was going to lose. That's not the problem. The problem was you had no problem turning the country over to a nonpresident and all your courageous cabinet members. Nobody did the twenty fifth. No one did the twenty fifth Amendment on an incompetent President.

We're finding out that He could didn't recognize Jake Sullivan. And then he called him by his wrong name. That's in one of these books. Cut 29. Jake Sullivan, National Security Advisor, the guy he was closest to.

Cut 29. There's actually an accident in the book where it says he forgot your name in December 2022. He called you Steve a couple of times. Did that happen? I do not recall that ever happening.

And I will tell you, Joe Biden knows my name. He knows my name, like I talk to him even now.

So I was surprised to read that in the book. But what I will more generally say is I had to wake the president up in the middle of the night when there were crises. I had to go into him at various points when unexpected things happened. And surely plenty of unexpected things happened during the time that he was in office and that I was in the seat. I did that over the course of the four years and I saw him operating.

decision making Executing as commander-in-chief throughout that time. Colin, you freaking liar. There's no way. Yes, did he have a couple of good days, I'm sure. But most of the time, you were probably shocked how out of it he was and the blank stare you liked because you could run your own show.

Meanwhile, the Robert Hurr report really told the story. Remember what Robert Hur wrote when he found out when the Corvette remember the you went to the you saw shots of the garage of Joe Biden, and you saw top secret documents there by his Corvette? And they did an investigation? And Robert Hurd did it. And there was all types of pressure now from the White House saying that, don't bring this forward.

Let us read it first. It could be national security concerns. Because they knew it was going to be a disaster. And you know what Robert Hearst said after an interview with the president. They knew that interview was a disaster.

So what he said, what her noted He said if I was to bring him up on charges at trial, Biden would likely present himself to a jury. As he did during our interview with him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a bad memory. Excuse me. You're not talking about an elderly man, you're talking about our president. who has to be at the top of his game with our our life and death in his hands.

When that was brought up, we should play this back next week.

some of the people condemning Robert Herve for his assessment. when Robert Hurric was right on the money. How were the people that went after the Wall Street Journal a few months in the last year of the President's service that other people were coming out to them saying he's not all there, that the deterioration of Joe Biden is alarming?

So, Jake Tapper is co-authored this book with Alex Thompson that I know you're not going to buy. Do not buy it. Cut twenty cut thirty-three. And it was not just cabinet members who were kept away from the president. Aides who had once seen Biden regularly say they went months without seeing him.

Others told us that in some meetings Biden would mumble incoherently, something the public only got glimpses of. He is used to make the crew bear him. The first cabinet secretary we spoke with told us they thought at some point these restrictions were about control. Yes, the president is making the decisions, but if the inner circle is shaping them in such a way, is it really a decision? They told us.

Are they leading him to something?

Okay. Number one, they're producing that. They left the incoherent babble in there. We all heard it, but they would never acknowledge it. And Jake Tapper.

Whatever you think of him, he's got unbelievable contacts. All he had to do was call up a cabinet member and say, I haven't seen the president in four months. Is this guy clued in? Does he know what's going on? You couldn't get that story.

Really? You couldn't get that story? You know, it's not you know uh Pierce Morgan, for example, a journalist. He doesn't really have the connections in Washington. He has opinions.

But if you say Pierce couldn't get the story, that's terribly true. I don't think he knows any cabinet members, but he's very opinionated about this. I don't even think he's a Republican either. Here's more cut thirty-four. The third cabinet secretary told me they shielded him in every meeting.

They always wanted to keep him happy. They would say, don't say that, don't tell him that. They always wanted to shield him from bad news. But at other times, it seemed the inner circle was doing everything they could to hide the extent to which Biden was diminished. During one rare meeting during that time, the third cabinet secretary told me they were shocked by how the president was acting.

He seemed, quote, disoriented, and, quote, out of it. I don't think he has dementia, said Cabinet Secretary No. Two, but the thing is he's an old man. The president can give you four to six good hours a day when he got tired. Sloppy isn't the right word, but his guard was down.

All right, number one. Trump is seventy eight. Guy's eighty two. Bernie Sanders is older than him. I mean, my goodness, Bruce Springsteen, that left wing lunatic over in England, 75 years old, playing on a concert stage for four hours.

This guy got the job at seventy eight. Hey. We know what old is, but he's old, old regardless. He's like 92. Or a hundred and two.

And I've seen a hundred year old sharper than him. But yet he was president and you didn't tell us how bad he was. In fact, remember this. This year just destroyed Joe Scarborough for the rest of his career. Why would you believe another word he said after he said this?

Cut 35. Start your tape right now, 'cause I'm about to tell you the truth. And F you if you can't handle the truth.

Okay. This version of Biden. intellectually, analytically. is the best Biden ever. Not a close second.

And I've known him for years. The Brzezinskis have known him for 50 years. If it weren't the truth, I wouldn't say it. 'Kay. I mean, just think about everything he said there.

Start your tape because he wants to be on record. And F you if you can't handle the truth.

And then you go forward and tell us a blatant lie. Why does that play why does anybody watch that show? I mean, right there, he's telling you, I am totally not dependable. I'm w I I have such little respect for you as a member of my viewing audience that I'll lie to you, face and curse you out if you don't believe me. How about this?

Cut 36. There's this ample evidence of collusion of the campaign, and it's very much in the public record. Have you seen, do you have direct evidence of collusion with Russia?

Well, I think there is direct evidence and there is significant evidence of collusion, and we've set that out time and time again. You made him senator over in California. You know, the powerful families made sure that Adam Schiff ascended. After lying for two and a half years and outing Don Jr. and trying to ruin their lives through investigations in their companies, he becomes senator.

But if you look at that party. Donald Trump, whatever you think, he's authentic. He knows exactly where he's going. He's not stuck in doctrine. He's trying to push the best things possible for the country.

Whatever you're going to say, do you tell me that any of these people are for the country? And in Ken Scarborough's case, that's not his job, but to expose the truth would be his job. You put in your opinion there, too. But if your opinion and assessment is it's the best Biden ever, and if your opinion and assessment is it's Donald Trump. Colluded with Russia to win an election.

I mean, how about this? The other big story was a laptop. Remember, the laptop is not real. The laptop is not real. If you go ahead and put anything forward that's in that laptop, we will suspend your account, even if you're Kaylee McEnany, the press secretary, and make sure it doesn't get unsuspended while shadow banning everybody else until after the election.

And then we find out a few months later, the laptop is real. Duh, we all knew it was real. The pictures were real. The dialogue was real. Not one time did the 52 Intel agents ever call up Joe Biden and say, I'm about to put my reputation on the line.

Joe, is it your son's laptop? No, we're not going to do that. Why? Don't want Donald Trump to win. That's essentially it.

Remember Chuck Todd.

Now he's outraged that people didn't come forward about Joe Biden's health. But here's Chuck Todd on the laptop, Cut 37. Instead of Roger Stone in WikiLeaks, it's Rudy Giuliani. And some computer guy In Delaware, so this didn't work.

So he'll try another planted story or another, you know, Russian. You use some other discredited Russian propaganda. And for those of you spreading misinformation, shame on you. Shame on you. I don't know how some of you sleep at night who are doing this for a living.

television. Right. How do we sleep at night, Chuck, when we know the laptop is real? Oh, excuse me. How do we sleep at night?

Knowing that the President didn't collude with Russia and the laptop was real. How do you sleep at night saying he did collude with Russia and the laptop is fake? I mean, what is with these people? Do they really think we're never going to find out the truth? The problem is, we found out about all of it in real time.

And then he came back and was president again. And now he's just doing his thing and making sure. That people like him and the media and people planted inside intel agencies aren't getting in his way. And that's why these people were fired, gutted, and suspended. He has to get people who aren't sycophants but are loyal to his cause and understand him.

We'll stand up to him when give real opinions, but we'll not try to knife him in the back when he turns around. Julie Bendaris is next. We'll talk more about this. Don't move. It's Brian Killmead.

Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Hey, we're back. Julie Mendaris is here, author of a brand new book, A Monumental Mistake, which is geared towards children, right? Yeah, it is.

But you know what? Every adult in America needs to read it because it teaches respect, and a lot of adults in this country. I'd say the majority seem to lack that. Besides, I mean, mostly Democrats, they're cursing a lot. It's terrible.

I mean, well, they're cursing. Yeah, that's the tip of the iceberg. I mean, Brian doesn't curse. I've never seen you say a bad word, actually, ever. No, I will.

I find it therapeutic. Yeah, like darn. You'll say that everyone's like, no, no, you don't say that. I'd like to paint that picture, but it wouldn't be an accurate one. That's sweet.

You should just lie and say it. Right. Because that's my image of you. Right. But yeah, no, I mean, the reason I wrote the book is because, you know, there's a lack of respect in this country.

There's a lack to respect, obviously, among children. I mean, when's the last time that you saw a child disrespect another child, like, or another authority figure or their parent, you know? And so disrespect is obviously an issue, and it grows into a much bigger problem. You look at all the protests in this country. Those are college students.

Those college students weren't kids that long ago. You know, 10 years ago, those were children. Where was the ball dropped? Obviously, the parents are dropping the ball.

