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So glad you're there. It's Frank Kill Me Joe, and I am here. Rich Lowry is going to be on this hour. Brett Baer is standing by. We got some breaking news on the economy.

It looks like our GDP grew at 3%.

So, at a time in which everyone's talking about uncertainty, and there certainly is with the tariffs and the trade deals, as they start to come in and they start to look pretty strong for America, and other things are rolling pretty positively. And the Big Beautiful Bill has not been felt. Love it or hate it. It has not been felt yet, but it's passed through. I think this is a fascinating time.

And what does that mean about rates today?

So, before we get to Brett, let's get to the big three. Number three. Genes are passed down from parents to offspring. often determining traits like hair color, personality. And even eye colour.

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I'm kidding. People are speaking out, and I'm not kidding. They call it Nazi propaganda to be a hot white girl. Only in America. We'll talk about that and other Democratic outrage, including Congresswoman Crockett going off on the Atlantic and Mayor Pete Scrambles to show how he's different from the rest.

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Predictable and unhelpful. Number one. Surprised by the magnitude of the Japan deal. I believe that they were in more of a mood for a wide-ranging discussion. That is Scott Besant in his own measured way, the Treasury Secretary, after two days of meeting with the Chinese.

What does it mean? It's going to be a big day for your dollars. The Fed decides what to do with interest rates. We have a deal with China. We don't know if the deadline is going to be pushed past August 12th.

And we do have a deadline for every country when it comes to tariffs across the board. What it means for your wallet. Brett Baer, Chief Political Anchor of Fox News, Anchor Special Report, weeknights at 6, as you know. Also, author of the book that's about to come out. It's coming out.

October gets here quicker than you think. To Rescue the American Spirit, Teddy Roosevelt, and the Birth of a Superpower. Brett, first off, this just in. Our economy grew at 3%, higher than anyone thought. What do you think that means for the Fed?

Well, I think that means that they are have to look seriously at cutting rates. Because they haven't seen significant inflation and yet the economy is booming. Three percent is a lot bigger than expected. If you look at the reaction on on the business channels and um and the experts who watch this really closely. Uh this is big big deal And it's happening in an environment that, if you go back to so-called Liberation Day, April 2nd.

You know, there are a lot of people saying this is going to crush the economy. This is going to be a recession that comes. This is going to be, you know, Horrible. The markets were jittery for some time, but then gained their footing.

Now they're Surpassing and having record closes, and this is more indication of that.

So It'll be interesting to see what Jerome Powell does. It's not just Jerome Powell, obviously, it's all the Fed governors who have to vote. But. Uh it's an indication that the economy is strong enough You know, I just hope. I just hope that we're not lowering rates because the Fed doesn't want to look like it's caving to President Trump, because this affects so many lives.

I mean, I know so many people, Brett, that want to move. But they can't give up their three percent Mortgage for a 7% mortgage. And it just freezes the real estate agents and the people who have cash to pay, they're not worried. In fact, it's a great market for them because they have cash to pay. I have to worry about a bank.

But I worry about the other people. They want to add an extension on their house.

Well, not at this rate, it's time. It doesn't make financial sense.

So they wait. Yeah. And that's true. And it does affect the economy. If if some parts of the economy are booming, that is definitely slowing.

I mean, there's some cities that are in a housing recession. already. Dallas has been one of them. Um there's been others. And Listen, you add to that the refinancing of our debt.

And what that means, even one point, is hundreds of billions of dollars. And Um you know, the the Treasury and the Trump administration has played this to play for a lowering of interest rates, and it just hasn't happened yet.

So we're talking about Brett Baer, and Brett, this is just posted on Truth Social. Second quarter GDP just out 3%. This is from President Trump. Way better than expected. Too late, must now, meaning pal, must now lower the rate.

No inflation. Let people buy and refinance their home. To remember, to control inflation, they wanted to slow down the economy.

So they wanted to raise rates. That's traditionally what happens.

Well, interest is at 9%.

Now it's between 2% and 3%.

So you can't say that inflation is out of control, but they said with tariffs that they say there's too much uncertainty. Let's wait till September.

So maybe, I don't know. Were they waiting for this number? I'm not sure. But I want to pivot, if I can, to the president's two-day meeting with his team without him there in Stockholm, Sweden, with China. First day, we didn't get almost any reports.

The second day is what, here's what Scott Besson said, the Treasury Secretary, cut three. The discussion centered on the two economies. We had a very in-depth report on them, on the Chinese economy. We gave a very detailed report on the US economy. We talked about the trade deals that we were doing with other countries.

We expressed our concern about Chinese overcapacity globally and what that might mean for this year, for the next few years. We expressed our concern Were there purchases of Iranian sanctioned Iranian oil, of which they buy about ninety percent. We also expressed our regret that we believe that they had sold Russia about fifteen billion of dual use technologies. But the overall tone of the meetings was very constructive. Very honest, right?

You usually get that in reports.

So some source tells you what happened, but he's telling you exactly what went on. And now we could be looking at third party sanctions with Russia. But your thoughts now, because also we stopped the Taiwan president from transitioning through the country this week because we knew It wouldn't be helpful for the talks that were going on this week as well. Yeah, I think they're They're Having legitimate Down to the wire, kind of specific talks with the Chinese. The Chinese seem willing to move.

They seem impressed by the EU deal and what the US has been managing to do on these deals, the deal with Japan, the deal with Indonesia, the deal with the Philippines.

So there is a deadline here, and the President said August 1st, for example, India would be a 25% tariff. with some other penalties. because of buying Russian oil and Iranian oil.

So you know, I mean, there are deadlines here, and I think the Chinese see that. On the side is the deal about TikTok, which I think is tangential to the trade deal. But they may sign off on that too. I think there are positive signals that Besson has come out of. And the president's echoing.

So I had Senator Tom Cotton on because he wrote a very tough book on China, and it's 100% accurate. He backed it up with facts. And I played it off the Wall Street Journal headline that said Trump is changing tactics from going hard at China to into deal mode. I said, are you comfortable with that? And he said, we'll see.

Amongst Republicans, the people you know, are they comfortable with the president's tact with China now? Yeah, they just don't want to give up the farm. They don't want to. be uh China has a a history of of dealing tough and um and sometimes not being straight. And they want to make sure that uh the presence seeing eye to eye with the Chinese.

That said, the Chinese are in a tough financial position, and it seems like the leverage is with the US And I think that's why some of these Republicans are saying we should get this deal now. Lastly, on Russia and Ukraine, President's tact, the change is substantial. He said, I can't trust this guy. You know, everything he says, he just does the opposite. And I'm not going to wait fifty days, now I'm waiting ten.

Do you believe that he's leaning towards just taking the Senate sanctions bill, the bipartisan bill, and just saying, okay, we're going to implement that? Or do you think he's going to do his own thing? Right now, I think he's going to do his own thing, but he has that as a backstop. The bipartisan Lindsey Graham bill with a lot of support from both sides of the aisle. And I think that he wants control of that.

However, the frustration is real and Everything publicly and privately is that his perspective has changed on Putin, and they're going to have to do something different to get Putin to the table. And interestingly, Brian, I think that the First Lady has some say in In bringing this up, I think her concern over the attacks on children and the attacks in Kyiv. has brought some of this to the forefront. and changed uh his thinking. Brett, I think one of the stories that are going to emerge when they write about the Trump era, people are under the impression that Milani and Trump are just a marriage of convenience.

She doesn't really want to be First Lady. I think it's thoroughly the opposite. She is into, she knows everything that's going on. Her opinions are firm, even if the president doesn't take them every time. And they're tight.

And that's another example. Yeah, where media gets it wrong. and um her influence especially on this and maybe even Gaza is significant.

So lastly, there's two stories out there. Tell me what do you think. most people are paying attention to. The Epstein story and the Russian Hulk story that's developing. Dan Bongino's tweet over the weekend saying how substantial how it really affected him, how much.

And it turns out it was about the Russian hoax, how much the previous administration did to thwart President Trump in his first administration. What do you think has greater legs?

Well, that's a great question. The media obviously has, um, you know, it's sort of like a dog with a bone, and they haven't let go of the Epstein story. And I think there's more. you know, push to to come on that story, a lot of oxygen there. But Nate Silver had an interesting piece over the weekend.

And it might have popped yesterday, which essentially said: is Epstein the new Russian hoax for the media? In other words, they're going to go down this road and then suddenly it's not going to be there there, and you're going to have spent all of this time and oxygen and attention on something that didn't develop. And that's Nate Silver, who looks at data and looks at the situation. Listen, I think both stories we are covering both stories equally. And I think Dan Bongino is going to come out with what is concerning him so much.

In coming days and weeks. Yeah, I think it's going to be within two months. And he said, you know. That my sense is that just because we're reading something doesn't mean that's what he has and is talking about.

So it's intriguing, and I think we should pay attention to it. And I look at Matt Taibbi and other people, not known as conservative writers, saying that this is really big and he's pursuing it hard. He did the remember, he did the X-Files, not the X-Files, he did the Twitter files. on apps.

So and he was shocked by what he found. And he went in there because Elon Musk asked him to. All right, Brett Baer, who do you want to name your panel today or do you want to keep everyone in suspense? There's going to be a lot of suspense today. We're going to build up to a real surprise at 6 o'clock.

But I know that we're going to have a number of finance folks, econ folks, reaction to the Fed. That decision comes down about 2:30, 2 o'clock, and then the press conference at 2:30.

So that'll be a big deal today. Absolutely, Brett. And you're a big deal all the time. Brett Baer, thanks so much. See ya.

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And I watch half in the morning. It really gives you a foundation of what's going on. He's always got the biggest interviews, too, right in the middle of a show. Couple of things. I know when I bring up trade, everyone's like, oh, who cares?

You bring up foreign policy. I'm telling you, this is probably, it's so worth you looking at what's going on now. If you go back and look at Donald Trump's interviews from the 90s, he said how we would be taken advantage of and Japan was our big option, was our big opposition then, and he's reorganizing all our trade relationships while bringing in revenue. They expect at the end of the year us to bring in $300 billion.

