Deep state minimizes Trump’s Iran strikes

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Stunning upset in New York City during the primary Mayoral race as Andrew Como concedes to radical socialist Zoran Mumdani, I should say anti-semit his disdain for Israel, Jews, and the wealthy. And fueled his victory, sadly. That's the type of city I'm in. And Bernie Sanderson AOC couldn't be happier. It's good news for Curtis Lewa and Eric Adams.

I'll explain. Number And the thing that hurts me is it's really demeaning to the pilots and the people that put that whole thing together, the generals. That was a perfect operation. President of the United States talking about the strike in Iran under scrutiny as Deep State minimizes the strike effectiveness. But there's huge pushback now from Get This, the Israelis on the ground who have confirmed the devastation And the Iranians.

The Iranians. And the White House is beside themselves because they put together a huge operation. And if you want to talk about what happens next, let's debate it. If you want to talk about the decision to go in, let's debate it. But now you're saying, okay, the biggest non nuclear bombs in the world Drop twelve of them Tomahawks destroyed one above-ground facility, which is where they convert the enriched uranium to a gas, to an orb that goes on top of a missile.

That's destroyed. And now all of a sudden, they're, oh, wait a second. I don't really think much was done. Maybe set some back two or three months. Brett Baer, we talked about this last night on special report.

That was one of the topics for the panel. And now there's huge pushback today. Your thoughts? Yeah. Hey Brian, I think.

We handled it right, you know, cautiously looking at the i the leaked intel from that I mean, if you looked at what was leaked Um you know, it essentially it said That they they Can't make a determination. Is what the intel said. But the Israelis and the Iranians now are putting out statements. saying they believe that it's going to be many years. It's Iran's ability to develop nuclear weapons.

set back by many years. And they say I mean, when you have the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson saying its nuclear installations badly damaged by American strikes, I mean, what's on the upside for them? you know, other than Two. tell the truth, one, and to try to get in a position on this ceasefire to be negotiating kind of further.

So Uh I don't know. I think it I think the stories were overheated. And the headlines were You know, big and bold, but it didn't match what the Intel was saying.

So we should be clear: it's one of 17 Intel agencies in America that writes, this is from the Pentagon. And they said of low confidence, but this is what we think. It's going to be put back two to three months.

Well, the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission put out another statement just now: the devastating U.S. strike on Fordo destroyed the site's critical infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility inoperable. We assess that the American strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities, combined with the Israeli strikes on other elements of Iran's military nuclear program, has set back Iran's ability to develop nuclear weapons for many years. This achievement can continue indefinitely if Iran does not get access to nuclear material. And then we factor in the fact that the AP said, as you mentioned, that Iran says there's significant damage to our nuclear facility.

Here's their quote through translation: badly damaged. Our nuclear program is badly damaged. And then you factor in that the president of Iran wants to have. Talks. But The story is this: the decision to go in.

The aftermath, absolutely, that should be a decision. That should be a discussion. The decision to go in, what happens next, and what does Iran do next? But instead, they have to diminish something President Trump did as if it's back to the Russia hoax, back to the impeachment scandal, back to the laptop being real. Why?

It's like they go out of their way, almost rooting against the success of a strike that other presidents refused to take, that he did take. I agree with you. And it's the actual action of the move. that has changed the dynamic. And I think we're going to get a better assessment over time about really what the Iran nuclear facilities.

and their capabilities are, but the fact that the Iranians want to get to the table in this ceasefire suggests to you all that you need to know, that changed the entire dynamic. Of what was happening on the ground. I know, I want you to hear, because you played last night Martha's great interview with the IAEA head. Marco Rubio spoke this morning, and he said this about the leak itself, Cut Five.

So I can also tell you that intelligence leaks are one of the most frustrating things anywhere, not just because you got somebody who has access to putting stuff out there, but because it's so often mischaracterized. An intelligence report, for anyone who's ever seen it, sometimes is an assessment.

Some analyst will make an assessment, or analysts will make an assessment. And in these leaks, what you typically have is someone who read it and then leaks it to the media, giving it the spin and the angle they want it to have because they've got some purpose, embarrass the administration, they were against the action, whatever it may be.

So, what Britt Yoon put out this morning, who I know you are a fan of, is notice who did the story, and it's this Natasha Bertrand. And she was at the forefront of the Russia investigation. She was at the forefront of the dossier revelation. She was at the forefront. And the recipient of 51 Intel agents said that the laptop was not real.

Now, Britt Hume, hardly a conspiracy theorist or fringe political analyst, I would say he's as mainstream as he gets. He noticed that. Do you think that's something we all should know?

Well, definitely should notice it, and it's a pattern. And Britt is usually good at cutting through the noise. And yeah, yeah, I mean it's it's something worth noting. And if you look at all of those you know, iterations of stories. Uh they all dealt with, it seemed, uh some deep Kind of intel sources trying to influence things one way or another.

Of course, we'll continue to talk about this, and then we'll talk about what these said at NATO, and they've all agreed to go to 5% of their GDP in terms of defense spending between the invasion of Ukraine by Russia And the President urging more expenditures. I think the message really got through in 2025, Brett, that was laughed at in 2017. Yeah, exactly. Look. It's only because of President Trump that NATO leaders are doing this.

I mean, there's no other impetus. To that forced this issue. other than President Trump in the first term. And then pushing it the second term. And the fact that those countries get up to five, whether it's three and a half and one and a half or however they break it down, But increasing that much of their GDP is really, really significant.

We've obviously been putting into NATO. and funding it for years and years. Yeah, I just hope, me personally, that the President finds a way to get some funding to Ukraine. I mean, they earned it. This isn't the South Vietnamese have to get their backbone.

This is a country fighting gallantly for three years on a war they didn't ask for. Uh and I just think that if Zelensky hangs in Kyiv. That'll be worse than even Afghanistan. I hope, I think the the Western world understands what's at stake. He did show up to Zelensky in a suit this time.

I think he got the President's message. President didn't like the uniform. Yeah, and he's meeting with President Trump on the sidelines of NATO and maybe this dynamic is different and you're right, it it changes. But you think about the nuclear efforts And you look back and Ukraine giving up its nuclear program. Um you know, would they be in the same spot?

Today if they had it. Would Gaddafi be alive? Probably. Exactly. He would be alive.

And that's what the Ayatollah is looking at this and saying, wait a second. You know, we might look at Iraq and say, maybe we shouldn't have gone in. But he looks at Saddam Hussein and sees him hanging. And then he looks at Gaddafi and he goes, well, there was no plan after the visual invasion, the visual bombing campaign. True.

But you know what the Ayatollah probably looks at? Is Gaddafi's fate the most horrific fate you can imagine for a leader? And I think that's what he's looking at right now. And those are the cards he's looking at. Real quick on the New York primary, Zoran Mamdani wins, a radical socialist Muslim who never really accomplished anything in his life, never really had a real job, but promises free buses, free trains, free.

Free supermarkets, city-run supermarkets. BDS supports the BDS movement and not a fan of the Jewish religion. Cutie hunt cut twenty-eight. We have won because New Yorkers have stood up for a city they can afford. A city where they can do more than just struggle.

And it's we're the mayor. will use their power. To reject Donald Trump's fascism. To stop mass ICE agents from deporting our neighbors. And to govern our city as a model for the Democratic Party.

I should bring up that he wants to defund the police too and get social workers out there, which will be a real a big relief because I'm so tired of law and order. This opens up. The Democratic primary goes to Zamdani. Cuomo, who is defamed and disgraced anyway, is gone, it seems. And that might clear the way for Curtis Leewer and Eric Adams.

This is a national story, isn't it? Yeah. I mean, it shows dissatisfaction, first of all, that it's it's You know, it's a reaction to not feeling great, but it also is. A democratic Party that is trying to find a powerful voice. And right now, the powerful voices.

are coming from the far left. and the Bernie Sanders and AOC applauding this Is really quite something. And I don't know if it's a model. We'll see what happens in the general election. Um, I think things bode well for Eric Adams to make a comeback, but we'll see.

You know, maybe Curtis Leewop. Figures it out.

So, Brett, I can't guarantee you this, but we are putting the rights to our Eric Adams interview out in the open market. And if you want to make a bid on that, get to that early and use my name.

Okay, I'll try to I'll try to get in there with your name.

Okay, hey, by the way, is it true you have Lawrence Jones on the panel tonight? We do, I believe. I haven't got the list of the panel, but I think I'll be in New York. I mean, it won't be as good as last night's panel. That's what I was going to say.

Right. I mean, and I told Lawrence that, and he's not looking to exceed me. By the way, Brett's got a new book coming out in October. It's called To Rescue the American Spirit: Teddy Roosevelt and the Birth of a Superpower. You were out at Sagamore Hill yesterday, the last home of Teddy Roosevelt.

Was that the first time you were there? Mm-hmm. First time I was there, yeah, I had researchers uh You know, went up there and I saw pictures of it and everything, but I had not been in it. And it is like he left yesterday. It's really quite something if you ever have a chance to get up there.

It's awesome, as you well know. His son's buried in the property. He's buried on the property of a short way away. But here's the crazy thing: that to me, I'm always surprised because that was a school trip for every elementary school on Long Island. You know how you have your own town and you have your own?

Yeah. So that was there every day. And how crazy is this? Across the way from Sagamore Hill is one of the homes that George Washington stayed in when he came back to Long Island to thank his spies before he became president. Amazing.

Like the history just Just in that area is really quite clear. In Oyster Bay, that's one of the spies who's right there. Hey, let me mention one more thing. Yep. I am once again playing in the American Century Championship.

in Lake Tahoe. When? And uh it's in a couple of weeks. And I probably, I think I'm going to be traveling, so I won't be on the radio show.

So I wanted to mention that. People should. Tune in because it's going to be a good year with all the celebs playing against each other. As you know, it's a Pretty big thing. It I need to get in the top page.

So leaderboard. Couple of things. Who is it? Do you know who's in your forzim? No, you don't know until you get there.