So that's why I came up with the book and idea. And hopefully we can save our next generation. Bravebooks.com is where you can pick it up. That's it. Just go to BraveBooks.com.

Bravebooks.com, yeah.

Okay, great. And it's geared to what age? I would say up to age 90. 95, 99. I'd say max out at 99.

You do not want to see people a hundred years old reading the books. Yes, I do. They will love it. They'll like the pictures. They probably won't be able to read.

It would be a great book for Joe Biden. Right. He would like it. Right. Would he even know what a book is?

Well, it also teaches you not to lie, so I think he might want to read it.

Well, I'll put it this way. I just did there's three stories. The Russia, two and a half years, multi-million dollars, total lie. Robert Mueller found it out. They love Robert Mueller.

Okay. Then we all agree maybe that was a dry hole. Then we have the laptop. It's absolutely not real. How dare you?

That's a flat out lie. A few months later, everybody knows what we said. And the biggest one is Joe Biden's fine.

Now we know it wasn't close to fine. And they pretend as if it caught everybody by surprise now that the third book is coming out. It's not a surprise. That's what's sad. I mean, it's disturbing as heck that the fact that these aides were trying to keep lawmakers from actually having anything to do with Biden in order to protect him and the truth from coming out.

But is it a surprise? No, it's not. What is really disturbing is that there are so many more lies that we don't know about. And I'm hoping finally an investigation does go into this so that we find out who's behind the cover-up because this is probably one of the biggest cover-ups in Washington history.

Well, everyone's behind it. Here's Hakeem Jeffries. They're desperately trying to move past it. Cut 32. Mr.

Jeffries, we're Democrats being straight with the American public about Joe Biden's condition when they're all defending him last year. House Democrats have been very clear. We're moving forward. We're not looking backward. And we supported Joe Biden's decision to pass the baton to Vice President Kamala Harris.

But should there be any accountability for that, given the fact that the government's not going to be able to do that? Yes, the voters are able to determine accountability. And the way that they do it in terms of who has the right vision for the party moving forward is through elections. They're not going to be able to get past, continued to say, we're not looking back. That's what Chuck Schumer says.

That's what everyone's trying to say. Rokahana, at least, brought it up and said, you know, we do have to look at this. He said he first says, do you have Rokahana from yesterday, Eric, if you found it? And then the follow-up. At first, he said, Says he's great.

Now he says, Well, I had no idea. Is that going to fly? No, it's not. Hakeem Jeffries, first of all, is singly one of the many. Democrats responded.

They saw them probably regularly. Knew about this from the very get-go, and it was his word actually that helped finally push along Kamala Harris's campaign. They were waiting to hear from him. And you know that he knew what was going on behind the scenes. He was just waiting for the green light to say, oh, can we tell the truth now?

Okay, fine. Yeah, let's get Kamala Harris in there because Joe Biden clearly is incapable. Right, here's Rocahan. Was this the before? This is before.

Listen to him. He was asked a year ago. Absolutely. I've seen the President twice in the last two weeks. I've had a conversation with him.

He's completely mentally sharp. When the President is out there, he's at his best. Have him debate in the general election. I don't think Donald Trump will. I have spoken with the President.

He is fully coherent. He is on top of details when I have talked to him.

So told BS Because of this. Were you telling the truth back then? I was. I have met him a few times at public events, and he was. But of course, I didn't have the full picture.

I mean, I met him maybe two times on rope lines. Wait, what? He didn't have the full picture? Wait a second. But they said, oh, no, they talked to him all the time.

He seems perfectly fine. They believe him. The fact that his aides shielded him from these cabinet members that were wary as well, I mean, how is it that the word didn't trickle down to the media, to the mainstream media who knew that he was not okay? I mean, all of these Democrats wanted to protect him, not only in the White House, but in the media, because they didn't want to get Trump elected and they didn't want to help Trump get elected. And that's why they protected Biden.

I mean, it just goes to show you you should not cheat because you cheated and you forced the Kubernetes forced everybody to accept Biden because he didn't want Bernie Sanders. And then they said, you better take a woman of color. And you took Kamala Harris. She was the only one there. And they totally incompetent.

Prevented them from turning the page, and then you end up with a Titanic loss. Julie, when are we going to see you on TV today? Oh, oh, God. Fox noticios this afternoon, that I'm going to be on Will Kane this afternoon, that I'll be on other shows. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show.

Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone.

So glad you're there. We're coming to you from Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world. New York Sports is on fire right now. Mets and Yankees playing this weekend, both in first place. And Knicks look to knock out the defending Boston champ, Boston Celtics, at Madison Square Garden, where I understand all the celebrities who are really cool get to sit in the front row, and the ones that can afford it actually sit there for free.

Just one of the unfair things about America that just really angers me about the country. The people that can afford get stuff, anything, get all free stuff. It makes no sense. Congressman Ryan Zinke doesn't get free stuff. He gets paid because he likes serving the country as a Navy SEAL.

And now as a Congressman from Montana, and Julian Epstein at 34 after, we'll be talking about the Democratic Party, where they're going from there. And then, of course, we're tracking the president. He is coming back today from his overseas trip. Which um by almost all accounts was an extraordinary success. Let's get to the big three.

Number three. Start your tape right now because I'm about to tell you the truth. This version of Biden intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever. I can't hear that enough. Joe Scarborough, worse than we thought.

Joe Biden's brain essentially not functioning for four years. And the details of his incompetence show a White House without a president. The party has told you the laptop wasn't real. They told you that Russia got Trump elected. They told you that Joe Biden was the best version of himself.

Does anyone believe anything any Democrat tells them? Number two. The problem is, is it's asking conservatives like myself to raise the debt ceiling $5 trillion. That's historic. No one's ever raised the debt ceiling that much.

It's really a slap in the face. Big Bill in big trouble. Republicans having trouble mixing tax reduction with deficit reduction while adhering to Trump's campaign promises. We'll explain what they're up against. Number one.

I'm not in the habit of praising Donald Trump, but I gotta tell you, the last week or so in the Middle East, I think the president has in this last week or so played the Middle East pretty darn well. I gotta give him some kudos there. I can't believe I'm saying this, and that's Congressman John Himes. And the Democrat pleasing Republican president, that to me is totally stunning. Most productive overseas trip of any president in my lifetime.

We bring home $2.7 trillion in pledges for investment. Even if it's close to that, when people actually write the checks, it'll be impressive. Along the way, makes a big move in meeting with the former terrorists, we hope former, now current president of Syria, and says, I'll relieve sanctions for a few months to see how you do. And then Ukraine and Russia met in Turkey, but Vladimir Putin stands us up. Keep in mind, Vladimir Putin called for one-on-one talks and then didn't show.

Trump is giving him some cover, saying he's only going to show if I show, and I'll handle it from here. But when I was telling you about the overseas trip. I'm talking about $200 billion in commercial deals with the U.S. and UAE, $243.5 billion in economic deals with the U.S. and Qatar, and $600 billion commitment from Saudi Arabia to invest in the United States and the removal of long-time sanctions against Syria, at least temporarily, if they do certain things.

So, what does this mean? It means they're buying a lot of military hardware. It also means they want to get into the AI business.

Now, for us, we want to box out China, and we did. If we can actually make a deal with Syria and they end up legitimately trying to stand up a country while preserving the rights of Christians and other religious sects, which has been known for their intolerance, and the Kurds, We will box and just demand that Russia get their base out of Syria. Will we box them right out of the Middle East and box China out of being the AI leaders in the area? And that's one thing. We ought to worry about the security of our chips, but the NVIDIA CEO is there to cut the deal.

Worry about AI and power. You got Joe Waddsdale making the trip. And you also have David Sachs, who's head of AI, Elon Musk, who's got his own AI division, as is Sam Altman. Pretty impressive.

Now look, if I say positive things about Trump on his trip, that's not that unique on this show. I mean, but if I tell you that these Democrats were as impressed as I was, that would be unique. And I'm telling you, here's an example. Ben Rhodes, former deputy national security advisor under President Obama. Cut for.

I don't like Trump's motivations for lots of things he does, but he's one thing you will say is he's not like tied to this constant fear of some bad faith, right-wing attacks. Yeah, bad faith, right?

Well, bad faith, right-wing attacks, or kind of stupid. You know, blob a type, you know, well, we don't do this, so we must leverage the sanctions for blah, blah, blah. You know. No, sometimes you just have to try something different. And continuing to sanction a country because of the sanctions you've been put in place for the dictator who's no longer there makes no sense.

That's what he's talking about, Assad in Syria.

Now look. People on the ground there are saying that they like what happened. I mean, the foreign minister of Syria, who just got there, met with Rubio in Turkey. Rubio mapped out exactly what has to happen. And to me One of the things that happens when you have personal relationships that you trust.

You use those relationships that sometimes you ask for favors.

Now, the favor that the Turkish leader, who is just a terrible guy, but he's a NATO member, and dealing with him. Squarely is to our advantage, ignoring him doesn't work. Trump built a hotel when Erdogan was president of Turkey. They know each other.

So Erdogan and the Crown Prince is doing all this investment in the U.S. said, listen, would you relieve some sanctions? Would you meet with the President of Syria? He's trying to stop chaos from breaking out. And my goodness, he kicked out Iran and he's about to kick out Russia.