Now, if we are almost a trillion over budget or $800 billion over budget and you find $300 billion. Don't you think that's going to affect all of us? Absolutely, especially if you get the interest rates down on the debt we owe. We come back, I'll take your calls, you go write me to BrianKilme.com. Politics, current events, and news that affects you.

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The one thing I'm just looking at what Trump's doing, and I'm seeing him dominating the news cycle, getting the trade deals done, talking about a different stance with Russia. Remember, Democrats were jumping on him, saying he was too tight with Putin. Got it.

So, you can't beat them up on that. When it comes to. Iran want direct action. No look, you can't say he's bloviating or uh delaying decisions And then when you say these two easy on Netanyahu, he was on Netanyahu the other day saying. You know what?

Got to get starving and starving, and we got to get it we got to fix this thing over in Gaza. If you're a Democrat, how do you strategize against that? If you're Corey Booker, this is what you do. Whatever you do, Don't say I agree with him here but not there. Just fight him everywhere.

Listen to him. And compare it to the other voices of Democrats, Senator Mastow and Klobucher. Cut 42. Why would we do something today? that's playing into the president's politics And it's going to hurt the officers in states like mine.

This is an attempt to kill all of these bills. I don't know why, because at the end of the day, all of these bills. Are about bipartisan support. This, to me, is a problem with Democrats in America right now. is we're willing to be complicit.

to Donald Trump. All of these bills came out of the committee unanimously, and I think they deserve that support on the floor. This is a call, folks. The Democratic Party needs a wake-up call.

So, do you understand what's going on? There are things in life, Brett talks about it all the time, that he's got a bipartisan, they're bipartisan. Funding police or police reform, a lot of it is bipartisan. And evidently, Corey Booker missed most of the meetings where they came up with this legislation, which was bipartisan, about funding police. And He's battling with other Democrats that just don't go along with Trump.

Trump happens to be President. You gotta pick your spots, or else you become a dial tone. No one listens when you protest. Senator Corey Booker for a guy that evidently went to an Ivy League school and then went to Oxford for his master's. seems to be remarkably tone deaf when it comes to how to make it in politics.

And he thinks that this is going to catapult him because he had that ridiculous marathon where he just ranted and raved about Donald Trump for a bunch of hours. I mean, and I want to get from you. Where do you think Democrats should go from here? I mean, what do you think they should be doing? Where's this strategy?

I mean, I think their strategy is picking your spots. This is where I disagree with the president. I'm going to sit back and see what happens with tariffs. I appreciate the president changing stance in Russia. Hey, I'm Trey Gowdy, host of the Trey Gowdy Podcast.

I hope you will join me every Tuesday and Thursday as we navigate life together and hopefully find ourselves a little bit better on the other side. Listen and follow now at FoxNewsPodcast.com. The more you listen, the more you'll know it's Brian Kilmead. He's not going to cut now, but are we lining up for a rate cut in September? That's what everybody wants to know.

And he probably won't cut today, and you'll probably get some mean tweets from Trump as we move along. But I think he's between a rock and a hard place. There's a lot of pressure to cut, but his metrics for cutting-like, first off, you have full employment. The labor market's not falling off a cliff here. If you look at jobless claims, they've been very, very low.

So there's no reason to cut because of the job market. And secondly, if we look at that PCE inflation number on Friday, it's probably going to have an uptick. And of course, that's the Fed's preferred indicator for inflation.

So basically, I think it's going to be hard for him to say justification for a cut, but I suspect the political pressure is so strong that we will see a cut in September. And we'll see. Be careful what you wish for.

Okay, I'm just going to take the look. Layman's approach, not the economist's approach. That's Ryan Payne, the pro. He's the president of Payne Capital Management. But I always thought one of the things you do is you raise the rates to control inflation if inflation shows that it's under control.

Even if you wanted a two percent, it's over two percent, but not much, not three. Why? And knowing that people are suffering at 7%, 8%, and it's stifling the market, the real estate market big time. It's the investment, loans, everything. Why would you not do that?

Rich Lowry joins us now, editor of National Review. The case for nationalism, Rich, I just told our audience, came across a half hour ago. The economy grew at a air quote surprising 3%. That's without the big beautiful law. That is without the impact of these trade deals.

So the so-called uncertainty. is still not stopping growth. Yes. Yes, excuse me. It's a good number.

You average out the first and second quarter. It's okay. But certainly, we haven't fallen off the cliff. I think it's important the President backed off the Liberation Day tariffs And now is cutting these deals that will result in higher levels of tariffs, but nothing like he was talking about initially. And look, tariffs or tax increases, I don't think they're good for the economy, but they also don't mean the economy is going to collapse.

So we have to see how this plays out over the long term. I'm not a monetary policy guy, Brian. No one ever made any money. Listen to me on monetary policy. But what the clip said that we'll probably see rate cuts later in the year makes sense to me.

Well, we're going to find out today, but I do feel bad for people who are just saying to themselves, you know, I can't leave my 3% mortgage, but I meant I'd love to move to a bigger house. And I want to make that move, but it doesn't make any sense now. I want to build up. I want to put another room on my house. I'm going to have to finance that.

But I'm not going to refinance it at this high rate. I'm going to wait.

Now, we've been waiting two years. We've been waiting like two years. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, they they um they want to make sure in inflation is is uh at at the level it's supposed to be what worries me is that Rich that he's saying I have to show that we're independent in the Fed.

Even though I want to cut rates, I have to stand up to Trump. That means I'm in the middle we're paying the price for this uh for battle of egos. Yeah, I mean, I do think the way Trump's gone after it, typically kind of hammering tongs, which he's gotten a lot of results with that approach. First six months here of his second term, but probably his box pal in a little bit. But I do think we'll probably see rate cuts.

In the fall, and then you know, he's not going to be Fed chair forever, he's going to be gone next year. Yeah, we'll see what happens from here. Rich Lowry with his National Review.

So, Rich, the whole world's watching, and they're upset that, of course, that.

Some Palestinians are not getting the aid they need. Uh in Gaza. And now it's putting pressure on Prime Minister Netanyahu to take action. And there are a lot of action in there. I saw the stat that they could have.

Fed Although the entire population of Gaza for fifteen years with the amount of they've gotten in there, but it's not getting to them.

Now the distribution is clearly a problem.

So look, it's understandable that Israel cut off the humanitarian aid earlier in the year for about three months because Hamas makes money off of this and uses it to fund its terrorism. And all the reporting was Hamas was genuinely squeezed By this, but the problem is there's a cost to the general population, and they wanted to make up with it with this new system relying on the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Fund rather than UN agencies that are corrupted by Hamas to distribute the food. But it's an enormous task. They thought they were going to get some help from the UN. They've gotten none.

And Hamas has done everything to distribute to, sorry, to obstruct the distribution of aid.

So it's just not working. And I think Netanyahu, whatever he said, publicly realizes it. Or if he doesn't, Trump and others are going to make him realize it and they're going to try to do better. But look, it's a very frustrating situation. You go into this territory governed by a terror group that has no interest in helping the people whatsoever.

And you have responsibility not just for trying to defeat that terror group, but also caring for the population in the midst of a war zone.

So it's a frustrating situation. It's no fun, but they got to do better. You would think that these leaders, these prime ministers, would say, I'm upset about what's happening, but we have to remember why we're in this position. Because of October 7th, 2023, that's why we're in this position. Because they've walked away from three talks, four talks.

The last offer they got. Was the leadership that was left can leave. We'll provide transportation and not hunt you down. Belief. And they said no.

Yeah, and that's why.

So they stay, they fight. You know, the IDF has lost 195 guys. I want you to hear Steve Yates, former Deputy National Security Advisor, on Fox News at night, CUD 35. I'm sure that there's a difficult conflict, a war that has been playing out in Gaza, and there are going to be casualties and terrible things that happen in it. But I think the worst of this has been the propaganda war.

And really, I grow a little bit weary of a lot of leftists around the world who will wax philosophic about the travesty of starvation in Gaza. Where are they in saying that Hamas should play no role in the governance of the future of this region? Its behavior has brought this travesty there. I mean, we don't hear that at all. Why?

Are they afraid of their own population? In the West? Yeah, they just there's this this reflex to always blame Israel no matter what it is. And the basic problem is Hamas is not like, you know, the the terrible terror attack in Mumbai. You know, the those guys came in, I guess, from Pakistan, whatever it was, and it took like four days to extricate extricate them and kill all of them, and they're gone and they're done, right?

And that's sort of the way Hamas was on in Israel, in Israeli territory on October 7th. But it's deeply embedded in all levels of Gazan society.

So you just can't kill a couple guys and they're gone. This is an enormous effort, and it's not clear who's going to govern it or control it, even when Hamas goes, if you can make him go.

So it's just a hellish problem. I mean, Israel has been completely brilliant in its anti-terrorist operations since October 7th. But this problem, what to do with Gaza, I just don't think there's a ready answer for it. I think the most intriguing thing, and I think... Of the President's leadership has been the most interesting with Russia and Ukraine.

You know, I'm firmly in Ukraine's corner. I understand they're not the perfect democracy, but they're the good guys, and I see the ripple effect of Russia successful. President Trump's been slow to believe that. I'm just going to end this. And now he's realizing what everyone else realized, that Vladimir Putin has no interest in acting in any responsible way.

In fact, he's aiming for civilians, despite talking to Trump. Here's what he said yesterday: cut 30. Since you made the announcement of the 10 to 12 days, have you gotten any feedback or any officials gotten any feedback that it had a response that Russia is going to do something?

So I used to say to you, 5,000 people die a week.

Now it's seven thousand people are dying a week. Mostly Ukrainian and Russian soldiers, but people also from having bombs dropped on their head. to disgusting or So he looks like he's going to put some type of sanctions thing together in 10 days. Rich, project where this is going.

Well, I think what Trump's done, he took longer to make his turn than I would have liked, as we discussed before, but it was reasonable. He came in, I want to stop this war. He has a genuine hatred of military conflict, right? He just prefers everyone to getting rich and building skyscrapers, not killing each other.

So that's a genuine revulsion, and he wanted to make it end. And that's a laudable goal. And then he gave Putin a lot of running room, which some running room I think was called for more than I would have liked. And now that he's seen what Putin's like and what his goals really are here, he's turned and he's going to get tough on Putin.

