Newsom: Trump ‘inflamed’ Los Angeles riots

From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Hi everyone, Brian Kilmead here. Thanks so much for listening. A lot going on today.

Of course, a lot of unrest in the country, but a lot moving on politically. We're just a couple of days away from a huge parade on Saturday where the president's going to be celebrating not only his birthday, which is not the main reason, but the birth of the Army and Flag Day together. This hour, we're going to be joined by Tommy Tupperville. He wants to, he's Senator Tommy Tupperville. He wants to be governor Tommy Tupperville, but he's on armed services and they're looking at the Pentagon on their budget today.

And Rich Lowry, editor of National Review. And Kevin Zinger is here, Diversion 3D founder. And we have a lot to discuss with him in terms of Pentagon spending.

So let's get to the big three. Number three.

So, hopefully, Elon figures it out, comes back into the fold. The president doesn't. Think. That he needs to be in a blood feud with Elon Musk. And I actually think of Elon.

Chilled out a little bit, everything would be fine. J.D. Vance, that was earlier, and now it seems J.D. Vance was right. Musk flat-out admits he went too far in his post versus Trump and Trump world.

What does that mean for the two Titans? We'll discuss. Number two. We have reached a framework. implement The Geneva consensus.

So the idea is we're going to go back and speak to President Trump and make sure he approves it. And we're going to go back and speak to President Xi and make sure he approves it. U. S. and China come to a handshake deal in London and more.

The President put it on Truth Social.

So it's a framework going forward. The market though is reacting to slightly up but reacting to inflation slightly up. Number Donald Trump. without consulting California law enforcement leaders commandeered 2,000 of our state's National Guard members. This brazen abuse of power by a sitting president inflamed a combustible situation.

That's Governor Gavin Newsom, and he got that wrong. It's 4,000. Day five of the LA riots, and Newsom decides anarchy is to be blamed on the man who brought law enforcement to the streets of his city in a state which he's been trying to run and been doing it badly for the last seven years. Any hope of Newsom jogging to the center, as he did in his podcast, to maybe get the Democratic nomination and have a shot at winning the general, I think are gone now. He has made himself up as the adversary of the president.

But what happened yesterday, also on Capitol Hill in the backdrop, is Secretary of Defense Pete Hagseth going up to bat for his budget and what he's going to need his spending for. And the National Guard, by the way, costs $136 million. One of the people. We hope to get some Pentagon dollars, is a contractor from Divergent 3D. He's the founder, Kevin Zinger.

He has cutting-edge ways to move our Pentagon forward, and we hope people are listening. Kevin, welcome. Hey, thanks. Great being here, Brian. What do you think?

Did you be able to watch any of the hearings yesterday? I wasn't, honestly. I was traveling yesterday. People were looking at the budget in the Pentagon. One of the first things they say is there's so much redundancy and it's such a huge bureaucracy, they couldn't even do an audit.

For them to tap into companies like yours, They have to be able to move. Uh in a in a cutting edge way. Can they? They can. The question is How do you take initial steps that they have taken and accelerate those?

who drives it and who breaks up. The bureaucratic process. That is going to push back against any of that change. What could Divergent bring to the Pentagon? I mean, what Divergent is doing, and I'll say we already have around $50 million in the fiscal year 25 budget to replicate a factory near an Air Force base, and there's about $131 million in the fiscal year 26 budget to do this.

What we're doing is fully digital engineering and manufacturing.

So, for anything from a Micro torpedo to a cruise missile system to a collaborative combat aircraft. We are today. For the major primes and Department of Defense, generating using AI those structures fully engineered and optimized, far fewer parts, reduced supply chain. Then we 3D print those with the requisite alloy, with the requisite metal. In far fewer parts.

We're taking hundreds of parts, say, for a cruise missile system, and reducing it down below 10 parts. Taking away that supply chain from China. And then we have an intelligent robotic cell, which takes anything produced in that printer and assembles that. That can be done for everything from Tomahawk cruise missiles to the new unmanned airland, sea, and space vehicles. to replacement parts for planes, aircraft, ships and other things.

It is being done today.

So what I will say is that the Department of Defense at the highest level, the White House, the Primes, Like a Lockheed Martin or an Andrel, they are all working with us today, and it's taking the first steps to do that. That will massively reduce cost, massively reduce reliance on the supply chain, but it needs to be accelerated. How cutting edge is this? I mean, if you're describing something I wasn't even thinking was possible, of course, we heard of 3D printing. In fact, they did a feature, they were talking about how they can use it in the space program.

but I did not know they could use it on defense. How new is this? This is one of one in the world.

So everything I've just described has all been invented and built within one company. By our company. I'm the lead inventor. I have over 220 of the 750 patents that were generated within eight years. No one else on the planet remotely has this capability.

That's why. We have machines running if you ever visit our factory, which at one moment at one moment are building rear frames for the Aston Martin vantage. Nobody thought. It would happen for 20 years that the actual crash performance structure of a normal passenger car. Would be AI designed, 3D printed, and shipped from Southern California to the UK, for example.

And it moves from Aston Martin to a Lockheed Martin cruise missile back to back-to-back.

So, what kind of contracts have you done already with the Pentagon, or do you still have to sell what you guys do to the people that make the acquisitions and write the checks? We have 18 contracts in place right now. Those are in the initial phases.

So, we just started in aerospace and defense, I'd say, in the last. Two years, but almost immediately people saw this as a revolutionary. Breakthrough, both at the Pentagon, the White House, the current White House, and all of the defense primes. We work with everybody in the United States. You're out in California, right?

We are, but that's not the vision. The vision is: imagine this is like Amazon Web Services. Imagine this is as portable, as distributable as a data center, right? These are like servers. They're printers and assembly cells that are design agnostic.

One factory, one machine can do any product generated on it, right? It can move from printing product A to product Z seamlessly and assemble it. We want to have. within the next year a dozen factories and then move to hundreds of factories across the United States that reindustrialize America. If you don't mind me asking if you've been tell if you're allowed to, can you tell me what the contracts are for?

What are you building? These are things I'd say primarily: they're the airframes, the warhead without the energetics, the propulsion systems for munitions and missile systems, and unmanned air, land, sea, and space vehicles.

So, Kevin. I come to you and I say, I got the jet engine. I got the engine. This is the engine I want. But I got parts all over the place.

I got Vietnam, China.

So I come to you and I say, Bring my bring my invention. to your technology. Or are you inventing the technology and are you mass producing? And manufacturing. The technology we've created is the system for designing and managing true.

So imagine this isn't a single product. This is the infrastructure that allows somebody seamlessly, say an analogy would be in the content world, and you've seen what ha has happened with the impact of digital content on analog content. Imagine in the world of you know, atoms, physical world instead of digital content. You have something that's the equivalent of an AI that would generate content and then print it in a, say, Mac desktop publishing. Imagine that you're generating a perfectly engineered structure for a plane or for a torpedo or for a missile system in hours instead of years.

And then you can print and assemble it. Tell me about your partnership with Palantir. Palantir is obviously a leading software provider. They want to provide their customers with the ability basically to have a one-click to the Divergent Adaptive Production System, where you click on that, we can provide sustainment parts, we can provide other parts they may need in the supply chain almost instantly. This is ultimately a patriotic thing for you to do.

To take this technology and make America stronger. Does that feel good? Yes. I mean, I served as an infantry rifleman in the Marine Corps Reserves. My brother served during the Vietnam era, enlisted.

Both my parents served and enlisted during the Second World War. It's clear right now We lost that Second World War advantage in manufacturing. We've gone from 45% global manufacturing market share to under 15%. China is now moving above 40%. We need to leapfrog them.

We need to do that, or we won't exist as a country anymore. And that's why that's our mission. Kevin Zinger, you're well on your way. Divergent 3D, and I want to come out with you with One Nation. We'll put this thing whenever you can without giving away your secrets.

Put this thing on camera. Kevin, thanks so much.

Okay, looking forward to it. Yeah, we come back. Senator Tommy Tubberville, don't move.

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without consulting California law enforcement leaders commandeered 2,000 of our state's National Guard members to deploy on our streets illegally and for no reason. This brazen abuse of power by a sitting president inflamed a combustible situation. putting our people. Our officers and even our National Guard at risk.

So you have riots. Trump comes in with the National Guard and the Marines because you can't get your LAPD to back up ICE officials, and it's Trump's fault. That's what Gavin Newsom wants you to think. Senator Tommy Tubberville might have a different point of view. He wants to be the next governor of Alabama, but right now he's got his hands full as senator.

Senator, your reaction to what Gavin Newsom's positioning and accusation says. Brown, what a disaster. My God, I've seen third world countries run better than California under this governor. It's a dumpster fire. You know, the woke Democrats, they're just pouring gasoline on it.

You know, deporting illegals is an 80-20 issue. Obviously, the Democrats are siding with the 20%. And, you know, they didn't learn anything from the last election. President Trump just keeps on winning. Gavin Newsom should go to jail.

He owns this 100%. President Trump's approval rating is scarce. skyrocketing for a president that's that's polled over fifty states, not just one complete anarchy. And President Trump's exactly right with this. We've got to get control of it.

The people of the good people of California deserve better.

So what you went out and put on Twitter, you're burning Los Angeles to the ground to protect illegal aliens. I would say stick to governing, but you clearly aren't doing very good at that. He came back and said Alabama has three times the homicide rate of California. Its murder rate of TikTok's third in the entire country. Stick to football, bro.

What's your reaction to Gavin Newsom telling you go back to football?

Well, he's using that funny math when he says that we have more murders. I mean, they have more people killed and murdered in a week than we have in Alabama in a year. They don't of course they don't go by any stats. They make up their own statistics. You know, you'd love to be able to do that.

And of course, the Democrats and the Blue States love to do that, and they try to sell that to the American public. This guy's a joke. He's a complete joke. He's ruining his career. He had ruined it already, but but he had just.

As I said earlier, put gasoline on the fire on this. There's no leadership skills that these Democrats, all they want to do is change our country to something that's. Third world. We're not going to allow it to happen. President Trump's not going to allow it to happen.

And I'm telling you, the American people are sick and tired of this nonsense. And I hope it doesn't escalate, but I don't see good things happening for this weekend coming up. I know. I'm hearing that over and over again. And yesterday we found out about some unrest in New York, unrest in Denver, in San Antonio, in Dallas, and in Austin, Texas.

But the governor of Texas made moves right away. 15 arrested in New York City. They said, be aware, we're not going to let what happened to Los Angeles.

So perhaps the mayor gets it. In Philadelphia, as I mentioned too, Denver, there were some arrests.

So I like the precedent the president's setting. If you can't control it, I will. That's something he learned this time around. What is your greatest worry?

Well, protecting our law enforcement. You know, these men and women go out there and put a badge on and a uniform on every day with a sidearm. No one knows what's not what's going to happen to them.