But you know, it's the same people always are at the top of the list, Steph Curry. And Aaron Rodgers is up there sometimes. There's a bunch of big names, but usually the same people go to the top of those. Jack Wagner, believe it or not, soap opera star. He's always up there too.

And Anyway, I would like to get to the top page of the leaderboard at least so that NBC has to put me on the leaderboard. How how well are you playing? I'm playing okay. I've been working a little bit.

So I um My game has suffered slightly, but I'm ready. I'm going to maybe I'll call you from out there. You know, it'll be great. Brett, you're going to be so relaxed because you have been working so much. You're not going to have the pressure on yourself.

I see I predict great things. Good. American Century. There you go. You got it.

Brett Beard, thanks so much. Back in a moment. Diving deep into today's top stories, it's Brian Kilmead. Fox News Audio presents Unsolved with James Patterson. Every crime tells a story, but some stories are left unfinished.

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The Iranian nuclear program has been set back significantly. It is clear that there is one Iran before June 13, nuclear Iran, and one now. And there is it's night and day. It's a new reality now. Iran has far less capabilities than it had in the past.

So that is the head of the IAEA on with Martha yesterday. Of course it's damaged. And to the degree it's damaged, there are centrifuges, a couple of that wasn't the issue, but it became the issue yesterday because so many outlets, so many news outlets say we've got to marginalize President Trump. Democrats got to say he didn't ask for permission.

So that they tried to impeach Al Green tried to impeach him yesterday. And then the Democrats got like Mark Kelly, the biggest disappointment in Congress, because he's an established Air Force pilot astronaut. I thought he's going to have a hard time being very political, because no nonsense military guy. Boy, was I mistaken.

So that becomes a narrative, and then the DIA puts out a report that says not much damage is done, which they couldn't possibly know, but they had to get it out.

So that becomes the story, but it really isn't the story. The story is the president's decision to do it. The story is where we go from here. The story is how close is Israel to getting some security in their country. And the other subplot is Hamas.

Steve Woodcoff is starting conversations with Hamas again. Are we close to getting those 23 hostages out in some type of resolve in Gaza? Because notice, Hamas didn't rocket, Hezbollah didn't rock it, the Houthis didn't rock it, the militias in Iraq didn't rock it. They've isolated the bully of the Middle East.

So that is the story, whether you like it or not. And we'll talk about the big, beautiful bill, our economy, the trade deals, and things of that nature. But coming up next, some of the legal harangues the president's going through with David Scharf, his former attorney. Don't move. Breaking news, unique opinions.

Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. Brian Kilmicho, we're moving ahead. It's been a pretty crazy day. We're watching the president at NATO with the time change. Prime time is morning.

And we'll watch Almo's watching him overnight. You know, I get up at 3 o'clock and I'm able to listen to what's going on in real time at The Hague in the Netherlands. And then you see the President of the United States with the press conference able to fire back in a general setting about some of the erroneous reporting that says we only dropped 12 bunker busters, the most powerful non-nuclear bombs in the history of the world, but not much damage is done. The force of that And then the pushback. And then we see that our NATO allies seem very much in support, unlike eight years ago, seven and a half years ago, when they were kind of laughing at the president as if he doesn't know what's going on.

David Scharf is our guest, former Trump attorney, trial lawyer, and litigator at Morris Cohen, but right here in New York City. David, one of the big stories, it's what happened in the primary yesterday. It's ranked choice voting, but there's just no doubt who won. Oh, there's no doubt that The far left of the party is now controlling at least the primaries. And people who didn't realize that this was coming down the pike, it was math.

And you can algorithm out that if the left of the party was going to get together, and that is the most activist party in any primary, was going to get together, and there was almost no way that Andrew Cromo could win. And in some ways, that was the smarts of what Mayor Adams did. He pulled himself out of that situation, let the fray move on, and now he's positioned to go one-on-one or one-on-three, depending on what Andrew Cuomo decides to do.

So, what I think people should know with this guy's O-Ramandani, and the reason why it's a national story, is because I thought as a country, we move past these radical leftists. If you look at Rahm Emanuel, guys like Harold Ford, you see James Carville, they're saying, What are we doing with the pronouns? What are we doing with this intolerance? What are we doing with men and women's sports? Why aren't we cracking down on the border?

You thought Democrats were reconfiguring, but then you watch what happened yesterday. You have this social media star who's Muslim. Unaccomplished, no real job. Assemblyman, talk about free buses for the poor, free child care for the poor, new apartments, a minimum, a higher, raise the minimum wage. He wants to raise the taxes on rich people.

He is for BDS, defunding Israel everywhere we can. This guy is anti-Semitic. He's justifying terms like globalize the infantada.

So you almost thought to yourself, how's this guy getting any? Any support Let alone this much support. What does it tell you?

Well, it tells you, I think, that what we always know is in the primaries, you only have the really far-motivated that come out and vote. There are a million registered independents in New York that didn't have anywhere to vote yesterday. Most of the Republicans didn't really have an election to come out and vote for. As a Jew, as a leader of a New York City law firm that's been around for a long time, I am still optimistic that New York hasn't gone to crazyville and that the voice of the far left is not the only voice, and that New York's best days are not available. He also wants to defund the police.

He wants to get social work, take another billion dollars out of the police force. This is what this guy stands for, and it's so embarrassing. Cut 20. Thirty, excuse me. And our police force should not be assisting ICE.

Defund the NYPD and refund all of these different social services. I will create a network of city-owned grocery stores. It's like a public option for produce. How many more payouts? How many more do you want to choose?

How many more do you want to? Do you believe in the First Amendment? Do you believe in the First Amendment, Tom Holman?

So that part was Tom Homer went to Albany, and this guy shows up and starts screaming and had to be restrained. That's who New York said should represent Democrats.

Well, I think what that means is the Democratic Party has left most people who will be center left in that party. I think it means that the Democratic Party is not the Democratic Party of a half a generation ago, let alone a generation ago. I think Democrats need to wake up and recognize that in certain places, in limited pockets, I'd like to think in this country, is not the Democratic Party of what it used to be, and that they need to find a new home for themselves. And the GOP has been that party that is out there and is waiting for people to come in. And rational common sense hopefully prevails, Brian.

I want you to hear what Eric Adams just told us today on Fox and Friends about Mom Donnie and why he's confident. He's a snake. Oil sells me. He would say and do anything to get elected. Think about this for a moment.

He wants to raise 1%, he wants to raise tax on 1% of New Yorkers' high-income earners. As a mayor, you don't have the authority to do that. You know who has the authority to do that? An assembly man, which he is. He wants to do free buses.

He could have done it at Assembly Min. He doesn't understand the power of government. It doesn't understand the office, what he can do, and maybe people before they vote should find out what a mayor can do. Oh, absolutely. It's embedded in the New York City Charter in terms of the separation of powers and how things can operate.

If people want common sense governance, they know that they have a mayor who could do that, a mayor who can push that agenda forward. Curtis Lewa is offering that to the public in New York City. And Mr. Maramdani is offering pie in the sky and not a reality show. And hopefully he'll get a reality check on November.

So where does people like Bloomberg and all the big supporters who are with Cuomo? That maybe didn't love Cormo, but thought he was the best chance of normalcy in New York. Are they going to bring their money to Adams? You know what? I think they're going to go through a period of time now and they've just got to retrench and figure out what they want to do.

I believe some of them don't find Mayor Adams to be palatable. I know they're not going to find Curtis Liwa to be palatable. But again, as I shared with many people this morning who have been reaching out to me, we've got to hope that common sense intellect prevails over radical ideology because what you heard and what everyone listened to on that clip, that's not democracy in action. That's the worst of socialism at work. I want you to hear with Arthur Idella, famed attorney, a New Yorker, who's got his own show too, used to be here for a while.

Here's what he said: who should really be happy? Cut 31. There's no one happier after Mom Donnie and his family than Eric Adams tonight, because everybody's happy. Everyone over 50 years old who remembers Times Square in the 1970s and the 1980s when you couldn't walk through it, it was all pornography and crack and muggings and rapes and robberies. Everyone who remembers that is gonna vote for Eric Adams.

The New York Times, who didn't do an endorsement, did say, please don't vote for Mom Donnie, as did the Daily News, as did the New York Post.

So anybody who knows how bad New York can get, all came out against Momdani because a thirty-three-year-old with zero experience running anything except a little office with five employees cannot be running the city of New York. And I guess you agree with that, David. Oh, absolutely. And the mayor planned for this by pulling himself out of the primary. He set himself up to be poised.

So right now, Nassau County is being sued on Long Island by the ACLU, because they're cooperating with ICE. This is the most horrific thing I've seen. Cops like the LAPD letting ICE twist for 45 minutes, maybe 55 minutes in LA three weeks ago. And that's why the National Guard brought in. And then you have this woman, Cynthia Gonzalez, out in California, vice mayor of a small town there, calling on the gangs to rise up, literally the street gangs, to rise up.

Against ice. Listen to this, this despicable character, cut 39. You guys are all about territory and this is 18 Street and this is Correct and you guys tag everything up, claiming Hood. And now that your Hood's been invaded by the biggest gang there is. They're in a peep out of you.

It's everyone else who's not about the gang life that's out there protesting and speaking up. We're out there like... Fighting our turf, protecting our turf, protecting our people. And, like, where are you at? I mean, what should happen to her?

Large cities are under attack, and they're under attack from the political establishment on the left. And that is scary. And that's why. The elections are important. That's why people who interfere with government action need to understand that they're going to be arrested, not because it's clickbait for them to become more popular.

I think that's an unfortunate inevitability in the world where when you see everything that's going on in the street, everyone's just hanging up their phone. They're holding up their phone. They're looking to provide that next moment. And that's a sad referendum on where we are as a society. But people have to recognize that if they don't come out and have their voices be heard, New York City and other large cities around this country are not going to look like anything we've ever seen before.

What about Nassau County? I mean, technically, they're in a sanctuary state.

So what are they going to they're doing the right thing for the country, but are they are they pushing back against the law in telling the cops to cooperate with ICE?

Well, the law is you have to cooperate with the laws of the country. You know, there's the supremacy clause, there are the powers of the state, there's the power of local government. And I think what you're seeing in Nasso County is common sense governments and governance. But are they legally in jeopardy?