So I welcome it. I'm not sure how much sanctions are going to make a difference at this point. It's just butchishing the Ukrainians and exhausting the Russian military seems to be the only way maybe we can get to a different place in a year or two.

Well, I just don't you just admire a leader that will say, okay, he didn't say I'm wrong, but he said, I'm looking at the facts on the ground. I have to change my position. Instead of being dug in, I don't want to look bad. You know, if I backtrack now, and I said I was friends with him, and now he's not acting that way. And instead of making excuses for him, he goes, No, no, no, it's exactly, he's acting irresponsible.

I'm changing my mind. And I just think that that said, remember where we were six years ago. Everything Putin does, he's afraid of Putin. It's not. He just said, I saw a guy who's a menace.

No one's dealing with him effectively. What if we deal with him rather than continue to war with him in some subtle, tangential, adjacent, proxy way? Right. Yeah, I think it's, I would make two points. One is that, you know, the whole taco thing was exaggerated with the terrorists, but there was an element of that, but it wasn't chickening out.

It was just like readjusting to circumstances and being flexible as you go. And that's part of what you want in a leader. And we've seen it here in a really welcome way. And two, as you point out, it's just the whole thing that he's been controlled by Russia or Putin has something on him was always so absurd. And that he's made this turn just highlights how preposterous it was.

So Medvedev, the former president, put this out, said, Trump's playing the ultimatum game with Russia. 50 days or 10. He should remember two things. Russia isn't Israel or Iran. Each new ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war, not between Russia and Ukraine, but with his own country.

Don't go down the sleepy Joe road. I mean, I don't know what got into that guy. But it's his his job to threaten World War three. I mean, that's that that's what he does like once a month at least. But look, they have their hands full with the war with Ukraine.

They don't want a war with the the wider West. I agree. All right, Rich, go pick up this latest story. Israel gets the blame, but Hamas controls Hungary, Gazan's plight. Rich, thank you.

Awesome. Thanks, Brian. Got it.

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And then I asked myself too, What was The FBI Director Dylan that Trump appointed. For four years. The CIA director, everybody. Gina Haspel.

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Around sports, where I think. Most reasonable people would recognize that there are serious fairness issues if you just treat this as not mattering when a trans athlete wants to compete in women's sports. I think these decisions should be in the hands of sports leagues and school boards and not politicians, least of all politicians in Washington trying to use this as a political pawn.

Well, by the way, that is Pete Buttigieg talking about trans men and women's sports, the easiest question you're ever going to answer in life, let alone politics. And he's saying don't let politics decide it or politicians.

Well, he should have told that to Joe Biden, who wanted to legislate against discriminating against what he calls discriminating against trans men in women's sports, wanted to make sure they were able to do it, which is insane. Right? ninety to ten, people is insane. He's still couching it. Pete Buddha Judge goes on to say, well, for example, there's a difference if you're playing chess against a woman as opposed to weightlifting.

All right, if you want to say men and women in chess, I don't think there's any I don't know if you can call that a sport, it's a competition, but I don't know if you call that a sport. But he went on to say around sports, the most reasonable people recognize that there are serious fairness issues if you treat this as not mattering as a trans athlete wants to compete in women's sports. And then he says What I think is these decisions should be in the hands Of sports league. Good. And school boards, not politicians.

Okay. Chess is different from weightlifting, and weightlifting is different from volleyball, and middle school is different from the Olympics. Wrong. Chess is different from weightlifting. You should have stopped there.

Weightlifting is not different from volleyball. There's an inequity in volleyball. The way you jump, how hard you hit, the speed and quickness matters. Did he ever even take a gym class? Middle school is different from the Olympics.

No, it isn't. Kids go in all different shapes and sizes, but your decision has to be clear. If some irresponsible parent wants to take their sixth grader and say the male wants to be a female, it doesn't mean you're going to go screw up women's girls' basketball in middle school. They still don't get it. We had Jason Crow here.

He said, Well, it rarely happens. That's not the answer. If you want to be mature, if you want to do the right thing and move past it, Admit that it's not fair to girls. It used to be a situation where girls weren't getting enough respect. Then Title IX comes around.

They restructure and rebalance, despite how tough that was in a lot of situations, a lot of other sports that they go by the boards in order to have as much female opportunity as male opportunity. And then they're going back the other way. Until you get out of your own way, people who judge, even if you're trying to grow a beard and act tough, no one buys it. Remember. I did a study.

They did 2,128 people participating in the study. 79% said biological males who identify as women should not be allowed to participate in women's sports. Can someone tell him that? People identified as Democrats or leaning Democrats, 67%, say transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete in women's sports. All right.

I have no more to say. I played Corey Booker about the inequity with. Uh they just don't want anything to do with Trump. Here's James Carville. Who told this to Martha yesterday, CUT 44.

The big, beautiful bill, cutting veterans' benefits, closing rural hospitals, raising $3.4 trillion on our national debt. I mean, when you have something simple in a gift like this, to contrast yourself, you would be stupid to talk about immigration or talk about bathrooms or track meets or anything else. Right. Keep in mind, none of what he said is true. That's a projection of the CBO on adding to the debt, cutting rural hospitals.

There's money set aside just for rural hospitals. And when it comes to veterans' benefits, we have Doug Collins and nobody's veterans' benefits are being cut. They're streamlining operations. Lastly, when it comes to the Russian hoax, Devin Unes was the first. He talked last night about this new information coming forward about what was going on in 2016 through 2020, Cut 41.

And I think if you look at what's going to happen now, that you have the Department of Justice is now looking at this again, they have a strike force in place. And so I always say that it's important to make sure we look. Look in the past, but also, what are we going to do in the future? And overall, who won in all this? Who won was Vladimir Putin?

That's who actually won here. And who lost? The American people have lost. The fake news media has lost. And I think the FBI and the CIA and the people that actually try to do the right thing.

have lost in this.

So if you look at what the Trump administration is trying to do, they want this fixed, they want this cleaned up, and they want people held accountable. Yes, and that's what I've been saying the whole time. Russia looks stronger. U.S.-Russian relations were damaged. Hard enough dealing with this guy, let alone when you pin him to you accuse him of doing something that he didn't do.

He's done enough bad. Quick note: History, Liberty, and Laugh.

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Hi, everyone.

Welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Killmead Show.

So glad you're there. This hour we're going to be joined by Nicholas Ernst. He holds the Henry Wendt chair at the political economy at the American Enterprise Institute. We'll zoom with him. And in a matter of moments, we're going to zoom with Mark Levin as I come to you from 48th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan.

We're just still investigating the shooting and we're still trying to get a lot more answers. Mark's got a brand new book out called Life, called On Power. You know his show, Life, Liberty, and Levin. And before we get to Mark, let's get to the big three. Number three.

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That is Nazi propaganda. Do you believe this? Dems lose their minds over jeans while Crockett and Mayor Pete scramble to show their party the way forward, but it seems like they are a step backward. Number two. This is the time to stand up and say no more slaughter.

By a weapon of mass destruction designed to kill people on the battlefield, not in our buildings here in the great city of New York. Only Democrats can look at this tragedy and think the gun is to blame. More details emerging on the killer and his victims in Monday night's midtown shooting as New York leadership focuses on not the shooter, but the weapon, predictable and unhelpful. Number one. I think that the Chinese were surprised.

By the magnitude of the Japan deal, I believe that they were in more of a mood for a wide-ranging discussion.

Well, there you go. Secretary of Treasury Scott Besson brings us inside two really intense days of dealing with China when it comes to trade. A big day for your dollars. The Fed decides what to do with interest rates. The trade deal deadline is a couple of days away.

U.S. talks could be getting closer to India as they queue up for a monster deal. And we found out the economy is growing at 3%. That's without any impact from the Big Beautiful Law or any of these trade deals, but a lot of tariff money. Mark Levin joins us now.

His book is already selling great on power. Mark, great to see you. You know, my brother, I'm embarrassed. There you are wearing a tie on radio. Hell, I've never worn a tie, period, let alone on radio.

But you've been great. I appreciate it. 3%, that is a big number. Big number before the tax cuts kick in. I mean, that is huge.

Look, I'm not an economist, but they always say you raise the rates to control inflation, which was at 9%. Nobody thinks inflation's out of control. Don't say you worry about the tariffs. They came out in April. Here we are at the end of July.

No big in fact. You would think that the Fed chair would cut rates and give the American people a break, put that dormer on their house or buy a new house. Milton Freeman wrote a great book. About how the Depression actually happened, the Great Depression. And he said it wasn't exuberance, it wasn't that.

The Fed tightened the money supply when it should have loosened it up. And he provides enormous number of statistics. This is what put him out there on the radar. He was right. The Fed continues to tighten the money supply when it should loosen it up because what it's doing right now is it's blunting growth.

We could have enormous growth going on right now. Then the tax cuts follow. It wouldn't be inflation. This would be real growth, not government-created paper. This would be real economic growth and prosperity.

But he's got his foot on the brake. He does. And lastly, before we get to your book, just on China over the last two days, it's interesting. Very little posturing, politicking, tempers. We hear a 75 Chinese send 75 people.

We have 15, and we deal pretty intensely for two days. How do you feel about the President going into deal mode instead of confrontation mode?

Well, he's got confrontation mode hanging right here, as Putin found out, as the Iranians found out, as the others find out. I think they know what most Americans don't know. Xi, right now, is literally fending off challengers to his power. He's trying to kill them or remove them, generals, and so forth and so on. Their economy is hurting.

The average person there is not doing that well. They're trying to restrain the outflow of cash from China right now.

So they've got a lot of problems going on. And so I think they're ready to be dealt with. And they don't want, and they can't use massive tariffs put on top of all this right now. Xi could lose his power.

So, I think we're in a perfect position. Yeah, I just don't think. And if you hear about it, you wouldn't think this, but they have no social safety net.

So, therefore, they're not spending a lot of money because they're responsible for their own long-term care, so to speak. And so, they're not spending any money. And a lot of them are losing their jobs.

So, you can't get them to spend on themselves.