Now the Democrats have just made it that much worse. How do you make it worse? You don't support them. You don't get behind them and say, listen, you do not touch our law enforcement. What they say goes, but there's no rule of law with this Democratic Party.

They hate the DOJ. They hate our justice system. They want to change it. All these woke judges that are pushing all these injunctions on President Trump want to continue this to happen.

Something's got to give. And I tell you what's going to give is. This Democratic Party is going to back down. President Trump is the leader of this country, and he's standing up for the free people of this country, people that actually pay the bills, Brian. This is absolute nonsense.

We've got to get discipline and moral values back in our country. But when you've got union leaders just standing up and saying these nonsensical things to our education system, when A major majority of our eighth graders are not proficient in reading. You have got to be kidding me. It is a disaster from top to bottom. I think you're more built as a coach.

I think you're more built as a governor than senator instead of being one out of 100. I know a lot of governors are frustrated, like Joe Manchin said, so frustrated going from governor to senator. You're really looking forward to being control of Alabama, right, Senator? I mean, that was a tough decision because you made inroads and you have an ally in the White House, but you're going to go for governor now, right? Yeah.

Well, and the reasoning behind that is I've been up here five years. I got a year and a half to go. I'm going to stand beside President Trump on everything that he's doing. We've got to continue to do that. But as he said, we're giving more money, more power back to the states.

I'm a builder. I'm a football coach. That builds winning teams. And we're going to do the same thing in Alabama. We're going to have a lot of help, though, from President Trump and the federal government.

Cutting back on reforming entitlements, doing things where the states are not as responsible. But we want the power back in the states to control education, control health care, control our infrastructure, let the states do it. Obviously, the federal government has been at Complete disaster over the years. We've had no string of long leadership up here. We go back and forth.

And again, now we're getting to these progressive left people that absolutely don't believe in this country and they want to tear it down. And that's really, I want to go back and protect and support the state of Alabama. Right. And where do you think we only have a minute left, but where do you think you make the most immediate impact with your state that I know has education struggles as well as poverty struggles? Yeah, the two things that you have to really.

Oh. Um look at and try to make stronger is your health care and your education. There's two things. In health care, there's people getting older and older. And if you look at the the background of this, your economy grows if your health care is strong.

Same thing with education. We're not as strong as we could be in education. From top to bottom, we've got a lot of good teachers and a lot of good stools, but the problem is. You know, when you've got five million people in your state, you've got to educate from the top to bottom. I saw that being a football coach, and that's where it all starts: educating your people.

Yeah, and when you were coaching, kids actually had to go to school. I'm not too sure Division I athletes are doing that. That's sad. But, Senator Tommy Tubberville, thanks so much. A talk show that's real.

This is the Brian Kill Me Show. We are one year away from the World Cup. This is about beautifying our city and bringing our city together. And so I am calling on business leaders, community leaders, faith leaders to come together downtown in the next few days to talk about how we are going to clean up the city. Obviously, city workers are already out there removing the graffiti, but this is so extensive it's going to take community-wide involvement.

We need people from all over the city to come to downtown and to help with this effort. Really, it's up to everyday people to clean up a city that illegal immigrants and their supporters defiled. Are you crazy? That is the butt-backwards attitude that is Mayor Bass, the butt of most people's jokes, and one of the worst leaders in our country.

Now it's up to me to go around with a sponge and go clean up the buildings that you let run wild. And you blame Trump for bringing in law enforcement when it was your LAPD that wouldn't back ICE officials who are doing the work of the federal government rounding up illegal immigrant criminals. And yes, there are criminals. And if you're hanging out and you're a dishwasher here illegally and you're hanging out with a thug criminal here illegally, you're going to get scooped up too. Because fundamentally, you broke our law to begin with.

And you want to rally for that. And now you want citizens here legitimately earning a living who have maybe been stopped in traffic on the 101 freeway by demonstrators to go and spend their Saturday cleaning up the city you can't control. It's nuts. Rich Lowry is the editor of National Review. Richard.

I can't believe what I'm witnessing. Trump's the bad guy now? Yeah, I know. Remember, they always say he's the chaos president, but his offense here is just enforcing the law. And the forces of chaos have been the people opposing him on the streets, opposing law enforcement on the streets, not just attacking ICE agents, but attacking LAPD.

And you have a mayor who's basically Mayor Jeff Davis who says everything will be fine if the federal government just doesn't enforce the law within her city limits. That's insane. She's blaming the good guys and taking the side in effect, although she says there shouldn't be violence, of the people resisting federal authority. It's totally backwards.

So here's the president yesterday. He says, this is what he's learned the second term. He's not going to wait. Here he is. He was at Fort Bragg.

Addressing the troops in the Army as we get set to celebrate 250 years of the U.S. military. Cut six. In my first term, I waited for governors to call in the military, and they didn't want to do it. And I watched Minneapolis and other places burn for a long time.

And I said, when are you going to call? When are you going to call? And I said, if I ever do this again, if they're not responsive at the beginning, not at the end. You know, I called in the military in Minneapolis, but it was seven days. I waited for this guy, the same guy that ran.

For vice president. He's a very dumb person.

So you get it. That's what he's doing. He did not hesitate. Did he make the right move? I think so.

Certainly justified under the law, he has ample legal authority, but if he's not invoking the Insurrection Act, which really requires a fullborn rebellion, all these folks can do is protect our Federal personnel and our Federal property.

So what you had is, you know, like it was 200 National Guard guys standing in front of the Federal Building. How's that bad? How does that harm anyone? How'd that provoke anyone? How's anyone provoked by that who doesn't want to attack the federal building?

So it's a fairly limited role. And then there's this just enormous freak out about it. And again, it's the LAPD who are in the streets jostling with these protesters and getting their cars burned and getting rocks thrown at them and fireworks thrown at them. That's hideously wrong. But those aren't forces under the control of Donald Trump.

They're legitimate law enforcement forces in the city, and they were targeted too. Here's the thing.

So you seem hesitant. You're not sure if he did the right thing, it sounds like, Rich, because if you do the Insurrection Act, you can go do it. If not, the governor's got to request it. Is that what you're saying? No, no, no.

He clearly, this was under his legal authority, right? Because he has the inherent presidential authority under the Constitution. It's being challenged in court, as you know. Yes, but I think he'll win on that. And there's also a statute that says the same thing.

If there's a invasion or imminent invasion, rebellion or imminent rebellion or and I think this is the key clause, you can't enforce the law with irregular forces, Gotcha. Here is Gavin Newsom saying that this is all part of Trump's plan, cut 10. He doubled down on his dangerous National Guard deployment by fanning the flames even harder. And the president He did it on purpose. As the news spread throughout LA, anxiety for the for family and friends ramped up.

protests started again. By night, several dozen lawbreakers became violent and destructive. They vandalized property. They tried to assault police officers. Many of you have seen the video clips of cars burning on cable news.

Right, so that's why he brought him in, and also the lack of coordination or intentional lack of coordination between the LAPD and ICE. They're getting overwhelmed by numbers. Trump's like, I'm not going to put there and have my federal officers. je uh life in b jeopardize because people play in politics. Yeah, and look, on Sunday night, the chief of police there in Los Angeles was asked about the National Guard.

Are they justified? And he wouldn't say, right, clearly it's a politically fraud issue, and he can't speak frankly about it if he thinks it's a good idea. But he did, what he would say is, like, our officers are overwhelmed, right? This is out of control.

So, how does it hurt or harm things to have to need to deploy fewer police to protect federal property or federal officers? Because the guard is doing it. It just seems common sense seems that that's at least helping at the margins.

So, blaming Trump for this is crazy. And what they won't say is what they need to say. This is federal law. Federal agents can come into our city and do these raids. No one should obstruct them.

We don't have to cooperate. That's what being a sanctuary city is, but we can't stop the federal government from enforcing its laws. Proto-secessionism, and we're not going to have it. But they won't speak that way because they don't believe that. Gavin Newsom wants to make this his moment, yet he spent all these months trying to be more of a centrist, listening to Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk on his podcast.

But now he's putting himself as a left-wing pro-illegal immigrant zealot by going out there and doing that address yesterday for about 15, 20 minutes. Yeah, so much for his turn to the center. I think he's a good political performer, and for his purposes, I think that was a pretty good speech. But California's such a left-wing place, that this is just where the center of gravity is. in LA and California.

So he's kowtowing to that. And the left of the party is is highly influential.

So if they were upset at him over tacking to the center a little bit on trans stuff, he's hoping that's forgotten now. Maybe.

So this is what a lot on the left are citing. This is President Trump in 2020, Cut 7. We have laws. We have to go by the laws. We can't move in the National Guard.

I can call insurrection, but there's no reason to ever do that, even in a Portland case. We can't call in the National Guard unless we're requested by a governor.

So that was his stance then. He truly feels differently now. People are going, oh, look, what happened to that Donald Trump? He was wrong on the law. Again, this is clearly part of his inherent presidential authority, and the statute they invoke, because it 12406 clearly justifies calling up the guard without the governor in this instance.

It's happened before. It's very rare. Last time was LBJ in 1965, but I think this is one he'll clearly win in the court. See, Bridge, this is the thing. This plays into the same thing that we've been discussing.

The Russian hoax were thinking, what is this about? Turns out there was nothing there. There was a diabolical plot launched by Hillary Clinton, executed by Mark Elias, to said to make Trump look like an agent, even after he won, fail. And no one ever admitted to it. No one ever paid the price for that, in my view.

Then the impeachment. Bad phone call short, but an impeachment, you got to be kidding me. And then we hear about the laptop and what Joe Biden was up to in the leading up to the 2020 election, what his family was really doing. We're told the laptop is not real. We knew it was real.

You and I knew it was real. But America didn't get confirmation until after the election. New York Times writes about it. No one ever paid a price for lying. And the 51 intel agents.

Then we tell, we watch Joe Biden, we go, this guy can't think, he can't talk, he can't walk. And then after four years, they go, yeah, he can't do any of those things.

So this is lie after lie after lie. We've been calling out. They catch up, but there's no price to be paid.

Now we hear violence is not bad in LA. It's all about Trump trying to score political points. Is it the same thing? Yeah, yeah, it's a version of the same thing. And look, Trump would be happy for all the cities to suddenly go quiet and be peaceful, right?

Sure. It was peaceful last night. And what did Trump do? He quote about it. He took credit.

He took a victory lap.

So he wants these raids to happen. He doesn't want riots over the raids. If there are riots, he's going to deal with them. And this is one thing that I think is really important, Brian. I hope our side does not implicitly concede that there's anything wrong with work site raids.

I think they're absolutely necessary to dealing with this problem. They shouldn't be fundamentally targeting the laborers. They should be targeting the employers who are lying to the federal government and engage in widespread fraud with these records. And you just need to convince employers that can't do that. And when they stop doing that, then it's harder to get a job here.

