Putin has badly misjudged relationship with Trump

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So glad you're there. Thanks so much for listening. It's going to be a big, big hour. Lieutenant Colonel Alan West joins us from Texas. Matt Whitaker, U.S.

Ambassador to NATO, is going to be with us in a matter of moments, too, because there's a lot of moving parts. As the president changes his stance on Ukraine, and there's really no choice. Russia's made it almost impossible for them to have an off-ramp. They were given the chance of a lifetime, and the KGB agent, in my view, misjudged the president. Also, the UN ambassador position is open ever since Elise Stefanik was asked to go back to her congressional seat in New York.

And Mike Waltz is going to start his hearings today. And they're going to look to unload on him because they're upset at the president and his foreign policy. But I think the Green Beret will be ready for it.

So let's get to the big three. Number three. Hello, I'm Andrew Cuomo. As my grandfather used to say, when you get knocked down, learn the lesson and pick yourself back up and get in the game. And that is what I'm going to do.

I am in it to win it. Yeah, but you're not. Why is he still here? Disgraced governor and mayoral primary loser Andrew Cuomo not taking the hint and stays in the mayoral race. What does it mean for the radicals who are run Mom Donnie's chances of winning?

Eric Adams and Curtis Lee were also there as the nation's most famous city is really in the balance. Number two. Just to give you a sense of how bad we are. Democratic Party is less popular than Elon Musk right now. That should be like a wake-up call, how bad.

And the Republican parties stab you in the back. The Democratic Party, we disappoint you. I don't know what that means. The Dems rebuild rudderless, directionless, and issueless. Their standard-bearers begin to offer advice like Barack Obama, and in some cases, position themselves for a presidential run, like the guy you just heard, Rahm Emanuel.

Number one.

So we're going to be doing that with NATO and uh it's fully approved, fully done. We'll send them a lot of weapons of all kinds and they're going to uh deliver those weapons immediately to the site of the war, different sites of the war. And beginning with the Patriots, and they could start getting there as soon as today. And they need it because it looks like the Russians have found a way to mass-produce these drones, and they're attacking apartment buildings and schools and not even military sites. Joining us now, a guy who knows this all too well, U.S.

Ambassador to NATO, Matt Whitaker. Matt, welcome. Great to talk to you. I know you got a heads up that the president was going to make a big announcement on Monday. How would you characterize it?

Well, Brian, it's good to be with you, first of all. And it's good to see you this morning, Fox and friends as well. I always enjoy chatting about this, and I know this is an issue you follow very closely. You know, I think the president obviously wanted to create the space to bring a peace. He's a peacemaker.

You know, we could go through all of the peace deals, whether it was ending the 12-day war, whether it was, you know, the peace deal in the Congo, whether it's the upcoming peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Everywhere you look, you know, President Trump and his team are trying to negotiate peace, but he's been very frustrated. He's expressed that publicly with Vladimir Putin not being willing to come to the table and actually be serious about resolving this conflict. He hasn't, you know, the Russians have made very little advance in Ukraine on the battlefield while the slaughter continues and Russians are losing their lives in the thousands per week. And at the same time, there's really nothing strategic about hitting a Apartment buildings and children's hospitals, and the kind of things you're seeing happen on the battlefield every day.

Not the battlefield, in the Kyiv and Odessa, and places. It's causing fear and chaos to what end? Just to harass and to bother the Ukrainians and to try to maybe break their will. But they continue to fight on. And I think President Trump acknowledges all of this and he's looking for a way to bring peace.

And I think making Ukraine stronger will maybe. Create the leverage ultimately to bring peace in this conflict. But, you know, it's, you know, President Trump, I think, was very firm yesterday with both talking about Europe and our NATO allies buying American weapons and then providing them to The battlefield in Ukraine, but at the same time, these secondary sanctions I think are going to be very powerful too, because India and China, especially, are funding the war by buying. Russian oil that nobody else will buy. True.

But they're not installed yet. It's going to be fifty days, right?

So fifty days to that point. In the meantime, we're going to be giving seventeen Patriot missile batteries. Do you know anything else specifically that they're going to be getting? Because I know they need artillery. Yeah.

Well, I mean, obviously, you know, first of all, I want to make sure that your listeners understand this is all of these weapons that are being sold to our European allies and then provided to Ukraine through kind of mechanisms at NATO are not going to make America and our strategic interests any weaker.

So we are not going to give anything out of our stockpiles that we need. That's the most important thing to understand as well. You know, but it's going to be a whole bunch of things, you know, from artillery shells and munitions to, you know, like you mentioned, Patriot weapon systems and other missiles. I think, you know, right now, you know, the generals that deal with these issues on a daily basis and understand the movement and the logistics of this are moving things already that are available to be sold to our European NATO allies and provided to Ukraine.

So it's happening in real time. And at the same time, I don't think from a tactical standpoint, you know, talking about exactly how many. And where and when is going to help Ukraine in their fight to defend themselves against this Russian assault?

So, the 50 days, we wonder what Russia is going to be doing. Their offensive, their spring, their summer offensive has already started.

So, Senator Lindsey Graham spearheaded the effort in the Senate to give the president the leverage he needs to say to Vladimir Putin: look, these sanctions are bipartisan. They're coming down the pike. All I have to do is sign them. And now, all your trading partners, Brazil, India, and China especially, are going to feel the wrath. Here's Senator Lindsey Graham cut nine.

How does Russia stay in business? China, India and Brazil buy most of their oil and gas now. Russia is weaning themselves off.

So President Trump announced today, if you're buying Russian oil and gas to keep Putin's war machine Running, we're going to put a 100% tariff on all your products coming into America in 50 days. And you know what? It will change this war. It will bring this war to an end. Donald Trump has done something no other American president has been able to do in my lifetime: get Europe to up their game when it comes to our common defense.

So, Matt, you understand Washington, you understand President Trump, and now you have a sense of where NATO stands. How does this all come together? And how do you think Vladimir Putin processes it?

Well, first of all, I just want to emphasize something that the senator said and put a little twist on it. That is, trading with the United States of America is a privilege. You know, having access to the United States markets, the most powerful economy in the world, is a privilege. And if you don't play by the rules, if you aren't for peace, if you continue to support rogue nations like Russia that are, you know, kind of fighting a war to take over the entire country of Ukraine, then you don't have access to our markets. And, you know, that's why these secondary sanctions are going to be so powerful against China and India and Brazil.

But at the same time, you know, our European allies took advantage of a peace dividend for way too long. And President Trump said that this isn't fair to the American taxpayer. We need to equalize with our European allies. And Europe needs to take over the primary responsibility for the defense of the European continent. And that's what we accomplished at the NATO summit last month.

And President Trump in that room was. Very strong, very powerful. He stayed to talk and listened to every single one of our allies. He heard them loud and clear, especially their comments on this war in Ukraine and how important it is to European security. And he said, okay, you know what?

We make the best weapons in the world. We're going to sell them to our European allies. They can provide them to Ukraine. And so we have, again, taken this burden of providing munitions and defensive armaments to Ukraine off the backs of the American worker. And again, President Trump promised that he would do this, and he's delivered it.

I think it's extraordinary the way he has come up with this really smart approach to this. And at the same time, I think Ukraine is now going to have the proper weapons and equipment to continue to defend themselves. And hopefully, you know, we can, that will create the environment for a peace deal.

So, two things. The president said Europe has a lot of spirit for this war. Didn't think so at first, but they do. In Sputnik, which is one of their newspapers over there. Here's a quote I think you'd find intriguing: if Trump folds to neocons on Ukraine, his MAGA base will turn on him like Biden 2.0.

So, Matt. This is politics. Russia feels as though and they might be right, they know our politics so well, they're using language that maybe Steve Bannon or Marjorie Taylor Greene would use.

So they understand what's going on in America to put a statement out like that. Yeah.

Well, a couple of things. First of all, you know, anything that, you know, Russian media says, and I get the clips, you know, every day to see what they're saying, is, you know, usually it's 180 degrees opposite. You know, there is nobody that has campaigned more than Donald Trump across the United States of America and has a sense of what, you know, what was referred to as a MAGA base. I have been campaigning for the last really eight years when I haven't been at the Department of Justice or the Department of State for President Trump. And so I've interacted not only with the MAGA base, but also folks that support President Trump because he's right for this moment in time.

And no one is ever going to accuse me, Brian, of being a neocon. I have been pretty consistent with what I believe is the proper place for the military, for diplomacy, and how it all interacts and how it all is put together. And I think what President Trump has come up with here is an America-first foreign policy. It puts the American worker front and center. It delivers jobs to middle Americans.

Because we're going to be making those weapons. We're going to be making those weapons. Exactly. I mean, I've been told. And our allies are going to be buying the weapons.

Exactly. And the other thing you're going to have to realize is as Europe takes over the responsibility for the defense of the European continent, they're going to have to. Reindustrialize. They're going to have to create a defense industrial base that, quite frankly, has deteriorated. And so, right now, the best weapons in the world are being made by the United States of America.

Not enough. But we have to make war of them, we got to expand that base. Desperately. And that's one of the primary responsibilities post-Hague Summit that I'm doing. That I'm out there, I'm working with American industry on co-production, joint venture, other opportunities to expand production in the United States of America, ways that, again, we can create jobs in middle America for the folks that really have been oftentimes left behind and the people that Donald Trump identified.

As really being kind of ignored by the policymakers in Washington, D.C. I mean, again, Donald Trump is delivering on campaign promises. I mean, you could have a theory, and this is what you want to do, and then the real life gets in, and then you have to make adjustments in real time. The president won in. Nobody said that he was going after Vladimir Putin or wanted war, but he saw that Putin was impossible to deal with, and that Vladimir Putin lost the one person in the West that was going to give him an off-ramp to a grinding war that's lost over a million people off the battlefield.

But listen to what Steve Bannon says. Who is the former advisor to the President? He says We're about to arm people we have literally no control over. This is not the global war in terror. This is old fashioned grinding war in the bloodlands of Europe, and we're being dragged into it.

Ambassador, you know I disagree with that statement, but that's what Marjorie Taylor Greene and people like that are saying.

So, what's your reaction to that? What's your message to that? Yeah, well, I mean, listen, Brian, you and I understand history and we understand sort of how Vietnam happened, how the escalation happened. And obviously, we want to avoid that. You know, this is not about American boots on the ground.

This is a European war. That is going to be funded now by Europe. And again, we will sell our arms to Europe. And at the same time, Ukraine is desperate to join the European Union. They want to look to the West instead of to the East.