What's the downside? And Trump said, let him come. And he came and met. And look, I'm not saying he said one of the things I got to do is have the Abraham Accords, which means you have commerce. And have a vow of peace with Israel.

who just took out Mohammed Sinwar by all accounts. This is progress and this is change. Can you believe I'm talking about the Middle East and not talking about war or oil? But important. Gas is dropping to around oil is dropping to around $60 a barrel.

That is important because it's not a lot. And when you bring down the price of oil, you bring down the revenue that Iran and Russia need to survive.

So when it comes down, it helps. If you look at the crown prince and say You kinda helpful, Vopeck produced. A little bit more? Because we'll produce a little bit more.

Well, the market. Kinda helpful. Don't have to make a big announcement about it. Here's Andy Linsky on special report last night, cut six. What's remarkable, I think, about this trip is the ease that Trump is displaying when he is dealing with these golf leaders.

And he clearly has a sort of a that they have a sort of similar approach towards deal making, a more transactional approach than perhaps he has than the European leaders are used to having with an American President.

So it's a really good place for him to have this first big trip. It's a really good trip, and we'll see what happens. What I think is going to happen next is, I think Trump is going to fly out. And I think he's going to end up meeting I think he's going to end up meeting with Putin one-on-one. Because he said that and he had a chance to really trash Putin.

And just say, he called for this meeting, I urge Zelensky to go to this meeting, and then you make me look bad, Vladimir Putin, by not showing up to the meeting. You realize things could get a lot worse for you. Does he not fully understand that? Marco Rubio, from Turkey, where he was hoping that Putin would show up, CUD 39. I think he said publicly today that the only way we're going to have a breakthrough here, nothing's going to happen at this point, given everything we know after months of working on this, nothing's going to happen until President Trump sits across the table from Vladimir Putin and puts it on the line and puts it on the table.

I think that's the only chance we have at peace at this point. Um given everything we've seen over the last few weeks. Yeah, it's just a joke. They send mid-level people to show up to negotiate.

Well, Zelensky was actually in Turkey and then left when Putin didn't show. When we come back, Congressman Ryan Zinke joins us now. He's on Appropriations, Co Chair of the Northern Border Security Caucus and member of the U. S. Joint Commission on China.

Congressman also fights wars as a Navy SEAL. He'll be with us former Interior Secretary, too. He'll be with us in a moment. I also want to get his take on this version of Trump. Because this guy seems to actually be enjoying himself now.

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This guy, James Comey, has been a problem since day one. He likes to talk about how Trump is unethical, immoral, a threat to the United States. How about the former director of the FBI has got nothing better to do than put shells in a formation that says 8-6-4-7, and then he claims, well, I just happened to find this. And you want to talk about this guy's mental cognition? Unbelievable, and that is former FBI guy Richard Strampoli last night responding to what James Comey stupidly put on social media where there's a shell formation, like he said, that says 8647, 8647.

That's kill 47. Who's 47? The 47th president. The president was just asked this on Bret Berry. He goes, that's an assassination move.

So obviously, you and I aren't going to do that, but some whack job is going to say, Comey's calling on me to act. Why would you do that? He took it down and said, I didn't know. I just saw it, I took a picture. Congressman Ryan Zinke joins us now.

Congressman, is this the stupidest thing you've ever seen?

Well, from him, I would say it's competitive. But. But you know, really. A former FBI director. And he's a smart guy.

He knows exactly what it means. And to think it's cute, oh, I found it. Come on, there's no credibility. But you look at his credibility while he was director. I think it just blends in very nicely to what he did as a director.

So it's stunning, but am I deeply shocked? No. Disappointed? Absolutely. Do I think it's dangerous?

100%. A lot of these guys just have nothing to do now. They've said horrible things about the president. You were there, all the Russia things. You couldn't get out of any, wherever you want.

Ryan Zinke, Interior Secretary, what did you know about Vladimir Putin and President Trump colluding before the election? You're like, excuse me? I'm trying to get the interior of the country set. Whatever you did. And now these guys have nothing to do now because Trump is not proven to be the corrupt person who is incapable of running the country.

He's showing just the opposite.

Well, you look at the facts of the matter are this, is that U. S. intelligence assets spied on the President before he was President. That was a Russian collusion hoax. They spied on him during the Presidency.

That was the Ukrainian Obstruction of justice. And they spied on him after he was president. That was Mar-Lago. And these are U.S. intelligence assets.

So when they talk about a deep state, I can tell you when we came in in 1945, we knew it was there, but it was a lot deeper than we thought. You know, from a Montana tongue-in-cheek, you know, we knew it was a swamp, so we had hip waiters. We should have brought a boat. But he's doing exactly what he needed to do. He's starting to clean up and drain the swamp, and he's doing it at lightning speed.

But y you know, you you look at his his his first couple of months in office. Probably the number one problem in this country was illegal immigration. We had crime. We had no border at all.

So it wasn't policy. We just needed a president. And so you got ten thousand Mexicans patrolling the southern border. You got the Royal Mountains patrolling the northern border. And by and large, the border is secure.

Now we're going after really bad characters in this country. And look what he's doing on foreign shores. I've never seen anything like it in the Middle East. What do you think of that trip? What were your thoughts?

Because a lot of guys lost their lives that you know. Fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, throughout that region. You know, they had the fomenting of terror in that area. A lot of people, some people are still torn by our past there.

Well, this is this is where I think was real milestones. one in Syria, and I was skeptical. But the President meets him and they go, you know what, I'm going to relax the sanctions and give you the benefit of the doubt.

Some of it was the PPK, which is a Leninist terrorist organization that's laid down the arms. That's huge. And then our neighbors that have been frosty. All of a sudden, we're cutting deals with them on billions and billions of dollars and united against a common threat, which is called Iran. This is this is this is this is I I it's stunning what success He's had in such a short period of time about our Arabs now the allies.

which are working together for peace and stability in a region that this is long sought after. And even when you would have diplomatic ties now, building on the Abraham Accords, which was completely undervalued, one of the greatest feats I think in his presidency and probably in the last few decades. But building on that, and now we have the Arab nations working together for peace and stability in the region, it is quite something and what a success. But never underestimate Donald J. Trump.

So now, when the big, beautiful bill, I know you're not the problem, but you're right in the middle of it all, Ryan Zicke, to get this bill passed. A lot of differing objectives. You're just dealing with Republicans. There's some doubt that it's going to get out of the Budget Committee today, some doubt that it's going to happen on Memorial Day. What do you see your role in getting this across the finish line or at least into the lapse of the Senate?

Well, there's a few things that need to be pulled out, quite frankly, don't belong in there at all. But I think the basis is this, Brian, is that it's just a balance sheet. We can find savings, and there are savings. If you can't find $2.50 or $3 trillion savings over 10 years, which is, let's say, $3 trillion of savings, at $300 billion a year, on a $7 trillion budget, considering the waste. Fraud and abuse.

You're not looking very hard.

So you find a savings, and then that savings gives you latitude to put against the tax provisions that are going to expire. But it should balance. The more you save, the more you have on taxes.

So we don't go further into debt. They are doing it.

So the bill as it sits, I don't think it runs deep enough on savings. We probably have to sort through which taxes provisions are are absolutely in i important and which one we can we can, you know, mitigate uh a little. But But by and large, it should balance. And I'll say that the bond market doesn't lie.

So when the bond market stabilizes and interest rates come down, that's the economic driver right there. Your mortgage rates will go down, your interest rates will go down, and as important, what we're paying as a nation in interest now, which is a trillion dollars larger than the defense budget, we got to watch the numbers. I mean, do you pass this and then focus more on the deficit? Or it's got to all be done now, correct? There's two milestones that are absolutely important.

One is the debt ceiling. And that milestone is going to happen in July, somewhere after July fourth, probably before August in that area. We're going to have to attend to a debt ceiling so we don't go and default. And a lot of the debt ceiling is on the basis of, look, we're going to have to curb our spending. We have a spending problem in this country.

We don't have a revenue problem. And then the second one is really in December when the tax provisions, as they are, expire. And those are the two pivotal moments we we have to have. The one beautiful bill, I don't think it's ready yet, but I see it actually making some progress.

So it it's it's not a no never. I think it's shaped.

Sometimes go go back and make sure that we're we're finding the right savings. And look, you know, I think we should have a debate what we spend money on, but there should be no debate, Brian, on fraud, waste and abuse.

So I think we can dig deeper on the fraud fraud part and put provisions in there, and then shift a little. If there's no incentive for the states, for instance, to do Medicare, where they get 3% and they got to pay on the dollar, there has to be incentive for the states all to look at their side to make sure that. That would help too. Congressman Ryan Zinke, best of luck. Get it done.

The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. Chuck Schumer has squandered any goodwill he had. I mean, in terms of when I go around the country, people just are very upset. Wow, let me pause that.

That was very matter-of-fact of you just now. I mean, Schumer's. Got that. I have sensed that myself. But you're the one traveling a lot more than I am right now.

So Schumer's brand is Schumer's trust levels have really collapsed with Democrats? It's shocking to me, right? They'll they'll criticize Musk first. Come second. And then Schumer more than even J.D.