And then maybe people start to leave on their own, which would be the easiest way to do it. Which we are. We're giving incentives to self-deport.

Meanwhile, there are some groups organizing this unrest: CHURLA, Coalition for You May. Main immigration rights got a million dollars from the DHS, Joe Biden's DHS, and from China. Healthy Hearts providing PPE along with the Long Los Angeles Poverty Department, PPE, and masks as well as shields to a lot of these protesters. The homeless nonprofit is also handing out equipment. They give money for hotel stays and legal aid should they get arrested.

Many of these are NGOs. Back to what Musk said. He thinks it's the single most corrupt thing in our government. Yeah, the Democrats fund their own groups that are all left-wing and that are all political activists and push the party to the left and engage in this sort of agitation.

So this is something that Moscow is absolutely correct about and needs to continue to be a focus. These groups shouldn't be funded by the federal government. About two hours ago, out of London, day two of talks have yielded the framework for an agreement with China. Here's Howard Luttnick, Cut 31. We have reached a framework.

to implement the Geneva Consensus and the call between the two presidents. Right, so that was on June 5th.

So we've combined those two. We've reached a framework for implementation.

So the idea is we're going to go back and speak to President Trump and make sure he approves it. They're going to go back and speak to President Xi and make sure he approves it. And if that is approved, we will then implement the framework that we have worked hard over these last two days.

Well, there are certain chips that they want that we froze, and we want rare earth, and they have eighty one percent of the count the world's rare earth, and it froze, and it helps tech, and it helps our military, and it looks like that happened. Also, they want to be able to put Students in our colleges looks like they got that. Any thoughts about what you know so far and what your reflection are? The market's up slightly. Yeah, so we need to see every last detail and then what the final agreement is.

But I just don't trust the Chinese. I don't think they didn't follow up on the last deal, whenever it was in the first term, I forget what year. And I don't trust him here.

So I think 145% was unsustainable. They said it was unsustainable. Pettiness said it was unsustainable.

So we need to get down to a different level. But the play here should be to have China outside of free trading arrangements we have with the rest of the countries that are either free democracies or allies. That should be the end goal. The big, beautiful backtrack. Elon Musk says he regrets some of his posts about President Trump.

He says he went too far. He put that on social media. He said, you know, you could say that he went too far saying he would have lost the Senate without him. He would have lost the election without him. That he was part of Jeffrey Epstein's list.

He regrets putting out perhaps that the Dragon spacecraft will stop, will be decommissioned immediately when President said maybe. They'll take away some of your contracts. Where do you think this heads? Man, that's a considering where we were, this is pretty big news. Yeah, it's much better.

Look, those are crazy things he was posting. He was clearly just in a fit of rage and not thinking. This was a really fruitful collaboration between the two of them.

So I hope, you know, Trump was sort of giving them the back of his hand in interviews over the weekend saying he's not interested in talking or getting back together. I'm not sure that stands on his end if Elon continues to make nice, but it's never going to be what it was, but it needs to be better than it is now.

So I hope they get back together. Elon's a major. asset even with his deficiencies. And his, you know, volatility, obviously. And there's no way he was going to be a Democrat because they're against almost everything that he's been talking about for the last year and a half.

He's not a traditional conservative. Neither is Joe Rogan. But the stuff that he's talking about, the common sense, you're not going to find it on the other side. They're just not. No.

Nor is he going to start another party that never works.

So, again, I hope they get back together. And this was, you know, Elon had a historical role in that election. Whether, you know, Trump wins Pennsylvania or not without him. I think Trump probably does, but still, it helped, you know, and it was close till the end, so every bit helped. And he's also just hugely talented, hugely talented.

I mean, a world historical entrepreneur.

So you prefer to have him on your side rather than not. He's got the robots rolling out in robo-taxis next week, and he's still trying to build tunnels under traffic underneath cities in order to avoid traffic. Taxis need to avoid downtown L.A. for the time being, Brian. The writers hate robo-taxis.

Right. Of course, the robo-taxis are the problem. Without them, we would have no way. Immigrant issues. Rich, thanks so much.

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It's Brian Killmead. And one of the things they're doing, and one of the reasons why the left is so upset about this, is because they found a way to break through the sanctuary city laws. The U.S. attorney in Los Angeles has come up with a strategy where it used to be you'd do an ICE detainer, and the local officials could reject the ICE detainer. They wouldn't have to cooperate with it.

So what they're doing is they're charging them with criminal re-entry into the country. They're going through their fingerprints, finding who's in the jails and who entered the country a second time, and they're charging them with a felony, and the local officials can't reject a felony warrant. And so they've arrested hundreds, about 350 people this way. And this is going to be something that's going to, it's being tested in Los Angeles, and it's going to go to every sanctuary city in the country over the next year. There are going to be thousands and thousands of people picked up in these sanctuary cities, and that's why the left's upset.

That is true. That's one of the many reasons. Plus, they were caught flat-footed. And I don't agree that things were quiet last night. I mean, I watched a lot of video that was extremely disturbing.

And I used to live out in LA. The 101 freeway is the center of everything outside the 10. I was on that more than anything else. And when you just go ahead and shut down the freeway, even though we have intelligence, social media, we have LAPD, Highway Patrol, as well as the National Guard, now the Marines, and they still were able to get out there and stop traffic. I mean, it doesn't win me over.

If I'm trying to make a living and you stop me at 4 o'clock from getting home at 4 p.m. during maximum rush hour, do you think you win me over?

Now, honey, I'm late, but at least you know I was stopped in traffic and my life put on hold for the good of illegal immigrants, many of which are criminals. Do you think that ever comes up? But in terms of popularity, it's not just me that's saying it. On CNN, their pollster, Howard Enton, cut 16. Immigrant citizens, immigrant voters, foreign-born voters have gone tremendously to the right on this issue in 2024 and 2025 versus where they were in 2020.

Again, there is no block of voters that shifted more to the right from 2020 to 2024 than immigrant voters. And Donald Trump, at least in some surveys, actually won that vote. Immigrant citizens have become increasingly unfavorable in their views. of those immigrants who are here illegally.

So I think it's so important when we're talking about this debate from a political angle to separate those out who are undocumented immigrants versus those who are here legally and those who are citizens and those who are voters, because that group of voters has felt increasingly distant from those immigrants who are here legally. Co couple of things. If you're against immigrants, that's as bad as being against Christians or Jews. That's crazy. You're here legally and people have a problem with you.

That's their problem. Not yours. Illegal immigrants, that's a problem for America, you gotta go. And for criminals, you're gonna be sent out, you're gonna be jailed and sent out to a foreign jail. American people are behind all those three things, and that's not a stretch.

Go to BrianKilme.com. I want to see you next Saturday night in Dayton, Ohio. WHIO, listeners, especially, History, Liberty, and Laughs. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show. Brian.

In Killmead. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the Brian Kill Me Show. I come to you from Midtown Manhattan, where there were anti-ICE riots yesterday, but they were in control. No damage done.

15 arrested. And it did spread to Dallas and it did spread to Denver and some other places. But the big problem remains Los Angeles. This hour, they're going to be joined by two of the finest soccer players in the world, Alexei Lawis and Carly Lloyd, in their day.

Now they've turned into superstar analysts for Fox. Talk about the World Cup. A year ago, yesterday, would have begun the World Cup.

So it starts next year. I can't wait. And there's going to be Gold Cup games too. Gives the U.S. an idea how good they are, how much progress they got to make.

Before we get to our in-studio guest, Miranda Devine, fresh show of an interview with the President of the United States, let's get to the big three. Number three.

So, hopefully, Elon figures it out, comes back into the fold. The president doesn't think. That he needs to be in a blood feud with Elon Musk. And I actually think of Elon. chilled out a little bit, everything would be fine.

Right, Musk flat out admits he went too far in some of his posts against Trump and Trump world. What that means for the two Titans. Number two. We have reached a framework. to implement The Geneva Consensus.

So the idea is we're going to go back and speak to President Trump and make sure he approves it. We are going to go back and speak to President Xi and make sure he approves it. And they've left London, and that is Howard Luttnick, along with Scott Besant, who along with Jamison Greer, have left their meetings with very productive meetings with China. They have come to a handshake deal in London, as you just heard. What it means and will it hold?

Number Donald Trump. without consulting California law enforcement leaders commandeered 2,000 of our state's National Guard members. This brazen abuse of power by a sitting president inflamed a combustible situation. Day five of the Los Angeles riots, and Newsom decides anarchy is to be blamed on the man who brought law enforcement to the streets. Make sense of that.

Any hope of Newsom jogging to the center in order to get the Democratic nomination in a couple of years is pretty much by the boards. He wants to be the adversary of Trump. The American people think illegal immigration not too good. We'll see where he stands. Miranda Devine, welcome back.

Thanks so much, Brian. Of course, the New York Post, I want to get to your interview, but I just want to get your take on the riots and the President's reaction to them, and that is to send 4,000 National Guard and 700 Marines without asking the Governor.

Well, look, I mean, the LAPD and the commissioner there said he was overwhelmed, and they're grateful for the National Guard backup. And, you know, ICE agents were under threat, and Karen Bass, the mayor, was not protecting them. The commissioner of the LAPD in the beginning said, We are not going to be involved in these ICE immigration roundups. And so you see the violence, you see the rocks being thrown, you see these masked invaders running around with foreign flags, setting fire to cars, attacking law enforcement. This could easily get out of control.

And I think Donald Trump learned from the Summer of Love when he said he sort of thought, well, I'll let the governors make the decision. But the governors in these blue states did not make decisions either because they're weak and they don't want to alienate their constituencies or because they actually think this is a way to hurt Trump. Trump. Maybe they think that they won the 2020 election because of those rights, or they were helped by the chaos that ensued and the sort of appearance of a president, a law and order president who was unable to stop them. Donald Trump's not going to let that happen again.

And he's so fierce about it and very energized because he knows that the American people want this done.

So um Gavin Newsom wants to be the adversary of Trump. He sees advantages to taking that on. He wants to be the tough guy.

Now, he sees the unrest, but he says Trump is to blame. Cut 12. He chose more force. He chose theatrics over public safety. He federalized another 2,000 Guard members.

He deployed more than 700 active U.S. Marines. These are the men and women trained for foreign combat, not domestic law enforcement. We honor their service. We honor their bravery.

But we do not want our streets militarized by our own armed forces. Not in LA, not in California, not anywhere.

Well, they are. I'm not sure what the Marines are going to be able to do with rules of engagement, but it's up to the National Guard to guard federal buildings, which are full of expletives and they've been graffitied, and they tried to get into the detention center.

Well, I mean, they were attacking the LAPD headquarters. They smashed rocks into the windows. They won't stop, as Kamala Harris said. They won't stop and they shouldn't stop. And Democrat leaders around the country are encouraging this.