And that's what this battle really is, at its heart, is about: Vladimir Putin doesn't want to let go of Ukraine and have it become part of Europe instead of part of the Russian sphere of influence. And again, I trust, I think Donald Trump has earned our trust on these matters. I think he knows exactly where to find the balance here and the fact that, again, there's not going to be any American boots on the ground. This is merely a business transaction of selling the best equipment in the world to the Ukrainians to Europe. Just a prediction.

Within fifty days, do you think both sides sincerely come to I know Ukraine's there ready, do you think there will be sincerely at some type of ceasefire talks within those days, unlike the historians that show up for the Russians, for the ceasefire talks instead of the officers? Do you think there's going to be something sincere on the Russian side? Yeah, I think Russia right now is trying to calculate what their next step is and decide how to view this. I think this is a very serious. A move by Donald Trump on two fronts.

And I think it should provide for a moment to recalculate on the Russian side. And I would expect that this is the moment where they can come to the table and to use the word off-ramp and find an off-ramp to a ceasefire and ultimately a lasting peace deal. But President Trump said it yesterday in the Oval Office: Vladimir Putin ultimately wants Ukraine. And so Ukraine is going to have to be strong and hardened to stay independent. And again, they're going to have to fix a lot of issues too.

I mean, they have an issue with corruption. They need to clean that up. They need to become kind of a first world type country that has rule of law, gets rid of their corruption, and really kind of moves into the modern sort of nation state. But at the same time, I think Donald Trump, again, has earned our trust on these, and I think he knows exactly how to thread this. Ambassador, thanks so much.

It's a busy time for NATO these days, and we'll see where we go from there. But the president sent certainly a strong message to Russia, and I think they miscalculated Trump. They have not figured him out, even though they think they did. Matt, thank you very much. Appreciate it.

Good to see you, my friend. All right, Ambassador Matt Whitaker, NATO. Listen, when we come back, I'll be able to take some of your calls. 1-866-408-7669. Also got a clue you in to what Mayor Cuomo, excuse me, former Governor Cuomo, is doing to want to be mayor of New York City.

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I cannot believe that Governor Cuomo, who left in disgrace, runs a horrible race, loses to a 33-year-old nobody who's a radical Marxist. Don't do any opposition research. He sticks us with him, and now he's going to screw up the whole race by continuing to run. I mean, what are you talking about? Get out of the way.

Cut 23. Hello, I'm Andrew Cuomo. And unless you've been living under a rock, you probably know that the Democratic primary did not go the way I had hoped. But as my grandfather used to say, when you get knocked down, learn the lesson and pick yourself back up and get in the game. And that is what I'm going to do.

The fight to save our city isn't over. Only 13% of New Yorkers voted in the June primary. The general election is in November, and I am in it to win it. You're not gonna win it. Nobody likes you.

You left in disgrace in New York. Nobody likes you in the party. You had no friends anyway. You just had power. Because you were your dad's chief of staff essentially when he was governor.

You were attorney general. You were head of HUD. Your resume looks fine, but your personality is terrible. You were horrible during the pandemic. You wrote a book about it, cashed in on it.

Then you have all these women accusing you of harassment. Let that work out in the courts. It doesn't look good for you. You leave because even your brother knew you had to leave. You run for mayor with no energy, no ideas.

Think you're going to just walk right to the mayor's mansion. And you got trounced by a 33-year-old assemblyman with no accomplished and a terrible resume. And now you're still running to suck votes away from Eric Adams. I mean, Glenn Kusliwa and Adams and this guy Modani fight Modani fight it out, but instead he's gonna screw it up again. At Blinds.com, it's not just about window treatments.

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That should be like a wake-up call, how bad. And The Republican Party's Stab You in the Back. The Democratic Party? We disappoint you. And I think if you look at these numbers The Democrats are harder on the Democratic Party than others.

And the reason is because they got disappointed, and they have every right. to be disappointed in the leadership.

So that's Rahm Emmanuel who wants to run for president, a so-called moderate. I'm interested in hear what he has to say. I find he's got a lot of experience.

So I'm interested in what he has to say more traditionally, like a Democrat. I have no interest in what Madame has to say with the AOCs of the world, with Elon Omar. I look at them as unserious just to see how severe, off-chart, and off-course Democrats have become.

So Rah Emmanuel thinks he's got a lane. He goes out of his way to criticize Trump, even when Trump's doing stuff right, which I find astounding. Although he was somewhat complimentary about the Iranian strike in saying in retrospect, and I'd love to pull this back out because the night of the Iranian strike, he said, perhaps in retrospect, we thought about taking a strike at North Korea's weapons before they became a nuclear country. Maybe we should have taken that shot.

So, hey, look, it's not easy in the 90s to go take a shot at a nuclear program. It's not easy in 2025. But you certainly can't do it now, and they're a nuclear nation. And if Trump didn't do it, that's where we would have been at. Lieutenant Colonel Alan West joins us now, Dallas County Republican Party Chair, American Constitutional Rights Union Executive Director.

Colonel, welcome back. Your thoughts about what Ram Emmanuel says about his party is pretty accurate.

Now, it's good to be with you, Brian. Yeah, he's very accurate, and it's a realistic look, but what can you really do about it? Because the people that are truthfully in charge of the Democrat Party are the Marxists, the far left, the people that support the AOCs, the Mamdanis, and people of that nature.

Well, if they're not in support, they're not speaking up.

So instead of condemning Zemdai, if I thought that's my party, I go, you kidding me? He should not be representing my party. Instead, they just go quiet. Keem Jeffries, quiet. We don't get anything from any Democratic leader.

But it's not just speaking out about him. We're the voices that speak out about what happened here in Alvaredo, Texas, just an hour away from where I live, where they set up an ambush, 12 individuals ambushed. a detention facility. And we're still looking for one of those individuals, Benjamin Song, here in the Dallas area, where their condemnations of what happened out there in California when they attempted to raid the marijuana factory and they found underaged kids that were working there. Nothing.

So, you're talking about an ideology. You're talking about a group of people that are off the charts. And if you don't have some semblance of reality, I mean, look at John Fetterman, the person that we thought was a nutcase. He's the only one speaking reasonably out of the Democratic Republic right now. Yeah, consistently, too, on a myriad of issues.

It's not just, well, I agree with him here. I agree with him on Israel. I agree with him. He says, to fund the ISIS is the craziest thing he's ever heard. It's as bad as to fund the police.

Of course it is.

So now, what I'm astounded at is. Chuck Schumer is told, you got to fight. Barack Obama comes out yesterday in some fundraiser, New Jersey, and said, Democrats have to toughen up. Just toughen up amid frustration that the political landscape under Bud Trump is remarks that everyone's frustrated. He said, okay, to everybody.

He said, I think it's going to require a little bit less navel gazing and a little less whining and being in a fetal position. And it's going to require Democrats to toughen up. Don't tell me you're a Democrat and you're kind of disappointed right now.

So you're not doing anything.

Now, now, no, now is exactly the time you should do something. This is the advice. By the way, I don't think Barack Obama resonates at all with the Democrats. He has produced nothing besides his own success. He lost the House.

He lost the Senate. I mean, this guy, he left with 44% approval rating. He's personally talented, but his policies have all blown up, and we'd have to deal with his Medicaid. But let me ask him: how about new ideas? How about saying, I want Democrats to give me five ideas that are going to make people's lives better and our country stronger?

Don't tell me to fight. That's how we get this Senator Padilla being wrestled to the ground in Los Angeles and that other lunatic being arrested in New Jersey. Congress can be. Yeah, I don't think that Barack Obama is relevant for the Democrat Party. And again, he did not offer any policy solutions whatsoever and they don't have.

Any policy solutions, whatever. I mean, what are they going to say? We need to tax the billionaires more. We don't need them to exist. We need to control more means of production.

We need to continue to have the open borders. I mean, they don't have any policy recommendations. And that is the fault and the failure of progressivism, socialism, Marxism, and communism. It's all about centralized government control, totalitarian control of your life. And when they don't get it, they resort to intimidation, coercion, threats, violence, things of this nature, which is exactly what we see happening.

I mean, you look at someone like Karen Bass out in Los Angeles saying that, oh, okay, since illegals don't want to go out and work now, we're just going to give them free money. That's insane.

So I should tell everyone what you're referring to. She's actually doing this.

So the mayor says, even though there are over a billion dollars in debt over budget, she's going to take money and give it to illegal immigrants. By the way, you don't have any documentation on them. Are you? Literally going to walk into alleys and shadows and meat packing plants or the break room and hand them cash? But that's their idea.

And so again, Barack Obama can sit out, go out there, and really he's a big reason why Donald Trump got reelected. His stupidity going down and chastising young black men for not supporting Kamala Harris was one of the dumbest political moves I could ever think of. But where are their ideas? They don't have any ideas. That's the problem.

That's the nature of their frustration. Is that how dare you reject us? How dare you not allow us to control your lives? How dare you not allow us to implement our ideological agenda? And so now you've got judges that are doing things that are unconstitutional.

You have the violence on the streets. You have people calling for the shooting and murdering of our ICE agents. Where are the adult voices on their side to stand up and say that's not the path? You know, why can't we go back and try to be the Democrat Party of old, uh, the Democrat Party of people like Scoop Jackson or, you know, Senator Nunn down out of Georgia who did have some type of semblance of ideas? But uh, but Colonel, don't you find it interesting that over the last week John Kerry to the BBC and now on CNN.

Of all people, Bernie Sanders, you know what they both said almost to the verbatim? We're not a country without borders. We have to enforce our borders. And I'm thinking to myself, Real? Is this cra is this impractical jokers?

John Kerry told me that he goes, and Joe Biden would have done well to say and do the same thing. Really?

So why do you think you know politics?

So do you think this script is being handed out now? Are we going to expect they they realize they lost so precipitously on this, they're going to just start saying this?

Well, of course they're just saying those type of things. You saw that Gavin Newsom was there saying, you know, maybe girls I mean, boys playing in girls' sports is a bad idea. And then of course you get yes, they're going to be walking all these things back because the nutcases are the ones that are running their political asylum, their political party. When you have people that are saying you need to get out there and take a bullet and get shot for what we're doing, I mean, and to your point, Hakeem Jeffries, when he was asked about that, instead of saying that's stupid and we're not going to do that, he tried to equivocate and use all kinds of soft language to try to reason with that type of mentality. You know, we have to start taking these Marxists, these people seriously that are out there on the streets.