So, they have to export. And if we're not buying their stuff and Europe's not buying their stuff at the rate, they're really in trouble. Mark, let's talk about the book. You come up with these deep perspectives, these ideas, and you grow them. But I love when you stake it in and you build it off.

the making of the the forming of our country and our constitution. Tell me about power. First of all, I want to thank you for reading. It's clear you read it. You did that interview over the weekend, and I appreciate it.

Even now, you're very generous. Look, I'll be honest with you. I was lying in bed for two and a half months because I tore my tenant 100% and I got sick of staring at the ceiling.

So I started thinking about. Like a nerd, you know, the founding of the Revolutionary War, liberty, tyranny. I said, something's not right. And all these decades I've been talking about it. And what's not right is.

When you read the scholars, when you read even the ancients, like Aristotle, you read what are they always talking about? They don't really say it. They're talking about power, who gets to make decisions. And then you look at our country. Why is our country so great?

Why is it different? greater than Western European societies. And the reason is. The basis for our founding. And what's the basis for our founding?

Now, whether people like it or not, whether they believe in faith or not, whether they're Jewish or Christian or not, it doesn't matter. This is how the nation was founded on Judeo-Christian values fused with the Enlightenment.

Now, what does that mean? They tell us what it meant. The sovereign is God. Read the Declaration of Independence. Four times God is mentioned in different ways.

They say that's the sovereign.

Now we on earth, his children are the sovereign when it comes to governing ourselves. We are the sovereign. No government, no masterminds, no experts, no small cabal, period. And you need to have a civil society before you have a government. What's a civil society?

Civil society is a collection of free individuals who come together to create some kind of order and justice and law to protect their liberty and their property and so forth. From there, you get government. That's basically what the Declaration says. That is completely different. Than the ideology of Marxism or fascism or even political Islamism.

What do they say? They say there's one way, there's only one way. Marx attacked the idea of individualism and free will. He said it was selfish, that everybody had to come together under one umbrella, that people needed to make decisions about what's in the best interest of all the people. And of course, what happens?

We see what happens. You basically get these pollut bureaus, you get the parties more powerful than the country, and the people don't mean anything. You have to re-engineer the people, you have to re-engineer human nature, you have to re-engineer society. This is a police state. It creates power.

And that's why in the book I break it down into negative power and positive power and so forth and so on. And if you are somebody that wants power, wants to control your country, the idea of America is a threat because we are somebody that participates in the process. You're in power as long as we want to keep you there. That is something that absolute monarchs want nothing to do with. Does that explain in your mind why we seem to be, throughout generations, always on some level be under attack?

We are constantly under attack. The trajectory is not good. I mean, you have respites here when we have with Reagan and Trump and so forth. The problem is, like, in our own country, once the Democrats take over, they make permanent changes to our constitutional system through the courts, through their massive bureaucracy. These activist judges in this massive bureaucracy are the opposite of consensual government, the opposite of representative government.

They don't give a damn what the people think. They tell the people what to drive, what to eat, what to wear, where to go, when to go. You saw in the pandemic, it was the pinnacle of control in these blue states and these blue cities and so forth, what they will do, what they can do.

So, the battle that's in this country is the same battle as I perceive it in the Revolutionary War, which is. Power versus power. Which type of power will overcome which type of power? What I call positive power? and then negative power.

Understood.

Now, back to Hamilton and Jefferson. Why was it important for you to outline their different philosophies? You know, it's interesting you bring this up. This guy, Jeff Rosen, at the National Constitution Center, wants to sit down with me and discuss this because he has studied Hamilton. And he felt what I wrote about Hamilton, I'm not saying was quite brilliant and very interesting.

And what I did is, I really dug into the Constitutional Convention, I really dug into a debate over the National Bank.

Now, keep in mind, Hamilton. Madison, John Jay, but mostly Hamilton and Madison wrote the Federalist Papers.

So they were all for the Constitution. But it's interesting. If you look at Madison's notes of the Constitutional Convention, Hamilton made two very strange proposals. Number one, that this new Senate they were debating should be made up of permanent. politicians.

which completely rejected Number two, he even entertained the idea of a permanent president, which was completely repudiated by the other delegates. And you know, Madison's sitting there scratching his head saying, what the hell is going on with Hamilton?

Now, Jefferson wasn't there, as you know. He was in Paris doing other things. But all that said, so that it comes to a head over the debate over the National Bank. Washington turns to Jefferson. His Secretary of State, he turns to Madison, one of the greats, and he turns to Hamilton, his Secretary of the Treasury, and he says, What should I do about this?

What is the Constitution all about? And this exposes Hamilton. Hamilton versus Jefferson and Madison. And what Hamilton says is, Even though the power to create a bank isn't explicitly in the Constitution, it is implied in the Constitution. And this is where Madison and Jefferson say.

You've just destroyed the text of the Constitution. What do you mean it's implied? Follow the text of the Constitution. The states determine. Banks, financial systems, and so forth.

There's no need for a national bank. And by the way, when Jefferson does come in, he gets rid of the national bank. And so this battle goes on.

So I guess the point is to keep it short and sweet. At our earliest times, the debate over an activist view of the Constitution and a stricter view of the Constitution. Exploded onto the scene. And we have the state constitutions that came together to make one constitution.

So we weren't writing it from, you know, we actually hit the ground running when it came to putting it together. Two people throughout history that you think we should take a look at. FDR lauded as one of the greats. We should revisit that because he took over a country in crisis for sure. But he really wanted, he has a second constitution that he puts out there.

And the other one is Woodrow Wilson. Woodrow Wilson in the late 1800s was one of the earliest so-called progressive intellectuals. That is, the progeny of Marx. He was spellbound by Marxism and Engels and so forth, and others, Hegel and Rousseau, but nonetheless.

So he kind of Americanizes this, which is why I call it American Marxism. And so He's an intellectual, there are others, and they build on this. They hate the Declaration of Independence. They say it's quaint, but why should we be bound by it? The revolutionaries, they wrote it.

They didn't feel bound by anything. Why should we be bound by this? Why? For the reasons I said earlier. They wanted the centralization of power.

We believe in power-checking power. That's what the Enlightenment was about: separation of power. Scalia said the Constitution is about separation of powers. That's the difference. Montesquieu said the same thing.

Once one branch takes over another branch, we have tyranny.

So, what did FDR do? FDR came up with a second Bill of Rights. What was it based on? It was based on Stalin's 1936 Constitution, and I point that out in the book, which is a great constitution. But it's a complete lie, which is another thing that the Marxists and the Democrats do: lie, thought control, language control, like wokeism and so forth, as I explained in the book.

Woodrow Wilson is a very dangerous and evil man. He was a eugenicist. He was a racist, but he was also. A Marxist. They called themselves progressives, you know, almost like Hamas.

They're very good at the PR game. And we're progressive, which of course they're regressive. It's like Hamas. Oh, look, how the Israelis are starving our people while they're killing their own people. That is Hamas.

Well, the progressives, that is the American Marxists, that's what they are, are the same. In that respect, they're very good at propaganda and using words, but they believe in thought control. Look what happened again during the pandemic on social media and so forth. They were trying to control discussion, control knowledge, control debate, and they do this all the time. Understood.

Mark Levin, this book is on power. It's one of the top selling books in the country right now. It is great, and it's really get your thinking. Mark, congratulations on it. Continued success, and I look forward to seeing your show over the weekend.

And you too, brother, you're doing great. Your Sunday show is fantastic. I would just tell people to go to Amazon.com. Any major bookstore, they're all out there right now. And I want to thank you again.

God bless you. No problem. See you again, Mark Levin. Back in a moment. You're with Brian Kilmead This episode is brought to you by LifeLock.

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What was your um reaction to hearing Stephen Goldberg got canceled? I carry little reaction when a show loses money, it gets cancelled. Right. Have you heard about what they're saying about Donald Trump and him being the reason b why it got canceled? I hear a lot of things.

CBS is in the business of making money. But if they won't make money, it's they gotta do what you gotta do, otherwise your shareholders are gonna sue you. Thank you. Thank you. Any message you have maybe to Stephen Colbert during this time?

Oh, rewire. You'll find something fun to do. I did, and I'm. Much older than you were. Yeah, I mean, Stephen Colbert is going to be absolutely funny.

He's going to do a podcast, and in that realm, people are going to like talking to him, and he doesn't have to pretend that he has to be funny. He's going to end up being just a talk show host. On a podcast. That's it. When he started as a comedian, actor, singer, I think the guy can dance too.

I mean, he was a Broadway guy, second city. I mean, he was a funny guy. I thought he was great on. As a contributor with Jon Stewart, and then he had his own show, The Corbert Report. I'm like, wow, that thing was ready to go almost right out of the gate.

And then when he had to be himself, I thought that's when he struggled. And now he became solid politics. I want you to hear what Seth Meyer said yesterday about how he views, how he wants to be viewed. He was on with Dak Shepard, a very successful podcaster, Cut45. You know, when we started our show.

Whenever anybody said, you know, I get my news from you, I would always say, oh, you shouldn't get your news from me. You should get your news from the news. But you can come to us for a second source. And now I truly believe I'm like, yeah, just get your news from us.

Okay, good luck with that. Um he thinks he's in News Central location.

So these guys are all left. We'll see what happens money-wise. Look, you know, I am surprised. When they said Stephen Colbert is losing money, not surprised. But when they said he was losing money because he can't get any advertisers, was surprised.

Why? Because traditional outlets who, I mean, products, they want to not rock the boat, you can never go wrong by going left with mainstream, with most of America. I guess how they're viewed. I mean, most of it's being politically correct. It's the ones that push the limit where, wow, the ratings are great.

Remember for the longest time, Rush Limbaugh, ratings are great. But he's having trouble getting advertisers. Why? Because there was all these boycotts because he was conservative and they thought he had the wrong message for America and there was all the pressure on the advertisers. There's no pressure on Stephen Colbert's advertisers.

I mean, you watch a uh you watch a you know General Mills ad for any products or something on Stephen Colbert, you well, I'm not gonna buy that because on Stephen Colbert's show. There was no there was no negative connotation with it.

So, and people are just saying, well, there's no one watching, and it's not the audience I want, so, therefore, I'm not going to go with it.

So that's just Pure money, dollars and cents. There is no way he will last ten months. There's just no way.