Vance. I was like, can't we turn their fire on Vance or Rubio? Yeah, it's unbelievable. Chuck Schumer, I'm not a fan, but he does what he does. Nothing's changed.

He's just out of power. Julian Epstein served as Chief Counsel to the House Judiciary Committee, staff director of the House Oversight Committee, now a featured columnist. Uh just about everywhere. Uh Julian, uh welcome back. Is Schumer deserved to be vilified?

Well I don't think as much as he is. I don't think it's. necessarily the problem. I think the deeper problem is with the Democrats they will cannot divorce themselves from a discredited. ideology, which is progressive ideology, which has been a failure.

Economically, look at the states, look at the state of California, and it's a failure culturally. People just don't believe in cultural leftism. Um the problem with the Democratic leaders for the most part, Brian, is they don't have the guts to stand up to the groups And say we have to moderate and do what Bill Clinton did in the 1990s and go to the political center. The internet has been weaponized, and they are scared of the flying monkeys of the internet. who will call them bad names if they don't do certain things or if they do certain things like cooperate with uh Trump couple months ago in the shutdown.

So I think it's a much deeper problem that Schumer finds himself in the middle of, and the Democrats just seem To be wandering in the wilderness without any real answer. Julian, here's the thing: they have three major stories: the Russian hoax, two and a half years, millions of dollars. Trump was really elected. They lied about that. The Robert Mueller, go read the report.

And then, of course, they lied about the laptop not being real. Of course, it wasn't real. How dare you try to do election interference? The Russians are helping him out. 52 Intel agents insist on it.

We all knew it was real. Six months later, the Times confirms it, but we knew it ahead of time. Just like we knew the Russia thing wasn't possible. You can't have the most disorganized campaign and also be the first to collaborate with another government to win.

So having said it was $1.2 million worth of Facebook ads, never going to work. And then the last one was Joe Biden's fine.

So these are three times in which they were caught flat out lying, and you're blaming, I don't know, Chuck Schumer for that? It's crazy to me. Listen to Jake Tapper, Cut34. The third cabinet secretary told me they shielded him in every meeting. They always wanted to keep him happy.

They would say, don't say that, don't tell him that. They always wanted to shield him from bad news. But at other times, it seemed the inner circle was doing everything they could to hide the extent to which Biden was diminished. During one rare meeting during that time, the third cabinet secretary told me they were shocked by how the president was acting. He seemed, quote, disoriented, and, quote, out of it.

I don't think he has dementia, said Cabinet Secretary No. Two, but the thing is he's an old man. The President can give you four to six good hours a day when he got tired. Sloppy isn't the right word, but his guard was down. So they're shaping what he wants to know by telling him as little as possible, not getting bothering him, telling me any bad news.

Our whole country was jeopardized during this time. This is unbelievable that the media is now acting as if they're mad at the administration for not being honest when all they had to do was use their contacts to find out the truth, which I think they probably did.

Well, yeah, or I mean, this is what we call the gaslighting about the gaslighting. I mean the the idea that Uh it's true. Ryan. that the White House lied to the news media and to the public about Biden's condition. While all the while they were telling us they were the saviors of democracy, there's nothing that undermines democracy more than lying about whether the guy in charge has the capacity.

But the absurdity here is Jake Tapper Chuck Todd and the others. Same. using this as the excuse for why they didn't cover the issue. There was More than abundant evidence going back to 2021 that Biden was not capable. of f completing his first term, never mind the second term.

you can look at the Afghanistan debacle in twenty twenty one when he didn't know the position of his generals.

So, I mean, and I wrote a piece as you and I talked about, and a couple of years ago, I think you had me on one of your shows. To talk about it, that Biden shouldn't run because his capacity was so observedly. Uh diminished. You didn't have to the White House lying to the news media had nothing to do with it. If you just opened your eyes, you could see.

That he didn't have the capacity several years ago. And the media didn't cover this not because they were diluted or gas at it by the White House. The media didn't cover this because they're in the tank for the Democrats. Yeah, I know, but it's so obvious. There's something about the Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama primary, which was, I found, very compelling and intriguing, that the Democrats said to themselves, we can't do this again.

We're going to just anoint our people. We don't want to divide our people. When some of the best things that could happen to a political candidate is to be sharpened by another. Reagan got better with Bush 41. Bush 41 got better with Pat Buchanan and Bob Dole.

We see this nonstop. Mitt Romney got better after losing the nomination to John McCain.

So, I mean, John McCain got better by losing to Bush. It was a brawl.

So what? Democrats were afraid of having a real debate on issues and giving people a chance to see their person. Under under fire.

Well, it's that old saying: the web we weave when we first try to deceive. I mean, the original sin. was the Democrats really believing that they could pull this over on the public. And that just got them into a cascade of impossible situations where Biden pulls out on July 21st, I think it was. And they didn't have a lot of time, and there was panic.

and they chose the wrong candidate. And you know, so there was that, there was the there was the identity politics here. The Democrats didn't want to uh knock out a black woman. even though she was clearly not the best candidate.

So that played into it. But so you have deception. You have identity politics. You have the clear decision of the Democrats not to go back to the political center, which is where voters were.

So it was a combination of factors, and this is why the Democrats find themselves in the wilderness today. And the funny thing is, Brian, you and I had these conversations the last two years, and we predicted all these things were going to happen. And we talked about Biden not being capable long before he pulled out. This was obvious to anyone who's watching. And you start to ask yourself: well, if it's so obvious to us, why isn't it obvious to the Democratic leadership?

But Julian, the thing did surprise me is that the people on the left are writing the stories and Julian, like Julian, Jake Tapper's cashing in on it. How the hell could he cash in on it? How could Chuck Todd say they should have been other media members of the media? The White House shouldn't have lied to us. When Chuck Todd has the best contacts, Jake Tapper, the best contacts in Washington, he could have called any cabinet secretary and said, it looks to me like Biden's out of it.

And if you're not going to tell me the truth, I'm going to talk to the next guy.

So you might want to get on the record now. And you could do that story. Remember, Bill Clinton, that whole scandal was broken by the New York Times about Monica Lewinsky. You know, the Drudge did a lot, but then when they really went after Hilary and remails, that was the New York Times.

So, yeah, you could have your biases, but when it comes to a legitimate story, that's when they're like, I cannot miss the oncoming train. I gotta stop that train. But instead, they said, let the train come through. Let the train of deception go through. It's not my problem.

But now that everybody knows, I'd like to make money on it.

Okay. Yeah, it's very cynical. I mean, this is the The era of advocacy journalism. And I think we moved from independent journalism sometime in the mid-teens. You pointed out a couple of examples.

to advocacy journalism in the mid in in the after the first Trump presidency. And I don't even think you needed to call a Cabinet Secretary, Bryant. I think it was obvious to anyone who was watching. There are hundreds of examples. Biden not being able to answer a clear question, not calling on a dead member of Congress.

not understanding basic facts about what was going on, like he believed Congress had passed authorization for a student loan giveaway. I mean, there's just example after example after example. And the fact now that these journalists can say, well, we were duped and we're going to make a Yeah. pretending we're serious journalists. uncovering a scandal when they in fact were part of the scandal I mean this is I wish Tom Wolfe were alive because this is a bonfire of the vanities cultural moment.

Um I mean this is beyond parody. And the fact that more of the mainstream journalists aren't calling these. You know, this out now as a complete failure on their part. and pretending they're victims. It's just it's it's it's gob smacking.

Yeah, it is. So there's the three, I thought those three major lie stories that all ended up blowing up in their face, and they wonder why they don't have credibility. I'm very curious to see if someone's going to emerge condemning this and at the same time separating themselves who are clear that their hands are clean of this and try to emerge. Because I'm seeing some things about Trump's trip to me was overwhelmingly positive. And the reason why I'm somewhat encouraged is because I see people weighing in on the left.

Ned Price, former senior State Department official under Biden. He's done all this and it's kind of silenced. He's met with a shrug. He has the ability to do things politically that previous presidents did not because he has complete, unquestioned authority over the Republican Party. Another unnamed Biden official, gosh, I wish I would work for an administration that could move this quickly.

The disgraced Rob Malley, former special U.S. envoy to Iran, says it's hard not to be simultaneously terrified at the thought of the damage he can cause with such power and awed by his willingness to brazenly shatter so many harmful taboos. He's talking about recognizing Syria in particular. And then you have Ben Rhodes also praising the president, the current president of the United States, for what he did. I think that's pretty noteworthy.

It's very noteworthy. I mean, if you think of what Trump did in the last week, Brian, it's neck snapping. I mean, you got a hostage deal the China deal, prescription drugs. This Audi visit. Uh hopefully an Iran deal.

Ukraine is, I think, there are indications that it might be moving along tax reform here at home. I mean, the pace to the first point. is breathtaking. But secondly, what I think Trump has done in his trip to the Mideast is he has articulated A very exciting and insightful new doctrine, and we finally have a Trump doctrine.