Well, no, just because the ACLE brings a lawsuit to stop something from happening doesn't mean they're in legal jeopardy. It means that some court is going to be making a decision on the issue, and there is appellate review for that. And even though we all know that the trial court levels have become very polarized and very politicized, the appellate courts, the Supreme Courts, they're actually a little different. They're a little more thoughtful, and they're about policy, and they're about enforcing the rule of the law of the land.

So I think you're going to see common sense decisions coming out of a court, but it may not be. the trial court. David, people on the left are pointing out, and I watched Senator Durbin last week say: you guys want to point out that Joe Biden's slipping. Joe, we think Donald Trump is slipping. Mentally, intellectually.

You've known him since for how long? I've known him for over 24 years. Is the guy that we saw at NATO today, the one that we saw speak yesterday, leave on Marine One, the one that we've seen win re-election? Is he slipping? Oh, he's not slipping.

He's more resolute and stronger than he's ever been. He's having an opportunity to be the incredible patriot that I've always known him to be. He led us commander-in-chief this past weekend and the period of time leading up to that with great clarity, with great conviction, and with thought and policy in terms of how he thought about intelligence information, what success looked like, and was able to call upon the execution. And taking his victory tour today, as he should, when, after this tremendous show of force, peace through strength, that is something that has been on the president's mind since before we were attacked on September 11th. That's when I started to get to know the president.

The president believes in that, and he's been showing great conviction, thought, and intellect in the execution of that. How much do you think it means to him? Almost a year ago, 13 months ago, the president was convicted in New York. On a sham trial that even Andrew Cuomo said nobody else would have been tried like this except for President Trump. And then he's got the civil trial that cost him $450 million.

First off, on that, that conviction, which has basically been dismissed, how important do you think it is for him to get that overturned?

Well, I think one of the things we haven't seen a decision come out of the appellate court as to the propriety of that entire case. That decision has been pending since argument for quite some time. I think that should tell everyone something about that, that there certainly isn't complete clarity among the five justices who heard that case on appeal, that everything that was found in that decision is something that is sustainable. You know that was a joke. David, you had to think that was a joke last year.

Well, you know, there were so many, so many errors. And I appear in front of that trial judge in many different matters. He's got his way about him. He is one of the most overturned judges. And like I've said, the judiciary has become weaponized politically, and we see that.

So the civil trial that cost him $450 million that they said, I dare you to get a bond, and he got the bond. Letitia James imaged herself at Trump Tower auctioning it off. Didn't happen. But what about that as that went up the court system?

Well, I think as it continues to go up the court system, I believe it's going to get thrown out for all those. There were no damages. Forget about that. The banks didn't even sue. There was no fraud.

There was no misrepresentation. When somebody provides an appraisal, that is an opinion of value. You cannot be convicted or charged with fraud, which is a knowing and intentional statement. And say that an opinion It worries me. It's your business, but it worries me that things could be trumped up against someone that powerful and you're almost powerless to stop it.

The only thing that got him that saved him. was winning the presidency Oh, I mean, absolutely. We very oftentimes, in our practice of law, are forced to tell our clients that outcomes to the end, long. Far too long to get to justice. Very often, you don't get justice, and it costs a lot of money.

So, it's got to be somebody like President Trump who has the fortitude, the conviction, and the wherewithal in order to be able to see it through. All right. Great to see you, David Sharfe. We'll have you back again. Sadly, Donald Trump is trying to be stopped by the courts on almost all of his executive orders and his policy, so we'll need your expertise.

David, thanks so much. My pleasure. Great to be here, Brian. Thank you. Back with some calls, and to finish up this hour, you'll listen to the Brian Kilmey Show.

We're also going to bring you the latest from NATO as the President wraps up his first appearance in his second term over there. It's Brian Killmeade. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead.

Socialism. Hmm. This is Zoran Mom Donnie. Here's what he normally sounds like. We gather tonight.

In the wealthiest city, in the wealthiest country, In the history of the world. But in an interview in South Africa, he sounded a little different. I actually created a playlist for Mira, who also happens to be my mother. You know, nepotism and hard work goes a long way. And in an interview with the Turkish-American podcast, Mamdani sounded different again.

To be honest with you, Brother Mansoum, is that at this point, not many people are thinking about it. And here is Zoran during his rapper days. You know, it would have been here earlier, but the worldwide tour is a worldwide tour, is a worldwide tour. And you can't celebrate things. You can't just stop it, you know.

We are back, everybody. Brian Kilmicho. William for the President of the United States is going to be speaking again. This is BS. Let me say, third or fourth press conference since he's been there.

Some were just off the top, some were just. You know, something that he was just okay, open up, you know, anybody have any questions? The other one, he was sitting there in the morning and he was sitting there with the General Secretary, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, and they just open up in all the questions about the bombing, and also the 5%.

So and Katie Pavlich was there and he asked gave Katie two or three questions. But it's just amazing to me the point of view on these questions on the historic decision that George Bush, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Bush, Trump, the first time, didn't take to just bomb out their nuclear sites. The question was: well, how much damage did you really do? I mean, that's as bad as 51 Intel agents. That's as bad as, well, you wouldn't have won the election if Vladimir Putin didn't help you.

So again, they're doing it, but the problem for them and for most media outlets is no one's listening to them. They really aren't. And it's not so much you have to agree with the president, but just report accurately. If you want to debate elements of what the president did, what happens next, and is there a clear plan going forward? That's great comment.

If you want to talk about did he have the power and the presidency to do it, that's a good debate. Guess what? He didn't have to incite the War Powers Act for a single strike. You know who didn't? George H.W.

Bush for 41. 41, that is. Bill Clinton, when he went four days of bombings in Iraq. This guy named Barack Obama, who bombed Libya, never got permission for doing that.

So just an idea. The double and triple standard. And I just think we're forward to it. I'll point it out, but I don't think it's slowing him down this time. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show.

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President of the United States speaking right now as he continues to make news over in the Netherlands at The Hague, we'll bring you some of that information. It's been a very action-packed four hours there since he arrived last night. Be able to communicate with the Trump team. They want to get all his few things straightened out. I'm going to look to do that with you guys today.

Mike Rogers standing by. He wants to be the next senator from Michigan, got so close last time. Looks like he's got an open seat to go for this time. And Sean Davis is the CEO and co-founder of the Federalists will be with us too. And then Seth Barron will go up close and personal on what happened with this election of this primary election last night, which leads me to the big three.

Number three. Republicans are really beginning to learn how to do it. How bad the big ugly bill is for them. Republican senators are erring. deep concerns behind closed doors.

But they're not being honest at home to their constituents. Chuck Schumer, big, beautiful bill concerning, it's careening its way through the Senate. The House is going to get it soon. They want to see what's left. A lot of people are weighing in on it.

I'll let you know. This is all Republicans. They can't agree on this. I'll let you know where we stand. Number two.

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This is good news, I believe, for Curtis Sleewa and mostly for Eric Adams. I'll explain. Number. And the thing that hurts me is it's really demeaning to the pilots and the people that put that whole thing together, the generals. That was a perfect operation.

That is President Trump responding to the report out of one of 17 intelligence agencies, which is, they say, of low confidence, that says the President only set back Iran's nuclear program a couple of months. You know who disagrees with that? Iran and Israel, both of which I believe are on the ground. Let's bring in Mike Rogers, the EOP candidate, and he's running for senator and an FBI guy who's also got a military background. Mike, welcome back.

I'll tell you. I don't know exactly how much damage is done. Nobody does to the 12 nuclear sites and the three that we hit. But for the DIA to come out, and you know this business and you know the people, to say in low confidence, we only think the centrifuges weren't really hit, we only think not enough was collapsed, we only think they set the program back two or three months. And it leaks to the same reporters that brought out the Russian hoax and the 51 Intel agents that told us the laptop wasn't real.

What does that tell you?

Well, none of that smells right to me, Brian, and thanks for having me on. Listen, and uh all of these things take some time to do, so why they would even get this out this early is beyond me. And and you know how this works, but there's all the different ways you collect intelligence on something like this called battle da damage assessment, including, by the way, they have ways of seeing uh through uh spectrographs what kind of materials are coming out of those holes.

So they'll be able to tell Through all of that, through human sources that will be picking up information from electronic collection, picking up information, something called MAZINT, which is that way of that spectral assessing the kinds of materials coming out of those holes, all of those things. And then, of course, certainly the GWINT, all of the spatial and photography that happens. It'll take a little bit of time to get the exact assessment. To come out this early is nonsense. And one of the best clues ought to be the fact that Iran is reaching back out to the IEEA and saying, okay, we're ready to have talks again.

That tells you that it was more than just a small setback in their nuclear program. It's amazing. Porto, Natan, Esfahan are the places that we targeted. And what they say in the report, they say they did not destroy the core components of the country's nuclear program and likely only set it back months.

Now, I'm not going to that's what they think, and that's and that's and that's what they think. And you know more about intelligence than I'll ever know. But why they had to rush this out, and if you wonder why President Trump outrages the traditional. Washington establishment by questioning the intelligence so often is because of things like this. This is pure politics.

We got to rush this out. President's going to a NATO summit to get ahead of him and force the narrative to defend the attack and the effectiveness instead of what it means for the region and the country. That's why he keeps the circle so tight. That's why he gutted so many people. And that's why he doesn't always think twice before he looks at the intelligence that he gets.

It's a bad place we're in. Yeah, no, I agree. And why somebody thinks that they should have put that out to influence policy tells me they ought to be fired, if not in jail, honestly. What do you think, Mike, as a guy that's been on the House Select Intelligence Committee? What do you think about the President's decision?

I think it was exactly the right decision.

So, when I left the chairmanship in 2014, we knew a couple of things. That Iran had a ballistic missile program, got to have that. They had enrichment capability, by the way, which the Obama administration let them keep in the deal, which allowed them to continue to enrich to weapons grade, which in and of itself was a disaster. And we knew that they had supercomputers. and modeling so that you could form that material on the top of a missile.