They're emboldening the protesters, so-called, the rioters, and pretending, you know, on the media we have a lot, you know, MSNBC, CNN are calling these rallies mostly peaceful. They haven't learned the lessons of 2020. You shut down a rally? Do you shut down the 101 freeway with a rally? Yeah, you throw rocks at police cars and injure police officers with a rally?

No. These are professional insurgents, professional anarchists. And you can see the way they move, their masks. We saw it in New York back in 2020. We saw it across the country.

It was frightening. People don't want that kind of mayhem to ensue again. And thankfully, this time, Donald Trump is just going to use the power that he has. The president. Has that power, and he's nipped it in the butt up to a point.

I mean, it could have been a lot worse. And Gavin Newsom, I mean, that was the weirdest video. Totally projecting. His eyes are not saying what his mouth is saying. He knows he's lying.

You talk about last night. Last night Gavin Newsom came out with that, you know, and the audio was all wrong. And he's trying to be a statesman and he's trying to sort of thread the needle, knowing that his constituents in LA want Law and order. They're frightened. They are thankful that the National Guard have come for the most part.

But yet he's trying for the presidential primary.

So he's got to appeal to the left. There are groups like the Coalition for Humane Immigration Rights that gets money from the DHS. There's homeless non-profit groups handing off bags of PPE along with Operation Healthy Heart, LA Poverty Department. A lot of these NGOs are financed by the federal government. What are they doing?

Why are they a part of this unrest? Financed by the federal government, and they also give donations to Gavin Newsome and Karen Bass and other sort of lefty leaders. It's federal government money, and it's going into the Democrat Party coffers to enable this kind of lawlessness. And the NGOs you saw with the border, the NGOs are an arm of the left. That's all they are.

And they're staffed by Marxists, radical people who want a kind of revolution in the country to overthrow the powers that we're going to be. Which I'm pretty much against that. You have a brand new podcast. Yep. Pod Force One.

And you spoke to President Trump as your first guest. Here he talked about, told you, talked to you about the LA riots, Cup 41.

So why are the Gavin Newsome, Karen Bass, why are they objecting to the National Guard? I mean, they're saying that you provoked the riots. Gavin Newsom called you a stone-cold liar. He said you talked on the phone. You never mentioned anything about deploying the troops.

Of course I did. I mean, the phone call was to deploy the troops. It was late at night. I said, you know, your city's burning down. Your state is in bad trouble.

You've got to get the troops. Why would I call him at that time? You said it was a setup. A setup for what? Because he's not putting in the troops.

All I want him to do is do a good job. I'd rather have him do a good job than a bad job, even though politically, I guess you could take the other extreme.

So, your reaction, where was that taking place in the Oval Office? No, actually, he chose the library in the White House, but beautiful room, book-lined. On video, too? On video, yep. And he was very generous with his time, gave us 45 minutes, and was very open about everything from Camp David, the riots, his feelings about Joe Biden, the auto pen.

He knows how the auto pen, how you can tell for a fake signature. Also, about his childhood, his musical genius. He was tested for aptitude being bundled off to military school at 13. Talked a bit about his kids, about John Jr. I asked about his presidential aspirations.

He said all his kids could go into politics and do really well. And he also divulged the musical instrument that he played when he was a child. Right. Here he is talking about his musical genius, Cut 43. But when you were little you were found to be having have a musical genius.

That's right. They said uh my father and mother took me to a place, like an aptitude place to see what I would be good at, what I liked and what my talent was at at pretty young, like probably eleven or twelve. And I went through this process for a couple of days and They came up to my father, they said. Your son is brilliant. At music, he'd be an incredible musician.

This is not. This is not what my father wanted to hear. You know, this was not the greatest thing. But I do have an ear for music. I mean, I really, you know, I think music has played a big role.

We have. I play great music. I people like the music I play. Um but she was funny because my father would not have thought about Music for me. He's not, yeah, dad was pretty much his business guy.

So what instruments?

Well, it turned out it was the flute. His mother made him do flute lessons, and he laughs about it now. I mean, it's hard to imagine Donald Trump with that very delicate instrument, but he said he didn't like it very much. But still loves music. He plays in a joke.

He's a DJ. He's a DJ, yeah, at Bedminster and at all his properties. And his rallies, he chose every song. But upstairs at the residence, he says he's playing Elton John at the moment. He loves Elton John.

More with Miranda Devine in a moment. We come back. I want to talk about this trade deal and how it developed with China. She's got great insight on it. And it was just formalized or the framework agreed upon.

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It's Brian Kilmead. The more you listen, the more you'll know. It's Brian Kilmead. Negotiating a trade deal. You've managed to do that with.

We have, we're doing great, but there's only so many deals you can do because we have, let's say, 170 countries that we do business with. That's a lot. And you don't want to do deals with 170. I mean, you go, absolutely. Semi-crazy, right?

Uh what we do is At a certain point, we're going to just set the terms of the deal, and those people are going to pay those terms.

So President Trump talking about the trade deals. It looks like Mexico, by the way, according to the Wall Street Journal, could be next. But the one that's framed out is China. Can you want to go over, Miranda, what you know about the China deal? Yeah, so Howard Luttnick just said that basically at midnight London time, they finished their talks, two days of talks, starting at 10 o'clock in the morning, you know, going for 12 hours, very passionate on the Chinese side.

I heard from someone else that there was a lot of thumping and shouting from the Chinese side. But in the end, they got what they wanted: Howard Luttnick, Scott Besant, and Jamison Greer, which was China had basically stopped shipments of this special magnet that's inside every single motor in America, could have stopped everything. And that was China playing hardball against America to get Donald Trump to drop his tariffs.

Well, he hasn't dropped his tariffs, and China has agreed at the end of these two-day talks that they'll let the magnets free again because America every week was doing something equally vicious back. That was what Donald Trump had ordered. For instance, Honeywell and all these companies were not sending any aircraft parts to China.

So, from what I understand, 250 planes are already grounded. They were being grounded at the rate of 250 a week. Their entire fleet was going to be on the ground soon. And then, you know, Marco Rubio is in there saying we're not going to take your students. And Scott Besson was subpoenaing all the Chinese banks.

What were they looking for in subpoenaing the banks?

Well, look, if you subpoena any bank, you might find something. If you subpoena a Chinese bank, I know this from the Hunter Biden laptop investigation, you're going to find a lot of grift, a lot of fraud. Were they every Be transparent if you try if you subpoena a Chinese bank, do they give you records?

Well, if they don't, you can then put on international sanctions on them where they just cannot do business.

So the Chinese don't want that. This was a concerted kind of ratcheting effort of pain delivered by the president. And, you know, various levels of pain, they kept on ratcheting up. And I think President Xi just called Uncle and Donald Trump have a call last week. And that was why Donald Trump dispatched those three to London, to this neutral area.

Keir Starmer gave them some beautiful sort of palatial building near St. James's Palace where they did these two days of trade talks. And, you know, in the end, I mean, it was willing, but the Chinese kept on quoting the conversation between President Xi and President Trump. That was the framework. And it was basically President Trump was playing kind of the good conversation.

To the bad cop of his negotiators and saying, look, you know, President Xi, we want to be friends, we want to do business with you, etc. But the tariffs are still there.

So it's a base 10% tariff, which, you know, Donald Trump thinks that China is just going to wear. I just think it's pretty amazing because now the students can come again. But we also know the students are Billy Prince told to spy. Their families are left back home, so they go to Harvard, they go to Yale, they go to small colleges. They come in, they pay full freight.

Colleges love it. They went to Purdue. You know, I was talking to Mitch Daniels the other day. He was like, you know, I was president of Purdue. We know there was a Chinese presence, but we also know that if it's up for them to go into the research, be a part of the research, they're obligated to give the Chinese government the money, excuse me, the information, and their families are left behind.

That's why they're pretty secure. In the backdrop, Miranda, we know a third Chinese national accused of smuggling biological material into the country, picked up by the University of Michigan. We know another official, they denied a U.S. visa and wiped her phone days before traveling to Detroit. This is another woman that was doing something connected to the university who were accused of smuggling a dangerous agricultural pathogen.

The other one was a fungus. Mm-hmm. They're doing diabolical things in real time. Yeah, I mean, isn't that frightening? Fantastic work of the United States.

One's from Wuhan. Wuhan, exactly. Yeah.

I mean, you know, it looks like deliberate ecological terrorism by China against America, perhaps as part of their threats over the tariffs. And, you know, it's an echo of 2020. Remember, Donald Trump did that really tough trade deal with China. I think he slapped a 30% tariff on the economy. Phase one.

Phase one, exactly. And that was a huge win for America, very embarrassing for China. And shortly after that, the Wuhan virus.

Now, I'm not saying there's any evidence to say that China deliberately released it, but it was certainly a pretty good way of getting Donald Trump back in his box and eventually caused him to lose the election. And Miranda Devine, we have a parade on Saturday, and it was like: Donald Trump, and you heard Newsome last night, has a parade for his birthday. People should understand the facts are the facts. Army asked Joe Biden for a parade to commemorate their 250th birthday, which was 1775. Remember, we needed an army to fight before even we declared war with Bunker Hill and with Lexington and Concord.

And they said, okay. But make it small. There's going to be 300 people in the city, General George. When Biden loses, they ask Trump. Trump's like, we're going to make it big.

It wasn't Trump's idea. It is his birthday. It is flag day. It is Saturday. It all worked out.

Yes, it worked out. It was providential. And how embarrassing to have some tiny parade. If you're going to have a parade, you have to do it big. I mean, you know, China has these massive parades.

It's a show of strength to your adversaries. It's the mightiest army in the world. Donald Trump is bringing it back. He's got the woke out of the military. There's a lot of pride back.

They brought the base names back. They brought the base. That was fantastic. Yeah, Fort Bragg, et cetera, Fort Lee.

So, look, I think it'll be a real moment of pride for America. And it's part of the 250th anniversary celebrations, which kick off next July. And it's going to be a year, I think, that is going to really invigorate patriotism and pride in the country, optimism. Hopefully, the economy will be doing well. Miranda, congratulations.

Pod Force One. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. Just on Elon Musk, do you plan to speak to him on the phone any time soon? Uh I haven't really thought about it actually.

I would imagine he wants to speak to me. I would think so. If I were him, I'd want to speak to me. And maybe he was already called. You'd have to ask him whether or not he's already called.

Uh, I'd have no problem with it.

So yesterday, late, Elon Musk overnight, he says. He seems to be back on track, uh or trying to, said he regrets some of his posts about President Trump. He did not specify which posts, but But here's some that probably are contenders that he wants to take back. He said maybe he went too far when he said that they wouldn't have won the Senate. And Pennsylvania.

Or the election without him. Maybe he went too far when he said time to drop the real really big bomb. Donald Trump is on the Epstein list. Maybe Maybe he feels that way that he wants to pull that back. That would kind of make sense.