So, and I'm and Trump was out and says, I take full credit for him losing his jobs. He thinks Jimmy Kimmel will be next. Loosen the brain, kill me, Cho. Don't move. Breaking news, unique opinions.

Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. But look, the numbers don't lie. I mean, the Dim said. The tariffs would kill us. The comedian said it, the talking head said it, the economists and the bankers, they were all wrong.

But the numbers are the numbers. We have. Budget surplus, first one since 2015 of $28 billion. That's just real money. We have manufacturing jobs coming back.

We have Donald Trump going to the Middle East and Japan and across the world. bringing in five trillion dollars of new business. He used the tariffs to negotiate that. He's generated billions of dollars of new federal funds for the American people and our country without taxing the people.

So that is Grant Cardone, who's in the real world, the Cardone Capital Founder. You've seen him on the channel, and he's a supporter. But when it comes to numbers, you'll see a lot of people that were Trump supporters that were extremely worried about the tariffs. And We still want to see where all the chips fall, but the deals are coming in. People were mocking 90 deals in 90 days.

Well, it's not 90 deals in 90 days. You start with the big guys, and he's going to the end because people need a deadline to act. It's just like we're seeing with Major League Baseball's. Trading deadline this week. I mean, you need a deadline, and the deadline is the end of the month, and that's why these deals are coming in.

And I think we're probably going to get India today. Nicholas Everstad's with us from the American Enterprise Institute. Welcome, Nicholas. Your thought about. Thanks for having me back.

No problem. Your thought about where we're at right now. I like the fact from the American perspective that. Many in Japan and Europe are upset by the deals that have been cut.

Well, um We're in a much better place than a lot of people, including me, thought we were going to be back on Liberation Day. I mean, look at the markets. Look at the equity markets, which are based upon kind of expectations of future profits. SP is at all-time highs. Of course, Gold is also at an all time high because that's a kind of a reflection on the uncertainty that people see in the unfolding of the economic situation here.

Because people go to security if they're not sure about where their money is going to go and they can always count on gold.

So, Nicholas, we're going to get $300 billion, according to Scott Besant, who's not known for his hyperbole, by the end of the year in tariff money. And then smart guys like you always say, well, the consumer pays for that, but they haven't really paid for that yet. And is that guaranteed the consumer's going to pay for that? It's not guaranteed, but somebody's going to have to pay for it. I mean, you look back at the formula that the White House used for Liberation Day.

One of the components of it was uh the expectation of how prices were going to uh Transfer through from increased tariffs. 95% in the study that they were using, 95% of the tariff increase goes through.

So it's either going to be consumers, the importers, or the exporters.

Somebody's going to have to pay. It's not magic. Right. I guess one of the big stories was there was no retaliation when we put the tariffs on everybody, except for Canada. Here's Senator Chuck Schumer.

I know it's politics, but here we go, Cup Five. Donald Trump can claim all he wants that this is the biggest deal ever made. But American families and small businesses, the ones footing the bill, know much better. This new deal with the EU is nothing more than a massive tax hise for families and small businesses signed in desperation. paid for by the American people.

I yield the floor. Is there any fact in that?

Somebody is going to be paying this $300 billion tax cost expense, whatever we want to call it, the revenue that goes to the U.S. government. We will probably see this work through in the next nine months, 18 months. The economy is remarkably resilient. Consumers are pretty smart.

There's a lot of flexibility in the system, and I think actually more than a lot of people expected on Liberation Day.

So I'd say it's probably still too soon to say. I mean, $300 billion is a lot of money, but it's the wrong number of zeros if we're trying to plug a $2 trillion hole in the government budget. Does that help, guys? Does it help? Sure.

Of course it helps. We've got this 6%, 7% structural budget deficit, which in effect is future taxation. I mean, it's going to be taxes paid by kids and by the unborn. We probably, I mean, I wonder if we're kind of like moving from tariffs to a VAT. Everybody hates the VAT, and probably if we had a VAT, there'd be all sorts of Pressures to spend all of that new money before it was even raised.

But we've got this great big hole, and we've got to figure out how to fill it, or else the debt is going to keep on growing in this really kind of spooky way. And just for the non-economists out there, like myself, that is a value-added tax on every purchase you make, right? Like a national sales tax. Yes, exactly. And that money would go to the deficit.

Maybe do if a pipeline is. Other than just on imports, it would be on kind of everything.

So wh what do you expect to happen today with the Fed? Yeah. Well, here's where I get to make a fool of myself. I presume the Fed is going to stand pat, but. I guess we'll know uh we'll know pretty soon.

I guess. If they but don't they usually cut when they feel as though inflation's under control? And doesn't it seem like inflation's under control? Um There were Their inflation We would tend to think that there are inflationary pressures that will be coming down the pike. They may we haven't seen them.

I mean, and that's really kind of meaningful over the last three months in the way that we would have expected to. My guess is that given the given the Record that this Fed has on kind of whiffing whiffing the ball with transitory inflation, they may be more cautious than. than a fresh team would be.

So educate me on this, if you would, with this new cryptocurrency and the rules and regulations and the way we're going to look to put jet fuel to it along with regulation, could that be a revenue stream that helps us chip away at that deficit? Possibly. I don't know how big a revenue stream it'll turn out to be. I mean, it's all very new now. My guess is that the revenue uh revenue that we need to fill a two trillion dollar hole, let's call it roughly two trillion dollars, is going to be coming from Much more familiar sources, either from income taxes, sales taxes, other sorts of taxes that we're already familiar with.

Growing at 3%, please you? Um Yeah, I mean, it's better than dropping by half a percent as we did in the first quarter. But if you look at the if you look at the details, a lot of that swing between dropping by half a percent and jumping by 3% is due to imports. People were bulking up on imports before Liberation Day. They were spending down inventories in this quarter.

The underlying rate of growth that we see there is like 1.5%. I mean, that's better than Europe. It's better than other places. But you've got to remember that the U.S. economy in the 21st century has been growing by one percentage point per year less on a per capita basis than we're doing between 1950 and 2000.

We still have to do something to rev ourselves up. Yeah, hopefully the Big Beautiful Bill is going to help that now as law. Here's Scott Besson with some impactful negotiations. Two days, very little bloviating and spin, a lot of fast. And they're not trying to tell you that things are better than they are, but I enjoy the candor.

CUD3. The discussion centered on the two economies. We had a very in-depth report on them, on the Chinese economy. We gave a very detailed report on the U.S. economy.

We talked about the trade deals that we were doing with other countries. We expressed our concern about Chinese overcapacity globally and what that might mean for this year, for the next few years. We expressed our concern. Were there purchases of Iranian Sanctioned Iranian oil, of which they buy about 90%. We also expressed our regret that we believe that they had sold Russia about $15 billion of dual-use technologies.

But the overall tone of the meetings was very constructive. Nicholas Eversal, what are you hearing? Um We've got a big problem with China. We've got, and it's not going to be solved in a quarter or two quarters. The problem is that the Chinese economy is managed by the Chinese Communist Party, and the Chinese Communist Party is not our friend.

And the more trade we do with China, the more insinuation the Chinese party has within U.S. domestic politics for potential leverage. It's something we don't usually talk about, but a gradual Uncoupling or de-risking or whatever you want to call it is something that I think would probably be in the US security interest. It's different from any other economic relationship that we have in the world in that regard. The thing is, they have over us.

Rare earth And we really, there is no other alternative. I love that we opened up three mines in the last month or so. I like that where we're going. If President Trump's legacy, it matters to him. I know it.

So if he could get us going on a path to be our own refineries along with the mining, that would be one of his greatest contributions to our security. Sure. I mean, the the the more we can do to uh Derisk our economy from the CCP, the better off we're going to be over the longer term. Are you okay with deal mode over confrontation mode?

Okay. Um Yeah, i if you if it gets if it gets us where we need to go, sure. I mean, we want to look at the results.

Okay, we'll see where this goes. Nicholas Eberstadt, AEI. Thanks so much, Nick. Thank you, Brian. You got it.

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So just click on comments there and it comes right down. And I'll get to that next when we come back. I also want to look at what the Democrats plan on doing to counter all this momentum that President Trump has. You can pretend like he doesn't, but he's got a lot of momentum and a lot of policies. Including getting us out of breaking that whole the climate change, which has turned into a religion.

He's making it clear we're not going to do that. We're going to be responsible, but we have to worry about security first, and that is all hands on deck with fossil fuels. Don't move. Illuminating, intriguing, inculcating. I know some of these were.

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My jeans are blue. So that is, I guess, the controversy of the day that makes absolutely no sense when it comes to Sidney Sweeney. She's a very attractive woman on. On Lotus, which is on, is it on Netflix? I'm not sure.

White Lotus, not on Netflix. I forget where, but.

So Sidney Sweeney does a. Of American Eagle jeans commercial, where she says she has good genes. Get it, G-E-N-E- as opposed to J-E-N-E-S. Why am I pointing that out? Because it created outrage, because she happens to be this horrible thing called white and attractive.

And that means she has good genes. Get it, good genes. And therefore, people think this is a call to Nazism back to white supremacy. I'm not kidding. Listen to what some of these TikTok users are saying.

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Now do black and brown women. Because black and brown women also have great genes that they inherit from their parents. Did you know that? Talking about blue genes and white people. Boycott American Eagle.

Boy got the out of them. A blonde-haired, blue-eyed white woman is talking about her good genes. Like. That is Nazi propaganda. Is that the craziest thing ever?

Now, it seems like the left wing, the wild left, are taking active shots at this Sydney Sweeney and American Eagle. By the way, I think their stock is up significantly because this is a niche. Not a dominating thought around the country. Most people understand. And by the way, some of this money goes to charity that she's doing this for.

Here's with this professor at Keene University, Robin Landa, on ABC, CUP twenty seven. upon good genes activates a troubling historical associations for this country. The American eugenics movement in its prime between like 1900 and 1940 weaponized the idea of good genes just to justify white supremacist. You believe these idiots? I mean, it's just so stupid.

We're past it. I mean, if it was five years ago, this would fill into the George Floyd things, and America's a terrible, horrible, racist place. And let's take a knee at an NFL game or a women's national soccer team game because of it. But hopefully, people stand up, speak out, and she does not back down. Evidently, she wore somebody in her family wore a Trump hat, and that caused an outrage in the past.