And so people say, well, nobody tested it.

Well, nowadays, you don't really need to test it if you have these supercomputers that can do this modeling in the way that we knew Iran had this capability for your supercomputers. That was 10 years ago, so think about it. You're d damn right they had the capability. And what I think uh the Israelis saw was increased activity around there when the Israelis were having success with their anti-missile systems, meaning they were accelerating their ability to get it. Because wouldn't wouldn't that be interesting announcing I have a bomb right in the middle of all of this?

This is absolutely a nation that cannot get it. I mean, they've killed lots of Americans. I mean, we all know the list, including the 243 U. S. Marines they bombed in Beirut and that they killed the U.S.

soldiers in Iraq through introducing these very sophisticated IEDs. These are the main sponsors of terrorism in the Middle East and the main cause for chaos, and they wanted a nuclear bomb. Can't let that happen. I don't think we had a big window. I think this the president took it under exigent circumstances and said, Let's disrupt the nuclear program, and by the way, let's try to pursue peace after that.

That's exactly what he's doing. And here's one last thing that drives me crazy. Let's just say they didn't get all of it. They didn't get 90%. They got 70% of the program.

If you find other places where they're trying to put it back together, that gives us a whole nother set of options. We didn't have those options before all this happened.

So how any analyst could come out, and analysts is where you get in trouble. It's not the operators, it's always the analysts. that screw this stuff up. And then somebody thinks that they're smarter than the world and has to leak it. Boy, that's why that stuff is so dangerous, and that's why they need to pursue an investigation on who did that.

So, on behalf of the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission, they just put this out. The devastating U.S. strike on Fordo destroyed the site's critical infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility inoperable. We assessed that the American strikes on Iran's facilities, combined with Israel's strikes on other elements of their nuclear program, has set back Iran's ability to develop nuclear weapons by many years. This achievement can continue indefinitely if Iran does not get access to nuclear material.

And then, the Rafael Grossi. weighed in here with Martha yesterday. Uh cut. The Iranian nuclear program has been set back significantly. It is clear that there is one Iran before June 13, nuclear Iran, and one now.

And it's night and day. It's a new reality.

Now, Iran has far less capabilities than it had in the past.

So What changes now? We know the president of Iran says he wants to go back to talks. Since 1979, we've had the same story with Iran. Just different presidents and different levels of threat.

So Tell me, can you look ahead, Mike Rogers, and tell me what you expect the tone and tenor to be going forward?

Well, I mean, the fact that they want to talk, I look if I'm an internal optimist, I think that's a good sign. But what we have to do as a country is not be willing to play the game we've played for the last thirty years, which is you know, give them give them a little bit here, don't worry about it, appeasement. uh the Obama administration and give them cash for hostages. I mean, all of that has just strengthened Iran. This ought to be a negotiation where you've just lost.

And now we're going to accept what Iran looks like without nuclear weapons. Let's have that negotiation. And I'm not talking about. You know, the Ayatollah has to walk up with his hands up in the air, although that would be a nice day for the world probably. Uh but I'm just talking about the fact that they can't have this nuclear capability and we have to de-fang their coups force and IRGC in the way that they've been sponsoring terrorism around the world.

And the exporting of this missile technology. There's really key components here that we can get in a negotiation. If they really want peace, then they have to stop exporting terror, violence, and death. And I'd start there. And if they are not willing to do that, then I think you've got to let Israel continue to do what Israel does to try to degrade their ability to cause death and destruction across the Middle East.

And by the way, the world, because they're sharing that technology with North Korea, with Russia, I mean, this is a bad regime that survives on exporting violence. And that has to come to an end. It's just amazing. Look, I want the press to do reports, ask tough questions. I want to do the same thing when I talk to the president.

But you've got to be able to answer the questions and also at least approach it where you could say, I need to get answers rather than try to skew the American public. Here's an example of a clueless reporter that probably doesn't know she's clueless. Aaron Burnett. Talking about Iran. I guess trying to paint Iran as the good guys.

Listen to this: cut 23. I remember Dan at one point being in Tehran years ago, and they're chanting death to America all around me, even as I say, oh, I'm an American reporting for CNN, and they were happy to speak to me.

So, those two sort of jarring realities of the chant, and yet the friendliness have existed together. Just, I want to kill you, but I'd also like to shake your hand. Did you really think that that was a clarifying moment that you needed to share? I mean, how crazy is that? It just sounds absurdly naive, honestly.

You have a nation listen, this is the same nation that in two thousand nine when people who probably did want to walk up and shake her hand Who had nothing to do with the government, are just trying to survive, decided to stand up, and the Obama administration turned their back on them, and they got beaten and thrown in prison and killed and took missing from the Iranian intelligence and defense services. It is run, it's a theocracy, basically run by the military and intelligence services.

So when they say death to America, that's a chant paid for, sponsored by the intelligence services who really mean death to America.

So I know it just sounds so absurd to me that they would say, well, I found one nice guy that shook my hand. Yeah, there's probably there are Iranians who don't want to live under the theocracy. They don't have a choice. Uh and right now, the the people who have control of the weapons and the terror export plots all happen to be in power. That's who you're negotiating with.

That's who you have to deal with. And the reality is, you have to defame that. And how that goes, I think, is going to be important in these negotiations. But you have to give some leeway here to get that done. And I'm not talking about boots on the ground.

I mean, everybody always defaults to, oh, this is a big act of war, and they're going to suck us into World War II. That's not going to happen. We've been in a proxy war with Iran, the rest of the world I'm talking, not just us, but Israel, our Arab elite partners for the last 20, 30 years. I mean, we've all been victims of this stuff, and now I think it's just this rare, unique opportunity because we showed strength. Which is really important.

You can't have peace without strength. It's peace through strength. This is the strength part. uh that people, I think, but j don't really understand the purpose of it. And it's not tanks over the border.

It is surgical strikes, decapitate their capability to go nuclear, which was their big umbrella for more violence.

Now let's sit down and talk. You want to be peaceful, that's great, but we're not tolerating it anymore.

So let's have a real conversation. I think that's what President Trump has just done. He set up that negotiation in a way we can actually win it. For the future of peace and prosperity, not only in the region, for the rest of the world. I want you to see the ICE arrested 16 Iranian nationals illegally in the U.S.

since Sunday. It's estimated we have at least 700 who came over the last four years, some of which were snipers from their intelligence agencies. Got a 45-year-old who was previously convicted of assault with a deadly weapon.

So the list goes on. I love the way the FBI is responding directly to the threat. Sleeper cells are a worry. Are they a worry for you with your FBI background? Yeah, I'll tell you this.

In the first Gulf War, I was a young FBI agent working organized crime in Chicago. And we all got a stop work order. Everybody collapsed on trying to find surveill and determine what the plots were for Iraqi at the time. sweeper cells. Yes, they exist.

Now, the interesting thing about the Iraqis is that it wasn't philosophically based.

So they got here and were here for 10 years and decided they liked America, didn't do some of the orders that they were given. I think it's kind of comical. You won't find that with Iranians. Those same sleeper sales are here, but they are fanatics, and that's the difference. That's why we worry more about Iranian sleeper cells, because they will do it.

They'll do it for a whole, you know, for religious reasons, which is very, very different than the Iraqis that we were chasing around in Chicago back in the first Gulf War.

So, yeah, absolutely. And it's the, you know, we have 2 million people that got in and got away that we don't know who they are. We don't know what country they came from. We don't know what their intentions are. They're all over the country, and that just absolutely taxes our resources.

I know you're running for Senate again. You're trailing, I guess, to the early polls by 1.5% to Haley-Stevens. What's going to be the difference this time?

Well, first of all, that was a Democrat-skewed poll. They oversampled Democrats.

So a Republican normally starts out, and as a matter of fact, the last go-round, I started out eight points down, and I got within three-tenths of 1% in winning that race. About 230 votes separated us per county, if you can think of that.

So we're using that momentum. We believe right now we are in the best shot we've ever had in 32 years to take back this seat. Great name ID. If we just get 85% of people who already voted for us, this is the key. To come back out and vote, we have enough votes in the bank for people who already voted for us.

Well, you'd be a huge asset in the Senate. Mike Rogers, thanks so much. He's a GOP candidate. Thank you, Mike. Back in a moment.

Thanks, Brian. You got it. Brian Kilmicho. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead.

We work to counter Iran's efforts to develop nuclear weapons and missile technology. Iran should not have a nuclear weapon. Period. I have stated that Iran will never be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon. We will not allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon.

Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.

So you got one says it won't happen, and then one took it out. And now you're getting criticism from it, or people say the hit wasn't great enough. That was with past presidents, as you know, talking about Iran not having a nuclear weapon.

Now I think Iran even knows it. They also have been humiliated. No Air Force, no leading commanders, all dead. They have their leading scientists all dead. Their version of the CIA intelligence experts all dead.

Who knows how many others are dead? And they have no air defense. President United States speaking now says he'll back Article 5, but it is ripping Spain for refusing to go from 2% to 5%. You just got a question about that. He's going to wrap up at NATO shortly.

We'll give you an idea of what he said. Talk to Sean Davis yet, CEO and co-founder of the Federalists. And then Seth Barron, bringing us inside this controversial New York election for the Democratic primary. A lot going on today.

So glad you're here. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Kilmead. And I would just add, I had a very successful lunch meeting with the senators. I think that we are on track for a hopefully for a vote this Friday for July 4th for the Tax bill.

President is doing peace deals, tax deals, trade deals, so he's Done a peace deal. I think we'd have the tax deal done by July 4th, and then we can finish with the trade deals. Scott Bessant, the Treasury Secretary, hopeful to get something done by or out of the Senate by the Fourth, but I think the House is going to stand by to stamp it and say, okay, let's do it. But they seem to be dug in and upset. I'm looking at Ralph Norman.

He says there's a real problem with what I'm seeing coming from the Senate side. I'm looking at some other quotes on the so-called big, beautiful bill. Keith Self says the changes that we're hearing about are not good. Mike Johnson told the Senate, don't send us back a revised bill, significantly revised bill, because we passed one with a one-vote margin. Andy Harris, who voted present, says he doesn't like the changes the parliamentarian is not allowing.