But we'll see. We'll see if that ends up getting them at least in conversation again. Here's J.D. Vance on what he hoped was happening. This is with Theo Vaughn.

I think that Elon, he's an incredible entrepreneur. He's actually done a I think Doge was really good. This sort of effort to root out waste, fraud and abuse in our country is really good. And look, man, I'm always going to be loyal to the president, and I hope that eventually Elon kind of comes back into the fold. Maybe that's not possible now because he's gone so nuclear.

Yeah, he is, but he might be back to a degree because I think they need each other. You need Starlink, you need SpaceX, you need other things.

Well, the one thing is pretty clear: I don't know, people talk about celebrating the Army's 250th birthday. What about celebrating that in one year the World Cup's going to start, and the U.S. will be hosting along with Mexico and Canada? It's something they've done before, 94 on the men's side and on the women's side. Joining us now is Fox Sports' two premier analysts, Alexei Lollis and Carly Lloyd.

They want him to also note that the Gold Cup is out. Although, Carly, you're going to be doing something with the European League, Euro Cup, right? I am. I might have a little crossover towards the end of the Gold Cup, but ultimately, that'll be Alexi's decision, whether you're allowed to come in late. Yeah, I guess whether I butter him up enough or as are most things, they're my decision.

Men's, women's, co-ed naked, it doesn't matter. If somebody is. Is kicking a ball. I will be there. Carly Lloyd will be there.

Fox will be there. Right. And you will be there. And by the way, is there. Uh a co-ed naked Soccer.

I mean, listen, we see what FIFA does in the name of the Almighty Dollar.

So maybe you could start one. You could start it. I'll watch that. Are you kidding me? I'll tell you what.

Ratings Bonanza. Just how do you get the sponsors on the uniform if it's co-ed naked soccer? I can get crazy. They paint it on. They paint it on.

Henna. Henna tattoos. Beautiful. All right.

So you got the Gold Cup coming up very shortly, right? The Gold Cup is something played in this region, Haiti. Tobago, tobacco. Trinidad. And so.

Right, right. Could we win those games? Not only can we, we should win those games. We have won the Gold Cup before. And for those that don't know, Gold Cup is our region.

So North America and the Caribbean and the champions of our region. We, as the United States, have been the champions of our region. Obviously, from a men's perspective, we're trying to be champions of the world. That comes next summer in the World Cup. But this summer on Fox, you can see the Gold Cup, and it's a prelude to what's coming next summer.

And I think it's really, really important because right now, there's not only criticism of this current U.S. men's national team, but I think even more dangerously, there is Apathy towards this team. And a year to go, we should be flying forward in terms of our momentum and positive momentum, getting ready for the biggest World Cup in history. I think the greatest World Cup in history. I think the greatest event in history that's coming next summer.

And yet, like I said, there's a lot of people with some angst out there relative to this team. The results recently haven't been good, so they better get their you-know-what together starting in this Gold Cup this summer.

So I know they lost to Turkey on Saturday, Carly. A lot of people just say, who aren't experts like you guys, who say, well, they win or lose. And you'll tell me by the result how they played.

Sometimes you can play really well, you're just missing that last piece. Is there a sense that with a new coach, this is just part of a process? And that they're just not gelling yet? Or do you think they played well or were unlucky against these last three games? I think it's a patience problem.

I think that everybody has been patient. When we look at the results and the way that they played at the 2022 Qatar World Cup, it was great. It was promising. And you talk about this young generation and the generational talent that the squad has. And so I think the expectations from 2022, we're now in the year 2025.

it it's almost gotten worse. And uh, you know, under the the you know, the the the era of the previous coach, you know, I think people were expecting Pochino to come in and then all of a sudden, they're going to be flying and they're going to be producing results. I think it's one thing to dissect a team when the results aren't there. But But all the other stuff, the controllable aspects of the mentality and the grit, the determination, I think that American fans were really not seeing that. We're really not sold on the fact that these players, do they care?

Do they want to come in and represent their country? And do they want to win? I think everybody can say they want to win. But it's sort of the similarities between the men and women's team, Women's World Cup in 2023. Emma Hayes has come in and she's transformed this team.

And so I think everybody's kind of been expecting that. We're not getting that. And here we are a year out from the World Cup. And they got to get their butts in shape. Off the top of your head, how many international players do we have playing at a high level overseas?

We got a bunch of players there over there, and not the least of which is Christian Pulissic, who chose not to play with the national team from Pennsylvania this summer. Which, by the way, why not? He thinks he needs rest. And I can give him some grace. But he's captain.

Exactly.

So. Look, rest, I understand when players say they need rest. Last time I was 100%, I was 10 years old.

Okay? And I think you got to read the room.

So I think it's a bad look for Christian Pulissic. I think it's a bad look for his agent. I think it's a bad look for the U.S. national team. In this particular moment, when we're talking about these things and some real doubt is being sown relative to the chances of this team doing things great next summer, you come in and you.

Reignite or ignite and send us in a much more positive way. He's chosen not to do that. Fine.

Now the onus is on him for when he comes back, because no excuses anymore, to be the great player that I think he can be and star next summer when it comes to the World Cup. Carly, what do you think of the level of play in the MLS? And do you feel as though if you're an elite player and you play in the MLS, are you not doing the best you can to get better? Like, can you reach your potential in the MLS? I agree.

I mean, I think that it. Do you think I can? I don't even know the answer. Do you think so? I think that it comes from within, right?

And I think as long as. Players are playing. I mean, you look at a player like Gio Reina, he hasn't been playing.

So we keep calling him into camps, but he's not playing for his club.

So it's like, you know. Go to a team where you're going to play. And I look at, you know, back when Alexi played, I mean, it was all MLS. Those guys were crushing it, killing it, playing well in 94 World Cup. And then we went from an era, I feel like, around Klinsman time, where it's like, all right, we only want to choose players that are playing.

That was his mindset. He would send American players overseas to play.

So we've gone from one extreme to the other. And now you've got all these players that are playing overseas. But if you look at, if you take a deep dive into the actual players that are actually playing and producing and doing well, there's not that many of them.

So I think we've got to broaden the player pool and start digging into some of these MLS players and get the best. Most passionate players out on the field. It's less where you play, and it's much more who you are. When myself and guys like Kobe Jones stepped on the field in 1994, not only was there no MLS, but Neither of us had ever even been on the books of a club team. All we did was play with the national team, and yet we were able to go out there and do the job.

Years later, 2002. The farthest we've ever gotten is a menstruing boat. A handball away from possibly going to a semifinal. You look at the likes of Landon Donovan, Demarcus Beasley, Pablo Mastriani. These are all MLS players.

Frankie Haydek, Eddie Pope. The list goes on and on and on.

So really, it's a load of crap where you actually play. Do I want players playing at the highest level? Sure. But it doesn't mean that if they're playing in MLS and you have the perception that that's not the highest level, that that person can't play. At this point, I don't give a crap where you play.

I just care that you can do the job. And unfortunately, we don't have enough players that can do the job right now. You know, it's so interesting. You guys play at the highest level, and you're talking like something that. I guess maybe in a way it's kind of gratifying, a college or high school coach.

We got to play with more passion. We've got to play harder. I'm thinking to myself, well, when you get to your level as a player, it's not a matter of playing hard. You got to think the game. You got to be smarter.

You got to be quicker. But you're saying that it goes down to fundamental passion to play. Yeah, I mean, you know, when I look at the history of the U.S. women's national team over the years, yes, we won, but there was a type of pride and passion that we played with, as well as Alexei and all of the other, you know, old schoolers, if you want to call them, back when they played on the men's national team. And, you know, in 2011, we lost in the final against Japan.

We came home. I remember, we thought we were a failure. Yes, we made it to the World Cup final. We lost in PKs. We came home and we captivated America by the way that we played.

And from that point on, from twenty eleven all the way to twenty fifteen, Everybody was hooked because of that passion, because of that drive and that desire to play. And that's what Americans are looking for now. You know, we can deal with maybe the results aren't there or they don't win every single game. That's not the expectation, but the expectation is to actually come out and act like you care. In case you don't remember, Carly Lloyd, for people to follow, we own all new about Carly Lloyd, but when you scored your hat-trick against Japan in the World Cup final, this is how it sounded: Cut 45.

Rapina's driven ball into a floyd! What a start for the United States. Denied the captain. Lauren Holiday will take this free kick. Lick from Johnston.

And it's turned in for a second. It's Carly Lloyd again. And here they come again. The long-range effort from Loy Hover. Oh my goodness!

It's a hat-trick. With one of the most incredible goals you're ever likely to see. What are your thoughts? Can you see these goals in your head still? Clearly.

I never forget that moment. I remember what the weather was like. I remember there was smoke in the stadium from fires that were going on. Yeah, that moment will live on with me forever. It was incredible.

But did you know you were going to have a great game, by the way, you felt before the game? Um I mean, I believed it, but I think I just went back into the present moment. We were all, the whole team, there was just a different vibe with how we were all feeling the day before our training, you know, that training session that we had the day before the game. And everybody was loose and we were, you know, smiling and enjoying each other. And I think we all believed that we were going to go in there and we were going to attack them and we were going to come away with a win.

But, you know, it was like a day in the park with my friends. That's the type of game that it felt. There was almost not pressure there, but it was one of the biggest games of our last. And you were captain of the team at the time, too.

So a lot of responsibility to get revenge, correct? Yeah.

I mean, I was, Christy Rampone was our true captain who was on the bench. Abby Wambach was the next one in line. And then I was there, you know, so I had the honor of kind of wearing the armband. And then it was a cool moment when Christy Rampone came on. New Jersey.

Well, actually, Abby Wambach came on the field. I gave her the armband, and then Christy. Rampone came on and then she gave her the armband.

So the true captain ended up with the armband there. Were you on that broadcast? Yeah.

I mean, I was sitting there, tears streaming down my face, excited about what it was. It was also, from a time zone perspective, perfect. And still to this day, that final is the most watched American soccer game in history. And it was because of what Carly said. You know, these were people.

That you wanted to follow. These were people that gave you a sense of pride in your country and what they were doing. Yes, the results, but the way in which they got the results were even more important. And that, you know, gets back to a point right now. I can't tell you the amount of people that have come up to me and said, I'll take a less talented U.S.

men's national team now if they just play it. Play like you guys do. If they just do it. And look, I'm not trying to grumpy old man this thing, but it's kind of like when the Supreme Court tried to define obscenity, right? I can't tell you what it is, but I know it when I see it.

And we know it when we see it. There's something that you, there's a smell that you can't. I want to know that the players care more than me. Exactly.

That's it. Every time I watch a game or a team, whatever we do with sport, I want to know what matters more than me because then I feel like I'm being a sucker. If I care more about it and I paid to watch, that bothers me, or I gave up my nightmare. That's the crime and shame right now is that we are questioning whether they care. And I never thought that we would get to a point, especially a year away from the world.

