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There's so much going on today. Mark Dubitt's in the studio right now from the CEO of Foundation for Defensive Democracies, Daniel Turner, founder of the energy advocacy group, Power of the Future. We're going to talk about that and what's happening with Iran right now. Oil and gas is being targeted as well as their nuclear program. And the bottom of the aisle, Lieutenant Colonel Alan West.
So let's get to the big three. Number three. This will reduce the deficit, not increase it. And the reason for that is: one, we are going to have the biggest spending reduction in history. But secondly, all the other things I mentioned are going to generate growth in the economy.
That is Senator John Thune making strong changes in the Big Beautiful bill as they dig in before July 4th self-imposed deadline. Number two. I want them to focus on the cities because the cities are where you really have what's called sanctuary cities and that's where the people are. I look at New York, I look at Chicago. I mean, you got a really bad governor in Chicago and a bad mayor.
Yep, that is true. Change of plans. Trump backing off illegals who are working in vital industries like, I don't know, farming as well as hospitality, and now focusing on illegals thriving in blue cities. Let's make it easy. Let's get rid of the worst first.
Number Where the president is, he's supporting Pay Israel 100% to complete the campaign that they started here. And that campaign focuses on Iran's center of gravity, their nuclear enterprise. And that is General Jackine. Day five: Israel and Iran exchange rocket fire and attacks, with Iran taking critical blows while absorbing 24 deaths, 200 plus injured. Are we about to ramp up our participation, focusing on the Fordo Mountain nuke plant?
Let's discuss it. Mark, Where do you think we're heading by the president leaving the G7 early and making it clear it's about what's happening with Iran?
Well, the president seems to be very clear. I mean, every 30 minutes, every hour, you've got comments coming from the president, the White House, warning the Iranians that they've run out of time. I mean, he's made them multiple offers, peaceful opportunities in Oman. I think we're moving from Oman to Ford, which is where the deeply buried bunker. enrichment site is, and I think President Trump may be preparing U.
S. forces to strike that.
So the one thing that was with the Jerusalem Post yesterday and it was mentioned by the ambassador today, the editor said, oh, yeah, we can't do that without the U.S. It's just there's no way. I mean, there could be a human situation where you have some people there that allow them to penetrate deep with, I guess, a strike team that could take it down, but wouldn't that be a suicide mission? Yeah, I mean look, the Israelis can certainly do damage, they've done massive damage to the rest of Iran's nuclear infrastructure, but if this site remains, Brian, this is deeply buried under a mountain, heavily fortified, Iran can use this site to develop nuclear weapons. The the United States Has B-2 bombers and 30,000-pound massive ordnance penetrators that can slice through mountains and through concrete and destroy this last remaining nuclear weapons facility.
The President of the United States has that opportunity. And Khamenei's last chance, if he doesn't go to Amman and start negotiating seriously to permanently dismantle his program, I think President Trump may destroy it for him.
So this is what we hear from Arab intermediaries. They say Iran is not ready to make concessions on nuclear talks. The public statements from Iranian leaders support the claim by Arab intermediaries as well that the president of Iran continues to threaten severe responses if the U.S. failed to restrain Israel and separately defended Iran's right to peacefully have nuclear energy and research. They're acting like this.
This military operation is not happening, that they haven't lost nine commanders, most of their key scientists, and of their Kuds Force intelligence officers. Yeah, it's extraordinary. I mean, they I they think President Trump is bluffing. They don't think he's going to use military force because if they did, they would be immediately back at the negotiating table looking for a deal that permanently dismantles this program because. The Israelis and the U.S.
Air Force can permanently dismantle this program from the air.
So, the President of the United States has noticed what's going on. He knew, had a heads-up going in. And now there's some speculation that the Iranians feel like they were duped. That the President said, I gave you 60 days, but we did have a meeting scheduled for Sunday. And that along the way, Israel was planning to do this all along, and that the U.S.
was part of complicit in the deception. I don't see it that way. I think if they came across and said, we will have a consortium to enrich uranium outside the country, it would have put all kinds of pressure on the U.S. to go ahead and do a deal. Absolutely.
I mean, the president gave them an offer. He gave them an offer that they could temporarily. Put it on a white paper. He put it on a white paper. He offered it in Oman.
Steve Witkoff was there with the lead Iran negotiator, Iraqi. It was an offer. You can temporarily enrich. We're going to build you a joint enrichment facility. You can have fuel rods for your civilian nuclear energy program.
But if you don't do this, President Trump has been clear, Brian, since his first term that he will not let Iran develop nuclear weapons. It's shocking to me that Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader, thinks the president. President is bluffing and didn't take the deal that was offered just a couple of weeks ago. And so far he hasn't taken it yet. How much damage do you think Israel has done?
And you're reading some of the accounts of their early operations. This thing was well planned. It's extraordinary. I mean, this is probably one of the greatest deception operations ever run by a military. I mean, other examples are the 1967 war, you know, the operations in World War II at Normandy.
I think that the. Deep penetration of the Iranian security establishment by Israel has clearly led to devastating blows. I mean, there was false communications through the Iranian system. They managed to gather the entire IRGC aerospace command Together in a meeting and killed all of them. I mean, this is the command structure responsible for ballistic missile firing.
Mossad has been operating on the ground for many years. Sleeper cells, drones have been set up. I mean, they're devastating the military security and nuclear infrastructure. And it's just, again, shocking to me that Khamenei doesn't understand that Israel probably can do most of it and that the United States could end it all. Mark, how would you some are disappointed, and maybe I think their expectations were too high that between 10 and 15 percent of these rockets into Israel getting through when you have two levels of the arrow system, you got the iron dome, you got David Sling, you have a laser system.
People thought, well, they're fine, but some of these rockets have gotten through. As an expert in the field, are you surprised? I'm not surprised. I mean, the success ratio has always been about 90 percent, and so 10 percent of get through. The Iranians have a ballistic missile inventory of 3,000 missiles.
If 2,000 of them can reach Israel, they probably fired already four, 450 ballistic missiles.
Some have gotten through. I mean, these, Brian, are devastating missiles with one and two-ton warheads. And the only consolation is that they're conventional right now. Iran was poised to develop nuclear warheads. Nuclear-tip missiles would have devastated Israel for forever.
And just judging by the fact that they're going for civilian targets, what makes you think that they would not put nuclear tips on the ends of those rockets?
Well, Khamenei has made clear over and over. Again, that his goal is to destroy Israel, to wipe Israel, quote, off the face of the earth. And so one should always take these threats from these genocidal theocratic. Fanatic, seriously. That is why Israel is acting preemptively.
And Khamenei had given the order to his nuclear weapons scientists to develop the warhead, the last remaining element that he needed for a deliverable nuclear weapon. That is why Israel had to preemptively strike. I did hear some reports late last night, not confirmed, obviously, that there is some movement for the Ayatollah and some others to move over to Russia. I mean, that seems to be where everyone goes these days. Would you look for that?
I mean, especially if he sees himself having a Qaddafi-like ending to his reign? It's interesting. He actually has never left the country in his entire life. It would be actually ironic if the first time he ever leaves. He's 85 years old.
Yes, he's 85, 86 years old. And the first time he ever leaves would be to escape the Israelis, who he has called the little Satan, and to escape the Americans, who he has called the Great Satan. A couple of things, just real quick, on the Ukraine situation. Zelensky's done some really great things, too, with drones, but it looks like the Russians are not letting up. Where's this conflict heading?
Now, this conflict just keeps going on. The Ukrainians are fighting bravestly. They're showing incredible ingenuity with this drone operation against Russia's strategic bombers. And I think, again, I think this conflict will drag on unless we give the Ukrainians the long-range systems to strike Russian forces that have been mobilizing on the Russian-Ukrainian border. President Trump has been doing everything possible to end this bloody conflict.
Vladimir Putin has been recalcitrant. He's been refusing to do so. And unless the United States and Ukraine have leverage, I'm afraid it's going to drag on. Last two questions. Number one, if it was your decision, and the President said, what should I do?
Would you provide the bunker busters to allow Fordo to be exposed?
Well, the bunker busters can only be delivered by B-2 bombers or perhaps by C-130s.
So it'll be a hugely risky operation for the Israelis to drop a bunker buster on Fordot from a C-130. They've got to actually take out all the air defenses. Otherwise, that C-130 is a sitting dock. I think you either provide it to the Israelis who will take that mission. The Israelis may have some tricks up their sleeve.
But at the end of the day, the B-2 bombers... of the U.S. Air Force have been training for this mission for years. And I think this could be really America's victory, President Trump's victory, and a message to the Chinese, the Russians, and the North Koreans that the United States is back after President Biden's devastating withdrawal from Afghanistan, which undermined credibility. Yes.
And also, would you do let the Senate pass the sanctions bill to put more sanctions on Russia? Oh, there's no doubt about it. I mean, we got to put devastating sanctions, again, on Russia in order to increase our negotiating leverage to send a message to Vladimir Putin. Do a deal, or there's going to be more pain. Mark Dubis, thanks so much for the CEO of Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
It's going to be an interesting time, and I'm with you on both those decisions. Daniel Turner's next. It's Brian Kilmead. Hi everyone, I'm Brian Kilmead. If you want something fun and easy to search for homes and apartments, then you should be using the Redfin app.
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So whether you're looking to buy, you're looking to rent, you're looking to sell, Redfin's got you covered. Download the Redfin app to get started. So, Daniel Turner's back with us, founder of Energy Advocacy Group, Power the Future. And Daniel, right now we're just talking about, I thought as soon as they started hitting Iran, the price of oil and gas was going to go up, but it really hasn't. And the market surged yesterday.
Yeah, it spiked a little bit. We were seeing oil around $62 a barrel and it hit about $75. It's come down since. But I think people were worried: are we going to hit $100, $120 a barrel in oil? And it doesn't look like we're going to.
I think there's a couple of reasons why. Israel really hasn't targeted infrastructure in Iran. They've targeted mostly military and telecommunications efforts.
So their energy infrastructure is still pretty much intact. And also, I think world energy markets look at what we've done in America in just six months and say the future of oil is kind of bright. We're drilling more, we're producing more. We hit record oil production a couple days ago.
So even if Iran is taken offline, that's not going to impact world supply. Give me the numbers you just showed me. Let our audience hear where we were at when Biden left and where in 2021 and where we're at now. I think it was at 500,000 when Biden left, and now it's at 3.1 million. Yeah, I put this out on my Twitter account and I retweeted it when I was announcing I was going to be on your show.
And just to show the seriousness of the numbers, when Trump left office in 2021, Iran was only producing 500,000 barrels a day. That's how much their sanctions had crippled them. 500,000 barrels a day, and the oil price was around $55 a barrel.
So you do the math, and Iran had $27.5 million a day in cash to play with. $27.5. Come to the end of the Biden administration, January of this year, they're producing 3.1 million barrels. That's how much taking the sanctions off of Iran. That's the consequence of four years of Biden and giving them every oil and gas license they want.
So they're producing from $500,000 to $3.1 million, but oil prices were hovering around $80 a barrel, and that is $248 million a day.