Mark Harris has a problem with it. Chip Roy has a problem with it. Lindsey Graham fired back.

So are they going to get on the same page eventually? Sean Davis is the CEO and co-founder of the Federalists and joins us now. Sean, what do you think? I mean, we're focusing on the war and we should, and the battle over in the Middle East and NATO. But what about the Big Beautiful bill?

I understand it's furiously being debated. Right, I think what we're seeing in the Senate right now is kind of they're setting the stage for what's really the beginning of negotiations. 101 of lawmaking is the House has to pass something, the Senate has to pass something, and before it gets sent to the President, they've got to agree on the same thing. And so I think a lot of what's happening in the Senate now is jockeying and trying to get the House to take whatever the Senate sends back over without demanding a conference or without ping-ponging a different version back. I suspect the House is going to have a really tough time swallowing that, just given how thin their margins are.

You know, like was said there, they've got one vote margin in the House. The Senate has, you know, theoretically, I think three when you consider the 50-50 tie.

So I think we're seeing people laying the groundwork for the beginning stage of negotiations here. And as you know, as well as anyone, two weeks in politics is an eternity. We've got a long time just to get to the point where the Senate passes it, let alone the House and the Senate have an agreement on it. Why is it that they're having such a hard time getting rid of all the new Green Deal stuff? It's because a lot of this stuff landed in Republican districts and it got people want to get the money that's coming their way, the contracts that are coming out.

And the president doesn't like to see all that in the bill either.

Well, I think one of the favorite pastimes in Congress, and it's a bipartisan affliction, is they love spending other people's money. They love going out with the big check and doing the ribbon cutting. It happens with Republicans as well as Democrats. And it's one thing to say on the campaign trail, yeah, we're going to repeal it, but Republicans don't have a great track record. I remember hearing the same thing about that with Obamacare for years and years, you give us the House, Senate, and presidency, and we're going to repeal Obamacare.

And then, as soon as they're back in and they have the opportunity to do that, they don't do it.

So I think the problem is a lot of politicians just really enjoy spending money. And when it comes time to actually take away that privilege, which is one of the biggest perks of the office, you have a lot of people getting cold feet, unfortunately.

Well, we know in Medicaid, Obamacare blew it up.

So they got 90% reimbursement from the federal government. There's no incentive in the states to not hand it out to everybody that gets close to. Eligible. It's supposed to be for seniors, for people that have been injured, wounded, handicapped. It's not ended up that way.

And now it's ballooning. And every time you go to rein it in, people like Senator Josh Hawley say, don't touch it. And other people say, I'm worried about it. And here's what Mike Johnson said: the President of the United States says, don't touch it, but you have to touch it if you want any semblance of fiscal responsibility. Cut 37.

It's of course nonsense. We had their ads taken down when they began to claim that early on in the process. We are not cutting Medicaid. We are strengthening the program for the people that desperately need it and deserve it. The populations that Medicaid is intended to help, and that's the elderly and the disabled and young pregnant women, for example.

So what we're doing is reinstituting work requirements, which is about an 85% issue in public opinion polling, because if a young, able-bodied man is able to work, he should.

So we put into our product, in the house version, a 20-hour a week requirement, okay? Either work, be looking for a job or in a job training program, or volunteer in your community. Hey, it's good for you and everybody around you.

So, they're going to do work requirements. They're also going to look at eligibility, look at people collecting in multiple states, so fraud and abuse.

So, they think they can get something tangible out of it. What do you think, Sean? Yeah, it's frustrating being a citizen who in part has to pay for all this and kind of knowing the fiscal trajectory of this nation. Obviously, we want to help people who are unable to help themselves. But the thing that Democrats politically understand so much better than Republicans is that if you can pass an entitlement, if you can pass a new giveaway, Um, you basically have it for eternity.

Um, you know, this was done uh on the Republican side with the prescription drug bill back in, I think, 2001 with Bush, one of the biggest entitlement expansions in history. It happens with Medicaid, it happened with Obamacare. Once you get people used to that spigot of federal money and assistance coming through, it's really, really hard to get rid of it. It's a one-way ratchet. And like I said, as the person who has to pay for it, I find it really frustrating that Congress is so happy to create new programs and yet paralyzed and incapable of ever reigning them in so we don't eventually go bankrupt.

Yeah, we'll have to see if it does indeed pass. It seems like it's not rating high, but not many people know what's actually in the bill because as soon as the bill was front and center, it seems to get swamped by other breaking news. That is part of it.

Now they're running ads against each other. When you look at the trade deals, I'm hearing that countries are confused. They don't know who to speak to regarding who's got final. Say on the deals. We hear about India, Canada.

We have deals that are about to come across from Japan, but nothing's been done since the UK. What do you hear, Sean, about the new trade arrangements to avoid tariffs? Yeah, you actually nailed a significant problem, and it's that it is incredibly difficult for a president to go and negotiate these deals. You know, it's a high wire act. It's a really important thing.

It affects a lot of people. And when he goes in and negotiates things, I think people generally trust Trump. If he tells you something in a deal, you can book it. But it still has to go back to Congress. It still has to go back and get approved.

We're almost in July right now. We're halfway through the year, and the Senate hasn't even approved large swaths of Trump's nominees, of pending federal judges. And I think you have foreign nations who rightfully are concerned: hey, we did this deal for you. When is it actually going to happen? Because this stuff matters.

You know, there's a shelf life on any negotiation and any real deal. And I think it's a real concern that Congress just seems incapable of getting really anything done. Yeah, but I I think the the Trump administration just got it con doesn't really have to verify these these uh Nation-to-nation deals. Like the UK didn't have to get congressional approval because it wasn't a multilateral deal, correct?

So the UK can cut a deal. The administration can cut a deal with Japan, with India, with Canada, with Mexico, which I hear is all close. It's true, but you also have people, as soon as he institutes some sort of new tariff or change in policy as a result of these deals, you have people running to the courts and you have them getting injunctions and stays and temporary restraining orders. You're not allowed to do this, you're not allowed to do that. It creates a great amount of uncertainty and unpredictability.

And I think it's a real problem. Yeah, Sean Davis, thanks so much. He's CEO and co-founder of the Federalists. Appreciate it. We come back.

Seth Barron brings us inside that Titanic election that stunned everybody with Governor Cuomo going down in flames. Don't move. Coming to you on a need-to-know basis, because Mandy, you need to know. It's Brian Kilmead. Information you want, truth you demand.

This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Tonight was not our night. Tonight was Assemblyman Mandani's night, and he put together a great campaign, and he touched young people, and inspired them, and moved them, and got them to come out and vote. And he really ran a highly impactful campaign. I called him, I congratulated him, I applaud him.

uh sincerely for his eff effort. That is Governor Cuomo, the former governor who left in disgrace, had to resign early. He thought everyone would forget about what a terrible governor he was. And what a terrible leader he was during the pandemic and the women that he grabbed and was accused of harassing. And I think that played a role in it.

And out of nowhere, this guy Zoran Mamdami wins. What he stands for is almost nothing good. I mean, the guy is a socialist. He's anti-Semitic. He's anti-Israel.

He is pro-BDS, which means to fund Israel, to fund all aspects of Israel in our country, whether it's a college or Columbia or an NYU. He is for defund the police. Think about that for a second. He's for social workers instead. He is for supermarkets where the stake, the city can run it and just grind them and grind the prices down and try to drive, I guess, private business out of business.

Here's a little bit about what he said in the past Cut30. And our police force should not be assisting ICE. Defund the NYPD and refund all of these different social services. I will create a network of city-owned grocery stores. It's like a public option for produce.

So, Tom Holman, Bear, Tom Holman, was in Albany meeting with Congressional state leaders when Zoron Mumdani started screaming like a lunatic, trying to get attention. And the other ones are just things he said before with Charlemagne the God and other places. This is what this guy stands for. And without any real job, being an assemblyman for a short period of time, he is now looks like he's got the Democratic nomination, although the second round is July 1st. No one thinks that Cuomo is going to get closer.

The second round for the nomination, and it'll be Eric Adams and against him and Curtis Liwa. And maybe Cuomo stays in. Seth Barron knows as much about New York sports as anyone. He's a New York Post editorial page writer, successful author. Seth, welcome back.

Were you one of the people surprised that Modani won? I was not that surprised. I mean, if you've been watching for a while, he had a lot of energy as a very activated base. Cuomo, I don't know what he was doing. He seemed to be asleep at the wheel.

He had a lot of money, but there was no campaign going on.

So, you know, look, Democrat primaries are very Tilted to the left, and they're pretty low turnout.

So, an activated. Campaign can win.

So the funny thing is, I often wondered when Mamdani was screaming at Tom Holman and trying to push his way through the line of state troopers, what would he have done? Had he gotten through? Like was he gonna beat up Tom Holman? It was a very odd moment. Absolutely.

Yeah, that's a good point. And what about Lander? The next week, Getting just dragged out because he was protecting illegal immigrants in a courthouse.

So we have a turnout of 432,000. That's roughly what Mondami got, 362,000 for Cuomo.

So that's why he conceded. But do you think that's a good turnout? I mean So no. Not particularly. I mean Yes.

If if New York City generally has pretty low turnout. The weather was scorching, so a lot of the people who waited for election day probably didn't come. And Cuomo didn't do a very good job of getting out the boat. I think he counted on the unions. and like the black ministers who had s endorsed him to do all the legwork.

Doesn't work that way. Um I mean, the one good thing is there is a possibility that Mamdani has got already gotten all his voters, right? Like, he may have hit his ceiling. Like, his voters were very excited, and they all turned out, but maybe they all turned out. You know what I'm saying?

Yes.

So. There is a chance that you know, he's not going to add a lot more. as time goes as you know, the next four months, it's a long time. But yeah, we've got to wait and see if Cuomo drops out. And then what what Curtis Liwa does.

It could split the vote. I mean, we very easily could have. like a an anti-Semitic socialist mayor in New York City. Wow, so I asked Eric Adams out. He was on Fox and Friends today, the current mayor, now is an independent, recently exonerated from all his indictments by this president.