If you had asked me back in 1994, what The world would look like in the summer of 2025, a year away from this great World Cup. This is not what I would have envisioned. More with Carly and Alexi Laos. We talk about the World Cup and the Gold Cup in just a moment. Don't move.

Coming to you on a need-to-know basis, because Mandy, you need to know. It's Brian Kilmead. Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Up towards Hopway, pushing the ball down the right side.

But Jack McGlin to stride forward. McLean calls it in. What a start! What a goal! Jack McGlenn with just 60 seconds gone!

And that's given away. A self-inflicted wound for the United States. United States, Turkey AI. They're married to the ball and pulls it back and at Tipol who couldn't get there driven back across goal and he's put in the And just like that, Turkey beat the U.S. 2-1.

So, what's the big deal?

Well, you got a brand new coach looking for his first win. It just hasn't happened yet. It happened in Hartford, Connecticut. That was on Saturday. Carly Lloyd is with us now.

Are you the best women's player ever? And then Alexi Lawis, one of the finest men, certainly one of the most recognizable. Both have distinguished themselves as fantastic broadcasters as we get ready to welcome the World Cup here. Biggest teams ever, three countries, over 40 teams, but the U.S. has already qualified.

Your thoughts about that game, Alexi? Yeah, so the first game against Turkey A and yes, it's Turkey A now because they've rebranded, so it's not Turkey anymore. Yeah, they actually rebranded relative to, I mean, if you were to search Turkey, obviously Turkey the Animal comes up and they want to make sure that when people do search it, that you get the actual country.

So out of respect for what they've rebranded to, we call it Turkey A. But a very good team. Not an elite team, but a team absolutely on par with the US. And it was not a good outing, except for the goal was very nice at the very beginning, 59 seconds in. We thought everything was going to go great, and then Turkey came back two to one.

But last night, 4-0. Against Switzerland, that's only in the first half.

So two games as friendly as warm-up games, if you will, leading up to this Gold Cup, but against some good competition. And they didn't produce. And so that's a problem. Mauricio Pochettino, the new coach, rumored to be paid $6 million a year.

Well, you need to figure this out. And so far, he hasn't. And that's why a lot of the concern is relative to the upcoming Gold Cup, which is the last time this team is going to be in a competitive environment because we don't have to qualify for the World Cup because we're hosting. And then, obviously, a year away from the World Cup. Carl, did you expand the pool of players you're looking at if you're a new coach who's gotten no results?

A year before the World Cup? I think that that should have been done a year prior. I mean, the pool should have been expanded. Look, I mean, it's a little bit different on the men's side as far as, you know, I mean, it's going that way with the women's side where your club is mostly what you're playing for in the national team kind of as you pop in and out for camps. But when I played, the majority of it was national team, so it was flipped.

But on the men's side, it's, you know, club is your biggest thing, and then you come in for national team stuff. You know, for me, I like. I don't know what's going on inside, but they got to figure it out, and you got to bring a culture and a mentality. And I wouldn't doubt that you're going to get in there and find out and bring that to the broadcast. Colley Lloyd, Alexi Lavis, thanks so much.

Fox Sports, lucky to have you. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian. Hi everyone, so glad you're there. We're here.

Martha McCallum coming in. We'll have to discuss moving parts on trade deals, moving parts on riots. They did spread as expected to other cities, and some expect major demonstrations this weekend, and I'm sure it's organized. Why? Because it's a crackdown on illegal immigrants.

That's what it is. And for those people who think that you crack down illegal immigrants, you turn up the Hispanic community, you have not been paying attention.

So we'll discuss that, as well as curfews and some other things.

So let's get to the big three. Number three.

So, hopefully, Elon figures it out, comes back into the fold. The president doesn't. Think That he needs to be in a blood feud with Elon Musk. And I actually think of Elon. Chilled out a little bit, everything would be fine.

I hear you. Must flat out admits he went too far with posts last night and against Trump world. And it doesn't seem like Trump is too dug in against him. Could there be some type of peace deal between the two Titans? Number 10.

We have reached a framework. to implement the Geneva consensus.

So the idea is we're going to go back and speak to President Trump and make sure he approves it. They're going to go back and speak to President Xi and make sure he approves it. Yup, Howard Luttnick, Commerce Secretary, after meeting along with Scott Besant and Jamison Greer with their Chinese counterparts in London, come to a handshake deal on trade. Could Mexico be next? We'll discuss it.

Number one. Donald Trump without consulting California law enforcement leaders commandeered 2,000 of our state's National Guard members. This brazen abuse of power by a city president inflamed a combustible situation. Really? Day five, the L.A.

riots. Newsome decides anarchy is to be blamed on the man who brought law enforcement to his streets. Any hope of Newsom jogging to the center has gone out the door because he wants to be the nemesis and the anti-Trump. Good luck with that as ICE looks to collect illegal immigrant criminals from the city streets. How about this?

There's 130, there were 200 detained overall, 130 outside the detention center. They wouldn't get out until they've been arrested. 67 were pulled off a 101 freeway, a major thoroughfare in Los Angeles, designed to create uproar amongst the population. 200 people overall were arrested.

So they put a pilot, they put a. Curfew in place from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. was pretty much ignored last night. People say last night was peaceful.

Did you watch any of that? It's not peaceful.

Well, meanwhile, Gavin Newsom, around 10 o'clock last night Eastern Time, 9 o'clock Eastern Time, came out and did a speech, at which time he declared that Donald Trump is the problem. Really? I'm not kidding. Trump is the problem. Cut nine.

Donald Trump Without consulting California law enforcement leaders, commandeered 2,000 of our state's National Guard members to deploy on our streets illegally and for no reason. This brazen abuse of power by a sitting President inflamed a combustible situation. putting our people. our officers and even our National Guard at risk. Donald Trump, really?

So riots happen. ICE gets surrounded. The LAPD takes thirty-five to fifty-five minutes to respond. The President puts in the National Guard. doesn't speak to the governor, which ticks him off.

and then tells seven hundred marines to get ready. As Tom Cotton wrote in op-ed in 2020, he rewrote it in a different way now. Violent insurrection has turned areas of Los Angeles into lawless hellscapes over the weekend, anarchists setting fire to vehicles, throwing scooters and debris at police stations, and looting businesses, all while waving foreign flags. This is allowing a slow motion evasion to happen. Newsome puts his Tape.

vilifying Trump and gets about a million views on YouTube. I don't think he's on the right side of this. I don't think the American people are for this. And I think that the National Guard being on scene is something that we got to see in these blue cities because they have irresponsible mayors and governors. Here's Karen Bass, who's now calling on, get this.

Citizens to clean up after the civil unrest, mostly led by illegal immigrants. Cut 13. We are one year away from the World Cup. This is about beautifying our city and bringing our city together. And so I am calling on business leaders, community leaders, faith leaders to come together downtown in the next few days to talk about how we are going to clean up the city.

Obviously, city workers are already out there removing the graffiti, but this is so extensive it's going to take community-wide involvement. We need people from all over the city to come to downtown and to help with this effort. No, you do it. You allowed it to happen. You vilified the guy that wants to bring law and order, and you want me to get a sponge and go out there?

Forget it. Not a chance. Most polls show that the Democrats are on the opposite side of this. To me, there's just no doubt about it. Matt Towery was on, he's a pollster, was on with Sean Hannity last night.

And here's what he said, cut 17. These aren't surprising numbers. I talked to several other pollsters who did very well in the last few cycles before I went on tonight. Sean, they have similar numbers when they ask questions about immigration, deportation, who should be deported. Those numbers are all in the 60-plus.

Almost 80%. Rasmussen had one which 80% in total said that if you committed a crime, you should be deported and taken out of the country.

So I'm not really surprised by these numbers.

So they do say, you know, 54% of the people approve of the president's deportation plan. 42% say that they approve of the president says it's making life on the streets safer. 30% says it doesn't.

So 42 is pretty prominent.

Now, I saw a YouGov poll, which is something we don't subscribe to, but I'll just share it with you. It released on Monday that found that 45% of Americans disapprove of the Los Angeles protest. 36% approve of the protest. Similar results, 45% to 39% disapprove of Trump's handling of deportations.

Well, you want the criminals out, you got to get out. If you are an illegal, but maybe you haven't committed a crime, you're with the criminal, you're gone. Not my problem. Not my problem. But in terms of How the people of the American people feel, I'll tell you, why don't I have you visit?

CNN. Here is their pollster, and I'm sure the anchor, not happy to hear this. I'm surprised they haven't cut his mic. Cut 16. Immigrant citizens, immigrant voters, foreign-born voters have gone tremendously to the right on this issue in 2024 and 2025 versus where they were in 2020.

Again, there is no block of voters that shifted more to the right from 2020 to 2024 than immigrant voters, and Donald Trump, at least in some surveys, actually won that vote. Immigrant citizens have become increasingly unfavorable in their views. of those immigrants who are here illegally.

So I think it's so important when we're talking about this debate from a political angle to separate those out who are undocumented immigrants versus those who are here legally and those who are citizens and those who are voters, because that group of voters has felt increasingly distant from those immigrants who are here legally. So, I'm sure they were not happy on Sunday night when the sheriff of Los Angeles came out and said the situation we definitely needed help and the National Guard showed up. He didn't say National Guard showed up, but they said they were definitely getting help and they needed help. And the numbers were beginning to overwhelm them. And I'm sure that I know I'm not happy when I hear him say, I want to reassure the people of Los Angeles that we are not cooperating with ICE, a federal authority designed and created to kick out illegal immigrant criminals out of our midst and keep our country a country for Americans.

Immigrants, legal. Illegal immigrants, no. There are things called work visas and other visas you can get. You got to get it. But overall, this has been an ad for Donald Trump, I believe.

It's exactly his way of looking at sanctuary cities and saying, while we wait for the courts to make the right decision and declare them unconstitutional, he's making moves with the National Guard, with the Marines, Cut 20. Mark Teason. One of the things they're doing, and one of the reasons why the left is so upset about this, is because they found a way to break through the sanctuary city laws. The U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles has come up with a strategy where it used to be you'd do an ice detainer, and the local officials could reject the ice detainer.

They wouldn't have to cooperate with it.

So, what they're doing is they're charging them with criminal re-entry into the country. They're going through their fingerprints, finding who's in the jails and who entered the country a second time, and they're charging them with a felony. The local officials can't reject a felony warrant. And so they've arrested hundreds, about 350 people this way. And this is going to be something that's going to be tested in Los Angeles, and it's going to go to every sanctuary city in the country over the next year.

There are going to be thousands and thousands of people picked up in these sanctuary cities, and that's why the left's upset. They are, and that's one of the reasons they're upset. And I look at these activists and I see some of the NGOs that are financing a lot of the things that they get. For example, the riot shields, the masks that we're seeing, the PPE that's out there. Others are providing money for hotel stays so they can come into town to be activists.