When you have someone like Congresswoman Jaya Powell who says that she is conducting training, resistance training for people in the government, she took an oath to the Constitution. And I don't know what this resistance training is all about, but maybe she should be censored. Maybe she should have her security claims were taken away from her.

So the President of the United States says, I've heard enough. I'm not giving up on Vladimir Putin, but I'm done talking to him. And we are going to be giving weapons immediately through NATO to Ukraine. And you know, I personally am all in. I know they're not a perfect democracy.

I never said they were, but they fight like warriors, and they're just fighting literally for survival. Here is the General Secretary of NATO, Mark Ruta, cut for.

So based on that, this is that was Europe stepping up. This is again Europeans stepping up.

So I've been in contact with many countries, I can tell you that at this moment, Germany massively, but also Finland and Denmark and Sweden and Norway, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Canada, they all want to be part of this. And this is only the first wave. There will be more. Look, I want to wait and see, but the President said, and I'll give you the exact quote, he said, and you know it's sincere. Europe has a lot of spirit for this war.

Didn't think so at first, but they do. So, and he says, listen, you guys got to buy my Patriots. You can do it. Elbridge Colby, who originally said we didn't have it, said we found it. Germany, I'm so impressed with this Chancellor.

This Chancellor says, get the tariff deal done, telling the EU I want this done. And number two is he's saying I'm buying the Patriots and I'm giving them right to Ukraine. I'm buying the Patriots from America and I'm going to give it right to Ukraine.

So, I mean, I'm I'm liking what I'm hearing over there. Yeah, I think about it. If back in the mid-1930s, the late 1930s, if Europe had stood up to a guy by the name of Adolf Hitler, instead of having Neville Chamberlain wave a piece of paper talking about peace in our time, we probably would have had a different world, maybe not have had a World War II, definitely not hundreds of millions dead.

So I think that that's what we're looking at. Instead of these voices that say, if you stand up to evil and do something, you're going to start a war. I think you have to stand up in evil to do something. And I think we have to realize and see Vladimir Putin for who he is. He is a dictator.

He is a despot. He is an autocrat, all of those things. And he is the embodiment of evil. And furthermore, again, what a great time for us to put an incredible pressure on this new axis of evil, being in Iran, being in China, being in Russia. And we can use all of these different means, economic means, diplomatic means, to isolate them.

And that also means North Korea.

So I think that you do finally see people coming together. And I'm glad to see the Europeans step up. But it took leadership from the United States of America by way of President Trump and not the weakness that we saw with Joe Biden. And we know the big plan. If China's going to take Taiwan, and I think Mark Rutas said it yesterday, but you figured it out years ago, they're going to want Russia to distract us in Europe.

They do not want us focused on the Pacific, and they're going to have a run, try to keep us focused over there. And that's how allies, that's how the evil allies work.

So that's why Europe, if they can occupy Russia, the junior partner, and we could focus on the Pacific with massive shipbuilding, which we're going to have to fan out to other countries because we're so far behind. Lastly, Colonel, you are the Dallas County Republican Party chair, but have your finger on the pulse of Texas. Where do you stand with Attorney General Ken Paxton and Senator Cornyn running for the Republican nomination for Senate?

Well, I tell you what, I really think that Senator Paxon needs to look at withdrawing from that race. It's going to be some very damaging things that come out after this divorce announcement that his wife put out there. And I just think we need to have the strongest person that can run against the left. I think Colin Allred is looking to run again for the Democrat Party. Yeah, he can be beaten.

But Texas needs good, strong constitutional conservative leadership up there in the Senate. And I don't think Ken Paxon is going to be able to withstand all of the pressure that's going to come by wear commercial ads, either in the primary or in a general election. I've always liked Senator Corn, and I just think he's a class act.

So I hope that he stays with it. I don't know, Kenny. The Seventh Amendment stuff, he's kind of let us down down here in Texas, you know, pushing red flag laws and things of this nature. We need to have a stronger person representing the state of Texas in the Senate. And right now, we don't have two very good choices.

What is the red flag law that he passed that do you think goes over the line? Oh, you're talking about the gun reform from a few years ago? Yeah, the red flag laws that we had to pass legislation in the state of Texas saying that we would not allow that to happen, but basically providing grants to states that work with red flag laws, which saying that someone can accuse you of something, police can show up and take your your firearms and you don't even know who it was that accused you. You have to go to court to try to get your firearms back. And there was a man, freaking Gary something out of Maryland, I believe it was two thousand eighteen or nineteen was killed in Maryland based upon a red flag law uh warrant being issued against him at five o'clock in the morning.

You know, police officers showed up at his house.

So thi this is not a good thing. I am a fan, though. I think you could differ on that issue and still be very impressed with what he brings. I think he's a class act. Colonel, would you ever consider running?

I ran this morning. I put in about three and a half, four miles. I feel good. And I'll see you August the 23rd. Maybe we can go for a little jog.

Yeah, I'm going to bring Lieutenant Colonel Alan West onto the stage. We're going to talk a little bit with history, livery, and laughs. Keep in mind, it's going to be streamed on Fox Nation on the 23rd. And I'll tell you, Colonel, I'm a little worried. This is the biggest venue I've ever had: 2,100 seats.

Don't be worried, man. You're going to do great. You're going to do great. And I'll be right there to support you. You and I have been friends for quite some time, you know, going on about 17 years, and I think the world of you.

Back at you. And at least I know for one thing, someone will have my back out there. I know security will be fine. You got it. Colonel Alan West, thanks so much.

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Part of this is a backlash to how badly Biden handled the immigration situation. It can't just be like, come one, come all. There's plenty of there's plenty of room here and we need room. Let's there's plenty of room in America. Come on, but it's never about room, it's about resources and about like having a uh countries have to have a border.

So that's John Leguizano. That was on I Missed This Weekend's Bill Maher Show. Was that on his podcast? Yeah, that was the podcast. The podcast.

See, there's a perfect. I love what Bill Maher just said. You would expect, you know. Mark Labinda say it. He's like, it's not a matter of room.

You can't just put someone in a tent. They're going to want resources. That's going to be the social. They're going to, the kids are going to go to go to school. Oh, we got plenty of room.

No, you don't. It's not your kid with 37 kids in the school, with six of which can't speak any English, with the English as a second language resource, no longer goes to the citizen, goes to the kid. And then the social safety net goes funneled that way if we're in California and you get everything, including, I believe, college.

So that's the problem. Not nobody's against immigration. Don't say there's plenty of room. It's okay to breach the border. It was come one, come all, and then word came out and they flooded in.

And when you questioned them, do you know what the common refrain was? The world is in a migration pattern. What? And the migration pattern magically ended when Donald Trump was inaugurated. The migration just stopped.

Was it natural? Was it climate change? We found we didn't have enough windmills, whatever. It is a policy. And as I mentioned to Colonel West, It's not a coincidence that now you have stalwarts of the Democratic Party, perhaps saying what they should have said a while ago.

Bernie Sanders, we gotta have borders or we don't have a country. And then John Carey. To the BBC. And you know what he followed up with? Then the host said, You sound like Donald Trump, that Donald Trump was right.

And John Kerry said. He was. And now with backtrack again. Do you know who was given? Though the border Kamala Harris, do you know who had an opportunity to define herself?

Tomal Harris. And she punted and then refused to be even named the Borders are. Don't even bring that up, Borders are. I was talking about other things. It's the Will Kane Show.

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So, before we get to Seth, let's get to the big three. Number three. Hello, I'm Andrew Cuomo. As my grandfather used to say, when you get knocked down, learn the lesson and pick yourself back up and get in the game. And that is what I'm going to do.

I am in it to win it. Grandfather, was he mayor too? Why is he still here? Disgraced Governor Mayoro primary loser Andrew Cuomo is not taking the hint and stays in the mayoral race. What does it mean?

For radicals Oren Mamdani, Eric Adams, Curtis Lewa, we'll ask Seth. Number two. Democratic Party is less popular than Elon Musk right now. That should be like a wake-up call. How bad?

The Denny's rebuilt. The Republican parties stab you in the back. The Democratic Party, we disappoint you. I don't know what that means. Dems rebuild.

They're ruttless, directionalist, issueless, and their standard bearers begin to offer advice and, in some cases, position themselves for a presidential run. Number So we're going to be doing that with NATO and uh it's fully approved, fully done. We'll send them a lot of weapons of all kinds and they're going to uh deliver those weapons immediately to the site of the war, different sites of the war. And that's Patriots arriving today. Back in the good guys, President Trump shows Putin he listens and learns in real time as the KGB veteran clearly misplays this relationship.

Trump sending weapons to Zelensky with NATO paying the bill as Patriots are rushed to Kyiv. And Seth Barron joins us now. Seth, this is a mayoral race that's really a national story. Tell me about. Zoram Mondani, were you, Seth, one of the people They thought that he had a shot right away.

Um, initially, no, but as I watched the campaign and listened to him, it became clear that this guy has like. Look, he's very photogenic. He has a certain amount of charisma. And he can he can talk a blue streak.

So you know given the the field There was definitely a possibility. Plus, he's a member of the D Democratic Socialists of America, which is not like being a member of the Republican Party. This is an organization you have to pay to belong to. They have regular meetings. This is like a real political party that actually functions Kind of like a cult.

So they have like 10,000 members in New York City. These people spend all of their time doing party work, kind of like the old-time Communist Party.

So, if you've got that kind of operation on the ground, just out there every day. you know, trying to drum up votes and sell the party, sell the candidate. You've got a big leg up.

Well, who do they usually support? Those people usually would have supported the, you know, maybe the WFP. Um Candidates like 10 years ago. These are the people who might have supported Bill de Blasio just because he kind of. you know, allied with them on some issues.

But we're seeing this this hard turn to the left. Uh you know, Trump's election as it did eight years ago. you know, sparked a reaction on the other side.

So People are looking and saying, oh, socialism is a great idea. Let's try that. Young people are. Young people, largely. Don't you feel like it's the same people who are creating havoc at NYU, Columbia, Harvard?

Yes, absolutely. It's exactly the same people. They're hungry for some kind of. Radical change. And you know, this happens every 20 or 30 years.

But yeah, there's people out there who are anxious to tear things down and they see him as their standard bearer. Here is O'Rem Namdani on Cuomo staying in the race, cut 24. While Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams trip over themselves. to make deals in back rooms with billionaires. We are focused.

on fighting for working New Yorkers. I think he's struggling to come to terms with what Tuesday meant. But Tuesday men look like they were dead. It says that the word is, according to Fox sources, he doesn't really have the wherewithal that last past September if he doesn't make major gains in the polls.