So from $27 million to $248 million. And when Iran has that much cash, they don't... build cultural centers and schools for girls, right? They don't have scholarships for minority students. They launch war.
They fund terrorism. And that's why we saw problems in Israel. That's why we saw problems in Gaza, problems in Syria. That's what Iran does when it has its money, is that it's fund terrorism around the world. And Biden energy policies contributed to their cash flow.
Who's a big buyer of Iranian oil? Mostly China. And that's what's, I think, strategic about this moment right now is that a lot of countries obeyed the Iranian sanctions that Trump put in place. They used intermediaries, right? Just like they did with the Russian oil and gas sanctions.
Russia sells it to the south koreans uh even the turks which is problematic because they're part of nato and then those countries resell it to france and italy and spain and germany etc bypassing the sanctions but when it comes to iran china is their number one partner and so that's china's biggest vulnerability to switch geopolitical gears um but but china has no strategic domestic oil supply they have to import and so crippling china's oil imports is the probably the strongest way to cripple China politically and militarily. And what's happening right now could have twofold impact. Hurt Iran, hurt China. What has Israel done so far to the infrastructure, the oil and energy infrastructure of Iran? I haven't seen much.
I saw last night, late last night, that there were some activities in the Straits of Hormuz, which is... The 30-year phrase, right? Tensions in the Straits of Hormuz. We always hear that. And that's that narrow point of the sea that goes around the Horn of Africa, kind of makes a huge S-curve in the water that tankers have to go through, oil tankers coming from Kuwait, coming from Saudi Arabia.
And I saw there were a couple of tankers that were attacked, but I don't know the consequence of that. Here's Darren Woods, the ExxonMobil CEO on last night on special report, CUD 26. There were strikes in anticipation of potential disruptions to the ability for Iran to export oil. I think prices rose. And then, as we've seen the attacks kind of carry their way through the weekends, that export capacity has been spared, I think, quite purposefully to not disrupt the oil supply.
And so, we've seen prices start to come off again. There's enough spare capacity in the system today to accommodate any Iranian oil that comes off the market. The bigger issue will be if infrastructure for exports or the shipping past the Strait of Armuz is impacted. That'll have a bigger impact. And they say that's the one thing they could do, but they just don't know if their Navy can do that, if they're militarily capable of doing that.
Yeah, and all this points to the problem we have with getting our oil from anywhere but the United States. And we'll throw Mexico and Canada in that, right? Because we get oil from them as well, but North America. And what you saw the last four years of the Biden administration was this push towards foreign oil, oil. From OPEC nations, oil from Venezuela, oil from the Middle East.
They didn't want to drill. They didn't want to drill because they knew they were funding the enemy in this process, right? They knew they were making Iran rich. This was not a big secret. They saw the amount of tankers that were coming online.
They knew what they were doing with their excess cash, and they never once changed course. And I don't understand how, if you're the National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, how if you're the Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, how you look at these energy policies and don't think that you are majorly contributing to world war.
So, for example, they said, okay, we're going to go back in and pick up where Obama left off. And when it became clear the Iranians don't want to sit with you, change your policy. Is that what you're saying? Also, Venezuela, isn't that a huge risk? 100%.
Going to Venezuela with that horrible nation, destroying the wealth of their country, making a mockery of all their elections. And then they said, oh, you know what? We're going to help you start drilling again. Yeah, and this is something that we didn't learn from our beloved Ronald Reagan: you don't have to. Go to war with your enemies to defeat them, like the Cold War, but you don't have to trade with them either, right?
And we didn't have these ideas in the Reagan years to say, Well, I mean, we are at war with the Soviet Union, but they've got a lot of lithium and they have a lot of gold, so let's just go to. No, no, no. Like, we didn't deal with them at all. And yet, we see constantly in the last 20 years that we fund our enemies by saying, Well, yeah, we're at war with these countries, but they have a lot of goods that we want or cheap stuff from China, so let's continue to trade with them. This idea that trade will democratize evil regimes is a fallacy.
Right, and some smart people have bought into it, but now we have to adjust real quick. Nuclear energy seems to have a bright future, it really does. Yeah, and especially the way we're going with this current administration, which are these small, these smaller modular nuclears that can get online really quickly, can be built a lot more quickly. We are in a desperate energy crunch in America. We need a lot more electricity, and this is the fastest way to get to it.
And it looks the regulatory agency president was just removed yesterday because they want to pick up the picture. In which this thing is greenlighted. And I guess Democrats are okay with this. They don't seem to be anti-nuclear. Am I right?
I don't think so. It seems to be bipartisan. Yeah, yeah, and because they realize their constituents need power too. Right, absolutely.
So thanks so much. Daniel Turner, great insight. Very vital time. Lieutenant Colonel Alan West, next. Thanks so much for listening.
Keep it here. A talk show that's real. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Biden allowed 21 million people to come into our country. of that Best numbers of those people were murderers, killers, People from gangs, people from jails, they emptied their jails out into the U.S.
Most of those people are in the cities. All blue cities. All Democrat-run cities, and they think they're going to use them to vote. It's not going to happen. That is the President of the United States weighing in on his new immigration policy.
And it's going to be less about hospitality, the waiters, the dishwashers, less about the farms.
Some have been there 10, 15 years. He said a lot of them, when we rip these people, if they rip these people out and send them back to their countries, they're going to be replaced by other illegal immigrants. This is the complication of illegal immigration in our country. It makes up 4% of the workforce. And you do that, you will destroy some industries.
Questions, you just do it anyway.
Well, it's not going too well in some areas. And the president's numbers on deportation are dropping. When everybody is for getting rid of the criminals, or at least giving lip service to it. Where do we stand right now as the president promises to flood more ICE officials? I don't know how many more officers there are into these blue cities.
Lieutenant Colonel Alan West joins us, Dallas County Republican Party Chair, American Constitutional Rights Union Executive Director, former Congressman of Florida's 22nd Congressional District. Colonel, welcome back. Hey, it's always a pleasure to be with you. Thank you, Brian. Yeah, so what do you think about the President saying, hey, I got to amend my policy a little bit?
Well, I think that when you go back and you look at the numbers that ICE released last October, November, when they said there were over 600,000 criminal illegal immigrants in the United States of America, that's a big number to focus on. And he is absolutely right when he says that this creation of quote-unquote sanctuary cities and sanctuary states, which is unconstitutional, you cannot harbor criminals and people that are here illegally. That should be the focus. I think that's what the American people understand, and that's a big heavy lift. And just to put that number in some context, we just saw the 250th birthday anniversary of the United States Army.
Our current active duty United States Army is only 425,000.
So, in other words, what we have been told is that we have more criminal, illegal immigrants in this country than we have of the active duty Army. Wow, that's a good point. I never thought about it like that.
So, the president's actually getting pushback on a lot of this stuff, too, which is just crazy. And it's just embarrassing. Austin FC, a soccer team in York State, came out in favor for illegal immigrants. We have a women's soccer team in Los Angeles. They call it Immigrant City.
They're proud of it. They just write a legal immigrant city and see how they feel about it.
Well, it's interesting. I would say to those folks, look up the story of 18-year-old Ava Moore. Ava Moore was killed on Memorial Day weekend. Ava Moore had just completed the United States Air Force Preparatory School. She was about to enter as a freshman in the Air Force Academy.
She was killed by a Venezuelan female illegal immigrant, run over by this illegal immigrant on a jet ski while she was out kayaking on Lake Grapevine right here. In North Texas, she should still be alive. She should be enrolling and going and starting her freshman year at the Air Force Academy. She should be on her way to being a second lieutenant in the United States Air Force. But if these people want to align themselves with that type of entity, activity, and criminality, I think that's a no-win position for them.
Here is what President Trump said yesterday: Cut 31. I want them to focus on the cities because the cities are where you really have what's called sanctuary cities and that's where the people are. I look at New York, I look at Chicago. I mean you got a really bad governor in Chicago and a bad mayor. But the governor's probably the worst in the country, Pritzker.
But I look at how that city has been overrun by criminals. And New York and LA, look at LA, LA, those people weren't from. LA. They weren't from California, most of those people, many of those people. And yeah, I that's I that's the focus.
So So he's really angry about some of these protesters and what's going on in Los Angeles.
Well, he should be. And really, by the definition of what the left came out with after January 6th of an insurrection, they are beyond. The definition of an insurrection. This is sedition. This is undermining our domestic tranquility, which is in the preamble of the Constitution.
And look what happened this past weekend. We had ICE offices being attacked in Portland, Oregon, ICE officials being injured, and we continue to see that happening.
So why do we have people that want to protect individuals who have come across the border into this country legally? That's an offense. And then murderers, rapists, child sex predators. Why do you would you have a United States senator going down to plead the case of an El Salvadoran citizen for him to be returned to the United States of America when he is now facing charges of human trafficking?
So, a couple of things. Just want to run some numbers by you.
So, there's obviously the criminals, 660,000 worst first. And then I thought we'd have this conversation in two years and then talk about what do we do with the rest of it with the border sealed and the criminals gone. What do we do?
So, let me, now that we're at that question, now we're asking what do we do, even though those criminals are not gone yet, because I know it's tough, by the way. I know they're not sitting out there, they're trying to hide. The workforce right now is the illegal immigrant workforce is much higher than ever before. 19% of the landscaping services is illegal immigrants. 17% crop production illegals.
16% animal slaughtering, meat processing, 13% in construction. We left 12 million people in during the Biden four years.
So, a lot of people in those industries go, Yeah, I couldn't get anybody to hire. I couldn't hire any Americans.
So, this is what I hired.
So, 4.4% of the entire workforce is here illegally. And the President said, okay, I'm going to back off hospitality, I'm going to back off the farms. Where do you stand on this? I think that what you have to have, and anybody in the military can understand what I'm about to say, you have a phased operation. In phase one, you focus on that Tier 1 threat that we have, the criminals, the domestic terrorist threat, the international terrorist threat, the transnational narco-criminal terrorist threat.
That's what you want to focus on. You have measures of effectiveness for that first phase. And then when you hit those measures of effectiveness, you transition to the next phase. And the next phase, you declare what's the next tier of illegal immigrants that we want to make sure that they are either deported or they have to comply with the law. And I think another part of that is e-verify.
Let's identify the people that are here trying to work in the United States of America. Let's have a guest worker visa program. Let's allow them to possibly go back home and apply for that and then come back and re-enter into the United States of America legally. And then they can be a part of that guest worker program.
So it's about having a plan. It's about having a phased operation that everyone can understand and brief that to the American people so they can clearly recognize what's going on and update them. I mean, there could be. You're never going to, you know, there could be some type of deal where you're never going to get citizenship because of the way you came here. But I'm going to give you a work visa because what you've done since you've been here, but you never reward the behavior.
So you can be somewhat consistent. Yeah, you don't reward the behavior. And if you are here illegally and you are even part of this guest worker program, if you violate the law, I mean, even if you go out and you have a traffic violation, we could revoke that because you're not abiding by our law.