Now, which is, I would call it constructive engagement. You know, Bush was nation building, Obama was appeasement. Trump is constructive engagement, whose theory is if you are engaging Enough of these countries in productive areas, namely building their economy, diversifying their economy, integrating with the West. they're going to spend less time on wars and jihad. And If that works, which everything looked very good this week, if that works, it'll be the most insightful.

approach to foreign affairs In the region that we've seen in decades. And you put that together with the force of personality that you saw within this week. And it was remarkable. And Democrats are going to have to understand, Brian, if they keep going maximal opposition on everything Trump. company's going to keep pulling the rug out from under them.

It's not working for them, and they've got to shift. It would only be interesting if they did. They picked their spots and then some man or woman emerged and just said, Yeah, I don't think everything he's doing is bad. I think about 50% of it I like. I think 50% we could do better.

And this is what I'm I wonder if that would happen because Trump doesn't hold grudges. You know, one thing is pretty clear. You could brawl with him one second. If you're going to work with him, he'll put the past behind him. And maybe you might as well.

We tried everything else, and both sides have been at it, trying to stop each other's president. It would be good if you picked your spots, especially in a term limited one. We'll see. Go ahead. Final thought?

He's got a businessman's approach. I mean, the approach of the Mid East this week was a businessman approach. which is engage people in productive things, they'll do fewer unproductive things. And um you know to that point uh A lot of people are looking at this and saying, you know, we've had career politicians You know, in this consensus, ruining things the last twenty years and not advancing national interests, and maybe this is a better approach. I would think so.

Julian Epstein, you're all writing about it. We appreciate your perspective. Thanks so much. Thanks, Brent. All right, when we come back, we'll take your calls.

I see you up there: 1-866-408-7669. We'll pump you up and get your take. President has returned home. I think he's wheels down in about three hours. And I think he's got a lot of things to be happy about.

And I think what's waiting for him, judging by what Kevin Hassett said a couple of days ago, are a bunch of trade deals. because they've been working nonstop. You listen to the Brian Kill Meet. Both sides, all opinions, it's Brian Killmead. The talk show that's getting you talking.

You're with Brian Kilmead. John, you listen to the Fox News Radio app in California. What's on your mind, John? Come on, Brian. Yeah, you know what, John, hold on.

We'll try to straighten out the phone or call right back. We'll go right to you next. Marty in Florida. Hey, Marty. Hey Brian.

And I'd like to present maybe a little different twist on this Biden cover-up. I think maybe they knew that Biden was gone, but the alternative was Kamala Harris as president. Can you imagine what a disaster that would have been? And they can't say that, because she might still be in the running come the next election. I don't know.

There's a responsible thing to do, Marty, and there's irresponsible. Number one is she was an attorney general. She was a sitting senator. And if they were that against him, they should have spoken up earlier. She was an alternative, but if there was Governor Whitmer there or Governor Bashir there, they would have definitely probably moved earlier.

But he wasn't even capable of doing the job in 2020. I mean, that figured into it. But no one even said a word after the 2022 midterm elections. You didn't hear any of that. In fact, you did hear people, to back up your point, talked about how Kamal Harris maybe shouldn't run as his running mate afterwards.

Remember, Jamie Raskin was asked a bunch of times by Jake Tapper or Anderson Cooper. They're pretty much the same. Uh so do you think that she'd be a good running mate? He thinks so. He thinks so.

Do you think she's doing a good job?

Well, Joe Biden is the only one who needs to be happy with her.

So that was part of it. But just going after saying he was a stutterer. Or we don't like old people. was so insulting. But plus, if I looked around and see he couldn't have a cabinet meeting, couldn't talk, I would say, come on, Harris, we're going to help you out.

You present. You're it. Uh Charles, D Dayton, Ohio. Hey, Charles. Yeah, hi Brian.

Thank you for taking my call. I wanted to make a comment that I heard Wednesday. I believe it was Carl. Talking about the big, beautiful bill and how that they were possibly going to get rid of the taxes for Social Security. Big, big mistake if they do that.

I think that. This will turn around and be his Bush's no read my lips, no new tax if they follow through with that. Yeah, I'm going to get to the bottom of this, but I heard that they're not doing it like they're doing taxes on tips, just eliminating it, but they're doing something else that's pretty cool. And it does have means testing. For example, if you're Ken Langone and worth $100 billion, you're not going to get this type of provision on your Social Security, but they're going to means test it.

But there's going to be something coming back to seniors. I know that, but it might not be a clear-cut tax break. John, we'll try it again in California. Good morning, Brian.

Sorry about that before. Hey, if these reporters and investigators, so-called investigative reporters, want to get built any credibility, let them dig and find out what was actually going on in the White House the last four years, who was running the White House and what kind of scams were going on. A second thing, real quick, I think Trump has set a new standard for other presidents. We no longer should accept this lagging and do nothing politicians. Like Trump used to say, all politicians are all talk, no action.

Absolutely. By the way, John, I always appreciate you called in your support. I do like to know who's running the government, but what they were doing, I bet you it's going to be a bunch. I bet you it's going to be Hunter and Jill. That's what I think happened: Hunter and Jill running the country.

From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone.

Brian Kilman here. Thanks so much for listening. It's been an exciting week.

So great. I mean, I love foreign policy, so I'm definitely in heaven. Tommy Laron, bottom of the hour, Shannon Bream standing by. When the President of the United States reshapes our Middle East policy, where we spend most of our conversations for the last 25 years, why?

Well, think about this. You could go back to Afghanistan. That's when the Russian Empire, the Soviet Empire, fell apart when they got stuck there. That's when Mujahideen was able to formulate and become a real force in the Middle East, sadly. Then 9-11 happens, even the Khobar attacks in 2001.

We go into Afghanistan 2003. We're into Iraq. Then you have the surge in 2008. Then you have. a terror attack, a rise of ISIS in Syria.

We still have troops there today. We still have troops in Iraq. And then we have the ongoing crisis with Iran. Nonstop. When you talk foreign policy, as much as we wanted to talk about China, We never nothing was up until recently happening in Europe.

It was always about the Middle East turmoil and Islamic extremism and oil. And now things have thoroughly changed to the point where we're talking about who is the few countries that don't like us or the one. And look at what all the others are doing with us. I mean, we're watching a president of the United States go to three Gulf states and they couldn't, when these citizens are holding American flags, the world's tallest building is wrapped in an American flag. Our leader, our president of the United States, this is as much as it's people say it's Trump, but any president now, the business we're doing and the approach we have is really being lauded.

by the people and by the leadership at UAE, Qatar. as well as Saudi Arabia. Probably would have felt the same way in Bahrain. The Abraham Accords were the beginning, but a revamp is happening in real time to the point where we even have Democrats taking notice. We're still looking at the big, beautiful bill.

There's a lot of doubt that's going to get at the budget committee today. And of course, the fascinating audio that we saw with the Supreme Court yesterday as they argued for birthright citizenship. If you two illegal immigrant parents have a kid in America, that kid's a citizen. That is not what it was written for. The 14th Amendment is front and center.

We saw that, and we saw the unraveling of the Joe Biden myth that he actually was functioning as a president for four years. It's unraveling before our eyes, and people are running because they don't want to be held accountable. And it's happening in Washington, but it's something we all figured out around the country. Shannon Bream was in the middle of it. Fox News Sunday will tackle it.

She's also our chief legal correspondent. Shannon, fascinating week, don't you think? It is. And like you said, just one week at a time, it seems like was a year of the Biden presidency, the amount of things that happened and that got done and the occurrences, the events. I mean, President Trump had four years to think about what he was going to do.

And you got to think this Gulf region was part of that consideration because he's hit the ground running on this big trip that even some of his critics here in D.C. admit he got a lot done. He did. And I want you to hear Congressman Jim Himes, who you've had on before. And I'll tell you, Shannon.

I've never seen a main Z say anything positive about the president. Nope. Cop five. I'm not in the habit of praising Donald Trump, but I gotta tell you, the last week or so in the Middle East, I think the president has in this last week or so played the Middle East pretty darn well. I gotta give him some kudos there.

And I could play Ben Rhodes and others.

So he's coming back with some deals, and they're specific. And he's coming back with the business CEOs that are going to implement these deals, whether it's energy, AI or military defense. Yeah, so the White House is definitely taking a victory lap. They feel good about this, and they knew going in they were going to have this big economic summit, that they were hoping to come home with these deals. The president feels like it's even better than expected.

But he's also pointing to things that he's doing, shifting foreign policy. Like you said, I know you love this, and that speech that he gave is getting a ton of attention.

Some people love it, saying, okay, great, it's America first. Others say, why are we doing deals with countries that may have different standards and human rights relations issues and things than we do? But President Trump basically said, you know, I want commerce, not conflict, on this trip. I'm not going to come here and lecture your country. You've built your own successes and done your own things.

Seems to be the attitude is if something good can come from it for the U.S., then we're going to do business with you. Interesting because now the front and center, well, there's two things. It's going to be Russia, Ukraine. They are having meetings, even though. Vladimir Putin called it, said he'd be there, didn't, show, and he's got mid-level people doing negotiations.

They are talking in Turkey. But what I find fascinating is some conflicting reports, whether Iran got a proposal from Steve Witkoff about what it would take for them to have sanctions relief and what we're looking for in terms of their nuclear program. Yeah, I mean the president says they've got a deal and it's up to them. And I'm trying to find, I've got the exact quote here from him, but he said this on his return flight after that big trip. He says essentially we have given them a formal proposal.