So why is he doing this? Mamdani or Cuomo? Cuomo. Cuomo, uh you know, I guess he's got some kind of psychological struggle that he's he's working with. Um he he's very angry that he was turned out of the the governorship, and he's looking to You know, he's got tremendous ego, and I I guess that's it.

Absolutely, but does he have a path? I don't think so. I mean, he seems to be immensely unpopular. He he just lost in the primary to this guy. You can't like just say, Okay, let's let's redo it with the entire electorate.

I mean, he says, I pledge that if the polls show that he's not hired the highest-ranked challenger to Mom Dani by mid-September, he will drop out of the race. He also points out that only 13% of New Yorkers voted in the June primaries. He's got a lot more people out there.

Well, this is what losing candidates always say: there's all these people out there, and all of them want to vote for me. They just haven't. Look. Last election, it was 23% turnout. You're telling me that the additional 10% are all going to vote for Cuomo?

No, of course not. Or He's dreaming. And but you know, this is the way these guys are. They win once and they figure that they're invulnerable. This became a national story, Seth, because this guy is so Marxist.

Jamie Johnis says he's not a socialist, he's a Marxist. Absolutely. President says he's a communist. Yes. You see that he doesn't think there should be billionaires in this country.

You see that he wants to freeze rents, destroying landlords. You see, he wants free buses in a city that's so strapped they have to charge you to walk across it with congestion pricing. This doesn't make it easy. He's going to free sue. He's going to have supermarkets, five supermarkets run by New York City.

He's never done anything like this in his life. He's never done anything in his life. The thing is, yes, he's a true Marxist. He wants to freeze rents to intentionally destroy landlords because his dream is for the city to take over all housing and turn it into public housing, like NYTREA for All. He has said repeatedly that he wants to demolish the police, demolish jails, like not just.

You know, change it, like end it. Think about that. He also said that domestic disputes should be handled like jaywalking tickets. We should send socialists, not cops. You talk to a cop, it's the most dangerous thing they do.

Do you think a social worker wants to go to a domestic dispute? Listen, a woman who's being abused knows that she wants a cop. If she wanted a social worker, she would call a social worker. Why is it so condescending to be like, oh, no, no, you don't want a cop. He could cause trouble for you.

How about he wants to arrest Bibi Netanyahu and Modi when they come here for the UN in September? If he's mayor next year.

Well, you know, he says he wants to bring New York City into compliance with international law. But there's no international law that says that you have to. We don't subscribe to Israel. We don't even subscribe to it.

So, Elizabeth Pimko said this about Mem Donnie. She's a former GOP National spokesperson, also because he will not condemn globalized infantada Cut 28. You know what's sad, Trace? I'm actually happy that he dodged the question because that's how low my bar is. That's at least better than him standing by this phrase, right?

The fact is, people have asked him to answer for what he said, but no one has asked him to just sit there and explain to people what globalized the intifada means. Because if he were to go out and say it means to attack every Jew that you see in every corner of the globe, they would understand exactly what we're dealing with here. And that's a man who doesn't just hate Jews, it's a man who hates America. Can you dispute this? I know she's a Republican, but.

I think he absolutely hates America. He hates the West. I mean, if you look at what his father's, his father's a, you know. A professor and has studied all of this and writes about it a lot. You know, his father says suicide bombing is a legitimate form of political action.

This guy is extremely radical, yes. He hates the West. He hates imperialism and colonialism and all these things that he says are embodied today.

So, where is Hakeem Jeffries not endorsing him yet? Gillibrand not endorsing him yet? Schumer not endorsing him yet? What are they waiting for? Why don't they make a stand?

Because they, like everybody else, are terrified. Uh they don't want to get primarily They're worried. The Democrats in New York State run the place, but they're so weak. They don't know what to do. And, you know, basically, mummy.

What do you think they're going to do? I think ultimately they're going to support him. because he's really the national leader of the Democratic Party. I mean, if you think about it energetically. Who else?

Who else has that kind of Command. Like Not not Hakeem Jeffries, not Schumer. Tell me about Eric Adams. Right now, if you look at the polls, he's fourth. But now he's got kids like Ken Ackman in his corner, other people trying to rally to him.

Maybe Bloomberg's going to go there. I don't know. What do you think? I think it's he's got like a really long way to go. Look, the fact that Mom Dani has the Democrat line instantly gives him like h a huge step up.

Eric Adams is very bruised. You know, I don't think he's been a bad mayor, but he's really lost a lot of credibility. And, you know, people, the entire party, the entire city structure has been. Ganging up on him, and he does have corruption issues, like not necessarily himself, but around him. I think he's got a A tough way to go.

Does Cuomo hurt Adams staying in the race?

Well, they hurt each other. I mean, sure, of course, Cuomo hurts Adams. Curtis Sliwa, it was theorized by Pataki a month ago that if you get 28%, with everyone staying in the race, if he gets 28% of the vote, he could win. Yeah, if if that happens. Um I think that he won 28% in a two-way race.

So a lot of those people might not vote for him in a four-way race. Yeah, anything's possible. I mean, it could happen. I think that's his plan. But I think in a three-way race, It just splits the vote.

So why is it that we watched a state where Zeldin got a legitimate run at Hochul and that we have Elise Stefanik and Law are really looking at whether they can win this state? Republicans have hope, but yet we have this result from a Democratic primary. 'Cause New York City is is a mess. I mean, New York City is like you know, a huge part of New York State. And it's the whole place is divided.

And New York City has like six to one Democrat registration. I don't know. 40% of the cities on like Medicaid or whatever, you've got like a huge. Entitlement base, you've got everybody, you've got a huge number of people who work for the city or are dependent on the city.

So, It's just it's like a I mean the thing is I'm not that surprised. I've I've been saying for 10 years that New York City is a communist cesspool.

So, this doesn't really surprise me, though. Seth Barron here from the New York Post, also author, longtime New Yorker and journalist here.

So. As we watch this play out. You have a guy that does not like capitalism, says it, doesn't like capitalism, in the financial center of the world. Right.

So this could be the most intriguing four or five months in New York City politics because there's a lot of very rich people that do not want this guy to be here, and there's going to be a lot of people leaving immediately. Uh What do you think is going to happen? Are they going to? I don't think they're going to, I haven't heard anyone rallying behind Cuomo.

So, do you think they're going to try to rehab Eric Adams? And do you think, even though Trump would never win an election here, he can get his machine here? I mean, Trump never had much of a machine in New York City. That's I don't see that helping. I don't really see anything good coming out of this.

I think you're going to probably see $100 million spent trying to defeat Mom Dani. And it probably won't work. I mean, it might work. How about AOC? Is she proving herself to be a power broker?

She got behind him early. Yeah.

I mean, I think she'll probably run for president in a couple of years. Sure, she's a power broker. In New York. But yet she doesn't seem you know, her district's not shining because she's there. She's mislabeled, mischaracterized who she is.

She's not a girl from the Bronx. She's a girl from Westchester. Nobody cares. Look, New York City voters They're not really interested in that type of thing. They don't really care where you're from, ultimately.

Look how many non-New Yorkers have been elected in the last fifty years. It's really a question of how you show off and what kind of noise you make.

So, yeah, sure, she's a power broker. She's a big player.

So, play this out in your head. You know that Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, you know that Mike Bloomberg, all these guys, they have sway and they got money.

So Well how do you say, dear? I don't know if Mike Bloomberg will ever Sit there and go, okay, I'll back Mondani after all he put into this city and his terms.

So if he decides I want to rehab Adams and get him out there. I mean, we know Adam said it doesn't lack energy. No. No. Listen, eight years ago, the Repu ten years ago, the Republican Party went through a huge purge and it realigned itself and it got rid of the old guard.

The Democrats haven't done that yet. And they're fracturing now over Palestine, over these other issues. And yeah, you're going to see like Clinton, Obama, Bloomberg, like the old guard of the party. You know, fighting basically like a rearguard action, trying to keep the party together. But I don't know what's going to happen.

Dave Portnoy had a great point. He was on with Stewart yesterday, and he is not a Republican. Cut 29.

Well, if all of the other guys don't draw, if they split the vote, Adams and Cuomo and the Republican, I think this is one of the worst, scariest candidates. He calls himself a Democratic socialist. He's not. He's a socialist. He's closer to a communist.

He said it. He's on the record saying he wants to put as many socialists in power so he can seize the means of production. This guy, to me, hates. The American dream. He hates what made this country great.

He hates capitalism. He wants a fundamental shift in what has built this company. And he doesn't really particularly hide it. He's also somebody who believes crime is basically a social construct. He's quick to side with terrorists, like the Boston marathon bombing.

He did. Suffice son of the pest, giving the finger to the Columbus statue. Listen, on the 4th of July, he said, America is unfinished.

Well what does that mean?

So he wants to finish America. Yeah, finish it off. Right.

Seth, thanks so much. Appreciate it. You're going to be writing about this? I sure will. All right.

Seth Barron, New York Post editorial board, author of Last Days of New York. Back in just a moment. You'll listen to the Brian Kilmeat show. You're with Brian Kilmead. Put us in a box.

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You know what that means.

So, what the President said yesterday, he got to the point, and I just give him so much credit for his candor. It's easy to be candid when you want to talk about the big, beautiful bill and you want people to ask you questions and keep it in the headlines and you want to spin it the way you want. But he doesn't look forward to saying that Vladimir Putin is not the same guy. He's unable to, as he thought he would, be able to talk to him and reason with him and said, as an enticement, as trade, and giving you an off-ramp with NATO being hostile towards you because you're a naked aggression, we'll just forget all that, start fresh. He is not interested six rounds later.

And you know what I found so intriguing but not surprising? Melania Trump had a lot to do with it. Eastern European birth, Yugoslavia to birth to grow up in.

Now it's broken up. But she grew up and she knew the Russians were the Soviets. And the Soviets looked to dominate every element of society. And the Eastern Europeans who finally got their freedom fear every day they're going to lose their freedom. And she sees that in the Ukrainians, many of which she probably knows.

So I think overall The president came around to saying, Yeah, I'll change my stance by the circumstances to exactly what I'm thinking. Evidently, he said, Yeah, I had a good conversation with Vladimir Putin, and I know the president tends to composite things. And he just said he said that to Moania. And Moania said, Yeah, you know what he did now? 700 drones just wanted to cities and apartment buildings and schools.