Here he is talking about splitting the vote. Best, and that's campaign and share the story. My story has been overshadowed by so many external things, particularly law affair. Once I'm able to show the success, highest number of jobs in our city history, the lowest number of shooters and homicides in the recorded history of the city during this year, 12 months of Broadway, the greatest 12 months in the history of the city, drop in unemployment. When I'm out there showing how I improve the quality of life without all of that noise, you know, remember, I went through 15 months.

of just constant beating, but yet I'm still here.

So he he feels good. He says his phone is ringing all night with people looking to get on board because they're concerned about Mamdani being the mayor. I don't think he would have got those calls if Cuomo had gotten the nomination. Do you agree? Oh, I absolutely agree.

If Formo had gotten the nomination, he'd be a shoo-in for mayor. This is unprecedented what we're facing now. we could see a kind of popular front. uniting against Mamdani to save the city. What kind of guy is he?

Eric Eddie. How do you view him? Mom, Don? Yeah. I view him as a grifter.

As a like a Nepo baby. You know, both of his parents are. Extremely successful, extremely well connected. I feel like he was groomed for this. I think on a certain level, he's very cynical, but he does have a deep, deep.

Um loathen. of Israel, the Zionist project, and he's very close to people who were frankly just outright anti-Semites.

So, I think this is really his main issue. He talks about socialism and all of that. And yeah, he probably believes some of it, but As he said himself, his main thing is Palestine. And his father's an anti-colonialist. Scholar at Columbia.

This is the the family project. to essentially Destroy settler colonies like Israel, like America, like England. like Canada, Australia, all the countries that are supposedly stolen On stolen land. Uh he he's got like a very very dark and ugly Ideological path. He looks like he's made for the squad.

He's like maybe he could be a local squad member. I mean, they all d they hate the country. If you ask me, I mean, AOC was a big proponent. Didn't she run the AOC playbook of trying to surprise an established candidate by going to young people, using social media? Absolutely.

Absolutely, it was the exact same playbook. And look, it didn't hurt that he was the only telegenic candidate. I mean Brad Lander. I mean these are people who are like kind of You know, the Adrian Adams wet rags. He's young, he's handsome, he's very well spoken, he's bright, he's very good on his feet.

Um So In a way, it's not that big a surprise that he won the youth vote and got them to come out. Look again, New York City is legendary for having dismal turnout in its primaries. And typically If you win the Democratic primary, you will become the mayor. Uh So That's the way You know, that's what he based on. Real quick, Seth.

Do you think Cuomo runs as an independent? I do not think so. He had one shot. You don't get two shots at redemption in the same week. Gotcha.

Seth Baron, thanks so much. Fascinating time. Great to get your insight. Nobody better. Seth, thank you.

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Martha McCallum coming in about 15 minutes. Colonel C.J. Douglas, retired Marine Corps guy with a lot of experience in the region that we're focusing on in the Middle East. He'll be with us shortly, too. And we're taking new calls.

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Local elections, major news overseas. The President of the United States, I guess, is going to abide by Article 5. And if attacked, he's going to back you up. He didn't make that definitive, but he is pumped up that they're now spending most of these defense. Most of these nations, 32 nations, committed to 5% of their GDP on defense.

The bigger question is: where does all this defense come from? Because we do not have the military hardware in the industrial base to do it. And he did say that he's going to try to get Patriot missiles to Ukraine, which I think is good. And I think we've got to start repurposing some of the money that Russia has invested in the West that we froze. Let's get to the big three.

Number three. Republicans are really beginning to learn how bad the big ugly bill is for them. Republican senators are airing. deep concerns behind closed doors. But they're not being honest at home to their constituents.

Believe me, it's not anything that Democrats could be happy about. Big, beautiful bill careening way through the Senate. Senator Thune says we're going to stay through the holidays until we can get a version to the House. How does the House feel about some of the changes? Many are not happy.

Number two. We have won because New Yorkers have stood up for a city they can afford. We'll use their power. To reject Donald Trump's fascism. To stop mass ICE agents from deporting our neighbors.

Stunning upset in New York City primary. Andrew Cuomo goes down in flames, loses by about 100,000 votes to upstart, unknown radical socialist Zohran Mamdani. Bernie Sanders and AOC couldn't be happier, which makes me very sad. Good news for Curtis Sleewe, the Republican, and Eric Adams, the Independent. Number one.

And the thing that hurts me is it's really demeaning to the pilots and the people that put that whole thing together, the generals. That was a perfect operation. That was a perfect operation, but how effective it was now has people in the Defense Department questioning it. The strike in Iran is under scrutiny. Deep State maximizes the strike on nuke sites and says it minimizes it.

It says it was no big deal. Really? Don't get distracted. It was a huge deal. And you know who knows it?

The Iranians. You know who confirmed it? The Israelis. But one thing they did immediately after the strike, within I think the next day, was they hit our base in Qatar. What happened was interesting is the militias who hit our base in Iraq after.

Uh the killing of uh of the killing of the mastermind The killing of the mastermind of the Iraqi of the Al-Quds force. Was the fact is they didn't. Militias didn't act. Surrogates did not act. Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, as well as.

as the Houthis. Why is that? Are they not capable? Or they don't want to be backing up Iran that didn't back them up? Let's bring in on Zoom, Colonel CJ Douglas.

Colonel, welcome back. You've been at the base in Qatar. Are you surprised that the missile defense was more than uh more than able to knock down these rockets? Hi, Brian. Great to talk to you again.

I'm not surprised at all. I mean, I'm confident in the system and in the service members that are employing it and in our relationship with our partners in the region that are all part of the multilateral defense. Where were the where how much warning did they get? Do you know?

So Brian, while I'm not aware of how much they got, as we can see, it was enough that coupled with the defense systems that it was effective to negate Any uh any U.S. casualties. How worried were you about the militias in Iraq lining up our guys at the bases in Iraq? That's a good question, Brian. And so, you know, I can't say that I was specifically concerned about any one group because, quite frankly, there were enough threats everywhere.

Now, that said, each time was different, as you're probably alluding to, the 2015-16 timeframe. That really was the complex time because, as you recall, the Biden administration delayed action, which gave Iran the ability to put advisors. And we saw that's where the rise of Kitab Hezbollah, the Quds force, et cetera, specifically in Al-Anbar province, which as you and I have talked about before, that's what we saw. And we did see, we did have conflict with them, although the main conflict was with ISIS.

So while You know, I, you know, it was in the back of my mind, but it wasn't. You know, there was there was enough to To think about security and offensive action for enough threats that for that, it was just like it was just another threat, like anything else.

So, what do you think the reason is? That Israel, that Iran didn't have any of their surrogates acting at all against Israel. And didn't act against our troops, being that after Salamani was taken out, the Iraqi base was rocketed. Right. I mean, there could be a number of reasons.

I mean, you know. I think probably the most simplistic one is the overwhelming response. I mean, the administration and the service members demonstrated that. We could fly around the globe. Um at night.

and strike at will. Deep into their homeland. That said, I mean, I think we all knew that they had to do a response, and they did, and it was negated.

So, you know, as far as why they haven't, it could just be tactical patience. It could be that they're aligning with any number of, as you've talked about previously, any number of the military-age males that have come across our southern border, that it could be an attack on the homeland. We don't know. History will determine what that, why there wasn't a response.

So, what do you think it is that since you were there? How many times have you been in Iraq? Three. How many times in Afghanistan? Choice.

So How different is it now with Syria now in the hand with out of the hands of Assad, no longer a surrogate of Iran? And how different is it now that Iran seems to be cut down to size and they place such an outsized influence in Iraq? How different are things in those two countries now?

Well, I think it's not just those two countries. I think it's regionally. The Iran has been the big bully of the region. And so Israel has showed that through tenacity and physical presence and and they've they've gone after you know the the big bully in the region. Nobody wants to align with them, obviously, but with that, I think that You know what will What hopefully will come out of this as we start to look towards diplomacy, and what the president, you know, right now as he's forward, is hopefully we'll look to build coalitions with the Europeans and regional partners, and then there will be a unified message on human rights and civil liberties in Iran.

And so, hopefully, what we'll see come out of it is, you know, is you know, so there's no right now, we haven't seen attacks from any of the proxies. And so, maybe that will facilitate some sort of. Peaceful resolution where we can see a stable Middle East. Do you think what is your assessment of the Department of Intelli, the Defense Intelligence Agency coming forward, even though it's low confidence, with not much damage done after the biggest bombs were dropped, non-nuclear bombs on the planet? Multiple bombs on three separate sites.

What is your assessment of how that got out and the damage it's done? Uh So I don't I don't think we can determine the how much damage their assessment has done. I think we have to look at why it was released and who released it and really it seem I don't think you know, given the uh the the magnitude of the strikes. I'm surprised that they're saying that there wasn't that much damage. I think I've seen even on Fox, there was a report of trucks lined up prior to.

And I mean, knowing what we know about our intelligence community, that You know. We wouldn't have just let those trucks go away unless there was a reason.

Now, going back to the strikes. I think this is another one that time is going to tell. And as I mentioned, diplomacy, I think that one of the things that is going to have to come forward out of this is there's going to have to be some sort of independent group that goes in and looks at what their capabilities are and what limitations they have for the future. Here's what Victor Davis Hanson said is the new situation and what the Israelis have actually accomplished along with us, CUD 17. We've lived in a 50-year myth, a Potemkin myth about the Iranians, that they had this indomitable army, and Hezbollah was these goose.

Goose-stepping Nazi killers. And whether it was a Marine barracks or killing Americans in Iraq, we were always told you can't do this to Iran because they're indomitable. And in 12 days, Israelis blew up that myth and Trump put the coup de grace on it. They have no air defenses, they have no air force, they have no top physicists. As you said, the top leadership is in hiding.

The generals have been killed off. The Hezbollah is a shambles. The main dead are in hiding. There is no Hamas really. The Houthis want to make a deal.