Steve Wickoff handed that over. He says yes, they have a proposal. Most importantly, they know they have to move quickly or quote something bad is going to happen.

So the clock is definitely ticking. And you may have heard Senator Graham a couple of months ago talking about this, saying there has to be a timeline on the deal for Iran. There has to be a cutoff point at which they know, okay, no more discussions from us. The President has always said, I want a diplomatic solution, but I'm not taking anything off the table. And they have to know that at this point.

But if they if he does if this book this deal looks anything like Obama's deal, like they can enrich only to a certain level and in ten years it evaporates and they don't mention the proxies and don't mention ballistic missiles, I tell you, he's going to be hard for Republicans to digest. Tom Cotton's not going to go with that. Lindsey Graham's not going to go with that. Mark Levin's not going to go with that. I'm not going to go with that.

And I'm the most important. Everybody knows that. Your vote counts the most. Yes, but I just, we have a chance now. They've never been so vulnerable.

Well, and the thing is, Tom Cotton has said, you know, if this deal does come together, first of all, he does have a lot of concerns about what it may be, but also he thinks it needs to come to the Senate for a vote. He was very critical of things that were done in previous administrations that, you know, in a lot of ways, senators felt amounted to a treaty which requires Senate approval. And he thinks that it's something that needs to be done and that it would also give the administration cover if Iran doesn't comply with the terms of whatever is agreed to.

So he's very skeptical about what may end up on paper, but says if it gets there, it needs to come to the Senate for them to sign off too. See, I think as we switch over to birthright citizenship in the Supreme Court, this is to me more up your alley because this is like an academic conversation. Because this is something people debate back and forth. It has nothing to do with Trump. It's how he feels about immigration.

But we've talked about this a lot. I mean, do you really think our founding fathers, or right after the Civil War, when they were trying to figure out how to give everybody the freedom and African Americans the freedom after slavery, making sure people say it's not in your court, they are American citizens, did they really envision people having kids here just to make them citizens, even though they're illegals? Like the Chinese have been abusing our system, and we'll see what's happening across the border.

So the kids become citizens and the parents end up staying. That is not what the 14th Amendment was written for, but you're the legal expert.

Well, that is the very first thing that the Solicitor General argued yesterday when he stepped up to the podium to start with the justices. He immediately started with the history and said, yeah, we have an understanding of what this was about. And like you said, it couldn't have been at the time of the Civil War, which this was meant to protect the children of slaves who were newly freed. It couldn't have been about what we've turned into today.

So the problem for the Trump administration is it's been interpreted the same way for more than 125 years.

So to bring about a drastic change, you're going to have to do a lot of convincing to upend that policy.

Now, the arguments yesterday weren't really supposed to be about that. They were supposed to be about these nationwide injunctions. It just so happened to come in the vehicle of this birthright citizenship case. But the problem is, if you're going to talk to them about getting rid of nationwide injunctions, the court, the justices, they have to think through the practical implications of that. And in this case, you know, the question becomes, all right, well, is a baby born to parents illegally in the U.S.

in New Jersey going to get citizenship? But one in Texas wouldn't what happens when you cross state lines? I mean, there are a lot of practical implications they got to work through. And after sitting through those arguments, scheduled for an hour, lasted for two and a half yesterday, it's very unclear to me what they're going to do. Really?

It's unclear to you, even though you saw Amy Coney Barrett seem very skeptical. Is that true? Yeah, I think That there are so many different conversations that happened yesterday, and one of the main ones they kept going back to was this issue of class action lawsuits.

So not to get too wonky, but if you want to certify a national class, meaning, okay, you get everybody across the country involved in this thing, it takes time. Certifications are not guaranteed. They're expensive, and they take some effort. But that way you could say, okay, if you win this case, now you've won it for the entire country. You wouldn't have to compete with the idea of a national nationwide injunction.

So there was a lot of back and forth about whether you use that option instead of going for a nationwide injunction. And there just was a lot of skepticism from most of the justices. I feel like Justices Alito and Thomas, they seem pretty solidly like, okay, these injunctions are a problem. We've got to get rid of them. But there were questions from Justice Roberts, who, you know, the Chief Justice, I would say he probably leaned their way.

But Justice Gorsuch, Justice Kavanaugh, Justice Barrett, I think they're real questions about where their votes are going to land. Right. But I mean, if if you do you see them saying, well, the more we think about it, birthright citizenship is done, it's finished, it's through. Do you expect something clear cut like that? I don't know.

Because that issue wasn't even really briefed for them for the arguments yesterday. The only question before them was Justice Lito kept reminding them and drawing them back to: we're only here arguing over nationwide injunctions. Yes, it's the context of this broader conversation. But the birthright citizenship stuff wasn't even briefed.

So I think the judges, the justices would feel like it's premature for them to rule on that question. The practicalities are when you deal and rule on the injunction, you are doing something that's going to impact that underlying issue.

Well, the injunctions are a problem, but they're being abused right now. But to get rid of them when something comes in that you might deem as justified would be a mistake. But how do you decide what would be justified? We know the numbers are too high and district courts are taking too much, but how do you legislate something like that? is really tricky.

And this is what Justice Sodomyer, yesterday when she was confronting the administration arguing against these nationwide injunctions, said, okay, well, what if one day a president comes in and says, I think guns are a national emergency, and so I'm going to sign an executive order that all guns get confiscated. That seems like an extreme hypothetical. And obviously, you've got a constitutional right, the Second Amendment, that's implicated by that. And there would be all kinds of legal battles over that. But you know, they wanted to probe it in every possible direction.

As you know, Justice Kagan in the past has questioned the idea of using these injunctions, saying they encourage forum shopping. If you don't like a Trump policy, go find a federal judge in San Francisco that'll shut it down. You don't like a Biden policy, run to Texas and try to get it shut down there. But yesterday, she was very clear, knowing that we've all played that soundbite and that we're all aware of it. She wanted to differentiate this case yesterday.

She said, Well, there was no forum shopping because you've lost in all three lower courts who have ruled on this issue. I don't know that that solves the problem. No, by her statement. Yeah, by statement. She could say you lost in all three conservative courts.

Or liberal, yeah. Exactly. You can play that in a number of different ways.

So I don't think it was a complete convincing shutdown of the argument because people know what she said in the past. What was that, Shannon? What was that? Provision that was passed that allowed people to pick their courts. Wasn't that relatively recent?

Where people are able to pick what court they wanted to bring their case to, as opposed to where they're located.

Well, the fact is, if you can find any connection, you do have to find a jurisdictional connection to the court that you're filing. And you can't just go, well, this is a case in Florida, but I'd rather go to San Francisco. You've got to show that there's an implaintiff or an impact or something there in that district that would be a connection. Because it's very easy to then go in with the argument, like, this court doesn't even have jurisdiction over this. You've seen this with the cases involving Judge Boesberg here in the D.C.

region, where they've been able to successfully argue on some of these. He doesn't have jurisdiction of this, so he shouldn't even be hearing these cases in the first place on some of the things that are before him.

So you do have to have some connection to the district where you file. Interesting. Who do you have this weekend? We have got Jason Smith, House Lazarine's chair. Do they get the big, beautiful deal done?

They're still fighting internally in the GOP. And we've also got Senator Tim Kaine with us. Does he, like Jim Himes, give President Trump any credit on the Middle East trip? We'll see. All right.

That'll be it. I've got to do that on Sunday night. You know, it's funny you bring that up. I was waiting for somebody to ask. I desperately want to know.

I want to find out what's going on in Los Angeles. And Dr. Drew's been working on the homeless problem. Stunned to find out that Governor Gavin Newsom suddenly says, What's going on with these encampments? I'm going to yell at my mayors, even though I put a billion dollars into it.

Also, Gavin Newsom says, I'm trying to rethink giving illegal immigrants health insurance. It turns out we get a lot of illegal immigrants.

So I'm pretty stunned by that, but I want to get somebody who lives out there and try to fix it along with losing the movie industry. We got Chris Ruffo. I would argue that Chris Ruffo had more responsibility for what's going on with the political correctness in our colleges and the affirmative action that's supposed to be a way that's still there and what's happening at Harvard and the administration than anybody else. Chris Ruffo and where it started and the progress he's made getting DEI out of our country. UU, it's going to be with us too.

So I think it's going to be Jim Jordan and Michael Oftus will do the media moments and maybe. Yeah. I was going to ask and you're going to say yes, there will be dancing. Have you seen me do it? I'm going to take a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader's on or something like that.

Did really? You want to see me dance? Didn't you want me to see me have a successful show with high ratings?

Well, I think you should say the dancing for the end, just in case you like pull a muscle or split your pants or something. Save it to the final block. How about keep it to social media?

Well, at least let's start there. All right. Chat, everybody. I know your show is going to be great. Thanks so much.

Cheetah. All right, and One Nation, that'll be Sunday at 10. We'll come back squeezing some calls. Tommy Lara at the bottom of the hour. Then she goes and does outnumbered.

And again, don't move. Illuminating, intriguing, inculcating. I know some of these words. It's Brian Kilmead. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin.