He's not aiming for the front lines. Bad enough when you're trying to kill soldiers, but when you think you're going to try to break the will of the population by killing innocent people on purpose. That's when you lose it. And evidently, the president looks at these pictures every day when he's briefed. And so does the vice president, although I'm not sure the vice president's with the president on this.

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It's just Trump sucks. That's the underlying thought of everything the Democrats do. Trump sucks. Trump says, you know, the sky is blue. Trump sucks.

You can't that's not the way to win It's just not because it's not about Trump. It's about the people of the United States of America and what's good for them. And how do you get them to a place where they're in a better position and it's less stressful for them? And that's Mark Cuban talking politics. And by the way, not only was Trump is bad, a bad attitude to have, he's.

You're not going to run against him again. There's going to be no one like him ever again. J.D. Vance, Marco Rubio, whoever wants to run, Tom Cotton, whoever decides to jump in, there's going to be no one like Trump.

So stop scheming against him. In fact, I subscribe to people that say If you are a Democrat. One of the things, believe it or not, you should hope for is that they don't win the House. Because the whole time it'll be an investigating Trump instead of finding your own identity, even though they expect as many as 30 candidates, according to the AP, to be eligible for Democrats. I think there was like 22 for Republicans in 2016.

Obama told Democrats, just toughen up. The former president came out and said this at a fundraiser yesterday. Don't tell me you're a Democrat, but you're kind of disappointed. No, this is exactly the time that you get in there and do something and fight. Fight what?

Have an idea. We don't want to hear anybody yelling or Corey Booker sitting in a telethon just ranting about Donald Trump's America. Link Lauren joins us now, former senior advisor to RFK, a big-time political influencer. Link, welcome back. Your thought about the advice of Mark Cuban.

Well, I think the Democrats need to have an identity besides Trump derangement syndrome. If Trump says the sky is blue, the Democrats are going to say the sky is green. They really just have no identity. But what President Trump is a genius at doing is getting the Democrats to double down on terrible stances. Look at the left right now.

They're fighting to keep men and women's sports, fighting to keep gang members on the street, fighting to keep young, innocent children working on a cannabis farm and being exploited for child labor.

So the right is actually really great at getting the left to double down on these terrible ideas right now, but they have no identity. I don't know if they're going to get an identity by the midterms or 2028 because if Jasmine Crockett and this new crop of characters, if that's their only hope, good luck to them, Brian. Yeah, well, right now, the first one is Kamala Harris. They did a poll. 26% of people still for it.

And that would be a gift to Republicans. She's a terrible candidate. I am just shocked that Democrats won't raise their standards. But before we talk about immigration, the former president came out, Barack Obama, and although he's got great charisma and presents. Congratulations, being a historic figure.

He has not inspired the party. He has not inspired anyone except for people to support him. And now he says it's going to require a little less navel gazing and a little less whining and being in a fetal position. Don't tell me you're a Democrat and you're kind of disappointed. He called out progressives who seem like they're kind of cowed and intimidated by Trump.

So if I was him, I would say very simple. I would have a series of think tanks, and I would sit there and talk to the greatest political minds, progressive minds out there, and come up with ideas. Not catchphrases, ideas. Here's the top 10 problems according to America. Here's how I would solve it.

Let's keep working out. What's worked in the past? What works now? Instead, they're going to get tossed out of ICE centers, getting wrestled to the ground at press conferences. I'm kind of a little stunned by their approach.

Well, in 2024, in this last election, all they ran on were two things, right? We're not Donald Trump, and we want abortion, right? We're mad about the Dobbs decision. That's basically what Kamala Harris ran on for 107 days with her calamitous campaign. But Barack Obama was no help to Kamala Harris.

In fact, I don't even think he wanted to endorse her. And then he also gave a full-throated endorsement to Hillary Clinton in 16, and she lost.

So, Barack Obama, I'm not sure he's going to help a campaign moving into 2028. In fact, if this new crop of Democrats want to succeed, they might want to move away from these Democratic elites like the Obamas and the Clintons who sit around in Martha's Vineyard and their mansions opining on how the rest of us should live. And Barack Obama, let's not forget that video of him scolding those young black men at that event into voting for Kamala Harris. Oh, she's one of us. She's one of us.

You got to vote for her. She's one of us. These guys are like, we just want to be able to buy a home. We want a secure border. We don't care if she's black, Indian, female, male.

We just want someone who can get those things for us. And it's why you saw a little bit of a shift toward President Trump in this last election.

So right now, Vice President Harris, when given a poll, in this poll, Echelon Insights, I'm not sure. We don't subscribe to it, but she has 26% of the vote. Pete Buterjudge and Newsom have 11% and 12%, respectively. Then Corey Booker, 7%. He's so inauthentic, 7%.

And AOC, 6%.

So that's where we're standing, but as many as 30 could go in, including Andy Bashir is clearly running. Gavin Newsom's clearly running.

So your thoughts about Gavin Newsom's, some brawling he's doing with Sean Ryan, he couldn't really respond to a text message that Joe Rogan texted into Sean Ryan's podcast about Gavin Newsom, who's beginning to curse at Donald Trump because he doesn't like the way he treats trans. Athletes.

So, your thoughts about his approach. He seems to be first out of the box. Yeah, no, Gavin Newsom is very hungry to run in 2028, but I don't think it's a guarantee that he's even going to make it out of the primary debates because Gavin Newsom, once you press him on these issues, he fumbles, he wavers, he can't really give a tough stance. He's not a black and white person. He's very slimy.

He's a snake oil salesman. He's greasy. Gavin, you know, he was asked on that Sean Ryan podcast about underage kids having transition procedures, transgender surgeries, and things of that nature. He couldn't give a straight answer. As a father and a husband, if you can't condemn the transing of young children, that's going to be a tough sell to the rest of the country.

I think Gavin Newsom just doesn't really stand for anything whatsoever, and I don't think it's a shoe-win for 2028 at all.

So this is the same thing. Go ahead. I was going to say, I think Kamala Harris, the reason she's polling so high, is because she's the freshest in people's memories. I don't think that'll be the case in 2020. But I don't think she's going to touch being governors.

You actually have to do a job. You've got to be inheriting a state that's reeling with their ridiculous energy decisions and their over one billion. Billion in debt. She'll actually have to be a productive executive to run that thing.

Meanwhile, Zo Ram Mdani has got some surrogates. One in Minnesota is going to be running as a proud socialist. Another one's running in Michigan as a congressman. And the Mamdani continues to try to explain his beliefs, which it doesn't seem to cow his supporters, but I don't think he gets any new ones. I thought it was just interesting when you look at his myriad of stances.

Douglas Murray, one of the deepest thinkers out there, said this over the weekend about. Who this guy is and who New Yorkers seem to want to vote for, Cut 31. Just consider the fact that Mamdani, the lead candidate to run the biggest, most important city in the United States of America, New York City, has called for the arrest of the Israeli Prime Minister if he were to set foot in New York City, has called the elected Prime Minister of India a war criminal. Why would anyone single out these people? Why would somebody single out a Hindu leader and the world's only Jewish states leader?

It's because that's just Islamist sectarian politics. He's right. No, absolutely. But I will push back on one thing he said. He said, New York City is the most important city in the world.

Well, try telling that to someone from Des Moines. Tell that to someone from, you know, Kansas, Nebraska. These people across the country, their issues are just as important. If New York City wants to vote for some socialist and implode themselves, go for it. But my advice is to move out of New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles.

Move out of these Democrat hellholes that are going down in flames and go get yourself a home somewhere where you can actually have a nice quality of life. But it is the most important, and it's the financial network. That's like the locations of what is here. But that's my point for these businesses as well. Move to Florida, move to Texas.

I mean, we're going to see this mass exodus to Florida of all of these investment bankers and hedge funds because they don't want to live in a city run by Zora and Momdani. Yeah, we'll see. Here's more from Douglas Murray, Cut32. This is Marxism with this sprinkling of Islamist politics on the top. And you know, many of us have always hoped that this coalition would fall apart under the weight of its own contradictions, because they are absolutely manifold, the number of contradictions.

But actually, it needs much more than that. In my view, it needs decent, ordinary Americans to come out and say, this weird fringe minority obsession, you can have that, but that's not us. That would be great, but I have not seen it. I just talked to one of the most learned and the most insightful New York reporters, New York Post, and he says that right now, there is no substantial movement behind Adams or Behind Cuomo, who says I'm still going to run, you're going to need some massive movement from the left and the right behind somebody else. Final floor with it.

Well, what the Democrat Party has done right now is they've allowed themselves to be co-opted and taken over by this small, vocal, radical minority, right? If the Democrat powers that be wanted to change it, they need to start swinging and making some moves to change it. But you're allowing Jasmine Crockett, Zoran Mom Donnie, you know, who's the one with the head wrap? I don't remember. Elon Omar.

You're allowing your party to be taken over by these radicals. But there are common sense Democrats. There was someone named Dean Phillips who tried to make waves in the last election, but they silenced those in lieu of these radicals.

So they're going to have to make the changes for themselves. Yeah, we'll see if Rahm Emmanuel wants to step up or somebody else wants to pretend to be a moderate. Link, thanks so much. I appreciate you good following. It's Link Lauren everywhere on social media.

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So let's listen in together for Stuart Varney. That's helping in the NASDAQ. It is now 10:51 Eastern. That means it's kill me time. Brian, yesterday I asked Bastel sports guy Dave Portnoy what he thinks of Zoran Mandani.

Watch this. He calls himself a democratic socialist. He's not. He's a socialist. He's closer to a communist.

He said it. He's on the record saying he wants to put as many socialists in power so he can seize the means of production. This guy, to me, hates. The American dream. He's also somebody who believes crime is basically a social construct.

He's quick to side with terrorists, like the Boston marathon bombing. I was in Boston. His first reaction to that is: how did the police not read this guy, the Miranda Acts, when he's sitting in a boat, not about the people he killed? Roy says Mandani is closer to a communist. I've got to tell you, Brian, I'm appalled at this guy.

How do you feel about Mandani? You know what I say this? Whatever he stands for, he's not running from any of his comments. He's not saying, well, I didn't mean that, but this is what I know. He's saying billionaires should not be allowed.

I'm going to have five supermarkets because we've been gouged by supermarket owners, those horrible people. People that pay rents, just to make it lower. Don't worry about landlords. Billionaires, again, don't worry about capitalism. Not into capitalism.

Did you take out a capital? No, no, I don't like capitalism. Yes. I'm the number one financial center in the world.