We know where she might be leaning. Don't want to, I don't think it really hurts you anymore to say that you voted for Trump, but we'll see. I don't know where she is. I never talked about her. I don't think about her.

I know she looks good at a gene commercial. That's about it. But they used to have a lot of big celebrities, male and female, Ron Dugay, New York Rangers. Used to do a jeans commercial so soon, I think. Brooke Shields was famous for a jeans commercial.

Remember this, cut 25. The secret of life lies hidden in the genetic code. Genes are fundamental in determining the Characteristics of an individual And passing on these characteristics to succeeding generations, which brings us to Calvin's. and the survival of the fittest.

Okay. There was no outrage back then. In fact, Hugh just became a bigger store. Real quick, so I asked you guys to write, and you guys are writing me like crazy.

So I'm going to give you, I'm going to read through them.

Okay, how about this? We talked about the Russia collusion story, and Susan writes this: I think Russia did interfere with the 2016 election on behalf of Hillary. It didn't work out, and that's the reason why they're so rabid in retaliating when Trump won. Imagine how many points Trump would have won if the Dems hadn't conspired with the Russians on behalf of Hillary.

Okay, yes, Russia did interfere, but with the help of some Dems in our deep state, Putin never wanted Trump to win, and Dems were fine with that. And it helped them get along. They also say, for people who say it didn't really affect Trump, remember the midterm elections. He lost the House. Non-stop impeachment talk.

Lynn writes, Brian, with Iran in Shambles, isn't Russia able vulnerable to China taking control of their country? Russia is having problems recruiting soldiers. Munitions are extremely limited. Economy is cratering. Citizens are tired of fighting.

Advantage China. Yeah, Lynn, but they'll never take all of Russia. They have virtual control over Russian policy. They provide 90% of the electronics in these drones that were bought, and the prototypes bought, the patents bought from Iran.

So they are subjected to a lot. They depend on North Korea now for troops and artillery. They pretend for China for buying their cheap oil and gas. And they depend on Iran to provide a lot of the Shi'i drones that have been so effective now that they set up a drone army over against Ukraine. But things are all coming to a head within the next ten days.

I don't think Trump's going to back out. There's no reason unless, of course, China does something. You want to do something really positive, China? You go out and say, I've talked to Vladimir Putin, they're going to begin to. Pull out or Talk about a ceasefire.

within 60 days, or get one for 30. Because China does have all the leverage. They're not going to humiliate Russia and say, we told you, but what we'll do is let them know. We're going to stop buying the oil or we're going to stop providing the dual-use technologies. For example, you get a lot of the same electronics in a washing machine dishwasher that can be used in different munitions, different armaments, different technologies when it comes to defense.

That's what they've been doing.

So they could plausibly say, I'm not giving them weapons, but they're giving him material to make those weapons.

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Welcome to the latest moments of the Brain Kill Me Show. This hour, we're going to be joined by Carl Rove and Senator. Roger Marshall, who, by the way, was a doctor. We're doing a lot of changes when it comes to what the FDA is doing, what HHS is doing. I want to get his perspective on that, along with some frustration.

Why we have over 100 nominees. You know, we got Sam Brown yesterday in. He's going to go to the VA. He's going to be in charge of. grave sites, essentially these cemeteries for the military, and they couldn't even get him past.

A army veteran who was severely burned in battle, and they still couldn't get him past.

Now you have Mike Waltz and others, one hundred people, ambassadors. You heard yesterday with Heritage Foundation's the Heritage Foundation's president Kevin Roberts. And he said. That they can't they uh they have an ambassador to Europe for the EU. And putzer, Andy Putzer, who's extremely competent.

And he'd be over there in the EU working this trade deal, making sure the word got out about how important it was and how to implement it with 27 countries. Can't get them passed.

Meanwhile, I think he's already through committee. They're just holding it out for a vote. It hurts the country.

So let's get to the big three. Number three. Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality, Even I color. My jeans are blue. A blue-eyed white woman talking about her good jeans.

That is Nazi propaganda. Nazi propaganda? Dems are losing their minds.

Now over jeans, before over Crockett. The president says that Crockett and Hunter Biden could be on the same ticket for president. Find out what Carl Rove thinks about that. Mayor Pete scrambles to show he's different now, not buying it. Number two.

This is the time to stand up and say no more slaughter. By a weapon of mass destruction designed to kill people on the battlefield, not in our buildings here in the great city of New York. More details emerging on the killer and his victims in Monday night's midtown shooting in New York. Leadership focusing, and you just heard it, not on the shooter, but on the weapon. Predictable and unhelpful.

Number one. I think that the Chinese were surprised. By the magnitude of the Japan deal, I believe that they were in more of a mood for a wide-ranging discussion.

That is our Treasury Secretary. Big day for your dollars. Fed decides what to do with interest rates. We find out we're growing GDP at 3%. Trade deals at deadline is coming up a couple of days away as China and the U.S.

talk. What does it mean for your wallet? Let's bring in Carl Rof. Carl, welcome. Thank you for having me.

Breaking news was President Goddard found out his GDP is at 3 percent. That's got to be a good feeling, right? Yeah, it is.

Now that's that's annualized.

So you got to we had not as good a number in the first quarter, better number here in the second quarter. Let's hope it continues. I think one of the things that will help it continue was the parts of the big, beautiful bill that made permanent The uh provisions that encourage companies to invest in capital investments in plants and equipment because what that means is when they do that, somebody has to make build those buildings and make that equipment, and it makes the employees of that company more productive and hence able to strengthen the economy.

So here is the Treasury Secretary talking about two days of talks with China, cut two. We had a very fulsome two days with the Chinese delegation led by Vice Premier Ho Life Feng. It was our third meeting. I'm happy to say that London built on Geneva, Stockholm built on London and Geneva. I think we had great momentum going into the meeting thanks to the President's trade deals.

I think that the Chinese were surprised by the magnitude of the Japan deal, by the magnitude and the terms of the European deal.

So I think that they were They're never compliant. But I believe that they were in more of a mood for a wide ranging discussion. And they sent seventy five people, Carl. You've been through China personally. You've analyzed it, written about it in the Wall Street Journal.

What do you read between the lines on what Scott was saying? I think the Treasury Secretary, first of all, is this rock star in the cabinet. And what he is doing on these trade negotiations is superb. And I think he put his finger on the right thing, which was to right things actually. One is this is a process, not an event.

He went to Geneva, had discussions. He went to London, had more discussions. He built on the success that was happening outside the negotiations, showed up in Stockholm, had more discussions. This will keep going, and better for the U.S. to show progress.

I mean, he's right. Japan was a great deal, a big deal. And it built on some others, the Philippines, Vietnam. All of these are in sort of China's arena, China's area of the world.

So the more we get those kind of deals done, you know, I wouldn't rush on China. Let's go get the Philippines. That's now getting done. Vietnam was done. Let's get Korea done.

And all of those will put more pressure on the Chinese to be responsible and reasonable and get a good deal. India, too. And you see. India, too. Yeah, absolutely.

India more important than, frankly, India is more important than China. India. will have a bigger population and a bigger economy in all likelihood than China by the middle of the century. It already has a I think it's close to having, if not, an actual larger population. And it it's an important player in the world Better to tie them closer to us than to let them float out there and fog, they're part of BRICS, so they've got some instincts that are not helpful to U.

S. interests, but nonetheless, getting them we've been spending the last twenty years building a strong relationship with India, Republican and Democratic presidents alike. Let's keep that progress going. Is the deal with India finalized? Uh no, it's not.

Or you expect that?

Well, we're going to see. We're going to see. But India's been a good friend, but India has charged basically more tariffs than almost any other country.

So he said, I think they're going to, just judging by some of the cadence of the other deals, and knowing that him and Modi do get along. And rather than take a 25% cross-the-board tariff and have to unwind it, I think they get something done the next two days. I hope so. It would be a big stroke. Again, this has implications beyond simply trade.

It has implications for the geopolitical balance in the world. And the more that we tie these people to us by trade deals that both find acceptable, the stronger the U.S. will be on the world stage and the weaker our adversaries are. And let's not kid ourselves. We have adversaries who are more dangerous and more antagonistic to us than at any time since perhaps 1938 or maybe briefly 1962 after the Bay of Pigs and the Missile Crisis.

I mean, we've got some important work to do to strengthen America's position in the world.

So I know you saw the horrific shooting that took place at 345 Park Avenue right in New York City, and you see this gunman walk in 27 years old and just randomly kill people like a coward, chasing down women, including a maid on the 33rd floor. And I talked to a police chief today. He said in his 36 years on the job, the most horrific scene that he has witnessed. And the takeaway for Democrats is: blame the gun, blame the rifle. Time to get assault weapons off.

You come from a state that has no problem with guns. Your reaction to the Democratic predictable reaction.

Well, you know, there's evil in this world, and that man was evil, and he was sick. And rather than saying, you know what, if people who are mentally ill need greater supervision and more help, that's where they ought to be focused. I had a friend in that building. We were texting with him while he was sheltering in place in a locked closet. I mean, my God.

And, you know, think about it. This guy really was disturbed. I mean, he was mentally ill, depended upon the medications to keep him centered. And he thought he had a brain disease and blamed it on the NFL. And yet he never played professional football, and there was no evidence that he had a brain disease.

He was just mentally ill. And for the mayor, the governor, others, mayorial candidate, I should say, and the governor to come out and say these things is simply not helpful. It's using it for another purpose. And we ought to stay focused on the purpose, which is how did this guy. Come to be able to commit this crime, and what could have been done to Keep him from, you know, who was responsible for taking care of him, looking out after him, making certain that he stayed on his meds.

So we're talking to Karl Rove, of course. Carl Zoram Ramdani, they just did a Zenith study. Everyone he matches up with, he beats. They could all drop, you know, they one could all drop out and make one-on-one with Eric Adams, he wins by 20. One-on-one with Cuomo wins by 15.

One-on-one with Sliwa wins.

So this guy, Mamdani, has got a record of not only defunding the police, but also this bread, the first in there was SRG, first on the scene. They're the SWAT of the city. And he tweeted this out in 24. As mayor, I will disband the SRG. which has cost taxpayers millions in lawsuits and outlets and brutalized countless New Yorkers exercising their First Amendment rights.