It's Brian Killmead. So, Tommy Lahren is here, and Tommy's doing outnumbered at the top of the hour. You know, she's host of Outkicks. Tommy Lahren is fearless. And, Tommy, just real quick, I went a little long in the segment, but I want to get you to weigh in on this overseas trip.

I'm stunned by how much sound I have of Democrats who seem impressed with what Trump pulled off. What did you think? I think they have to. They have to acknowledge it. And some, though, they'd rather talk about the Diddy trial.

So if you turn on the other networks, it's like they don't want to give too much credit and it's like full Diddy coverage, which is important. We're covering it too. But, you know, earlier in the week, it was the jet from Qatar. That was the big distraction. And then the Diddy trial.

And now they're having to give a little bit of credit where credit is due. It will be short-lived. You can bet on that. Right. Unless he stays on a roll.

And as I just watched Chris Kalizza on the other channel, and they do actually on our channel, rolled in from his podcast. He says he's never seen the Democrats in his career in such disarray. What about you? How do you feel about it, Adeet?

Well, let's look at what they're going through right now at the DNC. Look at poor little David Hogg, right? He didn't meet the gender balance. They're tossing him out. They're tossing out his election result where he was the number two because he wasn't because he was too white.

Well, he's too male, I guess, which is weird to me, Brian, because I thought you could be anything that you wanted to be. And the whole DNC protocol was that they had men, women, they had non-binary.

So I don't know why he doesn't just identify as something else, but he tried to shake up the party. He wants younger voices, more passionate voices. That's not going to help him, but at least it gives some excitement. And they're tossing him out because he's not gender balanced enough.

So the Democrats, they continue to impress us. Van Holland is still upset that Kilmar Brago-Garcia is the only one that's still beating that drum. He's still doing that?

Well, he's got to, though. I mean, he's in so deep. He has to go the distance. He did every Sunday show bragging about that.

Well, I'm not saying he's a great guy. He just should come back here, really. And then we have two human trafficking. We have a guy they just dug out of prison that said he worked for me as a human trafficker. He'd be the one driving, picking up.

And they're very upset. Speaking of that. Going down in Tennessee. They're very upset that ICE is in Tennessee. ICE is in Nashville and has been for the last couple of weeks, taking a lot of criminal aliens off the streets.

And of course, our mayor, he wants to set up a belonging fund for illegal immigrants and their families to help offset the costs of them being deported, rightfully so.

So there's a lot going on in Tennessee right now, too. They are messing with the wrong states. We're pretty red. We've quite literally voted for that. I'm sure that's some of the stupidest things I've seen since what's happening in Newark, New Jersey, where you're rallying outside a perfectly fine facility for murderers and rapists.

More Tommy Larin in a moment. Information you want, truth you demand. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. I'm not in the habit of praising Donald Trump, but I gotta tell you, the last week or so in the Middle East, I think the president has in this last week or so played the Middle East pretty darn well. I gotta give him some kudos there.

And he did that, and I could play Ben Rhodes, too, Obama National Security Advisor. He did a lot of the great moves, and I'm being sarcastic, that Barack Obama did. Remember, Barack Obama gave us the Libya mess. He also was the idea that after the surge, he thought it would be a great idea to pull every one of our troops out of Iraq, and then we got ISIS. Ben Rhodes was behind that, but he says, I got to give Trump credit for going out of the box and not being locked into a doctrine.

Tommy Laren is still with us. You know about her showing out kick. She is fearless, and she's about to go on outnumbered. Are your thoughts about these guys weighing in? Do you feel the same way?

I feel the same way, but I also think being associated with the Democrat Party right now, if you are a serious strategist or individual that wants to have a career, being associated with a Democrat Party right now is toxic, it's poison.

So maybe giving President Trump some credit is their way of subtly distancing themselves from that. And also, they'd rather talk about Trump's success in the Middle East rather than talking about the Biden-tell-all books, because a lot of them are going to be swept up in that.

So, if you're a strategist, you're a Democrat elite in that circle, you'd rather be giving Trump credit than talking about how you covered up Joe Biden's decline, in my opinion. You know, it's so interesting, Tommy, the disconnect. Do you remember after he collapsed in the debate? What did they do? They scheduled like a whole week of appearances, speeches, one-on-one interviews with Stephanopoulos and two or three others.

They thought he could work his way out of it, but every single interview, huge flaws. Stephanopoulos would say later, gutlessly, and say it was sad. interviewing them.

Now they say these bad books are coming out.

So let's put them forward. Two appearances, the BBC and the view. Did it help? It didn't help. And I think Democrats are really hoping that Joe stays home.

But he's not going to because I still don't think that Joe fully recognizes his own decline. But does Jill? She absolutely does. Clay Travis and I were talking about this a lot, and we've both been discussing it. But if this is what his advisors were seeing and the people in his inner circle, what was Jill seeing?

That's evil. That's evil that you allowed that to happen to your husband. My my hunch. Hunter and Jill were running the country. I really believe.

That's a horrifying thought. When you find out the cabinet was locked out and the secretaries were locked out, that's what they're saying, unnamed. But you say that they couldn't get access to them. Who else has access to them? I think they kept it a real tight-knit circle, but we could see it.

This is what's annoying me this week the most: these media members now are saying, well, we were lied to.

Well, then, how come all of us could detect it? You guys are supposed to be journalists, and you couldn't see that there was decline there unless the White House told you there was decline? Like, where was your natural intellectual curiosity or just your ability to see and hear? How about this? Cut 35.

Start your tape right now, because I'm about to tell you the truth. And F you if you can't handle the truth.

This version of Biden. intellectually, analytically. is the best Biden ever. Not a close second. And I've known him for years.

The Brzezinskis have known him for 50 years. If it weren't the truth, I wouldn't say it. What do you say to that? F you, if you don't believe it. F you.

Really? Oh, thank you. How do these people still have jobs? I don't know. Why would you listen to whatever he says after that?

What It was a big lie to the American people, and the American people are quite sick of the lies.

Now we're learning more and more about COVID.

Okay, we were lied to a lot there. We were lied to about Joe. And all these members of the media now coming out saying, oh, well, we're going to get to the bottom of it now. And maybe we should have looked into this a little bit more. It's shocking that they still have time on the airwaves, Brian.

What about this? Jake Sullivan, in his book. It wasn't recognized. The National Security Advisor wasn't recognized. Listen to his response here.

Cut 30. Cut 30. You never saw, you never witnessed this thing that all these aides are talking about to these journalists that sometimes he would just sort of fade away. You never witnessed that. I could just tell you my own personal experience.

I cannot speak on behalf of aides. unnamed people, or and I can't speak on behalf of what folks reacted to when they saw him operating in public. All I can do is tell you my experience with him and that's what I've done. Cut twenty-nine. There's actually an accent in the book where it says he forgot your name in December 2022.

He called you Steve a couple of times. Did that happen? I do not recall that ever happening. And I will tell you, Joe Biden knows my name. He knows my name.

Wait a second. Steve, who? I'm like, who do you think he was? But the rationalizations, and this is still going on for those who are not being completely forthright. Their biggest defense of him was he stood up today.

And Jill on the view, he put in a full day, guys. And then even sometimes at night, he was doing a little more. And that's their biggest thing is, well, you know, he usually remembered my name. And every time I saw him, you know, he was breathing. And they want us to.

To to applaud that? That he was able to function. Right. So here's the thing: the Russia investigation, we know that was a big hoax for two and a half years. And then when the Muller report comes out, they change gears.

And then we know about COVID when it came out.

Now we find out what was going on behind the scenes. Perhaps HHS is more complicit than anybody else. But then we find out about the laptop. Remember in 2000, 2020, if you brought up the laptop, in fact, we have that. Chuck Todd talking about people on the laptop, but.

If you brought up the laptop, you're a conspiracy theorist. And then six months later, the New York Times goes, the laptop is real. We knew it was real. And then they expect us to say, now they want us to believe that Joe Biden was fine.

Now we know he wasn't fine.

So, where is your credibility? Listen to Chuck Todd when asked about the laptop, remember? Instead of Roger Stone and WikiLeaks, it's Rudy Giuliani. And some computer guy In Delaware, so this didn't work.

So he'll try another planted story or another, you know, Russian. You used some other discredited Russian propaganda. And for those of you spreading misinformation, shame on you. Shame on you. I don't know how some of you sleep at night who are doing this for a living.

Television. Listen to angry. He really thought that the laptop wasn't real. We knew it was real. What we have to do is say, Mr.

President, Is this your laptop? Because I'm about to go on the air and or just mister Vice President at the time, I'm about to go on the air. Is it yours? Could it be yours? Is some of these e mails real?

But no one made any of those efforts, including the fifty two Intel agents that swore it was Russian disinformation. A lot of discussion right now about why Fox News and other, I guess, right-wing alternative media podcasting, why are they doing so well right now?

Well, that's exactly your answer. The American people have been lied to over and over and over and over again. They would rather listen to a comedian on a podcast or Joe Rogan, or they would rather certainly watch Fox News than be lied to by all these people who shamed them for simply asking questions. You can't ask about Joe, you can't ask about COVID, you can't ask about vaccines, you can't ask about the laptop, you can't ask about the lab leak theory. They told us all these things were off limits.