Legal aid once they're arrested or not arrested. Just travel money. The acronym is CHURLA, Coalition for Human Immigration Rights. Another one is called MAST, Mutual Aid, Social Justice Network, the LA Poverty Department, Healthy Hearts. All these are nonprofits, air quotes, that are providing aid to these activists.

Now, there was a time in which, if you were upset about civil rights, inequity, segregation, you stood up against Jim Crow. I didn't need someone to give me money to stand up and block a bridge. My goodness, because of my skin color, I'm not allowed to go to school or go to church or sit at a counter or go to a bus. Man, you don't need to tell me that's wrong. But now we need to pay these people to stand up for illegal immigrants, please.

So, Davin Newsom wants this fight. He wants to put himself against Trump.

Some on the left, I told you, you got a million views on YouTube. YouTube, so somebody was happy. Senator John Kennedy looked at this. Here's his reaction to how this thing is playing out: Cut 26. Governor Newsom is His record shows this.

He's the dictionary definition of weenie. He thinks cops are a bigger problem than criminals. He thinks if a cop has to shoot a criminal, it's automatically and always. a cop's fault, but if a criminal shoots a cop It's it's automatically in all ways the gun's fault. Here's a tip: cops will leave you alone unless you do illegal stuff.

That's what we're seeing in California. I feel for the people of Los Angeles, it's a wonderful city. There are wonderful people there. I'm sure he doesn't see it this way, but Governor Newsom really He really owes a debt of gratitude to President Trump because. I think Governor Newsom dug up more snakes here than he could kill.

He's got a city that is in large part out of control, and thank God the President and the Federal Government sent in troops. That's the way I feel. How do you feel? 1-866-408-7669. Martha McCallum next.

Your calls as well. Don't move. It's Brian Killmead. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show.

There is graffiti behind where these officers are that says F Trump, other graffiti. They are clearly trying to keep everybody out of this federal building. But the mood in the crowd is getting more agitated as that curfew comes close. The smell of weed is in the air. People are not looking at all, Abby, like they are going to abide by this curfew.

Yup, and it was from 8 to 6 in the morning, and they didn't. They also blocked the 101 freeway. That was a CNN national correspondent. Just so, in case you couldn't make out what said it behind him, it did say F. Trump.

For some reason, that doesn't seem to get off those walls. I guess it's that stubborn paint. They just don't have the right chemical compound in order to get rid of that. But if it's up to Karen Bass, it would be up to you to get rid of it because there's a big mess that we have to clean up for the Olympics and for the World Cup. Martha McCallum, will you have, as anchor of the story, will you have any time to help Karen Bass clean up the city?

Yeah, you're going to get out there with your scrub brush. I have two sponges. Clean up the city. There's nothing worse than a city that is layered with graffiti everywhere. I and the looting, to me, is one of the most just.

Horrific sights, you know, to watch someone's business, these people just breaking in the windows. And you have people outside, some of them, don't do that, don't do that. They're worried about the reputation of the protest while these people run.

So it is just a Really sad, destructive environment that we have watched unfold over the last several days in Los Angeles. Yeah, but it's not just LA.

Now there were some riots over in Denver, some riots in San Antonio, a little bit of demonstrations in Austin, New York, Philadelphia. And they say that there's going to be demonstrations over the weekend. My sense is it's going to be organized.

So, what is the theme? And we're going to support illegal immigrants? Is that the theme? We have to support people who came here illegally.

So, here's what's so out of step, right? And here's where I, when I listen to Maxine Waters, it's almost like she has this reflexive reaction to everything. She goes to the same place, right? It's race, we need to protest more, and you know, get up in their faces, all of this kind of stuff, right? Hillary Clinton jumped on board as well.

You know, these are peaceful protests. Are there some peaceful protests happening? Absolutely. But what is the overriding images and frightening? You see reporters out there dodging pieces of concrete.

This is a seriously dangerous situation that's unfolding. But what they're not getting is that 66% of immigrant citizens think that people who are here illegally should be removed. There is no big, broad social momentum on social media or in the public domain that is supportive. Of these actions. And I think about Jay Johnson, right?

And I believe it was on your show in the morning a while ago, probably two years ago now, saying that the immigration levels, illegal immigration levels, were unsustainable. And I remember thinking, well, what does that look like?

Now we know what it looks like. Because we've had millions come in here over the last four years. That's right. And they go right to L.A. Why?

You get free social services. A lot of times you get free school. They were talking about giving them college grants. Driver's license. Right, driver's license.

There's no discrimination. Can you threaten to take that away and send someone back to their home country? They're going to be pissed. They're going to be like, wait, what? I came here and I was promised all these things, right?

And when it started. They're flying Mexican flags. They're holding. Absolutely. No, nothing inflames me more than the waving of Mexican flags.

It's like, what do you have wrong here? If you're claiming that you have a right to be in America and you don't like the way things are going down, you better wave an American flag and you better complain about your version of the oppression that is happening to you. And this is not the America that you believe should be happening. If you're going to wave a Mexican flag, you got a one-way ticket home. Go back.

Absolutely. Go back. And I think that's the way these immigrant citizens are seeing it as well, based on the polling that we're seeing.

So here's the one thing that I have questions. And one thing that's really hurting us, the lack of coordination. The LAPD is told we will not work with ICE.

So the National Guard is being told we don't want the National Guard there. I didn't call and communicate.

Well, how can you have a coordinated answer from Highway Patrol, LAPD, National Guard, ICE officials? How can you possibly coordinate when they go out of their way to not coordinate? Honestly, it would really make Gavin Newsom look good right now if he said, you know what? I didn't want to take this to this level, but since we have these individuals from the National Guard and the Marines coming in as well, the most important thing is that there is coordination between them. I want them to go back.

I don't want them here. I want to get control of my National Guard again, which is one of the most pathetic things that a governor should ever have to ask the federal government. Can I please have control of my National Guard back? But the issue is. That kind of coordination is where people are going to get hurt, right?

So he needs to take the higher ground and and allow coordination, encourage coordination until they can get this behind them. Aaron Cohen, Israeli Special Ops, says this is what he observed, Cut 22. The leadership failure. Put these officers in risk, and that's the personal problem I have here. There was no unified command structure.

Bass was micromanaging field decisions from City Hall, which breaks protocol. You had incident commanders, Sean, waiting on political clearance before moving teams, and that kind of interference delays reactions and gets cops killed. And in that dynamic crowd, seconds matter. And guess what? They waited, what, 35 to 55 minutes to help out ICE officials.

Yeah, that's exactly right. And it's the danger that exists when you have that lack of communication. Nobody wants to see any of this end in one of these officers losing their lives. And that has to be of the utmost importance to anyone who considers themselves a leader in this situation. Grow up.

Martha McCallum's going to be here a little while longer. She's going to be talking about what's on her show shortly, as well as a trade deal that's just been framed out with China. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. I think what happens is when you put President Xi and President Trump on the phone together, it changes the outcome.

They were focused on trying to deliver on what President Xi told President Trump. And I think obviously Ambassador Greer, myself, and Secretary Besant were completely focused on delivering what President Trump wanted from us.

So I think both sides had extra impetus in order to get things done because we both have our presidents behind us pushing us to make sure we take care of our respective sides. Commerce Secretary Howard Luttnick talking about a deal that was framed out with China, at which point we get the rare earth picked up right away, they say, and it's going to help with tech and military. They get to bring their Bring their students here to continue to spy on us and, I guess, bring in poisonous fungus. And we also, I assume, give them a little bit of leeway when it comes to these. Nvidia chips that we were trying to hold back because they were using it for weapons.

Yeah, the last time around when they had and remember, this is not a I mean, obviously this is progress, but it's this is just an agreement to go back to the ninety day truce period.

So this is not a finalized trade deal, but it's a step in the right direction. But it's a very complicated situation, and it makes you wonder how long before we're right back where we started, unless we change the dynamic where we can, you know, we can't just. Suddenly, find rare earth minerals. And we need these materials for technology. You know, the magnet issue is a huge issue.

Just for people who want to understand how much it's required in our defense equipment, think about the fact that it's a magnet basically that takes your steering wheel in your car back to neutral, right?

So it just evens out your that's all magnets that are required for that kind of technology in your car.

So magnify that by a lot to determine what the needs are for our defense industry. We have gone down this road so far of not being able to supply ourselves with what we need for defense and pharmaceuticals, and we got to inch it back. But, you know, we have to do what's necessary to make a deal in the meantime so that we don't suffer too much loss in the gap. Right. And we know this.

The Mexico deal looks like it's close to being done, according to the Wall Street Journal, where tariffs go back to the level they were before the president had his Liberation Day. And we heard a couple of days ago from, I think it was James. And Greer said that India, there's just a few things to iron out.

So that would certainly make progress. You know what did hurt, and I got confirmation on this from someone at the White House, that when that Court case was decided that they said, Well, we don't think President Trump has got the ability to put these tariffs on these countries without congressional approval. That immediately gave all our negotiating partners, the EU and others, their adversaries, they said, Wait, you might not even, I don't even have to cut a good deal.

Now it's been stayed.

Now they're going to decide maybe tomorrow about that. That really upended negotiations. Yeah.

I mean, You know, to a certain extent, that is the check and balance system that exists in the country. But I think this president, time and time again, is more willing to ask for forgiveness than permission. And he wants to move forward at a really rapid pace on all of these things and rather deal with it in the courts down the road. You know, the other issue that we're still seeing play out here with the trade, with the trade barriers is the impact on companies. And I think that economists are probably right when they say that the real impact of it won't really be felt until the summer.

Not to say that it's not a good idea to reorganize these relationships, but we do have to recognize we had an inflation number that ticked up a little bit today, and the markets were kind of hesitant to take off on this Chinese deal this morning, mostly because they're a little concerned about the supply chain and the impact of it on manufacturers across the country over the summer. Yeah, here's what Ed Lawrence asked Howard Lutton at Cut 33. I think what happens is when you put President Xi and President Trump on the phone together, it changes the outcome. They were focused on trying to deliver on what President Xi told President Trump. And I think obviously Ambassador Greer, myself and Secretary Besant were completely focused on delivering what President Trump wanted from us.

There you go. Uh cut 34 is Jamison Greer with Ed Lawrence. As long as Donald Trump's the president, there's going to be just trust me on that.

Well, that's a really good answer. I love that answer. Yeah, I don't know. But the thing is, they dropped the ball on phase one when we changed presidents, and they didn't do anything after Geneva.

So that's what brought us London. Exactly.

And that's what I was saying earlier: about this is a truce period for 90 days with China. The longer-term issues about bringing manufacturing back to the United States, finding other supply chains. But that's exactly what China doesn't want, right? It's a rock and a hard place because China, you know, after the first deal in Geneva, suddenly China was accusing us of not giving them the chips that we had promised, of discouraging American companies from buying Chinese equipment. They didn't like that.