And he has said this in twenty twenty one, Cut twenty. When we talk about defund the NYPD, The entirety of the push is to defund the NYPD and refund all of these different social services and things that actually create safety. Got 36,000 cops in this city. We need 40. And this guy still is on to fund the police.

He doesn't walk this stuff back. No. And he's not the only Democrat in a big city who's talking about this. The candidate, Senator Fatah, in Minneapolis, has called for replacing armed, quote, armed police response with, quote, crisis behavior teams, crisis behavior response teams. And I mean, w d do these people not understand what's going on?

I mean, do do they understand that, oh, well, let's send it let's send a greeter, you know, with a couch so that the you know, the the the the the the three hundred forty five Park Avenue shooter has a place to lie down for a moment and and let's get a therapist to talk to him about it and blah, blah, blah. Don't they understand that's not how the world works? And they're creating a problem for the Democrats. They may be just the mayor of Minneapolis or the mayor of New York City, but I remember when Gene Kirkpatrick stood up at the 1984 Republican Convention and excoriated San Francisco Democrats. And everybody knew what that meant in America.

And that's one of the reasons why Ronald Reagan won a 49-state victory because people said the Democratic Party is too far to the left. And these two guys, particularly the mayor of New York, the great shining city, well, actually, think about it, Bass in Los Angeles, while she may have a more moderate demeanor, she's pretty far out there as well. This is going to be the face of the Democratic Party. Do you really want the Democrats who tolerate these lunatics? Uh uh as the uh as uh the governing party in America.

I guess so. Uh that person, Omar Fatabh, who's leading, I guess, the Democratic race, uh get the primary, is going to win if you get the Democratic uh nomination uh to be the mayor of Minneapolis. You don't let me let me correct you on that. Jacob uh uh Fry, the mayor of Minneapolis. is a is himself a left winger.

And he has he's been elected mayor twice after losing the DFL nomination. You run on a nonpartisan ballot there, but the parties get to endorse. The Republican endorsement doesn't mean anything because Minneapolis is a very left wing city. But twice he's gotten elected mayor. This one is a little bit different because there's one other issue we haven't touched on in Minneapolis, and that is Fry is Jewish.

And there is a heavy anti-Semitic attitude being portrayed by democratic activists in that city, anti-Israel, anti-Jew, anti-you know, pro-Palestine. You know, Palestine will be free from the river to the sea, you know, a refusal to denounce Hamas, refusal to denounce the October invasion. I mean, there's another issue there. I wouldn't be surprised, incidentally, if Fry ultimately won the race because this guy, the Tah, is so extreme. He's originally from South.

Somalia, but he spent when he came to the United States, he spent a lot more time in Virginia than he has. He'd been in, I think, in Minneapolis and Minnesota for maybe a decade. But my sense is that I would not be surprised to see Fry cobble together a coalition of reasonable Democrats, sensible independents, and what few Republicans there are in the town. I want you to hear from Omar Fatah on MSNBC CUT 22. Zoran's win was not only making huge waves in New York, but here in Minneapolis and across the country, I think it's important for the Democratic Party going forward to make a decision on what kind of party it wants to be, not only in our local mayor elections that we're seeing, but in the midterms and beyond.

Yeah, what does the party want to be? He's saying that Mandami is his template, and he's exactly like him. Yes. Look, I want to put it to rest that right here. I want to be clear about this, and I know this is going to inflame you and it's going to be an it's going to be unpleasant for you, but I just want to be clear.

This is not a plot. That has been designed by the host of today's radio program in order to diminish the Democratic Party. Our host today on the radio program is not the man behind getting these extreme left-wing Democratic socialists in a position to influence the image of the Democratic Party writ large. They're doing it to themselves. It's not requiring our host to mastermind this as he has done in so many of these schemes in the past.

Ha ha. Thank you for exonerating me. You must be amazed as a political operative. I know you do stuff with David Axelrod, and you guys debate things from both sides of the party. You like each other, but you have different perspectives.

This is something that he can't back, right? He's got to be James Carville. These Democrats got to be horrified by this. This doesn't play national. I'm not going to presume to speak on behalf of either James or David, but any sensible Democrat, I am confident, is sitting there saying, What are we doing to ourselves by putting up lunatics who are going to not only To force independence out of our column, but cause a lot of sensible Democrats to say, what is our party going about doing?

And the image is going to be hard to erase once the stain is on the Democratic label that they are nominating people like these two gentlemen in Minneapolis and New York. It's going to be hard to wipe that away. There's going to have to be a battle, a conflict inside the Democratic Party where the Democrats win. You know, it's interesting, not to dwell too much on Minneapolis, but in political history, the Minnesota Democrats were an anti-Semitic party in the late 1940s and early 50s. And a young, crusading liberal Democrat came along and took on the issue of anti-Semitism.

His name was Hubert Humphrey, and he created the modern Democratic Farm Labor Party in that state and made it a viable coalition of rural conservatives, conservative Democrats, moderates, and liberals like himself. But he did so by getting involved in a fight, and the fight was with the Democratic Party in Minnesota. Continue to be anti-Semitic. Wow, great history. Carl Rove, thanks so much, and thanks for exonerating me.

I appreciate it. Well, I paid me. You gave me 20 bucks to say it. We all know you're really behind the whole plot.

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Hey, welcome back. I went a little along with Carl Rove, but he was pumped up with some great information.

So, this will be a shorter segment. Senator Roger Marshall is sitting right around the corner. Keep in mind, too, we got One Nation coming up on Sunday. Gonna have a blockbuster show. Amongst our guests, we're gonna have Jim Lampley, one of the finest broadcasters ever.

I mean, the guy won a college test for broadcasting talent and was like 3,000 names in college, and it's been at the top of his game ever since. He's got a great book out. He's gonna be joining us. Uh, and that's just one of the many guests we're gonna have. We're gonna have Jimmy Faylor, too, who's the best.

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This is the Brian Kill Me Show. I was just speaking to a senior White House official who tells me that they are feeling really good because they are number one, moving the ball forward. And number two, they feel that they are proving that the American markets matter more than anything else. And not just proving that to the world, but proving that to domestic partners as well, i.e., Congress. They're really showing that the way that the president has chosen to negotiate this, how he's dealing with these foreign leaders, is working and pushing things ahead.

So there you go. That was Dasher Burns of Politico giving some analysis on how the Trump team is feeling. At this hour, they're not without problems, hurdles. I get it, but they feel pretty good about the deals, especially considering where it was in the spring. Senator Roger Marshall joins us now of Kansas.

Senator, would you back that up from your sources and your relationship with the President? Are they feeling pretty good about where this is at right now? Oh, Brian, we're ecstatic, absolutely ecstatic. And every time I see the president, I'll tell him we're not tired of winning. But you know who's excited about these trade deals are my Kansas farmers and the aerospace industry.

What Kansas exports are agriculture products and airplanes and jets.

So just ecstatic about these deals, the president removing these non-trade barriers, all these countries, in addition to giving us basically a zero Types of penalties going into their country's tariffs, but they're also opening their markets and they're moving investment into America. Just this past week, I had several of the large pharma companies who make their drugs overseas very popular, very successful. They're moving that manufacturing here.

So we're all excited about them.

So the $300 billion, you're on the budget committee.

So the $300 billion they expect to make at the end of the year, according to the Treasury Secretary, how does that money factor into the budget? Can you actually take the $300 billion off the deficit? No, I think we'll yeah, I don't think we can. I think that we can. We're going to go through this appropriation process right now, which, by the way, Chuck Chumer is trying to sabotage.

We can just make those buckets smaller in amount so we spend less. And we need to work towards a balanced budget. That would be the first step. If there's a way we could just use that to pay down the debt, I think that we would have to do a specific law to do that. But does it figure in the budget when it comes to revenue as opposed to expenses?

I think in my opinion. Is our country earning this money? Does that go to the Treasury, in other words? Yeah, so it will go to the U.S. Treasury, and then Congress will decide where it's going to be spent.

But when you're spending $2 trillion more than you're taking in, this is a drop in the bucket, and we need to work towards a balanced budget, and that will help us get there. That's going to go on the income ledger along with tax revenue.

So the interest rate with the Fed is going to meet today, and they're going to meet again in September. With the growth, with the GDP at 3 percent and inflation under 3, don't you feel as though a rate cut, not that you want, do you think a rate cut could be coming? I I sure hope so. Jerome too late pal uh He is too late. Like Ed Tu told Jones, this is Jerome too late.

Pal, he should have cut it a quarter point some time ago, a quarter point now, half point in the future. He's a lame duck, and I don't know what he's going to do. If he doesn't drop something today, I just have to think it's politically or emotionally motivated.

So, when you look at the other area of your responsibility, and that's HHS, Health and Human Services, when you have the FDA, we know that dyes are rapidly coming out of our foods. We know that they're cracking down on some of the convenience stores and some of the crazy stuff they've been selling. Are you enthused about the Maha movement six months in? Yeah, we're making great progress, making incredible progress. We have a group of bills that will help support that movement as well, a group of bills that's going to make our soil healthier, help our farmers grow more with less pesticides, with less fertilizers, trying to get more access to primary.

So, yes, my thing I'm worried about right now, which is coming to my attention, Brian, is China continues to make a lot of knockoffs.

So, for instance, China's making a knockoff of a GLP-1 that they're sending to the U.S. that's compounded into a pharmacy. 14 people have died from that.

So, one of my big emphasis here is moving all that supply chain back to the United States. It's easier said than done. When you talk about these China deals, I want you to hear what Scott Besson said about so far how it's going two days in. Cut two. We had a very fulsome two days with the Chinese delegation led by Vice Premier Ho Yifeng.

It was our third meeting. I'm happy to say that London built on Geneva, Stockholm built on London and Geneva. I think we had great momentum going into the meeting.

So he went on to say that he thinks the deals that were cut prior to the China meeting are setting the table here. They're dead serious. What could you tell us about this meeting and what has to be in it? Number one, they're still not addressing fentanyl and the dual-use equipment they're sending to Russia. Yeah, yeah, so a lot to unpack there.