So that's what you need to start coming together with. And again, breach that to the American people. It's all about showing a vision, showing a plan, and showing a phased operation that anyone can understand. All right, just to show you there's more nuance to this.
So, Tom Holman was asked this last night on Laura Ingram's show, which, by the way, I'm hosting tonight. Here's what they said: Tom Holman told Kaylee, McEnany, Cut 32. Look, like everything else, President is prioritizing public safety threats and national security threats. When it comes to work sites, we prioritize those operations too. Many places we do, where we target the work site enforcement operations, it has to do with.
Forced labor trafficking, sex trafficking, and criminal investigations where they're funding, they're not paying taxes, there's tax evasion, or they're funding cartel activity.
So we prioritize work site investigation too. Worksite investigations are going nowhere. We'll prioritize them like we do everything else. But work site enforcement operations, it's a tenant of what we're doing. It's important what we're doing, we'll continue those.
So There's a reason sometimes you go to the work sites to get the criminals. I remember the MS-13 guys, I would say, what do they do during the day? They called they were coal washers. and at night they act like gangsters. During the day they earn some money.
And then they act like thugs.
So you could do both. Of course you can do both. And I think that, again, that's what has to be articulated. You know, we're not talking about Trendieragua anymore.
So where are these people? What are they doing? Are they working in these construction jobs or what have you? If we identify them, yes, we need to go and we need to apprehend those individuals and detain and deport them.
So this has to be it's the difference between carpet bombing in World War two and precision guided munitions, which is how we do things today to minimize collateral damage. And that's the type of verbiage that the President, the Secretary of Homeland Security, everyone should be using.
So I want you to hear, so there's a bit of a fight in the so-called MAGA world. On are we going to get involved in the Middle Eastern war? President Trump promised not to, and now he's going back on his word. You know, I don't feel that way. You know that I fully realize they've been our enemy since 1979.
Nobody wants to get into a fruitless war, but they have killed Americans, a lot of them. They've never been forced to pay. This is an Israel operation, and I think they're doing the Western world a huge favor. But I look at Tucker Carlson, I look at Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gates, whatever you think of these people. And I am friends with Tucker.
I just vehemently disagree. And now Trump is vehemently disagreeing with this faction.
So tell me about your party. Uh Let me tell you about me, Colonel West. My entire adult life, one country has been a thorn in our side and a very dangerous threat to our United States military, and that's Iran. You go back to October 1983 when 234 Marines, sailors, and a soldier lost their lives in the Beirut Barracks bomb, and that was Hezbollah backed by Iran. You talk about when I was there in Iraq and also when I was deployed in Afghanistan, and you and I used to have conversations when I was in Afghanistan, the explosive force penetrators that Iran was shipping into those theaters of operation to kill Americans.
That was a very deadly improvised explosive device that could take out people in armored vehicles. Iran has always been the number one sponsor of Islamic terrorism. You have to take people for their word. If Iran gets a nuclear device, whether they match it to a ballistic missile system or whether they create it to be a dirty bomb that can be snuck into this country or into Israel or any part of the Western world, it's unacceptable. I think that it is time that we stand with Israel and allow Israel to do what is necessary because they're on the front line and we provide them the support.
There's not a single American troop that has been deployed, but guess what has happened? Hezbollah has been decapitated. Hamas has been severely rendered ineffective. And now we see Iran almost on the brink of collapse. That's what we want to support.
We don't need to have Iran still hanging around for what, another 45 or 50 years threatening the United States of America, threatening my grandsons.
So would you actually drop or supply the bunker buster bombs to knock out Ford Owen and the TONS and whatever's left? Yes. How do you feel about Americans doing it? I would not have a problem with Americans doing it. Because again, the only person that has stood up to Iran and taken a military action was President Ronald Reagan after one of our cruisers or destroyers was hit by an Iranian sea mine.
And it was one of the largest naval engagements. He took out many of their Navy, much of their Navy, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Navy, took out oil platforms, things of that nature. Since then, we have not really done anything against Iran. A lot of lip service, a lot of talking. But you think about the rise of Iran happened because of the weak diplomacy of one Jimmy Carter.
And here we are all of these, you know, what, four, almost five decades later.
Now is the time for that to end. I hear you. I thoroughly buy it and it kind of disturbs me. That people don't see it. They just go, I want peace.
What do you mean you want peace? Nobody does not want peace. What are you talking about? I don't want a Middle Eastern war.
Well, it's not my choice to put Iran in the Middle East. You know, it's not my choice. I mean, uh Israel should always be our ally. What they have done with these series of military operations and intelligence, these tele and these intelligence operations is something that's gonna you know, Tom Cruise couldn't have drum up for the next Mission Impossible movie. The walkie-talkie exploding, the Pagers exploding, the Massadin Country.
The assassination of the scientists of the commanders of the Quds force leaders? Yeah, I mean, you think Donald Trump took out Kassim Soleimani, who was head of their coups force, which was a designated terrorist organization. You know, he went after the ISIS leadership and all of these groups that were supported by Iran. I think it is very great what Israel is doing, and we should stand beside them. And this could also cause a domino effect.
It can affect China. It can affect Russia, because that's that new axis of evil that we see here in the 21st century. I hear you. It's consequential times, and I get the sense something's happening at the White House. And I think there's something happening substantial.
And the one thing people they keep pointing to is, we warned you. We could do it two ways. You never get a nuclear weapon. We warned you repeatedly. We respected you.
We gave you a white paper. We gave you six rounds of talks. And you're trying to assassinate me and I ignored it. And I said, let's still have these talks. And then they said, we're still enriching and we're still spinning centrifuges.
They had no choice. Colonel Alan West, thanks so much. My pleasure. Take care. Back in a moment.
Coming to you on a need-to-know basis, because Mandy, you need to know. It's Brian Kilmead. A radio show like no other. It's Brian Killmead. I think the key question is whether Iranians can be convinced that the reason they're so vulnerable today, their cities across the country are under attack, is because the leadership has been spending all its time focusing on other.
Proxies outside the country. They've been working with Hezbollah. They've been sending weapons and people to Syria and Yemen and helping Gaza. They've done everything but defend the homeland. That's the argument, I think, that a successful challenge to the Iranian regime would make.
You closed all, fiddled around with all the windows, but you left the door wide open, and here they are. And that might be over time, it would take some weeks, a winning argument.
So, Dave Ignatius, great knowledge of the area, but we was. It's pretty clear that it's pretty consistent that the Iranian people have always been complaining about the number of amount of money that's going to Syria when they were there and Assad was still in power and they did so much to keep him in power. All the money that's going to Hezbollah, that's why they were considered the gold standard of terror groups. And Hamas was a relatively late addition because they're Sunni, they're Shia, but they go, wow, if you're going to attack. Israel, I'm all for you.
And that's why they believed that in Lebanon they had meetings that they talked about how October 7th was going to happen. And immediately, Israel said, Iran said when it happened, it was such a devastating attack, obviously, that Iran goes, Yeah, we knew they were gonna do something. We didn't know exactly what they were gonna do. Then we find out from the Wall Street Journal. And they were all meeting together.
But all that's that money, all that planning, where's the infrastructure? Where's the water? Where's the transportation? Where's the quality of life? All we have is crackdowns.
All we have is. The police force, and they're hammering women. And if you have a demonstration, you go to jail for the rest of your life. We know that's how they operate. But should we be going to war?
I'm listening. I'm very curious to see where Democrats lie on this, right? Because some were upset. That Trump ripped up the Obama deal. Others thought the Obama deal, like I did, was absolutely awful.
Schumer, Cardin, Menendez, just three Democrats that weren't going to sign up for it. Here's Tim Kaine, cut twelve. Israel has a right to defend itself, obviously, and I've supported all the aid packages to Israel.
However, I don't think the United States should be at a war with Iran. I think that would be foolish. We've learned 20 years of two wars in the Middle East. I think we've learned that it would be a bad idea. And I think President Trump sort of understands it.
You hear what he's been saying. We're not involved in these strikes in Israel, but you better not attack. any Americans, or then we're suddenly going to need to be involved. I think the president kind of gets the offense versus defense distinction too. It's kinda good to see somebody.
Not necessarily take this opportunity to ridicule the president, even though I know that's part of the course. Senator Fetterman, Senator Fetterman, the other way. He said, Oh, I would take out the Ayatollah. Let's go kill him.
So I'm all for that too. Hi, one. Brian Kilmead here, 48th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world. Thanks so much for listening. Got a lot going on this hour.
Today I'm O'Cast with Stuart Varney on FBN, John Chris, the outstanding comedian, Bright Show of his tonight show appearances, and Senator Shelly Moore Capitol standing by. We're also trying to see what's happening with the national security meeting that's happening in the Situation Room right now. It's why the president left. A day early from the G7 yesterday looked quite tense. And said on Truth Social, I'll just paraphrase where Macron came out and said it's about some type of.
Um some type of uh resuming talks. With the Iradians, he ripped Macron, says he doesn't know what he's talking about, and it's much bigger than that. Big three. Number three. This will reduce the deficit, not increase it.
And the reason for that is: one, we are going to have the biggest spending reduction in history. But secondly, all the other things I mentioned are going to generate growth in the economy. That is John Thune, the senator, trying to get the big, beautiful bill passed, but he's making it stronger, a little bit more responsible. But could he be losing the House in the process? I'll tell you what they're working on prior to the July 4th, self-imposed deadline.
Number two. I want them to focus on the cities because the cities are where you really have what's called sanctuary cities, and that's where the people are. I look at New York, I look at Chicago. I mean, you got a really bad governor in Chicago and a bad mayor. Does anyone argue with that?
Chances change of plans? Trump backing off illegals who are working in vital industries while cramping down. Clamping down on illegals thriving in blue cities. Many of the 600,000 plus. criminals in our midst.
Let's make it easy. Get rid of the worst first. Number one. Where the president is, he's supporting. Israel 100% to com complete the campaign that they started here.
And that campaign focuses on Iran's center of gravity, their nuclear enterprise. That is General Jack Keen, the best in the business. Day five, Israel and Iran exchange rocket fire and attacks with Iran taking critical blows while absorbing 24 deaths and 200 plus who are banged up. Are we about to ramp up our participation, focusing on the Fordo Mountain nuclear plan? Let's ask Senator Shelley Moore Capitol, would she be in support of that?
She's on appropriations, commerce, and rules. Senator, welcome. What do you think about if we are to take more of a role, if we are to drop the bunker busters ourselves? Would you think, would that be an escalation you could not support? You know, I think that's that's yet to be seen.
I don't think we'll go in that direction. I don't think the President I mean, at least the way I'm looking at his signals, I don't think that's something that he's interested in. As we know, he wants Bombing and death to stop. He wants to reach an agreement here. And so I think we're a long way from considering whether we would use a bunker buster ourselves.
I just don't see us. Further escalating this and getting our involvement. I really don't. But do you see the operation worth it if their nuclear program is still intact? I think we have to obliterate their nuclear program and we have to let Israel work its will, which they are.