Sorry, London. He doesn't like capitalism. This is the last place he should even want a job, let alone get the job. This is what I want to see. I want to see if Democrats and Republicans who are pro-capitalists, Ken Ackman and others.

Uh, maybe they're going to get behind Adams. Certainly not Cuomo. He's dead in the water. Why he's running? He's just going to help Mom Dani get that seat.

It's probably going to be Eric Adams, and Curtis Lee will get his 20-something percent if that's enough to win. But Adams, the current mayor, could get his machine going. But I want to see Hakeem Jeffries show some guts, Senator Gillenbrand and Schumer show some guts, Bill Clinton show some guts. How about Barack Obama instead of berating people and saying you should be tougher and stop complaining that Trump won? How about coming up and saying, That is not the party I left or led?

So get out of here. You don't destroy this party if you win.

So rally against him. Show some guts. I'd love to see that. Change the subject. President Trump attended the Club World Cup final at MetLife Stadium.

You were there. I think Trump. My opinion is, I think Trump put America at the center of world soccer, which is quite an achievement. He sat next to the FIFA president. They're good friends now.

He watched the game. And you know, like Seward, when people go to the game, they watch soccer, they go, oh, it's boring.

Well, number one, if you were at that game, you would never have thought that. And not just because Chelsea won, but because the emotion in that stadium, the president felt it and thought it. Plus, he played soccer in high school. He doesn't have to be convinced. His brother was a big youth soccer guy.

His son was a fantastic player with the DC Academy.

So he understood the game. And believe me, he loved it. I'm sorry, Brian. I'm kind of laughing because we've got pictures there of the Chelsea players with the trophy, and Trump is right in the middle of them. He's grabbing hold of that trophy.

They're trying to get him out away from the Chelsea players, but he's hanging in there. What a performance. Last word to you. Stuart, one of the players leaned over and said something to Trump, and he went back. And I'm wondering what he said because Trump didn't move.

He stood there. And then the FEEF president tries to pull back. He goes, no, I'm having a good time. That's right. The World Cup is going to be so exciting.

For those people watching us right now, yes, we're the converted. But there are going to be so many people who are going to sit there glued to every game. And keep your fingers crossed. The U.S. team gets their act together because they got the talent.

They're not showing the heart. And don't ask me for tickets next year. I don't have any. Brian Kilmead, you're all right? Thank you very much.

See you again soon. Steve Hilton's with me. Yes, thank you very much, Stuart. And by the way, Michael Waltz is testifying right now. He is going for UN Ambassador, but they're going to use Mike Waltz.

And I'll be pulling back some clips if it happens, talk about the Signal, the Signal app and the group chat to put together and Donald Trump and his foreign policy and whatever, even though his foreign policy has been stunningly great in my view. They're going to look through Mike Waltz to try to get to Pete Hagseth and try to get to the president. And that they might even bring up the Uh the Epstein stuff. Anything because they're desperate to land a blow on him. What I'm worried about is Rand Paul because Mike Waltz is somebody that understands, and sometimes in life, countries have to fight to make sure there's peace.

And Rand Paul wants no part of it. And I think there's part of him who looks at people like Mike Waltz and Lindsey Graham as the problem. And he's got a vote, and they can't lose any votes.

So and by the way, if if Ram Paul is to do that, the President of the United States got to thoroughly cut him off if he was to do anything like that. Because Mike Waltz, more than anything else, deserves it. He had a fate. I just don't understand why he's not there to begin with.

Meanwhile, when it comes to Ukraine, The President says in the next fifty days, we'll have one hundred percent secondary tariffs on Russia's trade partners.

So this is the key. We only trade with them five billion dollars. We froze five billion of them. They have three hundred billion frozen. This is what he's saying.

I'm gonna sanction India. I'm going to sanction China. I'm going to sanction Brazil. You guys are supposedly allies of ours to a degree, Brazil less of which. India certainly China adversaries, but we're supposedly trying to work out a trade deal, and it's going to be real tough.

But he's going to say it in fifty days, so we got mid September. Fifty days. Where, if they're not coming to the table sincerely to work towards a secession of violence. And a ceasefire in this war. That I believe that the president will go ahead and issue all this.

And you think it's an upheaval now? Forget it.

Meanwhile, the president got a you know a mixed review on core inflation. It was at 2.5%, now it's up to 2.7%.

So the market doesn't love that. It's down 200 points. They can make that up real quickly because there's a major AI conference on a side note in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania today, talking about moving forward on the tech center. And what Pittsburgh has done to transform itself is phenomenal. And Senator Dave McCormick will be leading things and leading the action with all these important CEOs.

Talking about looking forward together, pretty impressive. Brian Kilmicho. This is Jimmy Fala, inviting you to join me for Fox Across America, where we'll discuss every single one of the Democrats' dumb ideas. Just kidding, it's only a three-hour show. Listen live at Noon Eastern or get the podcast at foxacrossamerica.com.

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All right, one Brian Kilmey, thanks so much for being here. Just watching some of the testimony of Mike Waltz. He's on Capitol Hill, you know, the former National Security Advisor, longtime congressman, former Green Beret. He is now taking questions as UN ambassador, and they're using it. I guess I miss Corey Booker because we're doing the show.

They're using it to tee off on Trump and tee off on Pete Hagstaff because of the signal app and putting, we all don't want to go through that again, but he's been forced to go through it a couple of times. Hopefully, at one point, Michael, who should be the UN ambassador, will do a fantastic job there as he goes on celebrating 80 years, what we'll say. I've done a lot in my career. I've said as much as I can say. This hour I'm going to be joined by Brett Velikovich, Fox News contributor, former special operations intel analyst, a drone expert who has spent considerable time over the last two years in Ukraine, knows what they need in that war.

And with me right now in studio is Steve Helton, Republican California gubernatorial candidate, serves as director of strategy for the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, a fantastic Fox News host, and wearing a college shirt. That shows me how serious you are to be the next governor of California. I know. And then maybe even next time, a tie. I think that's pushing it, but just for you, Brian, maybe the time.

Not if it's not you. You used to complain about it. About your brownness. You constantly would complain about my teeth. It shows whatever.

But it shows a confidence.

Okay. Because you do the hardest thing well when it comes to fashion. Easy to dress down. Go work out. It's easy to dress up.

Give me a soup. But the in-between.

Okay. That's your personality.

Okay. Thank you. You've thought about this, Brian. I like it. Too much?

I think so. Yeah.

Okay, fine. Mike Waltz, do you think he should get through? I think, look, I've always been a really, really big fan of his. I can see that he knows what he's talking about. He's a serious person.

I think his instincts are right, his principles are right. And so I'm just 100% behind him. Yeah, I am too. I wish he was still with the White House. Look, I think it was a screw-up, right?

And obviously, the screw-up annoyed the president, and that's totally understandable. And that's the price you pay. But I think that an administration with him in it in some capacity is a stronger one. Yeah.

And by the way, he's one of these guys who goes to the war zones. You know, he's not like, hey, what's the Middle East like? No, I've been there. I know the leaders.

So, just to ask you about the president's foreign policy, if I asked you this six months ago, you might be like, well, Brian, don't expect him to get involved in the Middle East. Don't expect Ukraine. He's not into that war. But now he's looked at the reality of the situation. And I just give him so much credit.

Not so much that he agrees with me, but it just so happens. I do think that Iran was going to get a nuclear weapon. It was just a matter of time. I do think the strategic strikes were awesome. I am in awe of what Israel was able to pull off.

I think the story is going to be written. Our missile defense played a key role in limiting the amount of damage that Israel still experienced with Iran. And I like that he is going to change his stance on Ukraine. What do you think? Honestly, I'm not surprised.

What did you just say? Aren't you Ukrainian? Oh my God. Can you believe this guy? I think we need to take it.

I'm Hungarian. Oh, Hungarian. Same thing. Same bloody thing. Exactly.

Of course. But actually, it is. Lunch in the Soviet spear. No, you're completely right. And in fact, when the war broke out and we were trying to sort of paint a picture for my audience on my show, we put a map up there.

And actually, where my mother was born was then Hungary. It's now Ukraine.

So not far off. Gotcha. But the... On this foreign policy thing, I'm honestly not at all surprised by anything we've seen from the president. It is completely in line with what's always been my sense of him, which is he's a pragmatic, problem-solving guy.

He is not an ideologue. He's not an ideologue one way or another. He's not a neocon, but neither is he an isolationist. That's not how he thinks. He thinks, okay, we've got a problem.

How do I solve it? He thinks that the war between Russia and Ukraine is a problem. He doesn't like it. He wants to stop it. He tried one tactic that clearly didn't work.

Now he's going with another. And actually, he previewed this. He did an interview, I think it was with our friend Maria Bartaromo a couple of years ago. And I distinctly remember it. No one really picked up on this.

I think we may have talked about it, where he was asked specifically about sending weapons to Ukraine. And he was kind of negative about it. And then he said, well, if. If it doesn't work out and Putin doesn't listen, then maybe I'll send them more weapons than Biden is sending. He said that.

And so I think this is exactly how I would have expected him to behave. Same in the Middle East, which is, I don't really care about how they do it. I just don't want this problem. I don't want the problem of nuclear-armed Iran not on my watch. And he'll try different tactics to get there.

And that's his approach to everything.

So I think, and I think it's such a refreshing change to have a pragmatist in the White House, not an ideologue. Right, and by the way, he's almost thinking in real time. Wow, I'm really disappointed in him. You know, it's not a matter. According to reports, people who are close to the president say that he is really disenchanted.

No, no, he says, come on in and talk about it. Exactly. Cut one. One of the reasons that you're here today is to hear that we are very unhappy. I am.

With Russia? But we'll discuss that maybe a different day. But we're very, very unhappy with them and we're going to be uh doing very severe tariffs if we don't have a deal in fifty days. Tariffs at about 100%. You'd call them secondary tariffs.

You know what that means.

So he did it. They're in play. 50 days to see if they're going to change behaviors. Kind of interesting. By the way, can I just quick point on secondary tariffs?

You know who needs to be added to that list, apart from the countries that are helping out Russia, like China and whatever? California and Gavin Newsome, because guess what? Because of their ridiculous extremist climate policies, our refineries are closing down in California, so we are now importing finished gasoline instead of what we have in our own state. Where is it coming from? India.

India is getting the oil from Russia. That is the insanity of the Democrats and Gavin Newsom's climate policy. Just real quick, and then I want to get to California. This is a quote from Spotnik, which is a newspaper owned in Russia. It says if Trump folds to neocons on Ukraine, the MAGA base will bury him like Biden 2.0.