They lied to us, and now they wonder why people don't want to watch them anymore.

Well, I have a few hundred reasons why.

So, is there any doubt in your mind that the next person to emerge has to be separate from anyone we've been? Dealing with I mean, Bernie, obviously too old. AOC is too sullied. All these other people, all these other people have been and around Joe Biden. The next person to emerge on the left has to come out, I'd think, of the wilderness.

I mean, right? I mean, it's got to be some mayor we don't know or some lieutenant governor that hasn't established themselves yet. Nobody that was around Joe Biden, and that includes Pete Buttigiege, nobody that was around Biden that experienced that has any credibility or any shot. None of them. That includes Gavin, Whitmer, all of them.

They're all out. It's got to be somebody that's complete unknown. They're waiting in the wings. They're going to wait a couple of years. They don't want to be associated with the Democrat Party right now.

There will be some kind of a movement, and that person will have to be very honest and say, yes, Joe Biden was failing. But the Democrat Party is probably going to snuff that person out too. You know what's interesting is I almost think the analogy is Iraq. Because do you remember that people were so upset about Iraq and whether they're saying that we should not have voted the 70 senators that voted for Iraq?

So Hillary Clinton was vulnerable because this young senator, who's been there for two years, came out against Iraq, even though we never found that tape, we never found his state senate stand. He kept saying, I was never for the Iraq war. You have to find somebody. On the left it said I never believed the Russia thing. I always believed the laptop was real.

And I never thought Joe Biden should have been president. I don't know if anybody can find that person. Or I don't believe that criminal illegal aliens should be out and about walking amongst us. That would be another great one. But then you're essentially a Republican at that point.

I know. At some point. I mean, it's, I am, I have to make sure the murderers and rapists are being treated well in prison. That's how I want to, if I'm the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, that's why I want to go to prison. I'm standing up for illegals.

Yeah. So you're essentially a Republican.

So it's going to be various degrees of Republican conservatives running in 2028.

So I have this thing on my sheet that says she has to be out by 1145. And you know what time it is? Is it 1145? It's sad.

Well, they're calling for me down there. I got to get my outnumbered. Got to get on the couch. All right. Costume changer?

No? No. This is all you're getting. This is the olive I was requested to wear today. Right.

Oh, you hit your color wheel? Yes. Okay. I did not get the olive request. I don't think I could have.

I don't think I own olive, but in the future, I will, just in case. Tommy Laron, thanks so much. We'll watch you in 15 minutes on outnumbered. Perfect. All right, back in a moment.

Increasing your intelligence quotients. What the hell did you just say? It's Brian Killmead. From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Killmead. Sponsored by Previgen.

Previgen, made for your brain. A lot has been made about your relationship with Jordan Hudson. It's been getting a lot of attention. She isn't here this morning, but what do you think about all the attention that your relationship has been getting? Yeah, but she's been terrific through the whole process, and she's been very helpful to me.

She does the business things that don't relate to North Carolina.

So, what did Jordan mean to you?

Well, we have good personal relationships and you know, I'm not talking about personal relationships, Michael. You know that.

So awkward. You know that Strahan has no interest in this. You know that he looks up to Belichick and they got this mutual respect and they got to say, what's it like dating a 24-year-old with a huge personality that seems to be Seems to be the butt of everybody, making you the laughing stock of the league. Changing your entire reputation And he feels terrible because he loves the guy. He was his defensive coordinator.

I think they overlapped. Peter looked that up. No, he left the Giants after 90 and Strahan wasn't there yet. But man, the mutual respect they have for each other. Oh, yeah.

I would actually be tempted if I was Strahan to say I shouldn't do this. Because, of course, he wants to talk to Belichick about winning in football. Yeah. But you can't talk to him without bringing up the girlfriend. And we all know as guys, it's none of our business.

No, I just want to say that it is, you're right. It's so awkward. And I already am putting standing orders to family and friends that if I'm as old, you know, when I get, if I lived long enough to be as old as Belichick in my 70s and I started ogling 20-year-olds, that they should slap me. and put me in my place. And it's too awkward.

It's weird. It is crazy. And by the way, do you see some of those predictions that evidently she's domineering in North Carolina that they don't think he's going to make it to week one? Yeah, there's been some of I forget who his former player was that does thinks he should be fired. Should be fun.

A former player of his. Yeah, former players with the Patriots.

Well, put it this way: I see a lot of guys sticking up for him, Amandola, and Gronkowski sticking up for him. It's awkward, it's like a parent. It's like you're you know you're used to looking up to this guy. And then you see the way he's Throwing his reputation in the street, being run around like this 24-year-old. What's her back story?

I mean, besides trying to be Miss Maine. I mean, there is a you're right, there's a unique connection between a pro football coach or a college football coach and a player, football and players, more so than any other sport because I mean, as a Giants fan, when I hear a guy like Mark Bavaro say he's rooting for the Dallas Cowboys because Bill Bell I mean, because Bill Parcells is coaching there, I'm like, wait, what are you doing? But then you realize they have that bond that transcends the team that he played for.

So now he's got to ask these questions and he's like, you know, why are you asking me that? And he's like, I don't know why I'm asking you that. And by the way, you have to see where they put it about Good Morning America. They think it's COVID. They have him on the biggest table.

It could seat a party of 18. He's on the other side of the table. And Strand's got to talk to him.

Now, the book is about winning in football. He would have done the show anyway. Here's the other thing: Parcel's got a great personality. You know, Bill Walsh had a good personality. Belichick does not have a public, good public personality.

I think probably behind the scenes. Good. He see you know, he shows a little bit of that personality on the pregame uh he was doing, was it with CBS I think it was? He showed a little personality, but he's also in this interview was asked by which we have was asked by Strahan about Tom Brady and how he's the greatest. After every game, Tom always was, we left a lot of points on the field.

We can be better. We might win by 30, and it would be like, you know, we could have won by another 20. You know, I missed this pass. We missed that play. You know, he's always striving for perfection.

And think about Tom, you think about improvement. That's really what football is about. You play once a week. You got six days to prepare, six days to improve and get ready for the game. You know, Tom Brady was a fourth-string quarterback.

I mean, who has a fourth string quarterback? and ended up being the greatest player of all time. And so that's a lot of work, that's a lot of dedication, and that's a lot of commitment and discipline.

So he's really the the poster boy for improvement and consistency.

So the weird thing is, after reading Ian O'Connor's book on Belichick, what happened is he went, he benched Drew Bledsoe, one of the top 10 quarterbacks in the league, certainly number one pick, multi, had one of the biggest contracts in football at the time. He gets hurt. Brady comes in. He stays with Brady. They win the Super Bowl.

They have this bond together because Belichick had never won the Super Bowl, and he got fired in Cleveland, and he got off to a slow start with New England. They got this bond. But somehow they began to grow apart, and they stopped talking. And then Belichick threw out his trainer. He brought his nutritionist.

He didn't like the distraction of Tom Brady's new trainer. He thought he was becoming too much like a star, I guess, although his teammates didn't think so.

So they weren't really talking at the end. In fact, when it was time for Brady to move on to Tampa, he went to see Kraft. He never went to see Belichick.

Now it's Belichick that doesn't like Kraft, and Brady likes both of them. And Listen, they go to it's almost like you know, you go to battle. You're going to have ups and downs. Clearly, there's mutual respect there, and they're able to pull away from it. But I don't know why he's so bad at craft.

Because he got fired, I guess. I think there's more to it about that Kraft maybe spread the word behind the scenes.

Well, I know about that. Yeah. About the Falcons. Yeah. The Falcons, Arthur Blank was about to hire Belichick.

He just did a call to Bob Kraft and said, hey, listen, I'm about to hire your guy. Anything I should know? And essentially, Kraft said, yeah, you're going to lose control of the team. He wants nothing to do with the owner. I just want you prepared.

He's going to control every aspect of it. It kind of took the fun out of me. It took the fun out of it for me and my family. Uh okay, I'll pass. And then the radar, all the other jobs were filled.

The Raiders didn't want him this time with Brady there as owner.

So. It's interesting. Richard in South Carolina. Hey, Richard. Hey, how you guys doing today?

Good, what's in your mind? I had originally called in um about Joe's decline With that last call or um Talking about, you know, you guys are talking about who the Democrats are going to pick next time is. It's going to be Bernie and AOC. They're gonna go back to the same formula. Old white grandpa, they're pretty young.

Can you imagine Bernie Sanders? Do you know you know what? I have a theory. I have a theory, Rich. I don't think Bernie Sanders ever wanted to be president.

I think he wanted to run for president. That's why he allowed himself to be sidelined because he never runs anything. He says the same thing every speech. Excuse me, I'm talking. Right.

Every speech. I don't think he ever wants to run it. He never never was governor. Never in a business. Never in a college.

Never in a classroom. This is all this guy ever did is just rant about capitalism.

So, and plus he's 100 years old. But I don't and they might go to AOC. I don't think so. I don't think she's that popular. Isn't that nice?

What else do you have left of him? I have no idea what's going to talk about him. Hey, quick announcement. Don't forget One Nation this weekend. I got Chris Rufo.

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