There's no Syria anymore. No platform for their supplies. Russia's been kicked out. This is just a miraculous development. It's a whole new Middle East.

And here the left can't even appreciate what's happened. Victor Davis Hanson is not one for a hyperbole. He's a historian, a military historian. There's nothing he said that was anything but accurate. Don't you agree?

Oh, I would absolutely agree. And one of the things to think about is: I mean, you know, you look at historically, I mean, they took a pretty good beating when they fought Iran.

Now, that said, they didn't go into submission.

So, you know. While all this was successful, and while I agree with everything he said, in the way forward, You know, I think we stay away from regime change. I mean, because what we don't want to do is make a martyr out of the supreme leader. And You know, and I think because and it goes away from, you know, well, the US's only goal is to, you know, take. Deny people nuclear weapons, which they and others have, and also execute regime change with people they don't like.

It's like, hey, you know, you fix this. The next thing is. Yeah, all the senior leadership. I mean, you know, the Israel strikes were, you know, were phenomenal, and you've talked about that. The thing to remember is that, you know, they're There's levels deep, and the best analogy I can give you was when we were, you know, each of the commander's courses that I went to in the Marine Corps.

The senior leader that came in was the commandant, two separate commandants. And you're all like, hey, we're now senior leaders. And it's like, hey, make no mistake, congratulations. But if a bus of you all went off a cliff, we'd have you replaced tomorrow.

Well, it's the same thing there. It might not be somebody who has the experience. It might be somebody who, you know, who frankly is, you know, is the next patent in Iran. That said, I agree with everything that Victor Davis-Hansen said. Yeah, they're going to be replaced, but they've been assassinated.

They all got to check their phones of the location, who's driving them, following them, because the Israelis have penetrated every aspect of Iranian society. And there was a report today in the Israel news that about 700 people have been rounded up in Iran and hung. They say they affiliated with or directly with the Israelis.

So they have paid a price for that, if that report is indeed true. Thanks so much, Colonel Douglas. Appreciate it. Absolutely, Brian. One last thing though, Brian, with that report, I mean, and I hope this is something that the administration and others capitalize on.

The fact that I'm hearing it here and we're not hearing it on other news stations, like we've got to amplify the voices of those Iranian dissidents so that they're their story's told. Thanks very much for having me on, Brian. You got it. All right. When we come back, Martha McCallum joins us in the studio, and we'll squeeze in some calls.

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Deborah Haynes from Sky News. Mark Rutter, the NATO chief who is your friend, he called you daddy earlier. Um do you regard your NATO allies as kind of children? No, he likes me. I think he likes me.

If he doesn't, I'll let you know. I'll come back and I'll hit him hard, okay? He did it very affectionately. Daddy, you're my daddy. That was the reason I was cracking up behind him.

I mean, Marco Rubio had such a game face on the whole time, and then he was like, So, Martha McCallum's here. Martha, so that I didn't see the press conference. I'm doing the show at the same time. You said there were a few things to emerge from that press conference that you think were noteworthy. Yeah, I think so.

I was watching it along with Bill Malusian and Dane alive. And, you know, I think a couple of things. I think that the major take, you know, obviously. As President Trump said moments ago, It's only been a couple of days. There is no full assessment other than what we can all see very clearly is massive destruction.

And I interviewed the IAEA chief yesterday, who said there is significant damage to these sites. And he said there's Iran before. That strike, and there's Iran after. And there's no better evidence of that, I don't think, Brian, than Iran's own posture before and after the strike. What did they do before they were bombing everybody and building a nuclear program?

What are they doing after? They basically th the the war ended. They agreed to a ceasefire. Almost immediately after they looked at what happened in that strike. And not only that, they gave us a heads up.

Gee, we have to essentially, here's what they're saying: like for our own to save face at home, we have to retaliate to you, but we're going to be sending missiles to Qatar to the biggest base you have. And we want you to know before we do it because they don't want to kill any Americans, because they don't want to incite more war because they're on their backs.

So, do you think that, and by the way, I want you to hear that comment. Here's Karten. the Iranian nuclear program has been set back significantly. It is clear that there is one Iran before june thirteenth, nuclear Iran, and one now. And there is it's night and day.

It's a new reality.

Now Iran has far less capabilities than it had in the past.

So Martha, do you think that if CNN or New York Times got a hold of a DIA report that says they've been obliterated, there's nothing left, they went inside, do you think they would have rushed to publish that? Do you think they would have rushed to broadcast that? No, I mean, I think sadly, what is very obvious is that there are certain interpreters of what happened who are just hoping for a way to minimize it and to make it look like it didn't work. Because, you know, unless Iran starts sending us a very different signal, you know, oh, look, you didn't get it. And there is a legitimate question about these 900 pounds of 60% enriched uranium.

Now, when I spoke to the AIA chief yesterday, he said that Iran told him prior to this attack that they were going to move some of that 60% enriched uranium to a safe site. And we also heard that Khamenei put that out. I mean, who knows if you can believe anything he says, you know, because he's constantly, you know, sort of Death to America and everything else. Hard to tell if what he says is true. We don't know if they succeeded in moving that material out to a different site.

It is possible. It's only been three days. We don't know absolutely everything about what happened here, and I think that will emerge. The President says something also today. He said, Well, we know because people have been on the site and they've confirmed it.

Now, I'm trying to figure out. Where that's coming from. There are some suggestions that Israelis have been on the site. We know how good their intel's been in Iran lately. But I'm looking for confirmation from the IAEA today that, yes, Israelis have been on the site or they've been on the site and have had a close first-person look.

But we're still working on that. Yeah, I just tell you that there was a report out there from the Israeli news that I just sent over to you that said that they're trying to track down the spies in their midst, and Iran may have arrested and hung 700 people who they think who are collaborating with Israel, including three Mossad agents. I mean, that's another indication of just how strong out they are in the leadership in Iran. A talk show that's real. This is the Brian Kill Me Show.

I mean, it's just who they are. And I think people are frustrated. We know that they hate the president. And it's, look, they're an extension, they are the left wing of the Democrat Party, and the Democrat Party right now. They have no positive agenda for the country.

They are a party of anger and hate. They hate the president. We just saw an incredible military strike that successfully took out Iran's nuclear weapons capability. And what are the Democrats doing this week? They're voting on trying to disapprove President Trump defending America.

And, Jesse, one of the important things to understand. The attack that President Trump carried out this weekend, yes, it was supporting our friend and ally, Israel, but much more importantly, it was defending America. Because when the Ayatollah chants death to America, I believe him when. Right. So, Ted Cruz just talking about how the senator from Texas, Martha McCallum, was just how the media is going out of their way to immediately say, number one.

Shouldn't have taken the strike. Number two, it wasn't effective, and they don't have a plan. You saw Mark Kelly last night. First time I saw that soundbite with Brett. Oh, they have no plan.

They don't know what they're doing. It's chaos.

So they're using that term chaos to describe Trump. They like to do that. But it doesn't apply here. There's no chaos. It's very organized, very, very well executed.

I know exactly what led up to it. And now we're waiting to see what Iran's going to do after it. Yeah, I I mean, prior to the strike, Israel and Ir and uh Israel and Iran were at war. Yeah. After the strike, there's a ceasefire.

Will it hold? Who knows? We don't know what's going to happen. But as a member of the United States Senate and also as someone who has supported prior Democrat presidents, Clinton, Obama, you know, all of these presidents, going back to Bush, have wanted to. Yeah, they all said no nuclear weapons in Iran.

Mm-hmm. They all were aspirational. About achieving no nuclear weapons in Iran. They tried deals, they tried negotiations, nothing worked.

So now we have this strike, which I don't I don't care, you know, show me a country that isn't. Eve. isn't if they're not openly isn't reservedly Supportive. Isn't glad. That somebody finally took.

A bomb to these facilities.

So, you know, I find it, it's almost so knee-jerk, it's so predictable. It would be really interesting to see some unpredictable reaction to see a Democrat who said, you know what, look, we've all, you know, long wanted to cool things off in this region. And how about the fact that nobody is coming to their defense? Not Russia, not China. None of the axis of evil.

Maybe it doesn't exist anymore. Not even their surrogates. Right. So I mean it'd be good just to hear a mature sort of reasoned take on this from Mark Kelly as an American who doesn't want to see Iran have nuclear weapons.

So I want you to hear what Anthony Blinken put in the New York Times today in an op ed. He said, Trump's Iran strike was a mistake. I hope it succeeds. The strike on three of Iran's nuclear facilities by the U.S., unnecessary and unwise.

Now that it's done, I very hope it succeeds. As of now, there are conflicting messages. If and when it does, we get answers when we would take Tehran 18 to 24 months to produce an explosive device, according to some estimates. In other words, there was still time for diplomacy to work, and the situation wasn't nearly the emergency that Trump portrayed it to be. He said, it underscores that sticking with the JCPOA was the better option.

I bought us at least 15 years instead of just a few, and it avoided the risk of Iranian retaliation, such as Monday's missile attacks, directed our forces in the region, as well as the potential for further escalation, including threatening global oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz. What's your take? Has he seen the chart that shows the increase in enriched uranium levels over the past two years? You assume that you're not going to be able to do it skyrockets at the end of that chart. You know, President Obama said.

It's clear that at the levels they're enriching, they're not interested in an energy program. They're not interested in an energy program.

So they're enriching to levels that can only be on their way to having a nuclear program. The really sad thing for Iran, you know, I don't know. Again, wouldn't it be interesting to hear Anthony Blinken? And I guess he's going sort of in that direction when he says, I hope it succeeds. But what it shows is just a lack of guts.

We're seeing bold action.

Now, bold action sometimes fails, but at least it's. bold action. And fortune tends to favor the bold in the world. What we saw and what the contrast is so dramatic in is just the difference in tenor between the last administration and this one. We see action, action, action.

Will it all succeed? Probably not. Will some of it succeed in probably an instrumental way? Probably. So the JCPOA, let's think about this.

You can still use ballistic missiles. We're going to give you pallets of cash because they said it was frozen. It's unfrozen.