And, you know, yes. And I think it's problematic because we know that in the one facility where they're developing this, it is way underground, very difficult to get. And the question is: does Israel have the weapon to disrupt that? And I think general thinking is no, they don't. We are the only ones with that capability.
But that'd be a pretty big step, Brian. And we want to do everything to support Israel. But I can't say what my reaction would be until I see where we are. Would you say that Iran is an enemy of America? Yeah.
Absolutely. Why do people have a hard time understanding that? Especially in your party. I don't know. You know, I was kind of flashing back myself to think, you know, during Reagan with the hostages and just all of the turmoil that Iran, the hate to America, funding all what happened in Gaza, funding the Houthis, funding Hezbollah.
Yes, these are all going at Israel, but also they love to destroy America and our freedoms. And so I think that they're clearly an enemy of our country. Right. I just think that the president doing that would be also. avenging some of what they did in Iraq for those years with the insurgency.
That was financed and orchestrated primarily by Iran, who killed our guys directly. Cost us billions of dollars.
Well, I think the President has set a line of demarcation in terms of what our involvement would be, and that is don't touch our troops, don't touch where we are in the Middle East. And, you know, so far they haven't, but I don't know that that holds. I don't know what their frustration is. I mean, all their military leaders are gone. I mean, it seems like yesterday they took out another one.
So I think they're in a very weakened position.
So what do you do? Are you like a cat in the corner and you just lash out?
So then you lash out at Americans? Or are you a cat in a corner that wants to get out and you just lay down and wait for somebody to help you to reach some kind of a decision? But the only decision that would satisfy, I think, me is to make sure that Iran cannot get a nuclear weapon.
So here is Victoria Coach, who I know you respect. She was on last night on Laura's show with Kayleigh McEnaney, and she said this about the possibility of doing to Khomeini. what they did with Nasarella, and that is take him out. And Nasarella, of course, was he ran Hezbollah, Cut 14. I think it is certainly an option you want to keep in your back pocket.
That is something that now the Iranians know that the Israelis can reach out and touch them any time. As you just and Mike just reported, they're flying with impunity over Tehran.
So I'm not sure that's a card you want to play right this minute. I don't know the details of what went down in that episode, but I think it is certainly possible that you'd want to hold on to that one going forward and see if you can actually get a good deal out of the Iranians in the interim. All right. I want to talk about the big, beautiful and just your thoughts on that, because it looks like Trump did call off an assassination and they had him in their crosshairs. And you have to think, well, what the Israelis have already done, they've already proven they can get to anybody at any time.
Absolutely they can. If they can get you have a synchronized weapon to get you in your bedroom, in your apartment complex, if they can set pagers to detonate in exactly the same time all over Hezbollah, I don't doubt any capability that Israel has. Probably the only one I know that we think they don't have is the bunker busting capability. And so, yes, the Ayatollah knows that, but who's next? I mean, there's another Ayatollah out there.
So I'm not sure that the escalation of that might be more than the Israelis are willing to go into at this point. Let's talk about the Big Beautiful Bill. The GOP is taking a bigger swing at Medicaid, we understand. Vicente is taking a look at it. For example, the legislation that you guys are working on would effectively cap provider taxes at 3.5 percent, down from the 6 percent now, but only for states that expanded Medicaid.
After the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, the cap would be placed in lowering to 0.5% annually. That'll save some money. The SALT caucus is, and there's no sentiment in the Senate to give breaks to blue cities like the one, blue states like the one I'm in with high state taxes.
So you want to cap it at $10,000 instead of $40,000. That's got a lot of New Yorkers upset. Taxes on tips, the deduction would be limited to $25,000 per person. And it would go up for Social Security to get a tax deduction up to $6,000. These are some of the things I hear you're working on.
Anything you want to dispute or build on?
Well, on the salt issue, we went through this in 2017. Personally, I led the amendment that said we have no salt deduction. You know, I live in West Virginia where we manage our finances. As you know, you've been in the beautiful state. We don't have all this high tax.
And I don't want to reward our good behavior. I don't want West Virginians paying for New York and California.
So that one to me, I think the sentiment in the Senate is to keep it low. But understanding where the Speaker says the House is.
So we'll see where we end up compromising on that. In terms of the Medicaid, look, 28% of the people in West Virginia on Medicaid. It's an important program for those who deserve it, need it, want it, qualify for it. But we've got to preserve it, and it's growing exponentially.
So putting a cap on the growth is not a cut. It is basically saying we're going to ask the states to be more responsible. We're going to ask the hospitals to be more responsible. And this whole provider tax, I'll say, circle is going to be contained. I think I can support that.
And I don't think that, that automatically says You know, well, we're going to cut 10 million people off Medicaid. That's what they're going to say. People that are going to lose Medicaid are the ones that shouldn't be on it to begin with. And that's just it. When you put able-bodied people on it, they get such a better demand and re and refund that doctors prioritize those other people.
Over people in need and the disabled. Right. And you know, I think America's built on a great sense of fairness here. And I think part of the fairness equation is that if you're receiving a government benefit and you're able bodied, then you should be able to work that off. That's a reasonable ask.
And so, and a fair ask, because why do some people stay in jobs they hate? Because of the health care availability. Why do they stay in lower-paying jobs or higher-paying jobs when they might want to do something else? Because of the health care availability. So, if you're going to get health care, why don't you get to work and help the country get better and also fill in some of these jobs that we need so many people for?
I mean, I think work is good. I thought so too. I think everyone agrees. Josh Hawley, somebody said, don't touch Medicaid. That's a Republican.
Jeff Van Drew, don't touch Medicaid. That's another Republican. I got to ask you about the illegal immigration situation. The worst, get out the worst first. But along the way, the President is going into workplaces, home depots, and there is some people getting arrested that don't seem tossed out, that don't necessarily have criminal records.
And that's causing some turmoil. Do you think it's necessary turmoil?
Well, I think the fact of the matter h he here is, and I saw somebody trying to make the argument that Coming into the United States without documentation is not illegal. Yes, it is. Of course, it is, yeah. It is. And the fact of the matter is, while I have some empathy to people who have came here illegally and have started families and been here 15 years, I can be empathetic to that.
But I heard Secretary Noam say, you can deport back, and then if you do that, you're going to have a better chance of getting back in here legally. And folks that are living here illegally, for their whole lives, they're going to be living with one foot not firmly on the ground. I don't want to see them overcorrect here. I do want the criminals out, but if you've got a deportation, Judgment that has gone through the courts, you got to leave. Yeah, I agree.
So the president said, Look, there's a lot of pressure on the hospitality wing. There's a lot of pressure on farmers.
So I'm going to really pull back on that. He said that on Thursday, but it seemed to counter it a little than. on Monday, but I didn't know that 4.4% of the U.S. workforce is illegal immigrants, 19% of landscapers, 17% of crops production, 16% of slaughtering and meat processing.
So that's a lot of people. I don't necessarily think that Americans want those jobs, even though I don't I think it's too broad to say nobody wants those jobs, maybe. But it's also in some of these cases, they're getting paid a lot of money. It's not like they're getting a discount. They just don't a lot of people don't want to do it.
So where do you stand on that?
Well, you know, what mystifies me on that, and a company like Home Depot, for instance, that's a great, large and very well-respected company, has systems that, you know, e-verify, that verify the citizenship of their workers, or their not citizenship, but their availability of legal work. And so I think most of these folks that are like landscapers and others are probably using workers that they're temporary, they're seasonal, they're finding them, you know, you know, outside of Home Depot waiting to get picked up. And so I think Mm. I think if you're going to be fair, the American people say you got to be fair everywhere, and that includes all those industries. I mean, that's kind of a hard line, but that's what I think.
Uh, I hear you. Um, how do you like being with Jim Justice? I love it. I love it. I've known Jim a long time.
He's a great senator, a lot of fun, and he always has a good story. And with he and Baby Dog, they're quite a scene here. I know. Senator Shelley Moore Capitol, thanks so much. Appreciate it.
Okay, thank you. Get it done by July 4th. John Chris, Bob of the Hour. Stuart Varney, after that, don't move. You're with Brian Kilmead.
The more you listen, the more you'll know it's Brian Kilmead. I think Donald Trump in these last 72 hours has been struggling to get ahead of where he was 72 hours ago. 72 hours ago, it's not clear to me that he knew with any particular warning that the Israelis were going to go. It's not clear to me that he gave permission. And so now that he sees the Israelis, at least in these initial days, doing pretty well, he wants to get ahead of it and ultimately claim credit.
So that is Congressman Jim Hines who always thinks the worst, even when things go well. I happen to know for certain that Donald Trump knew ahead of time prior to Sunday's talks with the Israelis who were going to do. And I also know just by listening that it made it really easy to back Israel. You why? Not only one, he knew the plan.
They spoke extensively on the phone when he was in Camp David. Number two, The Iranians didn't, there was no gray area. They didn't play it smooth. They said, we're going to continue to spend centrifuges, continue to enrich uranium. There's nothing you can do about it.
So, and now everybody knows how close it was. Then the IAEA, an independent organization, always is very open to Iran's interpretation of things, said, We're going to sanction you guys. You're way beyond the limitations. We're going to sanction you for the first time in 20 years.
So it all added up.
So Jim Himes thinks it got ahead of the president, sees him doing well, and now he's changed. I think he's been watching too much MSNBC. Because you just gotta you gotta have some credibility.
Now, I think the next move is going to be a little different because the president's going to be asked, I think, to provide weapons or actually do the bombing himself to finish off Iran's program. If they just end now and he pressures Israel, stop bombing, it's almost a waste of time. Here's Aaron Cohen, Israel's special ops veteran, Cut 15. Iran is on the edge of getting crushed. You don't tell civilians to evacuate Tehran unless something very kinetic is about to go down, like the president just posted.
Iran knows it, Israel knows it, and the mullahs know it too, Sean. And that's why they're suddenly begging for negotiations. But I agree with you. These mullahs are stalling, and that's what they do. They stall and they lie.
And why? Because they're cornered and they know it. Delay, lie, buy time. I don't know. I don't know if they're delaying.
I mean, they're not delaying. I'm sending rockets in, and Israel's bombing 24 hours a day. They don't need the night. The night is fine, but the day's fine too, because they have no missile defense.
So I don't know if they're delaying. I mean, how are they delaying? They've killed every commander. They've killed the Kuds Force top four. Then they replaced the Kuds Force Intelligence Commander.
They killed him. He only had the job four days. I don't know if they're the line.
So the G7 has a meeting and the president They were going to call for a secession of violence or for both sides to go back to talks. And Prentz goes, Yeah, if you write that, I'm not signing off on it.
So instead, the President decided to sign off on a joint statement calling for a de-escalation on Iran's part after the White House initially said it would not sign it. In the context, this is the quote. We affirm that Israel is a right to defend itself. We reiterate our support for the security of Israel. We also affirm the importance of protection of civilians.
Iran is the principal source of regional instability and terror. They go on. Here's why that's important. The Europeans have jumped off the Israeli bandwagon, thanks to Joe Biden doing it too, feeling the pressure, and they feel as though Gaza and the humanitarian situation is really all. Israel's fault.