So they are trying to get inside our politics rudimentarily and try to play it out as if they're going to tap into the MAGA base and divide it, right? It's amazing. And by the way, I'm so glad you brought that up. I saw you bring it up on Fox and Friends. And you just think that they really think it's so kind of too clever by half.

You know what I mean? They think that people are going to... Steve Banner's going to go, oh, I know. Charlie Kirk, oh, wow. You know, it's so ridiculous.

And the truth is that they just completely misunderstand President Trump and his base and how we do things in this country. But, you know, credit to them for trying, I guess. It's creative. Let's talk about your race. Early on polls, you have to be encouraged.

So far, it's just you and Katie Porter. Are we in? And a bunch of others, but we're clearly ahead of everyone else. You're up 27, 24. And you're running as a Republican.

Yes. Are you getting support? This is really, really important because it's the first poll that was taken since I announced. And of course, with this race, it's a jungle primary. The top two go forward.

The primary is next June, then the election in November. And so the key goal is to be the leading challenger. And that's what I am according to this poll by a long way, including in any other scenario. They tested whether Carmela Harris would shake up the race, and she does. She completely wipes out all the other Democrats, but I'm still the dominant challenger.

So any way you look at it.

So she gets 40%. Yeah, but I'm on 27.

So the next person I've got to hear, 9% after that.

So any way you look at it, I'm the challenger to end 15 years of one-party rule. And it's a long way to go, but it's looking good. You do this for a living. As the support system there, the Republican Party, they used to have Ronald Reagan and Pete Wilson, and Schwarzenegger. Is there a framework there?

Yeah, absolutely. I mean, look, I don't want to pretend that this is going to be easy and that we're all ready to go, but the state party has been making progress with things like registering voters, election integrity, just the kind of infrastructure has been getting better and better. The donor network is there. A lot of them, let's be honest, have left. But the ones who are there are really fired up and saying we are not going to let them destroy our state any further.

So I'm sensing a lot of energy from the grassroots and from the donors. And I think we're going to, it's going to be a really next year. Everyone assumes that this far-left nonsense in California is going to go on forever. I really think that we've got a shot at turning things around.

So look at the border, the border's basically sealed. And now you have a situation where ICE, without any cooperation from any city, is forced to do their own surveillance, their own pursuit, causing havoc, organized havoc against ICE. And it's really been supported by Democratic politicians. This Congressman Salud Carbajal, reportedly doxing ICE agents. Quote, the actions, he's been giving out the addresses and names using facial recognition and going after ICE agents who are wherever they're located.

All of them are behaving so disgracefully. Gavin Newsome, Karen Bass, this guy, on and on. You know, what's his name the other day? Padilla, the senator. They're acting like sort of juvenile student protesters on campus.

It's so irresponsible because they're the ones that are actually putting people in danger by refusing to enforce the law. Federal immigration law, obviously, but this is the point that people miss. They are state law. Requires discretion to cooperate with, even under this, is the sanctuary state law that they all hide behind. Actually, I've read it.

There is a section that says when you're dealing with people who, in the last 15 years, have been convicted of a long list of crimes from very serious down to things like drug possession, then you can cooperate with federal law enforcement.

So they are breaking the law by doing this. And that's why, as Tom Holman constantly explains, that's why you have to have these kind of enforcement operations because we don't get the cooperation. Aren't you amazed that they would go into a marijuana farm and everyone's like, why would you go after farmers? And this man died tragically because he fell off a roof and running from ICE? Excuse me, did you miss the story?

300 illegal aliens were arrested. Of course. Did you miss the story? You got a Mexican who is convicted of kidnapping. Another one from Mexico, convicted of rape and DUI, another one from El Salvador, convicted of DUI, hit and runner property damage.

Another one from Mexico, who had been convicted three times of burglary and DUI. And we know that the Glasshouse Farms gave $10,000 to Gavin Newsom, but the problem is ICE, who were greeted with rocks. It's such an unbelievable thing to see in our country that just, you know, like attacking law enforcement with impunity. Nothing happens. And by the way, you didn't mention that there's child molestation, one of those guys.

You know, it is just unbelievable. You have to be under 14. There was so they're literally standing with people involved in child trafficking, child slave labor, and child molestation. Yeah, they rescued 14 children from potential forced labor, exploitation, and trafficking. The raid is believed to be in the second.

Largest single-state ICE work site operation in history.

So, why do they walk away from this raid and think, how dare they, as opposed to, oh my goodness, is this happening elsewhere in the state? How many people, listen, there's a lot of people who are pro-illegal immigrants in that area. Are you surprised by that? No, but it's a political tactic. Here's the context: Karen Bass is up for re-election next year as mayor of LA.

Gavin Newsome is running for president. They both have a disastrous record. Gavin Newsom across the state and Karen Bass in LA. She has a billion-dollar deficit. The city's falling apart.

And their terrible, lamentable performance on the wildfires. This is like a political lifeline for them with their base because suddenly no one's talking about all their failures. They're talking about, yeah, you're sticking it to Trump and ICE. This is entirely pandering to their base to save their political careers. But the collateral damage are all these people like we wouldn't have these situations if you had cooperation.

You don't see this kind of thing in Florida where Governor DeSantis is working hand in glove with ICE to get people out who shouldn't be here. And that's what I would do as governor. I'm very curious to see the amount of registered voters who agree with you. As the president picks up more and more of the Hispanic vote, if they were so against the President's immigration policies, he would have decreased his Hispanic support. The president's amazingly increased.

So, how do you figure that?

So, there was an amazing poll in the election, I think in September, October last year, Axios poll, and they asked people, they gave people the choice of what's the level of deportation. Just criminals, serious criminals, everyone who's here illegally. And the majority was everyone who's here legally, but of all the demographic groups, the highest proportion agreeing with that statement were Latinos and Hispanics. And I see that when I'm on the campaign trail in California. I spend a lot of time there because it's the largest group now in our state, 40% of California Latino.

And especially the working-class Latino people I'm spending time with in East LA and the Central Valley, they are fed up with the illegal immigrants. And they're saying, look, we've been here for years. We pay our taxes. We work hard. Why is it when I go to the grocery store, you see these illegal immigrants getting EBT cards and free cell phones and housing vouchers?

I never got that. How's the rebuild going in Altadena and Pacific? I mean, they're just lying about it. Gavin Newsom said that there'd be a Marshall Plan. That was his quote.

I did an event there last Monday. It's the six-month anniversary of the fires. Basically, nothing's happening. And it's not, it's worse than just, everyone says, oh, only this many permits out of whatever. The worst number is that so few people have even applied for a permit because the whole grinding nightmare of the bureaucracy, the insurance, all the rest of it, people are just giving up.

They're saying, I'm done with this. I'm leaving. And then You get on top of that, the ideological agenda again, where they want to buy up those properties and get rid of the single-family home character of those neighborhoods, build apartments in line with their whole ideology, which is this war on single-family homes and the California dream and that way of life. And so it's much worse even than people realize. Mayor Bass wants to give money out to illegal immigrants who are afraid to go to work.

Number one, how do you find the illegal immigrants? I mean, do you literally walk into the shadows with night vision glasses? I mean, and then give it to people that look scared? But this is just the unseriousness of these people. It gives you a money.

In a city with a billion-dollar deficit, and she's having to fire city workers. I mean, also, why are they frightened to go to work? Because of her fear monkeys. We've got 30 seconds left. Is any other network booked you?

Our local affiliates, Fox affiliates, other putting you on locally? Yes, it's happening. You know, I'm on the road the whole time in California. It's a big state, and we're starting to get the message out. It is early.

But clearly, it's working because I'm leading the pack. Right.

So, do you feel as though the Orange County Register and the LA? Oh, yeah, sure. Do they know you're out there? And San Diego, Times Union, whatever it's like. We're working it hard, you know.

But with your help, Brian, and my appearance with Brian Kilmead. With Brian Kilmead, I think it's going to be transformational. 220 stations.

Okay. Right? Including WABC here. We love it. All right.

Thanks so much. Steve Hilton, great to see you. I love the Blazer. Like the California pin and the collared shirt. Little by little.

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From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Kilmead. It's clear from what the president himself has said, although he wouldn't put it this way. that he got played by Putin. and it dragged on for months. And he was being jollied along under the impression that Putin had obviously given him that Putin wanted to end the war.

And was prepared to negotiate from where we are. And it's pretty clear now that Putin didn't want to end the war where we are. He had more conquest in mind and perhaps wanted his whole his whole original purpose of Ukraine to be of taking Ukraine to be fulfilled. You know, I think that's. The Ukrainians have have held them off.

So that is Britt Yoon obviously giving his analysis on why President Trump has changed his mind because the evidence is just so overwhelming to the President's credit. He changed his stance on this.

So here we go.

Now Senator John Thune says he's not going to advance the sanctions bill in Ukraine. He says the President wants to do it on his own. We're here. Should that not work in the next 50 days? Brett Filikovich joins us now.

Fox News contributor, former Special Operations Intel analyst, a drone expert who spends considerable time in the war zone in Ukraine. Brett, What do you like about this weapons allocation? What don't you like? Hey, Brian, thanks for having me back, man. Appreciate you.

And I just like, for one, the President is changing his tune. I think he understands we may be in a situation where he needs to escalate for the purposes of deescalation. Putin isn't only going to agree to peace negotiations unless there's some threat of greater force. And so what I really like about the weapons package is more of the message it sends to Vladimir Putin that we haven't forgotten about what's taking place on the ground there, and the President is sick of it. And so the President has really focused, I think, On a lot of the defensive posture of this and being able to protect civilians in Kiev by sending these 17 Patriot missile batteries and authorizing those to go protect the capital is a big win.

I just left Ukraine. I was there last week and Shotheads, hypersonic missiles, they were raining down on Kiev. It was getting worse and worse. I'd never seen it like that. And they are able to.

Penetrate a lot of Ukraine's defenses. A lot of them are getting through because of how they're continuing to adapt. To Kyiv's defensive posture. They're changing the way these shothead drones actually fly. They're putting new tech on them to operate autonomously using AI to sort of determine where the best places are to strike.

And it's getting through Kyiv's air defenses. And what's the worst part about it is the missiles and drones that are landing, they're not hitting military targets, Ryan. They're hitting hospitals, they're hitting churches, they're hitting schools. And that's just proof that Vladimir Putin there is a concerted effort at the highest levels of the Kremlin to strike civilians, not military targets. And so I think the President has said, let's first protect the civilians first and foremost, so that we can then set the conditions for proper peace negotiations going forward.