They really want their students to be able to come to school here, which I find very interesting when you think about what you mentioned before about this fungus that came in in plastic bags to a Chinese student who wants to study it in the labs at the University of Michigan.

So it's unfortunate. It's not to be in a situation where we have to negotiate with China over any of this, but that's where we are. That's where you are. We also got to look at this situation. China's trade with the U.S.

is down 35%, number one. Number two is. They got a huge housing issue. It's beyond reproach. They can't hold it back.

The people have so little of a social safety net, they will not spend.

So they're not consumers of their own products. Exactly.

So, this is a huge issue. You could build tankers and you could build nuclear weapons, but if people aren't working and the ones aren't working, there's a whole generation that are between 18 and 34 that just don't have jobs. It's just not worth it for them, let alone the ones who've been laid off or no pay increase. And then you have to worry, if you're a true authoritarian leader like President Xi Jinping, about unrest. Because that's where unrest is fomented.

You've got young men aged 18 to 34 who don't have a job, who don't have income, who can't buy stuff. You got a problem on your hands.

So that's really his major. That and the 30% drop, as you just pointed out, of Chinese goods coming into the United States. You know, you got to wonder if we can find a way to live without that 30% permanently, because you have to do it in increments. You have to decouple. I mean, I know we're not talking in terms of that right now in these trade negotiations, but that has to be the goal for our country because China wants to dominate us.

They want to eliminate our power position in the world.

So we can never have that not in the front of our minds as we look at these. And it's just a tricky, it's not where I think either side really wants to be at this moment, but there's a lot at stake.

So they have to work out an interim deal. Yeah, I mean, all these deals should be coming. The one thing, Peter Navarro, looks terrible: 90 deals in 90 days. How's that gone? Howard Luttnick, we got a whole bunch of deals ready to go.

How has that gone?

So, you don't promise things you can't do. There are probably a lot of deals that are close to being done, but you shouldn't be saying things that clearly aren't true. And I noticed Peter Navarro has been invisible. Thank goodness. He's a terrible spokesperson for this.

His ideas were probably written in 1980, and he was mostly a Democrat most of his career, right? That's true. And he, yeah, I mean, you do have to be careful, obviously, when you promise things like 90 deals in 90 days, and you've got one. Yeah.

Maybe one and a half. We've got UK, and we have. A truce, a 90-day period with China. Obviously, the most important deal of all. Right.

I want you to understand what's going on with Elon Musk and to tell everyone yesterday there seems to be a walk back with Elon Musk as he's reevaluating some of the things he said last week when you were gone. You see what goes happens when you take a week off? Oh, hell breaks loose. Two Titans go at each other. Here is Elon Musk basically says: I walk back some of the things that he said, some of the tweets that he put out.

Last week. Maybe the Epstein one is one of them. Maybe you wouldn't have won without the Senate.

So, you know, and he does not like the big, beautiful bill. I think he's incapable of understanding politics as bright as he is. Understands the compromise, doesn't understand the art of compromise. That's been a problem with him, but does understand that sometimes you eventually cut spending, but you can't do it on a dime when you have other people that need to get elected in blue districts. He can't, you saw when he blew up the debt ceiling, he had a problem understanding it.

And then you see it again.

Well, I think, you know, there was an interesting comment. I know he's had a difficult relationship at times with his father, but his father was commenting on him. I don't know why he was in Moscow, but he was in Moscow, Elon Musk's dad. And he basically said, you know, the way that his mind works, he can't go halfway on things. He doesn't understand the pace of politics, and it...

It will never probably be, you know, that's what he said. And I'm saying it'll never probably be a place where Elon Musk's genius mind allows him to go in terms of being okay with $37 trillion in debt. The other thing is he's looked under the hood now and he sees how much garbage and waste there is in these agencies and he can't unsee it.

So I don't think that his heart is in the wrong place when it comes to what has to be done to get rid of waste and fraud in the government. And I really hope that they can find a way to continue the work of Doge. And I just think he needed to be out of the wild. White House. You know, he doesn't, he works, his brain works differently.

You know, he wants to put people on Mars and, you know, no, and it's going to take longer than we expected are not answers that really make any sense to him. He wants to see some real cuts now. And I understand it. Politics works differently. It's not the way Musk works.

Right. Musk said didn't specify what he'd like to get rid of or take back, but he has deleted the Epstein file comment two days after he first posted it. Since then, Musk has shared on X comments made by Trump and Vice President Vance in a positive way. And member Vance said, if we just calm him down, we think we can bring him back. We're back to get him back into the fold.

And Musk tweeted a heart emoji at President Trump yesterday. Oh, I didn't see that. And then Trump said today, I believe on Truth Social, you know, I like what he said. That was very nice. Yeah.

So I think they're working their way back. It'll be a different format of relationship, I would expect, in terms of the government. But Musk, I don't see him going to the Democrats side. No, there's nothing. He's seen too much.

He's seen too much. Has seen too much of what government actually looks like. And also, they targeted him. They're the ones blowing up his cars. Absolutely.

And not one Republican will buy his cars. But if you tell Donald Trump to jump in a lake and you vilified yourself with the left, who's going to be around to. Even you, Starlight. Back in a moment. You're with Brian Kilmead.

The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. Hey, welcome back, everybody. Martha McCallum's here. The story starts at 3 o'clock.

Martha, have you thought about what's going to be on the show? Not at all. Really? Should I think I should start thinking about it? A lot of people do.

A lot of people appreciate it. We start thinking about it at 5 o'clock in the morning.

So Bill Barr is going to be with us, which I think is going to be really interesting. He has a very interesting take on the president's powers in the California situation. And as we see these protests spreading across the country, there may be other places where this gets tested, and surely it'll be tested in the courts as well.

So we'll talk to Bill Barr and a lot more coming up at 3 o'clock. Yeah, I think what's interesting is Gavin Newsom says, I'm suing President Trump to get the National Guard out of there, or he should have control of it. And they said, no, we don't see anything there. But if we want to give Thursday up until Thursday to argue the case back, because that's what the Department of Justice asked for it. But I'm thinking to myself, it's really.

I thought it was beyond contention that you're allowed to put the National Guard into the city. The question was: do you have to say the Insurrection Act? There was an insurrection going on. Can you do it with a riot? But I always thought it was the presidential's purview.

But it's Justice Breyer's son that is presiding over this. Should that worry Republicans? In theory, perhaps. But I think that, you know, like I said before, I think that it's the Trump way to basically throw everything at the wall and see how much of it sticks. I think they wanted to take this action.

I think they feel like it looks better for them politically, actually, to show some strength. It's the opposite of what we saw in Minneapolis in 2020. And if it calms things down quickly, it could be a formula that we see repeated elsewhere.

So we understand, too, what's happening with the tariffs. Is it okay for President Trump to unilaterally put tariffs on all these people in all these countries?

Well, the Federal Super Court is allowing Trump's more sweeping tariffs to remain in effect today.

Well, it reviews a lower court decision blocking them on grounds that Trump had exceeded his authority. If you want to take leverage out of his hands, you go and say the courts will stop you from doing it. If you're the EU, you might pull back and stop talking now. Honestly, I think that, you know, I think that this is the end. To be super aggressive on all of these fronts and all of these campaign promises because that is, I think that's what these other countries will see ultimately.

And what they see is, although there are some court decisions that have reined him in, most of them have gone his way.

So I think if you're an EU negotiator, you got to say to yourself, I'm going to assume that Trump is probably going to be able to prove that he has the authority on this. I don't know if you're covering this at all, but Simone Biles had a nowhere, went after Riley Gaines for going after transgenders in sports. And everyone thought, where did this come from? The blowback was severe to the point where she went out and put out a lengthy statement, essentially saying, I want to follow up on my last tweet. I've always believed competitive equity and inclusivity are both essential in sport.

The current system doesn't adequately balance these principles, which often leads to frustration and heated exchanges. It didn't help for me to get personal with Riley, which I apologize for. There were sensitive, complicated issues I truly don't have the answers or solutions to, but I believe it starts with empathy. And respect. What do you interpret?

She went on for another 20 minutes. I know. And it's a lot of sort of equivocation. It's not a very clear apology, but it is what it is. You know, I think she realized that she had put herself out there in a way that she thought would be universally accepted as the way to go.

And I think it, you know, came back to biter. Will Keene is actually also going to be on with me this afternoon because he did an interview with Riley Gaines, post the Simone Biles comments. And we're going to get to see some of that today because President Trump was speaking during Will's show yesterday.

So you'll get to see that for the first time at 3 o'clock. Here is Riley Gaines. What did you say with Will cut 40? How sincere it is, I think, is the real question here. This came about four days after she delivered those initial tweets, those two tweets that I believe incinerated her entire career.

But I will say, nonetheless, I accept the apology. I told you this yesterday: those personal attacks that she issued back last weekend, they didn't hurt my feelings. That's not what hurt my feelings about her remarks. What hurt me personally about what she chose to tweet out was how she was so willing and so quick to sell out young girls. That is the problem that I had here.

Again, this apology seems a bit half-hearted. I have a problem with some of the things she said, including the words and phrases competitive equity and inclusivity. Look, that is not what competition is about. Understand, sports are inherently inclusive. Anyone can play sports, right?

But competition, on the other hand, and by its true definition, is exclusive. Believe that is entirely silly, especially at her level, to advocate for competitive equity. But I accept apology. Competitive, what does that mean? I don't even know what it means.

I mean, you remember when this whole discussion emerged that equality, which is written, is steeped in the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution, was no longer the word that we're supposed to use. You're supposed to use equity. And I remember there was a little drawing that showed some two kids trying to look over a fence, and they had to put sort of a big block under one to even it out so they would have the they would have equity in their opportunities to succeed. And she's exactly right. Sports is a meritocracy.

Winners are the people who can run the fastest or score the most goals. And that's the way sports is. And I think the country is getting back to that mindset after a major setback. And I think that what evens out and makes the country diverse organically, naturally, is when we conduct ourselves on the basis of your merit and your excellence. And I And I think that's where we need to get back to that.

Back to meritocracy. 100%. All right.

So we'll see Martha at 3 o'clock. And keep in mind, too, coming up on June 21st. Martha, you don't have to alter your plans because I know you've been off a week, but I want to put you on the spot. But I'll be in Dayton, Ohio on the 21st with History Livery and Laughs. And then in Dallas, Texas on the 23rd.

Keep in mind, Dallas is beautiful this time of year, and it doesn't get that hot in Texas in the summer, according to old records. And then in September 27th in Richmond, Virginia. Just go to BrianKilme.com, where Martha spent most of her time. Absolutely. On my website.

Martha, thanks so much. Thank you, Brian. Keep it here, Brian Killmee Cho. Listen to the show ad-free on Fox News Podcast Plus, on Apple Podcast, Amazon Music with your Prime membership, or subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Hmm.