Not pointing to the fact that hostages are trapped there, that Hamas won't give up there, and that a lot of their aid that they're getting in there is being resold by Hamas. That they're giving away, Hamas is getting it and charging the Palestinians to eat. John Christ is next. Uh quick announcement. Coming up Saturday night, Dayton, Ohio.
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If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. We have a great show. He stars in the new movie Epic. One Javier Fardan is here from the White Lotus and the Gilded Age.
Terry Kuhn is joining us. And we have Stana from the very funny John Chris. Stick around. Our next guest. Can currently be seen on his Jokes for Humans tour, making his tonight show debut.
Please welcome the very funny John Chris. Oh, what's up, everybody? How's it going? Listen, big news for me. I don't want to brag up front, but I did, we're not engaged yet, but I did just get invited to join my girlfriend's family group chat.
And that's it, it got better from there. That was called the setup. That's the intro. Yes. John Chris was on the tonight show last night, and he's telling everybody, you two we found.
I'll be telling everybody. The guy on the street, he's like, Do you want? I go, hey, I pulled him aside. I was on the tonight show last night. Right.
So, what was it like? It was unbelievable.
Well, you know, that's forever. It was your first one. First time. First time ever. That's like the.
Um I'm sure that's the Super Bowl. Yeah. For a stand-up comic, that's the top. What's the top for a guy like you? This.
This is it. The radio? Yeah, the radio. You're on it right now. You're getting better than this.
Come on, John. You're looking at it. Thank you very much. Hey, I know. Do you want to be on the president or something?
Going to the Oval Office? Yeah, we're going to do that July 2nd. Yeah. What was the first time when you were young? What was the first time that you were like, I'm doing it?
You remember? Mm. No, I've I've been on the Tonight Show. No, not the Tonight Show, but the whatever is equivalent. Then somebody called you and said, We need you for the whatever thing.
And you're like, Oh, I might be a real journalist now. No, I'm still waiting for that. I'm still, it's not going to be much longer. In fact, when this savement, I'm going to check my phone. Fingers crossed.
There might be a test. Fingers crossed, dude. Right. So, I mean, how's your tour going? Oh, unbelievable, man.
I feel like we're going to small, like, not smaller and smaller cities, but like more, like, because comedy, you can travel. Right. If you're music, you got the two trucks and the band and the guy. What do you have? What do you have?
A microphone. Right. If that. Right. If the sound guy doesn't show up, I'll just yell.
You can yell. That's why you have cones. Yeah, that's that. You go to the construction. That's how I started just like Jesus.
Right. That's how he started. On the shoreline. He had to have a hill. Right.
So he could talk to everybody. Is that true? He tried this situation. He had set it up so he could echo off the wall. You're looking at me and I'm like talking on this is how Jesus did it.
No, but here you do have that religious background.
Well, you know how, let's see, like the Coliseum, it's kind of dug out and you can kind of. Yeah, it can't be just yelling out into the ocean. Do you write stuff down? Me, so you need if you go on the road, you're gonna need a pen, right? Yeah, all the time.
I need a pen. Yeah, if I start doing this bit about how Jesus talked and you hear it, you're like, I know, you stole that from me. I know. So, so let me share a story that might not be worthy. Let's hear it, but let's try it.
This is how everything starts. Yeah, that's how uh inspiration starts. Don't cut it out, don't say that before it starts.
So, Lee Bryce is at the old Westbury Music Theater, okay? And he's there that's 20 minutes from my house.
So, I show up and I get there early, and he's like, You don't mind. Yeah, oh, yeah. Oh, civilian.
Okay.
So I get up there, and he said, why don't you stop by first? And I walked in. He's. He's like, I hope you don't mind. Just take a seat.
I'm working on something. I said, Great. Yeah. And the song is great. I'm with friends.
I'm like, they do it. And he sounds fantastic. He said, let me just try to record this and I'll be right with you. We record it. And my neighbor's like, oh my God, what's happened with that song?
What happened with that song? Six months goes by. Eight months goes by. Lee Bryce finally shows up. I go, Lee.
The last time I saw it, he goes, Yeah, well, Westbury, I go, that's song. He goes, I don't know what you're talking about. Has no idea what I'm talking about.
So I go, What does this sound like?
So they call my name. He goes, He asked me, What was I doing? I go, Wait a second. You have no remember of this. He goes, No, I'm doing this.
That's what I do all the time. Yeah. I said, All right.
So I call my friends. I go, Did you remember anything? Yeah. So he called me up, he texts me and goes, Do you remember anything? Because it sounds like something I should remember.
So we go back and forth, we piece it together. He goes back to the day, goes to the time. He can't believe he forgot the song. He's going to record or he's going to put it out. All because I drilled it into him.
Oh, man. Right. So, do I deserve a little bit of credit? That's 100%. A lot of artists, they don't.
They're like, ah, this is nothing. This is nothing. And then somebody two years later goes, Hey, remember that one thing? That's you saying it might have been something. Right.
And all artists want is something. Do you think that he saw in me that I was old junior high in eighth grade, clarinet? Third row. Yeah, he he goes, Hey, listen, I if I'm gonna it's not Bono, that's not if it's Brian Kilby. Musical expertise, Brian Kilby's the guy I'm gonna love.
Anybody who has to put his instrument together. Yeah. I think that's pretty good. That's that's how you I don't think uh that's you know, women love Yeah. I don't think that would be in that category.
What about comedians? Oh, yeah. Generally. Yeah, dude. I got bullied in high school.
Then I became a comedian. Everybody's like, oh, what's up? And do you still, are you still the kid in your head that was bullied? Yes. Or are you the famous guy that's not?
I don't think any artist is the famous guy. Right. Yeah. You go, well, I'm on the Jimmy Foul. Oh, they must have done a favor for my agent.
You're like, you always, you're like, oh, no, they just wanted this topic because it's Father's Day. Or it's not because of. Oh, my podcast. My. Airing was the biggest, the most highly rated of the whole year.
Oh, it's because it was Taylor Swift. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Oh, it's because you know.
So is that the voice in your head, or is that the people critical of you? A voice in my head for sure. 'Cause I was like uh I told my this is getting serious, but I told my therapist, I was like, Every time I feel like everybody's like, you're a loser, like I can't believe you said that. I can't believe and they go, my therapist goes, Well, who said that? And I hadn't no, dude.
You're like, oh, everybody thinks Brian is. Yeah. Well, who said that? Do you have any? No, somebody as a kid said that.
Right. And you repeated it.
Now we're getting very serious. But here's the thing, John. Here's the question, Alice. If you go through that as a kid and you have this less than ideal childhood, but your career ends up flourishing. It's worth it.
Right? I mean, come on. It's like, is boot camp worth becoming a general?
Well, boot camp was terrible. Yeah. Dude, you know what? My buddy, he's very wealthy. He's lives down in Nashville.
He's got three young girls. And he goes, Yeah, we're. We're forcing them to play sports, to be in student government. We're really pushing them because you're going to end up. In therapy in your 30s, anyway.
Might as well be rich. Right. You might as well have the money. Might as well can afford it. Yeah, if you could satisfy your own deductible as an adult, I think you're okay.
So if you go, hey, we're going to parent this one way. No rules. Kids do whatever they want, eat whatever they want. No, please and thank you. Or very rigid.
We're going to maybe enforce some discipline. They're going to be in therapy in something wrong either way. We've done something wrong. Might as well work in one of these offices on the 87th floor. Therapy pays off in your mind?
Yes. Would you do the phone call therapy? You would do that. I do a Zoom. I wouldn't do a phone call.
No, because you picked that person out. There's services, psychological services now where you just call in and they match you up with somebody. Yeah, you can do chat GPT. Those are artificial, I believe.
So Warren Zyders, who you have the same public as.
So he comes in, he does our show. I saw him come through, and then we do a feature together. The president saw him and he said some nice things about the president at the end. He goes, I'd love to play golf with him and appreciate what he's doing. Not even.
And he doesn't even play golf. But this way, it's not like. One of these guys that just loves him. He goes, Yeah, I like him. I'd love to meet him one day.
Yeah. Well, the president sees him, listen to the music, goes, I like this guy. Yeah. And he's famous.
So he gets on and what's time to have the president's gonna have a parade. He's like, I want Warren Tigers. Warren Slay's got like what, four number one songs, right? Great story. Like you generated his own audience before Nashville or himself.
Yeah. So that's why your publicist likes them. Yeah. Right? Like Tai Chi self-made people.
Now when Warren comes back, he doesn't have time to do this show. Right. I've been doing this show seven times when I'm waiting for the payoff.
Well, you got it. He got the thread show. Oh, yeah, you're taking credit for it. Yeah, I was hoping that you would close the circle. Not a 360, but a 180.
Yeah, all 180, dude.
So I want you to hear how NBC, he's up there on stage. The guy's, what, 24, 26? Very attractive, man. I wasn't seeing him getting that. I was just talking about his age.
Oh, oh, oops. Very good belt. He's well-built.
Well-built, yeah, yeah. But is that any better? Yeah, you can say that.
So listen to NBC. All right. How arrogant. Listen to this. We expect there to be several performances as a part of this celebration that's happening on the National Mall today for the Army's 250th birthday.
I. I don't know who this is singing right now, and I probably should. But we were told there would be a surprise. I was also hoping we would be told who the surprise is, but this is, I'm sure, an important booking. And if anyone in our control role has an idea, we'd love to hear it.
Just for folks who are watching, say it again. Warren Zeiters. Zeiters, okay. That's what we're told. Wallen's items.
I think it was Wallen? Wallen? Yeah. Time for the Google. Country music fans are very frustrated with this right now.
It's so meanwhile, you hear the song in the background? I think it's some born in the country right now. I mean, that's like the extremely well-known song. You should feel a little bit of humility. Yeah, or at least like if you politics aside, if you're the news.
You're supposed to know what the song is. You should know the band. We watch you to tell us who the people are. Exactly. I don't get the it's like it's it's the the shots.
When do we see you on stage? Because I think I'm coming to the end of our your appearance. Oh, okay. We're here?
Well, anywhere. Tell me where you are. You know what? I'm off for six weeks. Oh, you did.
The last time you were here, you were up right before your vacation. And then I'm going to go up back in September. September. Where do we find that? JohnChris.com?
Everywhere. I'm going to be 32 cities in the fall.
So it's just find you. Oh, yeah. He's out there. Check the stage. You're going to be there.
You're town. I'm coming there. All right. And just remember, you had tonight's show, but I'd like to be number two. I'd be number two.
Number two in our hearts. Saying number two. Number two. Brian Kilmy, almost as cool as Jimmy Fallon. Actually, not at all.
Thanks, John Christ.
Now, the Brian Kilmead Show joins Fox Businesses. Varney and Company with Stuart Varney, live on your radio and on Fox Business. Here's Brian Kilmead. Hey, welcome back, everyone. It's Brian Kilmead Show.