So big picture is that China with China we have a $270 billion trade deficit to address. I think that people missed the calculated way that the Trump administration is doing this. Basically they boxed in China. Think about it. They've done the EU, they've done Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Japan, Australia.

So, by having bilateral trade agreements with them, it's putting a lot of pressure on China. One other thing China does to cheat is they'll send a bunch of t-shirts that they made or tennis shoes and they'll send them to Vietnam, and then Vietnam is getting them in at their lower tariff rate.

So, we have the president is doubling up on that type of transaction to make sure that those are tariffed appropriately.

So, we absolutely are getting there. To your point, I'm much more concerned about fentanyl poisoning, their intellectual property theft, the counterfeits they make, all those things. But I have faith in Scott Bessett. This guy is one of the sharpest people I've ever met. I wish I could give him money to invest for me, but we can't do that.

But he really is. He is driving that show. USTR Jamison Greer, I think, is another brilliant person trained under Bob Lighthizer.

So, I think that they will get the best deal we can. And just like this deal with the EU is an incredible deal, I expect a good deal out of them. I think the challenge is making it long term, Brian. You know, what can Congress do to make? These long-term deals because if Trump isn't president, will the next president have the kahoonis to slap these tariffs on?

Because China will cheat in the future. The fact that the president's going to be here for three and a half years instead of people doubting that he would even get reelected, I think China knows the deal they cut, he's going to reinforce, or it's all going to fall apart. From what you know, are they in a situation that they have to make a deal, that their current status quo is not good for them? Yeah, Brian, I think the bigger picture, their economy is in horrible shape. Absolutely horrible shape.

The currency manipulation, I think, comes back and bites them right now. Their number of people that are being born versus the number of people that need to retire there, that's like five times worse than the situation that we are in right now. And maybe most importantly, is, you know, what does China make that we can't live without?

Well, you're going to say magnets and some of these rare earth minerals that we need to address. but they cannot feed their country.

So, I think that we have a lot of aces right now. They got some queens and jacks.

So, I think that we are in a position of power, and we should take nothing less than a great deal for America. What are you doing before you guys leave? I mean, we're trying to get you trying to get over 100 confirmations done. People like Michael Waltz already got through the committee. The ambassador to the United Nations are guys that he's well known.

What is being done besides one at a time? You need dozens passed. Right, exactly. And I think this is the big political picture here, and you get this. But what's driving the Democrat Party right now is their far left.

Chuck Schumer is scared to death of AOC and that far left.

So they're demanding he's got to do something. He's got to do something.

So he's doing everything in his power to gum up the process, whether it's nominations or appropriations bills as well. He's in a panicked mode right now, and he's lashing out, slowing up what is traditionally done. People that would pass with unanimous consent and take zero floor time. We're having to vote on them three times and spend two hours or more on each one of them.

So if they're going to keep doing that, then we just need to stay here in August until we get more of these people confirmed. I don't think he's going to, I think Senator Thune was telling to us last week that he thinks you guys are more effective going home, explaining the big, beautiful bill, which is now law.

So I'm not sure how long he plans on keeping you guys there. And I'm sure you guys have earned a break. Where you go home, a lot of people are going to be traveling and going.

So I don't know how you guys are going to do this. What do they want? What do they want? Like when they say, if you want this, a Democrats.

So, the Democrats secretly want to all go home, right? That is their number one priority. These people are professional politicians. They're used to having all summer off. And by the way, when I go back, I'm going to work harder back in Kansas than I do here.

And then at the same time, though, that their leader is scared to death. I can't believe he's still their leader, that he hasn't been fired yet. But he's scared to death to be in primary, his legacy.

So it's all about his political legacy right now, keeping that together. But I just have to emphasize, Brian, yes, I want to go home, but I've done four telephone town halls up here with people back in Kansas in the last two weeks, over 5,000 people on each one of those calls. You can go home on weekends. We've had significant strong events as well. We could say for easily two weeks and still go back and accomplish that mission of targeting the great things about the Big Beautiful Bill, whether it's the biggest tax cut in American history or no tax on TIFFs, all those types of things.

So I think we can walk in two gum, but what we could do most to help the people of America is get President Trump's nominations confirmed so they can execute his agenda, if that makes sense. You know, sometimes Democrats, and you guys did it too when you were the minority, said, Get, do this, and I'll give you judges. Do this and I'll give you your ambassadors. Have they come up to leadership and said, Democrats, we're proposing. This or no?

I think that those are conversations that are happening at the highest levels. And though I'm not pervy to them, but I think that they have to know that we are very willing to stay here. And by the way, we have a president that he's however strong and powerful you think he is, it's even more so back home with our base. If we go back in August and the president is saying they need to be up here, the first question I get in every small town is why the hell are you not in Washington, D.C. doing your job?

The president wants you there.

So they need to think about that as well.

So, Senator, I want to bring you to Corey Booker fighting with his own party over this police funding bill, Cut 42. Why would we do something today? That's playing into the President's politics and is going to hurt the officers in states like mine. This is an attempt to kill all of these bills. I don't know why, because at the end of the day, all of these bills.

Are about bipartisan support. This, to me, is a problem with Democrats in America right now. is we're willing to be complicit. to Donald Trump. All of these bills came out of the committee unanimously, and I think they deserve that support on the floor.

This is a call, folks. The Democratic Party needs a wake-up call.

It's just insane. They're arguing with themselves. Actually, Klobucher said this is bipartisan. You weren't, but it turns out he wasn't even showing up at the committee meetings. And Senator Masto, Democrat from Nevada.

Can you shed some light on this for our listeners? Yeah, I think first of all, the one thing I did learn politically up here is when your opponent is forming a circular fire squad is not don't hop in the middle of it.

So, I think we need to give them all the rope we can on this. This kind of takes us back to what I was talking about earlier. The far left of the Democrat Party is the tail wagging the dog. Here's Corey Booker running for president, right? He's trying to reach that primary base, saying he's the most radical progressive person up here.

That's what he's doing right there. And again, this is a party that won't stop digging. They're in this hole. They have no respect for law and order. He just keeps digging and digging.

These bills that she's proposing, bipartisan, stronger law and order, support the police. He's out there still shouting like this mayor candidate from New York that we want to defund the police.

So I think this is all political. They're more interested in running for president, Corey Booker is, than here you have Amy Klobuchar, who's one of the most modern Democrats, level-headed people up here. And to be honest, it's just been a joy to get to know and get to work with. We were in bipartisan prayer breakfast together. It's something you all never see.

But she gave us an incredible lesson to us. Today, about life in our bipartisan prayer breakfast.

So, I hope that's shed some light. He was a doctor in his former life, and now he's a senator in this life. Senator Roger Marshall, thanks so much. Thank you, Brian. Have a great day, and let's keep making America great again.

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So let's get to it. Fans of Adam Sandler's new movie, Happy Gilmore 2, noticed a pleasantly surprising cameo when the film came out on Netflix on Friday. Taking a close look at one of the scenes, which shows a popular Disney series playing on a TV in the background, fans noticed the late actor Cameron Boyce. The familiar background footage features Boyce's character, Luke, from Jesse. Boyce died from a seizure in 2019.

Sandler has continuing to pay tribute to Boyce since the actor's death in 2019. The 58-year-old honored Boyce with a special message that was shown at the end of the 2020 Netflix film UB Halloween. Uh let's listen to because he showed up at a fundraiser did Adam Sandler for voice, right? That boy was one of my favorite kids I ever met in my life, and I miss him very much. You know, what Victor and Libby are.

Yeah. So there you go. He was giving a tribute, Boyce, who was 26 years old at the time, played Sandler's son in the grown-ups franchise.

Next. Keanu Reeves got his stolen jewelry back from Chilean authorities, stolen from his Los Angeles home years ago. Santiago Chile is where it ended up. Santiago Chile is where it ended up. They made the big announcement about Keanu's six watches, including a Rolex worth $9,500, after the time pieces were swiped from his Hollywood Hills home in 2023.

The officials said they turned over $125,000 worth of jewelry to the FBI, which is now making arrangements to give them back to the actor. It turns out they conducted raids of houses in San Diego and recovered Reeves' watches. As well as stolen cars, iPhones, and designer purchases. Is this the same thing as within hitting all these celebrities? Like when the players go to play a football game, they've been hitting their house and things like that?

I'm not sure it's the same thing, but I mean, it sounds like people, you know, you're targeting the ultra-wealthy.

So, actually, there's a show on Apple. It's like your friends and neighbors, and it's exactly this: like, it's the super wealthy neighborhood, and they go and they steal things from the wealthy that they'll never notice they're missing because they have so much. Oh, I've watched that. It was, do you like it? I have the final one to watch.

Yeah, I did. I watched that series. I cannot wait for the next season.

Next. Brooke Hogan is in deep grief over the loss of her dad, Hulk Hogan, after his passing last week. But when it comes to his massive estate, she's chosen to remove herself and stay all the way out of the legal proceedings because she didn't trust a single person around him and didn't want to get caught up in a financial battle when he passed. That, according to TMZ, we're told all Brooke ever wanted was to protect her dad from people who felt she was taking advantage of him. But after years of disagreeing with Hulk over the matter, she reached out to his financial manager and had herself removed from his will.

She'll receive some money from a small life insurance trust that Hulk took out. She's grateful for that and plans to put it towards her kids' college funds. It's unclear who will inherit Hulk's entire estate. I imagine his new wife, right? You would think, but I mean, usually, you know, for people like that, it's so complicated.

It's not just a will with a beneficiary. And by the way, on Fox Nation Night, I'm doing a special on Hulk Hogan. You're going to love it looking back at his whole career with people weighing in on his rise.

Next, former WWE Honcho Vince McMahon was involved in a bad car accident last week, according to TMZ, but thankfully no one was injured. The incident happened around 9 a.m. in Connecticut, hours before the news of Hulk's passing. According to a crash report we obtained, McMahon's 2024 Bentley was traveling northbound on Route 15 in Westport when it rammed into the back of a 2023 BMW and collided with the median. Which is, by the way, wooden up there.

So he's going to be all right. We talked to Linda McMahon last weekend. She didn't mention anything, but we'll see. Don't forget, watch what? Watch outnumbered at 12.

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