So Martha, what'd they do with that money? Did they go and build new roads and new playgrounds? No, they gave it to Hezbollah and Hamas to cause more unrest with our only ally, our major democracy in the region on a regular basis. And we did not have eyes on anything.

Some of them were just cameras.

So we didn't have any Americans there checking everything out. We had to go by what they were saying, the IAEA. The IAEA has been a little dicey with us in the past. I think we are a no-American presence.

So to me, we basically. Had a Deal that I think was 10 years in duration. And they said, well, once they're part of the family of nations, we're sure they're going to re-up that deal. Really? There's an expiration date, and then they can make nuclear weapons.

Why would they? That was the China philosophy that Nixon had, right? And it was an understandable approach to China at the time. You know, the more sunlight that we let into this communist nation, the more we trade with them, the more we work with them, they'll come around. You know, the spotlight will be on them.

They'll have to behave responsibly in terms of human rights and all these other issues. And now, sadly, we see that they are our greatest adversary in the world after all of that. Iran and every U.S. president, Republican, Democrat, has recognized this over the last decades. They need.

A change at the top. The Islamic regime In place since 1979 is a human rights disaster. Women are not allowed. hijab is slightly an inch off and your hair around your ears is showing, you can and do end up in prison and in one woman woman's case, dead in a hospital.

So let's just, you know, i remember the fact that Estimates that I'm hearing 80, even 90% of the Iranian public are wanting a change.

Now, the President's gone back and forth on the regime change issue over the last few days. It's tricky. It does have to come from within. Even President Bush said it had to come from within way back then. But not only is there no support for the Iranian regime outside of it, there's almost no support inside of Iran for it.

Right. And by the way, what do you think about Times Square, them rallying for Iran against us in Times Square all weekend? You know what I really think more than anything, Brian, when I look at this? I think it shows the terrible lack of education in this country. We are not educating our children.

Now, you can support Iran if you want to. You have a right to do that in this country. But I think that what we've done is educated an entire generation of young people who just are picking up their information off of TikTok. And they didn't learn it in school. They didn't learn about the 1979 revolution.

And you can think whatever you want about it, but understand it. They didn't learn about the creation of Israel after World War II. They don't understand the dynamic of what happened under Hitler. They are very, they don't have a good education. I mean, I hate to say that about our own country, but this is true.

And I know you've worked to educate people. I have too, by writing about these things and trying to get people better informed. But it just smacks of a very. Silly, superficial culture that is getting its information off of social media, and it's really a black mark on our education. History is.

Joy Reid last night on a CNN panel said, Why are we okay to have nuclear weapons and Iran not? He said, How we have not been responsible. Remember Hiroshima? Everyone was shocked, including my guest yesterday. Um Yeah.

To my guest yesterday, who said, Wait a second, we dropped them. We absolutely had to drop those bombs back then. Since that time, we have led nuclear, non-nuclear proliferation since they to her view. Joy Reid, a primetime anchor on a major network, has that dim view of America that we can't be more trusted than Iran. You know, the IAEA, which you talked about moments ago, and people need to understand it's an agency.

Their responsibility was created by Eisenhower. Their responsibility is to do the best they can understanding. How much enriched uranium is out there, where it is, which is a big problem for them right now that they've got to figure out. Their mission is to make sure there are no nuclear accidents in the world and to make sure that we don't see more countries become nuclear. capable.

Weapons capable.

So, their mission is that Iran not get a nuclear weapon. There are nine countries in the world that have nuclear weapons capability, and they don't want there to be any more because it makes the world more dangerous.

So, if she doesn't understand why a country like the United States is more responsible and is part of these non-nuclear proliferation treaties, and Iran is on the outside of that, I don't know. She's got to go back and start at square zero. Whoopi Goldberg said: it's harder to be a black woman in America than to be a woman in Iran. I mean, I I I don't I I cannot imagine What she is thinking. I mean, literally, women in Iran, if you show your hair, you can be.

Beat, beaten, and whipped in the streets by these religion police who literally walk around the streets of Tehran looking for you, looking to see if you have a hair out of place, so that they can throw you in Evan Prison. Evan Prison is full of people who have been fighting for freedom. We have so much freedom in this country. Are we perfect? Of course, we're not perfect.

We try to be a more perfect nation all the time. That's our mission as Americans. But to make that comparison is so reflective of ignorance. I don't even know where what else to say. Absolutely.

And by the way, member she wore, she would, if she went to a run, she does have the outfit from Sister Act. She would just have to leave that on the whole time, and she can't have the white ring. It was a nun, I think. Yeah, it was a nun. But I mean, basically, the same outfit.

I mean, the nun is a little bit more open. All right, so a few more minutes with Martha. She's going to tell us when we get backwards on her show. Also, I want to get her take on the mayor's race and the Democratic primary, which was stunning. Illuminating, intriguing, inculcating.

I know some of these words. It's Brian Kilmead. A radio show like no other. It's Brian Killmead. A lot of communications.

I think I slept an hour and a half because the phone was going off all night. People understand this moment. Coming back to you? In the combination, a lot of people didn't leave. I was not in the primary.

They said, Eric, we're going to sit, we're going to endorse in the primary. We're going to just have another conversation during the general.

So there was a lot of people who stated that you're not in the primary. We want to make sure that this candidate does not win. And so now you have almost a million independent voters. You have many Democrats. That was Mayor Eric Adams on the couch with us on Fox and Friends.

He was a bullion. He thinks he's got a real shot at reelection, and why not? He says that the Democratic primary that gave us Zoran Momdani is through of left-wing, like a lot of parties, even the national parties, they're for the extremists. That's why Momdani destroys by 100,000 votes roughly Andrew Cuomo, who's not a wild lefty. He's definitely a Democrat.

But Martha McCallum, Eric Adams really thinks he's got a legitimate shot now. And he says, you know, like Bloomberg and others, they're going to come back to him because they don't want this guy. This guy, Momdani, is so extreme. Why would anyone vote for him that was a capitalist? I mean, I think a lot of people were very shocked by Momdani sort of coming up the side lane like a racehorse who managed to win in the end.

He had a very strong social media game, good advertising. He, you know, sort of presents well. I think that when you go through what he actually states, I think a lot of people are. Absolutely shocked. There's absolutely no way financially for him to do the things he's talking about in terms of housing and free buses and all of this stuff.

And his anti-Israel statements are abhorrent. We have a lot of Jewish voters in this city. Overall, there's a lot of conservatives who left the city during COVID. And I think that had an impact on Lee Zeldin's race. But all that said, I think that Adams does become the alternative candidate in a very strong way.

What impact might it have if President Trump came to New York to campaign for Eric Adams? We know that they have a pretty good relationship. We know that Tom Homan said that he saw the cop in him when they sat down to talk. And I think that in many ways, Adams is the kind of Democrat that used to be. Dominant.

In New York City. You know, he's. Big on law enforcement, wants a safe city, but is liberal and Democrat in other ways in terms of social issues.

So I'm shocked. I mean, I thought it was interesting. The Chicago Tribune yesterday, I think, wrote an editorial saying, Don't make the mistake that we made, New York. Don't do it. Don't give yourselves a Brandon Johnson.

I mean, it is appalling. What would happen to the Safety factor in the streets of New York City. If you have someone who thinks that, you know, that cops are bad, that they shouldn't coordinate with ICE. I mean, this city has been impacted so dramatically by immigration. We have spent billions and billions of dollars housing people.

It it is I I I will be very surprised if Momdani can pull out a win in November, but we'll see what happens. Here is with Arthur Idella, our good friend, great lawyer who knows New York, cut thirty-one. Mm-hmm. There's no one happier after Mohamdani and his family than Eric Adams tonight. Because everyone over 50 years old who remembers Times Square in the 1970s and the 1980s, when you couldn't walk through it, it was all pornography and crack and muggings and rapes and robberies.

Everyone who remembers that is going to vote for Eric Adams. The New York Times, who didn't do an endorsement, did say, please don't vote for Mohamdani, as did the Daily News, as did the New York Post.

So anybody who knows how bad New York can get, all came out against Mom Donnie because a 33-year-old with zero experience running anything except a little office with five employees should not be running the city of New York. Hehehe I mean, I couldn't agree more with Arthur Idala. Mm-hmm. Honestly, I'm kind of speechless on this. I think it's pretty incredible.

But what's happening is you have this slice. I mean, look across the country. Look at New York. Look at Chicago. Look at Los Angeles.

You know, the three huge, wonderful cities of the United States of America. And look at what has happened to them. And they are sort of this bastion hanging on after a presidential election that saw all the swing states go to Trump. He'll be the first one to point this out, and he's accurate in doing so. And a popular victory.

But you have these islands, these tight islands in our greatest cities that are supporting these very radical candidates.

So, who's going to be on your show?

So, we are going to speak with Rosanna Scotto about this election in New York. She knows New York better than anybody, so she's going to join us. We also have Brian Mast on. We're going to talk about the Iranian nationals who are getting picked up in this country, some pretty scary stuff about who crossed over the border in the last administration. Stephen Mirin from the White House Council of Economic Advisors is going to join us as well.

We're going to talk about whether or not there will be a vacation for members of Congress, or as President Trump has said, you know, nobody goes home for a vacation until this bill is done.

So, we'll see. We'll talk to him about that.

So, the big, beautiful bill has got some pushback already from even Speaker Johnson said yesterday: the Senate is messing with it. It's a very delicate balance. Don't touch the salt tax, don't touch what I gave you for Medicaid, and they're doing both. Yep. You know, I always think of passing these bills as sort of like a bunch of people sitting on a little raft in the ocean, and if one thing falls off, the whole thing tips over, and that's how hard it is to keep this on.

Balance. They have to, I think, keep their focus on the larger tax cut package that was passed and extending it. That's the priority, I think, for these members. And there's a lot of good things in there for border control as well.

So, you know, money facilities.

So we'll see where it goes. But yeah, the Senate loves to deliberate. They do. The question is: does everyone want to stay on the raft? Exactly.

Thank you for using my metaphor, Brian. I'm going to use it. And you could use it again in your show at 3 o'clock today at Eastern Time. The story. Thanks, Brian.

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