Thanks so much for listening. I'm going to be able to squeeze in some calls on the other end. I see Danny's calling from Israel, Sandra from New Jersey. We'll try to get you on, but I'm going to do a sample cast with Stuart Varney on FBN, the number one show on FBN, and we'll talk about what's happening with the parade and contrast that with the No Kings Day. And soccer's kind of embarrassing me in that respect.
Doc Rivers also weighed in on what Democrats need to do to change moving forward because he also does not like Trump. Right. 10:51, which means it's time to bring in Brian Kilmead. Brian, welcome to the show. Milwaukee Bucks head coach Doc Rivers.
He's calling out the Democrats. Watch this. I come in after a game. We lost because, but then I say, we lost. But we have to do these things differently if we want to win.
We can't say, well, we lost because they just made a lot of shots. All right. Well, then we have to force them to miss more shots. You have to do something different. It's so strange.
We're blaming the people who voted for Trump. for why he won.
Okay.
No, and it makes no sense to me. Brian, that's interesting. That that's wisdom in sports as applied to politics. What's the best way to handle the broken Democrats, if you want to put it like that? I think, number one, Doc River is one of the smartest people in sports as a player.
He was extremely the best interview. And then, as a coach, he's a great interview, and he was a fantastic broadcaster. He is vehemently anti-Trump. But what he's trying to say is, your team lost by a lot. And even though it's a couple of percentage points, it's by the millions.
And he lost every battleground state, and you're not doing an evaluation. You know what, also, I think he would assess? You have done nothing. In since November, to come together as a team, either. They're all over the place.
They just got rid of their second in command because he wanted to change things. Who knows if it would have been the right move or not? Then if Rahm Emmanuel comes up the middle and just ridicules everybody, people say, well, he's got no constituency. And Senator Fetterman, speaking his mind, they're trying to oust him and say he lost his mind because he had a stroke when they told us when he had a stroke that he was medically recovered.
So right now, I'm sorry, Doc Rivers. You're giving great advice. But your team, your party's not listening. They're not listening. I'm not going to take it either.
Brian, players on LA's women's soccer team, the Angel City FC, they wore T-shirts that read Immigrant City Football Club. The team banned for Austin's men's soccer club. They held banners reading abolish ice and no ice in this melting pot. Why must we make sports political? Didn't we learn anything from the NFL?
Well, number one, I will say this, and it's sad to me because I'm a soccer player, an American soccer player, but this league, the MLS and the NWSL, are the most liberal leagues around. I mean, I had a player of mine, he's still on the Red Bulls, and I said, wouldn't it be great to do a feature on him? Coached him since he was eight, now starting back along with his brother on the Red Bulls. Do you know the MLS team said, I don't think we want to do a feature on Fox News channel? And do you know when it came to the Black Lives Matter, what they made these guys do during the George Floyd riots and the pandemic was flat out embarrassing the jerseys and the antics.
And to me, it doesn't surprise me that a women's league coming off the women's national team, taking the knee like they did with Megan Rapino, is out there not understanding with the American people want to get rid of illegal immigrants, not immigrants, especially in Los Angeles. They decide to side with their terrible mayor and their worst governor. Fantastic. And by the way, Matthew McConaughey, you should be embarrassed. You own that team.
You can't let the band put out a banner that says what it says. Come on. Yeah, and what happens if one of the team doesn't want to wear that banner over that T-shirt? What happens if they want to stand out? You've just split everybody up.
Well, in Austin, very liberal in Texas, but the Texas is not liberal. That's very true. Competitive eater Joey Chestnut back is going to take part in this year's Nathan's hot dog eating competition. He won 16 times and Brian, you interviewed him. This is back in 2022.
Watch this. This is done for your life. Oh my God, I have the best life in the world. I get to travel around the world and beat people. You're the Tom Brady of hot dogs.
It's kind of gross myself to eat as many hot dogs as you can in whatever time frame, but he's back and I guess that's good for the Nathan's contest. You know, I've interviewed some influential people, presidents, secretary of state Marco Rubio a month ago. You could have pulled off all my interviews, but instead you bring me to the guy who eats hot dogs quickly. Come on, Stuart, are you trying to destroy me?
Now, he's a wonderful guy. I don't get it as a sport, I don't get the fascination, but I'll tell you, he's a cool guy. And what he can do. With hot dogs, I don't know what he does. Does he grease them?
He can keep his esophagus open, peristalsis on steroids. I don't know what it is, but I don't even want to acquire that skill. Usually, when I see a champion, I want to emulate that. I have no interest in emulating any of that. And I'll bet you he's back on Fox and Friends on July the 5th.
Yes. All right, Brian. We're out of time. It was a pleasure, as usual. We'll see you again soon, Brian.
All right. Thanks so much. 1-866-408-7669. You know, it's one of these times when I hop on with Stewart. It's usually the stories I'm already discussing.
All three of those stories were brand new to me.
So I digested them quick. Doc Rivers, extremely left. Remember, they were extremely liberal, the whole pandemic and all that stuff, and the Black Lives Matter and all those things, and the cheering and the crying that he went through. But he's a great guy. And by the way, the Knicks wanted to speak to him because the Knicks were looking for this thing called a coach.
Which you would think If the team was struggling like it has been for twenty years up until the last five, they would have trouble getting a coach. But now they're the third or fourth best team in all of basketball, two games away from getting to the finals. They fire their coach. And they have nobody in mind? Mean w Did they understand how close they were?
I mean, and why that matters? It's incredible. But he would have been somebody that New York would have loved. But he's got a championship under his belt as a coach of the Boston Celtics. But he's also been frustrating to some teams who feel as though he is the last piece of the puzzle and they don't win.
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All right, everyone, welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Kill Me Show. Thanks so much for listening. Bobby Brack's going to bring us inside the media, covers politics, culture, and media more for Outkick. Does a great job. Jackie Heinrich is standing by, fresh off her appearance in the DC, her present appearance, filling in for Dana Perino on Fox Newsroom.
So that's great, America's Newsroom. And we'll get some insight into what's happening on Capitol Hill. We know the President of the United States has a national security meeting with his council over in the Situation Room, all regarding, we imagine, the Mideast. We don't think he's talking about sanctions on Russia, sadly, which I wish we would actually hammer them with. But the president, I can disagree with the president.
It's no problem. Not going to, it's just my opinion. He's got the Republican Party on the other side, a bunch of issues with him. And I think it's led by what he says, the MAGA world, which, by the way, he ran, he created the MAGA world.
So someone should tell him that I guess he is not leading the charge anymore. Steve Bannon and others who are out there saying, don't get involved in our top story. But first, big three. Number three. This will reduce the deficit, not increase it.
And the reason for that is: one, we are going to have the biggest spending reduction in history. But secondly, all the other things I mentioned are going to generate growth in the economy. That is Jon Thune. Can they get the big, beautiful bill done Senate side by the 4th of July? And will it look anything like what the House handed them?
We'll talk about it. Number two. I want them to focus on the cities because the cities are where you really have what's called sanctuary cities, and that's where the people are. I look at New York, I look at Chicago. I mean, you got a really bad governor in Chicago and a bad mayor.
That is true, Mr. President. Change of plans. Trump backing off illegals who are working in vital industries while clamping down and cracking down on the illegals thriving in blue cities. Let's make it easy.
Get rid of the worst first. Number one. Where the president is, he's supporting Israel 100% to com complete the campaign that they started here. And that campaign focuses on Iran's center of gravity, their nuclear enterprise. General Jack Keene knows no one's better than him.
Day five: Israel and Iran exchanged rocket-fired attacks with Iran taking critical blows.
Well, Israel absorbed 24 deaths. Are we about to ramp up our participation from defensive posture to more offensive posture when it comes to the nuclear program? I know the president of the United States just came out and just put out in Truth Social Show, and I'll paraphrase. He essentially says, Reports that say I reached out to Iran for talks are 100% not true. They know how to reach me with me right now.
Where surely is Jackie Heinrich? She's going to be joining me.
Okay, she's here. Hey, Jackie. Hey, Brian, how's it going? Good, good. I did not know you were on Zoom, so I was waiting to see you pop up on screen.
Congratulations, you're now president of the White House Correspondents Association. Thank you.
Well, I'm President actually in the third year of my term, which happens to be the last year of President Trump's term.
So, hopefully, when we have a Fox dinner, maybe we have a President coming. And hopefully, by then, the White House Corresponds Association is in a different place with the administration than it is right now.
So, I think everyone's excited to just move forward. I understand.
So wait a second.
So they said in year four, so you have two more years to wait. Yeah, I'm on the board. I'm on the executive committee for those first two years.
So I'll be treasurer, then vice president, then president in the third year. All right. Let's talk about the latest. What do you think the real reason is the president left the G7?
Well, I mean. I think that all signs point to the potential for U. S. support of Israel's campaign against Iran. You have U.
S. assets being positioned in the region ostensibly to protect Whatever forces might be going in to try to destroy the enrichment site at Ford O. You had the president saying on Air Force One that for this to finish, you've got to have a permanent and verifiable end of Iran's nuclear pursuits. You have people gathering in the Situation room overnight. You don't leave a summit for something that falls a lesser degree than something like that, where you've got to sort of have all eyes on our forces in the region and making sure that the U.S.
is protecting its assets.
So I think that probably we are close to the President maybe authorizing some sort of support for Israel. What that looks like, whether it's American pilots dropping the 30,000 pound bill. Bunker buster bombs on Fordo itself or providing some sort of air cover to Israel if it tries to do some sort of a ground operation to take out those sites. That's to be determined. But the President has been very, very clear that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
Israel has said this will not be a success if there continues to be enrichment after they're done with this thing.
So that would tell you that they're going to go to Fordo. And also, the President. Messaging to his base that, look, you know, I know there are some among you who are anti-interventionist, but you can't be America first and allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon. And, you know, speaking to that divide and at the same time appearing committed to whatever, you know, dis decision he might have made in his head, or at least direction he wants to go, result that he wants to see, might indicate that we could see some developments soon here. I think so.
And also, I don't hear anybody reporting that the U.S. is pushing Israel to wrap it up. And we know those reports get out pretty quickly, and a lot of times intentional. I don't see it at all. And the Israelis are saying they've not been pushed to wrap it up either.
Here's General Jack Keene on what he thinks should be done, cut 17. Where the president is, he's supporting. uh Israel one hundred percent to com complete the campaign that they started here. And that campaign focuses on Iran's center of gravity, their nuclear enterprise. And they want to destroy that enterprise as much as they possibly can, decapitate the leadership, and they're doing a remarkable job in doing that.
And also eliminate their ballistic missiles, which is their major weapon that they're using against the Israelis. And they're making significant progress in all three of these areas. And the President is behind that 100%.
So and you know Jack Keene's got uh great contacts with the White House. Yeah, I listen closely to what he's saying about what we might. see in the next coming Hours or days when he says that the president is supporting Israel 100%, and Israel is saying, you know, there will be no bomb and there will be no enrichment, and we're going to stop at nothing. And it's absolute BS when Iran says if you stop, we'll stop. That says that there has been a decision made.