So they're aiming for these civilian targets. They want to break the Ukrainian people's spirit, right?

So they're not saying they're giving up on the military, but the military to military, the Ukrainians have a reason to feel confident. But when you it's hard to protect every apartment building in in and around these major cities, right? Yeah, it's difficult, but in the end, there's that defensive bubble, that dome over the city and these. Shotheads and hypersonic missiles and other things that are coming towards Kiev. Ukraine.

Can see them pretty far out, right?

So there's a pretty significant defensive bubble that exists now.

So when they're using these rockets to shoot down, they're using even F-16s, by the way, to shoot down shot-hit drones very far away from Kiev, but they can only get to so many of them. When you're launching 450 of these things in one single night, which is what happened when I was there, it's pretty difficult. It's hard. I mean, the creator of the Iranian Shahid, I tell you what, this guy is a genius, and they keep adapting on it. They gave the technical specs to the Russians, so the Russians are building them now in Moscow.

And they are every single time they fire these things into Ukraine, they're testing to see what's working and what's not working. The last time the Ukrainians captured one of these things, The Shayed was literally using bots for Telegram. Telegram bought to determine where other drones were either penetrating the defenses or able to maneuver around. these rockets. And so jamming isn't good enough.

Jamming isn't good enough. If you were to drive around the perimeter of Kiev every single night and look to see how a lot of the protection takes place, it's still guys in the back of trucks with big heavy assault rifles, big 50 caliber machine guns firing into the air in front of these shot heads, firing into the air in hopes that they'll shoot it down before it starts entering its terminal guidance, straight line driving into these apartment buildings. And the Russians, they're not even pretending anymore to prioritize striking military targets. It used to be they could say, oh, it was a mistake. We were off a little bit.

We hit this building accidentally. Not anymore. Like these aren't stray rounds. They deny targeting civilian infrastructure, but we just see these bombardments. Over months, targeting everything from playgrounds and schools and churches.

And either they're highly incompetent with their strikes, which I doubt, or there's this concerted effort at the Kremlin. And they're not acting within the laws of international warfare. It's terrorism, plain and simple. This is terrorism.

So are they still losing about 400 a week, Russian fighters? I suspect that that number could even be more. I mean, Brian, when you go to the front lines, when the Russians leave certain territory, they mine everything. There's going to be a significant problem for decades with these farmlands and schools and places that the Russians had under occupation that are heavily mined. And they can't even tell right now how many are dead.

They can't even go pick up the bodies. I remember an American was killed about six months ago. They couldn't recover the guy's body. He was fighting for the International Legion on the Ukrainian side. They couldn't go get his body because it was a massive minefield, and that's the reality of the situation.

They cannot determine how many people are dead on both sides. And the Russians definitely aren't going to be clear with their numbers. And most of the attacks that are taking place. The strikes, it's a proper drone war out there. I mean, 70, they say 70%.

of all the deaths currently occurring on both sides, Ukraine and Russia, are from small handheld kamikaze drones. It used to be artillery. It used to be long range high Mars and missiles.

Now it's drones. And th they can fly these drones twenty, thirty kilometers away from where the pilot is sitting and strike even further and further into reach into each other's territory. And so I think the numbers in terms of dead is grossly underestimated. And maybe not out of them trying to be deceitful, just out of them, frankly, not knowing and not even being able to count their dead because they can't get to the bodies.

So it's pretty amazing too, is that uh I guess the Ukrainians are making their own drones now too, right? Oh yeah.

So the Ukrainians are producing over um One factory, just one manufacturing site, I mean, it's like China, they're producing over 125,000 drones. per month. per month at one location. And there's hundreds of factories all around Ukraine. And the same thing with Russia.

Russia's doubled that. Russia's doubled that. And they, every single day, they get to Have really tests to see what's working, what's not working. You talk about jamming, it used to be you could jam these drones.

Well, now the big thing is fiber optics. They're using literally these fiber optic cables with big, huge spools of wire that can go 15, 20 kilometers. And it makes it very difficult for anyone to jam it because you have literally a wire running from your remote to that drone all the way up into the point of impact where the camera is so crystal clear, there's nothing to jam. The only thing you do is cut that wire. And what's interesting is if you go into some of these farm fields, you will see.

Spools of wire everywhere. I mean, it's a ecological problem too, frankly, because that's that's what's going on right now. And they're using drones now to strike helicopters. They're using drones to strike other drones. It's I mean, it's It's a really, from my perspective, a unique thing to be able to see.

Are the Patriots going to help that much? Are there enough rockets where the Patriots really can make a difference? The Patriots are going to help a lot because the technology is so Is so good that it'll be able to shoot down the hypersonics. The hypersonics are what is really difficult. It's what scares me.

I'm not scared of getting hit by a drone as much as I am a hypersonic that comes in within mere minutes. And the Patriots can shoot those down very easily. And then the other thing is, yes, it's. You're going to need a lot of rockets, okay, when 450 drones a couple of days after I left Ukraine, 700 were shot in one night. Seven hundred were shot in one night.

Rockets and drones. And that's That's insane. And it tells you also about Russia's war economy now. Their production of all that is their ability to be able to send that mini every single night tells you how much they're building. And so they need these.

Patriot missile batteries to be able to knock out that. But I will tell you that they will run into a situation where they'll start running out of the missiles. And that's going to be something that we're going to have to deal with in terms of how much we can provide them. Because I don't know the cost of one of those missiles, but I know the cost of a shothead drive. Do you mean the High Mars?

Yeah.

Twenty, thirty thousand dollars for one of these drones, and they're getting shot down by million-dollar missiles. I don't know how long that can be sustained.

Well, we're not using the Patriots to shoot down drones, are we? Absolutely. Absolutely. We're using them to shoot down anything that is you know, striking striking these city centers, their air defense. Wow.

Uh here's what Lindsey Graham said, cut nine. How does Russia stays in business. China, India, and Brazil buy most of their oil and gas now. Russia is weaning themselves off.

So, President Trump announced today: if you're buying Russian oil and gas to keep Putin's war machine. Running, we're going to put a 100% tariff on all your products coming into America in 50 days. And you know what? It will change this war. It will bring this war to an end.

Donald Trump has done something no other American president has been able to do in my lifetime. get Europe to up their game when it comes to our common defense.

So do you think that Russia just thinks they're going to wear us out, including NATO, and that they're winning? I mean, you it's just your conjecture from being on the ground. I think Russia Yeah. Smarter than we like to believe they are, and they understand America much more than we like to believe, and they are exploiting America's fatigue. They know that we are tired of hearing about this war.

We know that Americans are tired of hearing about it. And they're exploiting that. And the same thing on the Ukraine side. They are pressuring, they're trying to hit Ukraine and destroy their economy. And they understand that.

He can outlast. People in that regard. And that's the danger here. People are still dying. More people are dying every single day.

More civilians are dying every single day. Putin thinks, you know, he thinks about the long game. This is his legacy. This is his legacy. And I don't think he's going to back down.

easily and he's seeing alliances and allegiances change. He's seeing China come to the rescue. He's got North Korean soldiers fighting for him. He's buying 40% of their artillery rounds right now, I'm told, are coming from North Korean arms manufacturers. And it's So sanctions are great.

But Russia has been operating on the black market decades. I don't know that it really does much other than sends more of a strategic message that. The president is tired of Putin lying to him, which is good. But in the end, these alliances are shifting. We're seeing China provide a lot of stuff behind the scenes or sort of turn a blind eye to technology that's being given to them.

And Putin feels more and more emboldened every single day. He sees this current geopolitical even after this last announcement yesterday? The last announcement yesterday, I think, is a wake-up call for him, but we have to, it can't. Uh that alone is not going to do much because Putin may think that if we don't continue to do what we say we're going to do. That is just another opportunity for him to sort of stall these peace talks because he wins if these.

ceasefire if the ceasefire doesn't go through. He wins at these peace talks don't go through because Um, you know, he's playing the long game.

So we have to follow through with what we're saying. If Trump provides a 50-day window, Okay, he'd better be ready to To tighten the screws even more, because I think Putin's going to test that. He's going to test that. And that's how he is. He's an intelligence officer first and foremost.

He was born out of the KGB, FSB. He's always thinking about how he can play different sides for his own goals. And if we're not ready for that, if we're not ready to play chess with him, we're going to lose in the end. Got it. Brett, appreciate your insight.

Really in awe of the fact that you keep going back, helping these people out. Brett Velikovich, thank you. Thanks, Brian. All right. And Ukraine got a shot in the arm, and we'll see if that's going to be enough.

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You were sharing details about an upcoming airstrike and the time of launch and the potential targets. It was demonstrably sensitive information. And the question I asked was were you investigated? For this expansion of the signal group to include a journalist. The White House conducted an investigation, and my understanding is the Department of Defense is still conducting an investigation.

Was any disciplinary action taken? From the White House Investigation Center? Uh no, the the use of signal was uh not only not only authorized, it's still authorized and highly recommended.

So that is some of the exchanges. Chris Coons, heck of a nerve. They all use Signal. And by the way, Chris Coons and look for the other guys just to try to make some hay. Corey Booker evidently is trying to run for president every day.

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Let's go out to Tony in Albany. Hey, Tony. Hey, Brian. Brian, you know when Zelinski was on at the White House, And Trump and Vance jumped on him with both feet when he said, you know, you don't have any cards to play. They misunderstood, because of the translator, what Belinski was trying to tell him.

Valencia was trying to tell him, you're not dealing with a rational guy, and he's going to give you all the BS. In the world, and he's still going to do what he wants to do. He tried to tell them that, and they didn't want to hear it. They were more concerned about his outfit than what he was saying. It's really sad.

I hear you, but I think it was more J.D. Vance than it was the president. I think the president was willing to understand what he was talking about. Also, he needed to have a translator. I've talked to people that know him, and they say he does not understand the subtlety of English.

So when you talk about cards, he was like, What do you mean cards? Do you remember that? What do you mean, cards? And so he should have had a translator. It was so consequential.

Good point, Tony. Love it. Todd in Michigan. Hey, Todd. Yeah.

Brian, in reference to Brett, what he said about the Iranians building these drones and that. You know, like when they went after the nuclear scientists in Iran, they ought to do the same thing with with the gentleman that's uh building these uh Drones and that. I know, but now they sent them the prototype. They know how to do it without the Iranians. That's the issue.

They paid for the patent. Good point, though, Todd. Thank you so much. Keep it here. Brian Killmeat Show.

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