Now, that's just, you know, reading the tea leaves, we couldn't report that as fact, but it's a strong indicator, I would think, of what they are charging ahead toward without any, you know, Question about whether that's the right decision or not. I think we also need to be watching Capitol Hill and seeing what the reaction is in Congress.
So far, seeing a lot of support for this campaign and the objectives of preventing Iran from ever getting a nuclear weapon. I think you're going to see, you have Tulsi Gabbard testifying today. It was supposed to be about the Minnesota lawmakers, I believe. I think she's going to be faced with some questions about why she testified some time ago that Iran was not pursuing a nuclear program. The president was asked about that last night on Air Force One.
He said, I don't care what she said. I think that they're pretty close to having one. And so I think that that might sort of resurface. But watching for that and watching for any briefings to the Gang of Eight, intelligence members in the House or Senate on what. might need to be monitored over the next little while.
And remember, the President's supposed to go abroad next week. He's supposed to go to the NATO summit. And depending on how this all turns out, I wonder if we might be seeing more travel plans get upended. Yeah, we'll see. I know that the president wasn't happy with Macron, said that he's working on the Iran-uh, Israel situation.
It's like he doesn't know what he's talking about.
So I think that he's about fed up with some of the players that he's had to deal with in his mind probably way too much. In Macron, who likes to be at the center of attention. He offered his services to broker some type of ceasefire. He also wanted to be in the middle of the Ukraine situation.
So I noticed too, this just came across: Iran's death toll has surpassed 450. And Israel now says, as of an hour ago, it hit more rocket launchers.
So Israel wants to stop having to absorb all the drones and all the rockets. And we just got to see, I guess, what exactly is in the arsenal for Iran and if they're going to have any. Officers left. I mean, they just lost more Quds force intelligence leaders, lost nine commanders the first day, nuclear scientists. The Grand Diatolla, there were some reports last night that he might be looking for an escape hatch.
What do you think is happening on the streets of Iran? Have you seen anything credible about any unrest?
Well, you did see sort of a wall of taillights after the President told the people of Tehran to evacuate overnight. That's a city of almost ten million people, not a lot of places to go quickly.
So I think plenty of concern about what might be coming next. But you also see responses to the Israeli strike on Iranian state T V, which they have said is a legitimate target because it's basically a propaganda arm of the regime. And some of the reaction in countries saying, we're ready for your bombs, we hate this Propaganda being shoved down our throats. You know, they're fed up with their leadership that they've been saddled with.
Some people there. And so I think that that's something to continue to watch. I also think, though, that. There's been a lot of discussion about these bunker buster bombs and whether it's sort of the. Magic bullet.
And it's a little bit more mixed than that. And you would have a different guess than me to get into the specifics, you know, someone of military expertise. But from the reporting that I've been following, the U.S. military has been sort of gaming this exact scenario out for a while to see what that might entail. And there have been some exercises to indicate that one bomb wouldn't do it.
You know, an attack on Fordo would have to come in waves, you know, a bomb one after the next sort of dropping in succession. But there are, apparently, according to a New York Times report, some other alternatives. And we might have already seen some indicator of that. The line that I pulled for the show this morning was: if the power to Fordo gets cut by saboteurs or bombing, it could damage or destroy the centrifuges that spin at supersonic speeds. Israel took out the power supplies to that plant on Friday.
And Mr. Grossi said that the disruption probably sent them spinning out of control.
So I think also keeping a close eye on what those facilities look like. The activity around them. Obviously, I don't have access to that kind of intelligence, but I would imagine that that's sort of what the folks in the situation room are keeping an eye on through satellite images and the like. Quick question: Are you going to go to a press briefing today? Are they going to have anything scheduled?
Not that I'm aware of. There's been no action out of the White House yet. That is not to indicate that something won't happen. I mean, the travel change happened without much notice. The president got back into the White House at around 5 a.m.
So I would expect that with things moving pretty quickly, we might see something. I mean, remember, it was just a day ago, it was Monday, that the president was sounding optimistic about the likelihood for a deal.
So these conversations are still happening in the background, and we're just sort of witnessing the developments as they come to us. But I mean, look at the 180 from the rhetoric that we were hearing out of the president on Monday. You know, likelihood for a deal, think we can get there versus, you know, We're going to get this done. They should have signed a deal and get out of Tehran. I mean, that's a pretty incredible development in 24 hours' time.
But, Jackie, the thing is, if Iran doesn't understand how bad they played it, if they said we are considering enriching uranium outside our country, and if they said we will consider bringing the IAEA back, we're considering taking out the centrifuges, President Trump would have said, okay, we got to wait. He would have pressured the prime minister, I imagine, to go, listen, I'm making some progress here. But they came out and said both those things are not happening. We're enriching in country, and we're not going to go. The centrifuge is going to stay.
So when Netanyahu turns around to Trump, he said, Really? You're going to have a sixth round? I think we'll stop at 60 days. We'll make you look like it's the threshold. I mean, they made the decision pretty easy.
And remember, With the offer that the U.S. made to Iran, there was, even though the White House never Talked about it openly. There was reporting that came through sourcing that said, Look, you can have a civilian nuclear program if you enrich out of country. That was something that they were reportedly open to. And if they didn't take that, which the president said, look, it's in their interest to take it and run, they kind of wish this upon themselves, at least that's how the administration is looking at it.
But I also wonder about the China factor, because you think about who is keeping Iran supported as they have been, and it's been China buying Iranian oil. And you heard them spouting off this morning, strongly condemning Israel's actions in Iran. And haven't heard a lot out of the White House in terms of the China angle, but that's going to be another important sort of layer to this, and layered on top of the fact that we're still pursuing all these trade deals across the world, and that that's a really big one.
So there are a lot of sort of different elements to this and a lot of different angles to watch as it develops. This is how right on you are. The Wall Street Journal second story, breaking news. If Iran's oil is cut off, China will pay the price. Iran exports 1.7 million barrels of crude a day, 2% of the global demand.
The U.S. re-imposed sanctions on them. Most countries won't touch it.
So it's forced to sell at a discount and finds covert ways to get it to China. And China is benefiting from that and cheap oil from Russia. More than 90% of Iran's oil exports go to China right now.
So what do you think they're thinking right now?
Well, you've got that, the Iranian oil factor. And then also, if you're China, you've got to worry about secondary sanctions on Russia, which I mean, you've got so far heavy sanctions on Russia from the U.S., but very relatively little sanctions enforcement. And they haven't pulled the trigger on the secondary sanctions. Or the next sanctions package that Congress has ready to go. I think it would be 500% tariffs on any country that does business with Russia.
And Lindsey Graham is like salivating to drop that. I mean, they've got, I think, a veto-proof majority ready in definitely the Senate, potentially also in the House.
So if I were China, that would be a really big concern on my mind. Yes. You look at, you know, those are two sort of angles that are about to get obliterated. Yeah, they are putting out some statements over the last 48 hours. Jackie, thanks so much.
Great job, Phil and Verdana today, as usual. Thank you.
Thanks, Ryan. Good to talk to you.
Now she's back to the White House and back with you in a moment. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. I think overwhelmingly, the people in the city of Chicago feel exactly the same way.
We've seen where nearly 85% of those individuals who live in the city believe that our welcoming city ordinance, our sanctuary laws, should be amended to work with our federal partners when we have non-citizens who choose. To engage in criminal dangerous activity in the city of Chicago. I think that's common sense and it's pretty relevant throughout our neighborhoods, even in our immigrant communities, who don't want to be associated with those individuals who are the most dangerous among us.
So, Raymond Lopez, a Democrat alderman from Chicago, talked about how the president said, I've had it. I've had it with these sanctuary cities and blue states, and we're going to focus on ICE operatives in those cities. Even though instead of using four guys, you've got to use 21 because you can't get local officials to cooperate with you. He says they're going to do it. They're not backing down unless there's some change.
Think about this in New York. Our attorney general is so clueless, Letitia James. She's going to look into investigating cops that may or may not be working with ICE.
So, cops working with other cops who just have different specialties. For example, can you imagine a cop told, don't work with the FBI? Of course, you'd work with the FBI.
Well, your instincts help with the FBI. In fact, if you think back three weeks ago when the LA riot started, it was ICE, starts to be overwhelmed and surrounded by crazy illegal immigrants. They ask for help. They take 35 to 55 minutes to come because cops aren't supposed to be helping ICE.
Now, every law enforcement person, retired or active, When in trouble, or in plain clothes, when someone's in trouble, your instinct is to help. That's what you're trained for. And now you tell them not to. They're investigating in New York. I give Brayman Lopez great credit.
He's just a normal, clear-thinking individual who says it doesn't help Chicago to have illegal imminent criminals, illegal immigrant criminals in our midst. We talk about what's happening in the media and the coverage just a moment. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. Hey, we are back.
Hi, everybody. Welcome back to the Brian Kill Meet Show. We're continuing to talk about what's happening with the ongoing administration and the administration's choice to possibly back up Israel and their war effort.
So far, I'm seeing a lot of bipartisan support for the effort, but not even across the aisle, I guess, for lawmakers. For certain But I'm seeing a divide somewhat in the Republican Party, which thought would be a good idea to bring in a media expert, Bobby Brock, covers politics and more for Outkit, covers culture and media. Bobby, welcome back. Brian happy to be here. I'm doing good.
First off. I think it's important to bring up what's happening right now. We're trying to figure out what the President's going to emerge with some type of policy from the National Security Council meeting. What do you think the real reason is he left the G seven? Yeah, I mean, I think the timing is very, I wouldn't say suspicious, but just interesting.
I think everybody's waiting to see what is President Trump's next move going to be. And I think this is really a crucial time in his administration. As you mentioned, Brian, lawmakers might have one view, but you're seeing a real divide among, I think, influential conservative voices, influential voices that Supported President Trump very strongly during his campaign. I mean, we see what's happening with Mark Levin, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and some other people. And those people that have voices that represent a lot of people who supported the MAGA movement.
So I think this is actually one of President Trump's bigger decisions to make, not only this term, but even if you look at the decisions he had to make last time, I think it's very fascinating. And I don't know what he's going to do, but I'm very curious.
So you're seeing a lot of that. You're seeing now Steve Bannon comes out and says he doesn't like Fox. What a shame. And says it's not really MAGA. I don't know where Charlie Kirk stands, but they say we don't want to get involved in the Middle Eastern war.
And then there's what's going on with our enemy of 40 years and Israel doing what they have to do. They don't see it that way, which I think is crazy. And then you have, I thought it was interesting on the Daily Show last night, Jon Stewart, who clearly will never be a Trump fan, was putting together more Bill Maher than Stephen Colbert.
Well, last night he went full Jimmy Kimmel Colbert. He took aim at Netanyahu. Listen to this. But what happened? What happened with Iran?
Weren't we about to make a nuclear deal? Wasn't our deal maker-in-chief making a deal to keep Iran from enriching uranium? Actually, didn't we have a deal before our dealmaker-in-chief so wisely pulled us from that deal? Why did this have to go bomby on Iran now? And by next spring, at most, by next summer, at current enrichment rates, they will have finished the medium enrichment and move on to the final stage.
Iran is months away from having a nuclear bomb, it says Netanyahu, in 2012. Seriously, why did we have to bomb Iran now? Iran is so dangerous. Weeks away from having the fissile material for an entire arsenal of nuclear bombs. Holy shit, that's why Iran's only weeks away from having an entire arsenal of nuclear bombs, says Netanyahu, in 2015!
So I guess pointing out he feels as though Trump is rushing to action or supporting Israel's action. I'm a little surpris I was kind of shocked, especially as a Jewish guy in America. Yes, Stewart is an interesting case study because I think you said it correctly. He is usually more Bill Maher than he is Stephen Colbert. We saw that during COVID when he reemerged.
He said he has a pretty good chance that this whole virus originated from the lab. But there are times where It seems like he's very emotional and tries to virtue signal. And I saw this segment last night, and it seemed very inconsistent with other points that Stewart has made.
So I don't really know where it was coming from. Look, Brian, I mean, you've covered a lot of these stories, probably all of them, and the past few decades. And I think everybody will mention what happened with Iraq, and there was not weapons of mass destruction.
So I get everybody being a bit cautious, but I'm not sure. How relevant that argument is today to what's going on with Iran and how dangerous they could be. And I think Stewart last night didn't do his best job of laying out his argument, or it seemed to me like he was pandering. I think that's disappointing for somebody who I do have respect for. Senator Fetterman came out and says, yes, like Nazarella, in fact, he would take out.
Just like Israel should do to Khomeini what they did to Nassero and then take him out. They have fully earned the right to do whatever to finish off Iran. Consider what Israel has accomplished, crushing Hamas, same with the Houthis, neutered Hezbollah, Syria fell, and all the so-called experts were absolutely wrong. Iran turned on out as the ultimate paper tiger and needs to be put away. And then Bernie Sanders comes out and says Netanyahu's reckless and illegal attacks violate international law and risks igniting a regional war.
Congress must make it clear that the United States will not be dragged into Netanyahu's war of choice. I mean, can you believe that's the same party? Yeah. It's just It's just wild to me. And this whole story, not only this one, but if you go back to, let's just go back to October 7th, Brian, when Hamas attacked Israel.
It's exposed, I think, so many people, maybe on both sides of the aisle. For whatever reason, this topic of Israel is very complicated for people to discuss, honestly. I think a lot of people have opinions that they don't want to share. They're trying to fit in. And I often see myself cringing when I hear lawmakers or people in the media speak.
So let's talk about something else: the parade. The parade was panned by guys like Jon Stewart and other networks, and then NBC just mocked it. Here they are wrestling with who Warren Zeiters is. Why? Because Trump liked him.
He's got four number one hits, been on this show before, big country music star. But listen to them. We expect there to be several performances as a part of this celebration that's happening on the National Mall today for the Army's 250th birthday. I don't know who this is singing right now, and I probably should, but We were told there would be a surprise. I was also hoping we would be told who the surprise is.
But this is, I'm sure, an important booking. And if anyone has an idea, we'd love to hear it. Just for folks who are watching, say it again. Warren Zeiters. Zeiters, okay.
That's what we're told. I think it was Wallen? Wallen? Yeah. Time for the Google.
Country music fans are a little bit more. Can you believe? I mean, Bobby Barack, what's your take on that? I mean, how embarrassing is that? But they don't realize how embarrassing it is.
Yeah, um I made this point to somebody the other day.
So one side is celebrating the military. The other side is protesting kings and rioting in the streets to protect illegal immigrants. And the news media is on the latter side. I mean, how do you make sense of that, right? I mean, I saw what happened over the weekend.
I thought the the parade and honored the military was so prideful, patriotic. I absolutely loved it. But according to the MBC, CBS and ABC, those people are in the wrong, but the loons that were marching for no kings were in the right. Yeah, which makes absolutely no sense. Most of these guys are paid, and good luck with that.
All right. I'm not sure what the point was. Ten years since Donald Trump went down the escalator and decided to get into politics, they laughed it off in the beginning. Nobody's laughing now. Here's some of the moments that stood out and stand out.
Billy. vanity candidate taking the escalator to the wider. Will it get him anywhere close to becoming the nominee or the president of the United States? I think not. Donald Trump will never be president of the United States.
How do you even have a straight face right now? There are no words to describe what just happened. I can't tell if this is politics or if this is just PR from a celebrity. Oh man, that changed. It And what is so great about that, Donald Trump's ascension to president.
Was a rejection of people like that. The American people rallied behind him as a rejection of establishment in Washington, the corporate p press, Hollywood. And that's what I think is so fascinating about all this. The people who doubted him were actually the people who inadvertently got him elected. CNN, chief among them.
And by the way, even though he's not walking out with 80% approval rating, I don't think any politician in America will be able to do that for a foreseeable future. He's probably the most impactful candidate. In the history in modern politics. I mean, you're not going to see someone dominate. Even the four years he was not in office, he dominated the news.
Oh. Oh in ways we've never seen before since that moment. know if anybody has dominated the news or changed the course of not only American culture, but the entire world. We see so many politicians in other Western countries trying to mimic Donald Trump to try to capture that populist movement, if you will. When it comes to the most impactful, influential politicians in U.
S. history, Donald Trump is right up there, particularly in the past one hundred years, and everything changed ten years ago when he walked down that escalator. Couple of things. I would think that In the big picture. There's a lot of people that feel like they wanted to just wait out Donald Trump in his first term.
Now, I think they're trying to. Get on his good side. I see Stormer. The Prime Minister of England, non-stop, praising the president. Macron is still trying to find a way.
We know that the president of Italy, Maloney, has basically won him over. And then you see all the Arab nations. They used to be told by John Kerry and others: don't worry, he's going to be impeached. And it was a fluke, and the Russians manipulated the election. But how do you think, Bobby, things have changed this time?
You're absolutely right. And you're been seeing it on the domestic level some tech bros like Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg now wanting to Cozy up with Trump, and they clearly rejected him the first time, and all the foreign leaders. I think it was hard for people in power to understand this why Trump resonates with People and Americans for the first time, they thought, well, this is a blip. Hillary Clinton was just a bad candidate. The Russia's got involved.
In four years, this will be over. But that wasn't the case. And in the four years he wasn't president, I think he became more popular because Americans wanted him back in office. And you see what he did this past election. And it's eye-opening to people.
And Trump, of course, is not going to be president forever in 2028 or 2029. Rather, there'll be a new one. But I think the impact of Trump will lasts much longer. I think the candidate that he endorses within the Republican Party is going to be a heavy frontrunner. I think foreign nations know that maybe Trump won't be here forever, but Trump is probably here to stay.
I think that goes back to his influence that you're going to see a lot of politicians here and abroad trying to replicate that. And it's permanent. Maybe not permanent forever, but it's not going away. And I think it's smart for people not to necessarily cozy up to Trump, but understand why people are connected to him, why he resonates with people in ways that other leaders just don't do. Yeah, it's going to be interesting because if you look at Donald Trump, if he's going to endorse somebody three years from now or two years from now, you'll see if the people with conventional wisdom say Rubio or JD.
JD is the MAGA movement, like Don Jr. Rubio is his own man who can function well in the MA environment.
So that'll be interesting to see because if the MAGA movement feels as though they're beyond Trump, that would push him to Rubio. Bobby Barack, thanks so much. Brian, appreciate it. You got it. Back in a moment.
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Sponsored by Previgen. Previgin, made for your brain. Yeah, 100%. Yeah, I think they should have targeted him. Absolutely taken him out.
I think the way Israel operates, they just take out the leadership just like they did with Hezbollah. And they've already done that with the Iranian leadership. Just took them out, even laying in their beds. And they didn't take down the whole building. They actually targeted where they lay in bed.
And now they eliminated the military ones and the nuclear ones. That's magnificent. And the precision with which they've done that. And I don't know why they would have left the leader out. Right.
He's like, kill 'em all. And why not? Nazarella was more just as much as much as a religious zealot as Ayatollah Khomeini. They killed him, nothing happened, then they killed his underling, then they killed his replacement, and now Lebanon might have a shot of being Lebanon. Danny, you're over in Israel.
Danny, what's your perspective on all this? Hi, Brian. How are you doing?
Well you know, we are coping with the situation. The situation is not easy. We have some casualties, but you know, we we knew that we are going to pay some price for uh that operation. But my comment is, you know, Brian, we all agree that Iran nuclear weapons is not an Israel issue, but the entire Western world issue. Therefore, you know, Brian, I have some reservations about those arguments in the Republican Party that say that Iran is an Israeli issue and that America should avoid joining Israel in this military effort.
Uh well, Brian, although we are doing a great job in five days, we need some assistance because it it it could take us it can take us weeks. to do what a B two aircraft can do in a single strike.
So we we call all Republican lawmakers and European leaders stop standing aside, guys. Be part of the civilized historical event. Join Israel in these efforts to destroy the Iranian snake. That is my comment. I do too.
And I think it's going to we should do it quickly.
Sometime this week, so this thing doesn't drag on forever and we see what Israel is capable of. They've already pretty much. Re-establish themselves as one of the fiercest fighting and most innovative fighting forces the world has ever seen, in my view. I'm very curious to see where we go from here. Britt Hume, weighed in on where, thanks so much for the call, Danny.
Britt Hume, weighed in on what Trump's got to decide. Cut 25. We don't know yet, and he's been very careful not to say whether he would provide these huge bunker buster munitions that the Israelis would love to have to knock out that uh nuclear uh uh enrichment facility at Fordo. But so far, uh we don't know if he'll do that or not, but in all other ways he has supported Israel all the way. And I think he will.
And the one thing about Joe Biden, you didn't know where he stood. He was so worried about Michigan. He was so worried about losing the Arab vote. You have no idea. He'd be halfway everywhere.
And then behind the scenes, whether he knew it or not, in retrospect, I probably didn't think about it now. They were just denying him certain weapons. And we didn't give him the bunker busters that are needed for the B-2 bombers. But we were denying him weapons that they say that he didn't need for the Gaza operation, as if Anthony Blinken knew what any Gaza operation would require. He never would, never did.
Lindsey Graham, nine. The endless war is Iran. Since 1979, they've been attacking the entire region, chanting deaf to America, deaf to Israel since their very founding. It's time to close the chapter on the Iranian Ayatollah and his henchmen. Let's close that chapter soon and start a new chapter in the Mideast: one of tolerance, hope, and peace.
And right, and please tell me who would stand in the way of that. I don't know who would Syria, I have questions, but they are not giving a problem to any of our allies. Qatar, I got problems with their loyalty, but they are not an aggressive weapon. We got to crack down on them what they do in our education and different influences they might have with politicians. Saudi Arabia, I don't think they're anything but an economic partner right now, desperately to modernize and take an economic leadership role, who want a military relationship with us.
So, they might not be the ideal governments, but these are potential allies. Iran, be great not to have that enemy right in the middle, a terror nation, who have so much American blood on their hands. We'll keep up to date in the latest. Make sure you keep it here on the Brian Killmeat show. It is time to take the quiz.
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